Orchestra Is an Awesome Collaborative To-Do Manager with Speech Recognition, Web Sync, and More [IPhone Downloads]

Orchestra Is an Awesome Collaborative To-Do Manager with Speech Recognition, Web Sync, and MoreiOS: Orchestra is a really fantastic to-do app for your iPhone that lets you collaborate with others even if they don't have a copy of the (free) app themselves. You can share anything you're working on, others can send you tasks requiring your help, and it's all remarkably simple to do.

Orchestra Is an Awesome Collaborative To-Do Manager with Speech Recognition, Web Sync, and MoreEven if you don't plan to use Orchestra for collaborative purposes, you get a really great to-do app. It'll teach you how to use it with helpful tool tips the first time you launch, but it's very straightforward so chances are you could figure it out on your own without any help at all. As you might expect, you start by adding tasks and assigning due dates, but you can add tasks by typing or speaking. I added all my tasks by speaking because I couldn't get it to fail. The voice recognition was remarkably accurate. I tried accents and even spoke with food in my mouth and it transcribed everything I said without a problem?and quickly, too. (I imagine it makes mistakes from time to time, seeing as humans aren't even that good at speech recognition, but it understood me just fine.) If speech and typing aren't sufficient, you can also email your tasks.

Once your tasks are in, you can swipe them for quick edits?such as choosing new sorting options?or use one of the many viewing options to look at only what you want to see at the moment. All of your changes are synced to the web so you can access them from any connected computer when you don't have your iPhone (or would simply prefer to work from a browser).

Then you have what makes Orchestra different from the other to-do apps: collaboration. You can easily collaborate with other Orchestra users to share tasks. It's almost like sending text messages to each other, but with a productivity element. If you want to share a task with someone who isn't using the app, however, you still can. So long as they have an email address you can loop them in on something you need to get done.

I'd initially hesitated to check out Orchestra because I was skeptical of yet another to-do app, but it's a step above the rest. Regardless of how you want to use it, it's fantastic and I highly recommend checking it out.

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Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real (AP)

WASHINGTON ? A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.

The study of the world's surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected to global warming deniers. He pursued long-held skeptic theories in analyzing the data. He was spurred to action because of "Climategate," a British scandal involving hacked emails of scientists.

Yet he found that the land is 1.6 degrees warmer than in the 1950s. Those numbers from Muller, who works at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, match those by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.

He said he went even further back, studying readings from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. His ultimate finding of a warming world, to be presented at a conference Monday, is no different from what mainstream climate scientists have been saying for decades.

What's different, and why everyone from opinion columnists to "The Daily Show" is paying attention is who is behind the study.

One-quarter of the $600,000 to do the research came from the Charles Koch Foundation, whose founder is a major funder of skeptic groups and the tea party. The Koch brothers, Charles and David, run a large privately held company involved in oil and other industries, producing sizable greenhouse gas emissions.

Muller's research team carefully examined two chief criticisms by skeptics. One is that weather stations are unreliable; the other is that cities, which create heat islands, were skewing the temperature analysis.

"The skeptics raised valid points and everybody should have been a skeptic two years ago," Muller said in a telephone interview. "And now we have confidence that the temperature rise that had previously been reported had been done without bias."

Muller said that he came into the study "with a proper skepticism," something scientists "should always have. I was somewhat bothered by the fact that there was not enough skepticism" before.

There is no reason now to be a skeptic about steadily increasing temperatures, Muller wrote recently in The Wall Street Journal's editorial pages, a place friendly to skeptics. Muller did not address in his research the cause of global warming. The overwhelming majority of climate scientists say it's man-made from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil. Nor did his study look at ocean warming, future warming and how much of a threat to mankind climate change might be.

Still, Muller said it makes sense to reduce the carbon dioxide created by fossil fuels.

"Greenhouse gases could have a disastrous impact on the world," he said. Still, he contends that threat is not as proven as the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it is.

