Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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Meteor gathers another $18m for Hawken | Games industry news ...

Free-to-play mech combat title Hawken has received an additional $18m in funding ahead of its December launch.

VentureBeat reports publisher Meteor Entertainment has brought in the sizable amount as part of its second round of fundraising, bringing the total to $28.5m raised thus far for the game.

Despite being an independent effort from relative newcomer Adhesive Games, the investment figure has reached AAA heights due to its sleek look, f2p monetization scheme, and (perhaps most interestingly) the opportunity for the game to disrupt the online gaming market.

?It?s clear from this investment that we do not believe the game industry as an investment category is going down,? said Nate Redmond of new investor Rustic Canyon Ventures.

?From watching disruption in multiple industries and seeing it come to games, that is appealing to me as an investor and a gamer. We see how quickly it is happening. The incumbents see it, but they can?t change quickly enough to capture it.?

"Our management team is full of gamers and we believe there is an opportunity to disrupt online gaming in China,? said Jay Chang, chief financial officer at Kong Zhong ?? another one of the project?s several new investors.

"We think Hawken has the potential to be even bigger than World of Tanks. The Chinese market is maturing and there are a lot of users for free-to-play games.?

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Google Search app for iOS updated with new voice search functionality, iPhone 5 compatibility (video)

Google Search app for iOS updated with new voice search functionality, iPhone 5 compatibility

Google just released an updated version of its Search app for Android devices yesterday, and it's now (as promised) also delivered a fairly big update to iOS users. That brings with it iPhone 5 compatibility, but the bigger news is the expanded voice search functionality, which promises "faster and significantly improved voice recognition," with spoken responses à la Google Now provided alongside the search results. Those additions also extend to iPad users in addition to the iPhone and iPod touch -- hit the App Store or the link below to take it for a spin yourself.

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As DC Recovers from Storm, Lawyers Take Advantage of 'Teleworking'

Updated at 2:14 p.m.

With Hurricane Sandy still making its way out of the Washington region on Tuesday, many area workers stayed home for a second day. But the work of D.C. lawyers and policymakers hasn't ceased.

U.S. Justice Department headquarters in Washington are "open and operational," DOJ spokeswoman Gina Talamona said. As for the U.S. Attorney?s Office for the District of Columbia, it is "mostly closed," office spokesman William Miller wrote in an email. He wrote that some prosecutors and support staff are working today to handle presentments, arraignments and other matters concerning the District of Columbia Superior Court.

Superior Court plans to resume some of its operations on Tuesday. At 2 p.m., it will start holding adult arraignments and juvenile new referrals. But U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit are closed. At the U.S. Supreme Court, arguments that were scheduled for Tuesday have been moved to Thursday.

Many U.S. government lawyers and other federal employees decided to work remotely today.

According to the Office of Personnel Management, workers who are scheduled to "telework" or who are "required to perform unscheduled telework on a day when Federal offices are closed to the public," must work from home.

About 170,000 employees at 87 agencies telework at least part of the time, according to a report by the Office of Personnel Management submitted to Congress in 2012. But some agencies are clearly more receptive to the program than others.

At the bottom of the list: the Justice Department, where according to the report, just 2 percent of employees - 2,575 people -?teleworked as of September 2011.

By contrast, one of the most enthusiastic embracers of teleworking is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where more than 6,500 employees, or two-thirds of it staffers, work from home at least one day a week. At the Federal Communications Commission, fittingly, 55 percent of employees telework some of the time, and at the Securities and Exchange Commission, 1,217 workers, or 32 percent, telework.

Given the pre-election timing of the storm, it's also fortunate that 49 percent of employees at the Federal Election Commission telework.

At area law firms, many lawyers also are working remotely today. And difficulties with teleworking appear to be at a minimum.

?[B]ased on the email traffic yesterday, I'd say most people had no trouble working from home!? Paul Kiernan, executive partner of Holland & Knight?s D.C. office, said in a written statement.

Of course, teleworking is only possible with electricity. As of 1:30 p.m. according to The Washington Post, 115,681 electric utility customers were still without power in the Washington area.

Jenna Greene and Zoe Tillman contributed to this report.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

10 ways to celebrate Halloween in Lake Norman | Denver Weekly ...

Lake Norman offers plenty of Halloween-themed events in the coming days.

Find your way out of a maze

HUNTERSVILLE ??People use flashlights to navigate through a seven-acre corn maze at the Rural Hill Amazing Maize Maze.

The event takes place 6-9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 4 at Rural Hill, 4431 Neck Road.

Tickets cost $15 for ages 13 and older or $10 for ages 5-12. Ages 4 and younger get in free.

Proceeds are used to preserve the historic site.

Details: 704-875-3113 or www.rural
hill.net.

Birkdale hosts Halloween scavenger hunt

HUNTERSVILLE ? Birkdale Village will hold a ?Halloweem Hunting? scavenger hunt from 4-6 p.m. Oct. 31 beginning near the village fountain.

