Monday, December 31, 2012

Mind Force Library-hypnosis,attraction,meditation & Psychic Energy

Home About FAQ Products Mind Force Library Hypnosis Manuals Closed Door Hypnosis Files Mind Portal Internal Power Centers Mind Force Attraction: The Magneto Method Chi Power Plus Testimonials Blog Order Contact When You Get These Manuals Today, You Will Receive My Brand New "Distilled Learning Method" 8 Week Coaching Program Absolutely FREE! This New Distilled Learning Method Alone is Worth 10 Times The Cost of This Entire Offer! Your browser does not support Flash or does not have it installed. Click here download Flash Now Fill Out The Form and Get FREE Mind Force Training Videos & Reports When you fill out this form, I'm going to send you several days worth of videos, reports and other cool stuff... * Don't ever worry, your information will never be shared with others... You Are Receiving This Very Special Offer Because You Deserve It. Get Access to My New Distilled Learning Method ?DLM??Included FREE with Your Order? When I self published my first book back in 2001 (Manipulation), I never thought it would become the massive success that it has? Since that time, I have published (4) four other outstanding manuals that teach uncommon skills?Skills that will allow you to have a distinct advantage in life that others won?t have. The Wait Is Over, You Can Get The ?Entire Mind Force Esoteric Library (and Save Some Dollars?Read Special Offer Below)? The Mind Force & Quantum Qigong Library of Esoteric Manuals For more than 20 years, the Chi Power Plus book has been sold all over the world?It is one of the most thought provoking, esoteric and amazing manuscripts you will ever read. Several years ago, we decided to make this manuscript available to the public in electronic format. It immediately became a best seller in electronic format, and serious practitioners of the energy arts welcomed this information with open arms? The only critisim we heard was? ?How Can I Get This In Hard Copy Format?? The Mind Force & Chi Power Library of Esoteric Manuals With these (5) professionally written and designed manuals, you?ll now have answers to some of the greatest mysterious known to man. Each manual contains several different manuscripts, so in fact you?re getting twelve (12) complete training manuals contained in this five volume set. In fact, each one of these manuals sells online everyday for $19.95 each. With this special promotion, you can get both the hard copies and digital versions at an excellent price. Volume #1 Chi Power Plus & Master Secrets of Qigong Manual This is without a doubt one of the most unique training guides ever. You will learn in very concise and precise ways how to do some amazing techniques. Using science and the understanding of physics, you?ll begin to understand the power of your own mind, body and spirit. Here?s just a sampling of what you?ll learn. Chi Power Breathing Yin and Yang Power Chi Animal Control Focusing Yang Energy Moving a Straw with Chi Energy Putting Out a Candle Flame with Chi Energy Keeping Warm or Cold with Chi Energy Chi Power for Protection Chi Time Control And many other unique and amazing methods When you order the set of manuals today, I?m going to throw in the following bonuses that I know You?ll love. If?this wasn?t good enough, we also included in this hard?copy edition our very popular ?MASTER SECRETS OF?QIGONG? report?This report will give you insights?to topics and concepts most Qigong instructors don?t?even know about, let alone teach? This?report is a FREE download when you sign up for our seminar?series, but we?ve added it in hard copy printed format?in this deluxe Chi Power Plus edition to insure you?get all the concepts down? I?m?also going to throw in the following bonuses, knowing?that once you get this to work for you, you?re going?to get even more excited about Chi Power Training? ? Chi?Power Book Seminar ?(MP3) Getting?Started with Chi Power Training Document (Blood Washing?& Bone Marrow Energy Packing) & Sample Chi Power Training Documents ?New? Super Bonus Item Just For Ordering Recently,?Sifu Jones decided to gather up the top questions asked?about Chi Power Plus and distill these questions into?the 23 most asked questions. This?bonus 2 hours+ is like having a personal mentoring call?with Sifu Jones to answer any of your questions about?Chi Power Plus? These questions are answered in 23 MP3 files that you can immediately download to get all?of the information. My?personal opinion, is this is the best addition we?ve?made to this training in years. This will cut down your?time to get things to work and you?ll see the benefits?and value of Chi Power Plus much more clearly. Real?World Value: $97 Yours FREE for a Very?Limited Time Price: $39.95 So, the Chi Power Manual shows you how to develop as well as use your internal energy, the next manual is all about using the bodies own meridians and pressure points for either healing or destruction. We had to think long and hard about even releasing this information, and that?s why this should only be sold to those who are responsible. We accept no responsibility for you mis-using this valuable information. Dim Mak & Acupressure Points Manual Volume #2 Dim Mak Power Striking If?you?ve ever wanted to know the secrets of the clandestine?art of Death Point Striking or Dim Mak, you?ve got an?opportunity to get what you?ve been seeking? Our?Dim Mak Course, which includes (3) three striking and?healing chart posters, has been a best seller for years?The?one thing missing was a nice concise high quality manual?for you to have to learn this information even better? Here are just a few of the things you?ll discover: Learn the exact placement of all of the most deadly striking points with our beautiful full color Dim Mak Power Striking Posters. Can quickly locate the most potent Dim Mak points on your opponent for a either a quick disabling or totally ?Take Out?. Uncover hidden methods of training so rare that your colleagues will will wish they had found it first and curse the day you were born. (Heck they might just pay YOU to teach these highly guarded strategies to them, so the?ll be in the know! How to learn the secret of taking these concepts and integrating it with your current style of martial art. No need to learn a new style, just apply these concepts to your chosen style of fighting. Discover a trick that will allow you to hit ten times harder than you ever have before (It might surprise you!) A magical secret that reveals exactly how to put together striking combinations as well as become proficient at isolating your ability to strike these points at will. Find out why some people have a non-reaction to a strike?and how you can beat them every time all the time by taking advantage of that fact. Find out why your martial arts instructor (s) fear this information getting out Unearth the one secret ?Diamond Point? method that will increase your ability to hit your target by 110%! How to guarantee your skills will work under ?battle conditions?! How to legally and ethically use these points in a confrontation without killing or maiming! Create your own techniques on the fly that will work every time) Discover THE best way to strike while your attacker is standing or on the ground! The Ultimate Striking tools, and how to use them under high-stress situations. Instantly have the power and confidence to know you are in control of a situation, way before it gets physical?.We call it ?POWER MIND? (Advanced Concept) And SO Much More? This?manual contains 3 seperate manuscripts at an incredible?price and value? Because?we have always believed in delivering more than you?expect, we?ve included 2 additonal manuals with the?Dim Mak Information. We?included our Acupressure Points for Healing Instruction?Guide. Acupressure?Points for Healing Guide Here is but a small sample of all the methods you can use with this Acupressure Guide: Basic Directions?How to stop pain, swelling, bruising on bumps and strains How to remove sinus headaches & congestion How to remove a migraine headache Pressure Points for Protection & Self-Defense Eye-ache Earache Mouth Shoulder Pain Chest Muscle Pain Neck Muscle Problems Upper Backache Lower Backache & Sciatic Pain Menstrual Cramps Pain in Groin Cramps or Pain in the Arms Elbow Pain (Tennis Elbow) Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Stiff or Painful Fingers Cramps/Pains in the Legs Knee Pain Stiff or Painful Arthritic Feet and Toes Relief of Pain from Hemorrhoids Hard Contact Sports?Chinese & American Splits Common Household Remedies Now?you can combine the concepts of Dim Mak with the latest?self defense technologies with our ?Secrets of?Fighting & Self Defense? manual, which is also?include as one of the manuscripts included in this hard?copy version of Dim Mak Power Striking? Secrets of Self Defense This intensive manual will show you many different concepts, methods and tactics to stay safe and know that if it comes down to it, you?ll have an arsenal of techniques and strategies to use. Here are just some of them: The four zones of attack and why every fighter needs to be proficient in each Blocking and striking keys Centerline Concept The one major secret that will allow you to win 95% of all fights