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Thursday, 21 February 2013
Nike suspends contract with Oscar Pistorius
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? Nike Inc. has suspended its contract with Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee runner from South Africa charged with premeditated murder in the Valentine's Day slaying of his girlfriend.
Pistorius, who became the first double-amputee runner to compete on the track at the Olympics at last year's London Games, is accused of intentionally killing model Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius says he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder and that the shooting was accidental.
"We believe Oscar Pistorius should be afforded due process and we will continue to monitor the situation closely," Nike said in a brief statement posted on its website Wednesday.
On Monday, eyewear maker Oakley Inc. suspended its contract with Pistorius.
Nike dropped Lance Armstrong in October, citing insurmountable evidence that he participated in doping and misled the company about those activities for more than a decade. But the Beaverton, Ore.-based company stood by Tiger Woods after he acknowledged infidelities and went to rehab for sex addiction.
Pistorius was born without fibula bones due to a congenital defect, and had his legs amputated at 11 months. He runs on carbon-fiber blades and was originally banned from competing against able-bodied peers because many argued that his blades gave him an unfair advantage.
In 2008, however, the Court of Arbitration for Sport cleared him to compete against the fastest in the world.
Pistorius is a multiple Paralympic medalist, but he failed to win a medal at the London Olympics, where he ran in the 400 meters and on South Africa's 4x400 relay team.
He won a silver medal with his country's 4x400 relay team at the 2011 world championships in Daegu, South Korea.
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Survey Says: 10% Of Netflix Subscribers Have Streamed House Of ...
It?s been a little more than two weeks since Netflix released its long-awaited original series House of Cards to the public. The entire first season of the show, which stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright and was produced by David Fincher, was released at once, leading many subscribers to binge-watch over the first few weeks.
Netflix has been mum on viewership of House of Cards, preferring so far not to break out the number of subscribers who have watched it or how many hours they?ve watched. The company has said, however, that?the program is its most-watched show. And research from financial services firm Cowen and Company suggests that Netflix?s original programming is already starting to pay dividends for the streaming service.
Cowen surveyed 1,200 people last week, of which about 28 percent were paying Netflix subscribers, and another 18 percent had access to a Netflix streaming account. Of those, about 10 percent had watched House of Cards during the first few weeks it was available. And they?re not just watching one episode ? on average, Netflix viewers had streamed an average of six episodes of the new original series.
Viewers generally rated the series well, with 80 percent saying it was ?good? or ?exceptional.? Viewers also liked Netflix making all 13 episodes of the first season available at the same time. According to the survey, 90 percent viewed that release plan positively, as they gobbled up multiple episodes per viewing session.
The release schedule and the quality of the show could have a positive effect on Netflix subscriber retention, according to the survey. About 86 percent of those surveyed said they would be less likely to cancel after viewing House of Cards. And the new original programming could bring in more subscribers. Thirty-four percent of all those surveyed said they were aware of Netflix?s original programming plans. The largest percentage were aware of Netflix?s plans to bring back Arrested Development, with another 19 percent of everyone surveyed aware of House of Cards.
The survey also found that current subscribers watch about 6.5 hours of content a week on about 2.5 devices per account. Approximately 23 percent of Netflix subscribers said they had cancelled their cable or satellite TV service. Those who had cancelled watched about 8.5 hours of content on average.
With more than 23.6 million members in the United States and Canada, Netflix, Inc. is the world?s leading Internet subscription service for enjoying movies and TV shows. For $7.99 a month, Netflix members in the U.S. can instantly watch unlimited movies and TV episodes streaming right to their TVs and computers and can receive unlimited DVDs delivered quickly to their homes. In Canada, streaming unlimited movies and TV shows from Netflix is available for $7.99 a month. There are...
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McCain defends immigration plan to angry residents
PHOENIX (AP) ? Arizona took center stage in the national immigration debate Tuesday as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano toured the state's border with Mexico and Sen. John McCain defended his proposed immigration overhaul to an angry crowd in suburban Phoenix.
The presence of the top officials is the latest sign that Arizona will play a prominent role in the immigration debate as President Barack Obama looks to make it a signature issue of his second term.
Napolitano toured the border near Nogales with the highest-ranking official at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the incoming chairman of the Senate's homeland security committee and an Arizona congressman. Napolitano, Arizona's former governor, said afterward that comprehensive immigration reform will strengthen the nation's border against criminals and other threats.
Also Tuesday, McCain hosted two town hall meetings in Arizona, during which he defended his immigration plan to upset residents concerned about border security. A bipartisan group of senators ? including Arizona Republicans McCain and Jeff Flake ? want assurances on border security as Congress weighs what could be the biggest changes to immigration law in nearly 30 years. Arizona is the only state with both of its senators working on immigration reform in Congress, a sign of the state's widely debated border security issues.
Immigration activists and elected officials say it's only natural for Arizona to continue to take the forefront in the national conversation on immigration after years of internal debate on the topic.
"No state in this country has had more experience with enforcement-only immigration laws than Arizona," said Todd Landfried, executive director of Arizona Employers for Immigration Reform, which opposes the state's tough immigration laws.
During a heated town hall gathering in the Phoenix suburb of Sun Lakes, McCain said the border near Yuma is largely secure, but he said smugglers are using the border near Tucson to pump drugs into Phoenix. He said immigration reform should be contingent on better border security that must rely largely on technology able to detect border crossings.
McCain said a tamper-proof Social Security card would help combat identity fraud, and noted any path to citizenship must require immigrants to learn English, cover back taxes and pay fines for breaking immigration laws.
