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Just before CES last year Judie and I both purchased a 7? Samsung Galaxy Tab in order to blog on the fly. At the time both of us were already pretty heavily invested in iOS but the first generation iPad?s lack of a camera made it problematic for blogging. Add in the fact that, at the time, iPad blogging apps were rather limited in functionality and you begin to see the problem we faced. Unlike the iPad, the Tab had a decent enough camera and blogging from it worked rather well. As such, it solved many of the issues and was the right tool for our time in Vegas. (You can, of course, draw your own conclusions from the fact that we both got rid of the Tabs within a month of the show ending.)

Fast forward a year and much has changed. The iPad 2 has a camera. It isn?t great but it does work well enough for a quick picture or two on the go. In addition, iCloud means you can take awesome pictures with the iPhone 4s and they will show up on the iPad within seconds. Mix in the fact that there are actually some decent blogging apps now and you start to get a picture of what we will be using to blog at CES 2012.

Still there is an issue I expect we will still face? battery life! Our mobile devices get a huge amount of use during the show as they continually search for signals in an area of historically terrible connectivity. Yes, with so many trying to get on the network iPads and iPhones run down faster than a child drinks a Slurpee. The iPad gets good battery life but it is no match for a day at CES. That?s where the MiLi Power iBox 8000mAh Battery Charger Case Back Cover for iPad 2 might come in handy. Our friends at Xengadget sent one over for us to check out so let?s take a closer look.

The Hype:

World?s first Apple Certified battery and protective case for the iPad 2. 8000mAh battery nearly doubles the battery life of your iPad 2: Power iBox fits like a second skin for the iPad 2 all the while providing protection and power without adding bulk. Equipped with an 8,000mAh lithium polymer battery, the Power iBox packs enough charge to double iPad 2?s battery life. Its low profile casing provides durable protection against drops or mishaps while its silver finish and stylish design adds personality to the iPad 2.

The Reality:

Let?s get this out of the way immediately. The MiLi Power iBox 8000mAh Battery Charger Case Back Cover for iPad 2 is big and heavy. It adds a huge amount of bulk to the iPad 2 and it takes a tablet that is already heady enough and makes it even heavier. At the same time, it does have an 8000mAh battery! Heck, the iPad itself only sports a 6500mAh battery so this more than doubles the battery capacity of the tablet. The iPad itself offers ?up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music?. The Mili Power iBox offers up to 10 hours of video, 15 hours of data usage and 10 hours of music. Together that means that, depending on the activity you are performing, you will get in the range of 20 hours of runtime or more. That will keep you going pretty much all day with power to spare.

Specifications:

Battery: lithium polymer

Capacity: 8000mAh

Input: DC5V/2.1

Output: 10W DC5V/2.1A(max)

Charging time: 5 hours

Dimensions: 256 x 196 x 15.2 mm

Weight: 12.7oz (360gram)

If you use one of Apple?s SmartCovers and a protective backing designed to work with it the Power iBox will immediately be familiar. It covers the back, bottom, top and one side. The left-hand side however is exposed so that the SmartCover can magnetically grab onto the iPad 2.

The Power iBox is ?Made for iPad? which means, among other things, that it has the traditional 30-pin connector. Getting the iPad 2 into the Power iBox was, initially at least, a bit of a challenge however. The iPad first gets positioned so that the dock connector is lined up with the 30-pin connection. Then the iPad is slipped into place. All that was easy enough. Actually snapping the iPad into the case so it STAYED in the case took some time and a bit of pressure to click it into place properly. Once it was done however, the iPad stayed put.

Features:

World?s first Apple Certified battery and protective case for the iPad 2

8,000mAh Lithium Polymer battery capacity doubles the life of iPad 2

Power button with press to start charging

4 LED indicator lights to display how much life is left in the Power iBox

One-year manufacturer?s warranty

Controls are kept to a bare minimum with a power button in the lower left and charge indicators next to it that only appear when turned on. Beneath the power button is a microUSB connector for recharging the battery. On the other side of the battery case are cutouts for the speaker.

And as you can see, the SmartCover works as well with the Power iBox as it does with any non-battery case that is designed for the cover.

And when the cover is placed on the iPad?s screen the tablet is completely protected. It makes for a nice package except?

Did I mention ?the MiLi Power iBox 8000mAh Battery Charger Case Back Cover for iPad 2 is big and heavy?? Yes, an 8000 mAh battery takes up a fair amount of space and has a noticeable amount of weight. That could combine to make the Power iBox a brick. In order to help avoid that MiLi designed it with a slightly thinner portion (about 1/4 of the case) that is more easily held. It gives the Power iBox a bit of an odd look but it does actually make the case easier to hold.