you?re in. Line familiarization and why you need to know it. Real self-defense methodologies, including muggings, car-jackings and other attacks. Where most crimes happen and how you can prevent them from ever occurring. Discover the importance of awareness and how you can have a warning mechanism for all potentially dangerous situations. The (5) mental weaknesses and how to avoid them. Basic Vital Targets, including the (3) you want burned into your brain at all times. Why a knife can be more dangerous than a gun in certain situations Realistic ideas for defending against a gun wielding attacker. The mental tactics that all warriors use. You?get all three (3) manuals in one beautifully designed?master volume as well as immediate downloads of the?electronic versions (a $27 value)? Bonus- Stretching Tips Instruction You?ll also receive our famous ?Stretching Tips? instruction on stretching and how you can learn to perform extreme flexibility, even Chinese Splits! People have raved about this simple yet effective training for years, and it?s yours as part of this amazing collection of unique methods. Bonus- Pressure Points Charts Because we believe in over-delivering to our customers, we have decided to include with this library, smaller versions of our three (3) pressure points and dim mak posters. Now, these aren?t the full size wall posters that you receive with our Dim Mak System, but they are wonderful 8 1/2 X 11 full color charts you can use to pin point the location of the acupressure or dim mak points. You will love them. Pressure Points Chart Head Pressure Points Chart You?ll also receive a third chart, not pictured here. Price: $39.95 Volume #3 Mind Force Master System Manual The Mind Force Library Talk?about taking your skills to the next level? This manual takes even more unique concepts and ties the concepts together for you in a way that is easy to follow and apply? This?manual normally sells as part of either the Mind Force?Library or Chi Power Advanced Training System. This?is the first time it is being offered as a stand alone?product for such a valuable price? Each?of the training guides in this manual, sell for $19.97 each in?electronic format only, so you can see this is a fantastic?deal at the price below. The?Master System Manual Contains (3) manuscripts that cover?some of the hotest esoteric topics ever? Mind Portal Mind Portal will teach you some of the most highly regarded meditation?techniques ever compiled?You?ll learn: Basics of Meditation Out of Body Methods Remote Viewing Astral Projection Lucid Dreaming Learn how to harness the power of your own personal ?Mind Stilling Technique? Many different techniques to learn how to tap into your psychic centers profoundly Learn powerful techniques you can use as you design your own game plan Every page of this book contains secrets of the psychic process Every page of this book contains secrets of the psychic process Learn powerful techniques you can use as you design your own game plan Learn how to harness the power of your own personal ?Mind Stilling Technique? Many diffferent techniques to learn how to tap into your psychic centers profoundly You?ll learn the basics of?Remote Viewing, Astral Projection, OBE, and other unique?methods of meditative cultivation? Internal Power Centers Once?you?ve read Internal Power Centers, your life will never?be the same, as you?ll discover some of the keys to?becoming a psychic powerhouse? You?ll?begin to understand methods such as: Telepathy Clairvoyance ESP Precognition Psychometry Time Travel Psychic Self Defense and other Esoteric Skills Magneto The?Magneto Method will allow you hone your attraction skills?to a razors edge?If you want to attract more abundance,?success or power in your life, this manual could be?what your looking for? Powerful?techniques that will enable you to conjure up the abilities?to put the Law of Attraction to work for you?Really?cool stuff! You?ll discover: The 4 secrets ways to visualize your goals more powerfully Increase your Internal Energy like a Human Dynamo: Power up with unique exercises and techniques used by top athletes, martial artists and health aficionados Learn Advanced Mind Power Secrets: Gain a great understanding of how your mind really works and the way to get it to work for you, not against you. Leveraging, Controlling and Redirecting Your Mind: True mind control is both physical and mental, learn how to get the leverage you need for total and complete control. How to Target Your Goals & Objectives like a Marksman: Quit setting goals and start getting them with these effective strategies. The 3 types of natural energy that allow you to supercharger your attraction mechanisms Several unique methods of breathing made famous by Shoalin Monks, Yogis and other highly evolved practitioners. 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Taken from my personal notes, I place this book as one of the best reference manuals on how to Influence and persuade with power? Recently updated, this masterful work will give you the skills needed to take your hypnotic techniques to a new level? This book has been sold for as much as $39.95 by itself, and I may even decide to remove it from the library because of it?s immense value? Here?s just a taste of what you?ll learn? Discover the concept of Hypnotic Distancing: Learn the six (6) covert influencing techniques to persuade at a distance, where time and space is not a limitation Learn Mind Power Methods Used By The Master Mentalists: How to get into someone s head and get them to verify that your suggestion is the right suggestion Adapt ?The Persona?: Generate the bold and confident attitude of a Master Persuader Unlock high velocity energy transmissions to get someone s attention: Invoke someone to do what you want, when you want. 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These are the actual screen shots taken from Amazon.com These manuals sell every day at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders and other online retailers for around $30 each in hard copy format (Regular Price $39.95 each). I?m going to give you the chance to get your hands on over 500 pages of information for more than 50% off and also throw you some awesome bonus items to boot. The reason we can do this is because we are the publisher of the books, and ?have recently converted these titles to Digital format. Because this is a marketing test, we could put the books back at their normal everyday Digital Price of $19.95 per manual. Just see the check list below of all the Added Value you?ll receive when you order directly from us. No other online retailer has these bonuses and they are worth the entire cost of what you are paying for these manuals, so check them out? Why pay top dollar when you can get all of this hard to find information at a fantastic savings and value. Order today, you?ll be glad you did. ? ? ? They Sell Everyday on Amazon for $30 each ($150), Yours Today for 50%+ off plus,?Some Great Bonuses For All 5 Manuals! ? Only $47 for the Digital Download Version Today Here?s All You?ll Receive For This Amazing Price? YES Al ?! - I Want To Take Advantage?Of Your Extremely Generous Offer For?The Mind Force Esoteric Library Now Before?The Price Goes Up? I fully understand I get everything promised in the video and exactly what I need to start creating incredible energy & mind power I also understand I will be getting the following: Keep in mind that this is a ?Digital Download version, you will not have anything shipped to you, but everything will be in digital download format. Chi Power Manual- Includes (2) manuscripts. The Famous Chi Power Plus and the Master Secrets of Qigong Training Manual Dim Mak Manual- Includes (3) manuscripts. Dim Mak Striking, Acupressure Points & Self Defense Secrets. Discover the secrets these pressure points hold for healing or self defense. Mind Force System Manual- Includes (3) manuscripts. You get three great instructional manuals that have sold for $27 each in the past. Mind Force Meditation, Mind Force Psychic Energy & Mind Force Attraction. A great addition to the Chi Power Library of Esoteric Manuals Bonus Training MP3 #1- Intensive Chi Power Plus Book discussion. Incredible insights that normally would cost hundreds just to get an hour of this man?s time. Bonus Training MP3 #2- Q&A Sessions and help files. Chi Power Chart- You?ll receive a full color chart of the Internal Organs. This is a small version of our deluxe wall poster version Pressure Points Charts- You?ll receive (3) full color charts to help with your acupressure skills. These are the small version of our deluxe wall poster version. Manipulation Manual- The Master Secrets of Covert Persuasion & Hypnotic Influence Closed Door Self Hypnosis Manual All Bonus Hypnosis Files including 12 Devices Audio, Hetero Hypnosis Video and Audio and Self Hypnosis Video & Audio Complete Set- Mind Force & Quantum Qigong Esoteric Library **DIGITAL VERSION** ? Today Only? $47? Mind Force & Quantum Qigong Esoteric Manuals in Digital Format for Immediate Download? Copyright ? Copyright 2010. Velocity Group Publishing www.MasterThePowerofTheMind.com Powered by OptimizePress Products Contact Affiliate Anti Spam Copyright Disclaimer Privacy Policy Terms

