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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Academy Connect Leadership Series Webinar Thursday, 24 January at 9 pm EST features talk from West Point Grad on Counterinsurgency and Business Marketing.

The Academy Connect Leadership Series Webinar Thursday, 24 January at 9 pm EST USMA ?00 Grad, Samuel P.N. Cook for a Discussion on Counterinsurgency in Iraq and Marketing.

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 23, 2013

The Academy Connect Leadership Series Webinar is hosting its first webinar of 2013 with a West Point Class of 2000 graduate, Samuel P.N. Cook. The topic on the Webinar is ?How Iraq Taught Sam Cook About Online Digital Marketing.? The Webinar Starts at 9 pm EST on Thursday, 24 January.

Academy Connect Founder, James Duncan will be hosting while Samuel P.N. Cook will be doing a presentation on lessons he learned in Iraq, and how that helped him build an online marketing business. He will also conduct a case study on how he helped a little known running coach jump his online traffic from just over 800 visits a month to over 9,000 visits the following month. He also helped the running coach capture over 1,000 leads for his business. At the end of the Webinar, there will be a live question and answer session.

?I am excited to have the opportunity to connect with other Service Academy Graduates and help give them some lessons and tips on how to run their online digital marketing,? says Sam Cook, founder of Prism Communications. ?There is a special bond between Veterans, especially ones from the Service Academy, and I look forward to a good discussion on how to apply experiences we had in the service ? and overseas - to our business careers.?

?It is great to bring Sam Cook on for a webinar series with Academy Connect. We are looking forward to an exciting new year of Webinars coming up in 2013," says James Duncan, founder. Sam has a great record in the Army, serving 2 tours in Iraq with the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment, and then in the business world, starting 2 businesses, including Prism Communications.?

About Academy Connect

Academy Connect was founded to provide a secure online platform that helps alumni of all the U.S. Service Academies to flourish in their post-military careers. It does this by blending 3 critical elements of creating valuable connections, opening up rewarding career opportunities, and providing critical success resources.

About Prism Communications

This Press release was created and distributed on behalf of Point Capital Partners and The Sterling Group by Prism Communications Inc. To contact Prism Communications about this release, please email sam(at)prism-communications(dot)com or call them at 917.319.2229.

Samuel Cook
Prism Communications Inc.
917.319.2229
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No. 1 Azarenka beats Sloane Stephens, Djokovic reaches Australian Open final

The American teenager nearly came back to take the second set, but the defending ladies champion held on for the victory. In men's play, the defending champ cruised past David Ferrer.

By John Pye,?Associated Press / January 24, 2013

Victoria Azarenka of Belarus reacts during her semifinal match against Sloane Stephens of the US at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013.

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Sloane Stephens sat for nine minutes, mostly staring at the court and trying to forget the curious timing of Victoria Azarenka's medical timeout.

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She may have been the only one trying to ignore it.

The 19-year-old American had just saved five match points and broken Azarenka. But she knew she had to hold serve to stay in her first Grand Slam semifinal whenever Azarenka ? the No. 1 player and defending Australian Open champion ? returned to Rod Laver Arena.

The restless murmuring in the crowd gave way to slow claps. Why had Azarenka chosen that very moment for a medical break?

Azarenka eventually hustled onto the court, and Stephens won only three more points.

"I almost did the choke of the year," Azarenka said in a frank admission during an on-court interview. "At 5-3, having so many chances, I couldn't close it out."

The crowd that had cheered wildly for Stephens, only 25 hours after she ousted an injured Serena Williams, gave Azarenka tepid applause as she left the court following her 6-1, 6-4 victory. She'll face 2011 finalist Li Na in the final Saturday night. Given the support Li enjoyed in her 6-2, 6-2 win over No. 2-ranked Maria Sharapova, there's no question which player the crowd will favor in the title match.

Azarenka's immediate post-match remarks suggest she panicked after failing to convert five match points, her forehand misfiring. She had little trouble finishing the match after she came back, and the No. 29-seeded Stephens had cooled off.

"I just felt a little bit overwhelmed. I realized I'm one step away from the final and nerves got into me for sure," Azarenka said.

The 23-year-old Belarusian said she was later compelled to explain that she misunderstood the question in the on-court interview, and she wanted to dispel the perception that her medical timeout amounted to little more than gamesmanship.

"I understand the point of people maybe not understanding what I said; me not understanding what I've been asked," she said during an official news conference more than two-thirds devoted to questions on her medical timeout. "So I'm just glad that I'm here, you know, to make everything clear.

"You know, I think you cannot really judge by (a) few words. The situation had to be explained."

Medical staff said Azarenka had timeouts for treatment of left knee and rib injuries. The rib needed to be manipulated because it was affecting her breathing. Tournament director Craig Tiley said Azarenka hadn't broken any rules.

Azarenka hadn't helped herself in a second television interview after the match when she said she couldn't breathe.

"I had chest pains," she said. "It was like I was getting a heart attack."

She tried to allay any negative perception with her explanation that the choking was related to shortness of breath from the rib injury, not her faltering game.

"When you cannot breathe you start to panic," she said. "I was really panicking, not because I couldn't convert my match point. That's not the case. I mean, I'm experienced enough to go over those emotions. But when you cannot breathe, when something's really blocking you, the stress ? that was the stress I was talking about.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Chelsea Clinton to participate at inauguration (Washington Bureau)

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Fiscal cliff may have given the economy a lift - The Term Sheet ...

130114081439-fiscal-cliff-celebration-gallery-horizontal FORTUNE -- It's conventional wisdom these days that Washington gridlock is the main thing holding back the economy. But the fiscal standoffs may not be as much of a headwind as people think. In fact, they might be good for the economy.

