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Saturday, January 5, 2013
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5 Love Lessons Season 1 Of 'Girls' Taught Us | YourTango
Here's what we learned from the first season of the show.
After months of waiting, it's finally almost time for new season of Girls. On Sunday, season 2 premieres, and while we haven't seen it yet, we can practically guarantee more awkwardness, laugh-out-loud dialogue, and of course, those unbelievably relatable relationship moments.?
Until the premiere, hold yourself over with these love lessons we learned from the Brooklyn quartet.
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1. Tell Him How You Feel
In Hannah's best moment of honesty, we see her tell her then-hookup Adam, who sent her a racy picture meant for someone else, how she really feels. No, she doesn't want him to take her to brunch or be her boyfriend, she just wants him to be obsessed with her and want to sleep with only her. (Sound familiar?) As much as we giggled during this epic monologue, this was a huge moment for Hannah and the audience. It's the first time she's telling Adam what?she?wants. It's refreshing and empowering. Finally, she's not just going along with a strange or uncomfortable sex request.?
2. We All Have Baggage
HPV, virginity, eating cupcakes in the bathroom and gay ex-boyfriends ? turns out we all have baggage ranging from small to large undesirable qualities. (Medium being something like Shoshanna's "I don't love my grandmother.") It's frustrating to see Shoshanna so hung up on her virginity throughout the season. But, let it be a reminder of how dwelling on negative qualities can get in the way. She becomes so caught up in thinking no one wants to sleep with her that she almost misses the opportunity to eliminate her baggage with someone who's actually interested in her.
3. Enjoy Being Single
We're always told to embrace being single, but Marnie's breakup shows us exactly why it's important. After seeing Charlie had moved on so quickly, Marnie became miserable ? dirty hair and hours stalking his Facebook photos included. Once she stepped outside of her comfort zone and loosened up (a wild night out with Jessa, moving out of her apartment with Hannah, pursuing the minister from Jessa's wedding), we finally saw her at her happiest in the last episode. Let's hope fun-loving Marnie continues onto next season, even her JLo-inspired look.?
4. Hookups Can Turn Into Relationships
No one thought Adam and Hannah would last. Not Marnie, or even you as you yelled at Hannah "stop hanging out with him!" through the TV screen. But, Adam surprised us. Turns out, he does care about Hannah. Sure, he's still a pervert, but he did come around and prove to us that he sees Hannah as much more than a booty call who he forgets to call. And by the last episode, we learned maybe he cares more than she does.
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5. Don't Let?Fear Get In The Way
Through the season we see Hannah "fail". She loses two internships, a roommate, and by the last episode, maybe even her boyfriend. But, the only thing that's really holding her back is her fear. By the last episode we hear her admit she's 'the most scared person alive'. ?Her worries prevent her from seeing that Adam actually cares about her.
What do you think will happen on season 2 of Girls?
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New way to study permafrost soil, above and below ground
Jan. 4, 2013 ? What does pulling a radar-equipped sled across the Arctic tundra have to do with improving our understanding of climate change? It's part of a new way to explore the little-known world of permafrost soils, which store almost as much carbon as the rest of the world's soils and about twice as much as is in the atmosphere.
The new approach combines several remote-sensing tools to study the Arctic landscape -- above and below ground -- in high resolution and over large spatial scales.It was developed by a group of researchers that includes scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
They use ground-penetrating radar, electrical resistance tomography, electromagnetic data, and LiDAR airborne measurements. Together, these tools allow the scientists to see the different layers of the terrestrial ecosystem, including the surface topography, the active layer that seasonally freezes and thaws, and the deeper permafrost layer.
The goal is to help scientists determine what will happen to permafrost-trapped carbon as the climate changes. Will it stay put? Or will it enter the atmosphere and accelerate climate change?
The scientists report their approach in a paper recently published online in the journal Hydrogeology. Their research is one of the first papers published in association with a new Department of Energy project called the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE-Arctic), which seeks to gain a predictive understanding of the Arctic terrestrial ecosystem's feedback to climate. The NGEE-Arctic project is a collaboration among scientists and engineers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Berkeley Lab, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
"By combining surface geophysical and airborne remote-sensing methods, we have a new window that allows us to study permafrost systems like never before," says Susan Hubbard, a geophysicist in Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences Division who leads the Lab's participation in the NGEE-Arctic collaboration.
The scientists tested their system on a plot of land near Barrow, Alaska, that measures about 500 meters long and 40 meters wide. Hubbard and her team conducted their first field campaign at the site last fall when the system was freezing up. They've since returned several times to conduct more research.
To characterize the land surface, they used data from a remote sensing device called LiDAR, which is short for Light Detection And Ranging. The device was mounted on a Cessna aircraft. It uses light to measure the microtopography, which controls water drainage in the Barrow region.
The scientists use data from airborne Lidar, surface geophysical measurements, and point measurements to explore the complex relationships between different layers of permafrost soil.
The scientists also used three tools to explore the hidden world below the surface. Ground-penetrating radar was pulled from one end of the plot to the other. They set up a string of electrodes at different locations to conduct electrical resistance tomography measurements. Electromagnetic data was collected along more than a dozen lines that spanned the length of the plot. The scientists also collected point measurements of temperature, moisture, and other properties at several locations to verify the data from the remote-sensing tools.
