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Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Nintendo to post unexpected loss as Wii successor falters
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd, the world's leading gaming company by machines sold, said it will post an operating loss for a second straight year as the sales of its Wii U, successor to the 100-million selling Wii, faltered.
The company caught investors off guard by predicting a loss of $220 million in the year to March 31, reversing a profit forecast for the same amount, putting its new guidance well short of a consensus estimate of 12.1 billion yen ($133.48 million) profit from 19 analysts.
The grim outlook came even as a weaker yen provides a boost for a company that sells almost three quarters of its products outside Japan.
"It was a somewhat negative surprise," said Yasuo Sakuma, portfolio manager at Bayview Asset Management.
Nintendo, which began by making playing cards in the late 19th century, is counting on the Wii U to revive its fortunes as sales of the six year-old Wii slacken.
The latest offering from the creator of Super Mario faces competition from Apple Inc and other makers of mobile phones and tablet PCs that are attracting gamers with cheap or free games.
"The sales of Wii U were smooth at the beginning but since the turn of the year they have been losing momentum," Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told reporters in Osaka after revealing the loss forecast. He blamed the lacklustre performance on a dearth of games titles to woo players back.
"Due to delays in software development, we had to postpone sales of software products we had planned to (release) early this year, which is interrupting our sales," he said.
SOFTWARE SLUMP
Nintendo lowered its sales forecast for the Wii U, launched in the U.S. in November, to 4 million consoles by the end of March from a pre-launch estimate of 5.5 million, and cut the sales outlook for its handheld 3DS by 2.5 million machines to 15 million.
In November it launched the Wii U, its first console in 16 years to come with a dedicated Super Mario game title.
The performance of the Wii U, which features a "Gamepad" controller that functions like a tablet, and a social gaming network dubbed "Miiverse", will be closely watched by XBox maker Microsoft Corp and Playstation maker Sony Corp as both mull plans for updated versions of their consoles, say analysts.
As Nintendo's hardware business suffers, software sales are also dragging. The company slashed the annual sales forecast of Wii U software by 33 percent to 24 million units and that of 3DS software by 29 percent to 70 million units.
"We have been prepared to see weak sales forecast for Wii U as its sales performances in various regions have been widely reported. But it was negative to see a lower forecast for 3DS software as it is one of the company's main sales drivers," said Sakuma at Bayview Asset Management.
Nintendo has so far resisted offering Super Mario and its other iconic games on tablets, smartphones or other platforms.
Iwata indicated that Nintendo will stick with its in-house strategy. The company, he said, aims to return to operating profit of more than 100 billion yen in the next business year with a splurge of new software titles.
Before the earnings announcement, Nintendo's shares fell 2.1 percent to 9,350 yen, edging back toward the decade low of 8,500 yen touched early this month.
($1 = 90.6500 Japanese yen)
(Reporting by Tim Kelly and Hideyuki Sano; Additional reporting by Yoshiyuki Osada and Ayai Tomisawa; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nintendo-cuts-sales-target-wii-u-3ds-ds-071455015--finance.html
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Working to identify early warning signs in juvenile offenders
Jan. 29, 2013 ? Red flags are easy to recognize in the days following a tragic event like a mass shooting. That's why a group of Iowa State researchers is working to identify those early warning signs in juvenile offenders before they turn into a pattern of criminal behavior.
It is often difficult for people to understand what leads to criminal behavior in children or teens. But by the time a juvenile is arrested, or referred to the juvenile court system, the child generally has displayed a pattern of antisocial behavior, said Matt DeLisi, professor of sociology at Iowa State University.
In some extreme cases, DeLisi said children as young as 5 years old are committing crimes. So when that child becomes an adult, he or she may already have a lengthy criminal record. That is why DeLisi, and the team of researchers, wants to understand what contributes to this behavior in order to correct it.
"With onset in criminal careers, the first sign of that problem behavior is an indicator of how severe it will be," DeLisi said. "If you can help them, you save a ton of money and you save a lot of problems. But it's just the issue of correctly identifying them and that raises a bunch of ethical and other issues."
