Friday, December 28, 2012

Do You Make New Year's Resolutions?

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Do You Make New Year's Resolutions?If there's one habit we're really good at keeping, it's making New Year's Resolutions?and then breaking them a week later. What about you? Do you make resolutions for the new year?

We've talked about the science behind New Year's resolutions and how it can help you achieve your goals. We've also shown you several ways to better your chances of making successful resolutions, including giving them a 30-day trial, outsourcing them to make them stick, and using a three-step approach to ensure success.

But now, we'd like to know:


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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Police: Cowboys' Brent had 0.189 BAC after crash

Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Joshua Brent, center, and his attorney George Miller, obscured at right, leave court in Dallas, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. A judge ordered Brent to wear an electronic monitor pending his trial on an intoxication manslaughter charge in the one-car crash that killed a teammate. State District Judge Fred Tinsley also lowered Brent's bond from $500,000 to $100,000. (AP Photo/David Woo, Pool)

Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Joshua Brent, center, and his attorney George Miller, obscured at right, leave court in Dallas, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. A judge ordered Brent to wear an electronic monitor pending his trial on an intoxication manslaughter charge in the one-car crash that killed a teammate. State District Judge Fred Tinsley also lowered Brent's bond from $500,000 to $100,000. (AP Photo/David Woo, Pool)

Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Joshua Brent sits in Dallas County 195th District Court on Tuesday, Dec.18, 2012 for a bond reduction hearing. Brent is charged with intoxication manslaughter after a Dec. 8 crash that resulted in the death of his passenger, fellow teammate Jerry Brown. A judge has ordered Brent to wear an electronic monitor while free on bond. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Pool)

Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Joshua Brent, center, and his attorney George Miller, right, leave court in Dallas, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. A judge ordered Brent to wear an electronic monitor pending his trial on an intoxication manslaughter charge in the one-car crash that killed a teammate. State District Judge Fred Tinsley also lowered Brent's bond from $500,000 to $100,000. (AP Photo/David Woo, Pool)

(AP) ? Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Josh Brent was driving with a suspended license and had a blood-alcohol content more than twice the legal limit at the time of the car crash that killed teammate and friend Jerry Brown, according to documents released by police Thursday.

The 24-year-old Brent was tested after the crash in the early hours of Dec. 8 at 0.189 percent, well above the Texas limit of 0.08. One police report said Brent was intoxicated, driving over the speed limit and swerving out of one lane when he struck a curb in Irving, a suburb of Dallas, causing the car to flip over.

The crash report also says Brent was driving with an expired and suspended driver's license obtained in Illinois, where he pleaded guilty three years ago to driving under the influence, a misdemeanor.

Brown was pronounced dead at a Dallas hospital. Brent was arrested and indicted Wednesday on one count of intoxication manslaughter. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted, though he could also receive probation. Brent is free on $100,000 bond and required to wear an alcohol monitor. His attorney, George Milner, did not return a phone message left Thursday morning.

Authorities say they also found an unopened bottle of Cognac liquor in searching Brent's Mercedes sedan, along with "multiple receipts" and his iPad and cellphone. Brent and Brown reportedly spent at least part of Friday night at the club Privae Dallas. The iPad and cellphone found in the Mercedes have information "from the events prior to and during the crash that will aid this investigation," other warrants said.

The 25-year-old Brown was on the Cowboys practice squad and played with Brent at the University of Illinois. The two men have been described as close friends. Brent has been placed on the NFL reserve/non-football illness list and won't play again this season.

No court dates in his case have been scheduled.

Heath Harris, the first assistant Dallas County district attorney, said prosecutors hoped to turn over evidence to Milner as soon as possible. He said he wanted to have the case tried "as quickly as possible."

"It has the potential to send a strong message about how we feel about our intoxication laws," Harris said.

Associated Press

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Penguin settles in federal e-book price fixing as Apple, Macmillan continue

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Iran says it got 2 more US drones in past missions

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? The naval chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard claims Iranian forces had captured at least two other U.S. drones before unveiling a purportedly downed ScanEagle craft earlier this month.

Monday's report by the official IRNA news agency does not say when the two other drones were allegedly taken.

It quotes Adm. Ali Fadavi as saying the drone shown on state TV was the third captured ScanEagle, a relatively simple surveillance craft made by a Boeing subsidiary.

Fadavi says Iranian-made copies of the ScanEagle have been put into service, but did not elaborate.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Navy said none of its drones were missing from recent missions, but some might have fallen into the sea in the past. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. 5th Fleet in Bahrain.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-says-got-2-more-us-drones-past-093926803.html

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Hollywood struggles with gun violence

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, TODAY

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Tom Cruise in "Jack Reacher."

