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Thursday, January 31, 2013
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U.N.'s Ban decries "horrors" in Syria, urges end to war
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Denouncing "unrelenting horrors" in Syria's war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed on Wednesday for an end to the violence and more aid to address a situation he said was catastrophic and worsening by the day.
"How many more people will be killed if the current situation continues?" Ban said, addressing a donors conference in Kuwait aimed at raising money for U.N. humanitarian work.
"I appeal to all sides and particularly the Syrian government to stop the killing ... in the name of humanity, stop the killing, stop the violence," the U.N. leader said.
Syrian opposition activists said at least 65 people were found shot dead with their hands bound in the embattled northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, the latest reported massacre over the course of 22 months of conflict.
They blamed militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, while the government blamed the Islamist rebel Nusra Front. It was impossible to confirm who was responsible given Syria's restrictions on access for independent media.
More than 60,000 people have been killed in all, according to a U.N. estimate, since the conflict began as a peaceful movement for democratic reform and escalated into an armed rebellion after Assad tried to crush the unrest by force.
An official of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a grouping of six Gulf Arab states, said a total of $1 billion had been pledged at the meeting by midday, after promises of $300 million each from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
The United Nations warned on Monday that without more money it would not be able to help millions of Syrians and appealed for donations at the aid conference to meet its $1.5 billion target.
Four million Syrians inside the country need food, shelter and other aid and more than 700,000 more are estimated to have fled to countries nearby.
SCALE OF CRISIS ESCALATES
King Abdullah of Jordan told the gathering that Syrians had taken refuge in his country in their hundreds of thousands but Amman's ability to help was at its limits. "We have reached the end of the line, we have exhausted our resources," he said.
U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said that Syrian agriculture was in crisis, hospitals and ambulances had been damaged and even painkillers were unavailable.
Harsh winter weather had made matters worse, and people lack winter clothes, blankets and fuel, with women and children particularly at risk, she said, adding:
"We are watching a human tragedy unfold before our eyes."
The conference was seeking pledges of $1 billion of aid for Syria's neighbors hosting refugees and another $500 million to fund humanitarian work for 4 million Syrians afflicted by the civil war inside the country.
The aid would fund operations for the first half of this year, but the United Nations has so far received pledges covering just 18 percent of the target, unveiled last month as the scale of Syria's humanitarian crisis escalated sharply.
Even if pledges are made, aid groups have found in the past that converting promises into hard cash can take time.
Nevertheless, there was early positive news for the gathering when the oil-rich states of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE each pledged $300 million in aid.
Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, told the meeting "horrifying reports" of violence had raised questions about Syria's future and aid efforts had to be redoubled.
SEXUAL VIOLENCE, DETENTIONS
But Ban said much more remained to be done. "The situation in Syria is catastrophic and getting worse every day," he said.
"Every day Syrians face unrelenting horrors," he said, including sexual violence and detentions.
Iran, a close ally of Assad, said the blame for the humanitarian crisis lay with opposition fighters who had come to Syria from abroad.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said the government and its Syrian opponents should "sit and talk and form a transitional government".
"Those who are causing these calamities are mercenaries who have come to Syria from outside the country," he said. For an interactive timeline on Syria, please click on http://link.reuters.com/rut37s
(Reporting by Sylvia Westall, Ahmed Hagagy, Sami Aboudi, Mahmoud Habboush and Mirna Sleiman; Writing by William Maclean; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sixty-five-people-executed-syrias-aleppo-activists-062658435.html
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Zuck: Facebook Will Grow Headcount Quickly In 2013 To Develop Future Money-Making Products
On Facebook's earnings call today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a strong statement about the company's further investment in product development, especially those products that are making money for the company.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/RYujLq1emIg/
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10 Things to Know for Thursday
Police vehicles are staged near where a gunman has positioned himself below ground with a child hostage, in Midland City, Ala. on Wednesday Jan. 30, 2013. Authorities were locked in a standoff Wednesday with a gunman authorities say on Tuesday intercepted a school bus, killed the driver, snatched a 6-year-old boy and retreated into a bunker at his home in Alabama. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, Mickey Welsh)
Police vehicles are staged near where a gunman has positioned himself below ground with a child hostage, in Midland City, Ala. on Wednesday Jan. 30, 2013. Authorities were locked in a standoff Wednesday with a gunman authorities say on Tuesday intercepted a school bus, killed the driver, snatched a 6-year-old boy and retreated into a bunker at his home in Alabama. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, Mickey Welsh)
Thorsten Heins, CEO of Research in Motion, which is changing its name to BlackBerry, introduces the BlackBerry 10, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 in New York. The maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is promising a speedy browser, a superb typing experience and the ability to keep work and personal identities separate on the same phone, the fruit of a crucial, long-overdue makeover for the Canadian company. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
FILE - This 1942 file photo shows singer Patty Andrews, the last survivor of the three singing Andrews sisters, who has died in Los Angeles at age 94. Andrews died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at her home in suburban Northridge of natural causes, said family spokesman Alan Eichler. (AP Photo, File)
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday:
1. A WINDOW INTO HOW GIFFORDS IS FARING
She gives powerful testimony before Congress on gun control, despite some speech and other physical problems.
