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Thursday, January 31, 2013

SnapPea

SnapPea is billed as "Android's best friend," and after spending significant time with application I am inclined to agree?somewhat. The free utility lets Android users manage photos, music, video, contacts, and apps from the comfort of their computers. SnapPea is a useful tool, but a few niggles prevent it and my Samsung Galaxy Note II??from being, like, total BFFs.

Getting Started
SnapPea, in a nutshell, is iTunes?for Android?minus the bloat. You start by downloading SnapPea to your Windows PC and the corresponding mobile app to your Android device. There are two setup methods: You can connect your Android phone or tablet to a laptop via USB (and download the appropriate drivers), or connect via Wi-Fi. The latter option requires a small but easy amount of setup. Step one: Make sure that the laptop and Android device are connected to the same wireless signal. Step two: Launch the SnapPea mobile app and key in the displayed passcode into the SnapPea desktop app when prompted. That's it! Note: Part of SnapPea's music functionality is gimped when used over Wi-Fi. More on that later.

SnapPea then asks to you link the two devices. It's optional, but there are advantages for doing so. The app auto-connects desktop to mobile and performs automatic contact, photo, and text message backup. It's useful and I'd recommend it to all users?unless you're running the software on a public computer.

The SnapPea Experience
The SnapPea home screen has two areas. There's a large, main content area that occupies most of the screen and a column that houses the My Device and Download top-level categories.

My Devices is where you manage content and, thankfully, the interface is clean and intuitive. Clicking Apps, for example, lets you move software from internal storage to a SD card (and vice versa), export Android apps to your computer, import Android apps, delete apps, and install apps from Google Play. You can perform similar functions with Contacts, Music, Video, Pictures, and Messages content, but each category has its own unique features.

For example, Messages lets you read text messages in a layout that very much resembles an IM chat session. It's incredibly useful for people who have large mitts (like me) as I can craft messages on a large, spacious computer keyboard. I liked it a lot, but SnapPea took nearly a minute to send some of my texts?frustrating. Photos can be viewed as individual pictures or in slideshow format, but SnapPea only displays images snapped with your Android device or sent to you via text; photos saved from email aren't shown. On the music front, SnapPea allows you to import music from your desktop into to your phone. Liam Finn + Eliza June's "Honest Face" song transferred from my laptop to my Samsung Galaxy Note II in under a minute. SnapPea also lets you import music from iTunes, but only if your Android device is connected to the computer via USB.

The Download section is where you can download content from a variety of sources. There's the obligatory Google Play section, but you can also download content from the likes of Pinterest, YouTube, and Ted Talks (you can also stream video to the desktop). There are sections for Android-related sites such as Android Central and Phandroid, too.

Is it for You?
SnapPea makes managing Android content a breeze. The software is incredibly simple to use and gives users a central location for handling Android-related tasks. If you own an Android phone or tablet, consider SnapPea a worthwhile download.

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Reconcilable differences: Study uncovers the common ground of scientific opposites

Jan. 30, 2013 ? Searching for common elements in seemingly incompatible scientific theories may lead to the discovery of new ones that revolutionize our understanding of the world.

Such is the idea behind a mathematical framework Princeton University researchers developed that strips away the differences between scientific laws and theories to reveal how the ideas are compatible. In a recent report in the journal Physical Review Letters, the authors explain how the mathematical model finds common ground between the famously at-odds physics equations that govern classical and quantum mechanics.

In their paper, the researchers attempt to reconcile classical and quantum mechanics. Simply put, classical mechanics -- based on the ideas of English scientist Isaac Newton -- describes the ordered laws of motion for large objects and systems. Quantum mechanics relates more to the chaotic motion and activity of microscopic particles.

Lead author Denys Bondar, a postdoctoral research associate in Princeton's Department of Chemistry, explained that the Princeton framework -- called operational dynamic modeling -- is intended to streamline the development of novel theories, a typically painstaking process that can be for naught if the end result does not agree with experimental data. The framework unpacks and mathematically tests the basic algebra of a theory against that of observed data. If they reconcile, the newborn theory might be valid, Bondar said.

"We have a new theoretical tool that we can use to look at old problems and try to solve new problems," Bondar said. He worked with second author Renan Cabrera, a Princeton postdoctoral research associate in chemistry; senior researcher Herschel Rabitz, Princeton's Charles Phelps Smyth '16 *17 Professor of Chemistry; Robert Lompay, a physics graduate student at Uzhgorod National University in Ukraine; and Misha Ivanov, a physics professor at Imperial College London.

The Princeton model builds on theorems that Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest developed in the 20th century to illustrate the similarities between classical and quantum mechanics. Putting these theorems into action, Bondar and his colleagues pared the differences between these branches of physics down to a single mathematical consideration: to commute or not to commute. This Shakespearean-sounding crossroads relates to whether the result relies on the order of the experimental measurements.

If the same conclusion can be drawn regardless of how the measurements are arranged, the theory is commutative. If the result depends on a specific sequence, it is non-commutative. At this point, any novel theory can be characterized as classical or quantum, Bondar said. If the theory is commutative it is classical; if not, it has quantum elements.

"Scientists are taught from the time they are students that classical and quantum mechanics can never be reconciled," Bondar said. "But now we have one equation for classical and quantum mechanics. We can make the transition from classical to quantum mechanics in a smooth and straightforward way."

