Tuesday, April 24, 2012

'American Idol' Castoff Colton Dixon Talks 'Weird' Song Choice

Christian rocker says fans may have been 'turned off' when he decided to perform Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance.'
By Christina Garibaldi


Colton Dixon on "American Idol"
Photo: Fox

American Idol had fans scratching their heads two weeks in a row after another shocking elimination. Potential favorite Colton Dixon, the Christian rocker from Tennessee, found himself in unfamiliar territory on last week's episode, landing in the bottom three for the first time. Fans were convinced that he would return to the couch, but after 53 million votes, Dixon was sent packing.

What's the reason for his early exit? Well, according to Dixon, it was his song choice. The 20-year-old took the stage to perform two songs that night, the first being Lady Gaga's smash single, "Bad Romance."

"I'm like, 'I can metal the snot out of this song,' " Dixon told MTV News on Monday (April 23) about his thought process in choosing the song. "I just started getting giddy thinking about it. I saw the smoke and I was like, 'I'm in!' and I ran with it."

But now, Colton feels that the message of the song may have offended his fanbase.

"I had fun with the song, that was who I was and I had a blast with it," Dixon said. "And you know, it's not necessarily a bad message, we all want something that's not good for us, but that's how I took the song and I had to edit around some of Gaga's choice words to have it fit me a little better. But still, I think my audience heard Gaga and just went 'Oh, weird' and kinda turned off a little bit, which I understand. I take such a strong stance in my faith, I do understand."

Yet, Dixon has no hard feelings against the song, or Lady Gaga, whom he happens to be a big fan of. "I love her, I do. She's a great artist and she can sing her tail off and that's what I love," Dixon revealed. "She does whatever she can and whatever she has to do to stay on top of the music industry and she does a great job of it."

Were you surprised to see Colton leave "American Idol"? Let us know in the comments.

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Monday, April 16, 2012

BumpWatch: Alessandra Ambr?sio?s Birthday at the Beach

The model mama-to-be - who's expecting a baby boy in mid-May - celebrated her birthday last Wednesday and logged on to thank fans for their well-wishes.

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Melissa Gilbert: Returning to Dancing With the Stars


Melissa Gilbert returned to the studio for her first Dancing with the Stars rehearsal since Monday night's performance episode left her hospitalized.

"Nobody puts Halfpint in the corner!" Maksim Chmerkovskiy's partner Tweeted, using her character's nickname from Little House on the Prairie.

Gilbert, 47, had to be helped down the ballroom stairs by fellow competitor Gavin DeGraw after injuring herself during a paso doble Monday:

After missing Tuesday's result show, in which viewers gave her at least another week to dance after eliminating Sherri Shepherd, Gilbert Tweeted:

"Going to attempt a gentle rehearsal in a bit."

Thursday, she said she was "very happy" to be back dancing with Chmerkovkiy before signing off for the night: "Now back home to bed."

Looks like she's good to go, despite the whiplash and concussion she suffered. How do you think Melissa will do in her return Monday night?

And who will win Dancing With the Stars' 14th season?

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Fox News digs up its 'mole,' says it will fire him

By Reuters

Fox News on Wednesday said it was firing an employee who had anonymously posted videos and comments about behind-the-scenes workdays at the television network, leading media website Gawker to dub him the "mole."

Joe Muto, who had worked as an associate producer on commentator Bill O'Reilly's show at Fox, began his postings on social media websites on Tuesday, and Gawker then began publishing "installments" from the "mole" on its website.

After being suspended, Muto posted a picture of himself late on Wednesday afternoon inside Gawker's office saying "It's Me, Joe: The Fox Mole."

"They nailed me," Muto wrote on the Gawker website. "In the end, it was the digital trail that gave me away. ... They couldn't prove it entirely, but I was pretty much the only suspect."

While Muto's post said he had been suspended with pay, a statement from a Fox News spokeswoman late on Wednesday said he would be terminated.

"Joe Muto is fired effective April 12 (Thursday)," the statement said. "Once the network determined that Mr. Muto was the main culprit in less than 24 hours, he was suspended late today while we pursued concurrent avenues. We are continuing to explore legal recourse against Mr. Muto and possibly others."

The posts became widely discussed on social media and in newsrooms across the United States because they purported to give a glimpse inside the news channel known for conservative personalities such as O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.

Muto's posts included a video of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's off-air banter in an interview with Hannity in which the politician was caught on camera using the word "dressage" about horses.

"I think Mitt loses points with the GOP base for his correct pronunciation of dressage," Muto posted.

Another post railed about a gap in the bathroom stalls, with photo included, at Fox headquarters in New York.

On Wednesday afternoon, Fox and Muto engaged in an unusual game of cat and mouse. A representative told website Mediaite.com that the TV network had identified the person and was exploring its legal options, but Muto taunted Fox with another post saying, "I Am the Fox Mole, And I'm Still Here."

That changed late on Wednesday, Muto wrote, when he was ushered into a Fox attorney's office and "suspended indefinitely ... with pay, oddly enough." That posting was made before Fox confirmed that Muto would be fired.

Fox News is a unit of media giant News Corp.

Do you think Fox was correct in firing Muto? Was he out of line for sharing work-place tidbits on social media sites? Tell us on Facebook (yes, we get the irony).

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Friday, April 13, 2012

Job listing at Canonical may mean Ubuntu Mobile still lives

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The folks at Canonical (the masterminds behind the Ubuntu Linux project) have been kicking around the idea of a mobile version of Ubuntu for about four years now. First hearing about it back in 2008, many a nerdly smartphone user (guilty) just couldn't wait to get Linux on their handset, but it never really came to light.

