Rebecca Hall plays a debunker of the supernatural who discovers something strange happening in a boarding school, in the suspense thriller "The Awakening." Courtesy Cohen Media Group
"The Awakening" works as a moody ghost story thanks to strong performances and a creepily brooding atmosphere.
In England just after World War I, Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) has a reputation as a professional debunker of the supernatural, busting seances for their parlor trickery. Then she meets Robert Mallory (Dominic West), who teaches at a remote boarding school where a boy recently died, apparently frightened to death by a ghost.
?
HHH
?The Awakening?
Opens Friday, Aug. 31, at the Cinemark 24 (Jordan Landing); rated R for some violence and sexuality/nudity; 107 minutes. For more movie reviews, visit nowsaltlake.com/movies.
Florence sets up her tools and measuring devices, certain that it?s a human hoaxster she?s after. But strange things begin happening that have Florence second-guessing her skepticism and questioning her sanity.
Director Nick Murphy (co-writing with Stephen Volk) sets up a spooky haunted-house thriller with some smart twists that ratchet up the tension skillfully. The key, though, is Hall ("The Town," "Vicky Christina Barcelona"), who captures Florence?s flinty intelligence and the vulnerability that emerges as she slowly discovers the school?s dark secrets.
movies@sltrib.com; nowsaltlake.com/movies
Copyright 2012 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Reader comments on sltrib.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Salt Lake Tribune. We will delete comments containing obscenities, personal attacks and inappropriate or offensive remarks. Flagrant or repeat violators will be banned. If you see an objectionable comment, click the red "Flag" link below it. See more about comments here.
With my background in technology, most assume that I advocate gadgets and technology wherever and whenever possible?but that?s actually not the case. Maybe because of my background, I know the extreme mark-ups in prices and bugs that invariably happen with the first few releases.
I think the reporter that contacted me for this piece thought that I would be on the ?pro? technology side, but if you read my post,?Interview: High-Tech Nurseries, you saw what my answers were to her questions. So, I wanted to see what you all thought of the article:
As high-tech devices become a part of everyday life, the nursery is the newest frontier
Picture a room with high-definition security cameras, a chair with vibration and motion settings and a surround-sound system.
Not thinking about a baby?s nursery? Most people wouldn?t.
But as each generation becomes more technologically connected, it?s inevitable that tech devices will soon become essential to the baby?s room. These new systems aim to make parents? lives easier, while encouraging a child?s healthy development.
Following the trend of ?smart? appliances, French technology company Withings has a smart baby scale that connects to the Internet, allowing parents to access their child?s weight from a smart phone or any Web-enabled device and share the infant?s progress with family, friends or the pediatrician.
Transportation is another growing area for baby tech. Pittsburgh-based 4Moms offers a futuristic-looking stroller, named the Origami because it can fold and unfold at the touch of a button. Not only does the battery-operated contraption charge itself (and your MP3 player), it has an LCD dashboard for active parents who wants to know how fast and far they?ve gone.
Another tech marvel for parents is the ability to accurately replicate the sound and gentle vibration of a car ? some would even consider it the holy grail.
Veteran parents know a leisurely drive is an almost sure-fire way to put a colicky baby to sleep. Fisher-Price offers its own car-ride motion infant seat, the Cruisin? Motion Soother. Another option is a smaller device from Sleep Tight, which vibrates and sounds like a car ride and can be attached to the baby?s crib.
And home theater isn?t just for the family room anymore. Some parents are opting to play lullabies through surround sound speakers in the walls. Others have foregone traditional baby monitors in favor of intricate security cameras broadcasting images to another room, or even another building for working parents who want to monitor caretakers.
All this tech-talk might seem incompatible with nurseries, which are generally soft, warm places decorated in whites and pastels. For parents who desire this traditional style but still want the convenience of new technology, striking a balance is essential.
?Traditional style is still very popular, especially among my clients seeking a nostalgic feel for their nurseries to provide a soothing atmosphere for their baby and to inspire their own memories from childhood,? says Sherri Blum of Jack and Jill Interiors in Harrisburg, Pa. ?It?s very important for the manufacturers of these devices to make them blend into the surroundings as well as possible.?
In some cases, that means the gadget needs to be hidden or inconspicuous. Cloud B, for instance, has a device that hides inside a plush monkey that plays a parent?s recorded personalized message over relaxing sounds.
One of the downsides of technology, of course, is cost. The Origami stroller?s suggested retail price of $849 might give pause to a new mom on unpaid maternity leave.
Kearney of Northern Virginia spent years in management positions for technology companies before becoming a stay-at-home mom. She now writes ?A Detailed House,? a blog about interior design and home improvement.
Technology can enrich parents and babies alike, she says.
?My first baby had reflux and, prior to her diagnosis, cried unless I was holding her,? she says. ?It was grueling, especially while recovering from a C-section, but an indoor infant seat that vibrated saved me.
?Prior to the advent of these products, my mother used to drive me in a car, and I?ve heard of mothers unwisely putting an infant seat on washing machines or dryers to emulate the soothing motion. If a product gives a parent any advantage, absolutely take it,? she suggests.
At the same time, tread cautiously. Don?t buy gadgets haphazardly without considering how much use they?ll actually be.
Blum says, ?Talk to parents with toddlers who have already been through the sleepless nights and have tried various items.?
Kearney also advocates low-tech or ?classic? toys that can stimulate a baby?s creativity and imagination and help develop important cognitive skills just as much as the high-tech gadgets, she says.
?The good high-tech toys and products are developed with input from educators and doctors to aid in a baby?s mental development and are not merely electronic babysitters,? Kearney says. ?I think, as with anything, parents need to find what balance works for them.?
~~~
With interviews, you can?t always bank on what quote they are going to pull; there were other things I said that I wish were included in the article, but, oh well! I have been asked to write some articles, so I will have more control over the content, and I will post them here first
Ironically, I?ve been interviewed by many different media sources now and I?ve never contacted them, but my own hometown newspaper (I mean the tiny, local one, not a big one!) hasn?t and I actually contacted them! WTH?? Geesh!
Well, that?s all I have?I hope everyone is well and enjoying the day
Trust us, this should ultimately make a lot of sense. As we already know, AMD recently set up the HSA Foundation to promote its vision for better parallel processing -- and especially GPU compute -- in mobiles and PCs. Its semi-rival ARM was one of the first big players to join up, and now Samsung has decided to hop onboard too. Why would it do that? For the simple reason that the Korean company still makes its own chips, based on ARM designs, and we've seen that GPU compute is going to be a big feature in its coming Exynos 5 processor with Mali T604 graphics.
