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Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Empathy varies by age and gender: Women in their 50s are tops
Jan. 30, 2013 ? According to a new study of more than 75,000 adults, women in that age group are more empathic than men of the same age and than younger or older people.
"Overall, late middle-aged adults were higher in both of the aspects of empathy that we measured," says Sara Konrath, co-author of an article on age and empathy forthcoming in the Journals of Gerontology: Psychological and Social Sciences.
"They reported that they were more likely to react emotionally to the experiences of others, and they were also more likely to try to understand how things looked from the perspective of others."
For the study, researchers Ed O'Brien, Konrath and Linda Hagen at the University of Michigan and Daniel Gr?hn at North Carolina State University analyzed data on empathy from three separate large samples of American adults, two of which were taken from the nationally representative General Social Survey.
They found consistent evidence of an inverted U-shaped pattern of empathy across the adult life span, with younger and older adults reporting less empathy and middle-aged adults reporting more.
According to O'Brien, this pattern may result because increasing levels of cognitive abilities and experience improve emotional functioning during the first part of the adult life span, while cognitive declines diminish emotional functioning in the second half.
But more research is needed in order to understand whether this pattern is really the result of an individual's age, or whether it is a generational effect reflecting the socialization of adults who are now in late middle age.
"Americans born in the 1950s and '60s -- the middle-aged people in our samples -- were raised during historic social movements, from civil rights to various antiwar countercultures," the authors explain. "It may be that today's middle-aged adults report higher empathy than other cohorts because they grew up during periods of important societal changes that emphasized the feelings and perspectives of other groups."
Earlier research by O'Brien, Konrath and colleagues found declines in empathy and higher levels of narcissism among young people today as compared to earlier generations of young adults.
O'Brien and Konrath plan to conduct additional research on empathy, to explore whether people can be trained to show more empathy using new electronic media, for example. "Given the fundamental role of empathy in everyday social life and its relationship to many important social activities such as volunteering and donating to charities, it's important to learn as much as we can about what factors increase and decrease empathic responding," says Konrath.
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- E. O'Brien, S. H. Konrath, D. Gruhn, A. L. Hagen. Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking: Linear and Quadratic Effects of Age Across the Adult Life Span. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2012; DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbs055
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Exclusive 'This Is The End' Set Visit: Seth Rogen Welcomes The Apocalypse
Jonah Hill and friends hunker down at James Franco's pad during our 2013 preview.
By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
The cast of "This is the End"
Photo: Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Wins MTV Movie Brawl 2013!
A 'thrilled' Sam Claflin thanks fans for the sequel's narrow victory over 'Mortal Instruments' for the most-anticipated movie of the year.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Sam Claflin and Jennifer Lawrence in "Hunger Games: Catching Fire"
Photo: Lionsgate
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Review: 'Revenge' filled with haunting prose
This book cover image released by Picador shows "Revenge," by Yoko Ogawa. (AP Photo/Picador)
This book cover image released by Picador shows "Revenge," by Yoko Ogawa. (AP Photo/Picador)
"Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales" (Picador), by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
They are the scenes of ordinary life: a mother stopping by the neighborhood bakery to purchase two strawberry shortcakes for her son's birthday, an aspiring writer toiling over a manuscript in a spare apartment, a young woman preparing dinner for her beau, a woman spying on her husband's mistress.
Yet in Yoko Ogawa's story collection, "Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales," those ordinary exteriors are merely brittle shells that crack open to reveal darkness, death and despair. Woven through the 11 interconnected tales is a thread of the grotesque, the macabre, the mournful.
The mother's errand turns out to be a paean to inconsolable loss. The writer emerges as an unhinged character that evokes both love and pity. The amorous young woman finds herself entwined in both a murder scene and a museum dedicated to torture.
Ogawa, a prolific author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine, laces her stories with gruesome murders, exotic animals and peculiar events. Her language is both spare and searingly precise, crystallizing the details of everyday existence and capturing the unexpected shock of the bizarre.
In "Sewing for the Heart," for example, the narrator is a bag-maker who has been contracted to create a purse for a beating heart. The client is a cabaret singer who was born with the organ outside her chest. The narrator gasps in awe at the sight and utters an oddly erotic ode to the throbbing muscle: "What extraordinary, breathtaking beauty! Would it feel damp if I cupped it in my hands? Would the membrane rupture if I gave it a squeeze? ... I wanted to run my fingertips over each tiny bump and furrow, touch my lips to the veins, soft tissue on soft tissue, the pressure of her pulse against my skin."