That could be changing, as a job listing at Canonical for a "Business Development Manager (Ubuntu Phone OS)" has popped up, and it mentions the "launch of Ubuntu as a smartphone operating system" in the description. Now we're not privy to the inner chambers at Canonical where all the secrets are kept, but this has to mean one of two things -- either a big push for Ubuntu for Android, or a full fledged Ubuntu Mobile OS following in the tracks of Kubuntu Mobile 11.04. Either one makes me get all warm and fuzzy inside.

But here's the thing -- we have a Linux-based smartphone OS, and it also happens to be the market leader. Of course we're talking Android. With Google behind the project, Android was able to succeed when others, like Maemo, simply tanked. I'm not so sure the average user is ready for a new Linux based smartphone OS, no matter how bad some of us want it to happen. It's going to have to have polish, be easy to use, and have a couple hundred-thousand apps to succeed. A multi-purpose device that runs a celebrated and successful OS while mobile (Android), and a fuller, desktop style OS (Ubuntu) while docked is the right way to go here I think. We'll just have to wait and see.

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President, CEO Lepp?vuori, VTT: Finland should create a national bioeconomy strategy

President, CEO Leppvuori, VTT: Finland should create a national bioeconomy strategy [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 12-Apr-2012
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Contact: Erkki KM Leppvuori, President and CEO
erkki.leppavuori@vtt.fi
358-207-224-100
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Finnish forests, water and minerals the new value products in high-level expertise

We must react to the sudden structural changes taking place in the Finnish IT sector and in traditional forestry industry. For Finland to succeed new business and service ecosystems must be developed. Bioeconomy has the prerequisites for becoming a successful example of this for Finnish business life. This will, however, require a functioning collaboration network and our own bioeconomy strategy.

On 12 April 2012, during the VTT Bioeconomy Forum Finland event in Helsinki, the President and CEO of VTT opened discussion on bioeconomy strategy and establishing a various partnership networks.

Bioeconomy has all the prerequisites for creating a radical increase in the value of exports and for developing into a new pillar of support for wellbeing in Finland. This will require the making of choices, the taking of risks, and the development and marketing of bioeconomy-based technologies.

According to expert assessment, by 2020 new technological solutions and diversification could, for example, raise Finland's current forest industry production by 6 billion euros (equal to an increase of 22% compared to 2010 level).

Fossil energy and material resources are shrinking, environmental problems are getting worse, and global population growth continues. On a global scale, adjusting to these developments requires radical changes to production methods, to the use of raw materials, and to living habits in general. Bioeconomy provides an answer to many of these challenges, and creates new business.

The forest industry, for example, can expand its current operations into the production of composites, biofuels and biochemicals, and into service businesses. This would also bring about a corresponding growth in sector profitability.

"I believe that Finland, thanks to its competences and raw materials, can become a future leader in bioeconomy, and create success and wellbeing for itself. The task requires a new way of thinking and operating: In addition to research, attention must also be paid on development and commercialisation of business throughout the innovation chain", states Erkki KM Leppvuori, President and CEO of VTT

VTT as playmaker

Erkki KM Leppvuori, challenges Finnish companies, research institutions and authorities to act together to expedite this development. "Bioeconomy much more than solely the utilisation of biomass is an opportunity to succeed for Finnish growth companies. We should act together to turn Finland into a forerunner in bioeconomy, a country that develops operating models and products." For the concept of Finland as pioneer country to succeed, this above all requires bold new business ideas, the participation of public funding to share the risk, and foreseeable legislation and control measures.

"The renewal of Finland's business sector can be expedited by forming a voluntary partnership network the Finnish Institute of Technology and Innovation (FIT). Research programmes in the network could be opened up to each other and large-scale multidisciplinary projects initiated in applied research," says Leppvuori. "This is also a question of effective utilisation of Finland's limited research resources."

"VTT has its own tool, the Advanced Study Centre (ASC), which was established for in-depth, international discussion," Leppvuori continues. "We invite research organisations and companies to participate in ASC-type operations to structure a bioeconomy strategy, and discuss and implement bioeconomy."

The European Union strategy introduces bioeconomy as the foundation of smart and green growth. According to Erkki KM Leppvuori, for Finland this is not only a challenge but an opportunity to exploit the country's high-grade competences for the benefit of business life and exports. Finland's valuable raw materials forests, water and minerals can be utilised more effectively to become highly refined export products.

According to the European Commission, the annual turnover of the bioeconomy sector in the European Union reaches EUR 2,000 billion, which corresponds to more than 22 million jobs and approximately 9% of the EU workforce. In 2014 the EU is to initiate Horizon 2020, a framework programme in research and innovation in the EU, the results of which are estimated to increase jobs by 130,000 by 2025.

What is bioeconomy?

Bioeconomy can be perceived solely as operations related to the processing of biomass. VTT nonetheless views bioeconomy more widely: as a future industrial sector created out of traditional biomass refining. Characteristic for the operations of the sector are resource efficiency, maximisation of value added, recycling, tight integration into energy production, and a capacity for cross-sector innovation. The bioeconomy framework is formed of the three pillars of sustainability: financial profitability; consideration of the environment; and serving society.

