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The first Google branded tablet to hit the market is the Nexus 7. Find out all the important details right here.
The latest batch of announcements from Google has stirred up plenty of excitement. Google I/O 2012 was quite an event. A raft of updates and new products has got the tech world talking. Top of the bill is the attractively priced Android tablet, the Nexus 7.
What is the Nexus 7?
It's basically a 7 inch Android tablet running the latest version of the platform, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). Designed as an accessible and affordable option for everyone, the Nexus 7 is aggressively priced at $200 for the 8GB version and $250 for the 16GB version.
Primarily the Nexus 7 is a portable entertainment device. You can use it to watch movies or TV shows, play video games, read books or magazines, and listen to music. Since it runs Android, you'll access that entertainment through Google Play. You can download and run apps/games as well, or use it as a second screen for web browsing, social media, messaging, and email. That list extends to video chatting thanks to a microphone and a front facing camera. Being a Google device, it comes loaded with Google apps like Gmail and Chrome, which are integrated and can be synced across your tablets, computers, and smartphones.
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Asus is the manufacturer behind Google's new tablet and has already announced that some Nexus 7 accessories are on the way. The tablet appears to be well built. It is 0.41 inches thick, 7.8 inches tall and 4.7 inches wide. The tough, Gorilla Glass display dominates the front and the thick bezel is designed to accommodate comfortable holding without your thumb obscuring the screen.
The back is covered by an easy-grip, black rubber panel with a stippled pattern which was apparently designed to mimic "Steve McQueen style" driving gloves, according to Android design chief Matias Duarte's chat with The Verge. That may be a bit of a stretch, but weighing in at just under 12 ounces, it shouldn't be a burden to hold for extended periods.
Let's get technical
The display measures 7 inches with a resolution of 1280×800 pixels (216 pixels per inch). It is an LED-backlit IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen. It has good viewing angles and is readable in various lighting conditions, indoors and out.
The processor is a 1.3 GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 and the Nexus 7 has 1GB of RAM. There is 8GB or 16GB of internal storage, but unfortunately no microSD slot, making adding memory difficult. The front facing camera is 1.2-megapixels, but you won't find a rear camera on the Nexus 7.
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The battery is rated at 4325mAh and people are reporting between 6 and 10 hours of battery life, depending on usage.
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Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) is a general upgrade for Android, rather than a complete overhaul. The platform runs more smoothly, it is easier to customize your home screen, and the notifications system has been improved.
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The Nexus 7 might be the best small Android tablet in the world right now. We've even compared the Nexus 7 with the Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet and you'll see that it wins hands down. It is faster, it has a better display, and it boasts the very latest version of Android. If you want to take advantage of killer features like Google Now in the short term then the Nexus 7 is the only tablet that will allow you to do so.
Few have been bold enough to suggest that the Nexus 7 is an iPad competitor. The consensus seems to be that Google needs to release a Nexus 10 for that. However, if content consumption is the point of a tablet then there's no reason the Nexus 7 can't compete. It should certainly sew up the budget end of the tablet market – Apple may need to release a 7-inch iPad to compete on that front.
The main weakness right now is probably apps. The iPad has plenty of apps and games that are optimized for use on the device, offering a highly polished experience. The Nexus 7 might be capable of running all 600,000 Android apps and games on offer, but the majority of them have been designed with a smartphone in mind. Is this really a major problem? For some people maybe, but it's hardly a deal-breaker and we can expect more developers to target the Nexus 7 as it takes off.
To Buy or Not To Buy?
That is definitely the question. You can pre-order the Nexus 7 right now and it will start shipping this month (July). In order to sweeten the deal and tempt you further Google is offering $25 credit to spend in the Google Play store and some free content, including Transformers: Dark of the Moon, for early adopters.
Could this be the device to kick start Android's tablet presence? Could it be the first Google branded device to be a real hit? Yes it could, but only time will tell. What we can say with certainty is that you won't find a better tablet at this price on the market right now.


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When Janet and Al Domrase, owners of Alden's Kennels in Ringwood, shifted from dog breeding to other services, they talked with customers and studied their competition.
"With the economy in a downturn, we had to be different. We saw places doing day camps, and downtown there were spas. So we remodeled, and decided to do the 'ultimate vacation,'" Janet Domrase said.
This year, about a quarter of Domrase's boarding customers added the ultimate vacation option, up from just a few last year. For an additional $15 a day, on top of the standard boarding fee, the ultimate vacation package offers day trips to groomers, pet spas and resorts like Gypsy Glen K-9 Kastle Pet Resort or Camp Bow Wow. Domrase also creates a video on Facebook for customers to share.
"This industry is constantly changing," she said. "People are willing to spend the money, but you have to ask them what they want."
