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AFSA 's request for a meeting with United's CEO Jeff Smisek or with an appropriate Vice President resulted in a call today from Hershel Kamen, United?s Senior Vice President for Alliances, Regulatory Affairs, and Policy. ?Mr. Kamen told us that United Airlines has decided to extend its military pet travel policy waiver to members of the U.S. Foreign Service who are traveling on official change-of-station orders. This will include USG employees traveling to take up assignments in our embassies and missions abroad from all agencies.
We have not received official notification in writing and are awaiting details about what the waiver provides, but this decision is a direct result of this collective action that you made possible by your quick and united action.? We want to let you know right away.
Huge thanks to all of you who wrote quickly and eloquently to United!? Volume, speed and content combined for successful collective action and a message that was heard.? This is a real success and validation of collective action for a good cause, and for standing up for the Foreign Service and what we do in service to our country.
We extend our appreciation to the work of Under Secretary Kennedy and his staff and to the Director of Logistics Operations in the A Bureau to get GSA authorization to use alternate U.S. carriers or code shares. This option should remain in place because the option to transport pets as accompanied baggage is the standard we need for ourselves and for our animal companions.
AFSA also extends our appreciation and thanks to six members of Congress ? Nita Lowey, Jim Moran, Chris Van Hollen, Donna Edwards, Gerry Connolly and Eleanor Holmes Norton who wrote to United in support of extending the waiver to members of the U.S. Foreign Service.
AFSA extends a big thank-you to the Overseas Briefing Center, and to volunteers from AAFSW, the Foreign Affairs Friends of Animals Network (FAFAN), the FSpets Yahoo Group as well as from our FS pet owners themselves for their great work for this cause.? It would not have happened without you all!
We appreciate United's decision to extend this courtesy to a large and dedicated customer group, demonstrating their appreciation of the service and sacrifice of the U.S. Foreign Service on behalf of the United States.? We hope to work with United to help them improve their level of service to customers and to make PetSafe a program that is safe for pets globally.
AFSA will publicize the details of what the waiver provides as we learn them. Until then, you may read about the military waiver on the?
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ? George Cowan was a chemist whose influence touched everything from the Manhattan Project and the hunt for evidence of the Soviet Union's first nuclear tests to the Santa Fe Institute and the iconic Santa Fe Opera.
Cowan died Friday at his home in Los Alamos. He was 92.
Friends confirmed his death, saying it was the result of a fall at his home. He was planning to travel and continue working with the nonprofit science institute that he helped found in 1984.
Institute co-founder David Pines calls Cowan's death "an enormous loss."
Cowan worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for nearly 40 years. He started in 1949 as a scientist and went on to serve as a director of chemistry and as associate lab director of research.
He was also appointed to the White House Science Council during the Reagan administration.
NJIT electrical engineers feature talks on MIMO radar, optical-OFDM, morePublic release date: 20-Apr-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Sheryl Weinstein 973-596-3436 New Jersey Institute of Technology
NJIT's Center for Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Research showcased earlier this week the research of six doctoral students. The students' work was featured in presentations and displayed posters. The annual event gives doctoral students and their professors a chance to exchange information from a year's worth of work. The Center is located in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT's Newark College of Engineering.
Six presentations focused on the field's newest technology. They were "Spatial Compressive Sensing in MIMO Radar with Random Arrays" (Marco Rossi with advisor Ying Wu Endowed Chair and Professor Alexander Haimovich); "Dependence of Functional Vulnerabilities on the Parameters of the Caspase Molecular Network" (Iman Habibi with advisor Professor Ali Abdi); "Space Frequency Coding for Optical Wireless Communications Using DQO-SCFDE" (Nan Wu with advisor Distinguished Professor Yeheskel Bar-Ness).
More presentations were: "L-shaped Vector System and Comparison with Full-Scalar System" (Chen Chen with Abdi); "Modulation Classification of MIMO-OFDM Signals by Independent Component Analysis and Support Vector Machines" (Yu Liu with Haimovich); "A New Improved-Performance Decoding Technique for Asymmetrically-Clipped Optical-OFDM" (Eyal Katz with Bar-Ness).
Established in 1985, the Center focuses on communication theory. Its main areas of research are CDMA and spread spectrum systems, multi-carrier modulation, ultra-wideband communications, MIMO systems, space-time codes and turbo-codes, information theory, and adaptive signal processing.
Center members are noted experts in this field. Recent publications include, "Spectrum Leasing via Cooperation with Multiple Primary Users," IEEE Transactons. Vehicular Technology, February, 2012 by T. Elkourdi and Osvaldo Simeone.
"Instantaneous Mutual Information and Eigen-Channels in MIMO Mobile Rayleigh Fading," Information Theory, IEEE Transactions, January, 2012 by S.Wang and Ali Abdi.
Last month, US Patent #8,130,846 "Single Carrier Space Frequency Block Coded Transmission over Frequency Selective and Fast Fading Channels," NJIT case # 07- 036, was awarded to Bar-Ness.
