By Davey Alba All The Third-Party iPad 2 Cases With Magnetic Auto-Wake Sensors Just because you own an iPad 2, it doesn't mean you have to purchase the Apple-official Smart Cover—but it's likely that you'll still want to take advantage of its (incredibly cool) auto-wake feature. So we've rounded up all the third-party iPad 2 cases with magnetic sensors, just for you. Miniot Cover for iPad 2 Pictured above is the Miniot Cover, which we've shown you before. It's basically a clone of the Smart Cover, except it rolls into a loop instead of a triangle when you use it as a stand, and it's carved from a single piece of cherrywood (which you can also get engraved for free). $70. [Miniot] The Octavo for iPad 2 from Pad and Quill Your iPad 2 will fit snugly into this Pad and Quill Octavio Case, crafted in Italian bonded leather. Close it shut and let people assume you've brought along a classy leather organizer to your super-important meeting, instead of your iPad 2 for playing Angry Birds while idly waiting for colleagues to arrive. $60. [Pad and Quill] SD TabletWear Advanced iPad 2 Case The SD TabletWear Advanced Case is nice because it completely encases your iPad 2 in its leather effect material, and you won't find yourself in agony over your iPad 2's naked, exposed back any longer. It's also got grooves on the front of the case that lets you adjust it as a stand in over 20 different angles. Comes in black, purple and white. $TBD/£19.99. [TabletWear] SD TabletWear Advanced Stand and Type iPad 2 Case The SD TabletWear Advanced Stand and Type Case does pretty much the same thing as its big brother: It offers you complete and close-fitting encasement, but it's also a simpler, no-frills cover—just fold or stand it up in one way, then go about your business. Comes in black, brown, pink and red. $TBD/£19.99. [TabletWear] Orbino's Padova Leather Case This is the most expensive iPad 2 case with an auto-wake sensor. Orbino's Padova Leather Case encases your iPad 2 in Italian leather, and comes in a variety of colors; or choose from five special edition Exotic Skins. $209 for Italian leather; $569 for Exotic Skins (and $689 for the Brown Crocodile color). [Orbino] SmartBlazer2 Leather Folio for iPad 2 The SmartBlazer2 Leather Folio is the closest replica of the Smart Cover that you will find. It opens, folds, and stands in exactly the same way as Apple's creation—except that now, the case has added the desirable feature of getting your iPad 2's back all covered up. $60. [The Joy Factory] STM Skinny for iPad 2 If you're a fan of shell covers, and don't think it's a pressing need for these to have incorporated twenty different ways for propping up your iPad 2 (one is enough!), consider STM Skinny. It provides lightweight, form-fitting protection for your iPad 2, and is also waterproof. $40. [RadTech] Share this:

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Furious Queenslanders dob in flood rorters The Federal Government says it has received more than 4,500 tip-offs about fraudulent flood relief claims in Queensland. It's not over yet, O'Farrell says As New South Wales voters head to the ballot box, party rivals are refusing to take a break despite strong signs Labor is headed for an historic defeat. Three killed in Werribee smash Two teenagers and a 22-year-old man are dead and another teenager is in hospital after a car crash at Werribee in Victoria's south. NSW voters head to the polls New South Wales voters head to the ballot box in an election almost certain to see the end of Labor rule. Japan's PM says nuke situation dire Japan's prime minister says the situation at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant remains grave and he cannot be optimistic.
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Make no mistake: this is a battle to the death The carbon tax debate has become a mere cipher in the titanic struggle between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott as they fight to tear each other's innards out. The personal has become the political. It is now clear that the loser of this battle will also lose their leadership or, in the case of Gillard, the Prime Ministership. It is now simply that important. Labor's love affair with JWH You might have missed it this week through all the hate-speak, but there was a lot of love for J. Winston Howard flowing around the Government benches this week. The Prime Minister - the very same La Gillardine who popped the former PM's head on a pike as she ran his Work Choices out of town - simply cannot, these days, get him off her mind. Plotting a balanced course in a climate of angry grievance Through the latter Howard years I went to rallies on Parliament's lawn, well attended by the Australian Greens, where banners vilifying the Prime Minister were routine. Wednesday's anti carbon tax rally was a reasonably well-behaved crowd, but it was deeply angry and its anger wasn't just focused on the Government. Holding up Gunns through secret deals Was Bill Kelty appointed by the Federal government to help Tasmanians out of the decades long conflict over the forests, or to perpetuate it by breathing life back into the dying monster of the pulp mill? The earthquake-tsunami-meltdown-Gaddafi factor in the NSW election Antony Green is predicting a 'disaster not catastrophe' that puts Kristina Keneally within four per cent of holding on. Still, I predict Keneally will narrowly lose.
