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Megan Morris, Founder and CEO of residential home staging company, MHM Professional Staging, a sought-after Central Florida firm, discusses the importance of addressing problem areas while selling a home.

Orlando, Fla. ? June 27, 2012 ? Megan Morris, Founder and CEO of residential home staging company, MHM Professional Staging, recently published an article on her website www.professionalstaging.com, discussing the strategy of home staging. The article, titled ?Home Staging 101: Address the Problem Areas? explains that ?problem areas? can often be turned into positive attributes.

Morris writes, ?One of the most important aspects of staging a home for sale is addressing the problem areas. Virtually every home has them?rooms that are difficult to define or rooms that are not finished or are slightly awkward.? The key is to spin these perceived problems into positive attributes.?

MHM Professional Staging, a home staging company in Orlando,? offers a host of home interior staging services to their broad array of clients. Whether you need to position your personal home for sale, create a set design for a TV show or re-designing your hotel lobby space, MHM has the expertise and talent to meet the challenge. CEO Megan Morris leverages the firm?s years of experience to provide clients with superior service, timely design and beautifully finished spaces that attract attention.

The entire article can be found at http://www.professionalstaging.com/articles/home-staging-101-address-the-problem-areas.php

To learn more about Megan Morris and MHM Professional Staging, please visit http://www.professionalstaging.com/

About MHM Professional Staging:

Founded in early 2010, MHM Professional Staging, Inc. has quickly grown into one of the most sought-after professional home staging companies in the Central Florida area.

This highly talented team works with clients with varying budgets to position their home for a successful sale. In today?s competitive real estate market, MHM Professional Staging can drive a buying decision from prospective buyers with a range of interior adjustments.

MHM provides a diversity of services to their valued customers. The talented team can handle any type of design and re-design project, with experience spanning from homes to lobbies, set designs for TV, sales centers and boutique hotels. The company?s leaders take pride in their highly trained and experienced professionals who can handle any complex task to get the job done in an efficient manner. MHM Professional Staging cherishes the continued loyalty of their past customers, and continues to strive forward in meeting the needs of their future customers.

With over a decade of experience, this staging firm?s leadership has built a prestigious reputation for exceeding expectations, getting results, and making a lasting impression.

About Megan Morris:

MHM Professional Staging, Inc. is lead by Megan Morris, CEO and founder. At the lead of the MHM team, Megan has translated strong values into the company?s core mission. Under Megan?s wisdom, MHM is equipped with the expertise and necessary skills to stage your home in the most visually appealing light.

Megan has worked in home staging and design for the past 10 years. In this capacity, she has been responsible for promoting business, managing a team of employees, monitoring projects and customizing client needs on an ongoing basis. Her expertise in visual displays and space planning has been recognized and honored in several design competitions and she has been hired as the lead set decorator for several commercials, including Nike, Werthers, VH1, New York Life and ESPN. She has also been featured on FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, HGTV, Bravo and CNBC as an expert in her field. ?Megan has been nominated for a Golden Quill Award and is a co-author of the best-selling business book, Trendsetters: The World?s Leading Experts Reveal Top Trends To Help You Achieve Greater Health, Wealth and Success! She also co-authored SOLD with the world?s leading real estate experts, and authored Stageology: How to Stage to Sell? a complete guide to using proven staging techniques to increase the chances of selling your house faster and for top dollar. As an expert in her field, Megan Morris shows you step-by-step how to make your property stand out from the competition and make a valuable first impression.?

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Spain requests bank aid, Moody's downgrades banks

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain formally requested a European bank rescue on Monday but lack of details kept investors fretting and Moody's cut the ratings of most Spanish lenders, citing the government's reduced ability to support them and the likelihood of higher property losses.

In a letter to Eurogroup Chairman Jean-Claude Juncker sent early on Monday, Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said he wanted to take up the EU offer of up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion) and hoped to finalize the package by July 9.

He did not specify how much money Spain will seek to recapitalize the indebted lenders and said the final amount and conditions of the assistance were still under discussion.

Ahead of reports of the Moody's downgrade, Spanish banking stocks <.iban.bc> closed down 4.9 percent on Monday, underperforming the blue-chips index <.ibex>, which fell 3.7 percent. Spain's country risk, as measured by the spread between German and Spanish benchmark bonds, rose to around 518 basis points.

Moody's downgraded the ratings of 28 of 33 rated banks, by one to four notches, following a cut to Spain's sovereign rating to just above junk status earlier this month.

"The reduced creditworthiness of the Spanish sovereign...affects the government's ability to support the banks," the credit rating agency said in a statement.

"The banks' exposures to commercial real estate will likely cause higher losses, which might increase the likelihood that these banks will require external support."

The downgrade included Spain's largest two lenders, Santander and BBVA and left the long-term debt of Bankia , which requested a bailout last month, at junk status.

Moody's said it would assess the impact of the euro zone recapitalization on banks' creditworthiness and bondholders once details on funds to individual banks were known.

Economy Minister De Guindos said an independent audit of the banking sector released last Thursday would be used as a starting point to determine the capital needs, to which an additional security buffer will be added.

The audit showed Spanish banks, badly hit by a property crash four years ago, need up to 62 billion euros to weather a severe economic downturn.

Analysts say the euro zone's fourth largest economy, which has become the focus of the debt crisis, will struggle to get out of recession unless the banking problems are solved.

According to financial and government sources, four nationalized banks - Bankia, CatalunyaCaixa, NovaGalicia and Banco de Valencia - will get the bulk of the aid. These banks could need a cash injection of around 40 billion euros as soon as July, the sources said.

The bailout mechanism - European Stability Mechanism or European Financial Stability facility - which will be used to raise the money will be chosen at a later stage.

This choice is important because the ESM has a preferred debtor status which would push private bondholders down the queue for repayment of their investments.

NO LOSSES FOR BONDHOLDERS

Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who chairs monthly meetings of euro zone finance ministers, said he had received the request and would give an answer "in due course".

"We expect to give a mandate to the Commission, in liaison with the ECB and the EBA, to negotiate the necessary policy conditionality for the financial sector, including restructuring plans in accordance with EU state aid rules, which shall accompany the financial assistance," he said in a statement.

The European Commission usually requires banks which receive aid to sell assets, close branches and restructure.

This would, however, not involve imposing losses on banks' bondholders, something De Guindos ruled out on Friday.

