Rudy Gay heads to Toronto in Grizzlies' makeover

Rudy Gay is on his way to Toronto in the latest and most dramatic move in the Memphis Grizzlies' money-motivated makeover.

The Grizzlies agreed to trade their star swingman to the Raptors on Wednesday, parting with the leading scorer on a team that has aspirations of making a run in the powerful Western Conference.

The Raptors gave up point guard Jose Calderon and forward Ed Davis in the deal that also included Grizzlies backup center Hamed Haddadi, and Memphis then shipped Calderon to Detroit for Austin Daye and Tayshaun Prince.

"Players like this don't come along that often in terms of their availability," Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo said of Gay. "This was a very unique circumstance. We feel like we took advantage of it."

Memphis general manager Chris Wallace didn't mention finances in a statement issued Wednesday night, but there is no doubt they played a big role in the decision.

"We are excited to add three players who bring with them a tremendous amount of value to our team and have achieved incredible success on the pro, college and Olympic levels," Wallace said in a statement Wednesday night. "In these players, we welcome NBA Champion and Olympic gold medalist Tayshaun Prince, as well as up-and-coming athletic forwards Ed Davis, who won an NCAA title at North Carolina, and Austin Daye."

The moves surprised many around the league, including Calderon and Prince.

"It's been my home for eight years," Calderon said in Atlanta, shortly before leaving the arena. "I've done everything possible for this team. It's tough. The fans have been with me since Day 1. It's tough."

Prince and Daye have both spent their entire careers with Detroit, and Prince was the last link to the proud championship team of 2003-04.

"Trading a player like Tayshaun Prince, who has meant so much to our organization and contributed to our championship success, is never easy," Pistons president Joe Dumars said in a statement. "We want to thank Tayshaun for his professionalism and contributions over the last 10 years. We also appreciate everything that Austin Daye has done for our team both on and off the court over the past three-plus years."

Gay, averaging 17.2 points and 5.9 rebounds, signed a five-year, $82 million maximum contract in July 2010 with Memphis. The 6-foot-8 small forward is due $16.5 million this season with $37 million more over the next two years. That's a big number for new owner Robert Pera, who took over the franchise last November and has quickly started addressing the team's salary situation.

Just over a week ago, the Grizzlies sent valuable reserve Marreese Speights and two other players to Cleveland in a move that cleared $6.4 million in salary and avoided a $4 million luxury tax hit this season. Team officials said that move put the Grizzlies in position not to have to make a move this season.

Memphis coach Lionel Hollins had been lobbying to keep his five starters together the rest of this season, but he apparently lost that fight. It's a significant move for a team that was fourth in the Western Conference and three games behind the third-place Clippers.

"Wow," Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley tweeted.

Trading away Gay also eases a luxury tax hit due next season, while concentrating the team around center Marc Gasol and All-Star forward Zach Randolph. The Grizzlies had their best playoff run in 2011 when they knocked off then-No. 1 seed San Antonio before losing to Oklahoma City in seven games in the Western semifinals ? all with Gay on the bench after needing season-ending shoulder surgery.

"Wow that was 1 crazy trade today," Oklahoma City center Kendrick Perkins tweeted. "Are you serious Rudy Gay is right there under KD, Lebron, Kobe, and Melo. (hashtag)badtrade."

They do run the risk of upsetting the chemistry on a tight-knit group, even if there were some questions of how Gay's scoring fit in with the ball-dominant frontcourt of Gasol and Randolph.

But there may be more deals like this one coming in the new NBA economy.

The collective bargaining agreement negotiated after last year's lockout makes the penalties for exceeding the salary cap far more punitive, and the system begins in earnest next season. Playing in a smaller market, the Grizzlies don't have the extra revenue from lavish television contracts like teams in Los Angeles or New York, which makes it that much more difficult to go over the cap. But even teams such as the Lakers and Bulls will likely have to be more responsible with their spending under the new deal, where repeat offenders are taxed at rates that multiply with each consecutive year they go over the cap.

The first domino fell before the season, when Oklahoma City sent James Harden to Houston instead of signing him to a big-money extension, and more are sure to follow.

All told, the Grizzlies shaved nearly $40 million over the next three years after the two trades.

They'll get a hard-nosed defender in return in Prince, the 32-year-old forward who was drafted by the Pistons in the first round in 2002. He is averaging 11.7 points and 4.6 rebounds per game this season.

"Shocked obviously," Prince said after the Pistons played the Pacers. "I didn't find out, obviously, until I got here. I'm shocked, but it's a business and you never know what's going to happen."

Calderon joined the Raptors from Spain in 2005 and has been a fan favorite and trusted veteran on the team. He is averaging 11.1 points and 7.4 assists this season for the Raptors (16-29), who are desperately trying to scratch their way into the playoff picture. Toronto was in 11th place before the games were played Wednesday, 5? games behind Boston for the eight seed.

Calderon and Davis had both been starting for the Raptors, but they do have Kyle Lowry waiting in the wings at point guard and likely see Gay's scoring punch as the key to vaulting back into the discussion in a mediocre conference.

Coach Dwane Casey will have to deal with a bit of a log jam with Gay, DeMar DeRozan, Terrence Ross, Landry Fields and Alan Anderson as wing players with similar skill sets. But getting a player with Gay's natural scoring talent, even at the expense of parting with a valued player like Calderon, proved too enticing to pass up.

