Saturday, September 29, 2012

Dan Hardy vs. Rory Markham is your knockout of the week

Dan Hardy usually fights well in his home country of England. For example, check out what he did to Rory Markham at UFC 95 in London.

On Saturday, he will fight Amir Sadollah in his hometown of Nottingham. He's gone 1-4 in his last five fights, but recaptured that knockout ability against Duane Ludwig in May. Will Hardy come up with another fine performance for the people of Nottingham? Speak up in the comments, on Facebook or Twitter.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/dan-hardy-vs-rory-markham-knockout-week-131950070--mma.html

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Waumini Communications Jobs in Kenya: Station Manager (Radio ...

Waumini Communications Limited, the holding company for communications and media projects of the Catholic Church in Kenya, is looking for highly motivated individuals to fill the following positions:
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1. Station Manager (Radio Waumini)

The position is based in Nairobi. Reporting to the Managing Director, Waumini Communications Limited, the Station Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day running of Radio Waumini, leading a skilled team of professionals to ensure they meet the key objectives of the station in terms of output, audience, and revenue generation.
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Qualifications, skills and experience

  • A bachelors degree in Communications, Public Relations or Journalism from a recognised university.
  • A post-graduate degree in Communications, PR or Journalism will be an added advantage
  • Over three years experience in a busy media organization, most preferably in a management role at a radio or TV station

Key Competencies

  • Ability to generate original ideas and to think creatively about how to communicate them
  • Knowledge of the radio market in Kenya, different station and programme styles, and audience demographics
  • Sound editorial judgement
  • The capacity to work effectively under pressure, react quickly and meet tight deadlines, with minimum supervision
  • A facility for managing creative teams, and encouraging acceptable creative risk taking
  • Ability to mentor and to develop talent in others
  • Ability to deal effectively with team members of differing temperaments and morale
  • Self-motivation and adaptability
  • A thorough knowledge of the Laws of Kenya, media ethics and industry regulation as they affect radio production and broadcasting
  • Knowledge on how to acquire the relevant broadcasting clearances and licenses, including copyright and music clearances
  • A good knowledge of Social Teaching of the Church, and Ethical Principles
  • Applicants must be between 30-50 years of age.
2. Station Manager (Radio Thome, Diocese of Kitui)

The position is based in Kitui. The Station Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day running of Radio Thome, leading a skilled team of professionals to ensure they meet the key objectives of the station in terms of output, audience, and revenue generation.
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Qualifications, skills and experience

  • A bachelors degree in Communications, Public Relations or Journalism from a recognised university.?
  • A post-graduate degree in Communications, PR or Journalism will be an added advantage
  • Over three years experience in a busy media organization, most preferably in a management role at a radio or TV station

Key Competencies

  • Ability to generate original ideas and to think creatively about how to communicate them
  • Knowledge of the radio market in Kenya, different station and programme styles, and audience demographics
  • Sound editorial judgement
  • The capacity to work effectively under pressure, react quickly and meet tight deadlines, with minimum supervision
  • A facility for managing creative teams, and encouraging acceptable creative risk taking
  • Ability to mentor and to develop talent in others
  • Ability to deal effectively with team members of differing temperaments and morale
  • Self-motivation and adaptability
  • A thorough knowledge of the Laws of Kenya, media ethics and industry regulation as they affect radio production and broadcasting
  • Knowledge on how to acquire the relevant broadcasting clearances and licenses, including copyright and music clearances
  • A good knowledge of the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church and Ethical Principles
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills in English and Swahili (a good knowledge of the Kamba language will be an added advantage)
  • Applicants must be between 30-50 years of age.
3. Head of Marketing and Promotions - Waumini Communications

This is a key leadership position for Waumini Communications Limited.?

The Head of Marketing and Promotions will provide visionary leadership and direction in positioning Waumini Communications Limited?s cluster of Radio stations, a national newspaper and Video Production/TV Unit as leading brands in a highly competitive market in Kenya.?

Specifically, the person will be tasked with the responsibility of formulating and implementing a Marketing Strategy for the company, its subsidiaries, newspaper, radio and Video/TV brands, and the control of the marketing department to achieve monthly, quarterly and annual revenue goals.
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Key Responsibilities

  • Planning, building, coordinating and managing a team of Business Executives who are expected to deliver agreed sales volumes and revenue
  • Developing and implementing a clear, innovative and creative marketing and sales strategy
  • Developing and implementing sales strategies and campaigns; and maintaining and fostering business relationships with all clients of the company.
  • Establishing a culture that is continually testing new concepts for sales and marketing in a rapid way
  • Managing Waumini Communication?s online presence and advertising
  • Collecting feedback from customers, encouraging them to invite others, and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction

Desired Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from a recognised university; an MBA will be an added advantage
  • At least 3? years of work experience in sales, marketing or business development, with a preference for experience managing a marketing team
  • Hands-on approach to getting things done
  • Strong work ethic and understanding of the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks with a high level of independence
  • Must be able to design and execute partnership agreements, presentations, proposals, etc.
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills in English and Swahili
4. Marketing Officer, National Mirror

The Marketing Officer will be responsible for managing and executing all marketing, sales and distribution initiatives for the National Mirror Newspaper which has a countrywide circulation.
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Duties and Responsibilities

  • Development of an overall sales and marketing strategy for the National Mirror
  • Coordination of advertising, subscriptions and sales for the National Mirror
  • Development of a countrywide circulation/distribution network for the National Mirror

