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UFC 155 is only a few hours away, but prior to stepping into the Octagon, all the combatants needed to step on the scales to make weight Friday afternoon.
Luckily, there were no headaches for Dana White and the UFC, as all the fighters made weight.
Above is a video showcasing the staredown between the two main-event competitors.
In the UFC 155 main event, Junior dos Santos will look to defend his title for the second time against the man he defeated to become champion, Cain Velasquez. Both men have competed once since their first encounter, which ended in a Dos Santos KO.
The champion defended his title against an overmatched Frank Mir at UFC 146 after the original opponent, Alistair Overeem, was removed due to a failed drug test. Velasquez also competed at UFC 146 fighting against Strikeforce veteran Antonio "Big Foot" Silva.
Velasquez made quick work of Silva, causing a nasty cut early in the first round and eventually finishing the fight via TKO.
In the evening's co-main event, Joe Lauzon will face Jim Miller in a lightweight tilt. Both men have found themselves stuck at the gatekeeper level in the division and will look to advance their careers at the other's expense. Both Lauzon and Miller are accomplished grappling artists, which could lead to a wild stand-up battle if they choose to avoid the ground game.
After the top of the card, the remaining fights will help sort out a clouded middleweight title picture.
Tim Boetsch was originally scheduled to face Chris Weidman, but Weidman was forced out of the fight with a shoulder injury. Now, Boetsch will face former boxer and tough-as-nails Costa Philippou.
Another rematch will take place before JDS and Velasquez throw down, as Yushin Okami will take on Alan Belcher. The two met back in 2006, with Okami picking up the unanimous-decision victory.
Kicking off the evening's festivities will be a bout between Chris Leben and former Strikeforce fighter Derek Brunson. Brunson is stepping up on short notice to fight Leben, who will be entering the Octagon for the first time since UFC 138.
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Georgia's Aaron Murray wants first bowl win, then he'll think about senior year or NFL Draft
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ORLANDO ? Between bowl practices in Athens and at Celebration High School near Disney World, Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray got a chance for some down time back home in Tampa.
He stayed sharp by throwing some passes back at his old stomping grounds, Plant High School, and watched plenty of films of a different sort, including the just released Judd Apatow comedy ?This is 40.?
?That was a great movie, hilarious, my parents loved it,? Murray said. ?I think every night we watched a movie just at the house. Just chilling. We had a good time.?
The redshirt junior quarterback also spoke some with his parents about his future. He is weighing whether to return for his senior season or enter the NFL Draft.
?We sat down a little bit and talked about it,? Murray said of what he said was about a 10-minute discussion. ?It was mostly my parents doing the pros and cons. I?m just sitting there watching TV as they talked about it. We talked about it a little bit, but I told them I mostly want to focus on this game and talk about it more when I get home after the game.?
While Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron made a quick decision to return for his senior season, Murray said he still wants to put some more time between the 32-28 SEC title game loss to the Crimson Tide and making his decision.
He also wants to discuss it more with Georgia coach Mark Richt and offensive coordinator Mike Bobo after Tuesday?s Capital One Bowl against Nebraska.
Coaches usually spend plenty of time in the lead-up to a bowl game talking about what the next step in a player?s development might be, but Bobo begged off doing that with the media on Murray and declined to discuss any conversations the two have had about the NFL.
?Right now, I want to see him finish off strong this year and get a bowl victory, something that he hasn?t done and our team hasn?t done in two years,? Bobo said.
Murray completed 20-of-32 passes for 288 yards with two touchdowns, two interceptions and a lost fumble in a 33-30 triple-overtime loss to Michigan State in the Outback Bowl last season and was 21 of 38 for 198 yards with no touchdowns and two interceptions in a 10-6 loss to Central Florida in the Liberty Bowl in 2010. He was sacked a combined seven times in the two games.
?Both of them were tough,? Murray said. ?The first one, we had a chance at the end of the game to drive down the field and score. We didn?t do that. The other one, the triple-overtime loss definitely stunk. Both of them were pretty tough. I?m just hoping to get a win so we finally get a bowl win, finish the season off with a win and have a great offseason from there.?
A comment like that might sound like Murray plans to be a part of leading that offseason for Georgia.
Tight end Arthur Lynch, Murray?s roommate, hasn?t changed his view that Murray is likely to return.
?If I could guess, I would say he wants to stay,? Lynch said.
Lynch said he thinks Murray?s projection from the NFL underclassman advisory committee on where he might go in the draft will be a factor. Murray said he?s still waiting on that.
If Murray returned to Georgia, he?s on pace to set SEC career records for completions, passing yards and touchdown passes. He currently has 678 completions, 9,644 passing yards and 90 touchdown passes.
?Playing against him the last few years at Tennessee, Murray?s been able to make some big-time throws,? said Nebraska secondary coach Terry Joseph, who spent the previous two years on the Volunteers? staff.
The last time Georgia played in the Capital One Bowl, at the end of the 2008 season, its quarterback got questions about the NFL, too.
Michigan State reporters quizzed Matthew Stafford about his thoughts of possibly playing for the Detroit Lions.