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For more information please contact:

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Erkki KM Leppvuori, President and CEO
tel. +358 20 722 4100
erkki.leppavuori@vtt.fi

Further information on VTT:

Olli Ernvall, Senior Vice President, Communications
Tel. 358 20 722 6747
olli.ernvall@vtt.fi
www.vtt.fi

VTT - 70 years of technology for business and society

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is a leading multitechnological applied research organization in Northern Europe. VTT creates new technology and science-based innovations in co-operation with domestic and foreign partners. VTT's turnover is EUR 290 million and itspersonnel totals 3,100.



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President, CEO Leppvuori, VTT: Finland should create a national bioeconomy strategy [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 12-Apr-2012
[ | E-mail | Share Share ]

Contact: Erkki KM Leppvuori, President and CEO
erkki.leppavuori@vtt.fi
358-207-224-100
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Finnish forests, water and minerals the new value products in high-level expertise

We must react to the sudden structural changes taking place in the Finnish IT sector and in traditional forestry industry. For Finland to succeed new business and service ecosystems must be developed. Bioeconomy has the prerequisites for becoming a successful example of this for Finnish business life. This will, however, require a functioning collaboration network and our own bioeconomy strategy.

On 12 April 2012, during the VTT Bioeconomy Forum Finland event in Helsinki, the President and CEO of VTT opened discussion on bioeconomy strategy and establishing a various partnership networks.

Bioeconomy has all the prerequisites for creating a radical increase in the value of exports and for developing into a new pillar of support for wellbeing in Finland. This will require the making of choices, the taking of risks, and the development and marketing of bioeconomy-based technologies.

According to expert assessment, by 2020 new technological solutions and diversification could, for example, raise Finland's current forest industry production by 6 billion euros (equal to an increase of 22% compared to 2010 level).

Fossil energy and material resources are shrinking, environmental problems are getting worse, and global population growth continues. On a global scale, adjusting to these developments requires radical changes to production methods, to the use of raw materials, and to living habits in general. Bioeconomy provides an answer to many of these challenges, and creates new business.

The forest industry, for example, can expand its current operations into the production of composites, biofuels and biochemicals, and into service businesses. This would also bring about a corresponding growth in sector profitability.

"I believe that Finland, thanks to its competences and raw materials, can become a future leader in bioeconomy, and create success and wellbeing for itself. The task requires a new way of thinking and operating: In addition to research, attention must also be paid on development and commercialisation of business throughout the innovation chain", states Erkki KM Leppvuori, President and CEO of VTT

VTT as playmaker

Erkki KM Leppvuori, challenges Finnish companies, research institutions and authorities to act together to expedite this development. "Bioeconomy much more than solely the utilisation of biomass is an opportunity to succeed for Finnish growth companies. We should act together to turn Finland into a forerunner in bioeconomy, a country that develops operating models and products." For the concept of Finland as pioneer country to succeed, this above all requires bold new business ideas, the participation of public funding to share the risk, and foreseeable legislation and control measures.

"The renewal of Finland's business sector can be expedited by forming a voluntary partnership network the Finnish Institute of Technology and Innovation (FIT). Research programmes in the network could be opened up to each other and large-scale multidisciplinary projects initiated in applied research," says Leppvuori. "This is also a question of effective utilisation of Finland's limited research resources."

"VTT has its own tool, the Advanced Study Centre (ASC), which was established for in-depth, international discussion," Leppvuori continues. "We invite research organisations and companies to participate in ASC-type operations to structure a bioeconomy strategy, and discuss and implement bioeconomy."

The European Union strategy introduces bioeconomy as the foundation of smart and green growth. According to Erkki KM Leppvuori, for Finland this is not only a challenge but an opportunity to exploit the country's high-grade competences for the benefit of business life and exports. Finland's valuable raw materials forests, water and minerals can be utilised more effectively to become highly refined export products.

According to the European Commission, the annual turnover of the bioeconomy sector in the European Union reaches EUR 2,000 billion, which corresponds to more than 22 million jobs and approximately 9% of the EU workforce. In 2014 the EU is to initiate Horizon 2020, a framework programme in research and innovation in the EU, the results of which are estimated to increase jobs by 130,000 by 2025.

What is bioeconomy?

Bioeconomy can be perceived solely as operations related to the processing of biomass. VTT nonetheless views bioeconomy more widely: as a future industrial sector created out of traditional biomass refining. Characteristic for the operations of the sector are resource efficiency, maximisation of value added, recycling, tight integration into energy production, and a capacity for cross-sector innovation. The bioeconomy framework is formed of the three pillars of sustainability: financial profitability; consideration of the environment; and serving society.

###

For more information please contact:

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Erkki KM Leppvuori, President and CEO
tel. +358 20 722 4100
erkki.leppavuori@vtt.fi

Further information on VTT:

Olli Ernvall, Senior Vice President, Communications
Tel. 358 20 722 6747
olli.ernvall@vtt.fi
www.vtt.fi

VTT - 70 years of technology for business and society

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is a leading multitechnological applied research organization in Northern Europe. VTT creates new technology and science-based innovations in co-operation with domestic and foreign partners. VTT's turnover is EUR 290 million and itspersonnel totals 3,100.