The benefit of the model, Cabrera said, is that experimental systems can be constructed more in accordance with particular mechanics as they are being developed. In addition, it can reveal if and how a novel theory relates to classical or quantum mechanics in a way that might not have been considered initially, he said.

"This model allows us to experience mathematically classical or quantum theories in a more similar way than before and find common ground only differentiated by the ability to commute or not commute," Cabrera said.

Robert Gilmore, a physics professor at Drexel University, said that the Princeton framework is a unique and well-designed initial step toward bringing classical and quantum mechanics under the same theoretical roof. Gilmore is familiar with the work, but had no role in it.

The researchers "provide the smoothest possible transition from quantum mechanics to classical mechanics," Gilmore said. "Their vision is that it is possible to formulate physical theory in such a way that both classical mechanics and quantum mechanics play by the same rules. In order to do this, they upend one of the classical early results of quantum mechanics: the Ehrenfest theorems."

Though the model is simple -- its experimental basis is the position and velocity of a single electron -- it could be matured to describe more complicated physical phenomena, Gilmore said.

"In order to deepen our understanding of quantum mechanics, this theory must be extended in several directions," he said. "This paper seems to provide one footing for a larger foundation that will be needed to build a more comprehensive theory including both classical and quantum mechanics."

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10 Things to Know for Wednesday

President Barack Obama shakes hands after speaking about immigration at Del Sol High School, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with his choice for Defense Secretary, former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, after announcing Hagel's nomination in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 file photo, New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez takes batting practice before Game 4 of the American League championship series against the Detroit Tigers, in Detroit. Major League Baseball says it is "extremely disappointed" about a new report that says records from an anti-aging clinic in the Miami area link Rodriguez and other players to the purchase of performance-enhancing drugs. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday:

1. OBAMA VOWS TO FAST-TRACK IMMIGRATION OVERHAUL

He says he'll send his own legislation to Capitol Hill if lawmakers don't act quickly.

2. WHAT CAUSED THE BRAZIL NIGHTCLUB FIRE

The flares for the band's onstage pyrotechnic display were meant only for outdoor use. They cost $1.25 each ? while an indoor flare costs $35.

3. KERRY BREEZES TO CONFIRMATION AS SEC'Y OF STATE

Even Republicans praise him as Clinton's ideal successor.

4. CHUCK HAGEL AIMS FOR ZERO

The likely next secretary of defense supports an international movement that favors eliminating all nuclear weapons.

5. AN URGENT SUMMONS FOR SYRIAN AID

Officials plan to seek $1.5 billion from the international community to help up to 1 million refugees and twice that number of people inside the country.

6. BP CLOSES BOOK ON CRIMINAL PROBE OF GULF OIL SPILL

A judge agrees to let the company plead guilty to manslaughter charges for the deaths of 11 rig workers and pay a record $4 billion in penalties.

7. FURY IN EGYPT

Nation on the threshold of revolt against an Islamist president buries its dead as political violence intensifies.

8. EYES IN THE AFRICAN SKY

The Obama administration plans to locate a drone base in Niger to monitor al-Qaida as concerns about extremists there deepen.

9. A-ROD DENIES CLAIMS HE BOUGHT HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE

Miami newspaper alleges the three-time AL MVP used a now-defunct clinic to buy PEDs.

10. HOW TO TELL THE HARBAUGHS APART

Jim's the intense competitor. Older brother John is more engaging.

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Steven Hunt Named Kauai County's Director of Finance | Hawaii ...

Steven A. Hunt, Kauai County director of finance.

REPORT FROM KAUAI COUNTY ? Mayor Bernard Carvalho, Jr. today announced the appointment of Steven A. Hunt as the county?s new director of finance.

Hunt will leave his current post as real property review officer and assume his new position on Feb. 1.

?Since he started with the county eight years ago, Steve has done an excellent job in the positions he?s held as real property review officer and chief appraiser,? said Mayor Carvalho. ?With his years of public service and wealth of experience in the private sector, I believe that Steve is the right person to assume the lead of the Department of Finance.?

Prior to joining the county, Hunt worked for Bank of Hawai'i as an assistant vice president for private client services. He also owned a real estate appraisal company, Island Appraisal Co., LLC.

?I?m excited about taking on new challenges and welcome the opportunity Mayor Carvalho has extended me. With just a few short weeks before the county?s budget submittal, I?m ready to roll up my sleeves and get to work alongside the rest of the Finance and Budget team,? said Hunt.

Hunt earned a bachelor?s degree in marketing from the University of Washington and a master?s degree in business administration from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Raised on the south shore, he is a product of K?loa Elementary School and Kaua'i High School.

Hunt currently resides in L?hu'e with his wife Lauren (LaMadrid) and their two children, Conor and Mason.

During his spare time, Hunt serves as a volunteer for several organizations including: Island School, treasurer; Po'ip? Beach Estates Homeowner?s Association, treasurer; Hawai'i Youth Soccer Association, coach; and Kiahuna Futsal, coach.

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Nintendo Q3 earnings show 3 million Wii Us sold, sales forecasts lowered again

Nintendo's Q3 earnings report is out, and it's sold just over 3 million units of its new Wii U console (at a loss) along with 11.69 million pieces of software. The other big news is that it's adjusted sales forecasts downward -- again, after it announced they were being cut back in October. However, since the flagship console is sold at a loss, while Nintendo is predicting 17 percent lower revenue, its prediction for net income has actually moved up by eight billion yen ($87 million).