"Hopefully this team is back to the playoffs as soon as possible," Calderon said.

___

AP Sports Writers Teresa Walker in Nashville, Tenn., Larry Lage in Detroit and freelance writer Amy Jinkner-Lloyd in Atlanta contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rudy-gay-heads-toronto-grizzlies-makeover-025351003--spt.html

lewis black kirkwood chris brown and rihanna nightline brady quinn brady quinn bloom box

Tourism & Recreation: Extreme Sport Tourism

A recent article in Leisure Opportunities reports that Manx tourism officials are looking to diversify the economy of the Isle of Man by pushing extreme sport tourism. Director of Manxtreme.com, Simon Crellin, is working with tourism officials to push sports such as sea kayaking, mountain biking, open-water swimming and coasteering, making the most of the island?s natural resources such as mountains, coastline and mountain bike trails. The island already has a busy calendar of events, including the Sleepwell end2end mountain bike race ? a 75km cycle across the island?s natural trails and the Manx Mountain Marathon, a 31 mile fell race. As well as maximising these existing competitions, others will be organised too. This June, a triathlon is being organised to coincide with the TT races. It will include an open-water swim, the equivalent of three laps of the TT course on a bike and a full marathon. The end will be at the TT Grandstand.

Source: http://recreationsporttourism.blogspot.com/2013/01/extreme-sport-tourism.html

Cruel Summer Endeavor shaun white carolina panthers amanda bynes Revolution TV Show bankofamerica

NIH Told to Retire Most Research Chimps

About half of 21 ongoing biomedical and behavioral experiments would be ended, under advice from a working group of external agency advisors

By Meredith Wadman and Nature magazine

Most research chimpanzees would be retired under new recommendations. Image: Flickr/timparkinson

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) should dismantle a decades-old colony of 360 chimpanzees, retiring all but roughly 50 of the animals to a national sanctuary, the biomedical agency was told on 22 January in a long-awaited report.

The report, from a working group of external agency advisors, also counsels the NIH to end about half of 21 existing biomedical and behavioral experiments, saying they do not meet criteria established in a December, 2011 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report.

?Clearly there is going to be a reduction in the use of chimpanzees in research,? says working group co-chair Kent Lloyd, the associate dean for research at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis.

The report says that the NIH should begin planning sanctuary housing for the retiring animals ?immediately?, and that a colony of about 50 animals would be sufficient for future research. The report also sets high hurdles for new chimpanzee experiments in the future, calling for the establishment of an independent committee that would vet individual study proposals after they first pass routine NIH scientific review. In cases where the burden on the animals is high, the benefit to humanity should have to be ?very high? to pass muster with the committee, says Daniel Geschwind, the other co-chair of the working group and a geneticist at the School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The report suggests that three of nine ongoing invasive experiments, involving immunology and infectious diseases, could continue, because they meet the IOM criteria. These require that a study be needed for public health; that no alternative animal model exists; that performing the study in humans would be unethical; and that the animals be maintained in socially and physically appropriate habitats. The report also says that eight of 13 behavioral or comparative genomics studies could be allowed to continue, but in some cases only conditionally ? meaning that funding for these experiments could not be renewed without passing the independent committee review.

The working group ? a subgroup of NIH?s Council of Councils, a trans-agency advisory body ? was chartered by NIH director Francis Collins one year ago to advise the agency on how to implement the recommendations of the IOM report, which found that most chimpanzee research was not necessary. Its recommendations are not binding; Collins is expected to respond to them in late March, after a 60-day period of public comment. But they signal yet another significant step in an ongoing retrenchment. Last month, the agency announced that it will retire 110 chimpanzees to the national Chimp Haven sanctuary in Keithville, Louisiana, after they had been first slated to move to an active NIH-supported research centre in San Antonio, Texas.

Today?s recommendations speak to the fate of an additional 360 research-eligible chimpanzees that are owned by the biomedical agency and housed at facilities in Texas and New Mexico.The fate of an additional 91 animals that the NIH pays to maintain, but does not own, was not clear; the agency cannot compel the retirement of these animals, housed at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute (TBRI) in San Antonio.

Source: http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=07b4c0f8d7562b737a6eebac312b1548

jeff saturday jason smith jon corzine austin rivers austin rivers sweet home alabama etch a sketch

Think Like a Scientist To Build Your Info Products

Learn to Speak NATURALLY!

Learn how to speak like a "natural". Using improv techniques you'll learn how to speak like a seasoned professional in just 4 days. Spaces are limited!

www.TheSpeakingSchool.com

Become a WORLD CLASS Interviewer

In this program, Terry Dean interviews me about ways that YOU can become a top notch interviewer. If you want to learn interviewing this program is for you!

www.ExpertInterviewer.com

Consult With Fred Gleeck

Want to get some advice DIRECTLY from me? Find out how I can help you (one-on-one) with YOUR business. The rates are surprisingly affordable!

www.ConsultWithFred.com

The possibility exists that you may have to think like a scientist to build your info products. Thinking like an English teacher doesn?t hurt, of course, because most information marketing begins as a writing project or a speaking project, two skills we honed in our English classes over the years.? But scientists are trained to think in a completely different way.

It comes down to two words:? topic and thesis. Let?s look at both words in order to see the difference in thinking they represent, and more importantly, how that thinking can help you build more profitable information products:

Scientists and Information Marketing

Topic ? Collection of factual information on a subject to a greater or lesser degree. Writing on a topic may include the writer?s opinion or it may not. This is a significant distinction within the category itself. But it looks and sounds more like a term paper than a list of original or secondary research findings.