Guns and shootings are as much a part of Hollywood plots as special effects and makeup. But after last week's shootings in Newtown, Conn., entertainment executives have been scrambling to make changes to avoid looking insensitive to the tragedy.

But one of the changes that many think was related to the shooting was merely a coincidence, network representatives say.

"American Guns," a Discovery Channel reality show about the Wyatt family, gunmakers in Colorado, was not renewed after its second season ended in September. The network said in a statement that it "chose not to renew the series and has no plans to air repeats of the show."

Fox News calls the cancellation a "surprise given (the show's) growing popularity," reporting that the show "had a 50 percent ratings increase for its second season premiere." Fox also quoted a representative of gun-rights group The Firearms Coalition saying, "It does not surprise me that Discovery may be lowering the profile of its gun coverage. That's their prerogative. Nonetheless this tragedy has as much to do about lawful use of guns as the lawful use of cars has to do with a car bombing."

But one change made by cable channel TLC did have to do with the shootings. The pilot for a new reality show, "Best Funeral Ever," was supposed to air Dec. 20. That show, which focuses on elaborate funerals given by the?Golden Gate Funeral Home in Dallas, will air Jan. 6 instead.

Violence in movies is also an issue. After the shootings at a showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" in July, a trailer for the film "Gangster Squad" was pulled from theater use due to a scene in which gunmen walk through a theater screen shooting into the audience. "Gangster Squad" was set to open in September, but after the shootings, was moved to January. The theater scene was reportedly edited out, but a gunfire-heavy ad for the film aired Sunday during NFL football, two days after the shootings.

Gun violence is also a theme in Tom Cruise's new movie, "Jack Reacher," which opens Dec. 21. The movie, based on a book by Lee Child, opens with a scene in which a sniper shoots five seemingly random people on Pittsburgh's riverfront.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount has made some changes to the marketing of "Jack Reacher" since the Newtown shootings, including cutting a scene from promotional spots that shows Cruise firing a semi-automatic weapon. The studio also postponed the Pittsburgh premiere of the film.

Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," which will open on Dec. 25, is also filled with bloody scenes and gun violence. The Weinstein Co. canceled the film's planned public premiere and party Tuesday as a reaction to the shooting.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the tragedy in Newtown, CT and in this time of national mourning we have decided to forgo our scheduled event," The Weinstein Co. said in a statement. "However, we will be holding a private screening for the cast and crew and their friends and families."?

At a press event Saturday, director Quentin Tarantino spoke about the film's violence, saying, "I just think, you know, there's violence in the world, tragedies happen, blame the playmakers. It's a Western. Give me a break."

In the film, Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington play slaves who are whipped and brutalized in the pre-Civil War South. Washington pointed out that much of the violence in "Django Unchained" takes place as characters fight back against slavery.

"I do think that it's important when we have the opportunity to talk about violence and not just kind of have it as entertainment, but connect it to the wrongs, the injustices, the social ills," Washington said.

Movie studio 20th Century Fox also canceled red carpet events for its film "Parental Guidance," which is not a violent film.

Fox also replaced Sunday's episodes of "Family Guy" and "American Dad" with less-violent reruns, and SyFy yanked an episode of "Haven" which included violence in a high school.

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From super to ultra: Just how big can black holes get?

Dec. 18, 2012 ? Some of the biggest black holes in the Universe may actually be even bigger than previously thought, according to a study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Astronomers have long known about the class of the largest black holes, which they call "supermassive" black holes. Typically, these black holes have masses ranging between a few million and a few billion times that of our sun.

This new analysis of the brightest galaxies in a sample of 18 galaxy clusters suggests that the masses of at least ten of the supermassive black holes in these galaxies are ultramassive, in that they weigh between 10 and 40 billion times the mass of the sun. Astronomers refer to black holes of this size as "ultramassive" black holes and only know of a few confirmed examples.

"Our results show that there may be many more ultramassive black holes in the universe than previously thought," said study leader Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo of Stanford University and formerly of Cambridge University in the UK.

The researchers estimated the masses of the black holes in the sample by using an established relationship between masses of black holes, and the amount of X-rays and radio waves they generate. This relationship, called the fundamental plane of black hole activity, fits the data on black holes with masses ranging from 10 solar masses to a billion solar masses.

The black hole masses derived by Hlavacek-Larrondo and her colleagues were about ten times larger than those derived from standard relationships between black hole mass and the properties of their host galaxy. One of these relationships involves a correlation between the black hole mass and the infrared luminosity of the central region, or bulge, of the galaxy.

"These results may mean we don't really understand how the very biggest black holes coexist with their host galaxies," said co-author Andrew Fabian of Cambridge University. "It looks like the behavior of these huge black holes has to differ from that of their less massive cousins in an important way."

