Maine police arrested a heavily armed man driving on the state turnpike who carried clippings about the cinema massacre in Colorado and claimed he attended the new "Batman" film with a loaded gun, authorities said on Monday.
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Timothy Courtois, 49, was driving 112 mph on the Maine Turnpike with an AK-47 assault weapon, four handguns and several boxes of ammunition in his car when state police pulled him over about 10 a.m. on Sunday, said Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland.
He told police that he was headed to Derry, N.H., to shoot a former employer, McCausland said in a statement.
Courtois told police he had attended the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight," at a theater in Saco, Maine, on Saturday night with a loaded gun in his backpack, he said.
Police found clippings in his car about the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., where 12 people were killed and 58 wounded by a gunman at a Friday showing of "The Dark Knight," he said.
At Courtois' home in Biddeford, Maine, police found several additional guns, including a machine gun, and thousands of rounds of ammunition, he said.
Courtois was slated to appear in court on Monday in Springvale District Court on initial charges of speeding and carrying a concealed weapon, McCausland said.
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I?m 5 years old, toddling behind my parents after a thunderstorm. They point at the sky: ?There?s a rainbow!? I can?t see it. My brother grabs my head saying ?Look, Kelly. It?s right there.? I still can?t see it. I smell car exhaust, violets, mulch and earth.
I?m 17 in a car with a boy who?s driving too slowly. Someone in this neighborhood just mowed their grass. When the fat drops start hitting my arm, I leave my window down. The air smells like watermelon, chlorine, cigarettes and earth.
I?m 27 and getting married. God, it?s hot. Everyone?s here, and our party clothes are getting sweat stains, but no one cares because we?re happy and drinking heavily. The toast goes one minute too long and the sky opens up. Our first dance smells like moonshine, sweat, basil and earth.
?If you drew a road map between the sense of smell and the memory and emotion centers in the brain, there would be an interstate highway between them,? says Charles Wysocki, a smell scientist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
Our noses contain hundreds of receptors with millions of olfactory cells that recognize tiny pieces of the molecules that we inhale. But it?s our brains that draw up moments of the past.
The sense of smell brings on the strongest memories, Wysocki says.
He?s right; I can recall an old friend?s face, but it?s dim and fuzzy around the edges. The concert from last week has faded into a swirl of sounds in my mind. But one whiff of hot, sticky rain, and suddenly I?m stupid ? I mean 14 ? again, greeting the storm from the roof.
Before it hits the ground, rain is just water ? it has little to no smell, much less any highly nostalgic ones. But after the drops hit the earth and interact with dirt, rocks and plants, the fragrance surges up.
This smell actually has a name. The sweet grassy scent is called petrichor, from the Greek words ?petra? meaning stone, and ?ichor? referring to the essence that flows in the veins of the gods. Literally: ?essence derived from stone.?
The mechanism behind the smell isn?t terribly romantic, but it?s comforting, humble and natural.
?The earth is doing what it?s supposed to be doing,? Wysocki says. ?Composting.?
The moisture excites groups of bacteria in the soil, which start breaking down organically rich substances like leaves and animal waste. Nutrients return to the soil, while the rain and wind scatter millions of bacteria spores into the air.
When these microbes die, they release a musty earth-smelling chemical called geosmin (it?s also the cause of the earthy taste in beets.)
One out of every 10 people, however, can?t smell geosmin, which is the main contributor to petrichor. But enough smells are churned up during a good rain storm that your nose will be plenty stimulated.
For instance, during a thunderstorm, lightning produces ozone, which has a sharp, bleachy smell, strangely like a photocopier that?s been running too long.
What you smell when the first drops of rain hit asphalt after a long dry spell isn?t necessarily geosmin either.
In urban areas where there?s not much open soil, you smell pockets of proteins containing miniature molecules of city-odor like particles of street food, sewage, gasoline and salt wafting off the tarmac.
During dry periods, tiny smell-laden molecules fold up on themselves. They lie curled up on the hot concrete, waiting for rain to unwrap and release them into the air.
The smell is stronger if the weather has been dry for a long time. ?If you had rain yesterday, it?s already done its thing,? Wysocki says. The molecules have been unwrapped, the bacteria have quieted and the geosmin has scattered.
These bacteria live and die on every continent. The same sweet smell of rain triggers memories for people in the rainforest of South America, the deserts of Africa, the Australian outback and the cities of India. I can be in some strange city across the ocean, a thousand miles behind me, and still smell home.
I?m 28. I?m lying in bed in Carrboro, N.C., with the windows open. It?s been a long, hot day, but the wind begins to stir. It tosses in molecules smelling of the past and hinting of memories I have yet to make. The rain is coming.
We?ve been looking at whether or not the early church in Acts 2-5 presents a model of socialism that all believers should follow.
So far we?ve discovered three things that argue against this interpretation:
The early believers did not sell all their possessions. In other words, private property rights still existed.
The sharing that takes place in Acts 2-5 is voluntary.
This generosity was a temporary measure taken to meet a specific need.
There is a fourth point to be made, one that also touches on how we interpret Scripture as a whole:
If you believe Acts 2-5 teaches and encourages socialism, you have to show that the historical precedent set in this passage is a mandatory prescription for all later Christians.
Can you get the imperative (all Christians should do this) from the indicative (some early Christians did this)? You can try with all your might, but you will never cross that divide.
The fact that some Christians shared all things (with some qualifications) does not constitute a command that all Christians should follow their example.
The one way you could cross the divide is by showing that other Biblical passages command socialism. Wise teachers have maintained that it is not good to base an important doctrine on a single passage of Scripture. You can?t make a universal command from something that was practiced in the first century unless?that command is taught in other clear passages of Scripture.
