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Monday, December 31, 2012
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Raw Five-Point Preview: Dec. 31, 2012
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
PCQuest : Tech and Trends : Design Technology Trends for 2012 ...
Design Technology Trends for 2012 and Beyond
Autodesk, the 3D design company, brings forth some of the hot trends on design technology that they track and in some cases drive
Friday, December 28, 2012
1. Infinite Computing is giving designers the power to design and create almost anything they can imagine. The toolset change of cloud computing-tremendous increases in computer processing, bandwidth, storage, affordability, and ubiquity-when combined with a mindset change that looks for new ways to use this power, adds up to infinite computing, which is profoundly changing the world of design. The old paradigm of design-then-analyze is transforming into one where we can use the cloud to analyze thousands of options in parallel, helping us create the best possible designs.
2. Real CAD: Computers That Actually Aid Design. Human-centered interfaces are making it easier for us to use computers, rather than having to adapt our work and workflows to the way computers are designed. Direct manipulation, ubiquitous sensors (accelerometers, touch screens, etc.), gesture- and voice-recognition paradigms, and even (yes) mind-reading advances are all making computers easier to use, and more valuable than ever before. In October 2012 Autodesk Research Group, University of Toronto and University of Alberta presented their research on the future of touch interaction and the Magic Finger, a proof-of-concept device that allows touch interactions to be carried out on any physical surface. (See Magic Fingervideo)3. Reality, Digitized is the blurring of the boundaries between the real world and the digital world, which is making it easier to pass data back and forth between these two realms. Reality capture techniques like laser point clouds and photogrammetry enable incredible visualizations, simulations, automatic modeling, augmented reality capabilities, and 3D printing/personal-manufacturing. For example, in the future you'll be able to scan your feet, buy a design from a shoe company, and 3D-print perfect, personalized shoes rather than having to buy whatever happens to be there at the store, or online.
4. The Network Effect: Everyone's a Designer is the idea that a developing set of widely distributed, inexpensive tools for design and fabrication is inspiring design self-reliance (DIY/Do It Yourself Design) as well as design crowdsourcing (DIT/Do It Together Design). This trend is changing the worlds of design and manufacturing, and starting to affect the building industry as well.
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Friday, December 28, 2012
McConnell: Obama to meet Hill leaders on Friday
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Senate's top Republican says President Barack Obama has asked congressional leaders to convene at the White House for last-minute talks on a deal that avoids automatic tax increases and broad spending cuts.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the leaders are expected to meet with the president Friday, just four days before the government goes over the so-called "fiscal cliff" if Congress and Obama don't act.
The meeting would be the first time Obama has huddled with all four leaders since Nov. 16 and would represent that last hope for a deal before the new year. Obama spoke to each leader individually Wednesday before returning from vacation in Hawaii.
Obama and congressional Democrats want a deal that would let tax rates rise for the wealthiest taxpayers.
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
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Worst fiscal policy ideas of 2012
TaxVox's Lump of Coal Awards covers a broad swath of fiscal policy missteps for the year.
Tea party members on stage dance to their theme song sung by Lloyd Marcus, left, in Boston in this 2010 file photo. But the tea party has been silent on the fiscal cliff and long-term debt.
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EnlargeTaxVox proudly presents its 2012 Lump of Coal awards, Thelma and Louise edition, for the worst fiscal policy ideas of the year. The winners are:
Skip to next paragraph Howard GleckmanHoward Gleckman is a resident fellow at The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, the author of Caring for Our Parents, and former senior correspondent in the Washington bureau of Business Week. (http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org)
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10. California. The Golden State probably deserves a lifetime achievement Lump of Coal Award for its inability to balance its budgets, its government-by-initiative, and its endless bouts of fiscal wishful thinking. What, that bump in capital gains tax revenue won?t go on forever?
9. President Obama for proposing to pay for major corporate tax reform by eliminating a handful of minor tax preferences, including subsides for the purchase of corporate jets. Nothing wrong with corporate reform or with ditching the airplane subsidy. The problem is Obama had already pledged to use the same tax break to help reduce the deficit. Physics question: Can a jet flying at the speed of light pay for two things at once?
8. Congress? decades-long inability to require online retailers to collect sales taxes, just as their bricks-and-mortar competitors must. C?mon gang, even Amazon says it will start collecting sales taxes for online sales. Maybe lawmakers are waiting for free shipping.
Russian parliament endorses anti-U.S. adoption bill
MOSCOW (AP) ? Defying a storm of domestic and international criticism, Russia moved toward finalizing a ban on Americans adopting Russian children, as Parliament's upper house voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of a measure that President Vladimir Putin has indicated he will sign into law.
The bill is widely seen as the Kremlin's retaliation against an American law that calls for sanctions against Russians deemed to be human rights violators. It comes as Putin takes an increasingly confrontational attitude toward the West, brushing aside concerns about a crackdown on dissent and democratic freedoms.
Dozens of Russian children close to being adopted by American families now will almost certainly be blocked from leaving the country. The law also cuts off the main international adoption route for Russian children stuck in often dismal orphanages: More than 60,000 Russian youngsters have been adopted in the United States in the past 20 years. There are about 740,000 children without parental care in Russia, according to UNICEF.
All 143 members of the Federation Council present voted to support the bill, which has sparked criticism from both the United States and Russian officials, activists and artists, who say it victimizes children by depriving them of the chance to escape the squalor of orphanage life. The vote comes days after Parliament's lower house overwhelmingly approved the ban.
Seven people with posters protesting the bill were detained outside the Council before Wednesday's vote. "Children get frozen in the Cold War," one poster read. Some 60 people rallied in St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city.
