It?s been a pretty big news day for Lyft, but let?s make it even bigger. TechCrunch has learned that Zimride, parent company behind the ride-sharing service, has closed a new, $15 million round of funding led by Founders Fund. Existing investors Mayfield Fund, K9 Ventures, and Floodgate also participated in the round.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/7uVR2yPRTcY/
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Jan. 29, 2013 ? Coral reefs build their structures by both producing and accumulating calcium carbonate, and this is essential for the maintenance and continued vertical growth capacity of reefs. An international research team has discovered that the amount of new carbonate being added by Caribbean coral reefs is now significantly below rates measured over recent geological timescales, and in some habitats is as much as 70% lower.
Coral reefs form some of the planet's most biologically diverse ecosystems, and provide valuable services to humans and wildlife. However, their ability to maintain their structures and continue to grow depends on the balance between the addition of new carbonate, which is mostly produced by corals themselves, set against the loss of carbonate through various erosional processes. Scientists have long known that reef ecosystems are in decline and that the amount of live coral on reefs is dwindling. But the paper, published on DATE TBC in Nature Communications, is the first evidence that these ecological changes are now also impacting on the growth potential of reefs themselves.
Professor Chris Perry of the University of Exeter, who led the research, said: "Our estimates of current rates of reef growth in the Caribbean are extremely alarming. Our study goes beyond only examining how much coral there is, to also look at the delicate balance of biological factors which determine whether coral reefs will continue to grow or will erode. Our findings clearly show that recent ecological declines are now suppressing the growth potential of reefs in the region, and that this will have major implications for their ability to respond positively to future sea level rises.
"It is most concerning that many coral reefs across the Caribbean have seemingly lost their capacity to produce enough carbonate to continue growing vertically, whilst others are already at a threshold where they may start to erode. At the moment there is limited evidence of large-scale erosion or loss of actual reef structure, but clearly if these trends continue, reef erosion looks far more likely. Urgent action to improve management of reef habitats and to limit global temperature increases is likely to be critical to reduce further deterioration of reef habitat."
The team was funded by the Leverhulme Trust (UK), through an International Network Grant. It included scientists from James Cook University and The University of Queensland in Australia, from The University of Auckland in New Zealand, Memorial University in Canada, and the University of Maine in the USA. They examined rates of carbonate production across 19 reefs in the four Caribbean countries of the Bahamas, Belize, Bonaire and Grand Cayman.
They discovered that declines in rates of carbonate production were especially evident in shallow water habitats, where many fast growing branching coral species have been lost. The study compared modern day rates with those measured in the region over approximately the last 7,000 years. In key habitats around the Caribbean, the findings suggested that in waters of around five metres in depth, reef growth rates are now reduced by 60-70% compared to the regional averages taken from historical records. In waters of around 10 metres in depth, the rates are reduced by 25%.
The study also suggests that these key habitats must have a minimum of around 10% living coral cover to maintain their current structures. The amount of cover varies between sites, but some are already below this threshold and are therefore at risk of starting to erode. Given that previous studies have shown that coral cover on reefs in the Caribbean has declined by an average of 80 per cent since the 1970s, this raises alarm bells for the future state of reefs in the region. These changes have been driven by human disturbance, disease and rising sea temperatures, and are only expected to intensify as a result of future climate change.
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You know when a joke goes too far that it becomes simply offensive?
Here?s an example of that. Imagine paying hundreds of dollars to buy an expensive gaming rig and expecting something to work only to be told to buy something else instead.
Crysis 3 beta just came out today, and some PC players have been having troubles running the game on SLI.
A gamer was not able to get SLI to work and asked what to do on the?MyCrysis forums:??Haven?t been able to get SLI working. Running dual 660 Ti.?Got the beta drivers installed, added the beta game to the list, SLI is checked, r_multigpu is set to 2?What do??
A Crytek employee responded by posting, ?Buy a 360??. He later retracted his comment by saying it was a ?joke?, but it just kind of feels really unprofessional to post something like that.
People were understandably pissed off at the reply.
?Seriously ?! such as nice support!! trolling about Crytek problem. We won?t replace our hardware because you have broken game engine, fix it!?
People can interpret the comment in different ways and some may find it?genuinely?funny. What are your thoughts on this?
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Competitions like Pwn2Own are a staple of the security research scene and with Pwnium 3, Google today announced the latest edition of its own competition. What's different this time around is the target. For the first time, the focus of the Pwnium competition is now Chrome OS, Google's Linux-based browser-centric operating system. In total, Google is making up to $3.14159 million in Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/e1XikE3lTHI/
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By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, TODAY
Don't place those Oscar bets yet: Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards showed that there's no universal favorite among the films and actors who'll be competing at the Feb. 24 Academy Awards ceremony.