Qualifications/required skills/experience

  • A bachelor?s degree in sales and marketing from a recognised university
  • At least two years? experience in sales and marketing in a busy media organisation
  • Demonstrate sound understanding of the principles of sales and marketing
  • Demonstrate a strong understanding of new technologies and how they can be applied to enhance sales and marketing.
  • Ability to manage a marketing campaign budget
  • Must show creativity and innovativeness
  • Is self-motivated and able to manage sales and marketing campaigns with minimum supervision
  • Must be a good communicator who provides clear, concise written/verbal communications appropriate to the audience.
Applications enclosing detailed CVs with three referees and full contact details should be addressed to:

The Managing Director
Waumini Communications Limited
P.O. Box 13475 ? 00800?

Nairobi

Or preferably email to:
hr@catholicchurch.or.ke

Applications must reach us on or before 10th October, 2012

Source: http://kenyanjobs.blogspot.com/2012/09/waumini-communications-jobs-in-kenya.html

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

News Summary: Fed's Evans defends central bank

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Adventure: Learning to Sail | Jenn Kennedy : Professional Writing ...

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Sailing has been on my bucket list for years. I?ve always felt drawn to the ocean and more specifically boats and marinas. I love seeing the mast silhouettes in the harbor at sunset ? perhaps it?s the symmetry or the nuanced style each vessel proudly displays. The paint jobs tell only part of the story. Often the name, which is stenciled on the stern (back) or side, tells much more. Monikers like Hot Flash, Kid?s Inheritance and Golden Years tell of leisurely retirements spent on the open seas, while Radio Flyer, Taxi Dancer and Liberty indicate a freedom and movement more associated with racing sailboats.

Last fall I decided to step through the veiled sheet of the sailing world and take a course from the Santa Barbara Sailing Center. Normally the course runs 10 weeks and includes both classroom tutorials and on-board practical knowledge. Wanting to finish sooner, three of us agreed to a 4 day accelerated version of Sailing 101. Taking me back to college days of cramming, I digested the entire book over a weekend and learned about a 1000 new terms. Everything has a foreign name ? ropes are lines, left is port, right is starboard, sails are sheets (main, jib, kite or spinnaker), buoys are fenders, front is bow and back is stern?the list goes on.

Our instructor was a ruddy-faced boy, who appeared to be only moments out of high school. Raised on the water, sailing in his bones, however he had yet to learn the finesse of handling three adult women with little sea experience and short attention spans. Our tardiness and incessant interruptions were met with confusion and borderline exasperation as we fumbled through learning to tack or jibe, the difference between windward and leeward, dozens of age-old knots and rules like right-red-return (the color of buoys to direct harbor traffic).

The course was a whirlwind of information for me, as I had not sailed since I was 12 at Girl Scout summer camp on Payette Lake in Idaho. Nothing felt familiar and the mass of the J24 (24 foot long boat) felt like an overwhelming responsibility. The most unnerving part was getting it out of the harbor (under sail vs. motor) without hitting anything. Using a rudder to steer, sometimes I would panic and pull it the wrong direction, causing the boat to careen toward a dock full of nearby yachts. During these moments I appreciated the overbearing, young instructor barking decisive orders at us.

Much like riding a bike, sailing is largely about feel. Sometimes the captain is making only minor corrections (trimming) to wind-filled sails to keep them tight enough to move the boat in the direction desired. It?s a balance struck by ?watching the wind? as it passes across the water and through the sheets. It?s not an exact science, however, which introduces the slippery slope of human judgment. Countless decisions up for debate include when to turn, which sails to raise and weight distribution.

Leisure sailing is dramatically different than racing. Going out for a pleasure sail typically means a smaller crew of knowledgeable hands working together to follow a path designated by the captain. There is casual conversation, perhaps cocktails and an air of R&R. Conversely; racing comes with the sweaty smell of competition. While the prize for winners of smaller, local races are typically only a mug or a non-descript glass plaque; these competitors treat it like it?s the Hunger Games. They fine tune processes and procedures and double-check their equipment with military dedication.

While unacceptable during leisure sail, boats in a race come within inches of one another at alarming speeds as crew scramble to make adjustments work in tandem on a myriad of tasks like steering (captain at the helm), watching for pesky seaweed (which gloms to the keel and slows the boat) and trimming (adjusting the slack to make efficient) sails.

After much hesitation about being a novice, I finally volunteered to crew. Having no experience, I was relegated to ?rail meat,? which basically means they use me for my body weight. So as the boat is tacking (zigzag to best use the wind), my job is to race back and forth across the center of the boat and dangle my feet across the edge. The weight helps keep the boat balanced and thus moving efficiently. I quickly learned that gloves are key (protect against rough ropes and an assortment of other sharp items), as is a waterproof jacket (getting wet is inevitable) and clothes you can basically break dance in, as the racing across the bow is typically done in a slithering (feet first, on the back is recommended) fashion. Bruising is almost guaranteed.

I?ve now been out a handful of times. Slowly the lingo is taking hold and I?m better anticipating how to stay out of the way. I?ve also updated my wardrobe (top siders, anchor jewelry, nylon fingerless gloves), so I have all the cute sailing accessories. I figure I can at least look good, even if I?m a total beginner. My next step will be to come off the rail and actually become useful.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Take 360-degree tours of the Great Barrier Reef

Catlin Seaview Survey

See dozens of wonders from coral reefs and other exotic seascapes, courtesy of the Catlin Seaview Survey.