Many of Ogawa's characters, including the bag-maker and the cabaret singer, reappear in other stories, as do details and events in ways that are sometimes incidental, sometimes integral to the plots. The effect is, as Ogawa describes the novel written by the unhinged author, an "icy current running under her words."
In these stories, ordinariness is not a mask hiding the morbid and the macabre. In many cases, the ordinary life itself, with its insistent drip of isolation, sameness, sadness and loss, is what pushes the characters to the edge of madness and vengeance.
As Ogawa writes in "Welcome to the Museum of Torture," which introduces readers to an exhibit space for devices such as corsets that crush internal organs and tweezers used to slowly pluck out a victim's hair: "For torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, with no end in sight."
Ogawa's haunting prose may not be to everyone's taste, but readers willing to explore the murkier edges of the human psyche will not be disappointed.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Gaming's most evil bosses that were defeated by tiny children ...
Because video games are just pretend they don?t have to adhere to any real laws of anything besides their own framework of leaky logic. This is great because it means even the most improbable and impractical and impossible and implausible things can happen at any given time. And gamers--always eager to entertain the suspension of disbelief--absolutely wouldn?t have it any other way because it?s what makes games badass.
One of the unbelievable things commonly exercised in the worlds we play in is the unlikely hero, the against-all-odds adventurer who triumphs against insurmountable odds. Like kids who--at first glance--appear utterly incapable of blowing their own nose without mummy to help with the tissue, but actually end up smiting the Dark Lord of Ultimate Power and saving all of humanity and living happily ever after.
In honour of this fine gaming tradition of small vanquishing big, here are some of gaming's most evil bosses that were defeated by tiny little children...
Source: http://www.gamesradar.com/gamings-most-evil-bosses-were-defeated-tiny-children/
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Twitter?s Vine Has A Porn Problem
If you build it they will come. Vine, Twitter's new video sharing platform, is currently experiencing a porn problem. As Nick Bilton pointed out earlier, by searching for the tags "#porn" or similar NSFW words, you can find content featuring exhibitionists of various stripes as well as porn video taken directly from laptop screens.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/5os0LGKG2XE/
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Samsung goes red with the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0
Samsung has announced that the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 is available in garnet red this week at participating retailers. It runs $219.99 and comes with a free matching garnet red case. Samsung's 7-incher is running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, sports a dual-core processor and has an IR port tucked away in there, too. The limited edition red version is available from Walmart, Amazon.com, Office Depot, Fry's, Tiger Direct and Toys R Us, among other retailers.
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Garden Care Logo Design Tips and Ideas | Cheap Accounting ...
Getting a business logo designed for your brand-new lawn care or landscaping business can be an important element of starting your business off right with branding strategy.This report examines the significance of having a great logo design in the competitive lawn care and landscaping industry and puts forward some things that you may consider when finding a designed.With landscaping and lawn care, like all organizations, you?re depending on building a good first impression. Many people make choices based on their thoughts and having a logo that interests them may go a considerable ways towards having you advertisement stand out above the others.As a lawn mowing or gardening organization driver you?ll find that you are out on the road for part of the day and parked outside the qualities of your clients for the rest of the day. It pays to have your company marketing on your vehicle as soon as your vehicle has this much public exposure. Having a fantastic logo really can draw interest here, first to the logo and preferably then to your businesses contact details.When discussing logo design with your graphic artist you must first consider the concept that you want to convey through your logo regarding your company?s values and how you separate yourself from the competition.Think about how you want your clients to view your company. So you may want in the future right out with some basic image of blades of grass, well groomed yards, trees, crops or households you don?t want to confuse them. If individuals are in a position to understand what it?s that your organization does as soon as they glance at your emblem It is wonderful. Nevertheless a quick search through some logo style sites shows that some lawn care operators are now actually going for more ?funky? seeking logos with cartoon figures to fit their catchy slogans which means this is definitely an technique that might also perform well.Have a look at what different lawn mowing and landscaping businesses have inked with their logos for suggestions but try to be different at the exact same time.It seems virtually a clichA? in these industries to move with various shades of green in a logo. While greens are the most obvious alternative for colors some ambitious lawn care start-ups are commencing to rock the boat and are developing logos presenting mixtures of other warm, summertime colors such as whites, whites, oranges and browns.A great looking, unforgettable brand must help your lawn service or landscaping organization to expand into a recognizable brand that?ll help you to market your organization as well as ultimately enable you to get reasonably limited price.