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Britney Spears 'Cannot Wait' For 'America's Best Dance Crew' Premiere

Season seven starts tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT on MTV featuring performances set to the best Britney songs.
By Kara Warner

<P>In anticipation of the epic season premiere of <a href="http://www.mtv.com/shows/dance_crew/season_7/series.jhtml">"Randy Jackson Presents: America's Best Dance Crew,"</a> MTV has been rolling out a few very extra special details via <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/mtv">Twitter</a>, the biggest one being that tonight's premiere will feature performances set to our favorite songs from pop princess <a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/spears_britney/artist.jhtml">Britney Spears</a>. </P><P> </P><P>Spears <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/britneyspears/status/190197987526455298"> tweeted</a> out the good news herself. "Make sure you tune into #ABDC tonight on @MTV at 10/9C!" she wrote. "Heard they're closing show with Womanizer...CAN NOT WAIT to see what these crews do." </P><P> </P><P><CENTER><embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:757793/cp~name%3Dnews%26id%3D1682822%26vid%3D757793%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A757793" width="430" height="242" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" base="."></embed></CENTER> </P><P> </P><P>This season, dubbed "Return of the Superstars," will feature nine all-new hip-hop dance crews and one returning past crew, a fan favorite from season two, Fanny Pak. </P><P> </P><P>"This is not Fanny Pak, it's Back Pack," joked judge J.C. Chasez. "It's a huge group now. When I saw Fanny Pak I think there were five members and now there are like eight or nine. I'm excited though because what I loved about Fanny Pak on the season they were on is that they don't rely strictly on their athleticism as dancers. They really work into the theme, they listen to what the music is saying." </P><P> </P><P>"I love Fanny Pak," fellow judge Lil' Mama said. "I think that they're fantastic as a crew, and when you're alumni and have been through the ropes you know what to expect, it gets tougher as you go along so and people bring their A-game, so we're hoping they can last through to the end because they're a good crew." </P><P> </P><P>This is the first time in the series' history a crew from a prior season will return to compete for the title. In addition, each episode will feature a different theme built around a popular celebrity artist, including Madonna, Rihanna, Pitbull, David Guetta, Flo Rida and LMFAO. </P><P> </P><P><b>Don't miss the season-seven premiere of <a href="http://www.mtv.com/shows/dance_crew/season_7/series.jhtml">"America's Best Dance Crew,"</a> airing Wednesday, April 11, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on MTV! For continuing "Crew" coverage, be sure to check in with MTV's <a href="http://remotecontrol.mtv.com/category/shows/dance_crew/">Remote Control</a> blog.</b> </P><P> </P><P><CENTER><embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:757987/cp~vid%3D757987%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A757987" width="430" height="242" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" base="."></embed></CENTER></p>

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Doctors Learn to Cook Healthy | Green Napkin Nutrition | Health and ...

Imagine if the word spread form doctor to patient on how to cook and eat healthy and delicious food ? Anyone can learn to cook foods that support and heal instead of promoting obesity and weight related diseases. An article in the NY TImes ?

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3 new novels grapple with questions of mortality

The Beginner's Goodbye might be the first Anne Tyler novel to feature a ghost, but most of her main characters have been haunted.

?The strangest thing about my wife's return from the dead was how other people reacted,? Aaron Woolcott says in the opening line of the Pulitzer Prize-winner's 19th novel. Aaron sees Dorothy at random spots around Baltimore, at the farmers' market or as he's walking down the street.

Dorothy doesn't come back until several months after her death, and when she first appears, Aaron is afraid to ask any questions, in case she leaves again. ?I am an atheist,? he says. ?Having her here in the first place had already shaken up more preconceptions than I could easily absorb.?

After a childhood illness left him with a stammer, a twisted arm, and a limp, Aaron spent his formative years with his mom and older sister hovering over him anxiously. In college, ?I became a kind of pet project for the aspiring social workers that all the young women of college age seemed to be. They associated my cane with, who knows, old war wounds or something.?

But when the older Dr. Dorothy Rosales doesn't fuss over his crippled right arm, Aaron pursues her with singleminded determination and in the face of apparent indifference. To paraphrase ?Jerry Maguire,? she had him at ?Huh.?

Of course, after deliberately choosing a wife who wouldn't cosset him, Aaron then spent their marriage shoving her away and simultaneously resenting the fact that she didn't take care of him.

After a garden-variety argument about where the Triscuits might have got to, Dorothy is killed when a tree falls on their house. Aaron's initial method of coping is to live in the debris and ignore the situation. (Passivity is, of course, a hallmark of a Tyler hero. They don't generally grab chainsaws and get to work.)

Aaron doesn't run to a psychiatrist or neurologist. As he explains, ?Call to mind a person you've lost that you will miss to the end of your days, and then imagine happening upon that person out in public.? You wouldn't question your sanity, because you couldn't bear to think this wasn't real. And you certainly wouldn't demand explanations, or alert anybody nearby, or reach out to touch this person, not even if you'd been feeling that one touch was worth giving up everything for. You would hold your breath. You would keep as still as possible. You would will your loved one not to go away again.?

In a suitably quirky career move, Aaron is the publisher of a vanity press that also puts out a series of how-to books, like the Dummies series, but ?more dignified,? ?a set of instruction manuals who stated goal was to skim the surface?: ?The Beginner's Spice Cabinet,? The Beginner's Monthly Budget,? and their bestseller, ?The Beginner's Colicky Baby.?

Aaron, it will not be lost on readers, also has been living life by skimming the surface.

With its emphasis on guide books ? to living instead of travel, this time ? and its grieving, prematurely-old narrator, ?The Beginner's Goodbye? has more than a little in common with ?The Accidental Tourist.? Aaron even moves back in with his eccentric older sister, Nandina, the only woman in America who wears a housecoat during the second Bush presidency (or maybe the first, too, for that matter.) Those who have read ?Tourist? will know who will be paired off with whom before 50 pages have passed.

