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Saturday, 30 June 2012

U.S. college students hijack drone

Undated file photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy shows a RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle conducting tests over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. REUTERS/U.S. Navy/Erik Hildebrandt/Northrop Grumman/Handout

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OTTAWA -- College students in Texas stunned officials when they hijacked a domestic drone with under $1,000 of gear that could be bought at Radio Shack.

With Department of Homeland Security officials watching, the small group of techies from the University of Texas at Austin's Radionavigation Laboratory showed the security experts how to mimic a dummy GPS controller, aim it at the drone and start controlling it. It worked within minutes, and the students had control of the unmanned aircraft.

For a nation that has an exponentially increasing number of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles cruising its skies, the demonstration was sobering.

For privacy watchdogs, the fact that a domestic drone could so easily become a remote controlled missile is only one of myriad concerns over the use of the flying robots.

"This is a concern because they can be taken over, hacked into, what could happen if the controls were ceded?" said Micheal Vonn, policy director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

She warns that the technology is a very powerful tool for the U.S. to watch us.

"We know that surveillance is always introduced in the narrowest possible, most benign form." In Canada, the RCMP in B.C. are using the hovering video cameras to take pictures of car crashes, vowing they won't be used for surveillance, but privacy groups are urging Canadians to be vigilant about their terms of use because privacy laws can change.

Domestic drones are increasingly common in the U.S., and recently some countries and police departments that use them are considering adding tasers and tear gas to the unmanned, constantly watching aircraft.

Earlier this year in North Dakota, police used a predator drone to help storm Rodney Brossart's 3,000-acre farm and arrest him. Brossart allegedly refused to return six cows that had wandered on to his property and is accused of chasing police off of his property with a rifle. He is the first American citizen to be arrested with the help of a drone.

Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/29/us-college-students-hijack-drone

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London 2012 Olympics: Athletes' Village pictures revealed

By Sportsmail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 04:30 EST, 30 June 2012 | UPDATED: 04:30 EST, 30 June 2012

A pink metal three-piece suite in a park and day-glow 1950s-style signs in the chill-out lounge are among the shape of things to come for the world's top athletes at the London 2012 Games.

The Athletes Village in Stratford, east London, which will be their home-from-home during the Games, opens for business on July 16.

Around 17,000 Olympic and 6,000 Paralympic athletes as well as officials from 203 nations are set to be based there.

Place to eat: Facilities at the Olympic and Paralympic Athletes' Village have been revealed

It is meant to be bright and fun but most importantly functional so that the athletes can concentrate on the business at hand, according to London 2012's chief executive Paul Deighton, speaking on a tour of the village.

He said: 'It is meant to be a place where they can get on with their everyday lives and this is a stress-free environment.'

The village was put through a mini-dry run of how it will cope using a 600-strong group of invited guests.

There might be a cue for these: Pool tables are sure to prove popular in the athletes' downtime

Sponsors, media and officials, plus representatives from sports federations and governing bodies were the guinea pigs.

They got a tour of the grounds, a sleep-over in the athletes' apartments and were also put through the airport-style security that anyone entering the venue faces.

Landscaping in Victory Park, the green space linking the 11 blocks of flats the athletes will live in, also includes large scale pieces of art.

There is a slightly risque one called Olympic Spirit showing a twisting tower of three people seeming to hold and balance each other. The hand of the person on the base is in a delicate and private position.

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There are also giant metal animals including a tortoise and a gorilla.

Then there is the dusky pink and worn-in three-piece Chesterfield suite on the grass.

Mr Deighton said: 'It is just one of the things that is just there to make it feel like home. It is a bit of fun.

'I think that what surprises everybody is when you see the village from outside and there is this massive green plaza in the middle.

Risque? Artwork in the Athletes Village

'Each of the blocks have their own courtyard and it helps create their own sense of space and peace.'

The village is split in to three zones based around typical British scenes. There is seaside because it is near water features and especially cultivated wetlands. Heritage and countryside are the others.

Figuring out who goes where is like a 'giant puzzle', Mr Deighton noted, and the answer as to which nation will live at which site is a closely-guarded secret.

Road signs in the village have the E20 postcode on them which previously only existed in fiction as part of the setting for the BBC soap EastEnders.

On their way to and from the giant communal dining hall, which can seat 5,000, or to the post office, the Lloyds Bank or the on-site dry cleaners the 2012 athletes will find themselves striding down Champions Walk, Medals Way and Celebration Avenue.

New routemaster buses, not the traditional ones, will take the athletes to their competitions.

