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By ASM on May 07, 2012 in Cyber Resilience

By Rob Bird.

Enterprises are increasingly looking to innovation to drive a continued and fundamental shift in their business models. The continued economic uncertainty makes the ability to bring new products to market quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively more important than ever for businesses.

The desire for on-demand, anywhere, anytime and enhanced enterprise mobility are key factors in this business change. But what does this actually mean for the business environment? What additional technologies are needed to make mobility a success? Can a business maintain some form of control over the devices and applications used within the workplace? Can they keep confidential information secure?

Any device, any place, any time

Business is now more global, immediate and mobile than ever before. Technology enables employees to always be in touch with the office ? tablet PCs and smartphones help employees connect and make decisions faster, increasing productivity and impacting the bottom line, and mobile applications quickly deliver data to enable employees to respond to partners and customers more efficiently. Faster networking is improving the way stakeholders communicate, and expanding the enterprise?s reach.

Adoption of mobile devices and technology is booming. Leading industry analyst firm Gartner recently reported that 1.8 billion mobile devices were sold worldwide to end users alone in 2011, up 11.1 per cent on 2010 and smartphones accounted for 31 per cent of all device sales with 472 million units sold, up 58 per cent year on year.?At the start of 2011, half a billion people worldwide had a mobile broadband service and by 2015, it is expected to top more than 3.8 billion. Mobile devices will soon eclipse PCs as the primary mode of connection to the Internet.

Today, ?mobility? is about much more than communication on the go. It?s about using technology to enable the extended enterprise to connect and collaborate, linking customers, partners and employees to valuable online information services, from any device, any place and at any time. And importantly, it?s about opening the enterprise to added-value, and innovative services that can enhance its ability to reach its customers ? whether through presence or location-based technologies, or more.

The impact of ?bring your own device?

As successive waves of digital natives bring the ingrained behaviour of constant digital communication into the enterprise environment, business structures, service delivery models and security policies that are, by necessity, having to evolve to keep pace. One of the most notable challenges for today?s CIO is the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon.

Digital natives are used to the wide range of choices that are available to access information, communicate, collaborate as well as the location they want to do all of these from, in whatever format they desire. They see minimal ? if any ? distinction between personal and corporate information access, which fits neatly with the 24/7/365 global working environment, but doesn?t fit the historic parameters and restrictions of the corporate laptop and smartphone.

The end result is a steady increase in the number of consumer mobile devices being used in the business environment. And as the use of mobile devices in the workplace escalates, so does the demand for intelligent business applications that can run on multiple platforms?and the data, bandwidth, and computing power to operate them.

With this in mind, enterprises are already looking to integrate consumer-driven IT approaches into the workplace, and equip mobile workers with cloud-based applications that work just as securely and reliably on portable devices as the desktop, but are integrated. Device management and content delivery systems are the key to success in this environment. They will enable CIOs to transform the office intranet into trusted social workspaces which extend beyond the office walls to give stakeholder ecosystems the freedom to innovate and collaborate, enabling the benefit of fresh thinking to be quickly realised.

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We might want to rename the Brachiosaurus with the moniker Gassiosaurus, new research indicates. The gassy emissions from these giant dinosaurs may have been enough to warm the Earth, the researchers say.

Sauropods are large plant-eating dinosaurs typified by such titans as Apatosaurus (once known as Brontosaurus) and Brachiosaurus. When they lived, during the Mesozoic era ? from about 250 million years ago until the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago ? the climate was warm and wet. Nothing on Earth today compares with these giants.

The researchers found that the greenhouse gas methane produced by all sauropods across the globe would have been about 520 million tons per year, a number on par with the total amount of methane currently produced by both natural and man-made sources. [Album: World's Biggest Beasts]

Questionable numbers

The researchers, led by David Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom, did their best to get an accurate estimate of how much gas these big dinosaurs would have created, but their answers are still just estimates based on multiple assumptions, they warn.

The greenhouse gas methane is a natural byproduct of the digestive process of plant eaters, especially in herbivores called ruminants (like cows and camels). The researchers suspect that like ruminants, sauropods would have harbored methane-producing bacteria in their intestines to help digest these fibrous foods.