2. ISRAELI WARPLANES STRIKE WITHIN SYRIA
The Syrians say a military research center was hit ? but many observers believe the Israelis targeted a shipment of weapons bound for Hezbollah.
3. WHAT SHAPED HAGEL'S MILITARY VIEWS
On the eve of his confirmation hearing, the defense secretary nominee says his experience fighting in Vietnam will inform his decisions.
4. INSIDE THE ALABAMA GUNMAN'S BUNKER
Underground hideaway at the center of a hostage drama outfitted with electricity, TV and foodstuffs.
5. HOW A WEEK OF UNREST HAS WEAKENED EGYPT'S PRESIDENT
Morsi is now facing opposition from liberals and ultra-conservatives alike.
6. WALL STREET GIVES NEW BLACKBERRY A LUKEWARM RECEPTION
Some investors think the smartphone makeover may not be enough to turn the company's fortunes around.
7. FABLED CITY'S PAPERS SAFE
Islamist extremists damaged or stole only a limited number of rare African manuscripts before fleeing Timbuktu, contrary to earlier reports.
8. WHY IT'S NOT CALLED 'SEXERCISE'
One activity you thought might be doing you some good and burning extra calories probably isn't.
9. LAST OF THE ANDREWS SISTERS DIES
Patty Andrews outlived LaVerne and Maxene. The trio captured the home-front spirit of World War II with their swing-era hits.
10. BET ON IT: BALTIMORE WILL WIN THE SUPER BOWL
The AP's Barry Wilner favors the Ravens because of their tough defense and underappreciated QB, Joe Flacco.
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No. 20 New Mexico beats Wyoming 63-59
Posted at: 01/30/2013 9:14 PM | Updated at: 01/30/2013 9:16 PM By: Joseph Lynch, KOB Eyewitness News 4 The Jetsons or maybe Star Wars is the first thing you think of when you think ...
Lawmakers debate PRC standards
But unlike a typical board member, a PRC commissioner often acts more like a judge with meetings structured more like court proceedings. In fact, PRC rulings are appealed to the New Mexico Supreme ...
Obama to take gun agenda on the road
The president will meet with locals, area officials and law enforcement in Minneapolis to discuss his proposals, which he laid out two weeks ago after Vice President Joe Biden and other ...
Local students learn lessons about texting and driving
Posted at: 01/30/2013 6:57 PM | Updated at: 01/30/2013 7:01 PM By: Eddie Garcia, KOB Eyewitness News 4 Some Albuquerque students were actually asked Wednesday morning to text and ...
Bullying wounds lead to ER police call
CLOVIS, N.M. (KRQE) - A New Mexico mom said her fifth-grade son was bullied so badly on the playground he ended up at the hospital where police were called. Melissa Jackson also claims teachers ...
Study for film tax breaks long overdue
SANTA FE (KRQE) - As Gov. Susana Martinez and lawmakers go head to head again on whether to increase tax breaks for the movie industry, there is a study that could help them decide what should be ...
Trial starts in Albuquerque for Robert Flores in death of his baby girl
LAS CRUCES - A trial for the Las Cruces man charged with the death of his baby girl started in an Albuquerque courtroom Wednesday, more than five years after the infant suffocated inside a laundry ...
Legalizing taxing marijuana could create $100M in revenue NM senator says
"We're foolish to keep trying to spend all this public money stopping it when we could be regulating it, making sure it wasn't abused, and also using it as a way of gaining ...
Amtrak train hits kills teen
Bernalillo police are calling the crash an accident and said the teen likely had no idea what was about to hit him. Police said the teen may have been using headphones when he was ...
State ed cuts may cost extra millions
SANTA FE (KRQE) - The potential loss of tens of millions of dollars in federal education funding over something the state did got the attention of the Senate Finance Committee in Santa Fe ...
Farmington police look for missing man
He was last seen in Farmington on February 22nd, possibly driving a gold colored Chevy Malibu with Colorado plates. Call police if you have any ...
Police 3 shot at Ariz. office complex
This frame grab provided by abc15.com shows the scene at a Phoenix office complex where police say someone shot at least three people on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (AP ...
OMI not able to identify bone fragments
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - The office of the medical examiner was not able to determine the identity of the person whose partial skeletal remains were found near Elephant Butte Lake in 2011. The ...
State senator wants to legalize pot
SANTA FE (KRQE) - A state Senator wants voters to decide if New Mexico should legalize marijuana. But first, he has to get the proposal through the legislature and opponents are already trying to ...
Dog reunited with Kentucky owner after being recovered in New Mexico
Jan. 30, 2013: Mandi Smith, of Fort Campbell, Ky.,is reunited with her dog, Pooka at the Albuquerque International Sunport Airport in Albuquerque, ...
NMSU basketball player Watson accused of brutally beating man at party
LAS CRUCES - Enraged by the apparent sight of a stranger dancing with his girlfriend at a weekend house party, New Mexico State University basketball player Tyrone Watson picked up the man, another ...
A couple stops in Las Cruces as they ride across America for Parkinsons disease awareness.
