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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
First Immigration Bill to Be Announced Within the Week
The immigration debate is entering a new phase, ABC News has learned, as the bipartisan group known as the Gang of Eight is poised to introduce preliminary legislation within the next week.
The eight senators met Tuesday afternoon with Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and moved closer to sorting through the lingering issues between Democrats and Republicans. Leahy plans to hold the first hearing soon after the legislation is introduced, officials say, and has pledged to have unlimited debate and amendments during the committee discussion.
The Republican members of the group intend to explain the legislation to the full Republican conference on Wednesday.
Republicans plan to ask for as much time as possible to debate the bill, aides said. The Judiciary Committee is not expected to start "marking up" the bill until the week of May 6.
Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican who is a member of the immigration group, is calling for multiple public hearings to debate the legislation.
"Senator Rubio has said from the outset that we will not rush this process, and that begins at the committee level," Alex Conant, a spokesman for Rubio, told ABC News. "The Judiciary Committee must have plenty of time to debate and improve the bipartisan group's proposal, so it's good that senators and the public will have weeks to study this proposal before the Judiciary Committee will mark it up."
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Apple said to be ditching Samsung in favor of TSMC for A7 CPU
The fact that Apple relies upon Samsung, its arch-rival, for a healthy amount of its components, is one of the biggest paradoxes in the tech industry. Still, if The Korea Times is to believed, the unhappy marriage between the two could rapidly be heading towards a divorce. While Apple has previously splashed out several billion per year on Samsung components, the newspaper is suggesting that Cupertino will turn to TSMC to produce its next generation of mobile CPUs -- a rumor that's been making the rounds recently. It's source, and executive at one of Samsung's partners, claims the manufacturer has been cut out of development of the A7 CPU, adding a little bit more credence to those claims. What's more, the same source reports that TSMC is gearing up its 20-nanometer production line to crank out the hardware ready for 2014.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Obama's domestic agenda on the line this week
FILE - In this April 5, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama's second term is on the line, with gun control and immigration in the spotlight on Capitol Hill this week and the White House releasing his long-delayed budget proposal. His victories or defeats will help define his legacy and determine how much political capital he has for the rest of his term. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
FILE - In this April 5, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama's second term is on the line, with gun control and immigration in the spotlight on Capitol Hill this week and the White House releasing his long-delayed budget proposal. His victories or defeats will help define his legacy and determine how much political capital he has for the rest of his term. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Copies of President Barack Obama's proposed federal budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are prepared for delivery at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington, Monday, April 8, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Barack Obama hugs Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, accompanied by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., left, after Obama arrived at Bradley Air Force Base, Conn., Monday, April 8, 2013. Obama is traveling to the Hartford, Conn., to speak at the University of Hartford, near the state capitol where last week the governor signed into law some of the nation's strictest gun control laws with the Sandy Hook families standing behind him. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Barack Obama, followed by, from second from left, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., walks down the steps of Air Force One at Bradley Air Force Base, Conn., Monday, April 8, 2013. Obama traveled to the Hartford, Conn., to speak at the University of Hartford, near the state capitol where last week the governor signed into law some of the nation's strictest gun control laws with the Sandy Hook families standing behind him. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama's second-term agenda will be robustly tested this week, with gun control and immigration in the spotlight on Capitol Hill and the White House releasing his long-delayed budget blueprint. In a taste of what lies ahead, Democratic gun legislation arrived on the Senate floor Monday ? facing an aggressive Republican effort to block it.
In an era of deep partisanship and divided government, Obama knows he won't get everything he wants on the three big issues as he seeks to capitalize on the national support that brought him re-election. But the scope of his victories or defeats on these issues will in part define his legacy and determine how much political capital he retains for his final four years in office.
"This is his best chance to set up the next 3? years where he's the pace car," said Sara Taylor Fagen, who served as political director for President George W. Bush.
But much of what happens during this pivotal period is out of the president's direct control. Members of Congress will largely determine whether his proposals to deal with gun ownership, revamp broken immigration laws and reduce the federal budget deficit gain traction.
Lawmakers, back in Washington after a two-week recess, are expected to take significant steps on some of the issues this week. A bipartisan group of senators could unveil highly anticipated immigration legislation by the end of the week. And Democrats brought a gun-control bill to the Senate floor Monday afternoon amid a threat from conservative Republicans to use delaying tactics to prevent formal debate from even beginning.
Obama himself flew to Connecticut for a new gun-control speech, and he was bringing relatives of Newtown shooting victims back to Washington on Air Force One to lobby members of Congress.
"The day Newtown happened was the toughest day of my presidency," Obama said Monday. "But I've got to tell you, if we don't respond to this, that'll be a tough day for me, too. Because we've got to expect more from ourselves. We've got to expect more from Congress."
In the midst of all that, Obama will release his 2014 budget, which already is drawing opposition from both parties ahead of its Wednesday publication. Republicans oppose Obama's calls for new tax hikes, and many of the president's fellow Democrats balk at his proposals for smaller annual increases in Social Security and other federal benefit programs.
The White House tried to play down the significance of the week's overlapping events to the president's broader objectives, with Obama spokesman Jay Carney saying the administration is always trying to move forward on "the business of the American people."
Said Carney: "Every one of these weeks is full of the possibility for progress on a range of fronts."
But Obama's advisers know the window for broad legislative victories is narrower for a second-term president. Political posturing is already underway for the 2014 midterm elections, which will consume Congress next year. And once those votes for a new Congress are cast, Washington's attention turns to the race to succeed Obama.