Stafford became the No. 1 overall pick when he was indeed drafted by the Lions. He was a slam dunk to go.
The 6-foot-1, 210-pound Murray isn?t.
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As Adam Nagourney reports in The Times, Death Valley is experiencing a burst of civic pride over reclaiming a world temperature record: a 134-degree reading registered on July 10, 1913, at Greenland Ranch in California.
The World Meteorological Organization announced in September that it was throwing out what had previously been thought to be the global record: a reading of 136.4 degrees recorded in the Libyan settlement of Al Aziziya on Sept. 13, 1922. The revised record made headlines around the world.
Yet the back story is even more interesting. Khalid el-Fadli, a Libyan member of the meteorological team that investigated the record, found the original 1922 temperature reading in a logbook at the Libyan National Meteorological Center, where he works, on Feb. 15, 2011, when a revolution had just broken out in the capital.
Working from the logbook, the international team would eventually discover that the reading was taken by an untrained observer with an instrument that was outmoded even for its time. What is more, the temperature did not jibe with other temperatures measured in the area on Sept. 13, 1922, and it differed markedly from readings taken later at Azizia.
Yet it took it took the team six months to pursue those findings, given that Mr. Fadli got sucked into a war immediately after reporting the discovery of the notebook. ?During the revolution, it was very dangerous to call anyone outside,? he said in a telephone interview from Tripoli, the Libyan capital. And ?international calls were shut down by the government? in any case, he said.
Mr. Fadli recalled: ?From March until July, I would go to my office ? not regularly, not every day. Because there was no fuel, our life was very hard.?
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He recalls reading the e-mails flooding in from international colleagues, at first curious in tone and then deeply concerned as weeks passed by. For a full six months he resisted the urge to reply lest he be accused of corresponding with the enemy.
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Given the level of government monitoring, any knowledge that he was communicating with an international committee ?would have been a death sentence for him,? said Chris Burt, a member of the international meteorological team.
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Then came a television pronouncement by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Libya?s longtime dictator, that NATO was using climate data relayed from Libyan scientists to plot its aerial attacks on Libyan government forces. The scientists on the meteorological team assumed the worst. ?My fear was that they had found out that el-Fadli was part of this committee,? Mr. Burt said.
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But Mr. Fadli remained below the radar, and when the violence tapered off that August, he resumed communications with his distant colleagues, and together,?they were able to move on with their work.
and reported the discovery of the logbook.
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He continues to work at the Libyan National Meteorological Center. ?It?s not completely normal yet,? Mr. Fadli said of his country?s situation. But a semblance of calm has returned, he added.
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His international colleagues remain grateful. ?The records he found were really the smoking gun,? Mr. Burt said. ??He?s really ?the guy? in this investigation ? it never could have happened without him.?
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In A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change, John Glassie writes of 17th-century Jesuit priest and scientist Athanasius Kircher, a renaissance man who studied magnetism, Mount Vesuvius, even the blood of plague victims. The only problem? His theories were often wrong.
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Kings Of Leon Drummer Nathan Followill Welcomes Baby Girl!
Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill and his wife, Jessie Baylin, welcomed their first child on Wednesday afternoon. Nathan and Jessie are thrilled over the arrival of their baby girl Violet Marlowe. The Kings of Leon rocker, 33, and his singer-songwriter wife, 28, tweeted their baby news, writing, “I can proudly announce the birth of ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A powerful winter storm that has claimed at least five lives pounded the U.S. Midwest and Northeast and snarled post-Christmas travel on Wednesday after rare tornadoes pummeled the Gulf Coast.
Heavy snow and high winds prompted National Weather Service blizzard and winter storm warnings for the Ohio River Valley and into the Northeast. Fifteen inches of snow were recorded at New Baltimore, Michigan, as the storm headed north and east.
About 1,500 U.S. flights were canceled on Wednesday, according to FlightAware.com, a site that tracks flights. Some 170 flights also have been called off for Thursday, and several airlines waived ticket change fees for affected customers.
All four runways at Philadelphia International Airport were open on Wednesday, but some travelers still faced some canceled flights.
Mary Mazzoni, 25, an environmental writer from Scottsdale, Arizona, had to book an alternate flight on a different airline after her original flight to Phoenix was canceled. She is scheduled to arrive in Phoenix late on Wednesday.
"It's a little annoying. But I'm trying to keep a good attitude about it," said Mazzoni, who was returning to Arizona after visiting relatives for the Christmas holidays.
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The National Weather Service warned that 12 to 18 inches of snow were expected in northern New England, with snow falling through Friday morning. The storm was accompanied by freezing rain and sleet, making driving treacherous, it said.
Across central New York, about 25 minor accidents were reported in a two-hour span Wednesday along major highways, said New York State Police Sergeant Nick Merritt.
"Right now we have additional patrols out on the roads in case we need them," he said.
If predictions of up to 16 inches of snow come true, Buffalo will still be well below average for snowfall, said Bill Hibbert, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service. Buffalo's snowfall is 23 inches below normal for the season.
Severe thunderstorms and widespread rain were expected from southeast Virginia to Florida, the agency said. The eastern counties in North Carolina and South Carolina were under tornado watches or warnings for much of the day.