On Friday, Wells Fargo's CFO Tim Sloan said that the so-called fiscal cliff, the mix of tax increases and spending cuts that were set to kick in January 1st but were partially averted in a last minute deal, was good for business. He said lending at the bank (WFC) picked up in the fourth quarter, particular in December, in part because of the fiscal cliff. Companies looking to pay out dividends early or do deals ahead of the planned tax increases borrowed money to do so.

"The fiscal cliff actually had a positive effect on our business," Sloan told analysts on Friday.

MORE: Wells Fargo's earnings: Good but not great

Wells was not alone. Investment bankers and lawyers were busier than usual at the end of the year, completing deals ahead of fiscal cliff deadline. And not all of those deals just mean more money for Wall Street. Disney (DIS) says it plans to beef up spending at LucasFilms, which it bought in late October for $4 billion -- one of the many deals that appear to have been pushed by the fiscal cliff.

Some would argue that these deals would've happened anyway, just a few months later. So really all the fiscal cliff did was pull some activity forward. But that's what stimulus always does. It's impossible to know that all of these deals would have happened without the cliff drama.

The government will benefit as well. A number of companies, Costco (COST)?included, paid out special dividends at the end of 2012. And while those deals may have been done to avoid higher taxes in the future, they are still going to generate more tax revenue now, which could help to narrow the deficit.

MORE: Sorry middle class. Here comes the VAT.

At the very least, there seems to be little indication that the fiscal cliff slowed the economy, as many predicted?it would. Companies added just over 150,000 workers to their payrolls in December, which is about the pace of growth we have been on for months. But hours worked was up in December, and for the first time in a while pay was up as well. That suggests that companies were ramping up their activities in December, not slowing down.

The one sign that the fiscal cliff might have slowed the economy came from business investment, which was down in the fourth quarter. But it was down in the third quarter as well. So that seems more like the continuation of a trend, perhaps inspired by debt problems in Europe or fears of a hard landing in China, rather than fiscal cliff-related.

The takeaway is that Washington acrimony is most likely not nearly the negative that people on Wall Street think it is. Remember how everyone said the debt ceiling standoff back in the summer of 2011 was such a disaster? In retrospect, not so much. The Dow Jones industrial average is up about 2,500 points since then. Interest rates are still low. And the recovery is, slowly, still happening. So perhaps we shouldn't be as worried about the current debt ceiling standoff. Although, of course, you never know.

Source: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/15/fiscal-cliff-economic-boost/

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Google's Schmidt Touches Down in North Korea

Flanked by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Google chairman Eric Schmidt arrived Monday in North Korea. Richardson, who also is a former UN ambassador, has characterized the trip as a "private humanitarian mission" -- a far more hospitable description than ones coming from the U.S. State Department and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who described the delegation as "useful idiots."

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Huawei Ascend D2 official: 5-inch 1080p display, 1.5GHz quad-core CPU, Android Jelly Bean

Huawei Ascend D2 official 5inch 1080p display, 15GHz quadcore CPU, Android Jelly Bean

Huawei's daring to dream big -- at least, that's what prior leaks regarding its latest Android lineup have seemed to indicate. And here at CES 2013, the company's finally formally introduced the Ascend D2, referred to by company Chairman Richard Yu as the "dream phone." Its top shelf specs -- 5-inch 1080p display, quad-core 1.5GHz K3V3 CPU, Android Jelly Bean, 13-megapixel rear camera and 3,000mAh battery -- certainly merit that distinction, but as pie in the sky smartphone ambitions go, its 6.1-inch stablemate, the Ascend Mate, takes the cake.

But back to the Ascend 2. The aforementioned display panel boasts 443 ppi and a 1,080 x 1,920 resolution. As for the camera, the 13-megapixel shooter has an f/2.2 aperture, a 5P lens and a hybrid IR filter. Audio-wise, "super hands free" will allow you to talk to the device (and hear the conversation) up to 2 meters away. It has a whopping 3,000 mAH battery in it and apparently recharges 25 percent faster than the Galaxy SIII. The Ascend 2 is both dustproof and waterproof -- Huawei's Richard Yu even dropped the phone on stage to demonstrate its durability.

The Ascend 2 will launch next month. No word on pricing and the exact date just yet, but we'll update you with more details as we get them.

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Nicole Lee contributed to this report

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Bucks coach Scott Skiles out, Boylan to fill in

FILE - This Nov. 19, 2012 file photo shows Milwaukee Bucks head coach Scott Skiles directing his team against the Charlotte Bobcats during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, N.C. Skiles is out as Bucks head coach and the team says assistant Jim Boylan will take over for the rest of the season. Bucks general manager John Hammond made it official Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

FILE - This Dec. 30, 2012 file photo shows Milwaukee Bucks coach Scott Skiles during a timeout in the fourth quarter of a 96-94 loss to the Detroit Pistons in an NBA basketball game in Auburn Hills, Mich. Skiles is out as Bucks head coach and the team says assistant Jim Boylan will take over for the rest of the season. Bucks general manager John Hammond made it official Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 (AP Photo/Duane Burleson, File)

FILE - Milwaukee Buck head coach Scott Skiles argues a call during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs, in this Dec. 5, 2012 file photo taken in San Antonio. Skiles and the Milwaukee Bucks have allegedly decided to part ways after just over four seasons together, ending a working relationship that seemed to been teetering on the brink for quite some time according to a person with knowledge of the move. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Milwaukee Bucks general manager John Hammond discusses the departure of head coach Scott Skiles with reporters during an NBA basketball news conference on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, in Milwaukee. Hammond downplayed rumors of friction between Skiles and the team, and said that Skiles and the Bucks mutually agreed to part ways. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde)

Milwaukee Bucks general manager John Hammond, left, discusses the departure of head coach Scott Skiles with reporters during an NBA basketball news conference on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, in Milwaukee. Hammond downplayed rumors of friction between Skiles and the team, and said that Skiles and the Bucks mutually agreed to part ways. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde)

MILWAUKEE (AP) ? Once again, an NBA team has parted ways with head coach Scott Skiles. Once again, veteran assistant Jim Boylan is being asked to pick up the pieces.