Patrick Griffin, who served as White House legislative director under President Bill Clinton, said Obama's legislative efforts this year are likely to be the "sum and substance" of his second-term agenda.
"I think it would be very tough to put another item on the agenda on his own terms," said Griffin, adding that unexpected events could force other issues to the fore.
On both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, the outcome of the debate over gun measures is perhaps the most uncertain. The White House and Congress had little appetite for tackling the emotional issue during Obama's first term, but December's horrific elementary school massacre in Connecticut thrust gun control to the forefront of the president's second-term agenda.
If a bill does reach Obama's desk this year, it will be far weaker than what he first proposed. An assault weapons ban appears all but dead, and a prohibition on ammunition magazines carrying over 10 rounds, also supported by the president, seems unlikely to survive.
The White House is largely pinning its hopes on a significant expansion of background checks for gun buyers, but the prospects for such a measure are far from certain, despite widespread public support. The best chance at a deal appears to rest on eleventh-hour talks between Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and conservative Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
The White House is far more confident about the prospects for a sweeping immigration deal that could provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of people who now are in the country, tighten border security and crack down on businesses that employ people illegally. But the president is treading carefully on the sensitive issues, wary of disrupting a bipartisan Senate working group that has been laboriously crafting a bill.
The group of four Republicans and four Democrats could unveil that legislation as early as this week, a pivotal development that would open months of debate. While the growing political power of Hispanics may have softened the ground for passage, significant hurdles remain.
Looming over Obama's entire domestic agenda is the economy, including the deficit deal that has long eluded him. The budget Obama will release Wednesday proposes spending cuts and revenue increases that would project $1.8 trillion in deficit reductions over 10 years.
That would replace $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts that are poised to take effect over the next 10 years if Congress and the president don't come up with an alternative.
Seeking to soften bipartisan opposition to his budget proposals, Obama will dine Wednesday night with a dozen Republican senators, part of the broader charm offensive he launched in recent weeks.
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91% Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience
All Critics (90) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (90) | Rotten (8) | DVD (38)
The enthralling man-vs.-nature parable based on the late Michael Crichton's best-selling novel hasn't aged one bit.
The 3-D process adds not just dimension but depth - a technological extension of cinematographer Gregg Toland's deep-focus innovations in The Grapes of Wrath and Citizen Kane. The change in perspective creates greater intensity.
I'm a fan of this movie. It is thrilling, and the 3-D treatment is a nice enhancement.
This movie doesn't just stand the test of time, it transcends it.
"Jurassic Park" remains an absolute thrill from a Spielberg in top form: Funny, scary, fast-moving and full of just-right details.
"Jurassic Park" was impressive in 1993. Twenty years later, it's flawless.
Jurassic Park shows us a director in transition, and the film captures his transformation in its own kind of cinematic amber.
[The] 3D [conversion] provides the definitive version of this classic film. Jurassic Park has been transformed with with artistry, nuance and sophistication, and it's an absolute must-see during this brief run.
The 3D effects had me nearly jumping out of my seat. Some say Hollywood is converting too many old films to 3D. But, "Jurassic Park" was the perfect choice. There's nothing more fun than sharing a seat with a snapping dinosaur.
Spielberg treats us as he does his characters, leading us into a strange land and expecting us to make it out with all our faculties intact; it's a tall order, given the heart-stopping, bloodcurdling, limbs-numbing excitement packed into the second hour.
It is as if time has passed the movie by. "Jurassic Park" remains solid entertainment, but the awe and wonder have faded.
The thrill of seeing live dinosaurs on screen is not as acute today as it was 20 years ago admittedly, but there is still some 3D awe left in the creations that roared 65 billion years ago...
The 3D isn't pushed on the audience, but it does reveal the amount of depth that Spielberg actually put into the film 20 years ago.
While it's not the most profound of Spielberg's works or the most entertaining from a popcorn perspective, it's one of the most technically flawless movies he's ever produced.
Jurassic Park 3D is like being reunited with an old friend; an old friend that wants to eat you and maul you to death, but still. A classic is reborn in glorious IMAX with a vibrantly stunning use of 3D.
If releasing the film in 3-D is the only way to get it back in theaters, then the gimmick is an acceptable addition. The 3-D is good. But when a movie is this near flawless, nothing is needed to make it better.
The 3D conversion ruins everything, like the comet that killed the dinosaurs, making Jurassic Park the rare amusement I'd prefer to revisit at home.
A beast of a movie is gifted a superfluous-but-superb rouging of the cheeks, offering fanatics something new to study while newcomers will be ruined for any future television airings.
The tasteful Jurassic Park 3D conversion injects new wonder and excitement into one of the most captivating adventure movies ever made.
There is nothing like experiencing this fabulous, larger-than-life, groundbreaking movie where it was meant to be experienced. And in 3D!
This is an immensely entertaining film, as long as you can overlook the many minor flaws that permeate its structure. (Complete Content Details for Parents also available)
But really, what makes "Jurassic Park" great is that it is a Steven-Spielberg-master-class in constructing action set-pieces.
Only time can tell which movies become classics. No matter how many Ds you see it in, it's safe to say that this one has earned the label.
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Monday, April 8, 2013
NY Renewable Energy Study Finds New York Could Soon Be Powered By Wind, Water And Sunlight
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? A new study says New York could get the power it needs from wind, water and sunlight by 2030 with a concerted push, though the state's decade-long effort to significantly boost green energy shows how challenging that could be.
The study, led by researchers from Stanford and Cornell universities, provides a theoretical road map to how New Yorkers could rely on renewable energy within 17 years. It would require massive investments in wind turbines, solar panels and more from the windy shores off Long Island to sun-exposed rooftops upstate.
