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After waiting way too long for fights, UFC 152 delivered with mostly exciting bouts. There's no need to discuss Matt Hamill's bout with Roger Hollett. Instead, let's talk about the fighters who truly stood out on Saturday night in Toronto. Here are Cagewriter's three stars. Tell us yours in the comments, on Facebook or Twitter.
No. 1 star -- Jon Jones: The light heavyweight champion has barely faced adversity in fights, but Vitor Belfort gave it to him with an early armbar attempt. Jones got out of the submission, and then beat up Belfort for four rounds until an Americana submission ended the fight in the fourth round.
No. 2 star -- Cub Swanson: His knockout of Charles Oliveira was one of the weirder knockouts in recent memory. Oliveira was hurt by a body shot. Swanson then hit Oliveira with a left in the head, and Oliveira stood there for a second before falling to the ground. Slow motion knockouts are just as effective, and Swanson is now 3-0 in 2012. Every win was by knockout.
No. 3 star -- Vinny Magalhaes: It's been three years since Magalhaes was in the UFC. He reminded fans of his grappling prowess with a perfectly executed armbar of Igor Pokrajac. It was the exact move you would expect out of a jiu-jitsu world champ.
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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney poses for a picture with members of the California Highway Patrol before he boards his campaign plane in San Diego, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney poses for a picture with members of the California Highway Patrol before he boards his campaign plane in San Diego, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is heading to battleground Colorado.
It's the first stop in what advisers call an "intense battleground state schedule" designed to counter GOP criticism that his campaign is moving in the wrong direction.
The former Massachusetts governor has the stage to himself on Sunday. President Barack Obama plans to be in Washington and has no official business or campaign activity scheduled.
For Romney, an evening rally in Denver represents his first public event of the weekend. With the election less than seven weeks away, he's facing pressure to spend less time raising money and more time explaining his plans to voters in swing states.
Later in the week, Romney launches an Ohio bus tour followed by a stop in Virginia.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - An avalanche swept away climbers and their camps on the world's eighth highest mountain in northwestern Nepal on Sunday, killing at least nine people, police said.
A former president of Nepal Mountaineering Association, Ang Tshering Sherpa, said most of the dead climbers were French and that others were from Italy, Germany and Spain.
French news channel BFM TV reported that four of those killed on Mount Manaslu were French, citing a mountain climber.
Nepalese officials confirmed earlier that the dead included climbers from Nepal, Germany and Spain, and they said four people were missing. Five injured climbers were rescued by helicopters and flown to the capital Kathmandu.
German climber Andreas Reitero, 26, said he was sleeping in his tent when the avalanche struck at about 4 a.m. local time (2315 GMT on Saturday). His camp was about 7,000 meters (22,950 feet) above sea level.
"It was a big sound. I was afraid," Reitero told Reuters from hospital in Kathmandu after being rescued by a helicopter from the mountain, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of the capital.
"I was so confused that I can't say how far I was swept away or how many people were there in the camp at the time of avalanche," said the climber, who is being treated for a back injury. "I had luck. I did not go far enough and was (left) outside ... not buried under snow."
Reitero was one in a group of 13 climbers - 11 Germans and two Austrians. One German member of the group died, he said.
A French Foreign Ministry spokesman would not confirm any deaths but said "at least three" French climbers were injured.
Police Inspector Basant Mishra said the bodies of a German climber and a Nepali guide were recovered from the snow on the 8,163-metre (26,781-foot) mountain.
"Rescue pilots have spotted seven other bodies on the mountain," Mishra said. A
Sources at the Spanish Foreign Ministry said one of the dead climbers was Spanish, without giving further details.
The accident took place at 7,000 meters (22,950 feet), making it difficult for land rescue teams to reach the scene.
Helicopters were dispatched to the remote area to look for those missing after the early morning accident, but cloud and fog were complicating rescue efforts, Mishra said.
Hundreds of foreign climbers flock every year to Himalayan peaks in Nepal, which has eight of the world's 14 highest mountains, including Mount Everest. September marks the beginning of the autumn climbing season which runs through November.
In the last major accident, at least 42 people including 17 foreigners, were killed in heavy snowfall in the Mount Everest region in 1995.
(Additional reporting by Emma Pinedo in Madrid and Lionel Laurent in Paris; Editing by Ron Popeski and Pravin Char)
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 21, 2012) ? When elite-level athletes retire, they often struggle to adapt to their new lives. When finding that the characteristics that were valuable in sport are not equally useful in 'ordinary' life, they often start experiencing disorientation, depression, self-doubt or even illness. This is concluded in research from the University of Gothenburg.
Successful athletes at the elite level develop characteristics that should generate success also later in life. However, this notion may be wrong, according to the new research.
As part of a study, ex-Olympians from Sweden, Switzerland, USA and Australia were interviewed. All subjects participated in either the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing or the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Some well-developed features turned out to be very useful in the retired atheltes' lives. Two examples are perseverance and organisational skills.