"There are 11 million people living here illegally," he said. "We are not going to get enough buses to deport them."
Some audience members shouted out their disapproval.
One man yelled that only guns would discourage illegal immigration. Another man complained that illegal immigrants should never be able to become citizens or vote. A third man said illegal immigrants were illiterate invaders who wanted free government benefits.
McCain urged compassion. "We are a Judeo-Christian nation," he said. McCain's other town hall meeting took place in Green Valley, south of Tucson.
Arizona gained international recognition as an epicenter of the U.S. immigration debate when it passed its tough anti-immigrant law in 2010. A handful of other states ? including Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah ? have since adopted variations of Arizona's law.
Arizona has the nation's eighth-highest population of illegal immigrants, according to the Pew Research Hispanic Center. In 2010, illegal immigrants represented roughly 6 percent of the state's population.
Activists said Arizona's anti-immigrant laws inspired many illegal immigrants to demand more rights. Last week, some college students rallied outside Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's office for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
"They no longer are afraid to come and say, 'I am not able to vote, but I can make my voice heard, and they have to listen to me,'" said community organizer Abril Gallardo.
A report released in January showed the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson sector remains the busiest along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Tucson sector accounted for 38 percent of all drug seizures and 37 percent of all apprehensions along the border.
Brewer said last week the border cannot be declared safe until the people living near it feel secure from drug and human trafficking.
But Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona told Latino and black community leaders at a Phoenix luncheon Tuesday that Arizonans need to spread the word on how much more secure the border has become.
"There are lots of folks who don't live in Arizona who have no idea what the border is like," Sinema said.
Napolitano toured the border Tuesday afternoon with U.S. Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner David Aguilar, Democratic Rep. Ron Barber of Arizona and Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware. Carper is the incoming chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
She said in a statement after the tour that border crossings are down 50 percent since 2008 and 78 percent since their peak in 2000.
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Cristina Silva can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/cristymsilva.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mccain-defends-immigration-plan-angry-residents-004915369.html
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Brain Age: Concentration Training (Nintendo 3DS)
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day was one of the first inexplicable hits of the Nintendo DS. It provided a regimen of brain teasers and puzzles to supposedly prevent decreasing brain function. I'm not a doctor, and I can't attest to whether it "worked" or not, but it was fun and a good game for commuting and killing minutes between activities. Several sequels and years later, Brain Age: Concentration Training jumps to the Nintendo 3DS with a new take on training your brain. Again, I don't know if it actually helps, but I do know its brain teasers and puzzles are addictive. Brain Age is a lot like Sudoku?only engaging and fun.
Devilishly Difficult
Brain Age: Concentration Training focuses on improving your "working memory" rather than keeping up brain function. It does this through several "Devilish Training" modes that make you track moves, keep numbers or words in your head, and otherwise hold several things in your head at once. As its name implies, it's a lot harder than the regular Brain Age activities. Modes like Devilish Calculations have you making a simple arithmetic calculation, then another, then remembering what the first one was. As you do better, you have to remember more and more, until you find yourself trying to keep four answers in your head and jotting them down in order while doing new calculations.
Each Devilish Training mode puts you through a five-minute marathon of testing, bumping up the difficulty if you get over 85 percent of the problems correct and bumping you down is you miss less than 65 percent. After five minutes, you're scored and your level is saved for when you use that mode next. There are eight different types of Devilish Training modes, but only one is available at first. The others unlock as you play a little more every day.
Other Attractions
Besides Devilish Training, there are Brain Training and Supplemental Training activities, each with nine different modes. Supplemental Training is a selection of classic Brain Age puzzles to keep your mind working. Brain Training is a collection of minigames including a few different solitaire games and puzzles. There's also a Relaxation Mode that includes a color-matching puzzle game, a Dr. Mario-like puzzle game (complete with pills and germs), and a relaxing music player.
StreetPass lets you compare your records with people you pass on the street. You can also keep track of family and friends' training on the same system. You can even compete with training partners and set goals for yourself against other players. There's no head-to-head mode, which is a shame considering there's a Dr. Mario game included, but Brain Age isn't a competitive activity, anyway.
Brain Age: Concentration Training offers a new way to train your mind and improve your working memory, or so Nintendo claims. I don't know if that's the case, but I do know that Brain Age: Concentration Training has enough activities to keep your brain engaged whenever you find yourself with a few minutes to kill, and is a great game for 3DS owners who don't necessarily want to play regular games. Even if it does absolutely nothing for the brain, it's worth a solid four stars on the strength of its fun puzzles and tremendous replayability.
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Pakistan formally hands operation of Gwadar Port to Chinese company
Under the agreement the Chinese company will fully assume the responsibility of Gwadar Port.
According to News International, the port will remain the property of Pakistan and the Chinese company will share the profit from it.
In this regard, a signing ceremony was held at the Presidency which was witnessed by President Asif Ali Zardari, Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Liu Jian, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, some federal ministers, members of parliament and senior government officials.
Presidential spokesperson Farhatullah Babar apprised the media that the ceremony had actually marked the transfer of Concession Agreement from the Port of Singapore Authority to the China Overseas Port Holding Company, the report said.
The agreement was termed by the president as an auspicious development in the Pak-China relations as well as for the people of Pakistan, particularly Balochistan, opening for them 'new opportunities'.
He said that Gwadar will soon be a hub of trade and commerce in the region, adding that 'it holds the key to bringing together the countries of Central Asia and lending new impetus to Pakistan-China relations'.
According to the report, he also highlighted the strategic significance of the port for China and Central Asian Republics and its potential of integrating the economies of the countries in the region.
