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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Late Night: Boston Flashmob Targets Bank of America, Fix the Debt With ?Gold Diggers? Remix
You may have seen their ads on TV or been accosted by a Fix the Debt canvasser on the street ? they claim to be a grassroots effort promoting steps to reduce the national debt. But the truth is, Fix the Debt is just another corporate-financed DC lobbying group looking for taxpayer handouts.
That revelation prompted a flashmob-style demonstration today outside the New England headquarters of a major Fix the Debt funder and beneficiary, Bank of America. More than 75 workers and retirees, police in tow, descended on the financial giant?s Federal Street building to call Fix the Debt corporations out for what they really are: gold diggers.
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The action comes on the heels of a report from the non-partisan Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which reveals that Fix the Debt?s legislative agenda has little to do with the national debt at all. In fact, the bulk of the group?s lobbying activities have focused on securing billions in new corporate tax breaks at the expense of American workers and seniors.
Make no mistake, Fix the Debt does support cuts to Social Security and other vital programs ? as well as raising the retirement age ? as a way to reduce federal spending, But according to the IPS report, Fix the Debt plans to use those savings to fund more than $134 billion in tax giveaways for its 63 publicly-held member corporations ? including Bank of America, Verizon and General Electric. Keep in mind, 24 of these Fix the Debt companies already pay their CEOs more than they paid in federal corporate income taxes. Twenty-two spent more on lobbying than they did on their tax bill.
So much for ?fixing the debt.? As it turns out, the corporate-financed Fix the Debt campaign amounts to old school gold digging at its worst. Might want to mind your pocketbook.
Want to put a stop to Corporate America?s gold digging? Tired of your tax dollars paying for bank profits and CEO bonuses? Visit www.MassUniting.org/GoldDiggers to sign up and help expose Fix the Debt?s corporate greed!
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
10 Tech Innovations That Changed the NFL
Football is the perfect sport for TV, and NFL broadcasts have gotten so good that Commissioner Roger Goodell now openly frets that stadium attendance is in trouble because everybody wants to watch the game at home. Credit HDTV. CBS broadcast the first high-definition NFL game back in 1998, a New York-only test of the technology. By 2004 networks broadcast more than 70 percent of games in HD. By 2008 virtually all NFL games were available in HD, and networks continue to increase camera abilities, using either 1080i (slower frame rate, higher resolution) or 720p technology (faster frame rate, lower resolution) to wow in-home viewers.
Things might get even sharper. The new ESPN and NFL deal, which starts in 2014, includes the rights for 3D broadcasts. And Fox Sports already uses a single 4K HD camera in an NFL broadcast each week to help with slow-motion instant replay. While both technologies may take years to enter the mainstream, they could do what HD did before them: make what we know about watching NFL broadcasts seem awfully blurry.
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Kermadec Trench: Boring eels
Another early start today.? I released the fish trap first and the ascent and location was good.? We scrambled the thing on deck to find it had actually worked.? We caught a sleeper shark (Somniosidae antarcticus), a subnose eel (Simenchelys parasitica) and a cusk eel (Spectrunculus spp.).? Amongst all that were dozens of amphipods, most notably Eurythenes gryllus, some isopods and a few decapods. So the trap works, samples are being taken and sub sampled, all is well on that front.
Next was the nail biter: I released the Hadal-Lander and it made its ascent.? For reasons unbeknown to us, it took six of us over half an hour to find the thing on the surface.? After starting to sweat a little bit about where on Earth (or rather the sea) it could be, it miraculously turned up.? We brought the thing aboard and I started stripping it down to see what it had filmed.
Now, given the incredible run of bad luck I have had with this thing last year, I honestly had it in my mind that it would be void of data, but to my surprise it was full.? Not only that, the lights were good, the illumination was even, it framed well and most importantly, the video footage was full of deep-sea fish. I could have ran out on deck and hugged it when I watched back some of the footage (but I didn?t).? In brief it included a large ray, lots of cusk eels, chimaeras, blue hake, decapods and subnose eels.
While most of the footage was, well, just really entertaining to watch, in my mind the most interesting was watching the snubnoses.? They are called ?parasitica? because despite looking as dumb as a block of cheese, they bore their heads into dead carcasses and drink the blood.? There have even been cases of them boring into live fish.? I have photographed this behavior before, but this time it is in video, and lots of it.? They place their heads on the surface of the bait, open their mouth and then start spinning their whole body, eventually boring into it and then remaining there for some time afterwards. It is perhaps not something to show the kids, but it was fascinating to watch it.
We later recovered the Abyssal-lander and found it had taken stills of these usual suspects but also included some rather large stone crabs, which itself was interesting.
No rest for wicked though, with everything downloaded and backed up we steamed to the 3000 m site and deployed the Abyssal-Lander, followed shortly by the fish trap at 3250 m and finally the Hadal-Lander went down to 3500 m.
It was a good day knowing that all the grief that hunk of junk has caused me these last twelve months is actually paying off.? I shouldn?t say that, I love it really.
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BlackBerry 10 radio interview goes bad, as iPhone question is ...
A radio interview with RIM Europe?s Managing Director turned into a PR disaster this morning, after the simple question, ?What have you learned from the iPhone? was repeatedly sidestepped ? badly.
When you?re Research in Motion, and have effectively been squeezed out of the smartphone market by Apple and Google, the question of what the company has learned from its primary competitors is going to come up in interviews. It would be wise, then, to have an answer prepared; after all, a lot of potential customers are going to be comparing your new products against the iPhone and many Android phones after today, so a few hints at where BlackBerry 10 differs wouldn?t go amiss.
