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Cricket Communications will become the first US carrier to offer the iPhone on a pre-paid plan starting on June 22; the offer will include both the iPhone 4 and the latest iPhone 4S.

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Ireland Real Estate Market Riding Out A Rough Year

Ireland's real estate market has had a rough 2012, with property prices down over 16% on the year. However, in a bit of good news the Dublin real estate market was up slightly in April. For more on this, continue reading the following article from Property Wire.

Average residential property prices in Ireland have fallen by 16.4% in the year to the end of April, according to the latest data from the Central Statistical Office.

This compares with an annual rate of decline of 16.3% in March and a decline of 12.2% recorded in the twelve months to April 2011.
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Residential property prices fell by 1.1% in the month of April and this follows a stable period in March when there was no change in residential property prices recorded. A decline of 1% was recorded in April of last year.
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In an encouraging sign Dublin residential property prices rose by 0.5% in April and are now 17.3% lower than a year ago. Dublin house prices increased by 0.2% in the month and were 17.9% lower compared to a year earlier.

The data also shows that Dublin apartment prices were 15.3% lower when compared with the same month of 2011.
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The price of residential properties in the rest of Ireland fell by 2% in April compared with a decline of 1.3% in April last year. Prices were 16.1% lower than in April 2011.
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House prices in Dublin are 55% lower than at their highest level in early 2007 while apartments in Dublin are 60% lower than they were in February 2007.

Residential property prices in Dublin are 57% lower than at their highest level in February 2007. The fall in the price of residential properties in the rest of Ireland is somewhat lower at 47%.
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Overall, the national index is 50% lower than its highest level in 2007.

This article was republished with permission from Property Wire.

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How satellites changed the Olympics | Community | The Royal ...

This summer?billions around the globe are expected to watch the London 2012 Olympics on TV ? an experience enabled by a global constellation of telecommunication satellites that we now take for granted. In a guest post, Pat Norris FRAeS explains how space technology in orbit has changed the way this global sporting event is viewed.

On your marks, get set, go! TV viewers of Olympics this summer will depend on satellite infrastructure. (London 2012).

The 2012 Olympics will be enjoyed by billions of people across the globe as it happens.? Fans in China, Australia, Brazil and Greece will cheer and groan as they watch their heroes in action with almost the same sense of immediacy as the crowds in the London venues.? This year, some events will be broadcast in 3-D for the first time using the latest TV technology, high definition TV will provide superb detail, and multiple channels will allow the viewer to switch between events at the touch of a button on the TV remote control.How different it was 50 years ago.? I have no memory of the Helsinki Games, but I suspect they were much the same as the Melbourne Games four years later in 1956.? I recall huddling with my parents around a radio in Dublin listening to a crackly radio commentary of the 1,500 metre final ? won by Irish star Ronnie Delany, which of course is why I remember it.? A week or two later, a film version of the race was shown on TV and in cinemas on Path? News or some other newsreel programme, having been brought from Australia in the form of a reel of film by piston-engined aeroplane.

My 1956 experience was the closest an audience could come to the excitement of the Olympics without being in the stadium until 1964 ? the Tokyo Games.?The space age had arrived in 1957 with the launch of the first satellite, Sputnik, and then in 1961 the first human, Yuri Gagarin.? Space technology evolved so that communications satellites were just on the scene in time for the 1964 Games giving TV viewers in the US (and to a more limited extent in Europe) the opportunity to view many of the events as they happened, including a few in colour.

The Syncom-3 satellite in 1964 could cope with just 1 TV channel. (NASA).

World-wide TV coverage came in with a bang in 1968 at the Mexico Games.? The Black Power salutes by 200m Gold Medal winner Tommy Smith and Bronze medallist John Carlos had an impact that could not otherwise have been achieved, being seen immediately by millions of people around the world.? Four years later at the Munich Games, the kidnapping and eventual shoot-out that killed 11 members of the Israeli team, five Black September terrorists and a German security official, electrified the world ? all the more powerfully because of the immediacy of satellite TV.

