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In several regions of the United States, powered attic ventilators enjoy the pleasures of a positive reputation. They are promoted by builders, shingle manufactures, roofers, HVAC contractors, utilities, weekender material retailers, ventilation manufactures, consultants and others. Extending shingle life, protecting shingle warrantee, removing moisture from attics and reducing the air conditioning load by the removal of attic heat are their believed benefits. These regional cultures accept and sometimes expect the use of powered attic ventilators. Cash flow in their regional economic systems is saturated with their use. Those who manufacture sell or install powered attic ventilators in these regional cultures could experience financial hardships should it be suggested that powered roof ventilators should not be used. However, that is our central theme as a result of our measurements of some of their unplanned impacts on houses.
A review of some of the important issues Attic Ventilator?s & the problems they can cause in your home includes the following:
What really happens is that when that power attic ventilator runs, it?s going to pull air from wherever it can find it. Since air takes the path of least resistance, some of it will most likely be coming from the conditioned space in your home. So basically what you?re doing is air conditioning your attic. The longer the fan runs the more conditioned air it pulls into the attic.
If you have a perfectly air-sealed ceiling, you?re not going to have this problem, of course. The reality, however, is that few ceilings are leak-free. Since air needs only a pressure difference and a pathway to move, and your ceiling probably has plenty of pathways, it?s best not to enhance any pressure differences that will increase air movement into or out of your home. Air sealing & tighten is key along with changing the overall environmental conditions. With properly sized dehumidifiers you can remove the moisture and condition your space keeping it nice and dry without bringing high humid air moisture back in.
In other words, don?t install that power attic ventilator. If you have some installed already, disable them so they never run.
Power attic ventilators can cause problems even without air conditioning. One potential problem would be sucking moist, moldy air up from the crawl space into the house.
Another would be backdrafting a water heater and putting carbon monoxide in the house. These are real problems from real houses that have really happened.
The first step before investing in an Attic Ventilator is to have your home properly assisted by a certified Home Energy Auditor to see at a minimum, if you are a good candidate. Don?t be fooled by fast talking salesman that hide the truth when it comes to the negative issues attic ventilators can cause to your home.? It is Key that you have the whole house approach before jumping to this so called quick fix. Having a Home Energy Audit, Blower door Test & Duct Testing can be some methods to properly examine & resolve your homes infiltration issues. By locating infiltration and improving the tightness in your home you can increase your comfort and save on your overall energy consumption. ?It is recommended that if a powered attic ventilator is chosen as part of an attic ventilation strategy, the following guidelines should be provided. Make sure you are a good candidate. The installer should provide a good air barrier between the house and the attic and adequate, net free, vent area should be provided. Confirmation of safe operation is provided by measuring not by ignoring, guessing, or hoping.
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FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) ? An Army private accused of sending classified material to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has not been denied a speedy trial despite his lengthy pretrial confinement, a military judge ruled Tuesday.
Attorneys for Pfc. Bradley Manning had asked the judge to dismiss all charges against the former intelligence analyst because he's been detained for two years and nine months. Defense attorney David Coombs argued that prosecutors dragged their feet and that a commander rubber-stamped their requests for delay after delay.
Prosecutors said the delays were reasonable, given the complexity of the case and the volume of classified material involved. The military judge, Col. Denise Lind, agreed Tuesday with prosecutors, with a few minor exceptions. She denied the defense motion, letting the charges against Manning stand.
Manning faces 22 charges, including aiding the enemy, which carries a maximum life sentence. His court-martial is scheduled to start June 3 at Fort Meade, an Army base between Baltimore and Washington.
The 25-year-old Oklahoma native is accused of sending hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports, State Department diplomatic cables, other classified records and two battlefield video clips to WikiLeaks in 2009 and 2010 while working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad.
The Obama administration has said releasing the information threatened valuable military and diplomatic sources and strained America's relations with other governments. Experts say that by seeking to punish Manning, the administration is sending a strong message that such leaks will not be tolerated.
Manning supporters ? who held events Saturday to mark his 1,000 days in confinement ? consider him a whistleblowing hero whose actions exposed war crimes and helped trigger the Middle Eastern pro-democracy uprisings known as the Arab Spring in late 2010.
Manning has offered to plead guilty to reduced charges for 10 of the 22 counts he faces. Lind was scheduled to consider on Thursday whether to accept that plea after questioning Manning under oath about his actions. If she were to accept the plea, Manning would face 20 years in prison on those charges.
However, Manning has not reached a plea deal with prosecutors. Even if the plea were to be accepted, prosecutors could still pursue convictions on the other charges, including aiding the enemy and several counts of theft of government property.
Also on Tuesday, it was revealed that Manning has submitted a written statement about the leak and the motive behind it that he wants to read in court during Thursday's hearing on his guilty plea. Lind has not decided whether to allow Manning to read the statement into the record. Prosecutors objected to the statement.
Attorneys for Manning and the government also argued Tuesday about whether evidence that Osama bin Laden had viewed some of the material leaked by Manning and published by WikiLeaks was relevant. Prosecutors plan to call a witness who was part of the Navy SEAL raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan, to establish that the al-Qaida leader possessed some of the material. The court would move to a secure location to hear that witness' testimony, and the person's name would not be made public.
The defense argues that such evidence is not necessary to prove the charge of aiding the enemy. What's relevant, Coombs said, is whether Manning knew at the time he handed over the material that the enemy would receive it.