Pick up a clue sheet, decipher clues and follow the trail for treats and a chance to win a $100 gift card for Birkdale Village.

The event also features a costume contest and music from Radio Disney.

For more information, visit www.birkdalevillage.net.

Take a ghost walk through Davidson

DAVIDSON ??Virginia Grezch leads Ghost Walk Tours through Davidson.

Tours, ranging from 90 minutes to two hours, start at 7 p.m. daily in front of the Soda Shop, 104 S. Main St.

Tours cost $10 for adults and $5 for ages 8-12. Ages 8 and younger get in free.

Reservations are required.

Details: www.ghostwalknc.com or 704-928-5452.

Observe Frankenstein Fun Friday

HUNTERSVILLE ??Discovery Place Kids observes Frankenstein Fun Friday.

Children make a Frankenstein trick-or-treat bag to collect treats 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 26 at the children?s museum, 105 Gilead Road.

Admission costs $8.

Details: www.discoveryplacekids.org or 704-372-6261 ext. 300.

Trick-or-treat in downtown Davidson

DAVIDSON ??Davidson holds its Downtown Halloween March at 5 p.m. Oct. 26 at 216 S. Main St. Children may dress up and collect treats from downtown shops.

Details: www.ci.davidson.nc.us.

Take ghost walk at Latta Plantation

HUNTERSVILLE ? Latta Plantation hosts its Ghost Walk, an opportunity to go on a candlit tour through an explosive Civil War Battlefield, haunted plantation house, cemetery and insane asylum.

The event takes place 7-10 p.m. Oct. 26-27 at the historic site, 5225 Sample Road.

Admission costs $8 per person. Not recommended for children ages 10 and younger.

Details: www.lattaplantation.org or 704-875-2312.

Make time for Halloween Fun

HUNTERSVILLE ??Huntersville?s Halloween Fun event features arts and crafts, games, hayrides, a moon bounce, a petting zoo, pony rides and spooky tunes provided by Radio Disney.

The event takes place 5-7 p.m. Oct. 27 at Rural Hill, 4431 Neck Road.

Details: www.huntersville.org.

Boogie at the Boo Bash

CORNELIUS ??Cornelius offers arts and crafts, costume contests,?face-painting, food,?hayrides, music and pumpkin decorating at its Boo Bash.

The event takes place 6-9 p.m. Oct. 27 at Bailey Road Park, 11536 Bailey Road.

Details: www.cornelius.org.

?Race the Reaper? in 5K

DAVIDSON ??The Race the Reaper 5K offers a unique experience filled with spooks at 7 p.m. Oct. 27 at the Fisher Farm Cross Country and Bike Trails.

The October Fun Festival precedes the race 3-7 p.m., offering crafts, food, games and hayrides.

Registration costs $25 prior to race day and $30 on the day of the race. Proceeds go towards the Davidson Parks & Recreation?s scholarship program.

Charlotte Sports Cycling is organizing the race. Register for the race at www.Racesonline.com and www.sportoften.com.

Details: 704-892-3349.

Watch zombie battle in the joust

HUNTERSVILLE ??The Carolina Renaissance Festival and Artisan Marketplace offers Halloween-themed events, including a costume contest, trick-or-treating and zombie jousting.

The event opens 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Oct. 27 and 28 at N.C. 73 at Poplar Tent Road, between Interstates 77 and 85.

A Halloween costume contest begins at 4 p.m. for children and 4:30 p.m. for adults.

Admission costs $19 in advance and $20 at the gate. Ages 12 and younger get in free. Parking is free.

Details: www.RenFestInfo.com.

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Will BBC have to sacrifice its independence over Savile scandal?

Crises are nothing new at the BBC, a 90-year-old institution still regarded by many Britons as a ?national treasure? even after embarking last year on a painful process to reshape itself by shedding jobs and cutting budgets.

The latest one revolves around why and how the broadcaster shelved what would have been a bombshell investigation alleging that the late Jimmy Savile ? a ubiquitous and eccentric presence in its light entertainment schedule during the '70s and '80s and a star similar in stature to Johnny Carson ? had been a serial sex offender.

But while broader questions about child protection in British society have been raised by the allegations that Savile was a prolific molester who preyed on both women and girls at locations ranging from hospitals to the BBC's own headquarters, the controversy is also now evolving into a potential catalyst for radical changes to the sacred principles behind how the broadcaster is run.

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As the affair evolved Wednesday into a potential clash between the government and the BBC, experts predicted that the news organization's much-valued ability to act without official interference would come under the spotlight.

?Independence from government is treasured at the BBC,? says Lis Howell, director of broadcasting at the department of journalism in City University, London, who was formerly an experienced journalist and executive at the BBC and other broadcasters. ?But both it and also its management structure are going to be looked at because of what cropped up since the Savile saga.?