Secretary of State for Economy Fernando Jimenez Latorre said on Monday the aid should reach the banks within three or four months and that transitory liquidity mechanisms would be used for the entities which require a lifeline earlier.

"In the next weeks, we will clear doubts about the seniority of the European aid, the conditions for the credits, the maturity, if it will affect the deficit," he said.

He added that the possibility of channeling the European aid directly to the banks was still an option. The request letter, however, said Spain's bank restructuring fund, known as the FROB, would receive the money and distribute it to the lenders.

DIRECT AID?

Documents released on Friday after the independent audit showed Spain will carry out yet another stress test of its banks by October with a focus on seven lenders that might not need aid right away but could still be vulnerable.

Doing the extra test gives Spain at least two more months to negotiate for direct recapitalization of the banks. The government wants to avoid taking on the aid itself and then channeling it to the banks, which would affect the public debt, potentially ramping up borrowing costs and dragging it further into the debt crisis.

Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said on Monday that Spain would insist on having long maturities and low interest rates on the loans. He also said direct European aid for the banks was still an option.

Spain has escaped conditionality for its economic policy in return for the financial assistance but it will be placed under increased scrutiny from its EU partners.

"The way Spain complies with any and all of its commitments will be looked at with more attention than for a country which has not sought financial assistance," said EU competition chief Joaquin Almunia on Monday.

Almunia will be in charge of supervising the restructuring of the banking sector and maintaining a level playing field with other lenders in Europe which did not receive state aid.

($1 = 0.8013 euros)

(Additional reporting by Carlos Ruano in Santander, Sarah Morris, Robert Hetz and Emma Pinedo in Madrid and Luke Baker in Brussels; editing by Fiona Ortiz and Anna Willard and Michael Roddy)

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Philanthropy needs simpler support: Perpetual Private | Top ...

Financial Standard - Philanthropy needs simpler support: Perpetual Private

Philanthropic giving in the last few years has been under valued in Australia because of a disproportionate focus on tax structures and increased regulation on charitable vehicles such as private ancillary funds.

Andrew Thomas, general manager - philanthropy at Perpetual Private said he believes that while many philanthropists are reticent about publicity, some recognition would encourage even greater level of generosity.

Australia currently sits third in terms of giving as a proportion of GDP (0.69%), behind the US (1.67%) and the UK (0.73%).

The public treatment of private philanthropy is topical, with Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne using his budget speech in March to argue tax breaks to wealthy donors were overly generous and unfair.

Osborne's argument is the cost of the exemption is borne by the rest of the population in the form of higher taxes.

Britain is not alone in re-assessing incentives with the Obama administration also questioning revenue impact amid moves to limit the amount of giving that can be deducted from taxable income.

For Australia, currently in the throes of charitable sector reform, Thomas says additional red tape will be counterintuitive and that legislative changes miss the point of why people give - predominately for personal reasons.

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How You Can Stop And Employ Meditation Techniques In A Fast ...

You are here: Home ? Health and Fitness ? How You Can Stop And Employ Meditation Techniques In A Fast-Paced Society

The world went mental with sounds going off each and every second you live and breathe. The upheaval of daytime traffic gets you out of your bed. A ringing tone from a cellphone calls out to you when you aim to spend quality time with a black plus heady (just the way you want it) cup of Joe. A blast of alarm out of your sleek brand new tablet nags you when you head for the sanctuary of the bathroom. A friend and even the landlord might intrude upon your morning having a few complaint or request. And this is only the beginning of your day.

If you eventually manage to get away from your apartment, you?ll run smack into a cacophony of-man-made and machine-made-sounds that really pick at your thoughts, your spirit, causing you to be anxious and in a state of consistent anxiousness. This is not the way your life needs to unfold. This is simply not the way your recollections really should be generated. This may not be an excellent means to amble through your everyday existence. Thus, browse through health and fitness blogs to find meditation techniques that could help you clear your head from the frustrating sound and have much healthier days.

Meditation is a mind-body training that will help experience conscious rest, which really brings about stress relief. There are many distinctive processes to use and you also don?t normally need to have a guru to point you in the direction of enlightenment, but his way definitely will further increase your concentration or vastly broaden the free circulation of your insights.

Meditation techniques for anxiety is going to be as basic as consuming 15 to 20 minutes away from your day to take a seat, loosen up and shut your eyes, and start a silent degree of awareness. It can be as rigorous as the Vipassana meditation that?s undertaken about 10 days as you refrain from writing, talking, and reading so as to close your eyes in a quiet area for 10 to 15 minutes and stay very aware of your breathing.

The wide range of meditative techniques can deal with a variety of physical concerns and psychological upheavals. Whenever your days are taken over by eight to 10 hours of computer time, you can increase optic function by taking a crack at trataka, often known as yogic gaze. To practice, give attention to a certain non-moving object (your studly man or hot woman may not be reliable ? they?ll keep moving around) at a distinct distance. Secure your eyes (hence, the name) until your eyes close and the picture remains. Relax your breathing and open your eyes once again. Alternate the opening and closing of your own eyes a couple of times before you decide to conclude the trataka.

The Mayo Clinic has recommended that meditation is among the helpful health and fitness guidelines that can help out with elevated blood pressure, hypersensitivity, asthma, sleep problems, heart disease, as well as pain, among other things. The medical community has, for years, endorsed making use of meditation to deal with pain-related health problems similar to arthritis. Meditation techniques for pain may include a mixture of transcendental meditation and yoga breathing, or mantra meditation (silently echoing a pleasing statement) and guided meditation.

Reduced stress, inner serenity, rejuvenated mind and body? inner peace. The many advantages of meditation are countless. In a world that gets you usually active, the necessity of using a minute alone to yourself to have clarity and inner tranquility will let you get up a lot better in the mornings and retire restfully at night. And the distractions, the hubbub in your head may ultimately leave you in peace.

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Know your BMI: Docs urged to screen for obesity

Graphic shows the projected percentage of obese and very obese Americans

Graphic shows the projected percentage of obese and very obese Americans

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Chances are you know your blood pressure. What about your BMI?

Body mass index signals if you're overweight, obese or just right considering your height. Some doctors have begun calling it a vital sign, as crucial to monitor as blood pressure.

But apparently not enough doctors check: A government panel renewed a call Monday for every adult to be screened for obesity during checkups, suggesting more physicians should be routinely calculating their patients' BMIs.