However, characteristics, such as perfectionism, hyper-competitiveness, self-centredness and submissiveness, are much less useful and are indeed not desired -- at work, in school and in family life.
'Some ex-athletes say that adapting to post-sport life is more difficult than anything they ever experienced as athletes,' says Natalie Barker at the University of Gothenburg, who headed the research project.
The study reveals that those who managed to keep some kind of distance to their sport, or who were able to critically reflect on their experiences, were able to develop a more flexible and mature self-image.
The study was carried out jointly by researchers at the University of Gothenburg and two Australian universities.
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In this Thursday Sept. 20, 2012 photo, a muzzled dog, in a park, where dozens of dogs were killed in a mass poisoning of dogs in a Moscow park. On Friday, Sept. 21, 2012, police opened a criminal probe into the suspected poisoning of animals by dog killers, the latest such incident in Russia where cruelty to animals is common and animal protection laws are rarely enforced. This well-heeled neighborhood has always cherished its enormous park, where they could give their dog a moment's respite from cramped city living and let them frolic without a leash in the grass or in the snow. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
In this Thursday Sept. 20, 2012 photo, a muzzled dog, in a park, where dozens of dogs were killed in a mass poisoning of dogs in a Moscow park. On Friday, Sept. 21, 2012, police opened a criminal probe into the suspected poisoning of animals by dog killers, the latest such incident in Russia where cruelty to animals is common and animal protection laws are rarely enforced. This well-heeled neighborhood has always cherished its enormous park, where they could give their dog a moment's respite from cramped city living and let them frolic without a leash in the grass or in the snow. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
In this Thursday Sept. 20, 2012 photo Olga Krasotova walks her ddog in a park, where dozens of dogs were killed in a mass poisoning of dogs, in Moscow. On Friday, Sept. 21, 2012, police opened a criminal probe into the suspected poisoning of animals by dog killers, the latest such incident in Russia where cruelty to animals is common and animal protection laws are rarely enforced. This well-heeled neighborhood has always cherished its enormous park, where they could give their dog a moment's respite from cramped city living and let them frolic without a leash in the grass or in the snow. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
In this Thursday Sept. 20, 2012 photo Vera Lesovets holds a picture of her dead dog, five-year-old Yasha, who was killed in a mass poisoning of dogs in a Moscow park. Yasha's life was cut short last week: after snacking on something in a nearby park, she fell into a seizure at Lesovets's apartment and began foaming at the mouth. The family rushed her to a nearby veterinary clinic, where the veterinarian said this was the sixth case he had seen that week, and there was nothing he could do. On Friday, Sept. 21, 2012, police opened a criminal probe into the suspected poisoning of animals by dog killers, the latest such incident in Russia where cruelty to animals is common and animal protection laws are rarely enforced. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
MOSCOW (AP) ? Vera Lesovets held up photographs of her dog, Yasha, a spunky 5-year-old corgi, nipping playfully at the heels of a German shepherd twice her size.
But Yasha's life was cut short this week: After snacking on something in a Moscow park, she fell into a seizure at Lesovets' apartment and began foaming at the mouth. The family rushed her to a nearby animal clinic, where the veterinarian said this was the sixth case he had seen that week, and there was nothing he could do.
On Friday police opened a criminal investigation into what they suspect are poisonings by dog killers. Cruelty to animals is common in Russia and animal protection laws are rarely enforced, but reports of as many as 70 dead dogs this week have spurred the police to take action.
While some residents suspected that a vigilante matriarch, wary of her children being bitten, might be the cause of the attacks, Lesovets was quick to suspect a more malicious culprit: dog hunters, a kind of deadly hobby gaining ground in the Russian online community.
Dog hunting forums ? the most well-known of which are Vreditelyam.net and Pest.net ? are populated by those who call themselves "volunteers" and provide graphic photos of their trophy killings. The sites require extensive registration and identification processes for participants.
"It's a whole community. They have websites," said Lesovets, an event manager. "They write how they kill them, post photographs, tell you which poison is better and where to buy it."
In the case of this neighborhood's dogs, the poison of choice was amanita phalloides, also known as the death cap mushroom, which has no known antidote and is dangerous for both animals and humans.
Before the attacks, the Pyatidesyatiletya Oktyabrya park in southwest Moscow ? named to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution ? allowed residents to give their dogs a moment's respite from cramped city living and frolic without a leash in the grass or in the snow.
Owners no longer feel safe to do that, as the number of slain dogs keeps growing. Police estimates have ranged from 40 to 70 killings, based on complaints filed by owners. According to the website of one nearby veterinary clinic alone, they had received about 20 cases that week, 14 of them fatal.
The police were first notified of the poisonings early this week and formally opened a criminal investigation on Friday.
Masha Beshina was out walking her dog on Thursday when she discovered some pieces of ham suspiciously scattered in the part of the park where she usually walks her dog.
"Unfortunately the police don't take measures," said the middle-aged teacher. "Because for them a dog is not really something that exists."
Russian law calls for a prison sentence of up to two years for those who kill or abuse animals, but animal rights activists say it has been rarely enforced.