Claims that the BBC historically turned a blind eye to accusations about Savile?s behavior are at the core of the controversy, but it has been compounded by the revelation that an investigation into him by the BBC's respected "Newsnight" program was shelved last year, only weeks before the BBC aired a glowing Christmas-time tribute to the entertainer.

George Entwistle, who took over as the BBC?s director general last month but who was the executive in charge of the scheduling that included the Christmas tribute, has denied that the BBC helped cover up any allegations. (Mark Thompson, the BBC's general director at the time and who is slated to become the CEO of The New York Times Corp. in November, has also denied any role in axing the "Newsnight" investigation.)

Yet following Mr. Entwistle?s shaky appearance before a committee of MPs Tuesday, the pressure is ratcheting up on Entwistle and Lord Patten, the head of the BBC Trust.

Patten launched a defense Tuesday of the BBC?s independence after Entwistle?s performance was criticized, telling the government?s media minister in a letter, "I know that you will not want to give any impression that you are questioning the independence of the BBC."

His remarks were criticized Wednesday by Roger Gale, a Conservative MP who was a former producer and director of current affairs programs at the BBC, which is funded out of a television license fee paid by the public.

"BBC management, over far too many years, has sought to maintain an imperious disdain for criticism and it has become clear that successive directors general have, while happy to criticize others for not answering difficult questions, either turned a blind eye to criminal activities or have not known what has been going on on their own doorstep, which is also culpable,? stated Mr. Gale in a press release.

Gale suggested that if "Lord Patten is not able to grasp that, then I fear that not only the director general but also the chairman of the BBC Trust are going to have to fall on their swords."

There is disagreement about whether the Savile controversy has yet to reach the scales of previous controversy at the BBC. Arguably more serious fallout emerged in the past from claims made in 1984 by a BBC investigative program that several Conservative MPs had links to far-right organizations. The BBC was sued by two MPs, one of whom was awarded damages after the BBC withdrew from the case.

There was also the fallout from the 2003 report by a BBC defense correspondent who quoted a government official as stating that the British government had "sexed up" a document concerning weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, against the wishes of the intelligence services. A report by a judge later criticized the correspondent and BBC reporting standards.

But at the very least, a shakeup in the BBC?s management structures appears likely.

?They have this very arcane management structure which says that news editorially has to be separate from other issues like entertainment and topical and factual,? says Ms. Howell.

?It?s very departmental, so you don?t manage across and don?t talk to your opposite number in another department. You go up your own department. It?s like chimneys and that is really going to come under scrutiny now, because it?s very expensive to have all this duplicatory management but also because of what happened with the Savile [Newsnight investigation] last year.?

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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Alternative Medicine for Rheumatoid Arthritis | Umberto Tassoni ...

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Probably the most important dating techniques that provides you with success is that you should comprehend the preferences of one another. Become familiar with the passions, interest and desires of the individual you?re dating. Understanding and reacting positively to those interests and desires allows you to definitely strengthen your relationship and increase the risk of it making it through even difficult challenges.

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?More than 46 million Americans have some form of arthritis or related condition,? said the Arthritis Foundation. Rheumatoid arthritis, which is also known as RA, affects more than 1.3 million people annually between the ages of 25-50. RA strikes women ?
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One More Reason To Love Mindy Kaling: She Fights Heart Disease With Jogging

We're now coming up on almost a full year of Mindy Kaling crushing it when it comes to body positivity and a health outlook toward weight and weight loss. In November of last year, I wrote about how much I loved her honest discussion about diets in her ?umberto tassoni health and fitness  Alternative Medicine for Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Walkathon to mark Arthritis Day

A walkathon in progress on Doha's Corniche to mark the World Arthritis Day yesterday. Nearly 200 people in Qatar joined thousands of others from around the world to raise awareness about rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) during the ?
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Thoughts on this World Arthritis Day

To mark World Arthritis Day, Jamie Hewitt, Government Affairs Manager at the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) peers into Norman Lamb MP's ministerial inbox and takes a look at the forthcoming Long-Term Conditions Outcomes Strategy.
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Israel: Gaza Strike Hit Al-Qaida-Inspired Group

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Israel?s military says its aircraft fired at militants belonging to an al-Qaida-inspired group in Gaza a day after rockets hit a house in Israel.

A military statement said aircraft ?targeted terror operatives? of a ?Gaza-based global jihad affiliate? Saturday evening.

Palestinian health official Ashraf al-Kidra said one man was killed and another injured in the airstrike. Hamas said a security facility was hit, causing no injuries.

A rocket fired from Gaza hit a house in southern Israel on Friday. Nobody was hurt but a bedroom was sprayed with shrapnel.

Israel and Gaza?s Hamas rulers have mostly kept an unwritten truce since a short war almost four years ago. Attacks have persisted but at a slower pace. Gaza militants fired over 40 rockets at Israeli towns this month, the military said.