The winter storm had swept out of the southern Great Plains and through the South on Tuesday. The system spawned at least 34 tornadoes.
A Texas man died after an accident involving a toppled tree in the road. Icy roads contributed to the deaths of four people in auto crashes in Oklahoma and Arkansas, according to police.
Twisters struck in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana, flattening houses and causing injuries, according to the weather service. The storm also dumped record snowfalls in north Texas and Arkansas.
Nearly 200,000 homes and businesses had no electricity in Arkansas and Alabama on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins and Ian Simpson; Additional reporting by Corrie MacLaggan, Eileen O'Grady, Steve Olafson, Dave Warner and Neale Gulley; Editing by Paul Thomasch and Sandra Maler)
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Big Brother has been outsourced. The police can find out where you are, where you?ve been, even where you?re going. All thanks to that handy little human tracking device in your pocket: your cellphone.
There are 331 million cellphone subscriptions?about 20 million more than there are residents?in the United States. Nearly 90 percent of adult Americans carry at least one phone. The phones communicate via a nationwide network of nearly 300,000 cell towers and 600,000 micro sites, which perform the same function as towers. When they are turned on, they ping these nodes once every seven seconds or so, registering their locations, usually within a radius of 150 feet. By 2018 new Federal Communications Commission regulations will require that cellphone location information be even more precise: within 50 feet. Newer cellphones also are equipped with GPS technology, which uses satellites to locate the user more precisely than tower signals can. Cellphone companies retain location data for at least a year. AT&T has information going all the way back to 2008.
Police have not been shy about taking advantage of these data. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), U.S. law enforcement agencies made 1.5 million requests for user data from cellphone companies in 2011. And under current interpretations of the law, you will never find out if they were targeting you.
In fact, police no longer even have to go to the trouble of seeking information from your cell carrier. Law enforcement is more and more deploying International Mobile Subscriber Identity locators that masquerade as cell towers and enable government agents to suck down data from thousands of subscribers as they hunt for an individual?s cell signal. This ?Stingray? technology can detect and precisely triangulate cellphone signals with an accuracy of up to 6 feet?even inside your house or office where warrants have been traditionally required for a legal police search.
Law enforcement agencies prefer not to talk about cellphone tracking. ?Never disclose to the media these techniques?especially cell tower tracking,? advises a guide for the Irvine, California, police department unearthed by the ACLU in 2012. The Iowa Fusion Center, one of 72 local law enforcement intelligence agencies established in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security, distributes a training manual that warns, ?Do not mention to the public or media the use of cellphone technology or equipment to locate the targeted subject.??The ACLU translates: ?We would hate for the public to know how easy it is for us to obtain their personal information.?It would be inconvenient if they asked for privacy protections.?
Ubiquitous cellphones, corporate acquiescence, stealthy new surveillance technologies, and unchecked police intrusiveness combine to produce a situation where the government can pinpoint your whereabouts whenever it wants, without a warrant and without your knowledge. The courts have largely punted on this issue so far. But should carrying convenient communications technology mean that we give up our right to privacy?
Panopticon Rising
Back in the 18th century, architect Samuel Bentham designed a building in which every occupant would be perpetually observable by a hidden inspector located in a central tower. His brother, philosopher Jeremy Bentham, dubbed the building the Panopticon (literally, ?all seeing?) and argued that widely adopting it could solve most of society?s ills. ?Morals reformed?health preserved?industry invigorated?instruction diffused?public burthens lightened?Economy seated, as it were, upon a rock?the?Gordian knot?of the?poor-law?not cut, but untied?all by a simple idea in Architecture!? Bentham enthused. The occupants of the Panopticon, not knowing if they were in fact being observed, would come to assume constant surveillance and eventually ?watch themselves.? No actual inspector needed.
More than 200 years later, geographers Jerome Dobson from the University of Kansas and Peter Fisher from the University of Leicester took the concept of the Panopticon to the next level. In a 2003 article in IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, the two ominously predicted ?geoslavery,? defined as ?a practice in which one entity, the master, coercively or surreptitiously monitors and exerts control over the physical location of another individual, the slave.? In their most lurid scenario, the master would be able to constantly monitor his slave?s location and, if he wasn?t where he was supposed to be, remotely administer an electric shock to get him back in line. Although no one has offered an electric shock app for cellphones yet, private companies like PhoneSheriff and FlexiSPY offer cellphone software that enables parents and spouses to secretly monitor others? contacts, conversations, and locations. As creepily invasive as private surveillance is, however, it?s far worse for our civil liberties that surreptitious tracking by law enforcement has so dramatically increased since 2003. How free would you feel if you thought there was a good chance the cops were monitoring your movements?
?The reason that the Panopticon will slip into the modern world is because it offers so many benefits, as Bentham argued,? Dobson tells me. ?The downsides will become apparent only after we?ve been seduced by the benefits.?