Tyler's characters reside in a Baltimore that exists separate from pop culture and, to a large extent, the passage of time since the early 1960s. Aaron and I grew up in roughly the same era ? although he reads more like 55 than 35 ? and the occasional pop culture reference just served to jar me out of the narrative.

But I've had a soft, mushy spot for Tyler ever since my favorite English teacher handed me ?Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant? in high school. ?The Beginner's Goodbye? isn't up there with, say, ?Saint Maybe,? still my favorite of her books. But in its slender, melancholy way, it offers enough of her classic hallmarks to inspire affection in long-time fans.

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Provision of healthy recreation and sports facilities to youth were ...

Peshawar ,? Chief Minister Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Amir Haidar Khan Hoti has said that provision of healthy recreation and sports facilities to youth were part of priorities of the government and generous funds are being spending on sports grounds and other facilities.

He said that flood lights installation work in Arbab Niaz Cricket Stadium will commence in upcoming financial year.

He said that new projects for development and promotion of tourism in attractive and naturally beautiful areas will also be initiated. He was talking to Provincial Sports Minister Syed Aaqel Shah at his office on Tuesday.

Provincial Secretary for Sports and Tourism Syed Jamal ud Din was also present on the occasion. Matters pertaining to progress on ongoing schemes in tourism and sports sectors and initiation of new schemes in forthcoming annual development program were discussed in detail during the meeting.

The CM said that motivating youth to healthy and positive activities is demand of time in order to defeat extremism. He said that Allah has blessed our province with immense natural beauty and tourism has a central role in stability of provincial economy.

He agreed to proposals of the provincial minister for promotion of tourism and issued directives for finalizing entire new schemes in this connection in order that are to be included in forthcoming ADP. The CM was apprised of future activities under tourism department on the occasion. The CM lauded efforts of the department for arranging various festivals in different areas.

Meanwhile Provincial Minister For Social Welfare And Development, Sitara Ayaz was also called on Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Amir Haidar Khan Hoti at his office. Matters pertaining to performance of her department and future projects remained under discussion on the occasion.

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lehmiller - The Psychology of Human Sexuality - Sexual Healing ...

Makes me feel so fine, helps me relieve my mind, sexual healing baby, it?s good for me. ? Marvin Gaye

The idea that sex can relieve stress for couples is pervasive in popular culture. For example, most of you have probably heard the classic song Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye. Many of you have probably also seen television shows and movies that feature storylines about the wonders of ?makeup sex? following a couple's argument (which, according to Jerry Seinfeld, is the second best type of sex you can have after ?conjugal visit sex?). So is there any truth to this idea? Is sex really a stress-reliever? According to a new study, yes?but only for couples who are in satisfying relationships to begin with.1

In this study, 75 heterosexual men and women who were living with a romantic partner completed a sex diary for 18 consecutive weekdays. Participants filled out their diary alone each night in which they reported on the amount of stress they had experienced in the past 24 hours (i.e., how many stressful events occurred and how stressful each one was) and indicated whether they had sexual intercourse that day.

The researchers found that experiencing a high level of stress increased the likelihood of having intercourse the following day. In addition, when sex followed a particularly high stress day, it reduced reports of stress on the following day; when a high stress day was not followed by sex, there was not as much of a decrease in stress the next day. To put it more simply, when couples had sex, they felt less stress afterward than they did before. However, it is important to point out that this finding held only for couples who reported that their relationship was satisfying at the start of the study; for couples who were dissatisfied with their relationship, there was no stress-reducing effect of sex.

This research is limited in that it only examined heterosexual couples and only considered the potential stress relief associated with vaginal intercourse. Thus, it is not clear whether the same benefits would apply in same-sex couples or in couples who engage in other types of sexual activities. However, these results suggest that sex does have the potential to heal us from stress, but only if we are involved in a good relationship. ?

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1Ein-Dor, T., & Hirschberger, G. (2012). Sexual healing: Daily diary evidence that sex relieves stress for men and women in satisfying relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 29, 126-139. doi: 10.1177/0265407511431185

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The Travel Health and Safety Mistake That Could Cost Your ...

Introduction

Workplace health and safety has become commonplace for most companies globally. However, the same basic standards and compliance ?re conspicuously absent for th??e wh??e workplace includes travel. If you want to know more ?bout thi? mistake th?t ?ould cost y?ur business thousands ?f not rectified, th?n read on. In this article w? w?ll l?ok ?t workplace health ?nd safety, travel hazard identification, travel health ?nd safety in conjunction w?th the potential business losses. By th? end ?f th?s article y?u w?ll h?ve the f?ur basic steps t? evaluate ?our risk and the correction steps t? save y?ur business fr?m significant loss.

Workplace Health ?nd Safety

All developed countries h?ve v?ry mature workplace, site or project health and safety regulations, man? with stiff penalties f?r noncompliance. While th? overarching legislation provid?s compliance and standards guidelines, companies are ?bl? to apply th?ir own evaluation ?nd measurement of foreseeable threats, f?ll?wing a standardized methodology. This enables companies to benchmark th??r final results ?nd permits replicatable processes.

Due t? this common approach ?nd process maturity, many companies hav? ventured even further b? creating s?lf imposed higher standards ?u?h ?? ?no harm?, ?zero loss?, ?100% safe? and oth?r similar internal campaigns t? reduce or eliminate any-and-all injury in th? workplace, site or project.