Members of the Parkinson's Disease Support Group of Southern New Mexico standing from left to right, Jon Roberts, Arnold Devins and Honey Devins welcome Lynn and Roy Roden on Wednesday just ...
Crash injures bicyclist visiting Las Cruces as Habitat for Humanity volunteer
LAS CRUCES - A 69-year-old man visiting Las Cruces to volunteer with a local Habitat for Humanity build was struck by a vehicle Wednesday afternoon in a bizarre crash as he bicycled along Hadley ...
NM lawmaker begins drive to reform NMSU UNM governing boards elect some regents
SANTA FE - Two proposed constitutional amendments that would change the way university regents across New Mexico are selected were introduced Wednesday in the state House of Representatives. The ...
International reading conference coming to Las Cruces
LAS CRUCES - The New Mexico International Reading Association will present "Literacy For All," a conference focusing on professional development for educators and the general public Feb. 8 ...
Family vows support for Albuquerque teen murder suspect
ALBUQUERQUE - Relatives of a New Mexico teen facing charges in the slayings of his parents and three younger siblings said Tuesday they are refusing to give up on the boy and are vowing to support ...
Family NMSU student plans to file charges against Aggie basketball...
LAS CRUCES - Family of the New Mexico State University student beaten at a weekend party said Wednesday that he plans to file charges against his alleged attacker, an Aggie basketball player.While ...
Source: http://www.albuquerquenews.net/index.php/sid/212247953/scat/d867a54a6fc00b3b
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Blackberry Z10 UK pricing revealed: all devices 4G-ready, free on ?36 per-month contracts
Liked what you saw? Even happier then, as a Brit, you'll likely be getting your hands on it months before your US cousins. UK networks have started to announce availability for the handset, with EE, O2, Three and Vodafone already confirmed to be stocking the Z10. Retailers that will also be selling the new BB10 hardware in the British Isles include Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U.
Retailer Phones 4U will launch both color options (exclusively, at least initially) although it hasn't ventured a contract-free price just yet. The Carphone Warehouse, meanwhile will be offering the Z10 free on contracts of £36 per month on the major networks.
Vodafone will offer the Z10 for £29 on the £42 a month Red Data plan, including unlimited calls and texts as well as 2GB of internet. It'll be free on the £47 a month variant of plan, or cost £69 one-of payment on the £37 per month plan. Three UK hasn't revealed any details beyond that it'll be stocking the handset.
While all Z10 devices sold will be ready for 4G, according the Waterloo crew, the BlackBerry Z10 will be available to utilize EE's existing 4G service immediately. The price? It'll be £50 on a £41 per-month 24 month package, with 1GB of mobile data, as well as unlimited UK calls and texts. No word just yet on whether Orange and T-Mobile will be offering cheaper bundles later. We'll update here when we hear more pricing details from the other players.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, RIM
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/30/blackberry-z10-uk-pricing/
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Press Publish 4: Trei Brundrett on how Vox Media has built a web ...
It?s Episode 3 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest this week is Trei Brundrett, the VP for product and technology at Vox Media.
Vox is the publisher of the sports site SB Nation, the tech site The Verge, and video game site Polygon, and it?s one of my very favorite online media companies. I love that they?re ambitious on content ? building a quality mix of short and long, user-generated and pro-generated, aggregated and original ? and that they?re ambitious on technology. And they make money. To me, Vox feels like one of a very few online media companies that is both native to the web and invested in some traditional values about quality. They?re worth watching, even if you have no interest at all in sports, tech, or video games.
Trei started out in the world of politics and helped build SB Nation to the point that it could evolve into Vox. When Adweek named him to its Adweek 50 (?the people who make the machinery of media, marketing and technology hum?), this is what they said about him:
Under Brundrett?s direction, Vox Media has evolved into one of the most agile Web-based publishers. Building a proprietary content management platform, his technology powers the journalists of The Verge, Polygon and over 300 SB Nation fan-created media properties. Focused on functional and design-rich technology, Brundrett and Vox have pushed past conventional Web design with efforts such as StoryStream, which populates a writer?s updates in real time to provide an organized and intuitive history of complex breaking news.
We had a good, wide-ranging conversation about Vox?s evolution and where it?s headed in 2013. Give it a listen, and I hope (if you haven?t already) you?ll subscribe to Press Publish in the podcast app of your choice.
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@clockwerks, Trei on Twitter
Trei?s resume
Vox Media
SB Nation, Vox?s sports site
The Verge, Vox?s tech site
Polygon, Vox?s gaming site
Vox Media 2012 By the Numbers (185 employees; 389,692 pieces of content; 35,412,480 comments)
Chorus, Vox Media?s proprietary backend
Vox Media?s product team blog
Markos Moulitsas
Jerome Armstrong
Tyler Bleszinski
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.)
Ryan Gantz
Daily Kos
Daily Kos? diaries
Trei in an Astros hat
Scoop CMS
Slashdot
Rusty Foster
?For once, Nick Denton seems pleased with Gawker?s commenting system?
Canal Street Chronicles, an example of a SB Nation community site
Jim Bankoff, Vox CEO
Content management systems
Nieman Lab stories on Jim Bankoff and Vox
An example of a SB Nation player page
An example of a Verge product page
An example of a Polygon game page
An example of The Verge?s product comparison tool
The Verge?s features page
Vox Product blog: ?An inside peek into the Polygon design process?