"Argo," whose director, Ben Affleck was not even nominated by the Academy, won the big film award of the night, outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture. Many awards-watchers had expected Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" to take home that prize, but that film hasn't shown the awards dominance critics expected.
While accepting the award for "Argo," Affleck praised "Lincoln" star Daniel Day-Lewis, who won the award for outstanding actor in a motion picture, as expected.
"I can't believe I'm standing in the place where Daniel Day-Lewis just was," Affleck said. "Maybe I'll be a better actor, just from the radiation."
For his part, Day-Lewis, who's a heavy favorite to win best actor at the Oscars, noted that "it was an actor that murdered Abraham Lincoln, and therefore it is only fitting that every now and then, an actor tries to bring him back to life again."
Day-Lewis' "Lincoln" co-star Tommy Lee Jones, who was suffering from the flu and wasn't in attendance, won the outstanding supporting actor award for his role as fiery Congressman Thaddeus Stevens.
Another film award came as a surprise to many. Jennifer Lawrence won the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role for "Silver Linings Playbook," an honor many thought would go to Jessica Chastain for her role in "Zero Dark Thirty."
Lawrence thanked director David O. Russell, saying "you made a movie for your son so he wouldn't feel alone ,,, (and you) helped not just your son." Russell's 18-year-old son is bipolar, like Bradley Cooper's character in the film.
In an expected win, Anne Hathaway took home the outstanding supporting actress award for her role as Fantine in "Les Miserables."
"I have loved every single moment of my life as an actor," Hathaway said. She went on to thank her mother, who once understudied the Fantine role, "for voting for me -- at least she better have!"
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Anne Hathaway accepts the award for outstanding female actor in a supporting role for "Les Miserables" at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The first two television awards went to actors from "30 Rock."Alec Baldwin won for outstanding male actor in a comedy series, and Tina Fey for outstanding female actor.
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Alec Baldwin accepts the award for outstanding male actor in a comedy series for "30 Rock" at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Baldwin collected his eighth SAG award, noting that his good fortune was "ridiculous," and said that his experience on "30 Rock" was "the greatest experience I've ever had."
Fey won her fifth SAG award. "Thank you for letting me in this union," she said in her speech.
She then earned big laughs for calling out fellow nominee Amy Poehler, joking that "I've known you since you were pregnant with Lena Dunham."
At the Golden Globes on Jan. 13, Dunham, 26, had thanked show hosts Fey and Poehler and other Globe nominees for "getting me through middle school," a remark the hosts were quick to pick up on when they returned to the stage.
Although "30 Rock" was nominated for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series, the award went to "Modern Family."
Bryan Cranston took home his first SAG award, for outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series for "Breaking Bad." Cranston thanked series creator and producer Vince Gilligan, saying "he wrote the role of my career." Cranston would later return to the stage to stand with the "Argo" cast, as he plays a CIA supervisor in that film.
Claire Danes won the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series for "Homeland."
Perhaps the biggest surprise in the television categories came when "Downton Abbey" won for oustanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series, beating the highly acclaimed?"Homeland" and "Mad Men," among others. Scottish actress Phyllis Logan, who plays housekeeper Mrs. Hughes, charmed many by hollering "Shut the French windows!" before thanking the cast and crew.
Julianne Moore won for outstanding performance by a female actor in a television movie or miniseries for her role as Sarah Palin in "Game Change," and Kevin Costner won the male actor honor for his role in "Hatfields and McCoys."
Dick Van Dyke received the SAG life achievement award. The award was supposed to be presented by Baldwin and longtime Van Dyke collaborator Carl Reiner, but Van Dyke noted that Reiner was ill and couldn't attend.?
Van Dyke, who famously played comedy writer Rob Petrie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show," also joked that Reiner "waited five years to tell me it's PEE-trie, not PET-rie."
He also poked fun at his own much-lampooned Cockney accent in "Mary Poppins" and praised his peers as "the greatest generation in the history of acting," calling out the social activism of many actors in Darfur, Haiti, Somalia and other parts of the world.
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The CyanogenMod team has just given Verizon and Sprint Galaxy Note 2 users something to be happy about -- official 10.1 nighly builds for download. Users of these devices have been patiently waiting as development went along on the latest CyanogenMod builds, and now they have their chance. Of course these nightly builds are far less stable than general releases and may have many bugs, but some users are completely willing to put up with it.
If you're willing to deal with some quirks you can see what CyanogenMod 10.1 has to offer at the source links below. If you're not so sure how or why you should get into these nightly builds, head to our forums and get a few things figured out first. And remember, backing up before flashing is a great idea!
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NOAA forecasters say an unnamed extra-tropical storm will experience explosive intensification over the North Atlantic this weekend. Its central low pressure could rival a category 4 hurricane's.
