Shoulder Exercises - Build Muscle Workout - Muscle and Fitness

The Problem

You train shoulders religiously each week, but you?re not making progress, you?re constantly in pain, and you?re ready to scrap shoulder work altogether.

The Solution

Most guys run into problems when they try to do too much with their shoulder workouts. They?re performing too many moves, they choose their exercises unwisely, and they don?t pay attention to balancing out the muscle groups that form their shoulders as a whole.

With the setup here, we?re stripping down to the bare essentials. You?ll perform barbell shrugs to develop your traps, then a balanced dumbbell raise attack that will keep your lats, a delicate muscle group, evenly developed and help protect your shoulders when you bench-press. Now that your shoulders are warmed up, we?re getting you yoked up by throwing in the military press as your finishing move.

START >>

Source: http://www.muscleandfitness.com/training/shoulders/get-bigger-shoulders-5-easy-moves

askew blue moon eddie murphy ann romney marco rubio marco rubio farrah abraham

DeMarco: Cabrera or Trout for AL MVP?

Tigers star not a lock for award ? even if he's first to win Triple Crown since '67

OPINION

updated 9:08 p.m. ET Sept. 27, 2012

Tony DeMarco

Bringing some perspective to the numbers, arguments and misconceptions in the Mike Trout-Miguel Cabrera American League MVP debate:

1) Despite what we're hearing from both extremes, this is not an easy call.

There are possible scenarios for the final week of the regular season that would leave logical arguments for either player as the winner.

What we have here are two players in the midst of seasons of great historical significance. Both also happen to play for similarly underachieving teams whose post-season fates won't be determined until the final days of the regular season, so there's no edge there ? yet.

Still, Tigers manager Jim Leyland was quoted in the Detroit Free Press last week as saying, 'it would blow my mind' if Cabrera isn't the winner.

"In this case, I'm not being partial,'' Leyland added. "I don't have to lobby. It's right there in front of everybody.''

And at the other end of the spectrum, the sabermetrics crowd paints a statistical argument that convincingly tilts the scale to Trout. To them, this is a no-brainer ? Triple Crown and playoff implications be damned.

But much like political debates these days, where the extreme edges see only one right way, the truth lies somewhere in the middle here. And the fact is, it's going to be very tough for either player to finish second.

You don't need sabermetrics to know Trout is the best true five-tool player in the game this season, the best we've seen since a young Ken Griffey Jr. The advantages he holds over Cabrera in defense and base-running are immense. But is that enough to overcome Cabrera's advantage in the power numbers?

2) Which brings us to this: Winning the Triple Crown does NOT guarantee an MVP award.

Not even close. In fact, history puts it as only a 60-40 proposition.

That's right, only six of the last 10 Triple Crown winners also were their league's MVP. (There was no MVP award to win for the first five Triple Crown winners).

The last three Triple Crown winners ? Carl Yastrzemski (1967), Frank Robinson (1966), Mickey Mantle (1956) ? also were AL MVPs. All three played for pennant winners, making the MVP vote an easy call. Robinson and Mantle got all the first-place votes; Yaz missed by one.

Then there's the curious case of Ted Williams, who didn't win an MVP in either of his Triple Crown seasons.

In 1947, the Sox finished 14 games behind the Yankees, who just so happened to get a 56-game hitting streak from Joe DiMaggio ? the MVP winner by one point. The 1942 AL MVP voting went further to support the notion that voters either didn't like Williams much, or really took seriously the idea of an MVP playing for a pennant winner.

Williams absolutely dominated all three Triple Crown categories, and was the clear Wins Above Replacement (WAR) leader. Yet the pennant-winning Yankees' Joe Gordon got 12 first-place votes to Williams' nine, and won the MVP election.

The other Triple Crown winners who weren't MVPs were Lou Gehrig in 1934 and Chuck Klein in 1933. The latter's MVP snub is easier to understand, as Klein's Phillies finished 60-92 while the pennant-winning Giants were led by MVP Carl Hubbell, who won 23 games and posted a 1.66 ERA.

But the 1934 AL MVP voting is among the most-curious ever, as Gehrig finished fifth despite the Triple Crown and league-leading 1.172 OPS and 10.1 WAR total. The winner: Mickey Cochrane, catcher for the pennant-winning Tigers, who hit .320 with two homers, 76 RBI, .840 OPS and 3.7 WAR total ? not even the best on his team behind Charlie Gehringer.

3. Speaking of WAR, this could be the MVP debate that puts the metric on the mainstream map to stay.

Mainly because the argument for Trout lies primarily in his huge lead in the category.

Simply put, WAR is the best measure we have of a player's total value ? with the bat, in the field and on the bases ? boiled down to an estimation of how many wins that player adds to his team's total above what a replacement player (or one with absolute minimum every-day production at that position) would provide.

If Trout wins the MVP, it could have the same long-term effect as did Felix Hernandez's win in the 2010 Cy Young Award voting despite a 13-12 record. And if Trout wins the MVP despite a Cabrera Triple Crown, then we really will have a seismic shift in voters' minds on how to best evaluate a player's ability and value.

Be sure that front offices are making huge financial decisions with the help of WAR and other advanced metrics ? even as they balance that with what is seen by scouts who have spent their whole adult lives watching the game, and opinions of the people who play and coach it.

But one problem the WAR statistic has in gaining further credibility is that it's calculated two different ways by the two primary sites tracking it ? Baseball-Reference.com and FanGraphs.com Uniformity would go a long way to increasing its perceived accuracy, it says here.

What does history say about Triple Crown winners and WAR totals? Curiously, every Triple Crown winner has lead the league in WAR, most by wide margins. However, Cabrera does not, and even trails teammate Justin Verlander and Robinson Cano in the Baseball-Reference.com rankings, far behind Trout.

Ultimately, 28 BBWAA voters ? two from each AL city ? will cast ballots before the start of the playoffs. And the Triple Crown race and postseason fates of both teams will be factors.

Remove those, and Trout's chances increase dramatically. But if the Tigers win the AL Central, the Angels can't sneak into a wild-card spot and Cabrera puts a Triple Crown atop his season (or maybe even misses by a homer), you can expect many voters to go Cabrera 1, Trout 2 ? no matter the Trout-was-robbed arguments you'll read.

Otherwise, the MVP should go to Trout.

advertisement

More news

Reds' Bailey no-hits Pirates

Homer Bailey of the Cincinnati Reds threw the season's seventh no-hitter, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 on Friday night.

Source: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/49201575/ns/sports-baseball/

billy joel bent new york jets etch a sketch romney sean payton saints bounty program toulouse france

Most coral reefs are at risk unless climate change is drastically limited

Public release date: 16-Sep-2012
[ | E-mail | Share ]

Contact: Mareike Schodder
press@pik-potsdam.de
49-331-288-2507
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Only under a scenario with strong action on mitigating greenhouse-gas emissions and the assumption that corals can adapt at extremely rapid rates, could two thirds of them be safe, shows a study now published in Nature Climate Change. Otherwise all coral reefs are expected to be subject to severe degradation.