An example of a templated, less-?designed? feature: ?After Aaron: how an antiquated law enables the government?s war on hackers, activists, and you?
An example of a more designed feature: ?For Amusement Only: the life and death of the American arcade
An example of a Verge review (of the iPad mini)
Source?s interview with Vox staff on building the arcades feature
A few videos from Vox Studios, Vox?s ?in-house creative and production group? that does work for both editorial and business-side
An episode of ?90 Seconds on The Verge,? the site?s daily video briefing
An episode of ?On The Verge,? the site?s late-night-talk-show-style program, hosted by Josh Topolsky, with example of an integrated sponsorship from Ford (go to 45:50)
The New York Times? Snow Fall package
An example of a SB Nation Storystream, on the Pro Bowl
SB Nation United, the site?s recent rebranding and visual unification
The Atlantic?s Scientology sponsored-content snafu
SB Nation?s Marines sponsored-content package
SB Nation user SDCat09, who has left 227,399 comments (at this writing)
?How We Moderate Here On SB Nation?
The Verge iPhone app
Editable comments
The Verge?s iPad mini liveblog
An example of a Vox review that?s been revised over time
Photo by @nivshah used under a Creative Commons license.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Electronic Arts revenue dropped in third quarter
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc reported lower revenue for the third quarter as the video game industry continued to struggle with flagging sales and experienced a weak holiday quarter.
Electronic Arts revenue fell as the console game business has "been extremely soft" as the industry waits for next-generation versions of Sony Corp's PlayStation and Microsoft Corp's's Xbox to boost software sales, Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen said.
"Also just a soft economy in Europe and America, that in combination with a weak title in 'Medal of Honor' dragged down our revenue for the quarter below what we thought it would be," Jorgensen said.
For the three months ended December 31, the company posted net revenue of $922 million, compared with $1.06 billion a year ago. It reported a net loss of $45 million, or 15 cents per share, compared with $205 million, or 62 cents per share a year ago.
Adjusted revenue fell 28.5 percent to $1.18 billion from a year ago, short of analyst estimates of $1.29 billion, according to Thomson-Reuters I/B/E/S. Adjusted earnings per share of 57 cents was slightly above Wall Street's expectation of 56 cents per share.
Shares of Electronic Arts were down 1.8 percent at $14.80 in after-hours trading, after closing at $15.08 on Wednesday.
(Reporting By Malathi Nayak)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/electronic-arts-revenue-dropped-third-quarter-221109218--sector.html
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Chevron Paid $10 Million in Claims Following Refinery Fire
Chevron U.S.A. has paid approximately $10 million in claims to compensate area hospitals, affected community members and local government agencies since its August fire at a refinery in Richmond, Calif., according to an update by the company released this week.
* On Aug. 6, 2012, a fire broke out due to a piping rupture at the oil refinery in Richmond, the report stated. Due to a high level of sulfur dioxide released with the emission, residents of Richmond, San Pablo and North Richmond were advised to stay indoors until the fire was controlled.
* Other materials released into the air from the fire include methane, non-methane hydrocarbon, hydrogen sulfide and nitric oxides.
* The Contra Costa Health Services website reported that a large number of people sought medical attention at local emergency rooms, mostly for minor complaints of nose, throat or eye irritation and respiratory issues. Three individuals were admitted to the hospital, Chevron stated.
* Some minor employee injuries were also reported with the incident, including burns, abdominal discomfort, respiratory irritation, blisters and bruises, the company stated.
* Air sampling in the surrounding area on Aug. 7-8 showed that the concentrations of hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide were below detection limits, the company stated.
* According to the company, a claims process was established in order to compensate community members for medical and property expenses that occurred because of the fire. As of Jan. 21, the company says about 23,900 claims have been initiated and it has paid $10 million in compensation.
* Chevron stated this week that its investigation of the incident is ongoing and that it is working with multiple governmental agencies to discover what caused the leak in the piping system that led to the fire.
* The Associated Press reported in early January that federal investigators believe that firefighters may have accidentally damaged the pipe while trying to put out a small flash fire that had been caused by a leak in the line. The larger damage in the pipe would have released more gas, and could have led to the larger fire.
* According to Reuters, Chevron -- the second-largest U.S. oil company -- is planning to bring the Richmond refinery back to full production this quarter. Even though it posted decreased refining input in the third quarter of last year because of the fire, the company's worldwide output was the was the highest it has been since mid-2011 at the end of the year.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chevron-paid-10-million-claims-following-refinery-fire-223900981.html
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New semiconductor research may extend integrated circuit battery life 10-fold
Jan. 30, 2013 ? Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, international semiconductor consortium SEMATECH and Texas State University have demonstrated that use of new methods and materials for building integrated circuits can reduce power -- extending battery life to 10 times longer for mobile applications compared to conventional transistors.
The key to the breakthrough is a tunneling field effect transistor. Transistors are switches that control the movement of electrons through material to conduct the electrical currents needed to run circuits. Unlike standard transistors, which are like driving a car over a hill, the tunneling field effect transistor is more like tunneling through a hill, says Sean Rommel, associate professor of electrical and microelectronic engineering.
