Thursday, February 28, 2013

A game plan for climate change

A game plan for climate change [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 27-Feb-2013
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Wildlife Conservation Society

Pilot project helps scientists, managers, and conservationists pro-actively prepare for a changing climate

Researchers have successfully piloted a process that enables natural resource managers to take action to conserve particular wildlife, plants and ecosystems as climate changes.

The Adaptation for Conservation Targets (ACT) framework is a practical approach to assessing how future changes in air and water temperatures, precipitation, stream flows, snowpack, and other environmental conditions might affect natural resources. ACT enables scientists and managers to work hand-in-hand to consider how management actions may need to be adjusted to address those impacts.

"As acceptance of the importance of climate change in influencing conservation and natural resource management increases, ACT can help practitioners connect the dots and integrate climate change into their decisions," said WCS Conservation Scientist, Dr. Molly Cross. "Most importantly, the ACT process allows practitioners to move beyond just talking about impacts to address the 'What do we do about it?' question."

The ACT framework was tested during a series of workshops at four southwestern United States landscapes (see map) that brought together 109 natural resource managers, scientists, and conservation practitioners from 44 local, state, tribal and federal agencies and organizations. The workshops were organized by the Southwest Climate Change Initiative, representing The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), the Western Water Assessment, the U.S. Forest Service, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

One example comes from the Bear River basin in Utah, where workshop participants looked at how warmer air and water temperatures and decreased summer stream flow might affect native Bonneville cutthroat trout habitat and populations. The group strategized that restoring the ability of fish to move between the main stem of the Bear River and cooler tributaries, protecting cold-water habitat, and lowering the depth of outflow from reservoirs to reduce downstream water temperatures could help maintain or increase trout population numbers as climate changes.

Participants in another workshop considered the impacts of reduced snow-pack and greater variability in precipitation on stream flows in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. To maintain sufficient water in the system and support aquatic species and riparian vegetation, attendees identified options such as restoring beaver to streams, building artificial structures to increase the storage of water in floodplains, and thinning the density of trees in nearby forests to maximize snowpack retention.

"The ACT process helps workshop participants move beyond the paralysis many feel when tackling what is a new or even intimidating topic by creating a step-by-step process for considering climate change that draws on familiar conservation planning tools," Cross said. "By combining traditional conservation planning with an assessment of climate change impacts that considers multiple future scenarios, ACT helps practitioners lay out how conservation goals and actions may need to be modified to account for climate change."

The results will help land managers as well as people. "Climate change impacts livelihoods and threatens the water supplies of many of our communities," says Terry Sullivan, The Nature Conservancy's New Mexico state director. "We hope that this tool will be utilized to help make decisions which will lead to healthy and sustainable watersheds, and ultimately sustain water supplies for farms and cities."

ACT workshops have been used to launch climate change planning at 11 locations in the United States for more than 15 wildlife, plant, and ecosystem targets (for details see http://www.wcsnorthamerica.org/ConservationChallenges/ClimateChange/ClimateChangeAdaptationPlanning.aspx). Feedback given by workshop attendees indicates that the ACT approach was successful in increasing participants' capacity to address climate change in their conservation work.

"We need to see more practitioners applying approaches like ACT if biological diversity and ecosystem services are to be maintained in a rapidly changing world," Cross added.

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Results from the workshops are published in the February 2013 volume of the journal Conservation Biology (available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01954.x/pdf). Authors include Molly Cross of WCS, Patrick McCarthy and David Gori of TNC, Gregg Garfin of the University of Arizona; and Carolyn Enquist of the U.S.A. National Phenology Network and The Wildlife Society.

The ACT planning process is described in detail in the September 2012 edition of Environmental Management (available at http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00267-012-9893-7). Authors include:

  • Molly Cross, WCS;
  • Erika Zavaleta, University of California, Santa Cruz;
  • Dominique Bachelet, Conservation Biology Institute;
  • Marjorie Brooks, Southern Illinois University;
  • Carolyn Enquist, The Wildlife Society and the U.S.A. National Phenology Network;
  • Erica Fleischman, University of California, Davis;
  • Lisa Graumlich, University of Washington;
  • Craig Groves, TNC;
  • Lee Hannah, Conservation International;
  • Lara Hansen, EcoAdapt;
  • Greg Hayward, U.S. Forest Service;
  • Marni Koopman, Geos Institute;
  • Joshua Lawler, University of Washington;
  • Jay Malcolm, University of Toronto;
  • John Nordgren, Kresge Foundation;
  • Brian Petersen, Michigan State University;
  • Erika Rowland, WCS;
  • Daniel Scott, University of Waterloo;
  • Sarah Shafer, U.S. Geological Survey;
  • Rebecca Shaw, Environmental Defense Fund; and
  • Gary Tabor, Center for Large Landscape Conservation.


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A game plan for climate change [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 27-Feb-2013
[ | E-mail | Share Share ]

Contact: Scott Smith
ssmith@wcs.org
718-220-3698
Wildlife Conservation Society

Pilot project helps scientists, managers, and conservationists pro-actively prepare for a changing climate

Researchers have successfully piloted a process that enables natural resource managers to take action to conserve particular wildlife, plants and ecosystems as climate changes.

The Adaptation for Conservation Targets (ACT) framework is a practical approach to assessing how future changes in air and water temperatures, precipitation, stream flows, snowpack, and other environmental conditions might affect natural resources. ACT enables scientists and managers to work hand-in-hand to consider how management actions may need to be adjusted to address those impacts.

"As acceptance of the importance of climate change in influencing conservation and natural resource management increases, ACT can help practitioners connect the dots and integrate climate change into their decisions," said WCS Conservation Scientist, Dr. Molly Cross. "Most importantly, the ACT process allows practitioners to move beyond just talking about impacts to address the 'What do we do about it?' question."

The ACT framework was tested during a series of workshops at four southwestern United States landscapes (see map) that brought together 109 natural resource managers, scientists, and conservation practitioners from 44 local, state, tribal and federal agencies and organizations. The workshops were organized by the Southwest Climate Change Initiative, representing The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), the Western Water Assessment, the U.S. Forest Service, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

One example comes from the Bear River basin in Utah, where workshop participants looked at how warmer air and water temperatures and decreased summer stream flow might affect native Bonneville cutthroat trout habitat and populations. The group strategized that restoring the ability of fish to move between the main stem of the Bear River and cooler tributaries, protecting cold-water habitat, and lowering the depth of outflow from reservoirs to reduce downstream water temperatures could help maintain or increase trout population numbers as climate changes.

Participants in another workshop considered the impacts of reduced snow-pack and greater variability in precipitation on stream flows in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. To maintain sufficient water in the system and support aquatic species and riparian vegetation, attendees identified options such as restoring beaver to streams, building artificial structures to increase the storage of water in floodplains, and thinning the density of trees in nearby forests to maximize snowpack retention.