And when someone crosses the line into obesity, the doctor needs to do more than mention a diet. It's time to refer those patients for intensive nutrition-and-fitness help, say the guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Don't assume your weight's OK if the doctor doesn't bring it up.

Patients "should be asking what their BMI is, and tracking that over time," says task force member Dr. David Grossman, medical director for preventive care at the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle.

By the numbers: A normal BMI is less than 25. Obesity begins at 30. In between is considered overweight. To calculate yours: http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/.

The advice sounds like a no-brainer, considering the national anxiety about our growing waistlines. Two-thirds of adults are either overweight or obese. Some 17 percent of children and teens are obese, on the road to diabetes, heart disease and other ailments before they're even grown.

The task force has recommended adult obesity screening previously, and similar guidelines urge tracking whether youngsters are putting on too many pounds.

Yet BMI remains a mystery for many people. A 2010 survey of members of the American Academy of Family Physicians found up to 40 percent of those primary care doctors were computing their patients' BMIs. Surveys show only about a third of obese patients recall their doctor counseling them about weight loss, even though people whose doctors discuss the problem are more likely to do something about it.

Doctors can struggle with the pounds, too, and Johns Hopkins University researchers recently reported that overweight physicians were less likely than skinnier ones to advise their patients about weight loss.

Why the reluctance? One reason: Few doctors are trained to treat obesity, they're discouraged by yo-yo dieting but they don't know what to advise, says Dr. Glen Stream, president of the physicians' group. His Spokane, Wash., practice uses electronic medical records that automatically calculate BMI when a patient's height and weight is entered.

"Our American culture is always looking for an easy fix, a pill for every problem," Stream says. "The updated recommendation is important because it makes clear exactly what doctors should do to help."

In Monday's Annals of Internal Medicine, the task force concluded high-intensity behavioral interventions are the best non-surgical advice for the obese, citing insufficient evidence about lasting effects from weight-loss medications.

The task force's Grossman says a good program:

?Includes 12 to 26 face-to-face meetings over a year, most in the first few months.

?Makes patients set realistic weight-loss goals. Losing just 5 percent of your initial weight ? 10 pounds for a 200-pound person ? can significantly improve health.

?Analyzes what blocks each patient from reaching those goals. Do they eat high-calorie comfort foods to deal with depression? Spend too much time at a desk job?

?Tailors ways to help people integrate physical activity into their daily routine.

?Requires self-monitoring, such as a food diary or a pedometer to track activity.

Last year, Medicare started paying primary care doctors for obesity screening and weight-loss counseling for seniors for a year, including weekly meetings for the first month.

But many insurance companies don't pay for all the suggested interventions, and comprehensive programs aren't available everywhere, says Dr. Scott Kahan of George Washington University and the STOP Obesity Alliance. He runs a clinic that provides a medical, psychological and nutritional evaluation before tailoring a plan. In other programs, primary care doctors may offer some counseling and send patients to nutritionists or other specialists for extra help.

Another problem: "Doctors tend to shoo away people who have obesity. They say, 'Don't come back to me and tell me your back hurts or you have acid reflux or high cholesterol until you will do something about it,'" laments Kahan, who is teaching medical school students to motivate patients.

What about the overweight? The task force said more study is needed on how best to help them.

But in Reno, Nev., Dr. Andy Pasternak calculates BMI for every patient at his family medicine practice ? and particularly targets the overweight in their 40s and younger for fitness counseling. He says if they wait until they're heavier or older to get active, arthritis exacerbated by the pounds will be another barrier.

Patients seldom know what their BMI should be, but "at least twice a day people say, 'What should be my optimal weight?'" Pasternak says.

He thinks saying to lose 60 pounds is too discouraging: "What I try to get them to focus on is: How much are you working out? How many servings of vegetables do you get a day?"

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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Lauran Neergaard covers health and medical issues for The Associated Press in Washington.

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BMI calculator: http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi

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EURO 2012 LIVE: HT: England 0, Italy 0

WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? England and Italy are vying for the last semifinal berth at the European Championship ? and the winner will play Germany. Follow all of the action and build-up here. All times are Polish.

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2136: Oddly, Wayne Rooney and Andrea Pirlo swapped shirts as the players went off for halftime, despite having at least another 45 minutes to play. If the scores are still level then, there will be 30 minutes of extra time to determine a winner. If neither side is able to book a spot in the semifinal after that, there will be a penalty shoot-out.

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2133: Italy edged it but most of the chances have fallen to Balotelli, who is yet to bring a meaningful save out of Joe Hart.

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2130: HALF-TIME: England 0, Italy 0.

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2128: Great moment from Pirlo, who shows just why he is so highly regarded as he floats a pass into Cassano at the back post. Cassano heads the ball back into the path of Balotelli in the center, but Lescott gets to it first and, somehow, from point blank range, pokes the ball over the bar for a corner, which England clears.

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2125: Fantastic play by Cassano, receiving the ball from Balotelli 25 yards out with his back to goal, before instantly turning and unleashing a stinging right-footed drive that Hart palms up into the air before pouncing upon the rebound.

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2121: England goes straight up the other end, Rooney and Welbeck linking up with a neat one-two before Welbeck sidefoots the ball over the bar from the edge of the penalty area. Good, entertaining game so far.

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2119: Good chance for Balotelli who gets inbetween Johnson and Terry as Marchisio clips a looping ball into his path. The Italian forward hits a tame effort on the half volley straight at Hart, his Manchester City teammate in the England goal. He had more time than he realized and was disgusted with himself as Hart made a simple stop.

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2114: Johnson has slipped over twice now when quickly changing direction and sprinting after the ball. That decision to water the pitch 15 minutes before kick off seems to be hindering the England defender and perhaps a change of footwear could be in order. Mind you, nobody else seems to be suffering in the same way.

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2110: Wayne Rooney has started to play a bit deeper in the last five minutes or so. Andrea Pirlo, the midfield dangerman who won the 2006 World Cup with Italy, has yet to see much of the ball and the Italians will have to bring him into the game more if they want to gain a greater control of the play.

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2106: The English are definitely enjoying the better of the early proceedings and look threatening going forward. Both Roy Hodgson and Cesare Prandelli have spent time in their technical areas barking out instructions to the their players but you would expect it is Hodgson who is the happier with the start to the game.