By Alan Boyle

Thousands of images from Australia's Great Barrier Reef and other coral locales are being stitched together into an eye-popping array of 360-degree panoramas for Google Maps' Street View feature?? but this million-dollar-plus project isn't just about pretty pictures. It's about sharing the wonders and the woes of the world's coral reefs with people around the globe.

"This will allow the 99.9 percent of the population who have never been diving to go on a virtual dive for the first time," said Richard Vevers, project director for the Catlin Seaview Survey.

In partnership with Google, the Seaview Survey has been mounting a series of expeditions to capture high-resolution imagery of the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reef locales. It's sponsored by Catlin Group Ltd., a global insurance group. The project went through a preview phase back in February, and since then, it has continued to ramp up. Even before the official unveiling, the Seaview Survey has gained more than 1.4 million fans on Google+.


"Now we are actually in full expedition mode," Vevers said. To celebrate Wednesday's official kickoff, the survey is staging its first public real-time dive at the Great Barrier Reef via a Google+ Hangout at 1:30 p.m. ET. It'll be the middle of the night in Australia, but it'll be getting toward midday at the Blue Ocean Film Festival in Monterey, Calif., where Vever and other Seaview Survey organizers are hanging out this week.

Here are some of the 360-degree, Street View-style goodies that are already available via Google Maps:

Seaview Survey, in partnership with Google, has been capturing 360-degree views of famous coral reefs. NBC's Savannah Guthrie reports.

Vevers and his colleagues aim to take 50,000 shallow-reef pictures, using a specially designed SVII camera. When all those images are stitched together into a continuous skein, the 360-degree panoramas will let users navigate their own way through one long virtual Google Maps dive. There'll also be a deep-reef survey, conducted using picture-snapping robots.

Scientists plan to analyze the photos using image-recognition software to get a quick read on coral reef health.?That's a crucial issue for the decades ahead. Half of the ocean's coral communities have been lost over the past 40 years, said the survey's chief scientist, Ove Hoegh-Guldburg of the University of Queensland's Global Change Institute. The decline is due to a variety of causes, ranging from coastal water quality to overfishing to ocean warming and acidification, he said.

"The evidence of these changes is there, but people outside the scientific community don't understand the significance of those changes," Hoegh-Guldburg told me. "If we're going to tackle these global issues, we need everyone on the planet to understand what we are in danger of losing, and what we can do to stop the decline."

He said the Seaview Survey's biggest benefit will be to give people a greater appreciation of the world's coral reefs, whether they're Australian business executives or Russian grandmothers.

Sharing the seas' wonders
The Seaview Survey aims to conduct regular expeditions that can be shared via Hangouts and other live events. All the scientific data will be made public via an online Global Reef Record database, Hoegh-Guldburg said. He's also looking into ways to enlist volunteers to analyze coral reef pictures, an idea that's taken from the citizen-science playbooks for Zooniverse and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

The survey is due to focus on the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea is due to run until the end of December, and then it'll move on to other locations around the globe, including Hawaii, the Philippines and Bermuda. Hoegh-Guldburg said the survey's tools and techniques are designed to be adapted easily for a wide range of coral reef settings ? including countries that haven't been able to assess their own coral reefs.

"Many of these countries know that their reefs are in trouble, but they don't know how much they're losing, or where they're losing the most," Hoegh-Guldburg said. "This can help them prioritize. If you don't prioritize, it's very hard to get traction."

The way he sees it, the Catlin Seaview Survey is coming just in time.

"Everybody is waking up to the realization that this is a critical decade," Hoegh-Guldburg said. "We're making decisions that could haunt us for hundreds of years if we don't get them right. It's now or never."?

A video from Google Maps introduces the 360-degree coral reef panoramas.

More Google Street View goodies:


Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's?Facebook page, following?@b0yle on Twitter?and adding the?Cosmic Log page?to your Google+ presence. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other stories about science and space, sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter, delivered to your email in-box every weekday. You can also check out?"The Case for Pluto,"?my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.

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Man once on death row faced financial problems

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 1998 file photo, Shabaka Waqlimi, whose legal name is Joseph Green Brown, poses for a photo in Chicago. Brown, who was wrongfully convicted of murder in Florida in 1975, sentenced to death then released from prison 13 years later when his conviction was reversed on federal habeas corpus, was was arrested Sept. 14, 2012 and is the prime suspect in the death of his wife Mamie Brown. She was found dead in their Charlotte, N.C. apartment. (AP Photo/Michael S. Green, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 1998 file photo, Shabaka Waqlimi, whose legal name is Joseph Green Brown, poses for a photo in Chicago. Brown, who was wrongfully convicted of murder in Florida in 1975, sentenced to death then released from prison 13 years later when his conviction was reversed on federal habeas corpus, was was arrested Sept. 14, 2012 and is the prime suspect in the death of his wife Mamie Brown. She was found dead in their Charlotte, N.C. apartment. (AP Photo/Michael S. Green, File)

(AP) ? Joyce Robbins wanted to know why her aunt wasn't coming to a big family barbeque.

Mamie Brown and her husband, Joseph Green Brown, who was on Florida's death row for 13 years before his convictions on rape and murder were overturned in 1986, had been fixtures at family functions since they'd moved to Charlotte in 2007.

