Let's start with the official answer: Apple is totally cool with it?the company says so right on the product page for the 10-watt iPad USB power adapter. In fact, Apple lists compatibility with 23 iOS devices dating back to the first-generation iPod Nano. Also, we've tested it?nothing blows up, and the iPad adapter seems to charge the iPhone a bit faster than the stock iPhone charger. So you definitely can charge your iPhone with the iPad charger. The more interesting question, however, is should you.
All iOS devices (and most smartphones) charge at 5 volts, the standard for USB devices. The difference between the iPhone and iPad adapters is the rated amperage?the iPad charger is rated to handle 2.1 amps, while the iPhone charger is rated for 1 amp. But the amperage rating is only a measure of the adapter's maximum capability?the actual amperage is determined by the load (i.e., the iPad or iPhone). According to Steve Sandler, founder and chief technical officer of AEi Systems, an electronics analysis company, modern battery-powered electronics have a lot of complexity between the charger and the battery, including battery-charging circuits within the device and battery-protection circuits in the lithium-ion battery itself. These circuits are designed to manage the flow of electricity to the battery, and if the circuits inside the iPhone were designed to tolerate 1 amp, but are routinely exposed to 2 amps, that could stress the system over time. "Even though you may not instantaneously say, 'Wow, I just destroyed my battery!' you may limit its life over the long term," Sandler says, "but you wouldn't know for a year or more." Our advice: Since Apple claims compatibility between the iPad charger and iPhone, pay for the extended two-year warranty for the iPhone to ride out your cell contract, and charge it however you like. If your battery degrades severely after the first year make Apple give you a new one.
You know the tale of the sacred treasure One Piece, and the man who conquered all seas, the Pirate King, right? No? Well, I'll tell you then.
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A couple of weeks back we heard from writer-director Mark Duplass on his five favorite sibling movies, so it seemed only fitting that we give his brother and co-collaborator Jay a chance to add his voice to the family discussion. Following the success of their mainstream-leaning Jeff, Who Lives at Home earlier this year, the brothers Duplass are back in theaters this week with a smaller-scale piece that recalls their mumblecore origins. The Do-Deca-Pentathalon -- which was actually shot before the team went "Hollywood" with Cyrus -- focuses on the rivalry between two brothers (notice a theme?) as they compete in a homemade version of the Olympics. Cannily timed for the 2012 event, in fact, and sure to appeal to all those fans of both overblown sports circuses and micro-budgeted indie films. To mark Pentathalon's release, then, here are Jay Duplass's five favorite films. Take it away, sir.
This is probably the most influential film on Mark's and my work. Deeply passionate, hilarious and inspired filmmaker Mark Borchardt battles to finish his horror flick despite a lack money and common sense. What transpires is heartbreaking, hilarious and at the same time incredibly inspiring.
Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976; 91% Tomatometer)
Rocky one -- it feels ridiculous to have to qualify Rocky with a "1," but the subsequent sequels have smokescreened the truth that the original Rocky won the Oscar, is a monumental humanitarian story, and most importantly... Rocky does not win the final fight with Apollo. Some people literally don't believe me when I tell them this. If you've forgotten this, please re-watch it. I promise you won't be disappointed.
I think everyone is now aware of this creative meteor, probably the most inspired piece of art I've ever witnessed. Think about it: The Coens created two main characters you desperately root for who have kidnapped a baby! Only the masters could pull this off, and make you laugh and cry intermittently throughout.
I know, I know... indie cred is now out the window. But what can I say? Mark and I saw this film at Christmas 1994 in a movie theater, and I laughed so hard I sweat out 5 lbs of water weight and got rock hard abs in the process. We took a camping road trip to the mountains and almost froze to death because of it. I've seen it probably 20-plus times and it just makes me so happy every time.
This is a tiny documentary that for me, is so much more than a movie. In short, it's about an autistic boy who's Texan parents take him on horseback to inner Mongolia in search of a Shamanic healing. It's not the easiest film to watch, but in my opinion, a miracle happens on screen.
