Red Dawn Movie Review | Entertainment | Know your city

Director:?Dan Bradley

Cast:?Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, Connor Cruise, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

b! Says:?**1/2

Red Dawn is a Junior Expendables movie in disguise

?Red Dawn? is a mindless entertainer, featuring plenty of coming-of-age beefcake and boom boom. Think of it as a Junior Expendables ? where aeging, alpha superstars are replaced with pimply teenagers doing what they do best ? huff and puff till they make a million teenage girls feel faint. The movie may prove a little too ?pretty boy? for fans of the original 1984 movie, but it?s still a fun ride.

A sleepy American town receives a nasty jolt when the North Koreans launch a surprise invasion. As enemy paratroopers fall from the skies, a bunch of youngsters manage to escape arrest. The group consists of jaded marine (Chris Hemsworth), his love interest (Adrianne Palicki), his little brother (Josh Peck) and others (Josh Hutcherson, Connor Cruise, Steve Lenz). As more refugees add to their group and some see their parents brutally murdered, the gang christen themselves the Wolverines and decide to fight back, in the hope that more will rebel and overthrow Korean rule.

The movie has as many adrenaline filled moments as it does those that will make you roll your eyes. These kids might be at war, but still find time to make goo-goo eyes at each other and even break out the beer to celebrate a bloody skirmish. There are lapses in logic aplenty and in true Hollywood fashion, the first casualties of the group are black and Hispanic characters (Connor Cruise lasts a little longer and he probably has to thank celebrity parents, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, for it). Still, some of the renegade attacks and the invasion sequence (see video below) are well played out and with a running time of less than two hours, it?s ends before turning intolerable.

As for the actors, Hemsworth hasn?t seemed to have shaken off his Asgardian accent yet, but still makes for a dishy ringleader. The other stars (read: teenage pin-up sensations), that include Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) and Peck (Drake & Josh), are less impressive.

?Red Dawn? will please action buffs with low standards. The rest had best stay away.

Source: http://know.burrp.com/arts-entertainment/red-dawn-%E2%80%93-movie-review/46822

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Prostate Cancer UK | Logo Design Love

The Prostate Cancer Charity has become Prostate Cancer UK.

?We have chosen our new identity to help us raise our voice, raise our game and reach more men. Urgently. Prostate cancer is predicted to become the most common cancer by 2030. Yet many men are unaware of the disease and research is still badly underfunded. We believe men deserve better. With our bold new identity and approach we will fight for this.?

?Our new logo comprises our name and our corporate icon: ?the man of men?. This is a strong figure of a man made up of many familiar symbols used to represent men. It represents our aim to reach and represent all men. It?s symbolic of the ?movement? we need to create to really bring people together to make a difference to the men confronting this disease.?

Quoted from the charity?s ?new identity? page.

Also on that page are the answers to these all important non-profit design questions:

?How can we justify such a cost??

?For a complete brand review this is a very modest spend and we expect to have a significant impact for men with prostate cancer as a result. We see this as a responsible investment to help take our organisation to the next level, to support many thousands more men and their families and to raise much more money for ground breaking research.?

?What return on investment will we see??

?We expect to see a significant return from our investment in terms of our impact on men. Our new identity will help us to reach more men and speak more urgently. By raising our voice we will raise the profile of prostate cancer much higher and encourage more people to donate.?

Watch how the identity is put to use in this Annual Review 2011/12.

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Egypt's Mursi to meet judges over power grab

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi meets senior judges on Monday to try to defuse a crisis over his seizure of new powers which has set off violent protests reminiscent of the revolution last year that led to the rise of his Islamist movement.

The justice minister said he believed Mursi would agree with the country's highest judicial authority on its proposal to limit the scope of the new powers.

But the protesters, some camped in Cairo's Tahrir Square, have said only retracting the decree will satisfy them, a sign of the deep rift between Islamists and their opponents that is destabilizing Egypt two years after Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

"There is no use amending the decree," said Tarek Ahmed, 26, a protester who stayed the night in Tahrir, where tents covered the central traffic circle. "It must be scrapped."

One person has been killed and about 370 injured in clashes between police and protesters since Mursi issued the decree on Thursday shielding his decisions from judicial review, emboldened by international plaudits for brokering an end to eight days of violence between Israel and Hamas.

The stock market is down more than 7 percent.

Mursi's political opponents have accused him of behaving like a dictator and the West has voiced its concern, worried by more turbulence in a country that has a peace treaty with Israel and lies at the heart of the Arab Spring.

Mursi's administration has defended his decree as an effort to speed up reforms and complete a democratic transformation. Leftists, liberals, socialists and others say it has exposed the autocratic impulses of a man once jailed by Mubarak.

Mursi's office said he would meet Egypt's highest judicial authority, the Supreme Judicial Council, on Monday, and the council hinted at compromise.

Mursi's decree should apply only to "sovereign matters", it said, suggesting it did not reject the declaration outright, and called on judges and prosecutors, some of whom began a strike on Sunday, to return to work.

Justice Minister Ahmed Mekky, speaking about the council statement, said: "I believe President Mohamed Mursi wants that."

LIBERALS ANGRY

The protesters are worried that Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood aims to dominate the post-Mubarak era after winning the first democratic parliamentary and presidential elections this year.

A deal with a judiciary dominated by Mubarak-era judges, which Mursi has pledged to reform, may not placate them.

A group of lawyers and activists have also challenged Mursi's decree in an administrative court, which said it would hold its first hearing on December 4. Other decisions by Mursi have faced similar legal challenges brought to court by opponents.

Banners in Tahrir called for dissolving the assembly drawing up a constitution, an Islamist-dominated body Mursi made immune from legal challenge. Many liberals and others have walked out of the assembly saying their voices were not being heard.