About the project's strategic importance for China, he said that nearly 60 percent of China's crude oil was imported from the Gulf countries, which would increase in the next decade.
In his speech on the occasion' Ambassador of China Liu Jian said the transfer of Gwadar Port to China will bring tangible benefits to the two countries and contribute to peace' stability and development of the region, the report added. (ANI)
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Tuesday, 19 February 2013
NFL's Da'Quan Bowers Arrested on Gun Charge: Officials
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In this handout image provided by the NFL, DaQuan Bowers of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers poses for his NFL headshot circa 2011 in Tampa, Florida.
A Tampa Bay Buccaneers player was arrested at New York's LaGuardia Airport Monday morning after police discovered he was illegally carrying a handgun, authorities said.?
Da'Quan Bowers, a defensive end for the Buccaneers, was arrested at a check-in counter after he was found with a loaded .40 caliber firearm in his carry-on bag, spokesmen for the Port Authority and the Queens District Attorney's office said. He was about to board a US Airways flight to Raleigh, North Carolina.?
The former All-American player was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. A spokesman for the Buccaneers said Bowers is currently declining to comment as the organization investigates.?
He's scheduled to appear in court Monday evening.?
Bowers has played defensive end for the Buccaneers for two years. He played college football for Clemson University and graduated from high school in Bamberg, South Carolina.
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Clive Davis Opens The Discussion On Bi-Sexuality In The Music ...
Are the music industry and it?s artists finally feeling comfortable about coming out?
For a long time, sexuality, or at least homosexuality and bi-sexuality, were taboo subjects to talk about in the music industry. Those artists who were anything but straight, either avoided talking about their personal life or they put up a front for the sake of not losing their fanbase. However, it seems as though we?ve seen a shift over the last few years as artists like Nicki Minaj, Azealia Banks, Ke$ha and most recently Frank Ocean have talked openly about their bi-sexuality and attraction to the same sex.
Legendary music executive Clive Davis is releasing a new memoir titled, ?The Soundtrack Of My Life,? and inside he reveals that he experimented with his sexuality after his second marriage failed. He also says that he believes that bi-sexuality is misunderstood:
After my second marriage failed, I met a man who was also grounded in music. Having only had loving relationships and sexual intimacy with women, I opened myself up to the possibility that I could have that with a male, and found that I could.
I never stopped being attracted to women. Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you?re either straight or gay or lying, but that?s not my experience. To call me anything other than bisexual would be inaccurate.
Interestingly enough, in the urban music community, an artist who says that they are bi-sexual will either be labeled as gay or will be written off as trying to gain attention for the sake of publicity and album sales.
While revealing to the NY Times that she was bi-sexual, Azealia Banks said:
I?m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don?t live on other people?s terms.
Most believed she only said that to get people?s attention.
Music producer Jermaine Dupri recently stopped by Power 105.1FM?s Breakfast Club and when he was asked if he felt as though Frank Ocean ?coming out? was a marketing ploy, he responded:
100 percent. I mean sometimes, I don?t even believe that, I believe it?s a marketing plan. A person that comes out and lets his sexuality be known is considered a person that has balls.
Back in 2009, when I interviewed Nicki Minaj, I asked about the bi-sexual references in her songs and her choice to dodge questions regarding her sexuality in interviews. I said, ?There are some people that feel as though you gave black women who were afraid to be ?free? with their sexuality a voice (especially in Hip Hop) but then you sort of pulled back. How do you feel about that?? Her response was:
I pulled back on a lot of things so to specify that is kind of unfair. When I started to see how influential I was, I toned a lot of things down. I want to think more before I speak, I want to think about every message I?m sending. I did not realize I had 10-year-old fans. When you are in that position, it?s your job to be responsible. I say what I say in my rap.
I believe that rap is art. It?s like people want art and life to coincide. Sometimes it doesn?t and sometimes you do not want it to. Sometimes you want to have an interview and not discuss anything about sex. That?s how I feel sometimes. I do put the block up because I feel like all people want to talk about is sex. I give you enough in my record. You know who I am and you can hear what I?m saying. It?s just too much.
Looking back, there are still a few critics who think that Nicki Minaj talked about liking girls in her earlier records for attention but would it be that hard to accept if she really was bi-sexual? Is it still taboo in today?s music industry or are we in a time when an artist can be accepted for being gay or bi-sexual without it ruining their career in some way or another?
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Discover PA Business: March 17 CONSOL Energy
By francineschertzer on Feb 18, 2013 with Comments 0
CONSOL Energy is one of the nation?s leading diversified energy companies.? CONSOL?s more than 9000 employees help generate the fuels- coal and natural gas- that comprise two-thirds of the nation?s power supply.? In this episode, viewers are taken on a tour of both the bituminous mining?and natural gas operations.? PCN also speaks with Nick DeIuliis, President of CONSOL Energy, about the company?s safety and environmental protocols, as well as the challenges and goals of this southwestern Pennsylvania business.
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Opinion: How Microsoft could regain its footing (Hint: more Office, less Windows)
Even after several months, I don't know what to make of Windows 8. And Microsoft's tablet initiative feels like it's on the rocks. Still, when I look at SkyDrive and Outlook.com ? which will replace Hotmail completely by this summer ? I see hope for the company. All that's missing is Office for iPad ... and iPhone ... and Android.
Excellent webmail and cloud storage services could help Microsoft grab users from the competition. But Google is doing a great job on both of those fronts, too, and Amazon, Apple and others play in that same space. The big gun, the thing that Microsoft still does better than everybody else, is the office suite. Microsoft's recent launch of the subscription-based any-device Office 365 is testament to the fact that the company ? or at least that incredibly successful division ? understands the benefit of not being locked to one platform. So what are the folks in Redmond waiting for?