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2100: Another great chance for England. Johnson swings an inviting cross into the penalty area from the right and Rooney bends his run to meet the delivery, but he flicks his diving header well over the bar under pressure from a defender.

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2058: England seems to be encouraged by that chance from Johnson, with Wayne Rooney breaking away down the left to force a corner. The Italians clear the imminent pressure but the ball is crossed back into the center and, after an unorthodox punch away from Buffon, Parker drills the ball wide from outside the penalty area.

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2052: And now it's England's turn to go close. England works the ball down the right and Milner delivers a low cross into the penalty area and after a couple of deflections, it lands between the feet of Johnson. The right back eventually gets his shot away and it seems destined for the back of the net from close range but Buffon makes a splendid save, clawing the ball up in the air and catching the rebound.

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2050: So close! De Rossi sends a left-footed shot on the bounce crashing off the post. The ball is pulled back to the midfield man who, with the outside of his boot, sends a shot swerving onto the face of the left post from 25 yards, with an outstretched Hart in the England goal comprehensively beaten. Early letoff for Roy Hodgson's side.

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2045: And the match gets underway, with Italy, in blue, kicking off.

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2042: A rousing rendition of the Italian national anthem by Buffon, roaring out the lyrics with his eyes closed.

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2040: Buffon and Gerrard lead their teams out.

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2035: gdunbarap: Kiev pitch being watered 15 mins before kickoff. Italy happy to agree to it vs England, but not Spain 2 weeks ago. (via Twitter.)

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2030: For England, Ashley Cole, Steven Gerrard, Ashley Young, James Milner and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are all a yellow card away from missing a potential semifinal clash against Germany. For Italy, goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is joined on the list of bookings by Fedricio Balzaretti, Mario Balotelli, Daniele De Rossi, Riccardo Montolivo and Leonardo Bonucci.

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2020: So Mario Balotelli starts for Italy against three of his Manchester City teammates in the England side: Joe Hart, Joleon Lescott and James Milner. England are unchanged from the side that beat Ukraine 1-0 in the last Group D match. That means Wayne Rooney partners Danny Welbeck in attack, with Andy Carroll and Theo Walcott starting on the substitutes' bench.

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1950: Italy forward Mario Balotelli returns to the starting lineup to face an unchanged England team. Balotelli is selected ahead of Antonio Di Natale. Defender Giorgio Chiellini injured his left hamstring against the Irish and his Juventus teammate Leonardo Bonucci continues to fill in. Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has opted for Riccardo Montolivo in midfield over Thiago Motta.

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1945: Here are the lineups:

England: Joe Hart, Ashley Cole, Glen Johnson, Joleon Lescott, John Terry, Steven Gerrard, James Milner, Scott Parker, Ashley Young, Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck.

Italy: Gianluigi Buffon, Ignazio Abate, Federico Balzaretti, Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci, Daniele De Rossi, Claudio Marchisio, Riccardo Montolivo, Andrea Pirlo, Mario Balotelli, Antonio Cassano.

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1940: AP's Rob Harris, in Kiev: "For the first time at Euro 2012, England fans are making their presence felt in Kiev ahead of the quarterfinal against Italy. Logistical problems getting to the outer reaches of eastern Europe seem to have been partly overcome. The chorus of "We are the Champions" seems a tad premature though."

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1835: Defending champion Spain is hoping the extra two days rest that Portugal has before the semifinal encounter on Wednesday will not prove to be of advantage when they compete for a place in the final in Donetsk.

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1815: simonhaydon: Pedro Proenca was nursing broken teeth after being headbutted by a fan. Ten months later, he refs Italy vs England tonight (via Twitter.)

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1500: Former Portugal great Eusebio is in stable condition after undergoing tests on his heart. The 70-year-old Eusebio was admitted to hospital in Poznan late Saturday after feeling ill and suffering what was initially suspected to be a heart attack, hospital spokesman Stanislaw Rusek said. Doctors performed a coronary catheterization, which determined that Eusebio had not had a heart attack but merely complications from poor health. "I had the chance to speak to him this morning and asked him whether his heart hurt at all," Rusek told The Associated Press. "He smiled and said, 'not at all,' and that shows that this morning he was in good form."

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Cano, Yankees touch up Dickey in 6-5 win over Mets

NEW YORK (AP) ? Robinson Cano hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning and the New York Yankees touched up R.A. Dickey for five runs in a 6-5 victory over the Mets on Sunday night.

Nick Swisher had an early three-run shot against Dickey, who was coming off consecutive one-hitters ? making him the first major league pitcher in 24 years to accomplish that feat. But in a much-anticipated matchup at sold-out Citi Field, both he and Yankees ace CC Sabathia were missing their best stuff.

Leading off the eighth, Cano drove a 2-0 delivery from Miguel Batista (1-2) over the home run apple in straightaway center for his 16th homer and fifth in seven games. Taking advantage of a shaky Mets bullpen again, the Yankees won the final two games of the weekend by one run to finish 5-1 against their crosstown rivals this season.

Including a sweep in the Bronx earlier this month, the Yankees have won five consecutive series against the Mets since May 2010.

The talk of the town lately, Dickey was riding an unprecedented roll of dominance that rivaled any in baseball history. But the knuckleballer had an uncharacteristic bout of wildness against the homer-happy Yankees and lasted only six innings. He walked three, hit a batter and threw his first wild pitch of the season.

Sabathia, also coming off a complete game with double-digit strikeouts, gave up nine hits in 5 2-3 innings. He was betrayed by his defense while yielding five runs ? one earned.

Boone Logan (2-0) gave the Yankees another splendid performance out of the bullpen, and David Robertson retired Ruben Tejada with a runner on third to end the eighth. Rafael Soriano worked a scoreless ninth in the rain for his 15th save in 16 chances.

The Yankees have won 14 of their last 18 road games.

Dickey received a big ovation during pregame introductions and sent a smiling Alex Rodriguez sprawling to the dirt with a high-and-tight pitch in the first ? perhaps the first time the three-time MVP has been buzzed with a knuckleball.

Dickey used his bat and legs to help the Mets get started on their comeback from a four-run deficit. He singled off Sabathia in the fifth and hustled home from second on David Wright's two-out RBI single.

The 37-year-old pitcher slid into Chris Stewart at the plate, getting a face full of catcher's mitt and jarring the ball loose as his helmet was knocked off his head.

