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A Golden Ratio for your ears
I would guess that the majority of Gadgeteer readers have never heard of George Cardas. That may be about to change. Cardas Audio is a maker of high-end audio cable, and Mr. Cardas is a respected audiophile. After years of listening to earphones, he decided that he could do it better ? so he designed [...]
FIFA 14 Cover Revealed For USA And Mexico [PHOTO]
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EA Sports has revealed the cover for FIFA 14 that will be sold in the United States and Mexico beginning this September.
On the cover, Lionel Messi and Javier ?Chicharito? Hernandez are featured, which will be used on all of the packaging for the game sold in Mexico and the US. As you can see, there are no MLS or USMNT players to be seen.
The last time a MLS or USMNT footballer was featured on the cover was FIFA 12, which had Landon Donovan in action wearing his LA Galaxy uniform.
MORE ? All the details about FIFA 14 including photos and video.
FIFA 14 will be released on September 24, 2013 and will be available on the following platforms: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, PS2, Microsoft Windows, Wii, iOS, Android, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita.
Pre-order FIFA 14 today so you?ll get it in your mailbox as soon as it?s available.
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How to download photos from Dropbox directly to your iPhone or iPad camera roll
If you use Dropbox to store photos and save space on your iPhone or iPad, there may come a time when you want to share those photos to a social network or with a friend. In order to do so, you'll most likely have to save them to your camera roll first.
As it happens, Dropbox gives you an easy way to do this. Here's how:
- Launch the Dropbox app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
- Find the photo that you'd like to download to your camera roll in your Dropbox app.
- Click on the Download button in the lower right hand corner.
- Now tap on the option for Save to Photo Library.
- The photo will export directly to your iPhone or iPad camera roll.
Once the export is done you can hop right into your Photos app and upload it to whatever service you'd like.
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Student debt stalemate will hammer millions of undergrads
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Boston College students walk across the college campus in Boston, March 29, 2005.
Time is running out for Congress to act. And low-income college students will pay a high price if a deal can't be reached by Monday's deadline.
Interest rates on many new subsidized Stafford loans will skyrocket?from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent?on Monday, unless the Senate reaches a compromise.
The likelihood of that happening dimmed Friday as Congress recessed for the Independence Day holiday week.
Read More: Senate Can't Save Student Loan Rates
Most in Congress agree loan rates should to stay lower than 6.8 percent, at least for the subsidized Stafford loans used by the country's lowest-income students. But they're stuck on how to get there.
Republicans want to let the rates fluctuate with the markets every year and use the proceeds for deficit reduction. Democrats say that's unreasonable and want to cap how fast rates can rise.
Existing loan rates will not change and rates on new unsubsidized Stafford and PLUS loans also will remain the same.
Congress could come to an agreement later this summer to lower rates, but that may be unlikely.
"It is possible for them to make a retroactive change, but only if the loans have not yet been disbursed," says Mark Kantrowitz, senior vice president and publisher of Edvisors.com. "So they could make a retroactive change if the US Department of Education delays the disbursement. But I doubt Congress will reach an agreement after July 1, as they are still too far apart."
More than 7 million undergraduates receive subsidized Stafford loans, for which the federal government pays the interest while the students are enrolled in school.
But the nation's student debt crisis affects so many more.
More than 38 million Americans have student loan debt, totaling nearly $1 trillion, a staggering number that has quadrupled in 10 years and keeps rising. Student loan debt now surpasses credit card and auto loan debt in this country?and it's only expected to get worse before it gets better.
"I see the debate about interest rates as a distraction from the real problem, which is the amount of debt," said Kantrowitz, who is also founder of FinAid.org, a leading website on financial aid for college and graduate students and their families.
"Each year the average cost of graduation goes up by about $1,000 or more. And having less expensive debt is going not going to make much of a difference if the total amount owed keeps on going up."
A study done this spring by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that the share of 25-year-olds with student debt has increased from just 25 percent in 2003 to 43 percent in 2012. The average student loan balance among those 25-year-olds with student debt grew by 91 percent over that time, from $10,649 in 2003 to $20,326 in 2012.
The amount of debt has risen as tuition, room, board, fees and other college expenses have soared. The cost of attending college has risen about 4 percent in the past year alone?and has far outpaced the rate of inflation in recent years.
Total charges for a full-time undergraduate at an in-state public college rose from $17,136 in 2011-2012 to $17,860 in 2012-2013, according to the College Board. Private college costs for one year totaled $39,518 in the past year, up from $37,971 the previous academic year.
"Grants are not keeping pace with the increases in college costs," Kantrowitz said. "When grants are relatively stagnant or even going down that causes students to borrow more."
But many families don't plan or try to calculate the total cost of attendance for a student's college and graduate studies?and that may be at the crux of the student debt crisis.
Sallie Mae CEO Jack Remondi said poor planning exacerbates a borrower's burden, regardless of the rate on the loan. Sallie Mae is the largest provider of private student loans.
"If you overborrow, whether the rate is 4 percent or 7 percent, you're still going to encounter difficulties," Remondi said. "A plan that takes into consideration what your income potential is going to be when you graduate and what that debt burden is going to be is critical."