One day after Milwaukee and Skiles agreed it was time for a change, the Bucks said Tuesday that Boylan will coach the team for the rest of the season. General manager John Hammond downplayed the notion that Skiles had lost control of the locker room or otherwise felt friction with management.

"Scott and I did not have a frosty relationship. Scott did not hate this team," said Hammond, who noted that more than half the season remains. "We're not a team in dire straits ... we're expecting good things to happen."

Boylan was expected to meet with reporters before Tuesday night's home game against Phoenix.

If this sounds familiar, it should: Skiles was fired as head coach in Chicago on Christmas Eve in 2007 after the Bulls started 9-16. Boylan, an assistant in Chicago, took over and went 24-32. He was fired at the end of the season.

Hammond said he and Skiles had been having a number of conversations recently about the future of the team. He said there was no single factor in Skiles' departure, and that no other assistant coaches were leaving.

"It was a mutual decision. We both agreed to make this decision," he said.

Skiles had a 162-182 record in four-plus seasons with Milwaukee, with one playoff appearance ? a first-round loss to Atlanta in seven games during the 2009-10 season. He was a hard-nosed, defensive-minded coach who sometimes seemed to have difficulty meshing with a roster built around volume shooters Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis.

Skiles' agent, Keith Glass, said it was hard to pinpoint when Skiles began thinking of stepping aside, but all parties agreed the timing was right.

"There was no blowup. There was no animosity going on. I think everybody made the right decision for their own respective sides," he said.

Two other coaches, the Lakers' Mike Brown and Brooklyn's Avery Johnson, are also out of work in this young season. Brown was fired after five games and Johnson late last month, about three weeks after being named Eastern Conference coach of the month.

The 57-year-old Boylan has been the lead assistant for the Bucks the past four seasons. In a 20-year NBA coaching career, he has also been an assistant in Cleveland, Vancouver, Phoenix, Atlanta and Chicago.

Milwaukee, losers of four straight when the coaching change was announced, started out a surprising 6-2, only to lose seven of its next nine. The Bucks followed that with a four-game winning streak, the kind of wild swings that didn't sit well with a coach who values consistency ? both in play and preparation.

Skiles did help coax a breakout season out of Larry Sanders, who has emerged as a rebounding and shot-blocking monster over the last few weeks. The demanding coach pushed Sanders to be more consistent, and the lanky forward/center has responded. He grabbed 20 rebounds against Boston on Dec. 21 to start a string of double-digit rebound nights in five of his last eight games and leads the league with 3.07 blocks per game.

Skiles' focus on defense was always going to be tested by a roster revolving around Jennings and Ellis, two flashy scorers who prefer to get up and down the court and lure opposing teams into shootouts. Jennings and Ellis have been giving plenty of effort, but the Bucks were in the middle of the pack in points allowed per game (15th) and field goal percentage defense (18th), below Skiles' lofty expectations.

Still, the Bucks are only a few games behind Indiana in the Central Division, despite injuries to Beno Udrih and top defender Luc Mbah A Moute, and in seventh place in the Eastern Conference playoff chase.

Skiles' departure could be the first in a series of big shake-ups for the Bucks. Hammond is in the final year of his deal, while Jennings and Ellis can both become restricted free agents after this season.

Hammond said he and team owner Herb Kohl are in discussions about an extension, but he declined to elaborate on the progress of their conversations.

As for Skiles, he is now 443-433 as an NBA head coach in 12-plus seasons, which also includes stints with Chicago and Phoenix. He started this season with a host of new players, though the biggest trade during his tenure was the deal that sent former No. 1 draft pick Andrew Bogut to Golden State for Ellis.

"I never heard Scott say a negative thing to me about that trade or anything else," Glass said. "Everybody has their own opinions on the way things are done, but Scott was always on board with ? in terms of support ? whatever move was made. ... And I think he liked Monta. I never heard him say a word about that at all in a negative sense."

Glass said it was too early to say whether Skiles was looking to stay in coaching.

"Today is not the day for that ... but I'm sure we will discuss that in the next month or so," he said. "But he's not burning right now."

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AP Sports Writers Jon Krawczynski in Minneapolis and Andrew Seligman in Chicago contributed to this report.

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Dinesh Ramde can be reached at dramde(at)ap.org.

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Deep In Canadian Lakes, Signs Of Tar Sands Pollution

An aerial view of the Suncor oil sands extraction facility on the banks of the Athabasca River in Alberta, Canada, in 2009. Scientists say contaminants found at the bottom of lakes in Alberta are from air pollutants from the facilities responsible for producing and processing tar sands oil.

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Canadian researchers have used the mud at the bottom of lakes like a time machine to show that tar sands oil production in Alberta, Canada, is polluting remote regional lakes as far as 50 miles from the operations.

An increasingly large share of U.S. oil comes from Canada's tar sands. There are environmental consequences of this development, but until recently, Canadian regional and federal governments left it to the industry to monitor these effects.

A new study follows other recent rigorous scientific studies that have found ecological effects that had been missed by the industry's monitoring.