Only once a constitution is written can a new parliamentary election be held. Until then, legislative and executive power remains in Mursi's hands, and Thursday's decree puts his decisions above judicial oversight.

One Muslim Brotherhood member was killed and 60 people were hurt on Sunday in an attack on the main office of the Brotherhood in the Egyptian Nile Delta town of Damanhour, the website of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party said.

The party's offices have also been attacked in other cities.

One politician said the scale of the crisis could push opponents towards a deal to avoid a further escalation. Mursi's opponents have called for a big demonstration on Tuesday.

"I am very cautiously optimistic because the consequences are quite, quite serious, the most serious they have been since the revolution," said Mona Makram Ebeid, former member of parliament and prominent figure in Egyptian politics.

Mursi's office repeated assurances that the steps would be temporary, and said he wanted dialogue with political groups to find "common ground" over what should go into the constitution.

Talks with Mursi have been rejected by members of a National Salvation Front, a new opposition coalition that brings together liberal, leftist and other politicians and parties, who until Mursi's decree had been a fractious bunch struggling to unite.

MILITARY STAYING OUT

"There is no room for dialogue when a dictator imposes the most oppressive, abhorrent measures and then says 'let us split the difference'," prominent opposition leader and Mohamed ElBaradei said on Saturday. He has said he expected to act as the Front's coordinator.

The military has stayed out of the crisis after leading Egypt through a messy 16-month transition to a presidential election in June. Analysts say Mursi neutralized the army when he sacked top generals in August, appointing a new generation who now owe their advancement to the Islamist president.

Though the military still wields influence through business interests and a security role, it is out of frontline politics.

Egypt had hoped to stop the economic rot by signing an initial deal last week for a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. As well as tumbling share prices, yields at a Sunday treasury bill auction rose, putting even more pressure on the government that faces a crushing budget deficit.

"We are back to square one, politically, socially," said Mohamed Radwan of Pharos Securities, an Egyptian brokerage firm.

(Additional reporting by Tom Perry, Patrick Werr and Marwa Awad in Cairo; Editing by Philippa Fletcher and Giles Elgood)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-mursi-meet-judges-over-power-grab-111516181--business.html

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Time for a Different BBC Scotland (and STV Too!) - News Scotland

Sunday, 25 November 2012 23:24

By Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman, November 24th 2012

The BBC is in crisis. BBC Scotland faces significant job cuts, a strike ballot of staff, and the prospect of industrial action.

At a UK level, the BBC has hardly been out of the news in the last few weeks. There has been the Jimmy Savile scandal, a substantial payout to Lord McAlpine, and George Entwistle having to resign as Director General.

The BBC?s problems go much deeper than these immediate problems north and south of the border, and touch on what it is and how it sees itself, and crucially how it understands (and misunderstands) the nature of the UK.

The BBC in Scotland ever since it first began broadcasting here has had controversies over limited autonomy, the quality of programmes, and a management which has to face two ways at the same time: to London and Scotland.

In 1968, Alasdair Milne, then Controller of the BBC north of the border renamed the BBC at Queen Margaret Drive, ?BBC Scotland?. He did it, as he reflects in his autobiography, by simply changing the wording on the front of the building. One insider says that ?BBC Scotland is in essence a fiction?, an overstatement, but an observation containing an essential truth about where power ultimately lies.

The BBC?s distinctiveness was meant to be aided by the Broadcasting Council for Scotland set up in 1953, and the subsequent Audience Council, but these have shown themselves barely adequate in the modern age.

The Broadcasting Council worked in an age of Lady Avonside and the Earl of Balfour, but it failed crucially when it was most needed. A key moment for it and the BBC was 1997-98 and the debate to develop a more distinct, autonomous Scottish agenda which centred around the proposals for a ?Scottish Six?, namely the principle of an integrated Scottish news and current affair programme bringing together Scottish, UK and international news under one roof.

There was at this point a conspicuous failure of BBC Scotland leadership, while John Birt, then Director General, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, lobbied hard against what they saw as ?a trojan horse? which they felt would lead to the breakup of the BBC.

Lets look at how BBC Scotland has covered news and current affairs subsequently. First, we got the compromise of ?Newsnight Scotland? as a sop for not having a ?Scottish Six?. Despite the best efforts of many BBC staff it increasingly looks and feels like an anachronism.

Second, current affairs broadcasting in Scotland is predominantly and embarrassingly Westminster dominated. ?The Daily Politics? broadcasts five hours a week ? 4.5 hours of Westminster politics with 30 minutes taken out of the schedule for live coverage of First Minister?s Questions. It is a huge imbalance of resources and reporting; we get masses of Westminster drama and theatre, most of it entertaining, but much of it irrelevant to Scotland.

Third, there is a narrowness in how current affairs is done on the BBC (and STV too). There are no Scottish equivalents of ?BBC Question Time?. Twenty years ago the BBC and STV had a phalanx of public participation programmes such as ?Words with Wark? and ?Scottish Women? which were all axed when the Parliament came about to produce specialist politics programmes.

Where can the Scottish public gather and assess the mood of the nation at critical points such as the al-Megrahi release and controversy? Nowhere on our television schedules on the BBC or STV.

There is a deeper set of issues in this about how the BBC understands the United Kingdom. The BBC is as one observer put it ?the guardian of Britain, never in front of the wave of change, always having to be dragged?. That is true when you think of all the big issues: Scotland, Europe, the hollowing out of our democracy, and the crisis of the British political classes.

The BBC is one of the last pillars of the British establishment ? a liberal one ? but one which is increasingly out of touch with a fragmented, diverse and divided society. It fails Scotland and Wales, but England too, and patronises, belittles and ignores English regions such as the North East.