Unfortunately, many students and parents have failed College Planning 101.
Less than a third of low-income parents said they knew how they would pay for their child's college education before they enrolled, according to a Sallie Mae study. Only 37 percent of middle-income families had a plan. Among high-income families, only slightly more than half said they had a plan to pay for college before their children enrolled.
Yet this critical lesson can significantly cut borrowing costs: As long as your total student debt at graduation is less than your annual income, you should be able to pay back your student loans in 10 years or less, Kantrowitz said.
Keeping that formula in mind when choosing a college, graduate school and course of study can help students significantly cut borrowing costs.
?By CNBC's Sharon Epperson. Follow her on Twitter @sharon_epperson.
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Stocks sag, but Dow logs best first half of year since 1999
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The Dow and S&P 500 dropped on Friday as investors were reluctant to jump in following a three-day rally, but major averages still capped the volatile quarter with gains.
Stocks finished lower for the month of June, logging their first monthly drop this year. But all three major averages logged their third winning quarter in four. And so far for the year, the Dow has surged more than 14 percent, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq have spiked more than 13 percent each.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 114.89 points to close at 14,909.60, pulling back after logging its third-straight day higher. Still, the Dow posted its strongest first half of the year since 1999.
The S&P 500 fell 6.92 points to finish at 1,606.28. The S&P 500 logged its best first half performance since 1998. The Nasdaq eked out a gain of 1.38 points to end at 3,403.25.
The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, finished unchanged below 17.
For the quarter, the Dow rose 2.27 percent, the S&P 500 climbed 2.36 percent, and the Nasdaq soared 4.15 percent. Microsoft was the best performer for the quarter on the Dow, while IBM tumbled.
Financials topped the S&P 500 sector gainers in the second quarter, while utilities lagged.
Stocks initially opened in negative territory after Fed Governor Jeremy Stein highlighted the upcoming September policy meeting as a possible time when the central bank may need to consider paring back its QE program, adding that the Fed consider the overall economic improvements since it launched the stimulus instead of giving undue weight to the most recent round of tepid economic data.
(Read More: Buckle Up! Expect More Market Volatility This Year)
Stein's comments contradicted comments from other Fed policymakers who have suggested the central bank will bide its time before scaling back its bond purchases.
Menawhile, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker said markets should brace for more volatility as they digest news the Fed will scale back bond buying later this year, but the swings will not derail growth. Lacker said he expects U.S. growth to remain around 2 percent for the "foreseeable future."
(Read More:Fed Out in Force as Markets Stabilize)
On the economic front, business activity index in the Midwest fell in June to 51.6 from 58.7 in May, according to the Institute for Supply Management-Chicago. A Reuters survey of economists on average expected a median reading of 56.0 in June versus the May figure of 58.7.
Meanwhile, consumer sentiment improved in late June, with the final reading on the overall index at 84.1, above the preliminary reading of 82.7, according to Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the final June reading of 82.8.
Japan's benchmark stock index hit a three-week high on the heels of positive economic reports that include much stronger than expected industrial output and retail sales numbers.
"We had better job market numbers, better production numbers, and even consumer prices are picking up. So data-wise, today is a pretty good day for Japan," said Takuji Okubo, principal and chief economist at Japan Macro Advisors.
Traders will closely watch gold prices, as the precious metal dipped below a key level of $1,200 per ounce. Analysts warned that miners could be severely affected if prices remain this low.
(Read More: Three Reasons Gold Will Go to $800)
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Home sales jump up in May
Pending home sales climbed up, perhaps because sidelined buyers are jumping into the market before interest rates rise further, the chief economist of the National Association of Realtors said.
Seasonally adjusted national pending home sales rose significantly from April, jumping 6.7 percent up.
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Meanwhile, the NARs chief economist Lawrence Yun is suggests the spike in contract activity is likely the result of sidelined buyers now jumping to buy before interest rates, increasing for several weeks now, rise further:
"Even with limited choices, it appears some of the rise in contract signings could be from buyers wanting to take advantage of current affordability conditions before mortgage interest rates move higher, ... This implies a continuation of double-digit price increases from a year earlier, with a strong push from pent-up demand."
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Supreme Court declines to take up two more gay rights cases
By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court, a day after deciding two major cases on gay marriage, declined on Thursday to take up two more cases on the issue.
The cases concerned Nevada's ban on same-sex marriage, and an Arizona law that denies state benefits to "domestic partners."
The court declined to take the cases without comment. Its action means an appeals court ruling striking down the Arizona law stays in effect, while litigation over the Nevada law will continue.
On Wednesday the justices struck down a key part of a federal law, the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), that denied federal benefits to same-sex married couples.
The justices avoided deciding the constitutionality of a California law enacted in 2008, called Proposition 8, that banned gay marriage. The justices found that supporters of the law did not have standing to appeal a federal district court ruling that struck it down.
The Arizona case concerns a law that limits health benefits to employees' spouses and dependants, thereby excluding domestic partners, including those in same-sex relationships. Gay marriage is not recognized in Arizona.
