Friday, June 29, 2012

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    Jun 29 - Seismologists warn Japan against restarting nuclear reactors

    Two prominent seismologists said on Tuesday that Japan is ignoring the safety lessons of last year's Fukushima crisis and warned against restarting two reactors next month.

    Japan has approved the restart of the two reactors at the Kansai Electric Power Ohi nuclear plant, northwest of Tokyo, despite mass public opposition.

    They will be the first to come back on line after all reactors were shut following a massive earthquake and tsunami last March that caused the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl at Tokyo Electric Power's Daiichi Fukushima plant.

    Seismic modeling by Japan's nuclear regulator did not properly take into account active fault lines near the Ohi plant, Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismologist at Kobe University, told reporters.

    "The stress tests and new safety guidelines for restarting nuclear power plants both allow for accidents at plants to occur," Ishibashi told reporters. "Instead of making standards more strict, they both represent a severe setback in safety standards."

    Experts advising Japan's nuclear industry had underestimated the seismic threat, Mitsuhisa Watanabe, a tectonic geomorphology professor at Toyo University, said at the same news conference.

    "The expertise and neutrality of experts advising Japan's Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency are highly questionable," Watanabe said.

    After an earthquake in 2007 caused radiation leaks at reactors north of Tokyo, Ishibashi said Japan was at risk of a nuclear disaster following a large earthquake, a warning that proved prescient after Fukushima.

    While it is impossible to predict when earthquakes will happen, Ishibashi said on Tuesday the magnitude 9 quake last year made it more likely "devastating" earthquakes would follow.

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    Health Care Ruling Prompts Catholic Bishops To Amp Up Efforts ...

    Catholic bishops have vowed to continue the fight against what they say is one of the most objectionable outcomes of the health care law that the Supreme Court largely upheld on Thursday: the requirement that religious institutions that aren't strictly for worship, including hospitals and schools, provide birth control with no co-pay as part of insurance plans.

    In an email blast to supporters after the court decision, bishops told people to continue "praying for an end to this mandate" and "for the renewal of our nation?s commitment to religious freedom." The email comes in the middle of a two-week long series of prayer vigils and rallies in dozens of dioceses around the country against what church leaders have called an "assault on religious freedom."

    The Catholic church -- one of the biggest opponents of the Obama administration's health care legislation -- was not part of the lawsuit that the court ruled on Thursday, but it still took the opportunity to rally its supporters and reiterate its claims that the law threatens the church. Leaders of the church say the Affordable Care Act is flawed because it doesn't include "conscience protection," in which hospitals and employers can object to providing health services and health care coverage that is against their moral or religious beliefs. The church has also said the health care law does not provide adequately for undocumented immigrants.

    "The decision of the Supreme Court neither diminishes the moral imperative to ensure decent health care for all, nor eliminates the need to correct the fundamental flaws," bishops said Thursday in a statement.

    The bishops kicked off their "Fortnight for Freedom" events against the contraception policy a week ago with a Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption in Baltimore. More than 1,000 Catholics attended the standing-room only event, including some who came from neighboring states, according to a spokesman for the Baltimore archdiocese.

    But while nearly every Catholic diocese in the nation has, or plans to, host events as part of the bishops' effort -- it ends July 4 with a Mass in Washington, D.C. -- the reception among Catholic laity has been mixed.

    When priests recently began distributing pamphlets championing religious liberty at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Washington, D.C., a group of parishioners responded by meeting with their pastor to speak out against the campaign.

    "We told him that we can practice our religion and our liberties are not in danger. And we said we thought it was insulting to people around the world who actually have their religious liberty in danger," parishioner Eileen Zogby said. She and her husband started a blog, Blessed Sacrament Families United in Faith and Action, with 30 parishioners to speak out against the bishops.

    "I'm okay with contraception. I think people of celibate priesthood who don't really know about these issues shoudn't be messing around with women's health," Zogby said.

    Her views align with that of many Catholics, according to polls. A survey by the Washington, D.C.-based Public Religion Research Institute found that roughly six-in-10 Catholics say employers should be required to provide coverage for contraception with no co-pay in insurance plans.

    Tom Pringle, a student at the University of Central Florida and a member of St. Charles Catholic Church in Orlando, said his parish community has taken the opposite approach to the fortnight protests.

    "The HHS [Health and Human Services] mandate is Obama coming and saying, 'I am determining what a religious organization is.' As a church, we do not believe in contraception, we believe in the dignity of the person from the moment of conception until death," Pringle, 24, said. "The whole point of the Catholic church stepping up and doing this is that many of the dioceses are self-insured and any costs for contraception coverage will come from their own pockets."

