Amazon Kindle 3.5 for iOS adds X-ray for extra-detailed searches

Amazon has made a big selling point of X-ray for Kindle books -- but, not surprisingly, for its own platforms first. iOS readers can reclaim some equal footing today now that a Kindle 3.5 update is bringing X-ray to their devices. The addition lets iPad and iPhone bookworms see a map of where characters, places and phrases appear in a given book, whether it's to find a favorite passage or just to keep track of intricate storylines. Very thorough literary types just need to hit the source link for the update they've likely been craving for months.

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Big Data, Business Trends, and Networking Highlight MAPPS 2013 ...

December 4, 2012 ? Reston, Virginia ? MAPPS (www.mapps.org), a inhabitant organisation of private zone geospatial firms, has announced a module providing first-class business, technical education, and marketplace opportunities for a annual Winter Conference, to be hold Jan 27-31, 2013 during a Trump International Resort in Sunny Isles (Miami) Beach, Florida.

Sessions will concentration on preparation programs, networking to build business-to-business relationships, and ways to improved conduct a surveying, mapping or geospatial company. Topics on a discussion module will include:

Mergers and acquisitions; tellurian resources: opening evaluations and 360 reviews; health caring reform: doing in your organisation and family; resources management; National Geospatial Advisory Council (NGAC) update; indoor mapping; sensor fusion; programmed underline extraction; thermal mapping; item management; Florida marketplace for geospatial services; Federal group updates; location/mobile mapping; ethics; remoteness issues and geospatial firms; legislative issues roundtable; geospatial value awards; CFO issues panel; and an critical event on ?big data? with Amazon, Esri, and Google all presenting.

?These timely and critical sessions concentration on a business aspects of a geospatial profession, providing a leaders of private geospatial firms an event to learn about marketplace opportunities, changes in technology, and issues that impact their business such as a doing of health caring remodel and remoteness legislation,? pronounced Mike Tully, (Aerial Services, Inc., Cedar Falls, IA) authority of a MAPPS module committee.

In further to a preparation sessions, a module includes networking events to build teaming relations and partnerships, a cornerstone to MAPPS conferences.

?For 30 years, MAPPS meetings have been famous for a event to network with a leaders of a geospatial community? a pivotal preference makers, a principals, owners, partners and comparison veteran executives of a tip firms in a market,? pronounced John Palatiello, MAPPS Executive Director. ?This discussion module is one of a best. We are quite vehement that record leaders such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Esri are all presenting during a conference.?

For program, registration and other information, revisit a MAPPS web site during www.mapps.org.

MAPPS is charity a special membership graduation for firms that are not stream members. The organisation invites principals of firms to attend a Winter Conference during a non-member rate, though if a organisation joins MAPPS before to a finish of a discussion on Jan 31, 2013, a organisation will be credited with a disproportion between a member and non-member rate. That is a 56% savings. The payment will be credited toward a firm?s 2013 membership impost in MAPPS.

About MAPPS
Formed in 1982, MAPPS is a usually inhabitant organisation exclusively comprised of private firms in a remote sensing, spatial information and geographic information systems margin in a United States. The MAPPS membership spans a whole spectrum of a geospatial community, including Member Firms intent in satellite and airborne remote sensing, surveying, photogrammetry, aerial photography, LIDAR, hydrography, bathymetry, charting, aerial and satellite picture processing, GPS, and GIS information collection and acclimatisation services. MAPPS also includes Associate Member Firms, that are companies that yield hardware, software, products and services to a geospatial contention in a United States and other firms from around a world. Independent Consultant Members are solitary proprietors intent in consulting in or to a geospatial profession, or provides a consulting use of seductiveness to a geospatial profession. MAPPS provides a 160+ member firms opportunities for networking and building business-to-business relationships, information sharing, education, open process advocacy, marketplace growth, and veteran growth and picture enhancement. For some-more information on MAPPS, greatfully revisit www.mapps.org.

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Mental Health - Holiday Stress, Parties and Hangovers: Drinking ...