Thesis ? There is a particular point and purpose to the research and collection of data. There is a goal, and the end of the writing journey is reaching that goal, whether the purpose of the research and writing turns out to be right or wrong. The outcome is not the point, the research and the written conclusions are the point.

These are my own definitions and certainly subject to comment (feel free) but I hope they make my point. Information marketing needs to focus on a particular point by providing data to prove or disprove that point.? For example, a title for a whitepaper might be, How 10 People Used Twitter To Make Sales.

Related Articles

Source: http://www.fredgleeck.com/blog/think-like-a-scientist-to-build-your-info-products/

Ronda Rousey BCS Bowls palestine powerball winner powerball winner Zig Ziglar lunar eclipse

Algeria terror leader preferred money to death

This image from video provided by the SITE Intel Group made available Thursday Jan. 17, 2013, purports to show militant militia leader Moktar Belmoktar. Algerian officials scrambled Thursday Jan. 17, 2013 for a way to end an armed standoff deep in the Sahara desert with Islamic militants who have taken dozens of foreigners hostage, turning to tribal Algerian Tuareg leaders for talks and contemplating an international force. The group claiming responsibility ? called Katibat Moulathamine or the Masked Brigade ? says it has captured 41 foreigners, including seven Americans, in the surprise attack Wednesday on the Ain Amenas gas plant. Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould Kabila said the roughly 20 well armed gunmen were from Algeria itself, operating under orders from Moktar Belmoktar, al-Qaida's strongman in the Sahara. (AP Photo/SITE Intel Group) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS PICTURE. MANDATORY CREDIT: SITE Intel Group

This image from video provided by the SITE Intel Group made available Thursday Jan. 17, 2013, purports to show militant militia leader Moktar Belmoktar. Algerian officials scrambled Thursday Jan. 17, 2013 for a way to end an armed standoff deep in the Sahara desert with Islamic militants who have taken dozens of foreigners hostage, turning to tribal Algerian Tuareg leaders for talks and contemplating an international force. The group claiming responsibility ? called Katibat Moulathamine or the Masked Brigade ? says it has captured 41 foreigners, including seven Americans, in the surprise attack Wednesday on the Ain Amenas gas plant. Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould Kabila said the roughly 20 well armed gunmen were from Algeria itself, operating under orders from Moktar Belmoktar, al-Qaida's strongman in the Sahara. (AP Photo/SITE Intel Group) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS PICTURE. MANDATORY CREDIT: SITE Intel Group

This Oct. 8, 2012 satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows the Amenas Gas Field in Algeria, which is jointly operated by BP and Norway's Statoil and Algeria's Sonatrach. Algerian special forces launched a rescue operation Thursday at the plant in the Sahara Desert and freed foreign hostages held by al-Qaida-linked militants, but estimates for the number of dead varied wildly from four to dozens. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe)

In this image made from video, a group of people believed to be hostages kneel in the sand with their hands in the air at an unknown location in Algeria. Algerian de-mining teams were scouring a gas refinery on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013 that was the scene of a bloody four-day standoff, searching for explosive traps left by the Islamist militants who took dozens of foreigners hostage. The siege left at least 23 captives dead, and the American government warned that there were credible threats of more kidnapping attempts on Westerners. (AP Photo/Ennahar TV) ALGERIA OUT, TV OUT

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) ? Moktar Belmoktar is known abroad as the man who orchestrated the abduction of scores of foreigners last week at a BP-operated plant in the remote, eastern corner of Algeria, in a raid that led to many of their deaths.

In the Sahara at least up until this week he was, ironically, known as the more pragmatic and less brutal of the commanders of an increasingly successful offshoot of al-Qaida. The question now is has he evolved into an international terrorist every bit as violent as his rivals, or did the Algeria operation go very differently than he intended?

Belmoktar, an Algerian in his 40s known in Pentagon circles as "MBM," just split off from al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, to start his own franchise.

Over the past decade, AQIM has kidnapped dozens of foreigners, including diplomats, aid workers, field doctors and tourists. Although Belmoktar's hostages are forced to endure months of privation and live with the constant threat of execution, those who have dealt directly with him say his cell has never executed a captive, according to hostage negotiators, a courier sent to collect proof-of-life videos, senior diplomats and security experts interviewed for this article.

The notable exception was the 2011 kidnapping of two French nationals from a bar in the capital of Niger, both of whom were killed when the French military tried to rescue them. It's unclear if the two died from friendly fire, or were executed by their captors in a situation that closely mirrors the chain of events in Algeria, where combat helicopters strafed the compound in an effort to liberate the hostages, killing both kidnappers and victims.

Belmoktar prefers to trade his hostages for money, experts have said, and global intelligence unit Stratfor says he can get an estimated $3 million per European captive. The money allowed him to build one of the best-financed cells of al-Qaida. It may explain how he was able to strike out on his own six weeks ago to create "The Masked Brigade," whose inaugural attack was launched inside Algeria.

"MBM is more along the lines of, how do I negotiate and put extra money in my pocket?" says Rudolph Atallah, the former head of counterterrorism for Africa at the Pentagon, who has spent years tracking the terror network in this Sahelian country. "The others are purists."