    Pringle said that his parish, where about 650 mostly retired Catholics attend Mass each week, held a kick-off ceremony for Fortnight for Freedom last week and played a video message from their bishop calling on all Catholics to join in prayer and protest.

    Not all Catholic parishes or dioceses have responded so strongly.

    In Charlotte, N.C., where Joe Guyon attends Mass every week at St. Peter's Catholic Church, talk of contraception and religious liberty has been absent from the pews, he said.

    "The people I talk to, they are either not interested or they do not understand where the bishops are coming from," said Guyon, a 66-year-old hospice worker. But despite his own disagreement with the bishops, Guyon said he will remain committed to his church.

    "While I acknowledge that the fortnight thing has me a bit nuts, for me it's not church," he said. "The bishops can do their fortnight thing if that's what makes them happy ... I'll keep showing up every Sunday in spite of them."

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    Nora Ephron had rare, crowd-pleasing ability to mix humor and feminism

    Screenwriter and journalist Nora Ephron, who died Tuesday, had a knack for being humorous while tackling controversial, important topics. She broke barriers for women in Hollywood and elsewhere.

    By Daniel B. Wood,?Staff writer / June 27, 2012

    This 2010 file photo shows author, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron at her home in New York.

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    Nora Ephron was talented in so many ways? ? as journalist, playwright, screenwriter, director, producer, novelist, blogger ? that accolades are pouring in from across the spectrum of American culture with her passing Tuesday. Her filmography stretches from 1983?s ?Silkwood,? for which she was nominated for an Oscar, to 2009?s ?Julie & Julia.? She also published five essay collections after writing for such publications as Esquire, New York Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine.

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    It was not only what she produced that was so successful, but also that she broke barriers for women in Hollywood and elsewhere ? while being the kind of model person that inspires others.

    ?All you ever heard about her were positive comments about her openness and fearlessness,? says writing professor Kathleen Volk Miller of Drexel University in Philadelphia, who has organized writers? conferences for years. ?Despite being one of the biggest and most prestigious names ever, she was one of the most down-to-earth and accessible people ever. That has left a lasting impression on me.?

    ?Accessible? is a word mentioned by several others as well.

    ?This is a woman who managed to blend the sophisticated witty dialogue and complex characters with the ability to appeal to an enormous mass audience, and that is easier said than done,? says Robert Thompson, founder of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University in New York.

    He says her three films ?When Harry Met Sally ...,? ?Sleepless in Seattle,? and ?You?ve Got Mail? will go down as the trilogy that established the model for the modern American romantic comedy in the feminist and post-feminist era. ?They will be watched year after year after year and not just for film history classes,? he says.

    She was a rare observer with wide versatility who was able to please both audiences and critics, says Wheeler Winston Dixon, professor of film studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. ?She had a deep understanding of film history, as well as a very firm sense of what is commercial and what isn?t,? he says. He notes that ?You?ve Got Mail? is essentially a remake of ?The Shop Around the Corner? with Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.

    Ms. Ephron was a trailblazer in Hollywood who helped pave the way for later greats including Tina Fey and Kristen Wiig, says Piper Weiss, senior features editor for Yahoo! Shine.

    ?Ephron came of age in Hollywood at a time when women in Hollywood weren?t funny, and so she presented a challenge to that,? Ms. Weiss says. ?Writers in Hollywood now and women who love comedy owe her a debt of gratitude for breaking through and writing seminal comedies that touched both men and women in ways that transcend gender stereotypes.?

    Ephron?s ability to be humorous while tackling controversial, important topics is also going to be a key legacy, some say. And that has enabled her to become a pivotal figure in feminism.

    Many of her films could be classified as early "chick flick" films that paved the way for ?third-wave feminism? movies and TV series such as "Sex and the City," "Bridget Jones?s Diary," and "Legally Blonde,? says Susan Mackey-Kallis, professor of film and media studies at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. These films often celebrate "girl power" and implicitly argue that femininity and feminism aren't necessary mutually exclusive, she says.

    ?Indeed, many of these films reclaim such terms as ?chick? and ?girl,? which were viewed negatively by 1970s second-wave feminists. All chick flick films are concerned with women's empowerment, women's stories, and the central role women play in each other?s lives,? Professor Mackey-Kallis says.

    Ephron?s films are a bridge from the women's films and screwball comedies of the 1930s and ?40s, and they update those concerns to the ?70s and ?80s, also reaching the third-wave feminists who came later, she says.

    ?Taking ourselves too seriously? was a charge often leveled against second-wave feminists by third-wave feminists, says Mackey-Kallis.

    ?Through it all,? she says, ?Ephron makes the emotional and sexual lives of women and men matter in ways that invest them with the seriousness they deserve and at the same time with the lightest of touches, lest we start to take ourselves too seriously.?