Trailing 5-2 in the sixth, the Mets took advantage of Cano's one-out error at second base to score three unearned runs with two outs. Vinny Rottino, pinch-hitting for Dickey, drew a four-pitch walk from Sabathia and screened Mark Teixeira when Andres Torres grounded a two-run single just past the Gold Glove first baseman.

Tejada tied it with a single off Cory Wade, who struck out pinch-hitter Kirk Nieuwenhuis with the bases loaded to end the inning.

Dickey wriggled out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the second but couldn't escape in the third. Two walks sandwiched around Rodriguez's dribbler for an infield single loaded the bases for Teixeira, the pitcher's old buddy from their early days in Texas.

Teixeira made solid contact on a sacrifice fly, ending Dickey's streak without allowing an earned run at 44 2-3 innings ? second-best in team history behind Dwight Gooden's stretch of 49 innings in 1985.

Swisher then sent a 2-1 knuckler well beyond the 390-foot sign in right-center for his 11th homer and a 4-0 cushion. He clapped his hands high as he rounded first base and wore a broad smile when he got back to the dugout.

It was the first home run off Dickey since Cincinnati slugger Joey Votto connected on May 17. After a no-decision in that game, Dickey won his next six starts heading into Sunday night.

Dickey plunked the leadoff batter and threw a wild pitch in the fifth, leading to Teixeira's RBI groundout that made it 5-1.

Stewart's second throwing error of the game helped the Mets get on the board in the third on a sacrifice fly by Tejada, just activated from the disabled list after he missed seven weeks with a strained quadriceps.

NOTES: Yankees C Russell Martin sat out after leaving Saturday's game in the ninth inning with a stiff lower back. Stewart usually catches Sabathia anyway, but manager Joe Girardi reiterated that he wants to get Sabathia and Martin working together again. Girardi said that might have been his battery Sunday night if Martin were healthy, but now the manager might wait until after the All-Star break to pair them in a game. ... Mets 1B Ike Davis, scratched from the lineup Saturday and sent home because of food poisoning, flied out as a pinch-hitter to end it. ... The crowd of 42,364 was the largest in the 4-year history of Citi Field.

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You've run out of new stories to read, listened to the latest episode of Weekend Confirmed, and still want more Shacknews? While these threads have expired, you can join thousands of other gamers as we discuss everything from videogame industry news to politics in the Chatty. Make sure you log-in and check your filters if you can't see the following:

The wonderful fiends over at BioWare announced that the Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC will be landing on Tuesday, June 26, 2012. Marauder shields will suffer at the hand of Commander Shepard once more. Have you been keeping up your war assets to get the best ending for your playthrough? What do you mean you've been playing Diablo III instead? Dig up your copy and let evil be evil for the moment, while you participate in Operation Savage with Wadmassi this weekend.

Max Payne 3 only sold 440,000 copies in the month of May, earning the ire of one Michael Pachter who called the game "a flop." Max hurts. Max is in pain. After spending some time with the game, UtilityMaximizer has some decent thoughts as to who should play the game and who should probably stay away. Do you agree with him?

Quantum Conundrum, designed by Portal co-designer Kim Swift, is breaking analytical minds everywhere with its difficult yet creative puzzles. Serpico74 wants to know your thoughts; have you played the game?

The Secret World launches on July 3, 2012, seeking to gain something of a foothold in the MMO market. Check out pix3lated's thread for answers to your burning game questions, and will be forming a guild immediately after launch for interested Shacker folks. Will you kindly join him?

Microsoft was rather busy this week, announcing both the Surface and unveiling what you can expect from the upcoming Windows Phone 8 update. RevRaven and the Shack watch the Surface reveal and discuss the tablet itself; jabuck and the Shack watch the Phone Developers conference in this thread. This fall is certainly shaping up to be interesting for Microsoft, with Windows 8 holding a lot of promise for gamers everywhere. As a Lumia 900 user, I'm not exactly thrilled with the lack of upgrade path to Windows Phone 8, stuck with the somewhat lesser Windows Phone 7.8 update, but I am glad to see another platform maturing to compete with the marketplace.

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Brave, Pixar's latest animated flick, arrives in theatres this weekend. Some critical reviews are shaping up to be not so great, as mojoald discovers. Did you go see it? What did you think of the main character? Make sure you take a psychology class at your local community college before bothering to comment, though.

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Provocative 'have it all' essay echoes '80s summer hit

"Hey, lady. You, lady. Cursing at your life."? Charlene, "I've Never Been to Me"

Charlene's ancient AM-radio lyric sounded unexpectedly in my head as I savored "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," Anne-Marie Slaughter's charming and tautological cover story in this month's The Atlantic.

I like pieces like Slaughter's. Truism after truism. Good June beach reading: no surprises. But there was that early-'80s melody again.

In the article, Slaughter?a hardworking professor with a bruising speaking schedule who didn't quit working to hang out with her teenage sons but sort of thought about it?reflects on how other women bug her. She admits that she can't be in Washington, D.C., and Princeton, N.J., at the same time (the laws of physics bind her, too). And then she says some sensible-sounding stuff about technology and society.

The article appears to weigh in on the warring spheres that middlebrow women's magazines typically refer to as "work" (cubicles) and "family" (child care). But The Atlantic is not Redbook?and these up-for-grabs words mean something different here. I'd say Slaughter's version of "work" is more widely known as "glamour" (cocktails with Michelle Obama) and her "life" is better described as "deluxe domesticity" (waffles in Princeton, N.J.).

How can you have the fantasies of both Vogue and Elle D?cor?! This turns out to be an urgent question for well-heeled female consumers of our time.

"Hey lady, you lady," Slaughter implores, to the many women around her whose "irksome" small-talk about kids and jobs (you're a feminist-antifeminist-go-to-work-stay-home!) evidently inspires "blind fury" in her. Do as I say, she tells them, not as I do.

That's generous of Slaughter, to give advice. A larger-than-life superstar at the summit of American career success with what sounds like an awesome fun family, Slaughter admits to having spent her life as "the woman smiling the faintly superior smile" at other women.

Slaughter acted smug in the sisterhood: That's a good-enough confession, not quite a #humblebrag. At the same time, who can blame her? Slaughter, who is preceded everywhere she goes by her reputation as a top-caliber Ivy League academic, friend of Hillary and left-wing policymaker of the first rank, is objectively superior to everyone I've ever met. I'm not kidding. If she ever smiled superiorly at me, I'd be grateful even for the condescension.