Forecasters are predicting explosive intensification this weekend for an extra-tropical storm in the North Atlantic that is expected to eclipse the intensity of last October's superstorm Sandy.
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Unlike Sandy, the nameless North Atlantic superstorm poses no threat to land. But it does highlight the power such storms can attain.
It's forecast to develop winds of up to 98 miles an hour, while the air pressure at its center ? expected to reach a low between 920 to 930 millibars ? would rival that of a category 4 hurricane, according to forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Ocean Prediction Center in College Park, Md.
The system is the same storm "that gave us some snow a couple of days ago in DC," says Robert Banks, a forecaster at the Ocean Prediction Center. The storm intensified as the cold air moved out over relatively warm North Atlantic water, which is feeding energy into the system.
In addition, the system is merging with two other upper-level troughs ? providing the storm with yet more punch.
It's not clear how this storm will fare in the record books, Mr. Banks says. But over at the Weather Underground's web site, data gathered by British weather historian Stephen Burt shows five other storms between 1824 and 1986 with central pressures ranging from 920.2 to 925.6 millibars.
An extra-tropical superstorm in January 1993 holds the record for low pressure ? 913 millibars ? for North Atlantic winter storms in an event that destroyed an oil tanker after it ran aground at the Shetland Islands. The tanker, the MV Braer, was carrying 85,000 tons of crude oil.
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On Saturday, January 26, I and many others will gather on the National Mall for the March on Washington for Gun Control. We are calling on members of Congress and state legislators to pass common sense gun safety laws to stop the epidemic of preventable child and adult gun deaths. Others are marching in Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, San Antonio, Jersey City, and in communities across the country. Grassroots groups are coming together in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Mothers and fathers, grandparents, pastors, gun violence survivors, law enforcement officers, elected officials, child advocates, and everyone who believes that our children?s right to live, learn and grow up safely must be protected before guns, must not stop marching, calling, writing, and visiting and holding our political leaders accountable. We must vote them out if they do not act to end the preventable and immoral loss of child and human lives and honor what most Americans want and our children need.
A new Gallup poll shows that most Americans support universal background checks for gun buyers, a ban on assault weapons, limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds or less, and other proposals in President Obama?s Plan to Reduce Gun Violence. It will be a formidable fight to achieve these essential steps but we can and will succeed if all of us raise an irresistible and unrelenting voice in every state in the weeks and months to come, and for as long as it takes.
Don?t let anyone tell you current gun safety regulations are working just fine. They aren?t. The massacre at Sandy Hook woke up many Americans to the epidemic of gun violence, which has snuffed out the lives of 148,000 children since 1968 -- this is the equivalent of 7,400 classrooms of 20 children and teens. Every 30 minutes a child or teen is shot in the United States. Every 3 hours and 15 minutes a child dies from gun violence. It?s time to say ?no more.?
Epidemic gun violence against children?and its toll on all who live in the United States?is a uniquely American phenomenon. In 2010 the U.S. gun death rate -- homicides, suicides, and accidents -- for children and teens was nearly 65 times higher than the rates in the United Kingdom and Germany and 108 times higher than in Spain. The U.S. gun homicide rate for children and teens was 106 times higher than the rate in Germany and 213 times higher than the rates in Spain and the United Kingdom.
The reason gun deaths are a huge epidemic in the United States is simple: It?s the guns and the permissive gun laws that protect them. In a 2007 study of 178 countries by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, the U.S. ranked number one in the number of guns per person (88.8 per 100), far ahead of all the other countries in the study. Yemen was a distant runner-up with 55 guns per 100 people, 40 percent less than the U.S. rate.
Although the U.S. accounts for less than 5 percent of the global population, Americans own an estimated 35 to 50 percent of all civilian-owned guns in the world. Between 270 and 300 million guns are in civilian hands in the U.S. -- nearly one gun for every man, woman, and child. Our nation is saturated with guns and the National Rifle Association wants more and more.
We can free our nation of this scourge of gun violence. No external enemy ever took the lives of so many children and adults. We can and must change this. I am confident that most Americans value children?s safety and right to live more than they value the right of anyone to have assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines. If America can?t stand up for its children, it doesn?t stand for anything.
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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, where he announced that he will name current Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough as his next chief of staff. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Reviving an issue that has languished for years, President Barack Obama will launch a campaign next week aimed at overhauling the nation's flawed immigration system and creating legal status for millions, as a bipartisan Senate group nears agreement on achieving the same goals.
The proposals from Obama and lawmakers will mark the start of what is expected to be a contentious and emotional process with deep political implications. Latino voters overwhelmingly backed Obama in the 2012 election, leaving Republicans grappling for a way to regain their standing with an increasingly powerful pool of voters.
The president will press his case for immigration changes during a trip to Las Vegas Tuesday. The Senate working group is also aiming to outline its proposals next week, according to a Senate aide.