Holiday Stress, Parties and Hangovers: Drinking Responsibly This Holiday Season 2 5 3

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Holiday parties are among the highlights of the winter season, and these parties tend to involve drinking alcohol.

If you?re not careful, you might overindulge in festivities, leading to a hangover the next day. This can become a problem, especially if the next day is a work day.

Caron Treatment Centers recently released survey results from 2,005 adults age 21 and above, suggesting that it is quite common to drink excessively, suffer from a hangover and miss work after a holiday party.

In fact, 64 percent of Americans have either called in sick or know someone who did because of a holiday party hangover.

And 74 percent of holiday party attendees drank more than three alcoholic drinks or know someone who has at a holiday party, which is considered above a moderate alcohol limit.

Drinking out of moderation could be a sign of substance abuse or depression, which are major mental health issues.

The workplace can already be filled with stress and competition, so missing work or having impaired functioning in the workplace just adds to a negative workplace atmosphere.

Sometimes alcohol can lead to destructive behavior, which is even worse if the holiday party involves co-workers.

Survey results showed that most people who have attended holiday parties noticed behaviors such as arguing and aggression, excessive use of profanity, drunk driving and inappropriate disclosure of private details.

Dr. Harris B. Stratyner, the vice president of Caron Treatment Centers and New York regional clinical director, said in an email that hangovers can be terrible for mental health because dehydration leads to an ?alcoholic migraine.? Serotonin levels also decrease, which leads to depression.

?Drinking too much alcohol can affect your mental health and harm your status in the workplace, because you can come off looking immature and having poor judgment,? Stratyner said.

?Employers and colleagues will start to question your judgment, therefore leading them to question your reliability to meet deadlines and do your job well.?

He suggested only drinking a maximum of two alcoholic drinks at work-related events.

We value and respect the experiences of all of our HERWriters, but everyone is different. Many of our writers are speaking from personal experience, and what's worked for them may not work for you. Their articles are not a substitute for medical advice although we hope you can gain knowledge from their insight.

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The Second International workshop on Communications Security ...

?The Fourth International Conference on Communications Security & Information Assurance (CSIA)
May 24~26, 2013. Delhi, India
?http://coneco2009.com/csia2013/index.html

Call for Paper
The Conference focuses on all technical and practical aspects of Communications Security & Information Assurance (CSIA)for wired and wireless networks. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Modern security threats and countermeasures, and establishing new collaborations in these areas.
Authors are solicited to contribute to the workshop by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Communication Security & Information assurance
? Access control, Anonymity, Audit and audit reduction & Authentication and authorization
? Applied cryptography, Cryptanalysis, Digital Signatures
? Biometric security
? Boundary control devices
? Certification and accreditation
? Cross-layer design for security
? Data and system integrity, Database security
? Defensive information warfare
? Denial of service protection, Intrusion Detection, Anti-malware
? Distributed systems security
? Electronic commerce
? E-mail security, Spam, Phishing, E-mail fraud, Virus, worms, Trojon Protection
? Grid security
? Information hiding and watermarking & Information survivability
? Insider threat protection, Integrity
? Intellectual property protection
? Internet/Intranet Security
? Key management and key recovery
? Language-based security
? Mobile and wireless security
? Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security
? Monitoring and surveillance
? Multimedia security ,Operating system security, Peer-to-peer security
? Performance Evaluations of Protocols & Security Application
? Privacy and data protection
? Product evaluation criteria and compliance
? Risk evaluation and security certification
? Risk/vulnerability assessment
? Security & Network Management
? Security and Assurance in Operational, Technological, commercial Area
? Security Engineering and Its Application
? Security Models & protocols
? Security threats like DDoS, MiM, Session Hijacking, Replay attack etc & countermeasures
? Trusted computing
? Ubiquitous Computing Security
? Virtualization security, VoIP security, Web 2.0 security

Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers for the conference Submission system ( Easy chair ) by 15 December, 2012. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer (Confirmed).
Selected papers from CSIA ? 2013, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline : December 15, 2012
Authors Notification : January 30, 2013
Camera-Ready Paper Due : February 05, 2013

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J.K. Rowling adult novel to be adapted for BBC One

LONDON (Reuters) - British author J.K. Rowling's first adult novel "The Casual Vacancy" will be adapted for the small screen, the BBC announced on Monday, unlike her Harry Potter adventures which went on to become one of the biggest film franchises of all time.