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
The More Republicans Know About Politics, the More They Beli ...
 Terry V. (42) | Friday January 25, 2013, 5:13 pm thanks Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Lois Jordan (33) | Friday January 25, 2013, 5:30 pm Noted. I found it interesting that it's considered a conspiracy that G.W. Bush stole the 2004 election....that has been proven. The OH servers were rigged...just as they tried to do it again this year, but were thwarted by Anonymous. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Kit B. (308) | Friday January 25, 2013, 5:44 pm I don't accept conspiracy theories, just what kind of conspiracy slips out all over the Internet? I do think, from personal observation, that republicans take an inordinate amount of pride in winning an election. That some one has attempted to "rig" elections is as old as this country, that it is successful is another question. Bush didn't have to "rig" 2000, a Supreme Court Justice step out of his given role, and interfered with a recount. That made the election ripe for controversy, followed quickly by conspiracy.
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 Jason S. (46) | Friday January 25, 2013, 5:49 pm Good posting, thanks Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Tamara Hayes (134) | Friday January 25, 2013, 6:29 pm Well done Carrie! Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Carrie B. (217) | Friday January 25, 2013, 6:39 pm I think of one word when reading comments made by many republicans on care2 ~ rigid! That makes them very susceptible to conspiracy theories that support and validate their feelings. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Mitchell D. (15) | Friday January 25, 2013, 6:51 pm Fascinating! this explains why there were some people, even as the Nixon presidency was in vvirtual self-destruct mode, late in that jackasses tenure, who believed he was doing a fine job! Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Angelika Roll (83) | Friday January 25, 2013, 7:02 pm Interesting -but little surprise there, thx Carrie. But I wonder how exactly the researchers can tell true facts from conspiracy theories. As for the last sentence there, even without that research result we KNOW Obama will have a tough 2nd term simply by experience from the past 4 yrs and repubs words and actions. No pondering. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 John B. (130) | Friday January 25, 2013, 9:14 pm Thanks Carrie for the link to the article Chris Mooney and the links provided in the article. Excellent piece. I thought is represented the very real mentality differences between the GOP and Democratic party members quite well. Read and noted. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 J.L. A. (85) | Friday January 25, 2013, 9:53 pm Two things of special value in remembering here, based on the actual data: "...as I wrote about in my book The Republican Brain?conservatives are known to have a higher need for cognitive closure?the desire to have a fixed belief, an unwavering sense of certainty, about politics and all aspects of life." That seems to align with an expectation of seeing a rigidity resistant to learning data or facts or ideas affecting the beliefs. "...the idea that everybody is equally biased, but in different directions, continues to have a key weakness?namely, the data." Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Michael Carney (173) | Saturday January 26, 2013, 2:49 am I just don't even know what the answer is, to try to rationalize with Republicans any more...I have a few family ,members, and friends who are Republicans, and you just can't even talk to them anymore, they come up with some of the wildest shit, I ever heard...You just can't have a normal sane conversation with them anymore...That's not good, when you can't communicate with someone you disagree with... Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Paula H. (45) | Saturday January 26, 2013, 6:00 am thanks, Carrie for the posting, and good comments! Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Elizabeth M. (22) | Saturday January 26, 2013, 11:42 am Thank You for posting this article, which I found interesting Carrie.Enjoyed some of the good comments! Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 BG Callahan (0) | Saturday January 26, 2013, 1:02 pm Is the idea of a co-operative civilization, a democratic republic, unsustainable in the long run due to these polarities? Are reactionary strongmen, political and religious, destined to rule all? We who have flexible minds capable of tolerating ambiguity, relative values and ethics, creative solution-finding are hated by many of the Republicans and religionists. We have our work cut out for us, to keep people free. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 pam w. (180) | Saturday January 26, 2013, 3:57 pm Nature always tries to fill a VACUUM. Those who can't be part of the "real" US try to fill their empty heads with conspiracies! And there you are. Probably not a coincidence that the fundamentalists (who just LOVE myths) are so often part of the conspiracist groups. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Cyan Dickirs (3) | Saturday January 26, 2013, 5:53 pm There are no standards of neutrality and balance in the mainstream political press. "Carrie" is biased and ignorant. Carter is the only Dem pres who never got very good press. Every other one, from Kennedy to Clinton to BO esp got coddled, praised, protected, polished, primped and excused, their corruptions, mistakes, faux pas, peccadillos, sexual indiscretions, immoralities, outright lies were either ignored, weakly excused while their critics were mercilessly excoriated as ignorant, religious idiots, racist bigots, esp during the BO years. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Cyan Dickirs (3) | Saturday January 26, 2013, 5:58 pm Sorry, I have to correct my post I said "Carrie" is biased. I meant Chris, who wrote the article. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