For instance, Jesus wore a seamless robe. This fact does not mean that all future believers must do likewise, unless it is commanded elsewhere. Does the fact that Jesus had ?nowhere to lay his head? ? no home ? mean that all believers thereafter must be homeless? Only if there is clear teaching that makes mandatory a historical precedent in Jesus? life or the early church. Otherwise, it is not binding on later believers.
Thus, even if the events of Acts 2-5 were socialist, which they were not, they would hold nothing other than historical interest to later believers. They would have no binding power on the later church.
What do you think? Are there other passages of Scripture that bolster the claim that Acts 2-5 was socialism, and that would make socialism mandatory for believers? Leave your comments here.
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When Andraka had solidified ideas for his novel paper sensor, he wrote out his procedure, timeline, and budget, and emailed 200 professors at research institutes. He got 199 rejections and one acceptance from Johns Hopkins: ?If you send out enough emails, someone?s going to say yes.? Andraka was recently awarded the grand prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his groundbreaking discoveries."
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(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp said it plans to slash costs by $3 billion annually in commercial lending, investment banking and wealth management, becoming the latest big bank to take aim at expenses in a sluggish economy.
The second-largest U.S. bank announced the cost cuts as it posted second-quarter results that illustrate the pressure it is under. Bank of America said its loan book shrank from the same quarter last year, its interest income fell 15 percent, and each of its divisions except for mortgage lending posted lower revenue.
Mortgage lending improved mainly because in last year's second quarter the group took more than $20 billion of charges.
With revenue under pressure, the bank cut costs 25 percent, helping it post a profit for the quarter of $2.5 billion. Its work force shrank by more than 12,000 from a year earlier to 275,460.
Bank of America began the first phase of its cost-cutting plan in 2011, with the goal of saving $5 billion a year and eliminating 30,000 jobs by the end of 2014. That phase of the plan focused on consumer banking and information technology.
The second phase of the plan, known as Project New BAC, aims to cut costs by $3 billion a year by mid-2015. It does not target a particular number of job cuts, but does focus on capital markets businesses, investment banking, commercial lending and wealth management. Executives have said they will likely need fewer job cuts in this round because people in the businesses involved tend to be better paid.
The Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank has lagged its peers in recovering from the financial crisis, largely due to losses tied to its 2008 purchase of subprime lender Countrywide Financial.
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Wells Fargo & Co, and Citigroup Inc in recent days all beat analysts' earnings estimates, helped by cost-cutting, stronger mortgage business and better consumer delinquency rates.
Like JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Bank of America posted weaker equity trading revenue. Underwriting and merger advisory fees also dropped.
Revenue at Bank of America totaled $21.97 billion in the second quarter, down from $22.28 billion in the first quarter but up from $13.24 billion a year earlier when it took mortgage charges. Banks are struggling to boost revenue amid weak demand, low interest rates and new regulations crimping fees.
Squeezed by low rates, the bank reduced its long-term debt by $53 billion in the quarter, to $301 billion, by allowing bonds to mature and buying back securities. That move, along with further planned redemptions, should save the bank about $300 million in quarterly interest costs.
"We are fighting with all the arrows in our quiver that we have," Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan said in a conference call with analysts.
The bank's provision for loan losses fell to $1.77 billion in the second quarter, its lowest level since the first quarter of 2007, compared with $3.26 billion a year ago.
Mortgage banking income increased only slightly from the first quarter to $1.66 billion but was a big improvement over a year ago, when the bank set aside reserves to cover investor requests to buy back soured loans.
Mortgage costs "are coming down," said Gary Townsend, president of Hill-Townsend Capital. "That is very important because that has been a huge drag over the past three years."
REGAINING MORTGAGE MARKET SHARE
Bank of America has been scaling back its home lending in the wake of massive Countrywide losses, but said it recaptured some market share in the second quarter compared with the first quarter.
The bank made $18 billion in mortgages in the latest quarter, up from $15.2 billion in the first quarter but down from $40.4 billion a year ago, before it stopped buying loans made by other lenders. By comparison, Wells Fargo, the largest U.S. home lender, originated $130 billion of loans in the quarter, including mortgages purchased from other lenders.
Bank of America still has mortgage issues to deal with. Mortgage bond investors are trying to get the bank to buy back some $22.71 billion of loans they say should never have been sold to investors, up from $16.09 billion in the first quarter and $9.92 billion in the second quarter of 2011. Claims could increase in the coming quarters, Bruce Thompson, the bank's chief financial officer, said on the conference call.
In February, Bank of America stopped selling some mortgages to government-backed mortgage entity Fannie Mae in a dispute over requests to buy back soured loans. Thompson said the disagreement continues and that the fight will likely end in legal action or a settlement.
The bank added $395 million to its reserves for loan repurchase requests in the second quarter, up from $282 million in the first quarter, giving it total reserves of $15.9 billion. Wells Fargo and PNC Financial Services Inc also padded their reserves in the second quarter, citing increased repurchase requests for loans sold off during the housing boom.
Analysts peppered Bank of America executives with questions about when quarterly costs to handle delinquent mortgage loans will start to tail off. The bank spent $2.6 billion on those operations in the second quarter, down slightly from the first quarter. Thompson signaled those expenses have peaked but won't start going down until next year, after the bank completes work required under settlements with federal and state regulators.
Bank of America's total loans fell to $892.3 billion from $902.3 billion in the first quarter as it continued to shed assets from the credit crisis. JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and Citigroup showed slight increases in total loans from the first quarter.