All of the potential ultramassive black holes found in this study lie in galaxies at the centers of massive galaxy clusters containing huge amounts of hot gas. Outbursts powered by the central black holes are needed to prevent this hot gas from cooling and forming enormous numbers of stars. To power the outbursts, the black holes must swallow large amounts of mass in the form of hot gas. Because the largest black holes can swallow the most mass and power the biggest outbursts, ultramassive black holes had already been predicted to exist to explain some of the most powerful outbursts seen. The extreme environment experienced by these galaxies may explain why the standard relations for estimating black hole masses do not apply.

These results can only be confirmed by making detailed mass estimates of the black holes in this sample, which is by modeling the motion of stars or gas in the vicinity of the black holes. Such a study has been carried out for the black hole in the center of the galaxy M87, the central galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest galaxy cluster to Earth. The mass of M87's black hole, as estimated from the motion of the stars, is significantly higher than the estimate using infrared data, approximately matching the correction in black hole mass estimated by the authors of the Chandra study.

"Our next step is to measure the mass of these monster black holes in a similar way to M87, and confirm their existence. I wouldn't be surprised if we end up finding the biggest black holes in the Universe," said Hlavacek-Larrondo. "If our results are confirmed, they will have important ramifications for understanding the formation and evolution of black holes across cosmic time."

In addition to the X-rays from Chandra, the new study also uses radio data from the NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) and the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and infrared data from the 2 Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS).

These results were published in the July 2012 issue of The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra's science and flight operations from Cambridge, Mass.

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Sun Life to sell U.S. annuity business for $1.35 billion

(Reuters) - Sun Life Financial Inc , Canada's third-biggest insurer, said it will sell its U.S. annuity business and some life insurance businesses for $1.35 billion to a company owned by shareholders of institutional asset manager Guggenheim Partners.

Sun Life said in December it would stop selling variable annuities and individual life products in the United States to focus more on group insurance and voluntary benefits.

It had billed its decision to pull out of the two capital-intensive businesses, which had become a drag on its earnings, as the start of a "new chapter."

Sun Life said on Monday it expects the sale to Delaware Life Holdings to result in a reduction in book value of C$950 million ($963 million) when the deal closes by the end of the second quarter of 2013.

Sun Life said the transaction is expected to reduce its 2013 earnings by 22 Canadian cents per share.

People familiar with the matter earlier told Reuters that Guggenheim Partners had emerged as the lead bidder for Sun Life's variable annuity business.

The deal is expected to result in a cash of C$1.9 billion, net of a planned repayment of C$350 million of debt in June 2013, Sun Life said in a statement.

Morgan Stanley & Co advised Sun Life on the transaction.

(Reporting by Bhaswati Mukhopadhyay in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Japan, China stocks higher on stimulus hopes

(AP) ? Stock markets in Japan and China, Asia's two biggest economies, rose Monday after Japanese conservatives who favor greater economic stimulus returned to power in a landslide election victory and China's new leaders promised more spending if needed to underpin a wobbly economic recovery.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.6 percent to 9,891.15, its highest level since April, after the country's Liberal Democratic Party swept back into power at weekend elections. Party chief Shinzo Abe, almost certain to become prime minister, favors increased spending on public works and setting a 3 percent economic growth target.

"The outcome of the Japan election should help support sentiment in the region," strategists at Credit Agricole CIB said in a research note.

In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite index rose 0.8 percent to 2,168.00 and the smaller Shenzhen Composite index climbed 0.6 percent to 821.17. On Sunday, China's new Communist Party leaders under party General Secretary Xi Jinping pledged a "proactive fiscal policy" and "prudent monetary policy" in a statement carried by the official Xinhua News Agency. They were references to the willingness to boost spending if needed and keep credit easy so long as inflation stays low.

The optimism failed to rub off on other Asian markets, which retreated slightly.

South Korea's Kospi was less than 0.1 percent lower at 1,994.04 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down 0.1 percent at 22,584.98. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 shed 0.2 percent to 4,574.90. Benchmarks in Taiwan and New Zealand also fell.

On Wall Street on Friday, the Dow fell 35.71 0.3 percent to close at 13,135.01 while the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 0.4 percent to 1,413.58. The Nasdaq composite sank 0.7 percent to 2,971.33.

In currencies, the euro weakened slightly to $1.3155 from $1.3159 in late trading Friday. The dollar fell to 83.99 Japanese from 83.46 yen.

Crude prices rose. Benchmark oil for January delivery was up 18 cents to $86.91 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract settled at $86.73 on Friday.