"We need investigative bodies, the police, the courts, the judges to start working," said Darya Khmelnitskaya, director of Virta, a charitable fund for animal welfare. "The legal clause already exists."
She said that one way to target dog killers would be to track IP addresses of the users who spread information about it online or shut down the sites completely. While some of the sites have been closed, information is still easily spread by individuals through websites such as Vkontakte, the largest Russian social network.
According to Khmelnitskaya, only nine cases against dog hunters in Moscow have made it to court since 2011, with just one ending in a conviction.
On the site Vreditelyam.net, now moved to the domain vredy.org, the owners state in their manifesto that they consider themselves keepers of the peace: Since Soviet times, the population of stray dogs, which now reaches an estimate of 25,000 in Moscow alone, has ballooned, and fear of bites and attacks has grown as well.
But just as the population of strays has grown, Muscovites also have long been a friend to many of the shaggy mutts. Dog hunting has touched a nerve in a society where stray animals have traditionally been ignored by the state and instead taken in by big-hearted citizens. One group established on Vkontakte in opposition to the dog hunters has attracted almost 4,000 members.
Most of the local residents said their dogs were former strays found either on the streets or in Moscow's overcrowded, underfunded shelters.
"I took these dogs off the street from homeless people four years ago," said Oleg Maksimov, a middle-aged man who said he works for a construction company.
"How can I wait for someone to poison these dogs, these dogs that I saved from a likely death?"
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Getty ImagesEli Manning celebrates after a touchdown during the Giants' 23-0 victory over the Panthers on Thursday.
By AARON BEARD
updated 1:34 a.m. ET Sept. 21, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Eli Manning didn't need a fourth-quarter comeback Thursday night.
The two-time Super Bowl champion quarterback, running back Andre Brown and the rest of the New York Giants finished off the Carolina Panthers way before that.
Brown ran for a career-high 113 yards and two touchdowns in his first NFL start to help the Giants rout the Panthers 36-7.
Four days after rallying from 14 points down to beat Tampa Bay, the Giants dominated the first half, scoring on their first four possessions to build a 20-0 lead.
The defending champion Giants (2-1) were without three starters but it hardly mattered.
Brown ? waived by five different teams ? including the Panthers ? since coming into the league as a fourth-round draft pick in 2009 ? got his chance Thursday night when Ahmad Bradshaw sat out with a neck injury.
Brown said he thought about getting cut by the Panthers before the game ? and it inspired him.
"I was walking into the stadium and I have to go by the spot where I parked my car," Brown said. "I felt a little fire, no doubt. I'm so happy to come out here. It really humbled me. It really shows that everything is not guaranteed. You know, I'm just going to ride this wave. Hopefully, it's a long wave."
Ramses Barden is hoping to ride that same wave.
Barden caught nine passes for a career-high 138 yards in his first NFL start. He played in place of Hakeem Nicks.
Of course it helps that the guy throwing you the ball is named Manning. He completed 27 of 35 passes for 288 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions.
On the other side, second-year quarterback Cam Newton struggled all night and was pressured into three interceptions. The Panthers (1-2) had five turnovers, including two by returner Joe Adams.
Newton had no luck running the read option against the Giants. He was held to 6 yards rushing a week after running for a career-high 71 yards against the Saints.
"We got some licks on him, when he kept the ball, and that's something that was lacking last week," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. "You have to be disciplined. You have to have people in the right spots, or he'll take full advantage of it."
Panthers coach Ron Rivera likened the loss to a lesson you learn from your big brother.
"They came in and slapped us around and dragged us to the ground a little bit," Rivera said. "Hopefully, we learn from it a little bit. Hopefully, we learn from it and, hopefully, we don't like it and we come back focused."
Mixing run and pass, the Giants dominated the opening half, outgaining the Panthers 303-125.
Manning completed 19 of 25 passes for 208 yards in the first half, including a 14-yard touchdown pass to Martellus Bennett to cap the Giants' game-opening drive and set the tone. It capped an eight-play, 80-yard drive and marked the third straight game the Panthers have given up a touchdown on an opponent's first drive.
For Rivera and the Panthers the first half was a nightmare.
"When you put yourself in a hole like that it's tough trying to claw and scratch yourself back up," Rivera said. "And that's really what happened. That's the type of game they want you to be in. That's trouble. When you get behind they can cut those guys loose on the pass rush."
Brown repeatedly bounced off tacklers and Barden had little trouble getting open against a Carolina defense that failed to pressure Manning.
Brown ran 13 times for 71 yards and a touchdown last week against Tampa Bay and surpassed that total by the end of the first quarter with 77 yards on seven.
Barden had 123 yards on seven catches at halftime.
Before Thursday night, the fourth-year receiver had never managed more than nine catches for 94 yards receiving in a season.
"At this level, you never know when you're going to get an opportunity, you've got to be prepared for it," Manning said. "Andre Brown is a great example. He's a guy we drafted, he bounced around, and we brought him back. He was on the bubble to make the team, and here you go. Ahmad (Bradshaw) gets hurt, and he ran great, he pass-protected.