Now, anything else at this point is pure speculation, since we only know about Samsung's HSA membership from the appearance of its logo on a relevant slide at AMD's keynote speech at IFA, and there's no official word on Samsung's intentions. At a bare minimum, the company could simply be firming up friendships and hedging its bets on the future of computing. We wouldn't be surprised, however, if Sammy is looking to work with ARM and AMD to implement further aspects of the HSA philosophy into even more advanced Exynos chips down the line -- chips that are able to use both GPU compute andsmaller transistors to achieve leaps in performance while also gobbling fewer volts.
It has been said that a bad day fishing is better than a good day doing just about anything else; I say it quite often myself, anytime I can steal away for a few hours on the water. I have fished for everything from trout to bass, walleye to the big cats, and it is all great. But ocean fishing was a wakeup call to me; it has so much more excitement packed in it than inland fishing. I don't think it is just because the fish are bigger, though they are. It is also the Ocean - the way it looks, the way it moves under you and slowly obscures the land behind you, and Port Phillip Bay in particular is so gorgeous whenever I go there I want to stay.
Fishing is one of those things that, no matter how hi tech it gets, in the end it is still a person, a line and a fish. When the fish on the other end of the line is a snapper or a gummy the experience goes from simply great to unbelievable, and it is prime snapper time starting at the end of this month and stretching into next spring. The best way to experience this Australian treat is to get a charter boat, and one that knows the fish and the area where he operates is essential. To experience the best charter fishing in melbourne, BagOutFishing Charters launches from Port Phillip Bay in Melbourne, Westernport, Bass Strait and Portland, and they know all these areas extensively, and can guide you to the best spots depending on what is biting.
The boats are all excellent - the Bag Out boat is an 8 meter hardtop with twin 150 Evinrudes and fully loaded with the latest electronics. The fishing gear is well maintained, and all you have to bring along is sunscreen, the right clothing, drinks food and of course a fishing license. The equipment includes Penn, Shimano and Tiagra reels depending on your target fish, and all the bait is supplied as well. When it comes to the boating and fishing aspect of the trip, BagOutFishing has all the bases covered.
The snapper fishing charters now leave from Carrum three times a day, and a standard charter is 5 hours. Up to six people can go on one trip. There is something elemental about the Ocean, and often people who have had no interest in fishing quite suddenly get it; it is a way of tying our past directly to us, and it somehow manages to renew the soul even as the body is exercised. And with snapper and gummies, the body will be exercised. These fish are fighters, and there is little you can do that is more fun, except perhaps shark fishing.
We'll leave that to another day.
Want to stay out more than five hours? That can be arranged, just call the helpful staff at BagOutFishing Charters and they will arrange the perfect fishing voyage for you, tailored to what you want and to what is currently biting. They are experts at the Australian fishing game, and can guide you to action that will leave you wanting to come back for more.
Contact: Emil Venere venere@purdue.edu 765-494-4709 Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers have learned how to mass produce tiny mechanical devices that could help cell phone users avoid the nuisance of dropped calls and slow downloads. The devices are designed to ease congestion over the airwaves to improve the performance of cell phones and other portable devices.
"There is not enough radio spectrum to account for everybody's handheld portable device," said Jeffrey Rhoads, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University.
The overcrowding results in dropped calls, busy signals, degraded call quality and slower downloads. To counter the problem, industry is trying to build systems that operate with more sharply defined channels so that more of them can fit within the available bandwidth.
"To do that you need more precise filters for cell phones and other radio devices, systems that reject noise and allow signals only near a given frequency to pass," said Saeed Mohammadi, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering who is working with Rhoads, doctoral student Hossein Pajouhi and other researchers.
The Purdue team has created devices called nanoelectromechanical resonators, which contain a tiny beam of silicon that vibrates when voltage is applied. Researchers have shown that the new devices are produced with a nearly 100 percent yield, meaning nearly all of the devices created on silicon wafers were found to function properly.
"We are not inventing a new technology, we are making them using a process that's amenable to large-scale fabrication, which overcomes one of the biggest obstacles to the widespread commercial use of these devices," Rhoads said.
Findings are detailed in a research paper appearing online in the journal IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. The paper was written by doctoral students Lin Yu and Pajouhi, Rhoads, Mohammadi and graduate student Molly Nelis.
In addition to their use as future cell phone filters, such nanoresonators also could be used for advanced chemical and biological sensors in medical and homeland-defense applications and possibly as components in computers and electronics.
The devices are created using silicon-on-insulator, or SOI, fabrication -- the same method used by industry to manufacture other electronic devices. Because SOI is compatible with complementary metaloxidesemiconductor technology, or CMOS, another mainstay of electronics manufacturing used to manufacture computer chips, the resonators can be readily integrated into electronic circuits and systems.
The resonators are in a class of devices called nanoelectromechanical systems, or NEMS.
The new device is said to be "highly tunable," which means it could enable researchers to overcome manufacturing inconsistencies that are common in nanoscale devices.
"Because of manufacturing differences, no two nanoscale devices perform the same rolling off of the assembly line," Rhoads said. "You must be able to tune them after processing, which we can do with these devices."
The heart of the device is a silicon beam attached at two ends. The beam is about two microns long and 130 nanometers wide, or about 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. The beam vibrates in the center like a jump rope. Applying alternating current to the beam causes it to selectively vibrate side-to-side or up and down and also allows the beam to be finely adjusted, or tuned.
The nanoresonators were shown to control their vibration frequencies better than other resonators. The devices might replace electronic parts to achieve higher performance and lower power consumption.
"A vivid example is a tunable filter," Mohammadi said. "It is very difficult to make a good tunable filter with transistors, inductors, and other electronic components, but a simple nanomechanical resonator can do the job with much better performance and at a fraction of the power."
Not only are they more efficient than their electronic counterparts, he said, but they also are more compact.
"Because the devices are tiny and the fabrication has almost a 100 percent yield, we can pack millions of these devices in a small chip if we need to," Mohammadi said. "It's too early to know exactly how these will find application in computing, but since we can make these tiny mechanical devices as easily as transistors, we should be able to mix and match them with each other and also with transistors in order to achieve specific functions. Not only can you put them side-by-side with standard computer and electronic chips, but they tend to work with near 100 percent reliability."
The new resonators could provide higher performance than previous MEMS, or microelectromechanical systems.
In sensing application, the design enables researchers to precisely measure the frequency of the vibrating beam, which changes when a particle lands on it. Analyzing this frequency change, allows researchers to measure minute masses. Similar sensors are now used to research fundamental scientific questions. However, recent advances may allow for reliable sensing with portable devices, opening up a range of potential applications, Rhoads said.