Manning has won few significant victories in his lengthy pretrial proceedings, which included testimony from the soldier about how he was deprived of his clothing and told to stand at attention naked while on suicide watch at the maximum-security Marine Corps brig at Quantico, Va. He has since been transferred to medium-security confinement at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Lind ruled that Manning was illegally punished for part of the time he spent at Quantico and that 112 days should be cut from any prison sentence he receives if convicted.
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Politicians unveiled a new statue of Rosa Parks in Washington D.C. on Wednesday. Parks, the woman who's refusal to give up her bus seat spurred a year-long bus boycott in 1955, is the first black woman to be honored with a full-sized statue in Statuary Hall.?
U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R) applaud as they look at the statue of Rosa Parks after its unveiling in the U.S. Capitol in Washington February 27, 2013.
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EnlargeThe nation's most powerful politicians honored?Rosa?Parks?on Wednesday by unveiling her statue in a permanent place in the U.S. Capitol. President Barack Obama praised?Parks?as an enduring reminder of what true leadership requires, "no matter how humble or lofty our positions."
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Parks?became the first black woman to be depicted in a full-length statue in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. A bust of another black woman, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, sits in the Capitol Visitors Center.
"We do well by placing a statue of her here," Obama said. "But we can do no greater honor to her memory than to carry forward the power of her principle and a courage born of conviction."
The unveiling brought Obama, House Speaker John Boehner and other congressional leaders together in the midst of a fierce standoff over automatic spending cuts set to go into effect on Friday.
Setting that conflict aside, Obama and Boehner stood on either side of a blue drape, tugging and pulling in opposite directions on a braided cord until the cover fell to reveal a 2,700-pound bronze statue of a seated Parks, her hair in a bun under a hat, her hands crossed over her lap and clasping her purse. Obama gazed up at it, and touched its arm.
At the same time across the street, conservative Supreme Court justices voiced skepticism about the relevance of the Voting Rights Act, one of the major legislative victories of the movement to which?Parks devoted her life.
Parks' civil rights movement colleague Jesse Jackson, whose son former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. sponsored the bill to place?Parks' statue in the Capitol, said?Parks?"fought her way into history," and on three occasions, took literacy tests required of blacks who wanted to vote. She passed all three, Jackson said.
Parks' statue is positioned between those of suffragist Frances E. Willard and John Gorrie, considered the father of refrigeration and air conditioning. Boehner, R-Ohio, pointed out that?Parks' gaze seems to fall directly onto a statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy.
"Here in the hall, she casts an unlikely silhouette ? unassuming in a lineup of proud stares, challenging all of us once more to look up and to draw strength from stillness," Boehner said.
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Django Unchained is Tarantino's most complete movie yet. It is also his most vital. His storytelling talents match the heft of the tale.
Django Unchained has mislaid its melancholy, and its bitter wit, and become a raucous romp. It is a tribute to the spaghetti Western, cooked al dente, then cooked a while more, and finally sauced to death.
Genre-movie-mad writer-director Quentin Tarantino's foray into Western World is a pretty grave disappointment.
Wildly extravagant, ferociously violent, ludicrously lurid and outrageously entertaining, yet also, remarkably, very much about the pernicious lunacy of racism and, yes, slavery's singular horrors.
The players are in fine form. But the movie he's embroiled them all in is a hit-and-miss affair, at times an amusing reimagining of history, more often a blood-spattered bore.
Quentin Tarantino no longer makes movies; he makes trailers.
Tarantino is, in essence, a classicist who invests the bulk of his drama and tension in lengthy dialogue exchanges that are infinitely more compelling that his elongated sequences of cathartic violence.
Still wonderfully witty and violent sequences that only Tarantino could manage or dare.
This bloody, hilarious, shocking, and righteously angry film is the kind of great art and great trash [Tarantino] aspires to make.
...compulsively watchable for the majority of its (admittedly overlong) running time...
I had a good enough time to wish that it had been better.
Part-blaxploitation film, part-spaghetti Western and all-Tarantino, 'Django Unchained' comes charging at its audiences with guns a-blazin'. It's not quite up to par with 'Reservoir Dogs' or 'Pulp Fiction,' but it's still Tarantino - enough said.
Overlong, overblown and overly self-indulgent. But excess is what Tarantino does. And just as he won't put one word in his characters' mouths when he can have them utter 10; he won't dispatch a bad guy with one bullet when he can discharge a dozen.
It would seem that this film's irreverence isn't a case of didn't-try-can't-fail dismissiveness, but rather something more innocuous: it's simply the world interpreted through Tarantino's boisterous perspective.
The funniest western since Blazing Saddles, the bloodiest since The Wild Bunch and the most visually stylish since The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.
Guilty of almost every indulgence [Tarantino] has ever been accused of...but it's hard to hold it against him, when the results are this bloody good
Ultimately enjoyable, if a little underwhelming, if nothing else we can be grateful to Django Unchained for allowing the phrase "that's the worst thing since Quentin Tarantino's Australian accent".
Impolitic though it might be to suggest it, there's something extremely satisfying about the violence here-though, for my money, it resides less in seeing these racist thugs get their comeuppance, than in the director's staging of it.
it's fitting that one of the greatest American filmmakers of all time is using the western and blaxploitation genres to connect the enduring blemish on the American psyche - only to set loose a bad motherf*cker to set it right.