Coral reefs house almost a quarter of the species in the oceans and provide critical services including coastal protection, tourism and fishing to millions of people worldwide. Global warming and ocean acidification, both driven by human-caused CO2 emissions, pose a major threat to these ecosystems.

"Our findings show that under current assumptions regarding thermal sensitivity, coral reefs might no longer be prominent coastal ecosystems if global mean temperatures actually exceed 2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level," says lead author Katja Frieler from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. "Without a yet uncertain process of adaptation or acclimation, however, already about 70% of corals are projected to suffer from long-term degradation by 2030 even under an ambitious mitigation scenario." Thus, the threshold to protect at least half of the coral reefs worldwide is estimated to be below 1.5 degrees Celsius mean temperature increase.

A more comprehensive and robust representation than in previous studies

This study is the first comprehensive global survey of coral bleaching to express results in terms of global mean temperature change. It has been conducted by scientists from Potsdam, the University of British Columbia in Canada and the Universities of Melbourne and Queensland in Australia. To project the cumulative heat stress at 2160 reef locations worldwide, they used an extensive set of 19 global climate models. By applying different emission scenarios covering the 21st century and multiple climate model simulations, a total of more than 32,000 simulation years was diagnosed. This allows for a more robust representation of uncertainty than any previous study.

Corals derive most of their energy, as well as most of their famous color, from a close symbiotic relationship with a special type of microalgae. The vital symbiosis between coral and algae can break down when stressed by warm water temperatures, making the coral "bleach" or turn pale. Though corals can survive this, if the heat stress persists long enough the corals can die in great numbers. "This happened in 1998, when an estimated 16% of corals were lost in a single, prolonged period of warmth worldwide," says Frieler.

Adaptation is uncertain and ocean acidification means even more stress

To account for a possible acclimation or adaptation of corals to thermal stress, like shifts to symbiont algae with a higher thermal tolerance, rather optimistic assumptions have been included in the study. "However, corals themselves have all the wrong characteristics to be able to rapidly evolve new thermal tolerances," says co-author Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a marine biologist at the University of Queensland in Australia. "They have long lifecycles of 5-100 years and they show low levels of diversity due to the fact that corals can reproduce by cloning themselves. They are not like fruit flies which can evolve much faster."

Previous analyses estimated the effect of thermal adaptation on bleaching thresholds, but not the possible opposing effect of ocean acidification. Seawater gets more acidic when taking up CO2 from the atmosphere. This is likely to act to the detriment of the calcification processes crucial for the corals' growth and might also reduce their thermal resilience. The new study investigates the potential implications of this ocean acidification effect, finding that, as Hoegh-Guldberg says: "The current assumptions on thermal sensitivity might underestimate, not overestimate, the future impact of climate change on corals."

This comprehensive analysis highlights how close we are to a world without coral reefs as we know them. "The window of opportunity to preserve the majority of coral reefs, part of the world's natural heritage, is small," summarizes Malte Meinshausen, co-author at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the University of Melbourne. "We close this window, if we follow another decade of ballooning global greenhouse-gas emissions."

###

Article: Frieler, K., Meinshausen, M., Golly, A., Mengel, M., Lebek, K., Donner, S., Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (2012): Limiting global warming to 2C is unlikely to save most coral reefs. Nature Climate Change [DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1674] (Advance Online Publication)

For further information please contact:

PIK press office
Phone: +49 331 288 25 07
E-Mail: press@pik-potsdam.de

---

[ | 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.

Public release date: 16-Sep-2012
[ | E-mail | Share ]

Contact: Mareike Schodder
press@pik-potsdam.de
49-331-288-2507
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Only under a scenario with strong action on mitigating greenhouse-gas emissions and the assumption that corals can adapt at extremely rapid rates, could two thirds of them be safe, shows a study now published in Nature Climate Change. Otherwise all coral reefs are expected to be subject to severe degradation.

Coral reefs house almost a quarter of the species in the oceans and provide critical services including coastal protection, tourism and fishing to millions of people worldwide. Global warming and ocean acidification, both driven by human-caused CO2 emissions, pose a major threat to these ecosystems.

"Our findings show that under current assumptions regarding thermal sensitivity, coral reefs might no longer be prominent coastal ecosystems if global mean temperatures actually exceed 2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level," says lead author Katja Frieler from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. "Without a yet uncertain process of adaptation or acclimation, however, already about 70% of corals are projected to suffer from long-term degradation by 2030 even under an ambitious mitigation scenario." Thus, the threshold to protect at least half of the coral reefs worldwide is estimated to be below 1.5 degrees Celsius mean temperature increase.

A more comprehensive and robust representation than in previous studies

This study is the first comprehensive global survey of coral bleaching to express results in terms of global mean temperature change. It has been conducted by scientists from Potsdam, the University of British Columbia in Canada and the Universities of Melbourne and Queensland in Australia. To project the cumulative heat stress at 2160 reef locations worldwide, they used an extensive set of 19 global climate models. By applying different emission scenarios covering the 21st century and multiple climate model simulations, a total of more than 32,000 simulation years was diagnosed. This allows for a more robust representation of uncertainty than any previous study.

Corals derive most of their energy, as well as most of their famous color, from a close symbiotic relationship with a special type of microalgae. The vital symbiosis between coral and algae can break down when stressed by warm water temperatures, making the coral "bleach" or turn pale. Though corals can survive this, if the heat stress persists long enough the corals can die in great numbers. "This happened in 1998, when an estimated 16% of corals were lost in a single, prolonged period of warmth worldwide," says Frieler.

Adaptation is uncertain and ocean acidification means even more stress

To account for a possible acclimation or adaptation of corals to thermal stress, like shifts to symbiont algae with a higher thermal tolerance, rather optimistic assumptions have been included in the study. "However, corals themselves have all the wrong characteristics to be able to rapidly evolve new thermal tolerances," says co-author Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a marine biologist at the University of Queensland in Australia. "They have long lifecycles of 5-100 years and they show low levels of diversity due to the fact that corals can reproduce by cloning themselves. They are not like fruit flies which can evolve much faster."

Previous analyses estimated the effect of thermal adaptation on bleaching thresholds, but not the possible opposing effect of ocean acidification. Seawater gets more acidic when taking up CO2 from the atmosphere. This is likely to act to the detriment of the calcification processes crucial for the corals' growth and might also reduce their thermal resilience. The new study investigates the potential implications of this ocean acidification effect, finding that, as Hoegh-Guldberg says: "The current assumptions on thermal sensitivity might underestimate, not overestimate, the future impact of climate change on corals."

This comprehensive analysis highlights how close we are to a world without coral reefs as we know them. "The window of opportunity to preserve the majority of coral reefs, part of the world's natural heritage, is small," summarizes Malte Meinshausen, co-author at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the University of Melbourne. "We close this window, if we follow another decade of ballooning global greenhouse-gas emissions."