"He did get off to a bit of a shaky start. He went left when he was supposed to run right on the first play. We had a little talk and got him settled down, and after that, he did very, very well."
Any hopes that the Panthers would turn things around in the second half were slowed when rookie returner Adams fumbled trying to catch the opening kickoff, resulting in another field goal for Lawrence Tynes.
Tynes finished with five field goals on the night.
The Panthers didn't get on the board until midway through the third quarter when Newton leaped over the pile from a yard out.
Newton said it wasn't what the Giants did but what the Panthers didn't do.
"Who wants to supports something that puts on a performance of embarrassment out there, and that's what that was," Newton said. "If I was a fan of the Carolina Panthers I would be holding my head down in shame at the product that was out there."
Newton said the Panthers problem was execution, not anything the Giants did to stop them.
"We have to fix it," Newton said.
Notes: For the third straight week Carolina receiver Steve Smith sparred with an opposing cornerback during the game. This week's victim was Corey Webster. ... Panthers running back Jonathan Stewart missed his second game of the season because of a toe injury. The Panthers also were without tackle Byron Bell. ... The Panthers honored Olympic gold medal swimmers Cullen Jones and Ricky Berens.
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More newsGetty ImagesEli Manning didn't need a big comeback Thursday night, not with Andre Brown running for a career-high 113 yards and two touchdowns in the New York Giants' 36-7 victory over the Carolina Panthers.
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A proposed law in India would make husbands pay their wives for homemaking.
It's long been said that hiring a person (or people) to cook, clean, nanny/teach a kid to read, pay household bills, shop and have sex would cost a pretty penny. And seemingly, only super villains and Brangelinas have the kind of foresight and cash to hire those several people. However, dear friends, a house spouse (let us not give husbands who work from the home short thrift) does all of these jobs and is NOT on anyone's payroll.
That may change soon on the opposite side of Earth, as an Indian governmental department (the Union Women and Child Development Ministry) is drafting legislation that would make it mandatory for a husband to dole out a fixed percentage of his salary to his wife to compensate her for her homemaking efforts. Indeed, the position of wife, mother and housekeeper will henceforth be referred to as a "home engineer" and could earn her something to the tune of 10-20 percent of the husband's check.
Our buds at Care2.com address, or at the very least reference the existence of, the myriad of logistical issues and unintended consequences of this seemingly noble effort. Indeed, they ask if the scheme is "ingenious or insulting," assuming that it's a binary situation. Perhaps the term "noble effort" is somewhat patronizing. Perhaps the term "patronizing" is condescending. Perhaps the term "condescending" is overwrought. Perhaps I'm over-thinking this.
Another country that some people might consider "male-dominated" has begun using legislation to implement a being-nicer-to-your-wife ethos. In Japan, a man's pension was once off-limits as divorce winnings, but recent reforms have changed that presumption and will possibly make those ineffectual dudes a little kinder. Since "for free" connotes "for granted," and "getting what you pay for" is at the least a global truism, maybe this will foster some greater appreciation between the sexes in India.?
What do you think of taking a mandatory percentage out of a worker's (any gender) salary to pay an at-home spouse?
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FILE - This March 27, 2008 file photo shows actor Wayne Knight, best known for his role as postal carrier Newman on "Seinfeld," arriving at the opening night of "Gypsy" on Broadway in New York. Knight will star as Santa in the hit musical "Elf," this holiday season at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York. Performances will begin on Friday, Nov. 9, for a limited engagement of 9 weeks through Jan. 6. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)
FILE - This March 27, 2008 file photo shows actor Wayne Knight, best known for his role as postal carrier Newman on "Seinfeld," arriving at the opening night of "Gypsy" on Broadway in New York. Knight will star as Santa in the hit musical "Elf," this holiday season at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York. Performances will begin on Friday, Nov. 9, for a limited engagement of 9 weeks through Jan. 6. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)
FILE - This March 27, 2008 file photo shows actor Wayne Knight, best known for his role as postal carrier Newman on "Seinfeld," arriving at the opening night of "Gypsy" on Broadway in New York. Knight will star as Santa in the hit musical "Elf," this holiday season at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York. Performances will begin on Friday, Nov. 9, for a limited engagement of 9 weeks through Jan. 6. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Wayne Knight, who played Newman on "Seinfeld," is heading back to Broadway ? as Santa.
Producers of "Elf" said Knight will join a cast that includes Beth Leavel in the musical based on Will Ferrell's movie. When the show made its debut in 2010, George Wendt played Santa.
Performances will begin at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Nov. 9 and will run through the holiday season until Jan. 6. So far, there's no word on who will play the title character.
Knight's film credits include "Jurassic Park" and "Toy Story 2" and his Broadway shows include "Gemini," ''Art" and "Sweet Charity."
"Elf" features songs by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin and a book by Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin. Casey Nicholaw returns to direct and choreograph.