We now take for granted that we can witness any sporting event as it happens wherever in the world it takes place.? The signals have to travel (1) from the camera to the local studio, (2) from there to the studio of the TV companies in other countries and (3) from there to the individual viewer?s set.? Satellites made the second leg of this journey possible in 1964 and they remain a major part of the delivery scheme in the 21st century ? at least for the highest quality imagery (see Table below).

Getting high quality Olympic Games TV to the viewer.

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The Syncom-3 satellite that beamed TV pictures across the Pacific Ocean in 1964 could cope with just one TV channel.? It provided a continuous service by virtue of its orbit 36,000 km above the Equator (the so-called geostationary orbit), weighted just 68kg when launched and generated a mere 29W from its solar cells.? The Relay-1 satellite that forwarded the TV pictures from the US to Europe was in an elliptical orbit whose highest point was just 7,500km above the Earth giving it infrequent and intermittent visibility of both sides of the Atlantic as needed for the Olympic TV service.

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250 telecomms satellites in orbit

The SES-4 satellite, weighing 6,180kg and carrying 52 C-band and 72 Ku-band transponders, was launched in February. (SES Astra).

The 250 or so communications satellites in geostationary orbit today benefit from the nearly 50 years of advances in electronics since Syncom-1 ? illustrated by Moore?s Law for computer devices which states that performance doubles every 18 months, providing an improvement in performance of about ten billion since 1962.? It?s no surprise then that the satellites carrying the 2012 Olympic Games can cope with several hundred TV channels each, a significant proportion of them in High Definition (HD) that uses 5 to 10 times the radio spectrum of Standard Definition (SD) channels, and a handful in the even more spectrum hungry 3-D.? The transmission power of each channel has also increased meaning that the signals can be received by a 70cm dish whereas Syncom-1 required a 35m monster antenna (such as those at Goonhilly).? Today?s state of the art satellites weigh 5-6 tonnes and generate up to 20kW of electrical power from their banks of solar cells ? for example the 50th satellite operated by Luxembourg-based SES launched on 15th February 2012.

TV coverage can of course be directed to your smart phone using the internet.? If you are outside mobile telephone coverage the latest satellites can do the same: streaming the London 2012 coverage to a hand-held device.? The satellites that perform this miracle do so by using enormous antennas in space that are deployed once they reach orbit -those operated by London-based Inmarsat for example are 10m in diameter.

Inmarsat-4 F1 satellite showing its giant antenna. (EADS Astrium).

So, satellites began the process that turned the Olympic Games into the global festival they are today with TV viewing figures in the billions ? the 2008 Beijing opening ceremony alone drew 1 billion viewers world-wide.? However the story has a twist.? As with all major sporting events, TV coverage brings commercial pressures with it.? Huge sums of money are bid to obtain the TV franchise for the Games ? for example, NBC paid $2billion for the US rights to the 2011 Vancouver Winter Games plus the 2012 London Summer Games.? The enormous public interest raises the price of sponsorship, which for London is said to be more than $100million for a Tier 1 local sponsor, with the total of all local sponsors exceeding $1.1billion ? and add to that another $1billion or so in fees paid by the International Olympic Committee?s eleven global top Olympic partners such as Coca Cola and McDonald?s.

These commercial factors have changed the Games from an event for elite athletes into a spectacle for the masses. The athletes in Melbourne in 1956 participated in a much less commercially driven affair than we will see in August 2012 and it was played out in front of a much smaller audience.? Satellites have brought this elite spectacle into our living rooms but one of the unintended consequences is that they have thereby changed the event itself.

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?Pat Norris FRAeS is Space Strategy Manager at Logica and Chairman of the RAeS Learned Publications & Communications Group.? He is the author
of Spies in the Sky (2007) and Watching Earth from Space (2010) ? see www.pat-norris.com.

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US ambassador surprised by Russian criticism

MOSCOW (AP) ? The U.S. ambassador to Russia says he has been surprised by the Russian Foreign Ministry's criticism of his remarks at a meeting with students.