Such sensors have promise in detecting and measuring constituents such as certain proteins or DNA for biological testing in liquids, gases and the air, and the NEMS might find applications in breath analyzers, industrial and food processing, national security and defense, and food and water quality monitoring.
"The smaller your system the smaller the mass you can measure," Rhoads said. "Most of the field-deployable sensors we've seen in the past have been based on microscale technologies, so this would be hundreds or thousands of times smaller, meaning we should eventually be able to measure things that much smaller."
###
The work is based at the Dynamic Analysis of Micro- and Nanosystems Laboratory at the Birck Nanotechnology Center in Purdue's Discovery Park. Other faculty members and graduate students also use the specialized facility.
The researchers have filed a patent application for the concept. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Writer: Emil Venere, 765-494-4709, venere@purdue.edu
This image from a scanning electron microscope shows a tiny mechanical device, an electrostatically-actuated nanoresonator, that might ease congestion over the airwaves to improve the performance of cell phones and other portable devices. (Purdue University image)
A publication-quality photo is available at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/+2009/rhoads-nems.jpg
Lin Yu, Hossein Pajouhi, Molly R. Nelis, Jeffrey F. Rhoads, and Saeed Mohammadi, Senior Member, IEEE
Resonant nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) have the potential to have significant impact in mass sensing, signal processing and field detection applications, if the challenges associated with processing, material and geometric variability can be mitigated. The research presented here details a breakthrough in the design and development of resonant NEMS aimed at addressing these challenges. Specifically, the work details the fabrication, characterization, and tuning of dual-gate silicon nanoelectromechanical resonators, which are transduced electrostatically and realized with close to 100% yield. These devices are fabricated on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate using only top-down microfabrication techniques and can be easily integrated with SOI-CMOS transistors, enabling the development of fully integrated CMOS-NEMS with highly-tunable nonlinear frequency response characteristics.
[ | E-mail | Share ]
?
AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Contact: Emil Venere venere@purdue.edu 765-494-4709 Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers have learned how to mass produce tiny mechanical devices that could help cell phone users avoid the nuisance of dropped calls and slow downloads. The devices are designed to ease congestion over the airwaves to improve the performance of cell phones and other portable devices.
"There is not enough radio spectrum to account for everybody's handheld portable device," said Jeffrey Rhoads, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University.
The overcrowding results in dropped calls, busy signals, degraded call quality and slower downloads. To counter the problem, industry is trying to build systems that operate with more sharply defined channels so that more of them can fit within the available bandwidth.
"To do that you need more precise filters for cell phones and other radio devices, systems that reject noise and allow signals only near a given frequency to pass," said Saeed Mohammadi, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering who is working with Rhoads, doctoral student Hossein Pajouhi and other researchers.
The Purdue team has created devices called nanoelectromechanical resonators, which contain a tiny beam of silicon that vibrates when voltage is applied. Researchers have shown that the new devices are produced with a nearly 100 percent yield, meaning nearly all of the devices created on silicon wafers were found to function properly.
"We are not inventing a new technology, we are making them using a process that's amenable to large-scale fabrication, which overcomes one of the biggest obstacles to the widespread commercial use of these devices," Rhoads said.
Findings are detailed in a research paper appearing online in the journal IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. The paper was written by doctoral students Lin Yu and Pajouhi, Rhoads, Mohammadi and graduate student Molly Nelis.
In addition to their use as future cell phone filters, such nanoresonators also could be used for advanced chemical and biological sensors in medical and homeland-defense applications and possibly as components in computers and electronics.
The devices are created using silicon-on-insulator, or SOI, fabrication -- the same method used by industry to manufacture other electronic devices. Because SOI is compatible with complementary metaloxidesemiconductor technology, or CMOS, another mainstay of electronics manufacturing used to manufacture computer chips, the resonators can be readily integrated into electronic circuits and systems.
The resonators are in a class of devices called nanoelectromechanical systems, or NEMS.
The new device is said to be "highly tunable," which means it could enable researchers to overcome manufacturing inconsistencies that are common in nanoscale devices.
"Because of manufacturing differences, no two nanoscale devices perform the same rolling off of the assembly line," Rhoads said. "You must be able to tune them after processing, which we can do with these devices."
The heart of the device is a silicon beam attached at two ends. The beam is about two microns long and 130 nanometers wide, or about 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. The beam vibrates in the center like a jump rope. Applying alternating current to the beam causes it to selectively vibrate side-to-side or up and down and also allows the beam to be finely adjusted, or tuned.
The nanoresonators were shown to control their vibration frequencies better than other resonators. The devices might replace electronic parts to achieve higher performance and lower power consumption.
"A vivid example is a tunable filter," Mohammadi said. "It is very difficult to make a good tunable filter with transistors, inductors, and other electronic components, but a simple nanomechanical resonator can do the job with much better performance and at a fraction of the power."
Not only are they more efficient than their electronic counterparts, he said, but they also are more compact.
"Because the devices are tiny and the fabrication has almost a 100 percent yield, we can pack millions of these devices in a small chip if we need to," Mohammadi said. "It's too early to know exactly how these will find application in computing, but since we can make these tiny mechanical devices as easily as transistors, we should be able to mix and match them with each other and also with transistors in order to achieve specific functions. Not only can you put them side-by-side with standard computer and electronic chips, but they tend to work with near 100 percent reliability."
The new resonators could provide higher performance than previous MEMS, or microelectromechanical systems.
In sensing application, the design enables researchers to precisely measure the frequency of the vibrating beam, which changes when a particle lands on it. Analyzing this frequency change, allows researchers to measure minute masses. Similar sensors are now used to research fundamental scientific questions. However, recent advances may allow for reliable sensing with portable devices, opening up a range of potential applications, Rhoads said.
Such sensors have promise in detecting and measuring constituents such as certain proteins or DNA for biological testing in liquids, gases and the air, and the NEMS might find applications in breath analyzers, industrial and food processing, national security and defense, and food and water quality monitoring.
"The smaller your system the smaller the mass you can measure," Rhoads said. "Most of the field-deployable sensors we've seen in the past have been based on microscale technologies, so this would be hundreds or thousands of times smaller, meaning we should eventually be able to measure things that much smaller."
###
The work is based at the Dynamic Analysis of Micro- and Nanosystems Laboratory at the Birck Nanotechnology Center in Purdue's Discovery Park. Other faculty members and graduate students also use the specialized facility.