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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Obama wants gun violence measures passed in 2013

(AP) ? Recalling the shooting rampage that killed 20 first graders as the worst day of his presidency, President Barack Obama on Sunday pledged to put his "full weight" behind legislation aimed at preventing gun violence.

Obama voiced skepticism about the National Rifle Association's proposal to put armed guards in schools following the Dec. 14 tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The president made his comments in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press."

Instead, the president vowed to rally the American people around an agenda to limit gun violence, adding that he still supports increased background checks and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity bullet magazines. He left no doubt it will be one of his top priorities next year.

"It is not enough for us to say, 'This is too hard so we're not going to try,'" Obama said.

"I think there are a vast majority of responsible gun owners out there who recognize that we can't have a situation in which somebody with severe psychological problems is able to get the kind of high capacity weapons that this individual in Newtown obtained and gun down our kids," he added. "And, yes, it's going to be hard."

The president added that he's ready to meet with Republicans and Democrats, anyone with a stake in the issue.

The schoolhouse shootings, coming as families prepared for the holidays, have elevated the issue of gun violence to the forefront of public attention. Six adult staff members were also killed at the elementary school. Shooter Adam Lanza committed suicide, apparently as police closed in. Earlier, he had killed his mother at the home they shared.

The tragedy immediately prompted calls for greater gun controls. But the NRA is strongly resisting those efforts, arguing instead that schools should have armed guards for protection. Some gun enthusiasts have rushed to buy semiautomatic rifles of the type used by Lanza, fearing sales may soon be restricted.

Obama seemed unimpressed by the NRA proposal. "I am skeptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools," he said. "And I think the vast majority of the American people are skeptical that that somehow is going to solve our problem."

The president said he intends to press the issue with the public.

"The question then becomes whether we are actually shook up enough by what happened here that it does not just become another one of these routine episodes where it gets a lot of attention for a couple of weeks and then it drifts away," Obama said. "It certainly won't feel like that to me. This is something that - you know, that was the worst day of my presidency. And it's not something that I want to see repeated."

Separately, a member of the president's cabinet said Sunday that rural America may be ready to join a national conversation about gun control. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the debate has to start with respect for the Second Amendment right to bear arms and recognition that hunting is a way of life for millions of Americans.

But Vilsack said Newtown has changed the way people see the issue. "I really believe that this is a different circumstance and a different situation," Vilsack said on CNN.

Vilsack said he thinks it's possible for Americans to come together. "It's potentially a unifying conversation," he said. "The problem is that these conversations are always couched in the terms of dividing us. This could be a unifying conversation, and Lord knows we need to be unified."

Besides passing gun violence legislation, Obama also listed deficit reduction and immigration as top priorities for 2013. A big deficit reduction deal with Republicans proved elusive this month, and Obama is now hoping Senate Democratic and Republican leaders salvage a scaled-back plan that avoids tax increases for virtually all Americans.

In addition, he issued a defense of former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, who has been mentioned as one of the leading candidates to replace Leon Panetta as defense secretary.

Hagel, who opposed President George W. Bush's decision to go to war with Iraq, has been criticized in conservative circles for not being a strong enough ally of Israel. Also, many liberals and gay activists have banded against him for comments he made in 1998 about an openly gay nominee for an ambassadorship

Obama, who briefly served with Hagel in the Senate, stressed that he had yet to make a decision but called Hagel a "patriot."

Hagel "served this country with valor in Vietnam," the president said. "And (he) is somebody who's currently serving on my intelligence advisory board and doing an outstanding job."

Obama noted that Hagel had apologized for his 14-year-old remark on gays.

Associated Press

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Connecticut gives basketball coach Kevin Ollie five-year, $7 million deal

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut has given men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie a new contract that runs through the end of the 2017-18 season.

The deal, signed Saturday, is worth just under $7 million and begins Jan. 1. When Ollie was hired in September, he was signed for just one season.

"As I said in my first press conference, I want to be here a lifetime and this is a step, hopefully a great step, in the program moving forward," Ollie said.