It's not all bad news however, as it's showing about $160 million in net income for the year, compared with last year's losses. The 3DS has jumped up to 29.84 million sold, while the original Wii is within shouting distance of the 100 million number. Need more numbers? Hit the source links to check out all the sales data firsthand.

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David Mamet, Michael Savage, Max Kampelman and the Politics of Conversion

Political evolutions are commonplace. The liberal college student becomes a conservative adult. The conservative adult grows more liberal on gay rights. The French orator Francois Guizot said of the anti-monarchists of his day "Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head". It?s a quote that?s been reworked a gazillion times since. It?s one dear to the heart of neoconservatives many of whom began as devotees of Trotsky and ended up embracing Reagan.

There are conversions that we may not like--Arianna Huffington from right to left or Norman Podhoretz from left to right--but which are considered and understandable. And then there are conversions that seem harder to fathom. See the cover of Newsweek where the much lauded playwright, author and producer David Mamet challenges gun control.

There are any number of coherent, intellectual and constitutional arguments to be made against the president?s proposals to limit magazine size and ban certain types of weapons as well as to expand the background check program. ?Mamet foregoes any reasonable argument for a piece that likens Obama to Marx and his proposals to totalitarianism. ?For it is, again, only the Marxists who assert that the government, which is to say the busy, corrupted, and hypocritical fools most elected officials are (have you ever had lunch with one?) should regulate gun ownership based on its assessment of needs.? ?Apparently the Marxists now include Joe Scarborough and Joe Manchin, if not Reagan and the Bushes.

Anyone who?s listened to Michael Savage, the talk radio host, is familiar with the zealotry of the convert. His Savage Nation program is among the most popular in the conservative talk show firmament and his conversion from San Francisco liberal to conservative provocateur ?is well known to his listeners. His incendiary rhetoric, though, has led even conservative broadcasters to distance themselves from him. Fox News contributor Bernard Goldman cited him as one of the ?people who are screwing up America.? He?s been lambasted for remarks about gays, muslims and even autism: ??Now, the illness du jour is autism. You know what autism is? I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, ? ?Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.? ? Savage has a Ph.D. in nutritional ethnomedicine so he should know.

I couldn?t help think of Savage and Mamet when I read that ?Max Kampelman died this week at 92. If you were involved in politics and policy in Washington in the last quarter of the 20th century you?ve probably heard of Kampelman. Otherwise, it?s less likely. Born to Jewish immigrant parents, he was a longtime aide to Hubert Humphrey during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. An accomplished attorney whose name was on the smoked glass at the great firm Fried, Frank, he was asked by Jimmy Carter to be lead the talks to bring the Soviet Union and some of its satellites into compliance with the Helsinki human rights accords. This seems almost quaint now but the talks in Madrid, where he led the American delegation, were an important diplomatic forum for confronting the Soviets, one of the major avenues for cataloguing and confronting their abuse of liberty. Like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Kampelman was an eloquent and fearless voice for human rights.

President Reagan asked Kampelman to lead arms control talks with the Soviets that led to the START agreements cutting nuclear weapons. In his later years, he was a staple of international affairs and human rights organizations like Freedom House and the U.S. Institute of Peace, a lawyer diplomat of the likes of John J. McCloy or James Baker. He was a hawk with ties to neoconservative groups like the Committee on the Present Danger but he was a flexible one, willing to adapt to changing times. In 2007, he joined Sam Nunn and George Shultz in their efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. His tone was civil and courtly. Richard Sauber, once a partner at Fried Frank and and who Kampelman tapped to offer legal advice to Freedom House remembers one particularly heated board meeting where Kampelman had the patience of Job. ?The board was filled with a who's who of foreign policy, and Max was like an adult among children: the most reasonable person with exquisite judgment.? (For the record, Sauber is my attorney, too.)

The interesting thing about Kampelman that relates to Mamet and Savage is that he had a political conversion. He began as a conscientious objector, so much so that he had a deferment not during Vietnam or Korea but during World War II-- the Good War, the one that helped save the Jewish people from extermination. As part of his ?CO? status, he went to the University of Minnesota where he participated in tests where he was voluntarily subjected to near starvation. And it?s in Minnesota where he found a job with Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey that Kampelman?s pacifism faded and he came to see the merits of a strong defense--a position that echoed that of Humphrey himself and the Democrats of a bygone era like the late Henry ?Scoop? Jackson, the Senator from Washington and leading voice for what was called guns and butter.

Presidents of both parties understood Kampelman?s greatness. Carter brought him in and Reagan kept him even though Kampelman had helped the 1984 Mondale campaign. Bill Clinton gave Kampelman the presidential medal of freedom even though he was Reagan?s negotiator. They saw in him a steady hand and a reasonable mind. For the rest, of us he?s a role model on how to manage our own political evolutions. Evolving from pacifist to hawk is about as big a pendulum swing as can be imagined but Kampelman did it in a way that made him beloved. See a bipartisan tribute to him here when he was awarded the 2008 Democracy Service Medal by the National Endowment for Democracy.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Oil steady as US, China manufacturing improves

The price of oil was steady above $96 a barrel on Tuesday, supported by expanding manufacturing output in the world's two largest economies and ahead of the release this week of several key U.S. economic indicators.

By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for March delivery was up 5 cents to $96.50 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 56 cents to finish at $96.44 a barrel on the Nymex on Monday.