However, Bank of America's loans to businesses were up from a year ago to $267.8 billion.
The bank said it made better-than-expected progress in building capital in the quarter. Its projected Tier 1 common capital ratio under so-called Basel 3 standards reached an estimated 8.1 percent of risk-weighted assets. The bank had previously said it would be above 7.5 percent by year-end.
Thompson said the bank is cooperating with regulatory inquiries over bank lending rates, such as the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR), but declined to provide details.
Bank of America shares were down 1.8 percent to $7.78 in early-afternoon trading.
(Reporting by Rick Rothacker in Charlotte, N.C.; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn, Maureen Bavdek and John Wallace)
Kirk Koenigbauer, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Office Division, speaks at a Microsoft event in San Francisco, Monday, July 16, 2012. Microsoft unveiled a new version of its widely used, lucrative suite of word processing, spreadsheet and email programs Monday, one designed specifically with tablet computers and Internet-based storage in mind. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Kirk Koenigbauer, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Office Division, speaks at a Microsoft event in San Francisco, Monday, July 16, 2012. Microsoft unveiled a new version of its widely used, lucrative suite of word processing, spreadsheet and email programs Monday, one designed specifically with tablet computers and Internet-based storage in mind. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
BRUSSELS (AP) ? The EU's executive body, the European Commission, announced Tuesday that it was opening an investigation into whether Microsoft has kept the antitrust commitments it made in 2009, and warned that penalties for non-compliance would be "severe."
Microsoft conceded it had "fallen short" of its obligation to provide the "browser choice screen," or BCS. The choice screen would allow users of Microsoft's Windows operating systems to select a browser other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
"Due to a technical error, we missed delivering the BCS software to PCs that came with the service pack 1 update to Windows 7," Microsoft said in a statement.
The company said that PCs running the original version of Windows 7, as well as Windows XP and Windows Vista, did have the screen.
"While we have taken immediate steps to remedy this problem, we deeply regret that this error occurred and we apologize for it," Microsoft said.
EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told reporters it appeared that the choice screen, promised by Microsoft in 2009 following an antitrust case, has not been provided since February 2011, meaning 28 million customers who should have seen it may not have.
Microsoft submitted a report to the Commission in December asserting that the browser choice screen was being provided as required. In its statement Tuesday, the company said it believed at the time that was the case.
The company said it had retained outside to conduct a formal investigation of how the technical error occurred and to make suggestions to avoid such compliance problems in the future.
It also said that it was offering to extend the time during which it is obligated to display the choice screen by an additional 15 months.
"We understand that the Commission will review this matter and determine whether this is an appropriate step for Microsoft to take," the statement said. "We understand that the Commission may decide to impose other sanctions."
The latest development stems from Microsoft's agreement in 2009 to offer a choice of rival Web browsers on Windows to ward off additional fines. Rivals had complained that attaching Internet Explorer to Windows was an unfair way for Microsoft to put its Web software on most of the world's computers.
The competitive landscape has changed greatly since then, however. Tech companies are now more concerned about Google's and Facebook's dominance than Microsoft's. Meanwhile, rival browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome have gotten more use, and apps on mobile devices have started to replace browsers as gateways to online content
The development comes just weeks after a European court upheld most of a massive fine that the European Commission had levied against Microsoft in 2008 for failing to fully comply with an order covering technical documents it had to share with rivals. At the time, the ruling closed the last of EU's active cases against Microsoft, which dated back to 1998.
Almunia said this would be the first time that this type of legally binding agreement has not been complied with.
"Needless to say, we take compliance with our decision very seriously," he said. "If the infringement is confirmed, there will be sanctions."
All told, the European Union has so far fined Microsoft ?1.64 billion ($2 billion).
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My daughter is sick of her present job and is looking for a new one particular. She?s not the only one particular. A huge number of organizations are hunting for her, and thousands like her are searching for the firm that, hopefully, will employ them. Regrettably, even when the twain shall meet, odds are she won?t be happy with them or with the life path they?ve helped deliver for her.
Even when she finds something like the ?perfect? job, she will often wish that she had completed anything else with her life. She will wonder what it really is prefer to function when she desires to perform, and take a vacation when she wants a vacation, and if there?s some way she could make an excellent revenue for the rest of her life devoid of punching a time clock, answering to a boss who she has tiny or no respect for, or having to strategy her life about the whims and vagaries of an enterprise and organization which has tiny interest in her dreams, hopes, or future. The majority of all, she will wish that she had control over her alarm clock.
Now, don?t get me wrong. This is not a pie-in-the-sky post about instant good results, producing tons of revenue, and in no way possessing strain in your life again. Actually, even if you will be thriving with some household enterprise opportunity, you will possibly have all sorts of stress, may just make sufficient to obtain by, and it may perhaps take months or even years to reach a point where you look at yourself prosperous.
Even so, on a daily basis, a large quantity of individuals leave the security and positive aspects of their nine-to-five job and take a swing at some home organization opportunity they read about, saw an ad for on Tv, or ran across on the internet. Several will fail, but some will make it huge, or no less than large adequate, and can be pleased they created the choice.
They?ll not simply uncover an earnings source far from factory, sales floor, distribution center, or office, but they?re going to move out from below somebody else?s thumb, and may well essentially be capable of ignore the demands on the clock and calendar for the very first time considering that their quite early childhood.
Truly, let?s not belittle the humble ?job?. In case you aren?t at the leading of your home business heap, or should you haven?t even started the climb however, you?ll need that job to help keep food in your stomach, a roof over your head, as well as your spouse or substantial other from slamming the door on their way out?not to mention your automobile from getting repossessed as well as other enjoyable items. That job may possibly just offer the well being benefits you need, or the network you?ll want to start out your property organization.