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    Thursday, June 28, 2012

    Grant Cardone: Fear of Public Speaking

    Are you scared to speak in public? Do you have stage fright? I have been speaking to audiences since I was 25 years old. When I first started I was terrified. I don't know why I was scared but I was. Literally could not sleep the night before I had to speak to an audience. And it didn't matter whether it was a small group or a very large group. I found myself actually avoiding speaking to more than two people at a time.

    One day I realized that this fear was holding myself back from my potential to get myself and my ideas known. I asked myself, "how can you ever be successful if you aren't willing to speak to people?" It was then that I committed overcoming this fear and learn how to speak to audiences with confidence and without fear immobilizing me.

    Since that decision I have delivered over 2000 speaking engagements to entrepreneurs, small businesses and even Fortune 500 companies. This week I spoke to an unbelievable audience at Google headquarters in New York. What a great experience to be able to communicate to speak to a company that is so well recognized by the entire world.

    Over the years I have learned from other great speakers like John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Bill Clinton, Guy Kawasaki, Harvey McKay, Steve Jobs, Jackie B. Cooper, Joel Osteen, Les Brown, John Maxwell, Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, Tony Robbins and others. Watching them inspired me to become more confident in my abilities.

    Here are a few tips that you may find helpful for handling the fear of public speaking

    1) Commit to overcoming the fear. The fear will not go away until 'it' is clear that you are committing to speaking in public. Speak as often as you can to as many different groups as you can. After 2000 speaking engagements I still experience some fear but it no longer prevents me from speaking because my commitment is greater than the fear. NY Times Best Selling author, Seth Godin,says, "My only tip is.... speak."

    2) Own the Stage -
    When you walk out on the stage or platform, own the stage; make it yours. Plant your feet firmly in one place and anchor in at that one place. Avoid moving around much in the beginning of your presentation so the audience can see that you are confident, grounded in who you are and your position.

    3) Speak to the Everyone in the Room and Connect
    Be sure that you are communicating beyond the first row and all the way to the back row and to the edges of the room, left and right. Your focus should be to connect to each individual in the room. The first two years I spoke I did so without a microphone forcing me to reach, connect with and project to everyone in the audience. "Everyone Communicates Few Connect", John Maxwell.

    4) Open with Your Message -
    Open with that thing you want the audience to remember. "I am here to show you how to double your sales. That's right, Double YOUR Sales." Make it very clear in the first one minute what the audience is going to get from your presentation. Make your opening statement bold, promising, inspiring and hopeful of massive gain. Chet Holmes, author of The Ultimate Sales Machine and partner with Tony Robbins says,: "Open strong. If you open strong, the audience will be patient for 20 minutes."

    5) Pick a Topic That You are Confident -
    Speak on subjects on which you are an authority, expert and have complete confidence. Use this as a way to gain altitude over your audience. Everyone has some angle or positioning that makes them the authority in a room with the most altitude. Use your expert positioning to grow your own confidence and to have your audience know that. The great sales expert, Harvey Mackay, says "The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're talking about."

    6) Hammer Away at Your Opening Message -
    Distill your message down to a few points and then repeatedly beat it to death. A big mistake is to try to cover too many things in one presentation. Make sure your audience walks away from your event with one message ringing violently in their heads. Simplify your message down to a a thing or two rather than many. Les Brown, says, "Read, study and over prepare."

    7) Close Big -
    Your closes should be compelling and inspiring providing your audience with a reason to be moved. Great speakers always bring a great close to their presentation. By this time the fear has subsided so be careful not to take the close for granted. Finish big!

    Everyone I know experiences some level of fear when speaking in public. Don't think you have some disability - it's normal. Commit to speaking and the fear will subside. Then learn from other great speakers. Whether it is for a simple job interview, a presentation at your office, a sales presentation to one customer or many, to your church, community or school there is no getting away from the idea that at some time in your life you will be forced to speak in public.

    The ability to speak confidently and comfortably in public is one of the keys to creating success in your life.

    Grant Cardone, NY Times Best Selling Author and Sales Training Expert

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    Android 4.1 Jelly Bean faster, better voice search

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    Google has announced Jelly Bean, the next version of the Android operating system, at its?I/O conference in San Francisco.?The software, also known as Android 4.1,?is faster and introduces a number of useful new functions: offline voice, more powerful notifications, and a predictive search that gives you answers before you ask.

