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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Reno City Council to decide on new baseball agreement
Reno, NV (KRNV & MyNews4.com)-- The Reno City Council is expected to vote on whether or not to approve the new Aces agreement Wednesday.
When the four new council members were sworn in in November they asked to revisit the revised agreement regarding baseball. Since, council members have been hashing out the details. Some council members are for the agreement and some are against.
For the past four years the Aces have called the heart of the Biggest Little City home. "People I think in northern Nevada just love baseball," Reno City Manager Andrew Clinger says. Since the Reno Aces have been around the teams won a class, league, conference, and division title not to mention added a whole new vitality to downtown Reno. "The Triple-A that we have here is one of the best in the country frankly and it's a?family activity it gives family a reason to come downtown that otherwise may not come downtown," Clinger says. It will be up to the Reno City Council to approve a?new agreement to help pay for baseball and ultimately keep it in Reno. Here's a breakdown of what the new agreement looks like: The first five years Reno will pay $850,000. About $100, 000 will come from increment taxes from the baseball district then $750,000 will come from from a fire station loan that has already been allocated into the budget. From 6 to 10 years the payment will bump to $1.1 million. Then, from 11 to 30 years it will go down to a $1 million a year. Totaling $30 million in 30 years. Here's where the city will be getting all that money, a certain portion will come from special taxes from the baseball district. The rest will come from the city's general fund which is what the city uses for basic services like Parks and Rec. and public safety and?that money according to Clinger comes primarily from sales tax and property tax. This is all if the council approves the agreement.?If they don't there's the potential for a whole series of challenges like possibly loosing the team. "What we're facing potentially is a ballpark that would be tied up in litigation that could be dark for a number of years. The possibility of us getting another Triple-A baseball team to Reno would be difficult at best," Clinger says. Not to mention how much money having the team and stadium here pours into the local economy. According to a UNR study if baseball were to leave Reno the region will lose 677 direct employees and $21.1 million. "I think it goes back to the vision of what do you want Reno to be," Clinger says. The city council meeting is Wed. at noon. News 4 will have a crew at the meeting to bring the latest updates.
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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50640320/ns/local_news-reno_nv/
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ETFs Mark 20th Anniversary: A Look at the ... - Yahoo! Finance
On a cold January day 20 years ago, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hovering at about 3,300, a team of investors from State Street Bank (STT) unveiled their new creation to the denizens of Wall Street: the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY). They now describe the launch of the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) on this day in 1993 as "the one that started it all," calling the debut of the Spider (short for S&P Depositary Receipt) "an investment product that gave people a more precise way to buy and sell an entire index, but could be traded like a stock."
It took some time for ETFs to catch on, but when they did the once lonesome Spider paved the way for what is now a $1.4 trillion industry with more than 1,400 different funds.
"This little group ? little think tank ? at State Street said, 'Let's create this thing that might help trading the S&P 500,'" says Tom Lydon, editor of ETF Trends.com, in the attached video. Despite its catchy name, he says ETFs took a long time to catch on, "years and years and years." Today investors not only know what ETFs are, but they love them to the point where Lydon says they're "threatening mutual funds to a great degree."
To be fair, the traditional mutual fund business is still about 10 times as big, in terms of assets, but ETFs are clearly gaining ground fast. Recent fund flow data, for example, showed $18 billion of cash was poured into equity funds in the first week of the new year, with 60% of the new money going into equity ETFs and the rest into mutual funds.
While some say the ETF or ETP (exchange-traded product) business is starting to feel saturated, Lydon says there is still enormous room for future innovation and growth, especially if and when ETFs find their way into 401k retirement plans.
"There are a lot of tools" to pick from, explains Lydon. The current breadth of products ranges from indexes to currencies to volatility to commodities to sectors and more. He adds that "there's a lot of things to shoot yourself in the foot with, too."
Also helping the growth of ETFs, Lydon says, is the fact that indexing has gone from 7% of investments to 20% in just 10 years. It's a trend that shows "the average investor is fed up" with actively managed funds falling short of the indexes they're supposed to beat.
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British anti-EU leader sees exit in "few years"
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's withdrawal from the European Union "within a few years" is a certainty as no government will be able to resist demands for an exit from a population incensed by the arrival of low-wage migrants, the leader of the UK Independence Party said.
Nigel Farage, who is siphoning off voters from Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives by attacking EU bureaucracy and immigration from eastern Europe, said it was the dramatic rise of his own party that had pressured the premier into promising last week what would be a historic EU referendum.
"Cameron's speech was the moment when the debate on Europe changed," a combative Farage told Reuters, calling it UKIP's "greatest victory to date". Dismissing the idea Cameron had outflanked the anti-EU lobby, he said the reverse was true: Cameron had "let the genie out of the bottle", making "Brexit" - the EU exit of the world's sixth largest economy - certain.
Speaking days after Cameron promised to renegotiate the terms of Britain's 40-year-old membership of the bloc and to hold an "in-out" referendum if re-elected in 2015, Farage said Cameron would probably lose office and, even if he won, would be unable to persuade other EU leaders to amend treaty agreements.
"There is no substantial renegotiation to be had," said Farage. "He'll get nowhere." In any event, the prime minister, who says he wants to stay in a revamped European Union, could not be trusted to keep his referendum promise, he added, noting abandoned talk of a vote on the Lisbon Treaty of 2007.
But with polls showing a slim majority want to cut Britain loose from an expanding European political system, a referendum was not far off, Farage forecast. Even the Labour party, which opposes Cameron's in-out referendum, would, if it took power, be forced by the public to let Britons vote to leave, he argued.
It is a prospect that clearly enthuses Farage, a 48-year-old former metals trader in the City of London who has seen UKIP multiply its support in the six years since Cameron dismissed it as "a bunch of ... fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists".
"I see opportunity. We would have the potential to do so much more for this country," he said at the central London headquarters of a party which has lately polled as much as 16 percent, up from 3 percent at the last election in 2010.
"We'd have the opportunity - through winning back the right to have global trade agreements - to make us much more of a global player than a European player," he said.
FREE BRITAIN
Farage's sharp tongue - pro-EU evangelists were "idiots", he said - and a populist touch that includes a fondness for a smoke and a drink, have made him a familiar figure to voters. He is credited with bringing a new professionalism to a 20-year-old party long dismissed as part of a chaotic, far-right fringe.
Attacked from the left as a "dangerous man" and "political poison", he imagines a Britain thriving outside the EU, a picture that has struck a chord with voters alarmed by the way the debt crisis in the euro zone has hobbled their own economy and at poor immigrants arriving freely from eastern Europe.
EU red tape, Farage said, could be junked along with the bloc's social market model, heavy on regulation and welfare provision. That, he said, would make Britain a more attractive destination for manufacturers. It would also be free to strike bilateral trade deals and to deregulate its own economy.