Administration officials say Obama's second-term immigration push will be a continuation of the principles he outlined during his first four years in office but failed to act on. He is expected to revive his little-noticed 2011 immigration "blueprint," which calls for a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants that includes paying fines and back taxes; increased border security; mandatory penalties for businesses that employ unauthorized immigrants; and improvements to the legal immigration system, including giving green cards to high-skilled workers and lifting caps on legal immigration for the immediate family members of U.S. citizens.
"What has been absent in the time since he put those principles forward has been a willingness by Republicans, generally speaking, to move forward with comprehensive immigration reform," White House press secretary Jay Carney said. "What he hopes is that that dynamic has changed."
The political dynamic does appear to have shifted following the November election. Despite making little progress on immigration in his first term, Obama won more than 70 percent of the Latino vote, in part because of the conservative positions on immigration that Republican nominee Mitt Romney staked out during the GOP primary. Latino voters accounted for 10 percent of the electorate in November.
The president met privately Friday morning with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to discuss his next steps on immigration. Among those in the meeting was Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., who said Obama told lawmakers "immigration reform is his number one legislative priority."
That could bump back the president's efforts to seek legislation enacting stricter gun laws, another issue he has vowed to make a top second term priority.
The Senate immigration group is also pressing for quick action, aiming to draft a bill by March and pass legislation in their chamber by August, said the aide, who requested anonymity in order to discuss private deliberations. The Republican-controlled House would also need to pass the legislation before it went to the White House for the president's signature.
Senate lawmakers working on the immigration effort include Democrats Charles Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Robert Menendez of New Jersey; and Republicans John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida, according to Senate aides.
Democrat Michael Bennet of Colorado, and Republicans Jeff Flake of Arizona and Mike Lee of Utah have also been involved. It's not clear whether all those involved will sign on to the principles the group hopes to roll out next week.
Those principles are expected to include a process toward legalizing the status of unauthorized immigrants already in the country; border security; verification measures for employers hiring workers and ways for more temporary workers to be admitted into the country.
It's unclear whether the group will back the pathway to full citizenship that the president is seeking. Schumer and Graham have previously supported requiring illegal immigrants to admit they broke the law, perform community service, pay fines and back taxes, pass background checks and learn English before going to the back of the line of immigrants already in the system in order to legalize their immigration status.
Several of the senators negotiating the immigration principles are veterans of the failed comprehensive immigration reform effort under then-President George W. Bush. That process collapsed in 2007 when it came up well-short of the needed votes in the Senate, a bitter outcome for Bush and the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Democrats' leader on the legislation.
Some Republicans still lament that result as a missed opportunity for the party that could have set the GOP on a different path to reach more Latino voters.
Rubio is a relative newcomer to Senate negotiations on the issue, but he's seen as a rising star in his party and a potential 2016 presidential candidate. As a charismatic young Hispanic leader his proposals on immigration have attracted wide notice in recent weeks. And as a conservative favorite, unlike McCain or Graham, his stamp of approval could be critical to drawing in other conservative lawmakers.
A Republican aide said that Rubio has made clear in his interactions with the Senate group that he couldn't sign on to proposals that deviated from the principles he himself has been laying out in recent media interviews, including border security first, a guest-worker program, more visas for high-tech workers and enforcement in the workplace.
As for the illegal immigrants already in the country, Rubio would have them pay a fine and back taxes, show they have not committed crimes, prove they've been in the country for some time and speak some English and apply for permanent residency. Ultimately citizenship too could be in reach but only after a process that doesn't nudge aside immigrants already in line, and Rubio hasn't provided details on how long it all might take.
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Associated Press writer Luis Alonso Lugo contributed to this report.
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Lord Kelvin applied thermodynamics to the problem of Earth?s age. Although his estimates are now known to be incorrect by several orders of magnitude, they shook up the established theories of 19th-century geologists
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Editor's Note: This excerpt is from the first chapter of From Stars to Stalagmites: How Everything Connects, by Paul S. Braterman. Earlier in the chapter the author discusses the ideas among geologists in the 19th century that physical processes such as erosion had always occurred at the same rates and that the features of Earth were static, leading them to conclude that the planet had had no beginning nor would it have an end. Here he writes about how the ideas of physicist William Thomson would end up turning those theories on their heads, paving the way for our current understanding of Earth's early history and age.