On Monday, the U.S. reported that demand for long-lasting manufactured goods rose sharply in December. That comes on top of an improved housing picture and strong earnings by major companies. Many analysts think the economy's sluggish recovery will pick up stream by 2014.

China's manufacturing activity has also recently rebounded as the country emerges from its deepest slump since the 2008 global financial crisis. Analysts have all but stopped predicting that the world's No. 2 economy will have a "hard landing," or a sharp downturn.

"Oil prices are continuing to profit from the brightening of market sentiment," said a report from Commerzbank in Frankfurt. "However, as compared to equity markets, which are trading at multi-year highs, oil prices have underperformed of late and therefore have catch-up potential."

It's a big week for U.S. economic indicators. The government will release reports on weekly jobless claims, unemployment and fourth-quarter growth. And the Federal Reserve's policy committee holds a two-day meeting that concludes on Wednesday.

Brent crude, used to price international varieties of oil, was down 12 cents to $113.36 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.

In other energy futures trading on Nymex:

? Wholesale gasoline declined 1.31 cents to $2.9278 per gallon.

? Natural gas lost 5.4 cents to $3.235 per 1,000 cubic feet.

? Heating oil retreated 0.11 cent to $3.0532 a gallon.

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Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.

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New Lion King RP (Only an Idea)

(This is only an Idea for a RP, since I am still running a RP right now I cannot start this one...YET)

Lion King
The Kingdom's Departure

Plot
Simba has gone missing after investigating some mysterious activity. And Kovu has declined the offer of being king and has run away. The kingdom is now in chaos with out a king. The kingdom then departures into many more kingdoms that are now known as 'Clans'. These new 'Clans' have also discovered and claimed new lands beyond the jungles. The Pridelanders now have no kingdom and are technically a 'Bandit Clan' for not having a real territory. Kiara now leads the Pridelanders to bring the kingdom back together with the remaining members of the Pridelanders. Although the former Outlander Vitani is rebelling against Kiara for how chaotic the kingdom is now and has brought all the former Outlanders back to there original alignment. She also talks all the Outlanders into making her the new leader fore her mother is dead and so is her brother. The Outlanders are also a 'Bandit Clan' for not having a territory as well. Now the Pridelanders will try to bring back the kingdom, as the Outlanders spread there 'disease' of chaos and destruction.

Character Skeleton:
Name:
Gender:
Attribute: (A special ability or trait about him/her)
Appearance: (Does not need to be that descriptive. Just fur color and other features since...well there lions)
Special Feature: (Some kind of special piece of appearance like a scar or something)

Clans- These are the clans of which come from the departure of the kingdom.
None for now but you can reply some ideas to me

Clan Skeleton:
Leader-(Can be one leader but in order to tell if it is male or female must be switched with King- and/or Queen-)
Description-(Must be at least a paragraph)
Members-

Bandit Clans- These clans are clans that have no real land or territory.

Hope you can reply some ideas. everything on this topic will be on the RP once I am finished with my current one.

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Obama lawyers to argue recess appointments again in March

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While President Barack Obama considers his next move in one high-stakes legal fight to fill vacant jobs, his lawyers expect to go to court at least twice more to argue for his power to appoint when the U.S. Senate is not meeting.

Federal appeals courts in both Philadelphia and Richmond, Virginia, are likely to hear the issue of recess appointments in March, possibly during the same week.

The hearings will be an opportunity for Obama's lawyers to rebound after a blockbuster ruling on Friday, when a court in Washington, D.C., held that three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were invalid.

Although the three-judge ruling on Friday upturned 190 years of understanding about how a president may fill vacant jobs, it will not take effect immediately.

Under court rules, the Justice Department has 45 days to decide whether to ask the full, eight-judge Washington-based appeals court to reconsider the decision and 90 days to consider an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A Justice Department spokeswoman had no comment on Monday.

In one of the two other cases, privately held Enterprise Rent-A-Car is questioning the appointments as part of a labor dispute with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at an airport near Raleigh, North Carolina.

The case is scheduled to be heard in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, on March 22.

A nursing home in Newark, New Jersey - New Vista Nursing and Rehabilitation LLC - is bringing the other case as part of a nurse unionization fight with a local of the Service Employees International Union.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia is tentatively set to hear the issue on March 19.

Both cases have to do with the NLRB.

Once rare, recess appointments became more common in the late 1970s as a way to bypass the confirmation process, which senators have used increasingly to block a president's nominees, including the three Obama put forward for the NLRB.

RULINGS WEEKS FROM NOW

The convergence of the two arguments in the same week in March led a government lawyer to express concern in a court filing because Beth Brinkmann, a senior U.S. Justice Department lawyer, is expected to argue both and wants to ensure they are a few days apart.

Rulings from the two courts would likely come weeks later, potentially adding pressure to the U.S. Supreme Court to sort out what already are divided rulings in the lower courts.

A related case, challenging the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is in pre-trial motions in a Washington federal court.

The U.S. Constitution says that presidents have the authority to fill a high-level vacancy without Senate approval if the Senate is in "the recess."

With such vague language, presidents of both major U.S. parties have made increasingly liberal use of the power.

Friday's sweeping ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said that the president cannot decide on his own when the Senate is in recess and that "the recess" happens only about once a year, not whenever lawmakers break from Washington for a few weeks.

The decision directly contradicted a 2004 ruling from the federal appeals court in Atlanta.

(Editing by Howard Goller and Eric Beech)

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Nightclub inferno: Locked door trapped patrons?