Ollie, who turned 40 on Thursday, was hired after Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun retired. His original deal had a pro-rated value of just over $465,000, the school said.

Ollie has led UConn to a 9-2 record entering Saturday's game against Washington despite losing five underclassmen from last year's team after it was announced that the Huskies were academically ineligible for the upcoming postseason.

Ollie was greeted with a standing ovation as he walked on the court Saturday night and the student section chanted his name.

"He's shown that he can coach, that he can lead this team on the court, and academically," athletic director Warde Manuel said. "He's the epitome of an UConn Husky."

Ollie, who played point guard for Calhoun from 1991-95, was his former coach's hand-picked successor. He became an assistant at UConn in 2010, after 13 years as an NBA journeyman.

But, he had never been a head coach on any level. Manuel said that's why he waited before tendering a multi-year offer, even though he knew it could have a negative impact on recruiting.

"I'm sure it didn't help, the short-term nature of the deal," Manuel said. "But I wanted the opportunity to see Kevin and get a sense of who he was for the long term."

Ollie has quickly established himself with his upbeat and energetic style, running practices that focus on conditioning and accountability.

"Kevin moved gracefully and seamlessly into this position of immense responsibility over the course of the fall," school President Susan Herbst said. "He demonstrated to us that he is a genuine leader of extraordinary talents."

The contract also includes some stiff penalties should UConn in the future again fail to meet the minimum standards for the NCAA Academic Progress Rate.

Ollie would forfeit two weeks' salary and all postseason payments. Two consecutive years of substandard APR scores would be grounds for termination.

"I agreed to it because I have a belief system in my student athletes," Ollie said. "We're students first and we're going to get it done."

Those sanctions would be eliminated from the contract once UConn's four-year APR climbs above 930, Manuel said.

Ollie will receive $1.2 million in 2013. His base salary will be $400,000 and rest will be for speaking and media appearances. The payments increase annually to $1.34 million by 2017.

Calhoun, who is vacationing in Florida, issued a statement saying the hiring makes him feel "very good about the future of UConn basketball."

UConn women's coach Geno Auriemma, who is making $1.8 million this year and is in negotiations for an extension, said Ollie remains in a tough position, but will have the support of the entire athletic department.

"He's going to do the right thing. He's already proven that," Auriemma said. "And now he's going to get an opportunity to recruit and he's going to get an opportunity to coach."

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

UPDATE 3-Cricket-Controversial former England captain Greig dies

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* Outstanding all-rounder and captain diagnosed with cancer

* Key figure in World Series Cricket revolution

MELBOURNE, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Former England captain Tony Greig, one of the architects of cricket's World Series revolution in the 1970s, has died at the age of 66 after suffering a heart attack at his Sydney home on Saturday.

Greig, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in October, was taken to a Sydney hospital but died at about 1:45 pm (0245 GMT).

"The staff of the emergency department worked on Mr Greig to no avail," a spokesman at St Vincent's hospital told local media.

A larger-than-life figure standing 6ft 6in (1.98 metres), South Africa-born Greig was an outstanding all-rounder who played 58 tests for England from 1972-77, scoring 3,599 runs at 40.43 including eight centuries and claiming 141 wickets at 32.20 each. He was also a brilliant slip fielder, taking 87 catches in test matches.

Greig could bowl at either a lively medium-pace or, on occasion, employ quickish off-spin, using his height and bounce in the latter style to take 13 wickets and win a test match in the Caribbean.

But Greig and controversy were never far apart and on the same West Indies tour in 1974 he ran out Alvin Kallicharran while the batsman was walking back to the pavilion after the last ball of the day had been bowled.

Technically Kallicharran was out as the umpire had not yet indicated play had officially ended, but after spectators invaded the ground and threatened to riot, the batsman was recalled.

Later that year on the Ashes tour of Australia, Greig sometimes seemed to be playing the Australians on his own as Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson blitzed the hapless England batsmen with their pace, menace and bounce.

He was promoted to the captaincy in the following year after England lost the first Ashes test at home and immediately infused his own aggression and determination into the team who drew the next three tests against one of the strongest sides in history.

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However, in 1976 Greig attracted further unwanted controversy before a series against West Indies when he said he intended to make the tourists "grovel".

The use of the word by a white South African in a time of heightened racial tensions enraged the West Indies, whose fast bowlers noticeably lifted their pace when Greig arrived at the crease on their way to a 3-0 series victory.

Greig's biggest impact on the game came after he joined forces in 1977 with late Australian businessman Kerry Packer to set up the breakaway World Series Cricket (WSC) competition.

Media magnate Packer's concept, aimed at securing cricket broadcast rights for his Channel Nine in Australia, shook up the game's world order by pioneering limited overs matches played at night and turning cricketers into full-time professionals.

Greig's signature lent credibility to WSC and he played a key role in recruiting disaffected players to the controversial competition which lasted only two years but permanently changed the face of the game.

"He influenced all those guys from overseas, certainly, and the West Indies to join World Series Cricket and it was great for cricket what he had done," former Australia batsman Doug Walters, who played in the WSC competition, told Sky News.

"Greig was one of the great competitors of cricket...he was someone that really took the fight to Australia, but he took the fight to everybody.

"Win, lose or draw he was the first guy in our dressing room with a couple of beers in his hands."

COMBATIVE CHARACTER

Greig's recruitment to WSC's cause put him at loggerheads with cricket's conservative establishment and he was stripped of the England captaincy in 1977. His international career ended that year after he had made a typically whole-hearted contribution under Mike Brearley to England's Ashes success at home.

A long-time resident Down Under, Greig later became a cricket commentator with Channel Nine, having been promised a "job for life" by Packer.

A combative and occasionally abrasive character, Greig's booming voice and signature white hat featured on Australian television screens for over three decades, but his battle with cancer prevented him from taking his position behind the microphone for the current 2012/13 season.

"It's a great loss to world cricket. To me personally I'm shattered," said former Australia captain Bill Lawry, who spent decades alongside Greig in Nine's commentary box.

"World cricket's lost one of its greatest ambassadors."

Tributes flowed for Greig, who went from being a villain to a highly-respected cricket pundit in his adopted country.

"RIP Tony Greig!! You have left a great footprint on the world of cricket. My condolences to the Greig family," retired West Indies batting great Brian Lara said in a post on his Twitter account.

"Not only was he a wonderful player and a very successful player for England, I think he was a wonderful guy," Australia captain Michael Clarke told Australian television.

England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive David Collier said Greig had been "an extremely talented all-round cricketer and captain".