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Sean Irvin browses phones at a Best Buy store Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Anchorage, Alaska. It's one of the ways Irvin plans to spend his yearly Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, whose amount was being announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)
Sean Irvin browses phones at a Best Buy store Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Anchorage, Alaska. It's one of the ways Irvin plans to spend his yearly Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, whose amount was being announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)
Alaska Revenue Commissioner Bryan Butcher holds up the amount of this year's Permanent Fund Dividend during a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, in Anchorage, Alaska. Butcher announced this year's check from the state's oil riches will be $878 for nearly every single Alaskan. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ? This is the day Alaskans crow about to their brethren in the Lower 48, trying to make them jealous that the government gives them money to just live here.
Alaskans got word Tuesday that this year's Permanent Fund Dividend will be $878. Almost all Alaskans ? nearly 647,000 people ? will receive this sum, their yearly share of the state's oil wealth.
But what your Alaskan friends may not tell you is that the yearly bounty barely makes a dent in the higher cost to live in the nation's northernmost state ? and this year's checks won't go far.
Living in Alaska costs more since most everything has to be shipped in. In fact, 90 percent of all goods sold in the state pass through the Port of Anchorage.
There's no such thing as a dollar menu at a fast-food restaurant in Alaska, for example ? it's more like a $1.50 or $2 menu. And there's a reason why many TV commercials advertising prices have a line in small print at the bottom saying prices may be higher in Alaska and Hawaii: They are.
Here's a look at what this year's dividend ? $878 ? will get you in Alaska:
? About $70 short of one month's rent for a single-bedroom apartment in Juneau, the state's capital.
? 88 12-packs of soda in the western Alaska village of Nome. (Residents in Los Angeles could take home triple that amount for the same money.)
? Nearly 59 cans of Hills Brothers Coffee at the remote village of Fort Yukon, just north of the Arctic Circle.
? Not quite 11 days' worth of kibble, meat and fat supplement for winter feeding for 46 sleds dogs at Paul and Erin McLarnon's Broken Runner Sled Dog Kennel in Willow, Alaska.
? A roundtrip airline ticket from Anchorage to Seattle, but nothing left over for an in-flight meal or cocktail. The same ticket for a roundtrip between Omaha, Neb., and Miami (roughly the same distance) would run half as much.
? A good down payment on a season ski pass at the Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alaska, which costs $1,375.
? New clothes for the season; the dividend would cover a new pair of men's ski pants, a down jacket and gloves.
? About 163 gallons of home heating fuel ($5.39 per gallon delivered) in Naknek, a Bristol Bay village about 300 miles from Anchorage.
? Two round-trip tickets from Anchorage to Fairbanks, along with a gold season pass for two to next year's World Ice Art Championships, which run from Feb. 26 to March 24. There should be enough money left after viewing the ice carvings for a couple of meals.
? About 4 ? months of an HD cable television package, including land line and Internet service, in Anchorage.
And while many would consider the Permanent Fund Dividend free money, it's really not. Even though there's no state income tax, the IRS taxes Alaskans on this income.
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Mark Thiessen is the news editor in Alaska for The Associated Press.
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Earlier this year, Twitpic CEO Steven Corona spent 30 days without social media. Now, he's given up time. That's right?no clocks, no watches, nothing digital. He shares what life is like with the sun as his guide.
Time. When broken down into minutes, hours, days, such small units over a lifetime, they don't really seem to exist. It's almost like a reality that we all subscribe to?existing only because we agreed it should. On the other hand, time is always marching forward. Infinite. Abrupt when divided into years, decades, centuries.
The only unit of time that matters is heartbeats. Even if the world were totally silent, even in a dark room covered in five layers of foam, you'd be able to count your own heartbeats. (Paul Ford, 10 Timeframes)
The smallest units, insignificant over a lifetime, are also the most stressful. The most frustrating. I was sick of it.
I dropped my watch right into the garbage. Shut off the glowing green-blue digital clocks that seem to piggyback on every appliance known to man?microwave, stove, VCR. The one in the corner of my computer screen? Gone. On my iPhone, I changed it to a random timezone so, technically, it still has a clock, but at quick glance? Almost useless.
The effects were immediate. The first few days were so confusing. I worked on my laptop all day, totally devoured and consumed by creating things. I had no idea whether it was 11 AM or 7 PM, and didn't care?it was beautiful! I was able to really lose myself in a project without having a clock to constantly distract.
I learned how to read the sun?a skill that adapted on its own, so it was surprising when I caught myself turning to the window to figure out if I was done working for the day. I've tested myself and I'm pretty accurate, even with the season change.
Though I've gotten used to the mental freedom, three months into it, the bigger changes are still sticking around. I'm less stressed. I don't worry about how long things take or even bother considering how long they should take. Over a lifetime, an extra couple of minutes here or there is a rounding error and a worthy price to pay for the benefits.
I'm no longer chained to the clock. I measure my life in heartbeats and years, the only significant units to me.
Full disclosure: I used the calendar on my phone to notify me before an appointment.