"The ACT process helps workshop participants move beyond the paralysis many feel when tackling what is a new or even intimidating topic by creating a step-by-step process for considering climate change that draws on familiar conservation planning tools," Cross said. "By combining traditional conservation planning with an assessment of climate change impacts that considers multiple future scenarios, ACT helps practitioners lay out how conservation goals and actions may need to be modified to account for climate change."

The results will help land managers as well as people. "Climate change impacts livelihoods and threatens the water supplies of many of our communities," says Terry Sullivan, The Nature Conservancy's New Mexico state director. "We hope that this tool will be utilized to help make decisions which will lead to healthy and sustainable watersheds, and ultimately sustain water supplies for farms and cities."

ACT workshops have been used to launch climate change planning at 11 locations in the United States for more than 15 wildlife, plant, and ecosystem targets (for details see http://www.wcsnorthamerica.org/ConservationChallenges/ClimateChange/ClimateChangeAdaptationPlanning.aspx). Feedback given by workshop attendees indicates that the ACT approach was successful in increasing participants' capacity to address climate change in their conservation work.

"We need to see more practitioners applying approaches like ACT if biological diversity and ecosystem services are to be maintained in a rapidly changing world," Cross added.

###

Results from the workshops are published in the February 2013 volume of the journal Conservation Biology (available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01954.x/pdf). Authors include Molly Cross of WCS, Patrick McCarthy and David Gori of TNC, Gregg Garfin of the University of Arizona; and Carolyn Enquist of the U.S.A. National Phenology Network and The Wildlife Society.

The ACT planning process is described in detail in the September 2012 edition of Environmental Management (available at http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00267-012-9893-7). Authors include:

  • Molly Cross, WCS;
  • Erika Zavaleta, University of California, Santa Cruz;
  • Dominique Bachelet, Conservation Biology Institute;
  • Marjorie Brooks, Southern Illinois University;
  • Carolyn Enquist, The Wildlife Society and the U.S.A. National Phenology Network;
  • Erica Fleischman, University of California, Davis;
  • Lisa Graumlich, University of Washington;
  • Craig Groves, TNC;
  • Lee Hannah, Conservation International;
  • Lara Hansen, EcoAdapt;
  • Greg Hayward, U.S. Forest Service;
  • Marni Koopman, Geos Institute;
  • Joshua Lawler, University of Washington;
  • Jay Malcolm, University of Toronto;
  • John Nordgren, Kresge Foundation;
  • Brian Petersen, Michigan State University;
  • Erika Rowland, WCS;
  • Daniel Scott, University of Waterloo;
  • Sarah Shafer, U.S. Geological Survey;
  • Rebecca Shaw, Environmental Defense Fund; and
  • Gary Tabor, Center for Large Landscape Conservation.


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Friday, February 22, 2013

Microsoft releases Windows and Windows Phone Player Framework update

Video

The Microsoft Media Platform team has released version 1.1 of the Player Framework for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The release includes a number of improvements, and is targeting developers who are building media apps (much like the Vimeo app - pictured above). The framework supports Silverlight, HTML5, Xbox, as well as Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps.

What's interesting to note is that the Windows Phone 8 version of the framework is based on the Windows 8. According to the framework listing over on Codeplex, this release includes the following:

  • Combined Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 versions into a single Visual Studio extension SDK.
  • Misc changes under the hood to Windows 8 version to align with WP8 version
  • New in-stream closed caption support for smooth streaming
  • New analytics plugin to target MMP Audience Insight servers
  • New MediaControlsPlugin to support Windows 8 media transport controls out of the box.
  • New property in Xaml: AdSchedulerPlugin.SeekToAdPosition to control resume position after scrubbing past ad break.
  • AdHandlerPlugin.CancelActiveAds is now awaitable
  • Support for HTMLResource and IFrame nonlinear ads
  • Support for CDATA use in TTML
  • Poster support in WP8 version
  • Volume control now works when playing an ad without main content
  • Linear ads now inherit AudioCategory property from main player
  • Memory leak fixes

You can download the Player Framework from Codeplex.

Source:?Windows Blog; thanks, Stanislav, for the tip!

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Analysis: Health-conscious Americans hurt aluminum can market

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. aluminum can sales are set to slow in 2013 for a third straight year as more consumers ditch sodas for healthier options such as water and iced teas, traditionally bottled in plastic or glass.

The loss of market share in the fizzy drinks capital of the world, also due to loud anti-obesity campaigns such as those promoted by Walt Disney and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has forced producers of sheet aluminum for cans, as well as can fabricators, to seek new, more profitable markets abroad.

Novelis Inc, the world's largest flat-rolled aluminum maker, and can producer Ball Corp have both invested in Asia and in Brazil, where they expect to see can sales spike as the 2014 football World Cup and 2016 Olympics approach.

Alcoa, the top U.S. aluminum producer, and Novelis, which produces can sheet for manufacturers of drinks such as Coca Cola, expect can demand to contract as much as 1 percent in North America in 2013.

"This is mainly driven by a more health-conscious public, (which) is consuming more drinks perceived as healthier," Novelis' global director of strategy for can, Michael Demmer, said in a phone interview.

"This trend will likely continue but the soda producers will try to contrast that by producing healthier drinks."

Even so, the United States is a massive soda can market by any comparison. Some 5 percent of global annual aluminum consumption - 1.7 million metric tons - is for making U.S. and Canadian cans each year.

The average American drinks about 160 liters of soda a year, the equivalent of a bath tub-full, two-thirds more than in the United Kingdom and far in excess of the emerging economies China and India, where the average annual consumption is less than 5 liters.

To defend this large market, the soda industry is taking steps to block Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ban on large sugary drinks in New York City, due to be implemented in June.

The United States faces an obesity epidemic. Campaigns aimed at curbing consumption of high-calorie foods and drinks have multiplied, ranging from voluntary industry action to government and policy steps.

Disney plans to limit junk food advertising on shows aired on the media and entertainment giant's television channel geared toward children while many school districts across the U.S. have banned sugary drinks from vending machines and cafeterias in schools.

Compared to 2006, half as many adolescents can now buy high-calorie sodas in schools but much more needs to be done according to anti-obesity advocates.

U.S. FIRMS' MIGRATION

Soda consumption in the United States has been shrinking since 2006, dwindling to a 16-year low last year. That contrasts with growing consumption elsewhere. Can use is increasing at double-digit percentage rates in some emerging countries and is growing even in debt-burdened Europe.

Alcoa expects can demand in Europe to grow by 2 percent to 3 percent this year and China to post an 8 percent to 12 percent increase.

Ball ceased production at two of its U.S. beverage packaging plants last year while it invested in can plants it Vietnam, China, Brazil and Italy. [ID:nL4E8JF6KE] Novelis is expanding in South Korea and Brazil, primarily due to the growth it sees in can consumption in those regions.