"He was a giant of a man who played a major role in the changing face of cricket during the 1970s," Collier said in a statement (Reporting by Ian Ransom and John Mehaffey; Editing by Peter Rutherford and Alison Wildey; peter.rutherford@thomsonreuters.com)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cricket-former-england-captain-greig-dies-reports-050252845--spt.html

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Movie Review: Promised Land: A Small Town Salesman With a ...

Gus Van Sant?s Promised Land tells the story of two good-hearted salespeople who land on a small town in rural Pennsylvania with a transformative pitch: sell your natural gas rights to their company and give your small town new hope for the future. At first, everything goes smoothly. Steve (Matt Damon) and Sue (Frances McDormand) are experts at ingratiating themselves to the local folk, so much so that if this gig goes well, Steve is up for a huge and lucrative promotion. But for Steve it is about more than thrill of closing a deal. From small town Iowa, he watched his own home fall to waste as a result of the shifting nature of rural American economics. He?s not only selling a future for small town American; he believes his own pitch.

Trouble starts at a community meeting at the local high school when a science teacher raises questions about the environmental impact of fracking. Pressure mounts when an environmentalist turns up, lobbying the local folk to reject the big bad gas company. It sends Steve into crisis mode, professionally and personally, as he engages in a battle of charm with the smooth-talking and affable environmentalist, Dustin (played by Damon?s co-writer John Krasinski). Things are complicated further by Damon?s deepening affections for local girl

Despite the movie?s grappling with its controversial environmental subject, what makes Van Sant?s film radiate with the director?s characteristic warm sense of humanity is its mix of well-realized personalities. Promised Land isn?t necessarily an environmental film, instead it is about a struggle to realize and retain one?s own sense of personally integrity. And like a small town, the movie is sweet and wholesome, full of real feeling, but always mannered ? a wistful elegy to the values Americans esteem in in small town life: sincerity, honesty, and a love fueled by hard-fought determination.

Source: http://frontrow.dmagazine.com/2012/12/movie-review-promised-land-a-small-town-salesman-with-a-pitch-full-of-gas/

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Nathan's Wish: Officers Greet Boy Battling Brain Cancer - Nashua ...

Today is Nathan Norman's 5th birthday, a milestone he and his family have been focused on all year ? truly a gift for the Virginia boy, stricken with terminal brain cancer just before his first birthday.

Nathan's tumultuous journey is chronicled on CaringBridge, a site used by families to keep others informed during medical treatment. You can see lots more via his Facebook page, and view a short YouTube video, which is uploaded with this story, about Nathan's journey.

The New Hampshire connection came a few weeks ago, when word of Nathan's one Christmas wish ? for Christmas cards from local police, firefighters and EMTs ? circulated through the police grapevine and reached New Hampshire, where Nashua Police Department Detectives James Stone and Daniel Ostler joined the contingency from New England, traveling on Dec. 19 to Rustburg, Va. with 200 fellow officers to hand-deliver cards, gifts and police emblems to Nathan.

The caravan of more than 90 cruisers departed from Burlington Mass., on Wednesday morning and made the 10 ?-hour trip to Rustburg, VA. The officers then met with Nathan and his family at Liberty University on Thursday, December 20, 2012 and presented Nathan with the Christmas cards and other gifts and memorabilia that had been collected by the various law enforcement agencies.

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Nathan was diagnosed on Jan. 20, 2009 with a low grade astrocytoma (brain cancer.)

Nathan underwent surgery to remove the brain tumor, but the tumor?s ?tentacles? had grown into the brain, making it?impossible?to remove it all. Nathan has also endured aggressive chemotherapy.

After a particularly grueling treatment in September, Nathan asked his father to hang the Christmas lights.

?I think the lights will make me feel better,? he said.

Nathan?s parents approved of the idea. They believed that it was appropriate to fill their home with the elements of Christmas ? love, hope, peace, and joy ? because it is those same elements that have sustained them throughout Nathan?s ordeal.

Neighbors followed their lead. They also hung Christmas decorations and sent early greeting cards.

Nathan had only one Christmas wish ? to receive Christmas cards from his heroes: officers and firefighters. Sgt. Robert Carpentieri learned of this request when he received an email from a mutual friend. As a Public Information Officer with the Virginia State Patrol, he helped to spread the word.

?Most of us chose this profession out of a desire to help people,? Carpentieri said.? ?This is simply an opportunity to brighten a child?s day, and to let him know that he has our love and support. He may think of us as heroes, but to us, he is a hero, because he has endured so much, and yet he has such a positive attitude?.

The family has put the future into?perspective. Every day is a leap of faith.

?Nathan will be healed one way or another, Dawn said. ?The ultimate healing is in heaven. Nathan is not a victim. Whether God chooses to heal him on earth or in heaven, Nathan wins.?

You may send cards (Christmas, Birthday or New Year's) to:

Nathan Norman

81 Dunivan Dr

Rustburg, VA 24588.

Some information for this story was gathered from Law Enforcement Today.

Source: http://nashua.patch.com/articles/nashua-officers-help-deliver-christmas-joy-to-boy-with-cancer

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Friday, December 28, 2012

Deal reached to avert U.S. port strike for now

(Reuters) - A union representing dockworkers on the U.S. East Coast and an alliance of shippers have reached a labor agreement that will avert a strike that threatened to wreak havoc on the United States' economy.

The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), which represents 14,500 workers at 15 container ports in the eastern United States, and the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) of shippers, terminal operators and port authorities, have agreed to extend their current contract by 30 days to finalize details, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service said in a statement on Friday.

Both sides have agreed "in principle" on the contentious issue of royalty payments for shipping containers, payments to ILA workers based on the tons of container cargo that move through a port.

The statement on Friday was light on details of the actual agreement, and the USMX declined to comment further.

The new contract does not eliminate the royalty payments, according to Benny Holland, an executive vice president for the ILA.

"The royalty will stay intact. We have worked out a formula for it," he said in an interview.

Established in 1960, the royalty payments to ILA workers are based on the tons of container cargo that move through a port. That tonnage has risen from 50 million tons in 1996 to 110 million last year, according to the alliance. Total payments last year were $211 million, according to the USMX, or an average of $15,500 per worker.

The original idea of the royalty payments was to protect longshoremen from wage losses expected as a result of "containerization," in which more and more goods are packed in the now-familiar 20- and 40-foot long boxes. Those take less manpower to off-load than the less-standardized containers they replaced.

Both sides also fought over the guaranteed eight-hour workday in the current contract and the seven-man "lashing gang." Lashing crews, or gangs, secure the cargo containers to the vessel using metal lashing rods to keep them from moving while the vessel is at sea. The maritime alliance wanted to eliminate each.

