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Beverley?s Mitchell?s Blog: When I Nest, I Nest
In her latest blog, a 39-weeks-pregnant Mitchell writes that she hopes for just a bit more time to finish the nursery ? and shares her maternity portraits.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
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PFT: Browns won't release McCoy, may trade him
Getty ImagesFormer NFL quarterback Jeff Garcia working with Jets starter-for-now Mark Sanchez seems like a legitimate opportunity for a man well-versed in the West Coast Offense to share his wisdom.
Throw in JaMarcus Russell, and it sounds like a punch line that?s looking for a joke.
But Garcia said he was impressed with the work Sanchez was doing, as he gets used to the changes new offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg is bringing to the Jets.
?He?s doing an excellent job ? the progress Mark has made over the past three weeks is definitely very positive,? Garcia told Jim Corbett of USA Today. ?It shows Mark is committed to bettering himself and getting himself more mentally prepared.
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?The most important thing for Mark is to take that tough season last year as a learning experience from the standpoint of how he can get better and give his team the best chance to win. That has to be done in terms of being confident in his ability to run this system and speak the language correctly. So now when he takes the field in OTAs, he?ll be in that much more comfortable of a place.?
Garcia?s a good tutor for the system, and he threw for career-best numbers under Mornhinweg?s tutelage in San Francisco in 2000.
?Marty and I communicated a few weeks ago [about] what he?d like to introduce to Mark,? Garcia said. ?Mark is definitely getting more comfortable speaking the West Coast terminology. He had a brief glimpse of the West Coast system at USC.
?The toughest thing is this will be Mark?s third offensive coordinator in six seasons. The guy has had to learn a new system just about every other year. From a consistency standpoint, that just doesn?t translate to success in the NFL. You really need to be secure in what you?re doing mentally in order to compete at the highest level.?
Speaking of which, Garcia said Russell?s trying to get in shape for a pro day in a month or so, hoping to get another chance.
?Granted his back is against the wall,? Garcia said of the former first-overall pick. ?This is a situation where if he doesn?t do it now, it may never happen. But if you look at where he was two months ago to where he is today, he?s come a long way in demanding more out of himself than he ever did.?
If he had done that the first time through, he might not be a reclamation case.
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Mike Kuhn: Riding, Race Promotion, and the Economic Power of ...
Barry Wicks at the 2012 TSE. Photo via TSEpic.com
A lot of people love cycling. For one reason or another, it?s a sport that lends itself to obsession. Mike Kuhn has been showing his love and obsession with over two decades of riding, racing, race promotion, and advocacy. He?s perhaps best known for putting on the Transylvania Epic, a seven day mountain bike stage race in the heart of Pennsylvania. He?s also the man behind IronCross, an endurance cyclocross race, along with many more road, cross, and mountain bike races through the years. And though two decades of race promoting is inarguably an example of giving back to the bike community, Mike is also heavily involved in trail advocacy. He and Transylvania Epic co-founder Ray Adams launched a nonprofit The Outdoor Experience Organization in 2009 to raise funds for mountain bike trail building, maintenance, documentation and outreach in Pennsylvania. I had the chance to speak with Mike about his history in bike racing, the rapid growth of the Transylvania Epic and endurance racing, his vision to revive a small PA mining town with a high-quality trail network, and more.
What?s your background in riding and racing?
I got into riding just before college, so about 23 years ago. I raced for the Bucknell cycling team in school. After college I didn?t know what to do, so I raced more and more. I got pretty good and got to tour around and race in different parts of the country. I was more road focused at the time, but was still mountain biking.
It was in college that I promoted my first event. I enjoyed that experience and had the opportunity to hold some races on my in-laws? farm. We?ve got a 100 acre farm and we?ve been putting on events for 15 years out there. I just love this sport; I love all the parts of the sport.
It was maybe 15 years ago that I heard about Trans-Germany, one of the first mountain bike stage races. That planted a seed for me that very slowly germinated into the Transylvania Epic.
Were you organizing mountain bike races on the family farm?
Yeah, we were doing mountain bike races. Through the years I?ve done a little bit of everything with promoting and racing. Cross, road, mountain bike. The farm has been a spot for both mountain biking and cyclocross racing.
One of the first mid-Atlantic cyclocross events was held there. That?s going back 10 years. We?ve had a stage race there. Now we have the International Intergalactic Global Open Mountain Biking Relay Championship of the Multiverse. And we have a cross version of that too. You?re pretty much allowed to call yourself whatever kind of championship you want and I think we?ve covered all the bases. I believe it makes the winners of the event the undisputed champions of everything. So we?re stoked to have that at the farm in little Marysville, Pennsylvania.
Tell me about getting Transylvania Epic off the ground. You mentioned you were inspired 15 years ago to create a stage race, how did it go from there to reality?
I?d seen some of those very early endurance races. I think there was a Tour VTT. Trans Germany was one of the early one. I know how good the riding is in Pennsylvania.
The East Coast gets a little shortchanged sometimes, but I knew we have thousands and thousands of miles of trails and dirt roads that are world class.
Over the intervening years we started a team called Visit PA. It was sponsored by the Department of Tourism. It was a pretty successful team for a while. I got into that with a good friend of mine Ray Adams. We ran the team and as the team was running out its course, we got to talking about trying to launch this multi-day stage adventure in PA.
We obviously had pretty good contacts with the Department of Tourism. And they expressed some interest in it. The original idea and approach was going to be much different than what we have right now. This was the year before the economy crashed and we were in talks with the State to have a more standard-model mountain bike stage race. You have tent cities and you move from place to place each stage. The economy fells apart, the impetus dried up very quickly for that kind of race, and we had to reevaluate where we were.
It took a bit of scrambling to figure out how to do the race. We looked around the state to figure out the best place to hold the race. State College has, since the dawn of mountain biking, been an integral place in PA for the sport. The early Coburn races, the first 100 mile races with the Wilderness 101. Those style events have been going on there for a really long time and there?s a wonderful network. There?s an incredible club up there, the Nittany Mountain Bike Association.
So we found this scout camp outside of State College, called the Seven Mountains Scout Camp from the Juniata Boy Scout Council. It is right smack-dab in the middle of amazing trails. We?ve been able to stretch the race to seven days, returning to the camp every night. The stages are 25-45 miles, with very little repetition throughout the week. It?s a real wonderful resource to have all that stuff in one place.