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By John Konrad and Tom Shroder Why Capping a Blown Oil Well at the Bottom of the Ocean is so Insanely Difficult Last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill dumped an estimated 2.6 million gallons of oil A DAY into the Gulf of Mexico - you'd think someone would have gotten on that faster. Oh, they did? Fire on the Horizon explains what took so damn long. Nature provides no shortage of elaborate, even bizarre mating rituals. The fierce head-butting of elk bulls in rut, the four hundred distinct mating chirps of the grasshopper, even the female praying mantis's habit of decapitating the male during copulation and ingesting his head — all are astonishing in their own right, but they pale in comparison to what happened above the Macondo well on February 9, 2010. After the Marianas was towed away for repair on Thanksgiving Day, it took some tinkering and horse trading and a few more lost months before Transocean's drilling schedule could be rearranged and another company asset could be redirected to Block 252 in the Mississippi Canyon. That turned out to be Deepwater Horizon, which was the first available of the twenty-two Transocean ships or rigs capable of drilling in ultra-deep water. The dynamic positioning operator on the Horizon's bridge input the GPS coordinates of the Macondo wellhead, and the computer pointed the rig in the right direction and fired the thrusters. That part was simple. But after the Horizon reached its destination, things got considerably more complicated. The Marianas had left Macondo a 3,900-foot-deep, steel-lined hole to nowhere. The well was less than a third completed and topped by a metal funnel that stuck up just above the ocean floor. The assemblage resembled a supersize version of one of those funnel and tube combinations used to pour gas from a five-gallon jug into the empty tank of a stranded car. In this case, the purpose of the funnel, otherwise known as the wellhead, was to receive the protruding 27-inch diameter male end of the 325-ton blowout preventer dangling from the end of a 5,000-foot steel string attached to a vessel bobbing in the waves high above. To conceive how difficult it is to drop the BOP stack's connector pipe into the well's hole, first imagine standing on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and attempting to lower a soda bottle at the end of a 1,200-foot-long string into a garbage can on the sidewalk. It's extremely windy, and you're wearing roller skates. Now consider that, with the building encased in clouds, it's impossible to see the sidewalk, much less the garbage can. Imagine an observer with a cell phone at the bottom giving directions as the bottle descended. Every motion made by the person on the observation deck would take time to translate down the long string, and the effect on the bottle of his movements interacting with the swirling winds would be virtually unpredictable. But all of that would be easy compared with what the crew of the Horizon was attempting to accomplish. Instead of a thousand feet of insubstantial air to contend with, they were dealing with 5,000 feet of water exerting 2,300 pounds of pressure on every square inch of surface area. An assistant with a cell phone wearing even the most advanced scuba gear would be dead before he got a fifth of the way to the bottom. Even a nuclear submarine would be crushed like a grape about halfway down. And instead of simply unspooling a string, the Horizon's drilling crew would have to assemble, piece by piece, 75-foot segments of 19½-inch-diameter steel pipe weighing more than 30,000 pounds each, and feed them slowly through the center of a moving rig. Before any of that happened, they had to locate the wellhead. This wasn't as easy as motoring to the coordinates locked into their GPS system. The GPS coordinates referred to a point on the surface of the ocean and were all but useless in locating a precise point 5,000 feet down. For any practical purpose, there was no "straight down" in the Gulf of Mexico. "Straight" was a theoretical concept rendered all but meaningless by the constantly swirling currents and the prodigious distance, just as there was no dropping a bottle on a string "straight down" from the Empire State Building. But the Horizon could do a lot better than an assistant with a cell phone. From the book FIRE ON THE HORIZON by John Konrad and Tom Shroder. Copyright © 2011 by John Konrad and Tom Shroder. Reprinted courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers. Original artwork by Christopher Hartelius. For more of Chris's work and other true news stories, please check out his website True American Dog. Also, become a fan of Flute Dog! John Konrad is a veteran oil rig captain; a former employee of the Deepwater Horizon's owner, Transocean; and the founder of the world's leading maritime blog, gCaptain.com. A graduate of SUNY Maritime College, he lives in Morro Bay, California. Tom Shroder was an editor and writer at The Washington Post from 1999 to 2009. Under his stewardship, The Washington Post Magazine won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in both 2008 and 2010. He is the author of the nonfiction bestseller Old Souls. He lives in Vienna, Virginia. Fire on the Horizon is available from Amazon.com Share this:

