Thursday, May 31, 2012

Facebook's stock continues decline after rocky IPO

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Global carbon market value hits record $176 billion

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Tips on How to Use Outdoor Art Pros - IdeaMarketers.com











Fixing the interior part of your house could be fulfilling, especially if you have spent a lot of time incorporating all your creative ideas. However, you shouldn't neglect the fact that you also need outdoor art pros to make the external part of your house more attractive. The good thing about working in this area is that you don't have to stress too much about it, because it only needs simple elements to make it attractive. All you need to do is come up with a concept and gather all the materials that you need. If you want, you can match the theme with the style that you used indoors. This will all depend on how you want things to come out. If you need more tips to help you out, here are some things that you can look into.

If you want to decorate your patio with outdoor art pros, it's always helpful to make a plan. Try to come up with something that will guide you throughout the process. This will also help you decide on things that you need to buy. As much as possible, be practical and focus on your priorities.

The first thing that you need to do is choose a focal point. It could be anything that you want - a lounge chair, flower vase, or any other d?cors that are catchy for you. If this element is colorful, make it a point to paint your surroundings with light colors, so that it can be emphasized.

You can also hang frames in your patio. Make sure that it is visible, so that those who are going to see it will appreciate the beauty that you are trying to show them. See to it that they don't crowd the space. If you have a limited area, try to stick with one big frame. If you have enough, you can combine a few artworks together.

If you buy outdoor canvas art, make it a point to experiment with their placement. Try to look for an arrangement that will suit the space that you have. Stick with the rules, but make sure that you don't get too obsessed with it, so that it won't come out boring.

When decorating your home, it should be comfortable to you, or else you'll defeat the purpose of beautifying it. As much as possible, it should be functional, so that everyone will enjoy staying in it.

Stick with a style that is close to your personality. Don't just put things together, because it's trendy. It's something that should describe who you are.

Putting enough effort to buy outdoor canvas art and other decorations for your patio is a good thing, because it will make the area more conducive for gatherings and simple family time. Try to come up with a concept that will suit the place, so that you can maximize its use. If you don't know where to begin, you can follow the tips that were mentioned above.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Reptile has 'steak-knife teeth'

New Zealand's tuatara has a unique way of chewing its food, say scientists who have studied its jaws in detail.

This beak-headed reptile uses a "steak-knife sawing motion" as it chews.

This could help explain how the species has continued to adapt to a changing world - and changes in available prey - over more than 200 million years.

The tuatara's lower jaw slides forward "to slice food apart like a saw"

A computer model of the tuatara, recreating its jaws as it munched on prey, has revealed that it chews like no other land animal.

This seems to allow it to "slice up" food that is too big for its mouth.

In their paper in the journal The Anatomical Record, the researchers describe how the teeth of the tuatara's lower jaw close between two upper rows of teeth "before sliding forward to slice food apart like a draw-cut saw".

Lead researcher Marc Jones from University College London said this was very unlike any living lizard or snake, which used "more of a simple opening and closing" motion.

The UK-based researchers were able to observe and film chewing tuataras at Chester Zoo.

Dr Jones and his colleagues from the universities of Hull and York then used this footage to accurately digitise and simulate the creature's characteristic chomp.

Dr Jones said that the "slicing jaws" of the tuatara allowed it to eat a wide range of prey including beetles, spiders, crickets and small lizards.

But he added that this study helped to explain some rather gruesome discoveries in the reptile's habitat.

"People have described finding seabirds with their heads sawn off," he told BBC Nature.

"Tuatara will tend to go for hatchlings if they can, but as far as I can make out [they] do sometimes take small adults.

"[We think] they change their diet seasonally - eating lots more seabirds during the summer."

Close relatives?

Although the tuatara looks very much like a lizard, it actually belongs to a group of animals commonly known as beak heads, or Rhynchocephalia in the formal terminology.

The reptile, found wild only in New Zealand, is the last surviving species of its group. Its relatives died out more than 200 million years ago.

At that time, the creatures were spread throughout the globe; scientists have found some the fossilised remains of the tuatara's extinct relatives in the UK.

It is not entirely clear how and why the rest of these ancient reptiles became extinct, but the tuatara's ability to saw up its food could be a secret to its continued survival.