The event is great. People love coming to camp there. They love the camaraderie that a week of mountain bike adventures brings. They say it?s kind of like the summer camp experience they remember from their early teenage years, translated to mountain biking plus with beer. It?s just really fun.
You sort of just hit on why Transylvania Epic is succeeding. But, it?s been impressive how much its grown over the course of just a few years, from a relatively-small event with mostly regional-level pros to one with an international draw. Why do you think the race has grown so quickly?
We work hard at it and that?s part of it. It?s a year-long process to pull the thing together, or more. I?m already working on 2014 and we?re still a few months out from the 2013 race.
We?ve developed some wonderful relationships with out partners. NoTubes has been incredible right from the get go. Dirt Rag has been a big supporter. PacTimo, too. All these guys who came on board early. Hammer Nutrition have been wonderful. It?s evident the kind of support they?re giving when you come to the event and see the things we?re doing.
BMC came on board this year. SRAM and Answer Products did too. Having that kind of support from the industry has been huge. We?ve also developed some great press relationships, in addition to Dirt Rag. We push that hard and it develops the exposure for the event, but also the participants. These guys come, they love what they?re doing. The word of mouth has been really good. But also, for someone like Jeremiah Bishop or Amanda Carey who come out and do the event, they?re getting eight or nine days of national and international level coverage for themselves and their sponsors.
It?s kind of all built on itself. Those guys want to come and get that exposure. It helps us produce press for the event that people want to read, that helps us tell the story of the event. And people think its fun. They come out and enjoy themselves. Even the international caliber pros, they love to ride their bikes and that?s what they?re doing and the story spreads.
I think the key to our success is that it?s really, really fun. I keep coming back to it, but it?s the fun you have in a week of mountain biking on great trails.
Mike with a racer at the 2010 TSE. Photo via thesecretlifeofadirtdiva.com
Endurance racing in general seems to be blowing up these days, with lots of former cross country racers focusing on longer events. What?s so appealing about 100+ miles days of offroad racing?
I think it?s the adventure. The word?s been overused, but it?s the epic feeling you get from being out there for four hours or 24 hours or a few weeks if you?re doing a race like the Great Divide. There?s a different atmosphere around the events that lends to their success. There are people there for the experience and the adventure and that makes the atmosphere a little more fun perhaps. People are more willing to hang out afterwards. It?s not just come in, race for an hour or two, go home. It?s more culture, it?s more tribe, it?s more soul; however you want to say it, that?s a really appealing part to the endurance stuff.
It?s suffering just like anything. If you go hard and you go long it?s going to hurt, and that appeals to people. All of us doing endurance sports are a little strange that way.
Also, the challenge is there. If you?ve been racing, and especially if you?ve been racing cross country for a long time, you get to the point of wondering what else you can do with your bike. We?re seeing the same thing happen with cyclocross, too. People have these bikes that are awesome. It?s really fun to do cyclocross, it?s a wonderful sport. But you race for a while and you start wanting to see what else is out there. That?s why the gravel-style events are taking off. That?s why the ultracross series and our event Iron Cross are picking up. It?s the next step for a lot of people.
I understand you?re involved in an effort to build a new trail network near Harrisburg. Tell me about that project.
When we founded Transylvania, we founded it to raise funds for nonprofit the Outdoor Experience Organization to do trail enhancements and creation in Pennsylvania. Everyone who?s coming to TSE, sponsors who support it; they are helping with this mission of making more and better trails in PA. One area we?re particularly interested in working on is outside of a town called Lykens. Lykens is an old mining town, coal mining. The extraction companies left in the early 80s. The town has survived, but doesn?t have the feel that it once did.
There is an IMBA Epic trail called the Rattling Creek Trail Network outside of Lykens. It?s got about 30 miles of really great stuff. We put on the Rattling Offroad Weekend there in August. A lot of people consider it the best endurance course on the east coast. I think that speaks very highly to its appeal.
The problem is, it?s not connected to Lychens or the other towns in this valley. It?s not connected to the town and there?s a lot of people in the town that don?t even maybe realize there?s this wonderful resource there. We see a lot of potential to help the town of Lykens and the Lykens Valley move into a recreation based economy, or at least have an economic engine from outdoor rec. So that?s our goal, to make the trail connections in the Valley; hopefully have some other towns come on board.
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is excited about this. They have several tracts of land that they?re interested in having us use to expand the network. We think we can at least double the mileage of trails and create green and blue level cross country trails. A lot of what?s up there right now I?d consider blue to black XC. There?s potential for some flow trails. There?s a lot of elevation there that hasn?t been utilized that we can do some really cool things with.
Hopefully we can create a major East Coast destination out of this. There?s a possibility here to connect these towns in such a way that you could start in one, ride to the next one for lunch. There?s a rail-trail going in so that family can come out and you can do some riding with them. It?s a major goal of ours to do everything we can to make this happen. We?re working with Lykens to do a feasibility study for them. We?ve had a professional trail builder come in and take a look. We?re starting to get input from different user groups about what they would like to see.
It seems like this sort of conversation about the economic impact of cyclists is happening more and more these days. It?s mostly been in the context of long-distance bike tourists who ride through small towns and spend money. Have you heard about other trail network projects having an impact on rural towns?
It?s certainly been proven in a few places. In Colorado, Leadville is good example of a place that?s had a lot of success with event-based recreation. It?s helped to attract other users. The events they hold there bring in thousands of people a year, which has done a wonderful job of driving that economy. There?s the Bailey Hundo in Pine, Colorado. They are working really hard in a similar mode. These Colorado towns and some others out west have a similar story. It was an extraction economy for a long time and so what?s there may not be developable.
In Lychens, much of the land is tied up in watershed property, DCNR property, and PA State Gamelands property, so it?s not going to be developed. It?s old coal mining so it?s maybe not great for a whole lot of other uses. You drive into this valley and there?s nothing but these two ridges on either side of it. It could be a playground for outdoor recreation.
Raystown, which is about two hours up the road from Lychens, was a very successful project. It?s kind of unique in that those trails sit by themselves. There is no town next door to it. But the studies being done are showing that within one to two years, the project, which cost three-quarters of a million dollars has paid for itself in increased revenue in the area from recreational spending. And it?s primarily mountain bike use on those trails at Allegripis.
I think the evidence is out there that this works. It?s more than just putting in the trails. There has to be a plan for the trails, a plan for the marketing, a plan for the maintenance. Unfortunately it?s not just build it and they?ll come. But as you go down that road and you put on some events there and get the marketing, it can work really, really well.