The bill is part of larger legislation by Putin-allied lawmakers retaliating against a recently signed U.S. law that calls for sanctions against Russians deemed to be human rights violators. Although Putin has not explicitly committed to signing the bill, he strongly defended it in a press conference last week as "a sufficient response" to the new U.S. law.
Originally Russia's lawmakers cobbled together a more or less a tit-for-tat response to the U.S. law, providing for travel sanctions and the seizure of financial assets in Russia of Americans determined to have violated the rights of Russians.
But it was expanded to include the adoption measure and call for a ban on any organizations that are engaged in political activities if they receive funding from U.S. citizens or are determined to be a threat to Russia's interests.
Russian children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov told the Interfax news agency that 46 children who were on the verge of being adopted by Americans would stay in Russia if the bill is approved ? despite court rulings in some of these cases authorizing the adoptions.
The ombudsman supported the bill, saying that foreign adoptions discourage Russians from adopting children. "A foreigner who has paid for an adoption always gets a priority compared to potential Russian adoptive parents," Astakhov was quoted as saying. "A great country like Russia cannot sell its children."
Russian law allows foreigners to adopt only if a Russian family has not expressed interest in a child being considered for adoption.
Some top government officials, including the foreign minister, have spoken flatly against the adoption law, arguing that the measure would be in violation of Russia's constitution and international obligations.
But Senator Mikhail Margelov, chairman of the Council's foreign affairs committee, referred to the bill as "a natural and a long overdue response" to the U.S. legislation. "Children must be placed in Russian families, and this is a cornerstone issue for us," he said.
Margelov said that a bilateral Russian-U.S. agreement binds Russia to give notice of a halt to adoptions 12 months in advance. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies that the president would consider the bill within the next two weeks.
The measure has become one of the most debated topics in Russia.
By Tuesday, more than 100,000 Russians had signed an online petition urging the Kremlin to scrap the bill.
Over the weekend, dozens of Muscovites placed toys and lit candles in front of the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament after it approved the bill on Friday, but security guards promptly removed them. Opposition groups said they will rally against the bill on Jan. 13, and several popular artists publicly voiced their concern about the legislation.
While receiving a state award from Putin on Wednesday, film actor Konstantin Khabensky wore a badge saying "Children Are Beyond Politics." Veteran rock musician Andrey Makarevich called on Putin Monday to stop "killing children."
During a marathon Putin press conference Thursday, eight of the 60 questions the president answered focused on the bill. Responding angrily, Putin claimed that Americans routinely mistreat children from Russia.
The bill is named in honor of Dima Yakovlev, a Russian toddler who was adopted by Americans and then died in 2008 after his father left him in a car in broiling heat for hours. The father was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Russian lawmakers argue that by banning adoptions to the U.S. they would be protecting children and encouraging adoptions inside Russia.
In a measure of the virulent anti-U.S. sentiment that has gripped parts of Russian society, a few lawmakers went even further, claiming that some Russian children were adopted by Americans only to be used for organ transplants and become sex toys or cannon fodder for the U.S. Army.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Israel: Cell Phone Revolution Drives Prices Down to 49 NIS Monthly
Taking the lead as Israel?s least expensive cellular telephone carrier is YouPhone, beating out Rami Levi, Golan Telecom and Hot Mobile. YouPhone offers an unlimited monthly plan for an astounding getting to know you deal of 39 NIS a month. The price includes unlimited local phone calls and SMS text message and 1GB of monthly surfing. After the four-month getting to know you period ends, the monthly price will increase to 79 NIS.
YouPhone also offers shopping credit at Mega supermarkets or gas at Dor Alon for eligible clients.
Rami Levy Communications still offers its 88 NIS monthly rate, and Golan Telecommunications, unwilling to be outdone offers a 6-month introductory offer of 49 NIS a month after which the price increases to 99 NIS monthly. And let?s not forget Hot Mobile which has also joined the 49 NIS a month club for six months, followed by a 99 NIS monthly rate.
One must do a bit of online research for the different plans have different highlights, with some of the 99 NIS plans including unlimited phone service to many countries, including the United States and Canada.
The new cellular revolution in Israel also offers new plans including one in which there is no monthly charge or hidden cost, so if one does not make any outgoing calls, there is no monthly charge. Outgoing local rates are 10 agorot per minute or SMS text message.
There are other plans offered by the various companies as well.
(YWN ? Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Holiday parenting: How the holiday liturgy of light creates a global family
A school principal knows how the holiday liturgy of light can create a global family among diversely religious and irreligious communities.
The holiday season embraces our deepest inclination to cherish light and push back darkness; to celebrate family and friends around table and hearth.
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EnlargeAs a?school principal, I?ve wrestled for years to find a satisfying expression of?seasonal joy and inspiration while working in a diverse religious or irreligious community. What tradition can we all embrace at this time of year without making the moment fraught with conflict or overlap or over-sensitivity regarding individual religious tradition?
Skip to next paragraph Todd R. NelsonCorrespondent
Todd R. Nelson is head of school at The School in Rose Valley outside Philadelphia. He has been a Monitor contributor of Home Forum essays, poems, Op-Ed commentaries and feature articles since 1989. He writes a monthly column for Teachers.net. He and his wife, Lesley, have three adult children.
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The school concert last week was ?the winter concert,? not even the holiday concert. Christmas, Hanukkah, New Years all blend as ?winter vacation.? We balance the songs and music originating in different traditions in order to be inclusive ? all good. The words of well wishing often catch in the utterance. ?Merry Christmas,? said a fourth grader to her Jewish teacher. Ooops! ?It?s OK to wish me Merry Christmas,? said her teacher! Language and religious traditions collide; graciousness and understanding trump the inadvertent over-sensitivities. We deal.