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Monday, May 28, 2012

'Nasty' Spurs strike first against Thunder

SAN ANTONIO (AP) ? It's a catchphrase likely coming soon to fan T-shirts, Internet memes and the lexicon of the NBA playoffs for the foreseeable future.

"I want some nasty!"

Gregg Popovich didn't just coin it. He snarled it, and the way his San Antonio Spurs obliged has the Western Conference finals off to a thrilling start.

Manu Ginobili scored 26 points and the Spurs won their 19th in a row ? tying the NBA record for longest winning streak kept alive in the playoffs ? by rallying in the fourth quarter on the orders of their furious coach to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 101-98 in Game 1 on Sunday night.

It was a tantalizing near-upset for the young Thunder, who came as close as anybody to beating the Spurs for the first time in 46 days. But a nine-point lead didn't last after the famously mercurial 63-year-old Popovich ? the NBA's Coach of the Year ? huddled his lagging team together in the fourth and told them to "get nasty."

"I said that?" Popovich said afterward.

A nationally television audience heard it.

"The heat of the game, stuff comes up," Popovich said. "So I talked to them about they've got to get a little bit uglier, get a little more nasty, play with more fiber and take it to these guys. Meaning you have to drive it, you have to shoot it."

And when they did, the Thunder couldn't keep up.

Kevin Durant led the Thunder with 27 points. Russell Westbrook had 17, and insisted he was OK after taking a spill that was nasty in its own right ? face first, bracing his fall with his hands and sitting under the basket for more than a minute while the entire Thunder bench walked across the court to check on their All-Star point guard.

"I shot good shots, made good passes," Durant said. "Unfortunately, we lost."

After being held to just 16 third-quarter points, San Antonio scored 39 in the fourth. Westbrook chalked it up to a defensive breakdown that "got out of hand" but it still left the Thunder in search of the road win they'll need to in this series to reach the NBA finals for the first time since the franchise moved to Oklahoma City in 2009.

Game 2 is Tuesday night.

"How it happened is irrelevant," Thunder guard Derrick Fisher said of letting a lead slip away. "Whether we lose by 20 or lose by one, we lost."

That's something the Spurs haven't been able to say since April 11. They joined the 2001 Lakers as the only other team to carry a winning streak this long in the playoffs ? and that Los Angeles team did so on its way to a championship.

The Spurs matched the fourth-longest streak in NBA history, and with one more will become just the fourth team to surpass 20. Tim Duncan had 16 points and 11 rebounds, and Tony Parker shook off a dismal start to finish with 18 points.

And of getting "nasty"?

"Pop's always trying to motivate us," Parker said.

But it was Ginobili who steered the Spurs to strike first in a highly anticipated matchup of the West's top two teams for practically the entire regular season. In his first game against the Thunder this year ? he was sidelined by injury in the three regular-season meetings ? Ginobili put up a playoff high after sputtering through the first two series.

"It just happened," Ginobili said. "I don't know how exactly because I haven't scored like this all season long, but it happened and I am very happy about it."

On the other end, Oklahoma City's own Big Three struggled to find its shot early before awakening in the second half. Durant, Westbrook and James Harden at one point through the second quarter were 5 of 21 ? a typically ominous stat line for a trio that had been responsible for nearly 70 percent of Oklahoma City's points through the playoffs so far.

The Thunder were ousted in the Western Conference finals a year ago and were in position for home-court advantage throughout the playoffs until being overtaken by the Spurs in the final month of the season. But it was a fittingly close opener for two franchises with so many similarities.

That includes Thunder general manager Sam Presti ? the architect of the Thunder's rapid turnaround from a 23-win season to consecutive Western Conference finals in just four years ? getting his big break in the NBA as intern in San Antonio.

And the Thunder didn't even need their own Big Three to keep things close.

They leaned on none more so than Fisher, whose famous game-winner for the Lakers on this same court in the 2004 playoffs has made "0.4 seconds" a phrase that needs no further explanation to the Spurs. Eight years later, and the oldest player in this series at 37, Fisher already met his playoff average at halftime and finished with 13 points.