Workplace health ?nd safety i? not ?ust practiced in the country ?f origin but ?lso applied t? ?ll th??r v?r??u? projects and worksites ?round the world a? a global health and safety standard.

Construction companies hav? tak?n thi? philosophy to th? nth degree b? displaying ?t the point ?f entry to the?r project, all incidents, days lost, days ?in?? la?t safety event ?nd ?? on.

Why ?? n?n? of this applied to travel health and safety?

Travel Hazard Identification

Following on fr?m th? workplace health ?nd safety model, activity ?nd location risk registers are typically made b?f?r? commencement of works ?nd maintained thr?ugh?ut the life of th? work activity. When w?? th? la?t time y?u s?w ? travel health and safety risk register ?r hazard identification register th?t u??d a standardized methodology?

If ?ou alr?ady h?v? ? workplace risk register, documenting the foreseeable threats, naked threat levels, treatment solutions, control measures ?nd residual risk level f?llow?ng ?ll modifier actions, why don?t you h?v? the sam? documentation for travel health and safety?

If ??u d?n?t apply the same process, maintain th? ?am? documentation ?nd conduct th? s?me degree of education and communication t? reduce the risk, f?r travel health ?nd safety then ??u d?n?t ? travel safety program at all. This mistake w?ll not ?nl? cost ??u from ? productivity ?nd efficiency perspective but expose ?ou to legal recourse ?h?uld it b? proven you h?ve failed to mitigate the travel health ?nd safety threats ?f ??ur extended workplace and travel activity.

Travel Health ?nd Safety

Travel health ?nd safety ?? n?t an unachievable task. All the steps h?v? b??n exhibited above. The ?nly reason it has not alr?ad? b?en applied to an? company travel management program i? due to ignorance, laziness, lack ?f education, lack of resources, ov?r confidence ?nd avoidance. None of wh??h are defensible f?r companies th?t suffer loss ?f life, reduction ?n people capital, decreased productivity ?nd financial loss.

Due to the amount or time consumed ?n business travel, travel ma? ?ctually constitute ? majority component of y?ur ?v?r?ll ?workplace?. This is parti?ularly acute f?r companies w?th high people capital business models, that sees a lot of consultants, academics, professionals ?r contractors traveling to the client?s physical business site/s from the?r respective city/country of residence.

Business Loss

You ?an?t improve what ?ou ?an?t measure. Travel health and safety ?hould be measured f?r loss to the business ranging from productivity t? direct financial losses. The problem ?? th?t b?c?u?e th? cumulative losses ar? rarely identified in ? single cost centre ?r business unit and more lik?ly spread a?r?ss multiple functions ?nd business units, businesses fail to identify or acknowledge th??? ov?rall travel health and safety losses.

Tangible losses ar? one issue wh?rea? th? intangible losses ?r? ?n?th?r matter entirely. Reputation, legal, market share, n?w business, training ?nd development ?re all plausible losses from foreseeable risk.

Failure to implement a travel health ?nd safety strategy will in time b? discovered a? ? grave mistake ?nd cost the company/business unit thousands of dollars (or more) in losses.

Conclusion

There is no requirement t? d? anything new, simply extend th? current workplace health ?nd safety methodologies to encompass ?all likel? places ?f work? wh?ch w?uld include travel.

The f?ur basic steps t? correct this mistake are: 1. Identify th? hazards; 2. Assess the risk; 3. Apply control measures; ?nd 4. Manage th? residual risk.

You ?hould n?w be ?bl? to identify th? significant void betw??n workplace health and safety and that ?f travel health ?nd safety, in part?cul?r hazard identification, regulatory compliance and the potential business losses.

Review your real status now. Identify the areas f?r improvement immediately, implement positive ?hange? and enjoy th? benefits th?t contribute to ??ur business travel productivity, efficiency ?nd safety. The information contained ?n th?s article will save ?ou thousands in potential losses should you not c?ns?d?r travel ? foreseeable risk to ?our business travellers or n?t con??d?r travel ?n extension ?f y?ur ?ver?ll workplace.

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Professor Alberto Coll contributes op-ed as Chicago Council on ...

Why Europe Still Matters

By Alberto R. Coll

CollOver the past decade it has become fashionable to write off Europe and downgrade its importance to American interests. The arguments are familiar. Supposedly, Europe is an economically declining and politically dysfunctional entity of increasing strategic irrelevance in a world where the likes of China, India, and Brazil should be accorded a much higher priority. The implication is that the United States should pay less attention to Europe and reduce the diplomatic and political resources it allocates to our transatlantic relationships, including NATO, even as we look for closer alliances with the new rising states. Europe?s current economic woes have only reinforced this view. The post-1945 vision in which Europe was America?s vital ally?and in which the United States actively encouraged closer European integration?has given way to a mixture of indifference, skepticism, and outright bipartisan condescension toward Europe and its apparent inability to get its act together.

While Europe?s relative global standing is gradually shrinking as the new emerging economies of Asia and Latin America grow, it would be a mistake for the United States to neglect a group of closely connected countries?members of the European Union?whose combined GDP equals that of the United States and whose population numbers close to half a billion people ... read on.

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Op-ed posted March 29, 2012, on Chicago Council on Global Affairs website.

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The TRUTH About Motherhood ? Live Like A Lorax

Live like a Lorax

How do You Live Like A Lorax?