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Thousands of UK troops to quit Afghanistan in '13

Britain plans to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan next year, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday, as pressure mounts to end British involvement in the costly and unpopular war.

More than 430 British troops have been killed in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led intervention in 2001, yet stability remains elusive and violence high, while relations between Western troops and Afghan forces and civilians are increasingly frayed.

Britain on Sunday said it had charged five soldiers with murder as part of an investigation into what it called an engagement with an insurgent in Afghanistan last year, and that a total of nine soldiers had been arrested in connection with the case.

Some 500 British troops are to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of this year, leaving around 9,000 still there.

Asked about troop withdrawals next year, Hammond told the BBC: "I would expect it will be significant, which means thousands, not hundreds, but I would not expect it to be the majority."

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That would indicate a potential withdrawal of up to 4,500 personnel in 2013.

All British combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

Britain's defence budget, like that of other NATO members, is under pressure, forcing the defence ministry to slash spending and cut force numbers and equipment programs.

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The Treasury, struggling to revive a flagging economy, earlier this year said it would use money once earmarked for the military mission in Afghanistan to fund tax cuts.

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Media reports said the murder investigation was triggered by footage discovered on the laptop of a man who had been serving in Afghanistan of what appeared to be a wounded insurgent and of British soldiers discussing whether to administer first aid.

Seven British marines arrested in Afghanistan murder probe

The ministry said it could neither confirm or deny the reports.

"The Royal Military Police (RMP) has arrested two further Royal Marines on suspicion of murder in relation to an incident alleged to have taken place in Afghanistan in 2011, taking the total number arrests to nine," the ministry said.

"The RMP has referred the cases of the remaining five Royal Marines to the independent Service Prosecuting Authority ... these marines have now been charged with murder," it added.

Video: US troops in Afghanistan mark 9/11 (on this page)

Relations between Western forces and Afghan civilians have been strained in the past year after U.S. soldiers burned copies of the Koran at a NATO base and a U.S. soldier was accused of killing 16 civilians in a rampage in March.

A video surfaced in January depicting U.S. Marines urinating on corpses.

Ties between Western troops and Afghan forces have also deteriorated after a series of "insider" attacks against NATO coalition troops by Afghan soldiers or by militants wearing Afghan military uniform.

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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Thousands March to Fight Breast Cancer | Indiana's NewsCenter ...

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Thousands March to Fight Breast Cancer

October 13, 2012 Updated Oct 13, 2012 at 10:30 AM EDT

FORT WAYNE (Indiana's NewsCenter) - Thousands turned out at Headwaters Park Saturday morning to make "strides" against breast cancer. It was the annual American Cancer Society "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" walk. More than 4,500 walkers were expected to take to the streets of downtown Fort Wayne, to help raise awareness, and to raise money to help in the fight against breast cancer.




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Usher Shatters His Insecure Past In 'Numb' Video

'I felt like a failure, hopeless, paralyzed, numb,' the singer says in his latest clip.
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Wonder Pet Expo Dallas, Oct. 20, 2012 : DogTipper: Saving $ and ...

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If you?ll be in the Dallas area next Saturday, *please* be sure to come by Wonder Pet Expo Dallas and see us! We?ll have a booth at the expo from 9am-6pm and look forward to meeting everyone! We?ll be meeting everyone at our booth, handing out information and doing some big giveaways!

Paris will be speaking from the main stage about ways to save money on all aspects of pet care:

You?ll remember that in September we hosted a booth at Wonder Pet Expo Houston with PrestonSpeaks.com:

Preston, the dog with his own blog, will be at Wonder Pet Expo Dallas, too, and handing out ?pawtographed? cards and his mom, Rachel, will be speaking at the online pet world, from blogging to social media, from the main stage:

The Bonzi and Pinky Show, with dogs that race in small cars to raise awareness of animal abuse and puppy mills, will be performing:

?and there will be many rescues and shelters bringing out adoptable pets! (Over 60 pets were adopted at Wonder Pet Expo Houston?hooray!!)

Other special features of Wonder Pet Expo Dallas include:

  • The Dallas Police Department will amaze the crowd with their K-9 Demos, and pet experts will share exclusive tips on training.
  • The crowd will be wowed by Paws for Applause Dog Agility, a locally owned business in the Dallas area. Paws for Applause Dog Agility will be performing all day.
  • Pet Vaxs will be on hand offering low-cost vaccinations.
  • Kaufman County Animal Awareness Project will be offering discounted micro-chipping.
  • Pet owners can pamper their loved ones with free ?PAW-dicures,? which will compliment the ones who enter the ?Most PAWsome Pet? Pageant, which will be judged in multiple categories.
  • Attendees can also sign up for incredible prizes, drawings and raffles.
  • Derby Doggie Races will be hosted at the event. Registration for the races can be done at the event. These races are people- and pet-friendly.