The BBC national leadership is increasingly part of an old fashioned patrician order and institution which sits uneasily with and has been undermined by marketeering and management consultant logic, which led in John Birt?s time to the rise of what was called ?Birtspeak?, a BBC version of the jargon, buzzwords and processes by which a new centralisation was imposed.

Two sets of changes are required, one British and one Scottish. The BBC needs a new pan-British compact, put into the next Charter Review to reflect the different audiences, regions and nations of the UK. This would recognise life in all its varieties beyond the London and South East, and a politics which wasn?t insular and self-obsessed with what happens in the Westminster village. It would understand that diversity was more than moving some staff north to Salford.

Scotland needs a specific Scottish solution to reflect our unique historical context and modern interests, in short, a completely distinct and autonomous Scottish Broadcasting Corporation run from Pacific Quay. This will require courage, vision and leadership from people, and it will necessitate all of us beginning to ask what do we want from broadcasters and what sort of Scotland do we want them to portray back to us.

This is one of the crucial missing ingredients in all of this, which BBC and STV contribute towards, namely, that Scotland can barely understand and see itself in the narrow, clich?d representations of itself portrayed in TV and radio.

We are a modern nation and society, rich, diverse, complicated, with huge potential and aspirations, as well as challenges, and yet we barely see any of this in the broadcasting media of Scotland.

Thirty five years ago the Royal Commission on Broadcasting savaged what it saw as the stereotypes and hackneyed images of Scotland on TV and radio, the tartan, haggis and shortbread mix, and demanded change. Things have got better in the intervening years, in that some of these old images have been dropped or weakened, while ?the cultural cringe? has dissipated.

Yet Scotland has changed so much in this period, and our broadcast media has not even tried to keep up with or reflect change. Wouldn?t it be something if BBC Scotland and STV began to recognise that things can?t go on as they are, and started to reflect in politics, culture and life the wonderful, creative nation out there? If they don?t these analogue providers will find in an increasing multi-media, digital world that they lose status and influence to new initiatives as people increasingly create content and platforms themselves.

Courtesy of Gerry Hassan - http://gerryhassan.com

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Source: http://newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-opinion/6308-time-for-a-different-bbc-scotland-and-stv-too

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Institutionalizing student success at SJCC | City College Times

Student success is a national concern, and its definition varies from institution to institution and from individual to individual.

On Nov. 6 the Student Success Committee gave a campus-wide presentation of San Jose City College?s involvement, development and institutionalization of student success into the fabric of the school.

Trustee Jeffery Lease commented on his attendance at a national symposium, the Association of Community College Trustees. This group is a national community of 1,200 trustees, faculty and administrators whose topic of discussion and major focus was creating policy for defining and implementing student success.

?In the end, the board needs to be committed to excellence and creating accountability that is bold enough to address the magnitude of the problem,? Lease said.

A handout was distributed containing various definitions of student success from different grouped:

• The Student Success Task Force defines student success as the ?percentage of community college students completing educational goals ? or earning a certificate or degree or achieving transfer readiness.
• CLASS defines student success as ?the primary mission of community colleges is to ensure that students succeed in completing college-level programs .. attainment of goals pertaining to stunt persistence and certificate and degree completion.
• The Lowenthal Bill (SB 1456) defines student success as a ?focus on the completion of degrees, certificates and transfers.?

It is not practical to define student success as a quantitative measure only.

Chancellor Rita Cepeda said that ?while SB 1456 is the law, SJCC?s definition goes further?student success for community college students means more than just obtaining degrees, transfer certificates or career advancement. It also means that achievement of the individual student?s self-established educational goals.?

Cepeda turned the presentation over to Professor Marjorie Clark to further define student success.

Clark asked the question, ?What does student success mean to us (SJCC)? We think that measuring student success by transfer rates and degrees is not enough. Community colleges are responsible for developing a competent work force, but we also looked at the whole individual; we thought that self-improvement is a factor in this, how do you become a better person, a worker and a contributor in society.?

Student success is also more than tracking numbers.

?Well rounded individuals should be good thinkers, develop good habits of mind, to figure out problems, and research things. Our students should be able to take an active role in a global environment and global diversity. At the end of the day, a successful student should be able to communicate (write and speak) well, work in teams ( in a global society) with respect for other members of the society,? Clark said.

Lease emphasized that ?student success needs to be institutionalized; unless it becomes a part of our everyday, it?s not going to happen. The Board has made (student success) a part of our vision, values and goals?

Cepeda ended the presentation with the admonition: ??Student success is everyone?s responsibility.?

Source: http://sjcctimes.com/unincorporated/institutionalizing-student-success-at-sjcc/

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Pakistan court acquits Christian girl of blasphemy

ISLAMABAD (AP) ? A Pakistani court on Tuesday acquitted a Christian girl accused of blasphemy over the burning of the Muslim holy book, her lawyer said.

The ruling was the final chapter in a case that caused an international outcry over Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws, which are very popular in the country and are primarily used against supposed offenses to Islam.

In August, the young Christian girl was arrested in Islamabad after a Muslim cleric accused her of desecrating the Muslim holy book, the Quran. The cleric was later accused of fabricating evidence against the girl, whose mental capacity was subsequently questioned.

Attorney Abdul Hameed said the court on Tuesday exonerated his client for lack of evidence and dismissed all charges against her, concluding they were based on heresy and incriminated material that was planted in the girl's possession.

"I am happy that the poor girl's ordeal is now over," he told The Associated Press after hearing the court ruling in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

The girl was freed on bail in September and since then she has been living with her parents at some undisclosed location in Pakistan. She has not made any public appearance due to security reasons.