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The sun still shines as bright, but according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), its precise distance from us has just changed.
At a recent meeting of the IAU in Beijing, China, members unanimously voted to redefine the astronomical unit, or AU, which has long served as the fundamental unit of distance between objects in the solar system. According to the voters, the official definition of the AU is now exactly 149,597,870,700 metres, and the unit should be written "au".
Historically, calculating the astronomical unit was based on the average distance between Earth and the sun, or 149,597,870,691 metres. An amendment in 1976 complicated things by also tying the unit to the sun's mass.
Although the recent decision doesn't alter the value by much, it simplifies things and should improve the accuracy of distance measurements over time.
"The old definition was good when we were not able to measure distance precisely in the solar system," says Sergei Klioner of the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, who has been calling for the change since 2005.
With current technology, astronomers can measure distances directly with lasers and space probes, making it possible to give exact values in astronomical units.
For the past 36 years the formal definition for the astronomical unit has been calculated using the Gaussian gravitational constant, a figure that depends on the mass of the sun. But astronomers know that the sun is constantly losing mass as it radiates energy, which technically changes the value of the AU over time.
Defining the unit as a set number fixes this problem and brings it in line with the effects of general relativity, says Klioner.
"The old definition was conceived in Newtonian physics," he says. Under Einstein's view of the universe, all distances are relative depending on where you are, making the Earth-sun distance meaningless without specifying your current reference frame. "If you use several reference frames, you have to ask which one the old AU is in."
In addition, the metre itself is defined as the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in one-299,792,458th of a second. The speed of light is fixed in all reference frames and is unaffected by the changing mass of the sun, so giving the astronomical unit a set value in metres means that it will no longer waver.
The redefinition could have been done much earlier, but some astronomers did not want things to change, Klioner adds.
"I've been teaching celestial mechanics for 20 years and it was always a pain to explain the old definition. It was clear that it was unnecessarily complicated," he says. "I'm happy that I don't have to explain this any longer."
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Voice commands and dictation software on mobile phones, in apps like Vlingo or the iPhone's feature known as Siri, don't represent what's truly possible with this kind of technology. Not even close.?Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Premium??does. If you've never used dictation and voice command software before, Dragon NaturallySpeaking seems almost futuristic. It translates accurately. The speed is incredible. Intelligent features allow the software to become smarter the more you use it, by looking for words in context. After spending a few days with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12?and a fair amount of time with its predecessor Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5?I've found my workflow completely changed, in particular when writing scripts.
Dragon can also solve problems you didn't even know you had. It can make writing faster, especially if you're not fond of composing with your fingers. I've also found it revolutionized how I write scripts that are meant to be spoken rather than read silently. Anyone who suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome or other mobility issues really can't do better than Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12. Professors can use the software to essentially show closed captioning during lectures in real time. And for some people who struggle with writing, or have spelling anxiety, Dragon can relieve a lot of their pains, too.
The hardest part of working with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 is that it takes time to set up, practice using, and master. Very good documentation and tips appear onscreen when you need them, but there's no denying the learning curve. Invest the time and energy needed to get started, however, and Dragon more than pays off.
Note that you do need to use a microphone with Dragon, and a very good one comes included with the shrink-wrapped version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12. If you're already happy with your current version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, an upgrade may not be in the cards at this time due to the exorbitant price: $149.99, whereas a new package lists at $199.99. (There's also a Home edition with some feature limitations for $99.) Version 11 was a 4.5 star Editors' Choice product, however, so it's easy to imagine a lot of people skipping a version or two.
Set Up
I tested Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 on a PC running Windows XP (more on the system requirements later). The installation from disc took less than 10 minutes, but it helps to do some additional setup to acclimate the system to your voice and establish a user profile. In all, the full setup time could take around 45 minutes, although you don't have to do it all at once. You can continue to give Dragon additional voice feedback that will help it adjust your user profile anytime you want.
You can choose your country or region, such as New Zealand, Canada, Southeast Asia, and then an even more specific accent, from a comprehensive list (I chose U.S., and then Northeastern U.S.). , but you'll still want to do additional setup in order for the system to adjust to your style of language and speech. Another way to give Dragon information about how you talk is to let it scan your sent emails and other documents, so they can look for words you use in relation to other words.
I actually enjoy the setup process with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12, which entails reading text shown on screen that explains how computerized dictation and voice command work. I find it helpful to know what the system is doing and how it's trying to understand what I say so that I can adjust how I speak in order to get better results from the software. As mentioned, you can go back to your profile and further adjust it by reading additional texts that Dragon provides and uses to better hear and translate how you speak at any time. You can choose from a list of texts that vary in difficulty, length, and content. For example, I read parts of a business book that was coded for medium difficulty, but other options included humorous writing and children's books.
Dragon in Action: Dictation
The very first time I use Dragon last year, I found it bizarrely intuitive. Version 12 is even more so, in part because of a new tutorial that's offered during setup, which gives you a thorough walk through of how to use some of the basic functions and features.