The connection between the onset and the severity is similar to other ways children start to develop, whether it is positive or negative, at an early age.
"If you have someone who is 3, or even 2, and is already reading it would suggest that the person is highly intelligent," DeLisi said. "The reason is because the emergence or the onset of the behavior is usually inversely related to what they will become. The earlier something appears the more special they are or extreme."
With criminal behavior, the onset begins with rule violations, but researchers found a juvenile's first arrest or contact with the police is the strongest indicator of future problems. The study published in the Journal of Criminal Justice included 252 children living in Pennsylvania juvenile detention centers. The offenders ranged in age from 14-18 and on average had committed 15 delinquent acts in the prior year.
Researchers also discovered that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder got into trouble at a younger age than other juvenile offenders without ADHD. In fact, their first contact with police happened more than a year prior to other offenders. Youth with conduct disorder were also more likely to be arrested at a younger age. However, researchers urge caution on how the results are interpreted.
"This by no way means that every child with ADHD or conduct disorder will become delinquent or ultimately be arrested. What it does mean is that future work needs to address why some youth with ADHD or conduct disorder become delinquent and others do not," said Brenda Lohman, an associate professor in human development and family studies at Iowa State.
"From a preventive standpoint, this information could then help identify support systems and intervening mechanisms for families and parents, and ultimately decrease rates of antisocial behaviors of children with ADHD or conduct disorder," Lohman said.
In addition to preventive measures, researchers hope to build on this study to better understand the family dynamics that can lead to mental and behavioral issues in children.
"Extensive research indicates that economic hardship has an adverse effect on the well-being of families," said Tricia Neppl, an assistant professor in human development and family studies at Iowa State.
Economic pressures increase the risk for emotional distress, which Neppl said can lead to harsh disciplinary practices. She is working on a study to determine if such hardships, when a child is between the ages of 3 and 5 years old, impact the child's mental health when they are 6 to 13 years old.
"The results suggest that economic adversity influences parental emotional health, marital distress, and hostile parenting which predicts child mental health disorders, such as conduct disorder and ADHD, during later childhood and early adolescence," Neppl said.
As researchers understand more about the connection with antisocial behavior, DeLisi expects there will be an even greater push for intervention and treatment for ADHD and conduct disorder.
"Early interventions are very successful, but they require a lot of investment on the part of people who may be the least willing or able to invest," DeLisi said. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Saint Louis University also contributed to the study.
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The Non Zero-Sum Society - Business Insider
As President Obama said in his inaugural address last week, America ?cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.?
Yet that continues to be the direction we?re heading in.
A newly-released?analysis?by the Economic Policy Institute shows that the super-rich have done well in the economic recovery while almost everyone else has done badly. The top 1 percent of earners? real wages grew 8.2 percent from 2009 to 2011, yet the real annual wages of Americans in the bottom 90 percent have continued to decline in the recovery, eroding by 1.2 percent between 2009 and 2011.
In other words, we?re back to the widening inequality we had before the debt bubble burst in 2008 and the economy crashed.?
But the President is exactly right. Not even the very wealthy can continue to succeed without a broader-based prosperity. That?s because 70 percent of economic activity in America is consumer spending. If the bottom 90 percent of Americans are becoming poorer, they?re less able to spend. Without their spending, the economy can?t get out of first gear.?
That?s a big reason why the recovery continues to be anemic, and why the?International Monetary Fund just lowered?its estimate for U.S. growth in 2013 to just 2 percent.?
Almost a quarter of all jobs in America now pay wages below the poverty line for a family of four. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates 7 out of 10 growth occupations over the next decade will be low-wage ? like serving customers at big-box retailers and fast-food chains.
At this rate, who?s going to buy all the goods and services America is capable of producing? We can?t return to the kind of debt-financed consumption that caused the bubble in the first place.
Get it? It?s not a zero-sum game. Wealthy Americans would do better with smaller shares of a rapidly-growing economy than with the large shares they now possess of an economy that?s barely moving.