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As Republicans ponder 2012 defeat, party?s philosophy hangs in the balance (Washington Post)

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Venezuela's Chavez has "full intellectual capacity" after surgery

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has recovered "full intellectual capacity" after a six-hour cancer operation in Cuba this week, an official said on Saturday, but offered few details on the socialist firebrand's physical condition.

Chavez's health weakened sharply after his October re-election, casting doubt on the future of his "21st century socialism," which has won broad popular support but also infuriated adversaries who call him an aspiring dictator.

Science and Technology Minister Jorge Arreaza, who is also Chavez's son-in-law, said in a phone call from Havana broadcast over state television that Chavez was continuing to recover.

"He is in a process of progressive stabilization and has full intellectual capacity, sufficient to send this message to the Venezuelan people," said Arreaza, who is accompanying Chavez during his recovery.

"We recognize that there were some moments of tension, mostly on (Tuesday and Wednesday), but we have overcome them one by one," he said.

The call came during a celebration of the eighth anniversary of the founding of the leftist ALBA bloc of nations championed by Chavez as an anti-U.S. alliance of socialist nations.

Bolivian President Evo Morales and Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino joined a celebration in downtown Caracas largely dedicated to celebrating Chavez's leftist policies and wishing him a swift recovery.

The government has provided no details on the situation of his cancer, which has returned twice since it was originally diagnosed in June 2011 and has required four operations. Chavez has said the cancer struck his pelvic region, but has not given any further details.

The information minister this week conceded Chavez may not be in condition to begin his third term on January 10, as mandated by the constitution.

If he cannot, fresh presidential elections would be called within 30 days, with Vice President Nicolas Maduro running as the ruling Socialist Party's candidate.

The opposition would likely field the youthful Henrique Capriles, who lost to Chavez in October but gave the opposition its strongest showing in a presidential race against him.

That will depend on Capriles winning reelection for governor in the state of Miranda against Chavez protege and former Vice President Elias Jaua in Sunday's regional elections.

If Caprles loses that vote, other opposition hopefuls might push him aside. Chavez's adversaries hope to retain seven of the 23 governorships they currently hold, and may view the ballot as a dry run for a possible presidential election down the road.

Energy companies are keenly watching events and hope a change in government will lead to greater access to the country's vast crude oil reserves - the world's largest. Years of combative state takeovers have alienated major oil companies.

Investors drawn to Venezuela's highly traded bonds are hoping for more fiscal responsibility after a year of blowout campaign spending.

(Reporting by Brian Ellsworth; editing by Todd Eastham)

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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Questions of 'Why' and 'How' fill pews in CT town

NEWTOWN, Conn. ? Six-year-old Jennifer Waters came to Mass on Sunday at Saint Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church with a lot of questions.

"The little children, are they with the angels?" she asked her mother as she fiddled with a small plastic Sonic the Hedgehog figurine on a pew near the back of the church. "Are they going to live with the angels?"

All across this postcard-perfect New England town, children and adults alike had questions: How could a merciful and just God allow something like Friday's massacre at the Sandy Hook School, which claimed the lives of 20 children ? none older than 7 ? and six teachers?

Rabbi Shaul Praver of Congregation Adath Israel wanted to make one thing clear to the classmates of 6-year-old victim Noah Pozner: "This is not an act of God. This is an act of a crazy man."

As police work to learn why 20-year-old Adam Lanza would kill his mother and attack his old elementary school, residents of this close-knit town of 27,000 sought solace in each other's company and in the presence of God.

The Rev. Kathleen Adams-Shepherd, rector at Trinity Episcopal Church on Main Street, was at the Sandy Hook firehouse with the families who lost children and has conducted services and counseling sessions since. Her church will host two children's funerals this week, but on Sunday she projected calm as she spoke of questions unanswerable "in human terms."

She began a sermon with thanks in many directions ? for far-flung clergy "who just got in the cars and drove here to help," for congregation members who pitched in, for the town's first responders who rushed to the school. Her own son is a firefighter who was there.

She called for prayers for all of them, for those injured ? and for the gunman's family ? but most for the families of "those lovely little children now gone from this place and their teachers who shielded them."

"Your tears and questions of faith have moved me," Adams-Shepherd said in a quiet voice. She told of receiving innumerable calls and emails, mentioning in particular a 16-year-old church member who urged all not to lose faith.

"Was God absent from our world on Friday? Indeed not," she said, citing the people all over the world moved by Newtown's ordeal and "flocking to churches and temples and mosques."

The shooting was in prayers at congregations in other U.S. towns. At Wyoming Presbyterian Church in Millburn, N.J., for instance, the congregation stood, held hands and sang the Sunday School staple, "Jesus loves the little children" ? and many, weeping, put their arms around their own children, even if they were now adults.