Is there anything else you want to say about your work, your racing, your mountain biking?
I don?t know if there?s a whole lot to add there, but I will tell you about one thing we?re getting ready to do with Transylvania. As I mentioned, we brought BMC in as a sponsor this year. They?re doing some very cool stuff for the event. The thing I?m most excited about is they?re donating a bike we?re going to raffle off. You?ll be able to buy tickets at events throughout the year and on the website, TSEpic.com. It?s going to be a 2014 model, same level that the team?s riding, which is the TE02 or FS02 model. And we?re going to couple that with entry to the 2014 Transylvania Epic. And proceeds are all going back into trail networks. It?s an opportunity to come do a fantastic event, maybe get a really cool bike out of it, and contribute to some really good things happening with mountain biking here in the state.
Source: http://www.thebicyclestory.com/2013/03/mike-kuhn/
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
The Truth Behind the 'Biggest Cyberattack in History'
Is it "the biggest cyberattack in history"? Or just routine flak that network-security providers face all the time?
News websites across the Western world proclaimed Internet Armageddon today (March 27), largely due to a New York Times story detailing a "squabble" between the spam-fighting vigilantes at Spamhaus and the dodgy Dutch Web-hosting company Cyberbunker.
"Fight Jams Internet," the Times headline said. "Global Internet slows," the BBC proclaimed in the wake of the Times' story. Both websites alleged that Netflix streaming was slowing down as a result.
The reality is less exciting, though still serious. The Internet disruptions, which were centered in Western Europe, appear to be largely over, and were largely unnoticed even when occurring.
But, if anything, the incident may prompt a fix for a basic security flaw in the Domain Name System that serves as one of the underpinnings of the Internet.
"Despite the work that has gone into making the Internet extremely resilient, these attacks underscore the fact that there are still some aspects of it that are relatively fragile," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at San Francisco-based network-security provider nCircle.
Too much information
Cyberbunker appears to be behind a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that first tried to first take down Spamhaus, then Spamhaus' network-reliability provider CloudFlare, and finally this past Saturday (March 23) hit CloudFlare's own bandwidth providers in Europe.
Boston-based Akamai Networks told the Times, and Spamhaus told the BBC, that the last round of attacks peaked at 300 gigabits per second, possibly the largest amount of bandwidth ever recorded during a DDoS attack.
According to a CloudFlare blog posting, the attack was launched on March 18 and immediately involved a tactic called DNS amplification, in which unprotected Domain Name System (DNS) servers are used to flood targeted servers with huge amounts of useless information, tying up bandwidth and processing time.
The attacks increased in volume during the week, finally peaking on Saturday when, according to CloudFlare, half of the infrastructure on the London Internet Exchange, an Internet node connecting several large-scale networks, was tied up by the attack. (CloudFlare is based in Palo Alto, Calif., but runs a global network.)
DNS servers are essentially the phone books of the Internet. Every Internet-connected device, from your computer to your smartphone, uses them to match a website address that humans use, such as "www.technewsdaily.com," with an Internet Protocol address that computers and routers use, such as "207.86.128.60."
DNS servers are essential, yet many remain "open," which means they will accept lookup requests from anyone, not just their specified clients.
Attackers make lookup requests using the IP addresses of their targets, then request tons of information, which ends up flooding the targeted servers with huge amounts of DNS information.
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Did two wrongs make a bigger wrong?
Spamhaus, a group of related companies based in London and Geneva, was started in 1998 to track and combat email spam and spammers. It maintains a blacklist of Web-hosting companies known to host spammers, and a whitelist of known "clean" Web hosts.
Both lists are used by Internet service providers around the world, and Spamhaus is partly responsible for the huge drop in email spam in recent years.
Some Web-hosting companies have complained they've been unfairly placed on the Spamhaus blacklist. Spammers have launched DDoS attacks against Spamhaus' website and servers. (There's even a "Stophaus" website based in Russia and dedicated to combating what it calls Spamhaus' "underhanded extortion tactics.")
It appears Cyberbunker has both complained and attacked.
Cyberbunker bases its operations in a decommissioned NATO bunker, built to withstand a nuclear war, in the southern Netherlands. The company was founded in 1998 by a group of hackers who proclaimed the "Republic of Cyberbunker," a sovereign state "surrounded by the Netherlands on all borders."
The company pledges not to ask questions about what its clients are up to.
"In most cases we have no idea as to who or where our customers actually are," the Cyberbunker site proclaims. "Customers are allowed to host any content they like, except child porn and anything related to terrorism. Everything else is fine."
Such a policy has attracted some unsavory clients, including the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, and, according to Spamhaus, the cybercrime gang known as the Russian Business Network. Cyberbunker also claims to have been raided by a Dutch police SWAT team, which apparently found nothing incriminating on the premises.
It was Cyberbunker's alleged hosting of spammers that caused Spamhaus to place both Cyberbunker and its ISP on the Spamhaus blacklist in the fall of 2011.
As a result, Cyberbunker's ISP dropped it as a client, but both the ISP and Cyberbunker posted long manifestos about why Spamhaus was evil.
The issue seems to have lain dormant until March 18, when a false Anonymous campaign called "Operation Stophaus" was proclaimed on the online bulletin board Pastebin.
It listed a litany of complaints against the "tax-circumventing self-declared Internet terrorists" of Spamhaus, then added a variant of the Anonymous "We Are Legion" tagline.
That posting may have been cover for the DDoS attacks that began the same day. In a statement to the New York Times, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, who claimed to speak for Cyberbunker, and whose Google+ page gives his residence as "Republic Cyberbunker," affirmed that the Dutch hosting company was behind the attacks.
"Nobody ever deputized Spamhaus to determine what goes and does not go on the Internet," Kamphuis told the newspaper. "They worked themselves into that position by pretending to fight spam."
It's hard to see how such an attack can be legally justified. The Netherlands has famously lax laws governing the Internet and other digital communications, but odds are Cyberbunker will be facing another SWAT raid very soon.
Fixing a hole
For his blog posting, CloudFlare's Matthew Prince used the headline "The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet." That's not entirely accurate, since the problems were rather localized.
However, the attack may prompt an overhaul of the DNS system. Prince and others have been vocal about the need to lock down most or all DNS servers so they no longer respond to lookup requests from anyone.
That move would go against the model of openness and accessibility that's guided the Internet for 40 years. The idea has always been that any Internet-connected device can reach any other using any path, and open DNS servers are essential to that model.
