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Monday, 31 December 2012
Obama wants gun violence measures passed in 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Recalling the shooting rampage that killed 20 first graders as the worst day of his presidency, President Barack Obama pledged to put his "full weight" behind legislation aimed at preventing gun violence.
Obama voiced skepticism about the National Rifle Association's proposal to put armed guards in schools following the Dec. 14 tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The president made his comments Saturday in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Instead, the president vowed to rally the American people around an agenda to limit gun violence, adding that he still supports increased background checks and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity bullet magazines. He left no doubt it will be one of his top priorities next year.
"It is not enough for us to say, 'This is too hard so we're not going to try,'" Obama said.
"I think there are a vast majority of responsible gun owners out there who recognize that we can't have a situation in which somebody with severe psychological problems is able to get the kind of high capacity weapons that this individual in Newtown obtained and gun down our kids," he added. "And, yes, it's going to be hard."
The president added that he's ready to meet with Republicans and Democrats, anyone with a stake in the issue.
The schoolhouse shootings, coming as families prepared for the holidays, have elevated the issue of gun violence to the forefront of public attention. Six adult staff members were also killed at the elementary school. Shooter Adam Lanza committed suicide, apparently as police closed in. Earlier, he had killed his mother at the home they shared.
The tragedy immediately prompted calls for greater gun controls. But the NRA is strongly resisting those efforts, arguing instead that schools should have armed guards for protection. Some gun enthusiasts have rushed to buy semiautomatic rifles of the type used by Lanza, fearing sales may soon be restricted.
Obama seemed unimpressed by the NRA proposal. "I am skeptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools," he said. "And I think the vast majority of the American people are skeptical that that somehow is going to solve our problem."
The president said he intends to press the issue with the public.
"The question then becomes whether we are actually shook up enough by what happened here that it does not just become another one of these routine episodes where it gets a lot of attention for a couple of weeks and then it drifts away," Obama said. "It certainly won't feel like that to me. This is something that - you know, that was the worst day of my presidency. And it's not something that I want to see repeated."
Separately, a member of the president's cabinet said Sunday that rural America may be ready to join a national conversation about gun control. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the debate has to start with respect for the Second Amendment right to bear arms and recognition that hunting is a way of life for millions of Americans.
But Vilsack said Newtown has changed the way people see the issue. "I really believe that this is a different circumstance and a different situation," Vilsack said on CNN.
Vilsack said he thinks it's possible for Americans to come together. "It's potentially a unifying conversation," he said. "The problem is that these conversations are always couched in the terms of dividing us. This could be a unifying conversation, and Lord knows we need to be unified."
Besides passing gun violence legislation, Obama also listed deficit reduction and immigration as top priorities for 2013. A big deficit reduction deal with Republicans proved elusive this month, and Obama is now hoping Senate Democratic and Republican leaders salvage a scaled-back plan that avoids tax increases for virtually all Americans.
In addition, he issued a defense of former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, who has been mentioned as one of the leading candidates to replace Leon Panetta as defense secretary.
Hagel supported the 2002 resolution approving U.S. military action in Iraq, but later became a critic of the war. He has been denounced by some conservatives for not being a strong enough ally of Israel. Also, many liberals and gay activists have banded against him for comments he made in 1998 about an openly gay nominee for an ambassadorship.
Obama, who briefly served with Hagel in the Senate, stressed that he had yet to make a decision but called Hagel a "patriot."
Hagel "served this country with valor in Vietnam," the president said. "And (he) is somebody who's currently serving on my intelligence advisory board and doing an outstanding job."
Obama noted that Hagel had apologized for his 14-year-old remark on gays.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-wants-gun-violence-measures-passed-2013-140306667--finance.html
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US backs Argentina in debt restructuring case
AFP - The US gave strong support to Argentina on Friday in the Latin American country's legal battle with hedge funds over the repayment of $1.3 billion to holders of defaulted bonds.
Shortly before a court-imposed deadline, the US filed a "friend of the court" brief backing Argentina's attempt to overturn a ruling ordering it to make good on the bonds held by US hedge funds.
A hearing for Argentina's appeal has been set for February 27, 2013, again putting off a reckoning over Argentina's debt, which fell into arrears 11 years ago.
In a 15-page document, the administration of President Barack Obama warned the court that the November ruling "adopts a novel interpretation of a standard pari passu (fairness) clause" that "runs counter to longstanding US efforts to promote orderly restructuring of sovereign debt."
The US also warned the ruling could create risks for the dominance of the dollar in the bond market.
"The decision could encourage issuers to issue debt in non-US currencies in order to avoid the US payments system, causing a detrimental effect on the systemic role of the US dollar," it said.
Argentina defaulted on some $100 billion in debt in 2001, and has since restructured its debt twice, covering around 75 percent of the nominal value of the bonds.
But it insists it should not have to repay the $1.3 billion in bonds held by investment funds NML and Aurelius because they refused to take part in a 2005 restructuring agreed to by most of the other bondholders.
The two funds have demanded 100 percent repayment plus interest.
The November 21 ruling by New York lower court judge Thomas Griesa rejected Buenos Aires' position and ordered it to repay the $1.3 billion in full, before or in parallel with any other debt payments the country must make.
With Buenos Aires scheduled to pay out $3 billion on previously restructured debt on December 15, Griesa's order -- if it had been upheld -- would have meant it also must pay the $1.3 billion by that time or fall into default on all of its debt.
The ruling also raised questions for future debt restructurings, such as in Greece.
Beyond worries for the bond market, the US warned in its brief that the ruling could harm US foreign relations, as "such an order could have adverse consequences for the treatment of U.S. property under principles of reciprocity."
Source: http://www.france24.com/en/20121229-us-backs-argentina-debt-restructuring-case
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Sunday, 30 December 2012
Would You Want To Use Your NFC-Enabled Phone As Car Keys?