    After a short preamble in which Google's?Hugo Barra announced that the company was activating a million devices a day, they began going over the major features being added to the OS. Here they are in convenient bullet form:

    • "Project Butter" is the internal name for the effort to make Android more responsive. Laggy controls and delay in apps launching have been common complaints. The team did all kinds of optimizations and made a new tool that ramps up the CPU when it detects you're doing something on-screen. Using a high-speed camera, they recorded the difference between the old and new systems, and it's striking.
    • The camera has a new interface, and lets you get over to your latest shots super-easily. And deleting photos is quick ? you just slide them up and off the screen. Looks really easy to do.
    • The homescreen is more elastic, allowing for nice resizable widgets that automatically reorganize the screen around them. A custom home screen is something Android and Windows Phone have been pushing hard?and which iOS conspicuously lacks.
    • NFC, the short-range wireless Google has been hyping (and which is rumored to be on the next iPhone as well), can now be used to share media or to sync up accessories quickly and easily.
    • Notifications have become very rich: icons, contact photos, more content, and some now actually can expand to show more info. If you miss a call, you can call back or send a text right from the notification, or if a new song comes on, you can favorite or skip it.
    • Voice recognition has been moved offline, which is a very significant development. With or without a connection, you can dictate your emails or search terms. Right now it's only available in English, but they're rolling out more languages soon.
    • A new Siri-like voice search gives rich search results quickly, with map snippets, media, and Knowledge graph data. "Show me pictures of pygmy marmosets," for example:
    • Google Now, a predictive search engine, that (if you let it, they were careful to point out) uses your search history and location to determine what you might search for, and provides that preemptively. Drive to work every day around 8:30? Google automatically gives you traffic and route data. Take the train? It pre-loads train arrival times and other stuff. Getting on a plane? If you've searched for that flight, it'll track the flight in real time and advise you of gate changes and so on.
    • It'll also tell you about games and teams you're watching. On a slightly creepy note, the presenter explained: "You don't need to set up your favorite teams. You've already done that." By searching, naturally.
    • Maps has gotten a medium-size update, with a cool new "Compass mode" that lets you navigate street view by looking around with your phone in hand. And you can now download maps for offline use by city and neighborhood instead of just in square chunks.
    • A few more minor features: App updates are more efficient, only delivering the part that needs updating. The OS is now more friendly to blind users, who can use voice and braille to navigate. Media format input and output has been improved (multichannel audio, better codec detection).

    Overall it's quite a significant update, and should be arriving to the Nexus series of phones starting in mid-July. When will other phones get it? Hard to say, but Google noted that they've started a new program with hardware manufacturers that should let them make the latest version of Android available more quickly on their devices. So it may not be for a little while yet, especially?considering how?many devices have yet to upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich, the last version.?Hopefully the wait will be shorter than it has been before.

    You can see a few of the features in action in this video showing off the new Nexus 7 tablet.

    More?information and further discussion of the new features can be found at Google's Jelly Bean key features page.

    Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.

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    It Takes More Than One Step, But It Lasts a Lifetime

    Education has been and will always be the path of success for any individual, and as the American writer Ralph Ellison said once ?Education is all a matter of building bridges.?

    It takes more than one step, more than one brick to build a bridge, and also to build your career which starts with education. You can build your career from within the organization that you work at or between different organizations, but before that it is significant that you understand the importance of your own personal development and of career planning. Career development is an ongoing process that will help you achieve more every day in any activity you do.

    Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axelrad and Herma theory (1951) proposes that it is a development path that leads to career choice. ?Recognizing that vocational choice is influenced by four facts: the reality factor, the influence of the educational process, the emotional factor and individual values.?

    If you are not sure what you want to do, take a step back and explore a little bit in your environment, your attitudes, the way you approach your problems and the different roles that you can take. This is the best way to start your career assessment and prepare your career development plan in which you decide where you want to be, what you want to do and what you can do to achieve it.

    There are many ways in which you can develop your career and better yet, it is never too late to start. The most valuable thing is to be ready to face up to the wonderful future ahead of you. So as a first step you can always look for a career consultant to help you understand what your needs, skills, strengths and weaknesses are as well as to help you shape the career plan that can adjust to your life style and that can lead to long term satisfaction.

    Of course it is always important to know what you are good at, so no matter if it is just the beginning of your career or if you are already in the process of developing it, an assessment test will help you look into those specific skills, likes, dislikes, abilities, among others that are important for you as a person to give the best of you in any work environment. This kind of assessment will also help you match your personality and interests with the areas and jobs that you could enjoy the most.

    Always keep in mind that the world is in constant change and so there is a need for everyone to keep learning and keep growing in knowledge in order to compete and succeed in the job market.

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    Tips For Health, Fitness, And Weight Loss With Jogging | Weight ...

    Jogging is a great form of exercise that boosts your energy and mood which is why so many people love it. Yet there are challenging aspects as well, such as sticking to your program day after day, week after week. Your progress can be slowed way down by an injury, so you need to be careful. The guidelines that follow are meant to help you keep you healthy and motivated with your jogging.