If they were rational, the wealthy would support public investments in education and job-training, a world-class infrastructure (transportation, water and sewage, energy, internet), and basic research ? all of which would make the American workforce more productive.
If they were rational they?d even support labor unions ? which have proven the best means of giving working people a fair share in the nation?s prosperity.
But labor unions are almost extinct.
The decline of labor unions in America tracks exactly the decline in the bottom 90 percent?s share of total earnings, and shrinkage of the middle class.
In the 1950s, when the U.S. economy was growing faster than 3 percent a year, more than a third of all working people belonged to a union. That gave them enough bargaining clout to get wages that allowed them to buy what the economy was capable of producing.
Since the late 1970s, unions have eroded ? as has the purchasing power of most Americans, and not coincidentally, the average annual growth of the economy.
Last week the?Bureau of Labor Statistics??reported that as of 2012 only 6.6 percent of workers in the private sector were unionized. (That?s down from 6.9 percent in 2011.) That?s the lowest rate of unionization in almost a century.
What?s to blame? Partly globalization and technological change. Globalization sent many unionized manufacturing plants abroad.
Manufacturing is starting to return to America but it?s returning without many jobs. The old assembly line has been replaced by robotics and numerically-controlled machine tools.
Technologies have also replaced many formerly unionized workers in telecommunications (remember telephone operators?) and clerical jobs.
But wait. Other nations subject to the same forces have far higher levels of unionization than America. 28 percent of?Canada?s workforce?is unionized, as is more than 25 percent of Britain?s, and almost 20 percent of Germany?s.?
Unions are almost extinct in America because we?ve chosen to make them extinct.
Unlike other rich nations, our labor laws allow employers to replace striking workers. We?ve also made it exceedingly difficult for workers to organize, and we barely penalized companies that violate labor laws. (A worker who?s illegally fired for trying to organize a union may, if lucky, get the job back along with back pay ? after years of legal haggling.)
Republicans, in particular, have set out to kill off unions. Union membership dropped 13 percent last year in Wisconsin, which in 2011 curbed the collective bargaining rights of many public employees. And it fell 18 percent last year in Indiana, which last February enacted a right-to-work law (allowing employees at unionized workplaces to get all the benefits of unionization without paying for them). Last month Michigan enacted a similar law.
Don?t blame globalization and technological change for why employees at Walmart, America?s largest employer, still don?t have a union. They?re not in global competition and their jobs aren?t directly threatened by technology.
The average pay of a Walmart worker is $8.81 an hour. A third of Walmart?s employees work less than 28 hours per week and don?t qualify for benefits.?
Walmart is a microcosm of the American economy. It has brazenly fought off unions. But it could easily afford to pay its workers more. It earned $16 billion last year. Much of that sum went to Walmart?s shareholders, including the family of its founder, Sam Walton.
The wealth of the Walton family now exceeds the wealth of the bottom 40 percent of American families combined, according to an?analysis?by the Economic Policy Institute.?
But how can Walmart expect to continue to show fat profits when most of its customers are on a downward economic escalator?
Walmart should be unionized. So should McDonalds. So should every major big-box retailer and fast-food outlet in the nation. So should every hospital in America.
That way, more Americans would have enough money in their pockets to get the economy moving. And everyone ? even the very rich ? would benefit.
As Obama said,?America cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.
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PRISMA PI Gabriele Honecker is a German representative in European string theory network
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Promotion of networking and international cooperation of European world experts in string theory
Junior Professor Dr. Gabriele Honecker of the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) takes an active role in the newly established European COST Action "The String Theory Universe." The European framework program COST European Cooperation in Science and Research fosters networking and cooperation among its member countries and involves the large majority of European world experts in String Theory. Honecker, who is also a Principal Investigator at the PRISMA (Precision Physics, Fundamental Interactions and Structure of Matter) Cluster of Excellence at Mainz University, will represent Germany in the COST Management Committee together with her colleague PD Dr. Johanna Erdmenger from the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich.