But I still seek the language we can all embrace, the words that staunch the hindrance we feel to reach beyond the murky clouds of unshared doctrine, liturgy, or tradition that inhibit our celebration. Where is an ecumenical, civil, secular liturgy and ritual we can all join?? How do we unite in something soulful, beyond the commercialism that also permeates the season?
This is a precious moment in the calendar of the world?s religious traditions, as people and their villages have known and celebrated since the very beginning of settlement and stories. The oldest observance must be the death and birth of the year, the Winter solstice, the celebration of new life. Eventually the imagery came to convey the break through of inspiration and spirituality ? as exemplified by light.
The season embraces our deepest inclination to cherish light and push back darkness; to celebrate family and friends around table and hearth; to make room for all things new and anticipate the longest day toward which we wend, the summer solstice at the opposite end of the celestial year.
For this season, in our family and in my schools, we have always shared Susan Cooper?s poem ?The Shortest Day.? It alludes to the revels of this solstice and the global traditions we hail from, and also helps with the anticipation of the next solstice. The possibilities expand for each of us, as we allow them to adhere.
So the shortest day came,
and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries
of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
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They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
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And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, revelling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing, behind us ? listen!
All the long echoes sing the same delight,
This shortest day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land;
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
and hope for peace.
?Can we all find ourselves in these lines?
May your family?s holidays and vacation days be filled with this same delight, followed by New Year?s sunshine and revelry. And may we all experience the promise of peace and love and gratitude that the season is bound to awaken in us ? regardless of where we as individuals think it comes from.
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Ideas for a Good Crock-Pot Soup Recipe? Good Questions | The ...
My crockpot cookbook came with a recipe for potato and mushroom chowder that I quite like. It is a bit creamy (has 1 cup of milk I think), but definitely not a cream of such-and-such type soup. I just went to look for the recipe so I could list the ingredients for you, but I couldn't find it! I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to find a similar recipe, though, or just make it up. I think it would work well for a soup party because there are infinite options for toppings that people could select from--green onions, bacon, fancy croutons, shredded cheese, etc etc.
Side note: I will say that, in my experience, crockpot soups are much better if you saute the aromatics and any dried herbs in olive oil or butter before dumping them in the crockpot. That's one of the tips in the "7 tips" article linked above, and it is well worth the time.
Good luck! Sounds fun.
Pork, Pineapple, and Acorn Squash Stew in Slow Cooker
Olla Gitana
Dairy free, but has green beans and chickpeas; must be adapted for slow cooker. You can swap the green beans for another green veggie. Could swap a ground nut or such for the chickpeas if they annoy you. I didn't notice them when we did this on the stove. The tomatoes vanish completely.Everything melds nicely. Could use veg stock, chicken broth.
The curried vegetable and chickpea stew listed above is amazing. Make it!
The only thing left that I can think of is an italian sausage soup. There's a really good one on allrecipes. I dont remember what it was called. Probably italian sausage soup.
I love that curried vegetable stew that's linked to above. It's one of my favorites - so so good!
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Thousands of Islamists clash with opponents in Egypt
At least 42 people were being treated for injuries, with some rushed to the hospital, a city health official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters.
Opponents of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi clash with Islamist supporters of the president as riot police tries to separate the groups in Alexandria, Egypt, Dec. 21. Thousands of Islamists clashed with their opponents Friday in Egypt's second largest city, Alexandria, on the eve of the second leg of voting on the country's contentious constitution that has deeply polarized the nation.
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EnlargeThousands of Islamists clashed with their opponents on Friday in?Egypt's?second largest city, Alexandria, a day before the second leg of voting on a proposed constitution that has deeply polarized the nation.
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Riot police swung batons and fired volleys of tear gas to separate the stone-throwing crowds, made up of Muslim Brotherhood members and ultraconservative Salafis on one side, and youthful protesters on the other. The clashes started when the two groups met just after Friday afternoon prayers near the city's main mosque.
The demonstrators, some of whom carried black Islamic battle flags, withdrew from the mosque area under a heavy cloud of tear gas some two hours after the clashes began. Fighting continued along the coastal road of the Mediterranean city, near the Medical School and famed Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
At least 42 people were being treated for injuries, with some rushed to the hospital, a city health official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters.
It was unclear who started the fight. Islamists had called for a big rally outside the Qaed Ibrahim mosque, and some 20 liberal political parties had said they would not hold a rival gathering to avoid clashes.
Security forces had cordoned off streets leading to the mosque as throngs of Salafi Islamists, most wearing the long beards favored by the movement, gathered for what they called "the million-man rally to defend clerics and mosques." Some chanted "God is Great," and warned opponents: "with blood and soul, we redeem Islam."
The rally was called in response to violence last week, when a well-known Alexandrian Salafi cleric, Sheik Ahmed el-Mahalawi, was trapped inside a mosque for 12 hours while his supporters battled rock-throwing opponents outside with swords and firebombs.
El-Mahalawi, 87, had stirred anger with a sermon in which he denounced opponents of the Islamist-friendly draft charter as "followers of heretics." He denied that in a sermon on Friday, accusing the media of spreading "lies," and claiming that last week's clashes were meant to prevent voting on the constitutional referendum.
The final round of voting on the disputed charter is to be completed Saturday in the remaining 17 of?Egypt's?27 provinces.
Critics charge that the Islamist-dominated body that wrote the draft document did not represent all Egyptians. Liberal and Christian members quit the assembly to protest clauses and articles they say were rammed through by hardline members aiming to create a religious state.