Here's how the pieces fit together: Webmail is the most popular Web service there is, and it's a good gateway to other services. (Just ask Google, which makes a regular practice out of nagging Gmailers to get on Google+.) SkyDrive is a great add-on service because it serves as a spillover for Outlook.com mail: If you have a lot of attachments, or files that are really big, Outlook asks you to throw them into a shareable SkyDrive folder instead. And Office 2013 already connects to SkyDrive to save stuff in the cloud.
Outlook and SkyDrive are cheerfully platform agnostic: The Outlook team released an Android mail app last fall, and optimized its compatibility with iOS's Mail. Meanwhile, SkyDrive syncs beautifully on Macs and iPhones, and lots of other devices too. Success in webmail and cloud storage leaves a lot of options open for Microsoft, and cross compatibility means decreasing the dependence on Windows. No matter how much Microsoft wants to save Windows, its other businesses need to acknowledge the fact that operating systems don't matter anymore.
Look, your car may look different than mine, and have more cupholders, but we can both drive on the same roads. Applications (software written for specific computers) gave way to the Internet, where software lived somewhere out in the ether. We are now in a third age where apps, optimized for our devices, bring services from the Internet. I don't care if you love Windows 8 or hate it, ditto for OS X, iOS, Android or even Chrome OS (not that you've necessarily heard of Google's browser-based desktop OS) ? they are but vehicles.
I know what you are thinking: Apple and Google have been using their recent success to push music and video, storage, photo management, even social networking, all in one "ecosystem." While it makes sense on paper, people don't buy books from Apple, they buy 'em from Amazon; they don't stream music and movies from Google, they get it from Spotify and Netflix. Apple's Ping social network didn't exactly have the momentum of Google+, so it implanted both Twitter and Facebook directly into all of its operating systems.
Lately I have looked around for services outside of "ecosystems" precisely because they won't tie me down inconveniently to one family of like-branded products. Even if you love Apple (or Samsung) products so much to only buy them, you still have to get every single one of your family members to do the same in order to start enjoying the benefits of some services such as messaging, photo sharing, etc.
So what about office software? We have seen serviceable iWork apps from Apple, but they won't run on Android. We've seen some shabby free office suites that will. Google Docs, which I use all the time for collaboration, are lightweight and platform indifferent, but they lack the power and versatility of classic Office. Despite the usual design and workflow criticism, we can agree that nobody does the whole package better than Microsoft.
What we want ? and I'm pretty sure I really am speaking for most of the world here ? is Microsoft's suite on whatever device we happen to be using.
So how about it, Redmond? Office for the iPad, this year? Seriously. One hundred million iPad users can't be totally wrong. SkyDrive should be integrated for storing documents, and an update for OS X should provide SkyDrive access. Meanwhile, an Outlook.com mail account should be a (free) requirement to sync these services.
So then, five years from now, when people are laughing about that whole Windows 8 thing, at least the formerly all-powerful software maker will continue to make billions in profit from its Office suite, which would remain a must-have ubiquitous service for paying customers anywhere ... on any device. Ya dig?
Wilson Rothman is the Technology & Science editor at NBC News Digital. Catch up with him on Twitter at @wjrothman, and join our conversation on Facebook.
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Monday, 18 February 2013
F-16s intercept planes near Obama's holiday retreat
By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News
F-16 fighter jets intercepted two aircraft after they entered temporarily restricted airspace near the Florida club where President Barack Obama was spending the long President?s Day weekend.
In a statement on its Facebook page, NORAD said two F-16s were sent to deal with a Lancair 320 aircraft ?that was not in communications with air controllers ? near Port St. Lucie,? Fla., at 5:10 p.m. Sunday.
?Following the intercept, the ? aircraft was escorted out of the [area] and allowed to continue on," it added.
NORAD also said in another Facebook posting that a Cessna was caught inside the off-limits zone at about 9:30 a.m. ET Saturday.
?Following the intercept, the aircraft departed the [restricted area] and landed at Okeechobee Airport where it was met by local authorities,? the statement said.
Obama is taking three days off in Florida while Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia are in Colorado on a skiing trip.
He is staying at the Floridian, described by The Associated Press as ?an exclusive and secluded yacht and golf club on the state's Treasure Coast.?
On Sunday, the president played a round of golf with Tiger Woods at the club.
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UGA organizing music industry conference | Online Athens
ATHENS, Ga. ? The University of Georgia is organizing a music industry conference and free legal clinic.
The third annual Protect Athens Music Conference will be held Feb. 27. Issues set for discussion at the conference include: copyright and licensing, touring, how to run a record label, merchandising and a myriad of legal matters surrounding the music industry.
The conference is organized by the University of Georgia School of Law's Sports and Entertainment Law Society and the Terry College of Business' Music Business Program. It is free and open to the public.
The free legal clinic on Feb. 28 will give people a chance to ask an attorney music-related questions.
Source: http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-02-16/uga-organizing-music-industry-conference
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Monday, 11 February 2013
Tornado slams Mississippi college town
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) ? A tornado tore through Hattiesburg on Sunday as part of a wave of severe storms that downed trees, damaged buildings and injured more than a dozen people.
The twister traveled down one of Hattiesburg's main streets and mangled homes, commercial buildings and structures on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. Emergency officials said at least 10 people were injured in surrounding Forrest County and three were hurt to the west in Marion County, but they weren't aware of any deaths.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn said it appears that a single tornado caused the damage in those two counties and Lamar County. Hundreds of homes are damaged in Forrest County, along with a couple dozen in the other two. Gov. Phil Bryant declared a state of emergency.