There is currently no way to tell what kind of bacteria lived in the digestive systems of dinosaurs, what gasses they produced, or what those digestive systems would have looked like, but Wilkinson thinks they would have produced methane like today’s animals.

“To process that amount of vegetation they have to be relying on microbes in their digestive system,” Wilkinson told LiveScience. “But without a time machine you can’t be sure.”

Crunching gassy numbers

They used a mathematical model to determine how much gas these plant-eating giants would have eaten. They extended data on methane production by modern mammals, based on size, up into the reaches of the sauropods.

In their calculations the researchers used middle-of-the-road numbers: 10 sauropods, each weighing 20,000 pounds (9,071 kilograms), could have roamed 1 square kilometer of lush Mesozoic habitats. “We’ve taken a middle-ground value,” Wilkinson said. “We tried to be reasonably conservative.”

They found that these 10 sauropods would have contributed 7.6 tons (6.9 tonnes) of methane every year. Expanding this number to cover the amount of land estimated to be hospitable habitat for these animals (about half the land on Earth at the time), the researchers end up with more than 550 million tons (500 million tonnes) of methane produced every year.

“I was expecting a number like that produced by cows, so the size of the number really surprised me,” Wilkinson said. “It’s way, way, way ahead of the estimated methane production by modern livestock.” (Cows produce 55 to 110 million tons (50 to 100 million tonnes) of methane each year, he estimated.)

Big eaters

It makes sense, based on the animal’s huge size, that they would make much more methane per individual than a cow. But, there are several other reasons why these large dinosaurs could have produced so much more gas than modern herbivores.

The animals would have had plenty of plants to eat, because they could reach high and low, and because of the warm climate, there was plenty of vegetation; in addition, these animals had much vaster areas in which to graze.

The real question is, did these dinosaur’s gassy emissions warm the planet?

“The thing about methane is it is an extremely potent greenhouse gas,” Wilkinson said. If the levels were anywhere near where their calculations indicate, he said, it very well could have been one of many factors that made that era warmer and wetter than modern times.

The study is detailed in today’s (May 7) issue of the journal Current Biology.

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‘When the River Runs Dry’ is a familiar song in Australia. Some rivers in the arid center of the continent flow only after a stiff monsoon season, and smaller tributaries all over the country commonly shrink to puddled potholes and dry river beds during the dry season. But rivers also run dry in more temperate climes. Much of the upper reaches and feeder streams of the great rivers of North America, and even the mighty Amazon, dry out seasonally.

Dry rivers are more than mere desiccated shells of their robustly flowing incarnations, says Australian ecologist Alisha Steward and colleagues. In the May issue of ESA’s journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, they contend that dry river ecology is under-researched and under-appreciated.

“I was drawn to dry stream ecology from working on river health monitoring and assessment programs,” said Steward, a PhD student at Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland. “Many potential river monitoring sites turned out to be dry and couldn’t be sampled. It was very annoying! It started to get me thinking that ‘dry’ wasn’t necessarily bad or unnatural – some rivers were naturally dry at particular times of the year.”

Dry river beds have qualities and inhabitants distinct from their adjacent riversides, as well as from their wet-phase communities, says Steward. They are places of isolation and re-connection: when rivers flow, aquatic animals, plants and microorganisms, organic material, and nutrients flow as well.

Temporary rivers are conduits for biota even when dry, sometimes guiding animals through human-dominated landscapes that lack other continuous habitat. They demand great resilience of their permanent inhabitants, which must be able to survive the swings from immersion to dry land to wet again. Plants, algae, insects, fungi, and even fish have adapted to ride out the dry spells, sometimes seeming to resurrect themselves miraculously from the dust. In the more ephemeral rivers of arid regions, the demands are extreme, the flows erratic, and often separated by years.

But in arid country, dry river beds are oases for animals and people alike. They are sources of water and greenery. Worldwide, human societies use the rich and episodically dry land for vegetable patches, orchards, and pastureland, walking and vehicle paths, hunting and hiking, and herding animals to market. We mine the beds for sand and gravel to build homes and businesses. We park our cars in the beds, and hold races and festivals on the flat river bottoms.