Sadly, in an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, RIM Europe?s Managing Director, Stephen Bates either didn?t have an answer in his pocket or more worryingly, has accidentally admitted RIM has learned absolutely nothing from its competitors. Bates was being interviewed about BlackBerry 10, which launches later today, by well-known British radio host Nicky Campbell who posed the question, ?What have you learned from Apple??
Pretty straight forward question, right? Not for Bates, who stumbled for a second before replying, ?So, BlackBerry 10 is a unique proposition?? After not receiving any form of answer, Campbell pushed again, asking, ?Have you learned anything from the iPhone?? The response? ?This market is a great market?? Blah, blah, press release copy, blah. The interview continues for another two-and-a-half minutes, where Bates continues to not answer the question, or indeed say anything about BlackBerry 10?s benefits, unique selling points or how it differentiates itself from the competition.
Embarrassing, and a missed opportunity
You can listen to the whole, embarrassing three minutes here, and it?s both highly amusing and terribly worrying at the same time. We?d be surprised if anyone listening and hearing about BlackBerry 10 for the first time will be inspired to seek out details later on, or try to find a new BlackBerry phone in the shops. The impression the interview gives is that BlackBerry is the same business focused, dreary option it has been for the last few years. Worse still, BlackBerry 10 sounded boring, and RIM clueless about what real people want from a smartphone.
No companies, especially ones in the midst of a make-or-break relaunch, can afford to ignore the competition ? or at least, give the impression of doing so. Apple slings lawsuits at its enemies to undermine their products, Samsung makes TV adverts which poke fun at the iPhone and Apple?s clientele, and Google fills its competitors phones with its own, super-popular apps. We?d be surprised if RIM hadn?t been studying the iPhone, iOS, Android and the Galaxy S3 to see what makes them so popular; so why not admit it? It?s sales 101 ? an opportunity to tell the world how much better and/or different BlackBerry 10 is from the rest.
Our experience with BlackBerry 10 has been good, and RIM is obviously working hard to make it a success, making careless interviews like this one doubly as frustrating to hear. Let?s hope Thorsten Heins does a better job of selling BlackBerry 10 during the global launch event later on today.
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Muskens: Clash of aboriginal resource jobs vs. environmental impact
Lately I?ve seen two very significant issues facing Canadian aboriginals in the media.
The first is the Idle No More movement which is pressing the federal government to make some decisions and move forward on a number of issues such as the environment. The main issues seem to stem from Bill C-38 which redefines how we protect our environment and gives the government more power over resource development.
The other is Bill C-45 which takes into account our waterways including the Fisheries Act and once again gives the government more power to implement change.
Running parallel to this movement is such economic activity as mining exploration, future mines, and other resource sensitive issues such as Enbridge. A good example of this kind of economic activity is an area which is about 500 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, Ont., just below James Bay called the Ring of Fire.
This area is rich in chromium and nickel. Chromium is used to make stainless steel which is in high demand in growth sector economies such as China and India.
What?s happening in these First Nation communities is a desire by many to work for the mines, but they lack the education and skills to qualify for these jobs.
This is what happened in Attawapiskat and the De Beers diamond mine. Support to the First Nations community for education and training to meet the needs of the diamond mining economy just didn?t happen as quickly as it could have. The aboriginal labour pool couldn?t meet the needs of the employer thereby not providing the Attawapiskat community with greater economic returns.
Now Noront, a mining company out of Toronto, is keen in ensuring its mining operations can employ as many local aboriginal workers as possible. They are aiming for a 25 per cent aboriginal workforce.
The company is looking at training options instead of asking workers to have the required Grade 12 graduation.
The company would take into account previous work experience and have workers complete local training programs.
Other initiatives include summer camps that were held last year. Aboriginal youth age eight to 19 spent time learning such things as prospecting, claim staking, mapping, GPS technology and the application of environmental geochemistry.
Mining and other resource-based economies have the opportunity to bring employment into the hinterland of Canada and at the same time provide Aboriginal communities with jobs.
How the Idle No More movement will reconcile this with its environmental concerns and Bill C-38 and Bill C-45 will be interesting.
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Domestic Cats Kill Billions Of Mice And Birds Per Year, Study ...
Your pet cat may not be as cute and cuddly as you might think. According to a new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, domestic cats kill billions of birds, mice and small animals in the U.S. each year.
Biologists estimated that cats are responsible for the deaths of as many as 3.7 million birds and 20.7 billion smaller animals, including mice, voles and chipmunks, the Agence France-Presse reported. The study also concludes that cats are likely the No. 1 killer of birds and small mammals in the country.
Led by Scott Loss of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, the study drew from past research on the predatory habits of cats. While previous studies have suggested cats are responsible for billions of small creature deaths, the most recent estimates are significantly higher.
"The magnitude of wildlife mortality caused by cats that we report here far exceeds all prior estimates,? the report stated, according to the International Business Times.
Indeed, an August 2012 University of Georgia study, produced in conjunction with National Geographic, projected that free-range house cats kill about 4 billion wildlife animals per year, 500 million of which are birds. During the study, researchers attached video cameras to 60 cats to monitor how the felines spend their time. They found that one-third of a cat's day is spent killing smaller creatures, Mother Nature Network reports.
In the new study, researchers surmised there are about 84 million cats owned in the U.S. They estimated that each cat kills between four and 18 birds per year and eight to 21 small mammals annually, LiveScience reports.