A theologian once counseled "not to give simple solutions to life's tragedies" like the school massacre, Adams-Shepherd noted. "It is inexplicable in human terms."

"None of us will find answers alone to this unfathomable crisis," she said. "Keep loving and praying."

Later in the service, saying "we pray especially for," Adams-Shepherd slowly read the victims' first names, which echoed off the tall gothic arches and stained-glass windows of the small stone church.

Across town at Saint Rose, an overflow crowd of more than 800 people attended the 9 a.m. service.

Lanza and his mother, Nancy, worshipped there, and the son attended the Saint Rose school for a time. Now, the church staff are preparing for eight children's funerals later this week.

Boxes of tissues were placed strategically in each pew and on window sills. The altar was adorned with bouquets, one in the shape of a broken heart, with a zigzag of red carnations cutting through the white ones.

The Rev. Jerald Doyle, the diocesan administrator, officiated. Letters of condolence from the pope and Archbishop William Lori, who left the Bridgeport diocese this year to become archbishop in Baltimore, were read at the start of Mass.

In his homily, Doyle tried to answer the question of how parishioners could find joy in the holiday season with so much sorrow surrounding them.

"You won't remember what I say, and it will become unimportant," he said. "But you will really hear deep down that word that will finally and ultimately bring peace and joy. That is the word by which we live. That is the word by which we hope. That is the word by which we love."

At Adath Israel, nestled in a remote an area of stone walls, rolling hills and woods, people slowly approached the simple cedar-shake structure as a light, cold rain fell. They filed past a blue-and-gold "Happy Hanukkah" banner and a bronze tablet honoring those lost in the Nazi Holocaust.

"We are forever grateful to those who fight tyranny, to our country, and to this wonderful community for allowing us to gather here and practice our faith in peace," the plaque read.

Sunday classes went on as planned at the temple, but without Rabbi Praver. He was meeting with Noah's family to planning the boy's funeral.

A police officer kept watch over the parking lot, but congregation president Andrew Paley crossed the road to speak to the media.

Paley's twin sons, fourth-graders, were at the school ? one in the art room, the other in the gym. They heard the shots, saw the bodies.

Saturday was the last night of Hanukkah, and the boys celebrated at home with family. Paley has shielded them from news reports, but he said there are lessons to be had from this tragedy.

"The message, if anything, is that there is good that comes out of evil," he said. "It's the heroism and the community strength that's really coming forward here in Newtown. We're a small-knit community. The Jewish community is smaller. But we all are all together in this."

After Mass, Joan and Jennifer Waters stopped by a makeshift memorial of votive candles, flowers and stuffed animals to pray the "Our Father."

"Can we get these?" Jennifer asked her mother.

"No, those are for the little children," her mother replied.

"Who died?" her daughter asked.

"Yes," said her mother, wiping away a tear.

As for Jennifer's earlier question, her mother assured her that they were surely in heaven.

___

Associated Press Writers Christopher Sullivan in Newtown and James Martinez in Millburn, N.J., contributed to this report.

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

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? /PRNewswire/ -- Lindsay Mancha is the newest addition to the three person writing team at Cyberset, the leading provider of search engine optimization, web development and Internet marketing consultant?services in the Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley areas. (The company is also a noted provider of pay per click advertising assistance.) An experienced freelance writer, public relations representative, and entertainment industry professional, Ms. Mancha is tasked with crafting a constant stream of search-engine optimized and regular online content and public relations as well as social media marketing services for a wide variety of clients in a number of businesses. She joins Cyberset veterans Blake Wilding and Bob Westal in the writing department, replacing former writing team member Mike Pearl, who was recently promoted to the Cyberset management team.

Ms. Mancha is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in a number of publications including SWINDLE Magazine, NOLAGallerie, Westlake Magazine, Radio Free Silver Lake, and CreepyLA.com. She was most recently employed in the client services division of L.A. Studio, where she worked alongside some of the biggest names in entertainment and advertisement at the prestigious voice-over recording studio. She is also a music industry public relations writer and has helped numerous musicians spread the word about their endeavors.

Speaking of musical endeavors, like other members of the Cyberset writing team, Ms. Mancha also boasts a background as a performer. She has been a bass player and singer in the the 60-70's influenced pop-band, C-Horse, and can currently be seen and heard with the psychedelic surf outfit, Shirley Rolls. The seven-piece unit will next be performing on December 20th at the Prospector in Long Beach.

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Honeywell to Buy Intermec - RFID Journal

The acquisition, slated to close in mid-2013, will provide Honeywell's Scanning & Mobility division with more product offerings, as well as help it accelerate the company's development of RFID handheld reader products.