###

Article: Frieler, K., Meinshausen, M., Golly, A., Mengel, M., Lebek, K., Donner, S., Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (2012): Limiting global warming to 2C is unlikely to save most coral reefs. Nature Climate Change [DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1674] (Advance Online Publication)

For further information please contact:

PIK press office
Phone: +49 331 288 25 07
E-Mail: press@pik-potsdam.de

---

[ | 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.

Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/pifc-mcr091312.php

raffi torres michael mcdonald jon jones vs rashad evans earth day 2012 jon jones rashad evans ufc jones vs evans watergate

Amara Blog | Travelling while blending into an adoptive family ...

Sarah O'Neill, MSW ? Amara Adoption and Foster Care Specialist

Families who begin the process of adopting a child often ask me whether they should alter their travel plans ? or even make plans in the first place ? while going through the adoption process.

Please go and enjoy your trips! You don?t need to change your lifestyle while preparing and waiting for a child.

Having said this, for those of you who have recently welcomed a child from foster care or from a relinquishing birth parent into your home, you may need to adjust or postpone your travel plans. Here is why:

• Children and adolescents who have dealt with moves and other forms of upheaval in their pasts ? for me, this describes any child of any age removed from or relinquished by birth parents ? will need time to get to know your family, your routine, and your parenting style. Additionally, you will need time to get to know the child.
• A stable home environment allows children, youth and adults to begin to trust one another due to consistency, where the same people, daily routines, and expectations are present.
• Ample nurturing promotes a trust relationship. Activities such as playing with your child and even just talking with your child may seem simple, but in reality are experiences which many children who have grown up in unstable environments have lacked. Developing a pattern of engagement with children is vital to their adjustment, and it is easiest for you to develop this pattern in a familiar and continuous setting.

A family trip or vacation will mean a whole new environment, new people, a different routine (or lack of a routine) and different expectations for the child. If your child has not had enough time to adjust to you and your home, these changes may make your child feel anxious and may cause them to be overwhelmed, act out, or fear being left behind.

What about Disneyland? Even Disneyland, which can be a wonderful experience for children, may be an experience you?ll want to save until well after your child has adjusted to his or her new family.

If you view the potential effects of travel and vacation trips through your child?s eyes, you may find that you want to stay at or close to the familiar and safe setting of your home.

While you are adjusting to one another and blending into an adoptive family, I encourage you to discover ways of building relaxation and exploration into your daily lives as a family, which do not require extended travel.

Day trips to beaches, parks, indoor child/family gyms, museums, and community events can each fit the bill. Be open to alternatives!

Based upon your own experiences, what advice would you share with families who are in the process of adopting a child and who would like to go on outings but may be limited in options for a certain period of time?

Please share below!

?

You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Source: http://amaraparenting.org/archives/2846

jo paterno dead south carolina tuskegee airmen mike james red tails red tails heidi klum

HP Envy Spectre XT review: a sleek and speedy Ultrabook with a killer keyboard

More Info

• HP unveils Envy Spectre XT Ultrabook, other thin-and-lights in various sizes
• HP announces 15-inch Spectre XT TouchSmart Ultrabook, Envy 4 Ultrabook with touch
• HP Envy 14 Spectre review

HP's Envy 14 Spectre hit almost all the right notes when we reviewed it back in March, thanks to its high-res display, sleek metal-and-glass design and brisk performance, but a stiff trackpad and the steep $1,400 price were clear downsides. The new Envy Spectre XT, a 13.3-inch Ivy Bridge-powered Ultrabook, has a thinner, lighter profile than its big brother, and a lower $1,000 price tag to match. That's still not chump change, though, so does the XT deserve a spot in the top tier of Intel-approved ultraportables? Join us past the break for the full breakdown.

Gallery: HP Envy Spectre XT review

Continue reading HP Envy Spectre XT review: a sleek and speedy Ultrabook with a killer keyboard

Filed under: Laptops

HP Envy Spectre XT review: a sleek and speedy Ultrabook with a killer keyboard originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/13/hp-envy-spectre-xt-review/

think like a man world peace world peace lakers colorectal cancer metta kashi neil diamond

Chemist develops new synthesis of most useful, yet expensive, antimalarial drug

ScienceDaily (Sep. 13, 2012) ? In 2010 malaria caused an estimated 665,000 deaths, mostly among African children. Now, chemists at Indiana University have developed a new synthesis for the world's most useful antimalarial drug, artemisinin, giving hope that fully synthetic artemisinin might help reduce the cost of the live-saving drug in the future.

Effective deployment of ACT, or artemisinin-based combination therapy, has been slow due to high production costs of artemisinin. The World Health Organization has set a target "per gram" cost for artemisinin of 25 cents or less, but the current cost is about $2.40 per gram, and production of low-cost semi-synthetic artemisinin has yet to materialize.

"In 2005, the WHO claimed that the structure of artemisinin was too complex for cost-effective synthesis," said IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences chemistry professor Silas Cook. "We saw this as a natural challenge to the creativity and tenacity of organic chemists."

Published recently in the Journal of the American Chemical Society as "A Concise Synthesis of Artemisinin," Cook and postdoctoral co-author Chunyin Zhu report a succinct five-part process beginning with inexpensive cyclohexenone, an ideal feedstock available on metric-ton scale. Subsequent chemistry highlights several new reactions developed in the Cook group to enable this short, low-cost synthesis.

The result was the production of fully synthetic artemisinin on gram scale, greater than all previous total syntheses combined.

"The key to the ultimate success of synthetic artemisinin will be the large-scale production of the drug," Cook said. "As such, we had to completely rethink what qualified as suitable starting materials for this synthesis and invent new chemistry." The result was the use of readily available commodity chemicals in a process that was shorter than any other artemisinin total synthesis ever conducted.

The next challenge will be to move from gram-scale to kilogram-scale production, a process Cook may or may not be involved with.

"There is still work to be done. And we'd love to do it here, but the project has yet to attract outside funding," he said. "This is still in an experimental phase until you can scale up. We patented it, so the intellectual property rights are in place."

Cook came to IU in 2008 following post-doctoral work with Eric Jacobsen, developer of the Jacobsen expoxidation, at Harvard University, and after finishing a Ph.D. with Columbia University's Samuel J. Danishefsky, where the lab focuses on the synthesis of antitumor and anti-infective natural products and fully synthetic vaccines.

Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:

Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:

---

Story Source:

The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Indiana University.

Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.

---

Journal Reference:

1. Chunyin Zhu, Silas P. Cook. A Concise Synthesis of ( )-Artemisinin. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012; 134 (33): 13577 DOI: 10.1021/ja3061479

Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.

Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/matter_energy/biochemistry/~3/xfCt50-HErY/120913104040.htm

jason mayhem miller margarito margarito horton hears a who horton hears a who cotto margarito big daddy

'Doctor' or 'darling' -- Subtle differences of speech: Brain signals tell who someone is talking to

ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2012) ? Human speech comes in countless varieties: When people talk to close friends or partners, they talk differently than when they address a physician. These differences in speech are quite subtle and hard to pinpoint.