The forested part of Western Canada, where tar sands oil is produced, is so rich with the thick, asphalt-like stuff that you can actually see it coming out of the ground all over the place. That's made it easy for industry to claim that contaminants in waterways could have gotten there naturally.

To try to get at the truth, researchers had to find a way to go back in time.

"Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, mud is accumulating at the bottom of a lake," says John Smol, a biology professor at Queens University in Ontario. "It's like a history book. The deeper you, go the older it is."

Smol and scientists from Canada's federal environment agency analyzed mud from the bottom of several lakes. They saw that the level of contaminants increased after the 1960s and 1970s, when tar sands development started. Then it rose sharply in recent years when tar sands production spiked.

The scientists also demonstrated that the source was not natural. "So the types of contaminants could also sort of point the finger, if you like, at 'Yep, it's coming from the tar sands operations,' " says Smol, an author of the paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Layers of lake sediment are removed at intervals from a core. In a laboratory, contaminants and biological remains are analyzed from select sediment layers to understand lake history and reconstruct environmental changes that often predate periods of direct monitoring.

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The contaminants the researchers found are called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs ? air pollutants that come from pulling the tar stands oil out of the ground in surface mines and stripping the sand and other materials away in big processing plants called upgraders. These toxic chemicals are linked to cancer and other serious health problems. The levels found in the lakes were 2.5 to 23 times what they were 50 years ago but are not high enough to trigger obvious environmental or health problems, says Smol.

"I'm not saying that these lakes are toxic pools. The contaminants in these lakes are now about the same level you might see in a lake in an urban, like a city, setting," says Smol.

Smol says he worries that as the industry ramps up production, the contamination will get worse, and he's hoping that the industry will install more pollution controls to prevent this.

This pollution wasn't picked up by the industry-funded monitoring program that was supposed to track environmental risks from tar sands over recent decades.

Studies published a few years ago by University of Alberta professor David Schindler were the first to tie the industry's air pollution to contamination of waterways. The new study shows that the contamination covers a broader area, and it is the first to track the pollution levels through history.

Schindler's research prompted the federal and regional governments to reconsider whether they should have been letting industry monitor the environmental effects of its own operations.

Schindler says the old monitoring program sent his blood pressure up for decades.

"It's a very disgusting history, I would say, that we now know that we've spent 30 years and millions of dollars on a monitoring program that has yielded very little of use," Schindler says.

Schindler says because the industry's monitoring failed to show the evidence that the recent studies have shown, the industry avoided adopting cleaner technologies. He hopes that in response to the new research ? and more that is on the way ? the governments will require the industry to reduce its pollution.

"The attitude has been, 'Oh, this is a remote area; nobody is going to care.' I think that's going to change," Schindler says.

The Shell Oil Jackpine open pit mine uses trucks that are 3 stories tall, weigh 1 million pounds and cost $7 million each. There is explosive growth in the oil field areas around Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.

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But industry spokesman Travis Davies said that the pollution levels shown by the new study aren't high enough to suggest that the industry needs to change. "You needed to find whether this has an impact ? a negative impact ? on the environment. And this study shows it doesn't," said Davies, issues manager for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

Davies says more studies are needed to pinpoint which aspect of the industry is responsible for the levels of pollution that were found.

"Because until you know that, you don't know where to apply the technology, you don't know where to change your process, you don't know what regulations to change," he says. "So there's not a lot of point of running out and spending billions of dollars unless you know that it's going to work."

The Canadian government pledged last fall to create a new monitoring program that is independent from industry and the government to try to get more answers.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/01/08/168887788/deep-in-canadian-lakes-signs-of-tar-sands-pollution?ft=1&f=1007

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Monday, January 7, 2013

Iran Admits That Oil Sanctions Are Having A Brutal Effect - Business ...

Iran's oil exports have been slashed 40 percent in the past nine months because of tough Western sanctions, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi was quoted as saying on Monday, in a reversal of his previous denials of any decline at all.

"There has been a 40 percent decrease in oil sales and a 45 percent decrease in repatriating oil money," Qasemi told the Iranian parliament's budget commission, according to the ISNA news agency citing MPs.

The minister said the final figures for the current Iranian calendar year, which ends in March 2013, would see "a significant decrease" in crude export revenues, but he did not provide any numbers.

The admission by Qasemi was significant, given that he was one of the officials who up to now had been most adamant in claiming that Iran's crucial oil exports were entirely unaffected by draconian US and EU sanctions.

Those assertions have crumbled in recent months, with other Iranian officials acknowledging that the sanctions were hurting the economy.

Economy Minister Shamseddine Hosseini for instance last month admitted that oil revenues had plunged 50 percent because of the Western embargo, which took effect in July 2012.

According to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the International Energy Agency (IEA), Iranian crude exports have fallen from around 2.4 million barrels per day (mbpd) in late 2011 to around 1.0 mbpd by the end of 2012.

The overall amount Iran is pumping out of its oil fields is estimated to have fallen by some 25 percent to 3.0 mbpd -- its lowest level since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

Iran, once the second-biggest crude exporter in OPEC after Saudi Arabia, has now slipped to fourth place, as sales drop behind those of Iraq and Kuwait, according to the cartel's figures.

The sharp decline is undermining Iran's finances. In 2011, the Islamic republic relied on the $100 billion brought in by oil exports to cover 60 percent of the budget.

This year will see much less money to spend, several Iranian lawmakers and government officials have hinted.

"It is expected that oil exports will be 1.5 mbpd" in the next Iranian calendar year starting in March, Qasemi said, according to remarks relayed to ISNA by budget commission spokesman Gholam Reza Kateb.