Other developments, however, were to undermine this view. I have already mentioned steam engines and railways. Science in the mid 19th century was much occupied with matters concerning work and energy, and the efficiency of heat engines. This period saw the development of a new subject, thermodynamics, dedicated to such matters. One of the most fundamental results of thermodynamics (the First Law) is that energy is conserved. Another (the Second Law) is, that since energy tends to spread out and degrade irreversibly over time, there could be no such thing as a perpetual motion machine. Any real process, and certainly such a process as the uplift and erosion of the Earth, is operating against friction, with overall irreversible degradation of energy into heat, and this is something that cannot continue on its own indefinitely. Yet the Earth, as seen by Hutton and Lyell, appeared to be just one such machine, running through cycles of uplift and erosion with no visible source of energy to drive the process. Conflict between the thermodynamicists and the geologists was inevitable.
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, in whose honour the absolute temperature scale is now named, was among the most distinguished scientists of the late 19th century. His work straddled the boundary between pure and applied research. Among other things, he played a major role in establishing the relationships between heat, work, and electricity, worked out the theory for how much information (as we would now say) could be carried by the first submarine cable, and improved the form of the compass and the methods of navigation. He was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy (i.e. Physics) at Glasgow University when he was 22, and held that Chair for more than 50 years.
Kelvin was interested in the age of the Earth, considered as a problem in physics, from a very early stage. It was the subject of a prize undergraduate essay, and also of his inaugural lecture at Glasgow, now unfortunately lost. He was also a sharp critic of the science of geology as it was developing. He argued (correctly) that extreme uniformitarianism was not compatible with the laws of physics. Things must have been very different at some time in the past, and would be different again in the future. The Earth was losing heat and must have once been a molten ball. The Sun was emitting energy, could not have been there forever, and must eventually run out of energy, plunging the Earth into utter cold and darkness.
In a lengthy series of publications, Kelvin attempted to quantify these general objections. He developed a way of estimating the age of the Earth?s solid crust from cooling arguments. It is hot down a mine, and the deeper you go, the hotter. If you could go down deep enough, you would, at a depth of some miles, reach the Earth?s mantle, where the rock is actually molten. So if we have cooler rocks on top and hotter rocks lower down, heat must be flowing up through the rocks from the centre outwards. Knowing how fast the temperature increases as we go down, and how effectively the rocks of the crust conduct heat, Kelvin calculated how fast the Earth was losing heat. Where was this heat coming from? Kelvin thought he had the answer. He assumed (correctly) that the Earth was originally molten, and that heat must have dissipated as the Earth?s rocks solidified from an originally molten state (the opposite kind of process to ice absorbing heat as it melts). From an estimate of the thickness of the solid rock layer (the crust), and from measurements of how much heat it takes to melt a given amount of rock, he was able to estimate how much heat has been given out by this process of solidification. Then, by running the model backwards through time, he calculated that the thickness of the Earth?s solid crust corresponded to 100 million years. At this date before the present, all the rocks now on the surface would have been molten, and this, according to his argument, is therefore an absolute upper limit on the age of the solid crust of the Earth.
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While there's no denying First Lady Michelle Obama and the First Daughters, Malia and Sasha, stole the sartorial show this week--there were also a few other style standouts worth noting.
Jennifer Lopez looked lovely in white while attending a screening of her new film 'Parker' in New York City. The short ivory Lanvin dress boosted a a peplum waist and definitely helped showoff her famous curves.
Britain's Got Talent judge, Alesha Dixon, got colorful for one of the show's audition sessions on Tuesday in London. The singer/dancer/rapper/model paired a black-and-white H&M blazer with multi-colored, abstract printed Aqua April Bodice and matching capri pants. And her Charlotte Olympia pink-and-black pumps were a perfect complement to the ensemble.
Kerry Washington has been on a roll lately. She's a big star on the
small screen with "Scandal,"a box office queen with "Django" and has managed to find a seemingly permanent place on our Week's Best Dress List. This past weekend Kerry was in Washington D.C. for The Daily Beast Bi-Partisan Inauguration Brunch. Her chevron printed red-and-black dress was bold without being too over the top.
Check out those lovely ladies and the rest of the style stars, including--Beyonce, Jay-Z and Kimora Lee Simmons.
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/26/jennifer-lopez-best-dressed_n_2555918.html
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Construction contracts, as our readers know, can sometimes involve disputed questions. When parties to a contract cannot agree on what was actually agreed to, it may become necessary to litigate the matter.
SFL Construction, a Philadelphia-based company, filed a suit back in June 2010 against New Jersey-based Tosa Construction and other parties, alleging breach of contract, promissory estoppel, violations of the Contractor-Subcontractor Payment Act and unjust enrichment. A month later, an amended complaint was filed in an attempt to make shareholders for the defendants personally liable. SFL also demanded a jury trial.
The latter request was opposed by the defendants, who argued that SFL Construction waived its right to a jury trial under the terms of a subcontracting agreement between SFL and Tosa. SFL argued, though, that the subcontracting agreement was unclear, and that it consequently did not waive its rights to a jury trial. According to sources, some of the alleged ambiguities relate to whether any potential legal proceeding would be decided under the laws of Pennsylvania or New Jersey.