    When you start a jogging or running program, it?s essential to be consistent about it. Most people have lots of enthusiasm when they begin a running routine, and sometimes they even get overzealous. That?s when injury results and so they put running off for a few months. This isn?t how you want to do it if you want to get the most out of your running routine. Just start slow and then make sure you focus on consistency. When it comes to running, go for a half hour three times per week for maximum benefit. Don?t worry about how fast or slow you?re going, especially when you?re first beginning. It?s much better to do a little bit at a time and stick with it than to do too much and burn yourself out. While you should never run or jog when you are ill or when you?re injured, you still might have to push yourself many times. If you always come up with excuses, like you?re too tired or you don?t have the time, then you will likely have a very hard time sticking with your running plan.

    One good approach to begin with a running regimen is to do power walking which is quite common. If you are not used to exercise, or haven?t done it for a long time, walking can be a great way to gradually get your body accustomed to moving around. You can begin with the smallest steps you want, and then just proceed at your own comfortable pace. When the time is right, then just simply begin jogging slowly, and go according to your pace and feeling. When you proceed slowly and with caution, then you?re reducing the chances of possible injury. There are people all over who actually stick with power walking because it just works better for them, and actually power walking is an excellent exercise, as well. We still recommend walking first because it?s a safe and effective way to get used to running.

    Hydration is important, and you should drink some fluids before running or jogging. Also, we have to say that you should never run on a full stomach. Ok? No confusion about the best thing to drink for hydration ? simple water, nothing more or less. Before you begin your jog, you should drink some water but never to the point where you feel bloated in your stomach. If you?re properly hydrated and in good health, and you?re not running a marathon there?s really no need to carry the Gucci water bottle with you unless you?re stylish. Only drink good clean water after you?re done punishing yourself and avoid anything colored. The hotter and more humid it is, the more important it becomes to hydrate.

    In summary, jogging can be a fun, energizing and healthy habit. If you?re a little overweight, you can lose it with jogging but be safe about it and proceed slowly. We hope these very few tips have helped you, and maybe you?ll begin jogging and continue forever.

    Furthermore, you can also add variety of gym equipment like Bench Press in your fitness trainingroutine, it can help boosts your physical health and fitness much easier as well as to ensure a much healthy workout in a rapid way. As long as you keep learning, you will naturally move into other areas. What matters most is that you exercise at least a few times every week.

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    UN: Violence in Syria worse than before ceasefire

    In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency, SANA, the damaged Ikhbariya TV compound is seen after it was attacked by gunmen, in in the town of Drousha, about 20 kilometers (14 miles) south of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Gunmen raided the headquarters of a pro-government Syrian TV station early Wednesday, demolishing the building and killing three employees, the state media reported. Syrian officials denounced what they called a rebel "massacre against the freedom of the press." (AP Photo/SANA)

    In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency, SANA, the damaged Ikhbariya TV compound is seen after it was attacked by gunmen, in in the town of Drousha, about 20 kilometers (14 miles) south of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Gunmen raided the headquarters of a pro-government Syrian TV station early Wednesday, demolishing the building and killing three employees, the state media reported. Syrian officials denounced what they called a rebel "massacre against the freedom of the press." (AP Photo/SANA)

    In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency, SANA, the damaged control room of Ikhbariya TV station is seen after it was attacked by gunmen in the town of Drousha, about 20 kilometers (14 miles) south of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Gunmen raided the headquarters of a pro-government Syrian TV station early Wednesday, demolishing the building and killing several employees, the state media reported. Syrian officials denounced what they called a rebel "massacre against the freedom of the press." (AP Photo/SANA)

    (AP) ? The violence in Syria has worsened since a cease-fire deal in April and the bloodshed appears to be taking on dangerous sectarian overtones, the U.N. said Wednesday.

    Investigators say they have concluded that Syrian government troops could be behind the killing of more than 100 civilians in the village of Houla last month. The findings, which were presented to the U.N.'s top human rights body, could lay some of the groundwork for prosecuting alleged crimes against humanity and other abuses in Syria.

    Reflecting the sense of urgency, senior diplomats said world powers are planning to meet Saturday in Geneva in an attempt to end the bloodshed, with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov saying they will attend.

    Notably uninvited were major regional players Saudia Arabia and Iran, and Syria itself.

    Annan had proposed inviting Iran and Saudi Arabia to the meeting. The Russians ? allies of Syria ? objected to the Saudis because the Arab state is active in supporting the Syrian opposition. The U.S. objected to Iran because the Islamic Republic has supported the Syrian regime. Not inviting either gives the Russians and the Americans something to claim as a concession from the other.