There should be no reason why any athlete should get bored. Lots of distractions have been put in place to fill the time once the hard work involved in training for their events and their individual competitions are over.

A nail bar and hairdressers are on site where free styling and wet shaves are on offer.

If previous Games are anything to go by it is where the athletes will get the Olympic Rings shaved in to their hair, according to Emily Brett, London 2012's athletes services manager.

She said: 'P and G (the household product company who are backing it) have already ensured they have the colours of every national flag to help meet all the requests that might come in.'

There is a big chill-out zone in the village. It is adorned with lightboxes which say things like 'fun fun fun', 'Wow' and 'Boogie'.

Busy: Around 17,000 Olympic and 6,000 Paralympic athletes will be based at the Village

It includes a private cinema, stage, bar, music studio, pool and football tables, a computer gaming area, pin trading, facility to exchange clothes, TVs and Blu-ray and a pub garden - but no alcohol will be served.

Ms Brett said: 'It is going to be the buzziest place in the athletes village.'

Up to 3,500 guests are expected daily, including press, broadcasters, athletes' friends, VIPs and dignitaries at the village plaza.

The nitty-gritty detail of the internal fit-out of the 2,818 apartments on the north-east boundary of east London's Olympic Park has been explored by London 2012's athletes committee.

Top of the athletes' shopping list were things that would help them get a good night's sleep.

Extendable beds for some of the very tall athletes, such as the basketball players, and black-out curtains that hit the floor and actually work have been installed.

At London 2012 there are pegs to hang kit and sports accessories in the bedrooms, under-bed storage for sports gear and suitcases plus movable rails inside the wardrobes which are particularly useful when the venue becomes a Paralympic Village.

This must be Usain's seat! The Globe entertainment lounge has some positive messages on the walls

Among the flat-pack furniture, which has been delivered, built and installed since October, are more than 16,000 beds, 9,000 wardrobes and 11,000 sofas.

Menus have been checked but athletes also wanted things to be grilled, minus a sauce.

None of the rooms has a kitchen because there is a massive communal dining hall. Grab-and-go carts will also be in place for those occasions when the team is running short of time. There will also be a cafe and informal dining spot where barbecues will be available.

An Olympic broadcast channel showing the action but no commentary from the different competitions will be available on televisions in each apartment.

Fibre optic broadband is installed and there is a laundrette in the basement.

The Village is a high security area and all luggage is screened just as at an airport.

Athletes can bring four large pieces of luggage with them such as javelins.
As the bus carrying the tour group moved in to the security zone surrounding the village, it was stopped and checked with a mirror and a sniffer dog.

Next stop was the welcome centre where ID was checked.
Scottish Paralympic cycle champion Aileen McGlynn, who gave some input in to the venue, said: 'There has been a lot of detail gone through with the accommodation.

'At the end of the day we have got to remember why we are there.

'In the dining hall for example which has a lot of different types of food, just like at other Games, you will tend to stick with your own team.

'Some people will over indulge but you have just got to remember why you are here.'

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A Real Estate Q&A: Mostly Fact or Mostly Fiction?

Posted on June 28th, 2012

Let?s play a Real Estate ?Question & Answer? game. But instead of the typical ?Fact or Fiction,? this has a bit of a twist ? a ?Mostly Fact or Mostly Fiction? game?. And the reason I put it this way is because it seems in real estate that there is always an exception to the rule. This is often the result of the emotions and choices that buyers and sellers make that don?t always make financial or practical sense thus resulting in real estate transactions that don?t always proceed in the way in which we expect.

So here is a list of questions that are either ?Mostly Fact or Mostly Fiction,? and I can?t wait to see what you think. ?But before we start, just one last thing ? these answers are based on our current state of the market. We have not had our peak performing real estate years of late, and our economy is unpredictable and still has some instability, and so these questions and answers are coming from that perspective. And now, on to the game:

Most of the time, the first offer is the best. Mostly Fact or Mostly Fiction? Mostly Fact. You have probably heard this countless times, and it is indeed true. Almost always the first offer is the best. ?This is due in large part to the fact that buyers discount homes the longer they sit on the market, and generally offers don?t come in within consecutive days of one another. There is usually a lag time between offers, which means buyers will continue to discount the price of the home as the days on the market accrue.

Location is just as important as price. Mostly Fact or Mostly Fiction? Mostly Fiction. Location is certainly quite important. In fact, I?m sure you?ve heard that old adage over and over again, ?Location, location, location.? But the truth is ? price is hand?s down the most important factor when it comes to selling a home. Buyers need to feel, see and experience a perceived value in the home, and when they do, they buy!