The girl's name has been released by Pakistani authorities and in the media but The Associated Press generally does not identify juveniles accused of crimes. Pakistan's blasphemy laws carry a punishment of life in prison or the death sentence.

Pakistani and international human right groups have urged the government to change the blasphemy laws, saying they laws are too broad and vague, and are often used by people who are trying to settle scores with rivals or target religious minorities, who make up 5 percent of Pakistan's 180 million-strong population.

Although many Muslims are also accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad or other acts deemed blasphemous, minorities in Pakistan are disproportionately represented among the defendants, rights groups say.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-court-acquits-christian-girl-blasphemy-083718455.html

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Working Person's Store Makes 2013 Mobile 400 Guide ...

Working Person?s Store Tagged as Top Mobile Commerce Site

South Bend, IN. ? In a rocketing $22 billion market that is expected to double in 2012 and again in 2013, Working Person?s Enterprises, Inc. (www.workingperson.com) has been named one of 2012?s 25 fastest-growing mobile commerce sites and the 233^rd top mobile marketing firm by Internet Retailer, Chicago-based publisher of business intelligence for the e-commerce market. The publisher will feature Working Person?s Store in its new 2013 Mobile 400 guide, a compendium geared toward helping e-commerce hopefuls build their online businesses by studying the marketing, financial and operational strategies of successful e-commerce enterprises.

Eric Deniger, CEO of Working Person?s Store, had this to say about the recognition: ?Our core mission is to provide our customers with the best products at the best prices and do that while delivering the finest shopping experience available. That mission drives our approach to technology ? it is a powerful tool we use to serve our customers and we are always looking forward, searching for the next innovation that will help us provide the best in customer service.?

The Mobile 400 designation is one in growing string of recent recognition for Working Person?s Store. The online retailer placed best in class in the 2012 Interactive Media Awards ?for website design and development. And it also earned silver honors in the 2012 Multi-Channel Marketing Awards, which recognized the retailer?s phenomenal 25% sales increase following migration to an upgraded web platform.

About Working Person?s Store

Since 1995, Working Person?s Store has been on a singular mission: deliver the very best in name-brand work apparel at the lowest prices, with a commitment to honesty and customer service. Today, specializing in brands that work, and backed by a 120% Price Protection Guarantee, we?re the leading online retailer of quality name-brand workwear, work footwear and safety gear.

Working Person?s Store is recognized as one of the country?s fastest growing privately-held businesses with an award-winning website,?www.workingperson.com, which serves thousands of customers on five continents every day.

Featuring top brands such as Carhartt, Wolverine, Dickies, Under Amour, Timberland PRO, Dr. Martens, Dingo, Carolina Shoe, DragonWear, Wrangler and over a hundred more, Working Person?s Store is based in Indiana with a retail store in Lakeville and headquarters and technology center in South Bend.

Source: http://workingperson.me/2012/11/working-persons-2013-mobile-400-guide/

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James Walker / Saint Mary's (Cal) 85, E. Washington 66

- All week, the New York Jets have been a train wreck. It started last Sunday with an embarrassing loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Later in the week, ano...

- Newly acquired Patriots cornerback Aqib Talib will make his New England debut Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts. The Patriots announced Saturday e...

- The New England Patriots are expected to be without dynamic tight end Aaron Hernandez for the third straight game. Barring any last-minute changes, a...

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Which States Are Winning the Business R&D Race? ? Mandel on ...

The National Science Foundation collects and releases a veritable fire hose of science- and innovation-related statistics that never get the attention that they deserve.* For example, earlier this year the NSF published a study entitled ?Businesses Concentrate Their R&D in a Small Number of Geographic Areas in the United States.?

This study should be required reading for anyone interested in how the Innovation Economy has developed geographically. I?ve taken the liberty of doing some calculations on just a small portion of the reported data (there is much much more):

Let?s start with the ordering. California?s rank as #1 is no surprise. But New Jersey?s ranking as #2 and strong growth is unanticipated (though it?s consistent with NJ?s relatively high ranking in our Geography of the App Economy study). ?New Jersey R&D grew almost as fast as Massachusetts over the 1987-2008 period.

The R&D spending in NJ, PA, and CT came mainly from the pharma industry. ?I?m going to look to see whether these states have tried to build on their advantages, or whether they have let them dissipate.

Also a surprise is Michigan?s continued high ranking. Auto industry R&D has not been growing very fast. Nevertheless, the industry has poured an enormous amount of money into Michigan over a long period of time, providing a potential base for future tech growth. Indeed, our upcoming study on tech and economic development identifies the Detroit area as having a very interesting cluster of tech-related companies.

More to come.

*Full disclosure?I serve on a National Academy of Sciences panel which is conducting ?a study of the status of the science, technology, and innovation (STI) indicators that are currently developed and published by the National Science Foundation?s (NSF) National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES).? This post uses only public information contained in the cited study.

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Airman participate in Veteran's Day Parade

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Mayor Bach and city council butt heads over budget

It's your money at the center of a battle between the Colorado Springs city council and Mayor Steve Bach.

Bach says city council amended his proposed budget, which he submitted back in October. The problem lies in a deficit their amendments created. In the past if a council member proposed spending more money in one area, it was up to that person to find ways to reduce spending somewhere else; that didn't happen this year.

Bach says city council flat-out recommended increasing spending, and tossed the problem of balancing the budget back at the Mayor's office. He says counselors recommended dipping into reserves if that couldn't be done. "If council doesn't change what they've already done in terms of creating a deficit I'm forced to veto that because we cannot run a deficit. I am not comfortable dipping into our reserves especially given our economy and the uncertainty going forward on our revenue," Mayor Bach told News 5.