But now she's penitent.

Slaughter, it seems, has been to paradise. She held a "foreign-policy dream job that traces its origins back to George Kennan." A snapshot of that dream: "President and Mrs. Obama hosted a glamorous reception at the American Museum of Natural History. I sipped champagne, greeted foreign dignitaries, and mingled."

But mingling, too, in the heady evening, were stray thoughts of Slaughter's teenage son in Princeton, who wasn't doing so well in math class. Was she letting him down by partying with presidents in Manhattan? Moreover, what did Slaughter want out of her one wild and precious life?

This last part hit Slaughter hard. In an interview that appears on The Atlantic site, she tells Hanna Rosin how hard it was for her to think?and write!?about her true desires. It seems she had "never been to me," as Charlene put it. And she needed that kind of groovy female awakening-to-desire as much as anything else.

I know this sounds far-fetched, but to my mind, that extraordinarily unsettling and ingenious Motown hit from 1982 really does set up the structure for Slaughter's piece. A woman of a certain age warns girls against the pursuit of worldliness that she believes left her estranged from domesticity and true female fulfillment.

Slaughter's article unfurls the indisputable fact in its "Women Still Can't Have It All" headline?infinite acquisition and possession of all things by one woman is impossible?over many, many pages of magazine prose. That dilation is dumbfounding. That fact about not-having-it-all is binding on all mortals, is it not? But Slaughter is a distinguished professor of law at Princeton University; she knows from sophistry and Socratic argumentation.

That's how I divined that her article is about something else. I'm going to summarize it this way, in Charlene's blunt internally rhyming lyric: "I spent my life exploring/ the subtle whoring/ that costs too much to be free."

Sure, "whoring" is not a Princeton word. It's Motown. But aren't Slaughter and Charlene (whose song was written by a man and originally in the voice of a bum warning a young man against hard living) telling the same story? They whirled around while they were younger?both women have champagne and "foreign dignitaries" in their stories?and now they're spent. They're hoping that the humbler pleasures of home and hearth haven't forsaken them while they've sewn oats in international careers. Totally understandable.

While she sipped champagne at the U.N. with those dignitaries, Slaughter worried about her son's "skipping homework, disrupting classes." Charlene's speaker, for her part, took her champagne on yachts with kings. At the same time, she mourned "the unborn children that might have made me complete."

For its sideswiping of abortion rights and sappiness about home life, "Never Been to Me" was considered a backlash against feminism. Thirty years later, Anne-Marie Slaughter's pals hint that she too is insufficiently feminist when she decides not to re-up her White House job that required her to see her family on weekends, but merely to return (as planned) to her wickedly demanding career as a chaired academic and author.

But then comes the crux of Slaughter's article, truisms swelling as they do in any good Polonian magazine-piece ending. "I didn't just need to go home. Deep down, I wanted to go home. I wanted to be able to spend time with my children ... irreplaceable years for me to enjoy the simple pleasures of parenting?baseball games, piano recitals, waffle breakfasts, family trips, and goofy rituals."

Compare that major-chord finale with Charlene's?spoken, as Slaughter's certainly could be, over an extended bridge in a slightly hysterical but sweet soprano:

"Hey, you know what paradise is? It's a lie?a fantasy we created about people and places as we like them to be. But you know what truth is? It's that little baby you're holding and it's that man you fought with this morning the same one you are gonna make love to tonight."

"That's truth, that's love!" cries Charlene. And I'm with her.

I guess I'm with Slaughter, too. But that's the thing about clich?s. They just hang around until someone puts them to music, gets a Motown producer?or an editor in D.C. and some cover art?and manages a breakout summer hit.

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Arianna Huffington: The Slow News Movement

Each year, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity gathers thousands of innovative thinkers and practitioners in advertising and media from around the world to talk about what's new and what's next in our brave new digital world. Last year I spoke about one of the most exciting developments online: the fact that the Internet has come out of its adolescent stage and is growing up into a place where our online and our offline lives have merged -- where the qualities we care most about offline are increasingly reflected in our experience online. And where, among all the random searching that defined the Internet's early years, something new has emerged: a search for greater meaning.

On Monday, I took the stage again with Roy Sekoff, HuffPost's founding editor and president of our soon-to-be-launched video streaming network, HuffPost Live. And what was on my mind was the speed with which the Internet is heading in this new direction. A world of too much data, too many choices, too many possibilities and too little time is forcing us to decide what we really value. And, more and more, people and innovative companies are recognizing that we actually have a life beyond our gadgets. That is why one of the most exciting features of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference last week was Do Not Disturb, the new iPhone feature designed to get you off your iPhone altogether.

And Huffington is definitely a manifestation of this longing to disconnect from the hurly-burly of our hyper-connected lives and join the slow news movement.

So here are some of this issue's highlights: Katie Bindley on the psychology behind online romance scams; Michael Calderone on Politico's growth since its upstart days way back in the 2008 election; Sharon Carty on the young designers, engineers and scientists pumping new life into Detroit's auto industry; Peggy Drexler on the risks and rewards of raising children to believe they're all winners, all the time; Gary Hart on the possible consequences -- both legal and illegal -- of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision; and Priyamvada Natarajan, who asks "Can Science Be Crowd-Sourced?"

There's also Mike Hogan's review of Beasts of the Southern Wild (which won big at another festival in Cannes), a Q&A with Meghan McCain, and a "Greatest Person of the Week" feature on Dr. Michael Good, a Marietta, GA, veterinarian who takes in stray animals who would otherwise have little chance of getting medical attention or being adopted.

I'm delighted that Huffington's first issue entered the world last week to great reviews. On the morning Huffington launched, I gave the commencement address at the all-girls Nightingale School in New York. I told the young women in the graduating class the story of HuffPost's birth seven years ago, and the negative reviews that greeted its arrival. You don't have to buy into the negative reviews, I told them. And just the same, you can't lean on the positive ones.

So, here at Huffington, our goal is to keep learning, keep growing, and keep listening to you, our readers, about what you want more and what you want less of. And to stay true to the qualities of storytelling, engagement, and community -- the kind of timeless qualities that, I have a feeling, will continue to resonate no matter how our online lives change.

This post appears in the June 24, 2012 issue of Huffington.