"I don't want to turn my back on Europe but it's not the future," said Farage. "The future is the emerging world."
While many businessmen support a renegotiation of Britain's EU membership, they have also warned that years of doubt over Britain's EU membership would damage the $2.5 trillion economy and hinder investment [ID:nL6N0AS96T]. Farage disagrees.
"Europe has a demographic time bomb," he said.
"It's stuck with the idea of a social market model ... which means it's falling behind in competitiveness terms ... and it has a euro zone crisis which it is determined not to admit defeat on which means a decade of agony."
ELECTION TACTICS
Cameron accepts much of that analysis but argues that London can distance itself from the problems while staying in the EU.
His demand for change in Brussels and pledge of a referendum seem to have gone down well with voters. One poll has suggested a swing of up to four percent from UKIP to the Conservatives.
For those keen to vote No to Europe, a vote for Cameron in 2015 may seem a better bet, since voting UKIP is more likely to bring a Labour government not committed to an EU referendum.
But Farage dismisses suggestions Cameron has stolen his thunder and deprived UKIP of its distinctive appeal: "He's let us down on this very same promise once before," he said of a Conservative plan for an EU vote. "He's used up so much trust."
UKIP was still the only party that favored complete and immediate withdrawal from the EU, he said: "The Conservative party is wedded to political union of the European Union.
"They believe in it, they have done for over 50 years. He's actually calling for deeper integration."
That is a complaint that has found favor in Conservative heartlands across the wealthy suburbs and rural areas of southern England. Though a winner-takes-all constituency voting system means UKIP has no seats in the London parliament, it has 12 in the European legislature in Brussels.
MAN OF CONTRASTS
Once shunned by Britain's mainstream media, Farage rubbishes long-standing accusations his party are "the BNP in blazers" - a middle-class, golfing version of skinhead racists in the British National Party - and is now a regular on political talk shows.
In sharp pinstripe suit, black fedora and colorful silk tie, he dresses like the City trader he once was.
Fast-talking, he peppers his speech with jokes and the odd expletive and professes that though politics is a deadly serious business "it doesn't mean you can't have a bit of fun too".
It is a routine he says he has perfected as "a street scrapper" in many a debate in pubs up and down the country.
Married and a father of four, Farage has survived being run down by a car - when he admits he was drunk - a plane crash during an election stunt, and testicular cancer, but said his lust for "living life" was undimmed.
He smokes, enjoys British beer and French wine, bets on horses, likes sea fishing and some years ago shrugged off tabloid headlines about a night with a young Latvian woman.
Farage is a paradoxical figure. Though frequently derided as "a little Englander" - a jibe at his isolationist views - he is married to a German. And though he says he hates everything about the EU, he is a lawmaker in the European Parliament.
Even the location of his London office - Europe House, a building that also houses the British headquarters of the European Commission - is paradoxical, as is the fact that he uses EU funds to campaign against the bloc.
FREE MARKETS
Some prominent business leaders have warned that the prospect of a referendum on the country's EU membership will create years of uncertainty over trading rules that will scare off foreign investors or, as Labour leader Ed Miliband said, hang a "closed for business" sign over the island nation.
Leaving the EU itself, Britain's biggest trading partner would be folly, they have said, and force Britain to renegotiate a free trade agreement from a position of weakness.
But Farage, who argues that trade with the EU has been routinely "overstated", dismissed such fears, saying a British EU exit "wouldn't make much difference" to trade.
"Do you honestly think that Angela Merkel is going to pick up the phone to the chief executive of Mercedes and say we're very sorry but as a result of putting tariffs on British goods they've just slapped tariffs on you selling your cars in Britain?" he asked with a laugh. "They'd go berserk."
The idea that London would lose its status as Europe's financial centre and forfeit the right to trade the single currency if Britain left was also fantasy, he argued.
"Governments can't control markets," he said. "If they really wanted to prohibit euro trading outside the EU they could do that ... if they want it to become about as rich as Congo in a decade. But they're not going to do that."
IMMIGRATION
Farage told Reuters the biggest reason UKIP was attracting more supporters was because it advocated ending "open door" immigration and curbing the right of other EU nationals to work, settle and claim social security payments in Britain.
"Immigration is a very, very key reason for people voting for us," he said, arguing that local communities had been rendered "unrecognizable" by migrant workers in the last decade.
"The levels of division and enmity that have been created within those communities by government policy a propos open borders with the EU is something that people are really, really angry about," he said.
His immediate campaign goal is to lobby against Romanians and Bulgarians getting full rights to work in Britain next year, something they will obtain because of EU freedom of movement rules, seven years after their countries joined the bloc.
Farage strongly rejects any suggestion he is a racist and said he favored an Australian-style selective immigration policy that chose people because of their skills.
But allegations his party is racist have dogged him.
A local authority in the north of England took three foster children away from a couple in November, arguing that their support for UKIP was racist, prompting Cameron's office to issue comments suggesting it agreed, at least in part.
Earlier this month, Cameron hinted he did not think Farage should be allowed to take part in TV debates ahead of the next election in 2015, telling a magazine that only parties "that are going to form the government" should be included.
Liberal newspapers in Britain are also skeptical. The Independent published an article in December calling Farage "a dangerous man", his views "political poison", and his party's free-market economic policies "a hard-right wet dream".
UKIP's journey to the political mainstream is far from complete at the ballot box; Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system - which only values a party's support in each constituency rather than nationwide - means it would not win a single parliamentary seat if an election was held today.
And one recent poll, the methodology of which Farage contests, put UKIP support at just seven percent. Most others have, however, estimated its vote at up to 16 percent.
Naming his heroes, Farage listed Robert Peel, a 19th-century Conservative prime minister who defied party aristocrats to end corn tariffs and promote free trade, William Wilberforce, who helped end the slave trade, and Enoch Powell, a leading Conservative ostracized in 1968 after criticizing immigration policy in what became known as the "rivers of blood" speech.
What Farage said he admired about them all was that they challenged the status quo, regardless of the consequences.
He didn't spell it out, but it's clear he thinks he is doing the same with Britain and the EU: "The same idiots that are now telling us that unless we stay part of the EU single market we're doomed are the same idiots who told us if we didn't join the euro we'd lose all that business," he said.
"What do they know?"