Thrilling, stylish, funny, brutal, superbly-acted, sharply written and wonderfully offensive.
Django Unchained is a joy. It's fun and foolish, unhinged and unapologetic.
Possibly Tarantino's most thoughtful and even political film to date.
Tarantino is starting to look more and more like an angry teenager in his bedroom going, "Wouldn't it be good if..."
Whereas there was savage beauty and irony in the '60-'70s violence of Penn, Peckinpah, and Leone, the coda of 'Django Unchained' is mere benumbing splatter.
It's a big, crazy, hugely entertaining, multilayered piece of filmmaking - a fierce but fiercely intelligent testament to Tarantino's frequently questioned filmmaking proclivities and certainly among the best films he's made.
Trazendo alguns dos melhores momentos da filmografia de Tarantino, ainda culmina em um cl?max longo e violento que certamente levar? os f?s do diretor a orgasmos de sangue.
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NVIDIA is back on their blog today about their new Tegra 4 chips, this time with information about games primed for Tegra powered devices. Games are a great way to show off the computing power of a new chip as NVIDIA demonstrates in a couple videos from Zombie Driver and RU Golf. With more computing power, graphics can display better textures and more polygons, making for smoother results. The new Tegra 4 chip will also let game developers take advantage of features like dynamic lighting to create accurate shadows.
Along with the enhancements, NVIDIA also released some information about five games that will be released soon specifically targeted at Tegra-powered devices, including:
You can check out the comparisons between the current capabilities of Tegra devices compared to the new Tegra 4 chips in the videos below. Be sure to check back for more MWC 2013 coverage.
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APRecently, we explained that NFL teams are curious as to whether Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te?o is gay.? Somehow, this reality was misinterpreted by some as being an official PFT position that this is a legitimate question, for Te?o or anyone else.
It isn?t.
But the NFL is a unique industry, both in good ways and in bad.? When it comes to outdated, intolerant views regarding the sexuality of its players, the NFL?s difference is that it doesn?t embrace diversity.
Case in point:? Colorado tight end Nick Kasa was asked a stream of questions that touched on sexual preference at the Scouting Combine.
?They ask you like, ?Do you have a girlfriend??? Are you married??? Do you like girls??? Kasa told ESPN Radio Denver on Tuesday.? ?Those kinds of things, and you know it was just kind of weird.? But they would ask you with a straight face, and it?s a pretty weird experience altogether.?
It?s more than weird.? It?s troubling.? While on one hand teams try to throw players off the prepared answers that make them seem as complex as a cardboard cutout, on the other hand that effort should be undertaken without touching on inappropriate subject matter.
The league should be troubled, too.? And the league should contact Kasa immediately, with a very specific follow-up question:? ?Which team(s) asked you that??
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Feb. 26, 2013 ? Northwestern University's Yonggang Huang and the University of Illinois' John A. Rogers are the first to demonstrate a stretchable lithium-ion battery -- a flexible device capable of powering their innovative stretchable electronics.
No longer needing to be connected by a cord to an electrical outlet, the stretchable electronic devices now could be used anywhere, including inside the human body. The implantable electronics could monitor anything from brain waves to heart activity, succeeding where flat, rigid batteries would fail.
Huang and Rogers have demonstrated a battery that continues to work -- powering a commercial light-emitting diode (LED) -- even when stretched, folded, twisted and mounted on a human elbow. The battery can work for eight to nine hours before it needs recharging, which can be done wirelessly.
The new battery enables true integration of electronics and power into a small, stretchable package. Details will be published Feb. 26 by the online journal Nature Communications.
"We start with a lot of battery components side by side in a very small space, and we connect them with tightly packed, long wavy lines," said Huang, a corresponding author of the paper. "These wires provide the flexibility. When we stretch the battery, the wavy interconnecting lines unfurl, much like yarn unspooling. And we can stretch the device a great deal and still have a working battery."
Huang led the portion of the research focused on theory, design and modeling. He is the Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.
The power and voltage of the stretchable battery are similar to a conventional lithium-ion battery of the same size, but the flexible battery can stretch up to 300 percent of its original size and still function.
Rogers, also a corresponding author of the paper, led the group that worked on the experimental and fabrication work of the stretchable battery. He is the Swanlund Chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Huang and Rogers have been working together for the last six years on stretchable electronics, and designing a cordless power supply has been a major challenge. Now they have solved the problem with their clever "space filling technique," which delivers a small, high-powered battery.
For their stretchable electronic circuits, the two developed "pop-up" technology that allows circuits to bend, stretch and twist. They created an array of tiny circuit elements connected by metal wire "pop-up bridges." When the array is stretched, the wires -- not the rigid circuits -- pop up.
This approach works for circuits but not for a stretchable battery. A lot of space is needed in between components for the "pop-up" interconnect to work. Circuits can be spaced out enough in an array, but battery components must be packed tightly to produce a powerful but small battery. There is not enough space between battery components for the "pop-up" technology to work.
Huang's design solution is to use metal wire interconnects that are long, wavy lines, filling the small space between battery components. (The power travels through the interconnects.)
The unique mechanism is a "spring within a spring": The line connecting the components is a large "S" shape and within that "S" are many smaller "S's." When the battery is stretched, the large "S" first stretches out and disappears, leaving a line of small squiggles. The stretching continues, with the small squiggles disappearing as the interconnect between electrodes becomes taut.