The researchers have filed a patent application for the concept. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Writer: Emil Venere, 765-494-4709, venere@purdue.edu
This image from a scanning electron microscope shows a tiny mechanical device, an electrostatically-actuated nanoresonator, that might ease congestion over the airwaves to improve the performance of cell phones and other portable devices. (Purdue University image)
A publication-quality photo is available at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/+2009/rhoads-nems.jpg
Lin Yu, Hossein Pajouhi, Molly R. Nelis, Jeffrey F. Rhoads, and Saeed Mohammadi, Senior Member, IEEE
Resonant nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) have the potential to have significant impact in mass sensing, signal processing and field detection applications, if the challenges associated with processing, material and geometric variability can be mitigated. The research presented here details a breakthrough in the design and development of resonant NEMS aimed at addressing these challenges. Specifically, the work details the fabrication, characterization, and tuning of dual-gate silicon nanoelectromechanical resonators, which are transduced electrostatically and realized with close to 100% yield. These devices are fabricated on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate using only top-down microfabrication techniques and can be easily integrated with SOI-CMOS transistors, enabling the development of fully integrated CMOS-NEMS with highly-tunable nonlinear frequency response characteristics.
[ | E-mail | Share ]
?
AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Scope & Purpose of Job:?To perform Inspection, testing and other quality-related tasks on Incoming, In-Process and Outgoing materials and products.? To assist in gathering, input and manipulation of data related to quality activities.
Descriptions of Duties & Responsibilities:
Provide and apply business analysis methodologies and principles to conducting business related projects.
Duties include activity and data modeling, developing modern business methods, identifying best practices, and creating and assessing performance measurements
Provide documented business plans and business analysis reports and presentations
Work closely with cross functional-teams to analyze and plan business aspects of Customer?s product/services
Identification and documentation of customer segmentation, supplier strategies, funding models, pricing strategies & sales models, financial models
Education & Experience:
B.A. or B.S. degree
Must have a minimum of 5 years of experience
At least 3 years of specialized business development experience, to include best practices, change management, business management techniques, organizational development, activity and data modeling, facilitation, training, and methodology development and evaluation
Job Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Experience with business analysis and development
Experience with solar module manufacturing models and general manufacturing models
Ability to work cross-functionally to design, develop, and implement business plans
Ability to conduct and document a case analysis to identify pros and cons for alternative solutions
Ability to prepare and present complex issues successfully
Expertise in building, monitoring and modifying metric plans
Able to assist Customer in developing goals and objectives
Experience leading multiple simultaneous efforts to gather information to synthesize functional needs
Demonstrated ability to lead studies and assessments.
Expert written and oral communication skills.
Proven ability to interact with department heads and managers
Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously; attention to detail and follow through including documentation
Strong skills in organizing information
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Please email your resume and cover letter with the position you are applying for in the subject to:?hr@solopower.com
Dinosaur fossils found with the bones of birds and small dinosaurs in their stomachs reveal the beasts may have been adept hunters capable of downing prey more than a third their own size, researchers say.
Fossils are occasionally found with the remains of animals and plants inside what were once their guts. These tummy contents can shed light on what they once ate ? for instance, past research showed a mammal predator apparently had a tiny dinosaur as its last meal.
Scientists investigated two specimens of a carnivorous dinosaur from Liaoning, China, known as Sinocalliopteryx gigas. The predator was roughly the size of a wolf, about 6 feet (2 meters) long, and had feathers or hairlike fuzz covering its body to help keep it warm.
Back when this dinosaur was alive, about 120 million years ago, the area was a warm, wet forest, with a diverse fauna of dinosaurs, birds and crocodilians. "It was kind of a quintessential dinosaur environment, with lots of volcanic activity that periodically inundated the landscape and buried things within it with exquisite preservation," said researcher Phil Bell, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative in Canada. "Today the area is pretty much farmland, although the farmers all understand the importance of fossils and the interest they create, and a lot have turned to farming for dinosaurs."
One of the Sinocalliopteryx specimens, a complete and remarkably well-preserved skeleton, apparently dined on a birdlike, cat-size feathered dinosaur known as Sinornithosaurus, judging by the partial leg found in its gut. [See Images of the Dinosaur Guts]
The other Sinocalliopteryx specimen, an incomplete skeleton, held the remains of at least two primitive crow-size birds known as Confuciusornis, as well as acid-etched bones from a dinosaur. (Confuciusornis was probably limited to slow takeoffs and short flights.)
"Stomach remains are evidence of actual interactions between animals, which is extremely rare in the fossil record," Bell told LiveScience. "We're lucky to find one or two bones of anything; to get a specimen with the remains of its last meal or meals is pretty cool."
It remains uncertain whether the dinosaurs actively hunted or scavenged these meals. Still, the fact that Sinocalliopteryx gobbled at least two birds of the same species at about the same time "says chances are very good it was actively selecting its prey; that makes it a predator," Bell said.
And capturing flying prey points to a stealthy, capable hunter, the researchers added.
Science news from NBCNews.com
Boy finds a bonanza in whale vomit
Updated 117 minutes ago
8/30/2012 2:45:20 AM +00:00
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: An 8-year-old boy in England could be up to $63,000 richer, thanks to a piece of solidified whale vomit he picked up on the beach.
Scientists study dinosaurs' last meals
Pigeons vanish in the 'Birdmuda Triangle'
Glowing fish help seals hunt in the dark
"What I think is coolest about these findings is that it starts to bring these animals to life," Bell said. "A lot of people look at fossils as just dead things ? it's hard for them to imagine them as living, breathing animals. When you get something like this, it really brings them to life."
The scientists detailed their findings online Wednesday in the journal PLoS ONE.
Follow LiveScience on Twitter @livescience. We're also on Facebook? and ?Google+.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil appears to have the best long-term prospects among rising economic powers, thanks to its stable policy framework, ample natural resources and good relationship with its neighbors, former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Tuesday in a ringing endorsement of an economy that has struggled lately.
"If I were just sitting in a room betting on the future of rising countries, I'd bet on Brazil first," Clinton said.
Brazil's economy has been stagnant for the past year and is expected to grow only 1.7 percent in 2012 - less than half the projected average in Latin America. Some business leaders believe the country's credit and commodities-led growth model has been nearly exhausted and are calling on the government to cut taxes and take other urgent steps to stimulate investment.
Clinton, speaking at a forum of bankers in S?o Paulo, acknowledged some problems but said Brazil still "looks really good" compared to crisis-ridden economies in Europe and the United States.
He said Brazil also compared favorably to India, which is struggling with a stagnant economic reform agenda, and China, which has tensions with some of its neighbors and is at risk of suffering from water scarcity and other depletion of natural resources, he said.
China "would kill to have the environmental problems you guys do," Clinton told the mostly Brazilian audience.
Clinton spoke alongside two other prominent leaders who also championed free markets and globalization during the 1990s - former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Brazilian ex-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Blair cited Brazil's progress in reducing poverty and inequality over the past two decades, saying they were an inspiration for African countries where he has been spending his time lately -- and also proof that liberal capitalism still works, despite the extended crises in the European Union and other rich nations.