Prior to the law being enacted via a ballot initiative in November 2008, the state had for several months allowed same-sex domestic partners to receive health benefits.
Gay and lesbian state employees sued before the new law was due to go into effect in January 2011, saying it violated their equal protection rights under the U.S. Constitution.
A federal district court issued a preliminary injunction preventing the law from going in effect. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling in September 2011, prompting the state's appeal to the Supreme Court.
In the other case, supporters of Nevada's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage asked the Supreme Court to rule definitively that states could limit the definition of marriage to opposite-sex couples.
The case arose when eight same-sex couples either tried to get married in Nevada or asked the state to recognize their out-of-state marriages. A federal court dismissed their claim. The case is pending before an appeals court, but the supporters of the ban asked the Supreme Court to take an early look at the issue.
The Arizona case is Brewer v. Diaz, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 12-33. The Nevada case is Coalition for the Protection of Marriage v. Sevick, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 12-689.
(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Howard Goller, Vicki Allen and John Wallace)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gay-marriage-gets-big-boost-two-supreme-court-130550277.html
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Gold standard dialysis procedure may not be so golden for elderly patients
June 27, 2013 ? Elderly patients with kidney failure may not gain the same benefits from what's considered the gold standard for accessing the blood for dialysis compared with younger patients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The findings suggest that vascular access procedures should be tailored to individual dialysis patients in the elderly population.
The elderly represent the most rapidly growing group of patients on dialysis for kidney failure. Research clearly shows an arteriovenous fistula, which is created by connecting a patient's own vein and artery to form a long-lasting site through which blood can be removed and returned, is the best way to gain access to the blood for dialysis in younger individuals. Other types of access involve the use of a catheter, which does not require needle sticks, and arteriovenous grafts, which is a plastic conduit between an artery and a vein. It's currently unclear which of these is the best type of dialysis access for elderly patients.
To investigate, Ranil DeSilva, MD, Alexander Goldfarb-Rumyantzev, MD, PhD (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), and their colleagues studied information from 2005 to 2008 on more than 115,000 dialysis patients over 66 years of age, 35% of whom were in their 80s and 90s.
Among the major findings over four years:
? The use of catheters was linked with more than a 74% increased risk of death in patients of any age.
? While use of an arteriovenous fistula improved survival compared with use of an arteriovenous graft in patients in their late 60s and 70s, patients in their 80s and 90s experienced similar survival rates with the two procedures.
The findings suggest that in patients who are older than 80 years, placing a graft -- which takes a much shorter time to establish and can be placed shortly before starting dialysis -- may be a reasonable alternative to a fistula. This is particularly true for those with small veins or when it is uncertain when dialysis may be needed.
"In an era using more standardized quality outcome measures, we must remain cautious about generalizing measures to our growing elderly population. In the case of our study, a strategy that is clearly superior in young individuals requiring hemodialysis for kidney failure does not appear to be the clearly superior strategy for elderly individuals," said Dr. DeSilva. "It appears that the optimal vascular access choice should be tailored to the specific patient in the elderly population," he added.
In an accompanying editorial, Ann O'Hare, MD (University of Washington, Seattle) stressed that "to deliver care that is truly centered on the patient, we may ultimately need to set aside traditional metrics focusing on universal treatment targets? in favor of new ones focusing on the extent to which the process and outcomes of access selection support the goals and preferences of individual patients."
Study co-authors include Bhanu Patibandla, MD, Yael Vin, MD, MPH, Akshita Narra MD, Varun Chawla, MD, and Robert Brown, MD.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/fbsCJGiv72E/130627190329.htm
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1981 Chrysler Imperials - Hemmings Auto Blogs - Hemmings Motor ...
One common complaint about collecting cars of the Seventies and Eighties is the lack of reproduction or replacement parts, but think back to the time before aftermarket companies offered parts to restore a car or to simply keep it going. What did our car-collector forefathers do back then? Sometimes they just bought up every example of that car they could get their hands on, as somebody did with these three 1981 Chrysler Imperials for sale on Hemmings.com. Surely there should be enough good parts among these three to get one of them back on the road and in show condition. From the seller?s description:
These Chrysler imperials need a new home and would be a great project for anyone. Many do not realize how rare the Imperials are. Chrysler only made this model for three years for the Luxury Coupe Era. This is your chance to purchase three hard-to find classics. Do not wait any longer. $11,995 obo for all three Imperials. We will consider individual offers. Please contact me with any questions.
Black Imperial ? Red Cloth interior, clean, fuel injection, about 35,000 miles. Ran when parked. Two-owner vehicle. Be the only person in your city to have such a rare classic.
Red Imperial ? With cloth interior, fuel injection, fairly clean, will not start. Again, this will make a great project for anyone who wants to own a rare classic.
Black Imperial ? Red Leather Interior in rough condition. It has been converted to carb. TMU This will be great for parts or a restoration project.
The 1981 Chrysler Imperial is known to have the best interior out of the three years of production. There are only 169 vehicles listed in the Chrysler Imperial Registry for all three production years of the Luxury Coupe Era.
Location: Saint Albans, Vermont
Status: Available
See more Chryslers for sale on Hemmings.com.