But lately, the Browns weren't showing up at birthdays, anniversaries or other gatherings. So Robbins called her, and Mamie confided that the couple was facing serious financial problems. Since his release from a Florida prison, Joseph had been making a living talking against the death penalty, based on his personal experience of coming within hours of being executed for a crime he didn't commit. But he hadn't been paying taxes on his speaking fees.

"She said, 'Money is just tight right now. We just don't go too many places anymore,'" Robbins said.

A week later, Mamie Brown, 71, was found dead in her Charlotte apartment and her husband was charged with first-degree murder. Joseph Brown, 62, has been held in the Mecklenburg County jail since his arrest Sept. 14 in a Charleston, S.C., motel room, a day after the slaying. A bond hearing was scheduled for Wednesday.

Police haven't disclosed a motive in death, or provided details on how Mamie was killed. The prosecutor's office says it will present the case soon to a grand jury.

Documents uncovered in the wake of the crime give clues that Brown's private life may have been unraveling for years prior to his wife's death. Yet family members said they didn't know the couple was having financial problems, or that Mamie had filed domestic violence complaints against him in 2003 and 2005 when they lived in suburban Washington, D.C.

"She was so protective of him," said Mamie's cousin Sherry Williams. "She loved him so much. I wish she would have told us what she was going through. We would have helped her."

Joseph Brown was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1973 rape and murder of Earlene Treva Barksdale, the owner of a clothing store in Hillsborough County, Fla. He was scheduled for execution Oct. 17, 1983, but a federal judge ordered a stay 15 hours before he was to be put to death. His conviction was reversed in 1986 because of false testimony from a co-defendant, and the prosecution decided against retrying Brown. He was let out of prison on March 5, 1987.

After his release, Brown met Mamie, who had three children from a previous marriage and was working for the U.S. Labor Department in Washington.

Mamie was born and raised in a big family in Rock Hill, S.C., about 20 miles south of Charlotte. The two were married in 1988 and Mamie introduced her new husband to the family for the first time the following year, when she went home to care for her sick mother.

"She didn't talk about his past, but he seemed like a nice person," Williams said.

While they were in Rock Hill, Joseph took a job driving an ice cream truck. Records show he had several scrapes with the law. In 1989 and 1990, he was charged with forgery, burglary and pointing a weapon. The charges were later dropped.

After Mamie Brown returned to her Labor Department job in Washington, the couple later moved to Fort Washington, Md., in Prince George's County.

Records there point to a rocky marriage. On June 19, 2003, she filed a domestic-violence complaint against her husband and was granted a temporary restraining order. A week later, the complaint was dropped.

A month later, Brown tried to file a domestic-violence complaint against her, but it was denied. On April 22, 2005, she again filed a complaint, and the court issued a temporary restraining order. A few weeks later, however, the order was dismissed.

Clerks at Prince George's County District Court said details about those cases weren't readily available.

Documents also show the two were having financial problems. In 2008, their home in Maryland was foreclosed and sold at a sheriff's sale.

Family members said Mamie told them she moved to Charlotte to be closer to her family, and that it was less expensive to live there than in the Washington area.

"She was happy to be back," Williams said.

So were Mamie's family members, who said it was at this point that Joseph began talking openly about his past.

"He told us to stay out of trouble," said Marcus Williams, Mamie Brown's partially blind nephew, who added that Joseph Brown would often help take care of him by taking him to the store and hanging out with him.

After hearing Joseph's story, Sherry Williams said she pressed him to talk at her church. They paid him $250 and, on Feb. 20, 2011, he appeared before the congregation.

Dressed in a gray suit, he gave one of the typical speeches he had given hundreds of times, telling them he spent 13 years in a "small cage."

"One thing about that little cage is it taught you that no matter how big you thought you were or no matter how bad you thought you were, it would break you down," he said.

He warned that there were times when he would become angry.

"People ask me ... 'Do you have anger? Do you have hatred, frustration, bitterness because of what happened to you?'" he told the congregation. "And I respond, 'Yes.'"

Then he asked them to pray for him to stay calm because he was afraid of what would happen if he exploded.

Looking back, Sherry Williams said there were other hints of trouble. Earlier this year, she asked if they wanted to go on a cruise with other family members. Mamie didn't answer, but Brown called back to say they couldn't because he had a speaking engagement in Nevada.

"I thought about it. Why did he call me and not her?" she said.

Then Mamie Brown didn't return phone calls about the barbeque.

Finally, Robbins called and asked her why she wasn't coming. She was quiet for a moment, then shared that her husband owed at least $7,000 in back taxes.

She told Robbins that she and her husband wouldn't be attending the barbeque before somehow the conversation turned to the subject of death.

Robbins said Mamie told her that when it is time to die, "you want to be right with the Lord," adding that she was ready.

"Maybe it was something that was on her mind and she was just trying to get it out," Robbins said. "It's going to bother me for a long time."

Associated Press

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Take 360-degree tours of the Great Barrier Reef

Catlin Seaview Survey

See dozens of wonders from coral reefs and other exotic seascapes, courtesy of the Catlin Seaview Survey.

By Alan Boyle

Thousands of images from Australia's Great Barrier Reef and other coral locales are being stitched together into an eye-popping array of 360-degree panoramas for Google Maps' Street View feature?? but this million-dollar-plus project isn't just about pretty pictures. It's about sharing the wonders and the woes of the world's coral reefs with people around the globe.