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China cracks down on internet anonymity (Wired UK)
Tighter internet controls have been approved in China which will require web users to register their real names with internet service providers.
Xinhua reports that the decision was approved in order to "ensure internet information security, safeguard the lawful rights and interests of citizens, legal entities or other organizations and safeguard national security and social public interests."
The real name policy will also come into play when signing telephone contracts and signing up to services which allow users to post information in the public domain. In conjunction with the government's requirement that service providers report illegal activity and content to officials, the rules could put an end to anonymous discussion and the ability to voice dissent or disagreement online.
Anonymity online has been a major source of contention in China with various measures being introduced over the last twelve months to restrict the ability to post on microblogs and similar sites under the relative protection of a pseudonym.
The Chinese government is keen to point out the benefits of the new system, saying that it will require service providers to increase their protection of customer data and up their levels of transparency as well as decreasing spam messaging. Penalties for businesses violating the policy include license revocation, enforced website closures and bans from the online business arena.
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Saturday, 29 December 2012
Daniel Bryan Meets Young Boy With Brain Cancer - Wrestling News ...
It was just hours after interviewing Daniel Bryan on TribLIVE Radio a couple months ago, that I learned about young Connor Michalek when speaking on the phone to his mother.
Connor is only 6 and has a rare form of brain cancer. All Connor wanted for Christmas was to meet his favorite WWE Superstar. Unfortunately Make A Wish couldn't help because he already got granted a wish a few years earlier with a trip to Disney World.
With the help of some of us in the Pittsburgh media and a great online campaign, Connor got his chance to meet Daniel Bryan and even a surprise appearance by Kane.
Just standing in the room, the emotion was amazing. Please check out this wonderful meeting:
Credit: Justin LaBar @ wrestlezone.com
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Gillmor Gang: Slow Poke To China
The Gillmor Gang ? Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor ? toast marshmallows around the social campfire as the PostApocalypse prepares to ring in a new year. It's all tweetness and light as @scobleizer sketches out the differences between just plain friends, close friends, and notification friends in the latest Facebook interface. For those of us who are too busy avoiding Downton Abbey spoilers unsuccessfully, the business of tweaking filters has gotten way too complicated for amateurs. Our best hope remains the blending of email, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and the rest into one notification stream multiplexed across our various devices. And in the end, the filter you make is equal to the love you take.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/2ERXC-ku1-4/
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Honda CR-V 2.0 iVTEC EX review - Pocket-lint
Everyone loves to hate an SUV, don?t they? Yet, as our recent review of the VW Touareg attests, even those of us who hate the breed can?t help but be won over and see why they?re so popular with modern families, after a week behind the wheel.
And on the week of the supposed Mayan apocalypse, and as pre-Christmas Britain attempted to bail itself out of the latest bout of flooding, what could make you feel more warm, secure and invincible than a four-wheel drive SUV from a brand that?s got a reputation for making cars that just never, ever, go wrong?
So although a Honda CR-V might not top your list of sexy automotive forms of transport, the popularity of the previous model is testimony to the inherent usefulness of this car and its popularity with families. Given that it had just undergone a major redesign, we thought we?d put it through a review to find out if Honda had dared meddle with the previous model?s surefire success recipe.
Design
First impressions aren?t exactly promising. Sure, gone is the previous model?s ?had all its teeth knocked out? front grille graphic for a much more modern integrated lamp/grille design, but otherwise the CR-V seems to have taken a little bit of a step backward, becoming more boxy and like an estate car on stilts, while most of its rivals have moved towards a ?tall hatchback? crossover format, in an effort to eschew some of that hated SUV image.
It?s not bad per-se, and admittedly our press car?s white paintwork did it no favours, but compared to slinky SUVs such as Range Rover?s Evoque, Audi?s Q5 and even Nissan?s Qashqai, the CR-V?s appearance does little for us.
Open the door though, and things improve. Granted, if you?re used to Audi?s slush-moulded plastic-fest interiors, there are going to be a few too many hard (read cheap-feeling) surfaces for comfort. But the design layout is inherently logical and not without appeal.
What?s more, get behind the wheel, in the back or open the boot and you start to see Honda?s engineering heritage shining through, and understand how it makes for a simply better car.
From the driver?s seat, the scuttle - the point at which the bottom of the windscreen meets the top of the bonnet - is appreciably lower than any competitor, which is a benefit of super-compact powertrain beneath the bonnet. This means you can simply see more, including the end of the bonnet - a real rarity in cars these days - and one that makes the CR-V easier to park.
The gearstick is mounted on the dash, so you get an enormous centre console between driver and passenger that will swallow three 1-litre sized water bottles, and still also leaves space for a bin for keys, phones etc.
In the back, you?ve a flat floor and three proper seats ? including three-across isofix points for child seats, which gives the CR-V a massive advantage over its competitors, to those with larger families.
Tech
This is Honda?s strength, and the reason it's well worth considering. At 30-grand, give-or-take five hundred quid, this top of the line ?EX? model CR-V poses you a tricky question. In effect, your choice at this price, is to squeeze yourself (financially) into a bottom-of-the-range premium-badged car from BMW, Audi or Land/Range Rover or buy a ?bells and whistles? top of the range car for the same price, from a ?non-premium? brand like Honda.
So whereas most of the premium brands would ask you to pay extra for (deep breath) a panoramic roof; cruise control; parking sensors front and rear (including a camera); HD-based navigation; DAB radio; video/DVD/MP3/Bluetooth audio playback; heated, electrically adjustable leather seats; keyless access and an electric opening tailgate, this EX model CR-V nets you all of those as standard. In fact, the only option that came on our test car was the pearlescent white paint, which we?d suggest you forgo.