However, it's feral cats -- an estimated 30 million to 80 million of which live in the U.S. -- that pose the greatest threat. As LiveScience notes, each of these unowned cats kills 23 to 46 birds and 129 to 338 tiny creatures per year.
Though the study was limited to U.S. cats, the murderous tendencies of felines are not. That's why Gareth Morgan, an outspoken economist and environmentalist, is pursuing a campaign against cats in New Zealand.
On his website "Cats To Go," Morgan proposes that cat owners neuter their pets and do not welcome any more felines into their households. He also calls for a mandatory, country-wide cat registration and has even suggested that New Zealanders set up cat traps to catch stray animals so they can be euthanized.
While Loss and his team are not recommending such a drastic scheme to cut down on U.S. wildlife deaths, the study does call for "conservation and policy intervention" in order to reduce environmental impact.
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SumaHomeCare: Get home health care providers in Pennsylvania ...
The cost of house health care should get realistic planning and should be in comparison to your budget and other predicted costs. For a house physical wellness and health and fitness assistance to visit just 3 times a week to provide in house care, you may have to pay nearly $18,000 a year. It is sensible then, to know what is involved in obtaining house physical wellness and health and fitness services and how it affects your financial predicament.
To get a full picture of what to figure out when interesting at home doctor at the home health nurse Pennsylvania, figure out the cost your home physical health and fitness services, the public programs for which you are qualified, what costs these programs secure and what private financing choices are available. This will considerably, quickly and easily identifying of what choice best meets your budget and in home care needs.
As per the US Division of Wellness and health insurance fitness and health insurance fitness and Individual Solutions, in 2008, the frequent price of choosing a house doctor in the U. s. Declares is $29 a time. The price may differ based on where you stay, on the other hand. Individuals in Pennsylvania might have to shell out $29 per hour to keep house health assistance, but one?s in other parts of the place, might need to shell out $50 per hour for the same in house care for the home health care providers Pennsylvania.
The question arises is that how does the home health assistance and fitness concern can be compared with the in-house reside at served living features and provided living facilities at the home health nurse Pennsylvania? Most elderly people will be preferring? home health and fitness care, without a doubt , as individuals always tend to? rate their solitude.
However, in certain cases there are also conditions which would require constant guidance of the citizen at a provided living facility, and just not the only sporadic vacation. Home health and fitness care are basically provided living, but taking care of the fact that it should be with much more freedom. Therefore a citizen who can?t be left single-handedly for years would be enchantingly suited to a nursing home or kind of a car taking home at the home health care providers Pennsylvania.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade Review - Nintendo Life
Obstacle to fun, maybe
If you were to poll gamers at large and ask them what they felt were the worst things about the Wii, chances are you'd hear "waggle" and "bad minigame collections" pretty frequently. In fact they often went hand in hand, and Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade is trying its hardest to make sure both of things carry over into the Wii U generation. We can only hope that they don't.
Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade ? it just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? ? is, as you might guess, a collection of short games that you can play with up to three friends. You might also guess that the games would revolve around an "obstacle" theme, but you'd be wrong; many of them are standard rounds of target practice, hide and seek, or, erm, picking the balloon with the number two on it after the game tells you to pick the balloon with the number two on it. That last one's not much of a game really, but there you go.
The collection is given a sort of theme park approach, with the games broken up into smaller, unlockable areas. Again, you'd expect the space area to contain space-themed games and the Western area to host games with a cowboy flair but by and large everything is just thrown at the wall with no regard for where it lands, and there's no telling what you'll encounter where. Fortunately, we guess, whatever you encounter will be reliably awful, so there's that to look forward to.
The games are hosted by a dead-eyed teddy bear with a stare so cold and creepy that we were constantly on edge for that inevitable moment when he'd pull out a knife. Half of his face is frozen in a bizarre semblance of what we can only assume is the developer's attempt at "'tude", while the other half just passively smiles. This, combined with the fact that his lips don't move when he talks, makes it seem like we've walked in on the bear in the middle of a massive coronary that's doomed to go untreated.
The entire package feels like a holdover from the previous generation; none of the graphics come anywhere near the capabilities of Nintendo's newest console, and the Wii U GamePad barely factors in at all, with each of the games requiring instead a Wii Remote and, often, Nunchuk. This means Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade plays identically to every other poorly-responsive, uninteresting, lazily slapped together mini-game collection you've been doing your best to avoid since 2006.
Every game supports four players; if there are fewer human players than that, the CPU will fill the void. Human players can enter any name for themselves that they like, but oddly the game also requires you to choose a separate name for the bear to call you by. This is because the developers only gave the bear a limited bank of audio files from which to draw, so you may tell the game that your name is William, but then you'll have to choose whether it calls you Chano or Shamus or Julio instead. It's bizarre to say the least.
In each game you'll compete against the other three for points. This nearly always involves waggling as quickly as possible, but sometimes it can rely on maneuvering crosshairs around the screen instead. No game is any more complicated than that, and it often feels as though the developer went out of its way to assign the most frustrating control schemes possible. Some games, for instance, are races that see you hopping from platform to platform. Despite the fact that each player has a perfectly good D-Pad and A button to use, Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade requires you to thrust the Wii Remote in the direction you wish to jump. Not that it cares where you actually thrust; it's a crapshoot whether or not the game will ever recognise your input. It's a needless and mandatory use of the least reliable control scheme possible, which is pretty much par for the course here.