The export plunge, and US sanctions restricting Iran's ability to use international banking transactions to repatriate oil revenues, is costing the country around $5 billion per month, according to experts.

Despite the climbing evidence of hardship, Iran is sticking to what its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has called a "resistance economy", aiming for greater self-reliance and belt-tightening.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said late December that "we should be able to administer the country without reliance on oil revenues." His policies, though, have been blasted by hardline lawmakers for mismanaging the economy and worsening the situation.

The international sanctions targeting Iran aim to choke the country's revenues used for its disputed nuclear programme, and to force it to the negotiating table.

Iran insists the programme is for purely peaceful purposes, and denies Western and Israeli allegations that it wants to manufacture nuclear weapons. It is defiantly forging on with uranium enrichment and says it will survive the Western pressure.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/irans-oil-exports-have-dropped-by-forty-percent-in-the-last-nine-months-2013-1

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Real Estate Marketing Service Previsite America Appoints Todd J ...

Seasoned Industry Professional Expands Social Media Marketing and International Reach for Real Estate Agents and Brokers

Atlanta, Georgia (PRWEB) January 06, 2013

The Previsite America is proud to announce the promotion of Todd J. Walker to the position of Chief Operations Officer, effective immediately. Todd has served as the Vice President of Sales since September 2011 and has served the real estate industry since 1997, managing a $100 million real estate marketing brand in over 400 markets across the USA and Canada.

?Todd has been a valuable asset to our company and the growth in both revenue and product offerings,? stated Eric Calosci, Previsite CEO, from the Global headquarters in Paris, France. ?His experience has, and will continue to be, extremely valuable to our clients as we assist them in the growth of their businesses.?

Walker added, ?We are starting 2013 with the release of our new Social Media Agent Offering Dashboard. It?s an innovative offer that improves the agent?s productivity by managing all of the social and digital services such as Pinterest, Google Plus, Unique URL?s within one platform designed specifically for real estate.?

Walker has worked in the real estate marketing industry for 17 years and has been a featured speaker at national industry events. ?I?ve seen the evolution of real estate marketing during my career, both in the U.S. and internationally,? Walker said. ?Our new offerings incorporate the best practices with the most popular consumer resources into packages streamline the process for real estate professionals and remove the guesswork ? giving them more effective and efficient solutions for marketing their listings.?

In addition, Previsite announced the relocation of its North American headquarters to 5830 Bond Street, Suite 300 Cumming, GA 30040.

Previsite is the global leader in real estate marketing services. Products and services include;

Social Media Offering Broker/Company - a complete package of tools; Facebook ? YouTube ? Twitter ? Virtual Tour ? with options to add Pinterest ? Google Plus ? Unique URL and cascades these tools to each brokerage agent.

Social Media Agent Offering an agent specific package to create video tour and publish listings to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, the agent website and other social sites including LinkedIn, Dailymotion, Delicious, Digg, Stumble Upon, Craigslist and more. Agents create their own tours and with all the unlimited features and services of the Previsite solution such as floor plans, music and narration, local area maps, syndication to major portals, auto-posting to social media sites, lead capture, and statistics.

World Posting - General and Luxury distribution to over 70 million potential buyers and investors with a global network of real estate portals leading their country- a wide range of property portals around the world.

For information on Previsite or its products and services contact Haney Sweda or 904-325-9651.

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CES Unveiled 2013 - Know Your Cell

We're on the grounds of Sin City and ready for CES 2013?and the Super Bowl of tech has already kicked off. We just got back from CES Unveiled and thought we'd show off a few of our favorite mobile-based companies.?

Nectar Mobile Power

The Nectar Mobile Power?has a great hook: You can charge your iPhone, smartphone or tablet for about two weeks without ever having to plug it into a wall. Unlike other battery packs from the likes of Mophie or others, the Nectar system uses a fuel cell that's powered by butane cartridges. You pop in a cartridge into the portable power system and then you can charge anything that uses the USB standard.?

The butane cartridges are safe (been tested against bullets!), can easily travel on planes and trains and cost about $10 a pop. It delivers 55,000mW-hours of power and that essentially equates to charging your iPhone once a day for two weeks. The cartridges can also be tossed into a recycled bin.?

There's some serious tech inside the Nectar Mobile Power system too, as its builders, Lilliputian Computing, has raised nearly $100 million dollars for products like these and the fuel cell features multiple, proprietary technology. My only concern is that this will cost $299 for the battery pack and a single cartridge - a price that may scare off many.?

Lenovo

I have to be honest, the new ThinkPad Helix convertible Windows 8 tablets/computers aren't generally what we cover but I have to put Lenovo into the winner category because it really had some good stuff. These tablets were quite nice, worked well and could be mounted on the keyboard in multiple ways.?

The real reason I had to include Lenovo is it showed off a 27-inch coffeetable PC that looks fantastic. It's a $1,700 device that probably won't wind up in many houses but it is quite fun to play around with and think of the possibilities. Check out this video CNET did for a better idea of what to expect.?

?iPhone Cases

A big focus of CES Unveiled was making your iPhone better and while iPhone cases and accessories are generally not that exciting, we did see a few gems.?

Sculpteo?designed the case above and it uses 3D printing to let you easily design, print and get your own iPhone 5 case. Its iPad app lets you do things like match up a certain geographical place and print that on your case, or you can even upload the 3D files you already have. The cases themselves feel decent and sturdy, too.?

The Ampjacket case for the iPhone from kubxlab?also caught my eyes and ears because this enables your phone to be two times louder thanks to the acoustic design. There are plenty of times when headphones just aren't right for the sceneario and the built-in speaker doesn't quite give you enough oomph. As a bonus, it will also give you a modicum of protection too.?