"The tunneling field effect transistors have not yet demonstrated a sufficiently large drive current to make it a practical replacement for current transistor technology," Rommel says, "but this work conclusively established the largest tunneling current ever experimentally demonstrated, answering a key question about the viability of tunneling field effect transistor technology."
Rommel worked with David Pawlik, Brian Romanczyk and Paul Thomas, three graduate students in the microelectronic engineering and microsystems engineering programs at RIT. Along with colleagues from SEMATECH and Texas State University, the team presented the breakthrough findings at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco this past December.
In order to accurately observe and quantify these current levels, a fabrication and testing procedure was performed at RIT. Pawlik developed a process to build and test vertical Esaki tunnel diodes smaller than 120 nanometers in diameter, Rommel explains. This procedure allowed the researchers to measure hundreds of diodes per sample. Because of the nanometer-scale devices tested, the researchers were able to experimentally observe currents substantially larger than any previously reported tunneling currents.
Esaki tunnel diodes, discovered in 1957 and the first quantum devices, were used to create a map showing output tunnel currents for a given set of material systems and parameters. For the first time, researchers have a single reference to which they can compare results from the micro- to the mega-ampere range, Rommel adds.
"This work may be used by others in designing higher performance tunneling field effect transistors which may enable future low power integrated circuits for your mobile device," he says.
The team's findings in the area of developing high performance, low-power electronic devices are also detailed in the paper, "Benchmarking and Improving III-V Esaki Diode Performance with a Record 2.2 MA cm2 Current Density to Enhance Tunneling Field-Effect Transistor Drive Current." The National Science Foundation, SEMATECH and RIT's Office of the Vice President of Research sponsor the work.
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esamoti908: Coat Closet Reveal + Duct Tape & Do-Overs Linky Party
Scroll down for the Duct Tape & Do-Overs Linky Party!
It's time for the big reveal! ?My husband and I have been working hard on our Coat Closet Makeover and it's finally done! ?WOO HOO!!!
Before I give you the grand tour, let me refresh your memory of the nasty mess we were living with before the makeover. We had a mix of coats, keepsakes, craft supplies, and random items thrown in there with no rhyme or reason. ?I couldn't stand it any longer, so I came up with a plan and my awesome hubby got to work building what I wanted. ?Once he finished building, it was my turn to organize. ?That's my favorite part!We now have an organized and beautiful closet that has room for everything we need! ?Let me show you around:
On the left, we have hooks lining the wall to hang coats, and a Mini Utility Bin on the shelf to hold scarves, gloves, and other cold weather accessories. ?Below the shelf is another set of hooks where I now hang my Organizing Pack that holds my camera gear and my Cindy Tote, which I take to work everyday. ?The plastic bin on the floor holds all of our reusable grocery bags.
Now let's check out the right side:
The very top shelf that goes all the way across the closet houses seasonal craft supplies. ?The top shelf on the right side now holds all of our family photo albums, which were previously in a big cardboard box on the floor of this same closet. ?It's so nice to have them out where we can look through them any time we want.
The middle shelf houses all of our games. ?These were in boxes in the basement. ?Now they are at our fingertips, so we can use them more often! ?As a matter of fact, just this past Sunday night, we had a family game night because Marley was so excited to have her games back! The bottom shelf and the floor space below house cleaning supplies and dog items. ?I'm using an Organizing Utility Tote for all of my cleaning supplies. ?I can grab and go to clean the whole house, then replace the bag in the closet when I'm finished. ?The Medium Utility Bin on the floor holds all of the dog towels, flea spray, leashes and brushes.
This is such a huge improvement! ?I open the door every time I walk by now, even if I don't need anything out of the closet, just so I can admire the space. ?It makes me happy!
For tips on organizing any space in your home, check out these posts. {The organizing containers and bags mentioned in this makeover are all from Thirty-One. ?You can view the full catalog HERE.}Now it's time to share your Before & After projects!
You can link up anything you have revamped, fixed up, made better, improved, organized, or just made plain fabulous! ?I can't wait to see your goodness!!!
Rules:
- Link up your blog post, not your home page please!
- Grab the button below, or include a text link to One Tough Mother in your post.
- Visit one or two other links and leave some comment love!
- NO giveaways, linky parties, Etsy shops please!