"This will allow the 99.9 percent of the population who have never been diving to go on a virtual dive for the first time," said Richard Vevers, project director for the Catlin Seaview Survey.

In partnership with Google, the Seaview Survey has been mounting a series of expeditions to capture high-resolution imagery of the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reef locales. It's sponsored by Catlin Group Ltd., a global insurance group. The project went through a preview phase back in February, and since then, it has continued to ramp up. Even before the official unveiling, the Seaview Survey has gained more than 1.4 million fans on Google+.


"Now we are actually in full expedition mode," Vevers said. To celebrate Wednesday's official kickoff, the survey is staging its first public real-time dive at the Great Barrier Reef via a Google+ Hangout at 1:30 p.m. ET. It'll be the middle of the night in Australia, but it'll be getting toward midday at the Blue Ocean Film Festival in Monterey, Calif., where Vever and other Seaview Survey organizers are hanging out this week.

Here are some of the 360-degree, Street View-style goodies that are already available via Google Maps:

Seaview Survey, in partnership with Google, has been capturing 360-degree views of famous coral reefs. NBC's Savannah Guthrie reports.

Vevers and his colleagues aim to take 50,000 shallow-reef pictures, using a specially designed SVII camera. When all those images are stitched together into a continuous skein, the 360-degree panoramas will let users navigate their own way through one long virtual Google Maps dive. There'll also be a deep-reef survey, conducted using picture-snapping robots.

Scientists plan to analyze the photos using image-recognition software to get a quick read on coral reef health.?That's a crucial issue for the decades ahead. Half of the ocean's coral communities have been lost over the past 40 years, said the survey's chief scientist, Ove Hoegh-Guldburg of the University of Queensland's Global Change Institute. The decline is due to a variety of causes, ranging from coastal water quality to overfishing to ocean warming and acidification, he said.

"The evidence of these changes is there, but people outside the scientific community don't understand the significance of those changes," Hoegh-Guldburg told me. "If we're going to tackle these global issues, we need everyone on the planet to understand what we are in danger of losing, and what we can do to stop the decline."

He said the Seaview Survey's biggest benefit will be to give people a greater appreciation of the world's coral reefs, whether they're Australian business executives or Russian grandmothers.

Sharing the seas' wonders
The Seaview Survey aims to conduct regular expeditions that can be shared via Hangouts and other live events. All the scientific data will be made public via an online Global Reef Record database, Hoegh-Guldburg said. He's also looking into ways to enlist volunteers to analyze coral reef pictures, an idea that's taken from the citizen-science playbooks for Zooniverse and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

The survey is due to focus on the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea is due to run until the end of December, and then it'll move on to other locations around the globe, including Hawaii, the Philippines and Bermuda. Hoegh-Guldburg said the survey's tools and techniques are designed to be adapted easily for a wide range of coral reef settings ? including countries that haven't been able to assess their own coral reefs.

"Many of these countries know that their reefs are in trouble, but they don't know how much they're losing, or where they're losing the most," Hoegh-Guldburg said. "This can help them prioritize. If you don't prioritize, it's very hard to get traction."

The way he sees it, the Catlin Seaview Survey is coming just in time.

"Everybody is waking up to the realization that this is a critical decade," Hoegh-Guldburg said. "We're making decisions that could haunt us for hundreds of years if we don't get them right. It's now or never."?

A video from Google Maps introduces the 360-degree coral reef panoramas.

More Google Street View goodies:


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Walking And Light Exercise Does Nothing For Weight Loss ...

WeightTraining.com Financial Samurai ChallengeI consider myself a health conscience guy who plays tennis three times a week, watches what he eats, and goes on frequent hikes and bike rides. That said, I?ve definitely been overweight before, and I came close again on my recent trip to Europe.

The reasons why I want to stay relatively fit are as follows:

* I don?t want to die before my time. Although we don?t know when we will die, we can at least try and reduce our chances of an early death by eating right and exercising regularly.

* I don?t want to burden my family with unnecessary health complications. Being a burden to loved ones is a terrible, terrible thing. I would hate to see my wife, kids, or relatives have to constantly check in on me because I?ve received brain damage from a stroke, or can no longer go to the bathroom on my own due to some manly cancer.

* I don?t want to financially burden my fellow Americans who will have to subsidize my medical costs thanks to universal health care. As honorable citizens, we should try to give back more to our country more than we receive. This is the best way to ensure the health of our nation?s future.

* I don?t want to let my US Tennis Association teammates down when it?s time to battle other teams. We all train very hard in the off season so that come game time, we?re ready to compete. Being physically fit is standard, but can also be a huge edge as we battle less in shape competitors. Once we are fit, we can then concentrate on our skills and mental fitness which are crucial to winning matches.

* I?m frugal and don?t want to spend too much on new clothes. During the first year of college and the first year of work I had to buy new shirts and pants because I gained about 15 pounds. I?m not big into clothing in the first place, but when you?ve got to buy three new suits of different color, things add up! Dress shirts and jeans are easily $50-$200 each and higher. Imagine being able to fit in your jeans from 10-15 years ago, how much money you can save!

* I don?t want to ignore the plight of others. I grew up in several third world countries and I?ve witnessed immense poverty. When I know there are millions of people starving around the world, there?s no way I can overeat and not remember. America is a country of abundance and it?s easy to consume more than normal. We just have to remind ourselves how lucky we are, as we?re not even being asked to help others, only ourselves.