There?s no such thing as underpricing a home. Mostly Fact or Mostly Fiction? Mostly Fact. Or at least theoretically this should be mostly fact. If a home is underpriced, then multiple buyers will perceive such value in the home that they will all jump in to put in an offer. This will result in a bidding war, which ultimately forces up the price of the home to the ?real? market price. The problem with this question, however, is that you can?t really prove the hypothesis. ?Because once you?ve set a price, you don?t get a second chance to set another, higher price to see if you ultimately end up with the same sale price.

A buyer who falls passionately in love with a house results in a higher price for the seller. Mostly Fact or Mostly Fiction? Mostly Fact. We don?t see this too much these days, however. Buyers are ultra sensitive about overpaying for a home today. They don?t want to pay more than they should and then be faced with the potential challenge of re-selling the home in the future when there is no way to predict how the economy and real estate market will be at that time.

A seller ends up with more money if she initially prices her house at a higher price to test the market. Mostly Fact or Mostly Fiction? This is actually 100% Fiction. The best way for a seller to maximize her sale price is to price her house competitively from the start ? to follow the ?Price to Sell Strategy.? Buyers then feel, see and experience the?perceived value in the house and act quickly ? Mission Accomplished.

Finally as we like to say in our listing presentations, the rule of thumb, which also happens to be 100% Fact, is that the seller sets the asking price, but the market (one or more buyers) sets the selling price for the home.

And now back to you. Have you seen some of these real estate questions and answers first-hand? And what are your thoughts about this real estate Q&A game??I can?t wait to hear?.

For more information about the real estate market in?Weston, ?Wellesley, ?Wayland and the surrounding towns or if you are considering selling your home, please contact me,?Lisa Curlett (781-267-2844 orwww.homesalesbylisa.com), to answer any questions or for a complimentary home appraisal.

Source: http://www.homesalesbylisa.com/buying-a-home/a-real-estate-qa-mostly-fact-or-mostly-fiction/

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Cover Charge: New Spray-On Battery Could Convert Any Object into an Electricity Storage Device

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The lithium ion battery is applied in layers, each of which is an aerosol paint, leading to possible solar-energy applications

By Evelyn Lamb ?| June 28, 2012

AEROSOL ELECTRODES: Researchers Charudatta Galande, Pulickel Ajayan and Neelam Singh display a test device for their paintable batteries, a grid of nine ceramic tiles combined with a solar cell and an LED array. Image: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

Perhaps someday you'll need to go to the store because you ran out of cathode paint. A team of researchers has just announced a new paint-on battery design. The technique could change the way batteries are produced and eliminate restrictions on the surfaces used for energy storage.

The paint-on battery, like all lithium ion batteries, consists of five layers: a positive current collector, a cathode that attracts positively charged ions, an ion-conducting separator, an anode to attract negative ions, and a negative current collector. For each layer, the challenge was to find a way to mix the electrically conductive material with various polymers to create a paint that could be sprayed onto surfaces.

Neelam Singh, a member of the team of materials scientists and chemists from Rice University in Houston and Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and lead author of the paper, says, "It was really exciting to find out. Can we really paint a battery on various surfaces and convert any object into a storage device?"

Singh says her team's work is filling a need in the socially critical field of energy storage for new battery designs. "We find that the focus of research is now shifting towards integration of batteries," she says. That is, people are trying to design batteries that can be built into a variety of different objects. Several teams are working to make thin and flexible batteries as well as batteries that can be incorporated into textiles. Solar energy is one of the applications that researchers are particularly interested in. Solar panels can require large surface areas, and the Rice team's design is an efficient way to collect and store energy in this realm.

To test their design, they applied the battery paints onto ceramic bathroom tiles, glass, a flexible transparency film, stainless steel and the side of a beer stein. In each case, the battery worked. In one experiment, they hooked a solar cell to one of the batteries and powered an LED display.

Singh said the biggest challenge was to make a battery that was both stable and powerful: "It was not very easy to get all the layers on top of each other without interfering with their capacity or compromising the performance of the battery." There were safety concerns as well. Many lithium ion batteries use aluminum as a positive current collector, but aluminum microparticles can be lung irritants, so using them in aerosol paint would be hazardous. Instead, the researchers relied on carbon nanotubes.

Lithium cobalt oxide was used as the cathode, commercially available gel electrolytes as the separator, lithium titanium oxide as the anode, and copper as the negative current collector. The approach is detailed in the June 28 issue of Scientific Reports. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)

Singh thinks that the Rice team's battery is a game-changer because it is energy efficient for its volume and can be applied to objects of many different compositions and shapes.