In a recent special issue of the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Johanna Derix, Dr. Tonio Ball, and their colleagues from the Bernstein Center and the University Medical Center in Freiburg report that they were able to tell from brain signals who a person was talking to. This discovery could contribute to the further development of speech synthesizers for patients with severe paralysis.

In contrast to the experimental research common in human neuroscience, the scientists studied natural, non-experimental behavior. Patients who, for medical reasons, had electrodes implanted underneath their skull allowed their brain activity to be recorded during daily life in the hospital. The Freiburg researchers compared data recorded during natural conversations that the patients had with their physicians and their life partners. They found pronounced differences in the anterior temporal lobe, a brain area well known for its significance in social interaction. Several components of neural signals that are detectable on the brain surface can convey such information.

"This study is only the first step towards elucidating the neural basis of human everyday behavior," explains the neuroscientist and physician Tonio Ball. "Such investigations will become especially important in developing new neurotechnological treatment options for patients with impaired motor and language functions that work in real life situations." The restoration of speech production becomes necessary in some forms of neurological diseases and chronic paralysis. A computer could synthesize speech for patients suffering from such conditions by using their brain signals. Information on who the patient is addressing could help the device to select the degree of formality -- and to prevent it from calling the doctor "darling."

Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:

Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:

---

Story Source:

The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg.

Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.

---

Journal Reference:

1. Johanna Derix, Olga Iljina, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Ad Aertsen, Tonio Ball. 'Doctor' or 'darling'? Decoding the communication partner from ECoG of the anterior temporal lobe during non-experimental, real-life social interaction. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012; 6 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00251

Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.

Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/child_development/~3/Wb3hfdRdpz8/120911091223.htm

where the wild things are josh smith birdsong teresa giudice atlanta hawks flyers 2012 white house correspondents dinner

'Rumor Has It' Adele Just Recorded The Next Bond Theme Song

As the November 9 US release date for "Skyfall" grows nearer and near, all of the element for a great Bond movie seem to be in place. There's Daniel Craig, acting as badass as ever. Javier Bardem could make a classic villain. The lovely ladies of "Skyfall," Berenice Marlohe and Naomie Harris, are lovely. Everything's [...]

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/09/12/adele-bond-theme-skyfall/

minnesota caucus knowshon moreno knowshon moreno sovereign citizen komen chrome for android hatchet

Adopting Daniel: US couple tests new Guatemala law

In this Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 photo, Jennifer Walker, sister of Jessica Hooker, holds balloons as she and others await the arrival, from Guatemala City, of Ryan and Jessica Hooker, at McGhee Tyson Airport in Louisville, Tenn., with their newly adopted son Daniel and their daughter Ellyson. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

In this Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 photo, Jennifer Walker, sister of Jessica Hooker, holds balloons as she and others await the arrival, from Guatemala City, of Ryan and Jessica Hooker, at McGhee Tyson Airport in Louisville, Tenn., with their newly adopted son Daniel and their daughter Ellyson. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

In this Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 photo, Ryan and Jessica Hooker arrive at McGhee Tyson Airport in Louisville, Tenn., from Guatemala City, with their newly adopted son Daniel and their daughter Ellison. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

In this Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 photo, pastor Jerald Russell leads a prayer as he stands between Ryan and Jessica Hooker at McGhee Tyson Airport with their newly adopted son Daniel, in Louisville, Tenn. After five years, the Hookers have finally been able to complete the adoption and bring Daniel to his new home in Tennessee. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

In this Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 photo, friends hold signs as they await the arrival, from Guatemala City, of Ryan and Jessica Hooker, at McGhee Tyson Airport in Louisville, Tenn., with their newly adopted son Daniel and their daughter Ellyson. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ? It should have been good news.

The U.S. Embassy called to say the Guatemalan government would begin to authorize adoptions five years after a scandal froze the system that sent as many as 4,000 Guatemalan children a year to the United States.

Ryan "Bubba" Hooker and his wife, Jess, might finally be able to collect the little boy they wanted to adopt and bring him home.

But Hooker wasn't sure. This would be his 36th trip to Guatemala City. The 18-month-old toddler they had met in an orphanage was now a 6-year-old kindergartener. The couple had moved homes, passed up a job, spent untold amounts of money trying to adopt Daniel.

If all went well, they were told, they would be the first U.S. family to adopt under the Central American nation's new adoption laws.

At least, that's what they told him over the phone.

On Aug. 21, an anxious Bubba boarded the plane for Guatemala City. All he had to do was get an adoption certificate, a birth certificate and a passport, meet with the people at the U.S. Embassy yet again, get an adoption visa, and then he and Jess could bring Daniel home.

Maybe this time it would work.

___

Jess and Bubba had been married less than a year when they decided to go to Guatemala on a mission trip in June 2007.

The day he met Daniel, Bubba had been working on the plumbing in the orphanage when he decided to take a break. He took a wander through the rooms and found the boy.

The child was just 18 months old but looked younger, sitting stranded in a walker. He was the youngest kid in the orphanage, the frailest, too, with his pigeon chest and little legs that turned out. Bubba knelt beside the little boy and they began to play. Before long Bubba was holding him, then he fed him. He forgot about the plumbing.

It wasn't until that night, when they were in bed, that he told his wife.

"I think I met our son," Bubba said.

At 28, Jess was five years older than her husband and the more practical partner. She listened quietly as he told her about his day with the boy, who wasn't just cute, he said, but his name was Daniel, just like Bubba's uncle who had just died. She was skeptical.

"Uh oh," she thought, "what has Bubba gotten us into?" But the next day, when she pulled the child into her arms, it felt like he was hers.

The couple had always wanted to adopt; Daniel just sped up their plans. They immediately told the orphanage director and started the paperwork.

Two months later, Guatemala's thriving adoption industry fell apart.

The country's quick-stop adoptions had made the nation of 14 million people the world's second-largest source of babies to the U.S. after China. But the vibrant business came to a halt after an August 2007 raid on what was considered the country's most reputable adoption agency, used by many Americans.

An investigation exposed a system of fake birth certificates and DNA samples, of mothers coerced into giving up children. Some claimed their children were kidnapped for sale. Adoptive parents paid up to $30,000 for a child in a country where the average person earns $5,000 a year.

Guatemalan birth parents poured into government- run centers looking for their missing children and ran ads in local papers.

Guatemalan doctors, lawyers, mothers and civil registrars were arrested and prosecuted, with some convictions for human trafficking and adoption fraud. The Solicitor General's office was put under investigation by a U.N.-backed commission against impunity.

The Guatemalan government was forced to overhaul its adoption laws. The U.S. suspended all new adoptions from Guatemala.

By the beginning of 2008, a new council had to be established to clean up proceedings, including verifying the identity of birth mothers and their willingness to give up their children.

The old system, a mostly unsupervised network of private attorneys and notaries, was abolished.

Daniel was among 3,032 children caught in limbo.

___

In October 2008, Jess traveled to Guatemala with her mother over her school's fall break. It was her fourth visit.

She expected to see Daniel running around, arms flailing with hints of baby talk.