Flynn said the sheer scope of the damage was slowing their assessment.
"The problem is, it was so strong that there's so much debris that there's a lot of areas they haven't been able to get to yet," he said.
On the campus of the university, trees were snapped in half around the heavily damaged Alumni House where part of the roof was ripped away. Windows in a nearby building were blown out, and heavy equipment worked to clear streets nearby in a heavy rain after the worst of the weather had passed.
The university released a statement saying no one was hurt but that it was under a state of emergency, anyone away from campus should stay away until further notice.
East of campus, 47-year-old Cindy Bullock was at home with her husband and dog, a terrier mix named Vinnie, when she heard the tornado coming. They ran to a hallway and covered their heads. It wasn't long before the windows in the kitchen and bedroom exploded. The storm stripped all the shingles off the roof and left holes in it, while knocking over a large pine tree in the yard.
After dark, the Bullocks were trying to arrange their stuff inside so it wouldn't get wet from the dripping water.
"I just looked out the window and I heard the rumbling. It sounded like a train. We ran to the hall, and the kitchen windows and the windows in the bedroom exploded. It happened pretty fast," she said.
There were large trees blocking the road all through her neighborhood, and several of the houses were hit by falling trees. Her friend was staying with them after the friend's apartment took a direct hit from a falling tree.
Forrest County Sheriff Billy McGee says 10 or 15 people were injured by the tornado that slammed Hattiesburg and other parts of the county ? but none of the injuries was serious.
He says, "Most of our injuries have been walking wounded."
To the west, Marion County emergency director Aaron Greer says three injuries have been reported in the community of Pickwick, about seven miles south of Columbia. He says two people were taken to hospitals, but the third didn't have the injury examined.
Greer says one mobile home was destroyed, three other structures have major damage and several have minor damage.
Bryant plans to go to Hattiesburg on Monday to check out damage in the city and at USM, his alma mater, spokesman Mick Bullock said.
On Sunday night, John and Katherine Adams were cleaning up around their one-story white house where the storm punched holes in the roof, busted windows and completely destroyed the back porch. The couple was at home with their 7- and 3-year-old daughters when the tornado passed next to their house.
All through the neighborhood, houses and vehicles were damaged by falling trees.
"We're safe, and that's all that matters," said Katherine Adams, 46.
John Adams, who's in the building supply business, said he was surprised to see broken boards that appeared to be from new construction in his yard because there are no homes being built nearby.
"We've got stuff around here; I don't even know where it came from," he said.
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McConnaughey reported from New Orleans.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/homes-wrecked-dozen-hurt-mississippi-tornado-035836403.html
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Sunday, 10 February 2013
All Is Well That Eats Well: Tomato Basil Rigatoni
Craving the perfect comfort food? ?I love this pasta dish- it satisfies this very special spot in my soul and ?tummy :) ?The combination of garlic, fresh basil and tomatoes is so fresh and cozy. ?And it is so easy to make! ?Almost always, I have all of the ingredients hanging around my kitchen. ?To my northeast friends, hope you are staying warm in the blizzard- this would be a great dish to enjoy tonight :-)
Ingredients:
2 cups grape tomatoes halved
1 big bunch fresh basil chopped (about 1/2 cup after chopped)
3 large cloves garlic crushed
1/4 cup olive oil
16 oz rigatoni (or pasta of your choice- I like using ziti or shells as well)
Fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Fresh grated parmesan cheeseDirections:
1. ?Prepare pasta according to package instructions. ?While pasta is cooking, saut? crushed garlic in 3 tablespoons olive oil for about two minutes.
2. ?Add the tomatoes and some salt and continue saut?ing for about 2-3 minutes until tomatoes start to become soft.
3. ?Finally add fresh basil and saut? for an additional 1-2 minutes. ?By this point you should have a heavenly, aromatic sauce. ?Mmmmmm :-)
4. ?Add cooked pasta to tomato, basil and garlic sauce. ?Then add the remaining olive oil and combine ingredients well. ?Adjust salt and add pepper at this point. ?Serve in bowls and add fresh grated parmesan cheese!
Enjoy this cozy and scrumptious dish from my kitchen to yours!
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Father of the Year | Footprints of Fatherhood
I?ve been quiet for a number of months now ? not for lack of thinking of writing, but I guess there truly is a season for everything.
And I guess it takes something significant to stir the desire to add something to the ever increasing depth of fatherhood blogging. ?Something like the recent commentary on true fatherhood with the announcement by the National Father?s Day Council (US) that Bill Clinton has been named ?Father of the Year?.
Shocked? ?Maybe. ?Our memories are not too short to drift back to the days of the early nineties and the drama surrounding Mr. Clinton?s very public private life. ?The comments at the end of the politico.com article show this to be true.
Yet looking over the news release put out by Rueters, there is no mention of him as a father other than saying he has one daughter, Chelsey. ?Here is what Dan Orwig of the Father?s Day Council says in the news release:
?With the profound generosity, leadership and tireless dedication to both his public office and many philanthropic organizations, president Clinton exemplifies the attributes that we celebrate through the father of the year award.?
These are all good things ? strong values that impact our world. ?But this says nothing about Mr. Clinton?s relationship with his wife and daughter.? I?m curious why the standards are set outside the home? ? ?Are they saying that the best dads are primarily involved in people?s lives outside of their families?
What are the standards we hold fathers to?
faithfulness to the mother of their child?
being a role-model worthy of their children?s respect?
community service?
church attendance?
reading to their children every night?
being gracious with their leadership of their family?
driving a minivan?