    Activists say more than 14,000 people have been killed since the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime began in March last year and the increasing militarization of both sides in the conflict has Syria lurching toward civil war.

    Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, who heads a U.N. panel conducting an international investigation of allegations of human rights abuses in Syria, called the country a "crime scene" and said investigators had prepare a list of names of people suspected of being responsible for crimes.

    The probe into the massacre in the central Syrian village of Houla concluded that forces loyal to the government "may have been responsible" for many of the deaths.

    The report says the military or pro-government shabiha forces had better access to the Houla village during the May massacre. The village leans toward the opposition and most of the victims were women and children who were slaughtered in their homes, it said.

    "The manner in which these killings took place resembles those previously and repeatedly documented to have been committed by the government," Pinheiro told the U.N.'s top human rights body in Geneva.

    A final position on who was responsible for the massacre would require more work, Pinheiro said, but in unusually direct language he said interviews conducted by the commission "indicated that government forces and shabiha have committed acts of sexual violence against men, women and children."

    The U.N.'s deputy envoy for Syria, Jean-Marie Guehenno, told the Human Rights Council that the violence in Syria has "reached or even surpassed" levels seen before the April 12 cease-fire agreement and that a six-point peace plan forged by his boss, U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, "is clearly not being implemented."

    Growing numbers of Syrians also are being targeted in the country's conflict on account of their religion, said commission member Karen Koning AbuZayd, a U.S. citizen and former head of UNRWA, the U.N. agency that aids Palestinian refugees.

    "Where previously victims were targeted on the basis of their being pro- or anti-government, the Commission of Inquiry has recorded a growing number of incidents where victims appear to have been targeted because of their religious affiliation," said the panel's report delivered to the Council.

    Fayssal al-Hamwi, the Syrian ambassador in Geneva, charged that the allegations against the government are "quite fantastic." Then calling the council meeting blatantly political, he said he no longer wished to participate and strode out as if in protest. 'He also suggested Syria might reduce its longer-term cooperation internationally.

    Annan said he sent invitations for the Saturday summit to the five veto-wielding permanent members of the U.N. Security Council ? Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States ? plus Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar, and the European Union. The invitations also included the secretary-generals of the U.N. and the League of Arab States.

    Russia and China, two of the Security Council's five permanent members, have twice shielded Syria from U.N. sanctions.

    ______

    Associated Press writers Matthew Lee in Washington, D.C., and Frank Jordans in Geneva contributed to this report.

    Associated Press

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    Wednesday, June 27, 2012

    Marie Carr Walks Down the Aisle Singing Christina Aguilera's "The Right Man" at Her Wedding


    Marie Carr has given walking down the aisle new meaning.

    When the Cincinnati bride performed a rendition of Christina Aguilera‘s “The Right Man” as she entered her wedding and approached her husband-to-be, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. For good reason. Talk about making an entrance!

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    Everybody was taken aback, but no one more so than her husband, Devin, who said, “It was amazing. I couldn’t wait to spend the rest of my life with her.”

    Marie herself said, “I wanted him to know how perfect he is to me. I thought the best way to do that would be to sing to him as I walked down the aisle.”

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    New toilet turns human waste into electricity and fertilizer

    ScienceDaily (June 26, 2012) ? Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have invented a new toilet system that will turn human waste into electricity and fertilisers and also reduce the amount of water needed for flushing by up to 90 per cent compared to current toilet systems in Singapore.

    Dubbed the No-Mix Vacuum Toilet, it has two chambers that separate the liquid and solid wastes. Using vacuum suction technology, such as those used in aircraft lavatories, flushing liquids would now take only 0.2 litres of water while flushing solids require just one litre.

    The existing conventional water closet uses about 4 to 6 litres of water per flush. If installed in a public restroom flushed 100 times a day, this next generation toilet system, will save about 160,000 litres in a year -- enough to fill a small pool 10 x 8 metres x 2m.

    The NTU scientists are now looking to carry out trials by installing the toilet prototypes in two NTU restrooms. If all goes well, the world can expect to see and even sit on the new toilet in the next three years.

    Associate Professor Wang Jing-Yuan, Director of the Residues and Resource Reclamation Centre (R3C) at NTU who is leading the research project, said that their ultimate aim is not only for the new toilet system to save water, but to have a complete recovery of resources so that none will be wasted in resource-scarce Singapore.

    "Having the human waste separated at source and processed on-site would lower costs needed in recovering resources, as treating mixed waste is energy intensive and not cost-effective," Prof Wang said. "With our innovative toilet system, we can use simpler and cheaper methods of harvesting the useful chemicals and even produce fuel and energy from waste."