Public broadcaster BBC One and BBC Drama have commissioned the exclusive adaptation from The Blair Partnership literary agency which represents the author. The series is expected to air in 2014.

Rowling will collaborate "closely" on the project, with the number and length of episodes to be decided once the adaptation has formally begun.

"I always felt that, if it were to be adapted, this novel was best suited to television and I think the BBC is the perfect home," Rowling said in a statement.

Danny Cohen, controller of BBC One, said the project "highlights the ambition and scale of BBC One Drama, as well as the ability of modern television to attract the world's biggest talent and most exciting creative ideas."

The Casual Vacancy, which examines the clash of ideals, classes and generations in the seemingly sleepy English town of Pagford, has topped the bestseller lists in several countries, although it did not match the success of the Potter phenomenon.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)

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Gaza war offers boost to Hamas leader Meshaal

CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) - Khaled Meshaal narrowly survived an assassination attempt ordered by Benjamin Netanyahu in 1997 the first time he was Israeli prime minister. Fifteen years on, the Hamas leader claims to have defeated Netanyahu once again.

The eight-day war between Israel and Palestinians in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip - a Hamas victory in Meshaal's eyes - has breathed new life into his political career just he seemed poised to leave his post. Meshaal indicated earlier this year he did not want to continue as Hamas leader.

Meshaal, 56, took over as Hamas leader following the 2004 assassinations of Abdel-Aziz Al-Rantissi and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the movement's founder. With both of them killed in the Gaza Strip, Meshaal has led Hamas from the relative safety of exile.

This week, his political stock climbed sharply as he led the Palestinian team negotiating a ceasefire under Egyptian mediation. The deal unveiled on Wednesday was viewed as a success by the Palestinians.

"It is a tactical defeat - one stage along the road of defeats," an upbeat Meshaal said during a news conference on Wednesday, summing up the outcome of the war. "We have come out of this battle with our heads up high."

Israel's failure was proof, he said, that armed "resistance" was the way forward, dressed in a suit and open neck shirt as he displayed the calm confidence that has characterized his public addresses from Cairo this week.

"The stature he has gained in the last few days will allow him to continue to play a political role," said George Giacaman, a professor of political science at Birzeit University in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "If he is not in a specific office, he will occupy the role of a senior statesman."

On Meshaal's watch, Hamas has emerged as an ever more important player in the Middle East conflict. It weakened the U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority by seizing control of Gaza in 2007, challenging its strategy of negotiating peace with Israel and promoting an alternative approach based on armed struggle.

Meshaal does not accept the idea of a permanent peace deal with Israel but has said Hamas could accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem as a temporary solution in return for a long-term truce.

Born in Silwad near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Meshaal has steered Hamas through the upheaval unleashed by the Arab Spring uprisings, deploying what associates describe as deft diplomatic skills to navigate the turbulence.

Meshaal survived a 1997 Israeli attempt to kill him when two agents injected him with poison in broad daylight on a street outside his office in the Jordanian capital.

The attack so enraged Jordan's late King Hussein that he talked of hanging the captured Israeli would-be-assassins unless the antidote was handed over. An embarrassed Israeli government complied.

"A REAL POLITICIAN"

While the crisis in Syria forced the exiled Hamas leadership to give up its Damascus base, Hamas appears to have emerged with new friends, including an Islamist-led Egypt more in tune with its way of thinking. "His flexible approach made him a real politician," said one Hamas official.

