Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook gets official: on sale August 21st for $1,399 and up

Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon has been a known entity since May, when the company gave us a look at the 14-inch, Ivy Bridge-packing Ultrabook. Up until now, though, the successor to the ThinkPad X1 remained somewhat shrouded in mystery, with no pricing or specific availability information to its name. But no more -- Lenovo's just raised the official curtain on the Carbon, announcing a pricing scheme of $1,399 and up and targeting an on-sale date of August 21st at Lenovo.com. The entry-level model will run a 1.7GHz Core i5-3317U CPU with 4GB, and it includes a 128GB SSD and Intel's HD integrated graphics. Like on the ThinkPad X1, 3G connectivity will be an optional feature. Head past the break for more info on the business-centric Ultrabook.

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Fuel Fix ? Oil boom generates international interest in ND

Robert Peeler of California is working as a mechanic in Williston, N.D., to save his house and his family ranch. Peeler hopes his family can join him in North Dakota this fall. (AP Photo/Forum Communications Co., Amy Dalrymple)

WILLISTON, N.D. ? Moving to North Dakota was the best thing that ever happened to Robert Peeler.

After losing his job and facing hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, the Red Bluff, Calif., man hoped North Dakota was the route to turning his life around.

He found a good-paying job his first day in Williston and is now on a path to do just that.

?This is the only place where there?s really this much opportunity,? Peeler said.

Stories like Peeler?s are common in western North Dakota, where a recent scan of the Walmart parking lot in Williston showed license plates from 25 states.

It?s difficult to know just how many people have moved to North Dakota in the past year after hearing about the oil boom and the state?s job opportunities. But the North Dakota Department of Commerce provides a glimpse into which states? residents seem to be most attracted to North Dakota.

In the first six months of this year, the state?s relocation program added nearly 2,700 names into a database of people potentially interested in moving to North Dakota, said Adele Sigl, workforce talent and project coordinator.

Minnesotans topped the list of interested movers (242) followed by Californians (195), Washingtonians (169) and Floridians (159). North Dakota?s relocation program was contacted by someone in every U.S. state and also heard from interested job seekers in Nigeria, the Czech Republic and Jordan this year.

There are now more than 8,000 names in the program?s database.

Sigl said people are grateful to have a place to contact to learn more about moving to North Dakota.

?With working with the program, I have learned the importance of what that voice on the other end of the phone can mean to a person who is in need of a job and relocating to another state they know nothing about,? she said. ?I have been blessed and thanked many, many times over.?

One of the most popular questions Sigl gets is how to get a job in the oilfield. Some job seekers want to know if news reports about North Dakota?s booming economy and job openings are actually true.

?They?re just really, ?Come on. That can?t be happening because look at our state and our economy and what?s going on there,?? Sigl said.

She also fields questions that would amuse North Dakotans, like: Do people really work in the wintertime?

?They (job seekers) always ask about the weather. ?What?s the weather like up there?? I think they think we sit on an iceberg,? Sigl said.

As North Dakota becomes a melting pot of job seekers from around the world looking for opportunity, three men share their stories of what led them here.

A string of bad luck brought Robert Peeler to North Dakota, but now his luck is turning around.

He was laid off from his job as a mechanic for Land Rover after 9? years.

Then he and his brothers inherited their grandfather?s ranch and Peeler, 40, ?mortgaged our house to the hilt? to buy 1,160 cows with his brothers.

One cow got hoof and mouth disease, and all of the cows had to be put down, leaving the family with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

Three of Peeler?s brothers are now on the Gulf Coast doing offshore drilling. Peeler came to Williston about six weeks ago to work as a mechanic.

?We?re doing what we have to do,? Peeler said.

With the high demand for mechanics in the oil patch, Peeler found a job his first day and had to turn down three other offers.

The shop where he works has cars lined up waiting weeks to be worked on. Peeler often works into the evening and does work on the side to earn as much money as he can. He is working to start a mobile mechanic business on weekends.

Peeler has a wife, who works as a nurse, three sons and a stepdaughter back in California. He hopes they?ll be able to join him in Williston after he gets settled, and they may even make North Dakota their home.

?This is a great place to raise your kids,? Peeler said.

In the meantime, Peeler is sending most of the money he earns back to his family.

?I get to be a provider again,? Peeler said. ?This is the best thing to ever happen to me and my family.?

For East Coast entrepreneur Brad McHugh, the real estate opportunities in North Dakota were too good to ignore.

McHugh, a New Jersey native, has been living in Williston since March with White Dog Development Group, a firm he runs with his friend and business partner.

Work was steady for McHugh on the East Coast, where he still runs a general contracting and development company.