Land use changes, climate changes, and diversions to water projects are transforming historically perennial rivers into capricious or seasonal flows. Impoundment behind weirs and dams can completely dry a river course, or, conversely, turn an erratic flow continuous or cyclical through controlled releases. Steward thinks these are good reasons to learn more about the ecology of intermittent river systems.

“Aquatic scientists seem to ignore dry river beds because they don’t contain water, and terrestrial scientists seem to ignore them because they are considered to be part of a river!” said Steward. But they are not typically recognized as “rivers” by government programs, she said, complicating monitoring programs.

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When the river runs dry: human and ecological values of dry riverbeds (2012) Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/110136

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For once, we can start with the selfish position. When you are the patient, the healthcare issues should be all about you. As the patient, you are entitled to be the center of attention. Except, of course, you should never allow this to go to your head. Physicians are entitled to a measure of respect. They do, after all, have the expertise to help you recover. So let?s go on with the idea that all treatment should be a partnership between you and the physician. They have the skills and there?s no need for you to continue suffering needlessly.

As a statement of the obvious, most people end up seeing their regular physician because they are in pain or they have symptoms as warning signs of pain to come. Fear is a great motivator even though, in these difficult economic times, it can be expensive to get advice and treatment. So the first potential problem is in yourself. When do you decide to make an appointment? Some people delay. This is understandable for economic reasons. When you do not have current health insurance or access to Medicaid, waiting until it?s an emergency has become a standard response. But when you are covered by a health plan, delay is less justifiable. Even though you may think it good to accept the pain, perhaps it?s a macho thing, the longer the delay, the more ill you may have become and so the more intensive the treatment you may require. Catching a problem early is always best. Suffering in silence simply makes you a victim of yourself. This also applies to people who believe they should not take any painkillers because of the risk of side effects. If you have fears, talk to your physician and ask for reassurance.

Even when you have taken the first step, you can be unlucky and run into a professional who?s not sympathetic to those in pain. Unless you address this problem, you can get second-best treatment. This requires you to be polite but firm. You have to work with doctors who are prepared to take pain seriously. If you have doubts this particular doctor is interested in pain management, negotiate to see another doctor ? this may require you to get a reference from a primary care physician to someone better qualified. You must work within the terms of your health insurance. Ideally, you are looking for someone prepared to draw up a pain management plan. To prepare yourself, you should do some reading to identify the treatment options. As a first step, you will benefit if you keep a pain diary. Record when and how much it hurts. It?s too easy to gloss over details that may actually show a pattern to assist diagnosis and the selection of the best treatment.

In all this, remember drugs like Ultram or its generic tramadol have years of track record showing them both effective and safe. There?s no sense in denying yourself access to this drug in the short-term. Even if the pain management plan actually works through physical therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy so you no longer need to rely on painkillers all the time, Tramadol is the ideal fallback should pain flare up.

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J.T. Ready, an anti-immigration icon of the extreme right who apparently killed himself and four others Wednesday, sympathized with movements ranging from neo-Nazism to Occupy Wall Street.

The death of J.T. Ready, who apparently killed himself, three other adults, and a baby in a murder-suicide rampage Wednesday, adds to the complicated portrait?of a controversial icon of the anti-immigration movement.

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To some, Mr. Ready was a different kind of rifle-toting rebel ? an opportunist who sought to unite disparate grass-roots movements. Last year, for example, he went from?leading his Ready?s Rangers on paramilitary excursions deep into the Sonoran Desert to rallying on behalf of Occupy Wall Street in downtown Phoenix.

To others, however, he was the border vigilante whose outlook slowly darkened until his obsession to seal the border included plans for tanks and advocacy for planting land mines. ?

Yet through it all ran the common threads of his underlying ideology: anti-Zionism, racism, and xenophobia.

?Ready was significant because he was at the nexus of [several] extremist movements, including the white supremacy movement and the extreme wing of the anti-immigration movement, and he operated equally well in both spheres,? says Mark Pitcavage, a researcher with the Anti-Defamation League, who has tracked Ready?s activities for a decade. ?Toward the end of his life, he was even making connections with the militia movement.?

To many, his hopscotching between radical social movements made him an enigma. But those who knew Ready say he liked attention and realized he could get it by button-pushing. The result was, at times, an peculiar balancing act.