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| J.L. A. (85) | Saturday January 26, 2013, 6:46 pm The paper reporting the survey results is at: http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2013/outthere/final.pdf I couldn't find anything changing what the reported results were in the MJ article, so any bias 'Chris" might or might not have would not affect the numbers and data reported, which is the majority of the information it contained. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
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| Mm M. (408) | Saturday January 26, 2013, 11:21 pm Why are you guys always smacking Republicans???? #!#! I have loved JFK ` BOBBY and others never did I ever SMAK DEMOCRATES. Have a ton of fun since I am not going to take a peek into this. Two sides and it is NOT ONE SIDE EVER. GET A GRIP!!!!!!! Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Carol H. (204) | Sunday January 27, 2013, 5:19 am noted, thanks Cher Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Pat A. (79) | Sunday January 27, 2013, 5:38 am "Indeed, the noted moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt has found that Republicans are simply more tribal about politics, more loyal and favoring of their in-group (see Figure 1)." The academics have just proved what we have known for a long time now. Thanks Carrie 0 would love to give you and JLA another star but the computer won't let me yet. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 paul m. (87) | Sunday January 27, 2013, 6:26 am In my book the're all the same,, just look out for themselves,, How many points are we ahead in the polls ? Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 LLOYD H. (44) | Sunday January 27, 2013, 6:27 am I disagree with the article, one knows facts, one believes ideology be it political or religious. The Repug/Tea Bagged along with being merged into the fundamentalist absolutism of the Christian Taliban of America have also converted their politics into the same religious model. Failure to believe in and act in accordance with the political ideology of the party are treated as sinners, heretics and apostates and driven out. They have simply begun using 'primaries' as Inquisitions to purge the unfaithful. This religious paradigm of faith and belief leads not only to a susceptibility to conspiracies and witch-hunts but an intentional use of them for power and control. It has become harder and harder to tell whether they have become unable or unwilling to tell the difference between fact and belief. Consider the Romney/Ryan campaign et alia on election night either being divorced from fact or unable to accept that what they believed was not true. And the problem goes on, the Repug/Tea Bagged acting like religious zealots preaching that it is not their Political hymn that is wrong it is the key thay are singing in that is to blame. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
 Gene Jacobson (158) | Sunday January 27, 2013, 8:52 am "Among Democrats and independents, having a higher level of political knowledge was correlated with decreased belief in conspiracies. But precisely the opposite was the case for Republicans, where knowledge actually made the problem worse. For each political knowledge question that they answered correctly, Republicans' belief in at least one conspiracy theory tended to increase by 2 percentage points." Why does this not surprise me? Oh, right, he got it at the end of the story. The rise of partisan media. In other words, Rupert Murdoch and his stable of faux personalities making up faux news on television, radio and in print. There have never been a more paranoid bunch than the teapublicans, though the republicans follow close on their heels. The very idea of liberty, let me live my way, and you live your way, so long as neither of us harms the other or the others ability to make their own choices in live has died and gone to wherever great ideas go when partisanship kills them dead. My own hope, naive though it is, is that some fine day we'll get back to the idea of true freedom and learn once again what we used to know, we are free only when we are ALL free. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
| Sheila D. (14) | Sunday January 27, 2013, 11:04 am It's hard to see the forest for the trees when you have blinders on. This has been my experience with quite a few people who consider themselves Republicans. Honestly, I think they really don't want to see a bigger picture as it scares them. They like to think they have control over what is going on in their lives, and it they don't it's much too terrifying to comprehend. I'd rather have an open mind than live in a steel trap. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. There was a problem submitting your report. Please try again later. ? |
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Opportunity Begins 10th Year on Mars
An anonymous reader points out that 9 years ago the Opportunity rover started to explore the red planet. "The older, smaller cousin of NASA's huge Mars rover Curiosity is quietly celebrating a big milestone Thursday ? nine years on the surface of the Red Planet. NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars the night of Jan. 24, 2004 PST (just after midnight EST on Jan. 25), three weeks after its twin, Spirit, touched down. Spirit stopped operating in 2010, but Opportunity is still going strong, helping scientists better understand the Red Planet's wetter, warmer past."