Watch for a sneak preview of the event on Good Morning Texas, WFAA, between 9 and 10am on Friday morning!

Bring your dog to the Expo with proof of identification and a fixed lead. Wonder Pet Expo will take place at the Dallas Market Hall, 2200 Stemmons Freeway in Dallas from 9am-6pm on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. Admission is free, and parking is free!

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Gov't to allow Indians to possess eagle feathers

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Justice Department said Friday it is going to allow members of federally recognized Indian tribes to possess eagle feathers, although that's a federal crime.

This is a significant religious and cultural issue for many tribes, who were consulted in advance about the policy the department announced.

The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and other federal wildlife laws criminalize the killing of eagles, which are listed as either endangered or threatened, and possession of feathers and bird parts, but the Constitution and federal laws also give tribes local sovereignty for self-government.

Under the new Justice Department policy, tribal members will not be prosecuted for wearing or carrying federally protected birds, bird feathers or parts. They also may pick up feathers found in the wild as long as they do not disturb federally protected birds or nests. Giving, lending or trading feathers or bird parts among tribe members, without any other compensation, also will be allowed.

While Justice did not previously have a written policy, the new directive is in line with long-standing practice by Justice prosecutors, U.S. attorneys and the Interior Department not to prosecute in such circumstances.

But the Justice Department will continue to prosecute tribe members and nonmembers alike for violating federal laws that prohibit killing eagles and other migratory birds or the buying or selling the feathers or other bird parts.

In addition, members of federally recognized tribes are covered by the new Justice Department policy regardless of whether they have a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service permit, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a memo to U.S. attorney offices around the country.

Holder said the new policy was issued to address concerns of tribal members who were unsure of how they might be affected by federal wildlife law enforcement efforts, particularly whether a permit would be required. The Fish and Wildlife Service issues a very limited number of permits for Indians to kill eagles in the wild or obtain feathers and carcasses of accidentally killed eagles from a federal repository.

Doug Craven, the natural resources director for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in Michigan, said tribal members there frequently encounter feathers from around 25 bald eagle nesting sites on their reservation. But it wasn't always clear to them whether they could keep the feathers for ceremonial use or if they'd have to send them off to a repository.

"They feel that's been gifted to them and they have a responsibility for that feather," said Craven, who was part of a group consulting with the Justice Department on the eagle feather policy. "This policy supports that."

While tradition and customs vary widely among the more than 500 federally recognized tribes, a high reverence for eagles is fairly consistent.

Holder said the new Justice Department policy strikes the right balance between enforcing wildlife laws that protect eagles and respecting the cultural and religious practices of federally recognized Indian tribes.

"From time immemorial, many native Americans have viewed eagle feathers and other bird parts as sacred elements of their religious and cultural traditions," said Assistant Attorney General Ignacia Moreno, head of the department's environment and natural resources division. She called the new policy "a major step forward by establishing a consistent and transparent policy to guide federal enforcement of the nation's wildlife laws."

Currently, a federal depository near Denver holds the carcasses of eagles that are killed by contact with power lines or other causes. Indians may apply for a feather or a carcass. There is a wait to get the feathers.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a few permits allowing tribes to kill eagles in the wild. The Hopi Tribe has killed golden eagles under a federal permit for years. The Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming received a federal permit from the Fish and Wildlife Service earlier this year that would allow the tribe to take up to two bald eagles a year for use in the tribe's annual Sun Dance.

However, the Northern Arapaho are suing the Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court. The tribe argues the federal permit is meaningless because it would limit the tribe to killing bald eagles outside the Wind River Indian Reservation, but a Wyoming state law prohibits killing eagles outside the reservation.

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Associated Press writer Ben Neary in Cheyenne, Wyo., contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/govt-allow-indians-possess-eagle-feathers-174536606.html

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Friday, October 12, 2012

Enhancing Study Habits By Making Use of Self-hypnosis

By Ashlynn S. Fernholz

School will probably be starting soon and the common nightly question that parents will be asking their own school age kids is: "Have you done your homework yet?"

The irritating response heard by many parents is often & unfortunately: 'no'. Enhancing study skills can often be a confusing objective for both parents and children. Rather than lack of motivation or intelligence, the problem is often the inability to focus as well as concentrate.

Very few individuals have developed or even understand that improving brain memory, focus, and concentration is a skill that can be mastered.

Typically, insufficient focus and concentration usually has little to do with natural intelligence. Fears and also phobias concerning school, self belief or worth, unexamined dysfunctional learning styles - many of these contribute to the inability to perform well when learning something totally new in class and also life.

Jane (not her actual name) had a severe learning impairment that caused her to totally blank out when taking exams. This also happened whenever she was place to task on essential school work.

What she did not understand was that because of prior programming, she was really using her brain as defense against learning brand new information.