Perhaps better still, it all worked seamlessly and without any idiosyncrasies ? as you might expect from a Honda. We loved the attention to detail, like the fact the electrically opening tailgate was perfectly happy to be lifted and pulled closed manually as well as electrically. Normally, electric-powered tailgates freak out and freeze if you try to ?help? them. The fact that the rear seats fold via the tug of one lever inside the boot while doing a fun little dance: folding their headrests in, flipping up the squab and dropping the backrest in one single movement. This basically turns the CR-V into a van, one we squeezed an 8 ft Christmas tree into. Oh and there?s stop/start functionality and an economy button too, in an effort to reign-in any consumption excess.
Many of these are the kind of gadgets you might suggest you don?t need and which (pay attention other manufacturers), when done wrong, can irritate you day-to-day when you live with a car. But while on the CR-V they?re not executed with quite the premium, soft-touch, damped quality of an Audi, they do all work as expected, and tend to come in handy when you?ve an armful of shopping or child ? we can?t remember the last time a car soothed us and irritated us less than the CR-V.
On top of this, because it?s a Honda, you just know that none of it is going to break for the next fifteen years. It?s the kind of thing the company has built its reputation on, and which gives you ? the owner ? a reassuring, comforting sense ? especially if it?s going to be your family inside most of the time.
Driving
No one buys an SUV and expects it to drive like a sport cars, but the number of massive-wheel?ed, S-Line suspension?ed Audi SUVs out there suggests that people are more than happy to put up with a hard ride to make their SUV look ? and presumably drive ? more sportily.
The CR-V doesn?t really make any pretense at sporty, but its ride isn?t as cushioned as we?d like. It?s ability to deal with speed humps, pot holes and big road deflections is fine, but the secondary ride never truly settles down, jittering and letting you know everything that?s happening beneath you. Some will like this, as it could be construed as sportiness, but we?d trade it for a bit more comfort.
We highlight this area, as otherwise ? like in the tech area ? the CR-V is a really nice place to spend several hours , and is expertly judged for its market. If you?re not expecting sports car performance, it should suit you fine. The handling is safe and secure ? with the added back up of four-wheel drive when you need it. The gearshift is one of those beautifully precise jobs that Honda?s famous for, and it steers and handles true and straight ? it?s a good companion on a windy, rainy motorway for instance.
Our car came with Honda?s 2.0 VTEC petrol engine. In true Honda petrol-engine fashion, it likes revs to really get moving and given it?s pushing quite a lot of car around without the aid of a turbocharger, you?ll need to work it hard if you want to make decent progress. Most will therefore choose the diesel, which we?d suggest will suit the CR-V?s character better, and feel faster in most given driving situations.
We wanted to try the petrol though, as we continue to note that diesel costs more at the pumps and incurs a company car tax penalty. The diesel models also cost more to buy ? so unless you?re driving a lot of miles each year, the petrol may make more financial sense. If you?re not too fussed about the cost, we?d suggest you try both before buying, but don?t write off the petrol. In a mix of one third town driving and two-thirds high-speed motorway run, in our hands it returned a real-world 30mpg, whereas we?d expect the diesel to return 36-40 in the same conditions. Swings, roundabouts, etc.
Source: http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/6125/honda-cr-v-suv-family-car-review
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Friday, 28 December 2012
Video: LA citizens line up to turn in their guns
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Mahindra Quanto Vs Premier Rio- Battle Is Almost Won By Quanto
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Mini SUV segment is becoming another next best space for both the carmakers and car buyers in India. And with the introduction of Mahindra Quanto in the country, a wish to take home a vehicle that could offer SUV?S macho call and same time can proved to be easy in use like hatchbacks has been deepen among car enthusiasts. But when Quanto is appealing customers towards it, another compact SUV Premier Rio is also striving for buyer?s consideration. Though Premier Rio was actually pioneered the Mini- SUV space in year 2009, in the current year, it has been given some upgrades in terms of powertrain and style. So here starts the battle between two compact SUVS, each eyeing for making most of the demands. So read below to get an iota of idea about both theses SUVs and get ready to make a good purchase.
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Thursday, 27 December 2012
Pennsylvania State Buildings To Close Due To Inclement Weather
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) ? The Office of Administration has announced that non-essential employees should leave work two hours early due to the weather.
Officials say that non-essential workers under the governor?s jurisdiction who work in the Philadelphia State Office Buildings, Harrisburg area, Capital Complex, Pittsburgh, Reading and Scranton are to leave; other non-essential employees with receive instructions from their agencies.
Essential employees will continue to work as scheduled.
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Thai 'Yellow Shirt' leaders charged for 2008 rally
BANGKOK (AP) ? Protest leaders in Thailand were indicted Thursday for storming the prime minister's office compound and sealing off Parliament during massive anti-government rallies in 2008 at the height of political turmoil, which left the country deeply divided to this day.
Prosecutors filed charges against Sondhi Limthongkul, Chamlong Srimuang and other leaders of the People's Alliance for Democracy, also known as the Yellow Shirts.
They face up to five years in prison for trespassing at Government House during an August 2008 rally, in which protesters stormed the compound and thousands occupied the grounds for weeks. They face an additional seven years in prison for blockading the Parliament in an October 2008 rally that left hundreds injured.
They also led a two-week seizure of Bangkok airports but have not yet been charged for that.
Mostly hailing from the urban elite, the Yellow Shirts' protests grew from their visceral hatred for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a telecommunications tycoon, whose democratically elected government was in power from 2001 until it was overthrown in a 2006 military coup. The Yellow Shirts claimed he was corrupt and that his proxies were running the country after he went into exile following the coup.
His sister, Yingluck, is now premier, which critics say has helped accelerate long-stalled legal cases against opponents of Thaksin, who says the corruption charges that he says are trumped up.