?Ready was someone who was trying to log roll on different logs going in different directions,? says Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University in San Bernardino, who had interviewed Ready extensively. ?Unlike a lot of other extremists, he was someone who really wanted to be part in some way of mainstream political action, even though his Hitlerian views were antithetical to even the far conservative part of mainstream politics.?

What bound his many activities, Professor Levin says, was his yearning to inhabit the role of leader.?”This is a guy who could only find a home in entities that he exerted significant control over,? he adds.?

After speaking at a Phoenix tea party rally in 2009, Ready and his Ready?s Rangers vowed to protect Occupy Wall Street from police reprisals last year. Similarly,?while he clearly aligned with Republicans (he was for a time a Republican precinct committee member), he turned Democrat to run for sheriff of Pinal County. In one of his online manifestos, Ready claimed a liberal, ?multicultural? upbringing in a family that included both Democrats and Republicans.

Outward orthodoxy was, in many respects, less important than his inward sense of purpose.??There?s nothing enigmatic about him,? says Mr. Pitcavage. ?He was upfront about his opinion.?

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The oil filter can be changed at the same time as the oil itself. The oil can also be changed in the lower unit of the outboard and in the transmission.

Flush the cooling system and add a 50/50 coolant to water ratio to replace the antifreeze.

Replace the batteries and then test the engine thoroughly.

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NEW YORK (AP) ? When the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just weeks ago, the New York trio was down a man.

Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz took the stage with a letter from their missing band mate: Adam “MCA” Yauch, who was too ill to attend. He was suffering from a cancerous salivary gland first diagnosed in 2009.

In the letter, which Horovitz read, Yauch dedicated the honor to his fellow B-Boys, “who have walked the globe with me.”

“To anyone who has been touched by our band, who our music has meant something to, this induction is as much ours as it is yours,” said Yauch.

It was typical generosity from Yauch, the gravelly-voiced rapper who helped make the Beastie Boys one of the seminal groups in hip-hop and whose good-hearted nature led him to humanistic causes and made him beloved in hip-hop. One of his most famous rhymes was a sweet ode to women, which he called “long overdue”: “To all the mothers and sisters and wives and friends/ I want to offer my love and respect to the end.”

When the news came Friday that earlier that morning, Yauch, 47, had died after a nearly three-year battle with cancer, the words from his letter felt particularly apt. The outpouring of sadness at the loss, and celebration of the music Yauch helped created, was immediate and vast, shared across social media by those close to him, rappers influenced by “Paul’s Boutique” and hip-hop listeners raised on Beastie Boys videos.

The rapper Q-Tip, a member of another major New York hip-hop group, A Tribe Called Quest, recalled that the Beastie Boys “showed us the ropes.” Sean “Diddy” Combs called Yauch “a true pioneer and a creative force who paved the way for so many of us.” The rapper Nas lamented the loss of a “brother”: “MCA was so cool,” he said.

For Eminem, Yauch was an undeniable touchstone: “I think it’s obvious to anyone how big an influence the Beastie Boys were on me and so many others.”

Yauch was an integral, founding member to the ever-weaving trio: three Jewish kids from New York who found widespread respect in a hip-hop world with few credible white performers.

In a span of more than a quarter century that covered four No. 1 albums and more than 40 million records sold, the Beastie Boys played both prankster and pioneer? a simultaneously goofy and groundbreaking act that helped bring hip-hop to the mainstream.

The demure, gray-haired Yauch wasn’t the most boastful B-Boy; he was the thoughtful one and a steady source of the trio’s innovative spirit. A practicing Buddhist, he led the group in performing concerts to benefit Tibet and, as a filmmaker, he helped create their imagery.

“The group’s music crossed genres and color lines, and helped bring rap to a wider audience,” said Neil Portnow, president of the Recording Academy. “Yauch was an immense talent and creative visionary.”

Adam Nathanial Yauch, born in Brooklyn, formed the Beastie Boys with high school friend Diamond. Originally conceived as a hardcore punk group, they played their first show on Yauch’s 17th birthday.