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Beyond Bounds: 9 Things You Need To Know About Dan Kornbaum ...
Junior Dan Kornbaum, a UMD transfer, has Augsburg sitting in second place in the MIAC. He?s also one of the league?s top scorers (18.8 ppg) and rebounders (7.9 rpg). (credit: Kelly Anderson Diercks, Augsburg College)
At your family reunion, Dan Kornbaum?s basketball resume would be marquee material.
But in his own family tree, Augsburg?s rising star is third on the clan?s totem pole.
That?ll happen when your cousin is Robbie Hummel, Purdue?s standout drafted by the Timberwolves.
?It?s been amazing seeing him grow up,? said Kornbaum, a junior. ?We?ve seen him once a summer ever since first grade at the family reunion at his cabin.?
And when your grandfather is Ron Johnson, a former NBA-er who resides in the University of Minnesota Hall of Fame.
?I thought it was normal,? Kornbaum explained, ?to have a grandpa that at a fast-food restaurant, people would come up to him and say, ?Are you Ron Johnson???
Dan Kornbaum (credit: Augsburg)
His relatives? hard-court success aside, Kornbaum?s making a name for himself at Augsburg and within the MIAC after transferring from UMD last year (his sophomore year).
The Little Falls, Minn., native?s 18.8 ppg have him third in the league, and his 7.9 rebounds per outing are second-best. The 6-foot-9-inch center has lifted the Auggies to a 15-3 overall mark, 10-3 in the conference ? second only to St. Thomas (17-1, 12-1 MIAC).
Here are nine things you need to know about the man that Augsburg coach Aaron Griess cannot stop raving about.
1 ? A coaching change made him an Auggie
I wanted the challenging of Division II (at UMD). But the coach quit, and we had a new one coming in, and it just felt right to leave. I visited Augsburg and the relationship with coach Griess made it an easy choice.
2 ? Smash Bros. creates team chemistry
I love this team. I know them better off the court, and we spend a lot of time hanging out, playing video games ? Super Smash Bros. on N64.
3 - He?s an engineering major with a 3.7 GPA.
My dad is a Senior Power Engineer at Minnesota Power and that?s where it got me started. I love math, love the science. I?ll likely finish with both physics and math minors.
4 ? Netflix and Xbox are welcomed distractions
I love watching ?Supernatural? on Netflix. It?s a different kind of show. And I love ?Call of Duty: Black Ops.?
Kornbaum hopes to lead his 15-3 Auggies into the NCAA tournament.
(credit: Kelly Anderson Diercks, Augsburg College)
5 ? His trips to Costa Rica aren?t vacations
I did a couple mission trips with my church (Living Hope Assembly of God in Little Falls, Minn.) in Costa Rica these past two summers. We partner with a church down there and help it grow.
6 ? Gophers games with Grandpa Ron Johnson were an annual highlight
He?d also help me out with my game ? taught me the hook shot a bit.
7 ? Kornbaum is automatic from the floor, shooting 62.3 percent to lead the MIAC
If I?m scoring or not scoring, as long as we?re winning, it feels great.
8 ? He?s a rural man who also loves the city
In the big city I have everything I want 10 minutes away, but with the rural life I have so much space, and it?s so quiet.
9 ? Favorite?
Food: Mom?s lasagna
TV Show: ?The Office?
Movie: ?The Other Guys?
