Euro 2012 kicks off: Nokia Maps transforms into a football tour guide

Euro 2012 commences today, with the first game taking place this evening between Greece and host nation Poland. Are you there? Or heading out soon? Or even just curious about host nations Poland and Ukraine? Nokia?s got your back.

Nokia Maps has just finished transforming itself into a hive of knowledge for all things football. Head to the website and type in either ?football? or any of the match venues, and Nokia will provide you with a virtual smorgasbord of information.

Between today and the final on July 1st, Nokia Maps? football hub will keep you up to date with venue info (as well as tell you how to get there), alongside last minute accommodation and up-to-date match results.

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Each of the eight host cities (Warsaw, Kiev, Wroclaw, Kharkiv, Lviv,Gdansk, Poznan and Donectks) has its own page, with relevant info and facts. Like the fact that Warsaw has the thinnest house in the world (97cm wide)? As you do.

It?s an interesting time for online mapping at the moment, with Apple about to pull Google Maps from iOS and Google upping the ante in response. Whether Nokia Maps can evolve into a true competitor to Google?s remains to be seen, but niceties like this are a good step in the right direction.

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Teen Titans Go Joins DC Nation In 2013 On Cartoon Network ...

Teen Titans Go Joins DC Nation In 2013 On Cartoon Network

by Jay Cochran in DC Comics at 09:44 AM on 2012.06.08
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DC Nation, Cartoon Network?s home for action-packed animated series and original shorts based on characters from DC Comics (Saturdays 10:00?11:00 a.m. ET/PT), will soon be joined by a new generation of superheroes as Teen Titans Go!, a brand-new half-hour comedy-action series inspired by Warner Bros. Animation?s original fan-favorite series Teen Titans, shows the humorous side of being a teenage hero.

Teen Titans Go! features the return of Robin, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy and Cyborg in all-new, comedic adventures. Character-driven comedy is the order of the day as this new take on the super hero series focuses on the funny business that happens between saving the world and living together as teenagers without adult supervision. They may be super heroes who save the world every day ? but somebody still has to do the laundry! With the ability to turn into any animal or detach their robotic limbs, teenage pranks reach a whole new level. And even super heroes have to take Driver?s Ed. to get a license ? especially after wrecking the Batmobile on an unauthorized joy ride to impress a girl!

Featuring the principal voice cast from the original series ? Greg Cipes as Beast Boy, Scott Menville as Robin, Khary Payton as Cyborg, Tara Strong as Raven and Hynden Walch as Starfire ? Teen Titans Go! recaptures everything audiences loved about the original show, while adding laughter at the lighter side of being a super hero. Executive produced by Sam Register (Green Lantern: The Animated Series, The Looney Tunes Show, Teen Titans), with Michael Jelenic (ThunderCats, Batman: The Brave and the Bold) and Aaron Horvath (MAD, El Tigre) as producers, this side-splitting series will premiere on Cartoon Network in 2013 as part of the DC Nation programming block.

Cartoon Network (CartoonNetwork.com) is the #1 U.S. television network among Boys 6-11. Currently seen in 99 million U.S. homes and 168 countries around the world, Cartoon Network is Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.?s ad-supported cable service now available in HD offering the best in original, acquired and classic entertainment for kids and families. In addition to Emmy-winning original programming and industry-leading digital apps and online games, Cartoon Network embraces key social issues affecting families with solution-oriented initiatives such as Stop Bullying: Speak Up and the Move It Movement.

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.

Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) is one of the leading producers of animation in the entertainment industry, with an innovative and talent-rich roster boasting some of the most accomplished writers, producers and artists working today. The studio is on the cutting edge of animation technology and has both CG and traditionally animated projects in current production and development. For TV, WBA produces series such as Green Lantern: The Animated Series, The Looney Tunes Show, MAD, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, ThunderCats, Young Justice: Invasion and the forthcoming Beware The Batman for Cartoon Network. WBA also produces series and additional original content ? including animated shorts ? for Cartoon Network?s multiplatform branded DC Nation programming block. In addition to TV programming, WBA produces theatrically released CG cartoon shorts featuring iconic Looney Tunes characters, rendered in stereoscopic 3D. WBA also creates the highly successful series of DC Universe Original Animated Movies for DVD. Producing for multiple platforms including TV, digital and home entertainment both domestically and internationally, WBA is highly respected for its creative and technical excellence, as well as for maintaining the Studio?s rich cartoon heritage. It is also the home of the iconic animated characters from the DC Comics, Hanna-Barbera, MGM and Looney Tunes libraries. One of the most-honored animation studios in history, WBA has been honored with six Academy Awards?, 35 Emmy? Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, an Environmental Media Award, a Parents? Choice Award, the HUMANITAS Prize, two Prism Awards and 20 Annie Awards (honoring excellence in animation).


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Unit 8200 and Israel's high-tech whiz kids

Israel's highly secretive Unit 8200 of Military Intelligence is increasingly seen to have played a leading role with the United States in developing a powerful new cyberweapon known as W32.Flame that attacked Iran's oil industry in April.

Veterans of the unit, the equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, have in recent years been at the cutting edge of building Israel's formidable high-tech sector into what the Financial Times calls a "global technology powerhouse."

Indeed, the proliferation of Unit 8200 alumni across the spectrum of Israel's high-tech industry suggests that they probably run it and that there are strong security links between the unit and civilian high-tech outfits.

Israel's high-tech exports are estimated to be worth $18.4 billion a year, comprising more than 45 percent of the Jewish state's exports, Central Bureau of Statistics data indicate.

Unit 8200 whiz kids have founded scores of high-tech start-ups in recent years.

Gil Schwed, reputed to be one of Israel's youngest billionaires, launched CheckPoint, one of the country's leading high-techs with major dealings in the United States.

The Zisapel brothers, Yehuda and Zonhar, sold and floated a dozen companies for hundreds of millions of dollars.

"It's almost impossible to find a technology company in Israel without people from 8200 and in many cases the entrepreneur, the manager or the person who had an idea for the project will be someone from 8200," said Yair Cohen, a former brigadier general who once commanded Unit 8200.

Cohen heads the intelligence cyber department of Elbit Systems, a leading Israeli defense company.

Yossi Vardi, who founded Israel's first software company in 1969, observed, "More high-tech billionaires were created from Unit 8200 than from any business school in the country."

Unit 8200, the Haaretz daily noted recently, "is the most important one for the Israeli economy" because it has produced innovative and trail-blazing high-tech entrepreneurs who have put the Jewish state's cyber industry on the map.

Aharon Zeevi Farkash, another former commander of Unit 8200, is the founder and chief executive of FST21 set up in 2007. Seven of the 10 engineers at his company are ex-Unit 8200 personnel.

The Financial Times noted that this company's "main product is a mix of technologies, combining hardware and software to suit a specific need.

"Such technological mash-ups have long been regarded as a specialty of Israel's high-tech entrepreneurs.

"Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the company bears the unmistakable stamp of Israel's most successful and secretive technology incubator ? Unit 8200."

Unit 8200 vets who launch new outfits usually recruit from the unit.

"When hiring new engineers and programmers, they typically turn to their former unit, safe in the knowledge that the military has invested heavily in selecting and training its recruits," the Financial Times reported.

The brain drain from Unit 8200 is becoming a problem, one that also exists in the United States and other industrial countries where the brightest and the best are often lured from government work to the high-paying private sector.

Israel's military "is losing in its struggle with high-tech and start-up companies as more talented people prefer to earn a fat salary than serve in the unit," said Yuval Dror of Haaretz.

Military officials say efforts are under way to provide high flyers in Unit 8200 with enough incentives, though not hefty salaries, to stay in the unit.

"The army ? understands that it has to invest special resources in technological manpower, that they need to get conditions, service plans, benefits," one senior officer explained.