In the letter read at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, Yauch recalled their early days at his parents’ home in Brooklyn, “where we used to practice on hot Brooklyn summer days after school, windows open to disturb the neighborhood.”

The group became a hip-hop trio soon after Horovitz joined and coalesced after Yauch dropped out of Bard College two years into his studies. They released their chart-topping debut “Licensed to Ill” in 1986, a raucous album led by the anthem “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)”.

It was the first hip-hop album to top the Billboard chart, and while it remains popular, its irreverent rock-rap fusion bore few hints of an act with staying power.

“Adam was incredibly sweet and the most sensitive artist, who I loved dearly,” Russell Simmons, whose Def Jam label released “Licensed to Ill,” said on his website.

In the seven studio albums that followed, the Beastie Boys expanded sonically and grew more musically ambitious.

Their follow-up, 1989′s “Paul’s Boutique,” ended any suggestion that the group was a one-hit wonder. Extreme in its sampling and thoroughly layered, the album (produced by the Dust Brothers) was ranked the 156th greatest album ever by Rolling Stone magazine in 2003.

The Beastie Boys would later take up their own instruments ? a rarity in hip-hop ? on the album “Check Your Head” and subsequent releases. Yauch played bass. Later, they would even release an album of instrumentals, which won one of their three Grammys in 2007.

On “Pass the Mic,” he rapped: “If you can feel what I’m feeling then it’s a musical masterpiece / If you can hear what I’m dealing with then that’s cool at least / What’s running through my mind comes through in my walk / True feelings are shown from the way that I talk.”

For many, the Beastie Boys’ lyrics ? overflowing torrents of wit, humor and rhyme ? were always the main draw. While other forms of hip-hop celebrated individualism, the Beastie Boys were a verbal tag team. Yauch once rapped, “on the tough guy style I’m not too keen.”

Their popularity perhaps peaked with 1994′s “Ill Communication,” which spawned several of their most famous music videos, including “Sure Shot” and the Spike Jonze-directed “Sabotage” ? a hit highlighted by Yauch’s bass solo. (MTV, which played a key role in the Beasties’ rise, hurriedly assembled an hour-long tribute show to Yauch on Friday night.)

Yauch used the group’s growing fame to attract awareness for Tibetan Buddhists. He founded the Milarepa Fund to promote activism for Tibet in defense of what the nonprofit considered China’s occupational government.

In 1996, Yauch and Milarepa produced a hugely popular benefit concert for Tibet in San Francisco, which was followed by more international concerts over the next decade.

“He was a goofball and behind a lot of their prankiness, but if you wanted to talk to him about what was going on in the world and social issues and everything, you got a totally different guy,” said Rick Krim, executive vice president of music and talent relations at Vh1.

Introducing the group at the Rock Hall, Public Enemy rapper Chuck D said the Beastie Boys “broke the mold.”

“The Beastie Boys are indeed three bad brothers who made history,” Chuck D said. “They brought a whole new look to rap and hip-hop. They proved that rap could come from any street ? not just a few.”

Yauch also went under the pseudonym Nathanial Hornblower when working as a filmmaker. He directed numerous videos for the group, as well as the 2006 concert film “Awesome: I F—–’ Shot That!” (shot entirely by fans given cameras) and the basketball documentary, “Gunnin’ for that (No.) 1 Spot.”

In 2008, he co-founded the noted independent film distribution company Osciolloscope Laboratories, named after his New York studio.

Yauch is survived by his wife, Dechen Wangdu, and his daughter, Tenzin Losel Yauch.

Yauch’s illness, about which he first expressed hope that it was “very treatable,” forced the group to cancel shows and delayed the release of their last album, “Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2.” He hadn’t performed in public since 2009.

But the enduring popularity of the Beastie Boys across some 28 years is one of the steadiest paths of success in pop music ? a time remarkable for the constant, warm camaraderie between Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.

“They are truly rock’s most realized group ? not hip-hop but all music, really,” wrote Questlove, the drummer for the Roots, who toured with the Beastie Boys. “I mean, did we really expect the most thoughtful, mature, considerate act in music to be the same brats who gave us ‘Licensed To Ill’?”

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AP Music Writer Nekesa Mumbi Moody and AP writer Mesfin Fekadu contributed to this report.

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