"We call this ordered unraveling," Huang said. "And this is how we can produce a battery that stretches up to 300 percent of its original size."
The stretching process is reversible, and the battery can be recharged wirelessly. The battery's design allows for the integration of stretchable, inductive coils to enable charging through an external source but without the need for a physical connection.
Huang, Rogers and their teams found the battery capable of 20 cycles of recharging with little loss in capacity. The system they report in the paper consists of a square array of 100 electrode disks, electrically connected in parallel.
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Fidel Castro's surprise appearance added to expectations, fueled by his brother, that the usually routine session might shed light on future leadership of the communist-run nation.
Cuba's leader Fidel Castro and his brother Cuba's President Raul Castro attend the opening session of the National Assemby in Havana, Cuba, Feb. 24. Cuba's parliament reconvened Sunday with new membership and was expected to name Raul Castro to a new five-year-term as president. Raul Castro fueled speculation on Friday when he talked of his possible retirement and suggested he has plans to resign at some point.
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EnlargeRetired Cuban leader?Fidel?Castro?made a rare public appearance Sunday by joining the opening session of the National Assembly, state media reported amid speculation the gathering could give clues on planning for a future leadership succession.
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Since falling ill in 2006 and ceding the presidency to his brother,?Fidel?Castro?has given up all official positions except as a deputy in the National Assembly. At Sunday's session, he took his seat beside brother President?Raul?Castro, only the second time he has graced the assembly chambers since his illness and the first since 2010.
Fidel?Castro's surprise appearance added to expectations, fueled by his brother, that the usually routine session might shed light on future leadership of the communist-run nation.
In a back and forth with reporters on Friday,?Raul?Castro?joked about his eventual retirement and urged them to pay attention to Sunday's conclave, which is closed to foreign journalists.
"I'm going to turn 82; I have a right to retire already," he said. "You don't believe me? Why are you so incredulous?" he said.
The 612 deputies, who were elected in an uncontested vote Feb. 3, are expected to name a new 31-member?Council of State?with?Raul?Castro?as president, despite his quip.
The National Assembly meets for just a few weeks each year and delegates its legislative powers between sessions to the?Council of State, which also functions as the nation's executive through theCouncil of Ministers?it appoints.
Governments,?Cuba?watchers and Cubans will be watching to see if there are any new, and younger, faces among the Council of State members, in particular its first vice president and five vice presidents, with an average age over 70.
The new government is almost certain to be the last headed up by the?Castro?brothers and the generation that has ruled?Cuba?since they swept down from the mountains in the 1959 revolution that led to a long-running feud with Washington.
Raul?Castro, 81, would begin his second term on Sunday, theoretically leaving him free to retire in 2018, aged 86.
Eighty percent of the parliament's 612 members, with an average age under 50, were born after the Revolution.
EFFORT TO PROMOTE YOUNGER GENERATION
Raul?Castro, who officially replaced his ailing brother as president in 2008, has repeatedly called for senior leaders to hold office for no more than two, five-year terms.
"Although we kept on trying to promote young people to senior positions, life proved that we did not always make the best choice,"?Castro?said at a Party?Congress?in 2011.
"Today, we are faced with the consequences of not having a reserve of well-trained replacements....It's really embarrassing that we have not solved this problem in more than half a century," he said.
The 2011 party summit adopted a more than 300-point plan to "update"?Cuba's Soviet-style economic system, designed to transform it from one based on collective production and consumption to one where individual effort and reward play a far more important role.
Across-the-board subsidies are being replaced by the country's first comprehensive tax code and targeted welfare.
Fidel?Castro, these days referred to as the "historic leader of the revolution," is no longer seen as wielding real power, but he has maintained a public presence through his writings, meetings with important visitors and rare appearances.
Esteban Lazo, member of the political bureau of the Community Party and vice president of the?Council of State, 68, was named parliament president Sunday to replace a retiring Ricardo Alarcon, who served for 20 years.
(Reporting By Marc Frank; Editing by David Adams and Cynthia Osterman)
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ? The party of Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Tuesday that violence against its supporters is increasing as political tensions rise before upcoming elections.
The Movement for Democratic Change party said an arson attack on the home of an election candidate in eastern Zimbabwe killed the politician's 12-year-old son. The attack was one of 120 incidents of violence recorded so far this year, said the third ranked MDC official, Finance Minister Tendai Biti.
The candidate's house has suffered nine attacks surrounding previous elections and the last violent and disputed elections in 2008. The child's burial is to be on Thursday.
Biti said his party was "enraged at the increase in politically motived violence throughout the country" that he blamed on a faction of President Robert Mugabe's party.
Biti accused Mugabe's ZANU PF party of attempting to once again instill fear in the electorate.
"ZANU PF intends to harvest fear in the 2013 elections," he said.
He also alleged that Mugabe's security services have crafted a strategy of intimidation, arrests and possible assassination attempts against leaders of the former opposition in a shaky coalition government with Mugabe.
Voters go to the polls March 16 in a referendum on a new constitution, followed by parliamentary and presidential elections slated around July to end the coalition brokered by regional mediators after the troubled 2008 vote.
No arrests have been made in the death of the 12-year-old. Party officials said it took seven hours for police to reach the scene of the fire in the Headlands district, 140 kilometers (90 miles) east of Harare, on Saturday.
Mugabe's party, blamed along with loyalist police and military for much of the political violence surrounding elections over the last decade, has denied the involvement of its supporters in the fire at Headlands, a stronghold of a staunch veteran Mugabe ally, Didymus Mutasa.