Fatherhood is more than a relationship between a man and his children. ?It is a statement to the world that there are good men, and good men are necessary for the future of a just society. ?Some would even say that a father?s heart focused on his children keeps peace and blessing in a society. ?I believe this to be true.
Are there good men out there? ? I believe this also. ?They are being the men that this world needs ? men who care about truth, have high standards of themselves, expect high standards from people around them, and react with grace when those standards are not met. ?The only place that Father of the Year should really matter is within the home of each and every dad, grand-dad, uncle and older brother who is influencing a child.
So despite our recollections of Mr. Clinton?s affairs, we must remember that 20 years have passed. ?People do change. ?Commitments can be renewed. ?Grace can be shown ? even to men who make very public and potentially damaging choices. But I can?t help but wonder if the premis under which he has been named Father of the Year doesn?t water down the essence of strong fatherhood.
And so I won?t give in to the urging and swaying and prompting to compromise the standard of what strong fatherhood is. ?Those standards are the footprints by which children can find their way. ?Those are the standards that I hope you help me reach for.
?How do good men become part of the regime?
They don?t believe in resistance.?
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on Love & War & the Sea In Between
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Saturday, 9 February 2013
The swish of skis, good food and drink, and fun company
This week has zoomed by, and sadly, everyone is leaving tomorrow. It was lots of fun and we enjoyed it as much as anyone.
More skiing and this time Penn was with our group for his second day post lessons. He did amazingly well! Amanda had a 90 minute massage, and Jay chilled at the house. Everyone doing what they wanted - happy.
Fox and coyote everywhere. Caught these two late afternoon, pausing in their hunting endeavors.
Great weather for the entire week. This area at its winter best -sunny piercing blue skies and brilliant white snow.
What is it about untouched snow that causes people to want to fall into it..
On a bad day, we must remember there are clearly worse things...
Garlic Mikes for a nice dinner out. Good company and yummy food.
Local news, Paradise Cafe has moved into the Forest Queen Hotel, and Heather just found out the entire building where Paradise was, will be the new home of Secret Stash. Wow!
More skiing and this time Penn was with our group for his second day post lessons. He did amazingly well! Amanda had a 90 minute massage, and Jay chilled at the house. Everyone doing what they wanted - happy.
Fox and coyote everywhere. Caught these two late afternoon, pausing in their hunting endeavors.
Great weather for the entire week. This area at its winter best -sunny piercing blue skies and brilliant white snow.
What is it about untouched snow that causes people to want to fall into it..
On a bad day, we must remember there are clearly worse things...
Garlic Mikes for a nice dinner out. Good company and yummy food.
Local news, Paradise Cafe has moved into the Forest Queen Hotel, and Heather just found out the entire building where Paradise was, will be the new home of Secret Stash. Wow!
Source: http://lifeonstarmountain.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-swish-of-skis-good-food-and-drink.html
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California boy to be arraigned in "swatting" prank on actor Kutcher
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Prosecutors charged a 12-year-old boy on Thursday with making a false emergency call that sent police swarming to the home of actor Ashton Kutcher in a "swatting" prank.
The name of the boy, who was arrested by Los Angeles police in December, was withheld due to his age. He was scheduled to be arraigned in a juvenile court in Los Angeles on Friday.
The trend toward placing false emergency calls is known as "swatting" because SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) officers often are sent to the purported crime scenes. Authorities say such situations can be dangerous due to the risk of a misunderstanding between police and occupants of a building.
The boy has been charged with two felony counts each of making false bomb threats and computer intrusion in connection with the October 3 emergency call that drew police to the Hollywood Hills home of Kutcher, star of the sitcom "Two and a Half Men," and a similar call on October 10 that sent police to a Wells Fargo Bank.
Authorities have accused the boy of having reported men armed with guns and explosives in Kutcher's home and that several people had been shot. Dozens of emergency personnel were sent to the house. Kutcher was not home at the time.
Swatting calls in recent months have also sent police to the homes of singers Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Bill Trott)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/california-boy-arraigned-swatting-prank-actor-kutcher-030457111.html
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Boston Top 5 winter storms ever: Blizzard of 2013 could top the list
A 2003 winter storm dumped a record 27.5 inches of snow in Boston. No. 5 on the list is a 2005 storm that dropped 22.5 inches. The Blizzard of 2013 looks likely to top that, at least.?
Pedestrians walk through the Public Garden as snow begins to accumulate in Boston Friday.
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EnlargeThe meteorological dilettantes among us will periodically prod snowbanks with yardsticks as the Blizzard of 2013 deposits its snow on eastern Massachusetts and beyond this weekend. But when it comes to storm records for Boston, all eyes will be on Logan Airport's snow gauge ? the ultimate arbiter.
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The Blizzard of 2013, which the Weather Channel as dubbed a somewhat unintimidating winter storm Nemo, is expected to dump at least 24 inches of snow on Boston. Anything over 22.8 inches will guarantee the storm makes the list of the five snowiest storms since 1892, according to records kept at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Taunton, Mass., which covers southern New England.
For Many Bostonians, the frame of reference for winter storms for now remains the Blizzard of 1978, which struck 35 years ago this week. It dumped 27.1 inches of snow on a city already coping with the leftovers from a storm three weeks earlier. That earlier storm brought 21 inches of snow.
The '78 storm remains the snowiest on record for Providence, R.I., although it ranks No. 10 for Worcester, Mass.. In Hartford, Conn., the '78 storm is tied for eighth place with a storm that hit in December 1947 and dumped 16.9 inches of snow on the city.