Beginning any new organization could be a gamble. Even changing jobs can make a major disturbance within the force, glitch within the matrix, and so forth. Holding on to that job is actually a wise move to create, and that is certainly the terrific point about a valid home enterprise chance. You may start out a home enterprise literally inside your spare time. You could hang on for the job within the meantime and present a security blanket for yourself and your family even though finding your company off the ground.
Getting begun your new property enterprise, you may ultimately arrive in the point where you join the millions of other people who get pleasure from the rewards from operating from residence and getting their own bosses. However, when new entrepreneurs fail, it is generally as a result of many of the simplest of causes. When we talk about new corporations failing, we do not just need to talk about the residence enterprise chance, as the reasons brick and mortar firms are the same. Some of those reasons for failure are:
*Lack of encounter ? Lots of men and women decide on to begin a small business mainly because they wish to make loads of money, be essential, or just not need to perform any additional. Knowing something about a subject you look at to be vital, liking it, and wanting to share that info with other people today is a really critical element inside the future good results of a business enterprise.
*Poor business enterprise place ? If you feel of a property company, specially an world wide web small business, it may perhaps not appear like ?location? is substantially of a factor, but a small business location is more than just the constructing the small business is located in. Exactly where, when, and how you advertise or promote your company is just one example of place as an aspect inside the success of a dwelling enterprise.
*Not placing inside the hours ? A lot of firms of all sorts fail mainly because the person who began it inside the hopes of not possessing to work the way they have within the past, or basically did not recognize how much ?work? will be involved in operating a successful enterprise, significantly much less having a single off the ground. In the world of property and world-wide-web enterprise possibilities, it truly is unfortunate but accurate that many individuals are lured into the opportunity by the implied or stated promise of big earnings for tiny operate.
*Poor financing ? A lot of persons usually do not realize how much cash they will should get started most new corporations. Although a home based business could not require as much funds as some franchises or other organizations, pretty frequently an important aspect in success is marketing or promotion. Generally you will find supplies which might be needed, costs that occur for a variety of reasons, and other expenses. New organizations don?t normally take off like a rocket, and it frequently takes a sizable quantity of income to acquire the business off the ground.
The web and today?s technologies has opened new pathways to good results for all those who used to be restricted to mail order or door-to-door corporations. Corporations which as soon as would have already been impossible are now open for the common public. Everyone having a laptop or computer can perform anywhere, any time due to the nearly universal phenomenon of internet access. Additionally to possessing their own businesses, several are locating a brand new revenue supply as online affiliates for other businesses, as bloggers, and with applications for example Google?s Adsense.
There are numerous positive aspects of getting your own perform from property company, and we?ve touched on a few and some possible pitfalls too. A household business enterprise might be liberating, nevertheless it can chain you to a brand new set of obligations at the same time. You are able to be your personal boss, or your own worst employee. It is possible to set your own schedule but come across which you have to have far more hours than there seriously had been inside the day. You can expertise the rewards of becoming the selection maker and facing challenges, or you may find your self stressed towards the max.
Beginning a dwelling organization could be a great step on a long exciting pathway, but start off the trip only immediately after cautious consideration.
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A very rare and beautiful view of a red sprite has been photographed, by Expedition 31 astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), hovering just above a bright flash of lightning in a thunderstorm over Myanmar.
That's one possibility, to be sure, but I would have preferred:
A very rare and beautiful red sprite, hovering just above a bright flash of lightning in a thunderstorm over Myanmar, has been photographed by Expedition 31 astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
I'm still not wild about "hovering", especially for such a transient phenomenon, but none of the alternatives that come to mind (replacing with "appearing" or "visible", or just deleting the word) fill me with enthusiasm, so it gets a shrug for now.
The Philips Fidelio SoundRing, a speaker system armed with Apple's wireless streaming AirPlay, uses its eye-catching circular design to fill a room with sound. Its front and back panels use identical pairs of full-range drivers, so whether you're in front or in back of the speaker, you ears have a direct line to the sound. Unfortunately, the $299.99 SoundRing distorts at high volumes, and generally behaves like a far less expensive speaker. The SoundRing is good-looking and offers quality audio at moderate volumes, but the inflated price tag is because of the AirPlay functionality, not because of the speaker system's audio performance.
Design The SoundRing, like nearly all AirPlay docks, is black with chrome accents, and has very few controls. The donut-shaped speaker, which can be removed from its small, circular base that also acts as a stand, measures 8.3 by 7.6 by 4.5 inches (HWD) when sitting in the charging base. It's portable in a room-to-room sense, but it only works in AirPlay mode when undocked, and doesn't seem ideal for outdoor use?primarily because it needs access to your home Wi-Fi network to stream audio, and also because the black portions of the speaker are cloth, covering the array of four 1.5-inch drivers. When not docked in the stand, the speaker can still sit upright thanks to a flat lower panel.
A thin metallic band along the center of the speaker's top panel (when upright) houses the Power, Play/Pause, and Volume buttons. The back panel of the ring houses a USB port, a 3.5mm Aux input, and a Wi-Fi Setup button that, along with an LED on the front panel, underneath the black cloth, flashes different colors to indicate connection status. The SoundRing has no remote control, but comes with a 3.5mm audio connection cable and a power adapter.
The manual claims that if you've stopped any AirPlay streaming music and have nothing connected via USB to the rear port, the system automatically defaults to the 3.5mm Aux input. But there is no indicator for this, and our review unit didn't play nice with any device connected via 3.5mm. This is a design issue more than anything else?if you have multiple sound source options, you should have a source button like just about all of the competition has.