But McHugh, 35, decided he was in a position to take some risks and have an adventure in North Dakota.

?I figured I?d regret not trying it and I?d never regret trying it,? McHugh said.

McHugh did a lot of research before moving to North Dakota, and also took some scouting trips. But he and his partner discovered they need to be able to adapt to the dynamic conditions.

?Williston changes so aggressively every day that research is very relative,? McHugh said. ?It?s really more of get here, live it, figure it out.?

His company initially planned to take older buildings and repurpose them for current needs. They renovated a condemned downtown Williston building and will now lease it to a civil engineering firm for office space, with some housing.

Now White Dog is shifting its focus to raw land development. The company is developing 150 acres in McKenzie County about 15 minutes south of Williston for commercial and retail projects.

McHugh said working with people in North Dakota has been refreshing compared to the cutthroat competition he was accustomed to on the East Coast. He is planning to build a house and stay in North Dakota for at least two to three years.

?As long as it?s as fun as it is now,? McHugh said.

As CEO of a communications firm, John Karel is often coined ?chief expansion officer.?

The Stillwater, Minn., man leads ABcom, which specializes in installing and designing voice and data cabling and other applied business communications.

Karel has helped start offices in Arizona and Texas and is now launching an operation based in Williston.

?We knew it was booming here,? Karel said.

As new schools, hospitals, retail stores and offices open in the oil patch, ABcom will support the data and voice cabling and systems installation and service.

Karel has been working in Williston full time for all of 2012 and he has two other employees in North Dakota. More employees are ready to come once the operation gets established.

ABcom also is developing a technology that will allow oil companies to remotely monitor tanks, instruments and other gauges at well as sites over a cellphone line.

Karel said the technology is simpler and more affordable than other remote sensor systems, and it?s a better option than sending an employee to check on a location. He?s meeting with oil companies that are planning to test the new system.

?We think this is a great place. There is a lot of growth,? Karel said. ?We have long-term intentions, not just to come in for a month.?

Source: http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/08/06/oil-boom-generates-international-interest-in-nd/

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The Great Gatsby Bumped to 2013

Moviegoers were preparing to be offered very?different flavors of Leonardo DiCaprio this Christmas, between Leo dropping racial epithets in?Quetin Tarantino?s Django Unchained ? and putting on a handsome face as the yearning protagonist in Baz Luhrmann?s Great Gatsby. The game plan has changed, now that Warner Bros. has pushed the 3D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald?s novel back from December 25th, 2012 to a (tentatively, unspecified) date in Summer 2013.

Scroll on down to learn the official explanation for why Warner Bros. has decided to delay the release of Great Gatsby for six months (at least).

Warner Bros. President of Domestic Distribution Dan Fellman and President of International Distribution Veronika Kwan Vandenberg have issued the following statements (via an official press release):

In making the announcement, Fellman stated,??Based on what we?ve seen, Baz Luhrmann?s incredible work is all we anticipated and so much more. It truly brings Fitzgerald?s American classic to life in a completely immersive, visually stunning and exciting way. We think moviegoers of all ages are going to embrace it, and it makes sense to ensure this unique film reaches the largest audience possible.?

Kwan Vandenberg confirmed,??Baz is known for being innovative, but with this film he has done something completely unexpected?making it in 3D?while capturing the emotion, the intimacy, the power and the spectacle of the time. The responses we?ve had to some of the early sneak peeks have been phenomenal, and we think ?The Great Gatsby? will be the perfect summer movie around the world.?

Peter Jackson?s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey arrives this year on December 14th, less than two weeks before Great Gatsby was previously slated to open in theaters. It?s surprising that Warner Bros. has waited until now?to reposition Luhrmann?s $150 million project, so it won?t have to compete against Jackson?s return to Middle-earth at the box office.

The cast of Baz Luhrmann's 'Great Gatsby'

The Great Gatsby trailer overflows with brazen production design and energetic visual style -?with the emotion factor cranked up to 11, in keeping with Luhrmann?s usual storytelling. That?s to say: Great Gatsby will draw in the filmmaker?s fans, along with those either intrigued (or morbidly-curious) to see what Fitzgerald?s literary masterpiece is like in Luhrmann?s hands. It nonetheless?seems like the sort of prestige flick that?d do better financial business when awards season fever is rampant.

Moulin Rouge! opened in May of 2001 and became a serious awards-contender, so perhaps Warner Bros. is hoping to recreate the critical success of that Luhrmann production (while also bringing in more box office loot). Warner Bros. has Man of Steel arriving next June and Pacific Rim in July, so a May 2013 launch date for Great Gatsby makes all the more sense (looking from that angle).