According to the American Pet Products Association, about 72.9 million American households, about 62 percent, own a pet. This is up from 56 percent of households in 1988. Forty-six percent of households own a dog and 38 percent have a cat, followed by fish, birds and small animals such as hamsters or rabbits. And all of those critters need creature comforts.
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"So many pets suffer in silence with bed tooth. They'll go on eating, but after the problem is taken care of, it's amazing what a difference it makes," he said.
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Sue Cashin, of Wonder Lake, owner of Fetch Pet Care of McHenry County, offers dog walking, private boarding, horse, exotic pet and small animal care and in-home overnight care. Cashin said nearly a quarter of her business is home visits.
"It's taking the dog for a walk or just getting the cat up and moving around," she said. "People love it because the sitter actually comes and spends the night in the house. It's great for older animals or those who don't do well in kennels, or if the customer wants someone to watch the house."
Cashin opened her business in July 2009, but it took a strong marketing campaign and making contacts with local pet care professionals to build name recognition. By the end of her second year, her sales doubled, before backing off a bit this year because of increased competition.
Paul Mann, president and CEO of Ohio-based Fetch Pet Care, said the pet service sector is divided between hobbyists and those who take a professional approach. The 10-year-old company has 143 locations nationwide, and all but six are franchisees. He is actively seeking more franchisees. For information, visit www.fetchpetcare.com.
"A lot of people who've been in middle management and don't see the job security, now want to make money doing something they're passionate about," Mann said, "and lots are passionate about pets."
The industry's next big challenge is to promote the advantages of pet ownership, Vetere said. The APPA is involved in two initiatives – "Pets in the Classroom," which teaches young children how to care for small animals, and "Human-Animal Bond Research," which funds university studies that examines the health impact of pet ownership.
"We know it helps seniors and those with disabilities," Vetere said. "But we're seeing a lot of benefits to autistic children, those with learning disabilities and obesity problems."
Mann said Fetch's customers fall into three categories: empty nesters who pamper their pets; professionals living away from family, who get a pet for companionship, but have no one to care for it while they work; and dual-income households where both travel and work long hours.
Domrase also is seeing added interest in training, as people adopt pets from shelters and rescue organizations. Customers also are eager to support animal welfare causes. This summer, Gypsy Glen will be offering $10 swims between July 31 and Aug.12, to benefit the Assisi Animal Foundation in Crystal Lake
"Before, the local industry was kind of helter-skelter," said Kathy Reiland, owner of Gypsy Glen K-9 Kastle near McHenry. But now, customers shop around. They want those little extras like the free bath we offer, after the dog has boarded for seven days," she said.
In business for 24 years, Gypsy Glen offers boarding, pet-sitting, grooming, acupuncture, behavior consultations and even a canine swim club in Reiland's 23-acre lake. The general public also is invited to bring their pets to the lake.
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In the past five years, New England's growing seal population has been blamed for luring great white sharks to Cape Cod beaches. Fishermen complain they have to compete against the marine mammals' insatiable appetite for a dwindling number of fish. The relationship between seals and humans has grown so tense that five adult seals were shot in the head last year.
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A new group of some of the region's major marine institutions and researchers will use science to better understand the role of seals in nature and how they affect the public.
For starters, the Northwest Atlantic Seal Research Consortium just released a report dispelling fears that defecating seals will foul beaches. The study found that, to the contrary, water quality at beaches frequented by seals is often cleaner.
"We know seals play a role in the system, but it is not well defined,'' said Andrea Bogomolni, a research associate at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which is hosting the consortium. "What do they eat, where do they go, how much does fishing take away from what they eat. We don't know a lot."
Seals, as any visitor to Cape Cod probably knows, are making a comeback after being hunted so much that they all but disappeared from the region's waters. The harbor seal population grew first, but they have now been joined by a far larger species, the 300- to 600-pound gray seal.
Scientists do not know how many gray seals reside in Massachusetts waters, but they know numbers are increasing. For example, in the early 1980s, only a handful of gray seal pups were seen on Muskeget Island off the western tip of Nantucket, the seals' primary breeding ground in the region. These days, thousands have been spotted there, and they are using outer islands in Maine far more than in the past, said Gordon Waring, a fishery biologist and seal specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northeast Fisheries Science Center, another consortium member.
A visit to Chatham Harbor or Monomoy Island, two of their favorite places to frequent and haul out of the ocean to rest, illustrates the trend.
"It looks like seals are painted on the beach,'' said Waring. Tours have popped so visitors can watch seals frolic.
Seals did not always delight. Seals were once considered such marine pests that hunters in Maine and Massachusetts could get $5 if they produced a seal nose and animal skin. Researchers estimate as many as 135,000 seals were killed in a roughly 75-year period through the early 1960s, according to a 2009 paper in the journal Northeastern Naturalist.