Performance At moderate volumes, the Philips Fidelio SoundRing provides quality audio perfomance on tracks that don't challenge it with deep bass. Less heavy rock songs, classical and instrumental music, and other less bass-intense genres are delivered with a strong emphasis on midrange frequencies. The result is crisp, clean sound, and as long as deep bass doesn't enter the equation, the SoundRing sounds quite nice even at close to maximum volume, albeit not like a $300 system.
Trouble comes in the form of low frequencies. Even at about 75 percent volume, the Knife's "Silent Shout", a particularly bass-heavy track, distorts in ugly ways. At maximum volume, it sounds like the drivers are about to explode. This is clearly not a system for bass-lovers, but moreover, this distortion shouldn't be happening in this price range.
Sticking to less challenging tracks?in terms of low end?is the key to getting the most out of the SoundRing. John Adams' modern classical piece, "The Chairman Dances," benefits a little from the focus on mid-range frequencies. But much of the beautiful resonance of lower-register stringed instruments and percussion feels thin or absent on the SoundRing, while higher-frequency content, like wood block hits, is delivered cleanly and loudly.
If you don't listen to tracks with deep bass, the SoundRing will likely disappoint far less, but there are some usability issues as well. Aside from the aforementioned difficulty with listening to 3.5mm aux input sources (we had no trouble at all using the USB port to both charge and listen to an iPhone 4S), the setup process is a drag. We won't detail the process here, but it's tedious, and makes you do some back-end work in Safari that a free app could handle after you enter your Wi-Fi network's name and password. Much of the competition, like the Altec Lansing inAir 5000 Wireless AirPlay Speaker ($499.95, 4 stars), has opted to use an app instead?the resulting setup is usually more user-friendly, and typically much quicker. This is most likely a one-time annoyance, but worth noting.
To put it bluntly, the Philips Fidelio SoundRing sounds like a fantastic $150 speaker dock. The problem is, it costs twice that, and it doesn't provide a very polished experience. We've seen this before with the JBL OnBeat Air ($249.95, 3.5 stars)?speakers that have boosted prices because the inclusion of AirPlay technology is so costly. You end up with a speaker worth far less than the final, inflated price, at least in terms of audio quality. This isn't the case with all AirPlay docks, but the strongest systems, like the Klipsch Gallery G-17 Air ($549.99, 4 stars) and Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Air ($599.95, 4 stars), have hefty prices that reflect the great internal speakers as well as the AirPlay functionality. For our money, the best wireless speaker system doesn't use AirPlay, however?the Bluetooth JBL OnBeat Xtreme ($499.95, 4.5 stars) is our current Editors' Choice.
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The Internet brings a lot of information right to our fingertips. It?s also an easy place to get going if you are looking to start a business. For those who have a product to sell, the Internet can be the most cost effective way to do it. You no longer have to have the traditional ?store front.? Your business can be started and maintained right in the comfort of your own home.
Once you have your product idea in mind, you need to setup your business. It?s actually a fairly simple process to start an online business. The first thing you should do is visit your state?s website. Every state has a website and on the website it will walk you through how to start a business. While the procedures in each state may be different, the outcome is pretty much the same. You will need to register your business or trade name with the state. This is what makes your business legal. You will get an employer identification number that you will use to pay taxes. You will also need a vendor?s license in order to sell products online. The vendor?s license makes it legal for you to sell products online and it is also used to pay sales tax. You may not be required to pay sales tax in all 50 states, but you will have to pay it in the state you reside in.
Once you have your business registered and have received your employer identification number, you can start working! Your EIN is what you will use to pay taxes, but the great thing is that it?s also what you use to shop wholesale! This means that you can now register with your suppliers for wholesale accounts. You will get your products at a lower price and charge the consumer the retail price. The difference between the two is your profit. It?s essential to have dependable suppliers if you plan to start an online business. You want to make sure your clients are receiving their orders on time and to do that you need a dependable supplier.
It?s fairly easy to start a business online and it has numerous benefits. Keeping yourself and your business organized will ensure that your online business succeeds!
Dustin Heath recommends that you visit http://www.homebusiness.us to learn how you can start your own home-based business earning multiple streams of income with a Plug-In Profit Site ? Complete Money Making Site Setup FREE!
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MIAMI, FLORIDA ? Did you know that even when some devices like chargers and audio visual equipment are not in use- even turned off- they are still using energy?
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, energy vampires are often responsible for adding 10 percent or more to your monthly utility bill.
These energy vampires are electrical appliances that continuously draw power even after you?ve turned them off. Certain appliances, of course, need to run continuously like your refrigerator and air conditioning unit, especially in the blistering heat of Miami, FL. However, other systems are needlessly drawing power and padding your utility bill in the process. Most energy vampires only suck a few watts each, but when the average home contains almost two dozen watt wasters, the cost adds up.
The good news is that rooting out the culprits and saving 10 percent on your energy costs only takes a little bit of time and a few tools.
Common Culprits More and more devices and appliances possess features like wireless sensors and other electronic controls that prevent them from ever shutting down. They may be lurking anywhere:
Stereos
Audio visual equipment
Computer equipment
Chargers
Cable box and wireless router
Appliances
There are a few simple solutions to stop these energy vampires from wasting any more energy and money.
Unplug. Any device that has an indicator or standby light, touch screen or feels the least bit warm to the touch is drawing power. Obviously unplugging everything isn?t realistic, but even pulling the plug on a few items that aren?t frequently used can save about as much as turning off a light.