(This story was refiled to fix typo in 'sixth' in paragraph 3)
(Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/british-anti-eu-leader-sees-exit-few-years-120953457--finance.html
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FCC Documents Reveal A Smaller, More Powerful Apple TV Is Coming Soon
There's a new Apple TV on the way. Per these FCC documents, the new model is physically slightly smaller and as noted by TheNextWeb, rocks an A5X SoC. With the faster core, the new model should provide a better user experience with a smoother UI and improved app performance. Plus, with the recent Apple TV update that added a bunch of features, it seems the Apple is about to make another assault on the living room.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/FYFgKyAHkvk/
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Fear, threats and bad food: life aboard a sanctions-hit Iranian ship
CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - The eight Indian crew members on board the MV Amina had no inkling they were trapped on the frontline of the West's economic war against Iran.
All experienced seamen, they joined the Iranian-flagged cargo ship last year. Within months, they were caught up in a fight to prevent the ship fleeing to international waters to escape port arrest in Sri Lanka. Having disobeyed the captain's orders to weigh anchor, their courage turned to fear.
"The captain taunted us that if you fall in the water I will give a report that says that you tried to commit suicide," said 42-year-old Jesuraj, a foreman of the ship, speaking to Reuters after he and the others eventually made their way home.
"We had a lifeboat on standby and were ready to escape if required. We slept with our life jackets with the hope that if the ship did leave for Iran we would jump off and try to get the attention of some fishing boat."
For a few miserable weeks, this was life on the sharp edge of a sanctions regime that has battered the Iranian economy and squeezed the shipping fleet it relies on for commerce, cutting off funds that the West says could be ploughed into expensive nuclear arms programmes.
The Indians left the ship after authorities intervened, returned their confiscated passports and took them ashore in Sri Lanka.
Subsequently, the Amina was fired on by Sri Lanka's navy when it tried to make another getaway. A few days later, the Iranian captain took advantage of rough seas to flee, bringing the ship into Iran's Bandar Abbas port last week.
"We weren't able to sleep at night," said Harpreet Singh Sahota, 25, who worked as a helmsman on the Amina. "We felt paranoid and threatened all the time. We were desperate to get off the ship," he said in an interview in the Indian city of Mumbai.
The Amina was one of four ships ordered taken over by Germany's DVB Bank for defaulting on a loan, all of them dry bulk carriers mainly used for Iran's food grain imports.
Two of the other ships ordered re-possessed by DVB are anchored off Iran, while the fourth has been held in the northern Chinese port of Qinhuangdao. It is unlikely any can sail in international waters in the near future without threat of arrest.
According to court documents seen by Reuters in Singapore, Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), Iran's biggest cargo carrier, owes DVB Bank more than $50 million after it halted monthly loan repayments for the four panamax dry bulk carriers in October 2011.
Revenues of IRISL and other Iranian ship operators are being squeezed by the effects of the sanctions, which include an EU ban on some maritime insurance; the exit from Iran of firms that certify ships, which is vital to ports; and the de-flagging of vessels from international registries.
BAD FOOD, NEW NAME
All this was unknown at the time to the Indian crew members aboard the Amina, although they said salaries were always paid 2-3 months late. A crew of Filipinos who preceded the Indians had already had a standoff with the captain over wage payments.
The Indians said the food was also the worst they'd ever eaten aboard a ship, and there was not enough of it.
When anchored off Sri Lanka, meat and eggs were rationed out, said Anand Nalla, a 39-year-old engineer from India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
"Even the Iranian crew didn't like the food and they prayed that they reach Iran safely without dying of hunger along the way," he said.
The eight Indians came aboard the ship at Luhua Shan, the Chinese island port near Shanghai, from early to late 2012, joining 16 Iranian crew members.
At first, everything seemed normal.
But the new crew came to learn that the ship had been waiting for months to get new cargo. Many foreign companies have severed ties to Iranian shipping, scared that they could lose contracts with American businesses if they help Tehran get around the sanctions.
The ship changed its name in October, when the ship was anchored at Luhua Shan. Jesuraj, who for this story only wanted to reveal his first name, was given the task of erasing the ship's previous name, "MV Shere", and painting over in yellow "MV Amina" on the black-and-red coloured ship.
IRISL has tried to dodge sanctions by changing its flags and setting up front companies, the U.S. Treasury and the EU have said.
Still unable to secure any cargo, the Amina's owners ordered the captain to leave China and on November 18, it set sail for Iran via the Indian Ocean with its hold empty.
The ship stopped off the Sri Lankan coast in early December to wait for Iranian soldiers to join it from another cargo ship. The soldiers were needed to give protection to the vessel before it ventured into the Arabian sea, where Somali pirates lurk to capture cargo ships and hold crews hostage.
The ship waited for the soldiers 11.3 nautical miles off the port of Galle.
But on the morning of December 14, instead of a boat carrying Iranian soldiers, the crew members on duty spotted a large Sri Lankan navy ship speeding towards them. On it were officials of the Colombo High Court, who boarded the ship to announce its arrest and stuck two notices on the boat. They were acting on a court order obtained by DVB Bank for unpaid loans.
"The notice said that the ship, which was mortgaged to a German bank, was arrested because of a default," said Nalla. "It also said that the ship would be sold in two weeks if the payment wasn't made,"
The Sri Lankan authorities confiscated the crewmen's' passports and service documents, a fact that, according to Sahota, the captain initially tried to conceal from the Indians.
That is when the Indians panicked. They were worried that the Iranians would attempt to break the arrest and escape home, and they were scared that, once in Iran, they could face arrest or worse for disobeying their captain's orders.
ESCAPE
One evening after the ship's arrest, the captain asked the Iranian crew members to try the engine, a normal check ahead of setting sail, which unnerved the Indians.
Ignoring the Indians' protests, the captain then gave orders to weigh anchor. But the eight Indians rushed to prevent the 16 Iranians from doing so and threatened to drop the second anchor if the captain tried to move into international waters.
Soon after the ship was arrested, Jesuraj's blood pressure started rising and he developed chest pains. But the captain refused to let him go ashore to get medical help, he said.
Amid simmering tensions, the Indians made frantic calls from their mobile phones to friends and relatives, asking them to get the Indian government to intervene.
"It was like hell and we were tense all the time," said Nalla, who said he always moved around the ship with two fellow Indian sailors for protection.
Eventually, after the Times of India newspaper and TV news channels aired their phone conversations pleading for help, the Indian embassy in Sri Lanka contacted them. Their passports were released, and pressure was put on the captain to let them go.
Not long after they had left, the Sri Lankan navy fired warning shots to prevent the Amina from leaving, but a week later the Iranians tried again and the ship headed out to sea.
The Amina subsequently vanished from tracking systems off India's southwest coast. But then, last Friday, tracking data showed that it had arrived back in Bandar Abbas, dropping anchor near two of the other ships that DVB Bank has tried to seize.