Those are just a few of the winners from CES Unveiled and you can be sure that we'll have a lot more from CES for you this week.?

Source: http://www.knowyourcell.com/news/1754134/ces_2013_best_of_ces_unveiled.html

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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Earthquake shakes Alaska, Canada

The 7.5 temblor produced a tsunami warning that was cancelled after no serious waves were detected.

By The Associated Press / January 5, 2013

Residents gather at a high school in Sitka, Alaska, after a tsunami warning. The warning ended when no high waves were detected following Saturday's 7.5 earthquake.

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The magnitude 7.5 quake and tsunami warning that followed caused concern in some coastal communities, with alarms sounding and people rushing to higher ground for safety.

But the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center later said the waves were too small to pose a threat, reaching just six inches above normal sea level in places such as Sitka and Port Alexander.

"Initially, in the first 15 to 20 minutes, there might have been a bit of panic," Sitka Police Chief Sheldon Schmitt told The Associated Press in a phone interview. But he said things calmed down as the town waited for the all clear.

The temblor struck at midnight Friday (1 a.m. PST Saturday) and was centered about 60 miles west of Craig, Alaska, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Seismologist Jana Pursley of the USGS said the quake was followed by six aftershocks, the strongest of which registered a 5.1 and came nearly four hours after the initial quake.

"Houses shook; mine had things tossed from (the) wall," Craig Police Chief Robert Ely said. But he added that there were "no reports of any injuries, no wave, no tidal movement seen."

The tsunami warning was eventually expanded to include coastal areas from Cape Fairweather, Alaska, to the northern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada ? an area extending more than 700 miles.

The center had warned that "significant widespread inundation of land is expected," adding that dangerous coastal flooding was possible.

In its cancellation statement, the center said that some areas were seeing just small sea level changes.

"A tsunami was generated during this event but no longer poses a threat," the center said.

The Alaska Earthquake Information Center said the quake was widely felt but it received no reports of any damage.

"It was the most intense earthquake I've felt in my 10 years here. I'm pretty sure there was stuff falling off of shelves," Chief Schmitt said. "There is no report of any wave activity here."

He said that an evacuation sirens and announcements came shortly after the quake, prompting the temporary rush to higher ground.

Some people in Craig also moved to safer territory.

"Several citizens elected on their own to move to higher ground. Several locations in Craig were set up for staging (and) shelter," said Chief Ely, adding that "no evacuation was ordered."

In addition to the warning, a tsunami advisory was briefly in effect for some Alaska coastal areas to the north of the warning zone, as well as to the south of the zone, from the Washington state border to the northern tip of Vancouver Island.

A tsunami warning means an area is likely to be hit by a wave, while an advisory means there may be strong currents, but that widespread inundation is not expected to occur.

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Missoni fashion house executive missing after plane disappeared

By The Associated Press

The search resumed Saturday for a small plane that has disappeared off the Venezuelan coast with six people aboard, including Vittorio Missoni, a top executive in Italy's Missoni fashion house, officials said.

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Italian fashion executive Vittorio Missoni, son of Italian fashion designer Ottavio Missoni, is missing after a plane disappeared off the coast of Venezuela.

Missoni, 58, is the director general of the iconic brand and the eldest son of the company's founder. Flying with him on Friday's flight from Venezuela's Los Roques resort archipelago to Caracas, was Missoni's wife, Maurizia Castiglioni, two Italian friends of the couple, and a crew of two Venezuelans.

Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper reported that family patriarch Ottavio Missoni, 91, and his wife, Rosita, were at their home in Italy, along with their daughter, Angela, the chief fashion designer and sister of Vittorio Missoni, waiting for information about the search. Italian news reports said the third Missoni sibling, Luca, had flown to Venezuela.

"We have no other news" beyond that the plane went missing, Paolo Marchetti, a Missoni official told reporters as he left company headquarters in the northern Italian town of Sumirago on Saturday afternoon.

Missoni, with its trademark zigzag and other geometric patterns in sweaters, scarves and other knitwear, is one of Italy's most famous fashion brands abroad. Vittorio Missoni played a key role in marketing the Missoni family creations in Asia, especially in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and he took on the title of general director of marketing of Missoni SpA. He also is responsible for the company's products in the United States and France.

His elderly parents still play an active role in the family.

On Friday, Venezuela's Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the plane was declared missing hours after taking off from Los Roques, a string of islands, cays and islets that is popular for scuba diving, white beaches and coral reefs, where the Missonis and their friends were on vacation.

Revero said the plane had been expected at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas but never arrived.

A first day of searching on Friday yielded nothing.

As the search resumed Saturday, the Italian news agency ANSA, reporting from Rome, said a specialized ocean-searching naval vessel was being deployed.

The Missoni brand is scheduled to display its latest menswear creations on the Milan runways in fashion show later this month.

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Kobe Bryant: I'm on Twitter now

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant (24) drives against Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard, left, during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Kobe Bryant is no longer a holdout. He's on Twitter.

With five words ? "The antisocial has become social" ? the Los Angeles Lakers guard sent the first tweet from his account Friday. About 270,000 people followed his verified account, (at)kobebryant, within a few hours.

Bryant tiptoed into the Twitterverse last week when he briefly took over Nike basketball's account, when he sent out things like a photo of him hanging out with his daughter, an ice bath that he was dreading and even a suit he was wearing to a particular game.

Bryant says those few days made him consider starting his own account, saying he enjoyed connecting with fans "with no filters."