Artist: Eminem
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Source: http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/01/25/beyond-bounds-9-things-you-need-to-know-about-dan-kornbaum/
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US new-home sales fell in Dec., sales for year up
In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 photo, a sign hangs in North Andover, Mass., where a house is under construction. Sales of new U.S. homes cooled off in December compared with November, but sales for the entire year were the best since 2009. The Commerce Department said Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, that new-home sales fell 7.3 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 369,000. That's down from November's rate, which was the fastest in 2 ? years. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 photo, a sign hangs in North Andover, Mass., where a house is under construction. Sales of new U.S. homes cooled off in December compared with November, but sales for the entire year were the best since 2009. The Commerce Department said Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, that new-home sales fell 7.3 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 369,000. That's down from November's rate, which was the fastest in 2 ? years. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Sales of new U.S. homes cooled off in December compared with November but for the entire year were the best since 2009.
The Commerce Department said Friday that new-home sales fell 7.3 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 369,000. That's down from November's rate of 398,000, which was the fastest in 2 ? years.
For the year, sales rose nearly 20 percent to 367,000. That's the most since 2009, although the increase is coming off the worst year for new-home sales since the government began keeping records in 1963. Sales are still below the 700,000 level that economists consider healthy.
The housing market began to recovery last year, roughly five years after the housing bubble burst. Stable job gains and record-low mortgage rates encouraged more people to buy homes. Prices have been rising on a sustained basis. And builders started to increase construction of new homes, partly because the supply of homes had thinned to extremely low levels.
Jennifer Lee, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said the December decline in sales of newly built homes wasn't cause for worry. She still expects sales to improve this year.
In a note to clients, she points out that figures for November, October and September were revised higher. And many buyers may have held off last month because of uncertainty over taxes. The White House and Congress reached a deal on Jan. 1 to keep income taxes from rising on most Americans.
"Take December's drop with a grain of salt, especially given all of the uncertainty about what will happen to taxes in the new year," Lee said. "And with new mortgage applications already picking (up) in the first three weeks of January, we should see a better report next month."
For December, new-home sales fell 29 percent in the Northeast, 11 percent in the West and roughly 8 percent in the South. Only the Midwest showed strength, with sales rising 21.3 percent.
The median price for a new home rose in December to $248,900, up 1.3 percent from November and 13.8 percent from December 2011.
The supply of homes for sale also inched up to 151,000 ? the most in a year. Fewer homes for sale have helped drive prices higher and made many markets more competitive. They have also encouraged more homebuilding.
The housing market has a long way back to a full recovery. But most economists expect the recovery will strengthen in 2013.
One reason is more people are looking to buy or rent a home after living with relatives or friends during and immediately after the Great Recession.
Though new homes represent less than 20 percent of the housing sales market, they have an outside impact on the economy. Each home built creates an average of three jobs for a year and generates about $90,000 in tax revenues, according to data from the National Association of Homebuilders.
The gains in home building helped boost construction hiring in December by 30,000 jobs, the most in 15 months.
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Credit Suisse could owe $2 billion in National Century fraud: judge
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Credit Suisse Group Inc faces a potential $2 billion of exposure over fraud that occurred a decade ago at National Century Financial Enterprises, a result of a federal judge's determination on how to apportion responsibility.
Friday's decision by U.S. District Judge James Graham could expose the Swiss bank to hundreds of millions of dollars of added liability over the activities of Lance Poulsen, who co-founded National Century in 1990 and was its chief executive. He is now serving a 30-year prison term and is presumed insolvent.
The decision is also a victory for bondholders including the state of Arizona, AllianceBernstein Holding LP, Lloyds TSB Bank Plc, MetLife Inc, Allianz SE's Pimco unit that accused Credit Suisse of deceiving it about the company and missing its estimated $2.9 billion fraud.
"Credit Suisse and Mr. Poulsen are the last remaining defendants in this very serious case, and we are confident that our clients will prevail at trial," Kathy Patrick, a lawyer for some of the bondholders, said in a telephone interview.
Jack Grone, a Credit Suisse spokesman, declined to comment. Harold Levison, who represents MetLife and Lloyds, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Patrick estimated that there are more than $1.5 billion of bondholder claims against Credit Suisse, the placement agent for many of National Century's notes.
But the payout could be augmented by interest that has accumulated in more than nine years of litigation.
According to a transcript of a January 7 court hearing, Graham said "there seems to be general agreement that if the plaintiffs succeed in this litigation, they would recover something in the range of almost $2 billion."
A trial is scheduled for April 1.