The agreement comes as union forces felt emboldened by recent victories by other unions across the United States. At the same time, shipping companies and port operators have been using more automation, and have seen profits shrink. The Baltic Dry index, which tracks the cost to ship materials overseas, is down 55 percent in the past year and currently at levels it hasn't been in a decade.

(Reporting By Ernest Scheyder, additional reporting by Kevin Gray in Miami; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Bob Burgdorfer and Andrew Hay)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mediator-says-deal-reached-avert-port-strike-now-171126727.html

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Ubisoft interested in acquiring specific THQ studios and franchises ...

Ubisoft interested in acquiring specific THQ studios and franchises

It has been reported that the Assassin?s Creed publisher Ubisoft is interested in acquiring specific THQ assets, though it is holding out for a bargain deal.

MCV has reported that the France-based publisher has held lengthy discussions with the financially troubled American firm regarding the acquisition of assets, but these discussions have remained somewhat unfruitful.

The reason for this, as per the sources of MCV, is that Ubisoft in only interested in acquiring specific internal studios and intellectual properties (IP) of THQ, whereas the latter is selling the package as a whole instead of dividing and selling its assets separately.

Failing to convince the struggling America-based publisher so far, Ubisoft is holding out until THQ is forced to sell off its specific assets.

Ubisoft?s interest in THQ?s assets is no secret, with the company?s CEO Yves Guillemot stating quite clearly that he would consider purchasing some of THQ?s franchises.

"They have good things," he said. "We are always interested in good brands. For sure, it's something we can consider, but I can't tell you more."

He said that every time the video game industry undergoes transition, there are some companies that get left behind or are forced to change direction, while other companies manage to adapt to the change and therefore survive.

?What happened to [THQ] is something that happens regularly when we have transition,? he said. ?Some can make it, some decide to go in different direction. It happened with Atari and Midway and also Acclaim last generation. ... It's something that happens in this industry and that's the way the industry consolidates.?

After going through an extended period of financial crisis, THQ filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and put its assets for sale.

The company?s president Jason Rubin said that filing for bankruptcy is not the end of THQ or its franchises, but is in fact a new beginning.

He assured the fans that the development team is continuing to work on games, some of which have already been revealed while some of them are still unannounced.

The frontrunner for acquisition of THQ assets is Clearlake & Company, a subsidiary of the private equity firm Clearlake Capital Group.

Source: http://blogs.bettor.com/Ubisoft-interested-in-acquiring-specific-THQ-studios-and-franchises-a211345

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Birdsong study pecks theory that music is uniquely human

Dec. 27, 2012 ? A bird listening to birdsong may experience some of the same emotions as a human listening to music, suggests a new study on white-throated sparrows, published in Frontiers of Evolutionary Neuroscience.

"We found that the same neural reward system is activated in female birds in the breeding state that are listening to male birdsong, and in people listening to music that they like," says Sarah Earp, who led the research as an undergraduate at Emory University.

For male birds listening to another male's song, it was a different story: They had an amygdala response that looks similar to that of people when they hear discordant, unpleasant music.

The study, co-authored by Emory neuroscientist Donna Maney, is the first to compare neural responses of listeners in the long-standing debate over whether birdsong is music.

"Scientists since the time of Darwin have wondered whether birdsong and music may serve similar purposes, or have the same evolutionary precursors," Earp notes. "But most attempts to compare the two have focused on the qualities of the sound themselves, such as melody and rhythm."

Earp's curiosity was sparked while an honors student at Emory, majoring in both neuroscience and music. She took "The Musical Brain" course developed by Paul Lennard, director of Emory's Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology program, which brought in guest lecturers from the fields of neuroscience and music.

"During one class, the guest speaker was a composer and he said that he thought that birdsong is like music, but Dr. Lennard thought it was not," Earp recalls. "It turned into this huge debate, and each of them seemed to define music differently. I thought it was interesting that you could take one question and have two conflicting answers that are both right, in a way, depending on your perspective and how you approach the question."

As a senior last year, Earp received a grant from the Scholars Program for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research (SPINR), and a position in the lab of Maney, who uses songbirds as a model to study the neural basis of complex learned behavior.

When Earp proposed using the lab's data to investigate the birdsong-music debate, Maney thought it was a great idea. "Birdsong is a signal," Maney says. "And the definition of a signal is that it elicits a response in the receiver. Previous studies hadn't approached the question from that angle, and it's an important one."

Earp reviewed studies that mapped human neural responses to music through brain imaging.

She also analyzed data from the Maney lab on white-throated sparrows. The lab maps brain responses in the birds by measuring Egr-1, part of a major biochemical pathway activated in cells that are responding to a stimulus.

The study used Egr-1 as a marker to map and quantify neural responses in the mesolimbic reward system in male and female white-throated sparrows listening to a male bird's song. Some of the listening birds had been treated with hormones, to push them into the breeding state, while the control group had low levels of estradiol and testosterone.

During the non-breeding season, both sexes of sparrows use song to establish and maintain dominance in relationships. During the breeding season, however, a male singing to a female is almost certainly courting her, while a male singing to another male is challenging an interloper.

For the females in the breeding state every region of the mesolimbic reward pathway that has been reported to respond to music in humans, and that has a clear avian counterpart, responded to the male birdsong. Females in the non-breeding state, however, did not show a heightened response.

And the testosterone-treated males listening to another male sing showed an amygdala response, which may correlate to the amygdala response typical of humans listening to the kind of music used in the scary scenes of horror movies.

"The neural response to birdsong appears to depend on social context, which can be the case with humans as well," Earp says. "Both birdsong and music elicit responses not only in brain regions associated directly with reward, but also in interconnected regions that are thought to regulate emotion. That suggests that they both may activate evolutionarily ancient mechanisms that are necessary for reproduction and survival."

A major limitation of the study, Earp adds, is that many of the regions that respond to music in humans are cortical, and they do not have clear counterparts in birds. "Perhaps techniques will someday be developed to image neural responses in baleen whales, whose songs are both musical and learned, and whose brain anatomy is more easily compared with humans," she says.

Earp, who played the viola in the Emory orchestra and graduated last May, is now a medical student at the Cleveland Clinic.

So what music makes her brain light up? "Stravinsky's 'Firebird' suite," Earp says.

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  1. Sarah E. Earp, Donna L. Maney. Birdsong: Is It Music to Their Ears? Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience, 2012; 4 DOI: 10.3389/fnevo.2012.00014

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

New kind of magnetism discovered: Experiments demonstrate ?quantum spin liquid'

Dec. 20, 2012 ? Following up on earlier theoretical predictions, MIT researchers have now demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind of magnetic behavior, adding to the two previously known states of magnetism.