I'm partying here:
Monday: Sew Can Do, The Girl Creative, Boogieboard Cottage, Keeping It Simple, Skip to My Lou, Craft-O-Maniac, Lines Across, The Dedicated House, Kathe With An ETuesday: Cedar Hill Ranch, Sugar Bee Crafts, Not Just a Housewife, Reasons to Skip the Housework, Today?s Creative Blog, Carolyn?s Homework, The Kurtz Corner, The Winthrop Chronicles, Mercy Ink, Funky Polkadot Giraffe, Naptime Creations, Lil Ms Tori
Wednesday: Trendy Treehouse, Night Owl Crafting, My Girlish Whims, Ginger Snap Crafts, Southern Lovely, Sugar and Dots, The DIY Dreamer, seven thirty three
Thursday: The Shabby Creek Cottage, Somewhat Simple, The 36th Avenue, A Glimpse Inside, House of Hepworths, The ArtsyGirl Connection, Mom on Timeout
Friday: Fingerprints on the Fridge, Simply Designing, Happy Hour Projects, Craftionary, Too Much Time on My Hands, One Artsy Mama, Six Sisters? Stuff, Just Us Four, Tatertots and Jello, My Favorite Finds, The Grant Life, Becoming Martha
Weekends: Family Ever After, Crafty Scrappy Happy, Under the Table and Dreaming, Be Different Act Normal, Lovely Crafty Home, Nifty Thrifty Things, Life on Lakeshore Drive
Source: http://onetoughmom.blogspot.com/2013/01/coat-closet-reveal-duct-tape-do-overs.html
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First mobile app for green chemistry fosters sustainable manufacturing of medicines
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Mention mobile applications, or mobile apps, and people think of games, email, news, weather, productivity and other software for Apple, Android and other smart phones and tablet computers. But an app with broader impact the first mobile application to foster wider use of the environmentally friendly and sustainable principles of green chemistry is the topic of a report in the American Chemical Society's new journal, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
Sean Ekins, Alex M. Clark and Antony Williams point out that the companies that manufacture medicines, electronics components and hundreds of other consumer products have a commitment to work in a sustainable fashion without damaging the environment. That's the heart of "green chemistry," often defined as "the utilization of a set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical products."
Their article describes a guide on doing so for solvents, key ingredients in processes for making medicines. Some traditional processes generate 25-100 times more waste than the chemical they are making (e.g., pharmaceuticals). The solvents guide was developed by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute's Pharmaceutical Roundtable, a group of 14 pharmaceutical companies. The Green Solvents mobile app version of the guide for Apple devices covers 60 different solvents and is available online at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/green-solvents/id446670983?mt=8, and the Lab Solvents app for Android devices is available online at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mmi.android.labsolvents.
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Mention mobile applications, or mobile apps, and people think of games, email, news, weather, productivity and other software for Apple, Android and other smart phones and tablet computers. But an app with broader impact the first mobile application to foster wider use of the environmentally friendly and sustainable principles of green chemistry is the topic of a report in the American Chemical Society's new journal, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
Sean Ekins, Alex M. Clark and Antony Williams point out that the companies that manufacture medicines, electronics components and hundreds of other consumer products have a commitment to work in a sustainable fashion without damaging the environment. That's the heart of "green chemistry," often defined as "the utilization of a set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical products."
Their article describes a guide on doing so for solvents, key ingredients in processes for making medicines. Some traditional processes generate 25-100 times more waste than the chemical they are making (e.g., pharmaceuticals). The solvents guide was developed by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute's Pharmaceutical Roundtable, a group of 14 pharmaceutical companies. The Green Solvents mobile app version of the guide for Apple devices covers 60 different solvents and is available online at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/green-solvents/id446670983?mt=8, and the Lab Solvents app for Android devices is available online at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mmi.android.labsolvents.
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White House petitions: Huge response, headache too
WASHINGTON (AP) ? No, the U.S. will not be building a Death Star. And no, President Barack Obama will not deport CNN's Piers Morgan or let Texas secede.
These are just a few of the wacky notions the White House has been compelled to formally address in recent weeks, part of an effort to put open government into action: the First Amendment right to petition your government, supercharged for the Internet age.
Now, as the Obama administration kicks off its second term, it's upping the threshold for responding to Americans' petitions from 25,000 signatures to 100,000, a reminder that government by the people can sometimes have unintended consequences. In this case, a wildly popular transparency initiative has spawned a headache of the administration's own making.
The idea, announced in 2011, was simple: Engage the public on a range of issues by creating an online platform to petition the White House. Any petition garnering 5,000 signatures within 30 days would get an official review and response, the White House said. Dubbed "We the People," the program was touted as an outgrowth of the "unprecedented level of openness in government" Obama vowed to create in a presidential memorandum issued on his first full day in office in 2009.
The response was overwhelming, and a month later, the Obama administration increased the threshold to 25,000 signatures, calling it "a good problem to have." The White House cautioned at the time that it might not be the last time the rules of the program would be changed.
The petitions continued to flood in, ranging from serious pleas for judicial reform and gay rights to sillier appeals to ban baseball bats and give Vice President Joe Biden his own reality TV show.
Many of them, as Internet phenomena are wont to do, went viral.
"The administration does not support blowing up planets," Paul Shawcross, the science and space chief for Obama's budget office, wrote in response to a petition suggesting construction of a Star Wars-style Death Star start by 2016.
More than 34,000 people appended their name to that petition.
"This petition led millions of Americans to read about the president's efforts to ensure American students have the science and technology education they will need to compete for jobs in the 21st century," said White House spokesman Matt Lehrich, noting that hundreds of thousands clicked links in the response to learn more about Obama's policies.
Some of the petitions that met the 25,000-name threshold, like one requesting the White House beer recipe, offered Obama opportunities for positive publicity on terms the White House could control. Others forced the administration to formally respond to issues it would rather ignore.