NO SHIFTING OF LIABILITY
National Century had helped finance hundreds of clinics, hospitals and other service providers, and bought accounts receivable from these providers with money it got by selling notes to investors.
But the U.S. Department of Justice said National Century misused investor money, funneled corporate funds to top executives, and lied to investors to hide the fraud. The Dublin, Ohio-based company filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2002.
Credit Suisse had sought a ruling that it should not be solely liable for any fraud attributable to Poulsen, who is now 69 and is the only other defendant remaining in the case.
But Graham said that under New York law, the bank could be held fully responsible for Poulsen's wrongdoing if a jury found they jointly caused bondholder losses.
"Even if Credit Suisse could prove at trial that Poulsen is insolvent, its argument that responsibility for some portion of his share should be shifted away from Credit Suisse and redistributed among the settling defendants finds no support in the (law)," he wrote.
The judge normally sits in Columbus, Ohio, but the lawsuits were recently moved to Manhattan federal court and his opinion was made publicly available there.
The cases, all in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, are Crown Cork & Seal Co et al v. Credit Suisse First Boston Corp et al, No. 12-05803; Arizona v. Credit Suisse First Boston Corp et al, No. 12-05804; City of Chandler et al v. Bank One NA et al, No. 12-05805; Lloyds TSB Bank Plc v. Bank One NA et al, No. 12-07263; and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co et al v. Bank One et al, No. 12-07264.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/credit-suisse-could-owe-2-billion-national-century-234703052--sector.html
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Cookiecutter Shark Takes Bite Out of Great White
Cookiecutter sharks aren't very neighborly. Like most sharks (or any marine animal, for that matter), cookiecutters roam the ocean looking for food. But unlike typical meat eaters, these sharks don't kill their prey ? they just take a bite and move on.
And for the first time, scientists have found evidence that these small sharks even go after one of the world's most fearsome predators, the great white shark. Great whites are about 10 times the size of a cookiecutter shark.
Divers in a shark tank off of Guadalupe Island, which is about 150 miles (240 kilometers) west of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, took a photograph of a great white sporting a fresh bite from a cookiecutter, as documented in a study published recently in the journal Pacific Science. It's the first photographic evidence of such a bite, said study author Yannis Papastamatiou, a marine biologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
"Animals at the top of the food chain can still get attacked by things a lot smaller than them," Papastamatiou told OurAmazingPlanet.
Cookiecutter sharks leave a very distinctive scar when they bite; their specialized jaw allows them to "scoop out a hemispherical plug of flesh from their prey," according to the study. The sharks' name comes from the uniformity of the bite, which looks "like you took a cookie cutter to some dough," Papastamatiou said. "'Ice-cream-scoop shark' would be technically more accurate, but it doesn't have quite the same ring to it."
The sharks have been known to prey on a wide variety of marine animals, including swordfish, whales, orcas and even a human swimmer ? and now, great white sharks. "This really shows there's no marine predator that can't be attacked by this little shark, which is impressive," he said. Scientists don't think bites from the cookiecutters can seriously harm these large predators.?
The cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis) can grow up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) long, while great whites can reach lengths of nearly 20 feet (6 meters), according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Cookiecutter sharks range throughout the world in tropical and subtropical waters. They often dive during the day and come near the surface at night. One specimen was caught at a depth of 9,840 feet (3,000 meters), Papastamatiou said.
But how wise is it to attack large predator 10 times your size? There's almost no evidence of how often the cookiecutter's bold strategy fails, Papastamatiou said. However, researchers found one cookiecutter shark in the stomach of a large bluefin tuna, suggesting the tactic isn't foolproof.
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Green Blog: An Early Nuclear Warning: Was It for Naught?
The accident at Japan?s Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011 alerted the American nuclear industry and its regulators to the possibility that operators at plants with more than one reactor might have to deal with more than one meltdown at a time in a flood, earthquake or other catastrophe. Officials are now working to assure that they could master that situation.
But documents uncovered by a group that is critical of nuclear safety show that a high-level safety analyst at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission posed the possibility to his superiors in July 2007, about four years before the earthquake and tsunami that led to three simultaneous meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi. The documents also show that in August 2008, the commission staff formally acknowledged the issue.