The Do-Deca-Pentathalon is in select theaters this week.
The Hawks have agreed to deal All-Star guard Joe Johnson to the Brooklyn Nets for five players and a draft pick, and Atlanta will send forward Marvin Williams to the Utah Jazz for guard Devin Harris.
A person familiar with the Hawks-Nets deal told The Associated Press on Monday night that Atlanta will receive guards Anthony Morrow, Jordan Farmar and DeShawn Stevenson and forwards Jordan Williams and Johan Petro, along with a draft pick Brooklyn received from Houston in a prior deal. The selection only belongs to the Nets if it is not a lottery pick.
The person confirmed the trade on condition of anonymity because it cannot become official until Stevenson signs as a free agent with Brooklyn. Free agents cannot be signed until July 11.
Johnson has four years and $90 million left on his contract and new general manager Danny Ferry decided it was time to shed payroll and rebuild.
The 31-year-old Johnson averaged 18.8 points per game last season, his 11th in the NBA and seventh with Atlanta.
The Nets are hoping to team Johnson with free agent point guard Deron Williams, whom they are working to re-sign, in the franchise's first season in New York City after decades in New Jersey.
Utah CEO Greg Miller acknowledged the deal for former first-round pick Marvin Williams while picking up guard Mo Williams at Salt Lake City International Airport in preparation for Tuesday's introductory news conference.
The Jazz acquired Mo Williams in a multi-team deal last week that also sent Lamar Odom to the Clippers.
Miller said it was difficult to part with Harris but he was excited by what Mo Williams brings to the team.
Mo Williams said it felt good to be back where he started his career in 2003 and he had always hoped to start for his first team.
The Harris-Marvin Williams deal now clears the way for that to happen.
"It's always unfortunate when we have to let a player go because all of our players work so hard and they're so invested in helping us win." Miller said. "And it's got to be a tough thing for them. I know it is for us. I wish Devin the best in his career."
Mo Williams, dressed in a red T-shirt, black shorts and a New Orleans Saints cap, arrived in Salt Lake City about 8:30 p.m. MDT.
He only has one year left on his current deal but expressed hope that he could be in Utah long term.
"I'm very excited about a new start for me and a second homecoming," Williams said Monday night.
Jazz general manager Kevin O'Connor has called letting Mo Williams leave after just one season "the worst: mistake of his career.
"I know he says that a lot, but at the same time I was a young basketball player at the time," Mo Williams said. "Obviously he made a decision he thought was best for the organization. I never had a bad taste in my mouth about the organization. I always respected them because they gave me a shot.
"I watched 30 teams pass me in the first round. I always had a part of my heart for the Jazz and I'm glad I'm able to come back and prove my worth to them."
Harris arrived in Utah in 2011 as part of a blockbuster deal that sent Deron Williams to New Jersey.
But Harris struggled to find his niche with the Jazz, and while he stepped up his game late last season, he still has a career 31.5 percent shooting percentage from beyond the arc.
Harris, 29, is scheduled to make $8.5 million in 2012-13, the final year of his current contract.
Marvin Williams, 29, has averaged 11.5 points for Atlanta in his seven-year career, including 10.2 and 5.2 rebounds last season.
Mo Williams was an All-Star as recently as 2009, and was part of a Cleveland team that won 66 games with LeBron James and advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2009. He joined the Los Angeles Clippers in 2011.
"I think it's going to be great for us to have Mo here," Miller said. "Obviously he competed at the highest level. He knows what it takes to win. . I think he's going to help us win games."
Asked if there were more moves to come for the small-market Jazz, Miller said, "I hope so."
Although the Chargers are the only team that could move to L.A. in 2013, the Chargers say that the memo hinting at the possible move of a team to L.A. in 2013 doesn?t move them any closer to, um, moving.
Mark Fabiani, the team?s special counsel on stadium issues, told NBC 7 in San Diego that the memo doesn?t ?move the sticks? any closer to the Chargers getting a new stadium in Los Angeles.