"It's doable," said co-author Robert Howarth, a Cornell professor of ecology and environmental biology. "It's way outside of the realm of what most people are talking about ... But I think people have been too pessimistic about what can be done."
In fact, New York has been committed to significantly increasing green energy production for the past nine years under its renewable portfolio standard, which is funded by a surcharge of less than a dollar on monthly electricity bills. Then-Gov. George Pataki began the program in 2004 with the goal of New York relying on renewable resources for a quarter of its electricity by 2013.
That goal, tweaked three years ago, is now for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to support the production of about 10.4 million megawatt-hours of energy from hydro, wind, solar, biomass and landfill gas annually by 2015. The authority reported this week that it was 46 percent of the way to the goal at the end of last year.
The goal could lead to roughly 30 percent renewables by 2015, once clean-energy purchases by consumers and resources added by the Long Island Power Authority are factored in.
With two years to go, clean energy advocates say it will be difficult for New York to hit the 2015 renewable target. But they believe the larger point is that New York is making progress.
"To me, the long-term commitment to continue to invest in resources is more important than the particular target you set," said Valerie Strauss, interim executive director of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York, a group that represents renewable energy interests.
Looking at energy generated in New York, which excludes imported power that can be used for the energy authority's targets, about 20 percent came from hydro, which includes decades-old projects along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers. Wind accounted for 2 percent, and other renewable sources accounted for another 2 percent, according to 2011 figures from the operators of the state's power grid.
"Exclusive of hydropower, the state has developed more renewable energy than any other state in the Northeast," said authority spokeswoman Kate Muller. "Including hydropower, New York's renewable energy capacity is comparable to the entire renewable energy capacity of the other eight states in the Northeast."
New York has made a lot of progress in harnessing wind power, jumping from 48 megawatts of wind capacity in 2004 to more than 1,600 megawatts now, including large-scale development on the windy Tug Hill Plateau east of Lake Ontario.
The university researchers say half of the state's renewable power in 2030 could come from wind, mostly from 12,700 off-shore turbines. But wind power demonstrates some of the challenges of swapping out fossil fuels for green energy.
Industry watchers say wind development slowed down when the economy soured and natural gas prices dropped. There's also uncertainty over the future of a federal tax credit for wind installations.
Offshore wind farms can be particularly costly and controversial. The New York Power Authority in 2011 nixed a plan to put up to 150 turbines offshore between Buffalo and Chautauqua County, citing costs. The authority is now working with downstate power providers to explore the feasibility of wind turbines off the shore of Long Island.
Clean energy advocates point out the switchover to renewables often has less to do with available technology and more to do with market forces and political choices.
"It depends on the political will we can muster and our ability to invest in these resources," said Katherine Kennedy, of Natural Resources Defense Council.
Strauss said an important step would be for the state to extend its renewable program beyond 2015. The state will consider the program's future as part of a review this year.
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Reducing waste of food: A key element in feeding billions more people
Apr. 7, 2013 ? Families can be key players in a revolution needed to feed the world, and could save money by helping to cut food losses now occurring from field to fork to trash bin, an expert said in New Orleans on April 7. He described that often-invisible waste in food -- 4 out of every 10 pounds produced in the United States alone -- and the challenges of feeding a global population of 9 billion in a keynote talk at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.
"We will need another 'Green Revolution' to feed the world by 2050," said John Floros, Ph.D., referring to the development of high-yield, disease-resistant breeds of grain and other agricultural innovations that took root in the 1960s. "That will mean scientific innovations, such as new strains of the big three grains -- rice, wheat and corn -- adapted for a changing climate and other conditions. It also will require action to reduce a terrible waste of food that gets too little attention."
Floros cited estimates that in many developing countries up to half of the food harvested from farmers' fields is lost before reaching consumers. He is dean of the College of Agriculture at Kansas State University. That waste can occur due to spoilage from improper storage of grain during transportation or from pests. Rats and mice alone eat or spoil 20 percent of the world's food supply due to contamination with their urine and feces.
"A different kind of waste occurs in the United States and some other developed countries," Floros said. "Developed countries have much more efficient systems for preserving, storing, transporting and protecting food from spoilage and pests. But as a nation -- households, supermarkets, restaurants, other food-service providers -- we throw away about 4 out of every 10 pounds of food produced each year."
Government studies show, for instance, that the average family in the United States throws away 20 pounds of food a month, more than $2,000 worth every year for a family of four. It includes food that has gone uneaten and spoiled in refrigerators and on pantry shelves, as well as food that people throw away after cooking. Uneaten food actually rivals paper, plastic and other refuse as the No. 1 material in some municipal landfills.
Scientists know that food waste in landfills, for instance, releases methane gas as it decomposes. Methane is about 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas that fosters global warming. Floros pointed out that reducing food waste would contribute to solving other great global challenges that society faces in the 21st century, beyond feeding a booming population. Wasting food wastes the freshwater needed to grow it, at a time when 1.2 billion people lack access to clean water. It also wastes energy, fertilizers, pesticides and other resources used in the food supply.
Supplying more food, however, is only part of the challenge, Floros emphasized. "Millions of people in some developing countries are becoming more affluent. In the past, people were satisfied with food that filled them up and sustained life. Increasingly, they will demand food that is convenient to prepare, certified as safe and highly nutritious and tastes good."
He cited the People's Republic of China as an example. The middle class in China is now larger than the U.S. population and is increasing in size year by year. And people in China are now consuming almost 3 times as much meat compared to a few decades ago. Demand for convenience foods also is rising with the growth of the urban population.