Belmoktar is a contrast to his more ruthless colleague, Abou Zeid, who beheaded a British national and executed a 78-year-old Frenchman in 2010 in retaliation for a raid attempting to save him that killed six militants.

Up until December of last year, both men were emirs of their own "katiba," or brigade, in AQIM. Though they are both from southern Algeria, they have chosen to embed themselves in northern Mali, in the immense, ungoverned desert which ranges from feather-soft dunes to flat, rocky plains. And both have made tens of millions of dollars by kidnapping French, Canadian, Spanish, Swiss, German, English and Italian nationals.

The contrast between the two is captured in the recently published memoir of Robert Fowler, a Canadian diplomat who was kidnapped by Belmoktar in 2008 in Niger, where he had been sent as a United Nations special envoy. Fowler was tied up and shoved into a pickup truck and the blows he suffered as his body was banged against the metal during the multi-day journey to Mali caused a compression fracture in a vertebra.

Fowler's ordeal could have been much worse. He described how on April 21, 2008, the day he was liberated, he was driven to a rendezvous point. The same day, Abou Zeid's troops arrived with two women, one of them on the point of death.

Belmoktar went to inspect the women, and returned to where Fowler was sitting with a "thunderous look on his face," he wrote in his account "A Season in Hell." Belmoktar asked to be passed dysentery pills from the medical kit, and ran back to give them to 77-year-old Marianne Petzold, a retired German teacher, and Swiss national Gabriella Burco Greiner.

When Fowler saw the two "the shock was physical. I recoiled with horror at the sight of those small, troubled white faces, twisted with pain."

One had been bitten by a scorpion, and her arm had ballooned and turned black. She would later spend six weeks in the hospital getting skin grafts to replace the necrotized flesh, he writes in "A Season in Hell." They both suffered from dysentery, and Abou Zeid had refused to give them the medicine that their governments had sent during their negotiation. At the moment that they were supposed to be released, Abou Zeid decided that he was not ready to free them, and an argument ensued between him and Belmoktar.

The same man who masterminded the recent horror in Algeria last week was visibly disturbed, wrote Fowler. He said it was Belmoktar who intervened, overruling Abou Zeid to free the two, ordering the drivers to take off across the trackless desert.

"If you are kidnapped by Belmoktar you would most likely live ? and you could not say the same thing for Abou Zeid: All the hostages killed between 2006 and 2012 were killed by Abou Zeid. You don't want to be in a position of describing him as the 'noble savage.' But I do think his thought process is less distorted by ideology," says Geoff Porter, founder of North Africa Risk Consulting, a political risk firm specializing in the Sahara region, who has tracked Belmoktar for years. "

However, long before this week's attack in Algeria, Belmoktar had also shown brutality. His men attacked a military base in Mauritania in 2005, killing over a dozen soldiers, said Dakar, Senegal-based analyst Andrew Lebovitch. And he's twice been sentenced to death in absentia in Algeria for the killing of customs officials and border guards, according to Abdel Bari Atwan's upcoming book "After Bin Laden."

His trajectory up until last week was nearly identical to that of Abou Zeid. Like Abou Zeid, he joined the Armed Islamic Group, or GIA, an Algerian extremist organization which arose in the aftermath of the 1991 election, which was voided by the secular government after an Islamic party won. He then joined the GIA's offshoot, the GSPC, a group that carried out suicide bombings against Algerian government targets. In 2006, when the group became part of al-Qaida, changing its name to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, both Abou Zeid and Belmoktar became the head of individual brigades.

Belmoktar claims he trained in Afghanistan in the 1990s, including in one of Osama Bin Laden's camps. It was there that he reportedly lost an eye, earning him the nickname "Laaouar," Arabic for 'One-eyed.' Research by the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation claims Belmoktar became the conduit between the core al-Qaida and AQIM.

But early on, there were signs that Belmoktar was not in step with the gratuitous violence that characterized both the GIA and the GSPC, as well as AQIM. A diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Algiers quotes Algerian sources who say that at different times, Belmoktar denounced both GIA and AQIM tactics because they caused many civilian casualties.

Last December, after rumors of a growing rift with Abou Zeid, Belmoktar announced that he was leaving AQIM and creating his own group, "The Masked Brigade." His close associate, Oumar Ould Hamaha, told the AP that Belmoktar wanted to create a pan-Saharan movement, and the North African chapter was too narrowly focused on countries in the Maghreb, or North Africa.

It came as the United Nations was getting ready to authorize a military intervention to take back Mali's north from Islamic extremists, including Belmoktar's group. When France began airstrikes on Jan. 11, destroying a training camp, several weapons depots and a base known to be used by Belmoktar's men in the northern Malian town of Gao, Hamaha raged that now their jihad would go "global."

It was only a few days later in the tiny town of Ain Amenas in far eastern Algeria that turbaned men claiming allegiance to Belmoktar descended on a natural gas complex, operated in partnership with BP and took hundreds of hostages in the most ambitious terrorist operation the North Africa had ever seen. They forced the hostages to wear explosives. Belmoktar issued a statement saying the dozens of captives would be killed if France didn't halt its military incursion in Mali.

No one will ever know what would have happened if Algeria or other governments agreed to negotiate. Instead, the Algerians sent in helicopters, pounding the compound, and in the bloodbath that ensued, at least 32 militants and 23 captives were killed, according to the Algerian government. It's unclear how many were killed by friendly fire, and how many were executed by Belmoktar's men.