The Mayor is asking city council to reconsider those changes or he will veto their plan. If that happens, it could create a whole new problem since city council can override the Mayor's veto with a supermajority vote.

If six of the nine council members vote to override Bach's veto, the city will move forward operating at a deficit since city council has the final say.

We did reach out to council members for their side of things, but the only person who got back to us agreed with the Mayor.

Source: http://www.koaa.com/news/mayor-bach-and-city-council-butt-heads-over-budget/

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Kinder Morgan to build new pipeline to supply gas to Mexico

EBR Staff Writer
Published 16 November 2012

US-based pipeline transportation and energy storage company Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and Kinder Morgan owned business unit El Paso Natural Gas (EPNG) has signed a 25 year agreement to build a new gas pipeline to supply natural gas to Mexico.

As per the terms of the agreement, Sasabe Pipeline Company, an affiliate of EPNG, will supply about 200 million cubic feet per day gas through the proposed 36in and 96.5km long Sasabe lateral pipeline.

Sasabe pipeline will extend from EPNG's existing south mainlines, near Tucson, Arizona to the US-Mexico border, ending at
Sasabe, in Arizona, from there it will be interconnected with the international border crossing 36in and 820km long natural gas pipeline to be constructed in Mexico by Sempra International.

Kinder Morgans Natural Gas Pipelines West Region president Mark Kissel said the gas supply agreement will support the development of the $200m Sasabe lateral pipeline and provide low priced US gas to Mexico.

"In addition, the project will help Mexico meet its environmental goals of converting existing fuel-oil-fired power generation plants to efficient, clean burning natural gas and also having natural gas supplies available for new plants in the future," Kissel added.

Subject to approval of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Construction and Presidential permit, construction of the Sasabe lateral pipeline is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2014 and operations are slated to commence in September 2014.

Source: http://transportationandstorage.energy-business-review.com/news/kinder-morgan-to-build-new-pipeline-to-supply-gas-to-mexico-161112

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Clinton says Congress committed to budget deal

SINGAPORE (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated Saturday that she is "out of politics" and assured a Singaporean audience that Congress is committed to avoiding year-end "fiscal cliff" tax increases and spending cuts that could plunge the economy into recession.

Clinton told business leaders, diplomats and students in a speech at Singapore Management University that she is hearing world leaders' concerns about how the United States might resolve its debt crisis and its international ramifications.

"Now I'm out of politics, but let me assure you that for all the difference between the political parties in my country, we are united in our commitment to protect American leadership and bolster our national security," Clinton said.

"Reaching a meaningful budget deal is critical to both," she added.

Clinton's reference to herself as being outside politics brought laughs from the audience. Clinton has said she doesn't want to serve another four years as secretary of state, and has already ruled out another presidential bid, even though speculation of a candidacy continues.

Congressional leaders from both parties voiced fresh optimism Friday after meeting with newly re-elected President Barack Obama about agreeing to a multitrillion-dollar deficit-reduction plan that can take the place of the across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts slated to take effect Jan. 1.

Clinton said Saturday that when she traveled through Asia last summer at the height of the political crisis over the American deficit, regional leaders asked her whether Congress would allow the United States to default on its debt.

"Let's be clear ? the full faith and credit of the United States should never be in question," she said.

Singapore is the first leg of an Asian tour for Clinton that will also see her join Obama in Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-says-congress-committed-budget-deal-054847521--finance.html

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Hybrid Physx on Windows 8

Anyone tried this yet?

Was thinking of trying to put in an old GTX260 to go with my 7950 for Physx duties. I know ppl have successfully achieved this under Win 7. Still not sure it's worth it (power, heat, stability issues etc) but it'd be nice for Borderlands 2 if & when I get it.

Source: http://forums.hexus.net/pc-gaming/265789-hybrid-physx-windows-8-a.html

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Babies rely on words to 'decode' underlying intentions of others

Thursday, November 15, 2012

A new Northwestern University study shows the power of language in infants' ability to understand the intentions of others.

As the babies watched intently, an experimenter produced an unusual behavior--she used her forehead to turn on a light. But how did babies interpret this behavior? Did they see it as an intentional act, as something worthy of imitating? Or did they see it as a fluke? To answer this question, the experimenter gave 14-month-old infants an opportunity to play with the light themselves.

The results, based on two experiments, show that introducing a novel word for the impending novel event had a powerful effect on the infants' tendency to imitate the behavior. Infants were more likely to imitate behavior, however unconventional, if it had been named, than if it remained unnamed, the study shows.

When the experimenter announced her unusual behavior ("I'm going to blick the light"), infants imitated her. But when she did not provide a name, they did not follow suit.

This revealed that infants as young as 14 months of age coordinate their insights about human behavior and their intuitions about human language in the service of discovering which behaviors, observed in others, are ones to imitate.

"This work shows, for the first time, that even for infants who have only just begun to 'crack the language code,' language promotes culturally-shared knowledge and actions ? naturally, generatively and apparently effortlessly," said Sandra R. Waxman, co-author of the study and the Louis W. Menk Professor of Psychology at Northwestern.

"This is the first demonstration of how infants' keen observational skills, when augmented by human language, heighten their acuity for 'reading' the underlying intentions of their 'tutors' (adults) and foster infants' imitation of adults' actions."

Waxman said absent language and its power in conveying meaning, infants don't imitate these "strange" actions.

"This means that human language provides infants with a powerful key: it unlocks for them a broader world of social intentions," Waxman said. "We know that language, and especially the shared meaning within a linguistic community, is one of the most powerful conduits of the cultural knowledge that we humans transmit across generations."