We?ll keep you updated on The Great Gatsby as the story develops.

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Israeli windsurfer's stormy voyage to Olympic heartache

Alongside the sparkling Mediterranean, far from the English south coast where Israel's Lee-El Korsiz was chasing Olympic windsurfing glory, a group of young Israelis huddled round a video screen at the sailing club they share, willing her to break the Jewish State's medal drought.

In a modest wire-fenced compound, alongside a handkerchief-sized harbour, children and young teens gulped down cold drinks under a blazing sun as they waited for pre-regatta favourite Korsiz, twice world champion and the Mikhmoret Sailing Centre's most celebrated alumnus, to do her stuff.

"Lee Korsiz is a wind surfer who I really admire," said 12-year-old Yuval Sivan. "It doesn't make any difference to me that she's a girl. I want to get to her level."

Korsiz, 28, had a long and perilous voyage from the sleepy seaside village of Mikhmoret, 39 kilometres (24 miles) north of Tel Aviv, to Tuesday's medal race at Weymouth.

Roi Bensler, an instructor at the local council run centre where she started her career and has trained ever since, said that she had a near-fatal accident while surfing in Hawaii.

"A wave overturned her and someone slammed into her by mistake," he told AFP. "She was in intensive care for some days on a respirator. It was bad but she got over it, it's a comeback from the movies."

There was another close call during last year's European championships.

"She fell and the sail fell on tip of her," Bensler said. "As you can see they're not small sails.

Media reports said that a French coach saw that she was trapped unconscious underwater, extricated her and resuscitated her.

Young Yuval's father, Yehuda Sivan, is a friend of the Korsiz family and says he has watched her take on challenge after challenge since childhood.

"She was good at all kinds of sport,' he said. "She used to knock boys down at judo, she's a very good surfer, she has extraordinary mental strength."

She needs it, he says, for her chosen discipline of windsurfing.

"It sounds fun but it's insanely hard work. Hours on the sea in all waters, in all seas, with no compromises. It's a sport where you're alone, it's not a team competition when you can get a hug from someone, it's just crazy."

Bensler said that the beach front video viewing was organised for the club's younger members, to give them inspiration.

He said that she was a familiar figure to many of them.

"She did a lot of training here, with the gang, with the kids," he said.

Flags fluttered around the club entrance and the gates were gates were draped with a banner reading "London awaits you Lee".

When the race began and her rig came into sight on the video screen, its sail emblazoned with Israel's distinctive blue and white Star of David flag, there was enthusiastic whistling, applause and stamping of feet in the club yard.

But as the minutes passed and it became clear that Korsiz was falling behind, silence fell.

Although she lay second going into the medal race she finished ninth to drop to sixth overall and with her defeat went any realistic hope of an Israeli medal in the 2012 Olympics.

Israeli media said that it would be the first time the Jewish State's athletes returned from the games without a medal since Seoul in 1988.

The stunned silence was only broken when Mikhmoret-born Amit Inbar, who windsurfed for Israel in the Sydney and Barcelona Olympics asked the kids to give a round of applause for Korsiz's "tremendous achievement."

They did so enthusiastically, but then drifted away wordlessly.

"I think it is harder to watch from the sidelines that to actually take part," Inbar, 39 and now manager of a windsurfing school, told AFP.

"What is Lee doing now? She is crying, what else. Everything she has been building up inside this week will spill out. I was on the verge of tears, I don't want to imagine what she is going through."

"In the life of a sportsperson, that's part of the road you travel," he added.

"You are formed by your failures or lack of success and I imagine that if she decides to continue the sporting life, the next time that she's in the same situation she'll act differently and have more success."

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Martin brings tears to Canton

All-time fourth-leading rusher tells horrific stories about his tough upbringing

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New Hall of Famer and former running back Curtis Martin poses with his bust alongside former NFL coach Bill Parcells.

By JOE KAY

updated 10:16 p.m. ET Aug. 4, 2012

CANTON, Ohio - The linemen led the way as they always do, accepting their inductions into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with an abundance of humility. Curtis Martin finished the evening by supplying plenty of tears.

The last of the six players to have their bronze busts unveiled Saturday night, Martin used the big stage to recall his rough life, his mother's pain and his life-long indifference to the game that allowed him to become famous.

"I don't necessarily have notes, so I'm going to just bare my soul," Martin cautioned. "So bear with me."

His moving story was the longest of the six and had the audience of 12,100 cheering supportively whenever one of the NFL's greatest running backs got choked up or lost for words. It was quite a way to end a three-hour induction that celebrated some of the game's best blockers and tacklers.