One of the people that knows him best says these events in Algeria signal that Belmoktar has chosen to walk down the path of Abou Zeid.

Moustapha Chaffi has been the main hostage negotiator on many of the kidnappings carried out by both Belmoktar and Abou Zeid. It was he who was waiting to receive Fowler and the two women on April 21, 2008. He confirmed that Belmoktar ran to give them the dysentry pills, and later insisted they be released.

"Before he led this operation in Algeria, that was the sentiment I had, that Belmoktar was less brutal," Chaffi said by telephone on Friday. "Now I find myself thinking that they are all terrorists. That they all take hostages. That they are all fanatics. So to draw a difference between them is really, really relative. There's in fact no difference anymore."

__

Associated Press writer Jamey Keaten in Dakar, Senegal and Cassandra Vinograd in London contributed to this report.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2013-01-20-AF-Mali-Algeria-Terror-Mastermind/id-1aebf433216c427bbab6d39d18b79f86

joss whedon ronnie montrose melissa gilbert dancing with the stars dandelion wine cough matt groening brandon phillips

Asbestos Exposure, Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma - YLH & Co ...

1955 ? The American Journal of Pathology reports that lung cancer is
an ?associated cancer? of asbestos exposure, and suggests that
decreasing occupational exposure to asbestos will lead to a decrease in
occupational lung cancer. Bosner, G.M., et al. (1955) ?Occupational
Cancer of the Urinary Bladder in Dyestuffs Operatives and of the Lung
in Asbestos Textile Workers and Iron-Ore Miners? American Journal of Clinical Pathology. Vol. 25, No. 1-12; p.132
1955 ? Dr. Donald Hunter?s 1,000+ page textbook The Diseases of Occupations discusses asbestos-related diseases such as asbestosis. The textbook concludes that death may result from as little as 12 years of asbestos exposure. Hunter, D. The Diseases of Occupations ? 1955 Little, Brown and Company. Boston. p. 876-877

Source: http://globallegalforum.blogspot.com/2013/01/asbestos-exposure-lung-cancer-and.html

Colorado shootings dark knight rises Aurora shooting James Eagan Holmes jeremy lin Sage Stallone Mermaid Body Found

Google Nexus 7 docking station found in ASUS Shop in the U.K.

You might remember that back in December, we showed you that an audio docking station was beeing prepared for the Google Nexus 7. News about the tablet had come from the ASUS Japan web site and revealed that the dock would include a USB port and a 3.5mm earphone jack for the tablet, which would fit into the docking station in landscape mode. The site had the device priced at the Japanese Yen equivalent of $41 USD.Well, here it is over one month later and the Google Nexus 7 audio docking station is now listed on the ASUS Shop in the U.K. You can buy the accessory now for ?49.98 ($80.35 USD). That price doesn't include the ?6.00 shipping charge which brings the cost up to ?55.98? ($90 USD). And you might have to tack on some tax as well. Besides the USB port and the earphone jack, the docking station is angled to provide you with the best view of your tablet's screen to watch movies, video, read email and view web sites. The docking station is shipped 2 weeks after your funds are received.

For those in the states who feel that those prices seem steep in U.S. Dollars, a company called B&H Photo was taking pre-orders of the audio docking station back in December for $39.99. B&H is still accepting pre-orders of the dock for the same price and the good news is that it is expected to start shipping this Friday! We do have to let you know that the price does not include shipping.

source: ASUSShopUK via AndroidCentral

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PhoneArena-LatestNews/~3/vxchqpP0ajo/Google-Nexus-7-docking-station-found-in-ASUS-Shop-in-the-U.K._id38718

hunger games review jeff saturday jason smith jon corzine austin rivers austin rivers sweet home alabama

Futures Movers: Oil settles above $94, near four-month high

By Myra P. Saefong and V. Phani Kumar, MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) ? Crude futures settled above $94 a barrel Monday, with a weaker U.S. dollar helping to lift prices to their highest close since mid-September, as traders watched developments on the U.S. debt crisis for hints on the outlook for energy demand.

Light, sweet crude for delivery in February /quotes/zigman/2291766 CLG3 +0.65% ?settled at $94.14 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, up 58 cents, or 0.6%. Prices, which fell 26 cents on Friday, had posted small losses and gains throughout most of the session, but moved decidedly higher as the dollar lost more ground. Oil settled at its highest since Sept. 18, FactSet data show.

Beijing?s air pollution spikes

Air-quality index shows a reading far above high levels that typically take place during rare events such as forest fires. (Photo: Getty Images)

?The stronger euro continues to put pressure on the U.S. dollar index, sparking renewed buying interest by investors in the commodity sector in general,? said Darin Newsom, senior analyst at Telvent DTN.

The ICE dollar index /quotes/zigman/1652083 DXY -0.06% , which measures the greenback?s performance against a basket of six major global currencies, was at 79.493, below 79.566 in North America late on Friday. Weakness in the greenback tends to provide support for dollar-denominated commodities. See: Yen hits multiyear lows; dollar slips too.

Added supports

/conga/story/misc/markets.html 240610

Adding support to oil, ?seasonally, the energy complex is entering a time frame when its low is established,? said Newsom.

All the while, ?Brent crude is seeing strong commercial buying, as indicated by the strengthening inverse in the forward curve (series of futures spreads),? he said. ?This most likely reflects continued bullish economic data out of China hinting at possible stronger demand in 2013.?