The Wii U GamePad only comes into play during the bonus rounds. The rest of the time it features the glass-eyed bear glowing creepily at you and loudly narrating minor gameplay developments without moving his mouth. During the bonus rounds the winner of the previous game spins a roulette wheel, which determines what the bonus game will be. Here the GamePad is used differently than the Wii Remotes, but it's certainly no more fun, and it really does feel like a tacked on addition to what's essentially a low budget Wii cash-in.
The sound effects are beyond terrible, as the four players on-screen avatars laugh and hoot and holler over each other throughout every event, turning everything into a clamorous, cluttered aural monstrosity. The bear barks meaningless platitudes about every minor thing that happens ? from a player grabbing a coin to a player not grabbing a coin ? and while you're not likely to come away from this game feeling fulfilled you're more or less guaranteed a headache.
We'd like to close on a positive note of some kind, but we genuinely can't. This is an absolutely terrible game, and you don't want it. Trust us.
As clunky and poorly considered as its title, Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade is awful. Relying entirely on the shallow and repetitive waggle that should have died along with Wii, there's absolutely no reason to recommend this obnoxious, screaming, clattering monstrosity at all. It's mindless entertainment at its worst, but, on the bright side, it might be the perfect way to cure your childrens' burgeoning video game addiction.
Source: http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/wiiu/family_party_30_great_games_obstacle_arcade
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Web Application Development for Online Businesses
Home | Internet business | Web design 
Every owner of an online business knows that understanding your customers and what they want is the most important part of surviving online. There is so much potential in doing business online but only the wise and smart will make it to the top. As part of the strategy to succeed online, many website owners are now beginning to appreciate web application development along with web application development.
Thanks to the ever evolving software development industry, businesses now have a better way of doing business online and surviving all the competition. Through the use of web applications, businesses can gather all the necessary information that will make sure they make informed decisions on how to pilot the business. It is now possible to gather information on customer behavior and how they relate to the products on a website. Any of these activities do not cause any disturbance to the quiet enjoyment of the customers.
It becomes easy to get needed information with the use of web applications. The information received forms the basis of strategies that make the business succeed. It is also possible through right website development to customize applications based on a client?s preference. By customizing applications, businesses are sure to get exactly the information that they need and sometimes some processes are also automated. This rise in the interest for web applications has meant that the industry has seen a rise in the number of jobs related to application software development used with websites.
When you realize how important these web applications are to the proper running of any website, you?ll understand why there is no room for mistakes. As such quality assurance is not an option when it comes to developing applications but a necessary step. It is very costly to wait until there is a failure in the running of the website before taking quality assurance measures. When it comes to doing business online, even the least amount of downtime is very costly for the business. When people find it hard to place orders or fill out the simplest forms because of overload, they?ll soon lose interest in the site. Unlike other forms of businesses, when it comes to online business, it becomes more difficult to convince lost customers about your credibility.
This means that we should take the right design after a lot of thought. Remember that an idea in the mind is difficult to translate into the real thing that ultimately becomes application software. Therefore, it is important to work with the right professionals in creating the design. The business team may have all the ideas worked out but we need a web development team to convert that idea into the right software.
As most businesses take advantage of the internet and move online, it becomes increasingly important to use web application development to stay ahead of competition. Even the simplest of applications will make a difference for your business and separate you from all others.
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Poor sleep in old age prevents the brain from storing memories
Jan. 27, 2013 ? The connection between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration as we grow older has been elusive. But for the first time, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a link between these hallmark maladies of old age. Their discovery opens the door to boosting the quality of sleep in elderly people to improve memory.
Postdoctoral fellow, Bryce Mander, demonstrates how the sleep study was conducted.
UC Berkeley neuroscientists have found that the slow brain waves generated during the deep, restorative sleep we typically experience in youth play a key role in transporting memories from the hippocampus -- which provides short-term storage for memories -- to the prefrontal cortex's longer term "hard drive."
However, in older adults, memories may be getting stuck in the hippocampus due to the poor quality of deep 'slow wave' sleep, and are then overwritten by new memories, the findings suggest.
"What we have discovered is a dysfunctional pathway that helps explain the relationship between brain deterioration, sleep disruption and memory loss as we get older -- and with that, a potentially new treatment avenue," said UC Berkeley sleep researcher Matthew Walker, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at UC Berkeley and senior author of the study to be published Jan. 27, in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
The findings shed new light on some of the forgetfulness common to the elderly that includes difficulty remembering people's names.
"When we are young, we have deep sleep that helps the brain store and retain new facts and information," Walker said. "But as we get older, the quality of our sleep deteriorates and prevents those memories from being saved by the brain at night."
Healthy adults typically spend one-quarter of the night in deep, non-rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep. Slow waves are generated by the brain's middle frontal lobe. Deterioration of this frontal region of the brain in elderly people is linked to their failure to generate deep sleep, the study found.
The discovery that slow waves in the frontal brain help strengthen memories paves the way for therapeutic treatments for memory loss in the elderly, such as transcranial direct current stimulation or pharmaceutical remedies. For example, in an earlier study, neuroscientists in Germany successfully used electrical stimulation of the brain in young adults to enhance deep sleep and doubled their overnight memory.
UC Berkeley researchers will be conducting a similar sleep-enhancing study in older adults to see if it will improve their overnight memory. "Can you jumpstart slow wave sleep and help people remember their lives and memories better? It's an exciting possibility," said Bryce Mander, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at UC Berkeley and lead author of this latest study.
For the UC Berkeley study, Mander and fellow researchers tested the memory of 18 healthy young adults (mostly in their 20s) and 15 healthy older adults (mostly in their 70s) after a full night's sleep. Before going to bed, participants learned and were tested on 120 word sets that taxed their memories.