Heat star LeBron James has 6.8 million followers, the most of any NBA player.

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Alabama leaders deliver pre-practice wakeup call

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ? Alabama's team leaders weren't thrilled with how practice was going for the BCS championship against Notre Dame, so they got their teammates together for a chat.

Crimson Tide linebacker Nico Johnson said Friday the meeting convened by the team's leadership group before the previous day's practice seemed to help.

No. 2 Alabama meets No. 1 Notre Dame for the national title on Monday night.

"We felt like it hasn't been what it needs to be as far as intensity, as far as focus, as far as everything," Johnson said. "Each player took it upon himself to give a little bit more, and that's what we did. We're going to try to finish the week out like we did (Thursday).

"We feel like if we do that we give ourselves a better chance."

Johnson said the primary message of the session "was just getting back to what we do" and live up to the Alabama standard of football excellence.

He says no such wakeup call was needed before last year's championship game because the Tide had a more veteran team, with leaders like linebacker Dont'a Hightower and tailback Trent Richardson. Alabama beat LSU 21-0.

Johnson said the Tide received big attention-getter with its loss to Texas A&M. This meeting might have been something of a pre-emptive strike, unlike the Aggies game, when Alabama found itself down three touchdowns by the end of the first quarter before rallying.

"That week, nothing would go right for us," Johnson said. "Sitting back there thinking about it, it had to happen. It made us understand we had to play our best week in and week out. No matter if it's Texas A&M or Vanderbilt or whoever. It kind of motivated us to finish the season out strong."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/alabama-leaders-deliver-pre-practice-wakeup-call-171739917--spt.html

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Giffords meets with families of Newtown shooting victims

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) ? Nearly two years after being critically wounded in a mass shooting, former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Friday met with families of victims in last month's shooting that left 26 people dead inside a Connecticut elementary school.

Giffords was accompanied by her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, at the private meeting in Newtown that was also attended by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal.

"As always, I was deeply impressed by the strength and courage and resolve of the families and the extraordinary caring and generosity of Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly in visiting with them," Blumenthal said.

Giffords, a Democrat, met earlier in the day with officials including Connecticut's lieutenant governor and Newtown's first selectman.

Giffords was left partially blind, with a paralyzed right arm and brain injury, when a gunman opened fire at a constituent meet-and-greet outside a Tucson grocery store on Jan. 8, 2011. Arizona's chief federal judge and five others were killed and 13 people, including Giffords, were injured.

The gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, pleaded guilty to 19 federal charges and was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years.

Kelly has become a vocal advocate for gun control in recent months, most notably at Loughner's sentencing in November. He lashed out at politicians for avoiding a "meaningful debate" about gun laws and called out Arizona Republicans, including the governor, for taking a pro-gun stance in the months after the shooting.

"As a nation we have repeatedly passed up the opportunity to address the issue. After Columbine, after Virginia Tech, after Tucson and after Aurora, we have done nothing," he told the court.

He has issued strongly worded statements many times since the massacre in Connecticut, including a harsh response to the National Rifle Association's reaction to the shooting. He often begins statements with "Gabby and I" as he makes pointed comments about the direction of the gun debate in America.

Kelly said on the day of the Newtown shooting that it should lead to better gun control.

"This time our response must consist of more than regret, sorrow, and condolence," Kelly said on his Facebook page, calling for "a meaningful discussion about our gun laws and how they can be reformed and better enforced to prevent gun violence and death in America."

Blumenthal said he is eager to find allies as he pursues tougher gun control laws.

"I'm hopeful that everyone who cares about this issue or has a stake in it will be active in supporting our effort in gun violence prevention legislatively," he said.

Giffords' visit came one day after Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced the creation of an advisory commission that will review and recommend changes to state laws and policies on issues including gun control in the wake of the Dec. 14 rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The gunman, Adam Lanza, shot and killed his mother, then drove to the school and slaughtered 20 first-graders and six educators before committing suicide as police arrived.

Giffords has appeared in public a few times since the shooting. She came face-to-face with Loughner when he was sentenced and attended ceremonies for the anniversary of the shooting.

She received tributes and ovations when she returned to the House in January 2012 to say goodbye as she resigned her seat and she delivered the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democratic National Convention in September.

On Wednesday, two days before she visited the Newtown families, she and Kelly met for an hour with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a longtime and vociferous gun control advocate. Bloomberg's office tweeted a photo of the meeting but wouldn't elaborate Friday on the discussion.

President Barack Obama invoked the Tucson and Newtown elementary school shootings when he spoke at Newtown shortly after the attack. He said four shootings, including those two plus the attacks at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., marked his first term in office.

A recent Pew Research Center report says gun policy accounted for almost 30 percent of discussions examined on blogs and Twitter in the three days after the school massacre. It compares the response to the Newtown rampage with the Arizona shooting, saying that in the three days after that, just 3 percent of social media conversation was about gun laws.

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Associated Press writer Susan Haigh contributed to this report from Hartford, Conn.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wounded-ex-rep-giffords-meets-conn-families-231306569.html

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Friday, January 4, 2013

Paula Deen on Impressive Weight Loss: All About Moderation!

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War is over: Imaginary ?Bicholim Conflict? page removed from Wikipedia after five years

While Wikipedia editors strive for perfection, some elaborate hoaxes have managed to slip through (BGR News)A 17^th Century international conflict has finally been laid to rest, nearly 400 years after it never happened. Wait a second. Are you feeling confused?

A fascinating new story in the Daily Dot chronicles how for more than five years, rogue editors on Wikipedia perpetuated a hoax about the ?Bicholim Conflict,? a purely fictional historical event.