What are you planning on doing with your children to help save our planet? Can?t we all stand to be a little greener? I KNOW we can in my house. Sure I take steps to be kind to the earth but when I get too busy or things get ?inconvenient? all the ?Green? goes out the door. This Earth Day, I am re-committing to taking some steps (with my children) to be kind to the earth. Are you?

Water
1. Use only the water you need, and reuse when possible.?*Rain barrels can be used to collect rain and then you can use it to water a family garden.?

*Bathe together. Put the kids in the tub together. Shower with your kids or your husband. It?s saves water, creates memories and nurtures the bond between siblings.
2. Turn off water when bathing and brushing teeth.
3. Dispose of solid and liquid wastes and medications safely.
4. Protect your local water source from pollutants, excess pesticides and garbage.

Air
1. Pass on gas! Take public transportation, carpool, plan your day to reduce trips and vehicle emissions.
2. Make sure your home?s air is healthy, learn about indoor air pollutants from indoor energy use and toxins.
3. Plant a tree. Or plant many trees! Plant a garden. Plant a vegetable garden.
4. Prevent additional air pollution by finding alternatives to burning your waste.

Land
1. Use pesticides safely! Reduce or eliminate where possible.
2. Learn about composting, try it out!

Energy
1. Save energy at home Choose energy-saving appliances if they?re available.
2. Hang dry your clothes.

Waste
1. Reuse. Upcycle! Take something that is disposable and transform it into something of greater use and value.
2. Recycle metals, plastics and paper
3. E-cycle Recycle and/or properly dispose of electronic waste such as computers and other gadgets
4. Don?t litter! Properly dispose of trash and waste
This Earth Day, my family will spend the day outside and unplugged; being mindful of our footprint. We will be staying around our home, working in our garden. I also think its time to teach the girls about how to separate the recyclables. On a daily basis, my girls are mindful of their footprint and the older they get the more I will explain. For now, they can help by turning off lights, separating recyclables, not wasting, bathing together, buying locally grown organic foods, helping Mommy hang the clothes on the line and remember the reusable grocery sacs. Life is good. Let?s help it stay that way but raising responsible, socially and environmentally aware children.

Haven?t you heard that orange is the new green? Seventh Generation and Dr. Seuss? The Lorax have joined forces to inspire families to conserve the earth?s resources with conscious consumption. Created with your family, future generations and the environment in mind, Seventh Generation is the natural choice for high-quality and effective products that preserve the air, surfaces, fabrics, pets and people in your home?as well as the world outside. Make a difference by choosing Seventh Generation products, now offering free shipping for orders over $50. As the Lorax says, ?Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It?s not.?

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What do you do to teach your children to live like a Lorax?

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$23K per month not enough for Etheridge ex

Peter Kramer / AP file

By Bruna Nessif, E! Online

Hey, some people lead expensive lives.

Tammy Lynn Etheridge has filed a settlement conference brief today saying she needs more than the $23,000 per month that her ex Melissa Etheridge is paying for spousal and child support.

MORE: Tammy and Melissa Etheridge call it quits

She lists Melissa's former monthly income at almost $178,000 and their former standard of living at over $128,000 a month. Yeah, we could see how getting more than $100,000 less than what you're used to could be an issue.

In the documents, it states that Melissa "has extensive resources at her disposal and a tremendous earning capacity," while Tammy Lynn "has limited income and virtually no savings."

MORE: View the documents

The couple of nearly nine years separated in April 2010 and have two children together, five-year-old twins, daughter Johnnie Rose and son Miller.

GALLERY: Big celebrity splits

In January 2011, Melissa Etheridge began dating "Nurse Jackie" creator Linda Wallem.

-- Reporting by Claudia Rosenbaum

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Wash. man on the run finds time to update Facebook

(AP) ? He's on the lam, but Travis A. Nicolaysen still had time to update his Facebook page.

The 26-year-old escaped from officers in two foot chases Wednesday and a dragnet that included a police dog tracking him through a Port Angeles neighborhood.

One friend posted to his account: "cops all over you." Nicolaysen responded the next day with: "got away thanks bro."

Nicolaysen has been convicted of five felonies, including domestic violence, burglary and theft of a firearm. Police were searching for him after he allegedly failed to check in with his parole officer since January, the Peninsula Daily News reported.

He's also accused of assaulting his girlfriend on March 28. In a post Saturday, he let his friends know he was now single, the Peninsula Daily News reported (http://is.gd/dpnPtm ).

The change in relationship status was followed by a discussion between Nicolaysen and several females asking him to contact them and warning him to watch out. At least two urged him to surrender, telling him to set an example for his children.

A picture on the Facebook page shows Nicolaysen with two toddlers.

An aunt in Port Angeles, Teri Newell, confirmed to The Associated that the Facebook account was her nephew's. Nicolaysen did not immediately respond to a message left Monday.

Investigators were checking Facebook as part of their search, said Deputy Police Chief Brian Smith, who added that police believe the Facebook account is Nicolaysen's.

"People are giving him advice" to surrender, Smith said, "and he might want to follow it."

Nicolaysen's brazen use of the social networking site is unusual, but not unheard of, said Port Angeles Police Cpl. Tom Kuch.

"It's more frustrating than anything," Kuch said. "He and others like him seem to think that being on the lam is glamorous."

Kuch said he blames movies that glorify the lives of criminals on the run from the law.

Unlike some movies or TV shows, Port Angeles police do not have a computer expert or the technology to track criminals through Facebook, he said. Tracing IP addresses, Internet experts say, generally narrows the location only to a city and a service provider.