Vilas Pol, a materials scientist at Argonne National Laboratory who was not affiliated with the study, agrees that the new design is exciting, describing it as "an exceptional and notable concept in the arena of battery design and integration."

But for now paint-on batteries are not quite ready to hit the shelves at your local hardware store. For one, the electrolyte separator layer is not yet oxygen stable. It would explode if it came into contact with air, so special conditions are necessary when creating the battery.

Singh says the team currently is working to make all the materials less reactive to air and moisture and more environmentally friendly. She adds that other groups are working on developing paint-on solar cells. Then, she envisions "paintable solar cells on top of paintable solar batteries." Houses could become solar-energy capture-and-storage devices.

Source: http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=33195a4781dbfa98b1cc6fdc9ecaf651

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With bond refinancing completed, State's unemployment insurance debt is gone

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Source: www.crainsdetroit.com --- Thursday, June 28, 2012
Amy Lane - Michigan has closed a chapter on its years-long unemployment insurance Debt. ...

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China: Pilot failed to locate runway before crash

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Friday, 29 June 2012

What A Pest Control Agency Can Do For You

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If you have never had to call a pest control agency, you may not be entirely familiar with the many helpful services they can provide. Pest Control in Rochester is an important topic that everyone should have some basic familiarity with. This is because an infestation of pests can actually affect anyone. No matter how clean you keep your home or how well-maintained your property is, it is entirely possible to end up with ants, rats, mice, fleas, flies, and wasps invading your space and causing all kinds of damage. No one wants this to happen to them, so you probably already do quite a bit to prevent an infestation from taking place. However, if despite your best efforts at prevention, you still find your home becoming a home for pests as well, then you need to call a nearby pest control agency.

A business providing extermination services and Pest Control in Rochester can actually do many things for their clients. They can provide initial consultations to tell you if your home or commercial property has any potential trouble spots that you should keep a close eye on. These trouble spots may be located in the basement, in crawl spaces, in the attic, or under the eaves of the roof. These spaces often have tiny holes that are barely noticeable to the untrained eye, but a pest control agent can spot these correctly as an entry point for insects and small rodents. Once inside, these pests can build nests that grow to considerable size and it doesn't take long for this to happen.

If you ever notice an unusual number of insects hanging around your property, this might be an indication that there's a problem that needs taken care of as soon as possible. You don't want to let too much time go by because some pests can reproduce at an alarming rate. Mammals such as rats and mice give birth to litters in rapid succession, though a swarm of insects can multiply exponentially in just a few days. Before you know it, there is an army of ants devouring your food in the kitchen and a swarm of wasps coming after your children! Mosquitoes too are a serious insect threat. Any standing water is a potential mosquito breeding ground. Wading pools, birdbaths, buckets, rain barrels, and other common forms of standing water might quickly turn into a serious mosquito problem.

Pest Control in Rochester is an important consideration for anyone living or working in the area. Everyone has to do their part to manage the insect and rodent population, so if you notice a problem, simply call a pest control service. They'll be happy to solve this serious problem.

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The Pros and Cons of Making Your Own Wedding Invitations

The task of making your own wedding invitations can look intimidating, especially if you've never taken on such a grand production as a wedding before. If you're not sure whether to make your own wedding invitations, considering the following pros and cons should help you come to a decision.

Pro: Wedding invitations provide a creative outlet if you make them yourself. If you tend toward real creative flair, and love making art or scrapbooking, making your own invitations could be a lot of fun.

Con: If you aren't the creative type, your handmade invitations might not end up looking very good unless you put a whole lot of concentration and effort into it. If you don't like being creative very much, this may not be for you.

Pro: Making your own wedding invitations opens up many doors for personalization. You can personalize the invitations according to the interests and information needs of your guests, but that's not all. You can also personalize according to the themes of your wedding ceremony and reception.

Con: Personalizing wedding invitations can take a lot of time and effort. You'll have to do a lot of browsing, planning and window-shopping, and then you'll have to make decisions about the details. All in all, it takes a lot more effort to make invitations than it does to purchase custom invitations.

Pro: Making your wedding invitations allows you a lot of freedom. If you have a mental picture of exactly what you want your invitations to look like, you might not be able to find a ready-made type of invitation that suits your personal needs - especially if your ideas came to fruition before you did any browsing. If you make your wedding invitations yourself, you'll be able to fit your own needs more closely.