?We saw it simply as a re-affirmation of things that the Commissioner and the league were saying for a long time,?? Fabiani said.
He then summarized the most important points.
?You can?t move to L.A. without a permanent facility,? Fabiani said.? ?[I]f you move, you?d better expect there to be a second team moving there at some point in the near future after you move.? And, the NFL is clearly in charge of the L.A. market ? and anybody that thinks otherwise should read this memo.?
On the first point, Fabiani isn?t entirely accurate.? The memo from Commissioner Roger Goodell to all 32 teams explains that a team can negotiate a deal with an alternative site like the Coliseum or Rose Bowl that would host games until the permanent facility is built.? Thus, the Chargers could move in 2013, play at the Rose Bowl until the permanent venue has been built, and stay put.
?No memo from the NFL can change the basic fact that until there?s a stadium that?s finished and ready to go,? Fabiani said,? ?and until there?s a team that wants to play in it, nothing?s going to happen in L.A.?
Again, that?s not what the memo says.? A team can move to Los Angeles and play elsewhere temporarily.
Fabiani apparently missed that part of the memo.? Or maybe he?s deliberately misrepresenting it so that the Chargers can have some cover as they position themselves to move, especially in light of an upcoming mayoral election in which both candidates have said they oppose the use of public funding for a football stadium.
So while the memo may not move the Chargers any closer to Los Angeles, it definitely doesn?t move them any farther away.
Researchers and communities at risk join forces in volcano studyPublic release date: 2-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Simon Dunford s.dunford@uea.ac.uk 44-160-359-2203 University of East Anglia
People living in the shadow of six potentially active volcanoes will take part in a major new study exploring better ways to forecast and cope with future eruptions.
Led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and launched today, the 3 million project will focus on six volcanoes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Volcanologists, social scientists, and international development experts will work closely with the communities directly at risk to improve preparations for and responses to dynamic volcanic activity.
"In this exciting and novel project we will be collaborating with those responsible for local monitoring of volcanoes, with the disaster managers and policy makers in charge of planning for and responding to eruptions, and with ordinary people living and working in the shadow of active volcanoes. The local communities have a vast wealth of knowledge and this will be a real two-way learning process," said project leader Dr Jenni Barclay of UEA's School of Environmental Sciences.
This will be the first major UK-led study to integrate the experience of communities at risk with the approaches of natural and social scientists to find new and achievable ways to reduce risk.
'Strengthening Resilience in Volcanic Areas' (STREVA) is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of their 'Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards' program. The unique, five-year interdisciplinary study brings together volcano experts and international development specialists from UEA, the University of Oxford, University of Bristol, University of Leeds, the British Geological Survey and the Overseas Development Institute along with overseas project partners. The team will develop and apply novel risk analyses with the aim of reducing the negative consequences of volcanic activity on people and assets.
"There are 1500 potentially active volcanoes in the world with around 20 erupting at any one time. Because they are located disproportionately in poorer countries, this can make the impact of eruptions all the more devastating and we hope the outcomes of this study will make a real difference to the lives of those affected," said Anna Hicks, a UEA researcher on the project.
The researchers will use the latest volcano monitoring techniques and data including from the new Sentinel satellites due to be launched next year by the European Space Agency - to improve forecasts of future eruptions at six volcanoes: Soufrire Hills (Montserrat); Galeras (Columbia); Tungurahua (Ecuador); Soufrire St Vincent (St Vincent); Cerro Machin (Colombia), and Cotopaxi (Ecuador).
Scientists will learn from the communities devastated by recent eruptions, and will speak with survivors, to build up a comprehensive picture of the common factors that shape how a community deals with and recovers from a volcanic disaster. They hope to help communities that may never have experienced an eruption before cope with any future eruptions by learning from the past, and to produce models that will enable societies to plan and prepare for problems and mitigate the effects of an eruption.