Another look at the way in which the SmartCover connects to the iPad. As you can see, while the side of the iPad is exposed and vulnerable when the SmartCover is not in place, it is completely protected when the Power iBox AND the SmartCover are used together.

And the controls remain fully accessible despite the thickness of the Power iBox.

In short, the MiLi Power iBox does exactly what it promises. It protects the iPad, lets you use Apple?s SmartCover and more than doubles the battery capacity of the iPad. Because it adds significant size, weight and bulk to the iPad it certainly isn?t for everyone. If, however, you need to use your iPad for an extended period of time, will be using it extensively and won?t be near an outlet This might be the PERFECT solution for you. I can?t see using it every day but during a trip it could come in more than a bit handy.

I?m not yet sure if I will be using it at CES but it certainly is something I will think about bringing along next week.

You can learn more and order yours here on the Xengadget storefront.

MSRP: $139.95

What I Like: More than doubles the battery life of the iPad 2; Fits the iPad 2 perfectly; Allows for use of the Apple SmartCover

What Needs Improvement: Heavy and bulky; A bit difficult to get the iPad 2 into the battery case initially

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Source: http://www.geardiary.com/2012/01/02/mili-power-ibox-8000mah-battery-charger-case-for-ipad-2-review/

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Lisbon - Long-serving Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos is keeping his country and the world guessing about whether he will bid for re-election in 2012 in Africa's No. 2 oil producer.

Apparently unfazed by unprecedented youth protests against his rule last year inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings, the soft-spoken 69-year-old leader has promised that elections due in September will be transparent and fair, while keeping his own options open.

Dos Santos' mild, inscrutable public demeanour belies his more than 32 years firmly at Angola's helm, a rule eclipsed in Africa only by Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

Speculation over Dos Santos' intentions - under the country's new 2010 constitution he could remain in power until 2022 - has reached fever pitch among analysts, investors and oil companies watching one of Africa's fastest-growing economies.

?Dos Santos' succession is the single biggest question hanging over Angola,? said Alex Vines, an Angola expert and analyst with UK-based think-tank Chatham House.

Fanning the succession debate, in September the Angolan weekly Novo Jornal cited sources in the ruling MPLA party to report that Dos Santos had selected Manuel Vicente, the 55-year-old head of state oil company Sonangol, as his successor to take over before or after the election.

But in December, Dos Santos himself appeared to quash this report by re-appointing Vicente for another term as Sonangol CEO, leading observers to conclude he may have had second thoughts about the succession plan, possibly swayed by resistance from within the MPLA.

?The handover of power to a career oil executive has the potential to anger loyalists in the upper ranks of the MPLA, many of whom have been patiently waiting in the wings to take another step up the ladder,? analysts at IHS Global Insight said in a recent research note.

Adding to the speculation, Dos Santos, a Moscow-trained oil engineer, signalled in November his apparent readiness to lead the party in a re-election bid by saying he was ?as a long-serving party militant ... always available? for any mission the MPLA chose for him.

Angola's new constitution approved in 2010 abolished direct presidential elections, strengthening the role of the president in the country's government, politics and military. It established that the person heading the electoral list of the winning party in parliamentary elections becomes president.

?Dos Santos has never been elected president - in 1992 the second round (of presidential elections) never took place, the 2008 election was only for parliament and he postponed the presidential ballot before abolishing it altogether in 2010,? Chatham House's Vines said.

?As matter of legitimacy, and even legacy, he will want to be elected president before retiring,? Vines believed. - Reuters

Source: http://www.iol.co.za/dos-santos-keeps-succession-open-1.1206927

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Grand Rapids, MI. ? Don?t forget the annual Winter Bridal Show of West Michigan, Jan. 20-21, at DeVos Place in downtown Grand Rapids. All under one roof, a variety of exhibits will be on hand including:

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Featuring a guest appearance by best selling author Jeffrey Zaslow, he?ll be presenting "The Magic Room," a story about the love we wish for our daughters, featuring a Michigan Bridal Shop managed by a fourth generation of daughters. Zaslow also wrote "The Girls From Ames", coauthor of "The Last Lecture" and "Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope", memoir of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

Highlighting three runway fashion shows, Becker's Bridal will showcase unique and fashion forward designs by Maggie Sottero, Allure Bridals and Enzoani; also presenting truly couture gowns by Vintage Rose, designed in England and exclusive to Michigan to Becker's. Runway fashion shows are Friday at 7pm and Saturday at noon and 2 pm.