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Bruce Jenner Moves Out Of Family Mansion After Kim Kardashian ...
Baby North has made Bruce Jenner go South.
The Kardashian-Jenner patriarch has moved to his Malibu, Calif., beach house for the rest of the summer after new parents Kim Kardashian and Kanye West moved into the family?s mansion in Calabasas with their newborn, RadarOnline.com has learned.
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The Olympic gold medalist, ?decided to ditch the family home because he was constantly being told to be quiet because of baby Nori,? a source said. ?Bruce was unable to have his friends over to fly their remote controlled helicopters in the backyard because of concerns of noise.?
The Kardashian clan was also concerned one his pals might try and snap a photo of North and sell it to the media!
A family insider told Radar: ?The entire household has been turned upside down because Kim and Nori have moved in. Bruce has been run out of the house! Kris didn?t encourage him to stay either.?
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As we previously reported, new mom Kim, 32, is getting acclimated to her new life as a parent ? a life that includes a 24-7 baby nurse and lots of breastfeeding for Kim ? but no changing diapers for Kanye!
?Kim is breastfeeding constantly ? she loves it ? Kanye holds the baby all the time,? an insider told US Weekly, while another source told the magazine, Kanye ?doesn?t leave North for more than an hour,? though ?he?s not changing diapers.?
Viewers of Keeping Up With The Kardashians were stunned when Jenner, 63, rented a beach house in Malibu because he wanted a place to call his own, after complaining his wife of 22 years was nagging him about cleanliness and didn?t allow his friends to come over.
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During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Khloe Kardashian said: ?They?re not having problems but they still like to live apart. In my house there?s a manroom for Lamar (Odom) so I think they took my idea and ran with it and they got another house and Bruce stays there some times. I?m not for that. But it?s to each their own.
?I think too much time apart is not a good thing.?
Bruce is enjoying his rental pad so much that ?he has asked Ryan Seacrest?s production company, which is picking up the tab for the lease, to extend it another six months,? the source told Radar. ?He really is making it a home of his own.?
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While daughters Kendall and Kylie haven?t been spending that much time there, according to our insider, Bruce?s older kids with ex-wife Linda Thompson, Brody and Brandon, have been there regularly.
?It?s been a very positive experience for Bruce,? the insider said.
Source: http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/06/bruce-jenner-moves-out-kim-kardashian-baby-north/
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Poncho: The Best Weather Service You've Never Heard Of
The weather. It's all anyone talks about these days. But there's never been one single service that gets it right, or even bothers to tell you what you actually need to know. Well, Betaworks' Poncho, a new weather service, might have just figured it all out?with a simple text message in the morning.
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YC-Backed Contractor Directory BuildZoom Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round
BuildZoom, the Y Combinator-backed service designed to connect homeowners with licensed contractors, is today announcing having closed on $1.4 million in seed funding, in a round led by Formation 8 (Joe Lonsdale). The company plans to use the additional funding for hiring and continued product development, with a specific focus on improving some of the site's consumer-facing tools, like its online project gallery, Q&A section, and marketplace.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/GlLIhQ3hW1s/
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Rivals seek tough EU antitrust action on Google
FILE - This Oct. 1, 2011 file photo, shows the Google logo at the Google headquarters in Brussels. A coalition of Google's competitors urged the European Union's antitrust watchdog Tuesday June 25, 2013 to reject the Internet giant's proposed concessions on displaying search results. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
FILE - This Oct. 1, 2011 file photo, shows the Google logo at the Google headquarters in Brussels. A coalition of Google's competitors urged the European Union's antitrust watchdog Tuesday June 25, 2013 to reject the Internet giant's proposed concessions on displaying search results. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
BRUSSELS (AP) ? A coalition of Google's competitors urged the European Union's antitrust watchdog Tuesday to reject the Internet giant's proposed concessions on displaying search results.
"It would be better to do nothing than to accept Google's proposals," said Thomas Vinje of FairSearch, a group of 17 companies including Microsoft and TripAdvisor. "The proposals would make things worse rather than better," he insisted.
The European Commission, the bloc's antitrust authority, has been investigating since 2010 whether Google is abusing its dominant market position and stifling competition. It pointed out several areas of concern, which Google is trying to address mainly by changing the way it displays search results.
Google Inc.'s search engine enjoys a near-monopoly in Europe with a market share of about 90 percent, which gives it a huge edge over competitors to promote its own services such as Google News, Google Maps or its shopping and flight search functions.
Complainants in the case had two months ending this week to provide the EU with feedback to the proposed remedies. The body's antitrust chief, Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, already hinted after the first month of the so-called market test that Google would be asked to do more to appease the competition concerns.
Google has offered to more clearly label search results stemming from its own services to allow users to distinguish between natural search results and those promoted by Google. It also agreed to display some search results from its competitors and links to their services.
But competitors say the two months have shown that the way Google would label and display its own offerings to distinguish it from rivals' content actually favors Google.
"This will be a counterproductive measure, it will institutionalize the search bias," said Moritz von Merveldt, head of antitrust matters at German media company ProSiebenSat.1 Group. "Users often will be directed away from competitors' offers," he added.