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NSW Labor bracing for electoral oblivion Sixteen years of Labor government in New South Wales is set to end today, with analysts predicting a defeat of historic proportions. Facebook racism 'will destroy trust' in Afghanistan An Afghan governor believes racist remarks posted on Facebook by Australian soldiers will damage the Australian Defence Force's relationship with the Afghan people. Gaddafi forces dig in despite coalition strikes Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamar Gaddafi have dug in on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, despite ground assaults and coalition warplanes pounding the strategic town. Launceston escapes major flood threat Flooding of the Tamar River in Launceston's northern suburbs has peaked lower than expected, but authorities are continuing to monitor the situation. Police investigate Palm Island death Police are investigating a suspected murder on Palm Island in north Queensland.
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Make no mistake: this is a battle to the death The carbon tax debate has become a mere cipher in the titanic struggle between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott as they fight to tear each other's innards out. The personal has become the political. It is now clear that the loser of this battle will also lose their leadership or, in the case of Gillard, the Prime Ministership. It is now simply that important. Labor's love affair with JWH You might have missed it this week through all the hate-speak, but there was a lot of love for J. Winston Howard flowing around the Government benches this week. The Prime Minister - the very same La Gillardine who popped the former PM's head on a pike as she ran his Work Choices out of town - simply cannot, these days, get him off her mind. Plotting a balanced course in a climate of angry grievance Through the latter Howard years I went to rallies on Parliament's lawn, well attended by the Australian Greens, where banners vilifying the Prime Minister were routine. Wednesday's anti carbon tax rally was a reasonably well-behaved crowd, but it was deeply angry and its anger wasn't just focused on the Government. Holding up Gunns through secret deals Was Bill Kelty appointed by the Federal government to help Tasmanians out of the decades long conflict over the forests, or to perpetuate it by breathing life back into the dying monster of the pulp mill? The earthquake-tsunami-meltdown-Gaddafi factor in the NSW election Antony Green is predicting a 'disaster not catastrophe' that puts Kristina Keneally within four per cent of holding on. Still, I predict Keneally will narrowly lose.
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Gaddafi forces dig in despite coalition strikes Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamar Gaddafi have dug in on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, despite ground assaults and coalition warplanes pounding the strategic town. Japan's PM says nuke situation dire Japan's prime minister says the situation at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant remains grave and he cannot be optimistic. Facebook racism 'will destroy trust' in Afghanistan An Afghan governor believes racist remarks posted on Facebook by Australian soldiers will damage the Australian Defence Force's relationship with the Afghan people.
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Wallabies marooned by floods Up to 500 wallabies have been marooned on an island in the middle of Lake Argyle in the east Kimberley. Top scientist tells UNE grads economic future in their hands The Chief Scientist of New South Wales, Professor Mary O'Kane, says Australia faces a grim future if it does not produce, and retain, more scientists. Farmers urged to sacrifice land for carbon study Landowners in the northern agricultural region of Western Australia are being asked to sacrifice areas of their property for research on the carbon sequestration of plants.
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Wind sickness doctor fronts Senate inquiry A doctor who pioneered a controversial study into what she calls "wind turbine syndrome" has told a Senate inquiry that residents living near wind farms will get sick. Japanese treated for radiation in China Two Japanese travellers have been hospitalised in China with "severe" radiation levels after they arrived on a commercial airliner from Tokyo, China's safety watchdog said. First mine powered by renewables A WA lithium miner plans to establish the first mine site in Australia completely powered by renewable energy within the next three years.
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