Via testing it was found she actually will alter her brain biochemistry - thus creating a stop - so she would not have to cope with brand new information.

This would occur to Jane every time she was unconsciously triggered by something or somebody in her own atmosphere, including an unforgiving or even insensitive instructor that brought on the distressing event.

Just like what happened to Jane, these types of interferences will keep you from reaching ones full potential.

Imagine if you can become very deeply fascinated as well as absorbed in what you are studying that you'll be able to give your complete attention to what you're doing; preventing everything else that's vying for one's consideration.

What would it mean to be able to reach your *full* potential regardless of past trauma as well as any triggers you run across that cause your concentration and also focus to waiver.

The good thing is that you could really learn to improve study habits and improve memory and concentration via hypnosis.

How's this possible?

Hypnosis is really a process that allows one's brain to re-learn many of the patterns that keep you stuck, useless and also unable to accomplish what you wish to.

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

What does spirituality mean in America today? ? The Immanent Frame

What does ?spirituality? mean in America today, and how can social scientists best investigate it? This paper identifies new approaches to the study of American spirituality and emergent horizons for interdisciplinary scholarship. In contrast to the longstanding sociological practice that identifies spirituality in distinction or comparison to religion, we begin by inquiring into the processes through which contemporary uses of the categories religion and spirituality have taken on their current values, how they align with different types of political, cultural, and social action, and how they are articulated within public settings. In so doing, we draw upon and extend a growing body of research that offers alternatives to predominant social scientific understandings of spirituality in the United States, which, we believe, are better suited to investigating its social, cultural, and political implications. Taken together, they evaluate a more expansive range of religious and spiritual identities and actions, and, by placing spirituality and religion, as well as the secular, in new configurations, ought to reset scholars? guiding questions on the subject of the spiritual.

This paper also highlights methods and orientations that we believe are germane to the concerns and questions that motivated our recent project on spirituality, public life, and politics in America, but that also extend beyond them. It draws into relief the space that has been opened up by recent analyses of spirituality and identifies the new questions and problems that are taking shape as a result. These novel directions in scholarship offer challenging and potentially powerful new ways of understanding the role of both spirituality and religion in shaping American civic and political life. The methods highlighted below do not treat either spirituality or religion as core or stable identities or qualities, nor do they assume that ?spirituality? is in some way to be contrasted or opposed to ?religion? (as in the formula ?spiritual-not-religious?). Indeed, they do not operate on the presumption that ?spirituality? necessarily holds any particular categorical relation whatsoever to ?religion? (cf. Bender 2007; Taves and Bender 2012; Ammerman 2011). Instead, we propose a robust investigation of the historical and contextual specificities of those relations, such as they are enacted in scholarship and in the world. What these methods provide, accordingly, are ways of illuminating the relationships that develop?within particular political, civic, and other settings?between ?religious? and ?spiritual? identities, discourses, and concepts.

But why, first of all, is this subject a significant one? And why does it appear especially pertinent at precisely the present moment? To begin with, growing numbers of ?religious nones,? that is, people who have limited or no religious affiliation yet still claim to believe in some kind of divinity, signal an unprecedented shift in the American religious landscape (Hout and Fischer 2002), and many scholars who have sought to understand this phenomenon have indicated that something like ?spirituality? might capture an important aspect of their outlook, if not their ?identity? (Vargas 2012; Lim, MacGregor, and Putnam 2012; Baker and Smith 2009). We, for our part, certainly agree that this is a socially significant shift. Yet we also note that much of the interpretation and ensuing discussion about the ?religious nones? draws upon and continues to assert uninvestigated understandings of religion and spirituality, where we would argue that the shifts underway should elicit some reconsideration of the terms that are deployed to analyze and interpret this allegedly ?new? phenomenon.

Social scientists frequently juxtapose spirituality to religion and identify the former by way of what it lacks in comparison to the latter. In particular, spirituality would appear to lack institutions, authority structures, community, and even history?all of which are considered integral to religion, such as it is widely understood today. Congregational identity, membership, and attendance are key markers for studies of Americans? religious convictions, and the congregation, therefore, is taken to be an especially important, if not the definitive, site for the political and social mobilization of religious Americans. Against this backdrop, the rising number of ?religious nones? (as well as shifts in congregational styles [see Chaves 2009]) emerge not only as new empirical facts but, insofar as their presence is measured against a norm of voluntary participation, also appear to engender a certain anxiety on the part of the scholars who study them (e.g., Olson 2010; Putnam and Campbell 2010). Though ?religious nones? may be believers, they appear to lack the kinds of social connectivity that are recognizable to scholars, and that the latter have deemed essential to voluntary political participation. Insofar as spirituality emerges as a term associated with such individuals?and one that seems to sound the alarms about the problems of individualism?it appears as either the weak cousin or the crazy uncle of the norm that continues (or that should continue) to endure (see, e.g., Bellah et al. 1985), or as the spark of regeneration and the movement toward a ?new? social order (e.g., York 1995).