But the problem of DNS-amplified attacks has been growing exponentially in just the past few months.
The ongoing attacks against U.S. bank websites which began last September use the tactic, and have reached 100 Gbps at times.
If this week's unrelated attacks truly did hit 300 Gbps, the end to the open-DNS server model may be inevitable.
This story was provided by TechNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience. Follow Paul Wagenseil?@snd_wagenseil. Follow us?@TechNewsDaily,?Facebook?or?Google+.
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FX network to start a younger-skewing channel, FXX
NEW YORK (AP) ? FX is spinning off a new cable network aimed at young adult viewers.
Launching Sept. 2, FXX will join big brother FX along with the movie-oriented FXM. All three networks will share the same sensibility, FX Networks president John Landgraf said in making the announcement Thursday. It's a mindset summed up by the brand's new tagline, "Fearless."
"All told, the three networks will air 25 original series in the next few years," he added, calling that figure comparable to any of the major broadcast networks.
The lineup for FXX will consist of original series, movies and acquired series targeting adults 18 to 34, a slightly younger demographic than the 18-to-49 audience FX attracts, Landgraf said. FXX will initially be available in 74 million TV homes.
The new channel will be anchored by the comedies "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "The League," two veteran series that until now have originated on FX. In addition, "Legit" will move to FXX, as well as the FX late-night series "Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell," which will expand to a five-nights-per-week schedule.
Coming to FX this July is a new drama series titled "The Bridge." Starring Demian Bichir and Diane Kruger, it centers on two detectives hunting down a killer operating on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border.
The pilot for another future series, "Tyrant," will be directed this summer by two-time Oscar winner Ang Lee.
And FX's first limited series will be "Fargo," inspired by the acclaimed 1996 film of the same name. This 10-episode drama, which will tell an all-new story, will be executive-produced by the film's creators, Joel and Ethan Coen.
In another announcement, the company said that, this fall, FX Networks will launch its FXNOW app, allowing cable and satellite subscribers to access programming from the FX suite of channels.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fx-network-start-younger-skewing-channel-fxx-153217187.html
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Cypriots fear run on banks as branches prepare to reopen after almost two weeks
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Employees of the Bank of Cyprus frown as they demonstrate outside the main office of the bank in Nicosia on Tuesday.
By Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Correspondent, CNBC
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Anguished Cypriots fear a run on banks when branches on the tiny tax haven reopen for first time in almost two weeks on Thursday.
Since March 16, customers have only been able to withdraw limited amounts of cash from ATMs after banks closed to allow Cypriot officials and European leaders to hammer out a 10-billion euro ($13-billion) rescue meant to avert a chaotic national bankruptcy.
The banks in Cyprus are set to reopen after 11 days of being closed as a measure to prevent a run on deposits during the country's financial crisis. Millions in cash is on the move tonight as people camped out in expectation. ITV's Emma Murphy reports
However, some believe the deal will instead push the country further into economic crisis as thousands of bank employees lose their jobs. The country's unemployment rate is about 14 percent.
Under the terms of the EU bailout, accounts of more than 100,000 euros ($128,460) at the islands' two biggest banks will be frozen. Depositors with accounts at Laiki Bank, which is being liquidated, won't get paid for years and won't get all of their money back. CNBC sources estimate those with bank accounts in Laiki above 100,000 euros could lose 40 to 70 percent of their deposits.
Deposits above 100,000 euros with the Bank of Cyprus will be frozen and 40 percent of each account will be converted into bank stock. Accounts in both banks with balances under 100,000 euros will be fully protected.
Many Cypriots say they do not feel reassured by the bailout deal and are expected to besiege banks as soon as they open their doors Thursday.
"We have an uncertain future in in Cyprus," said Chris Sofroniou, as he waited in an ATM line in Nicosia. "There's uncertainty in our future in our children, and we are very, very disappointed with the European Union. We are being treated like third-class citizens and we are very, very angry."
A spokeswoman for the island's central bank said banks would not reopen until 12 p.m. local time (6 a.m. ET) on Thursday, according to Reuters.
The spokeswoman said banks would open their doors between midday and 6 p.m. (1600 GMT). The Cypriot authorities are expected later on Wednesday to detail the capital controls they plan to impose to prevent a flight of funds.?
The last-minute deal was reached Monday, just hours before the EU was due to cut off the country?s financial lifelines.
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A woman walking past a boarded up branch of the Bank of Cyprus branch in Nicosia on Wednesday.
The agreement ended a week of protests in Cyprus, long lines at cash machines, and a tense geopolitical standoff after European officials made the unprecedented demand that ordinary Cypriot savers share in the cost of any bank bailout.
Cyprus promoted itself as an offshore financial haven by making depositing money there attractive to foreigners. The result? A financial sector that dwarfed the rest of the economy.
Without that deal, Cyprus? banks would have collapsed, dragging down the economy and potentially pushing it out of the euro zone.
'Extremely unfair'
While the country?s president, Nicos Anastasiades, called the deal ?painful? but essential, Nobel laureate economist Christopher Pissarides said the bailout was ?extremely unfair to the little guy.?
?For the first time in the euro zone, depositors are (being) asked to bail out failing banks," he said. "Now that used to be the case in the 1930s, especially United States (and) caused big bank runs. It has been decided since then that we shouldn?t allow that to happen again.?
As Cyprus celebrates its Independence Day, the ?government is defending the last-minute bailout deal it's negotiated with the European Union. This means shutting down the country's second biggest bank, with big savers facing ?losses. ?ITV's Emma Murphy reports.
Finance Minister Michael Sarris said that the government was implementing measures to halt a run on the banks when they opened on Thursday, although he did not go into detail, according to Reuters.
It isn?t only bankers and the wealthy who are angry, however. On Wednesday, around 3,000 high school students protested the plan agreed to with the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank.
"They've just got rid of all our dreams, everything we've worked for, everything we've achieved up until now, what our parents have achieved," a student named Thomas told Reuters.?
So as Cyprus waited to see what Thursday would bring, citizens mourned what they saw as the end of an era.?
?It?s the destruction of the country,? Cypriot Aristos Sardi said. ?Who they think they are? For this country the colonial days finished in the 1960s.?
?I am heartbroken,? he added.
NBC News' F. Brinley Bruton, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Related:?