Con: Making wedding invitations for a large crowd of guests could be practically impossible, considering all the affair's other bits and pieces to put together. If you're expecting a lot of guest, personalizing your wedding invitations is probably not a good idea.

Pro: If you want to save money, and one of your ways of doing this is by having a small wedding with only your closest friends and family members, you should definitely consider making your wedding invitations. Handmade invitations are a great way to personalize and save money for a small wedding, since having only a few guests minimizes the amount of work you'll have to do.

It is possible to find a compromise between personalized, less expensive invitations, and less personal, more expensive invitations. If you want to save a little time and a little money, purchase some plain, ready-made invitations of the less expensive kind. Then, include a few personalizations, like photos of the happy couple, personal messages, and maps of the general area.

Hopefully, the above pro-and-con list has helped you make an important wedding plan decision: will you make your own invitations, or won't you?

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Ballot.com Sale Shows Politics Online Is Big ... - My Best Web Hosting

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With only 6 months to go before the 2012 presidential election, candidates, organizations and investors hoping to capture the publics attention are buying up political-flavored domain names while established media companies are enjoying increased advertising revenue to their political websites. The upcoming sale of Ballot.com is catching a lot of attention due to these and additional factors.

Political candidates also are now raising literally tens of millions of dollars using the Internet alone. In addition, sales of websites, domains and related businesses have generated millions of dollars as investors snap up inventory.

According to the Berkeley Daily Planet, $8 billion dollars will likely be spent on the 2012 Election Cycle. That compares with $3 billion in the 2010 election a record for a mid-term election and $5.3 billion in 2008.

Politics online is becoming very big business.

According to recent reports, Republican candidates like Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul have spent a significant amount money on domain names and online media buys in the last few months, as has President Barack Obamas re-election campaign. Some have even raised millions of dollars on the web from their avid supporters in a single days time. The Internet is now booming when it comes to the business of Politics.

Just in time for the 2012 campaign season, Ballot.com is up for sale at Flippa.com ? the worlds #1 marketplace for buying and selling web sites.

?Premium single-word domain names have always been big business, and Flippa?s seeing more and more of these very large sales. We?re honored to be hosting the auction for Ballot.com, which is obviously a top drawer piece of online real estate. It could be a great buy for investors or for entrepreneurs with a smart plan,? said Flippa CEO Dave Slutzkin.

Industry monitor DNJournal.com qualifies one-word dot-com domain names as the oceanfront real estate of the Internet, being quite valuable and rare.

Single-word domain names are a hot commodity and investment opportunity for businesses, entrepreneurs and celebrities, with many of them snapped up in the 1990s. Recently, Social.com was sold for over $2.5 million. One Canadian band is hoping to strike it rich by selling their domain, TeaParty.com, with some estimates of its value running as high as $1 million.

With such a descriptive name, Ballot.com would be ideal for an investor, major media company, political candidate, or even a market research company. With the word ballot trending in Googles search statistics, this domain name also has large advertising potential.

Major Political Publishing Powerhouse HuffingtonPost.com proved its worth when it recently sold to AOL for $300 million US Dollars.

According to the domains current owner, ?Ballot.com provides boundless opportunities for state, local, national governments or candidates, market research companies, and investors who love premium virtual real estate.

The auction for Ballot.com is live now and open for bidding. It is 14 days long and set to end soon, on May 31st, 2012. Go here for more details now: Ballot.com Exclusive Online Auction

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Thursday, 28 June 2012

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Panguite: Ancient mineral newly discovered

Study of a 1969 fireball meteorite has unearthed a new mineral, named panguite. This mineral was likely around when the solar system formed, billions of years ago.?

By Jeanna Bryner,?LiveScience / June 26, 2012

The new mineral, panguite, occurring with the scadium-rich silicate called davisite was found embedded in a piece of the Allende meteorite. Scientist believe the newly discovered mineral formed when the solar system was in its infancy.

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A fireball that tears across the sky is not just a one-time skywatching event ? it can reap scientific dividends long afterward. In fact, one that lit up Mexico's skies in 1969 scattered thousands of meteorite bits across the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua. And now, decades later, that meteorite, named Allende, has divulged a new mineral called panguite.

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Panguite is believed to be among?the oldest minerals in the solar system, which is about 4.5 billion years old. Panguite belongs to a class of refractory minerals that could have formed only under the extreme temperatures and conditions present in the infant solar system.

The name of the titanium dioxide mineral, which has been approved by the International Mineralogical Association, honors Pan Gu, said in Chinese mythology to be the first living being who created the world by separating yin from yang (forming the earth and sky). [Infographic: The Science of Meteorites]

"Panguite is an especially exciting discovery since it is not only a new mineral, but also a material previously unknown to science," study researcher Chi Ma, a senior scientist at Caltech, said in a statement.