By Claire Swedberg

Dec. 12, 2012?Technology giant Honeywell has announced plans to acquire RFID and automation-identification equipment technology company Intermec by June 2013. Intermec, a 46-year-old firm based in Everett, Wash., manufactures RFID readers, printers, tags and labels, as well as bar-code scanners and mobile computers. With the purchase, Honeywell will acquire all outstanding common shares of Intermec for $10 per share in cash, totaling approximately $600 million. This acquisition not only will extend Honeywell Scanning & Mobility's (HSM) mobile computing line, but will also bring a host of RFID products to the company, which had launched only a single RFID-based offering to date, earlier this year.

In June 2012, Honeywell made its debut in the radio frequency identification market, when it released a handheld reader intended for use within retail stores and warehouses (see Honeywell Sees Its Optimus 5900 Reader as the First in a Series of RFID Products). At that time, Taylor Smith, HSM's director of product marketing, indicated that the company has been watching the RFID industry mature, particularly with regard to the growth in item-level tagging of merchandise to improve inventory accuracy. Based on those trends, he told RFID Journal, his company launched an RFID development strategy for the retailer market, by introducing the first of what was intended to be a series of RFID products for that sector.

Currently, says Bruce Eric Anderson, Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions' director of external communication, the company "is interested in Intermec as a natural extension of what we do in mobile computing." RFID and other technologies used to enhance mobile-computing data are attractive to Honeywell, he adds.

Once the acquisition is finalized, Anderson says, Honeywell intends to offer Intermec equipment as part of its HSM line, though the details of those plans have yet to be decided. Prior to the acquisition's closing, he reports, "a lot of work will be done," in an effort to determine how Intermec's products will be absorbed, and what future plans there may be specific to HSM's RFID offerings. Intermec has declined to comment for this story.

Source: http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/view/10225/

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Russia admits that Syrian rebels may win

MOSCOW (AP) ? Syria's most powerful ally, Russia, said for the first time Thursday that President Bashar Assad is losing control of his country and the rebels might win the civil war, dramatically shifting the diplomatic landscape at a time of enormous momentum for the opposition.

While Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov gave no immediate signal that Russia would change its stance and agree to impose international sanctions on Assad's regime, his remarks will likely be seen as a betrayal in Damascus and could persuade many Syrians to shift their loyalties and abandon support for the government.

Russia's assessment could also further strengthen the hand of the rebels, who have made some significant gains in their offensive, capturing two major military bases and mounting a serious challenge to Assad's seat of power, Damascus.

"We must look at the facts: There is a trend for the government to progressively lose control over an increasing part of the territory," Bogdanov, the Foreign Ministry's pointman on Syria, said during hearings at a Kremlin advisory body, the Public Chamber. "An opposition victory can't be excluded."

Bogdanov's statement marks a clear attempt by the Kremlin to begin positioning itself for Assad's eventual defeat. He said that Russia is prepared to evacuate thousands of its citizens from Syria, although he didn't say when that might happen.

At the same time, Bogdanov reaffirmed Russia's call for a compromise, saying it would take the opposition a long time to defeat the regime and Syria would suffer heavy casualties.

"The fighting will become even more intense, and you will lose tens of thousands and, perhaps, hundreds of thousands of people," he said. "If such a price for the ouster of the president seems acceptable to you, what can we do? We, of course, consider it absolutely unacceptable."

Bogdanov repeated that Russia would stick to an agreement reached in Geneva in June calling for negotiations involving the government and the opposition.

Russia has joined with China at the United Nations Security Council to veto three resolutions that would have imposed sanctions on Assad's regime over its bloody crackdown on the uprising that began in March 2011. Moscow also has continued to provide the Syrian government with weapons despite strong international protests.

Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of the magazine Russia in Global Affairs, said Bogdanov's statement marked an effort by Russia to position itself for the fall of its ally.

"It's better to talk about it now than keep saying until the moment of collapse that things remain under control," he said.

The statement may also reflect new information about the situation on the ground received by the Kremlin, he said.

"A public statement like that appears to indicate that the balance is shifting," Lukyanov said.

Asked if and when Russia is going to evacuate its embassy in Syria, Bogdanov said that the "moment hasn't come yet."

He added that the Foreign Ministry is looking at possible evacuation plans for thousands of Russian citizens, most of whom are Russian women married to Syrian men and their children. "We have plans for any occasion," Bogdanov said.

He said that "half of them support the opposition," adding that Syrian opposition delegations that have visited Moscow have included some Russian citizens.

The Interfax news agency said that if the government decides to evacuate Russians from Syria, it could be done by ships escorted by the Russian navy and by government planes.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russia-acknowledges-assad-losing-control-094405257.html

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How to Find New Competitive Knowledge in Social Media - Martin ...