Russia's Foreign Ministry castigated McFaul for saying Russia offered money to the leader of Kyrgyzstan for removing a U.S. base from its soil, saying his description of this and other issues was "deliberately distorted." It also accused McFaul of misrepresenting Russia's stance on issues such as the Iranian nuclear standoff and North Korea's nuclear program.

Michael McFaul said on his Livejournal blog Wednesday that his speech last week was intended to applaud U.S.-Russian cooperation.

McFaul said he probably "shouldn't have spoken so colorfully and bluntly" and promised to "work harder to speak more diplomatically."

Associated Press

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Aluminum fences are also widely becoming popular in the industrial scenario as it helps in reducing and cutting back the initial costs of setting up and in the later stages low maintenance helps them in saving the operating costs and replacement hassles. Iron and wooden fencing are very less durable and the maintenance costs also bother the industrial units. Aluminum fencing industry is in boom owing to the above given advantages of aluminum and the wide support and preference of the masses for it. Aluminum is a natural metal available in abundance in the earth's crust which makes it easily accessible and operative. Aluminum fences therefore are the best choice for all purposes because it's the perfect mix of affordability, beauty, strength and amicable use. It successfully beats all other fencing types and metals.

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Kevin Pietersen won?t appeal Twitter rant at Nick Knight fine

Pietersen?s employers deemed that the batsman?s remarks were ?prejudicial to the interests of the ECB? and he has been fined about ?3,000, which will go to an ECB-supported charity. Pietersen was punished after a hearing in Nottingham organised by coach Andy Flower and Hugh Morris, the managing director of England cricket.

Although Pietersen is thought to consider the punishment somewhat severe, Standard Sport understands the 31-year-old is ready to let the matter lie. He could contest the decision but sources close to Pietersen suggest that going through an appeals process would be an unnecessary distraction.

Knight said he was unworried by the remarks of Pietersen, who described his presence on the Sky team for home series as ?ridiculous?. But Sky is a major commercial partner of the ECB, with a new ?260million, four-year deal to broadcast England matches live signed this year.

Pietersen has come a cropper on Twitter before. He was fined in 2010 for an outburst, which he said was a mistake, when he was left out of the one-day series against Pakistan, and later that year he berated Adelaide ground staff during the Ashes for failing to protect net wickets from rain.

Despite the problems it has caused, there are no plans to ban England players from using Twitter. The feeling within the Professional Cricketers? Association is that most England players have mastered the social networking site and that to impose too stringent rules would be counter-productive.

PCA chief executive Angus Porter said: ?We believe the code of conduct with regard to social networking works well.?

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1Mpad is Malaysia's first branded tablet, delivers 7 inches of Gingerbread for $315

So you've decided that it's time to make a tablet part of your life, but a lack of star-spangled slabs has prompted you to defer the purchase. Malaysians now face no such dilemma, due in no small part to the 1Malasyia Pad -- the country's first branded tab. The 1Mpad will reportedly soon be marketed to students (1.4 million of them, in fact), but 5,000 of the 7-inch Gingerbread devices are now being offered up to deep-pocketed locals, priced online at a rather-ambitious 999 Malaysian ringgits (about $315). Manufactured by MalTechPro Sdn Bhd, the 1Mpad will be offered to students at a to-be-determined discounted rate, making it the first such device to be available using a student discount card. At its current high list price, the tablet doesn't appear to be a fantastic deal, shipping with 3G broadband and the 1Malaysia Messenger application, which will serve as an IM service of sorts for sending text, pictures, video and voice recording to other 1Mpad owners. Still, if you have the cash to spare for an early taste of what Malaysian students may some day be using to surf the web, you can hit up the source link after the break for a bit more info.

[Thanks, Joe]

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A Texas judge threw an 11th-grade honors student in jail for repeatedly missing school in the hope that he could make an example of her.

Diane Tran, 17, works two jobs while taking dual-credit and advanced placement classes at Willis High School in Willis, Texas, KHOU-TV reported. Her parents divorced and moved away, leaving her to support an older brother at Texas A&M University and a baby sister who lives with relatives. She lives with the family of one of her employers, the owners of a wedding venue.