Until now, panguite had neither been seen in nature nor created in a lab. "It's brand-new to science," Ma told LiveScience in an interview.

The scientists used a scanning-electron microscope to view the panguite within a so-called ultra-refractory inclusion embedded within the meteorite. Inclusions are the minerals that get trapped inside meteorites as they are forming. The ultra-refractory type includes minerals that can resist high temperatures and other conditions in extreme environments, such as those thought to exist as our solar system was forming.

High-tech lab analyses revealed panguite's chemical composition and crystal structure, which Ma said is new, and as such, could be explored for novel engineering materials.

The Allende meteorite, where the mineral was hidden, is the largest of a class of carbonaceous chondrites found on Earth. Chondrites are?primitive meteorites?that scientists think were remnants shed from the original building blocks of planets. Most meteorites found on Earth fit into this group. (When meteors hit the ground they are called meteorites.)

Before they reach terra firma, most meteorites are fragments of asteroids (space rocks that travel through the solar system), while others are mere cosmic dust shed by comets.?Rare meteorites?are impact debris from the surfaces of the moon and Mars. The Allende meteorite likely came from?the asteroid belt?between Mars and Jupiter, scientists say.

Studying panguite and other components of the Allende meteorite are essential for understanding the origins of the solar system, Ma said. In fact, Ma's team has discovered nine new minerals, including panguite, in the Allende space rock.

The new mineral is detailed in the July issue of the journal American Mineralogist.

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Federal court upholds EPA's global warming rules

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the first-ever regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming, handing down perhaps the most significant decision on the issue since a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gases could be controlled as air pollutants.

The rules, which had been challenged by industry groups and several states, will reduce emissions of six heat-trapping gases from large industrial facilities such as factories and power plants, as well as from automobile tailpipes.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington said that the Environmental Protection Agency was "unambiguously correct" in using existing federal law to address global warming, denying two of the challenges to four separate regulations and dismissing the others.

Michael Gerrard, director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, said no one expected the "complete slam dunk" issued by the court Tuesday, and said the decision was exceeded in importance only by the Supreme Court ruling five years ago.

It also lands during a presidential election year where there are sharp differences between the two candidates when it comes to how best to deal with global warming.

President Barack Obama's administration has come under fierce criticism from Republicans, including Mitt Romney, for pushing ahead with the regulations after Congress failed to pass climate legislation, and after the Bush administration resisted such steps. In 2009, the EPA concluded that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, triggering controls on automobiles and other large sources. But the administration has always said it preferred to address global warming through a new law.

Carol Browner, Obama's former energy and climate adviser, said the decision "should put an end, once and for all, to any questions about the EPA's legal authority to protect us from dangerous industrial carbon pollution," adding that it was a "devastating blow" to those who challenge the scientific evidence of climate change.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson called the ruling a "strong validation" of the approach the agency has taken.

The court "found that EPA followed both the science and the law in taking common-sense, reasonable actions to address the very real threat of climate change by limiting greenhouse gas pollution from the largest sources," Jackson said in a statement.

At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire last year Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said it was a mistake for the EPA to be involved in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas.

"My view is that the EPA is getting into carbon and regulating carbon has gone beyond the original intent of the legislation, and I would not go there," he said.

The court on Tuesday seemed to disagree with Romney's assessment when it denied two challenges to the administration's rules, including one arguing that the agency erred in concluding greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. Lawyers for the industry groups and states argued that the EPA should have considered the policy implications of regulating heat-trapping gases along with the science. They also questioned the agency's reliance on a body of scientific evidence that they said included significant uncertainties.

The judges ? Chief Judge David Sentelle, who was appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan, and David Tatel and Judith Rogers, both appointed by Democrat Bill Clinton ? flatly rejected those arguments.

"This is how science works," the unsigned opinion said. "EPA is not required to re-prove the existence of the atom every time it approaches a scientific question."

Industry groups vowed to fight on.

"Today's ruling is a setback for businesses facing damaging regulations from the EPA," said Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers. "We will be considering all of our legal options when it comes to halting these devastating regulations. The debate to address climate change should take place in the U.S. Congress and should foster economic growth and job creation, not impose additional burdens on businesses."

Environmentalists, meanwhile, called it a landmark decision for global warming policy, which has been repeatedly targeted by the Republican-controlled House.