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Source: http://tracesofreality.com/2012/12/18/your-cellphone-is-spying-on-you/
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Article by Deirdre H. T. Gonzales-Gordon ? One of the greatest home business strategies for Work From Home moms is always to start the business selling something. Several of the old standby firms are tips in addition to there are several good Internet opportunities. 1. There are lots of examples of moms who work from your home selling Avon, Amway, Tupperware, Discovery Toys, and so on. Most of these were done over the party plan so a mom could schedule meetings off the demands of various other career.
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Researchers found no proof that ultrasonic devices sold to repel these pesky blood suckers could deliver on that promise. Larry Greenemeier reports.
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Your worst fears about those insect bites on your leg have been confirmed?your home has bed bugs. Don?t panic. There are ways of dealing with these blood-sucking pests. Unfortunately, they do not include gadgets that promise to get rid of bed bugs using ultrasonic frequencies.
Little is known about bed bug sensitivity to sound. But Northern Arizona University researchers report that commercial devices producing ultrasound do not repel bed bugs. In lab tests, the insects proved quite indifferent to sonic assaults. Their report is in the Journal of Economic Entomology. [K. M. Yturralde and? R.W. Hofstetter,
Efficacy of Commercially Available Ultrasonic Pest Repellent Devices to Affect Behavior of Bed Bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)]
It?s also unproven whether similar ultrasonic devices sold to get rid of mosquitoes, cockroaches, fleas or ants work as advertised.
What is the best way to get rid of bed bugs? In a Scientific American article published earlier this year, University of Kentucky entomologist Kenneth Haynes noted that a combination of approaches?including heat treatment and a drying agent?works best.
Haynes recommends calling in trained professionals rather than taking on the problem yourself. So sleep tight. And, ya know?
?Larry Greenemeier
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Dec. 16, 2012 ? Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have reprogrammed ordinary heart cells to become exact replicas of highly specialized pacemaker cells by injecting a single gene (Tbx18)-a major step forward in the decade-long search for a biological therapy to correct erratic and failing heartbeats.
The advance will be published in the Jan 8 issue of Nature Biotechnology and also will be available on the journal's website.
"Although we and others have created primitive biological pacemakers before, this study is the first to show that a single gene can direct the conversion of heart muscle cells to genuine pacemaker cells. The new cells generated electrical impulses spontaneously and were indistinguishable from native pacemaker cells," said Hee Cheol Cho, PhD., a Heart Institute research scientist.
Pacemaker cells generate electrical activity that spreads to other heart cells in an orderly pattern to create rhythmic muscle contractions. If these cells go awry, the heart pumps erratically at best; patients healthy enough to undergo surgery often look to an electronic pacemaker as the only option for survival.
The heartbeat originates in the sinoatrial node (SAN) of the heart's right upper chamber, where pacemaker cells are clustered. Of the heart's 10 billion cells, fewer than 10,000 are pacemaker cells, often referred to as SAN cells. Once reprogrammed by the Tbx18 gene, the newly created pacemaker cells -- "induced SAN cells" or iSAN cells -- had all key features of native pacemakers and maintained their SAN-like characteristics even after the effects of the Tbx18 gene had faded.
But the Cedars-Sinai researchers, employing a virus engineered to carry a single gene (Tbx18) that plays a key role in embryonic pacemaker cell development, directly reprogrammed heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) to specialized pacemaker cells. The new cells took on the distinctive features and function of native pacemaker cells, both in lab cell reprogramming and in guinea pig studies.
Previous efforts to generate new pacemaker cells resulted in heart muscle cells that could beat on their own. Still, the modified cells were closer to ordinary muscle cells than to pacemaker cells. Other approaches employed embryonic stem cells to derive pacemaker cells. But, the risk of contaminating cancerous cells is a persistent hurdle to realizing a therapeutic potential with the embryonic stem cell-based approach. The new work, with astonishing simplicity, creates pacemaker cells that closely resemble the native ones free from the risk of cancer.
For his work on biological pacemaker technology, Cho, the article's last author, recently won the Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Research Prize, a young investigator award of the American Heart Association.
"This is the culmination of 10 years of work in our laboratory to build a biological pacemaker as an alternative to electronic pacing devices," said Eduardo Marb?n, MD, PhD, director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and Mark S. Siegel Family Professor, a pioneer in cardiac stem cell research. A clinical trial of Marb?n's stem cell therapy for heart attack patients recently found the experimental treatment helped damaged hearts regrow healthy muscle.
If subsequent research confirms and supports findings of the pacemaker cell studies, the researchers said they believe therapy might be administered by injecting Tbx18 into a patient's heart or by creating pacemaker cells in the laboratory and transplanting them into the heart. But additional studies of safety and effectiveness must be conducted before human clinical trials could begin.
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The first wearable "augmentations" span from the 11th and 12th centuries all the way up to Google's side project that has built a ton of momentum this year. In the cover story of this week's issue of our e-magazine, we take a look at Google Glass and the timeline of wearable computing that's led us to this point. Eyes-On keeps up the theme while taking a gander at Garmin's Fenix and we offer up an in-depth review of the second coming of Jawbone's UP. If that's not enough, the brains behind the Pebble smartwatch, Eric Migicovsky, submits his responses to the Q&A. Unfortunately, this issue isn't wearable itself, but all of the usual download links are ready to meet your swipes and clicks just down below.