Brazil has lifted more than 30 million people - or roughly 15 percent of its population - into the middle class during the past decade.
The most bearish of the speakers was Cardoso, who is widely credited with laying the groundwork for Brazil's recent boom by getting rid of endemic inflation that peaked above 2,500 percent before he became president in 1995.
Cardoso, whose party is now in opposition, said President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have relied too much on stimulating public and private-sector credit, while slipping on the fiscal rigor that helped his government establish Brazil's credibility in global markets.
"There's an impression that things are the same (as in the 1990s) but in reality there has been a lot of change," Cardoso said.
The forum was held by investment bank Itau BBA, a unit of Itau Unibanco Holding, Brazil's largest private-sector bank.
The Prairie State Energy Campus, a vast new coal-fired power plant and mine that is now approaching completion in downstate Illinois is likely to be one of the last of its kind in this country, given that new Environmental Protection Agency regulations bar plants that put out as much carbon dioxide as conventional coal plants. The builders, a consortium of municipal utilities and co-ops across eight states from Missouri to West Virginia, rushed to get it up and running before greenhouse rules could stop it, convinced that coal would be cheaper for the next few decades than alternative sources, like gas or nuclear.
But at least for the near term, the owners will be paying extra for electricity, according to a report produced at the behest of anti-coal groups. When the construction cost rose from the $4 billion estimate to what the opponents put at $4.9 billion, the price of electricity from the project, which includes the capital cost, went above the cost of electricity bought on the open market in the Midwest, according to the report, produced by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, a nonprofit group in Belmont, Mass.
?The Prairie State coal plant is turning out to be the financial and environmental nightmare that many of us feared when the plant was proposed,?? said Sandy Buchanan, executive director of Ohio Citizen Action. Mostly because of the low price of natural gas, a megawatt-hour of electricity in Ohio now wholesales for about $40, but power from the first unit of the plant, which went into service in June, costs about $60, the groups pointed out, and the customers face some additional charges because of a slight delay in getting the generators into service. The second half is due on line late this year.
The details, though, are complicated. While production costs are clearly now above the market average, natural gas is at a record low, at a little over $3 per million B.T.U., and whether the plant remains above market depends on the price over the next 30 years. (In 2007, when the decision was made to build the plant, prices were about double what they are now. )
When the first unit began operation, the consortium building the plant said that the 2007 decision to build ?was based on sound long-term forecasts?? and that the plant?s output ?would be very competitive with other fuels such as nuclear and natural gas over the anticipated 30-plus year life of the facility, which remains the case today, even with some operating delays.?? Natural gas prices will vary but coal prices will remain stable, the consortium said.
While the future price of gas is one of the great uncertainties of the energy economy, one element of the price is the cost of production, which depends in part on continued use of fracking, a technique that some of the groups, including Ohio Citizen Action, oppose.
And the environmental effect is also uncertain. Prairie State?s builders say that adding 1,600 megawatts will accelerate the retirement of older plants, many of them coal. And those plants often lack scrubbers that control sulfur emissions and precipitators that catch the ash, and other controls required on new plants. In addition, modern plants like Prairie State operate more efficiently and produce more electricity per ton of coal, and thus somewhat less carbon dioxide per ton.But Tom Sanzillo, lead author of the report, said in a conference call with reporters that the new capacity would also crowd out wind and solar, which are cleaner, and efficiency, which is cheaper. He said he was not sure what effect it would have in decisions about old coal plants facing low natural gas prices, low demand and high costs for new pollution control equipment.
Raj G. Rao, the chairman of Prairie State and the head of the Indiana Municipal Power Agency, which is a part owner, predicted a different path. In 2007, he said, electricity on the spot market sold in the vicinity of $80 a megawatt-hour, but the price collapsed when industrial demand declined in the financial crisis; it will bounce back when the economy does, he predicted.
The current argument has a touch of irony. The developers sold the project to the public power entities (municipal electric departments, power authorities and co-operatives) in part with the argument that they could reduce their exposure to the vicissitudes of the electricity marketplace by becoming owners rather than buying on the spot market, and by buying the fuel as well as the power plant, in the form of a 30-year coal supply adjacent to the plant.
Vic Svec, a spokesman for Peabody, said that having the users buy shares of the plant in proportion to their power needs was a common approach for projects like this. ?Ultimately, when the scorecard is complete, we firmly believe Prairie State will continue to provide reliable, clean, low-cost electricity for the benefit of millions of customers in multiple states for decades to come,? he said.
But Mr. Sanzillo said the buyers had taken on risk they could not afford. ?This was supposed to be low-cost electricity that put municipalities in a better position, not a worse position,?? he said.
Mr. Rao predicted that gas would increase in price when the United States began exporting.
?Japan is buying liquefied natural gas for $18, and India for $15 or $17. Our $3 gas is not going to stay here,?? he said. ?The average price could cost up to $7 in three to five years.?? And that would make Prairie State?s output look cheap, he said.
FILE -- In this file photo from Sunday Oct. 23, 2011, tents are seen in Curry Village in Yosemite National Park, Calif. On Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, Yosemite officials announced a second person had died of a rare, rodent-borne disease after staying in one of Yosemite National Park's most popular lodging areas, prompting federal officials to step up efforts to locate and warn recent visitors. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
FILE -- In this file photo from Sunday Oct. 23, 2011, tents are seen in Curry Village in Yosemite National Park, Calif. On Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, Yosemite officials announced a second person had died of a rare, rodent-borne disease after staying in one of Yosemite National Park's most popular lodging areas, prompting federal officials to step up efforts to locate and warn recent visitors. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) ? The rustic tent cabins of Yosemite National Park ? a favorite among families looking to rough it in one of the nation's most majestic settings ? have become the scene of a public health crisis after two visitors died from a rodent-borne disease following overnight stays.
On Tuesday, park officials sent letters and emails to 1,700 visitors who stayed in some of the dwellings in June, July and August, warning them that they may have been exposed to the disease that also caused two other people to fall ill.
Those four people contracted hantavirus pulmonary syndrome after spending time in one of the 91 "Signature Tent Cabins" at Curry Village around the same time in June. The illness is spread by contact with rodent feces, urine and saliva, or by inhaling exposed airborne particles.
After the first death, the park sanitized the cabins and alerted the public through the media that the cause might have been diseased mice in the park.
However, officials did not know for sure the death was linked to Yosemite or the campsite until the Centers for Disease Control determined over the weekend that a second visitor, a resident of Pennsylvania, also had died.
After every park tragedy, officials stress that Yosemite is a wilderness area and with it come some dangers.