"Shipping costs are high so it makes more sense to open lines in the countries where you can sell cans locally," said Metal Bulletin Research aluminum analyst Kamil Wlazly.

SALVATION HOPES

With anti-soda initiatives likely to support or even accelerate the fall of fizzy-drink consumption in North America, aluminum companies are trying to produce more specialty containers and promote them as an attractive package for healthier and alcoholic drinks too.

"In the last couple of years we have seen the emergence of cans as a package for fruit juices, iced teas and in new categories such as ready-mixed cocktails," said Benjamin Punchard, senior global packaging analyst at Mintel.

Punchard said can producers are also innovating with new sizes and shapes, resealable containers, surface designs and chromatic effects such as matt finishes.

Some of these developments, coupled with the promotion of aluminum cans as being more recyclable than glass and plastic bottles, have pushed some craft breweries to switch to aluminum.

Shipments of alcoholic beverage can grew by more than 2 percent in 2012 in the United States, according to the Can Manufacturers Institute, an industry trade group.

"Breweries are using more aluminum containers as a look or marketing choice as well as for sustainability reasons," Demmer said.

Beer maker Coors Light, for example, is promoting its 'Silver Bullet' aluminum cans and bottles for their "coldness" in a series of TV advertisements.

Can manufacturers hope this trend will offset the decline of soda cans and shield their profits in the Unites States, at least in the medium term.

(Editing by Josephine Mason and Alden Bentley)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-health-conscious-americans-hurt-aluminum-market-195904385--sector.html

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing reacts to financial review team's implicit recommendation of emergency manager

?DETROIT,?MI -- Mayor?Dave Bing said he'll stay focused on his current initiatives in a dry statement reacting to a financial review team's implicit recommendation that Gov. Rick Snyder appoint an emergency manager for the city.

(More: State says Detroit has no satisfactory plan for restructuring in implicit emergency manager recommendation)

?Certainly I am not surprised by the findings of the State?s financial review team," Bing said. "My administration has been saying for the past four years that the city is under financial stress."

Bing has said repeatedly that he doesn't believe an emergency manager could accomplish much more than his staff has.

Despite drastic cutbacks to city services, Detroit is facing a $327 million budget deficit and long-term debt exceeding $13 billion.

Bing and City Council, though frequently butting heads in the process, implemented dozens of reforms and dramatic cuts to employee wages and city services in over the last year in an attempt to prevent a state takeover.

But the changes, which included major outsourcing moves, health care changes, fire station closures and other desperate measures like selling scrap metal from abandoned vehicles, have proved inadequate, according to the review team's report.

?If the governor decides to appoint an emergency financial manager, he or she, like my administration, is going to need resources -- particularly in the form of cash and additional staff.

?As I have said before, my Administration will stay focused on the initiatives that most directly impact the citizens of Detroit: public safety, public lighting, transportation, recreation and neighborhood blight removal.?

Related:
-State says Detroit has no satisfactory plan for restructuring in implicit emergency manager recommendation

-Financial review team finds Detroit can't solve financial emergency on its own

- Review team 'paints a grim picture' about Detroit's finances in report

-A look at New York?s 1970s turnaround paints bleak picture of what could be ahead for Detroit

-Gov. Rick Snyder looks at potential emergency managers as Detroit reports financial reforms

-National expert: 'A magician' needed to fill Gov. Rick Snyder's Detroit emergency financial manager job

-Detroit emergency manager should be a local, state representative says

-5 striking things Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said in his State of the City address

-Dave Bing's State of the City speech: Will Detroit mayor make case to stay, or prepare for handoff?

Follow Khalil AlHajal on Twitter @DetroitKhalil or on Facebook at Detroit Khalil. He can be reached at kalhajal@mlive.com or 313-643-0527.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Cameron Asks India to Further Open Economy

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UK names Bailey to head central bank prudential watchdog

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain named veteran Bank of England official Andrew Bailey on Tuesday to head its new banking regulator just a month before he must present a plan to help two partly state-owned banks to become independent.

Bailey will become a deputy governor of the Bank and chief executive of the bank's new prudential regulation authority (PRA) from April 1.

He is already head of prudential supervision at the UK's Financial Services Authority and was expected to be confirmed in the new job. The FSA will be scrapped at the end of March when the PRA becomes Britain's main banking and insurance supervisor.

The revamp is part of the country's attempts to draw a line under supervisory failures in the run-up to the 2007-09 financial crisis that forced Britain to take a controlling stake in Royal Bank of Scotland and a large minority stake in Lloyds.

"Andrew Bailey has the right skills and experience to lead the Prudential Regulation Authority as it moves into the new era of judgment-led supervision," Chancellor George Osborne said in a statement.

The Bank, which will be led by Mark Carney from July, becomes one of the most powerful central banks when it takes on its new prudential supervisory role. It is also home to the new Financial Policy Committee, on which Bailey sits, to set the direction for supervision.

Bailey's immediate challenge is to present a plan in March to the FPC outlining how much extra capital and restructuring RBS and Lloyds may need so they can each stand on their own two feet. Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday he wanted changes at RBS to be accelerated.

It will be a tricky balancing act for Bailey as the government will want to make sure the banks can plug any capital gaps themselves and not depend on taxpayers again.

Bailey is looking at whether all the UK banks are properly capitalised though the focus is largely on RBS and Lloyds.

In an interview with the Times on Tuesday, Bailey said there were still some problems with banks' balance sheets.

"Some assets are valued in a way I don't think is sufficiently prudent. That is not lying. That's a matter of judgment," Bailey told the Times.

He also said there was a small "tail risk," that fines for Libor, mis-sold interest rate hedging products and other wrongdoing could cause institutions to "keel over."

"His leadership will be instrumental in shaping a much-needed cultural change at the regulator, moving away from the failed box-ticking exercises of the FSA toward more judgment-led regulation," said Andrew Tyrie, chairman of parliament's treasury select committee.

"The size of the task facing Mr Bailey should not be underestimated," added Tyrie's committee will hold an appointment hearing next month, though with no power of veto.

The British Bankers' Association welcomed news that Bailey would also be a member of the FPC and the new standalone Financial Conduct Authority to ensure supervisory coordination.

Last week, Bailey said the financial crisis has moved on from its early, prudential phase when the focus was on topping up capital at banks.

Supervisors are now having to deal with the second phase - the misconduct coming to light such as the Libor and loan insurance mis-selling scandals - at a time when regulators are still "building architecture" in response to prudential issues.

Bailey, whose signature appeared on bank notes when he was the Bank of England's chief cashier, will be deputy governor for prudential regulation.

Hector Sants, then chief executive of the FSA, was due to fill the role and head up the new PRA, but last year resigned to become head of compliance at Barclays.