On Monday, Muller was taking his results ? four separate papers that are not yet published or peer-reviewed, but will be, he says ? to a conference in Santa Fe, N.M., expected to include many prominent skeptics as well as mainstream scientists.

"Of course he'll be welcome," said Petr Chylek of Los Alamos National Lab, a noted skeptic and the conference organizer. "The purpose of our conference is to bring people with different views on climate together, so they can talk and clarify things."

Shawn Lawrence Otto, author of the book "Fool Me Twice" that criticizes science skeptics, said Muller should expect to be harshly treated by global warming deniers. "Now he's considered a traitor. For the skeptic community, this isn't about data or fact. It's about team sports. He's been traded to the Indians. He's playing for the wrong team now."

And that started on Sunday, when a British newspaper said one of Muller's co-authors, Georgia Tech climate scientist Judith Curry, accused Muller of another Climategate-like scandal and trying to "hide the decline" of recent global temperatures.

The Associated Press contacted Curry on Sunday afternoon and she said in an email that Muller and colleagues "are not hiding any data or otherwise engaging in any scientifically questionable practice."

The Muller "results unambiguously show an increase in surface temperature since 1960," Curry wrote Sunday. She said she disagreed with Muller's public relations efforts and some public comments from Muller about there no longer being a need for skepticism.

Muller's study found that skeptics' concerns about poor weather station quality didn't skew the results of his analysis because temperature increases rose similarly in reliable and unreliable weather stations. He also found that while there is an urban heat island effect making cities warmer, rural areas, which are more abundant, are warming, too.

Among many climate scientists, the reaction was somewhat of a yawn.

"After lots of work he found exactly what was already known and accepted in the climate community," said Jerry North, a Texas A&M University atmospheric sciences professor who headed a National Academy of Sciences climate science review in 2006. "I am hoping their study will have a positive impact. But some folks will never change."

Chris Field, a Carnegie Institution scientist who is chief author of an upcoming intergovernmental climate change report, said Muller's study "may help the world's citizens focus less on whether climate change is real and more on smart options for addressing it."

Some of the most noted scientific skeptics are no longer saying the world isn't warming. Instead, they question how much of it is man-made, view it as less a threat and argue it's too expensive to do something about, Otto said.

Skeptical MIT scientist Richard Lindzen said it is a fact and nothing new that global average temperatures have been rising since 1950, as Muller shows. "It's hard to see how any serious scientist (skeptical, denier or believer ? frequently depending on the exact question) will view it otherwise," he wrote in an email.

In a brief email statement, the Koch Foundation noted that Muller's team didn't examine ocean temperature or the cause of warming and said it will continue to fund such research. "The project is ongoing and entering peer review, and we're proud to support this strong, transparent research," said foundation spokeswoman Tonya Mullins.

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Online:

The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature site: http://www.berkeleyearth.org/index.php

Judith Curry's blog on the study and her supposed criticisms: http://judithcurry.com/2011/10/30/mail-on-best/

Santa Fe climate conference: http://bit.ly/rQknVi

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Motorhomes are just like cars when it comes to insurance. People get insurance for their cars just in case they get in an accident the insurance will pay for the damages. There is insurance that people can get for their motorhomes. It is a smart decision for a person to get insurance for their motorhome because they never know if the insurance will come in handy. Accidents can happen at any given time without warning if a person gets in an accident and if they don?t have insurance then the person will have to pay for the damages out of their own pocket. There is motorhome insurance that has flood and water damage coverage. If there is a bad storm and water has leaked in and damage the inside of the motorhome the insurance will cover the cost of the damage. If strong wind knocked a tree on the motorhome the insurance will cover the roof or outside where the damage was done.

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Talking to Siri: Learning the Language of Apple?s Intelligent Assistant

The inimitable Steven Sande and extraordinary Erica Sadun of TUAW fame have put together an Amazon Kindle book designed to help us help Siri help us.
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Romney leads in first four nominating states: poll (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leads his campaign rivals in the four states that kick off the 2012 Republican presidential race, according to CNN/Time/ORC polls released on Wednesday.