Although String Theory has been around for more than forty years, it has never been so important for physical reality as it is now, also due to its novel outstanding applications to different areas of Physics and Mathematics. While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva narrows down the experimental limits on supersymmetric particles and satellite missions such as WMAP and PLANCK probe the very early universe, the COST Action aims at creating a strong European network focused on fundamental forefront research exploring the role played by String Theory in Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Condensed Matter Physics.
The large majority of European world experts in String Theory will be involved in this Action. This will ensure a top-quality research output, achieved through an intense exchange of expertise, intra-European collaboration, and co-organization of scientific activities. The Action will ensure fair gender representation and simultaneously adopt specific measures for promoting the involvement of women scientists at all levels. It will also foster the active participation of junior excellent scientists. The outcome of the Action is expected to have a positive impact on both science and society at a European level, in line with the strategic priorities of COST.
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Promotion of networking and international cooperation of European world experts in string theory
Junior Professor Dr. Gabriele Honecker of the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) takes an active role in the newly established European COST Action "The String Theory Universe." The European framework program COST European Cooperation in Science and Research fosters networking and cooperation among its member countries and involves the large majority of European world experts in String Theory. Honecker, who is also a Principal Investigator at the PRISMA (Precision Physics, Fundamental Interactions and Structure of Matter) Cluster of Excellence at Mainz University, will represent Germany in the COST Management Committee together with her colleague PD Dr. Johanna Erdmenger from the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich.
Although String Theory has been around for more than forty years, it has never been so important for physical reality as it is now, also due to its novel outstanding applications to different areas of Physics and Mathematics. While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva narrows down the experimental limits on supersymmetric particles and satellite missions such as WMAP and PLANCK probe the very early universe, the COST Action aims at creating a strong European network focused on fundamental forefront research exploring the role played by String Theory in Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Condensed Matter Physics.
The large majority of European world experts in String Theory will be involved in this Action. This will ensure a top-quality research output, achieved through an intense exchange of expertise, intra-European collaboration, and co-organization of scientific activities. The Action will ensure fair gender representation and simultaneously adopt specific measures for promoting the involvement of women scientists at all levels. It will also foster the active participation of junior excellent scientists. The outcome of the Action is expected to have a positive impact on both science and society at a European level, in line with the strategic priorities of COST.
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RealClearMarkets - 35% Is Way Too High For Corporate Taxes
If there's one policy agreement between Republicans and Democrats, it's that the 35% corporate tax rate in the United States should be reduced to 28% or 25%. The current rate, highest in the advanced industrial world, disincentivizes investment and encourages corporations to relocate overseas.
Unfortunately, the deficit is a major hurdle facing any proposal to reduce the corporate tax rate. Because of the fiscal pressures facing the government, most politicians recognize that any corporate tax rate cut must be paid for by eliminating tax preferences and "loopholes." But few politicians have identified enough revenue-raising measures to offset the cost of a significant reduction of the corporate tax rate-cutting the rate from 35% to 25% would cost roughly $1.2 trillion over ten years.
I believe that there is a sensible answer: a modest limit to the deductions that corporations claim for the interest they pay on their bonds and other debt.
Admittedly, interest deductions probably won't be the first target for politicians. Most likely, politicians will first take a close look at the myriad of provisions designed to benefit specific industries. For instance, the fiscal cliff deal extended tax benefits for car racing facilities, railroads, mining companies, and various alternative energy companies. Indeed, many of these preferences have highly suspect economic justifications; unfortunately, these special deals are too small for their repeal to raise a significant amount of revenue.
Politicians might then turn to some of the larger tax preferences that corporations enjoy, collectively known as "tax expenditures." However, they will likely find it unwise, or politically infeasible, to repeal any of these large tax expenditures, such as accelerated depreciation or the research and development credit. Most Democrats and Republicans view these policies as being essential to economic growth. In any case, the bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation has estimated that the elimination of virtually all corporate tax expenditures would not be sufficient to reduce the corporate tax rate to 25%.