For Boston, the record for snow in a single storm belongs to the Blizzard of 2003, which struck on Presidents Day that year. The storm affected a long swath of the East Coast from Washington, D.C., through Boston. It brought record snow to Baltimore as well, which groaned under 28.2 inches of snow.
That storm's genesis bears a striking resemblance to the blizzard heading into the Northeast today. A storm system that formed over the southern Rockies on Feb. 14, 2003, headed east. As it approached, it triggered the formation of a coastal storm off the Carolinas.
That storm began to move up the coast, following a typical path for nor'easters. Meanwhile, a large pool of cold air linked to a high pressure system over eastern Canada provided the chill needed to make sure the usual line between rain and snow fell much farther south than it typically does. With the coastal storm drawing plenty of moisture from the Atlantic Ocean, the stage was set for the deep snows that blanketed the region in the storm's aftermath.
Five snowiest storms on record for Boston (since 1892)
- Feb. 17-18, 2003 - 27.5 inches (Presidents Day storm)
- Feb. 6-7, 1978 - 27.1 inches
- Feb. 24-27, 1969 - 26.3 inches
- March 31-April 1, 1997 - 25.4 inches (April Fools' storm)
- Jan. 22-23, 2005 - 22.5 inches
Source: National Weather Service
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Friday, 8 February 2013
Terminal Cancer Patient?s Candor & Beauty Documented in Inspiring Video
You might see pictures of Jill Brzezinski-Conley and think, at first glance, that she is a famous model in the latest ad campaign for a well-known fragrance or cosmetic line. You would be wrong. As told in a Huffington Post story, Brzezinski-Conley is a 35-year-old woman with incurable stage 4 bone cancer who is fighting for her life. At age 32, Brzezinski-Conley underwent a double mastectomy. Last August, she visited her childhood friend Nikki Closser, a wedding photographer, and asked Closser to take pictures of her breasts so that women could see what breast cancer looks like. She felt that the media never presents an accurate view. The two women hoped to send the pictures to magazines for them to use for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
After the photo session, Closser shared her friend's story and some of the pictures with another photographer, Sue Bryce, who lives in Australia. Inspired by Brzezinski-Conley's story, Bryce contacted her via Skype and then surprised her with a trip to Paris for a once-in-a-lifetime photo shoot. The shoot was videoed by Hailey Bartholomew to capture the cancer patient's experience.
Brzezinski-Conley said the trip was "a million times better than what she ever dreamed of." At the beginning of the video, called "The Light That Shines," she says, "If I could change one woman's life, I feel like I would die the happiest woman. Just to affect one woman, I would feel like I accomplished something." Through the video, Brzezinski-Conley's story is already touching people around the world, who are calling it "wonderful and inspiring."Brzezinski-Conley told the Huffington Post that she hopes that women will be inspired by her story to celebrate their beauty no matter what they look like, especially those in their 20s and 30s who have been through cancer -- that "they can still feel sexy and beautiful." She passionately encourages young women to become educated about the
warning signs and symptoms of breast cancer. Her poignant advice: "Be educated, learn your body, learn the signs of breast cancer."
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Historical perspective: How Maine acquired an income tax ...
Just 100 years ago the nation ratified one of the most far-reaching amendments to the Constitution: the 16th Amendment authorizing a federal income tax. Proposed by Congress in 1909, it won approval by three fourths of the states over a four-year period that ended in February 1913. The income tax has become so far reaching, the centennial of its enactment is an occasion that deserves a look at what it has meant to Maine.
Maine?s income tax has generated much public discussion recently after the 125th Legislature voted to lower income taxes. And the watchdog Tax Foundation on Wednesday said its analysis of the governor?s proposed 2014-15 biennial budget shows that if the governor doesn?t adjust income tax rates to inflation, it will raise average tax rates ?in all cases.? But how did Maine come to have income taxes? The history lends perspective to the debate today.
In Maine, both party political platforms in 1910 gave support to the federal income tax amendment. But when legislators convened a few months later many of them initially had cold feet about voting for ratification. Setting in motion a strange set of events was a nine-to-one vote of the Legislature?s taxation committee to withhold ratification of the federal amendment unless Maine at the same time enacted its own state income tax.
Both a large number of the majority Democrats ? who then controlled both branches of Maine?s Legislature ? along with many of the minority Republicans ? argued that only by a state income tax could Maine guarantee that the revenues raised would stay at home. House Taxation Chair William R. Pattangall, a Waterville Democrat, charged that the western states would rob eastern states, such as Maine, of their tax money in order to install ?irrigation schemes costing millions? and that Maine?s tax money would be sent out West to be ?taken up by speculators who hardly gave us a chance to say goodbye to it.?
Pattangall?s fears about the drain of federal income tax dollars away from Maine have not fortunately in modern times been borne out. The flow of federal dollars into Maine has always exceeded the amount our taxpayers have paid out. The surplus flow back in our direction is attributable in part to Maine?s large number of social security beneficiaries.
In any event, after an extensive debate over the wisdom of the new federal tax, the Maine House turned it down, 82 to 43. It then proceeded to vote for ratifying the federal tax on condition that a state income tax be enacted at the same time.
Surprisingly, the vote was not along either party or typical ideological lines. A number of rural Republicans voted for the tax. Some urban based Democrats voted against it. In a pattern that would repeat itself in future tax votes by the Maine Legislature, those hardest hit by the property tax ? such as farmers and logging contractors ? voted for a state income tax on grounds that such a tax held out the promise of property tax relief. Urban professionals, for whom the prospect of paying a tax on incomes seemed a greater threat, voted against it.