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NASA Innovator of Year hunts for extraterrestrial amino acids

ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2012) ? The hunt for the organic molecules that create proteins and enzymes critical for life here on Earth has largely happened in sophisticated terrestrial laboratories equipped with high-tech gadgetry needed to tease out their presence in space rocks and other extraterrestrial samples.

A technologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., now wants to take that search to the sources themselves.

Stephanie Getty, who recently was selected as Goddard's Innovator of the Year for her trailblazing work in the area of advanced instrumentation, has won $1.2 million from NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) program to advance the Organics Analyzer for Sampling Icy Surfaces (OASIS). This miniaturized liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometer leverages technologies developed under previous Goddard-sponsored research and development efforts to study the chirality, or "handedness," of amino acids on the icy moons of the outer planets, asteroids, and Kuiper Belt Objects.

"It's like we're packing up a well-equipped Earth lab and flying it to an asteroid or another solar system body, where we can get access to a pristine supply of these organic molecules to study," Getty said, adding that by going to the source, scientists reduce the risk of contaminating samples with Earth-borne compounds. "With an instrument like OASIS, we could get that much closer to understanding how organic chemicals formed in the solar system, whether the potential for life exists elsewhere, and what may have seeded life here on Earth."

And OASIS would carry out this science with 100 times greater sensitivity than what was possible with previously flown liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometers, she added.

Why Amino Acids?

The hunt for amino acids in extraterrestrial sources began 50 years ago when scientists discovered a variety of non-terrestrial amino acids in meteorites, remnants of asteroids that had fallen to Earth. Their discovery revolutionized the field of astrobiology, reigniting the question of whether life, as we know it, existed elsewhere in the solar system and beyond.

Amino acids, in part, hold the key to ultimately answering that question. They are the building blocks of proteins -- the workhorse molecules of life, used in everything from creating hair and fingernails, to the enzymes that speed up or regulate chemical reactions inside cells. Just as the 26 letters of the alphabet are arranged in limitless combinations to make words, life uses 20 different amino acids in a huge variety of arrangements to build millions of different proteins.

Amino acids demonstrate another interesting characteristic. Although they come in two non-superimposable forms -- left-handed and right-handed -- only abiotic or non-biological organic compounds use both. The amino acids that give rise to life must have the same orientation or chirality, which means they use only one of the two available mirror images of the amino-acid structure.

Left-Handed Bias

Life on Earth got established with only the left-handed version, leading scientists to wonder whether this inclination arose because of random processes or whether meteorites may have seeded this propensity.

To find out, Getty's colleagues at the Goddard Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory have studied carbon-rich meteorites and tiny grains collected from the Wild 2 comet. They discovered an excess of the left-handed amino acids in some of the meteorite samples they studied, suggesting that left-handed amino acids got their start in space, where conditions in asteroids favored the creation of this particular orientation.

"Research shows that meteorites seeding the early Earth could have jump started left-handed-based protein in life as we know it today," said OASIS Co-Investigator Danny Glavin, a world-renowned expert in extraterrestrial organic chemistry at NASA Goddard. "They contributed these molecules that may have created an initial bias toward left-handedness."

The question is, does the bias exist on other solar system bodies, and if so, does it favor left- or right-handed amino acids? OASIS's ability to detect amino acids and determine their chirality -- the ratio of left- to right-handed molecules -- will be an important capability for ultimately answering that question, Glavin said.

OASIS's Unique Instrumentation

Scientists have used a technique called gas chromatography-mass spectrometry since the 1970s to study organic compounds. NASA first used the technique on the Viking Mission to Mars in 1976, but it failed to detect them due to problems with experiment design. It also is being used on the Goddard-developed Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard the Curiosity rover. Like the Viking version, SAM uses heat to process crushed rock samples. As they heat, the samples break down, releasing gases that SAM's gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer then measure to identify organic compounds in the samples.

Although effective, heat can fragment organic carbon, resulting in the loss of molecular information. To preserve those details, SAM features a "one-pot" solvent-extraction experiment that is gentler on the samples. Though the experiment is capable of detecting amino acids, it won't measure chirality, Getty said. Her team specifically is designing OASIS to provide that critical measurement. Instead of heat, the instrument uses liquid to prepare the samples and then separate and detect complex organic compounds, including amino acids.

"We have found that liquid chromatography, coupled with mass spectrometry, is the most sensitive and selective method for measuring amino acids in the laboratory," Glavin said. "OASIS is our first step towards the development of a miniaturized spaceflight instrument."

Breadboard Design

Under the ASTID instrument-development award, Getty's team is building a breadboard system equipped with an advanced miniaturized mass spectrometer originally developed for the Volatile Analysis by Pyrolysis of Regolith (VAPoR) instrument, which Glavin conceived for determining whether the large concentrations of hydrogen on the lunar poles were actually water ice deposited by comet bombardments.

Among other technologies, it also will include a "lab-on-a-chip" liquid chromatograph, an instrument that -- like Glavin's VAPoR -- traces its heritage to previous Goddard Internal Research and Development (IRAD) program investments. "The real key is liquid chromatography," Getty said. "It will separate the sample according to chemical structure, giving us another dimension of data, another approach for teasing out details that would identify the compound."

Goal: Flight-Qualified Instrument

Ultimately, the team hopes to further miniaturize the breadboard to produce a low-mass, low-power, flight-qualified instrument weighing no more than 11 pounds. "These are lean times for planetary science," Getty said, "but it helped to have those four years of IRAD support to hone our message and mature the component-level technology. This instrument will be 100 times more sensitive, yet smaller and lighter weight than what we've flown so far."