After a year of martial law following the 2006 coup, fresh elections were held that were again won by Thaksin's allies, triggering the Yellow Shirt protests, which took a heavy toll on the economy and tourism. The political turmoil continued for months until the pro-Yellow Shirt Democrat Party formed a government in December 2008 without an election. That brought to the streets tens of thousands of Thaksin supporters, mostly rural folk, who called themselves the Red Shirts.
They were evicted from central Bangkok in a military operation in April 2010 that left dozens of people dead.
The deadlock was finally broken when the Democrat Party stepped aside and called elections in July 2011 that Yingluck's party won. Thaksin remains in exile.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/thai-yellow-shirt-leaders-charged-2008-rally-080757203.html
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Observatory: Ramses III Had His Throat Slashed, New Study Suggests
[unable to retrieve full-text content]New CT scans of the pharaoh Ramses III, who ruled Egypt in the 12th century B.C., reveal that his throat was slit, probably in a coup attempt.
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Best SEO tips: Travel and Leisure Back packs for Ladies - telola's ...
There are various sorts of travel backpacks for ladies designed for those who desire to choose backpacking for holiday. Traveling alone isn't just for guys, women these days travel on their own just about everywhere. Nevertheless the majority of individual or the what is known as solo vacation relating to backpacking is usually tailored for men Ladies really are exclusive since we really need to combat unneeded attention particularly when we vacation alone and it may be rather demanding for many people.
Women from time to time opt to vacation alone due to numerous aspects. A few factors which I could picture will probably be somebody who just turned single again, desires to break free on her own for a short period, gain strength and possibly to provide evidence she can get it done on their own, probably looking for religious experience or simply really wants to do things in a different way. Recommended for you would be to go backpacking and find a special constr ucted vacation backpacks for ladies. Schedule your holiday perfectly and exercise lodging safety and always arrange to reach a location during day time. Remember to keep your traveling document secure and also be sure you dress adequately to prevent yourself from undesired notice. Actually do communicate with family members and good friends as you vacation and also a smart and efficient way would be to post your travel and leisure blogs.
A well specially designed holiday backpacks for women should be capable of support the actual shoulder blades pad as women are generally lighter weight compare with males and this will be more ergonomics to manage it. It shall be wiser to decide on light-weight backpacking due to the fact is really a safer choice compare to traditional holiday backpack simply because it helps to reduce chance of injuries for example sprained shoulder joint, back discomfort and knee complications.
A lighter in weight travel backpacks for girls also allow women vacationer to be far more reactive with regards to urgent situation. It's quicker to duck and also run away if you have a less heavy load on your back especially if you encounter natural disaster like mudslide or even crashing branches. Apart from that you can enjoy your vacation and traveling far more distance as well as take pleasure in the mobility and also independence when you vacation light. Single vacationers espe cially ladies require the simplicity and luxury as opposed to struggling with aching muscles and also lower back pain as a result of a sub standard travel and leisure backpack. Therefore, prior to start the journey it's a good idea to search and also look around online backpacks for additional information prior to selecting one.
Single female vacationers face far more danger and also it's imperative to apply essential traveling safeguards. Take a compass and guide of course, if you can invest a Gps navigation that is loaded with the latest map which is extra reliable. Try and stay with a familiar path that's incredibly well visited to make sure that when you are confronted by misfortune aid is available out quicker. Once you have all your travel backpacks for ladies all securely filled you are prepared to enjoy the vacation!
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How should we handle pay while our employee is serving jury duty ...
Q. One of our employees received a jury duty summons. What are our obligations towards the employee in terms of pay and leave?
A. Pursuant to sections 122.001 and 122.0022 of the Juror?s Right to Reemployment Act in the Texas Civil Practices & Remedies Code, when an employee is out on jury duty leave, his or her job is protected.
That is, an employee who is on jury duty is entitled to protection against termination or other adverse action by his or her employer. Moreover, employers with a leave policy may not count jury duty leave toward any absence limit specified in an attendance policy.
With regard to pay, Texas law does not require employers to offer employees paid leave for jury duty.
The rule is slightly different for exempt employees in the event of absences due to jury duty. If an exempt employee works any part of a week and misses the rest of the week for jury duty, he or she must receive the full salary for the workweek. If an exempt employee misses a full week, no pay is due for that week.
Texas employers may require an employee to use vacation or other paid leave time for jury duty leave.
Before doing so, however, employers should ensure that their vacation or paid time off policy (or any labor agreement) does not prohibit such a requirement.
Any employer that chooses to pay regular wages or salary to employees who are out on jury duty leave may require the employees to turn over the jury duty pay to the employer.
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Eyes may provide a look into multiple sclerosis progression
Dec. 24, 2012 ? New research suggests that thinning of a layer of the retina in the eyes may show how fast multiple sclerosis (MS) is progressing in people with the disease. The study is published in the Jan. 1, 2013, online issue of Neurology?, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
"This study suggests that retinal thinning, measured by in-office eye scans, called OCT, may occur at higher rates in people with earlier and more active MS," said Robert Bermel, MD, with the Cleveland Clinic Mellen Center for MS and a member of the American Academy of Neurology, who wrote an accompanying editorial.
For the study, 164 people with MS from the Johns Hopkins MS Center, including 59 who had no disease activity, underwent eye scans that measured thinning of a portion of their retinas every six months for an average of 21 months. Participants were also given MRI brain scans at the start of the study and yearly.
The study found that people with MS relapses had 42 percent faster thinning than people with MS who had no relapses. People with MS who had inflammatory lesions called gadolinium-enhancing lesions experienced 54 percent faster thinning and those with new T2 lesions had 36 percent faster thinning than MS patients without these features of MRI activity.
People whose level of disability worsened during the study experienced 37 percent more thinning than those who had no changes in their level of disability, and those who had the disease less than five years showed 43 percent faster thinning than those who had the disease more than five years.
"As more therapies are developed to slow the progression of MS, testing retinal thinning in the eyes may be helpful in evaluating how effective those therapies are," said study author Peter Calabresi, MD, with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.