(Reporting by Huw Jones, additional reporting by Abhishek Takle in Bangalore; editing by Sinead Cruise, Stephen Nisbet and G Crosse)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/treasury-names-bailey-deputy-boe-governor-113355017--finance.html

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

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Climate contradiction: Less snow, more blizzards

WASHINGTON (AP) ? With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit.

Then when a whopper of a blizzard smacked the Northeast with more than 2 feet of snow in some places earlier this month, some of the same people again blamed global warming.

How can that be? It's been a joke among skeptics, pointing to what seems to be a brazen contradiction.

But the answer lies in atmospheric physics. A warmer atmosphere can hold, and dump, more moisture, snow experts say. And two soon-to-be-published studies demonstrate how there can be more giant blizzards yet less snow overall each year. Projections are that that's likely to continue with man-made global warming.

Consider:

? The United States has been walloped by twice as many of the most extreme snowstorms in the past 50 years than in the previous 60 years, according to an upcoming study on extreme weather by leading federal and university climate scientists. This also fits with a dramatic upward trend in extreme winter precipitation ? both rain and snow ? in the Northeastern U.S. charted by the National Climatic Data Center.

? Yet the Global Snow Lab at Rutgers University says that spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has shrunk on average by 1 million square miles in the last 45 years.

? And an upcoming study in the Journal of Climate says computer models predict annual global snowfall to shrink by more than a foot in the next 50 years. The study's author said most people live in parts of the United States that are likely to see annual snowfall drop between 30 and 70 percent by the end of the century.

"Shorter snow season, less snow overall, but the occasional knockout punch," Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer said. "That's the new world we live in."

Ten climate scientists say the idea of less snow and more blizzards makes sense: A warmer world is likely to decrease the overall amount of snow falling each year and shrink snow season. But when it is cold enough for a snowstorm to hit, the slightly warmer air is often carrying more moisture, producing potentially historic blizzards.

"Strong snowstorms thrive on the ragged edge of temperature ? warm enough for the air to hold lots of moisture, meaning lots of precipitation, but just cold enough for it to fall as snow," said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. "Increasingly, it seems that we're on that ragged edge."

Just look at the last few years in the Northeast. Or take Chicago, which until late January had 335 days without more than an inch of snow. Both have been hit with historic storms in recent years.

Scientists won't blame a specific event or even a specific seasonal change on global warming without doing intricate and time-consuming studies. And they say they are just now getting a better picture of the complex intersection of man-made climate change and extreme snowfall.

But when Serreze, Oppenheimer and others look at the last few years of less snow overall, punctuated by big storms, they say this is what they are expecting in the future.

"It fits the pattern that we expect to unfold," Oppenheimer said.

The world is warming so precipitation that would normally fall as snow in the future will likely fall as rain once it gets above the freezing point, said Princeton researcher Sarah Kapnick.

Her study used new computer models to simulate the climate in 60 to 100 years as carbon dioxide levels soar. She found large reductions in snowfall throughout much of the world, especially parts of Canada and the Andes Mountains. In the United States, her models predict about a 50 percent or more drop in annual snowfall amounts along a giant swath of the nation from Maine to Texas and the Pacific Northwest and California's Sierra Nevada mountains.

This is especially important out West where large snowcaps are natural reservoirs for a region's water supply, Kapnick said. And already in the Cascades of the Pacific Northwest and in much of California, the amount of snow still around on April 1 has been declining so that it's down about 20 percent compared to 80 years ago, said Philip Mote, who heads a climate change institute at Oregon State University.

Kapnick says it is snowing about as much as ever in the heart of winter, such as February. But the snow season is getting much shorter, especially in spring and in the northernmost areas, said Rutgers' David Robinson, a co-author of the study on extreme weather that will be published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

The Rutgers snow lab says this January saw the sixth-widest snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere; the United States had an above average snow cover for the last few months. But that's a misleading statistic, Robinson said, because even though more ground is covered by snow, it's covered by less snow.

And when those big storms finally hit, there is more than just added moisture in the air, there's extra moisture coming from the warm ocean, Robinson and Oppenheimer said. And the air is full of energy and unstable, allowing storms to lift yet more moisture up to colder levels. That generates more intense rates of snowfall, Robinson said.

"If you can tap that moisture and you have that fortuitous collision of moist air and below freezing temperatures, you can pop some big storms," Robinson said.

Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann points to the recent Northeast storm that dumped more than 30 inches in some places. He said it was the result of a perfect set of conditions for such an event: Arctic air colliding with unusually warm oceans that produced extra large amounts of moisture and big temperature contrasts, which drive storms. Those all meant more energy, more moisture and thus more snow, he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/climate-contradiction-less-snow-more-blizzards-161708650.html

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Violence Against Women Protested By Dancers in Rome


"It's moving to see women dancing, fighting and above all sharing a positive energy against violence," said Tiziana Fornari as she danced to African beats in the shadow of the Colosseum.

In Italy in 2012, 111 women were killed -- most of them at the hands of their husbands or boyfriends.

The campaign brought hundreds of thousands of women into the streets from India to the Philippines to Australia.

Men took part in the Rome protest too like Luca Cardin, 35, who has set up an Internet side to discuss gender issues.

"My generation grew up with the television channels of (former prime minister Silvio) Berlusconi and sexist advertising. On top of that in Italy there is pressure from the family and the Catholic Church," he said.

Carma, an 81-year-old also taking part in the event, said: "Some things have changed since I was young but not everywhere, not in all social classes and not in all parts of Italy."

Source-AFP

Source: http://www.medindia.com/news/violence-against-women-protested-by-dancers-in-rome-114405-1.htm

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Hendrix splits baseball doubleheader against Mary Hardin Baylor

BELTON, Texas ? The Hendrix College baseball team split a doubleheader against Mary Hardin-Baylor at Red Murff Field on Saturday afternoon.

The host Cru (2-2) took the first seven-inning game 4-3, but the Warriors (3-2) rebounded to win a 14-9 slugfest in the nightcap.

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In the second game, UMHB outhit Hendrix 17-13, but Hendrix compelled 13 walks from The Cru?s pitching staff

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The Warriors tacked on six more runs in the eighth, getting a RBI-singles from Ritz and Radack, a sac fly from freshman second baseman Charlie St. Clair, a two-run double from sophomore third baseman Brady Newville, and an unearned run after an error.

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Collin Radack recorded two hits and five RBI for the Warriors. Ryan Ritz went 3-for-7 with three runs scored and two driven in. Brandon Smith joined Kirk Kimery as the only players in program history to draw four walks in a game. Smith also scored four times and stole two bases. Mobley added two hits as well.

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Warrior freshman Daniel Imbro (1-0) picked up the win, allowing five hits, three runs and striking out six in six innings of relief. Mickey Platz earned the save, striking out one and giving up just one hit in 1.1 innings of work. UMHB reliever Aaron Barteau (0-1) was tagged with the loss, giving up seven hits, five runs, two walks and two strike outs in 2.2 innings.