Merveldt said that a test of Google's new labeling on weather searches showed that his company's weather service would immediately lose 20 percent of its web traffic, and thus make less money from online advertising.
Other industry officials voiced similar concerns.
"As a minimum requirement, Google must hold all services, including its own, to exactly the same standards, using exactly the same crawling, indexing, ranking, display and penalty algorithms," said Helmut Heinen, the president of the federation of German newspaper publishers BDZV.
It might take several months before the EU Commission announces its decision on the case. So far, it has often taken a harder line with U.S. tech companies than its American counterparts, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department.
Google, which is based in Mountain View, California, was able to settle a similar antitrust complaint on its search business with the FTC in January without making any major concessions on how it runs its search engine.
A Google Europe spokesman would not directly comment on the competitors' allegations, referring instead to a statement the company posted on its blog Monday.
"Our proposals are meaningful and comprehensive, providing additional choice and information while also leaving room for future innovation," wrote Google executive Kent Walker. "We think we did a pretty good job."
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Wow These Beautiful Animation Videos Are Ads for... McDonald's
You usually know an advertisement for McDonald's when you see it. Ethnically diverse group of friends who stay impossibly thin even though they eat at Mickey D's, perfectly dressed burgers and fries that you can almost smell, internal monologues about the deliciousness of the food, so on and so forth. These ads are not like that. They're abstract animations that show McDonald's in a completely different way.
Created by Helsinki-based animation studio Pinata, the video has 2d animation effects, 3D elements and particle simulation. It's a moving piece of art, basically. McDonald's released these three video ads for its McDonald's MyBurger competition in Finland. The video above is like a dark short you'd see from a scrappy Dreamworks. I can hardly believe it's for McDonald's. [Pinata via PSFK]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/wow-these-beautiful-animation-videos-are-ads-for-mcd-581337754
Iced Ice Rink in Brattleboro | ibrattleboro.com
I am in shock at the high cost to repair Brattleboro's Ice Arena. ? The Brattleboro Recreation Department as with almost every other department in Brattleboro keeps getting hit with all these expenses. ? I read the town meeting notes here, last week. Thank you Chris. Putting all other town business aside reading how our selectboard addressed this issue was comforting.?
Seeing how the estimate of repairs obtain by the town had been so far off from the bid received for the job reading that the selectboard had chose to not pull the checkbook out and pay the the extra 120,000 was comforting. The board wanting to step back and access what other options are out there just seems like the most practical thing to do giving the state of economic affairs at the moment.
That Said.?
I am curious to know of the many readers here wouldn't it be nice to start some type of fund raiser to help the town of Brattleboro cover the cost or a good chunk of the cost to keep a key winter sport available to our community. ? I know as a frequent user of the Brattleboro Ice rink that it is used by people who live within at least a 25 mile radius of Brattleboro. ? Unlike other winter sports the expence of ice skating is most often taking on by the community. ?I see some many people adults and children who otherwise would not be active in the winter use the rink as a way to stay active. ?It be nice for all of us to help Brattleboro keep the rink in good repair so everyone can continue to use it without forcing The town of Brattleboro to pay all the expence of its opperations.
If the Hockey, Speed, Recreational, and figure skaters all come togethermaybe we can come up with some means to help raise some funds so the burden of upgrading the compressors will not be so heavey on the town. Ideas?
Source: http://www.ibrattleboro.com/sections/oped/iced-ice-rink-brattleboro
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Immigration bill clears Senate test
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Historic immigration legislation cleared a key Senate hurdle with votes to spare on Monday, pointing the way to near-certain passage within days for $38 billion worth of new security measures along the border with Mexico and an unprecedented chance at citizenship for millions living in the country illegally.
The vote was 67-27, seven more than the 60 needed, with 15 Republicans agreeing to advance legislation at the top of President Barack Obama's second-term domestic agenda.
The vote came as Obama campaigned from the White House for the bill, saying, "now is the time" to overhaul an immigration system that even critics of the legislation agree needs reform.
Last-minute frustration was evident among opponents. In an unusual slap at members of his own party as well as Democrats, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said it appeared that lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle "very much want a fig leaf" on border security to justify a vote for immigration.
Senate passage on Thursday or Friday would send the issue to the House, where conservative Republicans in the majority oppose citizenship for anyone living in the country illegally.
Some GOP lawmakers have appealed to Speaker John Boehner not to permit any immigration legislation to come to a vote for fear that whatever its contents, it would open the door to an unpalatable compromise with the Senate. At the same time, the House Judiciary Committee is in the midst of approving a handful of measures related to immigration, action that ordinarily is a prelude to votes in the full House.
"Now is the time to do it," Obama said at the White House before meeting with nine business executives who support a change in immigration laws. He added, "I hope that we can get the strongest possible vote out of the Senate so that we can then move to the House and get this done before the summer break" beginning in early August.
He said the measure would be good for the economy, for business and for workers who are "oftentimes exploited at low wages."
As for the overall economy, he said, "I think every business leader here feels confident that they'll be in a stronger position to continue to innovate, to continue to invest, to continue to create jobs and ensure that this continues to be the land of opportunity for generations to come."