The United States embassy in Harare immediately called for urgent and impartial investigations into the alleged arson attack.
"Respect for the law and apolitical policing are essential for creating conditions for credible and non-violent Zimbabwe elections this year," it said in a statement.
Both Mugabe and Tsvangirai have repeatedly called for violence-free elections.
Human rights monitors of an independent group, Heal Zimbabwe Trust, said authorities on Tuesday attempted to stop mourners and sympathizers gathering at the scene of the fire.
Tsvangirai party activist and aspiring lawmaker Shepherd Maisiri, the father of the dead child, said communities were fast losing confidence in the calls for peace by political leaders, according to the trust's information bulletin on Tuesday.
The trust quoted Maisiri telling its monitors: " I am told I must trust Robert Mugabe that elections are going to be peaceful. Well, this is proving false. My son is dead before we even get to the referendum. What more will happen as we approach highly contested elections?"
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network also reported Tuesday its observers noted the re-emergence of feared pro-Mugabe youth militia groups in several parts of the country.
It reported "instability and political tension" across the nation.
"Observers continue to report the presence of intolerance and a generalized lack of freedom of association and expression," the group said.
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Although internet is being used as a marketing medium since its inception, yet there has been continuous advancement in the strategies being applied for the same. Businesses of all types continue to seek new ways to utilize this medium to grab the attention of their potential customers. Search engine and social media marketing are something that almost every business uses if it has an online identity. Another term that needs to be introduced here is local search marketing. Though it is not a new term, yet it is less recognized as compared to SEM and SMM.
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As a small scale business, you would need to have better online visibility to drive more traffic towards your web portal. More visibility would mean more exposure to potential customers. It is just like Yellow Pages and other such media which were used by people to find out services and solutions in their area. In today?s time, this task has been taken up by Google. Using local search marketing, consumers looking for local vendors would be able to get a better idea of the exact location of the business. By using techniques such as meta tagging, the business website can be made to appear in top positions in search results when a related search is performed. The social media can also be used just like it is used in search engine optimization.
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A two-week-old Chimpanzee in West Java. Photo by Supri/Reuters
The first chimpanzee I ever met was a young male, Frodo, who was making his way up the chimp social ladder. It was 1987, and I had traveled to Tanzania to meet Jane Goodall at her study site while researching my first book, Ancestral Passions. Frodo?s tactic for gaining status, as is the case with all young, ambitious chimpanzee males, was to beat up those who were weaker than him?primarily females. He and a buddy came scuttling down the trail that I was hiking with David Gilagiza, one of Goodall?s research assistants. As they raced past us, Frodo slapped me, hard, on my legs. I tell the full story in my new book, Animal Wise, but suffice it to say I was surprised?even more so when Gilagiza explained that Frodo?s behavior was part of his strategy to become the top chimpanzee. Frodo had already beaten up most of the female chimpanzees, Gilagiza said, and had recently started clobbering the female researchers; he?d even slapped Goodall.
I hoped, of course, never to see Frodo again. But I couldn?t stop puzzling over his behavior. Goodall and Frans de Waal had written about chimpanzees? political machinations, observations which ran counter to the idea that animals were simple stimulus-response machines, as most animal behaviorists then believed. But I?d never expected to actually encounter a thinking chimpanzee?let alone one who decided to use me as a prop in his political schemes. Later, I watched a young female chimpanzee, with Goodall?s assistance, deceive one of her elders. At the feeding station, where researchers occasionally dispense bananas to the chimps, Goodall had given an armful of the treats to Beethoven, a senior male who was caring for an orphan named Dilly. His generosity did not extend to sharing bananas, and despite Dilly?s soft food whimpers, Beethoven ate them all. Soon he fell asleep, snoring as Dilly groomed him. That?s when Goodall, who was still at the feeding station window, held up a single banana. It was as if a signal passed between her and Dilly. Dilly did not utter a food cry, as chimpanzees normally do, but simply watched as Goodall placed the banana outside on the ground. Then Dilly quietly made her way to the fruit, downed it in three bites, and just as quietly returned to the snoring Beethoven. I thought that Goodall would certainly write a paper about Dilly?s behavior and was incredulous when she told me that she could not. The ability to plan and deceive was something that humans did. Goodall could only write about the young chimp?s actions if she used indirect expressions: ?The young chimpanzee behaved as if she were deceiving him,? or ?If she were human, we would say that she was deceiving him.? This was how she circumvented the problem of discussing the chimpanzees? emotions, motivations, personalities, etc.
?About a year later, my husband and I got our first dog, a mixed collie we named Quincie. She loved to carry in her mouth things that she found. On our daily hikes, she always chose a pinecone at the beginning of the trail and marched along with it. One day when she was about six months old, she dropped her pinecone over the edge of a steep trail, and watched intently as it rolled down the hill. As it picked up speed, the expression on her face changed from lovey-Quincie to wolfy-Quincie. She raced after that cone as if chasing a rabbit. I remember being surprised and saying to my husband, ?She has an imagination!? And then puzzling over why I was surprised about that. After all, like every dog I?ve known, she also played games with us in which she pretended to be a mean dog, barking loudly while simultaneously wagging her tail.