Strip. Use a surge protector to flip off multiple devices at once. Some strips are better suited for hard-to-reach areas or have features that automatically shut off everything when you turn off the computer or TV. Others have a combination of plugs, some that turn off and some that are always on for electronics like satellite boxes, modems and wireless routers.
We can help you save more money on utility bills by connecting you through our free referral listing with businesses that offer energy efficiency services. Our extensive listings also include specialists in chain link and aluminum fence repair and steam sauna installation.
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Manchester United's Wayne Rooney celebrates after a goal on March 11, 2012.
By Reuters
Manchester United Ltd, the world's most famous soccer club, filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of its Class A common stock.
Thomson Reuters publication IFR reported last month that the football club had dropped its plans for an Asian listing in favor of a U.S. listing.
After first eyeing a Hong Kong IPO, the former English soccer champions had planned a $1 billion listing in Singapore in the second half of last year before putting the plans on hold because of market turmoil.
Manchester United told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a preliminary prospectus on Tuesday that Jefferies, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank Securities are underwriting the IPO.
United, which has been English league champions a record 19 times and features players such as England's Wayne Rooney, intends to list its Class A common shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
The club intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to repay debt.
The filing did not reveal how many shares it plans to sell or their expected price.
The amount of money a company says it plans to raise in its first IPO filings is used to calculate registration fees. The final size of the IPO could be different.?
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Like?Symphony of Eternity($2.99, 4 stars) and RPG Aeon Avenger ($3.99, 3.5 stars), RPG Grinsia ($7.99 on Google Play) is a traditional, top-down Japanese RPG for most Android phones and tablets with a fantasy setting, cute little cartoon characters, and turn-based combat. Unlike in some of its competition, Grinsia starts you out with a pre-formed party: a family of "treasure hunters" who quickly get drawn into a plan to protect some ancient artifacts from a predatory empire. Translation and character development are actually pretty good here, and you can answer simple yes/no questions in the dialog interface. There's even a bit of comedy.
Grinsia takes place in three scales: a zoomed-in town mode, a zoomed-out walkable world map, and a turn-based battle interface. Battles are more tedious than in the other Kemco games I've played, because fighting always seems to require one too many taps, there's a tedious little XP-acquisition sequence at the end of every battle, and there's very little user choice in terms of acquiring skills and abilities. In a game where you're constantly running into invisible random monster encounters, that's an issue.
Grinsia's other challenge is that it seems to be easy to get stuck; I had trouble about five hours in with a cave where the game's UI elements seemed to be blocking the way out, for instance, and I've seen other complaints online about different locations. There have been a few minor version updates since I played through, though, so those sticky points may have been cleared up by now.
Grinsia isn't a must-buy like Kemco's classic Symphony of Eternity. There just isn't as much fun character-building involved, and the battles don't go as smoothly. But, for eight dollars with no additional purchases necessary, it's a decent plot-driven RPG.
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More than 40,000 daily heat records have been broken around the country so far this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, compared with last year's 25,000 daily records set by this date.
By Douglas Main,?OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer / July 3, 2012
Beachgoers crowd the surf near the Balboa Pier in Newport Beach, Calif., on July 2.
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Heat is beating records around the country: the first five months of 2012 have been the hottest on record in the contiguous United States. And that's not including June, when 164 all-time high temperature records were tied or broken around the country, according to government records.
That's unusual, since the most intense heat usually comes in July and August for much of the country, said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist with National Climatic Data Center. For example, only 47 all-time high records were tied or broken in June of last year.?
Also, more than 40,000 daily heat records have been broken around the country so far this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Compare that with last year ?the?ninth warmest on record?? when only 25,000 daily records had been set by this date.??
In other words, the heat really is that bad. And behind the records is a set of weather and climate conditions that is keeping the heat locked in over the country, with little respite in sight.
Can't stand the heat
The warm summer follows?an unusually warm winter, which was the hottest and driest that the western United States has ever seen since records have been kept, said Jeff Weber, a scientist with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.
The heat burning up the country right now is due in part to a persistent high pressure system, also called a heat ridge or dome, which parked itself over the mountain west, and has now shifted east into the Midwest and Southeast. The system is unfortunately stuck in place, Weber said, because of a slowdown of the North Atlantic Oscillation, a climate pattern that pulls weather patterns eastward across the country.
This "blocking" of the Atlantic has caused the jet stream, which normally ferries air from west to east across the United States, to buckle and trap heat in the Midwest and Southeast, Weber told OurAmazingPlanet.
High and dry
That's not unusual in the summer, said National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Carbin. But this pattern of hot air does cover a broader area than usual, and the total amount of hot air is greater, stretching higher up in the atmosphere than normal, he said.
Dry soils, in part a product of the dry winter, exacerbate the heat. "If the soils were wetter, more energy would be absorbed by the water and the daily high temperatures wouldn't be as warm," Crouch told OurAmazingPlanet. For example, southern Georgia and Florida,?drenched by Tropical Storm Debby, haven't been as hot as areas to the north in the last week or so.
Unfortunately, the heat doesn't look likely to dissipate soon, with the National Weather Service expecting warmer-than-usual temperatures to continue for the remainder of the summer across much of the country. The southwest and Rocky Mountains could be in for a reprieve soon, however, thanks to the?beginning of the North American monsoon?, which is predicted to start bringing moisture and cooler temperatures into the area later this week, Weber said. [Editor's note: An earlier version mischaracterized the North American monsoon.]
Climate change?
The early heat waves of summer ? following higher?temperatures in spring?and winter ? could also be part of a?pattern of climate change.
"It's consistent with what we'd expect in a warming climate, but it's hard to quantify any effect climate change might have on an individual event like this heat wave," Crouch said.?