A fire broke out early Sunday morning at a night club in Santa Maria, in southern Brazil, killing revelers ? many of them students. NBC's Mike Taibbi reports.

By Alastair Jamieson, Staff Writer, NBC News

Dozens of victims of a fast-moving nightclub inferno that claimed the lives of more than 230 people in southern Brazil were due to buried on Monday as reports emerged that fleeing patrons were blocked by a locked door.

About 50 funerals were expected to take place at the municipal cemetery in Santa Maria, according to Brazilian television news broadcast Zero Hora, while other bodies removed from the Kiss nightclub remained at the city?s gymnasium awaiting identification

The cemetery opened early, at 7.30 a.m. local time (4:30 a.m. ET), and was planning to conduct burials at half-hour intervals, O Globo reported, saying the army had helped dig graves.

The newspaper Diario de Santa Maria reported that a refrigerated truck was used to preserve some of the bodies overnight because local mortuary facilities were full.

The blaze began early Sunday when a band's small pyrotechnics show ignited foam sound-insulating material on the ceiling.

Yuri Weber / Agencia O Dia via Reuters

A view inside the blackened Boate Kiss nightclub in which at least 233 died.

The first images from inside the blackened building show the extent of the panic, with drinks and clothing scattered across the floor.

Many of the victims were under 20 years old, The Associated Press reported, and were attending a party organized by students from several academic departments from the Federal University of Santa Maria.

'Barrier of bodies'
The main door of the nightclub was locked at the time, fire chief Guido Pedroso de Melo told O Globo.

He added that firefighters responding to the blaze initially had trouble getting inside the nightclub because "there was a barrier of bodies blocking the entrance.?

Local authorities told Reuters that 120 men and 113 women died in the fire, and 92 people are still being treated in hospitals.

Survivors and the police inspector Marcelo Arigony said security guards briefly tried to block people from exiting the club, according to the AP, perhaps fearing that patrons would leave without paying their tab.

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Relatives gather at the city gymnasium in Santa Maria, Brazil, to mourn victims from the 'Kiss' nightclub fire.

But Arigony said the guards didn't appear to block fleeing patrons for long. "It was chaotic and it doesn't seem to have been done in bad faith because several security guards also died," he told the AP.

In a radio interview, the band?s guitarist Rodrigo Martins said the fire began shortly after the band took to the stage at 2.15 a.m. local time Sunday.

"When the fire started, a guard passed us a fire extinguisher, the singer tried to use it but it wasn't working," he said, adding that the accordion player Danilo Jacques, 28, died, while the five other members made it out safely.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Venezuela's Chavez overcomes infection, still having treatment

SANTIAGO/CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has overcome a respiratory infection, but is still being treated for breathing problems after cancer surgery in Cuba last month, a government minister said on Saturday.

Official statements have sounded upbeat about the socialist president's condition in recent weeks, following rumors he was gravely ill in a hospital in Havana and might be unable to keep governing after being re-elected in October to a third term.

"(Chavez) has overcome the respiratory infection, although he still has a certain degree of respiratory insufficiency," Information Minister Ernesto Villegas told reporters in Chile, where Latin American and European leaders are meeting.

"Vice President (Nicolas) Maduro has estimated that Chavez could come back in weeks, but we haven't wanted to put a time frame on the president's recovery," Villegas added.

Earlier on Saturday, Maduro said Chavez, 58, was in his "best moment" since his operation 45 days ago.

"What we can share with you is that the commander is in his best moment that we have seen in all of these days of struggle," Maduro said in televised comments before dawn on Saturday, after returning from Cuba to meet with the president.

Chavez has not been seen in public since undergoing his fourth and most complex surgery to treat an illness that might jeopardize the future of his self-styled revolution.

He has never said exactly what type of cancer he has, only that the initial tumor found in mid-2011 was in his pelvic area and was the size of a baseball.

In contrast to Chavez's previous visits to Havana for treatment, officials have not published any evidence of his condition. In 2011, with great fanfare, they broadcast videos of him reading a newspaper, walking in a garden and chatting with his daughter.

In the absence of such proof this time, many Venezuelans are questioning the terse official bulletins that provide few details about his condition or treatment.

ECONOMIC POLICY

Maduro said earlier on Saturday that Chavez had ordered a series of economic decisions that would help boost Venezuelan exports, comments that came amid speculation the government was preparing a devaluation of the bolivar currency.

"He gave a series of orders that the economic team will share in the coming hours with the people of Venezuela, which are focused on building Venezuela's export capacity," he said.

He did not elaborate.

A Finance Ministry source who asked not to be identified said on Saturday the ministry was not planning on making any announcements right now.

Devaluation would make exports more competitive by lowering local production costs and spur domestic industries by making imports less competitive with locally produced goods.

It would also improve state finances by providing more bolivars per dollar of oil exports, following heavy spending in 2012 on homes for the poor and pensions for the elderly that helped Chavez win re-election.

But it would also push up consumer prices in a country that already has one of the highest inflation rates in the region.

A lack of dollars in recent weeks has left many businesses struggling to import the products they need. Some goods such as wheat flour and sugar have disappeared from supermarket shelves, partly because of import bottlenecks.

Business leaders insist a devaluation would help address the problem.