According to Facebook's data-use policy, the social media site has some limited ability to trace users. The policy indicates that the site "may share your information in response to a legal request (like a search warrant, court order or subpoena) if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so."

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High-resolution atomic imaging of specimens in liquid by TEM using graphene liquid cell

High-resolution atomic imaging of specimens in liquid by TEM using graphene liquid cell

Monday, April 9, 2012

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced that a research team from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has developed a technology that enables scientists and engineers to observe processes occurring in liquid media on the smallest possible scale which is less than a nanometer.

Professor Jeong Yong Lee and Researcher Jong Min Yuk, in collaboration with Professor Paul Alivisatos's and Professor Alex Zettl's groups at the University of California, Berkeley, succeeded in making a graphene liquid cell or capsule, confining an ultra-thin liquid film between layers of graphene, for real-time and in situ imagining of nanoscale processes in fluids with atomic-level resolution by a transmission electron microscope (TEM). Their research was published in the April 6, 2012 issue of Science. (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6077/61.abstract)

The graphene liquid cell (GLC) is composed of two sheets of graphene sandwiched to create a sealed chamber where a platinum growth solution is encapsulated in the form of a thin slice. Each graphene layer has a thickness of one carbon atom, the thinnest membrane that has ever been used to fabricate a liquid cell required for TEM.

The research team peered inside the GLC to observe the growth and dynamics of platinum nanocrystals in solution as they coalesced into a larger size, during which the graphene membrane with the encapsulated liquid remained intact. The researchers from KAIST and the UC Berkeley identified important features in the ongoing process of the nanocrystals' coalescence and their expansion through coalescence to form certain shapes by imaging the phenomena with atomic-level resolution.

Professor Lee said,

"It has now become possible for scientists to observe what is happening in liquids on an atomic level under transmission electron microscopes."

Researcher Yuk, one of the first authors of the paper, explained his research work.

"This research will promote other fields of study related to materials in a fluid stage including physical, chemical, and biological phenomena at the atomic level and promises numerous applications in the future. Pending further studies on liquid microscopy, the full application of a graphene-liquid-cell (GLC) TEM to biological samples is yet to be confirmed. Nonetheless, the GLC is the most effective technique developed today to sustain the natural state of fluid samples or species suspended in the liquid for a TEM imaging."

The transmission electron microscope (TEM), first introduced in the 1930s, produces images at a significantly higher resolution than light microscopes, allowing users to examine the smallest level of physical, chemical, and biological phenomena. Observations by TEM with atomic resolution, however, have been limited to solid and/or frozen samples, and thus it has previously been impossible to study the real time fluid dynamics of liquid phases.

TEM imaging is performed in a high vacuum chamber in which a thin slice of the imaged sample is situated, and an electron beam passes through the slice to create an image. In this process, a liquid medium, unlike solid or frozen samples, evaporates, making it difficult to observe under TEM.

Attempts to produce a liquid capsule have thus far been made with electron-transparent membranes of such materials as silicon nitride or silicon oxide; such liquid capsules are relatively thick (tens to one hundred nanometers), however, resulting in poor electron transmittance with a reduced resolution of only a few nanometers. Silicon nitride is 25 nanometers thick, whereas graphene is only 0.34 nanometers.

Graphene, most commonly found in bulk graphite, is the thinnest material made out of carbon atoms. It has unique properties such as mechanical tensile strength, high flexibility, impermeability to small molecules, and high electrical conductivity. Graphene is an excellent material to hold micro- and nanoscopic objects for observation in a transmission electron microscope by minimizing scattering of the electron beam that irradiates a liquid sample while reducing charging and heating effects.

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The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST): http://www.kaist.edu/english/

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Choosing An Internet Based Business | Online Business Expert ...

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Many people are looking for the right kind of business to start. While this choice can, in part, be based on their own skills, prior experience and education, it should also take into account how the business world has changed thanks to the Internet. Many business that were once exclusively brick and mortar now are partly online, while others are often conducted entirely online. When considering an entirely internet based business, there are many from which to choose.

T-shirts

Those who would like to get into the business of making and selling printed t-shirts and other clothing items might think they would have to buy some expensive printing equipment. However, there are now several online companies that provide shirts and other items to which users can add designs, photos or text. The companies print, package and ship shirts ordered from the user?s shop for a percentage of the sale, and the user keeps the rest.

eBooks

For those who have stories or poems they want to publish, or nonfiction works they think would sell well, selling eBooks is something they should consider. These short digital volumes can be on almost any topic, and there are several software packages that help writers get them into the right format. Once these books are assembled and formatted, they can be loaded onto several different online bookstores to sell. Although they generally sell for 2 or 3 dollars, they often sell thousands of copies, and the resulting sales can continue to provide income forever.

Auctions

One man?s trash really is another man?s treasure. Online auction sites were one of the earliest internet businesses, and they are still going strong. Users can create a business in which they buy items locally and sell them through these sites. They can also purchase new items as discount rates from wholesalers and sell them online as well.

Freelance

For those that have skills they can offer, there is an excellent chance to make money online as a freelancer. Writers or experts in some area who can write about that topic can find many sites that offer writers the opportunity to make a respectable living writing. They can also offer their services directly to businesses that need copy. If they have computer graphics skills, they may also be able to find work providing web page graphics for people building a new site or updating and old one.

There is, in fact, no such thing as the ?right business.? There is only the business that is right for the person who is starting it. Finding that business requires time, careful thought and meticulous research.

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