* I want to feel good. When I was heavier, I didn?t have as much energy and I didn?t feel as good about myself. I?d look at new pictures and come away shocked because they were so different from how I used to look. When you feel good, you look good. And when you look good, you have more confidence to succeed.

Despite all these reasons, I still find it very tough to stay in ideal weight of 152-163 pounds for someone 5 feet 10 inches tall. 152 pounds sounds ridiculously light, but hey, that?s what the doctors and researchers say is ideal weight for a medium bodied person my height, so who am I to make excuses?

The problem is, when I see a batch of lemon meringue mini pastries, I cannot help but eat six of them at a time! When there is all you can eat BBQ ribs, the same thing happens. Tell me I?m not the only one!

PROOF THAT LIGHT EXERCISE DOES NOT KEEP YOU FIT

My friends and I walked on average four hours a day for 10 out of the 17 days we were in Europe. Our ship would dock by 8am, and we?d go from around 8:30am all the way to 5pm exploring every single city. That?s 8.5 hours off the boat at each port, with half the time walking.

Given it takes 16-20 minutes on average to walk a mile, we walked 12-15 miles a day for 10 days. We walked another three miles a day for the other seven days the rest of the time. ?If we add up everything, we averaged about 8-9 miles of walking a day for 17 days!

During long lines at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, or during down time at the gardens of Catherine?s Palace in St. Petersburg, we?d try and get at least 30 pushups and 50 sit-ups in as well. The reason being we knew that a dinner buffet or scrumptious meal high in butter and joy awaited us once we returned to the ship!

Furthermore, we?d all hit the swimming pool and gym at least twice a week to try and get at least a 30 minute sweat in.

THE TYPICAL MEAL ITINERARY ON BOARD

* Breakfast: Omellette, bacon, sausage, a couple mini pastries, Norweigan fish, and OJ.

* Lunch: Local meal on land if at port, or another buffet meal on board while at sea. We?d generally eat a salad, piece of flank steak, shrimp cocktail and some juice.

* Dinner: Rib-eye, filet mignon, prime rib, rack of lamb, beef wellington, lobster, sushi, sashimi, chef salads, creme brulee, hot fudge sundae, apple cobbler, cheese platters and much, much more.

* Evening snack and beverages: The restaurants would open up at 10pm again until midnight where you could eat the same food that they served during lunch. Every other night there would be some type of dessert extravaganza, and of course, if you are like me, you enjoy the cocktail at a ship bar or while you?re playing poker until 2am!

Despite the availability of food, I did my best to eat until slightly full and not pig out until I felt sick. I went for quality food items instead of quantity. But, when you are eating such treats every single day, it is hard not to put on some weight.

Mini Lemon Meringue Pies!

I ate 10 of them in two days

WEIGHT GAIN GALORE

Now that you know my daily exercise routine and meal itinerary, guess how much weight I gained in just seventeen days? Remember, I walked 8-9 miles on average, put in the occasional work out, and tried to eat in moderation.

I went from 160 pounds to 170 pounds in two and a half weeks! To compare apples to apples, 10 pounds is a whopping 6% increase in body weight in such a short time.

I knew I was gaining weight because my jeans felt tighter each day that passed by, but I didn?t realize how much I gained until I got back to San Francisco. I was shocked after spending the first 3-4 months of the year trying to lose 8-10 pounds, I had gained it all back in just a matter of weeks.

THE WORKOUT ACTION PLAN

The ideal body weight of 152-163 for someone 5? 10? pisses me off. As I mentioned in the beginning of the post, I have many reasons why I want to stay in shape, and I?m assuming that many of you guys have similar reasoning.

As a result, I?ve decided to join WeightTraining.com to exercise more, track my progress, and have some fun competing with other people online who want to get in shape and stay in shape! WeightTraining.com offers free workout logging, an exercise database with 2,000+ exercises, various fitness challenges, and the ultimate motivation in fitness battles.

My exercise routine will be as follows:

* Three sets of 20 push-ups for a total of 60 a day

* Three sets of 50 sit-ups for a total of 150 a day

* Five hours of tennis a week

* One hour of biking a week

* One hour of hiking a week

The goal is to burn about 500 calories a day beyond normal activity.

As for food, I plan to go back to my normal eating habits of fruit and barley green in the morning, a regular lunch under 700 calories, and dinner under 1,000 calories for a total of 2,200 calories or less. If I can consume a net 1,700 calories a day, I?m pretty sure that within a couple months I?ll be able to get back down to 160 lbs and hopefully down to 155 lbs, the weight I was back in high school.

You can find me on WeightTraining.com with the account FinSamurai. WeightTraining.com motivates users to workout by rewarding points for logged workouts. This workout summary will give you a better idea on how exercises are accounted for within a workout. We plan to do a weekly challenge based on how much we exercise and tally up our points. It?s a fun way to keep accountable and lose weight and stay in shape together.

Join the fitness battle here! Battle starts October 1st at midnight! I want to kick your ass and my own!

Regards,

Sam

Source: http://www.financialsamurai.com/2012/09/25/walking-and-light-exercise-does-nothing-for-weight-loss/

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Video: Road to Education Paved With Profit

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College of Charleston Softball Set to Start Fall Season

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MT. PLEASANT, S.C. ? The College of Charleston softball team will open its fall season this Friday, Sept. 30 with the first of four doubleheaders the team will host over the next three weeks. All games will be played at Patriots Point and admission will always be free to the public.