But until Japan?s disaster, progress in the American nuclear industry was glacial. Dave Lochbaum, a nuclear expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists, which uncovered the documents, compares them to records located after the crash of the space shuttle Columbia in which engineers voiced concern that debris falling during a launch could damage an orbiter.
Action to prepare for a dual meltdown was not a case of ?forewarned is forearmed,?? he said, but more like ?forewarned is forestalled.??
The warning, which now seems prophetic, predicted ?common cause failures,?? meaning single events that disable different pieces of equipment that are supposedly independent and nearly invulnerable to failing simultaneously on their own. The risk analyst, Richard Sherry, wrote that flooding or earthquakes could disrupt both normal grid power and emergency backup power.
Mr. Sherry was concerned with a ?station blackout,? or S.B.O., which is what eventually happened at Fukushima. He wrote that a station blackout at more than one unit ?challenges the ability of the plant operating staff to respond and may require resources (technical staff and equipment) that exceed what is currently available (e.g. diesel driven pumps, portable DC generators) based on the assumption that only a single unit experiences an S.B.O.??
There are 36 sites in the United States with more than one reactor operating. Some have three, and Plant Vogtle near Augusta, Ga., has two operating with two more under construction.
Of course, this is not quite an ?I told you so? moment, given that the multiple meltdowns were in Japan and not at any site under the jurisdiction of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. But Mr. Lochbaum said that the memo suggests that the agency is better at identifying safety problems than resolving them.
Before Fukushima, it moved to put the multiple meltdown issue into a category called ?generic safety issues,? which are questions that do not fit neatly into the agency?s regulatory framework. Mr. Lochbaum and his organization have complained in the past that one such ?issue,? concerning whether debris generated in an accident would clog emergency pumps,has been unresolved for more than 15 years.
A commission spokesman, Scott Burnell, cast the 2007 memo differently. Mr. Sherry was not the first to identify ?the very small possibility of simultaneous reactor severe accidents at multi-unit sites,?? he said in an e-mail, and the agency has been pursuing the issue, ?incorporating new information as time went on.??
Mr. Lochbaum disagreed. ?Had the N.R.C. acted in a timely fashion in August 2007 when Sherry nailed the issue on its head, implementation would be done by now,?? he said. Saying that was impressed by Mr. Sherry?s forethought, he joked that he wanted to call him to see if he could predict winning lottery numbers.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
INSPIRED LIVING: How I created a Lasting, LOVE, Relationship
Every time you take an action to achieve what you want coming from the fear of not having what you want, you are sabotaging yourself, you are undermining yourself, you are hating yourself.?
I should know, so much of what I did in my life to achieve what I wanted came from the fear of not having what I wanted.. All fear every did for me was push away from me what I wanted. This is especially true in the areas of relationships. I had a graveyard filled with so many failed relationships that the EPA wanted to fine me for polluting the environment.
From my first relationship through fifteen other serious relationships, everything I did in those relationships came from the fear of losing those relationships and because I feared losing them, I lost all of them.?
My current relationship turned out way differently,?
I entered this relationship 9 years ago and from day one, I have come totally from love.? That means I never say or do anything for Vona coming from fear.? I am always true to myself even if that means, from time to time, she doesn't like me being true to myself, which is rare.
After losing my last relationship before meeting Vona, my fear of losing relationships was burned out of my system forever.
After my last relationship failed (caused by fear) I made up my mind I wouldn't chase, pursue or convince a woman to be with me. I made up my mind that I didn't want to spend one more second around any woman who didn't want to be around me.???
By the time Vona met me, she felt the same way about men,? As a result, we are with each other every sacred moment of our lives by choice, not by default or out of fear of being alone.?
Because I have no fear of losing Vona and she has no fear of losing me, we never do anything for each other we don't truly want to do. We both know in our relationship, we love ourselves first and love each other second. And the more we learn to love ourselves, the more love we have to give each other.?
In our relationship, love is allowing the person we love to be totally unlike ourselves. And because we allow each other to be totally unlike ourselves, our relationship has a passion and richness to it that few people enjoy in their relationship with the person they love... This is a result of? not letting fear dictate our actions. In fact, in our relationship,? the person with the least fear leads. Sometimes it is mean I lead, others times it is Vona leading, coming from love..
This is a recent picture of Vona at her son's wedding.
Source: http://encwor.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-i-created-lasting-love-relationship.html
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