The study was supported by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the National Eye Institute and Braxton Debbie Angela Dillon and Skip Donor Advisor Fund.
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Tuesday, 25 December 2012
Slow Cooker Mulled Wine with Sweet'N Low | Diethood
Are you ready for tomorrow? Are you sure you?re ready for the crowd that is about to enter your home? Do you have everything? Gifts, food, dress, food? Drinks? Yeah, drinks! Ain?t no party without some spirits and wine, now, is there?
Allow me to help you out with that answer; No.
Moreover, allow me to help you out with the drinks part. How about we create a delicious hot beverage in the slow cooker? Mulled Wine is a great option! All we have to do is turn the slow cooker dial on low and forget about it until it is time to serve. Best part ? it?s low in sugar!
You can thank me for that after the holidays when you realize that I saved you a few calories and carbs.
As part of the DailyBuzz Food Tastemaker program I was selected to create a low-sugar beverage recipe with Sweet?N Low sweetener.
No problemo!
We love wine. Underline, Bold, Italicize, Caps ? LOVE.?Now you definitely know how much we love wine.
But this time of year, we like our wine a bit spiced. And warm. Don?t you? That is why it was a no-brainer for me when I was given this assignment.
Sweet?N Low has made life a bit easier for people like my dad that are either borderline diabetic or diabetic. Because of my dad, we usually go around about adding sugar to many of my recipes by using Sweet?N Low sweetener in place of sugar.?My dad loves his sweets and these hot drinks, but without the help of Sweet?N Low sweetener, he wouldn?t be able to enjoy them.
For more information about Sweet?N Low Sweetener, hop on over to their website where you will be able to find more great recipe ideas and special offers.
Now you can go rest easy knowing that for tomorrow you have a low-sugar option on that menu, which in turn will allow you to double up on that pie. 
I would like to thank DailyBuzz Food and Sweet?N Low for this opportunity -?Cheers and Merry Christmas!
Disclaimer: I was provided with a Sweet?N Low Sweetener Gift Pack and ?a stipend as part of the Tastemakers program from DailyBuzz Food. The opinions expressed are my own.
ENJOY!
Slow Cooker Mulled Wine {Low Sugar}
Ingredients
- 1 bottle, 750mL, red wine (I use Merlot)
- zest of 1 orange
- 1 orange, peeled, segmented
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 1 small piece of ginger root (about 1-inch piece)
- 2 tablespoons Maker's Mark Brandy
- 10 packets Sweet'N Low sweetener
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in the slow cooker pot.
- Stir and cover.
- Cook on LOW for 4 hours or on HIGH for 2 hours.
- Ladle into mugs without the spices.
- When serving, take the lid off and leave the slow cooker on LOW or WARM.
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NY surfer who survived Sandy drowns in Puerto Rico
NEW YORK (AP) ? A lifeguard widely praised as a hero after Superstorm Sandy for rescuing neighbors endangered by rolling floodwaters and a fire that destroyed several homes in a small community where grief has been a frequent visitor has died in a surfing accident in Puerto Rico.
The death of 23-year-old Dylan Smith on Sunday brought sadness again to residents of the Belle Harbor section of the Rockaways, which lost several police officers and firefighters in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and was the site of a deadly plane crash just months later.
As word spread that Smith, who used his surfboard to ferry so many people to safety during the late October superstorm, had lost his life, a Heroes of Rockaway Facebook page said: "R.I.P. to Dylan Smith, our Rockaway Hero, tragically died this morning surfing in Puerto Rico. He will never be forgotten."
Troy Bradwisch, who lives on the same street as the Smith family, said the presumed drowning death was "crushing" for the neighborhood.
"It was more shocking than anything," he said. "You can go through the storm and all that, and he goes on vacation to get a sense of normalcy and something like that happens."
Marguerite Wetzel, a Montauk resident who knows the Smith family from trips to Puerto Rico, could barely talk about the death.
"I have two sons, and he exemplified everything you would want your sons to be. I'm going to start tearing up," she said, her voice cracking.
Smith had lived with his parents and a 19-year-old brother when he was not at college. Fire Department of New York Chief Michael Light, a longtime friend of Smith's recently retired firefighter father, said someone who was with Smith in waters off Maria's Beach in the Puerto Rican community of Rincon notified him of the death.
"We know he died in the water while he was surfing. It's under investigation as to the cause," Light said. "I believe he was with some friends."
Smith's body was found floating near his surfboard, police said. Authorities said a resident of the Puerto Rican town, whose beaches attract surfers from across the world, spotted Smith in the water and took him to shore. They said a doctor tried to resuscitate him.
Light said Smith rescued as many as a dozen people during the superstorm by paddling from porch to porch with his surfboard, moving the helpless, including children and the elderly, from imperiled perches amid swirling floodwaters and a sky filled with flames from a gas line explosion as more than a dozen homes around him burned to the ground.
"It was totally brave and selfless," Light said.
People magazine, which named Smith one of its Heroes of the Year, credited Smith and neighbor Michael McDonnell with rescuing six people trapped by the flood and fire by connecting electric cords and twine into a makeshift rope that could be gripped as they walked the surfboard with people on it to safety at the storm's height.
The flood and fire occurred in a Queens neighborhood with an unusually high population of police officers and firefighters, which might explain why a higher proportion of residents lost their lives on Sept. 11 than just about anywhere else. Two months later, American Airlines Flight 587 smashed into a home, killing 265 people and setting off fires that destroyed the homes of those living around Smith and his family.
The Smith family home was spared again during Superstorm Sandy when fires destroyed neighbors' homes and the Harbor Light Restaurant, where Smith sometimes worked as a bartender.
Smith, who helped neighbors clean up and rebuild after the storm, had gone recently to Puerto Rico, where his family had a home in the popular beach town. Light said he could understand if Smith wanted some relief from the destruction in Belle Harbor.