Meshaal's associates say is an old friend of President Mohamed Mursi, the new Egyptian head of state propelled to power by the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group aligned with Hamas.

Even as ties with Syria have been cut, Meshaal has gone out of his way to preserve relations with Iran, one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's main allies. Meshaal thanked Iran for supplying arms and cash during his Wednesday remarks.

"There is big faith in Meshaal and he has led the negotiations in an impressive and brave way," said Mustafa Asawaf, a senior Hamas government official in Gaza.

"I expect there will be pressure on him to change his mind and to stay on as leader of the movement, at least for the coming stage. But I doubt he will," he said. "He will remain a top leader, a member of the political office," he added.

The group has been holding a leadership ballot for several months to decide who will succeed Meshaal.

According to sources familiar with the movement's internal politics, Meshaal has been irritated with policy challenges from the Gaza-based leadership, though Hamas formally denies that.

Friction between Meshaal and the Gaza-based leadership surfaced over his attempts to promote reconciliation with President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the Palestinian Authority.

Irritating Hamas leaders in Gaza, Meshaal agreed that Abbas could lead any future unity government designed to bring together the rival Palestinian administrations.

Abbas is also head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which was founded in 1964 to group Palestinian factions. Hamas, which was founded in 1987, has never joined the PLO, saying it must be overhauled.

Meshaal has used his public addresses through the Gaza conflict to call once again urged moves towards reconciliation, including reform of the PLO and moves towards forging a shared strategy for pursuing the Palestinian cause.

Meshaal's goal is to turn Hamas into the leading force in the entire Palestinian national movement, not just Gaza, said Mouin Rabbani, an expert on Palestinian affairs.

"His focus is much more on him or one of his successors becoming the eventual leader of the PLO executive committee rather than being prime minister of Gaza," he said.

(Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Giles Elgood)

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Breakfast Links for 11/20/12 - Nose-Cell Transplants and Dogs; A ...

BREAKFAST LINKS 11/20/12:

Fergus Walsh, BBC News Health: Nose-Cell Transplant Helps Paralyzed Dogs to Walk

Alan Noble, Patheos/Christ and PopCulture: ?Rather than heal our racial divide, Obama supporters? constant use of the race card seemed to create significantly more conflict between whites and blacks. And a study has provided evidence for escalated conflict.?

Rachel Held Evans, CNN Belief Blog: The Danger of Calling Behavior ?Biblical?

L. Kenna, Patheos/Evangelical Channel: ?The cursed mindset says that you and your spouse can never be happy, can never be enough without a child.? And that is a lie.? Just like the lie that being infertile has anything to do with how much God loves you.?

Nile Gardiner, The Telegraph: Obama Blunders on World Stage Continue

Bill Blankschaen, Patheos/Bill in the Blank: ?It is precisely because I value human life so highly that I must support death as the divinely appointed penalty for those who take God?s authority upon themselves to murder another. And it?may be?precisely because others do not value human life that they would both support?abortion and oppose the death penalty for?murder.?

Salena Zito, Real Clear Politics: Boehner?s Smart Play

Dillon Burroughs, Patheos/Holy Writ: ?When we do as we wish, or ?live and let live? as is often quoted today, disaster results.?

Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz: This Israeli-Hamas Conflict is Different than ?09

Mark Regenerus, Patheos/Black, White and Gray: ?No, male self-control has not changed a great deal over human history. What has grown dramatically is sexual opportunity and what has declined precipitously is social restraint.?

Mark Driscoll, Resurgence: A Father?s Fright of Twilight

Thomas L. MacDonald, Patheos/God and the Machine: ?That?s the tendency of original sin tugging at me, but even before that original sin, there was the great gift and the great danger of free-will. That?s what I mean when I say that if Adam hadn?t taken the apple, I would have. It was inevitable.?

David Warren, The Catholic Thing: Living in Occupied America

Mark Shea, Patheos/Catholic and Enjoying It: ?The future is that time when you and all you love will be dead.? Get over it.? We?re not made for the future.? We?re made for eternity.?

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