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Israel says rebels take Syrian frontier villages

This amateur video provided to AP Video shows billowing smoke in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn, as seen from the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. Syria's air force bombed a rebel-held region near the border with Turkey for a second day Tuesday, killing at least one person and wounding three others, an official said. (AP Photo/AP Video)

This amateur video provided to AP Video shows billowing smoke in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn, as seen from the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. Syria's air force bombed a rebel-held region near the border with Turkey for a second day Tuesday, killing at least one person and wounding three others, an official said. (AP Photo/AP Video)

In this Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 photo, Syrian residents walk on a main road in the Tarik Al-Bab neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

This amateur video provided to AP Video shows billowing smoke in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn, as seen from the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. Syria's air force bombed a rebel-held region near the border with Turkey for a second day Tuesday, killing at least one person and wounding three others, an official said. (AP Photo/AP Video)

In this Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 photo, a street of destroyed buildings is reflected in a mirror used by rebel fighters to keep an eye on a Syrian army position in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Syrian rebels have taken control of nearly all villages near the frontier with the Israel-held Golan Heights, according to Israel's defense minister who said Wednesday that Bashar Assad's forces were "displaying ever-diminishing efficiency."

Fighting in the area this past week has already drawn Israeli retaliatory fire into Syria twice after apparently stray mortar shells flew into Israel-held territory. That raised fears that Syria's civil war could take a new and even more dangerous twist, widening further into an armed conflict with the region's strongest military power.

"Almost all of the villages, from the foot of this ridge to the very top, are already in the hands of the Syrian rebels," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday during a tour of the Golan Heights, the strategic plateau that Israel captured from Syria in 1967 and later annexed. "The Syrian army is displaying ever-diminishing efficiency."

Barak said Israel will remain "vigilant and alert."

Israel's frontier with Syria is the Golan Heights. The border area on the Syrian side is a buffer zone, with some villages where fighting has flared over the past week. The 46-mile-long buffer zone is governed and policed by the Syrian authorities, and no military forces other than U.N. forces are permitted within it.

The Syrian civil war threatens to enflame an already combustible region. The fighting already has already spilled into Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.

While many doubt President Assad wants to pick a fight with Israel, they fear the embattled Syrian leader may try to draw Israel into the fighting in a bout of desperation. Israeli officials believe it is only a matter of time before Syrian rebels topple the longtime leader.

On Wednesday, Syrian troops used aircraft and artillery in an attempt to dislodge rebels from a town next to the border with Turkey, as Ankara warned it would retaliate against any airspace violations.

An Associated Press journalist in the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar witnessed Syrian airstrikes in the adjacent Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn, where rebels say they have ousted troops loyal to Assad.

Deadly air strikes began several days ago, and many casualties were rushed into Turkey for treatment. Local officials said as many as 30 people have died since Monday. The journalist also saw Syrian forces shelling a wooded area near Ras al-Ayn from where rebels had been firing.

The violence in Syria has killed more than 36,000 people since an uprising against Assad's regime began in March 2011. Hundreds of thousands have fled the fighting into neighboring Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.

Another 11,000 escaped into Turkey last week following the surge of fighting at Ras al-Ayn, which is located in the northeastern Syrian province of al-Hasaka, an oil-producing region where the population is mostly Kurdish.

The proximity of the fighting to Turkey has raised fears of an escalation.

Turkish media, including the Anadolu news agency, said several villages west of Ceylanpinar have been evacuated to protect residents from any spillover of the fighting in Syria. About 1,000 people left Mursitpinar, 180 kilometers (110 miles) from Ceylanpinar, after an appeal from the loudspeakers of local mosques.

Turkey's defense minister, Ismet Yilmaz, indicated that Turkey would use military force in response to any incursions by Syrian aircraft. Last month, Turkish artillery fired on targets in Syria after Syrian shells landed inside Turkey and killed several Turkish civilians in one instance.

"The necessary response will be given to Syrian planes and helicopters that violate our border," Yilmaz said.

A Turkish official in Ceylanpinar said the sound of shelling was heard through the night. Two rocket-propelled grenades hit houses on the Turkish side, but there were no injuries, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is barred from speaking to the media on the record.

Later, the official said a dozen wounded Syrians had been brought across the border, and one died during treatment. Rumors swirled about the situation in the Syrian town; the Turkish official cited contacts in Ras al-Ayn as saying Syrian forces had entered the town.

A convoy of seven white jeeps and a truck was seen near the Syrian town, but it was unclear who was in the vehicles. On the Turkish side of the border, Turkish jets were heard flying overhead.

At one point, sounds of jubilation were heard coming from Ras al-Ayn. One rebel shouted in Arabic: "The Syrian army fled, did you see?"

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday that warplanes carried out six airstrikes in al-Hasaka, including those at Ras al-Ayn.

Regime jet fighters also targeted the rebellious suburbs of Damascus on Wednesday, the Britain-based Observatory said. Heavy clashes between rebel units and Assad's troops were ongoing in the northern city of Aleppo, the Observatory said. The group relies on reports from activists on the ground.?

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AP writer Mehmet Guzel contributed to this report from Ceylanpinar, Turkey.

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INDEPENDENCE, SUBMISSION AND ... - Luv and Relationships

The subject of the independent woman is quite boring to me. My mother always said that if you have to tell someone you?re independent, then you?re probably not. My mother was independent. She was strong, confident, intelligent and worked outside the home. When she came home she had no problem submitting to my father. Yeppers, I said the ?s? word? submitting! (I think some women just called me some not nice names.) I know for some the thought of submitting causes them to cringe. And others question how can a woman be independent, yet submit to someone. Very good question.