(Writing by Matthias Williams; Additional reporting by Shihar Azeez in COLOMBO, Vivek Prakash in MUMBAI, Jonathan Saul in LONDON and Randy Fabi in SINGAPORE; Editing by John Chalmers and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fear-threats-bad-food-life-aboard-sanctions-hit-211344467.html
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Team flag waves as 49ers arrive for Super Bowl
NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Jim Harbaugh stepped to the podium, smirked a bit, and greeted his first news conference as a Super Bowl coach.
"We're super happy to be here," he said Sunday night as his NFC champion San Francisco 49ers arrived in the Big Easy for the big game.
"I think this team has the best focus on unity and winning I've ever been a part of."
Considering that Harbaugh was an NFL quarterback for 14 seasons and a successful college coach before joining the 49ers, he knows something about winning.
Under Harbaugh, San Francisco has been to two NFC title games and, now, to its first Super Bowl in 18 years. The Niners (13-4-1) will play Baltimore (13-6), coached by Harbaugh's older brother, John, in next Sunday's Super Bowl.
He is certain his team is ready for the task as the 49ers seek their sixth Vince Lombardi Trophy; they are 5-0 in Super Bowls.
"These are uncharted waters for a rookie Super Bowl coach," Harbaugh said. "But that's exciting. It's a great thrill, and we have a desire to be in uncharted waters. We always strive for that kind of challenge."
Earlier in the evening, with a team flag waving from an open window of their chartered plane, the 49ers arrived in a businesslike manner. The players calmly walked off the airplane ? no video recorders or cameras, no waves to onlookers.
Most of the team's veteran players disembarked first, including center Jonathan Goodwin, who won a Super Bowl three years ago with the Saints.
"You get to go to the Super Bowl with your childhood team, so that's something special to me," he said. "So hopefully I can find a way to win the Super Bowl with my childhood team."
Quarterback Colin Kaepernick, wearing a red wool cap sporting "49ers" on it, mouthed the words to a song on his headphones as he walked on the tarmac.
He seemed just as relaxed 90 minutes later as he met the media.
"Pressure comes from a lack of preparation," said Kaepernick, who took over as the starter when Alex Smith got a concussion in November and has been sensational in keeping the job. "This is not a pressure situation. It's a matter of going out and performing."
Harbaugh said the 49ers came to New Orleans on Sunday to simulate a normal week. He likened their trip to his strategy the last two seasons when the 49ers spent a week in Youngstown, Ohio, between Eastern games rather than return to the Bay Area.
He liked the way the players and coaches bonded during that experience.
"Same approach," Harbaugh said. "Enjoy the moment and the preparation. I think our team enjoys that the most: the meetings, the preparation and then, especially, the competition."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/team-flag-waves-49ers-arrive-super-bowl-035629899--nfl.html
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Observatory: Viagra as Diet Pill?
[unable to retrieve full-text content]In a German study, the erectile-dysfunction drug was found to help convert undesirable white fat cells to energy-burning beige fat cells in laboratory mice.
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Michael Crabtree Sexual Assault: Charges Dropped Against San Francisco 49ers Wide Receiver
SAN FRANCISCO ? Criminal charges won't be filed against 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree after an alleged sexual assault in a hotel after the team's playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers, San Francisco's district attorney said Friday.
After examining information submitted by police, District Attorney George Gascon said his office determined that no charges would be filed "at this time."
"The San Francisco Police Department - Special Victims Unit completed and submitted a thorough investigation of the allegations against Michael Crabtree," Gascon said.
Crabtree's attorney, Joshua Bentley, didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.
San Francisco police said Crabtree was never detained or arrested in the matter, and that he cooperated fully with their investigation.
The 49ers are preparing to meet the Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl on Feb. 3 in New Orleans.
49ers general manager Trent Baalke said the team was pleased that the district attorney decided to not file charges after reviewing the matter.
"Michael and the team can now put this behind us and move forward," Baalke said in a statement.
During the regular season, Crabtree became the first San Francisco wide receiver with more than 1,000 yards in a season since Terrell Owens in 2003.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Here is the Bi Partisan (yes, bi partisan) immigration reform plan ...
(Below sent to me by my FNC colleague Mike Emanuel)
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Bipartisan Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Senators Schumer, McCain, Durbin, Graham, Menendez, Rubio, Bennet, and Flake
Introduction
We recognize that our immigration system is broken. And while border security has improved significantly over the last two Administrations, we still don?t have a functioning immigration system. This has created a situation where up to 11 million undocumented immigrants are living in the shadows. Our legislation acknowledges these realities by finally committing the resources needed to secure the border, modernize and streamline our current legal immigration system, while creating a tough but fair legalization program for individuals who are currently here. We will ensure that this is a successful permanent reform to our immigration system that will not need to be revisited.
Four Basic Legislative Pillars:
o Create a tough but fair path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants currently living in the United States that is contingent upon securing our borders and tracking whether legal immigrants have left the country when required;
o Reform our legal immigration system to better recognize the importance of characteristics that will help build the American economy and strengthen American families;
o Create an effective employment verification system that will prevent identity theft and end the hiring of future unauthorized workers; and,
o Establish an improved process for admitting future workers to serve our nation?s workforce needs, while simultaneously protecting all workers.
I. Creating a Path to Citizenship for Unauthorized Immigrants Already Here that is Contingent Upon Securing the Border and Combating Visa Overstays
? Our legislation will provide a tough, fair, and practical roadmap to address the status of unauthorized immigrants in the United States that is contingent upon our success in securing our borders and addressing visa overstays.
? To fulfill the basic governmental function of securing our borders, we will continue the increased efforts of the Border Patrol by providing them with the latest technology, infrastructure, and personnel needed to prevent, detect, and apprehend every unauthorized entrant.
? Additionally, our legislation will increase the number of unmanned aerial vehicles and surveillance equipment, improve radio interoperability and increase the number of agents at and between ports of entry. The purpose is to substantially lower the number of successful illegal border crossings while continuing to facilitate commerce.
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? We will strengthen prohibitions against racial profiling and inappropriate use of force, enhance the training of border patrol agents, increase oversight, and create a mechanism to ensure a meaningful opportunity for border communities to share input, including critiques.
? Our legislation will require the completion of an entry-exit system that tracks whether all persons entering the United States on temporary visas via airports and seaports have left the country as required by law.
? We recognize that Americans living along the Southwest border are key to recognizing and understanding when the border is truly secure. Our legislation will create a commission comprised of governors, attorneys general, and community leaders living along the Southwest border to monitor the progress of securing our border and to make a recommendation regarding when the bill?s security measures outlined in the legislation are completed.
? While these security measures are being put into place, we will simultaneously require those who came or remained in the United States without our permission to register with the government. This will include passing a background check and settling their debt to society by paying a fine and back taxes, in order to earn probationary legal status, which will allow them to live and work legally in the United States. Individuals with a serious criminal background or others who pose a threat to our national security will be ineligible for legal status and subject to deportation. Illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes face immediate deportation.