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In game one, the home team went up 1-0 in the bottom of the first with a Loewe sac fly that plated designated hitter Zack Whiddon. Hendrix tied it in the top of the second when Ritz drew a bases load walk, scoring Mobley. In the fifth Mogavero had a RBI-single, giving The Cru a 2-1 lead.

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St. Clair connected on a two-run double in the top of the seventh, putting the Warriors up 3-2. With two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Heath Spencer reached with a pinch hit single, then Whiddon reached on an error, allowing Spencer to score the tying run. Mogavero followed with the game-winning hit down the left field line.

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St. Clair led the Warrior offense with two hits and two RBI. Mogavero had two hits and two RBI for UMHB.

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Jordan Mattke (1-0) earned the win for The Cru, getting the last two outs in the top of the seventh. Starter Chance Ryan lasted 4.2 innings and allowed four hits, one run, five walks and eight strikeouts. Warrior freshman reliever Kyle Teachout (0-1) took the loss, giving up three hits and two unearned runs. Freshman starter Will Nichol struck out three and gave up four hits, an earned run and one walk in five innings.

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Hendrix will return to action on Tuesday afternoon at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Ark.

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Source: http://thecabin.net/sports/college/2013-02-16/hendrix-splits-baseball-doubleheader-against-mary-hardin-baylor

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Turn Your Desktop to Your Favorite Show with These TV-Themed Wallpapers

You've got a favorite show, but it's only on once a week. You may have to wait, but there's no reason you still can't show your love via your desktop. Here's a (large) selection of some of our favorite TV wallpapers.

Note: Obviously we cannot include every show ever made, but this collection attempts to offer a wide variety and is therefore twice the size of our normal collections.

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Obama offers modest energy plans in State of the Union

Addressing a highly partisan Congress deeply divided on energy and environmental policy, President Obama in his State of the Union address Tuesday called for doubling U.S. energy efficiency by 2030, proposed using a slice of federal oil and natural gas...





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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Man Uses His Story To Inspire Healthier Lifestyle | WREG.com ...

Posted on: 3:58 pm, February 12, 2013, by Dennis Turner, updated on: 05:27pm, February 12, 2013

(Southaven, MS) Richard Neal Came to DeSoto County to help make it the healthiest place in Mississippi.

Neal is part of a program sponsored by the Community Health Council to help get people moving.

Paige McKinny is doing it with her friends, ?Sports and stuff, that always helps, going after school with your friends and being in clubs like that. We all get together and work out and stuff.?

At a ?Fat Tuesday? event, students got to learn about healthy options for exercise, and even what makes up healthy food.

It?s something that helped Richard Neal lose 240 pounds in just 18 months, ?Good, whole, natural foods that the good earth gives us every single day can satisfy you the same way that bag of chips can and takes just as long to just opening the bag as it does to be slicing an apple.?

Healthy food isn?t always easy to find in rows and rows of chips.

That?s why the Mississippi House approved a bill to set up a loan program to help retailers put more fresh food on their shelves.

It would apply in Counties like Tunica and Marshall with few fresh food options.

Students at the Tuesday event will take the ideas they?ve learned here and bring them back to their schools to motivate people the way Neal did them.

?It?s identifying a lot of new ideas for our school to get us involved in fitness and everything. I like it,? said McKinney, who says what she learned here, will making fitness and healthy food more fun for more people.

Neal will also appear at Hernando?s Gale Center Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8pm, to share his story, and even work out with residents in the city?s ?fit club.?

Source: http://wreg.com/2013/02/12/health-expert-shares-anti-obesity-message/

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Report finds some gains for minority actors in NYC

NEW YORK (AP) ? The percentage of minority actors working on Broadway and at the top 16 not-for-profit theater companies in New York City rose to 23 percent during the 2011-2012 season, but whites continue to be overrepresented, according to a new report.

The Asian American Performers Action Coalition released its second annual look at ethnic representation on New York stages and found that minority actors overall saw a 2 percent increase from the previous season.

It found that African-American actors were cast in 16 percent of all roles, Hispanics in 3 percent and Asian-American actors in 3 percent. Caucasians filled 77 percent of all roles, far outweighing their respective population size in the metro and tri-state areas.

According to 2010 U.S. Census numbers, blacks make up 23 percent of the city's population and 17 percent of the tri-state area; Hispanics made up 28.6 percent of the city and 22 percent of the tri-state area; and Asian-Americans comprised 13 percent of the city and 9 percent of the tri-state area. Whites are 33 percent of the city and almost 62 percent of the tri-state's population.

Black actors increased their representation by 2 percent compared to last season, while Hispanics stayed the same as last season, and Asian-Americans saw their numbers tick up by 1 percent.

For the second year in a row, the not-for-profit sector lagged behind the commercial sector when it came to hiring minorities. Minority employment for the non-profit companies fell below 20 percent for the second year in a row.

While the numbers of black and Latino actors on non-profit stages increased, the number of Asian-American actors hasn't budged from the 2 percent-mark for the past three years. By comparison, five years ago Asian-Americans represented 7 percent of working actors.

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Online: http://www.aapacnyc.org

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/report-finds-gains-minority-actors-nyc-203505222.html

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2 dead, 1 injured in College Park fire, shooting

Police in Prince George's County are investigating a murder-suicide near the University of Maryland campus in College Park.

The incident happened just after 1 a.m. Tuesday at a home in the 8700 block of 36th Avenue.

Investigators said a man who lived with two roommates set a small fire in the basement, and as the three ran from the home to escape the flames, the man began shooting at the roommates.

Officials said the man then walked back inside, where he shot and killed himself.

One of the two roommates died at a local hospital, while the other suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.

Investigators said Tuesday that the shooter and the victims were University of Maryland students. Their names and ages have not yet been released.?

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

BYU golf: Yacaman leads Cougars to fifth place finish on day one

YORBA LINDA, Calif. ? The BYU women?s golf team shot back-to-back rounds of 321 (+33) to finish day one of The Gold Rush in fifth place.

Shooting a 642 total (+66), the Cougars currently stand one stroke ahead of sixth place CSU Fullerton and 12 strokes behind fourth place UC Irvine.

?We started poorly and we finished poorly, but in the middle we played some really good golf,? BYU head coach Carrie Roberts said. ?There are some bright things, but we also have to play better. It?s a very difficult golf course and to start off on this course is tough. I thought the girls fought, but we have to start off a little bit better and finish a little bit stronger.?

Yorba Linda Country Club proved to be difficult for many teams featuring tight fairways and fast, sloping greens.

Sophomore Maria Yacaman led the Cougars on the day going 16-over-par to tie for 20th place. After shooting an 82 (+10) in the first round, Yacaman found her swing in the second round, converting three birdies and seven pars to finish six-over-par.