The opposition National Salvation Front reiterated its call on Friday for voters to oppose the document, and one of the group's leaders, Mohamed ElBaradei, urged President Mohamed Morsi to suspend the referendum and form a new constituent assembly.
With election authorities, army and police preparing for Saturday's voting however, ElBaradei's televised message looked unlikely to shift Morsi's position.
"If this constitution passed, there will be no stability," said Baradei, a Nobel Laureate and?Egypt's?leading pro-democracy advocate.
The first round of voting was held in 10 provinces last Saturday, including in?Egypt's?biggest cities, Cairo and Alexandria. Turnout was low, around 32 percent, and unofficial results showed around 56 percent of voters cast a "yes" vote in support of the constitution. Rights groups and the opposition immediately filed complaints alleging irregularities.
Controversy over the proposed constitution has in the past month plunged?Egypt?into political turmoil unprecedented since the February 2011 ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the longtime authoritarian and secular-minded ruler.
The draft has split the country into two camps. On one side are the Islamists from the country's most organized group, The Muslim Brotherhood, from which President Mohammed Morsi hails, and their backers from various Salafi and former Jihadist groups.
The opposition camp, led by the National Salvation Front, is an alliance of liberal parties and youth groups backed by Christians and moderate Muslims who fear the Brotherhood's attempts to monopolize power by passing a constitution that enshrines a greater role for clerics and Islamic law.
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians from both sides have rallied in the streets over the past month. The crisis peaked when Brotherhood supporters attacked an opposition sit-in outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Dec. 5. The ensuing violence left at least 10 dead and hundreds of injured on both sides.
The crisis was compounded by Morsi's decision to rush the draft constitution to a referendum after an Islamist-dominated panel approved it, as well as his move last month to grant himself near-absolute powers, which were later rescinded.
Morsi's moves have also split state institutions. The judiciary became another battleground, with the powerful Judges' Club calling on its members to boycott the vote while Brotherhood sympathizers in the legal system and other independents insisted on supervising it.
Egyptian prosecutors held a sit-in protest to press Morsi-appointed prosecutor general Talaat Abdullah to resign on Monday. Abdullah resigned, then retracted his resignation on Thursday, raising the prospect of new protests by fellow prosecutors.
Also, Zaghloul el-Balshi, the secretary general of the election committee who is also a judge and an aid to the country's justice minister, resigned Wednesday, citing health reasons. The media said his resignation was prompted by his inability to prevent voting violations in the first leg of the referendum.
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WWE Main Event results: 'Hell Yes' for tag team action
Team Hell No vs. Team Rhodes Scholars - WWE Tag Team Championship Match: WWE Main Event, Dec. 19, 2012Zack Ryder & Santino Marella vs. The Prime Time Players: WWE Main Event, Dec. 19, 2012A special look at the ongoing confrontation between Team Hell No and Team Rhodes Scholars: WWE Main Event, Dec. 19, 2012Steve Blackman vs. Kane - Hardcore Championship Match: Raw, Nov. 6, 2000R- Truth & Team Hell No vs. 3MB: Tribute to the Troops, December 19, 2012R-Truth talks to Team Hell No: Tribute to the Troops, December 19, 2012 Philadelphia ? The City of Brotherly Love hosted an action-packed episode of WWE Main Event featuring Team Hell No defending the WWE Tag Team Titles against Team Rhodes Scholars in a rematch from last month. Also, The Prime Time Players continued their quest for tag team dominance and faced Zack Ryder & Santino Marella.
WWE Tag Team Champions Team Hell No def. Team Rhodes Scholars (PHOTOS | WATCH)
Last month on WWE Main Event, Team Rhodes Scholars battled Team Hell No in a fast-paced battle that saw Cody Rhodes suffer a concussion and shoulder injury. Following a full recovery and sporting a new ?stache, Rhodes rejoined his tag team partner Damien Sandow and sought revenge by once again challenging Team Hell No for the WWE Tag Team Championships on WWE Main Event. Despite the injury and absence from active competition, the rivalry between Team Hell No and Team Rhodes Scholars has continued to brew ? Sandow and Rhodes believing they are indeed much more civilized than the combustible WWE Tag Team Champions.
Nevertheless, the only way to prove which team is supreme is inside the squared circle and the WWE Universe in Philly was treated to the high stakes rematch between the duos. As the match got underway, it was abundantly clear there was more than just animosity between the respective teams competing on ION Television. Rhodes was set to start the match against Daniel Bryan, but the son of WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes demanded Kane be tagged in to begin the contest.
Kane and Rhodes exchanged blows, but The Big Red Monster maintained the edge over his opponent ? revenge no doubt clouding Rhodes? strategy ? ultimately forcing him to tag in Sandow. Team Hell No maintained clear momentum over the challengers, however, and the WWE Universe?s support was strong for the champions, chanting ?Yes!? whenever Bryan would scream ?No!?
Teamwork was the key to Team Hell No?s domination throughout much of the contest. Though Sandow took the brunt of the punishment, he managed to tag in Rhodes but Kane maintained the advantage. With their outlook grim for capturing the Tag Team Titles, Team Rhodes Scholars adjusted their strategy. Rhodes feigned an injury, allowing Sandow to distract The Big Red Monster as Rhodes threw him into the steel steps.
The nefarious tactics proved to be effective as Sandow and Rhodes displayed teamwork of their own, keeping Kane reeling and ? more importantly ? away from tagging in Bryan. Avoiding an all-out slugfest with The Big Red Monster, Team Rhodes Scholars made sure to tag in and out frequently, not allowing Kane to adjust his bearings with respect to who he faced inside the ring. But the experience and the resilience of the former WWE and World Heavyweight Champion enabled him to make the tag, resulting in Bryan regaining momentum for the champions.