Opponents saw it otherwise. "It will encourage more illegal immigration and must be stopped," Cruz exhorted supporters via email, urging them to contact their own senators with a plea to defeat the measure.
Leaving little to chance, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced it was launching a new seven-figure ad buy Monday in support of the bill. "Call Congress. End de facto amnesty. Create jobs and economic growth by supporting conservative immigration reforms," the ad said.
Senate officials said some changes were still possible to the bill before it leaves the Senate - alterations that would swell the vote total.
At the same time, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., who voted to advance the measure during the day, said he may yet end up opposing it unless he wins a pair of changes he is seeking.
Senate Democrats were unified on the vote.
Republicans were anything but on a bill that some party leaders say offers the GOP a chance to show a more welcoming face to Hispanic voters, yet tea party-aligned lawmakers assail as amnesty for those who have violated the law.
The party's two top Senate leaders, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and John Cornyn of Texas, voted against advancing the measure. Both are seeking new terms next year.
Among potential 2016 GOP presidential contenders, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida was an enthusiastic supporter of the bill, while Cruz and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky were opposed.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated the legislation will reduce the deficit and increase economic growth in each of the next two decades. It is also predicting unemployment will rise slightly through 2020, and that average wages will move lower over a decade.
At its core, the legislation in the Senate would create a 13-year pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally in the United States. It also calls for billions of dollars to be spent on manpower and technology to secure the 2,000-mile border with Mexico, including a doubling of the Border Patrol with 20,000 new agents.
The measure also would create a new program for temporary farm laborers to come into the country, and another for lower-skilled workers to emigrate permanently. At the same time, it calls for an expansion of an existing visa program for highly-skilled workers, a gesture to high tech companies that rely heavily on foreigners.
In addition to border security, the measure phases in a mandatory program for employers to verify the legal status of potential workers, and separate effort to track the comings and goings of foreigners at some of the nation's airports.
The legislation was originally drafted by a bipartisan Gang of 8, four senators from each party who negotiated a series of political trade-offs over several months.
The addition of the tougher border security provisions came after CBO informed lawmakers that they could potentially spend tens of billions of dollars to sweeten the bill without fearing higher deficits.
The result was a series of changes negotiated between the Gang of 8 and Republican Sens. John Hoeven of North Dakota and Bob Corker of Tennessee. Different, lesser-noticed provisions helped other lawmakers swing behind the measure.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, likened some of them to "earmarks," the now-banned practice of directing federal funds to the pet projects of individual lawmakers.
He cited a provision creating a $1.5 billion jobs fund for low-income youth and pair of changes to benefit the seafood processing industry in Alaska. Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., issued a statement on Friday trumpeting the benefits of the first; Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, and Mark Begich, a Democrat, took credit for the two others.
Grassley also raised questions about the origin of a detailed list of planes, sensors, cameras and other equipment to be placed along the southern border.
"Who provided the amendment sponsors with this list?" asked Grassley, who is a member of the Judiciary Committee that approved an earlier version of the bill. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano "did not provide the committee with any list. Did Sikorsky, Cessna and Northrup Grumann send up a wish list to certain members of the Senate?"
Randy Belote, a spokesman for Northrup Grumann, said in an email the firm has "not had the opportunity to review the comments nor... provided the committee a 'wish list' of its systems to consider."
Officials at the other two companies did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick and Jim Kuhnhenn contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/immigration-bill-clears-senate-test-225923799.html
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High court sends back Texas race-based plan
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Affirmative action in college admissions survived Supreme Court review Monday in a consensus decision that avoided the difficult constitutional issues surrounding a challenge to the University of Texas admission plan.
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the court's 7-1 ruling that said a court should approve the use of race as a factor in admissions only after it concludes "that no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity."
But the decision did not question the underpinnings of affirmative action, which the high court last reaffirmed in 2003.
The justices said the federal appeals court in New Orleans did not apply the highest level of judicial scrutiny when it upheld the Texas plan, which uses race as one among many factors in admitting about a quarter of the university's incoming freshmen. The school gives the bulk of the slots to Texans who are admitted based on their high school class rank, without regard to race.
The high court ordered the appeals court to take another look at the case of Abigail Fisher, a white Texan who was not offered a spot at the university's flagship Austin campus in 2008. Fisher has since received her undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the lone dissenter. "In my view, the courts below adhered to this court's pathmarking decisions and there is no need for a second look," Ginsburg said in a dissent she read aloud.
Justice Clarence Thomas, alone on the court, said he would have overturned the high court's 2003 ruling, though he went along with Monday's outcome.
Justice Elena Kagan stayed out of the case, presumably because she had some contact with it at an earlier stage when she worked in the Justice Department.
Kennedy said that courts must determine that the use of race is necessary to achieve the educational benefits of diversity, the Supreme Court's standard for affirmative action in education since 1978. The high court most recently reaffirmed the constitutionality of affirmative action in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003, a case involving the University of Michigan.
"As the Court said in Grutter, it remains at all times the university's obligation to demonstrate, and the judiciary's obligation to determine, that admissions processes 'ensure that each applicant is evaluated as an individual and not in a way that makes an applicant's race or ethnicity the defining feature of his or her application,'" Kennedy said.