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This story was originally published on Wed Mar 27, 2013 11:00 AM EDT
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Blind cave-dwelling fish also hard of hearing
Sound detection worse in animals living in the dark than in their surface-living cousins
Sound detection worse in animals living in the dark than in their surface-living cousins
By Puneet Kollipara
Web edition: March 27, 2013
Cave fish of the species Typhlichthys subterraneus (shown) and Amblyopsis spelaea are not only blind but also partially deaf, researchers have found.
Credit: Dante Fenolio
Blind fish that spend their lives in dark, underwater caves have lost a huge chunk of their ability to hear, scientists report in the March 27 Biology Letters. Two of the fish species studied could not hear high-pitched sounds.
?I was really surprised,? says study coauthor Daphne Soares of the University of Maryland, College Park. ?I expected them to hear much better than the surface fishes.?
Cave-dwelling fish can lose their vision and even their eyes over many generations. And without light, eyesight can lose its importance in fish survival. Only two previous studies have explored what happens to hearing after fish lose their vision; both found no differences in hearing between cave fish and those that experience daylight.
Soares and her colleagues collected fish of two blind cave-dwelling species, Typhlichthys subterraneus and Amblyopsis spelaea, from lakes in Kentucky. Specimens of a surface-dwelling species, Forbesichthys agassizii, which is closely related to the cave dwellers, came from a lake in south-central Tennessee.
Back in the lab, the researchers tested fish hearing by seeing whether sounds across a range of pitches could stimulate nerve activity in the fishes? brains. The researchers also measured the density of sound-detecting hair cells in the creatures? ears.
At frequencies up to 800 hertz, almost the highest pitch of a trumpet, the two cave-dwelling species could hear just as well as their surface counterparts, the researchers found. For higher pitches, it was a different story: The surface fish could hear frequencies as high as 2,000 hertz, roughly the highest pitch of a flute. But the cave dwellers were virtually deaf to those sounds. Those high pitches stimulated little or no nerve activity. The cave dwellers also had two-thirds as many hair cells as the surface fish.
The researchers returned to the caves to find out whether background noise there may have hurt the animals? ability to hear. The noise was generally far louder at higher ranges ? the same frequencies that the cave fish couldn?t hear, the researchers found. The high-pitched sounds may come from ripples or dripping water from the caves? ceilings, Soares says.
The cave fish may have evolved other improved senses to compensate for their lost sight and hearing, Soares says. Most fish have a sixth sense called the lateral line, which allows them to detect water flow. The lateral line senses vibrations in water using tiny organs known as neuromasts, groups of sensitive hair cells on and just below the creatures? skin. Cave fish, Soares says, have far more of these neuromasts than their surface-dwelling relatives.
The study represents the first time scientists have observed a creature that has lost hearing from being in a cave, the researchers say. But the process by which cave fish lost their hearing is not yet clear, says Martina Bradic of New York University. The fish could have adapted over time to the noisy environment, or their hearing systems could be highly flexible within a single lifetime.
Soares next hopes to study whether other creatures living without light, such as cave salamanders, have also become partially deaf.
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Syrian forces take back rebel neighborhood in Homs
BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian government forces have seized control of a long-contested neighborhood in the central city of Homs that is considered a symbol of opposition to President Bashar Assad's regime, anti-regime activist said Tuesday.
The recapture of Baba Amr came as Syrian opposition representatives took the country's seat for the first time at an Arab League summit, a significant diplomatic boost for the rebel forces.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that government forces pushed rebels from Baba Amr after two weeks of clashes, shelling and airstrikes that destroyed many homes.
The Syrian state news agency SANA said Monday that government forces had "restored security and stability" to the neighborhood.
Baba Amr, a poor neighborhood in southwest Homs, emerged early in the uprising as a symbol of the rebel movement, first for its protests and later for the armed groups who held it against regime troops.
While not strategically important in the two-year civil war, the loss of Baba Amr is a symbolic blow to the rebels.
The government seized the neighborhood in March of last year after months of daily shelling that damaged much of the area and killed hundreds, including two foreign journalists who had sneaked into the area to report on the siege.
It has changed hands a number of times since, with rebels saying early this month that they had taken advantage of a regime security lapse to take it back and set up checkpoints.
The regime has ample heavy weapons and a fleet of fighter jets but a shortage of ground troops, meaning it often abandons areas to rebel forces then pounds them with artillery and airstrikes from afar, sometimes forcing rebel retreats.
It also frequently claims to have "secured" areas only to report months later that it "secured" them again, with little explanation of how rebels got back in.
Also Tuesday, the Observatory said that at least 13 charred bodies, including those of four children and five women, were found on the outskirts of the village of Abil, southwest of Homs city.
The group, which relies on a network of contacts inside Syria, circulated a video that showed charred and disfigured bodies laid out on sheets. Some had holes in their heads and others appeared to have had their throats slit.
The video appeared authentic and corresponded with other reporting by The Associated Press.
The Observatory said local activists blamed the killings on pro-government thugs.
The Syrian government does not respond to requests for comment and did not mention the killing in official media.
Meanwhile, at the Arab League summit in Qatar, a delegation led by former president of the main opposition alliance Mouaz al-Khatib took the seats assigned for Syria to the applause of other delegates.
The decision for the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition to take Syria's seat was made at the recommendation of Arab foreign ministers meeting earlier this week in the Qatari capital, Doha. The Arab League in 2011 suspended the Syrian government's membership in the organization in punishment for the regime's crackdown on opponents.
The diplomatic triumph, however, could not conceal the disarray within the top ranks of the Syrian opposition.
Besides al-Khatib, the Syrian delegation included Ghassan Hitto, recently elected prime minister of a planned interim government to administer rebel-held areas in Syria, and two prominent opposition figures, George Sabra and Suheir Atassi.
Addressing the gathering, al-Khatib thanked the Arab League for granting the seat to the opposition.
"It is part of the restoration of legitimacy that the people of Syria have long been robbed of," he said.
Even as rebel fighters gain more territory on the ground in their fight against Assad's troops, their mostly exile political leadership has been thrown into disarray. Al-Khatib announced his resignation on Sunday because of what he described as restrictions on his work and frustration with the level of international aid for the opposition. The coalition rejected the resignation and al-Khatib said he would discuss the issue later and represent the opposition at the Qatar summit "in the name of the Syrian people."
Also, Hitto's election as the head of the interim government was rejected by the opposition's military office, which said he was not a consensus figure. Some members have accused Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood of imposing their will on the Coalition.