?Maria just fought her way and did the best she could,? Roberts said. ?Something clicked for her swing and she started hitting it better and trusted it. She was hitting it really good.?

Freshman Lea Garner followed up Yacaman for the Cougars finishing the day at 17-over-par. Garner played solid golf on the back nine during the first and second rounds, going two-over-par twice on the back nine.

Junior Annika Kahaiali'i had the biggest turnaround on the day for the Cougars. Despite struggling in the first round shooting a 16-over-par 88, Kahaiali'i shot a second round 76 (+4) converting two birdies and 11 pars.

?Annika played out of fear, realized what she was doing and turned it around,? Roberts said. ?She decided to play with confidence and did so. It was a very impressive turn around.?

Conference foe Gonzaga currently sits in second place (+41), six strokes behind leader Long Beach State, while Santa Clara is tied for ninth place.

The Cougars will look to improve upon their standing during tomorrow's final round with tee times set to start at 8 a.m. PST. Follow the Cougars at golfstat.com.

Team Scores

1 Long Beach State +35

2 Gonzaga +41

3 San Diego State +47

4 UC Irvine +54

5 BYU +66

6 CSU Fullerton +67

7 Portland State +68

8 Nevada +70

T9 CSU-Northridge +71

T9 Santa Clara +71

11 Washington State +75

Chris Scheitinger is a student at Brigham Young University studying Public Relations. Contact him at cscheitinger@gmail.com

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Pok?mon Rumble U revealed for Japan's Wii U eShop

Game Freak announced a Wii U Pok?mon Rumble game in the latest issue of Japan's CoroCoro magazine, both Serebii and Bulbanews report. Pok?mon Scramble U, as it's dubbed in Japan, comes to the country's Wii U's eShop this spring.

The Wii U entry in the Pok?-brawler series includes all 649 Pok?mon, with 100 of the monsters able to face off against each other at once. As per the 2009 WiiWare game, it supports up to four players.

Both the 3DS and WiiWare games released in North America and Europe a few months after coming to Japan. With that in mind, while a Western release hasn't been announced, if it's coming it's likely to arrive before Pok?mon X and Y hit worldwide in October, given that the 3DS games will introduce a new slew of collectable critters.

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/12/pokemon-rumble-u-revealed-for-japans-wiiu-eshop/

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Alone, together: Snowed in, in the age of hashtags

A woman checks her mobile phone outside Lincoln Center, home of New York's Fashion Week shows, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. In New York City, the snow total in Central Park was 8.1 inches by 3 a.m. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

A woman checks her mobile phone outside Lincoln Center, home of New York's Fashion Week shows, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. In New York City, the snow total in Central Park was 8.1 inches by 3 a.m. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) ? The East Coast woke up under a blanket of snow this weekend and collectively documented the experience on the myriad social and mobile inventions of the past decade. Facebook, Twitter and other technologies make it increasingly difficult to stay isolated ? even if you're stuck home alone.

"The funny thing is that I actually checked my Instagram feed before I even looked out my own window," says Eric Witz, who lives in Medford, Mass.

On Saturday, Witz posted a photo of his car stuck under a "6-foot-high snow drift."

"I always have my phone on me. So checking these things is something I do instinctively when I wake up," he says. "That probably makes me a sad social media clich?, but it's the truth."

As Northeasterners posted photo after photo of kids sledding in Central Park and suburbanites conquering Mt. Snowmore with their shovels, West Coast wags teased with tweets of sunshine and snapshots of palm trees.

Call it what you will: The Hashtag Snowstorm, the latest Snowpocalypse or Snowtorious B.I.G. The weekend whiteout was a lifetime away from the blizzard of 1978, a world not just without social media but one devoid of endless Weather Channel warnings and the lifeline of mobile phones.

Even the past two years have upended the way we receive information. We've moved from merely posting a status update with words to sharing photos and videos taken on smartphones, and we can't let go.

Kathy Tracy was in junior high school when that famous snowstorm hit West Haven, Conn., 35 years ago, leaving as much as 27 inches of snow on the Northeast. She still lives there today, and some things haven't changed. Snow is still snow, and people still wait for the streets to be cleared, hoping there is enough food and toilet paper to get by.

"The roads were so bad that my father and I took a sled and walked two miles to the grocery store," Tracy says.

Getting updates of the '78 blizzard meant turning on the radio or watching evening news programs. This weekend, Tracy says she turned to Twitter and nonstop news coverage to stay informed. She also follows a meteorologist on Facebook and receives updates from CNN, The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets.

While Tracy talked with a reporter on the telephone on Sunday, she was still waiting for plow trucks to clear the 3 feet of snow the storm heaped on her neighborhood. But the information at the tips of her fingers made being stuck at home somewhat more tolerable.

"I guess what's better is that you are not sitting here waiting for the 6 o'clock news, waiting to find out what's going on," she says.

Still, no matter what century you live in, there are few cures for cabin fever.

"You still have to deal with waiting for the plow," Tracy says.

As people across the Northeast awaited plow trucks, looked for flights to resume or simply tried to kill time as the storm passed, they plucked away on their smartphones and tablet computers to document just about every inch of the snowfall. On Facebook, mentions of the word "snow" jumped 15-fold from earlier in the week, the company says, though it did not give specific numbers. On Sunday, one of the most-used terms in status updates was "no school tomorrow" as students rejoiced and parents shared updates and even grieved.

By Sunday afternoon, people on Instagram used the hashtag "Nemo" (the Weather Channel's unofficial name for the storm) 583,641 times in describing their photos, according to Venueseen, a company that helps businesses track marketing campaigns on Instagram. The Facebook-owned photo-sharing site is where Witz posted a photo that his sister sent him from Hamden, Conn., one of the hardest-hit areas with 40 inches of snow.

"I like Instagram because it gives you a more personal, immediate sense of peoples' experiences in real time," he says. "I'm one of the weird few people who actually enjoy seeing what people in the world are eating and drinking."

It's easy to be nostalgic about how much things have changed since the blizzard of '78 when it comes to the speed of information and how it's consumed. But the changes continue.

"What really struck me this time around, and with (Superstorm) Sandy too, is not so much that people were sharing information, but that they were sharing photos and video," says Steve Jones, a professor who studies online culture and communications at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "You get a different perspective than you could from just words."

Indeed, says Ranvir Gujral, the co-founder of Chute, a San Francisco startup that helps companies put user-generated content on their websites and mobile apps, "we are in the midst of a visual revolution."

Chute worked with NBC to launch Stormgrams, a site where people can share Instagram photos of the storm using a common hashtag, a way of marking posts to make them more easily searchable by topic. The photos are organized by location, laid out on a "heat map" that paints the most actively sharing states red.

Countless mobile apps encourage photo-taking, Gujral says, adding that a big reason there is so much thirst online for the endless stream of photos is because there has never been a bigger supply of it. The next task, something he's hoping to do with Chute, is creating "ways to make sense of this cacophony of imagery."