"We're very concerned about visitors and employees," park spokesman Scott Gediman said. "But we feel we are taking proactive steps in both cleaning the affected areas and in public education. But it's absolutely impossible to eliminate all risk."
On Sunday night, health officials with the National Park Service sent out an alert asking public health authorities to be on the watch for more potential rodent-related cases of acute respiratory failure.
Yosemite receives 4 million tourists a year from around the world, and national park officials were trying to determine if the warning should be expanded to include foreign countries.
"We're discussing whether to do that and how to do that," said Dr. David Wong, chief of the epidemiology branch of the National Park Service Office of Public Health.
The disease can incubate for up to six weeks before flu-like symptoms develop. It's fatal in 30 percent of all cases, and there is no specific treatment. It is not spread human-to-human.
Wong said the Yosemite cases are unusual because hantavirus illnesses are most often isolated events.
"We are seeing more than one person who got it in a narrow space and time," he said. "It makes us wonder why, and those are questions we don't have the answers to."
All the victims stayed in the cabins between June 10 and June 20, and all four known cases were contracted by people who stayed within 100 feet of each other but not necessarily in the same cabins.
The National Park Service currently has assigned two epidemiologists to work in the park trapping rodents for testing. Additional studies are being done to determine if the Yosemite rodent population is higher than normal after a record snowpack in 2011 provided ample water for the grass seeds mice favor.
"Rodents and mice are native to the park, but we are looking at the populations and working with our wildlife biologists to determine if the population is too high," Gediman said. "There are rodents here, and we could never trap them all so that's not going to mitigate it."
As the Labor Day weekend approaches, some people have cancelled reservations at Curry Village after hearing about the outbreak, Gediman said.
The camp sits at the base of the 3,000-foot Glacier Point.
After boulders rained down in 2008, the park permanently closed some cabins. The newer, insulated Signature Cabins were built in 2009 to replace them. Investigators are trying to determine why those cabins were involved in the outbreak.
Park concessionaire Delaware North Co., which oversees the cabins, did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment.
Rangers are handing out information brochures at the park entrance warning people to avoid mice in general and mouse droppings in particular.
People with reservations in the affected cabins are not being notified before arrival, but they are being warned during check-in to report any sightings of mouse feces.
"This is a serious public health issue and we want to be transparent, but at the same time we don't want people to alter their plans, because we are taking the necessary precautions," Gediman said.
Since the first illness was reported earlier this month, employees of Delaware North disinfected all 408 canvas-sided and wood-sided cabins in Curry Village. Workers are in the midst of shoring up the cabins in an attempt to keep mice from have easy access.
Epidemiologists say none of the victims had anything in common other than staying in Yosemite cabins.
A 37-year-old man from the San Francisco Bay area was the first person to die. Further details have not been released because of medical privacy laws.
Of the 587 documented U.S. cases since the virus was identified in 1993, about one-third proved fatal.
Deer mice were determined to be the main carriers of the virus, though other rodents can be infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Most of the cases occur in the West, though researchers are not sure why.
This year's deaths mark the first such fatalities of park visitors, although two others were stricken in a more remote area of the park in 2000 and 2010.
There have been at least two other fatal cases in national parks in the past few years, including a deputy superintendent at Glacier National Park who died in 2004, and a tourist at the Grand Canyon who was stricken in 2009.
Wong said health officials never were able to determine whether the victims contracted hantavirus inside the park grounds.
___
Online:
CDC on hantavirus: http://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus
__
Follow Tracie Cone on Twitter: www.twitter.com/TConeAP
What's your inner dialogue like? If it's usually negative, you're harming your self-esteem, productivity, and outlook on life. It's a tough thing to fix, but if you're persistent, the voice inside your head can become your greatest motivator.
"Who can tell me what holiday is coming up next week?" Dorit* looked around the room at the circle of six year olds, almost all of whom raised, or rather waved, their hands eagerly.
I was with my daughter in her first grade classroom at her Jewish day school and I was mesmerized.
Dorit called on a little boy, who said "Purim." He was off by about a month.
"You're right that Purim is coming up soon," She smiled at the boy who smiled back, "But it's not next week. Who else?" She scanned again, this time calling on a girl.
"Tu Bishvat." the girl said.
"Very good," Dorit smiled again, "and who can tell me what Tu Bishvat celebrates?"
Now the children could hardly contain their enthusiasm. One child blurted out that it was the birthday of the trees. But he hadn't raised his hand and Dorit took no notice as she continued to scan the hands until she called on another little boy who repeated that it was the birthday of the trees.
"Yes, that's right," Dorit said and then continued asking questions for several more minutes. While their energy never waned, nobody spoke again without being called on. When she was done, everyone sang together as they cleaned up the room to prepare for the next activity.
It felt so good to be in that classroom, I didn't want to leave. Eventually though, when it was clearly time to go, I left with a smile on my face that remained long after I had gone.
Sitting in that classroom was a lesson in people management; the positive way Dorit interacted with the children is a great model for how managers should interact with employees.
But, for me, the morning was more profound than a lesson in managing other people. It was a lesson in managing myself.
As I left the classroom I found myself thinking about whether I treat myself the way Dorit treated her students. Am I encouraging? Do I catch myself doing things right as often as doing things wrong? And when I do something wrong, do I simply move on or do I dwell on it, haranguing myself?
In other words, what kind of classroom is going on in your head?
We've all heard the notion that we're our own harshest critic. But shouldn't we treat ourselves with at least the same respect shown by a first grade teacher toward her students? Why don't we?
Possibly it's because we grow up in an academic setting that emphasizes critique over admiration. Perhaps it feels arrogant?unseemly even?to speak to ourselves with the effusive praise and positivity that Dorit spoke to her class. It might even feel dangerous to go easy on ourselves. If we did, maybe we wouldn't accomplish anything at all. Maybe we'd devolve into laziness.
But laziness is not what I saw in that classroom. Those children couldn't have been more motivated to get the right answer. They tried hard. When they got the right answer, they felt good about themselves. When they got a wrong answer, they didn't linger in shame, they simply moved on to the next question (which, as it happens, is probably the number one behavior that leads to success over time). And they were happy.
In other words, it's not simply nice to treat ourselves nicely, it's strategic.
But it's not always easy to do. Certainly, Dorit has to put up with a lot of screaming kids, bad attitudes, and poor behavior. What is her secret?
Watching Dorit engage with the children?and talking with her afterward?it became obvious that what she did with the children was a lagging indicator of how she felt about them. I sensed it immediately. Clearly, the children did too. That feeling?
Love.
Think about it: When you love someone, you don't dwell on their mistakes, you move past them. If they don't know something, you don't make a big deal about it, you find the answer somewhere else. And when they succeed, you feel great about congratulating them. You encourage them when they're struggling, you try to catch them doing things right, and, maybe, if you have the nerve, you sing with them as you go about your day.