Linemen Willie Roaf, Chris Doleman, Cortez Kennedy and Dermontti Dawson and 1950s cornerback Jack Butler were the first inducted, accepting their honor with simple thanks and generally short stories.

All the way through, the evening had a strong Pittsburgh flavor.

Hundreds of Steelers fans sat on the field and in the stands, waving yellow "Terrible Towels" to celebrate the city's starring role. Two of the new Hall of Famers played for the Steelers - Butler and Dawson. Doleman and Martin played for the University of Pittsburgh after growing up in Pennsylvania.

When it was time for Martin, a former Jets star, to finish the evening, Broadway Joe Namath couldn't help but notice the "J-E-T-S! J-E-T-S!" chants were getting overwhelmed.

"I hear a lot of big mouths from Pittsburgh out there," he told the crowd. "And justifiably - yes, yes!"

Martin soon had them dabbing their eyes.

He described growing up in a rough neighborhood in Pittsburgh, the son of an alcoholic father who would beat and torture his mother by setting her hair on fire or pressing burning cigarettes to her legs. His mother, Rochella, wiped tears from her eyes as he shared his story, occasionally pausing to collect himself.

"My greatest achievement in my life was healing my mother and nurturing my mother," Martin said.

She urged him to play football to stay out of trouble. Even when New England coach Bill Parcells decided to draft him out of Pitt, Martin wasn't sure he wanted to play. His pastor told him he could use football as a platform to do greater things.

"I played for a purpose bigger than the game because I knew that the love for the game just wasn't in my heart," Martin said.

He followed Parcells to the Jets and finished his career and the fourth-leading rusher in NFL history. Parcells became one of his biggest influences, and Martin chose him for the introduction on Saturday.

"He has tremendous compassion for his fellow man," Parcells said. "He is, I think, the poster child for what the NFL is supposed to be. You come into the league, maximize your abilities, you save your money, you make a smooth transition into society and then you pass all those things on to other people. That's what this guy has done."

The night that belonged to those who didn't have it easy.

Roaf was inducted first and set the tone. Standing in front of the large crowd in an unfamiliar role - getting attention for something good - he acknowledged feeling out of place.

"You know, it's an offensive lineman," Roaf said. "I didn't get singled out in front of a large audience very often, and when I did, it was usually by a referee who was singling me out by saying, `Holding No. 77.'

"That's not going to happen today. And it wasn't too often when I played."

Roaf was one of the greatest players in Saints history, so good that he regularly made the Pro Bowl even though New Orleans had only one winning season in his nine years there. His induction gave the franchise something to celebrate after an offseason clouded by its bounty scandal.

Saints players sat in the last three rows of seats on the field, wearing black t-shirts with Roaf's No. 77 on the back. They're in town to play Arizona in the Hall of Fame preseason game on Sunday night.

Kennedy has something in common with Roaf. Like the offensive tackle from New Orleans, the defensive tackle from Seattle excelled on bad teams. It was his sustained excellence - not his team's success - that got him into the hall.

Kennedy grew into the game's top defensive tackle during his 11 seasons with Seattle. Even though Seattle went 2-14 in 1992 and Kennedy got double-teamed, he was so good that he was chosen the league's best defensive player.

"That's bad when you go to the game and the defensive coordinator says, `Guys, we're not going to win the game. Let's don't embarrass ourselves.' You know we're in for a long year then," he said.

Dawson got the Steelers fans revved with his induction speech honoring the town and the franchise. Dawson succeeded Mike Webster as the Steelers' center, then followed him into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

"Mike was a leader whether he wanted to (be) or not because he led by example, and I tried to emulate everything Mike did," Dawson said. "Mike had a profound impact on my life and even today, I try to lead by example and be like Mike."

Dawson chose high school football coach Steve Parker to present him. If not for Parker, he might not have played the game. Dawson had a bad experience playing the sport in middle school and quit.

Parker met him in a hallway of their high school during his junior year and made him rethink.

"I came across this person who I thought was a man," Parker said. "I said to him, `Sir, may I help you?' He said he goes to school here, and I said, `Where have you been all my life?"'

Doleman also traces his football roots to Pennsylvania, where he grew up and went to college. He recalled that his father had one rule: Finish what you start.

"Thank you for teaching me the importance of finishing what you started," Doleman said. "And if it's any indication today, I finished the game I signed up for."

Butler, inducted second, took the most unexpected path to the hall. He didn't play football in high school, picked the game in college at St. Bonaventure and entered the NFL as an undrafted player in 1951, just another player filling out the Steelers roster.

Butler, now 84, thanked his family and friends for being in Canton for his long-awaited moment.

"Heck, I'm thankful I'm here," he said. "I thank you all."

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