Another approach would be to change how the U.S. taxes the foreign profits of U.S. corporations. Currently, U.S. corporations can avoid paying U.S. tax on foreign profits so long as they keep those profits overseas. Congress could raise a significant amount of revenue if it required U.S. corporations to immediately pay U.S. taxes on their foreign profits-beyond the foreign taxes that they already pay. However, this change would make our corporate tax system even more out of step with the rest of the world; most foreign countries require corporations to pay tax only on profits that were earned in that country (with exceptions designed to prevent abusive tax-shifting).
Thus, if policymakers are serious about reducing the corporate tax rate, they will need to consider other revenue-raising measures. To merit serious consideration, such reforms should offer the potential for meaningful new revenue, and they should also make sense from a policy standpoint.
My proposed limits to interest deductions (which I call the "interest cap") would meet both criteria. Currently, corporations may fully deduct the interest they pay on their bonds and other forms of debt. This deduction costs the Treasury a significant amount of money, and encourages corporations to take on too much debt, increasing the fragility of the economy.
Using data from 2000 to 2009 (the most recent available), I estimate that a 65% cap on deductions for gross interest would have paid for a reduction in the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25% over those ten years. In other words, corporations would be able to deduct 65% of their gross interest expense, rather than 100%; from 2000 to 2009, this modest restriction would have been enough to finance the entire rate reduction to 25%.
My proposed "interest cap" would also reduce a significant distortion in the tax code. Currently, if a corporation finances an investment with debt, it can deduct the interest that it pays on that debt. If a corporation finances an investment by issuing new shares of stock, or by using money in the bank, there is no equivalent deduction. As a result, the tax code effectively encourages corporations to load up on debt. This makes companies more vulnerable to downturns-exposing their employees to a greater risk of layoffs and prolonging recessions in the broader economy.
I acknowledge that the treatment of financial institutions under my proposal is a tricky issue. Financial institutions typically borrow significant amounts of money in their daily operations. On the one hand, a vibrant financial sector is a critical component of a healthy, growing economy, and the "interest cap" could constrain these daily operations. On the other hand, excess debt within the financial sector can be especially damaging, as it has the potential to increase the severity of financial crises.
To balance these competing demands, my proposal would apply the interest cap to financial institutions, but at a lower rate. They would be allowed to deduct 79% of their interest expense-less than the 100% that they may deduct currently, but more than the 65% that nonfinancial corporations could deduct.
Undoubtedly, certain debt-intensive industries will lobby against my proposed cap on interest deductions. But policymakers should resist such pressure: any revenue-neutral tax reform must necessarily create winners and losers. Instead, policymakers should focus on setting the stage for broad-based economic growth-by reducing the distortions in favor of debt-finance, and by bringing our corporate tax rate in line with the rest of the world.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Foursquare Launches 'Foursquare for Business' App
Foursquare continued its efforts to monetize its service with Foursquare For Business, an app designed to let business owners manage specials and view analytics.
The app, introduced on Tuesday, promises to let businesses attract customers by posting "beautiful photo updates," view recent check-ins to their establishment, share Foursquare updates on Facebook and Twitter, drive traffic to their store and learn more about their customers.
Foursquare's new app ? its second ? comes as the company has been busily trying to wring some cash from its popular service. In July, Foursquare introduced Promoted Updates, its first ad product, which let business owners send local updates like their daily specials, to users. Even with that effort, Foursquare reportedly posted just $2 million in revenues last year.
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Solar System (for iPad)
Solar System ($13.99), an iPad app, lets you explore the Sun and its retinue of planets.
It has the same excellence in design and content as two Editors' Choice iPad apps made by Touch Press, The Elements: A 3D Exploration and Pyramids 3D, including similar virtual reality rotatable 3D figures. Its image galleries, featuring pictures from NASA missions and elsewhere as well as artist's impressions, are exquisite. The app is a good choice for students up to high school students and interested laymen alike.