    Aiming to convert all waste to resource, the new toilet system which is part of a project that has received $10 million from Singapore's National Research Foundation's Competitive Research Programme in 2010, will be useful for new housing estates, hotels, resorts, and especially communities not linked to the main sewerage system and so require their own sewerage facilities.

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    The No-Mix Vacuum Toilet will divert the liquid waste to a processing facility where components used for fertilisers such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium can be recovered.

    At the same time, the solid waste will be sent to a bioreactor where it will be digested to release bio-gas which contains methane. Methane is odourless and can be used to replace natural gas used in stoves for cooking. Methane can also be converted to electricity if used to fuel power plants or fuel cells.

    'Grey water' (used water from the laundry, shower and kitchen sink) can be released back into the drainage systems without further need for complex waste water treatment, while leftover food wastes can be sent either to the bioreactors or turned into compost and mixed with soil, resulting in a complete recovery of resources.

    Assisting Assoc Prof Wang in the project are four other NTU researchers -- Asst Prof Chang Wei-Chung, Dr Chen Chia-Lung, Dr Apostolos Giannis and Dr Rajinikanth Rajagopal. This next-generation toilet and resource recovery system took the team one and a half years to develop and will be showcased to the industry at the upcoming WasteMET Asia 2012, held from the 1st to 4th July this year at Marina Bay Sands' Sands Expo and Convention Center.

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    Stereotyped Observations of Mobility ? Kees Winkel ? Blog ...

    (Taken from my thesis ?Mobile Behavior as a Behavioral Object of Conditio Humana?)?Let us consider some of the effects of the use of the mobile phone on our society. Just walk in a street of a town, wait at a bus stop, sit in a train or wait for a plain to board: big chance what you will see (and hear) is people staring at handheld mobile phones, not necessarily talking in the phone, as many of those devices also function as very small communication computing devices. According to Benson, ?this major change in human behaviour has come about within a remarkably short time, but its implications need to be considered. Many people have willingly taken this option of continuous communication; and many more have been forced to accept it as a condition of their employment? (Benson 2011). And, to be constantly available, for instance in work-related issues, make the employee find himself in a changed role since the days before the breakthrough of the mobile phone; there is no excuse anymore not to be addressable at any given moment during the twenty four hours of a day. ?Even while making a meal at home, or travelling on the bus, one might be interrupted by a business call? (Benson, 2011).

    It is a common sight in Dutch cities to see young girls, in the age scope of, say, 15 to 25, walking in a more or less hastened tempo, fiercely avoiding eye contact with their surroundings. In their hands they all carry a Blackberry and while on their path, they very regularly watch their Blackberry with a facial expression that suggests the expectation of a very, very important telephone call. Observing this particular group of female adolescents one may very well distinguish more communality in the group?s nones. If not inspecting their communication artifact, he girls all carry their Blackberry well in range of the observers? scope. Skeptics may add extra artifacts to visualize the group. Our girls mainly have long blond and slick hair. Their feet are covered in elephant-shaped booties with a brand name that stands for ugly. When less than, give or take 18?C, they may wear one specific brand of coat of the type that has a fur brim at the hood. When moving from one place to another, the girls drive a certain brand of, preferably, custom made motor scooter of Italian make. Commonly, the girls are observed to be of ethnic Dutch origins and in many cases, they belong to milieus of middle to higher social status.
    In recent years, we have observed a rather interesting movement, a true example of what we may call an attempt of social mobility; an interesting case as it deals also with the mobile device; Blackberry and other peer group-connoted artifacts (such as specific brands of bags and baseball caps, apparels and garments, perfumes and accessories).
    The movement is observed in groups of ethnic minorities, mainly of Moroccan and Turkish descent. Adolescents in these groups are of third and fourth generation and socio-political discourse claims a concern regarding the perception of identity of these people; it is currently a popular believe in The Netherlands that these people perceive themselves as neither true Moroccan (or Turkish) in a cultural sense of the word, nor do they feel truly Dutch. In this context it is relevant to mention that vast majorities in these ethnical minorities are of lower social status milieus.
    One observation in this context is that groups of Moroccan adolescent girls ?dress up? not only as their all-Dutch peers but also even exaggerate the outfitting and the associated behavior.
    Obviously some of the behavior may be explained in the context of general adolescent behavior, regardless of culture. Otherwise one may argue that certain behavior is due to the desire to move from a certain sphere an ethnical adolescent find herself in (or himself for that matter) to a socially higher appreciated sphere.