When Piers Morgan, a British-born CNN host, delivered a hot-blooded diatribe advocating gun control in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., tragedy, more than 109,000 people took to the White House website demanding that Morgan be deported. Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, nixed that idea in a response noting that the Second Amendment doesn't trump the First. A list of more than 125,000 names requesting permission for Texas to secede from the union was similarly given a thumbs-down.
The terms of the program give the White House broad latitude to decline to address certain petitions, especially those dealing with law enforcement or local matters ? a provision the White House has invoked at least eight times. A petition to disinvite pop singer Beyonce from performing at Obama's inaugural was removed from the site; the page in its place says the petition violated the terms of participation.
And so it was that the White House, days before the start of Obama's second term, announced it was increasing the threshold a second time, to 100,000 signatures. Figures released by the administration illustrated the astounding interest in the program: almost 9.2 million signatures on more than 141,000 petitions; more than 162 official responses; and two in three signers saying they found the White House response to be helpful.
"Turns out that 'good problem' is only getting better, so we're making another adjustment to ensure we're able to continue to give the most popular ideas the time they deserve," wrote Macon Phillips, the White House director of digital strategy.
Whether the petition initiative and the official responses will, in the long run, be deemed an effective use of White House resources remains to be seen. Another unknown is whether signing the petitions, aside from giving impassioned citizens a chance to be heard, has any effect on how Obama governs. Many petitions call for actions that Congress, not the president, would have to take.
The White House says that the petitions frequently have a real impact on policy and that the deluge of visits to the White House website means added opportunities for Obama to engage directly with Americans.
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FIFA warns Brazil against delays in WCup prep
By Anthony Boadle
updated 6:18 p.m. ET Jan. 28, 2013
BRASILIA (Reuters) - With just 500 days to go until the 2014 World Cup kicks off in Brazil, soccer's world governing body FIFA warned that the hosts cannot afford any further delays in getting their venues ready.
The global soccer tournament, followed by the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro two years later, will test Brazil's aspiration to become a developed nation. But delays in building stadiums and preparing hotels and airports to receive more than half a million soccer fans could turn the event into an embarrassment.
In June Brazil will host the eight-nation Confederations Cup, a dress rehearsal for the World Cup.
FIFA has twice agreed to push back the handover deadline of four of the six stadiums to be used in the Confederations Cup and FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke warned on Monday that there will be no further extension beyond the April 15 delivery date.
"We cannot go beyond this date. There cannot be any further delays. All the stadiums must be ready by then," Valcke said after inspecting work on the new Man? Garrincha stadium in Brasilia, where Japan play Brazil on June 15 in the opening game of the Confederations Cup.
Despite the warning, the giant Maracana stadium which will host the finals of both the Confederations Cup and the World Cup will not meet FIFA's deadline as its owner, the state government of Rio, has already said it will not be ready until the end of May.
The Man? Garrincha stadium in Brasilia is 87 percent complete and builders are working round the clock to erect steel trestles that will hold up the roof covering 70,000 seats at the second largest of the 12 stadiums to be used in the World Cup.
Even at completed venues there is still work to be done.
Valcke could not make any calls on his cell phone at the Arena Castelao in the northern city of Fortaleza, where the first of Brazil's 2014 World Cup stadiums to be ready held its first matches on Sunday.
The FIFA official signed an agreement with Brazil's communications ministry on Monday committing Brazil to add cell phone antennas and other communication systems around the 12 World Cup stadiums.
"There will be a 4G level of communication all around the country," Valcke told reporters, before leaving Brasilia for Salvador, where the Fonte Nova stadium is 90 percent complete.
There are still concerns about the Recife stadium, which is 83.6 percent complete according to contractor Odebrecht, and the Maracana is only 80 percent ready and the furthest behind schedule.
Maracana should have reopened in February after its $450 million renovation but delays have forced a postponement.
Venue of the 1950 World Cup final, in which Uruguay upset hosts Brazil in an unforgettable decider, Maracana was once the world's largest stadium packing crowds of up to 200,000 people.
The upgraded stadium, with a reduced capacity of 76,000 spectators, is due to reopen on June 2 with a friendly between Brazil and England.
A nightclub fire that killed 231 people in southern Brazil on Sunday raised security concerns in Brazilian sporting venues but Valcke rejected any connection to soccer.
"It has nothing to do with football, nothing to do with stadiums," he said. FIFA and Brazil will train security staff to make sure venues can be evacuated "in less than a few minutes," Valcke said.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle and Jeferson Ribeiro, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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ZTE V81 tablet shows up in website ahead of MWC, touts 8-inch display and Jelly Bean
Not quite content with the release of its Grand S earlier this month, ZTE looks to be preparing a new tablet to go along with that aforementioned flagship handset. The V81 -- which will presumably make its official debut at this year's Mobile World Congress -- is, according to the company's own website, said to be boasting an 8-inch (1,024 X 768) display with a dual-core, 1.4GHz CPU (mum's the word on chipset specifics), 1GB RAM and 4GB of internal storage that can be expanded to up to 32GB via microSD. Speaking of which, other listed incisions include a full-size USB and HDMI, while a 3,700 mAh battery and Android Jelly Bean are also part of the relatively decent spec sheet. Naturally, pricing and availability details are still slim, but it shouldn't be too long before we learn more on that front -- in the meantime, there's a gallery filled with V81 press shots after the break for you to peruse over.