Tran told KHOU she doesn?t want to miss school, but is so exhausted sometimes that she can?t make it to her morning classes before attendance is taken. Other times she even ends up missing the day entirely.

?She goes from job to job, from school she stays up ?til 7 o?clock in the morning doing her homework,? Tran?s friend Devin Hill told the station.

Judge Lanny Moriarty warned Tran back in April not to miss any more school; when she missed again last week, he issued a summons and had her arrested in open court Wednesday. Tran was sentenced to a night in jail and ordered to pay a $100 fine.

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XSEDE12 is the inaugural conference for science, education,?outreach, software, and technology related to the National Science?Foundation?s eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment. This event will take place on July 16 to 19 at the?InterContinental (Magnificent Mile) in Chicago.

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Gayatri Buragohain is an electronics engineer by education, an?expert on information and communication technologies for?non-profits, and a passionate advocate of equal participation of?women in technology. She is the founder of the non-profit Feminist?Approach to Technology (FAT), based in New Delhi, India, which?focuses on advocating the equal participation of women not just?in using technology but also in the making of and decision-making?around technology. For her dedication in promoting women in?technology, she was awarded the Change Agent Award by the?Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology in 2010. Buragohain?also runs the company Joint Leap Technologies, which provides tech?services to non-profits.

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A-Rod powers Yankees with pair of homers

By HOWIE RUMBERG

AP Sports Writer

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updated 10:26 p.m. ET May 23, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) - On Tuesday night, after another mediocre game at the plate, Alex Rodriguez insisted he was ready to go on a tear.

He knew what he was talking about.

A-Rod gave Will Smith a rude welcome to the major leagues Wednesday night, hitting two homers off the rookie to back another strong start for Andy Pettitte and lead the New York Yankees over the Kansas City Royals 8-3.

"I said it with conviction not because it was going to sound good here in my locker but because I felt it," Rodriguez said. "It's good to back that up."

Rodriguez snapped a 52 at-bat homerless drought and drove in three runs for New York. Curtis Granderson also connected off Smith and the Yankees scored three times in the fifth with help from some inept relief pitching.

Derek Jeter had three hits to tie Paul Waner for 15th with 3,152. Before Jeter singled in the eighth, Waner had been the only player who reached a bigger hits milestone than Jeter in a Yankees uniform. "Big Poison" got just one hit with New York, his final one in a career spent mostly in Pittsburgh.

New York scored as many as three runs in the first inning for the first time in 31 games since April 19 and finished a 3-3 homestand. The Yankees start a 10-game trip at Oakland on Friday following their first consecutive wins since taking three in a row from May 10-12.

Pettitte (2-1) followed eight innings of four-hit ball against Cincinnati with seven-plus crafty innings in his third start since coming out of retirement. He gave Smith a lesson in mixing pitches and working out of difficult situations.

"I feel like I'm moving the ball around the zone and that makes it difficult to hit," Pettitte said.

In the third inning, first baseman Mark Teixeira started a double play with a diving stop. Pettitte got out of a bases loaded jam in the fourth with a strikeout - one of his eight Ks - giving a slight fist pump walking off the mound.

"He's as good as I've ever seen over there," Pettitte said about Teixeira.

Pettitte gave up seven hits, including homers to Billy Butler and Mitch Maier. The 39-year-old left-hander has not lost to Kansas City since 1999. In 24 games against the Royals, he is 14-3.

"I faced him before he retired and now after he came back, and I actually see things different that he's doing," Butler said. "He's throwing more off-speed stuff, more curveballs and changeups. Before it was 90 to 94 with hard cut in on you. You knew he was throwing it and he knew you knew he was throwing it, and it was going to beat you. But he's crafted his game and his last two starts have been great."