Momentum shifted back and forth, both duos continued to display teamwork in an effort to prove why the championships belong on their waists. Though Team Rhodes Scholars nearly accomplished their goal, Team Hell No continued to fight. As Rhodes and Kane battled once again in the center of the ring, the second-generation Superstar missed a moonsault, giving his rival an opening to deliver a devastating Chokeslam. The maneuver was followed by Bryan?s flying headbutt, allowing Team Hell No to pick up the victory and retain the WWE Tag Team Championships.
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'Light amidst the darkness': Victoria Soto remembered
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A nation mourns after the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history at Sandy Hook Elementary, which left 20 children and six staff members dead.
By Tracy Connor, Sandra Lilley and Tom Winter, NBC News
One of Newtown?s heroic teachers ? remembered as a bright light on the darkest of days ? was laid to rest Wednesday, with family friend Paul Simon performing the folk song ?Sound of Silence.?
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Victoria Soto, 27, first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook elementary. Soto had taught for five years and was known by students as silly and loving.
Mourners who arrived at a church in Stratford, Conn., for Victoria Soto?s funeral were handed ribbons of green, her favorite color.
They spoke of the 27-year-old?s selfless final act: She died trying to protect her first-grade students at Sandy Hook Elementary School from rifle fire during the massacre, according to her family.
?Truthfully, you have been a hero to me for a lot longer than five days,? said her sister, Jillian Soto, according to the Stamford Advocate. "You've been my big sister. The one I always looked up to."
Another sister, Carlee, sobbed as she spoke. "The pain is unbelievable," she said.
Outside, family friend Ryan Ortiz, 27, said he couldn?t help thinking if he would have been as courageous as Soto.
?Mind-boggling what she had to go through,? Ortiz said. ?No matter how many times I sit at home and think of what I would have done, you just can't imagine being in that situation.
?In my opinion, she was that light amidst the darkness that was going on that day in that school,? Ortiz said. ?There's really no other way to remember her than being that light in that room."
Simon was asked by the Soto family to perform at the service; his sister-in-law, a nurse, is close to Soto?s mother, also a nurse. He came and left without comment.
Soto, who was in her fifth year of teaching, was finishing up her daily morning meeting with the students of Classroom 10 when gunman Adam Lanza began his rampage Friday morning.
NBCLatino: Soto remembered as a hero and a giving soul
Relatives say they were told she hurried the kids she called her "angels" into a closet behind her and tried to shield them from the bullets.
Some of the children in her class managed to survive the slaughter. Many did not.
Funerals were held Wednesday for first-graders Charlotte Bacon, Caroline Previdi and Daniel Barden, and a wake was held for 7-year-old Chase Kowalski ? continuing a week of mourning.
A large contingent of firefighters arrived for 7-year-old Daniel?s funeral at St. Rome of Lima church in Newtown, where the strains of bagpipes filled the air.
Two of his relatives are members of the New York City Fire Department, and he dreamed of wearing a uniform when he grew up, according to a Facebook post from a firefighters? foundation.
"It was one of the hardest funerals I was ever at,? FDNY Lt. Eric Torres told NBCNewYork.com.
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Family friend Laura Stamberg, of New Paltz, N.Y., said that on the day of the shooting, Daniel?s father Mark spent precious moments with him, teaching him a Christmas song on the piano.
"They played foosball and then he taught him the song and then he walked him to the bus and that was their last morning together," Stamberg told the Associated Press.
At a funeral where mourners wore buttons with her picture, 6-year-old redhead Charlotte was recalled as a ball of energy who loved the color pink and wanted to be a veterinarian. Caroline was ?just a doll,? was just a doll," family friend Pam Fehrs said. "She was happy ? dancing and happy everywhere she went."
Later on Wednesday, hundreds attended a wake in Woodbury, Conn., for Sandy Hook Principal Dawn Hochsprung, 47, who also has been hailed as a hero for running toward the sound of gunfire after Lanza blasted his way into the school.
Family: Boy's favorite teacher died cradling him
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman came to pay their respects at Munson Lovetere Funeral Home, where candles in paper bags, arranged to spell HOPE, were laid out on the front lawn.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan also attended. Earlier in the day, he said Hochsprung and five other staffers killed at Sandy Hook ?made the ultimate sacrifice, literally laying down their lives to protect the children they taught and cared for.?
?If it was not for the quick and courageous response of other teachers and staff, even more children and adults might have died,? he said.
Some of the services have been marked not just by tears, but by calls for tougher gun laws. Miguel Padilla, who works with Soto?s father, said he hoped the unity shown in the wake of the tragedy would translate into legislative action.
?With assault rifles, there is no need for those,? he said outside the church. ?If you need to protect yourself, a handgun is good enough. That a 20-year old can get his hands on [an assault rifle] is pathetic.
?Something big has to come out of this,? he added. ?They have to change the law.?
NBC News' Courtney Hazlett contributed to this report.
As funerals are held for four more Sandy Hook Elementary victims, President Obama will announce that Vice President Biden will spearhead a panel to formulate gun policies in the aftermath of the Newtown tragedy. NBC's Craig Melvin reports.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Mayor of Trenton pleads not guilty to corruption
TRENTON, New Jersey (Reuters) - The mayor of Trenton, New Jersey's capital city, and two associates pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in a corruption case prosecutors say is laced with esoteric aliases, clandestine meetings and payments code-named Uncle Remus.
Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, who still holds office, his brother Ralphiel Mack and a restaurant owner named Joseph Giorgianni appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Michael Shipp to enter their pleas.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Moran read out maximum penalties that could amount to 110 years in prison for Mayor Mack, 46, and his brother Ralphiel, 40, and 130 years for Giorgianni, who is 63 and appeared in court in a wheelchair.
Shipp set a trial date of February 19, though Mayor Mack's lawyer, Mark G. Davis, told reporters outside the courtroom he would probably ask for a postponement.
"I have not seen any evidence," Davis said. "Everyone is going to need more time, not just myself."
The lawyer ruled out any suggestion of a plea deal for Mayor Mack, and said the mayor had no plans to step down despite a call to do so by Gov. Chris Christie.
"He is going to keep his job until state law says otherwise," Davis said.
The three are charged in an eight-count federal indictment in what prosecutors say was a 2010 scheme to accept $119,000 in bribes so that Mayor Mack would help in the development of an automated parking garage on city-owned land. They were out on bail.
About $54,000 was actually paid, the indictment against the three said, with the rest to be paid later.
None of the defendants, all in business suits, spoke in court Wednesday, except to confirm arrangements for lawyers to represent them.
According to the indictment, a scheme was hatched to keep Mayor Mack from being caught. Money was channeled through Giorgianni and Ralphiel Mack, the indictment charged.
"They often used coded and cryptic language, including using the term 'Uncle Remus' to refer to the corrupt payments," the indictment charged.
Part of the effort to hide the scheme involved Giorgianni using the name "Mr. Baker" when sending text messages about the payments, prosecutors said.
Mayor Mack, not a tall man, was referred to as "the little guy" and "Napoleon." Giorgianni was also known as JoJo, which is the name of his Trenton steakhouse, and "the Fat Man," according to the indictment.
Prosecutors accuse the three of trying to conceal their activities by avoiding meetings in City Hall, which is near the federal courthouse, and instead gather at Giorgianni's residence, his steakhouse and restaurants in Atlantic City. (Editing by Daniel Trotta; Editing by M.D. Golan)
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Intensive weight-loss intervention linked with increased chance of partial remission from diabetes
Dec. 18, 2012 ? Among overweight adults, participation in an intensive lifestyle intervention (that included counseling sessions and targets to reduce caloric intake and increase physical activity) was associated with a greater likelihood of partial remission of type 2 diabetes; however, the absolute remission rates were modest, according to a study in the December 19 issue of JAMA.
"Diabetes traditionally has been considered a progressive, incurable condition wherein the best case scenario after diagnosis is tight metabolic and risk factor management to forestall vascular and neuropathic complications," according to background information in the article. Some bariatric surgery studies have suggested that many diabetes cases among obese patients can be resolved. "Patients diagnosed as having type 2 diabetes frequently ask their physicians whether their condition is reversible, and some physicians may provide hopeful advice that lifestyle change can normalize glucose levels," the authors write. "However, the rate of remission of type 2 diabetes that may be achieved using non-surgical approaches has not been reported."
Edward W. Gregg, Ph.D., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and colleagues conducted a study to examine the association of an intensive lifestyle intervention with frequency of partial and complete remission of type 2 diabetes. The study consisted of an ancillary observational analysis of a 4-year randomized controlled trial (baseline visit, August 2001-April 2004; last follow-up, April 2008) comparing an intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) with a diabetes support and education control condition (DSE). The study included 4,503 U.S. adults with body mass index of 25 or higher and type 2 diabetes.
Participants were randomly assigned to receive the ILI, which included weekly group and individual counseling in the first 6 months followed by 3 sessions per month for the second 6 months and twice-monthly contact and regular refresher group series and campaigns in years 2 to 4 (n = 2,241); or the DSE, which was an offer of 3 group sessions per year on diet, physical activity, and social support (n = 2,262). The ILI aimed to reduce total caloric intake to 1,200 to 1,800 calories a day through reductions in total and saturated fat intake and by increasing physical activity levels to a goal of 175 minutes/week. Liquid meal replacements were provided to assist dietary goals.
Participants in the ILI group lost significantly more weight than DSE participants at year 1 (-8.6 percent vs. -0.7 percent) and at year 4 (-4.7 percent vs. -0.8 percent) and had greater increases in fitness at both year 1 (20.6 percent vs. 5.3 percent) and year 4 (4.9 percent vs. -1.5 percent). The researchers found that the prevalence of complete remission (i.e., glucose normalization without medication) was more common in the ILI group than in the DSE group across all years of the study. However, the absolute prevalence was low, ranging from 1.3 percent for ILI vs. 0.1 percent for DSE in year 1; to 0.7 percent for ILI vs. 0.2 percent for DSE in year 4.
Additional analyses indicated that ILI participants were significantly more likely to experience any remission (partial or complete), with a prevalence of 11.5 percent during the first year, decreasing to 7.3 percent during year 4, compared with 2.0 percent in the DSE group at both time points. Rates of any remission were notably higher (15 percent -- 21 percent) among persons with substantial weight loss or fitness change, shorter duration of extant diabetes, or a lower HbA1c level (a measure of blood glucose) at entry and those not using insulin.
"The ILI group was significantly more likely to have continuous, sustained remission, as 9.2 percent experienced at least a 2-year remission (vs. for DSE, 1.7 percent) at some point during follow-up, 6.4 percent had at least a 3-year remission (vs. DSE, 1.3 percent), and 3.5 percent had a continuous 4-year remission (vs. DSE, 0.5 percent). The results from the complete case analyses were similar," the authors write.