He stressed that Unit 8200 is a unique military institution because "we allow free thinking and creativity in order to allow the technology people to deal with their tasks."

Unit 8200 is widely seen to have been a key player in the Flame cyber attack on Iran, and some Arab states, in recent weeks.

It was also deeply involved in the ground-breaking Stuxnet malware attack on Iran's uranium enrichment program, a vital element in the quest for nuclear weapons, in 2009-10 that U.S. officials say was jointly mounted by Israel and the United States.

These operations have launched a new era of warfare and the Israelis, spearheaded by Unit 8200 and its alumni are certain to be leading the way in developing new and more powerful cyberweapons.

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Microsoft estudia dividir el smartphone en dos en el futuro

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Mientras gran parte de la industria exprime al m?ximo sus recursos, tanto humanos como financieros, con tal de ver quien la tiene m?s grande (la pantalla se entiende), llega Microsoft sorprendiendo a propios y extra?os con la ?ltima de sus solicitudes de patentes; un prototipo de smartphone que se divide en dos partes totalmente independientes aunque ligadas entre s? con el fin de aumentar la productividad del usuario de dispositivos m?viles.

Aunque puede resultar un tanto raro en un principio, la idea no es del todo descabellada. No somos pocos los que nos habremos visto en la situaci?n de tener que separar el tel?fono de la oreja para consultar un contacto y facilitar sus datos a nuestro interlocutor, por poner un ejemplo de los m?s corriente. Algo as? es la premisa de la que parten los de Redmond a la hora de asestar el pu?etazo en la mesa y aseverar con rotundidad que ?dos mejor que uno?.

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Seg?n Microsoft, las dos partes totalmente t?ctiles en las que se dividir?a el smartphone podr?an trabajar de forma totalmente independiente la una de la otra o de forma combinada, ensamb?ndolas mediante puntos de uni?n magn?ticos.

De convertirse en realidad la patente, en el momento que m?s convenga, podr?amos separar ambas partes para continuar con una conversaci?n, ya sea de voz o una videollamada, utilizando la otra parte para realizar consultas en la agenda o hacer uso del software de navegaci?n si estamos buscando una direcci?n concreta mientras nos movemos.

Tambi?n se contempla cierto protocolo de comunicaci?n entre ambas partes del dispositivo, las cuales tendr?an una idea aproximada de la distancia que las separan, as? como de las funciones que se est?n llevando a cabo en cada una de ellas, pudiendo la contraria reaccionar de forma acorde.

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Sin duda, puede considerarse un concepto interesante que a?n necesita de un desarrollo mucho m?s amplio y profundo de cara a convertirse en una idea factible. De hecho, su disponibilidad real en el mercado en este caso, como siempre ocurre con las patentes y solicitudes de patentes, parece bastante inveros?mil. Aunque nunca est? de m?s tenerlo a buen recaudo en nuestra memoria? s?lo tenemos que dar tiempo al tiempo.

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Military suicides rapidly rising even as combat eases

Suicides among active-duty U.S. troops are surging, averaging nearly one per day this year.

That is the fastest pace since America began a decade of war.

Pentagon statistics obtained by The Associated Press show there were 146 suicides in the first 148 days of this year. That is 17 percent more than at the same point last year and 24 percent ahead of the 2010 pace.

Suicide totals had leveled off in 2010 and 2011 after rising rapidly since 2006.

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Bernanke has few options as economy slows

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will appear before Congress' Joint Economic Committee Thursday morning.

By Martin Wolk

Updated at 2:25 p.m. ET: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is likely to express deep concern about the deteriorating global economy Thursday, but it?s not clear he can do much about it.

After nearly four years of pumping trillions of dollars into the economy through unprecedented easing of monetary policy, Bernanke and his colleagues appear increasingly divided over the wisdom of doing much more.