? We will demonstrate our commitment to securing our borders and combating visa overstays by requiring our proposed enforcement measures be complete before any immigrant on probationary status can earn a green card
? Current restrictions preventing non-immigrants from accessing federal public benefits will also apply to lawful probationary immigrants.
? Once the enforcement measures have been completed, individuals with probationary legal status will be required to go to the back of the line of prospective immigrants, pass an additional background check, pay taxes, learn English and civics, demonstrate a history of work in the United States, and current employment, among other requirements, in order to earn the opportunity to apply for lawful permanent residency. Those individuals who successfully complete these requirements can eventually earn a green card.
? Individuals who are present without lawful status ? not including people within the two categories identified below ? will only receive a green card after every individual who is already waiting in line for a green card, at the time this legislation is enacted, has received their green card. Our purpose is to ensure that no one who has violated America?s immigration laws will receive preferential treatment as they relate to those individuals who have complied with the law.
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? Our legislation also recognizes that the circumstances and the conduct of people without lawful status are not the same, and cannot be addressed identically.
o For instance, individuals who entered the United States as minor children did not knowingly choose to violate any immigration laws. Consequently, under our proposal these individuals will not face the same requirements as other individuals in order to earn a path to citizenship.
o Similarly, individuals who have been working without legal status in the United States agricultural industry have been performing very important and difficult work to maintain America?s food supply while earning subsistence wages. Due to the utmost importance in our nation maintaining the safety of its food supply, agricultural workers who commit to the long term stability of our nation?s agricultural industries will be treated differently than the rest of the undocumented population because of the role they play in ensuring that Americans have safe and secure agricultural products to sell and consume. These individuals will earn a path to citizenship through a different process under our new agricultural worker program.
II. Improving our Legal Immigration System and Attracting the World?s Best and Brightest
? The development of a rational legal immigration system is essential to ensuring America?s future economic prosperity. Our failure to act is perpetuating a broken system which sadly discourages the world?s best and brightest citizens from coming to the United States and remaining in our country to contribute to our economy. This failure makes a legal path to entry in the United States insurmountably difficult for well-meaning immigrants. This unarguably discourages innovation and economic growth. It has also created substantial visa backlogs which force families to live apart, which incentivizes illegal immigration.
? Our new immigration system must be more focused on recognizing the important characteristics which will help build the American economy and strengthen American families. Additionally, we must reduce backlogs in the family and employment visa categories so that future immigrants view our future legal immigration system as the exclusive means for entry into the United States.
? The United States must do a better job of attracting and keeping the world?s best and brightest. As such, our immigration proposal will award a green card to immigrants who have received a PhD or Master?s degree in science, technology, engineering, or math from an American university. It makes no sense to educate the world?s future innovators and entrepreneurs only to ultimately force them to leave our country at the moment they are most able to contribute to our economy.
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III. Strong Employment Verification
? We recognize that undocumented immigrants come to the United States almost exclusively for jobs. As such, dramatically reducing future illegal immigration can only be achieved by developing a tough, fair, effective and mandatory employment verification system. An employment verification system must hold employers accountable for knowingly hiring undocumented workers and make it more difficult for unauthorized immigrants to falsify documents to obtain employment. Employers who knowingly hire unauthorized workers must face stiff fines and criminal penalties for egregious offenses.
? We believe the federal government must provide U.S. employers with a fast and reliable method to confirm whether new hires are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is essential to ensure the effective enforcement of immigration laws.
? Our proposal will create an effective employment verification system which prevents identity theft and ends the hiring of future unauthorized workers. We believe requiring prospective workers to demonstrate both legal status and identity, through non-forgeable electronic means prior to obtaining employment, is essential to an employee verification system; and,
? The employee verification system in our proposal will be crafted with procedural safeguards to protect American workers, prevent identity theft, and provide due process protections.
IV. Admitting New Workers and Protecting Workers? Rights
? The overwhelming majority of the 327,000 illegal entrants apprehended by CBP in FY2011 were seeking employment in the United States. We recognize that to prevent future waves of illegal immigration a humane and effective system needs to be created for these immigrant workers to enter the country and find employment without seeking the aid of human traffickers or drug cartels.
? Our proposal will provide businesses with the ability to hire lower-skilled workers in a timely manner when Americans are unavailable or unwilling to fill those jobs.
? Our legislation would:
o Allow employers to hire immigrants if it can be demonstrated that they were unsuccessful in recruiting an American to fill an open position and the hiring of an immigrant will not displace American workers;
o Create a workable program to meet the needs of America?s agricultural industry, including dairy to find agricultural workers when American workers are not available to fill open positions;
o Allow more lower-skilled immigrants to come here when our economy is creating jobs, and fewer when our economy is not creating jobs;
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o Protect workers by ensuring strong labor protections; and,
o Permit workers who have succeeded in the workplace and contributed to their communities over many years to earn green cards.
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Biden: Virginia Tech Massacre Showed Background Checks Needed In Gun Control (VIDEO)
RICHMOND, Va. -- The 2007 Virginia Tech shooting illustrated the importance of strengthening background checks to ensure guns are not sold to people who cannot legally buy them, Vice President Joe Biden said Friday.
Biden spoke briefly to reporters after leading a two-hour roundtable discussion about what to do in the wake of the elementary school shooting last month in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 students and six adults dead. Also participating in the roundtable were Obama administration officials and a few people who served on a Virginia task force that made recommendations after the Tech shooting that left 32 dead ? the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.
"It's a national tragedy and a window into the vulnerability people feel about their safety and the safety of their children," Biden said of Newtown.
Much of the focus of the discussion, Biden said, was on improving mental health services and making sure records of those declared ineligible to own a gun are transmitted to the national databank for background checks. The group also discussed gun safety and trafficking, he said.
The meeting was held at Virginia Commonwealth University, less than two miles from a state Capitol where lawmakers in recent days have rejected the same gun control measures advocated by President Barack Obama: universal background checks and bans on combat-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, who was governor at the time of the Tech shooting, was among the participants in the closed-door meeting.
"We have the scar tissue of tragedy, but also reason to be hopeful," he said, pointing to changes Virginia made after the Tech massacre to become a national leader in reporting ineligible gun buyers to the background check database.
Biden did not discuss banning assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. Kaine told reporters later that he's open to the idea but wants to "make sure the definitions are right" in whatever legislation Congress considers.
He was more definitive in supporting universal background checks. The law already specifies who cannot own a gun, he said, and background checks are the only way to enforce the law.
"To be against background checks is to say you want people to have guns illegally," Kaine said.
Biden said the administration is planning similar roundtable discussions around the country.