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Costa Rica?s fabulous year-round sunshine, balmy weather and remarkable championship golf courses are fast earning the country the reputation as an ?ace? place for world-class golf.
The best part? Located just a few hours? flight away from North America, Costa Rica?s weather is best when all points north are frozen in winter?s icy grip. Missing the long, verdant stretch of a fairway in December? This tiny Central American nation?s endless summer of sunshine just gets blazing in December and lasts through April. Even in rainy season (May to November), most mornings are cloud-free and sunny to early or mid-afternoon. With sunrise at about 5:00 am, you have plenty of time for a round of 18 holes.
Costa Rica?s golf courses, spread across the country mostly along the Pacific Coast and in the Central Valley, all have their unique distinguishing features. Blue ocean, sandy beach, lush vegetation, rolling hills, woods, lakes, mountains ? and where else might you spot monkeys, toucans, parrots and other tropical wildlife while teeing up? A friend of mine playing on a well-known Central Pacific course once had his ball stolen off the green by an iguana thinking it was an egg!
Costa Rica travel experts Team CRT propose four fetching golf vacation packages playing Costa Rica?s top golf courses. With more than 20 years of experience on the ground in Costa Rica travel, Team CRT knows the best of the country, what to do and see, and they personalize it for you. You?re a golfer and you?re traveling with folks who aren?t? Team CRT kindly recommends tours for non-golfers in each itinerary.
North Pacific Golf Package ? 4 days and 3 nights, arriving at the Guanacaste province?s Liberia International Airport. You?ll enjoy 3 nights at the Westin All-Inclusive Beach & Golf Resort, right on the stunning white sands of Playa Conchal. Challenge yourself with a day of golf on the Resort?s par 71 Robert Trent Jones designed 18-hole course. With panoramic views of the blue Pacific, the course meanders through rolling hills with sun-drenched fairways bordered by native forests. There are enough lakes and ravines to put a premium on accurate approach shots to large Bermuda greens, manicured just like those at U.S. country clubs. Your next day?s adventure is the nearby Hacienda Pinilla Golf Club. 
Relish playing on the 7,300-yard, par 72 masterpiece golf course created by famous international golf architect Mike Young. Picturesque scenery, immaculate conditions, and frequent glimpses of exotic wildlife shape the natural landscape of this certified Audubon International Cooperative Sanctuary. Non-golfers can choose tours to Miravalles Volcano with natural hot springs, waterfalls, horseback riding, and the gorgeous beaches and amenities at the resorts.
North Pacific Golf Package II ? 6 days and 5 nights, arriving at the San Jose International Airport. Spend your first and last night?s of your golf vacation at Wyndham?s Ramada Plaza Herradura hotel, near the airport and next door to the Cariari Country Club Golf Course. You?ll head north to the Guanacaste Pacific Coast for days 2-5, staying at the Westin All-Inclusive Beach & Golf Resort at Playa Conchal. As with the shorter North Pacific itinerary, you?ll play on both the Westin?s Robert Trent Jones golf course and Hacienda Pinilla Golf Club?s Mike Young golf course.
Central Pacific Golf Package ? 4 days and 3 nights, arriving at the San Jose International Airport. Stay at the magnificent colonial-themed Los Sue?os Marriott Ocean & Golf Resort, recognized by Travel & Leisure Magazine readers as one of the ?World?s Best.? Located on Costa Rica?s Central Pacific Coast at Playa Herradura, just one hour from the San Jose airport, Los Sue?os is a spectacular resort with a luxury marina, water sports, spa, 
tennis courts, private beach, and an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Ted Robinson. The par 72 course, nestled between rainforest and beach, makes you think and play shots carefully. The course plays long and it makes you drive the ball; if you don?t position the ball well you can be in trouble. Mesmerizing scenery includes friendly monkeys and brilliant Scarlet Macaws. Make sure to also visit the nearby famous Manuel Antonio National Park, with its jewel-like beaches and plentiful wildlife.
San Jose Golf Package ? 4 days and 3 nights, arriving at the San Jose International Airport. Home for your golf vacation is the Wyndham Ramada Plaza Herradura hotel, next door to the Cariari Country Club Golf Course. Once a coffee plantation, the Cariari Golf Course was designed by golf architect George Fazio and built by his now famous nephew, Tom Fazio. This par 71 course measures 6,590 yards from the championship tees, is heavily wooded, with narrow fairways and a few fairway bunkers; the greens tend to be on the large side with sand traps around them. Day 3 brings you to the Valle del Sol Golf Course, 
designed by famous golf architect Tracy May. Just 15 minutes from San Jose in a valley called Pozos de Santa Ana, the par 72 championship 18-hole golf course has spacious undulating fairways surrounded by lakes and trees that attract diverse wildlife. The greens are smooth and fast, and each hole offers an average of 4 to 5 tee positions for various levels of play.