Bernanke will make his views clear in an appearance on Capitol Hill Thursday. Several central bankers have expressed reluctance to take further action even after last week?s dismal U.S. employment report and a growing economic crisis that has thrown the future of the eurozone into question.

Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher said Fed policymakers "must keep their heads about them" after the rash of weak data and resist trying to solve economic problems with more monetary stimulus. "Short of an implosion, I cannot support further quantitative easing," he said in a speech in Scotland.

James Bullard, president of the St. Louis Fed, took a more wait-and-see attitude. ?The outlook for 2012 has not changed significantly so far,? he said in a speech.

"A change in U.S. monetary policy at this juncture will not alter the situation in Europe,? he added.

While Bullard and Fisher currently have no vote on the Fed?s policymaking Open Market Committee, their comments echo those of voting member Sandra Pianalto, president of the Cleveland Fed, who also has not seen enough to convince her that further policy action is required.

"I don't think this employment report, in and of itself, is likely to lead to a substantial change in my outlook,? she told The Wall Street Journal. ?Consequently, it would not lead me, at this time, given what I know about my outlook, to change my position on policy."

On the other side is Charles Evans, president of the Chicago Fed, who said the employment report has only increased his conviction that the Fed needs to act.

"With huge resource gaps, slow growth and low inflation, the economic circumstances warrant extremely strong accommodation," Evans said this week in remarks prepared for delivery to the Money Marketeers of New York University. ?Failure to act aggressively now will lower the capacity of the economy for many years to come."

The crisis in Europe is largely beyond the ability of U.S. policymakers to control but has created growing nervousness on financial markets. Stock prices, which have been under heavy pressure, soared Wednesday in part on news that European policymakers were working on plans to rescue Spain?s banks, although Madrid has not yet requested such assistance.

But while the European crisis must be resolved in Europe, the Fed has a dual mandate to keep inflation low while maximizing employment.

On that front there is little for Bernanke to be proud of. While the unemployment rate has gradually dropped from a peak of 10 percent in 2009 to its current 8.2 percent, job growth has all but stalled.

After adding more than 500,000 jobs in the first two months of this year the economy has added a mere 289,000 in the past three months, not even enough to keep up with the nation?s growing working-age population, much less lower the unemployment rate.

To be clear, the U.S. economy has not fallen off a cliff. The Fed's Beige Book report released Wednesday, to be used as a guide at the June 19-20 meeting of policymakers, describes economic growth showing signs of "modest increase."

In any case, the question is what more the Fed can do.?Short?term interest rates already are near zero, as they have been since December 2008. The Fed already has promised to keep interest rates at current exceptionally low levels ?at least through late 2014.?

The options are limited. The most aggressive action discussed, another round of so-called quantitative easing, would involve the central bank buying billions of dollars worth of long-term securities, bringing down longer-term interest rates. Rates on 30-year mortgages already are at record lows, typically under 4 percent, and analysts do not expect the Fed to announce such a move when they meet later in the month.

Another less aggressive bond-buying program, dubbed Operation Twist, is due to end this month although the Fed could extend or modify it.

So-called Fed ?hawks,? like Fisher, worry about the potential for sparking inflation down the road if the Fed continues its highly aggressive easy-money policy.

Tony Crescenzi, a longtime Fed watcher and portfolio manager for bond giant Pimco, says Bernanke and fellow policymakers are likely to keep using the central bank?s ?bully pulpit?? to signal their willingness to act if needed, despite the obstacles.

?I think as long as they convey that idea, that they will do more and that they are activists, whether or not they act it won?t be immediately consequential to markets,? he said.

One factor working in the favor of so-called ?doves? like Evans, is that inflation does not seem to be a major threat right now, especially with oil prices tumbling.

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CNBC's Rick Santelli weighs in on the Federal Reserve and reforms that can bring about growth and control costs. "Who's the big cheese? The big cheese isn't Ben Bernanke. The big cheese isn't Mario Draghi. The big cheese is Wisconsin," he says.