The fall slate opens on Friday, Sept. 30 when the Cougars host crosstown-rival Charleston Southern on Sunday, Sept. 30. The Cougars and Bucs met six times last spring and evenly split the series, 3-3.

CofC then hosts two doubleheaders the following weekend with Spartanburg Methodist on Saturday, Oct. 6 at noon and Anderson on Sunday, Oct. 7 at 1 p.m.

The final doubleheader of the fall is on Saturday, Oct. 13 against Coastal Carolina at noon.

?With each scrimmage we are improving as a whole,? said senior outfielder Kristy Giragosian. ?Some of the freshmen have really stepped up and given us returners a run for our money. This is definitely breeding healthy competition and will only better us in the long run. The scrimmages are a great way for us to get to know each other?s strengths and weaknesses while building team chemistry.?

Last season, the Cougars made a historic run to their second consecutive Southern Conference championship game by stringing together four must-have wins while facing elimination in the SoCon Tournament. The Cougars return all but one starter to this team and look forward to another exciting run in the spring of 2013.

Source: http://beachcarolina.com/2012/09/24/college-of-charleston-softball-set-to-start-fall-season/

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Legends in the Making :: Q&A & Development

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New breast cancer clues found in gene analysis - NewsOn6.com ...

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists reported Sunday that they have completed a major analysis of the genetics of breast cancer, finding four major classes of the disease. They hope their work will lead to more effective treatments, perhaps with some drugs already in use.

The new finding offers hints that one type of breast cancer might be vulnerable to drugs that already work against ovarian cancer.

The study, published online Sunday by the journal Nature, is the latest example of research into the biological details of tumors, rather than focusing primarily on where cancer arises in the body.

The hope is that such research can reveal cancer's genetic weaknesses for better drug targeting.

"With this study, we're one giant step closer to understanding the genetic origins of the four major subtypes of breast cancer," Dr. Matthew Ellis of the Washington University School of Medicine said in a statement. He is a co-leader of the research.

"Now we can investigate which drugs work best for patients based on the genetic profiles of their tumors," he said.

The researchers analyzed DNA of breast cancer tumors from 825 patients, looking for abnormalities. Altogether, they reported, breast cancers appear to fall into four main classes when viewed in this way.

One class showed similarities to ovarian cancers, suggesting it may be driven by similar biological developments.

"It's clear they are genetically more similar to ovarian tumors than to other breast cancers," Ellis said. "Whether they can be treated the same way is an intriguing possibility that needs to be explored."

The report is the latest from the Cancer Genome Atlas, a federally funded project that has produced similar analyses for brain, colorectal, lung, and ovarian cancers.

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

The Republican's tornado coverage awarded top prize by New England Associated Press News Executives Association


The New England Associated Press News Executives Association has given the staff of The Republican first place awards in its class for its written deadline news coverage as well as for photographs for the newspaper?s work on the June 1, 2011 tornado that swept the region.

A judge called the staff?s written work ?comprehensive storm coverage under trying conditions.? The staff?s efforts in the photo story category were hailed with the comments, ?This reportage portrayed all the best aspects of storytelling through photographs. A great effort executed with style and passion. Bravo!?

In addition, The Republican?s Ron Chimelis took a second place in the sports column category for his work on ?Coach?s influence ran deep,? ?Pay up and shut up, Kobe? and ?Paterno made final mistake.? Chimelis? work was praised with the comments ?very nice writing style, great storytelling, compelling angles.?

?The two first place awards for our coverage of the June 1 tornado were especially satisfying since the effort encompassed the entire editorial staff,? Wayne E. Phaneuf, The Republican?s executive editor, said.

?In many places without power or phone service we were the only link to the news. And of course, Ron Chimelis? award for sports columns is another in a long line of accolades for a fantastic writer who I think is one of the best sports columnist there is.?

The newspaper?s awards were for publications in the class I category, which is for newspapers with circulations of 40,000 or more.


The association pointed to the June 2 front page headline ?State of Emergency? over a story headlined ?Two die as tornadoes hit area? in awarding the first place honor for deadline coverage.

The story by Jack Flynn and Jeanette DeForge begins with ?Two tornadoes ripped through Greater Springfield Wednesday, killing two, injuring dozens and carving a corridor of destruction from Westfield to Sturbridge.?

It continues with ?In the region?s worst tornado outbreak in a century, 10 communities were battered by back-to-back storms that inflicted widespread damage and left 57,000 homes without power Wednesday night.?

Source: http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/09/the_republicans_tornado_covera.html

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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Obama mocks Romney: ?What kind of inside job is he talking about??

Obama in Virginia (Jason Reed/Reuters)

WOODBRIDGE, Va.?President Barack Obama took another shot at Mitt Romney's suggestion that 47 percent of Americans have a "victim" mentality, casting his opponent as out of touch with the country.

"I don't believe we can get very far with leaders who write off half the nation as victims who will never take responsibility," Obama declared at a rally here.

The president also defended his suggestion before a Univision forum yesterday, in which he said he'd learned "you can't change Washington from the inside." Obama said that he meant the only real change comes from outside Washington?and mocked Romney for twisting his comments.