Smith (0-1), a 22-year old called up from Triple-A Omaha on Tuesday - not the actor with a movie coming out this weekend - started off with an out for the scrapbook: He got Jeter to hit a grounder to shortstop. But it was rocky the rest of the first for the lefty who was two months shy of 6 when Pettitte made his debut in 1995.

"I was nervous a little bit, facing a future Hall of Famer to start your career, in Derek Jeter," Smith said. "That was cool at the same time, but you still got to go out there and make your pitches and get people out."

Granderson homered to deep right on a 1-2 pitch. TV showed Smith's mom in the stands shaking her head: welcome to the big leagues, son. After a walk to Teixeira, A-Rod crushed a ball into the left field stands for a 3-0 lead.

By the time Nick Swisher hit a pop up with two outs, Smith's mom couldn't watch: she had covered her face with her hands. It was an out, mom.

When Rodriguez homered in the third to center field, mom sat stunned with her hands behind her head.

"She was nervous. She's been like that since I was in high school," Smith said. "She and my dad ... my dad used to pace around the stadium. They always get nervous and always will be."

Rodriguez had just one RBI since he last homered and drove in three runs on May 6 at Kansas City, 15 games ago. It was Rodriguez's 60th multihomer game.

Smith was lifted after giving up a one-out single in the fourth. He yielded five runs and six hits in 3 1-3 innings. Luis Mendoza, the pitcher originally slated to start Wednesday night, relieved.

Rodriguez came up in the fifth with the bases loaded and grounded into a fielder's choice. Jeter, who bunted for a hit, was forced out at home.

The Yankees came in 8 for 41 (.195) with the bases loaded but they didn't need a hit in that situation in the fifth to score their runs. The Yankees walked three times and were twice hit by pitches in the inning. Robinson Cano had an RBI fielder's choice - a nice diving stop by shortstop Alcides Escobar - and Andruw Jones and Teixeira, back in the 3-hole after two games batting seventh, walked to force in runs.

"It's a club that a lot of times works the count really well and is going to have its share of walks," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.

Eric Hosmer went 3 for 4 with an RBI to raise his average to .191 for the Royals.

NOTES: The Royals dropped to 4-3 in the deciding game of series this season. ... New York went 1 for 6 with runners in scoring position, leaving the Yankees 9 for 85 (.106) in their last nine games.

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Afraid of needles? Futuristic syringe doesn?t need them

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John Roach

Getting a shot may soon be nearly painless, according to researchers developing a new type of syringe.

The device is able to blast a high-pressure jet of medicine at the speed of sound through a person?s skin without the aid of a hypodermic needle.?

The jet is about the same diameter as a mosquito?s proboscis, Ian Hunter, a mechanical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains in the video below.?

?As many of you know, you don?t feel when the mosquito inserts its proboscis into your skin because it?s so very narrow,? he said.

While needle-less syringes have been around for a few years, the prototype device Hunter and his colleagues are developing can be fine-tuned to control the depth and speed of drug delivery.

For example, a shot may start with a super high-pressure blast to penetrate the skin, but then scaled back to deliver the drug in a slower stream.

This variable adjustment of the jet may ring familiar to fans of Star Trek, where medical officers are constantly fiddling?with drugs and doses.

This is all possible thanks to a mechanism called a Lorentz-force actuator that MIT describes in a news release as:

A small, powerful magnet surrounded by a coil of wire that?s attached to a piston inside a drug ampoule. When current is applied, it interacts with the magnetic field to produce a force that pushes the piston forward, ejecting the drug at very high pressure and velocity. ? The speed of the coil and the velocity imparted to the drug can be controlled by the amount of current applied.

The device can be programmed for different types of skin ? a baby getting the whooping cough vaccine at the doctor?s office, for example, has softer skin than parents and grandparents who might also need the shot.

According to Hunter, the device can be used for delivery of drugs right through the eye into the retina as well as the inner ear.?

The device can also be programmed to vibrate, which is able to make powdered drugs behave as if they were a liquid, which means it can inject powdered vaccines in parts of the world that lack refrigeration.

John Roach is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. To learn more about him, check out his website and follow him on Twitter. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.

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