February Brent /quotes/zigman/2735831 UK:LCOG3 +1.17% ?settled at $111.18 a barrel on ICE Futures in London, up $1.24, or 1.1%. The contract expires after the close on Wednesday.

Oil traders also focused on developments linked to the U.S. debt crisis.

?It looks like the rhetoric is starting to heat up regarding the [U.S.] debt crisis on both sides of the aisle,? wrote Tariq Zahir, managing member at Tyche Capital Advisors, in emailed remarks.

At a news conference Monday, President Barack Obama again urged Congress to increase the debt ceiling, saying that inaction could roil financial markets. See: Failure to hike debt limit may roil markets, says Obama.

The headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

Coming up later this week is the release of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries? monthly oil report and the U.S. Energy Information Administration weekly petroleum-inventory data, both due out Wednesday.

On Friday, the Paris-based International Energy Agency will issue its monthly report on oil, as well.

Rounding out action among energy futures Monday, February heating oil /quotes/zigman/2202758 HOG3 +1.94% ?rose 5 cents, or 1.8%, to $3.06 a gallon and February gasoline /quotes/zigman/2052319 RBG3 +0.39% ?settled at $2.75 per gallon, up 1.5 cents, or 0.5%.

Natural-gas futures for delivery in February added 5 cents, or 1.4%, to $3.37 per million British thermal units, extending a 4.2% gain seen on Friday.

?While the cooling trend in the forecast can be seen as supportive, the overall level of heating demand remains moderate,? wrote Evans in a note.

/quotes/zigman/2291766

US : U.S.: Nymex

Volume: 221,168

Jan. 14, 2013 5:09p

/quotes/zigman/1652083

US : U.S.: ICE Futures U.S.

Volume: 0.00

Jan. 14, 2013 5:09p

/quotes/zigman/2735831

UK : U.K. ICE Futures Europe

Volume: 109,196

Jan. 14, 2013 10:06p

/quotes/zigman/2202758

US : U.S.: Nymex

Volume: 47,366

Jan. 14, 2013 5:06p

/quotes/zigman/2052319

US : U.S.: Nymex

Volume: 40,326

Jan. 14, 2013 5:08p

Myra Saefong is a MarketWatch reporter based in San Francisco. Follow her on Twitter @MktwSaefong. Varahabhotla Phani Kumar is a reporter in MarketWatch's Hong Kong bureau. Follow him on Twitter @MktwKumar. Barbara Kollmeyer in Madrid contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BC81D393E-5E0B-11E2-AD22-002128040CF6%7D&siteid=rss&rss=1

Kate Middleton photos Chi Magazine Kate Middleton Nude Photos glee glee boxing news Coptic Christian

Did Mega-Drought Kill Ancient Aboriginal Culture?

A 1,500-year drought in Australia may have led to the demise of an ancient aboriginal culture, a new study suggests.

The results, published Nov. 28 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, show that geological traces of a mega-drought in the northwest Kimberley region of Western Australia coincide with a gap and transition in the region's rock art style. The finding suggests that the people who lived prior to the drought, called the Gwion, either left the region or dramatically altered their culture as a result of the drought, and a new culture called the Wanjinda eventually took its place.

"There is this significant gap in rock art. A possible reason for that is that the climate at that time changed so markedly that the artists who produced the Gwion Gwion art moved on from the Kimberley region," said study co-author Hamish McGowan, a climatologist at the University of Queensland in Australia.

But not everyone agrees with that interpretation. While the evidence for a drought is very convincing, archaeological sites show continuous occupation during that time, said Peter Veth, an archaeologist at the University of Western Australia who is an expert in the Kimberley's rock art and was not involved in the study.

"They reconfigure themselves on the land and often do portray things quite differently, but I don't see it as a different people," Veth told LiveScience.

Ancient inhabitants

Aboriginal cultures have inhabited Northwest Australia for the past roughly 45,000 years, McGowan said. But at least 17,000 years ago during the Pleistocene Era, a culture called the Gwion began depicting aspects of their life on the rocks in the region. The Gwion art depicted some extinct animals (such as a marsupial lion that went extinct during the last ice age) but also groups of slim figures in what look like ancient celebrations. [Image Gallery: Europe's Oldest Rock Art]

But between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago, traces of the Gwion rock art disappeared, and it wasn't until around 4,000 years ago when a new style of rock-art painting called the Wandjina, which depicts round faces with big eyes, emerged. It is still practiced today.

Pollen record

To understand why the rock art changed, McGowan and his colleagues analyzed sediments drilled from Black Springs, Australia. They found that around 6,300 years ago, the type of pollen started to change, suggesting a transition from a lush environment to one characterized by scrubby forests and open grasslands. The sediments also show an increase in dust, suggesting much drier conditions.

The results painted a picture of an ancient mega-drought that roughly coincided with the disappearance of Gwion art, McGowan said.

"The northwest of Australia can undergo very substantive natural changes in climate, which in the past have severely impacted Aboriginal society," he told LiveScience, adding the climate change and disappearance of Gwion art suggest these people left the region.

But while it's likely that the drought radically altered the local societies, the rock art from the area isn't dated well enough to make conclusions about the complete disappearance of the culture, Veth said.

What's more, archaeological evidence suggests the area was continuously occupied, he told LiveScience. For instance, archaeologists find very similar stone tools throughout the drought, Veth said.