Earlier this month, the judge in charge of the case ruled that the agreement between the parties clearly waives any request for a jury trial in any potential legal proceeding. Further, the judge ruled that SFL Construction waived any right to a jury trial with respect to the other defendants, since they were not parties to the agreement in question.
Because construction contract disputes sometimes involve difficult questions of law upon which a significant amount of money depend. Having a strong advocate in such disputes is essential.
Source: Pennsylvania Record, "Phila. judge denies plaintiff's request for jury trial in construction contract case," Jon Campisi, January 23, 2013
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NEW YORK (AP) ? A sharp drop in Apple's stock is sending the Nasdaq composite lower in early trading on Wall Street after the electronics giant predicted slower sales. Other market indicators were mixed.
Apple plunged 11 percent to $455 shortly after the opening bell Thursday. The company late Wednesday predicted that its sales would grow just 7 percent in the current quarter, a let-down for a company that has regularly posted growth rates of more than 50 percent.
The Nasdaq fell 20 points to 3,133. Apple is the biggest component of the technology-heavy index.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 32 points to 13,809 and the Standard & Poor's 500 was flat at 1,495.
Netflix jumped 40 percent to $144 after surprising the market with strong subscriber growth and a profit.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stocks-open-mixed-wall-street-apple-plunges-144205957--finance.html
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SAN BERNADINO, Calif. ? Gays and lesbians in San Bernadino, Calif., gathered at a church there last week for a town hall meeting where statewide mental health concerns and care access issues were discussed, according to the San Bernadino Sun.
The meetings were linked to a recent report by Equality California and Mental Health America of Northern California titled ?First Do No Harm: Reducing Disparities for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning Populations in California.?
One purpose of the meetings is to further advocate at the local level ?and using the report as a tool to do just that,? said Pasha Mikalson, the director of the Sacramento-based LGBTQ Reducing Disparities Project, the Sun reported.
In the report, researchers found a ?significant lack of cultural competence, knowledge and sensitivity among mental health service providers? working with the LGBT community.
The two-year study released in December was conducted in conjunction with 19 statewide members of the California LGBT Health and Human Services Network, the Sun reported. According to the report, more than 75 percent of the survey respondents said they had experienced ?emotional difficulties such as stress, anxiety or depression, which were directly related? to their sexual orientation or gender identity and expression, the Sun reported.
Source: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/01/24/calif-report-inspires-mental-health-meeting/
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Mini-makeover?
When we first installed the sliding door, I embraced it?s original old paint.
But over the past year, it did feel more ?dirty? even after a good scrubbing than ?charming?. It just reminded me of the cold weather and dirty snow?blah. You can?t tell from the pictures. But it did have that dirty old worn finish.
Remember how my brain sometimes works with DIY? It?s usually a spur of the moment decision that wasn?t in my plan for the day or ever. That happened with painting the sliding door in our dining room.
And remember when I painted the door in the apartment renovation?
I fell in looooove with that color. A beautiful happy shade of green.
The beginning of the new year consisted of cleaning and organizing the basement somewhat. I stumbled across packed boxes of supplies and tools from the apartment renovation?still not unpacked since November. While putting things away, looky what I found:
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And just like that, in that five minute time span, I decided to paint the sliding door in the dining room, to add some ?spring? color to the dingy, dirty, neutral white. No wonder it takes me FOREVER to clean. Distractions get me every time.
I started by taping off the glass around the mullions with my favorite stash of FrogTape, making sure the edge of the tape was flush against the corner where wood met glass. It doesn?t leave a sticky residue when removed?and I?m all for making a last minute DIY easier.
{you can see the dirty original paint job better in this picture}
{curtain is for privacy in the guest room or maybe hiding junk in what?s become a storage room?ummm, I?m not telling}
I used my thumb to burnish the edges of the Frogtape to prevent paint from seeping underneath.
Then applied to coats of my sample container of paint.
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{oops?One coat looked great while wet so I removed tape. I did a second coat on the flat parts after coat 1 was dry}
I removed the tape immediately after the second coat, pulling away from the wood.
Ta-da?the after:
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again?here?s the before:
What do you think? Do the seasons aid in changing your decor? How finding inspiration and materials that you forgot you had when cleaning and organizing? Either way?I?m loving the new pop of color!
*This is a sponsored post brought to you by FrogTape. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience. Results may vary.?
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Source: http://diyshowoff.com/2013/01/23/chartreuse-door-makeover/
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CLIO -- Dawn Johnson from the Genesee County Humane Society?sat down with me this morning?to talk about ways pet owners can give their pets some extra "TLC" during the coldest weather in mid-Michigan in the last few years.?