In spite of being a science writer with access to many top-flight researchers, I never felt comfortable bringing up my story about Quincie?s imagination. I thought experts would scoff or laugh at me for being soft and sentimental or quickly change the subject. I perceived a bias at the time that animals did not have minds and weren?t capable of thinking or feeling emotions, especially positive ones such as love.
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But that bias was beginning to change. More researchers were adopting an evolutionary approach to understanding human and animal cognition. In Ancestral Passions, which is a biography about the Leakey family, I discussed the physical evolution of humans. But what about our mental and emotional evolution? You can get some clues to this from changes in the stone tool record and early art. The best evidence, though, comes from studying the cognitive abilities of other animals, as Charles Darwin first suggested. In The Descent of Man, Darwin argued that animals and humans differ in their mental abilities only in degree, not kind. He was certain that animals would share some of our talents for reason, memory, and language, and would even possess an aesthetic sense. Because all of these talents are tied to our biology, Darwin said that they had not appeared out of nowhere; that they are just as much the products of evolution by natural selection as are our bipedal stance and large brain. By studying other species, as comparative psychologists and ethologists do, we may in time be able to trace the biological roots and evolutionary history of our abilities to think, use language, and feel emotions.
In the years since my visit with Goodall, the field of animal cognition research has shifted and now embraces the Darwinian approach. Scientists no longer ask, ?Do animals think?? Instead, they want to know, ?How do animals think?? In Animal Wise, I introduce readers to some of the scientists who are asking this once-forbidden question of a wide range of creatures, from ants to birds and rats, and from elephants to dolphins, dogs, and wolves. Through experiments and close observations, researchers have discovered that at least one species of ant engages in a form of teaching; parrots likely give names to their chicks (a finding which opens the door to the possibility that they are having some form of conversations); moths remember that they were caterpillars; whales and cows have regional accents; rats dream and laugh; cheetahs may die from being heartbroken; and cats can get their owners to jump to their feet and feed them by crying like a human infant. And, yes, I have shared my story about Quincie?s imagination with several of these researchers. They didn?t scoff or laugh, or change the subject. The bigger puzzle, one told me, was figuring out how to devise an experiment that would show that a dog can invent a game.
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A bill to create an athletic commission in South Dakota is going nowhere fast, largely thanks to the ignorance of Gov. Dennis Daugaard and state house Rep. Steve Hickey.
Their primary objective is to ban sanctioned mixed martial arts in the state. In a blog post, Hickey writes that, "MMA Cage Fighting is the child porn of sports."
The lack of knowledge and the lack of research both Daugaard and Hickey showed about MMA has to be frightening for persons who live in South Dakota. If they can't be bothered to do the minimal research required to learn that MMA is far safer than other "mainstream" sports, including football, it's scary to think about the laws they'll pass in the state regarding education, health care and budgets.
The UFC is the largest MMA promoter in the world. No fighter has ever suffered traumatic brain injury, let alone died, in the UFC's 20-year history. A 2006 study done by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and which appeared in the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine found MMA has far less traumatic brain injury than other sports.
Mixed Martial Arts competitions have changed dramatically since the first Ultimate Fighting Championship in 1993. The overall injury rate in MMA competitions is now similar to other combat sports, including boxing. Knockout rates are lower in MMA competitions than in boxing. This suggests a reduced risk of TBI [traumatic brain injury] in MMA competitions when compared to other events involving striking.
MMA events must continue to be properly supervised by trained referees and ringside physicians, and the rules implemented by state sanctioning?including weight classes, limited rounds per match, proper safety gear, and banning of the most devastating attacks? must be strictly enforced. Further research is necessary to continue to improve safety in this developing new sport.
A 2008 study released by the British Journal of Sports Medicine reached the same conclusions. After a five-year study, its authors wrote:
Injury rates in regulated professional MMA competition are similar to other combat sports; the overall risk of critical sports-related injury appears low. Additional study is warranted to achieve a better understanding of injury trends and ways to further lower injury risk in MMA.
The simple fact is that a random NFL player is at far greater risk of a serious brain injury than is a random MMA fighter. Sadly, neither Gov. Daugaard nor Rep. Hickey bothered to do much investigation or educate themselves before speaking out.
South Dakota state house Rep. Mark Johnston introduced a bill to create an athletic commission in the state for the express purpose of making the sport safer. According to the Argus Leader, Johnston said his goal is to prevent unregulated events where tragedies could possibly occur.
A state athletic commission's job is, at the core, to protect the fighters. It makes sure the proposed matches are fair and that promoters have doctors and an ambulance at all events. The commissions also require qualified referees, who stop fights when one fighter is in danger. It also requires fighters to undergo extensive medical examinations before fighting to make certain they are fit to compete. States such as Nevada, California and New York, with strong commissions, have discovered injuries fighters didn't know they had and prevented them from competing. That wouldn't be the case in South Dakota, with no commission to require those tests.
A fear of many states with strong commissions is that promoters will travel across state lines to put on shows in states such as South Dakota, where there is no regulation and where, as a result, costs are less. But the result is that it is far less safe for the competitors.
Sadly, neither Daugaard nor Hickey recognize that. Hickey told the Argus Leader he was angered by the thought of his state sanctioning MMA.
I'm offended that the state would legitimize cage-fighting and the bloody violence that those kinds of spectacles create. I think it's interesting that we declare that it is a crime for one human being to strike another, and yet the state now proceeds to legitimize, and label a sport, cage-fighting.
