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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Australia, India strengthen agriculture skills ties
Australia and India today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop and strengthen cooperation in skills training in the agriculture sector.
The MoU results from the joint commitment of the Australian and Indian Prime Ministers in October 2012 to build bilateral partnerships between skills councils in key industry areas, including telecommunications, retail, mining, media/entertainment and agriculture.
Welcoming the initiative, the Australian High Commissioner to India, Mr Patrick Suckling, said the MoU was another successful outcome of the Australia India Education Council's (AIEC) work to expand collaboration in skills development between Australia and India.
"This partnership aims to achieve quality industry-led skills training standards in the agriculture sector. With India projected to add 12 to 15 million workers to its labour force every year over the coming decades, employability and productivity gains will be inextricably linked to quality standards," said Suckling.
The MOU was signed between the Agriculture Skills Council of India and AgriFood Skills Australia and will promote cooperation in creating quality occupational, training, assessment, certification, information and stakeholder engagement standards.
Dr. Satender Arya, CEO, Agriculture Skill Council of India and Arthur Blewitt, CEO, AgriFood Skills Australia, signed the formal partnership in the presence of Patrick Suckling, and the CEO of the National Skills Development Corporation, Mr. Dilip Chenoy. (ANI)
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The Newest iPod Nano Is Your Deal of the Day
If you've been looking for a good, tiny MP3 player, the latest and greatest iPod Nano is currently $90 over at Walmart.
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Eric Mack: Fantasy football focus -- Breaking down players impacted by Michael Crabtree's injury
Without No. 1 receiver Michael Crabtree, Colin Kaepernick will have to throw to other options downfield.
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That gasp you heard after the news broke about Michael Crabtree's reported Achilles tear wasn't just from his keeper owners; it also came from those buying into the hype over Colin Kaepernick. With his No. 1 receiver out for a significant period of time, it's going to be even tougher for Kaepernick to perform up to his lofty draft status.
While this will be painful for the 49ers, Vernon Davis, Anquan Boldin, A.J. Jenkins and rookie fourth-rounder Quinton Patton all are a bit more intriguing now. Heck, a San Francisco reunion with free agent Brandon Lloyd is entirely possible now.
Crabtree's loss is one of the most significant offseason injury developments in years, even if it doesn't end his season. Remember, Terrell Suggs tore his Achilles last May, which nearly knocked him out for the season; but he had surgery by May 8 and played half the season. Crabtree stands a chance for a late-season return if his Achilles wasn't completely torn as well. (He reportedly had surgery Wednesday, exactly two weeks later than Suggs.)
We break down how this news impacts the 49ers top fantasy options for next season:
Risers
? TE Vernon Davis: Many owners thought a power-armed quarterback like Kaepernick would ignite the frustrating Davis down the stretch. It didn't happen, mostly because Crabtree took off as the statistical monster for the first time.
With Crabtree now out of the picture for at least the first half of the season, Davis is going to spend all of OTAs and training camp working as seam-breaker and secondary-stretcher. This can make Davis a top-five fantasy tight end again, something he hasn't been since 2009-2010. Davis finished eighth at his position each of the past two seasons in non-PPR formats. A full offseason, camp and regular season of Kaepernick can make Davis a candidate to return to lofty levels of 80 catches, 1,000 yards and 10 TDs. Someone has to reel in those Kaepernick scores.
? WR Anquan Boldin: At 32, you cannot expect Boldin to be any better than he was as Joe Flacco's go-to man in Baltimore. Sure, Kaepernick might look like a better passer, but his offense is more limited in the amount of passing attempts and Boldin might not even be able to work the slot routes he was working in his last days in Baltimore.
With this said, we projected Boldin to decline from his Ravens days in San Francisco. Now, we have to consider he might be the 60-900-5 receiver he has been the past three seasons. That makes him a No. 3 receiver in fantasy, a starter in PPR formats at least. He also stands to get more end zone throws with Kaepernick than he got with Flacco, so consider him a candidate for more than five TDs.
? WRs A.J. Jenkins and Quinton Patton: Mario Manningham isn't likely to be ready for Week 1 coming off his major knee reconstruction in Week 16 of last season, so either the 2012 first-rounder Jenkins or 2013 fourth-rounder Patton will have to step forward as the No. 2 and 3 wideouts. This assumes the 49ers don't bring back the top remaining free-agent receiver Lloyd, a former 49er.
Jenkins already had his red-shirt year, so consider him the more likely starter initially, but Patton was real productive in the pass-happy Louisiana Tech offense last year: 104 catches, 1,392 yards and 13 TDs. By midseason, assuming Crabtree doesn't beat the optimistic timetable for a return, Patton could prove to be a viable fantasy starter.
? Free agent WR Brandon Lloyd: The last remaining significant free agent receiver, Lloyd, might have struck gold with Crabtree's misfortune. He was a marginal fantasy option with Tom Brady chucking him passes, so even if he ends up back in San Francisco where his career started, you should only consider him a late-round flier.