Costa Rica?s amazing natural attractions, of course, make it an incomparable vacation destination. Team CRT gives you expert guidance and personalized service while they help craft your tailor-made Costa Rica vacation. Vacation packages, beach destinations, nature tours, adventure tours, relaxation vacations, family vacations, honeymoons, Fly & Drive packages, sport fishing trips, golf vacations ? they handle it all. Whether you just want a travel agent to help you choose where to stay, where to go, and things to do, or if you want a full tour operator to take care of complete details, Team CRT is your Costa Rica vacation expert.
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Google Maps on Apple's iPhone (Google)
Our long international nightmare is over.
Three months after Apple launched a new operating system that stripped the popular Google Maps app from the iPhone in favor of one of its own?a move it has since apologized for?Apple formally approved the search giant's app. Frustrated Apple Maps users can now download Google Maps from the App Store.
"People around the world have been asking for Google Maps on the iPhone," Daniel Graf, the director of Google Maps for Mobile, wrote on the company's blog on Wednesday while announcing the rollout.
That's not hyperbole. Complaints about Apple's unreliable maps app mounted almost immediately after the Cupertino, Calif.-based company launched the iPhone 5 and the iOS in September. A week later, the company's chief executive, Tim Cook, issued a public apology and fired the developer responsible for the maps blunder.
"At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers," Cook wrote. "With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment. We are extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers and we are doing everything we can to make Maps better." Cook reminded users that they could create a shortcut to Google Maps through the iPhone's mobile Web browser, but this did little to allay concerns.
Earlier this week, police in Australia urged motorists not to rely on Apple's maps app after several people using its directions became stranded in a national park in scorching heat. One man was stranded for 24 hours, police said.
According to Graf, the updated Google Maps app includes "a sharper-looking, vector-based map that loads quickly and provides smooth tilting and rotating of 2D and 3D views."
Since its official launch late Wednesday, Google Maps is already ranked at the top of the App Store's free apps list.
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Two Mexican police officers, 23 and 24, were arrested after they were allegedly caught leaking images of the crash scene to the media. Now, after video is beginning to surface as well, Jenni Rivera?s family is sharing their disgust.
The video has not been confirmed to be authentic, but Jenni?s family believes it to be real based on the items show in the video, as well as the remains, reports TMZ.
?The family is appalled that anyone would even think about leaking something like that and they shudder to think that one of the first responders might be responsible. The severed foot was the most painful part to watch because ?Jenni was very particular about her feet and toes,?? a source tells the website.
Jenni, who sold 20 million albums worldwide during her career, died in the plane crash on Dec. 9 ? she was 43-years-old.
?The plane practically nosedived,? Mexican transportation official?Gerardo Ruiz Esparaza?said. ?The impact must have been terrible.?
The plane fell at a 45-degree angle and landed 1.2 miles from where it ultimately began plummeting. Tragically, the cause of the crash is still unknown.
The 78-year-old pilot of the plane is causing concern for the investigators, but Gerardo says that he had a valid Mexican pilot?s license despite his age.
No emergency call was made before the crash, Alejandro Argudin, head of Mexico?s civil aviation agency, told Radio Formula. He also noted that investigators weren?t sure if the plane contained flight data recorders.
On Dec. 13, it was reported that Jenni?s remains were identified and her body was returned to the family.
Before tests confirmed finding Jenni?s body, her mother?Rosa Saavedra?was?holding out hope?that it wasn?t her in the crash.
?I still trust God that perhaps the body isn?t hers,? Jenni?s mother?said?in a press conference Dec. 11, believing it could have been another woman?s body at the crash site. ?We?re hoping it?s not true, that perhaps someone took her and left another woman there.?
Sadly, it appears to be time for the family to move on and make peace with the situation. However, that may prove difficult with leaked video footage and images surfacing online.
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Source: http://hollywoodlife.com/2012/12/14/jenni-rivera-death-scene-footage-family-mad/
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The term self-esteem can be defined as the level to which individuals view their worthiness as an individual. The roots of self-esteem are that, the appraisal is first developed from childhood and continues throughout someone?s life. If it one has low self-worthiness. If anyone has low self-worth, then it means that these earlier experience is simply overshadowed the individual and have come to represent the total sum who believe the individual is. Apart from being the basic features of mental health, positive self-esteem also is a protective factor which assists in attaining better health as well as good social behaviors in its duty as a buffer against the effects of negative impacts. This factor actively promotes health functioning as indicated in life concepts like achievements, being satisfied on top of possessing the capability of copping with disease like cancer. There are various ways through which self esteem get determined by work. This easy critically argues the determinants of our self-esteem.
Added pressure leads to rudeness. It has been shown that, added pressure contributes to a genuine rise in aggression and rudeness in workplace. Rudeness on its side makes individuals feel much devalued. It has be found by psychologists that rudeness is the behavioral fallout of the wide spread losses of loyalty of employers to the workers. While the reverse is also true. This is accompanied by drastic changing market circumstances. In addition, many young employees that have not been trained in social and communication skills usually challenge the authority in an inappropriate manner, and assume an entitlement unattainable against the demands for high productivity, (McGrath par 5).