Barely more than two months before the first nominating contest, Romney has narrow leads in Iowa and South Carolina and double-digit advantages in New Hampshire and Florida.

Conservative businessman Herman Cain, who surged into the lead in some recent national polls but has faced heightened scrutiny in the past week, is in second place in each state.

A Romney sweep of the first four states to cast votes in the nominating race would put an early end to the battle to find a challenger to President Barack Obama in 2012.

But the polls also found there was plenty of room for more changes in the frequently shifting Republican race. Majorities in Iowa and South Carolina said they might change their minds about their votes, and about half in Florida and New Hampshire said the same.

The polls found Romney with a slight edge in Iowa of 3 percentage points, 24 percent to 21 percent, over Cain. His lead was even smaller, 25 percent to 23 percent, in South Carolina. Both leads were within the polls' margin of error of 5 percentage points.

Iowa and South Carolina have big blocs of conservative voters distrustful of Romney, who as governor of liberal Massachusetts supported abortion rights and a healthcare overhaul that was a precursor of Obama's federal law.

Romney has a big 27-point lead over Cain in New Hampshire, which borders Massachusetts and where Romney has a vacation home. He also has a comfortable 12-point lead, 30 percent to 18 percent, over Cain in Florida.

The polls were taken Thursday through Tuesday, following the most recent Republican debate last week.

Libertarian U.S. Representative Ron Paul was in third place in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire. In Florida, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich and Texas Governor Rick Perry were tied for third place.

Iowa kicks off the nominating race on January 3, followed by New Hampshire, which is expected to hold its primary on January 10, South Carolina on January 21 and Florida on January 31.

Romney's support was relatively broad across various political and demographic groups. He led easily among self-styled moderate or liberal Republicans, but also led among Tea Party fiscal conservatives in New Hampshire. He tied Cain among that group in Florida and was second behind Cain with Tea Party voters in Iowa and South Carolina.

(Editing by Peter Cooney)

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Tunisian Islamist leader seeks calm after unrest (AP)

TUNIS, Tunisia ? The leader of the moderate Islamist party that won Tunisia's first free elections called for calm Friday after protests erupted in the town where the country's revolution began.

Authorities called a curfew in the town of Sidi Bouzid, where supporters of a local candidate rioted after he was docked seats for campaigning violations.

It was in Sidi Bouzid where a vegetable seller set himself ablaze in a protest that sparked nationwide protests and eventually led to uprisings across the Arab world.

"We call for calm among the inhabitants of Sidi Bouzid, the cradle of the revolution which must be at the forefront of preserving the public good," said Rachid Ghannouchi, founder of the Ennahda, or Renaissance, party which took 90 of the assembly's 217 seats.

The assembly will be tasked with appointing a transitional government and writing the new constitution.

The local Ennahda bureau was among buildings burned in the unrest. Police lobbed tear gas to disperse a crowd of up to 3,000 people on Thursday night and the army fired warning shots, according to town resident Mourad Barhoumi. Residents burned tires, pillaged some stores and torched a National Guard post and a state training center, he said.

Authorities on Friday imposed a nighttime curfew, Interior Ministry spokesman Hichem Meddeb said.

The protests were linked to the party coming in fourth in the voting ? the Areedha Chaabiya, or Popular Petition party. Its leader, Hachemi Hamdi, of Sidi Bouzid, announced on national television that he was withdrawing the 19 seats his party won after the electoral commission invalidated six of its seats.

Hamdi, owner of the Mustaqila satellite television channel based in London, had broadcast promises to give Tunisians free health care, new factories and thousands of jobs.

Electoral officials ultimately invalidated five lists tarnished by financing violations and one led by a former member of the ruling party ? now banned.

Ghannouchi's long-banned Ennahda party has promised to create a broad-based coalition as it works to form a government to replace interim leaders who have run Tunisia since ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on Jan. 14, chased away after a month of protests.