So what's lost in this endless stream of snow-updates, Instagram photos and Facebook news? Serendipity, Jones says. Running into people and sharing a moment, offline, while events are unfolding.

And challenges remain. Drivers got stuck in the snow in the storm of '78, they did in the storm of 2013 and will likely continue to for storms to come.

"One thing we haven't overcome is what you do if you don't have electricity or if you are stranded in a car without a cellphone signal," Jones says.

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Monday, February 11, 2013

Supplements for Boomers: Pure Matters | Fun and Fit: with Fitness ...

By Kymberly Williams-Evans, MA and Alexandra Williams, MA

As we age, are supplements necessary? Do they help with boomer health? With all the contradictory research out there, it?s hard to know what to believe or do. So we set out to discover whether specific supplements could help us with specific complaints.

GlucoChon MSM formula Pure MattersAlexandra: For most of my life, I?ve eschewed supplements as unnecessary. I?ve always been a believer that we can get what we need for our bodies through good nutrition and exercise. But that ?most? of my life was prior to my 50th birthday. Now I deal with a reconstructed soccer knee and foot. And it takes longer to heal the rare times that I do get sick.

So when we were asked to try out Pure Matters supplements, I was leery, yet willing. Knowing the history of supplements, I checked out the company first, and was comforted by their commitment to clean ingredients, including this statement on their site: ?Trustworthy ? We will use only wholesome, scientifically proven ingredients composed in clean facilities. And when our formulations can be improved, we will improve them.? My two biggest issues with supplements ? Can the ingredients be trusted? and Will these help my health?

I chose to try Biotin (skin, nails & hair), Omega-3 Fish Oils (heart health) and GlucoChon MSM Formula (joint & tissue health). If you read my previous post about getting my blood tested, you might recall that the consulting registered dietitian recommended Omega-3 Fish Oil to me. Boom!

Declare all Stiff Knees at Customs!

Declare all Stiff Knees at Customs!

Today I will focus on the GlucoChon MSM Formula, because that is the one where I definitely noticed a difference. Normally when I fly, my reconstructed knee gets very stiff, and I spend the day after flying with a slight limp and some swelling at the knee. I took 3 tablets a day for a month. At the end of that month I flew from California to Europe and back, for a total of 5 flights. My knee didn?t feel stiff for those flights, nor did I end up limping. No inflammation either. It wasn?t a controlled study, and who knows what other variables were in play, but this was the first time since my 1998 knee surgery (and a handful of subsequent surgeries) that I had no issues after flying. Cause and effect or correlation ? I have no idea. But I would take these supplements again?(besides trusting their ingredients, I also am a huge fan of their customer service). Since I?m not a doctor, I cannot make supplement recommendations, but I can recommend Pure Matters as a company I trust to work with me as a consultant for my health needs. I can also say that I believe these supplements worked for me.

Kymberly up a treeKymberly: Do you have joints that predict weather? Ever since I broke both wrists as a teenager falling out of a tree, they ache when the weather changes. That is, my wrists did creak and moan until I made one change: taking Pure Matters ?Joint Health? supplements. To be honest, I committed to trying the supps to help my knee joint (which has arthritis and chronic pain after a soccer injury and two surgeries. Sound like a certain twin we all know?). Then I noticed that my wrists were not predicting the weather anymore. In fact, they felt so good I forgot about them until I finished my last ?Joint Health? tablets. Within two days, my wrists were aching and futuretelling once again.

This should predict weather.

My wrist joints predict the weather better than this weather vane.

As for my knee, it is hard to tell the supplements? effect as my knee ached off and on a lot during the trial period. (See my prior post on the subject). But I have been breaking in new orthotics this past month, which has thrown that rascal joint into confusion. I need to give the ?Joint Health? another go to really note the effect on my knee (and to keep my wrists from competing again with the evening weather report).

Speaking of nights, what did work wonders was the ?For Healthy Sleep? formula I also tried. Anyone else yearn for those nights where you fall asleep and stay asleep until morning? No stumbling trips to the bathroom, no night sweats, no cats wrestling on your back at o?dark too early, no insomnia with a list of ?to do?s? running through your head, no hubster cover hogging? ?I love my cats and hubster, but I also love when I travel and stay in hotel rooms. Alone. Cuz? I remind myself what a good night?s sleep feels like on those occasions.

My wrists feel so good I can finally do this move again. It's been AGES!

My wrists feel so good I can finally do this move again. It?s been AGES!

So I was happily surprised when the ?For Healthy Sleep? tablets provided the same great sleep as my nights in hotels. As in, like magic and immediately. And less expensively. Now if only my knee would feel so refreshed!

Have you found supplements that have worked for you? Others that have been expensive pee? Let us know!

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Get practical exercise advice, your fitness questions answered, and cutting edge health edu-tainment that is accessible and doable from long time fitness experts, Kymberly Williams-Evans, MA and Alexandra Williams, MA. We have taught on land, sea, and airwaves for 3 decades on 4 continents. From writing to speaking, emceeing to hosting a radio show, reviewing products to teaching classes, we believe that little steps turn into big paths. Move a little more than the day before. FitFluential Ambassadors and award-winners both online and off.

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Report identifies China as country most aggressively seeking to penetrate US cyber-networks

South Korea News.Net Sunday 10th February, 2013

A report by the National Intelligence Estimate identified China as the country most aggressively seeking to penetrate the computer systems of American businesses and institutions.

They aim to gain access to data that could be used for economic gain, the report said.

According to the Washington Post, the report described a wide range of sectors that have been the focus of hacking over the past five years, including energy, finance, information technology, aerospace and automotives.

The assessment does not quantify the financial impact of the espionage, but outside experts have estimated it in the tens of billions of dollars, the paper said.

According to the paper, the National Intelligence Estimate named three other countries, Russia, Israel and France, as having engaged in hacking for economic intelligence.

The National Intelligence Estimate comes at a time when the U.S. government is making a concerted effort to develop policies that address cyberthreats against the nation, the paper added. (ANI)

Source: http://www.southkoreanews.net/index.php/sid/212483760/scat/4a8b544d0e80ba53

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Lights slowly coming back on in Northeast

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ? Slow but steady, crews are making progress turning the lights back on in the Northeastern states hardest hit by the weekend winter storm.

Power was restored in Massachusetts to about 60,000 customers bringing the total outages to 344,000. Connecticut outages were down to 31,000. And lights were on for nearly everyone in Maine and New Hampshire after more than 15,000 went dark during the storm.

At its peak, the storm knocked out power to about 650,000 customers. By the evening, the numbers were down to about 560,000.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lights-slowly-coming-back-northeast-014138714.html

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PST: Sigi says Joseph deal with Seattle unlikely

It was good while it lasted, eh?