Rather than take sides in the debate over the political possibilities of spirituality, we have decided to take a closer look at the way in which it has been framed and mobilized. We observe, for example, that social scientific definitions of religion have been and remain tightly interwoven with ideals of civic participation, putative and legally enforced distinctions between private and public life, the historical development of voluntarism, and discourses of individual and collective rights. ?Spirituality,? in this respect, is often used to mark religious forms that do not ostensibly align with these norms. In other words, it is used to designate what are perceived to be extra-social or anti-social modes of religion, which in turn reinforces norms of both sociality and political mobilization. It is fair to note that this use of ?spirituality? also carries some positive associations, however: some of those who take on a spiritual identity, it is said, are actively choosing to opt-out of political and institutional-religious interactions, in favor of something that they imagine to be more real, more personal, or more authentic than what they understand by religion?or, for that matter, by politics.

By focusing our attention on the emergence of various uses of ?spirituality? and the intersections between its scholarly and public acceptations, we are orienting our investigation toward the relational work that religion and spirituality do in shaping our perception of individual, religious, and political possibilities. We might then ask, for example, how the continued preponderance of an academic discourse on American religion that enshrines voluntarism, religious freedom, and civic participation as essential (and essentially American) virtues determines our view of the spectrum of possibilities for political action. If as a result of closer attention to the phenomenon of spirituality scholars are able to view ?religion? and its intersections with American politics in more complex ways than those sustained by the conventional lore centered on congregational life and voluntarism, the payoff would be significant..

Spirituality, we also note, is challenging to study, not so much because it lacks definition (or a relational counterpart, like ?religion,? to make it meaningful), but because it suffers from an excess of definitions, each of which shapes a particular set of discourses and empirical investigations into various social phenomena. Scholars and journalists, religious and secular people, clergy and laymen, and even politicians invoke spirituality in numerous ways. For example, some identify it as a component of religion (whence people can be both ?spiritual and religious?), which implies a contrast between the two, though it may also suggest that the former is an underlying, universal element that religious communities or individuals draw upon or are inspired by (e.g., Berger 1979). Closely related are descriptive uses that frame ?spirituality? in terms either of emotions or of an ethically developed habitus that may operate both within and outside of formal institutional frameworks (Stanczak 2006; Roof 1993, 1999). Spirituality is also a term that some philosophers have used to gesture toward an unarticulated ?more? (e.g., C. Taylor 2007; Connolly 2005a), and in such cases it takes on the connotation of something relatively inchoate or undefined, yet present and powerful in human life. Others have defined it in a less favorable fashion, conceiving of it as a post-religious and narcissistic drive to self-improvement, in contradistinction to religion, which (unlike spirituality) is able to intervene significantly in matters of the commons (Carrette and King 2004; Ehrenreich 2009; see Mitchell 2010 for a critique). Spirituality?s apparent ubiquity and its multiple meanings, but also its oft supposed ?self-evidence,? make it difficult to employ with precision either as a descriptive term or as the index of a particular type of subject. Sometimes this fuzziness makes spirituality seem weak and limited in its effects, while at other times this same fuzziness lends it a sheen of pervasive and untapped power. Even those who appear to endorse or embrace this or that articulation of spirituality give vent to such concerns (e.g., E. McAlister 2010; van der Veer 2009; Connolly 2010). In short, the efflorescence of spirituality?its multiple concurrent uses and interpretations?makes it difficult to identify what spirituality is or to classify the people who identify themselves through it, let alone to understand its effects.

Much of the ?problem? of analyzing spirituality in the social sciences emerges from and reflects the perpetually unresolved business of defining and understanding religion. But the question of whether spirituality is categorically distinct from, somehow connected to, or merely a weak mirror of ?religion? bespeaks, above all, the sclerotic scholarly and ?religious? framing and boundary-marking that, whether for strategic or analytical purposes, distinguishes the category of religion from some things while associating it with others?in ways often belied by empirical observation (Bender 2012a). We do not believe that investigations of spirituality will settle the definitional issues that continue to shape social scientific discourse about it, and we do not plan in this paper to offer a definition of what spirituality ?is? or what it ?does.? Rather, having observed that recent work on spirituality has paid very little attention to its history (either as a term of scholarly investigation or as a set of experiences in the world), to the relationships that it connotes (between itself and religion, as well as other things to which it is or may be compared), or to the broader landscape in which the arguments about spirituality and politics take on relevance and force, we advance an approach that demands that these problems be placed front and center in any analysis, in such a way that new studies of spirituality (and religion) maintain the critical and analytical depth that is called for in this moment of apparent religious change.

Read the full SSRC Working Paper ?Mapping a Field: Why and How to Study Spirituality? (pdf).