(Additional reporting by Antonio De La Jara and Alexandra Ulmer in Santiago, and Eyanir Chinea in Caracas; Editing by Helen Popper and Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/venezuelas-chavez-overcomes-infection-still-having-treatment-000252021.html

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Weber Family Blog: New Scrapbooking Toy

I got a new toy - a Cricut!? This is a dye cutting machine so it can make cut out any image/letter for you if you have the right computer cartridge. I really wanted it for letters for scrapbook pages. It is normally like $200 and I got it on sale for $80!? I was very happy!

You can see the cut outs it was doing!

It did all the letters on here!

Source: http://rayjenweber.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-scrapbooking-toy.html

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Magnitsky's mother thanks Obama for legislation

MOSCOW (AP) ? The mother of a whistle-blowing Russian lawyer who died in prison is thanking President Barack Obama for a U.S. law targeting Russian officials deemed to be human rights violators involved in her son's death.

Sergei Magnitsky died in jail of untreated pancreatitis in 2009 after accusing Russian officials of stealing $230 from the state. The case has angered both Russian activists and the West, and in December, the U.S. Congress passed legislation in Magnitsky's name, calling for sanctions against officials deemed to be connected with human rights abuses.

Natalya Magnitskaya said Thursday she is grateful to Obama for facilitating the adoption of the bill saying that it "will somehow keep my son's memory."

She also criticized Moscow's decision to bar Americans from adopting Russian children in retaliation.

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Daily Mobile Computing Feed ? Jan 24, 2013

Companies Warming to BYOD | Fox Small Business Center

Companies have grown to embrace the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, new research has found. (more)

How a Big Financial Services Firm Faced BYOD iPads

CIO Magazine Blackstone spent a lot of time and energy finding ways to secure confidential documents on BYOD iPads, even looking at possibly purchasing iPads for employees. The company leveraged two main technologies-MobileIron and WatchDox-to solve the ? (more)

Non-profit cuts costs with BYOD

Computerworld Australia Compassion Australia has saved thousands of dollars since shifting to a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) mobile strategy, according to the non-profit organisation?s systems administrator of projects, Blessing Matore. Compassion is a Christian non-profit ? (more)

Big changes ahead for the military?s BYOD strategy

Defense Systems The Defense Department?s game plan of allowing mobile devices in the workplace includes exploring mobile device management (MDM), a strategy that could potentially turn some defense employees off to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) concept, DOD ? (more)

IT Managers Embrace BYOD ? Business Insider

By Heather Leonard
What You Need To Know About BYOD (Dell) How does bring your own device (BYOD) work best? How can companies ensure that their employees are happy and working productively on their own devices? To answer these questions, Dell ? (more)

BYOD + cloud swinging pendulum from content to collaboration ? AIIM

By Steve Weissman
Much time and effort has been spent over the years improving the quality of the information we use to get our work done: we?ve invested in the deskewing and despeckling of images, subjected documents to version control, and striven to ? (more)

BYOD gaining traction, cutting costs and increasing efficiency

iTWire Enterprises are cutting business costs and increasing efficiency through the continued use of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs, according to secure enterprise mobility vendor, Good Technology, which says there is an increasing adoption and support ? (more)

How a Big Financial Services Firm Faced BYOD iPads

CIO With BYOD iPad security under control, financial services firm Blackstone looks toward tough challenges ahead, including the possibility of company-owned iPads and opening up its BYOD program to Android and Windows 8 devices. By Tom Kaneshige ? (more)

Understanding The Bring-Your-Own-Device Landscape ? By Invitation Only

Mondaq News Alerts (registration) The rising use of personal technologies for work-related activities has coined the phrase Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD). It is a trend that has potential to bring substantial benefits to enterprises, but can equally present considerable risks and ? (more)

The Future of Mobile Computing

***Editor?s Note*** RIM is really big on pushing the concept of mobile computing. So much so in fact, that the author of this post, @Lombaki, has been requested ? (more)

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Hi, I?m currently looking at all the manufacturers high performance laptops as a desktop replacement / mobile workstation. I?m looking at machine with ? (more)

New BYOD Threat: Email That Self-Destructs

InformationWeek As the BYOD movement infiltrates the enterprise, IT managers have more to worry about than ever. The latest challenge: Employees who use apps to send messages that ?self-destruct.? The possibility of employees dropping company secrets into Dropbox ? (more)

Bring Your Own Device Policies Are Changing The Way We Work Across The ?

Business Insider Eighty-nine percent of IT departments worldwide support bring your own device (BYOD) practices, according to a Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group survey on mobile device usage. Overall, BYOD tends to be a more popular trend in Asia, Latin America ? (more)

5 Ways To Manage BYOD And Protect Sensitive Healthcare Data

CRN Employees are buying smartphones and tablets in record numbers and in some cases are insisting that they can use their personal devices to connect to corporate systems. According to the federal government?s HealthIT.gov website, healthcare ? (more)

Enterprises increasingly supporting BYOD

Computer Business Review Good Technology?s Bring Your Own Device survey revealed that BYOD continues to gain traction. Companies not supporting a BYOD scheme are increasingly becoming a minority. ?This is no surprise to us since we hear every day from our customers how ? (more)

VMware: Tackling BYOD? Here?s Some Food for Thought

DABCC.com Looking to support bring your own device within your company? You?re not alone. Today over 65% of organizations are exploring how to embrace BYOD. In fact, it seems as though most customers I talk to have some sort of BYOD initiative in play or at the ? (more)