The minimalistic interface consists of little more than a gray toolbar at the top of your screen showing when the microphone is active or asleep, and offers a few menu options, such as profile, tools, vocabulary, modes, audio, and help. You can reveal additional menu options but even these don't take up much screen real estate. An optional sidebar appears on the right side of the screen the first time you use Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12, but you can close it in one click if you prefer not to see it.
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CARSON, Calif. (AP) - Alex Morgan scored a goal and set up another as the U.S. women's national soccer team rallied from a first-half deficit to beat Australia 2-1 Sunday in the second game on a post-Olympic tour.
Morgan scored the tying goal in the 55th minute and won the penalty kick fellow Southern Californian Shannon Boxx converted eight minutes later as London gold medalists shook off a rough first 45 minutes.
The U.S. improved to 2-0 on the 10-game tour. The match drew 19,851 to the Home Depot Center.
Australia went ahead in the 34th minute when Lisa DeVanna beat Hope Solo after outsprinting two defenders on a run from midfield.
U.S. coach Pia Sundhage will guide the team for the final time in Wednesday's rematch with Australia in Commerce City, Colo.
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What's the independent business traveler's worst enemy? It's not hotel Wi-Fi. It's Radio Shack. Have you seen how much they charge for a micro-usb cable? Twenty bucks. Same cable at monoprice? About a dollar.
Forgetting simple things like power bricks and phone adapters is one of the most frustrating side effects about business travel. Often the frustration doesn't even come from the inconvenience - it's always nice to have a backup phone charger - the problem comes when the charger is four times the cost that it should be. Case in point? That combo meal at the Burger King in LAX isn't supposed to be $12. Captive audiences breed captive prices.
It's happened to all of us, but there are a few ways around the frustrations of shopping on the road.
If you're staying at a hotel, it's always handy to check the lost and found. Travelers leave all sorts of things behind, and according to the Sheraton staff in Philadelphia, what's not picked up at lost and found gets donated or distributed among the workers. It's not just electrical widgets either. Lost contact lens case? Forgot your tennis shoes? Check downstairs. And in case you have any issues with stealing something that might eventually be claimed, you can always bring it back.
Airport and airline lost and found is also a great place to find lost trinkets, just bear in mind that most repositories are outside of security, so arrive early and with plenty of patience.If you're hell bent on buying your replacement though, make sure to stay away from chain stores like Radio Shack or even Best Buy. Discount box stores like Marshalls and TJ Max are a great alternative source of small electronics. The headphones that I picked up in the San Juan Marshalls last Saturday for $5.99 were $14 cheaper than the ones at the airport - and the quality was just the same.
It's also a decent idea to keep an eye out for a local Salvation Army or Goodwill, similar in concept to the discount box store but with a more random, used assortment of goods.
Not interested in making the capital investment? It's easier than you think to rent a wide range of electronics while in transit. Cameras are a great example. Here in Chicago you can walk into a Calumet Photo and walk out with either lenses or a full rig for shooting all weekend. In New York there's Adorama. Online, you can even use lensrentals. And the costs are fairly modest. For a five-day rental of a $1600 16-35mm Canon Lens over Labor Day, I only had to shell out $100. Shipping was included.
But what if you're stuck in meetings all day? There are actually a few neat services that will outsource your shopping. Zaarly is a great example. Need a new power supply? Post a note in Zaarly asking for someone to pick up your electronics at the local best buy, shell out the cash and offer an extra ten bucks to have it delivered. There's a decent chance that some poor college student is willing to help out for the beer money. Barring the new fancy Zaarly, Craigslist is always a backup.
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How many plants can be found in the Alps that are not native to that region? Which animals were deliberately or accidently introduced to the Danube? How big a threat will they become to local wildlife? EASIN, the European Alien Species Information Network, launched today by the European Commission's in-house science service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), takes a first step towards answering these and other questions related to 16 000 alien species currently reported all over Europe. This information network the first of its kind in Europe is an important step to deal with the threat of alien species that become invasive. Invasive species present a serious threat to biodiversity and natural resources, with an economic impact estimated at around 12 billion per year.
Environment Commissioner Janez Poto?nik said: "Invasive alien species are causing growing problems for our natural resources, people's health and the economy. This threat arises from non-native species whose numbers are growing rapidly in an increasingly interconnected world. The EASIN network will help people in Europe get better information about where non-native species are, and how common they are and that will support better policy making on this difficult issue."
Alien species non-native organisms that become established in a new environment are on the increase worldwide. Most of them do not present significant risks for their new environment. However, some of them adapt so successfully to the new environment that they become invasive from being biological curiosities they become genuine threats to local ecosystems, crops and livestock, threatening our environmental and social wellbeing. Invasive alien species are the second leading cause of biodiversity loss, after habitat alteration.
EASIN facilitates the mapping and classification of alien species by indexing reported data from over 40 online databases. Through dynamically updated web features, users can view and map the distribution of alien species in Europe and select them using criteria ranging from the environment in which they are found (terrestrial, marine or fresh water) and their biological classification through to the pathways of their introduction.