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Berries may be healthful, but some health benefits of berries may not make it past your mouth
Jan. 28, 2013 ? Research has suggested that compounds that give colorful fruits their rich hues, especially berries, promote health and might even prevent cancer. But for the first time, scientists have exposed extracts from numerous berries high in those pigments to human saliva to see just what kinds of health-promoting substances are likely to survive and be produced in the mouth.
It's too early to name the best berry for health promotion based on this initial work. But the researchers have discovered that two families of pigments that provide berries with their colors, called anthocyanins, are more susceptible to degradation in the mouth than are the other four classes of these pigments.
The Ohio State University study also showed that bacteria living in the mouth are responsible for most of the breakdown of these compounds that occurs in saliva. Researchers are investigating whether it's the berry pigments themselves, or instead the products of their degradation, that actually promote health.
Scientists say that these early findings will contribute to the further development of confectionaries, gums and other delivery devices for the prevention and possibly the treatment of conditions such as periodontal disease and oral cancers.
The researchers exposed extracts of anthocyanin pigments from blueberries, chokeberries, black raspberries, red grapes and strawberries to the saliva collected from 14 people. Black raspberries, in particular, have been shown in numerous previous studies to have chemopreventive effects on tumors in the mouth, esophagus and colon, mostly in animal studies. Their high anthocyanin content has been linked to those benefits.
"All fruits are unique because their chemical composition, or fingerprint, varies," said Mark Failla, professor of human nutrition at Ohio State and interim chair of the Department of Human Sciences. "There are many different edible berries. Some might be better for providing health-promoting effects within the oral cavity, whereas others may be more beneficial for colonic health. We simply do not know at this time.
"Increased intake of fruits and vegetables is associated with decreased risk of some chronic diseases. An understanding of the metabolism of these compounds, and the relative activities of the compounds in the consumed fruit and their metabolic products, is needed to make scientifically sound dietary recommendations and to develop effective delivery vehicles for the mouth," Failla said.
The research is published in a recent issue of the journal Food Chemistry.
Failla and colleagues asked 14 healthy individuals between the ages of 21 and 55 years to collect saliva in the morning before they had eaten breakfast or brushed their teeth. Research participants later collected additional saliva samples before and after they had rinsed their mouths with an antibacterial liquid.
The five fruits selected for study allowed the scientists to test the six distinct families of the anthocyanin pigments. Researchers purified the anthocyanins from each berry type and added the extracts to saliva.
The extent of the pigment degradation in saliva was primarily a function of the chemical structure of a given anthocyanin, said Failla, also an investigator in Ohio State's Comprehensive Cancer Center and Food Innovation Center.
Two families of anthocyanins consistently degraded when exposed to saliva: delphinidin and petunidin. Four other families were more stable: cyanidin, pelargonidin, peonidin and malvidin.
"Our observations suggest that the bacteria within one's oral cavity are a primary mediator of pigment metabolism. The bacteria are converting compounds that are present in the foods into metabolites," Failla said. "One area of great interest is whether the health-promoting benefits associated with eating anthocyanin-rich fruits like berries are provided by the pigment itself, the natural combinations of the pigments in the fruit, or the metabolites produced by bacteria in the mouth and other regions of the gastrointestinal tract."
There is context for this study that further complicates the understanding of anthocyanins' benefits. Multiple studies have led to the conclusion that anthocyanins themselves are very poorly absorbed by the body.
"If anthocyanins are the actual health-promoting compound, you would want to design food products, confectionaries and gels containing mixtures of anthocyanins that are stable in the mouth. If, on the other hand, the metabolites produced by the metabolism of anthocyanins are the actual health-promoting compounds, there will be greater interest in fruits that contain anthocyanins that are less stable in the oral cavity," Failla said. "We lack such insights at this time."
The extent to which the anthocyanins were degraded varied among the 14 people whose saliva was used in the study. However, two families of anthocyanins consistently degraded the most in all volunteers. Failla said the observed variation among individuals is likely related to differences in the microbial community that resides in each person's mouth.
This research group is continuing the work, examining which bacteria are most involved in the metabolism of anthocyanins and testing the stability of the pigments in berry juices in the mouths of human volunteers rather than in test tubes containing their saliva.
This work was supported in part by the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center.
Co-authors include Kom Kamonpatana of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Nutrition; Monica Giusti and Ken Riedl of the Department of Food Science and Technology; Chureeporn Chitchumroonchokchai of the Department of Human Nutrition; and Maria MorenoCruz and Purnima Kumar of the Department of Periodontology, all at Ohio State. All but MorenoCruz are also investigators in the Food Innovation Center.
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- Kom Kamonpatana, M. M?nica Giusti, Chureeporn Chitchumroonchokchai, Maria MorenoCruz, Ken M. Riedl, Purnima Kumar, Mark L. Failla. Susceptibility of anthocyanins to ex vivo degradation in human saliva. Food Chemistry, 2012; 135 (2): 738 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.04.110
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