Gary Neal added 12 points and was the only other Spurs player in double figures.

Harden lost in the first round of his matchup with Ginobili, who's also a lefty and a former Sixth Man of the Year winner. Harden finished with 19 points on 7-of-17 shooting but started by missing nine of his first dozen shots.

Tipping off another conference finals couldn't happen soon enough for Oklahoma City. With nothing to do but prepare for the Spurs all week ? and be asked about the Spurs ? the Thunder grew weary of questions about being perceived underdogs. About not having the same championship pedigree. About how they'll possibly stop a team rolling through one of the 10 longest winning streaks in NBA history.

So repetitive were the questions that Durant, visibly annoyed, suggested earlier this week that someone instead ask how the Thunder are going "to come at" the Spurs. That didn't stop Oklahoma City from facing more of the same at shootaround Sunday morning, when Thunder coach Scott Brooks tried quashing again the idea his team was somehow intimidated.

"They're not going to be in awe. They're going to have respect for them," Brooks said. "We know we can beat them."

They've still got to prove it.

Notes: Spurs C DeJuan Blair has given the Thunder fits in his three NBA seasons, including 22 points on them in a March win. But San Antonio's starting center for practically the entire season didn't play for the third consecutive playoff game. "The game will tell us what's appropriate and what's not," Popovich said before tipoff. ...Just because a Boston-Oklahoma City matchup in still possible in the NBA finals doesn't mean center Kendrick Perkins is hopeful about facing his old team. "I really don't care," Perkins said of the Celtics advancing. ...Gov. Rick Perry took in his first Spurs game this year, sitting courtside next to Spurs owner Peter Holt, a major donor to the former Republican presidential candidate.

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Florida Highway Patrol to conduct sobriety checkpoint

The Florida Highway Patrol, Bradenton District, will conduct a Comprehensive Roadside Safety Checkpoint (DUI Checkpoint) on May 25, 2012. The checkpoint will begin at 9 p.m. at 1502 North Brevard Avenue in Arcadia, Florida. The checkpoint will conclude at 2 a.m. on May 26, 2012. FHP sets up such details to proactively remove impaired drivers from the roadways and ultimately enhance the safety of the motoring public. Troopers conducting the checkpoint will monitor those who pass through to ensure they are properly licensed and driving sober.

Driving impaired from alcohol or drugs put everyone on the roadways in danger. Florida law considers a driver with .08 or higher Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) to be impaired. Drivers under the age of 21 with a BAC of .02 or higher are also in violation of Florida law.

The Florida Highway Patrol would like to remind everyone that *FHP (*347) dialed from any cell phone contacts FHP should you need to report an aggressive driver or require roadside assistance.

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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Mali's PM holds talks with ECOWAS chief

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Israel takes back promise to Obama not to attack Iran before the election

Sources from inside Washington, DC are telling the international media that Israeli leadership is upset with US President Barack Obama?s handling of Iran?s alleged nuclear threat and may take military action before the November election.

The Debka news agency quotes sources from America?s capital that say Israel has withdrawn its earlier promise to avoid striking Iran before the upcoming US presidential election this fall. The reason, reports Debka, heavily revolves around President Obama?s refusal to side with Israel?s demands in dealing with the rumored emerging threat of a nuclear program in Iran.

Previously, authorities in Israel told the White House that they would refrain from striking Iran until after Election Day as to avoid marring the race by possibly involving the US in an international war. Because President Obama has not put his foot down on Iran?s alleged nuclear warhead procurement plan, Israeli officials are not reportedly willing to attack at any moment.

?There is no need to tell us what to do, and we have no reason to panic. Israel is very, very strong, but we do know that the Iranians are accomplished chess players and will try to achieve nuclear capabilities,? reads a translated statement from Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak delivered this week in Hebrew. ?Our position has not changed. The world must stop Iran from becoming nuclear. All options remain on the table.?

Minister Barak offered his statement on May 23, less than a week after attending a meeting in Washington. On May 17, Barak spoke with US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at the Pentagon outside of Washington to discuss the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran, at which point Debka reports he was told that Obama had rejected the Jewish state?s plea. Debka?s sources say Obama was unwilling to demand that Iran halt their ?high-grade uranium enrichment, export its stocks of material enriched higher than 3.5 percent grade and shut down production at the Fordo nuclear plant near Qom.?