These geophysical measurements, coupled with the point measurements, allowed the scientists to see how the different layers of the permafrost system vary spatially, including the topography, the active layer, and the deeper permafrost. They could also see how these layers relate to each other.
These new vantages will enable the team to learn much more about how permafrost systems change over time -- and what this means for trapped carbon.
For example, permafrost is often covered by a patchwork of polygons that form over successive freeze-thaw cycles. Using their suite of tools, the scientists observed arelationship betweenthese surface polygons and the distribution of water on the surface. The LiDAR measurements revealed three types of polygon areas -- high-centered polygons, low-center polygons, and in-between -- each with unique moisture drainage characteristics (High-centered polygons shed water, while water often pools in low-centered polygons).
In addition, geophysical data and point measurement revealed a relationship between the different types of polygons and subsurface thermal, chemical, and hydrological properties. These properties control how microbes degrade soil carbon, which leads to the generation of greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide and methane.
More specifically, the ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistance tomography measurements provided high-resolution information about the thickness of the active layer and water content. These instruments also detected the presence of permafrost features such as ice wedges, which help form polygons.
The electromagnetic data provided information about several permafrost characteristics, including the discovery of a region that appears to be unfrozen, possibly due to the intrusion of saline water that lowers the freezing point.
"Overall, this combination of methods helps us understand the spatial and temporal interactions between surface microtopography, the active layer that controls soil respiration and generation of greenhouse gasses, and the deeper permafrost layer, which controls the formation of the polygonal features," says Hubbard. "This approach also allows us to sample over large spatial regions with minimal disturbance to the ecosystem -- two important criteria when it comes to studying the vast and delicate Arctic landscape."
NGEE-Arctic is supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research within the Department of Energy's Office of Science.
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- S. S. Hubbard, C. Gangodagamage, B. Dafflon, H. Wainwright, J. Peterson, A. Gusmeroli, C. Ulrich, Y. Wu, C. Wilson, J. Rowland, C. Tweedie, S. D. Wullschleger. Quantifying and relating land-surface and subsurface variability in permafrost environments using LiDAR and surface geophysical datasets. Hydrogeology Journal, 2012; DOI: 10.1007/s10040-012-0939-y
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Skin Cancer Forum - Skin Cancer Question
I have a mole under my arm on breast tissue it has been flacky and itchy it changes colour from dark brown to light brown, several times it has become so itchy that the skin flakes and peels, It has grown from a small flat pea size to a large flat pea size and it is raised on the skin, there is no know skin cancer or any other cancer in my family, could this be cancer?
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Friday, January 4, 2013
Apple Killed the Netbook
A netbook, the computing fad that made no sense
SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images.
Netbooks are dead. Good riddance! Just a few years ago, these small, underpowered, ultracheap laptops were considered the future of the computer industry. In 2008 and 2009, recession-strapped consumers around the world began snapping up netbooks in droves. They became the fastest-growing segment of the PC market, and some wild-eyed analysts were suggesting that netbook sales would soon eclipse those of desktops and regular laptops combined. That didn?t happen. Over the past couple years the netbook market crashed. Now, as Charles Arthur reports in the Guardian, most major PC manufacturers have stopped making these tiny machines. The last holdouts were the Taiwanese firms Acer and Asus. Both say they won?t build any netbooks in 2013.
What killed the netbook? Arthur?s smart piece offers three plausible suspects: First, PC makers began making better, cheaper laptops, which made for stronger competition against netbooks. Second, PC makers discovered that netbooks were a terrible business?after paying Microsoft a licensing fee for Windows, manufacturers weren?t making any money on very cheap computers. And finally, there was the rise of tablets; once machines like the iPad came along, people lost interest in $400 netbooks.
These are all plausible theories, but I think Arthur is a bit too reluctant to tie the whole story together and issue a blistering indictment against the netbook?s assassin. If you study the PC industry over the past five years, you find only one company that had the means, motive, and opportunity. Apple killed the netbook, more or less single-handedly, and we should all be grateful for it.
Netbooks were terrible machines, a technological blight that threatened to become the future of computing. They had awful, nearly unusable keyboards, very slow processors, and they ran versions of Windows or Linux that were a trudge to use on tiny screens. Yet despite their awfulness, they were embraced by the world?s largest tech firms?Intel, Microsoft, HP, Dell, and Lenovo were all gaga for them.
Apple alone stood against the tide of netbooks. Apple?s brilliant insight was that despite netbooks? popularity, nobody really wanted a netbook per se. Instead, Apple realized that people who were buying netbooks were looking for one of two things?they wanted full-fledged laptops that were very portable, or they wanted cheap machines that allowed them to easily surf the Web, use email and do other light computing tasks. Rather than building a single netbook that fit both these audiences poorly, Apple built two machines that were, each in its own way, much better than any netbook ever sold.