"They have identified a very interesting climate episode and it does seem to correlate with this switch ? and that's the word I would use ? a switch in the way people are portraying art," he said.

Follow LiveScience on Twitter @livescience. We're also on Facebook?& Google+.?

Copyright 2013 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/did-mega-drought-kill-ancient-aboriginal-culture-181019679.html

Aj Mccarron Girlfriend linkedin linkedin CES 2013 joe budden notre dame notre dame football

50-year blueprint for remaking Detroit revealed (Providence Journal)

Share With Friends: | | Politics - Top Stories News, RSS and RSS Feed via Feedzilla.

Source: http://news.feedzilla.com/en_us/stories/politics/top-stories/275938893?client_source=feed&format=rss

safety not guaranteed lifehouse al gore la dodgers lawrence o donnell magic johnson jetblue pilot

Finance Finisters May Not Change the Tax Slabs but May Increment ...

As per the Economic Times of India the proposal for taxing the super-rich does not find much favour with Chidambaram, who is known to prefer moderate taxes. However, given the low tax base in India, Chidambaram may look to expand the tax reach and look at measures to ensure higher compliance.

Economists including PMEAC chairman C Rangarajan, the Finance Minister P Chidambaram is unlikely to contrivance with tax slabs despite of fundamental playing field for a higher tax rate for the ?super-rich? in this year?s budget.

Government taxes income at three rates ? 10 per cent, 20 per cent and 30 per cent. Incidentally, it was Chidambaram who brought down the tax slab from 40 per cent to 30 per cent in 1997.

Pitching for higher rates of taxes for super rich, Rangarajan had said that the forthcoming budget could look at imposing surcharge on income above a threshold.

?? one need not disturb the structure of income tax system as it is now. But add a surcharge for income above particular level. I believe as we go along, we need to raise more revenues and the people with larger incomes must be willing to contribute more,? he had said.

Last week, Chidambaram met representatives from the agriculture sector, kicking off discussions his ministry holds with stakeholders before the annual budget that is usually presented on the last day of February. Around 20 experts from different farm groups and institutes participated in the pre-budget meeting.

Source: http://taxmantra.com/finance-finisters-may-not-change-the-tax-slabs-but-may-increment-the-surcharge-for-income-above-particular-level-in-2013/

olympics chariots of fire nbc Medal Count Sam Mikulak London 2012 diving Tim Berners-Lee

Yoga Works Wonders To Relieve Stress And Anxiety Your Health ...

Do you have so much stress that you feel it is too much to handle? Are you having difficulty getting things done because of it? Do you feel that your health is negatively impacted by your level of stress? If yes was your answer to these questions, then continue on for some simple ways to deal with your stress.

If you are currently relying on unhealthy vices to manage your stress, you must be willing to replace them with beneficial, productive behaviors. Getting some exercise is a better way of dealing with stress than overeating. A more well-rounded, healthy coping mechanism will be more effective for managing stress, and it will also improve your overall health.

When your stress level is high, let other people around you know that it?s not their fault that you?re feeling this way. Frequently, spouses, and particularly children, feel like they are at fault. Try to keep in mind that stress is yours to deal with, and should not be foisted upon your loved ones.

Try yoga for relaxation purposes. Yoga helps you to attain a higher state of mental and physical relaxation. In yoga, extraneous thoughts are released from the mind as it begins to focus on the body. In addition, the various yoga positions promote muscle flexibility. This creates a powerful calmness for yourself.

One way to control life?s stresses is to figure out exactly what is important to you. By finding a way to prioritize the most important things, you can find that your level of stress will decrease, and your life will be more enjoyable.

One of the best ways to reduce stress is to live a healthy lifestyle. Things like improving your diet, getting more exercise, or getting a good nights rest all help your body to fight off stress and anxiety. In a broader sense, being healthier will make you feel more positive in general, making you more resistant to the effects of stressful situations.

Talk to someone if you?re feeling anxious. Finding someone willing to listen, understand, and provide good advice can be a great stress reliever, especially if you make sure they know you well and do not judge you.

Now that you?ve read how to manage your stress, the only thing left is to do it! Don?t let yourself get too stressed out; it?s bad for your life and your health. Apply these easy tips whenever you feel like you need a break from stress and soon, you?ll be feeling better.

Now that you have acquired a new techniques to guide you in the fight to
reduce weight, you?ll be ready to apply it in your daily lives.

Source: http://fwdmagazine.com/healthandfitness/yoga-works-wonders-to-relieve-stress-and-anxiety/

warren buffett 2012 nfl schedule dishonored april 18 delonte west vanessa williams nicklas backstrom

Luck and Chuck! Colts topple Texans from 1 seed

Rookie QB gives coach a great welcome back with victory over Houston

Brent Smith / Reuters

Colts quarterback Andrew Luck (12) yells to his teammates on the sidelines prior to the kickoff.

updated 7:09 p.m. ET Dec. 30, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS - Chuck Pagano put on his dancing shoes and savored every moment of Sunday's postgame celebration.

He took his customary linebacker stance on the sideline, hands on bended knees. He signaled touchdowns when the Colts scored, patted Deji Karim on the helmet after a 101-yard kickoff return for a game-changing touchdown, and gestured for penalty flags to be thrown.