Debka adds that, after the meeting with his US counterpart, Defense Minister Barak spoke with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Adviser Tom Donilon over the ongoing Iran issue but was unable to have either member of the Obama administration aid in Israel?s plea to sanction Iran.

Previously, President Obama has gone on the record to say that he stands by America?s alliance with Israel and told The Atlantic earlier this year, ?I think that the Israeli government recognizes that, as president of the United States, I don?t bluff.?

?I also don?t, as a matter of sound policy, go around advertising exactly what our intentions are. But (both) governments recognize that when the United States says it is unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, we mean what we say,? added Obama.

President Obama and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Washington back in March during the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, where the Iran issue was a major topic of discussion. Despite urging from overseas, however, the White House yet refused to formally side with any military strikes on Iran.

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Facebook May be Eyeing Opera Web Browser, Reports Say

Facebook May be Eyeing Opera Web Browser, Reports Say
Whether any such purchase of Opera by Facebook is imminent is pure speculation, but if it happens Google and Apple could be in for more competition.

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Going For Outsourcing For Your Business

In our modern times, the business process outsourcing industry is one of the biggest contributors to the world economy. These days, more and more companies are discovering the benefits of outsourcing certain business processes, or even an entire department to other companies from the other side of the world. With business process outsourcing, companies are able to save up on their operating expenses and even on their initial layout of capital. BPO companies need to be able to cater to whatever specific requirements and needs of their clients are so they need to have to latest and most reliable equipment when it comes to their IT infrastructure. Their Optical Transceiver Modules need to be able to perform at their best so their operations will run as smoothly as possible too.

A BPO company?s IT infrastructure and software tools need to be state of the art. Often, it is the companies with the most flexible and customizable services and IT tools that are able to close huge deals and contracts with other multinational companies.

Outsourcing to a BPO company has many benefits. For one, those companies that outsource to other companies in other countries have an advantage when it comes to the currency exchange especially if their currency?s value is much higher than that of the other company.

Having to hire your own employees to run an entire department may only cost you precious money from your capital. You need to sign up all employees to insurance and give them benefits. When you outsource an entire department to other companies, such as customer service, that BPO company will be the one to cover their training and salary. This is less worry on your part and it also helps you focus on other more important business matters to help grow your company.

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Foot And Heel Pain ? Symptoms Of Plantar ... - Health and Fitness

At the time the heel pain first became observable, I did not give it much thought. At my age, aches and labor come and go. But when it intensified preferably than going away, I started to astonishment if I had a real problem. I finally came to the deduction after finding the symptoms of plantar fasciitis that my lower extremity and heel pain might be caused by that lower extremity ailment.

Not all foot and heel penalty is a result of plantar fasciitis, but it is a fairly public cause of problems. Many athletes undergo from this ailment. More of them have it for a few weeks, but it can likewise last for months.

But I am not an athlete; not by a lengthy shot. In fact, I have a account of very sparse exercise. I usually shrink an exercise program and keep it up for a week or so preceding getting distracted and eventually abandoning the all idea.

When the heel penalty first showed up, I was had just begun one of my practice programs, walking about a mile or so one and the other afternoon. I tried to walk from one side the pain. Things like this were usually sole temporary. But this time it was distinct.

I had a friend who had been visiting the podiatrist for separate months due to plantar fasciitis. So I quizzed him around what his symptoms of plantar fasciitis were. His delineation sounded pretty much like that which I was experiencing.

By this time I was irksome to keep my left heel from affecting the ground. It was a pretty significant limber that was noticed by some of my peers.

I was determined to get more relief without going to a instructor. So I bought some famous fire-~ shoe inserts at the grocery stock. As you might guess, they did no thing to relieve the heel pain.

Because the heel pain was very localized, I figured I could equitable cut out part of the shoe insert at which place the pain was and take all the pressure off my back of the foot. That didn?t work one or the other . It was back to the drawing board.

One and the other day, the heel pain got worse. I was irksome to find answers on the Internet, but my apprehension was limited, and reports were so varied that I did not perceive which ones were like enough to mine that I should try that which they did.