"The increasing worldwide prevalence of type 2 diabetes, along with its wide-ranging complications, has led to hopes that the disease can be reversed or prevented. These analyses of more than 4,500 overweight adults with type 2 diabetes confirm that complete remission associated with an intensive life-style intervention, when defined by glucose normalization without need for drugs, is rare. However, partial remission, defined as a transition to prediabetic or normal glucose levels without drug treatment for a specific period, is an obtainable goal for some patients with type 2 diabetes."
Editorial: A Look Ahead at the Future of Diabetes Prevention and Treatment
David E. Arterburn, M.D., M.P.H., of the Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, and Patrick J. O'Connor, M.D., M.A., M.P.H., of the HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research, Minneapolis, write in an accompanying editorial that "evidence-based and cost-effective diabetes prevention strategies should be more broadly applied using the full range of available technologies and incentives."
"But that is not enough. Research, education, and policy efforts need to be focused further upstream, toward primary prevention: reducing incident obesity in children, adolescents, and adults, especially among those with a family history of obesity or diabetes. Prevention of diabetes and obesity should be a rallying cry for all clinicians who care about the health of the nation."
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- Gregg EW, Chen H, Wagenknecht LE, et al. Association of an Intensive Lifestyle Intervention With Remission of Type 2 Diabetes. JAMA., 2012; 308 (23): 2489-2496 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.67929
- Arterburn DE, O?Connor PJ. A Look Ahead at the Future of Diabetes Prevention and Treatment. JAMA., 2012; 308 (23): 2517-2518 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.144749
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Google, Israel put Dead Sea scrolls online
A conservation analyst from the Israeli Antiquities Authority prepares fragments of the Dead Sea scrolls to be photographed Tuesday. (Uriel Sinai, Getty Images)
JERUSALEM?? More than six decades since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls ? and thousands of years after they were written ? Israel on Tuesday put 5,000 images of the ancient biblical artifacts online in a partnership with Google.
The digital library contains the Book of Deuteronomy, which includes the second listing of the Ten Commandments, and a portion of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, dated to the first century B.C.
Israeli officials said this is part of an attempt by the custodians of the celebrated manuscripts ? often criticized for allowing them to be monopolized by small circles of scholars ? to make them broadly available.
"Only five conservators worldwide are authorized to handle the Dead Sea Scrolls," said Shuka Dorfman, director of the Israel Antiquities Authority. "Now, everyone can touch the scroll on screen around the globe."
The scrolls, considered one of the most significant archaeological finds of the 20th century, are thought to have been written or collected by an ascetic Jewish sect that fled Jerusalem to the desert 2,000 years ago and settled at Qumran.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Israel to face new condemnation for settlements
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London to host 2017 Paralympic world championships
LONDON |
LONDON (Reuters) - London will get the chance to recreate the magic of 2012 after being chosen to host the 2017 Paralympic athletics world championships, Mayor Boris Johnson said on Wednesday.
The event will be held just a month before the Olympic Stadium hosts the IAAF world athletics championships, making London the first city to stage both events back-to-back.
This year's Paralympics athletics events attracted sell-out 80,000 crowds with the performances of British 100m runner Jonnie Peacock and wheelchair racer David Weir providing some of the most memorable moments of the Games.
"London just staged the best spectacle of sport the world has seen," Johnson said in a statement.
"By bringing the IPC athletics world championships to our wonderful Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park just a month before the world athletics championships, the capital is poised to recreate the magic of 2012.
"London's Paralympic Games were the first ever to sell out, and these Championships provide a perfect chance to build on that enthusiasm for disabled sport," he added.
Xavier Gonzalez, chief executive of the IPC, said London had helped raised the bar for Paralympic athletics.
"We cannot wait to see Great Britain embrace the Paralympic Movement once again with open arms," he said.
"The bar has been set high for the 2017 IPC Athletics World Championships, and we are eager to see the worldwide media attention they attract."
The next edition of the championships is being held in Lyon, France in 2013.
(Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Ed Osmond)
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Sprint adds new LTE cities in Indiana, California, Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico
Sprint this morning announced that it's lit up a handful of new cities with its 4G LTE?data. They include:
- Indianapolis/Carmel, Ind.
- Santa Rosa/Petaluma, Calif.
- Vallejo/Fairfield, Calif.
- Southern Puerto Rico (including Ponce, Coamo and Guayama)
- York/Hanover, Pa.
- Franklin County, Pa.
Also, Shenandoah County and Page County (Va.), as well as Chicago, should see enhanced LTE coverage, Sprint says.?
So if you've got an LTE-capable?Sprint device and live in one of those areas, congrats. And let's hope the Myans are wrong. We've got a full list of Sprint's LTE?locations after the break.
- Anderson, Ind.
- Atlanta
- Athens, Ga.
- Baltimore
- Barnstable/Hyannis/Mid-Cape, Mass.
- Calhoun, Ga.
- Carrollton, Ga.
- Chicago/Naperville/Joliet, Ill.
- Clark County, Va./Jefferson County, W.Va.
- Columbus, Ind.
- Dallas
- Franklin County, Pa.
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Gainesville, Ga.
- Gary, Ind.
- Granbury/Hood County, Texas
- Hagerstown, Md./Martinsburg, W.Va.
- Harrisburg/Carlisle/Hershey, Pa.
- Harrisonburg, Va.
- Houston
- Huntsville, Texas
- Hutchinson, Kan.
- Indianapolis/Carmel, Ind.
- Kansas City, Kan./Mo.
- Kankakee/Bradley/Bourbonnais, Ill.
- Lawrence, Kan.
- Manhattan/Junction City, Kan.
- McPherson, Kan.
- Muncie, Ind.
- Newnan, Ga.
- New Bedford/Fall River, Mass.
- Page County, Pa.
- Peabody, Mass.