"My opponent got really excited. He stood up at a rally and proudly declared, 'I'll get the job done from the inside,'" Obama said. "What kind of inside job is he talking about? ... We don't want an inside job in Washington. We want change in Washington. ... That can't happen if you've written off half the country."

It was the second time in 24 hours that Obama took a shot at Romney's "47 percent" comment, which was captured in a hidden video of the Republican candidate speaking at a Florida fundraiser in May. The video, leaked to Mother Jones magazine, showed Romney saying that Obama's supporters?which he estimated to be about 47 percent of the country?view themselves as victims and are reliant on government handouts.

Romney has downplayed his comments, suggesting he was just talking about the political landscape of the race. During his appearance at the Univision forum, Romney insisted he was running to represent "100 percent of America."

But the GOP candidate's remarks have clearly given an opening to Obama, who wove in multiple references to the video throughout his appearance in Virginia, a hotly contested battleground state.

A Washington Post poll released earlier this week found Obama had significantly expanded his lead in the state, edging out Romney by 8 points?52 percent to 44 percent.

At least 11,000 people turned out to see the president here?spreading across the outfield of a minor-league baseball stadium. Echoing his speech at the Democratic National Convention, Obama repeatedly insisted he needed another term to accomplish the "change" he promised as a candidate in 2008.

"We've always said that change takes more than one term or even one president. It certainly takes more than one party," Obama said, insisting he would work with Republicans if they were willing.

Making yet another reference to Romney's "47 percent" remark, Obama acknowledged that half the country didn't vote for him four years ago?and that half the country might not support him again in November. But he explained he was not running "to create Democratic jobs or Republican jobs" but rather "American jobs," and that he wasn't running to improve circumstances in "blue states" versus "red states." Obama insisted he's running to represent all Americans?whether he wins someone's vote or not.

"I still believe we are not as divided as our politics suggest," Obama said. "I still believe we have more in common than the pundits tell us."

To his supporters, he added, "I still believe in you, and I'm asking you to keep believing in me."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-mocks-romney-kind-inside-job-talking-173601952--election.html

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Friday, September 21, 2012

Apple fans rejoice as iPhone 5 goes on sale worldwide

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Even though the atmosphere in lines around the world wasn't as exciting as?in past years?? in part thanks to sponsored human billboards and protesters?? the moment the clock chimed 8 a.m. at Apple's retail stores around the world, cheers erupted. The iPhone 5 has arrived.

The first person in line at Apple's flagship store in New York City is Hazem Sayed, the developer behind Vibe, an?app that lets its users broadcast anonymous messages to those nearby. He has spent well over a week sitting in front of the Apple Store on 5th Avenue and he does not regret a moment. "I'm as happy as I am tired," he tells reporters who crowd him as soon as he exits the store with his new?iPhone 5?in hand.

When asked whether he even has the energy to use his new smartphone after the long wait, Sayed smiles. "It's love at first sight," he says. "I'll stay up all night."

Love at first sight isn't eternal though. Sayed says he would consider selling his new gadget for twice what he paid, meaning about $1600 total. "The receipt is longer than the phone," he remarks absentmindedly as he holds up a crumpled slip of paper next to the device. He bought a black 64GB AT&T version of the iPhone.

Long after Sayed managed to escape the clutches of reporters, cheers continued?erupting?each time someone exited the Apple Store, with a new iPhone 5 in hand. The applause could be heard for blocks.

The iPhone 5 is the latest generation of Apple's popular smartphone. In appearance, it is similar to the iPhone 4S, its predecessor, though it has?a 4-inch display (rather than a 3.5-inch display) and is a bit thinner.?The iPhone 5 offers 4G LTE connectivity (meaning users will see faster data speeds), improved battery life, a faster processor, and a lighter body.?

Out of the box, the new smartphone will run iOS 6, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, which means that it will have?a significantly improved version of Siri, a new app called Passbook (which will store boarding passes, discount cards, and more for users), and about 200 new features.?

Much to the dismay of many, the new operating system does not offer a Google-powered Maps app, but instead uses Apple's own creation (which is not earning much praise so far).

If you are looking to pick up a shiny new iPhone 5, keep in mind that Apple's retail locations aren't the only place to get it. You can order one through the Apple website (though shipping dates are several weeks out) or through individual carriers' websites or telesales lines. You can also go to AT&T, Verizon or Sprint retail stores as well as to Walmart, Target, Best Buy and RadioShack.

Want more tech news?or interesting?links? You'll get plenty of both if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts,?or circling her?on?Google+.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/apple-fans-rejoice-iphone-5-goes-sale-worldwide-1B6029250

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iFixIt commences their iPhone 5 teardown

iFIxIt commences their iPhone 5 teardown

iFixIt has already commenced their obligatory iPhone 5 teardown. Earlier today we got our first look at the internals of the iPhone 5 but iFixIt is bound to unearth any changes or secrets Apple's buried in their latest flagship device.

The crew over at iFixIt has sent their team down to Australia in order to get their hands on the iPhone 5 before the rest of the world. And as usual, they've already started tearing apart the iPhone 5. They're posting everything live as they delve into the device.

Departing from the iPhone 4 and 4S design, the most significant change is the switch from a rear-opening construction to a front-opening one. This will make screen repairs that much easier whether you plan on doing it yourself or taking it into Apple.

If you're interested in seeing what makes the iPhone 5 run, make sure you hit the link below to follow along with the tear down as they perform it.

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