As they slept, an electroencephalographic (EEG) machine measured their brain wave activity. The next morning, they were tested again on the word pairs, but this time while undergoing functional and structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans.
In older adults, the results showed a clear link between the degree of brain deterioration in the middle frontal lobe and the severity of impaired "slow wave activity" during sleep. On average, the quality of their deep sleep was 75 percent lower than that of the younger participants, and their memory of the word pairs the next day was 55 percent worse.
Meanwhile, in younger adults, brain scans showed that deep sleep had efficiently helped to shift their memories from the short-term storage of the hippocampus to the long-term storage of the prefrontal cortex.
Co-authors of the study are William Jagust, Vikram Rao, Jared Saletin and John Lindquist of UC Berkeley; Brandon Lu of the California Pacific Medical Center and Sonia Ancoli-Israel of UC San Diego.
The research was funded by the National Institute of Aging of the National Institutes of Health.
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- Bryce A Mander, Vikram Rao, Brandon Lu, Jared M Saletin, John R Lindquist, Sonia Ancoli-Israel, William Jagust, Matthew P Walker. Prefrontal atrophy, disrupted NREM slow waves and impaired hippocampal-dependent memory in aging. Nature Neuroscience, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/nn.3324
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Humane society kicks off new program | Local & Regional | KIMA ...
Last year in 2012, they took in more than 7,000 pets. The clinics hope to provide a service that bring those numbers down. If you see a stray and can't bring it in, you can call Animal Control or the Sheriff's Department.
Source: http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/Humane-society-kicks-off-new-program-188514831.html
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Cameron deputy slams EU vote, polls show boost for PM
LONDON (Reuters) - Nick Clegg, leader of the junior party in Britain's ruling coalition, denounced David Cameron's pledge to hold a referendum on quitting the European Union, as polls on Sunday indicated the prime minister's move may gain him votes.
"It is not in the national interest when we have this fragile recovery," said Clegg, whose Liberal Democrats strongly favor closer EU ties, in contrast to many members of Cameron's Conservative party. "I don't think it helps at all."
He dismissed as "implausible" Cameron's plan to take back powers from Brussels before a referendum on a new treaty by 2017 that would let voters take Britain out. EU leaders have shown little wish to grant Cameron concessions and Clegg said EU talks would distract ministers from efforts to revive the economy.
Cameron, he told the BBC, would damage economic growth if he spent "years flying around from one European capital to the next, fiddling around with the terms of Britain's membership".
The LibDems are languishing in the polls and are unlikely to leave the coalition before an election in 2015, but the EU issue has added to strains. Cameron, who says he wants Britain to stay in the EU, last week promised a referendum if he is re-elected. It is less clear what may happen if treaties remain unchanged.
The first opinion polls published since he made his pledge of an "in-out" vote, however, showed that the prime minister may be succeeding in reversing a drift from the Conservatives to a party which campaigns for Britain to leave the European Union.
A Survation poll in the Mail on Sunday, which showed Labour unchanged and in the lead on 38 percent, put the Conservatives on 31 percent, up two points, while the UK Independence Party was down by the same margin, on 14 percent. UKIP's surge from just 3 percent in the 2010 election has raised the prospect of a split on the right that could condemn Cameron to defeat.
Another poll, by ComRes in the Independent on Sunday, showed an even more marked "Brussels bounce" for the prime minister, with the Conservatives gaining five points from last month to 33 percent and UKIP losing four points to be on 10 percent. Again, ComRes put Labour in the lead, down a point on 39 percent.
Cameron's European move worries the United States and EU allies, which want Britain to stay in the bloc. Many business leaders say it creates dangerous uncertainty.
Many Conservatives, whose party toppled previous premiers over European policy, welcomed a referendum after 2015. However, without improvement in an economy which shrank by 0.3 percent in the last quarter, Cameron's re-election is far from certain.
(Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
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Lance Armstrong 'Sings' Radiohead's 'Creep'
If you ever wondered how Radiohead's "Creep" would sound if Lance Armstrong sang it, you're in luck.
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After Armstrong's confession to Oprah that he did, indeed, use performance-enhancing drugs, videos making fun of the former cycling champion have begun surfacing on the Internet. In a parody made from snippets of the now-infamous Oprah interview, Armstrong "sings" Radiohead's classic song.
Watch the video, above; then, tell us what you think in the comments.
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
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Housing Stocks: Are They Hot Again?
Friday, January 25th, 2013
By George Leong, B.Comm. for Profit Confidential
The housing market is well on its way to recovery. Following several years of dismal sales, high foreclosures, short sales, and declining home prices, there?s strong optimism now.
Remember when your home was your castle? We are near that stage again, as we are seeing that the housing market has some bite to it.
The current situation has vastly improved to the point where housing stocks are hot.
Triggering the buying was a combination of historically low interest rates on mortgages, lower home prices, and renewal in the jobs market. (Read ?Jobs Coming Back, but Not from Overseas.?) And, as more people work, I expect the housing market will continue to strengthen, as shown by the strong housing starts and building permits trend. In December, there were an impressive annualized 954,000 starts, which was above the Briefing.com estimate of 880,000 and November?s 851,000.
Also lending support to the housing market recovery was a strong building permits reading of 903,000 in December, beating both the Briefing.com estimate of 880,000 and the 900,000 in September. The strong reading indicates that builders are expecting a good flow of buying in the housing market, and this could only bode well for homebuilder stocks.