5 Alternatives to BlackBerry Balance: Where BYOD Coexists with IT

DABCC.com Whether you believe BYOD is headed to its death or not, the current market is still investing a great deal into this consumer-driven trend. The droves of iPads carried into the office, under the arms of executives and sales teams alike, has created ? (more)

Dell Survey: Impact of BYOD

UCStrategies According to a Dell Quest Software survey, IT executives are able to gauge the level of organizational maturity with BYOD strategies already being used, and are also able to realize and plan for problems and benefits. The findings from the survey ? (more)

The Ten Commandments of Bring Your Own Device

CIO It?s as if a voice boomed down from the mountain ordering all of the employees you support to procure as many devices as possible and connect them to corporate services en masse. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) was born and employees followed with ? (more)

Source: http://cloudfeed.net/daily-mobile-computing-feed-jan-24-2013/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daily-mobile-computing-feed-jan-24-2013

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Learn The Best Ways To Achieve Online Marketing Success ...

If you want a career in online marketing, you can find some suggestions here. In the following paragraphs are some points that you can apply towards success in affiliate endeavors.

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TIP! You should always disclose to your readers that you earn money if they make a purchase from an affiliate link. Your readers can tell how affiliate links look like and hiding this fact will cause them to lose their trust in you.

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It is important to select a company with high sales conversion rates in order to have a successful affiliate program. Consider using a one percent conversion ratio as a benchmark.

By watching the statistics of your affiliates, you can see which links are performing well. Test each affiliate link in different locations on the page and compare your results. Be sure to use the same text for this test, and only change the link position within your article.

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Consider the peripherals when you are establishing affiliate links on the pages of your website. How about a water bottle with a strap so they can bring it out, too?

Every single affiliate you choose should be in your site?s niche. This will increase traffic to your website and also assist you in truly understanding the needs and wants of your customer base.

TIP! One solid piece of advice for potential affiliate marketers is to seek out companies with successful, long-term products. A diverse company gives you many ways to earn money.

Consider entering a niche market to increase your profits through affiliate promotion. It might be harder to find an audience when you are associated with a variety of products rather than focusing on a smaller, specific group of products.

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You will want to consider what products you are linking to. Once you have your affiliate links arranged properly, you should be earning more profits.

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Keep your intended audience in mind as you decide which affiliates to join. You should make sure that your affiliates are promoting products and services that are compatible or complementary to what your website offers. Visitors to your site are there because they want shoes, so try to sell them shoes and shoe related products. Choose ads that best cater to your demographic and take advantage of your customer information.

Try choosing an affiliate company who has higher sales conversion ratios. You should aim for about a 1% conversion rate.

TIP! One good marketing technique is to limit the purchase window for an affiliate product. When customers see they may not be able to get their hands on a product later, they might just jump on it.

Many affiliate marketers overdo it. They put their energy in too many places, they choose too many products, and they have too many promotions going at once to stay effectively competitive at any one thing. It is good to note there is no limit when it comes to what can be achieved. You just need time, creative thinking, determination and a willingness to learn in order to be successful in web marketing.

Learn new methods and share tips with other companies by joining a community for online affiliate marketers. You can find multiple outlets online where you can discuss best SEO practices, share codes, give advice, find and give leads on new affiliate programs, and get practical advice from other people doing what you do. Join different groups and forums to further your learning about affiliate marketing.

One highly effective internet marketing tactic is to put deadline stipulations on purchases. If visitors see that there is only a small amount of time left to purchase the product, they might feel an extra push to go ahead and purchase it. People love to feel as though they are getting a deal.

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As previously mentioned, you can better promote your services and products through web marketing. Following these tips leads you on the road to becoming an expert in web marketing.

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Source: http://www.samuellevitz.com/learn-the-best-ways-to-achieve-online-marketing-success

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3-D fireworks of a star: Astronomers reconstruct journey of emitted gas

Jan. 24, 2013 ? In 1901 the star GK Persei gave off a powerful explosion that has not stopped growing and astonishing ever since. Now a team of Spanish and Estonian astronomers has reconstructed the journey of the emitted gas in 3D which, contrary to predictions, has hardly slowed down its speed of up to 1,000 km/s after all this time.

Thanks to the images captured from the Isaac Newton Telescope and the Nordic Optical Telescope in La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain), a European team of astronomers has constructed a three dimensional map of the remnant of a nova, or in other words, what was left of the star after its explosion. The results have just been published in the Astrophysical Journal.

The protagonist of this story is the star GK Persei situated at 'just' 1,300 light years away from Earth. It is also known as Nova Persei 1901 because a strong thermonuclear eruption occurred on its surface on the 21st February 1901. On that day astronomers observed how its brightness suddenly increased to such an extent that it became one of the brightest stars in the skies.

The surprising thing is that the explosion created remaining material made up of gaseous knots, which become visible in 1916. "From then the visual spectacle has been similar to that of a firework display seen in slow motion," claims Miguel Santander, researcher at Spanish National Observatory and coauthor of the study.

After patient work to gather images, the team was able to measure the movements of more than 200 knots as well as the radial velocity using the Doppler effect, which allows to determine if they are getting closer or moving further away from us. In this way the 3D map of the nova was created and its dynamic was analysed.

"Such data are rarely available in astrophysics because as a general rule apparent expansion or, in other words, in the layout of the sky, the majority of objects cannot be seen," outlines another of the authors, Romano Corradi, from the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands.