Potential partners are the Congress for the Republic party, founded in 2001 and which came in second place with 30 seats, and the third-placed Ettakatol party, which won 21 seats.

Congress for the Republic is headed by noted human rights activist Moncef Marzouki, a doctor who had lived in exile in Paris. Ettakatol, or the Democratic Forum for Labor and Freedoms, is led by Mustapha Ben Jaafar, also a doctor.

Ghannouchi, who spent more than two decades in exile in London, reiterated reassurances that his party would not impinge on women's rights in this Muslim Arab country.

"The program aims to strengthen the role of women, on the social as well as political level," he said.

Some Tunisians have feared a victory for the Islamist Ennahda might mean a rolling back of some of the country's more secular traditions.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland congratulated Tunisia on its successful elections and said the U.S. would judge Tunisia's parties by their respect for core democratic principles: freedom of speech, expression and media, and tolerance of differing views.

Britain's Middle East Minister Alistair Burt, meanwhile, expressed hope that the positive atmosphere in the run-up to elections would be replicated in the process of forming a coalition government and writing the new constitution.

"It is important that they fulfill the aspirations of the Tunisian people by respecting the principles of democracy, pluralism, rule of law and human rights," he said.

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Obesity May Hinder Flu Shot's Effectiveness (HealthDay)

TUESDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- The various health risks associated with being overweight or obese are well known, but a new study now suggests that this extra weight may also make your annual flu shot less effective.

What's more, obese and overweight people may be at higher risk for more severe illness if they do catch the flu, according to the findings published online Oct. 25 in the International Journal of Obesity.

Flu vaccines work by causing protective antibodies to develop in the body. In the study, obese, overweight and healthy weight individuals all developed antibodies to flu viruses within the first month after vaccination, but the antibody levels in the blood waned more rapidly among obese and overweight individuals.

Specifically, there was a fourfold decrease in antibody levels 11 months after vaccination in half of the obese patients, compared to one month post-vaccination. By contrast, less than 25 percent of healthy weight participants showed this degree of decrease in their antibody levels after 11 months, the researchers found.

In addition, a type of white blood cell called CD8+ T-cells, which play a key role in priming the body's immune system, doesn't work properly in heavier people. When vaccination doesn't stave off the flu, people must rely, in part, on these white blood cells to limit the spread and severity of the infection.

"Over time, overweight and obese people are not maintaining their antibody levels to the extent that healthy weight people are," said study author Heather A. Paich, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "They also appear to have difficulty fighting the flu infection when it does occur."

Whether or not obese or overweight individuals are more susceptible to the flu remains to be seen, she said.

"It has been well-documented that obesity is linked to lowered immunity, and I always urge my obese patients at any age to get a flu shot," said Dr. Neil Schachter, a professor of pulmonary medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

The fact that their response to the flu shot is impaired has significant clinical implications, he said. "They may be candidates for the double flu shot approach that we give to elderly patients -- one shot in early fall and another in January," he said. "This may offer better protection for obese patients to avoid the flu or at least reduce severity of the infection and reduce risk of complications."

Dr. Louis Aronne, founder and director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, said that overweight and obese people may represent another group of people who are at high risk for flu and flu-related complications. He said more study is needed to see if these people would benefit from two shots, instead of one.

The bigger picture here is that there needs to be a medical specialty dedicated to caring for people who are obese, said Dr. Scott Kahan, an obesity expert at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

"Dosages of certain medications often have to be changed based on weight and, in this case, the flu vaccine dosage or administration may need to be changed," he said. "It may also be that we need enhanced prevention or other adjunctive strategies in addition to the vaccine for flu protection among people who are overweight or obese," Kahan added. These issues are apparent in the treatment or prevention of other disease and conditions as well.

More information

To find where you can get a flu shot, visit the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

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Study: Japan nuke radiation higher than estimated

The Fukushima nuclear disaster released twice as much of a dangerous radioactive substance into the atmosphere as Japanese authorities estimated, reaching 40 percent of the total from Chernobyl, a preliminary report says.

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