Solar System in a Nutshell
The home screen displays a grid of icons; across the top are the Sun, Earth, and planets, as well as the asteroid belt, Kuiper Belt, and Oort cloud. Displayed under each world are icons for its moons (if any) or other relevant objects; Ceres, Vesta, and other asteroids appear under Asteroid Belt, Comets under Oort Cloud; and Pluto, Eris, and other icy so-called dwarf planets under Kuiper Belt.
At the screen's upper left is an icon labeled Solar System, which takes you to a series of slides describing our solar system, or evolving knowledge about it, and how it compares with other recently discovered planetary systems. The Orrery button at upper right takes you to a digital depiction of our solar system, showing the planets, as well as orbits that you can toggle on and off. A slider at the bottom lets you speed up or slow down their motion. An information button shows a physical orrery, a brass, clockwork miniature model of the solar system; they were popular starting in the 18th century.
Pressing on Song takes you to a slideshow of space images set to an instrumental version of Biophilia, by Bj?rk. The About button describes the app, a collaboration between Touch Press and British publisher Faber and Faber, with the imagery processed by Planetary Vision Ltd., and includes a Credits button.
Exploring the Planets
Each orb accessible through a home-page icon has at least one page devoted to it, and some (the Moon and Mars) have as many as nine pages, each page covering an important aspect of that world. In addition to Wegener's jigsaw and the introductory page, Earth pages include one called Water World; one called Earth's aura, about the atmosphere; Living planet details the development and nature of life on our planet; Earth's umbrella, about the protective effect of greenhouse gases and the Earth's magnetic field; and lastly, How do we know the Earth is round?
As planets and most of the moons depicted are spheres (more or less), the 3D functionality consists of the ability to rotate these worlds to see their entire surface area (or cloud belts, as the case may be.) Irregularly shaped asteroids look more dramatic when rotating. My favorite 3D depiction is one of our own world, titled Wegener's Jigsaw, after Alfred Wegener, who came up with the theory of continental drift after noticing that the coastlines of Africa and South America.? Swiping on the image of the globe takes you through an animation showing 400 million years of shifting land masses.
The opening page for each planet or moon contains the rotatable image, plus a brief description of that world. Pressing the Orrery button now takes you to the object. For instance, clicking on the orrery from the page for Io takes you to Jupiter, where its four largest moons, including Io, are in motion; their speed can be controlled through the slider. Clicking on Done takes you back to the Io opening page.
The spinning red crystal icon at the page's lower left is WolframAlpha; clicking on it takes you to information on the planet or moon from that search engine, including physical properties, orbit, and current position in the sky.
To the right of the WolframAlpha button is an icon that takes you to an image gallery. Solar System includes a gallery for each planet, moon, or class of objects (asteroid belt, Kuiper belt, Oort Cloud, etc.). Clicking on a gallery thumbnail gives you a full-screen version of the image. Nearly all of the photos and illustrations are exquisite. The app's author, Marcus Chown, quips in the About section, "No expense has been spared in the production of Solar System. The location filming budget alone has approached a trillion dollars. That, of course, is NASA's expenditure, not ours!" Gallery images include ones from some non-NASA missions as well.
The rest of the icons and buttons at the bottom of the screen are concerned with navigation. A line of tiny images, starting with the Sun and including each planet and its moons in increasing distance from the Sun as you move to the right, lets you navigate to these object's pages, a tiny Space Shuttle pointer sits under the icon for the orb whose page you're currently viewing. To the right of this line of icons, Home and Back buttons are bracketed by left and right arrows. The arrows proved to be the easiest way to navigate within a section (for instance, among the 7 pages for Jupiter).
A row of white dots at the top of the screen?such as you find on the iPad's home screen with its grid of apps?shows you where you are within the section. It can be used to navigate: tap one of the dots, and you're at another page. It is awkward, though: While I was using the app while seated in a moving subway, navigating with the dots was hit or miss, mostly miss. The arrow buttons are much better, though I would have liked to have been able to advance through the pages by swiping them as well. (The presence of touch-sensitive 3D illustrations on part of the page may preclude that.)