Our Self-esteem can be determined by the approval and support particularly from workmates. The attachment as well as the unconditional workmate support is much crucial during self-development stage. Because, this is a reciprocal process, being people with positive self-esteem can assist internalize better the positive of significant others.? For example, in their prospective research, (Garber and Flynn, 62), discovered that, the development of negative self-esteem, is as a result of factors like low workmate acceptance, a history of workplace depression, as well as much exposure to negative interpersonal contexts, for instance, negative practices from bosses, having negative feedbacks from others one?s competence, on top of workmate discord and disruption.. As a matter of fact then, it is so much significant that workmate try to support their fellows to develop confidence in themselves.
Another determinant of our self-esteem is discrepancies amongst the competing concepts of the self, like between the idealism and the realty, particularly in the domains of significant. If the discrepancies between the values at work are too large, a person ends up assigning to particular competence field, as well as the perceived self-competencies that particular area, ends up lowering the feelings of self esteem. In addition to that, the existence of discrepancies between self as seen by oneself, and the self that is observed by significant others, that is surface esteem. It has been implied that, this could refer to differences that might end up existing between self-perceived competences and the absence of approval or support by those at work.
Self-esteem could be as a result of cognitive inferential processes. This could be seen as a determinant of both negative and positive feelings of self-worthiness.? This is so particularly when people observe and ends up evaluating their own behaviors in competencies in some specified domains, or the self-efficacy. When their evaluation is much poor, their competencies, particularly in comparison to those of there fellow workmate or weighted to the standards of significant others, as they ends up having more negative self-esteem. This kind of self-monitoring process can ends up being negatively or positively biased by a learned tendency to either positive or negative thinking.
By the middle childhood and adolescence, peers are another determinant of our self esteem. Peers in most circumstances have taken up the vital role in determining our level of self-esteem. There are a times also when schools picks up a vital role in the determination of their students? self esteem via the attitudes they do foster through competitions, and efforts, their achievement recognition ?in sports, academics the arts, as well as their acceptance of any kid as an individual who is much unique.
On the other hand, there exist negative impacts if there is overindulgence in empty complaints. In most cases, such like an issue might result to side effects on the self esteem. Praising as well as acknowledgement, ought to be genuine and legitimate, so that they might be much effective. On the same note, workmates can also become much influential. Research has shown that employees spent much of their time with their workmates as compared to the time spent dealing with other activities like even watching televisions.? On top of all these, the amount of time employees spent interacting with their family members is reduced greatly. Employees are faced with many issues that are related to conformity on top of wormate pressure. This group is pulled between the desires of being seen as a person with values that are much unique, and the desires of belonging to a group that they feel accepted and much secure.
Competence and mastery at work are the factors that determine our self esteem. It has been emphasized that, self esteem develop in people via mastery and competence, that usually emanate tackling and triumphing over challenges at work, even the ones who happen to being the modest. ?It is believed that, parents have the ability of boosting self esteem in infancy by giving them a role that is much active and autonomous in a casual play. As toddlers and infancy develop to an advance stage to self care practices, for instance beginning to feed themselves, parents are then encouraged to let their kids complete their tasks by themselves. No matter how they have done it imperfectly, parents need to avoid jumping in and providing necessary help. For instance, it is suggested that, by allowing one to pick up small pieces of food at the age of lets say 8 month even if on the way, some are dropped, and letting them hold their bottles on their own at the age of 12 month. It has been argued that, children in modern developing countries have an active role in the economic life of the community. They do assist their families by participating in some of the family jobs that are in most circumstances are done by adults. As a result, they tent to have higher chances of mastering tasks as compared to there counterparts in urban areas or developed countries, (Michal, 72).
In many ways, our self esteem is determined by job security compounding the frailty of self esteem. Nowadays, workplace is no longer an arena under which individuals count on fortifying their senses of self. In its place, it has turned to a source of stresses and depression. Workplace stresses in one way or the other determines our self esteem. These individuals that we usually work with subjects as to several stress factors like feeling of inadequacy, dissatisfaction, as well as fear of being branded as being a non-performer. All of these sated issues have a direct connection to the individuals? state of mind. Those work connected problems also faces similar dilemma of much low self esteem and self worth. Issues like retirements, diminishing both mental and physical faculties, sickness as well as loosening of family ties is much responsible for those who are engaged to work for longer times hence feel lonely as well as much isolated.
On the other hand, to build the mood of such individuals, laughter yoga is the fastest as well as the simplest way of improving self worth, self esteem as well as self confidence. It contains the authority of changing the state of the mood almost instantaneously and result to the generation of positive emotions. It has been shown that, the release of endorphins during laughter produces a factor of feel good. It also changes their way of looking at things. It also develops relations and family like bonding that uplifts their spirits, confidence regeneration, which all leads to positive self esteem.
In conclusion, every body has a picture of what his strength and weaknesses are. This mental picture is created through experiences starting at birth. Self esteem has been considered by many as being the most significant element of emotional health. Throughout the argument in the essay, it has been shown that, the speed at which the demand of work is moving at, is so fast that no one anywhere stops to acknowledge excellent performances. The productivity demand is growing so significant that no person feels that enough is being done, every person is just looking at undone workload and feel that nothing is being done. People are working in a manner that they encroaches their downtime hence no time for family as well as friends. In summary, our self esteem is determined by the behavior of individuals in the society especially at work, how people relate to their workmate, workplace stresses, and the performance of youngsters in school.