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How to Gamble with Lesser Risks ? Online Gaming

There is absolutely no strategy that can assure you of victory when it comes to online gambling. It is gambling after all, which means you put up something at risk of losing for a chance to double the amount of what you are willing to lose. The sad thing about gambling is though people sometimes go home with a smile plastered on their faces and their pockets filled with cash, there are those who get addicted to gambling, and they lose everything they have worked hard for.

Gambling can be very addictive, which brings us to the conclusion that there is no real risk-free solution unless someone stays out of it completely. But there are ways a person can play without being addicted or getting drastically affected.

High-risk gambling doesn?t always mean that you spend large amounts of money.

Online gambling, on the other hand, can be thought of as a form of entertainment. As with other things, there are ways you can do to entertain yourself. Sometimes you get to win money, and sometimes you get to lose. It makes watching a form of playing, except that you participate in it actively. That is the reason why low-risk gambling typically avoids that mindset of losses, unless you didn?t think you lost then you probably didn?t.

It is an attitude to have, this low risk gambling concept. It is not a drug that you can take, not a psychologist you can consult. You can easily avoid the risks of gambling by thinking like a low-risk player.

For one, a low-risk gambler knows that as time passes by, most people lose. The only side that wins is the company that operates the casino. A low-risk gambler never expects to win back what he has lost or invested because it can trick your mind to play until you realize that you do not have any money left to gamble with.

Gambling is a form of social activity and it should be done with friends, family and loved ones. This can give the gambler a sense of contentment that is very different from winning. If you want to know more about gambling and casinos then check out wikicasinogames.com or try playing risk-free at Sportsbook.com where you can play either with real money or just for fun!

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Escrow Theft: Today's Challenge in Title Insurance

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Demotech, Inc. has published its study, Escrow Theft:? Today's Challenge in Title Insurance.? This study observes the relationship between title insurance loss and loss adjustment expense ratios and the relative strength of state regulations for title insurance agents.

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Demotech has monitored the problem of escrow theft within the industry and, in 2003, published its initial study on escrow theft, Defalcations:? Today's Challenge in Title Insurance and Our Thoughts on Addressing This Challenge, in which it analyzed the impact of title insurance agent licensing requirements on escrow theft.? Over the past decade, Demotech has continued to observe the impact of escrow theft on the title insurance industry and has now updated its 2003 study.? This revised and expanded study sets forth Demotech's current findings, analysis, and observations.

Using the NAIC Title Insurance Agent Model Act as the baseline, Demotech analyzed the relative strength of each state's regulations for the licensing and oversight of title agents, and assigned each state a rating based on its interpretation of the state's regulatory strength.? Demotech also compiled title insurance loss ratio data for each state over the past eight years.? Demotech found that states that had adopted the NAIC Model Act, its substantial equivalent, or a stronger set of regulations generally reported lower loss and loss adjustment expense ratios.? In Demotech's opinion, the variations in loss ratios are related to less or more escrow theft, as well as the beneficial impact of strong licensing standards and increased professionalism.? Demotech concluded that the enactment of the NAIC Model Act, or a regulation of equivalent strength, can have a significant impact on title insurance losses -- especially losses resulting from escrow theft.

The full study can be read here:? Escrow Theft:? Today's Challenge in Title Insurance.

ABOUT DEMOTECH, INC.

Demotech, Inc. is a financial analysis firm specializing in evaluating the financial stability of regional and specialty insurers.? Since 1985, Demotech has served the insurance industry by assigning accurate, reliable and proven Financial Stability Ratings? (FSRs) for Property & Casualty insurers and Title underwriters.? FSRs are a leading indicator of financial stability, providing an objective baseline of the future solvency of an insurer.? Demotech's philosophy is to review and evaluate insurers based on their area of focus and execution of their business model rather than solely on financial size.? This philosophy was the catalyst for the Demotech Company Classification System, which was published in Insurance Journal, in order to stratify and categorize insurers into operational categories.? Visit www.demotech.com for more information.

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