The Maine House vote tying the federal income tax to enactment of a state income tax didn?t last long, however. When the Senate balked, the House reluctantly then went along with ratifying the federal income tax constitutional amendment without tying it to simultaneous imposition of one at the state level. In less than two years, enough other states ? three fourths of the then 48 ? had ratified the amendment so that by February 1913 it became law of the land. Among its first missions was helping to finance World War I.
The question of whether Maine should adopt an income tax would continue to be a feature of Maine legislative debates for decades to come. By 1919, two thirds of the Maine Legislature, by then controlled by the GOP, went so far as to propose a state constitutional amendment, then seen as necessary to enable the state to enact one. When the next year the amendment came up for voter ratification, it failed on a 65,000 to 54,000 vote.
GOP Gov. Frederick Payne pushed for one in 1949 but wound up settling for the state?s first sales tax two years later instead. Our own income tax finally won approval in 1969, and it soon became a mainstay of state revenues. (It was passed by a Republican Legislature and signed into law by Democratic Gov. Kenneth Curtis.) We became the 39th state to adopt such a tax.
What Maine and the rest of the nation did a century ago set the stage then for sweeping change in the entire underpinning of both federal and state governments. After all, it would be hard to imagine our state governments today operating without the federal support to the states made possible by the national income tax. Whether one mourns or celebrates it, however, this year?s federal constitutional income tax centennial is certainly something to observe.
Paul H. Mills is a Farmington attorney known for his analyses and historical understanding of public affairs in Maine He can be reached by email at pmills@myfairpoint.net.
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Gene silencing spurs fountain of youth in mouse brain
Feb. 7, 2013 ? Cognitive decline in old age is linked to decreasing production of new neurons. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center have discovered in mice that significantly more neurons are generated in the brains of older animals if a signaling molecule called Dickkopf-1 is turned off. In tests for spatial orientation and memory, mice in advanced adult age whose Dickkopf gene had been silenced reached an equal mental performance as young animals.
The hippocampus -- a structure of the brain whose shape resembles that of a seahorse -- is also called the "gateway" to memory. This is where information is stored and retrieved. Its performance relies on new neurons being continually formed in the hippocampus over the entire lifetime. "However, in old age, production of new neurons dramatically decreases. This is considered to be among the causes of declining memory and learning ability," Prof. Dr. Ana Martin-Villalba, a neuroscientist, explains.
Martin-Villalba, who heads a research department at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and her team are trying to find the molecular causes for this decrease in new neuron production (neurogenesis). Neural stem cells in the hippocampus are responsible for continuous supply of new neurons. Specific molecules in the immediate environment of these stem cells determine their fate: They may remain dormant, renew themselves, or differentiate into one of two types of specialized brain cells, astrocytes or neurons. One of these factors is the Wnt signaling molecule, which promotes the formation of young neurons. However, its molecular counterpart, called Dickkopf-1, can prevent this.
"We find considerably more Dickkopf-1 protein in the brains of older mice than in those of young animals. We therefore suspected this signaling molecule to be responsible for the fact that hardly any young neurons are generated any more in old age." The scientists tested their assumption in mice whose Dickkopf-1 gene is permanently silenced. Professor Christof Niehrs had developed these animals at DKFZ. The term "Dickkopf" (from German "dick" = thick, "Kopf" = head) also goes back to Niehrs, who had found in 1998 that this signaling molecule regulates head development during embryogenesis.
Martin-Villalba's team discovered that stem cells in the hippocampus of Dickkopf knockout mice renew themselves more often and generate significantly more young neurons. The difference was particularly obvious in two-year old mice: In the knockout mice of this age, the researchers counted 80 percent more young neurons than in control animals of the same age. Moreover, the newly formed cells in the adult Dickkopf-1 mutant mice matured into potent neurons with multiple branches. In contrast, neurons in control animals of the same age were found to be more rudimentary already.
Blocking Dickkopf improves spatial orientation and memory
Several years ago, Ana Martin-Villalba had shown that mice lose their spatial orientation when neurogenesis in the hippocampus is blocked. Now, is it possible that the young neurons in Dickkopf-deficient mice improve the animals' cognitive performance? The DKFZ researchers used standardized tests to study how the mice orient themselves in a maze. While in the control animals, the younger ones (3 months) performed much better in orienting themselves than the older ones (18 months), the Dickkopf-1-deficient mice showed no age-related decline in spatial orientation capabilities. Older Dickkopf-1 mutant mice also outperformed normal animals in tests determining spatial memory.
"Our result proves that Dickkopf-1 promotes age-related decline of specific cognitive abilities," says Ana Martin-Villalba. "Although we had expected silencing of Dickkopf-1 to improve spatial orientation and memory of adult mice, we were surprised and impressed that animals in advanced adult age actually reach the performance levels of young animals."
These results give rise to the question whether the function of Dickkopf-1 may be turned off using drugs. Antibodies blocking the Dickkopf protein are already being tested in clinical trials for treating a completely different condition. "It is fascinating to speculate that such a substance may also slow down age-related cognitive decline. But this is still a dream of the future, since we have only just started first experiments in mice to explore this question."
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- D?sir?e?R.M. Seib, Nina?S. Corsini, Kristina Ellwanger, Christian Plaas, Alvaro Mateos, Claudia Pitzer, Christof Niehrs, Tansu Celikel, Ana Martin-Villalba. Loss of Dickkopf-1 Restores Neurogenesis in Old Age and Counteracts Cognitive Decline. Cell Stem Cell, 2013; 12 (2): 204 DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2012.11.010
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