"It's tough to look at," he said. "He figured rather than look out the window at the destruction here, post Sandy, all the rebuilding, he was going to take a little break and do a little surfing in Puerto Rico and get away for a while."
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Associated Press writer Ben Fox in Puerto Rico contributed to this report.
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Body found at home of gunman who ambushed N.Y. firefighters
The man who opened fire on firefighters in Webster, N.Y., leaving two of them dead, left a note saying he had set out to "do what I like doing best, killing people." NBC News' Ron Mott reports.
By Andrew Mach and Jason White, NBC News
Police investigating the ambush Monday in upstate New York in which two firefighters were killed said Tuesday that they had found what appeared to be human remains at the gunman's home believed they were those of his 67-year-old sister, who lived with him.
William Spengler, 62, opened fire on the volunteer firefighters as they responded to a blaze in Webster just before 6 a.m. ET Monday in a small cluster of homes near Lake Ontario, police said. The firefighters ? Michael Chiapperini, 43, a lieutenant with the Webster police, and Tomasz Kaczowka, 19 ? were shot dead, and Spengler killed himself as seven houses burned around him.
Earlier, police said Spengler had left a three-page typewritten note saying he wanted to burn down the neighborhood and "do what I like doing best, killing people."
At a second briefing Tuesday, Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said police believed the probable human remains were those of Cheryl Spengler, 67, who had been missing since the ambush.
Officials provide the latest details on the ambush that killed two firefighters while responding to a blaze in Webster, N.Y.
Pickering said two other firefighters shot during the ambush, Joseph Hofstetter and Theodore Scardino, were recovering at a hospital in Rochester. A spokeswoman at Strong Memorial Hospital said the two were in guarded condition and were alert and oriented, but she didn't expect them to be released for a few more days.
An off-duty police officer also was hit by gunfire as he drove past the scene Monday morning. No information on his condition was immediately available Tuesday.
Pickering said Spengler armed himself with three weapons and set his house afire to lure first responders into a death trap.
Spengler's note didn't appear to offer a motive, Pickering said, but "he was equipped to go to war and kill innocent people."
"I'm not sure we'll never really know what was going through his mind," the chief said.
Despite being shot, one of the injured firefighters was able to flee from the scene under his own power. But the others remained pinned down on the narrow strip of land near Lake Ontario until a SWAT team arrived.
As police closed in, Spengler took his own life with a gunshot wound to the head, Pickering said.
Monroe County Sheriff's Office
William Spengler, 62, in an undated booking photo.
Spengler had lived in the house with his sister and mother, Arline, who died in October at 91. Arline Spengler's obituary asked that memorial donations be made to the West Webster Fireman's Association.
A former neighbor told The Associated Press that Spengler "loved his mama to death" and that he "couldn't stand" his sister. The neighbor said he thought Spengler "went crazy" after his mother died.
Spengler was convicted of manslaughter in 1981 after the death of his grandmother, Rose Spengler, 92, and was paroled in 1998. He remained under parole supervision until 2006, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported. Before Monday's shooting, Webster police hadn't had any run-ins with Spengler since he was paroled, they said.
Although Spengler couldn't legally own firearms as a convicted felon, police said he was armed with a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver, a 12-gauge pump shotgun and a Bushmaster .223 caliber rifle.
At least 33 people were displaced by the fire, which engulfed at least seven homes and a motor vehicle.
"These firemen are part of our family. You go into a fire with these guys. To see them go down with something like this is totally unexpected. We are in shock," Billy Gross, fire commissioner for West Webster, told the Democrat and Chronicle.
Dozens of area residents were evacuated, with police searching them as they left, the newspaper reported.
"Miserable thing to happen this time of year," Mark Johns, a state assemblyman who represents the area, told local NBC station WHEC. Johns said he knew some of the firefighters who were shot.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a statement offering his "deepest condolences."
"All of our thoughts and prayers go to the families and friends of those who were killed in this senseless act of violence," Cuomo said. "New York's first responders are true heroes as they time and again selflessly rush toward danger in order to keep our families and communities safe."
Tom Winter, Ranjani Chakraborty and Rosanna Arlia of NBC News contributed to this report.
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3 Reasons Why You Should Use Social Media for Marketing
Do you have a business that you?re trying to create attention for?? Are you trying to make a name for yourself either as an artist or performer online? If either of these things is true?and you?ve been on the fence as far as social media is concerned?then you?ve got to jump down off that fence right away.
The truth is if you?re not using social networks and social media marketing, then you?re leaving tons and tons of money, business, and/or fans on the table.
Social media is not a fad. This should be obvious but some people just don?t get it. Not only is it not a fad, but it?s the way the total internet seems to be heading. Even Google is continuously trying to make their sites more focused on social media aspects.
You?ll often see evidence of this when you see how social networking sites rank on the search engine result pages. This is not by accident.
There are a few other very good reasons why marketing on social networks is so vitally important?
3 Reasons You Must Start Using Social Media for Your Business or Fan Base?
#1 You Cannot Deny the Sheer Numbers and Popularity of These Social Networking Sites?
You know, when you have a business, you want to expose that business to as many people as possible. Never has there been a greater number of people in one place than there are on social networking sites online.
On any given day there are between 580 to 600 million active users ON Facebook. That?s insane. They have over 1 billion users log in each month. You cannot deny these numbers, and you certainly can?t deny the fact that there are a nice percentage of people interested in your product or service on Facebook.
Twitter has 500 million users. On an average day, there are over 170 Million Tweets posted. What if just a small percentage of those tweets were regarding you or your business?
#2 Social Networking Is Social Proof?
Social proof is a factor that influences people. Basically when you see someone that you know, like, or respect doing or using something?it makes it okay in your mind to do or use the same things.