In Damascus, the government on Tuesday blasted the Arab League's move to allow the opposition to take its seat at the Doha summit, portraying it a selling-out of Arab identity to please Israel and the United States.
"The Arab League has blown up all its charters and pledges to preserve common Arab security, and the shameful decisions it has taken against the Syrian people since the beginning of the crisis and until now have sustained our conviction that it has exchanged its Arab identity with a Zionist-American one," said an editorial in the Al-Thawra newspaper, a government mouthpiece.
The crisis began in March 2011 with protests demanding Assad's ouster. With a harsh government crackdown, the uprising steadily grew more violent until it became a full-fledged civil war. The United Nations estimates that more than 70,000 people have died so far in the conflict.
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Associated Press writers Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, and Hamza Hendawi in Cairo contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-forces-back-rebel-neighborhood-homs-084453928.html
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Google PageRank-Inspired Cancer Research Published ...
Google?s PageRank algorithm is the inspiration for a new lung cancer study published in the journal Cancer Research.
Researchers fron the University of Southern California (USC), Scripps Clinic, The Scripps Research Institute, University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York used an algorithm described as ?similar to the Google PageRank and to the Viterbi Algorithm for digital communication? to gain insnights about spread patterns of lung cancer.
?This research demonstrates how similar the Internet is to a living organism,? said USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor Paul Newton, Ph.D., the lead and corresponding author of the study. ?The same types of tools that help us understand the spread of information through the web can help us understand the spread of cancer through the human body.?
In fact, this isn?t the first time we?ve seen PageRank used to study other areas of science or even cancer. A Washington State University chemistry professor claimed to have adapted the PageRank algorithm to help determine molecular shapes and chemical reactions. Then, a study came out last year looking at improving outcome prediction for cancer patients by network-based ranking of marker genes, using the PageRank concept.
We first reported on this new study in December, but now the results are out.
The team learned that metastatic lung cancer doesn?t progress in a single direction from the primary tumor site to distant locations, according to a news release on the findings. They also say they learned that the first site to which the cells spread plays a key role in the progression of the disease, with the study showing that some parts of the body serve as ?sponges? that are unlikely to further spread the cancer cells to other areas of the body. The study did identify other areas as spreaders for lung cancer cells, with the main spreaders being the adrenal gland and kidney, and the main sponges being the regional lymph nodes, liver and bone.
More on the study here.
Source: http://www.webpronews.com/google-pagerank-inspired-cancer-research-published-2013-03
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Everything's Totally OK In 'White House Down' Poster
The first trailer for "White House Down," the second White House hostage movie of the year, starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, will debut tomorrow, and ahead of the premiere, the first poster wants us to think that everything is a-OK. It's not! Also, watch all six "Star Wars" movies at once in today's Dailies! [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2013/03/25/white-house-down-poster/
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Cleverly designed vaccine blocks H5 avian influenza in animal models
Mar. 25, 2013 ? Until now most experimental vaccines against the highly lethal H5N1 avian influenza virus have lacked effectiveness. But a new vaccine has proven highly effective against the virus when tested in both mice and ferrets. It is also effective against the H9 subtype of avian influenza. The research is published online ahead of print in the Journal of Virology.
The strength of the new vaccine is that it uses attenuated, rather than "killed" virus. (Killed viruses are broken apart with chemicals or heat, and they are used because they are safer than attenuated viruses.) Killed virus vaccines against avian influenza are injected into the bloodstream, whereas this vaccine is given via nasal spray, thus mimicking the natural infection process, stimulating a stronger immune response.
The danger of current attenuated virus vaccines is that they might exchange dangerous genetic material with garden variety influenza viruses of the sort that strike annually, potentially rendering a lethal but very hard to transmit influenza virus, such as H5, easily transmissible among humans. To mitigate those dangers, the study authors, led by Daniel Perez of the University of Maryland, came up with an ingenious design. Influenza viruses carry their genetic material in eight "segments," explains coauthor and University of Maryland colleague Troy Sutton. When viruses reassort, they exchange segments. But each segment is unique, all eight are needed, and the viruses are unfit if they contain more than eight segments.
The vaccine is based on an attenuated version of the H9 virus, with an H5 gene added into one of the H9 virus' segments, to confer immunity to the H5 virus. Segment 8, which is composed of the so-called NS1 and NS2 genes, was split apart, and the NS2 gene was moved into segment 2, adjacent to the polymerase gene, which copies the virus' genetic material during replication. Placing NS2 next to the polymerase gene slowed its function, interfering with the virus' replication. That makes the vaccine safer.
The next step was to engineer the H5 gene into the vaccine. It was inserted into segment 8, where the NS2 gene had been.
Another aspect of the new vaccine's design makes it safer still, by rendering successful reassortment less likely. Both NS1 and NS2 are needed for viral replication. Since the two genes are now separated into different segments, any reassortment will have to include both segments, instead of just segment 8, in order for a reassortant virus to be viable. This greatly reduced the probability of successful reassortment.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes avian influenza subtypes H5, H7, and H9 as potential pandemic viruses, because they all have in rare instances infected humans, and because they circulate in wild birds. Single reassortants could be sufficient to breach the species barrier, and since they do not circulate among us, we lack any immunity. Moreover, H5 is unusually lethal, having killed roughly half of those few it is confirmed to have infected.
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- L. Pena, T. Sutton, A. Chockalingam, S. Kumar, M. Angel, H. Shao, H. Chen, W. Li, D. R. Perez. Influenza viruses with rearranged genomes as live-attenuated vaccines. Journal of Virology, 2013; DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02490-12
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Twenty percent of New York pre-teens have mental issues ? RT USA
More than 145,000 New York City kids between the ages of 6 and 12 ? about 20 percent of the population ? struggle with mental health conditions, such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression or other behavioral disorders.
A study by the New York City Health Department found that only 6 percent of kids in that age range had been diagnosed with behavioral problems, but that 14 percent reportedly had symptoms of mental health problems but remained undiagnosed.
Parents of 101,000 children who responded to the survey reported that their kids ?have difficulties with emotions, concentration, behavior or getting along with others,? according to the New York Post, which published the results of the study.
?Undiagnosed conditions were not captured in Child Community Health Survey data. Therefore, prevalence estimates . . . likely underestimate true rates of mental-health conditions,? the study said.
About 44,000 New York City kids have been diagnosed with a mental health condition, but the city health department says the severity of their problems is often much worse than currently believed ? and that mental illnesses are underreported in general.