Several other food-related challenges lie ahead, Floros pointed out. Water, for instance, is becoming scarcer, as is fertile farmland. Global climate change may stress those resources even further. The demand for sustainable energy may divert more cropland to production of crops for biofuel production. Economic conditions threaten less investment in agricultural research and development. Drought and other extreme weather could impact food production. And consumption of too much food and less nutritious foods underpins epidemics in obesity and type 2 diabetes.
"We're not doing enough to resolve these complex issues that are critical for providing 9-10 billion people with a nutritious diet," said Floros. "Consumers, industry, universities and governments all need to pitch in. The first step is more awareness of these issues and the need for action on multiple levels of society."
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
Republican senator sees Obama budget offer as positive
By Mark Felsenthal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday became the first prominent Republican to publicly praise, however lukewarmly, the budget proposal the White House outlined last week.
Graham said that while he believes President Barack Obama's plan is overall bad for the economy, "there are nuggets of his budget that I think are optimistic," and that could set the stage for a broad bargain to put the nation's finances on a stronger footing. He was speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" program.
Graham, a conservative who has deviated from party positions in the past, and has said he would consider raising up to $600 billion in new tax revenue if Democrats accept significant changes to Medicare, the government health program for elderly Americans, and Medicaid, the health safety net for low-income people.
The White House on Friday said the president would propose a budget that would offer cuts to so-called entitlement programs such as Social Security, a retirement program, and Medicare in exchange for increased tax revenues and a commitment to spend money on education and infrastructure repair.
Obama's proposal, which will formally be made public on Wednesday, is a symbolic document, and both the Senate and House of Representatives have already passed their own budget resolutions.
The president's aides have said he hopes to use the offer to appeal to enough middle-of-the-road lawmakers of both parties to pass a broad deal to reduce the budget deficit.
Obama also hopes to reverse the deep spending cuts that automatically kicked in March 1 as a result of the failure of the White House and Congress to reach an agreement on replacing them.
Graham's reception of the president's budget proposal is warmer than his fellow Republicans and some of the president's own allies have accorded it so far.
House Speaker John Boehner said last week the president was ignoring Republicans' staunch opposition to any tax hikes. And independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who votes with the Democrats, said he would oppose any efforts to lower payments to Social Security beneficiaries.
In an illustration of the difficulty the president will have retaining support among his fellow party members, a House Democrat said the president's plan risks splintering the party's loyalties.
"We need to be solid. We need to indicate to the administration this is a non-starter in the House," Representative Raul Grijalva of New Mexico said on MSNBC.
Graham said that the president's offer contained approaches to cutting spending that he supports. One is the proposal to index cost-of-living increases for government program benefits to a less-generous measure of inflation.
"The president is showing a little bit of leg here, this is somewhat encouraging," Graham said. "His overall budget's not going to make it, but he has sort of made a step forward in the entitlement-reform process that would allow a guy like me to begin to talk about flattening the tax code and generating more revenue."
Obama has invited 12 Republican senators for dinner on the day of the budget release as part of an effort to soften resistance among the opposition political party.
"The president's focus, in addition to the regular order process that members of Congress say they want, is to try to find a caucus of common sense, folks who are willing to compromise, that don't think compromise is a dirty word, and try to get something done," White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer said on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" program.
(Reporting By Aruna Viswanatha and Philip Barbara, writing by Mark Felsenthal)
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Student Blogger: Taylor, Spring 2013 ? Rome
Student Blogger: Taylor, Spring 2013 ? Rome
This month in Rome has been crazy and filled with travel. SAI took us to Tuscany to visit some wonderful small Italian towns such as Orvieto. The church in Orvieto was the most breathtaking church I?ve been to in Europe. The towns looked just how I?ve always imagined Italy, small back alley streets with looming buildings and vines crawling up all the ledges of windows. I also went to Prague for a weekend with a student travel company. The bus ride was extremely long, but the area was straight out of a fairytale with ancient churches, snowy riverside buildings, and the dark, merchant filled Charles Bridge.
In Rome, I got the opportunity to volunteer at a refugee center with a student club named STAND, which is an anti-genocide club. I served breakfast and passed out toiletry items to men from countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, and all over northern Africa. Trying to give out shower gel and socks to people that didn?t speak English was certainly a game of charades. I also taught English for a few hours with another American student, and the men were so curious and kind. When we were going over the colors, trying to find items around the room was entertaining to say the least. The center is only a day center, so a lot of the men who come are homeless and very appreciative of the area to relax and be out of the weather outside.
My Rome Modern City class, a sociology class, takes me to different neighborhoods of the city such as Monti and Esquilino, and I always find really unique places to eat and shop. On my way to class in Esquilino, which is mostly an immigrant neighborhood, my friend Joey and I stopped for lunch at a Chinese restaurant. It was the first Chinese I?ve had outside of America, so it was a great break from all the pasta. We also went into the Esquilino open air market during class, and I found black beans, which have been hard to find at the grocery store to make enchiladas. They also had delicious dried fruit, and everything was inexpensive.
I?ve been starting to jog around the city in the mornings. It?s a great feeling to finally be comfortable in Rome. I know which buses to take, where to eat, neat places for spices and gifts, and hole in the wall venues for shows. My dad is coming to visit in the next week, so I?m looking forward to taking him to all the tourist things as well as off the beaten path places for dinner. In March, I?m headed to Amsterdam and the Amalfi coast!