At the heart of EASIN is a catalogue that currently contains over 16 000 species. This inventory of all reported alien species in Europe was produced by compiling, checking and standardising the information available online and in scientific literature. Users of EASIN can explore and map geo-referenced information on alien species from the following online databases: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), the Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN) and the Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre (REABIC). Further data providers will be included over the coming years. The EASIN web tools and services follow internationally recognised standards and protocols. They are free for use, while the data ownership remains with the source, which is properly cited and linked to in EASIN.
Next Steps
Combating invasive alien species is one of the six key objectives of the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy, and the Commission is preparing specific proposals for strengthening legislation in this area.
Background
Alien species are present in almost every ecosystem type on Earth. In some cases they have become invasive, affecting native biota. They belong to all major taxonomic groups, including viruses, fungi, algae, mosses, ferns, higher plants, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Invasive alien species can transform the structure and species composition of ecosystems by repressing or excluding native species, either directly by predation or competing with them for resources or indirectly by modifying habitats or changing the way nutrients are cycled through the system. The cost to human health includes the spread of disease as well as allergens; to the economy damage to agriculture and infrastructure; and to the environment the irretrievable loss of native species, damaging ecosystems and the biodiversity that underpins them.
It is estimated that 10-15 % of the alien species identified in the European environment have spread and cause environmental, economic and/or social damage. Species like Giant hogweed, signal crayfish, Zebra mussels and muskrats now impact human health, cause substantial damage to forestry, crops and fisheries, and congestion in waterways. Japanese knotweed for example inhibits the growth of other plants, outcompetes native plants, and seriously damages infrastructure, with huge economic implications. Studies have shown that in England, Scotland and Wales, this one plant alone causes 205 million of damage each year.
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How many plants can be found in the Alps that are not native to that region? Which animals were deliberately or accidently introduced to the Danube? How big a threat will they become to local wildlife? EASIN, the European Alien Species Information Network, launched today by the European Commission's in-house science service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), takes a first step towards answering these and other questions related to 16 000 alien species currently reported all over Europe. This information network the first of its kind in Europe is an important step to deal with the threat of alien species that become invasive. Invasive species present a serious threat to biodiversity and natural resources, with an economic impact estimated at around 12 billion per year.
Environment Commissioner Janez Poto?nik said: "Invasive alien species are causing growing problems for our natural resources, people's health and the economy. This threat arises from non-native species whose numbers are growing rapidly in an increasingly interconnected world. The EASIN network will help people in Europe get better information about where non-native species are, and how common they are and that will support better policy making on this difficult issue."
Alien species non-native organisms that become established in a new environment are on the increase worldwide. Most of them do not present significant risks for their new environment. However, some of them adapt so successfully to the new environment that they become invasive from being biological curiosities they become genuine threats to local ecosystems, crops and livestock, threatening our environmental and social wellbeing. Invasive alien species are the second leading cause of biodiversity loss, after habitat alteration.
EASIN facilitates the mapping and classification of alien species by indexing reported data from over 40 online databases. Through dynamically updated web features, users can view and map the distribution of alien species in Europe and select them using criteria ranging from the environment in which they are found (terrestrial, marine or fresh water) and their biological classification through to the pathways of their introduction.
At the heart of EASIN is a catalogue that currently contains over 16 000 species. This inventory of all reported alien species in Europe was produced by compiling, checking and standardising the information available online and in scientific literature. Users of EASIN can explore and map geo-referenced information on alien species from the following online databases: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), the Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN) and the Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre (REABIC). Further data providers will be included over the coming years. The EASIN web tools and services follow internationally recognised standards and protocols. They are free for use, while the data ownership remains with the source, which is properly cited and linked to in EASIN.
Next Steps
Combating invasive alien species is one of the six key objectives of the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy, and the Commission is preparing specific proposals for strengthening legislation in this area.
Background
Alien species are present in almost every ecosystem type on Earth. In some cases they have become invasive, affecting native biota. They belong to all major taxonomic groups, including viruses, fungi, algae, mosses, ferns, higher plants, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Invasive alien species can transform the structure and species composition of ecosystems by repressing or excluding native species, either directly by predation or competing with them for resources or indirectly by modifying habitats or changing the way nutrients are cycled through the system. The cost to human health includes the spread of disease as well as allergens; to the economy damage to agriculture and infrastructure; and to the environment the irretrievable loss of native species, damaging ecosystems and the biodiversity that underpins them.
It is estimated that 10-15 % of the alien species identified in the European environment have spread and cause environmental, economic and/or social damage. Species like Giant hogweed, signal crayfish, Zebra mussels and muskrats now impact human health, cause substantial damage to forestry, crops and fisheries, and congestion in waterways. Japanese knotweed for example inhibits the growth of other plants, outcompetes native plants, and seriously damages infrastructure, with huge economic implications. Studies have shown that in England, Scotland and Wales, this one plant alone causes 205 million of damage each year.
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See also:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/invasivealien/index_en.htm
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