The one thing I did not want to do was get steroid injections, what one. is why I still did not go to the medical specialist.

Completely fortunately, my wife had an acquaintance who had equitable been through plantar fasciitis back of the foot pain and found some techniques that helped her subdue the foot and heel pain nearly completely.

The advice she gave me was that which helped me to turn the corner on the plantar fasciitis and get the succor I so desperately wanted.

And it was pretty single.
First, use ice several times a day to bring the inflammation.Second, get shoe inserts specifically made for plantar fasciitis.Third part, do some simple exercises as shortly as you wake up each day to stretch the plantar fascia band.Fourth, use the shoe inserts piously.

These techniques worked!

It was not an proximate pain-free solution. But, above the course of about 2 months, the penalty diminished.

The author, Wayne Rasku, is true grateful for the success in eliminating the lower extremity and heel pain associated through plantar fasciitis. Read the filled story, including the details around when and how he implemented each step of the course that lead to relief of the back of the foot pain at http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-remedy-plantar-fasciitis

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Friday, May 25, 2012

Nothing To See Here (talking-points-memo)

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Even if NATO rushes to the exits, Afghan collapse is not inevitable

As French President Hollande promises troop withdrawal this year, and the rest of NATO plans to exit by 2014, Afghanistan's best hope may be the disunity and ill-discipline of the Taliban.

By Scott Baldauf,?Staff writer / May 25, 2012

Afghan President Hamid Karzai shakes hands with French President Francois Hollande upon his arrival to Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May, 25. Hollande announced that his country's troops had carried out their mission in Afghanistan and that it was time for them to leave, an early pullout that will be coordinated with the United States and other allies.

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In August 2010, when the Netherlands pulled 1,900 soldiers out of the Afghan province of Urozgan, NATO officials played down the significance of the withdrawal. Dutch Gen. Peter van Uhm praised his troops for restoring peace to their area, but admitted that ?a lot still has to happen? in Afghanistan to guarantee the peace.

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Today, as newly elected French President Fran?ois Hollande visits 3,500 French troops based in the Afghan province of Kapisa, preparing them for an early departure by the end of 2012, NATO officials are wearing the brave face again. At the Afghan summit in Chicago, no NATO official publicly criticized the French leader?s decision following a decisive victory for Hollande?s party, which had promised an early exit from Afghanistan.

?Only France can decide what France does. It will be conducted in good understanding with our allies, especially President Obama, who understands the reasons, and in close consultation with Afghan authorities," President Hollande told reporters in Kabul during a brief stopover. ?Without having totally disappeared, the terrorist threat from Afghanistan to our and our allies' territory has been partially curbed," he added.

In his meetings with French soldiers in Kapisa, Hollande came close to his own ?Mission Accomplie? moment, telling his troops that one reason for their early departure is that ?simply, you have carried out your mission."

In NATO?s 130,000 man International Security and Assistance Force in Afghanistan, the departure of 3,500 soldiers is not significant, particularly if the bulk of those 126,500 other soldiers will be leaving in two years? time anyway. President Obama himself plans to withdraw some 30,000 US troops this year, and most, but not all, of the remaining 60,000 troops by 2014. Afghan officials say that Afghan Army soldiers will take over the French base in Nijrab, Kapisa, and with it, the responsibility of maintaining security in that northeastern part of the country.

Yet as the Dutch departure of 2,000 troops in 2010 ? prompted by a resounding defeat of the pro-NATO government of Jan-Peter Balkenende ? and the French departure in 2012 ? prompted by the defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy ? shows, European patience with the 10-year Afghan operation has worn out. The rush for the exits has begun.

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Dialogos of Eide: BroadBand Technology

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BroadBand Technology


Broadband research is a McGill area of expertise. Meet researchers such as David Plant, Tho Le-Ngoc, and Mark Coates who are on the cutting edge of machine to machine communication, high-speed internet technologies, and wireless communications.

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Jerald Reiter Arrested For Driving Drunk With Zebra, Parrot In Truck (VIDEO)

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Jerald Reiter has been charged with drunken driving after he was stopped outside a Dubuque bar with a small zebra and a parrot in his truck.