A WOW display dessert table will also be featured. Candy and Dessert Tables are the newest hip thing at weddings! Also, premiering at this event will be Donna Sawyer Culinary Cooking Classes. Basics with a WOW! Donna's vision for teaching young couples cooking basics will come to life; offering basic cooking classes for newlyweds and adding a new twist to bridal showers.

While attending the Bridal Show, brides and their wedding party may participate in a contest with an opportunity to win Cash Prizes ..."Brides Just Want to Have Fun" photo shoot. Your vote will be counted! Seasons of Love will also be showcased and a featured area.

Saving time and money is often a priority for the engaged couple and the area's leading bridal businesses will be there offering day-of-show specials. Plan on placing your deposit and confirming your dream wedding as calendars fill up quickly.? "We encourage engaged couples to print a checklist off at www.GRBrides.com and bring them to the show.? And don't forget the Groom's List!" says Denise Kolesar, President of Kohler Expos. Both the bridal show and the website are loaded with user-friendly information. Your careful planning can make it timeless, romantic and magical, so your wedding day will be an event to remember.

The bridal show will be open to the public from 5-9 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 20, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 21. Admission is $6 for adults at the door. Discount coupons are available online by visiting website www.kohlerexpo.com. Convenient underground parking is available for a minimal charge at the Michigan Street or Lyon Street entrance to DeVos Place. More information is available on the website at www.kohlerexpo.com.
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Source: http://grwest.wzzm13.com/news/arts-culture/65130-enchanting-and-magical-your-wedding-day-plans-begin-winter-bridal-show

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ALAMINOS CANYON BLOCK 857, GULF OF MEXICO ? The 160 workers on Shell's Perdido oil platform have access to a free restaurant, gym and movie theater.

Their laundry and meals are taken care of and they get paid pretty well ? about $60,000 a year for a young roughneck, $90,000 for a young engineer and $150,000 for a supervisor. Plus they get a two-week vacation every two weeks.

The catch? They toil on this floating oil factory in 12 hour shifts for 14 days straight. Their rooms are tiny ? just enough space for a pair of bunk beds, one desk and some lockers. And there is definitely no getting away from work: They are 200 miles from shore and there is nothing on the horizon in all directions.

The clanking, buzzing machine they live on rises 30 stories out of the water and weighs 50 million tons. It uses new and unproven technologies to coax oil out of a tricky and important geologic formation in the Gulf of Mexico. One well is in the deepest water ever, 9,627 feet.

If they can't get Perdido to work right and have to stop the oil and natural gas from flowing, their company loses $5 million per day in revenue. If they lose control of it, their lives are at stake.

The job drives some people crazy.

"A lot of people have trouble," says Louis Lemoine, a drilling foreman from Alexandria, La. who has been working offshore for 41 years. "You can't go anywhere."

But the ones who stick to it say they love it.

Alison Whitt, a 22-year-old engineer just out of college says: "At the end of 14 days here I'm ready to go home, but at the end of 14 days (off) I'm ready to come back."

Workers compare it to having a second family. The isolation, the intensity of working so many hours straight and the danger breed closeness uncommon in most jobs.

Most people don't eat three meals a day with their co-workers, or share small bunk rooms with them.

There are movie nights and video game tournaments. There's even a nurse who nags workers to get their cholesterol and blood pressure tested. There are also flare-ups between workers who are tired, and tired of being cooped up with each other for so long. "It's just like home," Lemoine says. "Spats. Rumors. Gossip."

The sense of camaraderie ? as well as the tension ? has been intensified for all Gulf oil workers since 11 died in the explosion of the oil rig controlled by BP in April of 2010. That disaster led to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.

Chris Smith, Perdido's operations manager, says there's been a "chronic sense of unease" among workers ever since.

The Perdido workers, like many in the oil industry outside of BP, say their culture and processes were focused on safety long before BP's disaster. They say they would have avoided such an accident.

But they know that Shell workers have died in accidents, too, and they are reminded of the fact during a tedious, 90-minute safety session they must sit through when they arrive at Perdido. As if the dangers of deepwater drilling needed reinforcing, lifeboats hang from the platform and sharks can be seen prowling the waters beneath it.

Perdido gathers oil and natural gas from wells drilled in its vicinity, many by an on-board rig that drills down into the sea floor and then horizontally into oil reservoirs. The oil and gas is then sent via undersea pipeline to terminals and refineries on the Gulf coast.

The platform also has desalination machines to make fresh water, power generators, air conditioners, a giant kitchen, laundry facilities and TV hookups. If something breaks, engineers on board fix it. The cable guy isn't coming to Perdido to adjust anyone's picture.

Perdido workers come from Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and as far away as Michigan and Alaska to get to work. They board a helicopter at an airport in Galveston, Texas, for the two-hour ride to the platform.