Instead, there was silence.

Something was wrong, but she was not Daniel's legal guardian. Jess couldn't take him to see a pediatrician. Maybe it was normal considering that he was such a small kid, but she was worried. She was a special needs teacher.

Five months later, Daniel still wasn't talking.

At the Radisson Hotel, where the Hookers started the first of many family visits, he would race to the window inside their room to watch the airplanes. He was obsessed with them. But when Bubba gave him headphones, Daniel always tore off the one in his right ear.

He needed to see a specialist. The adoption could not come soon enough. They'd hoped their connections to the orphanage, their family's story, would make things easier since some adoptions pending when the ban was imposed were being allowed to go through. Jess's parents were missionaries who founded the charity Samaritan Hands, which ran the orphanage. Bubba sat on the charity's board.

Plus, his grandmother had been an orphan herself. And so was Jess's younger brother, Jose.

But though they had filed reams of paperwork, nothing seemed to be happening, and no one could tell them why. Finally, in May 2009, they got a call confirming a meeting with the adoption council's head, Jaime Tecu. The Hookers were ecstatic.

After hours in the waiting room with Daniel and Jess' mom, Judy, who would translate, they were ushered into an office overlooking the south of the capital.

Daniel sat upright in a chair close to the director's desk and fiddled with a toy car.

And then the bombshell.

"I'm sorry," Tecu said, "your case is not registered with the Solicitor General's office. It is not official."

Judy began to sob. Bubba was furious.

Jess was crushed.

Everything had to be investigated anew. Daniel's birth mom needed to be found, tested for a DNA match and give consent for the adoption. The case also had to be transferred to a court in the district where Daniel was born.

The Hookers filled out and submitted the same forms numerous times. They had a second home study ? translated into Spanish. But nothing changed.

In May 2010, a weeklong trip turned into a three-week stay when the Pacaya volcano, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Guatemala City, began spewing lava and rocks, blanketing the capital with ash and closing the international airport.

The Hookers used the extra time with Daniel to take him to an audiologist.

When the doctor walked in to give the results, they already knew ? Daniel was almost completely deaf.

___

The Hookers created a routine between regular trips to the Radisson in Guatemala and life back home in Maryville, Tennessee. Jess took advantage of holidays at the high school where she worked, while Bubba, a real estate developer, set his own schedule so he could visit Daniel every two or three months.

It was not an easy way to live.

They turned down a job offer overseas that they feared would have further complicated the adoption process.

When Daniel was already 4 and there was still no end in sight, Jess gave birth to a daughter, Ellyson.

On their visits at the Radisson when Jess was pregnant, Daniel would touch her belly and say, "Sister."

They hung photos of Daniel and Ellyson all over the walls of the two-story brick house on their Maryville cul-de-sac. They put a play structure in the yard and fenced it in for Daniel. In his bedroom, a large red airplane sat atop the armoire. His beloved plane.

Jess felt like she was missing Daniel's entire childhood ? his first steps, his first words.

And then came some luck.

In early 2011, the Guatemalan adoption fiasco came to the attention of U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, who served on the Senate appropriations subcommittee on the State Department's foreign operations and related programs, which dealt with foreign adoptions. She also presided over the Senate appropriations subcommittee on homeland security, which funds U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

She was also the mother of two adopted children.

Landrieu discovered there was no list of people whose cases had been dropped due to Guatemala's adoption ban.

The U.S. had forbidden new adoptions from Guatemala, but the pending cases were something else.

She assembled a team of staff and immigration services experts to help Guatemalans sift through the files and find out which ones had the proper records, making five trips to the country herself.

Of the original 3,032 cases interrupted at the end of 2007, officials found 180 cases of children still waiting to be adopted.

The first of these cases was Daniel's.

Landrieu's team worked with the U.S. Embassy and Guatemalan officials to broker an agreement that would allow certain cases to go forward if they met the criteria of both Guatemalan officials and the U.S. State Department.

She contacted many American families to see if they were still interested, discovering that many couples had spent tens of thousands of dollars, traveling up to 20 times to keep contact with the children.

Last December, the Hookers got a call saying they were one of 44 families whose cases were ready to move forward.

It would still be another eight months before they embarked on Aug. 21, hoping to become the first of those families eligible to collect their child under the new agreement.

Things were looking up.

___

Then, this past Monday, Jess, who had flown in with Ellyson and her mother to Guatemala City, sat inside the Hookers' room at the Radisson staring at the latest document. She couldn't believe it.

Her computer chimed, and with tears in her eyes, she made her way over to it. Someone back in Tennessee was calling her on Skype.

When she saw that it was her brother, she turned on the camera.

Before Jose could say hello or see her wet cheekbones, she hovered over the camera and covered it with a thin sheet.

The paper read: "Daniel Ryan Hooker born in Quiche, Guatemala on December 2006 son of Jessica Russell Hooker and Ryan Hooker.

Jose began to cry.

Jess' brother, Jose, had been adopted 22 years earlier, when he was almost 6 years old, from the same orphanage. That adoption took her parents three years to complete. He, too, had been born in Quiche.

At one point, when things were really grim and there was no end in sight, Jose had said that he would go to Guatemala and adopt Daniel himself, since he was Guatemalan.

And now, here they were. All they needed was Daniel's Guatemalan passport, and his adoption visa.

This time, Jess was sure, everything would work out. It said so right there on the paper.

She was Daniel's mother.

___

Early Saturday morning, they checked out of the Radisson for the last time. An airport shuttle arrived at Guatemala's La Aurora Airport. Out came Jess and her mom, Bubba, baby Ellyson and Daniel. Everyone sported matching red-and-white Maryville High T-shirts. There was even a small one with a big embroidered M at the center for Daniel.

At a distance Daniel could see his beloved planes as Jess carried him toward check-in.

"I've been waiting so long to carry you like this," Jess told Daniel.

"Avion," he replied, the Spanish word for plane, a huge smile on his face. He gave his momma a wet kiss and motioned to be put on the floor. He went over to Ellyson and started to open his arms wide and spun like a plane. She giggled and mimicked him.

Meanwhile, Bubba was grabbing their boarding passes.

After all his family visits, he'd accrued 700,000 frequent flier miles he had been saving for the day he would take his son home. Soon, they would be sitting in first class. The plane was set to take off just before 1 p.m.

Jess prepped his bag full of knickknacks. Back in Maryville, friends and colleagues at school had thrown her a surprise baby shower.

When asked how she thought Daniel would adapt to the room and house back in Maryville, she laughed.

"I think he's going to be a bit disappointed when we get home and he realizes there is no pool on our roof, no elevator, and he can't watch planes from the window."

___

As the family walked through the doors of the Louisville airport late Saturday night, friends cheered, then joined them in prayer.

"WE'RE HOME!!!!!! We did it! We made it! And we can't believe it!" the family said in an emailed message to friends on Sunday.

"I wish you all could have seen Daniel's face as he ran around our house exploring his new domain. He couldn't believe he had his own room. He gawked at the size of our bathtub ... It was AWESOME!"