Existing home sales came in at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 4.9 million, up 12.8% year-over-year, according to the National Association of Realtors. The median for home prices came in at $180,000 in December, up 11.5% year-over-year.
The S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. Home Price Index, comprising the 20 largest U.S. metropolitan cites, increased a better-than-expected 4.3% in October, representing the ninth straight up month. When prices rise, I expect more spending by homeowners, due to the increase in wealth.
The improvement in the housing market is also showing up in the results of the homebuilder stocks.
The technical analysis chart of the S&P Homebuilders Select Industry Index (NYSEArca/XHB) shows the upward trend from the October 2011 bottom to the current high. The upward break near the $27.00 level was bullish, following its breakout from some topping action.
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The NAHB Housing Market Index reported a strong reading of 47 in December, in line with the Briefing.com estimate and November?s reading. What is interesting is that the reading is approaching the 50 level, which hasn?t been reached since April 2006, over six years ago.
I expect the housing market to continue to improve, especially if the jobs market and economy improve.
At this juncture, if you hold some of the hot homebuilder stocks, I would be taking some money off of the table after the run-up in the housing market stocks.
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Friday, January 25, 2013
With protests, Egyptians mark uprising anniversary
Egyptian protesters throw stones during clashes with riot police, not seen, near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Two years after Egypt's revolution began, the country's schism was on display Friday as the mainly liberal and secular opposition held rallies saying the goals of the pro-democracy uprising have not been met and denouncing Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. With the anniversary, Egypt is definitively in the new phase of its upheaval. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Egyptian protesters throw stones during clashes with riot police, not seen, near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Two years after Egypt's revolution began, the country's schism was on display Friday as the mainly liberal and secular opposition held rallies saying the goals of the pro-democracy uprising have not been met and denouncing Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. With the anniversary, Egypt is definitively in the new phase of its upheaval. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Egyptian walk past revolutionary graffiti in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Egyptian opposition protesters are gathering in Cairo's Tahrir Square to mark the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)
Skirmishes break out between protesters and security forces, unseen, near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Egyptian opposition protesters are gathering in Cairo's Tahrir Square to mark the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Skirmishes break out between protesters and security forces, unseen, near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Egyptian opposition protesters are gathering in Cairo's Tahrir Square to mark the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
An Egyptian protester displays the national colors as skirmishes break out between demonstrators and security forces, unseen, near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Egyptian opposition protesters are gathering in Cairo's Tahrir Square to mark the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)
CAIRO (AP) ? Two years after Egypt's revolution began, the country's schism was on display Friday as the mainly liberal and secular opposition held rallies saying the goals of the pro-democracy uprising have not been met and denouncing Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
With the anniversary, Egypt is definitively in the new phase of its upheaval.
From the revolt that began Jan. 25, 2011 and led to the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, the country has moved into a deeply divisive struggle between ruling Islamists, who say a string of election victories the past year gives them to right to reshape Egypt, and their opponents, who say Islamists are moving to take complete power.
Overshadowing their struggle is an economy in free-fall that threatens to fuel public discontent. The vital tourism sector has slumped, investment shriveled, foreign currency reserves have tumbled and prices are on the rise. More pain is likely in the coming months if the government implements unpopular new austerity measures.
"Today the Egyptian people continue their revolution," said Hamdeen Sabahi, a leading opposition leader who finished a close third in presidential elections held in June. "They are saying 'no' to the Brotherhood state ... We want a democratic constitution, social justice, to bring back the rights of the martyrs and guarantees for fair elections."
Tens of thousands massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square, where the 2011 uprising began, and outside Morsi's palace, with more heading to join them from other districts. Banners outside the palace proclaimed, "No to the corrupt Muslim Brotherhood government" and "Two years since the revolution, where is social justice?" Others demonstrated outside the state TV and radio building overlooking the Nile.
Similar if smaller crowds gathered in most of Egypt's main cities, including the Mediterranean cities of Alexandria. The protesters chanted the iconic slogans of the revolt against Mubarak, this time directed against Morsi ? "Erhal! Erhal!" or "leave, leave" and "the people want to topple the regime."
Clashes erupted in multiple places between police firing tear gas and protesters throwing stones ? in side streets around Tahrir, in Alexandria and the city of Suez and in six other cities. Outside the gates of the presidential palace in Cairo, masked protesters tried to push through a police barricade, prompting a barrage of tear gas by security forces.
In two towns in the Nile Delta, Menouf and Shibeen el-Koum, protesters blocked railway lines, disrupting train services to and from Cairo.
At least 119 people were injured in the clashes around the country, the head of the national ambulances services, Mohammed Sultan, told privately owned CBC TV. He did not give details on the nature or location of the injuries.
The immediate goal of the protesters is a show of strength to push Morsi to amend the constitution, which was pushed through by his Islamist allies and rushed through a national referendum. But more broadly, protesters are trying to show the extent of public anger against what they call the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization Morsi hails from, which they say is taking over the state rather than setting up a broad-based democracy.
Protester Ehab Menyawi said he felt no personal animosity against the Brotherhood but opposed its approach toward Morsi as Egypt's first freely elected leader.
"The Brotherhood thinks that reform was achieved when their man came to power and that in itself is a guarantee for the end of corruption," he said as he marched from the upscale Cairo district of Mohandiseen to Tahrir with some 20,000 others.
Unlike in 2012, when both sides made a show of marking Jan. 25 ? though, granted, not together ? the Brotherhood stayed off the streets for Friday's anniversary. The group said it would honor the occasion with acts of public service, like treating the sick and planting trees. The Brotherhood's ultraconservative allies known as Salafis are also staying off the streets. Their absence may reduce, but not entirely remove, the possibility of violence.