Taylor, University of South Carolina
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin appears to have been pranked by Google employees, according to info shared on the Tesla Motors Club forum. This image of the Google bigwig's fancy Tesla Model S roadster, with some aftermarket additions, popped up today on Twitter. Note the sweet "Chrome" rims it's rolling on, if you can pull your eyes away from the hot pink color scheme, long beautiful eyelashes and Batman iconography.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/29rkTVIdS8g/
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Tips For Offline Dating
Are you tired of online dating? Everyone's doing it these days, but like any endeavor you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. Here are lots of offline ideas you can try to find new friend, a date for Friday night, or maybe even the love of your life!
First let's review a few tips to make each of these ideas work.
Success Tips to Keep in Mind:
Have a simple goal of making new friends. Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Seek to find a great friend and see where things lead.
Conversation success tip: Be interested in others and ask lots of questions.
Ways to Find a Date Offline:
Host a "White Elephant" party for singles. The idea is everyone who is invited must bring a single friend, preferably of the opposite sex. You can also have each invited person invite 5 other people to increase the numbers for your party.
Take your dog or other pet to a dog/pet park. You can also search for pet meetups online according to dog breed or really any other interest you may have. Other places to use your pet as a lure: main street shopping areas, fairgrounds, and outdoor sporting events.
Browse bookstores, libraries, and video stores in the sections that interest you. Ask someone their opinion and see what develops!
Go to those weddings, reunions, and other such events that you've been invited to. Fight the urge to say "Ugh. Oh no." Go. Have fun. Talk to people and see what happens.
Travel. Consider a singles vacation trip. There are many organization including Club Med that organize trips to any and all destinations you can imagine. Search the newspaper or online.
General Dating Tips:
Get to know them. You want to make sure you actually like this person before you ask. The person might not be what you think. Have small conversations with them and compliment them every now and then. Try not to make it too obvious. See how he/she reacts. Does he/she listen to you and seem interested?
Be nice! People notice how you treat other people. If you go for coffee with your date, be nice to the person behind the counter or your server. Tolerate his or her friends (to a degree of course). Smile, remember names, and don't embarrass yourself or your date. The moment you're out of their sight, they're going to talk about you. Don't let your poor behavior or hygiene be the main subject.
In addition to the tips we've looked at the are five types of flirting you should apply:
Physical Flirting: The people who are good at physical flirting are always more successful at dating and getting dates according to studies. They have the ability to develop relationships more quickly and have more sexual chemistry with their partners.
Traditional types of flirting: Here we are talking about the old norms such as thinking men should make the first move. Men and women who adopt this style tend to be quiet and introverted in nature.
Polite ways of flirting: This method of flirting is very much one of old fashioned values and respect. The aim here is on manners rather than sexual communication.
Sincere flirting: Sincere flirting is the style that has had the largest amount of psychology and university studies done on it. This type of flirting concentrates on developing a deep emotional connection. It is completely the opposite of using resources like 'The Game' for gentlemen or 'The Rules' for ladies.
Playful flirting: This stype is often associate to those who enjoy it as a sport and have only a small amount of interest in persuing longer-term romances. Flirting is fun and increases one's own self-esteem. Whilst it is fun to play and experiment with flirting, leading people on just o make yourself feel better is not fair and I definitely don't recommend it.
For more information on dating, check out Ex Boyfriend Guru. I'm sure you'll like it!
Source: http://articles.submityourarticle.com/tips-for-offline-dating-323719
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Friday, April 5, 2013
House approves $20.5B Colo. budget for next year
DENVER (AP) -- After bitter finger-pointing, the Colorado House on Friday passed a $20.5 billion state budget for next year, sending more money to public schools, paying down some pension debt, and earmarking money to wildfire victims.
The spending plan cleared the House in a 45-18 vote, with only nine Republicans voting yes ? underscoring a big contrast from last year when the budget had near unanimous support in the Colorado Legislature.
The budget for the upcoming fiscal year begins July 1 and will increase spending per pupil at public schools, but the exact figure will be determined later. State employees will also get a pay increase of 2 percent ? the first in four years. And lawmakers agreed to use $2.8 million to pay victims of last year's Lower North Fork Fire in the foothills southwest of Denver, which was started by a state prescribed burn.
Lawmakers voted on the budge after lashing out at each other, with Republicans in the minority accusing Democrats of playing games with GOP amendments on Thursday evening.
At issue was one Republican proposal for 5 percent across-the-board spending cuts. Democrats easily defeated it. But knowing they had enough votes to kill it, they brought it up again later, this time to try to get Republicans on the record voting for it.
"That is decidedly partisan, to say 'We killed your amendment, but we're going bring it up again to put it in your face and spike it a second time,' is not bipartisan," said Republican Rep. Mark Waller, the House GOP leader.
Speaker Mark Ferrandino countered by telling Republicans that they're not blameless.
"Partisan politics gets played down here. We all know that. We all do it," he said. He told Republicans that "we should not forget history" and reminded them about how, as the majority party in the House last year, Republicans killed civil unions legislation by refusing to bring it up for a floor vote.
Ultimately, Waller was one of nine Republicans to vote for the budget. As reasons for his approval, Waller cited budget provisions that pay down $140 million in state debt for police and firefighter pensions, and $30 million for water storage projects in rural Colorado.
Both chambers have passed the budget, but they still must rectify differences in the spending plan. Those differences include a House amendment that took nearly $500,000 from private prisons to pay for more parole officers. Lawmakers who proposed the change cited the shooting death of Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements, who authorities suspect was killed by a parolee who recently slipped through the cracks in the criminal justice system.
The money for wildfire compensation is another difference that will need to be rectified, as well as adding $1.5 million to the state's film incentives program.