    In the context of (social) mobility, Blackberry appears to be an important artifact for adolescent groups in terms of ?growing up? and intergenerational social mobility, at least in The Netherlands although one may question the true relevance when observing the mobile OS (Mobile Operating System) statistics in the region; it is clear that Blackberry has only limited market share with Apple?s iOS and Google?s Android as supreme market owners currently.
    An interesting question rises: what makes Blackberry specifically so interesting for these groups of users? An article in Het Parool dating 10 April 2010 may bear some answers.
    Amongst adolescents in Amsterdam, Blackberry, especially business-type devices of the brand were most popular, even exceeding iPhone. According to a spokeswoman of KPN?s youth brand Hi, Ping with which one can send and receive free of charge messages unlimitedly, was the magic application that did it all. Back in 2010, Ping was a Blackberry-specific application; if one would want to ping, one needed a Blackberry. According to the spokeswoman, this fact explained the business success.
    However, since 2010, Blackberry has met some troublesome market challenges. Strangely enough, expected sales of Blackberry amongst adolescents in The Netherlands apparently still seem significant .

    Ethnicity might thus be understood as a status marker that differentiates between groups and individuals. As we have mentioned above, immigrants and ethnic minorities often belong to the most deprivileged socioeconomic categories in the societies where they live. It might though be hard to tell how much of an immigrant?s disadvantage that springs from him or her being labeled as different in terms of ethnicity, and how much is related to his or her class position, a class position that often changes through migration as such: downward mobility from the position in the country of origin to the country of settlement is common (Portes and Zhou, 1993). When disadvantage in terms of lacking opportunities to upward mobility is reproduced in the second and even third generation, it is even more likely that discrimination is involved. In this way, ?symbolic? distinctions between ethnicities come to have concrete socioeconomic consequences for those who are shut out from good job opportunities because of factors such as their names or looks. Once again, the categories of class and ethnicity are often entwined .

    The exceptional popularity of the cell phone among youth can be linked back to their need for an individual identity, maintenance of friendship networks, and emancipation from family ties. Moreover, as Geser (2004) points out, without possessing fixed addresses and stationary resources, cell phone connection is the only thing that anchors them to the society. Ling (2002) states that the use of the cell phone helps define adolescents vis-?-vis older generations. Its real impact is in terms of its ability to define adolescents? identity. The ?emancipation? of adolescents from their parents is a contributing factor to the formation of their identity. H?flich & R?ssler (2002) state that adolescents in order to challenge the social world of adults and to show resistance to it, thereby strengthening a subculture as well as constructing an identity, sometimes use the obtrusiveness of cell phones in a provocative manner. Besides the emancipation from adults and maintenance of friendship networks, cell phones contribute to identity assertion by being highly personal devices, with a vast scope for further personalization. Pertierra (2005) reports the sentiment that the cell phone as a personal device is a style statement .

    The question of whether the cell phone is seen as a symbol of status within the adolescent subculture has been dealt with in a number of studies. The unexpected rate at which cell phone technology has been developed and adopted has made it a very popular phenomenon, and as such it is no longer associated with prestige, as was the case only a few years ago (H?flich & R?ssler, 2002; Lorente, 2002). However, some studies indicate that the cell phone might in some ways still be a source of social prestige. For instance, the cell phone might act as the barometer of an adolescent?s social life in the amount of messages and calls he or she receives, thereby contributing to aspects of social prestige (Lobet- Maris & Henin, 2002, p. 110). Likewise, a significant percentage of adolescents in Finland who did not have a cell phone reported feeling left out of social interactions and sometimes felt pressured by friends to get a cell phone (Ling, 2004) .

    ?Wireless communication is changing the way people work, live, love and relate to places?and each other?, says Andreas Kluth In The Economist;s Special Report on Mobility . Urban nomads have started appearing only in the past few years. According to Kluth, modern nomads have a lot in common with their ancestors in the desert; nomads carry only what the need stricktly to survive during their travels. All the rest can be gathered at oases or other ? temporary ? dwellings. Modern nomads do not carry paper. They have all their documents in their laptop or, better, somewhere in the cloud. Kluth furthermore enlightens us on the fact that e.g. Google executives travel only with their iPhone and a Blackberry: ?if ever the need arises for a large keyboard and some earnest typing, they sit down in front of the nearest available computer anywhere in the world, open its web browser and access all their documents online? (Economist 2008).

    Like their antecedents in the desert, they are defined not by what they carry but by what they leave behind, knowing that the environment will provide it. Thus, Bedouins do not carry their own water, because they know where the oases are. Modern nomads carry almost no paper because they access their documents on their laptop computers, mobile phones or online. Increasingly, they don?t even bring laptops. Many engineers at Google, the leading Internet company and a magnet for nomads, travel with only a BlackBerry, iPhone or other ?smart phone
    As a species, Ms. Turkle thinks, we run the risk of letting the permanent wireless social clouds that surround us steal part of our nature

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