With all due respect, Gov. Daugaard, a few points:
? It is a crime for one human to strike another outside of the bounds of athletic competition. But it is no crime to strike another in the context of sport and when doctors and referees are available to protect the athletes and where the athletes have signed a contract to compete against each other.
? MMA fights sometimes get bloody. But no fighter to my knowledge has ever suffered anything worse than scarring as a result of being cut. It is important to note that a lot of the cuts are on the forehead above the eyes, where they mix with sweat and make them seem far worse than they are.
? States that have athletic commissions ban fighters who have sustained head injuries from competing again for several months. And before even being allowed to practice in a gym, the fighter needs to be cleared by a doctor.
? MMA is a combination of sports, many of which are already legal in South Dakota, including boxing, wrestling, karate, jiu-jitsu and judo.
Cape Fear Studios has put out a call for art by military personnel for an upcoming exhibit.
The studio is planning to open an exhibit featuring the artwork May 24 "to show the creative expression of our military men and women who serve our country," according to a flier posted to fortbraggmwr.com.
The call is specifically for artwork by service members who have deployed, as the exhibit will reflect deployment experiences.
Submissions are due by email by April 15. Submissions must include a photograph of the artwork, a brief explanation of the art and a short artist bio.
Submissions or questions about the call for art should be sent to Ellen Olson Brooks at brooksel@mindspring.com.
Bowling tournament
Fort Bragg Morale, Welfare and Recreation will hold its annual Bragg/Pope Association bowling tournament next month.
The tournament is scheduled for March 23 and 24 at Airborne Lanes.
Participants must be association members. Entry forms can be picked up at any of the Army post's three bowling centers: Airborne Lanes, Dragon Lanes and Runway Lanes.
The deadline to register is March 7.
For more information about the contest, call Airborne Lanes at 432-6899.
Auto skills frenzy
The Pope Auto Skills Center will hold a 12-hour "frenzy" June 15 starting at 9 a.m.
The program, which is open to Department of Defense ID cardholders, gives participants a chance to use the center's equipment to finish big auto projects.
The center has eight lifts as well as various tools available for use.
Experts will be on hand to give advice and answer questions.
The program will feature free food and door prizes from noon to 6 p.m. for participants who have signed up.
To find out more about the frenzy, call the center at 394-2293.
Source: http://fayobserver.com/articles/2013/02/23/1238361
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A CPP lawmaker said on Thursday that the government has signed 13 payment guarantees to companies constructing coal-fired power plants and hydropower dams in the country, a move that an Asian Development Bank (ADB) official reiterated was risky for the country?s fiscal future.
CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap said the most recent payment guarantee approved by the National Assembly last Friday on the $781 million Lower Sesan 2 dam project in Stung Treng province is typical when any major company makes an investment in an energy project.
Other guarantees extended by the government include a 700-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Preah Sihanouk province, the Kamchay dam in Kampot, the Stung Atai in Pursat and the Stung Tatai in Koh Kong, Mr. Yeap said.
?It is the government?s obligation to do a guaranteed payment for investment companies whenever Electricite du Cambodge [EdC] [might] miss a payment or don?t pay the bill,? Mr. Yeap said.
?Each project has been evaluated clearly about its ability to generate the power, so the energy produced will not be over the demand in our country,? he said.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report last year that singled out the government?s energy generation expansion as an area where fiscal liabilities are not being fully considered in light of the government?s rapid push for power and their ?conservative forecasting scenarios? when providing ?take-or-pay guarantees? to underwrite power projects.
Peter Brimble, deputy country director of the ADB, echoed the IMF?s concerns that the government does not have the ability to properly assess the fu?ture risks of such large-scale projects.
?The government ought to be more involved in developing the project,? Mr. Brimble said. ?The Sesan [dam] and the other [energy projects] that have been carried out already?generally they have not followed a model of transpar?ency, they generally have been unsolicited bids, which means that a company is coming in to make a proposal, not with the government?opening it up to competitive bidding,? Mr. Brimble said.
However, he acknowledged that the government is under pressure in such areas.
?The need for power here is so great. It is the biggest single constraint here?. So I think there is significant pressure.?
According to the details of the payment guarantee and the implementation agreement be?tween the government and the two companies be?hind the Lower Sesan 2 dam?Kith Meng?s Royal Group and Chi?na?s Hydrolancang Inter?national Energy Co. Ltd.?the government will ?un?conditionally guarantee and promise without denial? the amount of mon?ey owed by EdC if the state-owned electricity body is unable to pay for the electricity that the dam gen?erates during the 45 years that the companies will operate the facility.
?All the electricity generated from the dam will be sold to Electricite du Cambodge,? the agreement states.
The Sesan dam is expected to pro?duce an average of 1.91 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year, which will be sold to the EdC at 6.95 cents per kilowatt hour, the agreement said. Any excess energy produced will be sold at a 60 percent reduction to EdC.
Oliver Hensengerth, a lecturer at Northumbria University in the U.K. and an expert in Chinese hydro?power investments in Southeast Asia, said that Cambodia?s blanket guarantees to private firms building dams could be a danger to the country?s debt sustainability.
?There seems to be a sense of ca?ter?ing to the needs of companies first, then paying attention to the po?tential implications of the investment,? Mr. Hensengerth said.
? 2013, The Cambodia Daily. All rights reserved. No part of this article may be reproduced in print, electronically, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without written permission.
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By Donna Rapado, NBCMiami.com
A man who took his dog out for a walk around the block Saturday night returned home moments later to a raging inferno with flames of up to 30 feet bursting through his roof.