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Oil tycoon vanishes during Florida boat trip

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ? When an oil tycoon's fishing boat washed ashore near Fort Lauderdale this week, the lights were on and the engines were running, but the owner was nowhere to be found.

After a two-day search, authorities suspended the hunt for Guma Aguiar, a millionaire known for his philanthropy and sometimes erratic behavior. He struggled with mental illness exacerbated by court battles with family members over his vast fortune.

His disappearance has puzzled both his family and authorities.

Surveillance video showed him talking on the phone Tuesday night outside his $5 million waterfront home, grabbing what appears to be a pair of shorts and getting into the boat alone. Seas were rough, though, and police questioned why an experienced boater such as Aguiar would venture out in undesirable conditions.

His wallet and cell phone were still on the 31-foot boat when it was discovered beached Wednesday morning about three miles from the home he shares with his wife and four children. There was no blood or signs of a struggle on the vessel, police said.

Authorities were working with the Coast Guard to analyze the boat's GPS and sifting through Aguiar's cell phone records to see if any calls were made before the boat ran aground. The search over land and water covered a combined area roughly the size of Rhode Island.

"Anything is possible. At this point it's still way too early in the investigation to jump to any conclusions," Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Travis Mandell said.

His wife told police she was worried for his safety after she came home Tuesday night and learned from the nanny that he had gone boating, but police wouldn't elaborate on why she was concerned.

Meanwhile, his mother, Ellen Aguiar, on Thursday filed to become guardian of his more than $75 million fortune, which includes $35 million in Israeli real estate, $15 million in cash, a $2 million yacht and seven cars worth more than $1 million.

Aguiar suffers from severe bipolar disorder and "may be in a delusion state or be suffering from psychosis or otherwise may have disappeared at sea," according to court documents.

On Friday, the shades were drawn at Aguiar's property and no one answered the door. His wife declined comment through a family spokesman and his mother's phone had been temporarily disconnected. Friends declined to talk on the record to The Associated Press.

Aguiar made a fortune in 2006 when the Texas-based energy company he ran with his uncle was sold for a reported $2.5 billion. But he has been locked in a contentious legal battle with his uncle over money.

His wife's attorneys said they were horrified by Ellen Aguiar's attempts to gain control of the estate, saying it has only added to the family's stress.

"She files motions in courts trying to take over everything while the divers are still out looking for Guma's body," said attorney Bill Scherer. "It's bizarre."

He planned to respond her motion, but said everything is premature right now.

Scherer said the past year was especially difficult for Jamie Aguiar, who was pregnant while her husband was hospitalized for mental illness. He moved back into the house after he was released several months ago and has been more emotionally stable since then, Scherer said.

"She's hoping that he's had another mental breakdown and that he's out there somewhere and will come walking back when he gets himself stabilized," he said.

Family members said the legal battles had taken an emotional toll on Aguiar in recent years. His family checked him into a psychiatric hospital in Tel Aviv in 2010 after claiming he entered the Gaza Strip and met with an Israeli soldier held there by Hamas militants. Aguiar's family said at the time he'd been under "intensive emotional pressures" and "psychological terrorism," because of the lawsuit.

There were other signs of trouble at home.

His wife filed a domestic violence order against him last summer. A short time later, he filed for dissolution of marriage, but both were voluntarily dismissed, according to court documents. Around that same time, his wife and mother successfully petitioned a Miami-Dade County judge to appoint an emergency guardian for him for 90 days.

In 2009, he pleaded no contest to drug charges after deputies said they found marijuana in his Bentley during a traffic stop.

Aguiar has given millions to Israeli and Jewish causes. While he was raised Christian, his mother is Jewish, and he converted to Judaism about a decade ago.

He has said he plans to rebuild the biblical Jewish temple in Jerusalem and has donated millions to a foundation that helps Jews move to Israel. In Fort Lauderdale, Chabad Lubavitch, a traditional Hasidic group, named their family campus after him.

Aguiar has been a well-known fixture in Israel since his $4 million investment saved the Israeli Premier League soccer team Beitar Jerusalem a few years ago.

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Are you your own worst enemy? If so, the following gadgets might be able to help you overcome some?relatively minor shortcomings. That is to say, if you're reading this while wearing a fake mustache while frantically trying to make your way to the border,? sorry???but you've probably got bigger problems to tackle.

Ben & Jerry's pint lock

While technically designed to prevent others from stealing your ice cream, the Ben & Jerry's pint lock or "Euphori-Lock" can serve as a dietary deterrent as well. You probably won't remember the combination, and that means trying to find where you wrote it down. Then you have to enter in the combination itself. Way too many steps???though I might not be above cracking the pint open like a coconut and going in face first like a starving castaway.? $6.64???Ben&Jerry's via That's Nerdalicious

Beer Tracker bottle opener
Every time you open a beer, the Beer Tracker bottle opener will record it digitally. Hopefully, the reality of how many beers you've had will prevent awkward moments?? such as?waking up to find you have 50 Facebook messages with comments like, "The video we made of you last night is blowing up YouTube!" $10???FredFlare

A bed that makes itself
We aren't at a point where machines can completely overcome your tendency to make a mess, but a bed that can make itself is a good place to start. The OHEA Smart Bed can do just that in 50 seconds using a system of mechanical arms, cords and rollers. Granted, you'll have to be a pretty calm sleeper in order for it to work because it won't be able to handle a tangle of sheets tossed about in the night. If that sounds doable, the OHEA Smart Bed is expected to go on sale soon.???OHEA

iPhone Tank Case
If you're the kind of person who can't make it through a year without dropping and damaging your iPhone, you might want to consider a rugged case. The Tank Case from Case-Mate offers military-grade protection thanks to a polycarbonate hard shell with silicone cushioned interior and a retractable screen shield. Sure, you might have trouble fitting it?in your pants pockets (or, possibly, your car), but it's worth it for the peace of mind right? $60???Case-Mate

Toxic Waste Cookie Jar
Whenever the lid is opened on the Toxic Waste Cookie Jar, it will alert others to your unsanctioned snacking with flashing lights and an alarm sound. Using the excuse "I only did it because the horrible cookies you made are toxic and I thought they would give me superpowers" won't help. $14.99???Perpetual Kid via That's Nerdalicious

The Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock
Do you have trouble getting up in the morning? Well, that won't be a problem with the Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock. It has a maximum volume of 113 decibels (a jackhammer is around 100). If that isn?t enough, it also includes a bed shaker that you can slip under your mattress. If your heart can survive the shock, you'll always be on time. $49.99???ThinkGeek