See why you shouldn't get too hot and bothered about Kaepernick this season? He cannot make the scraps around him much more intriguing like Brady does. And Brady has been picked after Kaepernick in some of the recent analyst mock drafts, wrongfully so even before Crabtree went down.
Sliders
? QB Colin Kaepernick: We already discussed how mobile young quarterbacks -- including Cam Newton, Russell Wilson and Robert Griffin III -- are likely to be overrated on draft day. Now, without Crabtree, owners will wonder where Kaepernick's fantasy points are going to come from when he is not scrambling out of the pocket or running the read-option.
We had projected Kaepernick for 3,650 yards and 22 passing touchdowns. However, with a past-his-prime Boldin as his leading receiver and Davis being one of the most erratic tight ends in the game, those stats are no longer a sure thing.
Holding steady
? RB Frank Gore: The loss of a No. 1 receiving weapon usually puts a larger onus on the feature running back, but keep in mind Gore is 30 years old this season -- historically the age of breakdown. Gore is still a fantasy starter, but the likely increased focus on the running game should put far more on speedy change-of-pace backs Kendall Hunter and LaMichael James.
Hunter and James were already late-round fantasy picks, but owners definitely shouldn't let them go undrafted now. The 49ers just cannot project to have as wide open of an offense as they had in the postseason now.
Source: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/fantasy/news/20130522/fantasy-football-michael-crabtree/index.html
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Visualized: The Jolla phone's 'other half' kaleidoscope
Following some important pricing details, preorder launches and some concrete hardware specs, we've just got to play with the new Jolla phone. Sure, we've already toyed with the software, but today's event is all about the new physical home for the Sailfish OS. It could be a difficult sell in the cutthroat world of smartphones, there's certainly something compelling in Jolla's split design and all those of color options, regardless of what functionality they might add in the future.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
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Tiki-Toki
When it comes to creating Web-based timelines, Webalon?s Tiki-Toki (Free) stands out for crisp aesthetics and dexterous media support. Charting a course between the ?ber-accessible Dipity (Free) and full-featured (desktop-based) Aeon Timelines ($39.99), Tiki-Toki seeks to balance elegance with capability, customization with ease of use. For the most part, it succeeds. Creating a timeline is fast, and populating stories with media from SoundCloud, Vimeo, YouTube, and Flickr (Free, 4.5 stars) is as easy as copying and pasting links. Once you have completed a timeline, you can share it, print it, or save its contents. Sometimes the Tiki-Toki gets in its own way, burying features and demanding that users take circuitous paths to others. Administration of classrooms, in particular, will gray hair. When it comes to the building attractive, media-rich, Web-based timelines, however, Tiki-Toki deserves notice.
Entering the Classroom
Tiki-Toki offers tiered pricing ranging from a free baseline account to a $20 per month Silver account. I decided to test what I considered the sweet spot, the Teacher account, which runs $100 per year (or about a little over $8 per month). Suffice it to say that the Teacher account looks and feels like the basal account, but adds the ability to share more timelines (up to 25) with more users (up to 50 associated Pupil accounts), without ads.?
Although the home screen is a far from welcoming (see the first image in the slideshow for this review), it is highly functional. Certainly, I would welcome some sort of spreadsheet import, especially given that the site supports CSV exports, but all it takes to create a timeline is a title, a date range, and introductory text. From the home screen you can also customize the color scheme, associate a background image or introductory image, and supply more text. In my eagerness to create my timeline, two hundred years of Puritan writings and sermons (hold onto your shawls, ladies), I skipped non-essential steps?and I am glad I did.
The Friendlier Side
Tiki-Toki gets friendlier once you begin working from the timeline interface. I found that almost everything I did to my timeline relied upon the ADMIN tab. Using Web links I associated both an Intro image (an image that accompanies introductory text when you first open a timeline) and a background image. I also changed my color scheme to match that background image and supplemented my original Intro text. For text-heavy timelines, be advised that Tiki-Toki is not a particularly text-savvy. Although the software supports HTML formatting, without editing controls it is preferable to write in a word processor. The other annoyance with which you will contend is that every time you make a change, Tiki-Toki will prompt you to Save or Revert.
By default, Tiki-Toki runs with training wheels: Help text will appear as you cursor over menus. At first this is?as one might expect?helpful, but I soon found that I needed the screen space. Although most features are managed via Timeline settings or Advanced settings, Tiki-Toki the Help toggle in My Account?more on this shortly.
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High court uphold FCC power in cell tower disputes
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court has affirmed the authority of federal regulators to try to speed local government decisions on proposals to build or expand cell phone towers.
The court voted 6-3 Monday to uphold an appeals court ruling in favor the Federal Communications Commission.
The case involves complaints to the FCC by telecommunications companies and the wireless industry that local authorities are delaying the placement and construction of wireless service facilities. The FCC said that local jurisdictions generally should act on applications within three months for existing structures and five months for new towers.
Several cities challenged the FCC's authority.
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the court, rejected the cities' claims.
Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Anthony Kennedy, dissented.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/high-court-uphold-fcc-power-cell-tower-disputes-144027871.html
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