___

Associated Press writer Romina Ruiz-Goiriena reported this story in Guatemala and Travis Loller reported in Tennessee.

___

Romina Ruiz-Goiriena on Twitter: http://twitter.com/romireportsAP

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2012-09-09-Guatemala-Adopting%20Daniel/id-7464ff74aee04576bedce71af98c5556

windows 8 preview leap year moratorium dwts season 14 cast leap day michigan primary results olympia snowe

Geron halts breast cancer trial, stock hits life low

(Reuters) - Drugmaker Geron Corp lost more than half its market value after it said it halted a study of its experimental treatment for breast cancer and was unlikely to move forward in trials for advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

Geron stopped the mid-stage breast cancer trial after an interim check showed that the drug imetelstat was not better than the current recommended treatment in extending patients' lives without the disease progressing.

While an interim analysis of the company's non small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) study supported a modest benefit from the drug, Geron said it was doubtful about starting late-stage trials for the indication.

"These are two of their big opportunities gone away," Needham & Co analyst Chad Messer said. "The problem looks like some cross-toxicity between imetelstat and paclitaxel."

An internal review revealed that more patients given a combination of imetelstat and paclitaxel, an approved chemotherapy drug, were dying or discontinuing treatment, compared with those administered only paclitaxel.

The company's stock, which has more than doubled over the last three months, fell as much as 57 percent to a low of $1.24 on the Nasdaq. More than 12.5 million shares had changed hands by midday, about seven times the stock's average moving volumes.

Further development of the drug for blood disorders essential thrombocythemia and multiple myeloma have not been adversely impacted by these results, Geron said.

Analyst Messer said the silver lining was that there was no indication that the study results would hurt the remaining programs in hematological cancers, but added, "we do not have a lot of data (released on) whether (it) will or will not work."

The company is unlikely to undertake any cash-saving activity until the complete results of the study are available, Messer added.

Menlo Park, California-based Geron had $122 million in cash and cash investments at the end of the second quarter.

(Reporting By Vrinda Manocha in Bangalore; Editing by Anthony Kurian and Roshni Menon)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/geron-drug-fails-breast-cancer-trial-shares-sink-123227669--finance.html

Fatboy Slim Rio de Janeiro Shark Week London 2012 closing ceremony Shark Week 2012 evelyn lozada UFC 150

BP nears $7 billion asset sale to Plains Exploration-report

{ttle}

{cptn}","template_name":"ss_thmb_play_ttle","i18n":{"end_of_gallery_header":"End of Gallery","end_of_gallery_next":"View Again"},"metadata":{"pagination":"{firstVisible} - {lastVisible} of {numItems}","ult":{"spaceid":"97318928","sec":""}}},{"id": "hcm-carousel-1438859920", "dataManager": C.dmgr, "mediator": C.mdtr, "group_name":"hcm-carousel-1438859920", "track_item_selected":1,"tracking":{ "spaceid" : "97318928", "events" : { "click" : { "any" : { "yui-carousel-prev" : { "node" : "a", "data" : {"sec":"HCMOL on article right rail","slk":"prev","itc":"1" }, "bubbles" : true, "test": function(params){ var carousel = params.obj.getCarousel(); var pages = carousel._pages; // if same page, don't beacon if(("_ult_current_page" in carousel) && carousel._ult_current_page==pages.cur) return false; // keep track of current position within this closure carousel._ult_current_page = pages.cur; return true; } }, "yui-carousel-next" : { "node" : "a", "data" : {"sec":"HCMOL on article right rail","slk":"next","itc":"1" }, "bubbles" : true, "test": function(params){ var carousel = params.obj.getCarousel(); var pages = carousel._pages; // no more pages, don't beacon again // if same page, don't beacon if(("_ult_current_page" in carousel) && carousel._ult_current_page==pages.cur) return false; // keep track of current position within this closure carousel._ult_current_page = pages.cur; return true; } } } } } } })); }); Y.later(10, this, function() {Y.namespace("Media").ywaSettings = '"projectId": "10001256862979", "documentName": "", "documentGroup": "", "ywaColo" : "vscale3", "spaceId" : "97318928" ,"customFields" : { "12" : "classic", "13" : "story" }'; Y.Media.YWA.init(Y.namespace("Media").ywaSettings); }); Y.later(10, this, function() {(function() { try{ if (Math.floor(Math.random()*10) == 1) { var loc = window.location, decoded = decodeURI(loc.pathname), encoded = encodeURI(decoded), uri = loc.protocol + "//" + loc.host + encoded + ((loc.search.length > 0) ? loc.search + '&' : '?') + "_cacheable=1", xmlhttp; if (window.XMLHttpRequest) xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); else xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); xmlhttp.open("GET",uri,true); xmlhttp.send(); } }catch(e){} })(); }); Y.later(10, this, function() {if(document.onclick===YAHOO.Media.PreventDefaultHandler.newClick){document.onclick=YAHOO.Media.PreventDefaultHandler.oldClick;} }); }); });

Joan Had A Virus | welcome to stutter-ed.com

Sep 9, 2012 by admin

Joan called her remote computer repair tech because she was worried her computer had a virus. Joan called the computer repair tech and told the tech that she thought her computer had a virus and her computer needed a full tune up and cleaning. The computer repair tech connected to her computer through the remote computer repair software. Joan watched as the computer repair tech ran scans to find malware and spyware. Once the scans were complete, they showed that Joan had one hundred and sixty two infections of spyware and it had seventy five infections of malware.

The computer repair tech removed all of the infections of malware and spyware and he started to clean the rest of her computer. While the computer repair tech cleaned the virus, Joan asked the computer repair tech to install a better antivirus. The computer repair tech told Joan about a free antivirus that is reliable and safe. Joan was happy with what the computer repair tech had recommended so she had him download it on her computer. Once the computer repair tech finished with the computer, he installed the antivirus and disconnected from her computer. Joan thanked the computer repair tech for all that he had done.

Source: http://www.stutter-ed.com/joan-had-a-virus/

transcendentalism bells palsy channel 5 news uc berkeley harrison barnes brett ratner stevie nicks

Video: Lung cancer study raises treatment hopes

>>> some important health news about lung cancer . a large new study on the genetic makeup of one type of lung cancer is raising hopes that new treatments may soon be available for this killer. robert bezel is live with more.

>> the study looked at one type of lung cancer that accounts for about one in four cases of the disease. as part of a giant government funded research project scientists sequenced all the jeangen genes in 178 patients. several of the drugs that may work are already on the market or in late testing phases. researchers say based on this new information clinical trials will begin soon to find out how many new treatments this treasure-trove of genetic information will bring.

Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/48962554/

cj wilson ellsbury brad pitt and angelina jolie brad and angelina herniated disc sacramento kings luke scott

guttering and fascias in Brisbane, roofi - Building Your Own ...

Do-It-Yourself projects are good bonding moments for the family. Everybody can contribute to the project from the planning down to the actual building. Everything starts at the planning stage. Since day one, everybody must be involved already. If the purpose is to build something as a family, then everybody should be enthusiastic with the idea early on.