The fire was so bad, it destroyed the home. "There's no positive to this,? said homeowner Dave Rudra, who watched his home of 10 years go up in flames. ?I don't know what's going on."
Police and fire arson investigators spent the day Sunday sifting through the house, looking for evidence to help them identify what caused the fire. Chief Jorge Mara, with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, said the fire had been so large, firefighters needed to make sure it didn?t spread to other homes.?
?There was such heavy flames involved, they felt it was too dangerous for guys to go in and make an initial interior attack so they decided to go to a defensive mode and protect the houses on either side," Mara said.
Sunday afternoon, Rudra returned to the home and spoke to investigators. He wanted to see whether he can salvage anything inside the home, including pictures of his three children.
"The only thing that I really care about is my children's pictures and the videotapes,? he said. ?Everything else can be replaced, and that's all I want."
He said the fire left him with nothing but the pants he wore. "They've already torn it down with tractors and everything,? he said. ?So even if there was anything left, it's all debris now.?
As Sunday's daylight disappeared and with damage and debris still left to sift through, fire investigators said they planned to return to the destroyed property Monday.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? Mozilla, the non-profit foundation behind the popular Firefox Web browser, is getting into phones. But it's not stopping at Web browsers ? it's launching an entire phone operating system.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based foundation said Sunday that phones running Firefox OS will appear this summer, starting in Brazil, Colombia, Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Venezuela.
The Firefox OS will land in a crowded environment, where many small operating systems are trying to become the "third eco-system," alongside Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Together, those two account for 91 percent of smartphone sales, according to research firm IDC.
Mozilla Foundation has an ally in phone companies, who are interested in seeing an alternative to Apple and Google, particularly one coming from a non-profit foundation. Thirteen phone companies around the world have committed to supporting Firefox phones, Mozilla said, including Sprint Nextel in the U.S., though it gave no time frame for a release. Other supporters include Telecom Italia, America Movil of Mexico and Deutsche Telekom of Germany. DT is the parent of T-Mobile USA, but plans to sell Firefox phones first in Poland.
Phone makers that plan to make Firefox phones include Huawei and ZTE of China and LG of Korea. The first devices will be inexpensive touchscreen smartphones.
All the phones will run on chips supplied by San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc., whose CEO Paul Jacobs appeared at Mozilla's press event Sunday in Barcelona, Spain, on the eve of the world's largest cellphone trade show.
The industry has seen various attempts to launch "open" smartphone operating systems, with little success. Jay Sullivan, vice president of products at Mozilla, said these failed because they were designed "by committee," with too many constituents to please. While developing and supporting the Firefox browser, Mozilla has learned to develop large-scale "open" projects effectively, he said.
He also said that putting quality third-party applications on Firefox phones will be easy, because they're based on HTML 5, an emerging standard for Web applications.
"Firefox OS has achieved something that no device software platform has previously managed - translating an industry talking shop into a huge commitment from both carriers and hardware vendors at its commercial launch," said Tony Cripps an analyst at research firm Ovum. "Neither Android nor Symbian ? the closest benchmarks in terms of broad industry sponsorship that we've previously seen ? have rallied the level of support that Firefox OS has achieved so early in its development."
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Last week, Acer got out in front of the Mobile World Congress madness by reintroducing its Liquid E1 smartphone and announcing the new Liquid Z2. Well, we're on the ground here in Barcelona and we just got to see them both in person. A quick recap for those who missed Acer's first Androids of 2013: the mid-range E1 runs Jelly Bean on a 4.5-inch 960 x 540 IPS display, has a dual-core 1GHz processor, a 5-megapixel camera and a 1,760mAh battery. The entry-level Z2 also runs Android 4.1, but has a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 screen, single-core 1GHz CPU, a 3-megapixel shooter and a 1,300 mAh cell. Both phones come in either black or white and can be had in single- or dual-SIM configurations. Peruse our galleries of photos below, won't you? Then join us after the break for a video and our full impressions.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Acer
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/24/acer-liquid-e1-and-z2-hands-on/
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Thurrott argues that making that happen should be possible if the Windows NT really is shared between the two OSes. He goes on to say that the reason for Windows Phone's limited success, especially in light of Windows 8's launch and mostly positive response, is the fact that the mobile OS is only "sort-of-Windows". Continuing to stress the issue, he says that the mobile OS would be more compelling if it shared apps with Windows 8:
The company could have?should have?done this for Windows Phone 8. Phone apps could have simply been portrait-oriented Metro apps, and this platform should have supported 1366 x 768, the ?standard? Windows 8 resolution. App writers could have created apps that ran on phones, tablets, and PCs, using a single executable (where, when run on Phone, the apps would just run in portrait mode). A Windows Phone handset would just be a really small PC. With a phone app.
Ubuntu Mobile can run phone and tablet apps side-by-side
In recent weeks, the discussion around mobile-and-tablet synergy has been an intriguing one. For instance, Ubuntu Mobile recently announced a tablet version of their software which can display phone apps alongside tablet apps, which looks similar to Windows 8's 'Snap View'. ?With rumors of the?Windows Blue?updates doing something?to bring the two operating systems closer, it appears Microsoft has some idea in mind to tackle the issues that exist today.
Check out Paul Thurrott's full editorial at Windows IT Pro?for more of his thoughts.
Source: Windows IT Pro
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