The night before, Morsi gave a televised speech that showed the extent of the estrangement between the two sides. He denounced what he called a "counter-revolution" that is "being led by remnants of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime to obstruct everything in the country."
Brotherhood officials have increasingly depicted the opposition as undemocratic, trying to use the streets to overturn an elected leadership.
In another sign of the increasingly bitter tone, new militia-like groups opposed to the Islamists have declared in video messages posted on social networks this week their intention to defend the opposition protesters if attacked. At least 10 people were killed and hundreds injured in December when Morsi's supporters descended upon protesters camped outside his palace, starting clashes that lasted for hours with firebombs, swords, knifes and firearms.
The demands of Friday's protesters vary. Some on the extremist fringe of Egypt's loosely knit opposition want Morsi to step down and the constitution adopted last month rescinded. Others are calling for the document to be amended and early presidential elections held.
"I am asking everyone to go out and demonstrate to show that the revolution must be completed and that the revolution must continue," opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei said in a televised message posted on his party's website.
"There must be a constitution for all Egyptians. A constitution that every one of us sees himself in it," said the Nobel peace Laureate and former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
Egypt's bestselling novelist and democracy campaigner Alaa al-Aswany marched with ElBaradei on Friday to Tahrir. "It is impossible to impose a constitution on Egyptians, a constitution which was sponsored by the Supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the revolution today will bring this constitution down," he said.
Morsi, a U.S.-trained engineer, took office in June after a narrow election victory with just under 52 percent of the vote to become the country's first freely elected president.
On the horizon are key elections to choose a new lower house of parliament. The opposition is hoping it can leverage public anger into a substantial bloc in the legislature, but it is still trying to weld together an effective campaign coalition in the face of Islamists' strength at the ballot box.
Last winter, the Brotherhood and Salafis won around 75 percent of the lower house's seats, though the body was later disbanded by court order.
Opponents say Morsi and his Islamist backers have taken that election mandate too far, accusing the secretive, closed Muslim Brotherhood of simply stepping in to fill the shoes of Mubarak's ousted ruling party, only now with a conservative religious bent.
The most glaring example is the constitution itself: Islamists finalized the draft in a rushed, all-night meeting, throwing in amendments to fit their needs, then pushed it through a swift referendum in which only a third of voters participated. The result is a document that could bring a much stricter implementation of Shariah, or Islamic law, than modern Egypt has ever seen.
At the same time, Morsi has kept government policy-making and the choice of appointments almost entirely within the Brotherhood. Members and supporters of the group are being installed bit by bit throughout the state infrastructure ? from governor posts, to chiefs of state TV and newspapers, down to preachers in state-run mosques.
"Egypt is in a bad place, It's been wholly consumed with issues of power, and governance has been left by the wayside. None of this had to be," said Michael W. Hanna, a senior fellow at the New York-based Century Foundation. "It was a conscious decision to eschew reform by consensus. ... For them (the Brotherhood) it's not about reform it's about power."
In Egypt, the danger for the Brotherhood now is that it stands alone as it faces the difficult task of stopping the accelerating slide of the economy. That will require some highly unpopular decisions, including raising taxes and reducing subsidies on fuel and basic foodstuffs. Morsi's government has so far not put forward a cohesive plan, and public anger is growing over mounting prices, unemployment and poverty.
If Morsi and the Brotherhood can't fix the economy, they may try to keep the support of their Islamist base by focusing instead on "the culture war," pushing through a religious agenda of stricter Shariah and more sectarian rhetoric against Egypt's Christian minority, warns Hanna.
"We'll see more polarized politics, and that's a bad omen for actually governing," he said.
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USB Screen Lock Requires a Physical USB Drive to Unlock Your Mac
Mac: If you're worried that someone might be snooping around on your Mac, and a password doesn't feel like strong enough protection, USB Screen Lock is an app that adds a kind of two-factor authentication by requiring you to insert a USB drive to unlock the computer.
With USB Drive running, all you need to do is stick in a USB drive and set it up. You can add another password if you like, or just require the USB drive. When you remove the drive, the screen locks and can't be unlocked until you reinsert the USB drive. While the person trying to get into your computer could always reboot it, this at least provides a first line of defense for anyone snooping in on you when you run to the bathroom.
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Congrats flood in for Shakira's new baby boy
FILE - This Jan. 28, 2012 file photo shows Colombian singer Shakira arriving at the Cannes festival palace, to take part in the NRJ Music awards ceremony, in Cannes, southeastern France. A spokesman for the 35-year-old Columbian singer says Shakira Mebarak and 25-year-old soccer star Gerard Pique of FC Barcelona welcomed son Milan Pique Mebarak on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, at 9:36 p.m. in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, file)
FILE - This Jan. 28, 2012 file photo shows Colombian singer Shakira arriving at the Cannes festival palace, to take part in the NRJ Music awards ceremony, in Cannes, southeastern France. A spokesman for the 35-year-old Columbian singer says Shakira Mebarak and 25-year-old soccer star Gerard Pique of FC Barcelona welcomed son Milan Pique Mebarak on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, at 9:36 p.m. in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, file)
FILE - This May 29, 2011 file photo shows Colombia's singer Shakira performing with FC Barcelona soccer player Gerard Pique during The Sun Comes Out World Tour concert in Barcelona, Spain. It was announced on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, that singer Sharika Mebarak and soccer player Gerard Pique have welcomed a baby son, Milan Piqu? Mebarak, born Tuesday, 22, in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2012 file photo, Colombian performer Shakira arrives for the NRJ Music awards ceremony in Cannes, southeastern France. A spokesman for the 35-year-old Columbian singer says Shakira Mebarak and 25-year-old soccer star Gerard Pique of FC Barcelona welcomed son Milan Pique Mebarak on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, at 9:36 p.m. in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
MADRID (AP) ? Within hours of Shakira's baby boy being born, people are already asking about his future career.