Buzz used to be an intangible ? something you just felt. No longer.

"Buzz volume" is one of the metrics offered by a new generation of social-media-based tools that are transforming the way corporations gather intelligence about customers and competitors. "Consumer sentiment" is another: You can now get a reading on how customers are feeling about your products or services, your customer service, or your prices.

By making use of social media's openness and users' willingness to discuss just about everything online, these tools open endless possibilities for social-media-aware companies to source, collect, analyze, and distribute what is now called social intelligence. But don't expect to be able to neatly fit those sources of information into your old intelligence-gathering process. They require new kinds of expertise and a new mind-set about data. They also require the company to actively engage clients and external experts in social-media conversations. Merely listening quietly and gathering information isn't enough anymore.

In the old days, corporate intelligence gathering meant painstakingly gleaning information from experts and competitors' reports, subscribing to expensive online data aggregators such as Factiva or Dialog, and scanning unstructured documents from the media. Analysts typically spent 80% of their time gathering information before they even began trying to make sense of it. Once the sense-making began, intelligence experts used standard, outdated methods such as SWOT analyses and created lengthy internal reports. Not a very fast process, and the results were rarely compelling for senior executives. Even after the rise of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, the combination of clunky tools and executives' low social-media literacy hampered companies from extracting valuable insights.

A number of companies, B2C and B2B alike, now realize the potential benefits of monitoring conversation flows from social networks. An illustration is Nestl?'s new Digital Acceleration Team, which was announced last month.

Increasingly sophisticated tools and new research methods, which include mapping networks and rating users' influence, can make analysis of social media a powerful complement to what we call "static" data and traditional intelligence methods. For example, research by NM Incite shows how a major telecom company's recent analysis of more than 120 million blog entries, 10,000-plus discussion boards, and 90,000 Usenet groups, as well as CNET, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, revealed a number of insights, one of which was that in order to grow, the company would need to more thoroughly educate consumers about its technologies.

There are several ways in which a company's actions and thinking need to change as it starts drawing on the knowledge embedded in social technologies. Here are some suggestions to kick-start the initiative:

  • Embed social-media intelligence analysts throughout the organization: To prevent analysts from leaning toward only those patterns of thinking that are deemed acceptable within specific functions, companies should embed analysts who understand social media across the organization in functions ranging from strategic planning and product development to R&D, customer service, and M&A planning ? and not just in communications departments. The challenge for companies is immense as they need to rapidly increase the level of social literacy throughout the organization.
  • Look for online "curators." Experts who collect and share "best of" resources on specific subjects are analogous to museum curators who carefully choose which pieces to display. In social media, curators do a good job of keeping track of people's conversations as they occur in online social spaces and quickly channeling that information, in some cases using tools such as Storify to distill conversations. For example, the World Economic Forum in Davos uses Storify to put together summaries of its events. Canadian financial cooperative Desjardins wanted to learn about new electronic currencies, so it tracked a UK community dedicated to crowdfunding and sought experts in Africa on mobile-payment practices. The company prefers such information-gathering methods to relying on market-research firms. If you can find the right set of curators to follow, you can reduce your reliance on searches of traditional databases and publications.
  • Map it. Social tools enable analysts not only to find individual pieces of content, but also to link different types and sources of information. For example, by analyzing who interacts with whom, an organization can understand who the key influencers are and which relationships are important. Numerous social-intelligence tools allow analysts to create ever-changing maps that show where in the blogosphere, or the internet at large, a company can find the information and expertise it needs. Newsmap provides an interactive map that features, in real time, the news reported by the media globally. Maps not only highlight the main patterns, they also reveal weak signals. Decrypting weak signals may offer better strategic insights than the familiar patterns analyzed by traditional intelligence. Analysts can use maps to chart the ripple effects as information moves from user to user within and across companies.
  • Micropublish. Intelligence reports are tricky. Ideally, they should be customized for each executive, but time constraints prohibit intelligence teams from meeting individual needs. They also tend to be dated by the time they arrive on decision makers' desks. New tools allow analysts to gather relevant information rapidly, even automatically, and package and distribute it in the form of micropublications. Desjardins, for example, uses Flipboard to provide information that users can tailor to departmental needs.
  • Add new talent to the team. Companies should invest in upgrading the skills of their competitive- and strategic-intelligence teams. Often, this means that companies will need to recruit new talent from outside the company or even the industry, bringing in people who can think differently, pick up on subtle signals, and avoid strategic blind spots.
  • Engage with the community. Analysts must have the curiosity to reach out for new sources of knowledge. They can do so by creating communities of experts online (LinkedIn groups, Facebook groups, Twitter lists, Google Circles), but also by actively engaging their followers and connections into conversations. Thousands of such social-media conversations emerge every day, and many turn into regularly recurring conversations.