General fund expenditures, which lawmakers control, were expected to be about $8.2 billion next year, compared with $7.6 billion in the current budget year. The state's total budget, which includes federal money and cash funds, would be about $20.5 billion.
The biggest areas of general fund spending would continue to be K-12 schools, at about $3.1 billion, and the department of Health Care Policy and Financing, which administers Medicaid, at nearly $2.1 billion.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/house-approves-20-5b-colo-200616910.html
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Building collapses in India; at least 47 dead
MUMBAI, India (AP) ? A residential building being constructed illegally on forest land in a suburb of India's financial capital collapsed into a mound of steel and concrete, killing at least 47 people and injuring 70 others, authorities said Friday.
The eight-story building in the Mumbai suburb of Thane caved in Thursday evening, police said. Rescue workers with sledgehammers, gasoline-powered saws and hydraulic jacks struggled Friday to break through the tower of rubble in their search for possible survivors. Six bulldozers were brought to the scene.
"There may be (a) possibility people have been trapped inside right now," local police commissioner K.P. Raghuvanshi said Friday.
At the time of the collapse, between 100 and 150 people were in the building. Many were residents or construction workers, who were living at the site as they worked on it, said Sandeep Malvi, a spokesman for the Thane government.
More than 20 people remained missing Friday afternoon and three floors of the building remained to be searched, said R.S. Rajesh, an official with the National Disaster Response Force who was at the scene.
"All the three floors are sandwiched ... so it's very difficult for us," he said.
The dead included 17 children, police said.
A nearby hospital was filled with the injured, many of whom had head wounds, fractures and spinal injuries. Hospital officials searched in vain for the parents of an injured 10-month-old girl who had been rescued.
At least four floors of the building had been completed and were occupied. Workers had finished three more floors and were adding the eighth when it collapsed, police Inspector Digamber Jangale said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the structure to collapse, but Raghuvanshi said it was weakly built. Police were searching for the builders to arrest them, he said.
"The inquiry is ongoing. We are all busy with the rescue operation; our priority now is to rescue as many as possible," he said.
Police with rescue dogs were searching the building, which appeared to have buckled and collapsed upon itself. Rescuers and nearby residents stood on the remains of the roof trying to get to people trapped inside. Residents carried the injured to ambulances and one man carried a small child caked white with dust from the wreckage.
Raghuvanshi said rescue workers had saved 15 people from the wreckage.
Building collapses are common in India as builders try to cut corners by using poor quality materials, and multi-storied structures are built with inadequate supervision. The massive demand for housing around India's cities and pervasive corruption allow builders to add unauthorized floors or build entirely illegal buildings.
The neighborhood where the building collapsed was part of a belt of more than 2,000 illegal structures that had sprung up in the area in recent years, said Malvi, the town spokesman.
"Notices have been served several times for such illegal construction, sometimes notices are sent 10 times for the same building," he said.
G.R. Khairnar, a former top Mumbai official, said government officials who allowed the illegal construction should be tried along with the builders.
"There are a lot of people involved (in illegal construction) ? builders, government machinery, police, municipal corporation ? everybody is involved in this process," he told CNN-IBN television.
The building that collapsed was illegally constructed on forest land, and the city informed forestry officials twice about it, Malvi said.
A local resident, who did not give his name, said the site was meant to hold a smaller structure and accused officials of turning a blind eye to the problem.
"They made an eight-story building of what was supposed to be a four-story building. People from the municipality used to visit the building but the builder still continued to add floors," he said.
In one of the worst recent collapses, nearly 70 people were killed in November 2010 when an apartment building in a congested New Delhi neighborhood crumpled. That building was two floors higher than legally allowed and its foundation appeared to have been weakened by water damage.
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Ngashangva reported from New Delhi.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/building-collapses-india-least-47-dead-143656049.html
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
twin city sidewalks: The Top 7 Pizza Luc?s of All Time
The other day, a friend of mine had a great idea for how to kick off spring in Minnesota: a bicycling tour of all the Pizza Luc?s*. We met one morning at the Seward Pizza Luc?, and biked to all the rest of them*. Going to all the Pizza Luc?s* in one day offered an excellent chance to fulfill my lifelong research dream of ranking all the Luc?s in order of hipness.
I?ve been to the Duluth Luc?! Really. It?s in Duluth. North of here a stretch.
Here?s my methodology. One goes to a Luc? and orders a beer and a slice of pizza. Then you keenly observe the environment, paying close attention to a definitive list of prearranged criteria:
Bar/restaurant spectrum: Is it a bar or a restaurant? I.e., do they serve whisky?Punk-o-meter levels: Using a patented device, you can easily measure the tattoo and piercing density of the servers at each Pizza Luc?. (The punk-o-meter records metallic signatures and divides it by the square root of atmospheric angst in the room, corrected for total area.)
Music: What music is playing when you eat? How cool is it? What would Pitchfork Do?
Average patron age: Who is there? What are their ages? What kind of clothes are they wearing?
Building: You can tell a lot from just the building type, material, shape, and architectural style.
Add these up, and you get a definitive score for each Pizza Luc? that will tell you how it ranks on the definitive list of the Top 7 Pizza Luc?s of all time.
#7 ? Richfield
OK, so we didn?t go to Richfield. Have you been to Richfield? I biked through it once. It sucked. The new Luc? isn?t easily bikeable. You have to cross at least one and probably two freeways to get there from proper Minneapolis.However, I did talk to one of the bartenders at one of the cooler Luc?s about the Richfield Luc?. He had worked there once, and through him, I garnered enough information about this newest Luc??