She spoke about?checking on your neighbor's dog, to having back up water bowls in and outside, to keeping pets away from heat sources to avoid burns.
She also advised to clean your pets paws when they come in from outside because of the salt that could get in between their pads.?
That salt could make them sick,?and some even have anitfreeze in them, which could be deadly if ingested by your pet.?
Click on the video for one of the interviews we had on NBC 25 Today.?
Source: http://www.minbcnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=851159
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Today at Fourandhalf, we are going to help you become an educated consumer when it comes to advertising your property management company on the Internet. The first thing you need to do when choosing how to market your business on the Internet is to identify your goal or purpose. Marketers often focus on a number of things such as exposure, branding and reputation. The bottom line for most of us is growth. If you are looking to employ digital marketing services, you probably want to grow your business.
Why is the Internet the right place for growth?
When you use the Internet for marketing, you use a pull strategy instead of a push strategy. As property managers, you focus on a specific segment of the population. You try to reach people who own homes that are not owner-occupied. You look for people who manage properties themselves as well as reluctant landlords and property investors. An example of a push strategy would be a television commercial. You pay a lot of money to get a commercial on television, which gives you exposure to a lot of people you don?t want, and cannot possibly target all of ?the people you really want to reach. So for businesses like property management companies, this is the wrong method.
The Internet uses pull marketing. You cater your content and information to people who are already searching for property management in your town. You get targeted access to people who are searching for questions you can answer, such as how to rent a house, how much rent to charge, etc. There are different avenues of digital marketing that can be included in your strategy. One such avenue is pay-per-click.
Pay-Per-Click
Pay-per-click advertising is a quick shot of adrenaline for your business. You tell Google that you are willing to pay $2 to $5 per click to be on the front page for particular keywords. For example, if you?re a San Francisco property manager, you want to be listed near the front anytime someone searches for ?San Francisco property management.?
Having a strategic landing page will help you tremendously with pay-per-click. You want to make sure that when your potential prospects click on the company listing that you paid for, they will go to a specific landing page. Don?t send them to the generic front page of your website. The landing page should outline the advantages of your company specific to the customer your ad is trying to reach. We always recommend having a brief video that pitches your business, as well as a phone number and a ?Contact Us? form or button. The landing page alone will increase your conversion by up to 50 percent.
The company you hire to help you with pay-per-click needs to understand your business and the keywords that equal money to you. Your digital marketing company also needs to understand and respect your budget. You should get to determine whether you want to spend $10 a day or $1,500 a month. The beauty of pay-per-click is that you can adjust your budget as you go. It gets you real clients, but it requires an investment from you. You need to hire a pay-per-click company to manage your campaign, and you also need to pay Google or Facebook or whatever platform you choose.
Attend Fourandhalf Classes at NARPM
I hope this overview has helped you understand a bit about the lay of the digital marketing land. We will be speaking about digital marketing services and how they benefit property management companies at a number of upcoming conferences. Check out our schedule:
Register to attend NARPM conferences here
Hopefully you?ll be attending one of them, and you can stop by and meet us. Our presentation is about an hour long and we?d love to share more of our information and ideas with you. Our plan is to delve into each element of digital marketing and help you understand what kind of results to expect from each type of Internet marketing campaign and how much you should expect to pay.
If you have any questions before then, don?t hesitate to contact us. We?ll see you soon.
Source: http://fourandhalf.com/advertising-property-management-company-pay-per-click/
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As young adults, we?re inundated with books, magazines and courses to further our careers and manage our finances. You can?t jump on social media without seeing a link to a new article or resource to check out.
Add that to the difficulty of trying to balance spending and saving, and you?ve got a recipe for financial disaster. It gets overwhelming fast!
While growing my own financial blog, I?ve made it one of my goals to filter through all that noise and focus on the blogs that really help me and my readers reach our goals. The result is this list of must-read sites that will help you organize your financial life and make sense of your money in the working world:
We make huge life decisions every day and are forced to juggle many things at once. Sometimes the financial aspect of it all is both scary and thrilling. Thankfully, David teaches you everything you need to know about saving money, increasing your income, handling debt and finding the right career for you!
Young, Cheap Living has everything you need to get ahead and stay ahead with your money?all without ever falling back on debt. Teaching new ideas about money, Kraig shows through his own finances how to live cheaply, reach your financial goals and stop relying on debt so you can do what you really want with your life.
This blog is the anti-penny-pinching blog. It?s all about tips and strategies to make your money management fit your lifestyle. Geared for Generation Y, Moneylicious has topics on everything from careers to the psychology of money, all filled with humor. Ornella also wrote a book to help give Gen Y a financial clue.
?Let?s see what happens? is NOT a good financial strategy. But, sadly, it?s how many people coming out of high school or college?with zero money and mountains of debt?tend to think. Kevin entertainingly teaches the average 20-something to be a Thousandaire now, so they can grow to be a millionaire later.