Making these changes in your intelligence-gathering approach will not only let your company make the best possible use of the new generation of tools and tactics, it will also allow you to bring real-time, quantitative data from real people into the discussion of your competitive strategy, leading to better corporate decisions.

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Obama says he's ready to work with Republicans to avoid "fiscal cliff" (reuters)

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Austin Peay Lady Govs Track and Field begin season at Middle ...

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Austin Peay State University Lady GovsClarksville, TN ? Austin Peay State University women?s track and field team kicks off the 2012-13 indoor season, Saturday, at the Middle Tennessee Christmas Invitational, hosted by MTSU.

The meet is scheduled to begin at 9:30am at the Murphy Center.

APSU Women's Track and Field. (Courtesy: Brittney Sparn/APSU Sports Information)

APSU Women?s Track and Field. (Courtesy: Brittney Sparn/APSU Sports Information)

Joining the Lady Govs and host Blue Raiders at this event will be Tennessee State, Western Kentucky and Chattanooga.

At last year?s Christmas Invitational, senior Chantelle Grey won the 600m run in her first meet as a Lady Gov with a blistering 1:34.76 mark. Grey, who went on to represent the Lady Govs in the NCAA East Preliminary Round of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, begins her final season with Austin Peay after transferring from Montana.

Chantelle GreyThe Lady Govs hope another transfer can pay big dividends this season. Senior thrower Jasmine Foster comes to Austin Peay from ETSU, where she was a 2011 bronze medalist at the Atlantic Sun Indoor Championships in the shot put.

In addition to Foster, five other student-athletes will make their track and field debuts for Austin Peay Saturday: Hannah Johnstono (pole vault), Breigh Jones (sprints), Lamontra Robinson (sprints), Kymmalett Ross (sprints) and Antonia Stevenson (sprints).


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Eating fewer, larger meals may prove healthier for obese women

ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2012) ? Media articles and nutritionists alike have perpetuated the idea that for healthy metabolisms individuals should consume small meals multiple times a day. However, new research conducted at the University of Missouri suggests all-day snacking might not be as beneficial as previously thought, especially for obese women.

"Our data suggests that, for obese women, eating fewer, bigger meals may be more advantageous metabolically compared to eating smaller, more frequent meals throughout the day," said the study's lead author, Tim Heden, a doctoral student in MU's Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology. "Eating larger meals less often lowered blood-fat levels. Over time, consistently eating fewer, larger meals each day could lower the women's blood-fat levels and thereby lower their risk of developing heart disease."

Heden and other MU researchers studied how meal frequency affected blood-sugar and blood-fat levels in eight obese women throughout two 12-hour periods on two separate days. All of the women consumed 1,500 calories. During the two different testing days, the participants consumed three 500-calorie liquid meals or six 250-calorie liquid meals. Throughout the 12-hour time frames, researchers tested sugar and fat levels in the women's blood every 30 minutes. Women who consumed three meals had significantly lower fat in their blood.

"The mass media and many health care practitioners often advocate eating several small meals throughout the day," Heden said. "However, when we examined the literature, we didn't find many studies examining or supporting this popular claim. This lack of research led to our study, which is one of the first to examine how meal frequency affects insulin and blood-fat levels in obese women during an entire day of eating."

More than one-third of Americans are obese, and these individuals are especially at risk for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Heden says the research could help nutritionists and medical professionals develop strategies to improve the health of obese women.

"With multiple meals throughout the day, you have to be careful. If you start consuming several meals, there's more potential to overeat or to make unhealthy snack choices with easily accessible junk food," said Jill Kanaley, professor in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology and study co-author. "Some people are good at making efforts to eat healthy snacks; however, most people aren't, and they end up taking in too many calories. The more times you sit down to eat, the more calories you're probably going to take in."

Obese women would benefit from consuming three balanced meals a day, Heden and Kanaley agree.

The study, "Meal Frequency Differentially Alters postprandial Triacylglycerol and Insulin Concentrations in Obese Women," will be published in the journal Obesity.

The Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology is jointly administered by MU's College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, College of Human Environmental Sciences and School of Medicine.

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  1. Timothy D. Heden, Ying Liu, Lauren J. Sims, Adam T. Whaley-Connell, Anand Chockalingam, Kevin C. Dellsperger, Jill A. Kanaley. Meal Frequency Differentially Alters Postprandial Triacylglycerol and Insulin Concentrations in Obese Women. Obesity, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/oby.2012.171

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