Apparently they have Miller Lite on tap, its really big, and feels like a sports bar. It?s ?weird,? and is in some sort of large park area.
Also, the name ?Richfield? couldn?t possibly be more bougie if it tried. Really, the only things worse would be ?Moneytown?, ?Yuppsville,? or ?Edina.?
B/R Spectrum: Miller Lite
Punk-o-Meter: 2
Music: Moby?
Avg Age: Nobody under 30
Bldg type: I imagine the worst
#6 ? Hopkins
Hopkins is also a suburb. However, Hopkins is my favorite suburb, with an actual historic downtown and (not one but two) key metro bike trails. I've come before to this Luc? on summertime bike rides to and from points West, and sit out on their lovely patio. This time, no patio.Walking into the Hopkins Luc? you quickly wonder, was this a Chuck E. Cheese at some point? Then you realize that it used to be a Pizza Hut. It has that weird Smurf warehouse vibe. There is far too much space. Large booths and cavernous ceilings cultivate a suburban affect of isolation.
Servers wear baseball caps backwards. Other wear hoodies. Ours has a fedora, not any tattoos. (The only tattoo that the Punk-o-meter could detect was on one of the busboys, a ?super Mario mushroom? on a bicep.)
The pizza tastes the same as any other Luc?, but the window looks out on the Deli Express warehouse, where they must manufacture those tiny shrink-wrapped ham sandwiches on squishy white bread that sit on the shelf at Super America for weeks.
There are tons of families. A little kid, probably about 12 years old, walks by me wearing a ?student government? tee shirt. That is the Hopkins Luc? in a nutshell.?
B/R Spectrum: Actual bar
Punk-o-Meter: 3
Music:? Top 40
Avg Age: 40
Bldg type: Ex-Pizza Hut
#5 ? Uptown?
The Uptown Luc? is either empty or slammed. There is no in between.There is no bar at the uptown Luc?. If memory serves me correctly, this is the second extant luc?, the one right after the first one. Yet, the uptown Luc? seems somehow empty, lacking something. The main room is too small, the entry is narrow, refuses to breathe. The patio is too small, with a Coen Brothers view of the parking lot.
On the other hand, the bartender sets off the Punk-o-meter. He has a braided beard (a la Johnny Depp in that Disney pirate movie).
The rest of the staff, though doesn't really register. They're a bit too obsequious. They really want to please me, and this displeases me. The waiter tries to sell me a rice krispie bar.?
Today, there are families in all the booths. Young children, on the cusp of junior high, eating with parents who brought them here to prove they are cool.
B/R Spectrum: Not even the pretense of a bar
Punk-o-Meter: 7
Music: Dinosaur Jr.
Avg Age: 27
Bldg type: Boring one-story commercial space, fronted by large parking lot
#4 ? Saint Paul
The key thing about this Pizza Luc? is that it's in Saint Paul. (Notice: This Luc? is four blocks from my parent?s house.) That means everybody has driven here, and most of them have brought their children or have a senior citizen discounts.Frankly, this Pizza Luc? is boring. At best, the bar area sometimes has a friendly vibe. You can imagine getting into interesting conversations late at night. Squinting my brain, I can imagine being semi-punk here. Then again, the Saint Paul cops hang out here all the time, slowly eating in booths.
The staff have plenty tattoos and piercings, just about on par with the Uptown Luc? (which is saying something). The bartender has five piercings all by himself, and puts the Punk-o-meter into the red zone (DANGER!).
There's a guy non-ironically wearing a Dale Earnhardt leather jacket dominated by his signature. Are we in a city or a suburb?
My mom just showed up. I have to go.
B/R Spectrum: They have a bar, but there's no whisky; it's an illusion
Punk-o-Meter: 6
Music: Foo Fighters
Avg Age: 44
Bldg type: Semi-boring one-story commercial space
#3 ? Duluth
I?ve been to the Duluth Luc?! Really. It?s in Duluth. North of here a stretch.
People speak about the Duluth Luc? in hushed tones. Duluth is surprisingly cool, has young people and a downtown with old buildings in various states of disrepair. The Duluth Luc?, so they say, is unique. It's a world of its own because the cooks are so far from the pizza supply lines and Luc? civilization that they have to make their own ingredients. They do crazy things. The pizzas are not just pretending to be artisanal, they actually have to be artisanal.? They grow their own wheat or something.
When I was there, the Duluth Luc? was displaying locally forged blacksmithery, like candelabras and some sort of large throne. It would have been goth except everyone was in flannel.
The fog rolls in off Gitcheegumi and onto a pizza. For what its worth, the Duluth Luc? is one of the coolest places in Duluth.
B/R Spectrum: They distill their own moonshine
Punk-o-Meter: 5, with the usual northwoods caveats
Music: They only play Low here, but they play it so low that you can only hear it subconsciously
Avg Age: 32
Bldg type: Downtown large building
#2 ? Seward
This Luc? was part of the great Luc? expansion of 2004, when the pizza dough was spread eastward at a rapid pace.The bar is tiny, but insists upon itself. The servers rate a solid 8 on the punk-o-meter, and it sits well balanced on Franklin Avenue, part of a neighborhood in a way that would be true in Saint Paul if Saint Paul actually had streetlife or businesses on Selby Avenue.
Seward is as diverse and vibrant as Minneapolis gets. Anywhere else, this Luc? would be inconsequential. Instead, it is a window on the Twin Cities, where hippies and somalis meet and eat pizza.?