- Rockford, Ill.
- Rome, Ga.
- Salina, Kan.
- San Antonio
- Santa Rosa/Petaluma, Calif.
- Sedalia, Mo.
- Shenandoah County, Va.
- South Bend/Mishawaka, Ind.
- St. Joseph, Mo.
- Topeka, Kan.
- Waco, Texas
- Waukegan/Lake County, Ill.
- Wichita, Kan.
- Wichita Falls, Texas
- Winchester, Va.
- Yauco/Ponce/Coamo/Santa Isabel/Guayama, Puerto Rico.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
ViewSonic Pro9000
Priced for moderately serious videophiles, the full 1080p HD ViewSonic Pro9000 is available both by itself and from the sort of dealers who will install and calibrate the projector for you, help match it to an appropriate screen and screen size for your home theater, and more. It lacks some features you might expect?including, for example, frame interpolation?but it offers a hybrid LED and laser light source that should last the life of the projector, and it delivers a respectably high-quality image.
To start with what's missing, the lack of frame interpolation is a little surprising. The feature has become increasingly common on home theater projectors, including, for example, the Optoma HD8300 and Sony VPL-HW30ES.
The argument for frame interpolation is that filmed content can show judder, a slightly jerky motion inherent in the standard 24 frame-per-second film speed. Frame interpolation smoothes the motion by adding additional frames. However, adding frames makes filmed content look like live video, which many people?including me?find distracting. If you want your movies to look like movies, in short, you'll probably want to turn this feature off anyway, so not having it may not matter.
Also somewhat surprising, because it's all but standard on DLP projectors today, is the lack of 3D. If you don't care about 3D that won't be an issue either. Just be aware that the Pro9000 is strictly 2D.
Two other features you might expect at this price, but won't find, are lens shift and more than minimal zoom. Both make setup easier by giving you flexibility in where you can place the projector relative to the screen. The Editors' Choice Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8700 UB, for example, can shift the image about a half screen width left and right or almost a full screen up or down from the center position. It also offers a 2.1x zoom to give you a wide range of distance from the screen for any given image size. The Pro9000 offers no lens shift at all and only a 1.2x zoom.
What Makes it Worth the Price
What makes the Pro9000 potentially worth the price is its hybrid LED and laser light source. Much like the hybrid light source in Casio's data projectors, the Pro9000 uses red and blue LEDs for its red and blue primary colors, and a blue laser shining on a phosphor element to produce green.
A key advantage for the light source is that it's designed to last the life of the projector, with a 20,000 hour rating. That helps keep the total cost of ownership down, since it means you don't have to buy lamps every 2,000 or 3,000 hours at several hundred dollars each. It can also help with electricity bills. ViewSonic claims the power draw is only 186 watts. I measured it at 123 watts in Normal mode and a miserly 84 watts in Eco mode. In standby mode, the rating is less than 0.5 watts, which registers as 0 watts on my Kill A Watt meter.
Also worth mention is the three-year warranty for both the projector and light source. That's a year longer for the projector than many vendors offer and far longer for the light source than the 90 days that's common with traditional lamps.
No Rainbows
One other feature that makes the Pro9000 different is an almost complete, if not actually complete, lack of rainbow artifacts, with light areas breaking up into little red-green-blue rainbows. These are always a concern with single-chip DLP projectors, because of the way the projectors create color, but they show more often with some projectors than others. The Pro9000 is the first single-chip DLP projector I've ever tested that was completely rainbow free.
I have to be a little careful here, because some people are more sensitive than others to seeing these artifacts. If you see them more easily than I do, you may still see them with the Pro9000. However, I see them more easily than most people, so if I don't see them at all, it's unlikely that you will. What I can say definitively is that the Pro9000 is better on this score than any other single-chip DLP projector I've ever seen.
Setup and Brightness
Setting up the Pro9000 is standard fare. The connectors for image sources include two HDMI ports, a VGA port, and both S-Video and composite video ports.
ViewSonic rates the projector in its brightest mode at 1,600 lumens, which would make it far too bright for theater-dark lighting with the size screen you're likely to have in a home theater. However, the brightest mode also has awful color quality. That's not unusual, but it makes brightest mode best avoided in any case.
The Theater and Dark Room settings offer a lower brightness that served nicely for the 78-inch wide (90-inch diagonal) screen I used for my testing. Brighter presets were suitable for a room with some ambient light, like a living room at night. However, the Pro9000 is not a good choice as a home entertainment projector in, say, a family room that's flooded with light during the day.
Image Quality and Other Issues
On our tests with Blu-ray discs and with DVDs upscaled to 1080p, the Pro9000 did a reasonably good job on image quality. With the Blu-ray discs, I didn't see any issues worth mention except for a minimal level of noise in large unbroken areas.
With DVDs, in addition to noise I saw just a hint of posterization (shading changing suddenly where it should change gradually), but only in scenes that tend to cause that problem. With the default settings, I also saw some minor problems with shadow detail (details based on shading in dark areas). Adjusting gamma, however, improved shadow detail considerably.
One unusual touch for a home theater projector is the Pro9000's built-in stereo sound system, with two 2-watt speakers. The audio is both usable and loud enough for a small room if you want to set the projector up temporarily, but it's well short of the quality you'd want for home theater or even home entertainment use. Plan on using an external sound system.
I'd like this projector a lot more if it included features like lens shift and greater zoom. However, it delivers a suitably high- quality image, little to no rainbow effect, and a hybrid light source that promises a low total cost of ownership. That's enough, despite the lack of some expected features, to make the ViewSonic Pro9000 a potentially attractive choice. It's certainly enough to make it worth a close look.
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