When the helicopter touches down, it's all work for two weeks. The schedule compresses a full year's work into six months. But that makes for nice stretches of vacation.

Todd Coulon, a Shell veteran of 23 years from Barataria, La., a bayou town 30 miles south of New Orleans, says the two weeks off each month allow him to get chores and home projects done. That allows him to have "real weekends" during which he can spend time with his three kids, watch LSU and Saints football games and fish.

When it's time to work, the focus is clear: Keep the oil and gas flowing. The device on the platform that transfers the oil and gas to pipelines is called the "Lease Automated Custody Transfer Unit" but workers have a nickname for it: the cash register.

At each change in shift there is a meeting in the platform's common room. The foremen from the outgoing shift brief the foremen from the incoming shift on how the platform and the rig performed, the maintenance activities planned, the equipment and supplies that are arriving by boat, the latest weather forecast and any safety problems.

Foremen wear camouflage baseball caps, recline in office chairs and murmur in polite southern accents of different shades, from a deep Mississippi drawl to Southern Louisiana creole.

A recent meeting started with a safety report from a foreman who reported missing earplugs, cracked coatings, hoses in the wrong place that created a tripping hazard, a hand rail missing a pin and a helmet blown off the head of a worker and into the sea by a gust of wind.

Even heavier winds were coming, so the cranes had to be put in their "cradles" and drilling would likely have to be suspended. Maintenance work was slotted into the schedule.

Production rates from the day before were discussed, along with goals for the next day.

Some of the equipment Shell designed to separate oil and natural gas on the sea floor before pumping it up to the platform hasn't worked as well as hoped. Technicians have been adjusting equipment, changing procedures, and installing new equipment over several months to try to fix the problem. Finally, it seems to be working.

After more than a year of steady operation, Perdido has only recently hit its monthly production targets.

Perdido is producing the equivalent of 60,000 barrels of oil and natural gas a day from six wells. Eventually, the platform will produce 100,000 barrels per day from 35 wells drilled in a 30-mile radius around the platform.

At today's prices, that means revenue of more than $1.8 billion per year.

The challenge is to balance the pressure to keep the oil flowing with the pressure to keep workers safe.

Coulon ended a recent meeting by telling workers to be safe and look after each other. He didn't need to remind them that not too long ago 11 people doing the same kind of work never made it home for their two week break to see their families, fish and get stuff done around the house.

Jonathan Fahey can be reached at http://twitter.com/JonathanFahey.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111230/ap_on_bi_ge/us_deepwater_drilling_life_on_a_platform

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'Tis the season, so the saying goes. And when it comes to Aki Kaurism?ki, it holds true. The Finnish writer-director arrives bearing a gift wrapped in a contemporary immigration fable.

If the bummers and ambiguity of some of this season's movies are getting you down - or, hey, just the bummers and ambiguities of life - make your way to Le Havre. You won't be sorry.

The Finnish director's sense of humor is dry and dark as pitch, as he consistently finds moments of absurdity in the midst of strife and tragedy.

Kaurism?ki wrote the script, I think, with secret credit from Mother Goose and some fabric softener.

"Le Havre" is a small bit of movie magic, a story that plays more as a fable even as it deals with something as topical as immigration.

The film is especially comforting if you love old movies, as Kaurismaki does.

While the film never reaches any hugely profound revelations with its parable-styled stories of compassion and community, and occasionally feels a little slight, it's also enormously enjoyable and gorgeous to watch.

It's a puzzle, and an intriguing one.

In two stories of evolving trust and secrets, Le Havre reflects the essential simplicity of the moral choices made in its simple-seeming camera set-ups.

Kaurismaki's movie about a shoeshine man and an illegal immigrant is nothing less than a joy

A wonderfully concise, unfussy movie; it is "easy" by the director's standards, which is to say that it doesn't leave any significant ellipses in the narrative up until the aggressively darling ending.

...an upbeat little tome that leaves a good feeling to the spirit.

Kaurism?ki can almost restore your hope in humanity.

Kaurismaki dives into French film culture in 'Le Havre'

You almost become a citizen of Le Havre, watching this film and rejoicing at the end as two newfound, unexpected friends share a drink.

It's a straightforward yet completely artificial scenario, with welcome overtones of Italian Neo-Realism.

Unlike the director's typical hero, Wilms's spare performance conveys confidence rather than defeat. He and the kid warm the heart, thawing Kaurism?ki's usual icy aplomb.

Heart-wrenching but ultimately inspirational.

Le Havre is not the filmmaker's best work (see La Vie de Boh?me for that), but no matter the storm, we should be grateful to dock in this port.

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Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/le_havre_2011/

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