Will Milan Pique Mebarak be a famous pop singer liker his Colombian mother, or an international soccer star like his Spanish father, Barcelona defender Gerard Pique?
"Welcome Milan Piqu? Mebarak and congratulations to Shakira and Gerard Pique. What would you prefer as a present for the baby, a microphone or some (soccer) boots?" Manchester City striker Sergio "Kun" Aguero wrote Wednesday on Twitter.
Shakira, 35, gave birth to her first child Tuesday in Barcelona in northeastern Spain. Both the boy and mother were said to be in fine health.
Pique's grandfather, Amador Bernabeu, said the couple was delighted.
"I still haven't seen him (Milan) in person but I know he is dark-haired and weighs 2.9 kilograms (6 lbs)," Bernabeu told RAC-1 radio.
Congratulatory messages rained down on the couple from both sides of the Atlantic.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was among the first to wish them the best, while the Pies Descalzos (Shoeless) Foundation for poor children set up by Shakira in 1997 sent a Twitter message saying, "The children and Pies Descalzos team are happy for Milan's birth. We love you Shakira!"
Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas tweeted a welcome to the baby, saying he "can't wait to meet you."
Antonella Roccuzzo, the girlfriend of Argentine soccer ace Lionel Messi, tweeted "Welcome to the world Milan Pique Mebarak. Now Thiaguin will have a great friend," in reference to her recently-born son.
One of the big surprises was child's first name. In a statement, Shakira said Milan was of central European origin and meant "loved, full of grace, loving," in Slavic and "unification" in Sanksrit.
Milan, coincidentally, is also the name of the famous soccer team from that Italian city and Barcelona's next rival in the European Champions League.
Bernabeu admitted the family was surprised by the choice and confessed he had never heard of the name. "I think Milan will become fashionable," he told the radio.
The grandfather, a former director of the Barcelona club, made sure Milan was registered as a club member as soon as he was born.
Shakira and the 25-year-old Pique have been a couple for the past two years and are regularly featured in gossip magazines and TV programs in both Europe and Latin America.
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Martinez returns to Red Sox as assistant to GM
BOSTON (AP) ? Former Boston manager Terry Francona gave Pedro Martinez a big hug along with some advice to help him in his new job as a special assistant to the Red Sox general manager.
"Now he's going to have to be on time," Francona needled his former pitcher on Thursday when the two were reunited at the annual dinner of the Boston chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
A three-time Cy Young Award winner and eight-time All-Star who spent seven seasons in Boston, Martinez returned to the city where he had his best years. His role is still undefined ? he has the same title as former Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek ? but Martinez said he would be willing to help with the pitchers, work in the minor leagues and generally be a friend to GM Ben Cherington.
"Varitek, Pedro ? they are the Red Sox," Francona said.
Martinez spent his first day back on the Boston masthead at a lunch with Cherington, new Red Sox manager John Farrell, CEO Larry Lucchino and Boston Mayor Tom Menino and some civic leaders. Martinez said Menino had been welcoming to him when he first arrived in Boston in 1998 and once again was forthcoming with advice about where to live and what to do in the city.
"Menino was a friend to me," Martinez said.
Martinez was acquired from the salary-dumping Montreal Expos after the 1997 season, a few months before he would be awarded his first Cy Young. He instantly became the ace of the Red Sox staff, the biggest character in a colorful clubhouse and a key part of the team that won the 2004 World Series to end the franchise's 86-year title drought.
Martinez said his experience with the team during that era can help players who are trying to recover from last season's last-place finish.
"There was something missing, in the clubhouse, the players, around Fenway. This offseason, they realized that they lost something," Martinez said, noting that the addition of Farrell as manager and players such as Shane Victorino and Mike Napoli. "We have the right group of people. These guys coming in have great, great character."
Martinez, who's now 41, went 117-37 with a 2.52 ERA in Boston. His .760 winning percentage is the best in franchise history, and he ranks third with 1,683 in strikeouts and sixth with 117 wins in a Red Sox uniform. He is also the franchise's all-time leader with 80 postseason strikeouts; in the 1999 All-Star game at Fenway Park, he struck out the first four batters he faced.
In an 18-year major league career with the Dodgers, Expos, Red Sox, Mets and Phillies, Martinez went 219-100 with a 2.93 ERA and 3,154 strikeouts. He has a career .687 winning percentage, and he led the majors in ERA five times, including 1997 when he had a 1.90 ERA with Montreal.
"I am thrilled to be returning to this organization and to the city I love," Martinez said. "It is an honor to be back with the Red Sox and help in any way I can. I am grateful to our leaders; I believe in them, and I thank them for allowing me to return to the field and help us win again.
"My heart will always live in Boston."
Also Thursday, the Red Sox signed left-hander Craig Breslow to a two-year contract with a club option for 2015. Breslow had been eligible for salary arbitration. Breslow went 3-0 with a 2.70 ERA in 63 appearances for the Diamondbacks and Red Sox. Twenty of the 23 appearances the Yale graduate made in Boston were scoreless.
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