A lot of people recite Ephesians 5:22-33 ?^22?Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands?as you do to the Lord.?^23?For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,?his body, of which he is the Savior.?^24?Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands?in everything.^25?Husbands, love your wives,?just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her?^26?to make her holy,?cleansing?her by the washing?with water through the word,?^27?and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.?^28?In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives?as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.?^29?After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church??^30?for we are members of his body.?^31??For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.?^32?This is a profound mystery?but I am talking about Christ and the church.?^33?However, each one of you also must love his wife?as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband... but I don?t quite think they understand it. I freely admit that as a single woman I didn?t really understand.

I hear men say that they want a submissive woman. They want a woman who knows her place. One that doesn?t talk back and does as she?s told. One that recognizes him as the head of the household. I often questioned if they wanted someone who was submissive or someone who was subordinate. I was a bit leery of being submissive because what most described did not fit what the scripture said. I equated submission with being less than. This isn?t true. The definition of submission is to yield or surrender oneself ?to the will or authority ?of another. The definition of subordinate is someone that is considered inferior and subservient. Growing up I saw both.

Subordination is demeaning in a relationship. Actually seeing it in action can a make person want to remain single. My cousin and his wife were my visual for the subordinate relationship. His idea of being the head of his household was to control everything his wife did and everything his children did. He led by intimidation and fear. On a daily basis he let her know that she was worthless and she should be grateful he married her. She worked every day and he made her check-in at certain times throughout the day. If she was late for a check-in he accused her of cheating and she was punished when she got home. Subordination is controlling, abusive and sometimes deadly. When she left him he was angry. In his mind, since he had authority over her, then he was justified in doing whatever he wanted to her. His reasoning was if he couldn?t have her, then no one would. He attempted to kill?her. He missed her, but he shot and killed her sister who tried to protect her.

?Submission is willingly surrendering authority. That?s what my mother did to my father. My father was the head of the household and he set the rules. His rules were simple: 1) my mother was a queen and was treated as such, 2) my sister and I were queens in training and we would carry ourselves with dignity and respect , 3) he did what was necessary to take care of his family and 4) each and every day we would be shown we were loved in words and deeds. My mother treated my father with love and respect. She had his back?and he never doubted it. My father was a strong, intelligent, courageous man who had no problem asking my mother for her thoughts on any problem. He consulted her because he valued her opinion. He always said my mother knew her place?.. beside him.

By most standards, I am an independent woman. I take care of myself and my responsibilities. When the discussion of independence comes up I laugh because most assume I learned to be independent from my mother. I learned my independence from my father. Growing up he always told me I needed to learn how to do things for myself. He said the reason was simple? he wasn?t going to always be there to take care of me. He didn?t want me to be dependent on any man who didn?t have my best interest at heart. (Translation: Those who are willing to help as long as they get something in return.) I know what I want and I do go after it because that?s what I was taught. My father alsotaught me that the right man for me would help enhance and expand my goals and not curtail them.

While my father was teaching me independence my mother was teaching me interdependence. She taught me that it takes a strong woman to be independent, but it takes a stronger woman to depend on and trust her mate while,at the same time, letting him know he can depend on and trust her. My mother taught me to clothe my independence with gentleness and support when needed. She, like my father, taught me that not all men were deserving of my trust and support.

I have learned that truly independent women don?t go around shouting about their independence. They go about their business and taking care of their responsibilities without any fanfare. If a problem arises that they can?t handle they are strong enough to ask for help. In the midst of deciding if you can submit to someone get the definition clear of what you both expect from submission. Is it truly submission or subordination in disguise? Submission can bring unity and strength. Subordination negates your power. Know the difference. The choice is always yours.

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Simply put she is finally enjoying life. Each day is a chance for a new discovery. She had a very sheltered existence and now daring to venture out into the world. She has taken off the limitations and trying new things. She is single by choice, but looking forward to her next relationship. Living in the Chesapeake, Va area for now, but open to the next move.

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In the clash of the world's supercomputing titans, a new U.S. supercomputer named "Titan" is king.

The $100?million Titan seized the No. 1 supercomputer ranking on the Top500 List with a performance record of 17.59 petaflops per second (quadrillions of calculations per second). The supercomputer, a Cray XK7 system based at Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, leaped past the former champion, the Sequoia supercomputer at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The top five supercomputers in the world are:

1. Titan Cray XK47 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (17.59 petaflops/s)
2. Sequoia BlueGene/Q at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (16.33 petaflops/s)
3. Fujitsu's K computer at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan (10.51 petaflops/s)
4. The Mira BlueGene/Q computer at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill. (8.16 petaflops/s)
5. The JUQUEEN BlueGene/Q computer at the Forschungszentrum Juelich in Germany. (4.14 petaflops/s)

U.S. supercomputers had fallen behind China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer and Japan's Fujitsu K Computer starting in 2009, but staged a comeback with Sequoia's rise in 2012.

Sequoia's 1,572,864 computing?cores actually outnumber Titan's 560,640 cores, but not all computing cores are created equal. Titan draws 90 percent of its performance from having 261,632 of NVIDIA's new K20x accelerator cores.

The NVIDIA accelerator cores use the same graphics processing unit (GPU) technology that drives graphics cards for displaying video games. GPUs run tasks on many different "threads" that may run slower than traditional threads on central processing units (CPUs), but GPUs make up for that by running many more threads simultaneously.

GPU-driven supercomputers will become even more crucial in building the next generation of "exascale" supercomputers that would work 1,000 times faster than today's supercomputers. That's because GPUs use far less energy than the CPUs that have traditionally driven computing.?Titan used the new Tesla K20x accelerators to achieve an energy efficiency of 2,142.77 megaflops per watt (million calculations per second per watt), enough to also rank Titan No. 1 on the Green500 list of the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers.

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