Alternate App
Solar Walk (for iPad) is a similar app. Its 3D graphics aren't as dazzling as Solar System and its navigation isn't as intuitive, but it adds a few videos, a search function for geographic and planetary features, and the ability to email or tweet screen shots, or post them to Facebook, and sells at a much lower price. I can recommend both of these apps.
As an interactive e-book, Solar System provides a useful and engaging overview of the Sun, planets, moons, and other solar system bodies. The illustrations are gorgeous, and the 3D rotatable spheres are skillfully designed. The text provides a solid if somewhat succinct introduction to each world, covering important aspects of the object. It doesn't include any outside links, but should nonetheless inspire students to do their own research.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Vine, Hardcore Porn Should Not Be An Editor?s Pick Video
Video sharing app Vine came under fire this past weekend for having a bit of a porn problem. That it has adult content on the network shouldn't surprise anyone, and as long as it's something you have to look for, I think criticizing them for it is as sensible as criticizing Google. But today (right now, as of this writing) the top featured pick on my home feed, and on the feed of many users judging by Twitter, is a porn video. Labelled "Editor's Pick."Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/NKhcV0pq8Uo/
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You Haven't Had Enough?
So for starters I?m going to say if you recognized the title and are familiar with were I got it?will get along just fine :D lol!
Okay Ladies and Gents!
Let me say I?m addicted to RPing, but I?m super busy with work all the time, so if your patient then keep reading!!! I prefer to play females and it?s easier for me to just play one character, but if you?re willing two play a male and female I would be willing to do the same :D I prefer realistic when making character sheets! No anime sorry!
Now with that out of the way
I absolutely love music, it?s my life! Most of my RPs will usually be based off of a song in some way shape or form. I have a few Idea?s already now these are based on only one male and one female, but like I said if you wanted to play a male and a female we could probably work something out?
IDEAS!
(And Yes their based on songs lol! I will make the title of the RP a link so you can listen to the song if you want :D)
Idea 1, Bad Girl
He?s a promising lawyer, he?s got his life set, his father is wealthy and he?s expect to follow suite with absolutely no complaints, he?s also being pushed into a marriage with a girl he doesn?t even like. She?s got nothing figured out, she?s a complete mess, she?s not afraid to do and say what others only dream of saying or doing. She knows what she wants and she knows exactly how to get it, she?s addicted to the dance floor and knows how to party. When their paths cross, worlds collide. He?s everything she needs and she?s everything he?s always wanted. She teaches him that there is more to life than sitting in an office and he may just be the one that proves to her love is real.
Idea 2, Dreamer
He?s been raised on his grandfather ranch his whole life, he knows what breaking your back really means. He?s from a long line of true old west cowboys, the 300 acre ranch, the horses, the mountains all of it is his life he wouldn?t have it any other way. She?s a city girl, popular, rich, beautiful, spoiled. She hates dirty, animals, and can?t live without her phone and lip gloss for more hen a few seconds. But, when her parents die in a car accident, she is sent to live with her Godfather a man she?s never met. Which just so happens to be the cowboys father. She?s going to learn a big life lesson and she may find romance, good thing it?s summer, cause she hates the cold.
Idea 3, Your No good For Me
They were never meant to be together, but they don?t want anyone else. They have been together lifetime after lifetime and they can?t ever seem to get it right. Their secret affairs always end in tragedy. Each life they live, they never forget each other their memories of past lives always come flooding back once they see each other. But he?s always too late, she?s always married before he has a chance to find her. Will they ever be together or are they doomed to have to hide their love forever.
Anyways these are my ideas, just PM me if any of them fancy you!!! Let?s do this!!!
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How Motivational Speakers Aid In Self Improvement
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Motivational speakers are individuals who are professionally trained to address an audience with a certain purpose in your mind, and that?s to provide inspiration for different circumstances that occur throughout the natural course of li?