Friday brought breathless reports of a Shalrie Joseph sighting at Seattle Sounders training.

Clearly, things weren?t going well at Chivas USA; Joseph, a proud man who didn?t feel like he was getting a fair shake, got out of there.

He turned up in Seattle and trained for a couple of days, and it did seem like a place where perhaps the 34-year-old midfielder and four-time MLS Best XI could contribute in a meaningful way, backing up Osvaldo Alonso in another busy Sounders campaign. He would not be contributing to just any club, either, but to one with realistic hopes of actually matching its big ambition.

That does not appear to be the case right now at Chivas USA.

Joseph, many will remember, was a three-time MLS Cup runner-up, but he never won the league?s big medal. So, there was something to be excited about here.

Turns out, he?s not going to win an at Seattle, either. Seattle Times soccer writer Joshua Mayers got the goods.

Perhaps leaving camp at Chivas USA wasn?t Joseph?s best move. Said Schmid:

It?s very evident that he hasn?t trained in a while. It?s evident that he?s very much behind physically, as well. He still needs to make improvements in that regard. You can see little sparks of what Shalrie has brought over the years ? that?s why he was a Best XI player ? but he?s still a ways away from that form.

There is one other tiny possibility here. That Schmid actually does want Joseph, but needs to boo-hoo the possibility to gain leverage in any swap talks with Chivas USA.

Source: http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/09/sigi-schmid-shalrie-joseph-deal-quite-unlikely/related/

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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Bird Hitches Ride On Unsuspecting Car (VIDEO)

Who knew pigeons could be so lazy?

Youtube user "lilkobe4," who was on his way home from work at the time, recently captured footage of a bird hitching a ride on the hood of his car.

The pigeon hangs on for a surprisingly long time -- at least longer than this car-surfing bird -- and even makes it to the highway.

"He was probably laughing at me the whole time," the user writes.

Yeah, dude. He probably was.

(h/t Nothing To Do With Arbroath)

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Clevertim


Clevertim is a relatively new cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) solution. There are a considerable number of online CRM services, but Clevertim is looking to differentiate itself from competitors in two ways: with an easy-to-use, streamlined interface and by keeping the subscription model simple and affordable. It is probably one of the cheapest CRM services you will find, but for that low cost, you sacrifice some features you get from the competition. Services such as Insightly, a competing cloud-based CRM offering, give you more bang for a little more buck. In addition, Clevertim needs to work out a few issues with its service.

Clevertim, Not Time
First things first: The product is "Clever Tim" as in Tim, short for Timmy, and not "Clever Time" as I kept mistakenly calling it in my head when I first reviewed it. Tim is the name of the company's mascot, the panda bear in its logo.

Price and Storage
As with most Web-based CRM products, you go to Clevertim's site to create an account and login. Pricing and subscription fees are straightforward. A free account allows two users to share a Clevertim database; which supports 250 contacts, 250 cases, and 10 opportunities?jargon for sales leads or potential clients.

The next subscription level is $24 per month to accommodate up to six users. This level offers 5GB of storage, 5,000 contacts, 5,000 cases, and 50 opportunities. For $49 per month, the service scales to accommodate up to 15 users, provides 15GB of storage, 20,000 each of contacts and cases, and unlimited opportunities. The highest tier of service is $99 per month which allows up to 40 users, 30GB of storage, 30,000 each of contacts and cases, along with unlimited opportunities.

So yes, the cost is low when compared with CRM built for larger businesses. For instance, leading CRM provider, Salesforce.com charges a starting price of $65 per user per month for over five users. Still, Clevertim may not be the best deal in town for small businesses who need only a free account but would also like some online storage, which Clevertim's free subscription does not provide. Insightly's free subscription allows up to three users, 2,500 contacts, as well as unlimited projects, organizations, and opportunities, and 250MB of online storage. Salesforce.com gives all level users a minimum of 1GB of data and 11GB of file storage shared by all users. Insightly's paid-for levels provide more storage as well, albeit at slightly higher prices than Clevertim.

Of course, if a small business already has an online storage account?and just about everyone does nowadays?the lack of storage is not a big deal. I would be more concerned with the rather paltry allowance of 250 contacts with the free account, especially when I can get 2,500 with Insightly's free subscription.

I do like the fact that you can try out Clevertim for 30 days, and that's for any level of the service, without having to enter a credit card. After 30 days, if you don't wish to purchase a paid-for level of service you are trying out, your access is simply blocked.

I first tried signing up with my test Gmail account, and experienced an odd issue. Clevertim allowed me to create the account and even sent a verification email to my Gmail inbox, but when I tried to use that email address as a username to login after verification, I got the message, "Ensure this value has at most 30 characters (it has 31)." So I was able to create the login with a 31-character username, but could not login.

I also had a problem signing up for a free level account using Internet Explorer 9. The button for "Create Account" would not activate. I switched to Firefox, used a shorter username and, finally, Clevertim played nicer?I was able to sign in.

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PST: Arsenal holds out for win at Sunderland

When Santi Cazorla put Arsenal up in the 36th minute at Sunderland, it looked like the beginning for an easy day for the Gunners. Their normally prolific passing game was accompanied by a precision the Gunners often lack, movement toward goal that hinted this many be a rare easy Arsenal road victory. The team went into halftime up one at the Stadium of Light, but it seemed only a matter of time before the visitors doubled their lead. There was little reason to think the match would end 1-0.

Yet that?s precisely what happened. Shortly after the hour mark, Arsenal were left to rue their near-misses and plunked uprights when they lost one of their defenders. Booked for the second time, right back Carl Jenkinson left his team to play with 10 for the last half hour, a disadvantage that caused the match to flip. In a game where Arsenal outshot their opponent 19-14, Sunderland posted eight shots to Arsenal?s four after the sending off. Unfortunately for the Black Cats, none of their shots had to be collected from Arsenal?s net.

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Saving his team, goalkeeper Wojiech Szczesny gave Arsenal a man of the match-caliber performance, even if his numbers failed to capture his impact. His five saves where fewer than the seven recorded by Simon Mignolet, but late stops on chances that would have otherwise been goals (specifically, a late heard by Steven Fletcher) backboned a superficially strong defensive performance. Arsenal was able to keep a clean sheet, but even for a team reduced to 10 men, their defense was often too easily breeched by the Black Cats.

(MORE: Chelsea back in win column.)

After their leery 30 minutes, Arsenal was left with more than just a fortunate victory, in so far as any prolonged survival with 10 men requires some fortunate. The win was an impressive one for a team that?s often criticized for lacking perseverance. On the road, down a man, and having lost one of their better players to injury (Jack Wilshire, whose injury seemed minor), Arsenal got a valuable result, one which keeps them within four points of a coveted Champions League spot.

Source: http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/09/arsenal-hold-out-for-win-at-sunderland/related/

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