In 2008, Apple launched the expensive but very portable MacBook Air, and then in 2010, it put out the cheap but capable iPad. Neither was a direct substitute for the netbook. But consumers immediately recognized their utility?and quickly abandoned netbooks. The iPad and the Air became the blueprints for the rest of the industry, with every other PC manufacturer now making similarly thin laptops and touchscreen tablets. Thus, thanks to Apple?and Apple alone?we were all saved from the rise of terrible tiny machines.
It?s difficult, now, to appreciate how courageous Apple?s refusal to join the netbook parade once was. In 2008, its cheapest laptop sold for more than $1,000. This was crazy expensive in the midst of a global recession, and investors and analysts were hounding the company to lower its prices. Apple?s stock price sank to less than $100.
But Apple had two reasons for holding steady against netbooks. One was noble: Shrinking a laptop to the size of netbooks?which typically had 7- or 9-inch screens and very slow Intel Atom processors?made for an inherently inferior computing experience. At that size, pointing devices and keyboards became very annoying to use, and operating systems designed for systems with more power worked like molasses. In other words, netbooks sucked, and Apple didn?t want to make computers that sucked. As Steve Jobs told investors in 2008, ?We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk. Our DNA will not let us do that.?
The second reason Apple didn?t make a netbook was that it couldn?t make a netbook. The principal difference between Apple and most other tech manufacturers is that Apple prizes profits over market share. Sure, Apple, like all companies, wants to sell a lot of widgets?but given a choice between making $10 billion by capturing 10 percent of the market or $1 billion by capturing 90 percent of the market, Apple will always choose money over sales. (You?d think this was obvious; don?t all companies want to make money? Nope: Apple sells fewer PCs than most other companies, but makes much more money doing so than all of its rivals.)
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Studying abroad for higher studies has been the popular choice among most Asian students especially the once coming from Vietnam. Although Vietnam is one of the smaller countries within Asia however, the country has quadrupled its financial stature in recent times. This sudden surge within the financial infrastructure has mainly got to do with the general educational level of the country. Recent times have seen Vietnamese students travel off shore in pursuit of higher studies.
It?s not just general education, you also have students taking up language course or joining international English school in pursuit of their study aspirations.
Contemporary educational levels have gone through a drastic change in modern times. Today, everything and anything unique is what premier institutions want. Learning how to speak multiple languages and know diverse cultures, can leap forward your career to an entirely different horizon. The latest language teaching international institutes in various countries are pretty open towards most modern languages of the world. It?s not just the languages; you also learn how to present yourself distinctively within foreign cultures.
Among most Asian students, English course has been the popular choice for most. Other than English you also have Spanish and French course being reasonably popular. This is where European foreign schools can be of great help. With options for multiple semesters which come along with preferable dates, students can look to give their exams whenever they feel prepared. With most foreign institutions having beautiful quarters right within the educational premises, studying wouldn?t be too problematic at all. Besides, with faculty member and other staffs there to cater student requests all day long, there shouldn?t be any problem for students to acclimatize quickly to the new environment.
When traveling to a foreign country, students will invariably get the opportunity to do a lot of recreational activities. Beautiful locations such as Milan and Tuscany are great testimony to the fun students can expect when they arrive over foreign shores. Between all of this, you also have educational institutions arranging weekly and monthly excursion trips for students. Besides, most international language training institutes are predominantly known to have make shift training centers just to freshen up students minds.
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
NY comptroller sues Qualcomm on political spending
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? New York's comptroller has sued Qualcomm Inc. in an attempt to compel the wireless technology company to disclose its political spending to him and other shareholders.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Delaware seeks a court order to inspect company records, saying prior requests for the information have been rebuffed by the San Diego-based corporation. The suit cites studies that say corporate political spending tends to hurt investor returns.
"We think the fullest possible disclosure is what we're entitled to as shareholders," Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said. He is sole trustee of New York's pension fund for public workers, which has 6.1 million Qualcomm shares valued at almost $380 million.
According to the comptroller's office, the company spent more than $4.5 million on lobbying last year. That figure was based on data compiled by OpenSecrets.org, which showed Qualcomm spent more than $6 million on lobbying in both 2010 and 2011.
Qualcomm didn't initially respond Thursday to requests for comment.
DiNapoli said the lawsuit is a new tactic that holds promise for getting corporate transparency and accountability for shareholders. "It's just part of our continuing effort to have companies we invest in follow the best practices," he said.
The New York pension fund and other members of the Council of Institutional Investors sent letters to 430 companies in 2010 asking that they disclose political contributions made with corporate funds. In the past two years, the fund filed 27 shareholder resolutions asking for disclosures, reaching agreement with 10 companies, comptroller spokesman Eric Sumberg said.
The lawsuit says corporate political activity has risen sharply since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010 removed restrictions on it. The suit also cites recent studies, including one from Strategic Management Journal in 2012 that indicates that spending in general "is negatively correlated with enterprise value." The abstract of that study said researchers looked at 943 companies from 1998 to 2008.
"We find that firms' political investments are negatively associated with market performance and cumulative political investments worsen both market and accounting performance," the abstract said
Firms that put former public officials on their boards also performed worse. Corporate political activity had a positive effect on market performance in regulated industries, it said.
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