Source: http://selfimprovement2113.blogspot.com/2012/12/self-esteem.html
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-->Travelling Squares caller Garry Dodds and cuer Pat Zeeman will provide a lively evening of dancing to seasonal music. At 7:30 there will be a plus workshop and at 8:00 we begin the program of mainstream dancing and rounds. We will have a collection box for non-perishable goods for the Loaves and Fishes. Santa is going to drop in to dance with us. Visiting square dancers are always welcome. Merry Christmas!
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FILE - In this May 10, 2011, file photo, Senate Privacy, Technology and the Law subcommittee Chairman Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. presides over the subcommittee's hearing on "Protecting Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones, Tablets, Cell Phones and Your Privacy," on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate Judiciary Committee was expected Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, to approve legislation that would close a legal loophole that allows so-called cyberstalking apps to operate secretly on a cell phone and transmit the user?s location information without a person?s knowledge. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A loophole that permits software companies to sell cyberstalking apps that operate secretly on cellphones could soon be closed by Congress. The software is popular among jealous wives or husbands because it can continuously track the whereabouts of a spouse.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday that makes it a crime for companies to make and intentionally operate a stalking app. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., also would curb the appeal for such inexpensive and easy-to-use programs by requiring companies to disclose their existence on a target?s phone.
Stalking and wiretapping already are illegal, but there are no provisions in federal law that clearly prohibit businesses from making an app whose primary purpose is to help one person stalk another. Franken?s proposal would extend the criminal and civil liabilities for the improper use of the apps to include the software companies that sell them.
The proposal would update laws passed years before wireless technology revolutionized communications. Telephone companies currently are barred from disclosing to businesses the locations of people who make traditional phone calls. But there?s no such prohibition when communicating over the Internet. If a mobile device sends an email, links to a website or launches an app, the precise location of the phone can be passed to advertisers, marketers and others without the user?s permission.
?What?s most troubling is this: Our law is not protecting location information,? said Franken, chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law.
The ambiguity has created a niche for companies like Retina Software, which makes ePhoneTracker and describes it as ?stealth phone spy software.? It?s available online for about $50.
?Suspect your spouse is cheating?? the company?s website says. ?Don?t break the bank by hiring a private investigator.?
An emailed statement from Retina Software said the program is for the lawful monitoring of a cellphone that the purchaser of the software owns and has a right to monitor. If there is evidence the customer doesn?t own the phone, the account is closed, the company said. The program is not intended or marketed for malicious purposes and doesn?t facilitate stalking, the statement said.
But Franken and supporters of his bill said there is no way to ensure the rules are followed. These programs can be installed in moments, perhaps while the cellphone?s actual owner is sleeping or in the shower. The apps operate invisibly to the cellphone?s user. They can silently record text messages, call logs, physical locations and visits to websites. All the information is relayed to an email address chosen by the installer.
Even when people discover the software on their phones, they don?t know what to do, said Rick Mislan, a Rochester Institute of Technology professor who specializes in mobile security and forensics. ?Law enforcement usually won?t help them because they?ve got bigger fish to fry,? he said.
Franken?s bill is a common-sense step to curb stalking and domestic violence by taking away a tool that gives one person power over another, victims advocacy groups said.
?It?s really, really troubling that an industry would see an opportunity to make money off of strengthening someone?s opportunity to control and threaten another individual,? said Karen Jarmoc, executive director of the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
Franken?s bill would make companies subject to civil liability if they fail to secure permission before obtaining location information from a person?s cellphone and sharing it with anyone else. They also would be liable if they fail to tell a user no later than seven days after the service begins that the program is running on their phone. Companies would face a criminal penalty if they knowingly operate an app with the intent to facilitate stalking.
The bill includes an exception to the permission requirement for parents who want to place tracking software on the cellphones of minor children without them being aware it is there.
A domestic violence case in St. Louis County, Minn., helped persuade Franken to introduce his bill. A woman had entered a county building to meet with her advocate when she received a text message from her abuser asking her why she was there, according to congressional testimony delivered last year by the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Frightened, she and her advocate went to the local courthouse to file for a protective order. She got another text demanding to know why she was at the courthouse. They later determined her abuser was tracing her movements with an app that had been placed on her cellphone. The woman was not identified by name in the congressional testimony.
Franken said that while doing research for the bill, he heard similar stories from women in Iowa, Wisconsin, Arizona and several other states.
An organization representing software companies opposes Franken?s bill because it said the user consent requirement would curb innovation in the private sector without adequately addressing the problem of cyberstalking. Voluntary but enforceable codes of conduct for the industry are more effective methods for increasing transparency and consumer confidence, said David LeDuc, senior director for public policy at the Software & Information Industry Association.
Those concerns resonated with the Judiciary Committee?s top Republican and one of its senior Democrats. The bill could have unintended consequences for an industry that is growing and creating new jobs, said Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Both senators voted for the bill, however.
Source: The Associated Press
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