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For more information about the Center, contact Angela Retino at 973-596-8474 or Aretino@njit.edu.
NJIT, New Jersey's science and technology university, enrolls more than 9,558 students pursuing bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in 120 programs. The university consists of six colleges: Newark College of Engineering, College of Architecture and Design, College of Science and Liberal Arts, School of Management, College of Computing Sciences and Albert Dorman Honors College. U.S. News & World Report's 2011 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges ranked NJIT in the top tier of national research universities. NJIT is internationally recognized for being at the edge in knowledge in architecture, applied mathematics, wireless communications and networking, solar physics, advanced engineered particulate materials, nanotechnology, neural engineering and e-learning. Many courses and certificate programs, as well as graduate degrees, are available online through the Division of Continuing Professional Education.
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NJIT electrical engineers feature talks on MIMO radar, optical-OFDM, morePublic release date: 20-Apr-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Sheryl Weinstein 973-596-3436 New Jersey Institute of Technology
NJIT's Center for Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Research showcased earlier this week the research of six doctoral students. The students' work was featured in presentations and displayed posters. The annual event gives doctoral students and their professors a chance to exchange information from a year's worth of work. The Center is located in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT's Newark College of Engineering.
Six presentations focused on the field's newest technology. They were "Spatial Compressive Sensing in MIMO Radar with Random Arrays" (Marco Rossi with advisor Ying Wu Endowed Chair and Professor Alexander Haimovich); "Dependence of Functional Vulnerabilities on the Parameters of the Caspase Molecular Network" (Iman Habibi with advisor Professor Ali Abdi); "Space Frequency Coding for Optical Wireless Communications Using DQO-SCFDE" (Nan Wu with advisor Distinguished Professor Yeheskel Bar-Ness).
More presentations were: "L-shaped Vector System and Comparison with Full-Scalar System" (Chen Chen with Abdi); "Modulation Classification of MIMO-OFDM Signals by Independent Component Analysis and Support Vector Machines" (Yu Liu with Haimovich); "A New Improved-Performance Decoding Technique for Asymmetrically-Clipped Optical-OFDM" (Eyal Katz with Bar-Ness).
Established in 1985, the Center focuses on communication theory. Its main areas of research are CDMA and spread spectrum systems, multi-carrier modulation, ultra-wideband communications, MIMO systems, space-time codes and turbo-codes, information theory, and adaptive signal processing.
Center members are noted experts in this field. Recent publications include, "Spectrum Leasing via Cooperation with Multiple Primary Users," IEEE Transactons. Vehicular Technology, February, 2012 by T. Elkourdi and Osvaldo Simeone.
"Instantaneous Mutual Information and Eigen-Channels in MIMO Mobile Rayleigh Fading," Information Theory, IEEE Transactions, January, 2012 by S.Wang and Ali Abdi.
Last month, US Patent #8,130,846 "Single Carrier Space Frequency Block Coded Transmission over Frequency Selective and Fast Fading Channels," NJIT case # 07- 036, was awarded to Bar-Ness.
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For more information about the Center, contact Angela Retino at 973-596-8474 or Aretino@njit.edu.
NJIT, New Jersey's science and technology university, enrolls more than 9,558 students pursuing bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in 120 programs. The university consists of six colleges: Newark College of Engineering, College of Architecture and Design, College of Science and Liberal Arts, School of Management, College of Computing Sciences and Albert Dorman Honors College. U.S. News & World Report's 2011 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges ranked NJIT in the top tier of national research universities. NJIT is internationally recognized for being at the edge in knowledge in architecture, applied mathematics, wireless communications and networking, solar physics, advanced engineered particulate materials, nanotechnology, neural engineering and e-learning. Many courses and certificate programs, as well as graduate degrees, are available online through the Division of Continuing Professional Education.
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When Path first launched on Android it was, for the most part, on par with that of its iOS version. However, there were some small things left out and then one really big item that you may or may not have noticed, depending on your device history. Lenses otherwise known as filters, were not present in the Android version at launch despite having been available on iOS for quite some time.
That all changes today though, the now updated version of Path brings lenses to Android with a selection of seven in total to choose from -- Pro, Ansel, Instant, Diana, Lomo, Country and Lake. The updated version is available now in the Google Play Store of which, you can find the link to after the break. Go on then, what are you waiting for? Start checking them out.
It's still only available for Ice Cream Sandwich, but those not bound by an older OS can now download a fairly significant update to Google's Chrome for Android web browser. In addition to some added language support and broader availability, it brings with it the ability to select desktop versions of websites, save bookmarks to your home screen as a shortcut, and download files to your device, plus options to choose which apps handle certain links. As before, it remains a beta, and it's tailored to suit both Android smartphones and tablets.