We all get to the point in life where it may seem like something is missing, something small that could help you arrive at the point in your life where you could achieve true happiness, whether it be in the region of function, family, relationships, or whatever else.
Inspirational speakers are individuals who are appropriately trained to address an audience with a particular purpose in mind, and that is to supply motivation for different situations that occur during the natural length of life. If you desire a little inspiration in any area of your existence, perhaps you must look into attending a workshop or searching for events that function motivational speakers in the local area.
It is ok to need a tiny bit of help sometimes; motivational speakers are excellent supports self development as they design their messages and organize their words you might say that?s intended to engage the listener, and let the listener set themselves in the speaker?s situation allowing both of them to identify together. That way, it?s easier for the audience to see the way out of their current problem, to see just how to fix the problem or correct whatever it?s about the situation that?s not right. It is often something small and minute that hinders people in life, and self development is often a of finding what it?s that must be fixed, number matter the size or severity of the problem.
Some of the areas where motivational speakers can certainly help in home development are:
*Parenting
- Step Parenting
*Careers
- Transitioning Careers
- Changing Careers
- Career Advancement
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*Relationships
- Marriage
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For all life?s situations, there?s a minumum of one motivational speaker out there who is trained to deal in that; numerous people choose to attend motivational speaker activities, whether it?s for work or pleasure. You might not think that inspirational speakers and events like that aren?t your cup of tea, but chances are that your brain can change, if you try attending at least one event. True, motivational speakers aren?t for everyone. Their design is always to inspire and stimulate mental performance and not everyone is in to that. However, if you are at all in to self development and you are looking to create a change in your lifetime, consider taking the advice of a speaker, or at least being open to the concept. You might be surprised with the results!
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Death toll rises to 31 in Egypt violence
UPDATES DEATH TOLL - Egyptian soccer fans of Al-Ahly club celebrate a court verdict that returned 21 death penalties in last years soccer violence, inside the club premises in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. Egyptian security officials say military to deploy in Port Said after 38 people including a senior police officer and a policeman were shot dead in the Mediterranean city of Port Said after a judge sentenced 21 people to death in connection to one of the world's deadliest incidents of soccer violence. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
UPDATES DEATH TOLL - Egyptian soccer fans of Al-Ahly club celebrate a court verdict that returned 21 death penalties in last years soccer violence, inside the club premises in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. Egyptian security officials say military to deploy in Port Said after 38 people including a senior police officer and a policeman were shot dead in the Mediterranean city of Port Said after a judge sentenced 21 people to death in connection to one of the world's deadliest incidents of soccer violence. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
UPDATES DEATH TOLL - Families and supporters of those accused of soccer violence from the Port Said soccer club react to the announcement of verdicts for 21 fans on trial in last years Port Said stadium incident which left 74 people dead, in Port Said, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. Egyptian security officials say that 38 people have died in the Mediterranean city of Port Said after a judge sentenced 21 people to death in connection to one of the world's deadliest incidents of soccer violence (AP Photo/Mohammed Nouhan, Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUT
UPDATES DEATH TOLL - Egyptian soccer fans of Al-Ahly club celebrate a court verdict that returned 21 death penalties in last years soccer violence, which left 74 dead, inside the club premises in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. Egyptian security officials say military to deploy in Port Said after 38 people including a senior police officer and a policeman were shot dead in the Mediterranean city of Port Said after a judge sentenced 21 people to death in connection to one of the world's deadliest incidents of soccer violence. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
PORT SAID, Egypt (AP) ? Egyptian health officials say the death toll from rioting in the city of Port Said has risen to 31.
Angry residents and young men went on a rampage in the city Saturday after a court handed down death sentences to almost two dozen local fans involved in a deadly melee at a soccer game last year.
Residents say the city's streets are deserted early Sunday. Local authorities have instructed government departments to take the day off, except for health and food supplies facilities.
Stores were closed and hotels asked guests to leave, fearing more violence.
Residents say army troops backed by tanks and armored vehicles have taken control of the city.
The officials and residents spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
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