Getting people talking about you and your business online creates a huge amount of social proof. Here?s a nice little tidbit. On Twitter, 50% of users say that they follow the brands that they use. They also follow businesses that they frequent.
This means that when you get people following you, it creates a snowball effect. And the great thing is that you?ve just got to prime the pump, and it perpetually starts building on its own momentum after that.
#3 Your Competition Is Using Social Media?
The chances are that your competition is already using or will very soon be using social media to gain new customers or fans. This is because your target market is on the social networking sites. So you go where your prospects are? as common sense business savvy dictates.
This means that you need to not only be on the social sites yourself, but you need to be doing social marketing better than your competition is doing it.
One of the best ways to start getting an edge over your competition on these sites is to know what?s already being said about your business across the social networking spectrum.
This can be tough so it?s always good to find a good effective tool to make your life easier for doing this.
If you?d like to see a review of a strong tool for analyzing your social networking and social media effectiveness;
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Monday, 24 December 2012
Use the "4 S's" to Become a Wine Connoisseur
If you're hosting a holiday party this week, wine is probably a factor. And if you're not an expert, choosing the right bottle for your occasion and budget can be overwhelming. Here, LearnVest's Gabrielle Karol explains how to use the "4 S's" to up your wine game and impress your guests.
What's the difference between Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio, anyway? (Answer: They're made from the same grape, but Pinot Gris is produced in France, while Pinot Grigio derives from Italy.) And is it really possible to pick out an affordable bottle of wine that doesn't taste, well?cheap? We turned to an expert for the best advice: Leslie Sbrocco, author of The Simple & Savvy Wine Guide: Buying, Pairing and Sharing for All. Sbrocco walked us through the "4 S's" of wine tasting and how to get great value at the wine store.
The 4 S's: Seeing, Swirling, Smelling and Sipping
"The most important way to learn about wine is to taste as much of it as possible," says Sbrocco. But you can't just drink a bottle of wine each night and expect to breeze your way through a conversation with a sommelier. That's where the "4 S's" come in. By breaking up the tasting process into four components?seeing, swirling, smelling, and sipping?you'll start to properly identify the different components of a wine. This will help you to eventually figure out your personal tastes, as well as what to look for when choosing a wine.
Step 1: Seeing
Once you've poured your wine into a clear glass, examine the color. As a general rule, white wine will be darker if it's older, while red wine will be lighter if it's aged for a longer period of time. The color can also tell you about the process used to make the wine: Chardonnay, for instance, will be golden due to its aging process, which typically occurs in oak barrels.
Step 2: Swirling
Move the wine around the glass gently, aiming to coat the sides of the cup. This will release the aromatics of the wine, which will help you to better identify scents.
Step 3: Smelling
"If initially you simply smell ?red' or ?white,' that's fine!" say Sbrocco. Keep sniffing in order to identify the following scents:
If it's a white wine, see if you can identify citrus notes, like grapefruit, lemon, and lime; or ripe, tropical fruits, such as pineapple or melon. Cooler places will generally produce more citrusy or tangy-smelling wines, while ripe smells indicate warmer locales. Additionally, some white wines may produce aromas of vanilla or oak.
If it's a red wine, most red wines will either have red berry scents, like cherry and strawberry, or darker, riper smells, including blackberry and plum. Wines produced in cooler places will tend toward the red berry side of the spectrum, while warmer locations will lend themselves to a darker, riper scent. Red wines can also have earthier aromas, like coffee, smoke, or chocolate.
Step 4: Sipping
When you take your first sip, what you taste is a combination of the actual flavors of the wine, as well as the scent because taste is heavily influenced by smell.
"The first question to ask yourself: Do you like it? Or do you not like it?" says Sbrocco. Then try to identify the different flavors you've smelled, along with characteristics such as sweetness, tanginess, and alcohol content.
How to Put Those "4 S's" to Good Use
The information derived from the process of seeing, swirling, smelling, and sipping is most helpful if it's documented. By recording your thoughts on the wine you've sampled, you'll start to identify patterns in wines you've enjoyed?and ones that have missed the mark.
Sbrocco herself takes photos of wines she's tried on her smartphone, and then she sends herself an email with additional notes. You can try an app like Hello Vino, which lets you take a photo of the bottle and add such information as year, price, rating, sweetness, smell, and alcohol content.
So now that you know why trying as many wines as possible is so important, the next question is: What's the most cost-effective way to taste-test new bottles?
"Many wine shops have free tastings," says Sbrocco. "This is a great way to try new bottles, and learn from professionals with a lot of experience."
Another fun idea is to form your own tasting group?if everyone brings a bottle, you can try a number of different wines and compare notes. "Organize monthly tastings around themes," says Sbrocco. "You can make it as broad as ?red wine' or you can go more specific, like ?wines from California.'"
They key is to sample different varieties of reds and whites from varied countries. Sbrocco recommends the following picks, which encompass a spectrum of flavors, from light and juicy to full-bodied and heavy.
To get you started with some affordable picks, Sbrocco has selected five of her recent favorites, including two bonus sparkling wines:
2011 Gainey "Limited Selection" Riesling, Santa Ynez Valley, California?$15
2011 Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Villages, Beaujolais, France?$12
2010 Concha y Toro "Casillero Del Diablo," Carmenere, Chile?$10
Segura Viudas Brut Reserva, Cava, Spain?$10
2011 Medici Ermete "Concerto," Lambrusco, Italy?$11
Why You Need to Keep an Open Mind About Wine
Sbrocco's final piece of advice: Don't get too hung up on how long a wine has been aged or whether it has a screw top.
"When it comes to white wine, it can be produced very quickly?I just tried a great bottle from 2012. You won't see good reds quite as quickly, but there are definitely solid options from 2011, 2010 and 2009," says Sbrocco. "A lot of reds will benefit from more age, but there's no hard and fast rule. Sure, you can age a California Cabernet for 25 years, but it could be just as good?if not better?after 10."