"Today's ruling by the court confirms that EPA's common-sense solutions to address climate pollution are firmly anchored in science and law," said Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund.

The court also dismissed complaints against two other regulations dealing with pollution from new factories and other industrial facilities. The plaintiffs had argued that the EPA misused the Clean Air Act by only requiring controls on the largest sources, when the law explicitly states that much smaller sources should also be covered.

The judges, when presented with these arguments in February, cautioned the industry groups and states to be careful what they wished for. If EPA chose to follow the letter of the law, they said, greenhouse gas regulations would place even more of a burden on industry and other businesses.

Lawyers for the various states said that if that were to occur, Congress would pass a law to stop it.

Citing a "Schoolhouse Rock" video, the judges in their opinion reminded petitioners that "It's not easy to become a law." They even provided a link to the popular video that explains how bills become laws.

"We have serious doubts as to whether ... it is ever 'likely' that Congress will enact legislation at all," they said.

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Wind gusts produce inward and outward stresses on property surface areas, and their pressure depends on the direction of the surface area (flat, top to bottom, low-slope). As gusts of wind navigate around the building, pressure heightens and causes uplift. This pulls the foundations apart, particularly if the building is a little too inadequate to resist wind loads. In the event the wind forces its path within, it destroys house windows and enters rooftops and the wall surfaces.

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Wednesday, 27 June 2012

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Indoor Group Activities ? All Things Recreation & Sports Ministry

By: Leon Mitchell

You are at camp or on?a retreat. It is raining ? no chance for going outdoors. What do you do? Here are some more indoor-type fun games just for this ?What?ll-we-do-now?? problem. Most of the games can be adapted for all ages.

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Tetherball Contact Dropout

The leader sits on the ground and swings a tetherball?over his head as he would a lariat rope close to the ground. Players join around in a circle within range of the circling tetherball. All players jump the ball and rope as it circles. If touched or knocked down by the ball, the players drop out. If a player jumps back out of the radius of the tetherball, he has fouled and must drop out. This continues until a single winner is declared. This is an excellent coed game with lots of action.

Novelty Program

Include a shoe scramble, a balloon relay, a barefoot marble-between-toes relay, a tow sack relay (get into sack up to waist, hold top, and hop), and a paper cup and water pitcher relay. For this last relay, give each person a paper cup. Have a water pitcher and a judge for each relay line. Contestants run to table with pitcher of water, pour a cupful, drink it, and return for the next person in line to repeat. A winner is declared when pitcher is empty.

Pocketbook Contest

This is a marvelous game for students and adults. It works well with a seated audience. Divide the audience into two more groups. Appoint a captain for each group. Call for items that may be?found in women?s purses of men?s billfolds. The first captain to secure from his group the items called for and race to the leader with them wins a point for his team. The leader should stand an equal distance from all of the?teams. Some items to be?called for can be?a twenty-cent stamp, a can of hair spray, a pocketknife, nail clippers, an emery board, a safety pin, a key chain with six keys, a paper clip, and an unopened package of gum.

Firing Line

Get the ?shooters? lined up into teams. Provide each team with a water pistol and a bowl of water. At a set distance (depending on the firing power of the pistols), set in pans of water a candle for each team. At a signal, the first player of each team shoots at the candle until he puts it out. While the candle is being relighted, the second player moves up and fills the pistol from the bowl. The winner is the team that shoots all the candles out first.

Chinese Balloon Carry (relay)

Each contestant must hold an inflated balloon between two eighteen-inch dowel sticks and carry it from a starting point to a finish line thirty to fifty feet away and back.

Skill Games

A whole evening social hour on a retreat may be built around skill games. Divide the group for competition and try some of these games. (Use masking tape for marking boundary lines.)

1. Tennis ball bounce?Try to bounce tennis balls in wastebasket placed on a chair fifteen feet away (ten points per basket).

2. Pie-pan roll?Using a six-foot circle marked on the floor, players stand fifteen feet away and try to roll the pans into it (ten points for each pan in the circle).

3. Jar-ring toss?From a distance of eight feet, each player throws six fruit jar rings at the neck of a plastic detergent container (twenty-five points for each ringer).

4. Muffin-tin toss?Each person throws six pennies into an ordinary muffin tin from a distance of ten feet (five points for each penny in the muffin tin).

5. Bird throw?From ten feet away, players toss six badminton shuttlecocks into a number ten can (fifteen points for each score).

6. Target toss?Players throw six washers at a six-inch circle drawn on the floor, standing fifteen feet away for each throw. (Score ten points for each washer in the circle; washers on a line do not count.)