Sometimes parents think that because they are adults they already have the monopoly of the decision making. Sometimes, the parents need to go down to the child's level and consider them in the whole process. Make sure that the project is not only for the parents but for the whole family to enjoy. The project can be as small as a bird house to as big as an outdoor family playhouse that the whole family can enjoy.

Assigning responsibilities

When you are assigning responsibilities for your family's DIY project, always consider the age and the capacity of the person that you are going to assign the task with. Those that involve power tools and anything that can possibly hurt the person using it or those around him should not be given to children. They can take part in the painting and finishing of the project. While building, they can be tasked to give nails, screws and even help in measuring the wood that needs to be cut.

The kids can even help buy the roofing products in Brisbane and help choose the colors for the roof. Everything needed for the roof including guttering and fascias in Brisbane is not hard to find as there are building centres that has everything you need for your playhouse. The wood that will be needed for the structure can be bought at the same place as well as the other materials needed to start building.

Patience is the Key

Of course involving the kids and the whole family will make the project get finished longer but you are doing this to spend time with your family and to create happy memories they can look back on. When you assign the kids to paint the exterior of the playhouse, they will definitely make a mess. Don't demand perfection because their joy and contribution is much more important than having a perfect playhouse that nobody wants to use anyway.

Strive for a finished project that everybody can call their own. Surely your kids will be so proud that they built their own playhouse -- a place that they will always remember even when they have families of their own. The project will also be a great way to help build foster relationship with each other, something that the whole family will benefit in the long run.

This article has been viewed 13 time(s).

It is a violation of our terms and conditions for writers to submit material which they did not write and claim it as their own. If this article infringes on your copyrights, you MUST either call us at 706-866-2295 or send proof of infringement along with the offending article's title, URL, and writer name to

IdeaMarketers.com
Attn: Marnie Pehrson - Copyright Concern
514 Old Hickory Ln
Ringgold GA 30736 USA
If you email us or use our problem submission form, we CANNOT guarantee we'll receive your notice!

Source: http://www.ideamarketers.com/?articleid=3548920

powerball numbers freddie mercury Horshack florida lotto Beady Eye david bowie Eric Idle

Favorite TV reruns may have restorative powers

Friday, September 7, 2012

We hear all the time that we need to get off the couch, stop watching TV and get moving.

But what if watching TV under specific conditions could actually provide the mental boost you need to tackle a difficult task?

A new paper that describes two studies by Jaye Derrick, PhD, research scientist at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions, found that watching a rerun of a favorite TV show may help restore the drive to get things done in people who have used up their reserves of willpower or self-control.

"People have a limited pool of these valuable mental resources," explains Derrick. "When they use them on a task, they use up some of this limited resource. Therefore, they have less willpower and self-control for the next task.

"With enough time, these mental resources will return. However, there may be ways to more quickly restore them."

One of these ways is to re-watch your favorite TV show, Derrick's research found. Doing so, she says, taps into the surrogate relationship people form with the characters in their favorite shows. We find it comforting, mainly because we already know what the characters are going to say and do. All we have to do is sit back and enjoy it.

"When you watch a favorite re-run, you typically don't have to use any effort to control what you are thinking, saying or doing. You are not exerting the mental energy required for self-control or willpower," Derrick explains. "At the same time, you are enjoying your 'interaction,' with the TV show's characters, and this activity restores your energy."

In the first of her two studies published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, Derrick asked half of the participants to complete a structured task which required concentrated effort. The other half were asked to complete a similar but less structured task that allowed them more freedom and required much less effort.

Then half of the participants were asked to write about their favorite television show while the other half listed items in their room (a "neutral" task).

Following this, the participants were tested to measure any reduction or renewal of willpower.

Those who wrote about their favorite television show (rather than listing items in their room) wrote for longer if they had done the structured task than if they had done the less-structured task. This, Derrick says, indicates these participants were seeking out their favorite TV shows and they wanted to spend more time thinking about them.

And writing about their favorite television show restored their energy levels and allowed them to perform better on a difficult puzzle.

In the second study, participants kept a daily diary. They reported on their effortful tasks, media consumption and energy levels each day. If they had to do effortful tasks, they were more likely to seek out a re-run of their favorite television show, to re-watch a favorite movie or to re-read a favorite book. Doing so, then restored their energy levels.

"In other words, there was a measurable restorative effect from a familiar fictional world," Derrick finds.

But that doesn't mean people should veg-out in front of any TV show.

"The restorative effect I found is specific to re-watching favorite television shows (or re-watching favorite movies or re-reading favorite books)," Derrick says. "Just watching whatever is on television does not provide the same benefit. And perhaps surprisingly, watching a new episode of a favorite television show for the first time does not provide the same benefit."

Derrick explains that there is something special and comfortable about a "relationship" in which you already know what the other person is going to say and do, and all you have to do is sit there and enjoy it.

In fact, the effects of this fictional "social surrogacy" may work better than actual social interaction with real people under some circumstances.

"Although there are positive outcomes to social interaction such as a sense of feeling of being energized," says Derrick, "human exchanges can also produce a sense of rejection, exclusion and ostracism, which may diminish willpower."

Derrick's findings may dispel some notions that watching TV is bad for us.

"Based on my research, I would argue that watching television is not all bad. While there is a great deal of research demonstrating that violent television can increase aggression, and watching television may be contributing to the growing obesity epidemic, watching a favorite television show can provide a variety of benefits, which may enhance overall wellbeing," she says.

Derrick's new research will expand on these findings and examine other social consequences of television.

"I have found, for example, that favorite television shows can actually increase people's pro-social behavior. Specifically, after thinking about a favorite television show, people are more willing to forgive others, are more willing to help a stranger and are more willing to sacrifice for their romantic partner," she says.

###

University at Buffalo: http://www.buffalo.edu

Thanks to University at Buffalo for this article.

This press release was posted to serve as a topic for discussion. Please comment below. We try our best to only post press releases that are associated with peer reviewed scientific literature. Critical discussions of the research are appreciated. If you need help finding a link to the original article, please contact us on twitter or via e-mail.

This press release has been viewed 64 time(s).

Source: http://www.labspaces.net/123307/Favorite_TV_reruns_may_have_restorative_powers

drew peterson kindle fire Art Modell Frank Ocean Gay Star Trek: The Original Series Jennifer Granholm Stand Up to Cancer

Apartment Careers: Real Estate/Property Management jobs, Fort ...

About Pinnacle.

We invest in great people. That's why clients trust us with their real estate investments!
At Pinnacle, we consider our employees our most valuable asset. In fact, our number one key business objective is to attract and retain the best talent in the industry! At Pinnacle, the key to our continued success and competitive advantage is our people.

We offer a total compensation and benefits package to help with your needs today and build for your future tomorrow. We recognize that each employee is an individual with individual needs, lifestyles, and interests. Our benefits package was created with the flexibility to support employees who are at different places in their lives and careers.