Isn't that the classroom you want living in your head? Does the way you talk to yourself reflect your love for yourself? Or does it reflect annoyance, impatience, and frustration?
This is important to talk about even in a work setting?maybe especially in a work setting?where we spend so much time and where our performance matters. When we feel loved, appreciated and cared for, we try harder, take more risks, work more collaboratively, and perform better.
Sure it would be ideal if our managers and leaders treated us with love and respect. But before asking that of others, I think it's important to ask it of ourselves.
The question is how? As one particularly business-focused friend of mine asked me, "how do you operationalize love?" It's surprisingly easier than you might think.
Start by noticing your voice in your head. What do you hear when you catch yourself thinking about yourself? Do you sound like Dorit? Or do you sound like that manager you once had that you still hate? Just paying attention will begin to change the way you speak to yourself.
Changing the way you speak to yourself will change the way you feel about yourself. Act the way Dorit did with the children: Don't reward negative behavior with attention by lingering on your failures. Instead, distract yourself by immediately getting busy doing something else.
When you succeed, on the other hand, is a great time to pay attention. Spend a minute congratulating yourself. Let your good work reflect on you. Think about what you did that led to the success so you have a better chance of repeating it. Laugh with yourself. Enjoy yourself. Notice how cool you are.
At first, it might feel awkward. But feelings follow actions?once you get the hang of it, you'll gain more confidence in yourself. You'll start to take more pleasure in yourself. And if you're not there already, you might just fall in love with yourself.
At that point, what you find won't look like arrogance. Arrogance is thinking you're better than everyone else, which is often a protective mechanism born from insecurity when you don't feel good about yourself. When you love yourself, you won't need to feel better than anyone else, you'll simply feel good about yourself.
Loving yourself won't just influence the way you talk to yourself. Over time, it will influence the way you talk to the people around you. Which will positively impact your colleagues, your department, your organization, and everyone who comes into contact with your organization.
In other words, if you stick with it, this little mental exercise will expand beyond just your head, and the whole world will start to feel?and act?like Dorit's first grade classroom.
*Name changed
The Right Way to Speak to Yourself | Harvard Business Review
Peter Bregman is a strategic advisor to CEOs and their leadership teams. His latest book is 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done. His Harvard Business Review posts can be read here.
Image remixed from James Thew and lavitrei (Shutterstock).
Visit http://www.iseewinners.com/sportsbooks/ to read detailed reviews of the top-rated, and not so top-rated, online sportsbooks. Don't take an unnecessary risk in signing up with an unknown betting site. Find out who all of the best online sports betting sites are, and get their best available deposit bonuses while you're at it! 2 views | 0 comments
Click here to watch the video (00:25)
Submitted By: quocdungmmo
Tags:
Online Sportsbook Reviews Best Betting Bonuses Best Us Sportsbooks Sportsbook Bonus Codes Where To Bet On Sports Where To Bet Online Reputable Online Bookmakers
Categories: How To
Leatherheads (2008): the Commissioner Fires CC
The clip the commissioner fires CC from Leatherheads (2008) I'll be with you in a second, Mr Connelly. Mr Rutherford, you got one play here. You go to the press and tell them you were part of a great group of boys who fought for their country, and you got too much credit. You think that will settle it? That, and you're gonna donate 50% of your earnings to the American Legion. Is that before or after commissions? Before. But that's not gonna matter a whole hell of a lot. Got a new book of rules. "All agents and representatives of players will be licensed by the state." I'm the state. I'm the one who approves your licence, CC. You're out of football. I'll fight you in court. You get your lawyer, I'll get mine. Good day, gentlemen. It is funny how things work out. Do you know Chicago bookmakers are betting on the game of professional football not lasting a year? Even with Carter. And then where will all the little boys who won't grow up go? There's always baseball. Ranked 4.00 / 5 | 10 views | 0 comments
Click here to watch the video (01:56)
Submitted By: AnyClip
Tags:
Leatherheads The Commissioner Fires CC AnyClip
Categories: Entertainment
Sports Betters Call The Stats Doctor
"Discover How You Can INSTANTLY Win 97% Of Your Sports Bets Using My Proven Sports Betting System!" http://www.sportsbettingchamp.com/?hop=pigeonpal1 Distributed by Tubemogul. Ranked 5.00 / 5 | 3 views | 0 comments
Click here to watch the video (01:02)
Submitted By: The Pigeon Pals
Tags:
Bets Books Odds Supplier Inrease Chances Betting Wager Betbrain Surebet Value Bookmakers Events
Categories: Sports
- http://www.bettingpicks.net.tc/ - How much do you earn a week at your job (if you have one)? How would you feel if I tell you that by tomorrow, you could make all the income you're going to earn in the next week of work by just spending 5 minutes of your time Betting on Sports under my system? Your entire "Work" process each day is as simple as log into the Website', following the 'System's Daily Picks' Generated and throw your bets out there! then lay back and watch the winnings come flooding in! -- No Matter If You Bet On Soccer, Football, Baseball, Basketball, Tennis, Hockey, NCAA, Etc...I'll Show You How to Make an Easy 23...28...,813 USD or More Each Month at Sports Betting by Using These Best Kept Secrets That Sportsbook Owners Are Hiding from You : http://www.bettingpicks.net.tc/ Ranked 3.00 / 5 | 231 views | 0 comments
Click here to watch the video (01:12)
Submitted By: smoky8
Tags:
Sports How To Bets Betting Sports Betting Betting Picks Baseball Basketball Football Live Betting Betting System Online Betting Bookmakers Wagering Gambling NFL NBA Major League Baseball Super Bowl Playoffs Picks College Football Picks
Categories: Entertainment Sports
Real Price Per Head Solutions For Agent - 24/7 Sports Call Center
Real Price Per Head is a global 24/7 pph shop for Bookmakers. Our price per head software let bookies and their sub-agents take control of their players 24/7 by changing the lines and juice as they wish. Games are graded just minutes within games are over with no mistakes. Jump ship now! Best price per head sportsbook. www.realpriceperhead.com Ranked 2.88 / 5 | 160 views | 0 comments
Click here to watch the video (00:18)
Submitted By: RPPH
Tags:
Bookies Price Per Head Bookmakers Sportsbook Gambling Pph Offshore Call Center Costa Rica Sportsbook
Categories: Entertainment Sports
SportsBetting - Sports Bookmakers