Handball Dropout

Turn dining tables on their sides (to serve as nets). Use masking tape or chalk to mark boundary lines on the floor. A tennis ball or playground ball is the only other equipment necessary. Play regular Ping-Pong rules and hit the ball back and forth with the open hand.

Water Tunes

Divide the retreat/camp group into smaller groups of eight to ten players. Supply soft drink bottles, metal spoons, and water. Give each group fifteen to twenty minutes to fill their bottles with water and rehearse a tune. Each group then plays their tune for the others to guess the name.

Draw That Tune

Divide into two groups. Provide chalkboards or poster board and magic markers for use in drawing. Each group sends a ?drawer? to the leader. The leader gives the two ?drawers? a slip of paper with the same song title on it. The ?drawers? then rush to their own group and draw while their teammates try to guess the name of the tune. The group to name their tune first wins. Play several rounds, keeping score and using a different person to draw each time.

Use your imagination to work up unusual fun activities. Develop group spirit and be creative. A group of teenagers can take any ?germ cell? idea and make it blossom into a fun activity. Books on recreation are full of good ideas. This article is intended simply to start you thinking. Think, plan, and be ready for the unexpected, because there is nothing worse than dead moments on a retreat.

Attribution:?Leon Mitchell was a pioneer in the area of?recreation and sports ministry. He was a teacher, author, consultant, conference leader, husband and father who had huge impact in the early days of the recreation and sports ministry movement. He wrote some of the first texts in this field. This article was adapted?from Church Recreation Magazine.

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Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Learning about Personal Budgeting Tools

Personal budgeting is one of the most essential aspects of personal finance. If you can master the act of effective budgeting, you can stay substantially in control of your finance. In essence, effective budgeting helps you to know how you spend your income, and what you spend it on. A personal budgeting skill is an essential part of financial literacy for individuals.

What is Personal Budget?

When you embark on a finance plan that assigns your income to expenses, debt repayment, savings, investment and other categories, you are carrying out a personal budgeting. A personal budget incorporates both personal spending and past spending. Personal budgeting is accomplished with wide range of tools and techniques. In essence, you can find tools and strategies for either creating a fresh personal budget or adjusting an existing one.

Sample Budget

Typically, your budget will allocate your expected earning to categories such as expected expenses, intended investment, intended savings and more. Here?s a sample of typical personal budget illustrated below;

Category Percentage (%) Monthly Amount Annual Amount

Gross Income

Taxes

Net Income

Food

Housing

Insurance

Auto

Debt repayment

Savings

Medical

Investments

There are more elements to be included into the budget categories such as school/children care, clothing, entertainment and recreation, and miscellaneous. You may also choose to modify your budget accordingly.

Personal Budgeting Tools

In creating a viable budget, there are wide range of tools you can find helpful. It doesn?t matter the tool you employ, you must bear in mind that the accuracy of any personal budget is only equally good as the updated budget data?s accuracy; hence, if an old budget does not show the exact income or expenses, it would be almost valueless to the current budget. Recently, people have massively embraced the computer-generated budgets. Consequently, the need to write the budget all over again and start the calculation afresh (just to reflect new changes) has been eliminated.

Here are essential tools for budget;

Paper and Pencil; to create a simple budget, you will need a piece of paper and pencil. Also, you can bring a calculator in case you have a need for it. A simpler option is to use the pre-formatted bookkeeping or household budgeting forms. This option enables you to create a budget by simply supplying the right details in the blanks.
Spreadsheet tools; these will help you create a budget based on need. Subsequently, the calculations are performed with ease using the rudimentary formulas in-built to the spreadsheet software. Typical example of spreadsheet tools include MS Excel, OpenOffice.org Calc, iWork Numbers and more. If you want to monitor your income and expenses, the budget spreadsheet will be ideal for the task. However, a lot of people do not employ budget spreadsheets any longer, due to the absence of date-shifting feature that eliminates the need to re-enter or move information at each month?s end. But, spreadsheet still remains a viable budgeting tool when complex budgets and planning are involved.

Other personal budgeting tools are money management software, spending management software and money management websites. You will learn about these tools in subsequent posts. ?

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USAID cuts funding for Elmo on Pakistan TV

The US cut $20 million for Pakistani version of Sesame Street. USAID alleges fraud against the show's producers, but the cutbacks come as the US is pulling back foreign aid.

By Scott Baldauf,?Staff writer / June 6, 2012

Pakistan?s version of Sesame Street ? complete with an Elmo who squeals in Urdu ? is facing a cutback in support from USAID, America?s Agency for International Development.

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