Pinnacle values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity in employment. We offer a safe, healthy work environment for employees through a commitment to maintaining a drug-free workplace.
Pinnacle has ongoing employment opportunities at our headquarters in Seattle, our more than 40 branch office locations nationally and our many managed communities throughout the country.

Pinnacle is the national leader in third-party fee management of investment real estate encompassing multi-family, commercial space, affordable housing and military housing. Pinnacle is built on four basic principles:

Quality people

Strong customer service

Solid market knowledge

Superior systems and support capabilities

At Pinnacle, success is about more than having a healthy bottom line. Guided by our principles and values, we are committed to making Pinnacle an amazing and unique place to work for each member of our team.

About the job..

As a Maintenance Technician at Pinnacle, you play an important role onsite Maintenance staff. A Maintenance Technician is a hands-on professional who acts under the direction of the Service manager and performs installations, repairs, and replacements for a multi-million dollar apartment community. Your job is vital to the satisfaction of our residents because appearance of the property and maintenance operations is one of the biggest reasons residents choose a Pinnacle managed property to call home. At Pinnacle, we value our Maintenance Staff, provide career training, and a clear career path for individuals who are looking for advancement opportunities.
Our Maintenance Staff are the backbone of our apartment communities. Theyre responsible for keeping our communities in the top-notch condition our residents have come to expect, building motivated and trustworthy teams who consistently deliver a notably higher level of service to our residents. Be ready to be busy!

Essential Responsibilities:

Under the director of the Maintenance Supervisor, the Maintenance Technician will be responsible for ensuring that the physical aspects of the property meet the company's established standards and any applicable laws.

Must diagnose problems and make repairs in areas such as HVAC, electrical, plumbing, pool, exterior and appliance.

Personal Competencies:

High-energy

Roll up your sleeves mentality

Warm, friendly and service-oriented philosophy

High degree of flexibility and tolerance for change

Effective written and verbal communications skills

Organized and detail-oriented

Customer-service focused

Qualifications:

Minimum of a high school diploma

2+ years of on-site property management/facility maintenance experience

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Must be knowledgeable of OSHA regulations

Must have HVAC certification

Must have a valid drivers license and be able to drive

Must be willing to work evenings or weekends (on call) in the case of an emergency

Pinnacle has grown to become America's largest apartment manager through many different successes. Yet, in today's ultra-competitive market, each success must fuel the next and speed is essential in the ongoing race to lead the industry.

If you are ready to work hard and be empowered and encouraged to innovate, contribute ideas and discover solution to provide current and potential residents with unparalleled, world class customer service please click Apply Online.

Source: http://jobs.apartmentcareers.com/jobs/4906175/maintenance-technician

marchmadness mike d antoni nba trade rumors 2012 ncaa tournament schedule laurent robinson dantoni gillian anderson

Video: What Corrugated Boxes Indicate About Jobs

Sorry, Readability was unable to parse this page for content.

Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/cnbc/48938584/

chris hansen ehlers danlos syndrome the closer michael turner split pea soup land of the lost cleveland cavaliers

US senators urge tougher stand on Syria, Iran

CERNOBBIO, Italy (AP) ? U.S. Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham on Friday urged Washington to help arm Syria's rebels with weapons and create a safe zone inside the country for a transition government. They also called for a far tougher position against Iran over its suspected ? and seemingly inexorable ? drive toward acquiring nuclear weapons capability.

McCain blasted President Barack Obama, who defeated him in the 2008 presidential election, for recently setting the "red line" for Syria at use of chemical weapons.

"If you're (Syrian President) Bashar Assad ... maybe you interpret that to mean that you can do anything short of chemical weapons before the United States will intervene," the Republican from Arizona told the Ambrosetti Forum, a gathering of political and business leaders on the shores of Lake Como in Italy.

Lieberman and McCain ? who together with Graham have toured the volatile Middle East in recent days ? both argued that the longer the West waits the more jihadists will gain influence in the rebellion.

"We should be supplying weapons to the opposition to Assad (and) I strongly support the creation of a safe zone," said Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee, who has since become a Connecticut independent.

"The opposition has effectively seized control of a piece of land in northern Syria," he said. "If we help them protect themselves from Assad's helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft they can establish a transitional government ... I am confident that if we set it up and told (the regime) that if they attacked it there would be a vigorous response, they would not attack it."

He said such a zone would enable potential future leaders now located in places like Istanbul and Paris to establish a presence among the people.

Recent Turkish efforts to push for just such action ran aground at the United Nations, due both to Russian and Chinese opposition as well as lack of enthusiasm in many Western countries for more direct involvement in Mideast tumult, especially after the less-than-stellar outcomes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, agreed that people in the West are war-weary, but argued that if Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney "would speak out more forcefully about the consequences of doing nothing compared to the consequences of taking a calculated risk, public opinion would change."

"It is better to shape history than to see it pass by," he said.

Lieberman spoke of the human toll.

"There is a slaughter going on," he said of the Syria conflict, whose death toll has reached about 25,000. "Everything that motivated all of us to get involved in Libya is happening in Syria, and more."

He noted that "Assad is the number one ally in the Arab world of Iran, and Iran is that greatest threat to stability in the region and beyond the region at this point."

And on Iran, the three were united in a belief that economic sanctions will not cause Tehran to end its nuclear drive.

McCain argued that with the notable exception of the case of Apartheid South Africa, "sanctions, when we look at history, rarely work" ? and in the case of Iran that's exacerbated by a sense that the nuclear program has the people's support.

"We have applied very tough economic sanctions on Iran and they have clearly affected the economy of Iran ? but they have not affected the nuclear program one iota," marveled Lieberman. "By its recalcitrance Iran is presenting the rest of the world with only two choices: Do we accept a nuclear Iran and try to contain it ? or do we take military action? That's a fateful decision that's got to be made in the months ahead."

Lieberman noted that the UN nuclear agency has shown "evidence that the Iranians are rushing toward having the capability to develop nuclear weapons (that) would be a total change of the balance of power in the Middle East and more broadly in the world," since Iran is a patron of terrorist groups. Lieberman said the "red line" should be the acquisition of capability as opposed to the actual construction of a nuclear weapon.

Graham said he did not expect Israel ? whose leaders have been saber-rattling all year in what many suspect is a bluff aimed at sparking tougher Western action ? to forever remain inactive.

But he argued that the U.S. should be the one making military threats.

"If the Iranians believed that there's a credible threat of a massive attack by the United States to disrupt their nuclear program and their regime's survivability, they will start thinking differently."

"I believe (Iranian leaders) feel that a nuclear weapon gives them complete immunity forever because the international community will leave them alone if they get that weapon," he said. "The one thing I know they cannot possibly believe is that they can survive a conflict with the United States."

Follow Dan Perry on twitter at www.twitter.com/perry_dan

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-senators-urge-tougher-stand-syria-iran-200441360.html

memorial day ivan rodriguez planetary resources mothers day gift ideas natalee holloway scotty mccreery megan fox pregnant