Of those who were diagnosed, about 26,000 kids (or 4 percent) have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and 15,000 (or 2 percent) have a conduct disorder ? and boys are three times more likely to be diagnosed with a mental illness than girls.
But despite the high number of diagnoses and even higher number of undiagnosed illnesses, few kids have been receiving treatment. Only two-thirds of diagnosed children received some sort of medical help and only 36 percent received medication. And only 17 percent of undiagnosed kids suspected of having a mental illness received some sort of assistance, the survey reports.
But the city health department claims that the data should not be alarming and that it is in line with national statistics. The department also claims that city schools provide services that can help the 145,000 struggling kids.
?Over 400 schools offer mental-health services, either as part of school-based health centers or via dedicated mental-health clinics,? said a Health Department spokesman, Sam Miller.
In order to address the problems of each child, each school would have to treat more than 360 kids ? a task unlikely to happen. The data sheds further light on the struggles facing inner-city kids, teens and recent grads. Earlier this month, a study found that literacy rates among high school graduates have been on the decline, with nearly 80 percent of recent grads lacking basic reading, writing and math skills. ?Homelessness among New York City kids is also among the highest in the nation, with 21,000 children having spent every night in January in a homeless shelter.
Poor education, mental illness and poverty plague more New York kids than those in other cities, and the city faces a constant struggle to improve conditions for its youth. In an attempt to assist kids with mental health conditions, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott last week announced that he plans to open 20 new school-based health clinics in the coming months, the first five of which will open in September.
These clinics will address students with mental health issues that ?impede academic achievement?, a spokesperson for Walcott told the New York Daily News.
Source: http://rt.com/usa/children-mental-health-nyc-815/
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Monday, March 25, 2013
MTV's Musical March Madness Rolls On To Round Two!
Tokio Hotel, Paramore survive to the second round, Mumford & Sons sent packing ... vote now in all round two matchups.
By James Montgomery
Paramore's Hayley Williams
Photo: Getty Images
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1704291/musical-march-madness-round-2-paramore-tokio-hotel.jhtml
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SpaceX dragon spacecraft carrying NASA cargo ready for return to Earth
Mar. 24, 2013 ? More than three weeks after arriving at the International Space Station, the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft is ready for the trip back to Earth, now scheduled for Tuesday, March 26.
Dragon's originally scheduled March 25 return date was postponed due to inclement weather developing near its targeted splashdown site in the Pacific Ocean. The additional day spent attached to the orbiting laboratory will not affect science samples scheduled to return aboard the spacecraft.
NASA Television will provide coverage of Dragon's departure beginning at 4 a.m. EDT.
Dragon is scheduled to be detached from the Earth-facing side of the station's Harmony module and unberthed by Expedition 35 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn. Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency will back-up Marshburn and monitor Dragon's systems during the activity.
Marshburn, working from the robotic work station in the space station's cupola, will maneuver the station's robotic arm for the release of the spacecraft at 7:06 a.m. Dragon will execute three thruster firings to move away from the station to a safe distance for its deorbit burn at 11:40 a.m. Dragon will splash down around 12:36 p.m. in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California.
Dragon is the only space station resupply spacecraft able to return to Earth intact. It will return about 2,668 pounds (1,210 kilograms) of science samples from human research, biology and biotechnology studies, physical science investigations and education activities.
Experiment samples coming back to Earth will help researchers continue to assess the impact of long-duration spaceflight on the human body. Returning plant samples will aid in food production during future long-duration space missions and enhance crop production on Earth. Crystals grown aboard and returning from the station could help in the development of more efficient solar cells and semiconductor-based electronics.
For NASA TV schedule and video streaming information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Hope for threatened Tasmanian devils
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
New research paves the way for the development of a vaccine for the Tasmanian devil, currently on the brink of extinction because of a contagious cancer.
It has been less than two decades since scientists discovered the contagious cancer devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) which causes 100 per cent mortality in the endangered marsupials. The facial cancer, which spreads when the devils bite each other's faces during fighting, kills its victims in a matter of months. As it has already wiped out the majority of the population with sightings of devils reduced by 85 per cent, scientists are desperate to find out more about the mysterious cancer which somehow manages to evade the devils' immune system.
Until now, scientists have believed that the tumours were able to avoid detection by the immune system because the Tasmanian devils have very little genetic diversity (preventing the immune system from recognising the tumour as foreign). However, a University of Cambridge led collaboration with the Universities of Tasmania, Sydney and South Denmark has discovered that the explanation is more complex.
On the surface of nearly every mammalian cell are major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules. These molecules enable the immune system to determine if a cell is friend or foe, triggering an immune response if the cell is foreign and a potential threat. The new research, published today, 11 March, in the journal PNAS, reveals that DFTD cancer cells lack these critical molecules, thereby avoiding detection by the devils' immune system.
Professor Jim Kaufman, from the University of Cambridge's Department of Pathology, said: "Once it was found that the cancer was escaping from the devils' immune system, scientists needed to figure out how."
The researchers found that the DFTD cells have lost the expression of MHC molecules, but that the genes that code for these molecules are still intact. This means that these genes could potentially be turned back on. Indeed, the scientists showed that by introducing signalling molecules such as interferon-gamma, a protein which triggers the immune response, the DFTD cells can be forced to express MHC molecules.
Dr Hannah Siddle, lead author of the paper from the University of Cambridge, said: "Developing a vaccine based on our research could tip the balance in the favour of the devil and give them a fighting chance."
"However, we still face some hurdles. The tumour is evolving over time and any vaccine programme would have to take this into consideration. Also, because of the difficulties of vaccinating a wild population, it may be more efficient to use a vaccine in the context of returning captive devils to the wild."
Although the only other contagious cancer has been found in dogs (canine transmissible venereal cancer), the rapid development of DFTD highlights how quickly they can emerge.
Professor Kaufman added: "Our study has implications beyond the Tasmanian devil. Sooner or later a human strain of contagious cancer will develop, and this work gives us insight into how these diseases emerge and evolve."
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The Art of NLP: Turned My Life Around | Inspire.fm
In this segment for Inspire.fm about the Art of NLP, Andreas interviews Jonathan Quek of True North Asia. Jonathan is Asia?s Youngest Wealth Coach and author of the book ?Why Gold, Why Silver, Why Now?.
Jonathan shares with the audience that when he joined Asia Mind Dynamics? NLP Practitioner Training in 2007, his life was on a crossroad. Jonathan originally studied IT. As many young people do, he spent his time playing computer games, reading comics and was basically unmotivated in his studies.