And after Indianapolis beat AFC South champion Houston 28-16, Pagano even tossed aside the stodgy image of an NFL coach and began jumping around with players, assistant coaches and even team owner Jim Irsay like he was a kid again.

Why not?

"There was a lot of high-fiving, a lot of dancing, a lot of hugging going on and a lot of celebrating," an emotional Pagano said. "There's a lot to celebrate right now."

It started with Pagano's return.

He took an indefinite leave Sept. 26 to begin the first of three rounds of chemotherapy for leukemia Sept. 26 and didn't make it back to the sideline until Sunday when the cancer was in complete remission.

But the party began much earlier.

When Pagano first walked onto the field, he waved to the fans and hugged his wife, Tina.

When fans gave him a standing ovation after a 1-minute video played on the stadium's two Jumbotrons just before kickoff, a choked up Pagano held his tears in check.

When he left the field, he hugged everybody in sight ? assistant coaches, Colts players, even Texans players and coaches ? before moving the postgame party to the locker room, where Irsay presented him with a game ball and they did a do-si-do together.

"What a day, what a day," he said. "We could go into what transpired out there over the last three hours and five, 10 minutes whatever, from a stats standpoint and big plays, penalties and run offense and run 'D', all of that stuff. But just down the road, I have watched all of this take place for the last 12 ball games."

Players had a different kind of welcome-back celebration planned.

"Guys really did not want to lose in his first game back and heading into the playoffs," rookie quarterback Andrew Luck said. "To get a win, I think means the world to him."

Luck, as usual, had a big hand in the victory. He was 14 of 28 for 191 yards with two more touchdowns and no interceptions.

He wasn't alone, though.

Karim swung the game with the kickoff return just seconds after the Texans took their only lead, and when Luck converted on third-and-23 with the 70-yard TD pass early in the fourth quarter, the crowd was in a frenzy.

The Colts (11-5) will play at Baltimore in the wild-card round next weekend. The slumping Texans (12-4) have lost three of their last four and won't know their AFC seeding until after Denver and New England finish later Sunday.

"We had a great opportunity the last two weeks, but we won't feel sorry for ourselves," Texans coach Gary Kubiak said after giving Pagano a hug and whispering in his ear after the game. "We'll focus on keeping our confidence up, even if we have to play next week."

Indy did everything it needed to Sunday.

The Colts prevented J.J. Watt from getting too close to Luck ? or any closer to Michael Strahan's NFL sacks record (22?). Watt finished with 20?.

"We didn't win, so I could care less about the record. It's about winning," Watt said.

Luck broke Peyton Manning's franchise record for completions by a rookie but fell 15 short of Sam Bradford's NFL mark. Luck also moved into third all-time among rookies with 22 TD passes.

And Indy completed the second greatest turnaround in league history ? winning nine more games than it did in 2011.

"Man, this has been a great year, a storybook ending," Pro Bowl receiver Reggie Wayne said. "Let's keep it going. Hopefully we can continue to write this movie."

It didn't take long for the Colts to assert themselves in this emotional environment ? or to turn the game when the Texans took their only lead. Shayne Graham made a 37-yard field goal with 5:22 left in the third quarter, a lead that lasted all of 12 seconds.

Karim fielded the ensuing kickoff a yard deep in the end zone, found a seam in the middle of the field and never slowed until he reached the opposite end zone to make it 21-16. Pagano patted him on the helmet after the longest kickoff return since the Colts moved to Indy in 1984.

Then, facing third-and-23 from the 30, Luck threw a perfect strike through a narrow opening, hitting Hilton in stride for a 70-yard TD to make it 28-16.

On a day the Texans mostly settled for field goals, that's all the Colts needed.

Luck masterfully led the Colts to a 14-6 halftime lead.

Houston made it 14-13 when Arian Foster broke through a hole for a 13-yard TD run and saluted Pagano by tapping the (hash)Chuckstrong sign hanging on the wall behind the end zone instead of doing his trademark bow. Foster ran 16 times for 96 yards.

Graham's 37-yard field goal gave Houston the lead with 5:22 to go in the third quarter, but Karim's long TD return set off a celebration that didn't end until after Pagano had done his dance.

"It's like a dream come true again," Pagano said. "It's the greatest feeling in the world to be down there."

Schaub finished 24 of 36 for 275 yards with two interceptions and no touchdowns. Foster ran 16 times for 96 yards.

NOTES: Andre Johnson caught 12 passes for 141 yards and became the second player in league history with three seasons of 100 or more catches and 1,500 or more yards. The other: Former Colt Marvin Harrison. ... Manning had 326 completions, Luck finished the season with 339. ... Watt had a shared sack taken away in the first half when the officials erased a sack-fumble of Luck because of the Tuck Rule. ... The Colts lost starting guard Joe Reitz in the first half with a head injury. ... Houston linebacker Daryl Sharpton left the game with a hip injury. Linebacker Tim Dobbins left in the second half with what Kubiak thought was a shoulder injury.

? 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

advertisement

More newsPatrick Mcdermott / Getty Images

PFT: AP comes up short, but Vikes reach playoffs

PFT: Rookie Blair Walsh kicked a game-ending field goal to lift the Vikings over the Packers and clinch a playoff spot, despite Adrian Peterson coming up nine yards short of the single-season rushing record.

Source: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/50324689/ns/sports-nfl/

cynthia nixon cspan state of the union drinking game oscar noms capital gains tim thomas oral roberts