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/biden-virginia-tech_n_2564593.html
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Poor sleep in old age prevents the brain from storing memories
Jan. 27, 2013 ? The connection between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration as we grow older has been elusive. But for the first time, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a link between these hallmark maladies of old age. Their discovery opens the door to boosting the quality of sleep in elderly people to improve memory.
Postdoctoral fellow, Bryce Mander, demonstrates how the sleep study was conducted.
UC Berkeley neuroscientists have found that the slow brain waves generated during the deep, restorative sleep we typically experience in youth play a key role in transporting memories from the hippocampus -- which provides short-term storage for memories -- to the prefrontal cortex's longer term "hard drive."
However, in older adults, memories may be getting stuck in the hippocampus due to the poor quality of deep 'slow wave' sleep, and are then overwritten by new memories, the findings suggest.
"What we have discovered is a dysfunctional pathway that helps explain the relationship between brain deterioration, sleep disruption and memory loss as we get older -- and with that, a potentially new treatment avenue," said UC Berkeley sleep researcher Matthew Walker, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at UC Berkeley and senior author of the study to be published Jan. 27, in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
The findings shed new light on some of the forgetfulness common to the elderly that includes difficulty remembering people's names.
"When we are young, we have deep sleep that helps the brain store and retain new facts and information," Walker said. "But as we get older, the quality of our sleep deteriorates and prevents those memories from being saved by the brain at night."
Healthy adults typically spend one-quarter of the night in deep, non-rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep. Slow waves are generated by the brain's middle frontal lobe. Deterioration of this frontal region of the brain in elderly people is linked to their failure to generate deep sleep, the study found.
The discovery that slow waves in the frontal brain help strengthen memories paves the way for therapeutic treatments for memory loss in the elderly, such as transcranial direct current stimulation or pharmaceutical remedies. For example, in an earlier study, neuroscientists in Germany successfully used electrical stimulation of the brain in young adults to enhance deep sleep and doubled their overnight memory.
UC Berkeley researchers will be conducting a similar sleep-enhancing study in older adults to see if it will improve their overnight memory. "Can you jumpstart slow wave sleep and help people remember their lives and memories better? It's an exciting possibility," said Bryce Mander, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at UC Berkeley and lead author of this latest study.
For the UC Berkeley study, Mander and fellow researchers tested the memory of 18 healthy young adults (mostly in their 20s) and 15 healthy older adults (mostly in their 70s) after a full night's sleep. Before going to bed, participants learned and were tested on 120 word sets that taxed their memories.
As they slept, an electroencephalographic (EEG) machine measured their brain wave activity. The next morning, they were tested again on the word pairs, but this time while undergoing functional and structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans.
In older adults, the results showed a clear link between the degree of brain deterioration in the middle frontal lobe and the severity of impaired "slow wave activity" during sleep. On average, the quality of their deep sleep was 75 percent lower than that of the younger participants, and their memory of the word pairs the next day was 55 percent worse.
Meanwhile, in younger adults, brain scans showed that deep sleep had efficiently helped to shift their memories from the short-term storage of the hippocampus to the long-term storage of the prefrontal cortex.
Co-authors of the study are William Jagust, Vikram Rao, Jared Saletin and John Lindquist of UC Berkeley; Brandon Lu of the California Pacific Medical Center and Sonia Ancoli-Israel of UC San Diego.
The research was funded by the National Institute of Aging of the National Institutes of Health.
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- Bryce A Mander, Vikram Rao, Brandon Lu, Jared M Saletin, John R Lindquist, Sonia Ancoli-Israel, William Jagust, Matthew P Walker. Prefrontal atrophy, disrupted NREM slow waves and impaired hippocampal-dependent memory in aging. Nature Neuroscience, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/nn.3324
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Magnitsky's mother thanks Obama for legislation
MOSCOW (AP) ? The mother of a whistle-blowing Russian lawyer who died in prison is thanking President Barack Obama for a U.S. law targeting Russian officials deemed to be human rights violators involved in her son's death.
Sergei Magnitsky died in jail of untreated pancreatitis in 2009 after accusing Russian officials of stealing $230 from the state. The case has angered both Russian activists and the West, and in December, the U.S. Congress passed legislation in Magnitsky's name, calling for sanctions against officials deemed to be connected with human rights abuses.
Natalya Magnitskaya said Thursday she is grateful to Obama for facilitating the adoption of the bill saying that it "will somehow keep my son's memory."
She also criticized Moscow's decision to bar Americans from adopting Russian children in retaliation.
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The trends I noticed at CHA?
I did finish up my CHA spotlights (aka favorites!) and such, but I wanted to type up one more piece sharing the trends I noticed at the show. I always think it is interesting to see what?s happening and what seems to be hot at the moment. Oh, I don?t necessarily follow the trends, but I do admit that in my own crafting I do have things that pop up a lot now ? and won?t six months from now. I think it?s just all part of the creative process. Anyhow ? here?s what I noticed:
Designer lines
I believe we?ll see is the continued rise of the ?designer? lines. Oh yes I?know that this isn?t technically something new and that often we know the face behind the product?design (Tim Holtz, Claudine Hellmuth, and Heidi Swapp come immediately to mind) ? however I feel like?more companies are reaching out to well known crafters and doing signature lines within their brand. Yes, companies we already know and love are teaming up with amazingly talented (and well known) crafters to produce signature lines. With Crate Paper?s Maggie Holmes line, and Webster?s Pages teaming up with Allison Kreft (two of the most talked about lines of the show) I would not be surprised if we see even more special partnerships and designer names on lines at future shows. Finnabair for Prima, Dear Lizzy and Amy Tangerine for American Crafts ? there were more than ever before at this show ? and more importantly they were many of my top picks as well!
Dies
Are dies easy to manufacture? I?m asking because stamp companies, paper companies ? heck it seemed like many companies are coming out with their own dies now. The majority of these are the super thin dies that will work in a Sizzix Big Shot (or other similar die cutting manual machine). I?m wondering if they are the new clear stamp. Remember when EVERYONE made clear stamps to go with their lines?
Feathers
Putting birds on things has been around a while, and feathers aren?t brand new, but I do see them taking many more forms and being very popular at this show. Will they work great for spring? Be lovely on Easter pages? we shall see!
Insta/phone/polaroid love
Cameras have always been a common theme that we see, but one big trend at this show was polaroid-like paper frames, camera images, and even (Crate Paper) overlays for your pictures that will give instagram-like filters to your photos. More items are being made suitable for square and/or smaller photos and it seems like manufacturers are trying to make sure printed square pics from apps like hipstsamatic or instagram have a nice pretty place to rest in our scrapbooks. I was happy to see cameras in the form of stamps, papers, and even as booth decorations!