An unexpected result

In any case, the main result of this work "is that the gas seems to be moving further away in a ballistic or free manner and is hardly slowing down, contrary to what was thought in previous studies," comments the lead author of the investigation, Tiina Liimets of the Tartu Observatory in Estonia.

Until now it was thought that the gas from the explosion would slow down "significantly" due to the large quantity of matter in its path that the star has expelled previously. However, its speed has remained between a range of 600 and 1000 kilometres per second.

Long before the explosion in 1901, more than one hundred thousand years ago, GK Persei had already undergone a massive transformation from a red giant to a white dwarf. This process expelled its external layers forming a planetary nebula, which is a giant gas cloud within which the nova is now growing in 3D.

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T. Liimets, R.L.M. Corradi, M. Santander-Garc?a, E. Villaver, P. Rodr?guez-Gil, K. Verro, I. Kolka. A three-dimensional view of the remnant of Nova Persei 1901 (GK Per). Astrophysical Journal, December 2012

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Polls, pets, plagiarism, and prejudiced prefixes - The Local

The Local's Ben Knight has devised a handy podcast for all your weekly news needs. This week, we've got Merkel's election blues, the education minister's plagiarism misery, French longevity, and a zoo director accused of chauvinism.

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Friday, January 25, 2013

Inventor Of The World Wide Web Calls For More Online Innovation ...

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the hyperlinked World Wide Web, isn?t entirely happy with what he has helped create ? and has thrown down the gauntlet to web developers to come up with more disruptive forms of online communication that can break down cultural not just geographical barriers.

Talking about the web as it is today, rather than the ?collaborative tool? he originally designed, he said:??World peace has not miraculously occurred. People still mainly talk to their neighbours, people still mainly talk to the people who have the same religion, and the same culture, so for all its breaking down geographical boundaries in principle it hasn?t really broken down cultural boundaries.?Can we develop systems on the web which will actually help solve that sort of ?challenge??

Berners-Lee was speaking in an interview at the World Economic Forum today,?entitled ?what?s wrong with social networking?? but he joked the title had been cooked up merely to draw in the crowds.

?As a universal platform the web wasn?t supposed to dictate what you did with it,? he told his audience in Davos. ?The world wide web is a platform and humanity does what it can with it??There?s lots of people who think we could do more. What do we really want to get out of this web thing? What do we really want to get out of human communication??

While it began as a collaborative tool, the web subsequently took off as a publishing medium ? or it did to a ?certain extent?, said Berners-Lee, pointing to the fact that publishing online remains a relatively elite activity and therefore, again, does not live up to his original collaborative vision for a truly global web.

?We?ve got wikis, we?ve got blogs, but still most people? aren?t publishing on the web. And actually when you go to most places you?re not in a position where you can take place in the conversation very much. Sometimes you can comment but actually the comment tends to be at a second level,? he said.

Asked about the erosion of online openness threatened by walled garden social networks, Berners-Lee said the networks both help humanity by providing the data that enables computers to help people but also highlighted how there is ?a lot of frustration, from a lot of people? that they can?t connect up the personal data they have entered into different services in all the ways they might like to.

?Each of these social network systems is a silo so there is a frustration that I?ve told it all my data but I don?t have access to that,? he said.

Despite yearning for more openness and fewer shackles stifling the free flow of online data, Berners-Lee was careful to say he was not calling for an online data free-for-all. There do need to be ?reasonable boundaries?, he accepted ? whether it?s sensitive personal or government or military data. ?The web isn?t about just sharing everything, destroying privacy? [but] if I want to share something with you it shouldn?t be the technology that gets in the way.?

Turning to the economic argument, Berners-Lee conceded there is a problem with current online business models ? especially when it comes to finding ways to pay musicians. The web should be ?about spreading culture, music and getting payment back to musicians?, he said. ? We?ve got to find new ways of doing that.?

Specifically he called for new protocols to be developed to support online payments. ?We need to find a whole lot of new business models ? I think we should develop new payment protocols so that when you?re using a web browser it?s a lot easier to pay for things.?

He also argued for the economic value in opening up data that is unnecessarily locked away, pointing to a U.K. initiative to open up government data so that the citizens who have paid for the data to be created in the first place can have the benefit of using it ? and use it to create new businesses. ?You?re making a great common good, that?s making the world run more efficiently,? he argued.

Likewise, he argued that the benefit to humanity of opening up scientific data ? to ?scientists everywhere? ? would be ?huge?.??It?s a?question of unlocking this potential that we really already have ? it?s getting huge benefit for very little cost,? he said.

Berners-Lee was also asked about Internet activist?Aaron Swartz, who was arrested for downloading academic journals and subsequently committed suicide ? and argued that Swartz?s tragedy is an example of what can happen when ?legislation gets too strong?.

?He was an incredibly ethical person. He thought a huge amount about what was right and how the world should be? but because [the FBI] saw that what he was doing was accessing a computer system there seems to be a deep suspicion of that,? he said.

?He used his programming to try to make a point, in a way as a protest. But they ended up using a very unfair law which had been changed from its original form which said that if you break into a computer system in any way then you are guilty of a felony? ?People are thinking now about that law, and there already proposals to change it.?

?To be a hacker ? when I use the term ? is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things,? Berners-Lee added. ?We need more coders, we need more people who understand how to put data online.?

A graduate of Oxford University, England, in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread. He is the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science...

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Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/inventor-of-the-world-wide-web-calls-for-more-online-innovation-to-break-down-cultural-barriers-and-build-new-business-models/

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