Check it out. Visit http://SportsBetting.Weebly.com A Sports Betting Pro and Stats Doctor Reveals How To Win 97% Of Your Sports Bets! Cornell University PhD graduate John Morrison at SportsBettingChamp.com has discovered a spectacular sports betting system that he has used to produce an astonishing 97% winning rate on all of his sports bets. For the first time ever, John has made his revolutionary sports betting system available to a limited number of individuals.You can now gain access to the same betting system that has netted him over bookmakers+sports,745,000 over the years. Visit this site and see proof of his accumulated record of 557 wins and 9 losses over the last 5 years of betting!John has now finally broken the silence on his ingenious sports betting system. Along with the red-hot system, John will also provide you with a lifetime of free picks, an unheard-of deposit bonus offer, a "No Ifs, Ands, or Buts Personal Guarantee" as well as a dose of other splendid incentives. Head on over to http://SportsBetting.Weebly.com today to take a look at this limited time offer while its still available.sports bookmakerssportsbettingsports handicappersbetting forumbetting baseballboxing bettinggambling" "bettingfree betbookmakersfootball betting tipsbetting tipsbetting horse racingspread bettingarbitrage sportsbodog sportssports bookiesportsbook bettingias betwww sportsbettingonline sportsbettingsportsbetting australiainternational all sportssportsbetting champaustralian sportsbettingsportsbetting forumonline sportsbookpinnacle bettingiasbet 22 views | 0 comments
Click here to watch the video (02:49)
Submitted By: Bet Sports447
Tags:
Sportsbetting Sports-betting Betting-sports Sports Bookmakers
Categories: Sports
Free Bets Bookmakers-You Will Never Lose-You Will Always Win
http://fravemo.freebetsgb.hop.clickbank.net/ Free bets arbitrage Exchanging free bets for real money.You Never Lose - You Always Win... and You Can Bet on Anything It really doesn't matter what you bet on. Our system uses software to bet on every possible outcome of every event with the ease of placing just 2 bets. You could (For example) use it on: ?Horse Racing ?Football ?Tennis ?Rugby ?Big Brother Winner ?Daily Weather ?Anything... clic here to order now ! http://fravemo.freebetsgb.hop.clickbank.net/ Year YOU Could Have Made an Extra ?18,000+ by Collecting and Converting Online Bookmaker Bonuses into Money - With Minimal Effort, Any Time of the Day You Could Also Do it This Year, Next Year and for the Rest of YOUR Life... But YOU Won't! Dear Freedom Hunter, Have you been searching for a betting system that will: ?Make you money in your free time? ?A system that uses software to effortlessly build your bank roll? ?A system that is absolutely 100% RISK FREE.... Guaranteed? ?A system that will never lose and will always win. Ranked 1.71 / 5 | 259 views | 0 comments
Click here to watch the video (03:41)
Submitted By: Fravemo
Tags:
Free Bets Horses Racing Betting Tennis Roulette Rugby Arbitrage Online Bookmakers Sports Football Football (soccer) Software System B Bet Sport Horse Race Betting Tennis Betting Rugby Betting Soccer Bets Sport Bet Football Betting Betting Software
Categories: Entertainment People & Stories
Bookie Buster Sports Betting Systems That Sportsbook Owners Don't Want You to Know
http://clickago.com/bookie.htm - Keywords make money betting making money betting make money from betting make money by betting how to make money betting to make money from betting to make money betting to make money betting on how to make money betting on make money on betting make money betting on football betting companies make money betting firms make money to make money spread betting how to make money spread betting spread betting companies make money how do spread betting companies make money how to make money from betting make money from spread betting Ranked 2.88 / 5 | 307 views | 0 comments
Click here to watch the video (00:33)
Submitted By: zclickago
Tags:
Money For Nothing Work At Home Cash AdSense AdWords YouTube Love Ass Boobs Tits Football Betting System Playing Ameircan Bets On Footblal Bte Us Betfair United Kingdom Bookmakers
Categories: Entertainment How To
100% Risk Free Profits From Sports Arbitrage!
GO TO: http://www.wildhour.com Ranked 3.08 / 5 | 423 views | 0 comments
Click here to watch the video (01:47)
Submitted By: hollinger
Tags:
Sports Arbitrage Profits Sports Betting Betting Gambling Punting Make Money Fast Bookmakers Bet On Make Money Online Risk Free Guaranteed Risk Free Money Risk Free Profits How Money Loophole Cash Make Cash Cash Loophole
Categories: Sports How To
To rent out ,with intent to earn money, such a possession or authorize someone legally to benefit from it, in any manner against some mutually agreed compensation, is Real estate Investing 101.
a prerequisite Proverbially, money begets money, but in this era of recessionary economy it is not necessarily and always like that. Real estate investment 101, also means to put your money to work and earn for you more money.
Unless due diligence is shown prior to and during the conduct of real estate investing 101, the outcome, not only may not be as desired but also may be very devastating too. Onus rests with the buyer It has to be clearly born in mind that in case of any defect, disadvantage, loss or vulnerability to loss, after buying a real estate is not a matter of concern or responsibility of the seller, and the onus of proof in case of a conflict, legally rests with the buyer ,once the deal between the two has been struck and signed. A word of caution Sometimes, quite a few careless investors have suffered lot of financial hardship, having been even bankrupt on this account. Purpose of this warning note, is not to put you off but to urge you to be well prepared beforehand Types of Real Estate Investing 101 There are different modes of Real estate investing and some are as following Hose rent Investment is renting out a house, usually against an agreed rent with or without some down payment in accordance with the legal agreement.
This type of investment is suitable for seniors or retired people who intend to develop a regular source of income from their real estate.
Industrial Investment means renting out to industry for use as stores, garages etc. Commercial Investment is renting out for office use or academic institution etc. Retail outlets: Real Estate may also be rented out for use as retail outlets where permissible under law.
REIT stands for real Estate Investment Trust and it is a sort of Real Estate to Real Estate deal. Something you must avoid One thing that must be avoided in Real Estate Investing, is to purchase a real estate in your own name as it may hurt you financially very badly in case something goes wrong on account of some unseen factor. Limited Liability Company and under proper legal advice.
Picture a room with high-definition security cameras, a chair with vibration and motion settings and a surround-sound system.
![[ Back to EurekAlert! ]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vy9XsJwJCIiPJ_btx5ioG8cw2dOHkL1dOKSQOPmWrmxKXcwF6VpykFtVkrZ0MPbCBkOIp5OT2zGGwFCGmnCMEQ3Z3P5LcjGBqgmSPLoX4=s0-d){kind=small}
Public release date: 30-Aug-2012
Share ] 
What's your inner dialogue like? If it's usually negative, you're harming your self-esteem, productivity, and outlook on life. It's a tough thing to fix, but if you're persistent, the voice inside your head can become your greatest motivator. 