One big happy family
Are you exclusively a card maker? Do you only do a very specific look and type of project? Well, that?s fine. But don?t expect to have your crafty world remain an exclusive bubble. The days of separation are over ? there is no longer a ?card maker? or ?scrapbooker? or ?stamper? industry. It is most definitely a paper crafting world. I overheard a woman making a barbed comment about ?ugh, scrapbookers? and I just bit my tongue! Because I don?t think she realizes- embracing all forms of crafting is the way of the future. Don?t judge! Just do your thing and have fun lady.
In order to survive companies products appeal to a broad range of types of crafters. Oh, styles (such as whimsical, grungy, shabby chic?) still apply, but there isn?t the ?we are a scrapbooking company? or ?we make products for card makers? type separation that used to be so very strong. I feel like this is what will really help companies that are still in business ? and this year the show floor had NO separation of types of booths it was all mixed together. Which just reinforces that?we are all?in the wonderful hobby of crafting together.
Party Time:
I think this one is partly because using paper craft supplies to make DIY home decor and party decorations and favors has long been a thing that we crafters do. But I also believe it is also influenced by the pinterest effect. What do I mean? So many party and DIY and creative goodness can be found all over pinterest ? and I think that it has inspired companies to show off how their products can be used that way (Brenda Walton for Sizzix and the Pebbles Inc booth both did incredible with this!) and also the success of Martha Stewart Crafts items I believe has sparked some manufacturers into creating products that can be used for parties as well.
Pie
As in charts. Yeah, I noticed pie charts springing up in die cut, stencil, and I think even paper form. I came home with a cute little pie chart die, I?ll be using that and sharing more soon. I kind of like it ? reminds me of the sunburst trend in a way and cound certainly be used that way. We shall see.
Rub-ons making a come back?
Jenni Bowlin and Tim Holtz both offered rub-ons this show ? as did American Crafts (Dear Lizzy line) and many others. Are the once favorite product coming back? I felt like they went away because of their definite shelf life and because if not made well they can be a disaster. Will they stick this time around?
Silhouette inspired cuts:
In 2012 I saw so many amazing cuts from the Silhouette Cameo that I am seriously considering buying myself one. Now I wonder ? do I need to? I saw TONS of die cut pre-made products that reminded me of things I?d seen cut from a electronic machine. Dear Lizzy?s line for American Crafts had some notable ones, as did Allison Kreft (Webster?s Pages), Basic Grey,?and other companies too.
Washi mania:
Whether it?s actual washi, tissue tape, masking-like tape or whatever ? tape is EVERYWHERE and by everyone. Seriously more companies had some tape than not.
My friend Melissa noticed an emerging hot trend (which I will not mention here as she?s not blogged about it yet!) that I?m excited about ? more on that some other time!??Those are the trends I noticed this show ? what have you noticed?
Source: http://mayflaum.com/2013/01/25/the-trends-i-noticed-at-cha/
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Fitness Tip Video: Chair Yoga Demonstration | A Weight Lifted
So, you want to try yoga. But, the classes might intimidate you. Maybe you?re afraid everyone else might be more advanced. Or you just don?t think you?ll be able to do the poses. Have you considered starting with chair yoga?
According to Arthritis Today, a small but growing number of yoga centers offer chair yoga, which includes relaxation exercises and yoga moves while seated in a chair or wheelchair, and many yoga instructors are able and willing to modify regular poses for people with limited mobility. Classes sometimes include a few standing poses where participants use their chairs as props to help stabilize them as they stretch.
?If done correctly, modified yoga brings the same physical, mental and spiritual health benefits as regular yoga ? helping to prevent muscle loss, improve joint stability and diminish pain and stiffness,? says Steffany Haaz, a research associate and certified movement analyst with Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center, Baltimore.
At Green Mountain, our fitness program meets participants where they are today. We have a yoga class that exclusively teaches poses from a chair, and other yoga classes welcome you to use a chair if that?s what you need.
In today?s Fitness Friday video, our lovely fitness intern Melissa demonstrates several seated poses. We suggest watching and trying them to see if you like it. And then, if you want more, here are a few videos recommended by Arthritis Today:
Liz Franklin?s Yoga in Chairs (set of three videos, $24.95 each; www.yogainchairs.com)
Sitting Fit, Anytime: Easy and Effective Chair Yoga with Susan Winter Ward ($19.95; www.yogaheart.com)
Carol Dickman?s Seated Yoga ($19.95; www.stretch.com)
E-mail readers, head over to the blog to view the video.
Source: http://www.fitwoman.com/blog/chair-yoga-demonstration
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Sony releases Jelly Bean alpha for Xperia T
The official Sony Xperia T Jelly Bean update might still be a few months away, but in order to give developers a sneak peek at what's ahead, Sony has released an early alpha ROM for the device. The Xperia T Jelly Bean alpha can be flashed using Sony's own flash tool, after unlocking the Xperia T via the official bootloader unlock utility.
A few caveats apply here -- radio functionality like Bluetooth, Wifi and mobile data is not included (likely for regulatory reasons), nor are Google apps. In addition, Sony says the UI has not yet been updated to reflect the final look and feel of the Xperia Jelly Bean firmware -- i.e. what's on the new Xperia Z. And crucially, if you unlock your Xperia T and apply this alpha ROM, you won't be able to update to the official Jelly Bean firmware once it's released. So this ROM really is one for advanced users and adventurous devs only.
Hopefully today's release will accelerate the progress of Jelly Bean-based custom ROMs for the Xperia T. If nothing else, we'd expect this to be hacked into something with working radios and Google Apps in a relatively short space of time. If you possess both a Sony Xperia T and a strong sense of adventure, you can find full instructions over at the source link.
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Japan envoy says territory disputes with China can be resolved
BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan believes tensions with China fanned by a dispute over a group of uninhabited islands can be resolved, a special envoy from Tokyo said on Friday after meeting China's president-in-waiting, Xi Jinping.
Natsuo Yamaguchi, head of New Komeito, the junior partner in Japan's ruling coalition, said Japan will take a broad view in dialogue with Beijing to resolve the dispute between the world's second- and third-largest economies, which has escalated in recent weeks.
"Japan wishes to pursue ties with China while looking at the big picture," Yamaguchi told reporters after his meeting with Xi, the chief of China's ruling Communist Party who is set to take over as president in March.
"I firmly believe our differences with China can be resolved," Yamaguchi said, adding that he did not directly discuss the islands issue with Xi.
Japan's nationalization in September of some of the islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, sparked violent anti-Japanese protests across China. Some Japanese businesses were looted and Japanese citizens attacked.
Japanese manufacturers reported considerably lower sales in China in the following months.
Japanese military planes have in recent weeks been scrambled numerous times against Chinese planes approaching airspace over the islands.