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Bender, Courtney. (2012). What does spirituality mean in America today?. Retrieved October 10, 2012, from The Immanent Frame Web site: http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2012/10/10/what-does-spirituality-mean-in-america-today/

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Bender, Courtney. 2012. What does spirituality mean in America today?. The Immanent Frame. http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2012/10/10/what-does-spirituality-mean-in-america-today/ (accessed October 10, 2012).

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Samsung announces Galaxy S III mini: 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 1GHz dual-core CPU, NFC

Samsung announces Galaxy S III mini: 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 1GHz dual-core CPU, NFC

Samsung has just announced the Galaxy S III mini, a 4-inch David version of its Goliath big brother -- will it be worthy of its name? The rumor mill churned out that it might be a dumbed down version, but an oblique comment by mobile head JK Shin suggests otherwise -- either way, we're on the scene in Frankfurt, Germany to give you the long (and short) of it. According to the spec sheet we just received, this Android 4.1 phone features a dual-core 1GHz chip (which is good news for the 1,500mAh battery), 1GB RAM, 8 or 16GB of internal storage plus an extra 32GB maximum via microSD. The 4-inch Super AMOLED screen comes with a WVGA resolution, while the main camera takes five-megapixel photos plus 720p video, and there's a VGA front-facing camera as well for fans of video chats. There's obviously the usual bundle of radios as well, including 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, GPS, GLONASS, FM radio, Bluetooth 4.0 (LE) and even NFC, but for now, this 111.5-gram TouchWiz device will only support HSPA 900/1900/2100 networks along with EDGE 850/900/1800/1900.

Update: Our hands-on with the phone is live!

Richard Lai contributed to this report.

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Morning Round-Up: Thursday 11 October | Legal Cheek

"If you ever call me again on my cell phone, I'll strangle you": Angry judge blasts lawyer in high-profile murder case [ABA Journal]

Family of Herbert Smith solicitor lawyer killed in 2002 Bali bombings still fighting for justice [Evening Standard]

Oxford law student: ?new students should seek education, not satisfaction? [Independent Voices]

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Graphene membranes may lead to enhanced natural gas production, less CO2 pollution

ScienceDaily (Oct. 8, 2012) ? Engineering faculty and students at the University of Colorado Boulder have produced the first experimental results showing that atomically thin graphene membranes with tiny pores can effectively and efficiently separate gas molecules through size-selective sieving.

The findings are a significant step toward the realization of more energy-efficient membranes for natural gas production and for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plant exhaust pipes.

Mechanical engineering professors Scott Bunch and John Pellegrino co-authored a paper in Nature Nanotechnology with graduate students Steven Koenig and Luda Wang detailing the experiments. The paper was published Oct. 7 in the journal's online edition.

The research team introduced nanoscale pores into graphene sheets through ultraviolet light-induced oxidative "etching," and then measured the permeability of various gases across the porous graphene membranes. Experiments were done with a range of gases including hydrogen, carbon dioxide, argon, nitrogen, methane and sulphur hexaflouride -- which range in size from 0.29 to 0.49 nanometers -- to demonstrate the potential for separation based on molecular size. One nanometer is one billionth of a meter.

"These atomically thin, porous graphene membranes represent a new class of ideal molecular sieves, where gas transport occurs through pores which have a thickness and diameter on the atomic scale," said Bunch.

Graphene, a single layer of graphite, represents the first truly two-dimensional atomic crystal. It consists of a single layer of carbon atoms chemically bonded in a hexagonal "chicken wire" lattice -- a unique atomic structure that gives it remarkable electrical, mechanical and thermal properties.

"The mechanical properties of this wonder material fascinate our group the most," Bunch said. "It is the thinnest and strongest material in the world, as well as being impermeable to all standard gases."

Those characteristics make graphene an ideal material for creating a separation membrane because it is durable and yet doesn't require a lot of energy to push molecules through it, he said.

Other technical challenges will need to be overcome before the technology can be fully realized. For example, creating large enough sheets of graphene to perform separations on an industrial scale, and developing a process for producing precisely defined nanopores of the required sizes are areas that need further development. The CU-Boulder experiments were done on a relatively small scale.

The importance of graphene in the scientific world was illustrated by the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics that honored two scientists at Manchester University in England, Andre K. Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, for producing, isolating, identifying and characterizing graphene. Scientists see a myriad of potential for graphene as research progresses, from making new and better display screens and electric circuits to producing tiny biomedical devices.

The research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation; the Membrane Science, Engineering and Technology Center at CU-Boulder; and the DARPA Center on Nanoscale Science and Technology for Integrated Micro/Nano Electromechanical Transducers at CU-Boulder.

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  1. Steven P. Koenig, Luda Wang, John Pellegrino, J. Scott Bunch. Selective molecular sieving through porous graphene. Nature Nanotechnology, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.162

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