University of Texas president Bill Powers said the university plans no immediate changes in its admissions policies as a result of Monday's ruling and will continue to defend them in the courts.
"We remain committed to assembling a student body at the University of Texas at Austin that provides the educational benefits of diversity on campus while respecting the rights of all students and acting within the constitutional framework established by the court," Powers said.
But Edward Blum, who helped engineer Fisher's challenge, said it is unlikely that the Texas plan and many other college plans can long survive. "The Supreme Court has established exceptionally high hurdles for the University of Texas and other universities and colleges to overcome if they intend to continue using race preferences in their admissions policies, said Blum, director of The Project on Fair Representation in Alexandria, Va.
Civil rights activist Al Sharpton said the court "ducked" the big issues in the case. While he would have preferred that the justices affirm the use of race in college admissions, "a duck is better than a no, but not as good as a yes," Sharpton said. Sharpton, along with Martin Luther King III, was leading a National Press Club news conference announcing initial plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the march on Washington.
Retired Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and John Paul Stevens, both members of the majority in the Grutter case, were in the courtroom Monday for the Texas decision.
The challenge to the Texas plan gained traction in part because the makeup of the court has changed since the last time the justices ruled on affirmative action in higher education in 2003. Then, O'Connor wrote the majority opinion that held that colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies.
O'Connor retired in 2006, and her replacement, Justice Samuel Alito, has shown himself to be more skeptical of considerations of race in education.
Texas automatically offers about three-quarters of its spots to high school graduates based on their class rank as part of what was called the "top 10 percent" plan under a 1990s state law signed by then-Gov. George W. Bush. Since then the admissions program has been changed so that now only the top 8 percent gain automatic admission.
Race is a factor in filling out the rest of the incoming class. More than 8 in 10 African-American and Latino students who enrolled at the flagship campus in Austin in 2011 were automatically admitted, according to university statistics.
In all, black and Hispanic students made up more than a quarter of the incoming freshmen class. White students constituted less than half the entering class when students with Asian backgrounds and other minorities were added in.
The university said the extra measure of diversity it gets from the slots outside automatic admission is crucial because too many of its classrooms have only token minority representation, at best. At the same time, Texas argued that race is one of many factors considered and that whether race played the key role in any applicant's case was impossible to tell.
The Obama administration, roughly half of the Fortune 100 companies and large numbers of public and private colleges that feared a broad ruling against affirmative action backed the Texas program. Among the benefits of affirmative action, the administration said, is that it creates a pipeline for a diverse officer corps that it called "essential to the military's operational readiness." In 2003, the court cited the importance of a similar message from military leaders.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/high-court-sends-back-texas-race-based-plan-142424792.html
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Best Exercises for Your Buttocks | Fitness Health, Health resources ...
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?Do you look at your butt in the mirror and wish it had more lift or better tone? Are you envious of a backside that is rock solid, with curves in all the right places?
Certainly, having buttocks that fill out your jeans and that don?t jiggle too much when you walk is great for your confidence. So, here are some exercises that you can do to bolster your bottom and your self-esteem at the same time:
This move not only works your legs, but it is also an amazing exercise for your buttocks. To do it, you?re just going to do a regular squat, but with dumbbells in your hands. You can either let them hang at your side or rest them up by your shoulders. Either way, you will add more weight to the lift phase of the squat ? getting your backside toned quicker and more effectively.
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If you?ve ever done lunges, then you know that these exercises work your hamstrings (the back of your upper legs). However, if you do explosion lunges, you?ll work your buttocks as well. To perform them, just lower your body into the lunge stance and instead of coming back up slowly, you?re going to use force and speed as if you?re exploding upward. This one little change will do wonders for your glute muscles.
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Hip raises. Lie on the floor with your knees bent and your arms down at your side. Now, raise your hips up slowly until your body is in a straight line from your shoulders to your knees, hold and then lower them slowly back to the floor. Squeeze your buttocks the entire time so as to strengthen and tone them.
Aim to do three sets of 8-12 reps of these three exercises 2-3 times a week and you?ll be well on your way to a backside that is lifted and taut. Pretty soon, your butt will be the envy of all those around or, maybe more specifically, behind you.
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সোমবার, ২৪ জুন, ২০১৩
Car bombs kill 39 in Iraqi capital Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ten car-bomb explosions killed at least 39 people across the Iraqi capital on Monday, police and medical sources said.
In the central district of Karada, two parked car bombs went off killing at least eight people, and another two car bombs exploded simultaneously near a market in the western district of Jihad, killing eight.
Violence has been increasing in Iraq in recent months, with more than 1,000 people killed in May alone, making it the deadliest month since the sectarian bloodletting of 2006-07.
Insurgents including al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate have been regaining ground and recruits from the country's Sunni minority, which feels sidelined since the U.S.-led invasion toppled former dictator Saddam Hussein and empowered majority Shi'ites.
Sectarian tensions in Iraq and the wider region have been inflamed by the civil war in Syria, where mainly Sunni Muslim rebels are fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, whose Alawite sect derives from Shi'ite Islam.