Chinese planes have been shadowing Japanese aircraft elsewhere over the East China Sea and patrol vessels from the two countries have played a game of cat-and-mouse near the islands.
Yamaguchi said he delivered a letter to Xi from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
"We agreed that it is important to continue dialogue with the aim of holding a Japan-China summit between the two leaders," he said, though no specific details were given.
While Yamaguchi has no formal position in the government, he is leader of relatively dovish New Komeito, which joined the Liberal Democratic Party in its return to power last month. LDP leader Abe became prime minister.
China insists the islands are its territory and that it will brook no dispute over the matter.
The islands were put under Japan's control in 1895 and were part of the post-World War Two U.S. military occupation zone from 1945-72. They were then returned to Tokyo by U.S. authorities in a decision China and Taiwan later contested.
China has asked the United Nations to consider later this year the scientific validity of its claim over the islands as a natural extension of its continental shelf under a U.N. convention.
Japan says the world body should not be involved.
(Reporting by Terril Yue Jones, writing by Michael Martina,; editing by Jonathan Standing and Ron Popeski)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/japan-envoy-says-territory-disputes-china-resolved-051640143--business.html
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Time for Global Learner Voice | Royal Reports
Education Fast Forward (#eff6 on Twitter) is a worldwide education and Student Learner Voice movement I?ve been following and sharing with students, educators and administrators. They run regularly scheduled global debates co-moderated by students. The latest debate, #EFF6, takes place January 28, 2012. It will be live streamed 11 a.m. (GMT), so make sure to check your time zone difference. The live video streaming set-ups, by Cisco Education, for students around the world, are amazingly crisp and clear quality. Promethean, a global education company, has been a driving learning force, and has supported Education Fast Forward and?Learner Voice from the start.
The great thing about the event is that anyone attending the live streaming can participate through chat and social media. My choice has been Twitter, and I?ve found the organizers extremely responsive in presenting my questions and thoughts to the student and adult panelists. For more on #EFF6, the Education Fast Forward debate, you can download a #EFF6 Agenda PDF and learn about guest presenters, where you can also learn a bit about TakingITGlobal. And if you can?t attend the live video streaming, use the links in this post to check back for the archived event. This experience, live or archived, really is something worth sharing in class with your students, as well as at a faculty meeting?or other education leadership meetings.
Teachers using technology with students need to think globally. By that I mean reference the world, beyond just local, in class practice and daily conversation. Notice that I said ?daily? and not just during a specific class or specific geography or citizenship lesson. Along with that, educators should give students what my UK educator colleagues refer to as Learner Voice.
So what is Learner Voice? Well, it?s when learners/students actually take control of their own learning, and help shape that learning. Now, that can be an amazing leap for many educators, especially those who have never taught away from the front of the room, and never relinquished the education stage to students.
Learning should be, after all, not about what the teacher knows and can present?anymore. It is certainly not about what the student can restate from the recitation of the teacher, either. If you ask a student to talk intelligently on topic, today, appropriately, technologically equipped students have a tremendous advantage. As an educator, you don?t have all the knowledge; a textbook or reference book, no matter how recent won?t either. Students get this without us telling them. Educators, who can do this, empower students.
Students know they can get more recent information using a laptop, a tablet, or a smartphone. Teachers know, or should know, that the information they?re getting may not be completely accurate. Now, that?s where the teaching is. I believe it has always been there?since the slate and chalkboard times, but today all educators, and not just the Library Media Specialist, are on point when it comes to helping students interpret digital information.
Students, who at one time, may have completely turned off and tuned out?aren?t. Instead, they continue to seek opportunities to learn?outside the classroom?and in areas not part of a district?s prescribed curricula. Today, these students are becoming a force for education change. Technology makes it possible for students in all parts of the world to band together seeking their Learner Voice. Get your students, staff, and community involved in the debate.
Source: http://www.royalreports.com/2013/01/24/time-for-global-learner-voice/
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Jets name Mornhinweg, Thurman as coordinators
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updated 12:29 p.m. ET Jan. 24, 2013
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) - New York Jets coach Rex Ryan has officially announced the expected hirings of Marty Mornhinweg as his offensive coordinator and Dennis Thurman as the team's defensive coordinator.
Ryan also announced Thursday that David Lee was hired as the team's quarterbacks coach, replacing Matt Cavanaugh, and Tim McDonald will be the Jets' defensive backs coach.
Mornhinweg, who replaced the fired Tony Sparano, was an assistant for 10 years with the Philadelphia Eagles, including the last seven as offensive coordinator.
Thurman was promoted from defensive backs coach, and replaces Mike Pettine, who was hired as Buffalo's defensive coordinator.
Lee, most recently the Bills' quarterbacks coach, played a key role in establishing Miami's wildcat offense a few years ago. McDonald, a former NFL safety, was Fresno State's secondary coach last season.
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Chennai: Indias Second Largest Shipping Hub
Chennai is a pretty old city, almost 370 years old and is also the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu which lies in the southern part of the country. This metropolitan city is the sixth most populous city of the country and its population stands close to 7.5 million. Chennai is well known as one of the important gateways to the southern part of the country. The art and culture scene of Chennai is rich. The place is also turning into one of the leading medical tourism destinations in the whole country. Also, this city is one of the fastest growing cities in the entire world. But Chennai obviously is not very concerned about its cleanliness. In the context of cleanliness, it ranks 13th in the world. Chennai also has the longest beach fronts in the world. The city is also a coastal city and that is why it remains hot and humid for most part of the year. The weather of Chennai is such that even in winters if you try wearing winter garments you will certainly sweat profusely. Basically its a very tropical kind of weather. The local language of the region is Tamil and it is important that a person staying in Chennai learns the language because auto rickshaw drivers are not very cooperative unless you know the local language. The Tamil language is a rather difficult language and is also a very ancient one. The period of the year from December to March are probably the best time to visit this part of the country since the city is extremely hot at other times of the year.
The international airport of Chennai is known as Chennai International Airport and it has two terminals- one for domestic flights and one for international flights. This airport is the third busiest airport in the whole country. The two airport terminals are located a distance of 150 kilometers from each other.
Also, Chennai is known as a very important shipping center of India. In fact, the city takes care of a huge percentage of its cargo traffic. Another important fact about Chennai is that it is a leading name in the IT market of India and houses many multinational companies in the region. Swimming in Chennais beaches is not allowed because of the strong undercurrents of the water although Chennai does have many beaches. Taking a peaceful walk along the beautiful beaches of Goa will surely relax your soul. Marina Beach is a very famous beach in this Tamil Nadu city. It is in fact the second longest city beach in the world. There are many trains and buses that connect Chennai properly with its neighbouring regions.
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Source: http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Chennai--India---s-Second-Largest-Shipping-Hub/4396200
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