Before its eventual deletion, the 4,500-word page read in part:

?From 1640 to 1641 the might of colonial Portugal clashed with India's massive Maratha Empire in an undeclared war that would later be known as the Bicholim Conflict. Named after the northern Indian region where most of the fighting took place, the conflict ended with a peace treaty that would later help cement Goa as an independent Indian state.?

Amazingly, the article was even nominated for the site?s Featured Article of the Day, a Wikipedia stable that highlights some of the site?s best-researched and written articles.

The actual writer of the Wikipedia article is still unknown, but members of the Wikipedia community have narrowed down at least one suspect.

?Unfortunately, hoaxes on Wikipedia are nothing new, and the craftier they are, the more difficult it is to catch them,? William Beutler, president of Beutler Wiki Relations, a Wikipedia consulting firm, told Yahoo News. ?Anyone who's clever enough to make up convincing sources and motivated enough to spend the time and skilled enough to write a plausible article can deceive whole Internet?at least for awhile.?

A December 2012 poll by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that Google and Wikipedia were the top two research tools used by U.S. middle and high school students.

To its credit, Wikipedia has its own page devoted to Wikipedia hoaxes. Some of the more noteworthy attempts include a page on a fictional conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, a false claim of inspiration in the ?Lord of the Rings? novels and a former Harvard student who for eight years successfully operated a Wikipedia page claiming he was the mayor of a small Chinese town.

Beutler, a longtime Wikipedia community editor himself, says he once helped remove a hoax article after its author contacted him in an attempt to boast of their prank.

And as Beutler notes, in many ways, Wikipedia is no different than the professional journalism world from which it culls so much of its source material. No single source is infallible, even to the watchful and detail oriented community of Wikpedia editors.

?There are the outliers in each: Jayson Blair for the New York Times, the ?Bicholim conflict? author on Wikipedia,? Beutler said.??Stephen Glass would have been a terrific Wikipedia hoaxer.?

Even stranger, while the fake article itself has been deleted, the Bicholim Conflict continues to haunt the halls of the Internet at large.

As the Daily Dot notes, several references to the Bicholim Conflict continue to exist online, with other web sites having copied and pasted the text verbatim.

There?s even a book version of the fraudulent article available for sale on the Barnes and Noble website for $20 and credited to ?authors? Jesse Russell and Ronald Cohn. As the product?s one reviewer notes in their comment, ?A copy of a hoax Wikipedia article (which you could have read for free) in printed form.?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/war-over-imaginary-bicholim-conflict-page-removed-wikipedia-234717353.html

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Google Now And Google Translate Praise The iPad

Google's text-to-speech engine loves the iPad so much, it often ends sentences with the phrase "he now praises the iPad" for no apparent reason. The bug appears in Google Now, assuming you ask it the right question, as well as in Google Translate, which makes it easy to replicate and have some fun with.

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Galactic geysers fueled by star stuff

Jan. 2, 2013 ? Enormous outflows of charged particles from the centre of our Galaxy, stretching more than halfway across the sky and moving at supersonic speeds, have been detected and mapped with CSIRO's 64-m Parkes radio telescope.

Corresponding to the "Fermi Bubbles" found in 2010, the recent observations of the phenomenon were made by a team of astronomers from Australia, the USA, Italy and The Netherlands, with the findings reported in the January 2 issue of Nature.

"There is an incredible amount of energy in the outflows," said co-author Professor Lister-Staveley-Smith from The University of Western Australia node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Perth and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO).

"The source of the energy has been somewhat of a mystery, but we know there is a lot there, about a million times as much energy as a supernova explosion (a dying star)."

From top to bottom the outflows extend 50,000 light-years [five hundred thousand million million kilometres] out of the Galactic Plane. That's equal to half the diameter of our Galaxy (which is 100,000 light-years -- a million million million kilometres -- across).

"Our Solar System is located approximately 30,000 light-years from the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, but we're perfectly safe as the jets are moving in a different direction to us," said Professor Staveley-Smith.

Seen from Earth, but invisible to the human eye, the outflows stretch about two-thirds across the sky from horizon to horizon.

They match previously identified regions of gamma-ray emission detected with NASA's Fermi Space Telescope (then-called "Fermi Bubbles") and the "haze" of microwave emission spotted by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and Planck Space Telescope.

"Adding observations by the ground-based Parkes radio telescope to those made in the past by space telescopes finally allows us to understand how these enormous outflows are powered," said Professor Staveley-Smith.

Previously it was unclear whether it was quasar-like activity of our Galaxy's central super-massive black hole or star formation that kept injecting energy into the outflows.

The recent findings, reported in Nature, show that the phenomenon is driven by many generations of stars forming and exploding in the Galactic Centre over the last hundred million years.

"We were able to analyse the magnetic energy content of the outflows and conclude that star formation must have happened in several bouts," said CAASTRO Director Professor Bryan Gaensler.

Further analyses of the polarisation properties and magnetic fields of the outflows can also help us to answer one of astronomy's big questions about our Galaxy.

"We found that the outflows' radiation is not homogenous but that it actually reveals a high degree of structure -- which we suspect is key to how the Galaxy's overall magnetic field is generated and maintained," said Professor Gaensler.

The research was led by Dr Ettore Carretti from the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation.

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Ettore Carretti, Roland M. Crocker, Lister Staveley-Smith, Marijke Haverkorn, Cormac Purcell, B. M. Gaensler, Gianni Bernardi, Michael J. Kesteven, Sergio Poppi. Giant magnetized outflows from the centre of the Milky Way. Nature, 2013; 493 (7430): 66 DOI: 10.1038/nature11734

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