(Reporting Kareem Raheem and Suadad al-Salhy; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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This Adorable Pencil Broom Lets You Sweep Mistakes Under the Rug
Perfect for those of us lacking the confidence to write in pen the first time, this pencil features a miniature broom head eraser on the end so you can just sweep away incorrect crossword puzzle answers, and poorly solved Sudoku puzzles. At almost $9 for a single pencil you're going to only want to sharpen this thing when it's absolutely worn down to a nub, but with ten times as much eraser as a standard pencil, you're free to make plenty of mistakes. [Artori Design via designboom]
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After spending a few days roasting over an open fire, Paula Deen is cooked. She lost her job with the Food Network on Friday meaning that she is, for all intents and purposes, gone from our lives now. But an unusual voice spoke up in her defense last night: professional opinioner Bill Maher. Eater pointed us towards this video of Maher defending the former Food Network star on last night's?Real Time with Bill Maher. ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Detroit March Of 1963 Commemorated 50 Years Later With Walk Down Woodward
DETROIT -- Thousands participated in a Detroit march commemorating the 50th anniversary of one that Martin Luther King Jr. led in 1963.
The walk down Woodward Avenue on Saturday morning culminated in a riverfront rally at Hart Plaza.
The civil rights icon visited Detroit on June 23, 1963, to lead tens of thousands in a freedom walk and also previewed his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Martin Luther King III, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton participated in Saturday's march and rally.
Detroit NAACP President Wendell Anthony said the march "signifies that the work for freedom and justice must continue" in Detroit and worldwide.
Sharpton says it's important to keep fighting for justice and marchers weren't merely taking "a nostalgia trip down Woodward."
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Pakistani Taliban kill nine foreigners at foot of world's ninth highest mountain
A Pakistani Taliban spokesman said the attack was retaliation for the killing of the group's No. 2 in a US drone strike last month.
Nine foreign tourists and one Pakistani guide have been shot dead in the Himalayas of northern Pakistan, a region considered relatively insulated from the country's extremist violence.
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According to the police, the attack took place in the middle of the night when armed men dressed up as local paramilitary police ambushed a base camp in the Gilgit-Baltistan region. The camp lies at the foot of Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest mountain, and is usually inhabited by mountaineers for climbing expeditions.?
Although the identities of the tourists have yet to be verified, Pakistan?s interior ministry has confirmed that they hailed from China, Russia, and Ukraine.
In a country already struggling with its image abroad, many in the tourism industry fear that the latest attack on foreigners will discourage thousands of other international tourists who come every year to Pakistan to one of the only remaining safe regions in the country.
?Around fifteen to twenty thousand tourists including mountaineers came to Pakistan each year during the summer season. Each one of them spends over five to six thousand dollars. The loss to Pakistan because of this attack will be in billions of rupees,? says Ghulam Nabi, a representative of Pakistan Tour Operators? Association. ?And it?s not just tourists that run away then, it also affects the foreign investor confidence."
Following the attack, this Monitor reporter received a call from an undisclosed location in which Ehsanullah Ehsan, the spokesperson for the banned terrorist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the attack.
?We will continue to target the foreigners until the drone strikes stop. This attack was particularly in revenge for the killing of our commander Wali-ur-Rehman. Our local Taliban faction in the area carried it out under our instructions,? Mr. Ehsan said.
Wali-ur-Rehman, who was killed last month in one of the first drone strikes after the new government in Pakistan came to power, served as the deputy commander of the TTP, operating out of the tribal region of Waziristan where the US has focused much of its drone activity. Following his killing, the Taliban withdrew an offer for?peace talks with Nawaz Sharif, whose party was elected into power after the?May 11?general elections.
The newly elected Prime Minister has openly condemned the drone attacks and has asked the United States to stop using drones. He is of the view that peace talks are one of the main options to tackle the issue of insurgency led by the Pakistani Taliban.
But analysts believe that the government?s insistence on peace talks has helped the Taliban gain strength and that is why there is an increase in their attacks once again. ?When the government and especially the leadership calls for a dialogue with the Taliban, the security forces become relaxed thinking that their job is over ? which actually gives the Taliban time to regroup and rebuild. We have seen this happen many times before,? says Khadim Hussain, a development specialist who has worked on counter-terrorism projects in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region where the Taliban are headquartered.
Mr. Hussain says that the solution to end terrorism in Pakistan can only be through a multifaceted policy which should include use of force, political strategy, and social changes.
?There is a strong ideological support in the general Pakistani population for these elements because of years of state indoctrination through education, media, mosques, etc. We need to use the same tools to create an alternative discourse for jihad and teach values that inculcate pluralistic and democratic principles,? he adds.
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Eyes on with the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini cases
Samsung's Galaxy S4 Mini shares a similar range of cases to its bigger brother
Not particularly glamorous, but essential to some. Alongside our first hands on with the new Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini at the Premiere 2013 event in London, the range of official cases was also on display. Like the Galaxy S4, the Mini has plenty of choice in color and style, and even has its own version of the 'S View' flip case. Click on past the break for a few more snaps.
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