Ferromagnetism -- the simple magnetism of a bar magnet or compass needle -- has been known for centuries. In a second type of magnetism, antiferromagnetism, the magnetic fields of the ions within a metal or alloy cancel each other out. In both cases, the materials become magnetic only when cooled below a certain critical temperature. The prediction and discovery of antiferromagnetism -- the basis for the read heads in today's computer hard disks -- won Nobel Prizes in physics for Louis Neel in 1970 and for MIT professor emeritus Clifford Shull in 1994.

"We're showing that there is a third fundamental state for magnetism," says MIT professor of physics Young Lee. The experimental work showing the existence of this new state, called a quantum spin liquid (QSL), is reported this week in the journal Nature, with Lee as the senior author and Tianheng Han, who earned his PhD in physics at MIT earlier this year, as lead author.

The QSL is a solid crystal, but its magnetic state is described as liquid: Unlike the other two kinds of magnetism, the magnetic orientations of the individual particles within it fluctuate constantly, resembling the constant motion of molecules within a true liquid.

Finding the evidence

There is no static order to the magnetic orientations, known as magnetic moments, within the material, Lee explains. "But there is a strong interaction between them, and due to quantum effects, they don't lock in place," he says.

Although it is extremely difficult to measure, or prove the existence, of this exotic state, Lee says, "this is one of the strongest experimental data sets out there that [does] this. What used to just be in theorists' models is a real physical system."

Philip Anderson, a leading theorist, first proposed the concept in 1987, saying that this state could be relevant to high-temperature superconductors, Lee says. "Ever since then, physicists have wanted to make such a state," he adds. "It's only in the past few years that we've made progress."

The material itself is a crystal of a mineral called herbertsmithite. Lee and his colleagues first succeeded in making a large, pure crystal of this material last year -- a process that took 10 months -- and have since been studying its properties in detail.

"This was a multidisciplinary collaboration, with physicists and chemists," Lee explains. "You need both ? to synthesize the material and study it with advanced physics techniques. Theorists were also crucial to this."

Through its experiments, the team made a significant discovery, Lee says: They found a state with fractionalized excitations, which had been predicted by some theorists but was a highly controversial idea. While most matter has discrete quantum states whose changes are expressed as whole numbers, this QSL material exhibits fractional quantum states. In fact, the researchers found that these excited states, called spinons, form a continuum. This observation, they say in their Nature paper, is "a remarkable first."

Scattering neutrons

To measure this state, the team used a technique called neutron scattering, which is Lee's specialty. To actually carry out the measurements, they used a neutron spectrometer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md.

The results, Lee says, are "really strong evidence of this fractionalization" of the spin states. "That's a fundamental theoretical prediction for spin liquids that we are seeing in a clear and detailed way for the first time."

It may take a long time to translate this "very fundamental research" into practical applications, Lee says. The work could possibly lead to advances in data storage or communications, he says -- perhaps using an exotic quantum phenomenon called long-range entanglement, in which two widely separated particles can instantaneously influence each other's states. The findings could also bear on research into high-temperature superconductors, and could ultimately lead to new developments in that field, he says.

"We have to get a more comprehensive understanding of the big picture," Lee says. "There is no theory that describes everything that we're seeing."

Subir Sachdev, a professor of physics at Harvard University who was not connected with this work, says that these findings, which have been anticipated for decades, "are very significant and open a new chapter in the study of quantum entanglement in many-body systems." The detection of such states, he says, was an "exceptionally difficult task. Young Lee and his group brilliantly overcame these challenges in their beautiful experiment."

In addition to Lee and Han, the work was carried out by J.S. Helton of NIST, research scientist Shaoyan Chu of MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering, MIT chemistry professor Daniel Nocera, Jose Rodriguez-Rivera of NIST and the University of Maryland, and Colin Broholm of Johns Hopkins University. The work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

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Verizon Offering Galaxy Nexus 4G LTE For $225



Verizon is giving a sweet deals on Galaxy Nexus 4G LTE. Although, the device might be the slowest in term of receiving new updates but it doesn?t stop the fact that the device is quite an amazing smartphone. It?s a device that you would like to consider having around.

Unfortunately, the deals only available today. The Galaxy nexus available through Daily Deals. It would cost you $225 without contract. You will get 32GB model of the handset and it packed with a 4.65-inch display, 4G LTE connectivity and a 5 megapixel rear facing camera.

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Connecticut shooter's smashed hard drive poses challenge for investigators

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Investigators hoped to learn something from a computer found in the home shared by Adam Lanza???the gunman who killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,?Conn.???and his late mother, but the computer and the hard drive?were heavily damaged, say authorities.?There may be further attempts to recover data, but luck may not be on the investigators' side.

Law enforcement sources told NBC News?that they're somewhat pessimistic that Adam Lanza's computer will?yield any useful information. Not only was the actual computer heavily damaged, but its hard drive was removed and subjected to additional damage.?We asked data storage?experts to explain the sorts of challenges these computer?forensics workers are facing.

"If there's physical damage to the disks, I would say that it's nearly impossible to get the data off," said?Robb Moore, CEO of ioSafe ? a company that builds durable housings for hard drives and develops other disaster-proofing for data products. A standard hard drive consists of an enclosure, a circuit board, a read/write head and?disks,?also called platters,?which have a magnetic coating.?The disks themselves are often made of glass or other fragile materials, Moore told NBC News; they?can bend, break or shatter. The actual?data lives on that thin coating, which is "very sensitive to scratches and damage," Moore said.

"If someone damaged just the circuit board, it's possible to replace the circuit board," Moore said. "If someone damaged the drive so that the disks have shattered, it would be nearly impossible to get the data off these disks."

Tony Martino,?Director of the Computer Forensics Research and Development Center at Utica College, clarified that while a whole shattered platter makes chances of recovery "pretty much nonexistent,"?it may be possible to read a portion of the data if just a piece of the platter is damaged.?Even then,?the recovery?process is quite intense.

Paulo Licio de Geus, associate professor at?Institute of Computing at?Unicamp, focuses his research on computer security. He explains that if the platters are merely bent, rather than shattered???which could happen, depending on materials and manufacturers ??an elaborate laboratory procedure could be used to recover some information. "One must be really determined to fancy such an enterprise," he told NBC News.