And skeptics needn't be put off by screw tops, she says. "The container doesn't predict the quality of the wine. There are fantastic wines that come with screw tops, and bad wines with corks."
Sbrocco is also a huge fan of the recent resurgence of boxed wines: "The value is tremendous?a 3-liter box is equivalent to four bottles of wine. At $25-35 a box, that comes to $6 per bottle. Plus, the technology helps the wine stay fresh for months."
Luckily, it's clear that becoming a wine connoisseur doesn't necessarily depend on spending a ton of money?it really comes down to paying attention (and drinking more)!
Become the Ultimate Wine Connoisseur in 4 Easy Steps | LearnVest
Gabrielle Karol is an editorial assistant at LearnVest. She recently graduated with a B.A. in English from Yale University. Before LearnVest, she wrote for Patch and The Yale Herald. She also has television and radio experience, interning at WTNH in New Haven, CT, and WNPR in Hartford, CT. Gabrielle saves up money for dance classes and exploring new restaurants and bars in New York City. Follow her on Twitter @GabrielleKarol.
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Sunday, 23 December 2012
jeetsingh: Winter Dining Round the Family Dining Table is back ...
With the winter approaching and the BBQ covered for the season there is a growing trend to return to family dining around a large dining table. Be it a lovely large formal dining table like Downton Abbey ?upstairs? .. or more like the antique farmhouse table ?below stairs? at Downton Abbey tastes vary but the principle is the same. Collective eating around a large dining table is back! With grandparents living longer there is an even greater need for dining tables to comfortably accommodate 4 to 6 people and yet be able to extend to a larger size when the generations gather.
Elisabeth James Antiques are the UK?s largest stockiest of original dining tables from Early Period, Georgian, Regency, Victorian and Edwardian periods. Under one roof we always have at least 100 tables in oak, mahogany and walnut. The range includes formal round tables to seat 6, 8 or 10 people, formal extending tables to seat 6 to 30 people and refectory or farmhouse tables to seat up to 16 people.
All of our stock is original and we select the best quality tables from estates and clearance to ensure that the restoration process produces the most stunning example from any period. Our in house team of restorers have specialised in finishing large dining tables for a combined 160 and use traditional techniques rather than the modern spray finishes most companies adopt today. Quite simply, whether a classic French polish, traditional wax finish or a hardy heat resistant lacquer, our team produce the most perfect finish of your choice. We supply the fine antiques trade and customers around the World with the very best quality at the lowest prices possible.
Amongst our antique dining tables and antique occasional tables our stock includes :-
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Decision to give a group effort in the brain
Dec. 23, 2012 ? A monkey would probably never agree that it is better to give than to receive, but they do apparently get some reward from giving to another monkey.
During a task in which rhesus macaques had control over whether they or another monkey would receive a squirt of fruit juice, three distinct areas of the brain were found to be involved in weighing benefits to oneself against benefits to the other, according to new research by Duke University researchers.
The team used sensitive electrodes to detect the activity of individual neurons as the animals weighed different scenarios, such as whether to reward themselves, the other monkey or nobody at all. Three areas of the brain were seen to weigh the problem differently depending on the social context of the reward. The research appears Dec. 24 in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Using a computer screen to allocate juice rewards, the monkeys preferred to reward themselves first and foremost. But they also chose to reward the other monkey when it was either that or nothing for either of them. They also were more likely to give the reward to a monkey they knew over one they didn't, preferred to give to lower status than higher status monkeys, and had almost no interest in giving the juice to an inanimate object.
Calculating the social aspects of the reward system seems to be a combination of action by two centers involved in calculating all sorts of rewards and a third center that adds the social dimension, according to lead researcher Michael Platt, director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
The orbital frontal cortex, right above the eyes, was activated when calculating rewards to the self. The anterior cingulate sulcus in the middle of the top of the brain seemed to calculate giving up a reward. But both centers appear "divorced from social context," Platt said. A third area, the anterior cingulate gyrus (ACCg), seemed to "care a lot about what happened to the other monkey," Platt said.
Based on results of various combinations of the reward-giving scenario the monkeys were put through, it would appear that neurons in the ACCg encode both the giving and receiving of rewards, and do so in a remarkably similar way.
The use of single-neuron electrodes to measure the activity of brain areas gives a much more precise picture than brain imaging, Platt said. Even the best imaging available now is "a six-second snapshot of tens of thousands of neurons," which are typically operating in milliseconds.
What the team has seen happening is consistent with other studies of damaged ACCg regions in which animals lost their typical hesitation about retrieving food when facing social choices. This same region of the brain is active in people when they empathize with someone else.
"Many neurons in the anterior cingulate gyrus (ACCg) respond both when monkeys choose a drink for themselves and when they choose to give a drink to another monkey," Platt said. "One might view these as sort of mirror neurons for the reward system." The region is active as an animal merely watches another animal receiving a reward without having one themselves.
The research is another piece of the puzzle as neuroscientists search for the roots of charity and social behavior in our species and others. There have been two schools of thought about how the social reward system is set up, Platt said. One holds that there is generic circuitry for rewards that has been adapted to our social behavior because it helped humans and other social animals like monkeys thrive. Another school holds that social behavior is so important to humans and other highly social animals like monkeys that there may be some special circuits for it, Platt said.
This finding, in macaques that have only a very distant common ancestor with us and are "not a particularly prosocial animal," suggests that "this specialized social circuitry evolved a long time ago presumably to support cooperative behavior," Platt said.
The research was supported by grants from the Ruth K. Broad Biomedical Foundation, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, National Institute of Mental Health (MH095894), and Department of Defense (W81XWH-11-1-0584).
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- Steve W C Chang, Jean-Fran?ois Gari?py, Michael L Platt. Neuronal reference frames for social decisions in primate frontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/nn.3287
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