He then realised that he needed to make changes to his life. As a first step, he read plenty of self-help books, including books by Anthony Robbins. Along the way, he found out that many of these authors took up NLP at some time in their life.
At that point he decided to take up NLP to turn his life around.
Many people take a NLP training, to increase their influence, build better relations or reach the next promotion in their career. This is okay as these are areas to which NLP can be applied easily.
But there can be more to it and Jonathan demonstrated in his development after the training that he uses NLP for personal and professional transformation. He says that it is about practicing the learning after the training and he started off immediately by sharing his knowledge with the his father?s employees, approached colleges to share his knowledge with students and started to design his life the way he wanted it.
But in the interview with Andreas, Jonathan actually reveals his secrets to success.
Listen in to see what you can do to make the changes you want as well.
More on Jonathan, he is an exciting entrepreneur, best-selling author, and financial speaker; ?founder and CEO of True North Asia and director of four other private companies & ventures.
As an entrepreneur, Jonathan owns and runs several businesses in development banking, precious metals trading, financial education and training. He is also the youngest financial author in Malaysia with the best selling book ?Why Gold? Why Silver? Why Now??. In the process of writing his book, he had the privilege of interacting with investment experts such as Jim Rogers, Richard Duncan, James Turk, Shaykh Umar Vadillo and Peter Hug.
As a regular guest speaker on the conference circuit, Jonathan Quek has been invited to speak at financial institutions, corporate organizations, education institutions both in Malaysia and internationally.
Jonathan holds an honors degree in Computer Science from Coventry University. As an undergraduate, he has achieved almost every award available in INTI International University such as Scholarship Award, Excellence Award, Merit Award, College Colors Award, Chairman of Top Sports Club of the Year, and many more.
You can Come connect with him at www.Jonathan-Quek.com or send an email to personal@jonathan-quek.com
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Watch Jim Carrey And Steve Carell's 'Incredible Burt Wonderstone' Interview Now!
Prepare to be amazed as the funnymen premiere a magical new clip from the film and answer your questions.
By Driadonna Roland
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1703534/incredible-burt-wonderstone-mtv-first-interview.jhtml
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
doubleTwist (for Android)
The free doubleTwist bills itself as "iTunes for Android" and it's easy to understand why. The Android app?which works in conjunction with desktop software and optional premium add-ons?makes it very simple to manage video and music, download podcasts, and wirelessly sync iTunes?songs and playlists between a computer and Google-powered mobile device. If, that is, you're willing to open your wallet. Multimedia devourers may like the initial cut of doubleTwist's jib, but they may not find the app's premium content worth their cash. SnapPea?a rival app?offers similar features (and more) for zero dollars, but if you want basic iTunes syncing, doubleTwist is a worthy download.
Let the Games Begin
Getting started with doubleTwist is simple. You connect your phone or tablet to a Mac or PC via USB and launch the doubleTwist desktop and mobile software. Your Android device must be set to Mass Storage Mode in order to sync files via USB. That may prove a small stumbling block for some users as tablets running Honeycomb and devices without a SD card running Ice Cream Sandwich lack a Mass Storage mode.
Fortunately, I had a memory card in my Samsung Galaxy Note II, so I was able to sync a few movie soundtracks and playlists from iTunes to my Samsung Galaxy Note II in approximately five minutes' time. The free features aren't mind-blowing, but doubleTwist's more intriguing features come with a price?literally.
Premium Features
Shelling out $4.99 for AirSync lets you wirelessly sync video, and iTunes music and playlists from a Mac or PC to your Android smartphone or tablet. Setting up this feature is easy, too. Simply connect your Android device and computer to the same Wi-Fi signal, launch the doubleTwist software, select the device name, enter the passkey that's displayed on your Android device, select the files you want to wirelessly transfer, and click the Sync button. The syncing process was easy and fast?and it's a feature not available on SnapPea which only allows you to sync content over wired connections. This is definitely a point in doubleTwist's favor.
That's not the only premium feature. The $14.97 doubleTwist Pro builds upon AirSync by adding two other upgrades: "Music Lover" and "Podcasts." The former adds EQ settings and HD album art to tracks missing images; the latter lets users download podcasts without syncing to a desktop computer. "Music Lover" didn't feel at all like a premium feature and should've been included in the free, basic version. "Podcasts" proved somewhat more useful as it let me download several episodes of The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe to my Galaxy Note II without the need for a Mac or PC. Still, this comes off as a cash-grab as there are numerous free podcast manager apps in Google Play. A $1.99 alarm clock add-on is also offered.
SnapPea, on the other hand, includes desktop texting, photo slideshows, and more?free of charge.
The doubleTwist Experience
Once content is loaded onto your Android phone or tablet, it's a breeze to navigate doubleTwist's interface. It's made of seven icon-driven, self-explanatory panels: Artists, Albums, Songs, Playlists, Genres, Podcasts, and Radio.
The Playlist section is where you find a duplicate of your iTunes playlists. That's terrific if you're an iTunes power-user, but those who want to create playlists from within doubleTwist itself will find that they sadly cannot. The flakey internet radio stations would sometimes take minutes to pick up audio?frustrating. On the upside, I was able to stream music from my phone to an Xbox 360?without a hitch.
Magic Radio is a fresh addition to the doubleTwist experience. It's a streaming music service which serves up channels based on song or artists name. Like Songza, Magic Radio lets you select a mood?I chose "Aggressive" and received big helpings of '80s style buttrock. The crisp, thumping music was a perfect early morning pick-me-up.
"Infinite Playlists" is a Magic Radio feature which lets users create channels based on the music files on their devices. My Red Hot Chili Peppers playlist generated a station featuring other funk-and-rap rockers like Rage Against the Machine and Faith No More. I liked its selections for the most part, but I could've done without the outlier, Alien Ant Farm. You can tweak Infinite Playlist channels?as well as any other?by banning tracks, changing the frequency by which new songs appear, and altering the tempo to receive slower or faster tracks
Magic Radio, like many of doubleTwist's attractive features has an additional cost: $3.99 per month (via Google Wallet). This add-on, however, is one I that I consider worth the money.
Fine for Some
Wireless syncing may lure some into downloading doubleTwist, but if you want a more complete iTunes/Android syncing feature, SnapPea is the way to go. Not only does it offer unusual features (desktop texting), but it's absolutely free as well. That said, doubleTwist is a solid Android app, but there are better options available.
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