HeadsUp
If anything, the HeadsUp sensor system proves that there a very good chance that a product exists to help you overcome just about every minor shortcoming. We've all seen garage sensor gadgets that alert you when you are about to smash into the wall, but the HeadsUp system is designed specifically to protect the expensive stuff you strap to the roof of your car. For example, if you like to go biking, you could attach a couple of waterproof sensors to the bikes, and when you return home the sensors will trigger an in-car alarm and LED sign inside the garage. In other words, it prevents you from entering the garage and smashing up your expensive gear. It's an absolute must for forgetful, outdoorsy types who have trouble with spatial relationships. $169.99???HeadsUp

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HP unveils 2311x IPS LED-backlit monitor and two new LCD displays: prices start at $140

Though we've already seen HP's 23-inch 2311xi IPS LED backlit monitor -- the first of its consumer monitors to feature in-plane switching technology -- it's getting a second turn in the spotlight today as the company fleshes out its new line-up of displays. Accompanying the 2311x is the 20-inch 2011xi IPS LED backlit monitor, which for $170 offers 178-degree viewing angles and a 1900 x 600 resolution. Both versions will start shipping in the US on June 24th.

HP is also updating its selection of LED-backlit LCD monitors. The 20-inch W2071d and 23-inch W2371d sport resolutions of 1600 x 900 and 1920 x 1080, respectively, and both include VGA and DVI-D inputs. The 20-incher will go for $140, while the 23-incher costs $200 -- no word on availability yet.

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Justin Bieber Headed For Year's Biggest Debut With Believe

Singer's second full-length studio album of original material predicted to sell more than 410,000.
By Gil Kaufman, with additional reporting by Jocelyn Vena

<P>You'd be a fool to expect <a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/bieber_justin/artist.jhtml">Justin Bieber</a> to debut anywhere but the #1 spot on the <I>Billboard</I> 200 album chart next week. But experts are predicting that not only will JB top the tally, but he's headed for his best first week ever and the likely crown of the year's biggest debut.</P><P>According to <a href="http://www.billboard.com/#/news/justin-bieber-kenny-chesney-headed-for-top-1007386952.story?utm_source=most_recent" target="_blank"><I>Billboard</I></a>, <a href="/news/articles/1685471/justin-bieber-believe-track-list.jhtml"><I>Believe</I></a>&#8232; is on course to move between 410,000 and 440,000 units by the end of the reporting week on Sunday. If Bieber reaches those heights, he will move past the year's biggest debut to date, Madonna's <I>MDNA</I>, which opened with 359,000. Those kinds of numbers would also give Bieber his biggest first frame so far, beating the debut of 2010's <I>My World 2.0</I>, which moved 291,000 units in its first week.</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Justin Bieber Lights Up New York Fans" id="vid:793032.id:1687833" width="415" height="255"></div><p> Before the expected numbers hit, Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, was already feeling bullish about the prospects. "I think it's gonna do well because I think people are really giving it a shot," he said of the album that <a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20603635,00.html" target="_blank">critics</a> have been praising for its maturity. "At the same time, I think that's my biggest hope that people judge him on the music. That they go and they listen to the album and they don't go in with any expectations. There's a lot of hype around him because of who he is and just shut your eyes, put on your headphones, and put on the music and then just decide if this album is worthy of your time."</P><P>Maybe he's a bit biased (okay, of course he is), but Braun said that if people follow his advice and give Bieber a fair shake, "I think nine-and-three-fourths out of 10 people will say yes." We will find out on Wednesday when the new <I>Billboard</I> 200 is revealed.</p>

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Introducing the perfect motorcycle scan tool? | Quality Automotive ...

We are now an authorized dealer for Strategic Tools & Equipment Company, which distributes the highest quality truck and motorcycle scan tools on the market. Right now, we will focus on giving you a bit more info about the motorcycle scan tool ? an upgrade to last years model, with improvements that most certainly allow the customer to get their money?s worth! Check back to learn about the truck scan tool that we feature next in this blog.

The part number for the ATV/Motorcycle Scan Tool is #MS5950. The previous version was #5650. The basic features have stayed the same, with several improvements added to the newer version.

MS5650: Covers 39 major manufacturers? diagnostic functions. This tool will help the technician diagnose problems and make repairs faster. Many common test procedures are written into the tools so the technician can follow them (injectors, ignition, coils, fuel pump, etc.). The tools also allow the technician to perform factory service procedures such as re-setting the service light, re-setting autoadaptive parameters, encoding keys, unlocking the immobilizer and configuring the immobilizer/alarm, making injection adjustments (CO Trimmer), adjusting the throttle valve position sensor (TPS) and making idling adjustments. The tools show live data; they display ECU data, read stored faults (history) or live data (RPM, battery voltage, throttle angle). It?s easy to update the tools via ?Smart Card? technology. Not all features available with all brands of motorcycles/ATVs. OEM-style connector cables sold separately. Cables work with both MS5650 and MS5950.

MS5950 has the same great software, plus:

?>Larger screen and data router built into the unit
?>USB connector for updates and downloading data to computer
?>Hardware supports future freeze frame, save, and print capability
?>Bike battery voltage displayed on every screen

Key Functions:

Read and clear fault codes
Make adjustments and follow factory procedures
Display ECU data, real time, and run diagnostic tests
Key programming on some bikes, such as Harley-Davidson and Honda
Updateable
Motorcycle/ATV Diagnostic Scan Tools

Brands that are currently included in the tool: Adiva, Aprilia, Arctic Cat, Benelli, Bimota, BMW, BRP CAN-AM, Buell, Cagiva, Derbi, Ducati, Gas Gas, Gilera, Harley Davidson, Honda, Hyosung, Kawasaki, KTM, KVN Motor, Kymco, Laverda, Malaguti, Mondial, Moto Guzzi, Moto Morini, MV Agusta, Peugeot, Piaggio, Polaris, Sherco, Suzuki, Triumph, Vespa, Voxan, and Yamaha

Please call Clark to learn more about this innovative Motorcycle Scan Tool at 603-234-2612, or check out this product, with more extensive information, on our web page: http://www.nhproequip.com/p/835/strategic-ms5950-motorcycle-atv-diagnostic-scan-tool

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