While only one heat wave cannot by itself be linked to climate change, a significant increase in these types of events over time could be a hallmark of a warming planet. "An increasing frequency of heat waves ?that's one aspect of climate change you can point to," Carbin said.
Over the past few years, daily record high temperatures have been outpacing daily record lows by 2-to-1 on average, according to the website Climate Central. A 2009 study found that if the climate were not warming, that ratio would be expected to be even. So far this year, there have been 40,113 high temperature records set or tied, compared with just 5,835 cold records, a ratio of about 7-to-1.
"This could be a harbinger of things to come," Weber said.
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'Self-distancing' can help people calm aggressive reactions, study findsPublic release date: 2-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Dominik Mischkowski Mischkowski.1@osu.edu Ohio State University
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new study reveals a simple strategy that people can use to minimize how angry and aggressive they get when they are provoked by others.
When someone makes you angry, try to pretend you're viewing the scene at a distance - in other words, you are an observer rather than a participant in this stressful situation. Then, from that distanced perspective, try to understand your feelings.
Researchers call this strategy "self-distancing."
In one study, college students who believed a lab partner was berating them for not following directions responded less aggressively and showed less anger when they were told to take analyze their feelings from a self-distanced perspective.
"The secret is to not get immersed in your own anger and, instead, have a more detached view," said Dominik Mischkowski, lead author of the research and a graduate student in psychology at Ohio State University.
"You have to see yourself in this stressful situation as a fly on the wall would see it."
While other studies have examined the value of self-distancing for calming angry feelings, this is the first to show that it can work in the heat of the moment, when people are most likely to act aggressively, Mischkowski said.
The worst thing to do in an anger-inducing situation is what people normally do: try to focus on their hurt and angry feelings to understand them, said Brad Bushman, a co-author of the study and professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State.
"If you focus too much on how you're feeling, it usually backfires," Bushman said.
"It keeps the aggressive thoughts and feelings active in your mind, which makes it more likely that you'll act aggressively."
Mischkowski and Bushman conducted the study with Ethan Kross of the University of Michigan. Their findings appear online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and will be published in a future print edition.
There were two related studies. The first involved 94 college students who were told they were participating in a study about the effects of music on problem solving, creativity and emotions.
The students listened to an intense piece of classical music while attempting to solve 14 difficult anagrams (rearranging a group of letters to form a word such as "pandemonium"). They had only seven seconds to solve each anagram, record their answer and communicate it to the experimenter over an intercom.
But the plan of the study was to provoke the students into anger, which the experimenters did using a technique which has been used many times in similar studies.
The experimenter interrupted the study participants several times to ask them to speak louder into the intercom, finally saying "Look, this is the third time I have to say this! Can't you follow directions? Speak louder!"
After this part of the experiment, the participants were told they would be participating in a task examining the effects of music on creativity and feelings.
The students were told to go back to the anagram task and "see the scene in your mind's eye." They were put into three groups, each of which were asked to view the scene in different ways.
Some students were told to adopt a self-immersed perspective ("see the situation unfold through your eyes as if it were happening to you all over again") and then analyze their feelings surrounding the event. Others were told to use the self-distancing perspective ("move away from the situation to a point where you can now watch the event unfold from a distancewatch the situation unfold as if it were happening to the distant you all over again") and then analyze their feelings. The third control group was not told how to view the scene or analyze their feelings.
Each group was told the replay the scene in their minds for 45 seconds.
The researchers then tested the participants for aggressive thoughts and angry feelings.
Results showed that students who used the self-distancing perspective had fewer aggressive thoughts and felt less angry than both those who used the self-immersed approach and those in the control group.
"The self-distancing approach helped people regulate their angry feelings and also reduced their aggressive thoughts," Mischkowski said.
In a second study, the researchers went further and showed that self-distancing can actually make people less aggressive when they've been provoked.
In this study, 95 college students were told they were going to do an anagram task, similar to the one in the previous experiment. But in this case, they were told they were going to be working with an unseen student partner, rather than one of researchers (in reality, it actually was one of the researchers). In this case, the supposed partner was the one who delivered the scathing comments about following directions.
As in the first study, the participants were then randomly assigned to analyze their feelings surrounding the task from a self-immersed or a self-distanced perspective. Participants assigned to a third control group did not receive any instructions regarding how to view the scene or focus on their feelings.
Next, the participants were told they would be competing against the same partner who had provoked them earlier in a reaction-time task. The winner of the task would get the opportunity to blast the loser with noise through headphones - and the winner chose the intensity and length of the noise blast.
The findings showed that participants who used the self-distancing perspective to think about their partners' provocations showed lower levels of aggression than those in the other two groups. In other words, their noise blasts against their partner tended to be shorter and less intense.
"These participants were tested very shortly after they had been provoked by their partner," Mischkowski said.
"The fact that those who used self-distancing showed lower levels of aggression shows that this technique can work in the heat of the moment, when the anger is still fresh."
Mischkowski said it is also significant that those who used the self-distancing approach showed less aggression than those in the control group, who were not told how to view the anger-inducing incident with their partner.
This suggests people may naturally use a self-immersing perspective when confronted with a provocation - a perspective that is not likely to reduce anger.
"Many people seem to believe that immersing themselves in their anger has a cathartic effect, but it doesn't. It backfires and makes people more aggressive," Bushman said.
Another technique people are sometimes told to use when angered is to distract themselves - think of something calming to take their mind off their anger.
Mischkowski said this may be effective in the short-term, but the anger will return when the distraction is not there.
"But self-distancing really works, even right after a provocation - it is a powerful intervention tool that anyone can use when they're angry."