B/R Spectrum: Actual bar, if a bit small
Punk-o-Meter: 8
Music: Can't recall
Avg Age: 26
Bldg type: Ugly two-story mixed-use with great windows
#1 ? Downtown
Entering the Downtown Luc?, you are forced to choose: bar/restaurant or slice on a paper plate. You go to your appointed side, and never the twain shall meet.
Their patio is a tiny slice of sidewalk next to an alley where the deliveryperson leaves their Luc?mobile for brief minutes, honking each time they pull out across the sidewalk.
This is the Alpha and Omega of Luc?. This where the pizza dough was born, and this is where it will die, someday when all things Luc? have lost their luster, when veganism is rampant, and no longer requires exceptional efforts, when the world becomes a garlic clove.
B/R Spectrum: The real deal
Punk-o-Meter: 9
Music: H?sker D?
Avg Age: 27
Bldg type: Awesome downtown warehouse
Does the same slice of pizza taste the same in Hopkins and Seward? Is Parmesan less pungent in Saint Paul? Can a good or bad tattoo make or break a hoppy beer?
To move down the Luc? spectrum away from the original is to encounter Baudrillard's simulacrum. With each subsequent Luc?, the hipness fades. Exposed brick becomes a painting of exposed brick becomes a large wall painted the color of red brick. Giant artichoke murals fill the emptiness inside our hearts. Pepper flakes fade.
* OK So we didn't go to all the PL's, technically speaking. For example, we didn't bike to Duluth. And at some point during the journey, I mentioned to my friend that there was a Pizza Luc? in Richfield, and he was like WTF? And I said, yes, there is one there now. And he said, hell no. And so we didn?t go to that one.?
Source: http://tcsidewalks.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-top-7-pizza-luces-of-all-time.html
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Meet The HTC First, The First Android Phone To Come Preloaded With Facebook Home
The torrent of leaks these past few days haven't left much to the imagination, but HTC's Peter Chou has just officially pulled back the curtain on the first phone to ship with Facebook Home -- the HTC First -- at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters. According to HTC CEO Peter Chou the First will be the "ultimate social phone," though he declined to dig into the device's specs during his brief moments on-stage. The device will ship in four colors, and will support AT&T's LTE network right out of the gate. Can't wait for your chance to take it for a spin? The First will be available for $99 (with a 2 year contract naturally) starting on April 12, and pre-orders for the device kick off today. Those of you outside the U.S. will be able to join in the fun shortly too, as Mark Zuckerberg also noted that the phone would find its way to UK carriers Orange and EE in short order.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/4b8hhMbNfLs/
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When should I use VLookUp? - Business Management Daily
Q. When should I use VLookUp and when is it better to use Index and Match?
A. There are a lot of opinions about these functions and their use. Some people swear by one approach or the other. However, good reasons exist to use both. If your data are organized with the Lookup_value in the first column or the first row, a VLookUp or HLookUp, respectively, is perfectly appropriate. If your LookUp column is not sorted in ascending order, be sure to use 0 or False in the Range_lookUp field.
What if your LookUp_value isn?t in the first column? Then the combination of Index/Match is your go-to solution. Match looks up a value in a range and returns its relative position. Index examines a range for a value based on the relative position of the item found in the Match function. In our example, we know the product name (B9), but need the item number.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Ark. AG plans to open investigation into oil spill
Workers clean up oil in Mayflower, Ark., on Monday, April 1, 2013, days after a pipeline ruptured and spewed oil over lawns and roadways. (AP Photo/Jeannie Nuss)
Workers clean up oil in Mayflower, Ark., on Monday, April 1, 2013, days after a pipeline ruptured and spewed oil over lawns and roadways. (AP Photo/Jeannie Nuss)
Oil covers the ground around a slide in Mayflower, Ark., on Monday, April 1, 2013, days after a pipeline ruptured and spewed oil over lawns and roadways. (AP Photo/Jeannie Nuss)
A worker cleans up oil in Mayflower, Ark., on Monday, April 1, 2013, days after a pipeline ruptured and spewed oil over lawns and roadways. (AP Photo/Jeannie Nuss)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ? The Arkansas attorney general said Tuesday that he will investigate the cause and impact of an oil spill after an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured last week.
State Attorney General Dustin McDaniel also is asking ExxonMobil to preserve all documents and information related to Friday's oil spill and ongoing cleanup efforts in Mayflower, a small city about 20 miles northwest of Little Rock.
Crews have recovered about 12,000 barrels of oil and water since the Pegasus pipeline started leaking. Investigators are still working to determine what caused the spill, which led authorities to evacuate nearly two dozen homes.
"It's obvious that the rupture was not the fault of the state and the state has been damaged in addition to the private property owners," McDaniel told reporters Tuesday.
In a letter to ExxonMobil officials dated Tuesday, McDaniel said he believes the company may have liability for the consequences of the spill under the Arkansas Water and Air Pollution Act and other applicable laws.
"There are many questions and concerns remaining as to the long-term impacts, environmental or otherwise, from this spill," McDaniel wrote.
Some of the environmental effects began to come into focus Monday as officials said a couple of dead ducks and 10 live oily birds had been found since the oil spill.
McDaniel said he has communicated with attorneys general in other states that have seen larger spills, including Louisiana and Mississippi.
"We don't want to overreact, but obviously a prudent response would require investigating the cause and determining what remedies are available and appropriate for the state," McDaniel told reporters.
ExxonMobil spokeswoman Kim Jordan said the company will cooperate with McDaniel's office.
The pipeline that ruptured dates back to the 1940s, according to ExxonMobil, and is part of the Pegasus pipeline that carries crude oil from the Midwest to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Associated Press writer Andrew DeMillo contributed to this report.
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