Jeffrey is all about challenging his readers to consider less traditional ways to deal with money and finances. Through his personal story of quitting his job to follow his passion, he provides sound strategies and advice to create your life on your terms. If you?re ready to be self-employed, live the dream and improve your financial life, this is the place to start.
The Debt Movement is a project started with inspiration from Jeff?s dad, who struggled with debt his entire life and was always a slave to lenders. Jeff started this campaign to give people (young adults in particular) the tools and resources to succeed. This movement is all about ?working together to pay down $10 million of debt in 90 days.?
Originally started by J.D. Roth, this site is geared towards all aspects of personal finance. What really sets it apart is that you can add your own voice through the ?Ask the Readers? section. You?ll get answers to specific finance questions and advice from experienced members of the community.
J. Money is open and upfront about his money and net worth?that?s partly why Budgets Are Sexy is known as an ?edgy? financial blog. Sparking motivation, spreading ideas, learning and growing as you go, J. definitely shows that budgets can be sexy!
The best course of action when it comes to the path of financial freedom is the common sense you already possess. David helps young people struggling to become debt-free change their perception of how financial decisions affect their lives. This blog covers everything from investing to the job market to frugal living.
?Ninja,? the alias behind Punch Debt in the Face, is freaking hilarious. Grammar mistakes, stick figure artwork, personal stories, bad spelling, lame jokes. What more could you ask for in a finance blog? Ninja draws you in with his personal money journey, making you want to read more and learn that finances are FAR from boring.
Wanna be a rock star? Then Shannyn?s story will not only inspire you to take control of your life, but empower you to think outside the small box that being broke might have put you in. Being a broke grad student herself, she shares awesome tips for getting the most bang for your buck while still looking fabulously beautiful.
When you?re a young adult, you want to know how to make more money and stay on top (or eliminate) all of your debt. PT Money covers all those topics, along with tips for buying your first house, keeping a positive net worth and spending your money wisely.
More focused on the wealth-building aspect of finances for young people, this blog offers steps for starting a budget, how and where to start investing and increasing income, as well as creating personal and financial success.
Not exactly a financial site (though it does have a money section), The Daily Muse is more a resource for living the good life?yet it?s full of advice for young adults to learn about money, technology, health and even how to land your dream job. This one-stop spot truly has it all.
What?s on your list of favorite personal finance blogs?
Carrie Smith is a financial strategist who empowers freelancers and entrepreneurs to change their lives through her blog Careful Cents. Find her on Twitter @carefulcents.
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Have a tech-related question that you?d love to have answered once and for all? Digital lifestyle expert Mario Armstrong will be appearing on TODAY on a regular basis, and he?s eager to help viewers solve their tech headaches.
If you'd like to submit a question,?please e-mail us here. Please give us some details about yourself, including your name and where you live. Mario may answer your question in an upcoming television segment!
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By Courtney Hazlett, TODAY
Updated at 6:30 p.m. ET: On Tuesday evening, the Marine Corp. backed off from DuBois' statement earlier in the day that Beyonce used pre-recorded music that included vocals. "No one in the Marine Band is in a position to assess whether it was live or pre-recorded,"?Capt. Gregory A. Wolf said in a statement.
"There was no opportunity for Ms. Knowles-Carter to rehearse with the Marine Band before the Inauguration so it was determined that a live performance by the band was ill-advised for such a high-profile event. Each piece of music scheduled for performance in the Inauguration is pre-recorded for use in case of freezing temperatures, equipment failure, or extenuating circumstances," the statement also said.
Reps for the singer have still not responded to requests for comment.
Original story: It's true what you're hearing about what you heard not being?"true."?Beyonce's spectacular inaugural performance of the national anthem was indeed lip-synched.
Master Sgt. Kristin DuBois, public affairs chief for the United States Marine Band, confirms that "it was her (Beyonce's) decision to use pre-recorded music." That pre-recorded music did include vocals, DuBois clarified.
To be fair, all music used in the inaugural events is pre-recorded in case there is any reason -- such as extreme cold or other inclement weather conditions -- that would warrant using a track over a live performance.
"The Marine Band did perform live for the ceremony, parade, and even the prayer service today," DuBois said Tuesday. "At the very last minute, just before she went out, we received the instructions," DuBois said of Beyonce's decision not to sing live.
Beyonce is not the first person to rely on a backing track at the inauguration. DuBois recalled that in 2008 when Yo-Yo Ma played as part of a quartet at the inauguration, he too opted for the track. "You can't play cellos in 25 degrees," DuBois said. "Sometimes you just need to do it. Beyonce is a gifted singer and her decision has no bearing on her musical ability."
Publicists and agents for Beyonce did not respond to requests for comment.
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