###
Contact: Dominik Mischkowski, Mischkowski.1@osu.edu (Email is the best way to reach him.)
Brad Bushman, (614) 688-8779; Bushman.20@osu.edu
Written by Jeff Grabmeier, (614) 292-8457; Grabmeier.1@osu.edu
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'Self-distancing' can help people calm aggressive reactions, study findsPublic release date: 2-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Dominik Mischkowski Mischkowski.1@osu.edu Ohio State University
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new study reveals a simple strategy that people can use to minimize how angry and aggressive they get when they are provoked by others.
When someone makes you angry, try to pretend you're viewing the scene at a distance - in other words, you are an observer rather than a participant in this stressful situation. Then, from that distanced perspective, try to understand your feelings.
Researchers call this strategy "self-distancing."
In one study, college students who believed a lab partner was berating them for not following directions responded less aggressively and showed less anger when they were told to take analyze their feelings from a self-distanced perspective.
"The secret is to not get immersed in your own anger and, instead, have a more detached view," said Dominik Mischkowski, lead author of the research and a graduate student in psychology at Ohio State University.
"You have to see yourself in this stressful situation as a fly on the wall would see it."
While other studies have examined the value of self-distancing for calming angry feelings, this is the first to show that it can work in the heat of the moment, when people are most likely to act aggressively, Mischkowski said.
The worst thing to do in an anger-inducing situation is what people normally do: try to focus on their hurt and angry feelings to understand them, said Brad Bushman, a co-author of the study and professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State.
"If you focus too much on how you're feeling, it usually backfires," Bushman said.
"It keeps the aggressive thoughts and feelings active in your mind, which makes it more likely that you'll act aggressively."
Mischkowski and Bushman conducted the study with Ethan Kross of the University of Michigan. Their findings appear online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and will be published in a future print edition.
There were two related studies. The first involved 94 college students who were told they were participating in a study about the effects of music on problem solving, creativity and emotions.
The students listened to an intense piece of classical music while attempting to solve 14 difficult anagrams (rearranging a group of letters to form a word such as "pandemonium"). They had only seven seconds to solve each anagram, record their answer and communicate it to the experimenter over an intercom.
But the plan of the study was to provoke the students into anger, which the experimenters did using a technique which has been used many times in similar studies.
The experimenter interrupted the study participants several times to ask them to speak louder into the intercom, finally saying "Look, this is the third time I have to say this! Can't you follow directions? Speak louder!"
After this part of the experiment, the participants were told they would be participating in a task examining the effects of music on creativity and feelings.
The students were told to go back to the anagram task and "see the scene in your mind's eye." They were put into three groups, each of which were asked to view the scene in different ways.
Some students were told to adopt a self-immersed perspective ("see the situation unfold through your eyes as if it were happening to you all over again") and then analyze their feelings surrounding the event. Others were told to use the self-distancing perspective ("move away from the situation to a point where you can now watch the event unfold from a distancewatch the situation unfold as if it were happening to the distant you all over again") and then analyze their feelings. The third control group was not told how to view the scene or analyze their feelings.
Each group was told the replay the scene in their minds for 45 seconds.
The researchers then tested the participants for aggressive thoughts and angry feelings.
Results showed that students who used the self-distancing perspective had fewer aggressive thoughts and felt less angry than both those who used the self-immersed approach and those in the control group.
"The self-distancing approach helped people regulate their angry feelings and also reduced their aggressive thoughts," Mischkowski said.
In a second study, the researchers went further and showed that self-distancing can actually make people less aggressive when they've been provoked.
In this study, 95 college students were told they were going to do an anagram task, similar to the one in the previous experiment. But in this case, they were told they were going to be working with an unseen student partner, rather than one of researchers (in reality, it actually was one of the researchers). In this case, the supposed partner was the one who delivered the scathing comments about following directions.
As in the first study, the participants were then randomly assigned to analyze their feelings surrounding the task from a self-immersed or a self-distanced perspective. Participants assigned to a third control group did not receive any instructions regarding how to view the scene or focus on their feelings.
Next, the participants were told they would be competing against the same partner who had provoked them earlier in a reaction-time task. The winner of the task would get the opportunity to blast the loser with noise through headphones - and the winner chose the intensity and length of the noise blast.
The findings showed that participants who used the self-distancing perspective to think about their partners' provocations showed lower levels of aggression than those in the other two groups. In other words, their noise blasts against their partner tended to be shorter and less intense.
"These participants were tested very shortly after they had been provoked by their partner," Mischkowski said.
"The fact that those who used self-distancing showed lower levels of aggression shows that this technique can work in the heat of the moment, when the anger is still fresh."
Mischkowski said it is also significant that those who used the self-distancing approach showed less aggression than those in the control group, who were not told how to view the anger-inducing incident with their partner.
This suggests people may naturally use a self-immersing perspective when confronted with a provocation - a perspective that is not likely to reduce anger.
"Many people seem to believe that immersing themselves in their anger has a cathartic effect, but it doesn't. It backfires and makes people more aggressive," Bushman said.
Another technique people are sometimes told to use when angered is to distract themselves - think of something calming to take their mind off their anger.
Mischkowski said this may be effective in the short-term, but the anger will return when the distraction is not there.
"But self-distancing really works, even right after a provocation - it is a powerful intervention tool that anyone can use when they're angry."
###
Contact: Dominik Mischkowski, Mischkowski.1@osu.edu (Email is the best way to reach him.)
Brad Bushman, (614) 688-8779; Bushman.20@osu.edu
Written by Jeff Grabmeier, (614) 292-8457; Grabmeier.1@osu.edu
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