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Clark's influence endures today with such stars as Ryan Seacrest. By Gil Kaufman
Dick Clark on the set of "American Bandstand" Photo: Getty Images
Without Dick Clark, there would be no Ryan Seacrest. Hell, without "America's Oldest Teenager" there would be no "TRL," and maybe no MTV.
Clark, who died at age 82 on Wednesday (April 18) after suffering a heart attack, never sang a note or released an album. He wasn't the inventor of a dance craze or a label boss or even a particularly hip guy. What he was, though, was a visionary.
And as much as any hotshot who played a guitar, figured out how to mix two turntables and a microphone, wiggled his hips or invented the next big sound in music, Clark was instrumental in making pop music pop.
He brought rock and roll into America's living rooms in the 1950s, just as the sound of young America was upsetting parents, confounding the staid radio programmers of the day and encouraging teenagers to shake, rattle and roll. Though he dressed like a martini-swilling ad executive and was adamant about keeping a strict tie-and-jacket dress code on his long-running signature show, "American Bandstand," Clark lived by one simple credo when it came to judging music: "It's got a good beat and you can dance to it."
Most importantly, when he took over "Bandstand" and went national in 1957, Clark put teenagers on TV at a time when the most popular shows were aimed at their parents' generation, including "Gunsmoke," "I Love Lucy," "The Danny Thomas Show" and "General Electric Theater." He let them see themselves on TV, which seems like no big deal to today's YouTube-ified teens, but was a revelation for the first generation to grow up in front of the tube.
With one of the longest runs in TV history (1957-1989), "Bandstand" became a crucial stop on any major artist's promotional rounds. And with good reason: The show drew an audience of more than 20 million at its peak, half of whom were reportedly adults. Among the acts that lip-synced their hits on the program and got their first major exposure over the years: Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Simon & Garfunkel, Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin, Jackie Wilson, Marvin Gaye, the Jackson 5, Chuck Berry, the Doors, Pink Floyd, Prince, Kurtis Blow, Cher, Devo, LL Cool J, INXS, Bon Jovi, Run-DMC, Madonna and the Talking Heads.
Clark would chat the artists up and, even as the years went on and the styles changed from the buttoned-down 1950s to the freewheeling 1960s, disco-dancing 1970s and new-wave 1980s and the show's influence waned, Clark's enthusiasm for the hits of the day was unwavering. The times changed, but Clark appeared ageless, his full head of hair and boyish smile as much a staple of the show as the enthusiastic dancing of its real stars: the audience.
Though controversy would later rise over Clark's claims that he integrated the show in 1957 (as well as a nearly career-derailing brush with the payola scandals of the 1950s), what is indisputable is that Clark offered a forum for both black and white artists at a time when there were few. The sight of black and white kids dancing together also inspired one of TV's other enduring music programs, "Soul Train," whose recently deceased leading light, Don Cornelius, was sometimes referred to as the "black Dick Clark."
Clark didn't just spin the hits, though. He created the template for the modern multitasking media mogul, a mantle picked up by his heir apparent, the unflappable Ryan Seacrest. He helped produce or executive-produce more than 7,500 hours of programming, from the Golden Globes, American Music Awards and Academy of Country Music Awards, to mind-numbing prime-time fluff like "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes." He often boasted that his was not the road less taken, but the cheesy, crowded freeway packed with bored couch potatoes just looking for a fun diversion, which he was happy to provide.
Clark taught television execs that teenagers had the power to push the cultural needle and that they were having a huge impact on music, movies, fashion and, yes, even politics. More importantly, "Bandstand" helped pave the way for the Top 40 radio format and helped move rock and roll into the movies and beyond.
Clark eventually moved into game shows, TV movies and children's programming under his Dick Clark Productions banner. And if you want to know why Seacrest seems like he's everywhere these days — from "American Idol" to "New Year's Rockin' Eve," numerous awards shows and executive-producing multiple Kardashian shows and other TV — it's because he studied at the knee of his icon and has patterned his multifaceted career on the man who laid the foundation. With holdings that included everything from themed restaurants to a theater in Branson, Missouri, it's not a stretch to say that Clark's influence reached into the modern realms of hip-hop and pop, where moguls from Diddy to Jay-Z, Justin Bieber and Rihanna have diversified by dipping their toes into the worlds of perfume, beverages, advertising agencies and cosmetics.
Nobody truly stays forever young, but Clark proved that you can stay forever young at heart.
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There's no shortage of social music discovery services billing themselves as "Twitter for music." A Google search for that exact phrase turns up over 78,000 results, and with good reason. If your friends on Twitter (and Facebook and email) like something, you might like it too. More »
It took an extra day, but we've got new Engadget HD podcast for you covering DVR news from such luminaries as whiteman Technologies, Dish Network and TiVo. Of course, they're not the only ones busy over the last few days as Cablevision and Time Warner Cable added new wrinkle to their IPTV offerings and DirecTV brings the DVR to hotels. On the business end of things we've got quarterly numbers from Netflix, Verizon and AT&T, while DTS and SRS Labs are getting together to do... something.
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