Dr Roger Few, of UEA's School of International Development, will be leading the research work on vulnerability. He said: "We'll focus on the impact of volcanic hazards on the lives and livelihoods of people living in the vicinity of volcanoes, and investigate the factors that shape people's exposure. We'll also look at how differences in capacity affect a community's ability to mitigate, prepare for and recover from hazards."
At the recent Rio +20 summit 'disaster risk reduction' was one of seven topics identified as needing urgent attention. The summit's final agreement - 'The future we want' - calls for the subject to be addressed "with a renewed sense of urgency in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, and, as appropriate, to be integrated into policies, plans, programmes and budgets at all levels and considered within relevant future frameworks."
STREVA will work towards the Rio +20 summit agreement, and will have real impacts in real places and significantly advance the fields of volcanic risk analysis and disaster risk reduction.
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Researchers and communities at risk join forces in volcano studyPublic release date: 2-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Simon Dunford s.dunford@uea.ac.uk 44-160-359-2203 University of East Anglia
People living in the shadow of six potentially active volcanoes will take part in a major new study exploring better ways to forecast and cope with future eruptions.
Led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and launched today, the 3 million project will focus on six volcanoes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Volcanologists, social scientists, and international development experts will work closely with the communities directly at risk to improve preparations for and responses to dynamic volcanic activity.
"In this exciting and novel project we will be collaborating with those responsible for local monitoring of volcanoes, with the disaster managers and policy makers in charge of planning for and responding to eruptions, and with ordinary people living and working in the shadow of active volcanoes. The local communities have a vast wealth of knowledge and this will be a real two-way learning process," said project leader Dr Jenni Barclay of UEA's School of Environmental Sciences.
This will be the first major UK-led study to integrate the experience of communities at risk with the approaches of natural and social scientists to find new and achievable ways to reduce risk.
'Strengthening Resilience in Volcanic Areas' (STREVA) is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of their 'Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards' program. The unique, five-year interdisciplinary study brings together volcano experts and international development specialists from UEA, the University of Oxford, University of Bristol, University of Leeds, the British Geological Survey and the Overseas Development Institute along with overseas project partners. The team will develop and apply novel risk analyses with the aim of reducing the negative consequences of volcanic activity on people and assets.
"There are 1500 potentially active volcanoes in the world with around 20 erupting at any one time. Because they are located disproportionately in poorer countries, this can make the impact of eruptions all the more devastating and we hope the outcomes of this study will make a real difference to the lives of those affected," said Anna Hicks, a UEA researcher on the project.
The researchers will use the latest volcano monitoring techniques and data including from the new Sentinel satellites due to be launched next year by the European Space Agency - to improve forecasts of future eruptions at six volcanoes: Soufrire Hills (Montserrat); Galeras (Columbia); Tungurahua (Ecuador); Soufrire St Vincent (St Vincent); Cerro Machin (Colombia), and Cotopaxi (Ecuador).
Scientists will learn from the communities devastated by recent eruptions, and will speak with survivors, to build up a comprehensive picture of the common factors that shape how a community deals with and recovers from a volcanic disaster. They hope to help communities that may never have experienced an eruption before cope with any future eruptions by learning from the past, and to produce models that will enable societies to plan and prepare for problems and mitigate the effects of an eruption.
Dr Roger Few, of UEA's School of International Development, will be leading the research work on vulnerability. He said: "We'll focus on the impact of volcanic hazards on the lives and livelihoods of people living in the vicinity of volcanoes, and investigate the factors that shape people's exposure. We'll also look at how differences in capacity affect a community's ability to mitigate, prepare for and recover from hazards."
At the recent Rio +20 summit 'disaster risk reduction' was one of seven topics identified as needing urgent attention. The summit's final agreement - 'The future we want' - calls for the subject to be addressed "with a renewed sense of urgency in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, and, as appropriate, to be integrated into policies, plans, programmes and budgets at all levels and considered within relevant future frameworks."
STREVA will work towards the Rio +20 summit agreement, and will have real impacts in real places and significantly advance the fields of volcanic risk analysis and disaster risk reduction.
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