Chris Bross is?a senior engineer?at Drive Savers???a company which tries to recover data from erased or damaged hard drives. He told NBC News that?in his two decades on the job,?he has successfully extracted information from hard drives damaged intentionally by being hit with a hammer, shot?or run over with a car.

"It's actually difficult to successfully destroy data to an absolute level," he explains. "What we do in a laboratory is engineering work. There's always opportunity for recovery from a storage device unless that device has been extremely damaged." He confirms that, "if the platters have been shattered,?then there's no tangible way to put together data from that." But if the platters are partially chipped, scratched, or similar? There's still a chance.

??With reporting by NBC?News'?Pete Williams

Want more tech news?or interesting?links? You'll get plenty of both if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts,?or circling her?on?Google+.

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Hard Reset Samsung Galaxy S3 for Snappier, Error-Free Performance [Quick Guide]

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Foreclosures and Short Sales and Taxes, Oh My! - NathanBangs.com

Holiday Home Market

From Tampa to St. Petersburg and beyond, homeowners on both sides of the bridge have been impacted by the economic downturn. Though the housing market is recovering steadily (albeit slowly), there are still plenty of short sales and foreclosures on the market. Meanwhile, the holiday season is always an interesting time in real estate; there may be less inventory on the market, but most buyers and sellers are more motivated. This year we have another twist: impending changes in tax codes that have a significant impact on real estate investment. Here's a look at what you need to know this holiday housing season.

Foreclosures

For distressed homeowners who have already initiated the foreclosure process, here comes some welcome news: Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have announced that they'll suspend bank repossessions during the holiday season. Freddie Mac stopped on December 17, and Fannie Mae will halt repossessions starting tomorrow. Bank of America will follow suit, both on its own repossessions and those it services for investors. Other lenders have historically done the same, but have not made the announcements yet.?

Both home buyers and sellers should remember that this reprieve does not affect other administrative aspects of the pre- or post-mortgage process. If you as a homeowner have already initiated the foreclosure process, prepare to continue along that trajectory. And if you're in the middle of purchasing a foreclosed home from the bank or on the market for a foreclosure, worry not! You shouldn't see too much delay due to the holidays.?

Short Sales

During the three months ending September 30, short sales among homeowners who had fallen behind on payments were up 22% over the previous year, nationwide. Short sales among homeowners who were current on their mortgage payments had jumped 17% over the previous year. Short sales are generally preferable to foreclosures because they have much less impact on the homeowner's credit. In a short sale, the bank agrees to sell the home for less than what the homeowner owes the bank. The bank then has no more responsibility for the property, and the homeowner is released from an unaffordable mortgage.?

Currently making short sales even more attractive is the Mortgage Debt Forgiveness Act. Under this bill, homeowners who sell their homes via short sale do not have to pay federal taxes on their unpaid mortgage debt (the difference between what their home sells for, and what they actually owe the bank). The Act expires on December 31, and it's not certain to be extended. The average amount of forgiven debt: $95,000, which would carry some pretty hefty taxes. Thus many homeowners are especially motivated to complete short sales and avoid a possible tax hit in the new year.?

Real Estate Taxes

In addition to the potential end of the Mortgage Debt Forgiveness Act, several other real estate-related tax changes could be on the horizon. For instance, the mortgage interest deduction may be capped, or it may not be available to high-income earners. Furthermore, changes to capital gains taxes may impact people who invest in real estate or own second homes. A complete summary of potential tax changes can be found here.?These tax changes mean that there are more motivated people on both sides of the housing market. Real estate investors will be looking to buy properties before the end of the year, while sellers will be looking to avoid additional capital gains taxes by selling before the close of 2012.?

This holiday season, the real estate market will certainly offer hope and opportunity for many. If you're looking to buy or sell a home, be sure to talk to a qualified real estate agent. An agent can explain local market conditions and offer expertise on how to navigate current market conditions.?

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Long-wavelength laser will take better 'fingerprints' of medicines than chemical analysis, research suggests

Dec. 19, 2012 ? A laser capable of working in the terahertz range ? that of long-wavelength light from the far infrared to 1 millimeter ? takes a better 'fingerprint' of, say, a drug under investigation, than a traditional chemical analysis. PhD student Thomas Denis of the University of Twente's MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology has now combined? a free electron source with photonic crystals. The result: greater flexibility and a compact laser.

A terahertz laser is capable of showing the molecular structure of, say, a drug, because the laser beam it produces is at wavelengths suitable for examining molecular and atomic bonds. This enables more spatial information to be obtained than from chemical analysis, a detailed fingerprint. To date, however, the limitation has been that lasers of this type are restricted to particular wavelengths, e.g. because the source of the laser light is a semiconductor, in which electrons can only take on fixed energy states, hence only a limited number of 'colours' of light can be produced.

Free electrons

In a free electron laser the electrons are not restricted to fixed states, as are electrons in a classic cathode ray tube. So Denis thought, why not combine a free electron source with a 'photonic crystal'? This is a structure with lot of tiny 'posts' that together slow down the incident light and turn it into a coherent beam. Photonic crystals can be created at micro level, e.g. for a lab-on-a-chip, or on a much larger scale. The dimensions and shape of the crystal determine the rough wavelength region, and the precise wavelength can be set and adjusted by changing the speed of the electrons being fired at it. This combination is known as a 'photonic free-electron laser' or pFEL.

Looking inside the crystal

Existing terahertz lasers also have the disadvantage that they are very large, big enough to fill a room. Thanks to the use of photonic crystals the pFEL that Denis has designed is not much bigger than a domestic microwave oven and can still provide high power despite its small size. He has also found a special way of 'looking' inside a photonic crystal -- something that is not normally possible. By interfering slightly with the wavelength pattern in the crystal using a tiny metal ball the actual pattern can be measured.

Thomas Denis (Ahaus, 1981) received his PhD on 14 December for his thesis Theory and Design of Microwave Photonic Free-Electron Lasers. He carried out his research in Prof. Klaus Boller's Laser Physics and Non-linear Optics Group. The thesis, or the summary, is available in digital form on request.

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Back Pain and spinal problems - Lying DC\'s Health Blog

Back Pain is a medical condition which normally arises due to deformed spinal curvature. Spinal curvature is the normal alignment of the spine. The spinal discs are made up of cervical, thoracic and also lumbar discs. Spinal curvature can be deformed by a number of factors. Some of the factors that can deform the spinal curvature may include bad posture and also use of bad mattresses. Bad posture can be described as an awkward position that may stress the spinal discs. Bad postures include being sited at one position for so long and also walking and sleeping in an awkward position. Bad mattresses tend to stress the spinal discs thereby leading to the deformation of the spinal curvature.

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