By 1972, the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act made it a crime to injure or harass seals and other marine mammals in US waters. The law has been so successful that growing marine mammal populations, such as sea lions in Washington and Oregon, have sparked widespread anger because they eat too many salmon, an endangered species. In California, some residents have waged a two-decade fight to evict seals from a popular swimming area.
The battles have never been as fierce in New England, but complaints have increased as beaches are closed when great white sharks, who hunt seals, are spotted. And fishermen have complained that the seals steal their catches.
Five adult gray seals were found shot to death on Cape Cod in 2011. No one has been charged in the deaths.
So far, the consortium has been meeting with fishermen, government officials, and others to understand some of the conflicts and what they need to learn about seals.
'We know seals play a role in the system, but it is not well defined.'
Despite seals being a common sight off the coast, there is very little money to research them.
"Funding has been tight, and it usually comes when there is a problem with a population: The numbers are decreasing,'' said Bogomolni. "We sort of have the opposite problem here."
Scientists involved in the consortium have already launched a program in which researchers and the public can take pictures of seals that are tagged or branded and track their movements and health. The group also hopes to apply for funding and to collaborate in researching seal population, diet, movement, predation, disease, and other issues.
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Otepää [2] is a small town set in the hills of south Estonia. It's located approximately 50km north from Tartu.
It is the most well-known winter sports centre in the Baltics and the Winter Capital of Estonia.
Otepää got its name, which in Estonian means "bear's head" after the shape of the castle hill - which reminds of a bear's head. It's also where in 1224, Bishop Hermann started building the first known brick castle in Estonia, The Stone Fort.
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If you don't like crowds and sports then it's always possible to go on hiking trips through the surrounding the picturesque landscapes, and you could try an Estonian hot smoke sauna and bathing in an icy lake afterwards.
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Stir Fried Butter Mushroom Salad ~ Side Dish
Ingredients :
1 green bell pepper, diced
2 tomatoes, cubed
2 tbsp butter
salt to taste
some chopped garlic (optional)
a dash of crashed black pepper
*thickening : 1 tspn tapioca starch + 2 tbsp water
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(1) preheat frying pan and melt butter.
(2) stir in mushroom and bell pepper, saute till cooked (about a couple of minutes). At the mean time, the mushroom will produce some juices.
(3) add in thickening and off the heat, stir till thickened.
(4) finally, mix together tomatoes & mushroom and serve with main course or anything as desired.
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STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) today announced that Christopher Winfrey, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will participate in the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in San Francisco, California, on Tuesday, February 26, 2012. Mr. Winfrey's remarks are scheduled to begin at 8:45 a.m. PST.
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Joseph Ratzinger never hid the fact he thought the Roman Catholic papacy was too big for one man.
For several days after being elected in 2005, Pope Benedict - as he chose to be called - spoke as if in shock. At his first public Mass, he asked: "I must assume this enormous task, which truly exceeds all human capacity. How can I do this?"
At a meeting with fellow Germans the following day, Benedict surprised his well-wishers by likening the experience of being elected in the Sistine Chapel to getting dizzy as he watched a guillotine blade fall upon him.
Now he has broken six centuries of tradition and resigned, the Catholic Church is asking whether in an era of democracy, 24/7 television and Twitter, the papacy modeled on Renaissance-era monarchy is suffering the same fate. There have been sexual abuse scandals, disputes with Muslims and Jews, suspected money-laundering at the Vatican Bank and communications gaffes. Stacks of private files stolen by Benedict's own butler have documented corruption and in-fighting among senior officials.
Benedict hands on a 2,000-year-old institution whose reputation is tarnished, whose teaching is challenged by an increasingly secular world and whose priests struggle to minister to its growing population. The man who leads the world's largest church must be a spiritual guide for millions, an inspiration for the oppressed and the manager of a squabbling, dysfunctional Vatican bureaucracy.
"No sane man seeks the burden of the papacy," says George Weigel, a prominent Catholic theologian in Washington D.C. "It is by definition impossible, because it asks a man to take up a burden of leadership that no human being can possibly attract by his own powers."
The challenge for the cardinals due to enter the conclave next week is to seize the chance to face up to the problems and identify reforms that help the next pope address them. The job of leading the estimated 1.2 billion Catholics around the world must be done by one man.
Thomas Reese, a Jesuit scholar and author of "Inside the Vatican", puts it simply: "What they are looking for is Jesus Christ with an MBA."
To get to the root of the Church's problems, some look back before Benedict's papacy to 1978, when, after a turbulent period, Pope John Paul mounted the throne of St. Peter to reassert orthodox Catholic doctrine and Vatican authority.
The then-Cardinal Ratzinger was doctrinal watchdog for a vigorous papacy which stifled discussion on questions such as the role of women in the Church or issues concerning human sexuality.
That problem will be highlighted by one man's absence from the conclave. Last week, Scotland's Cardinal Keith O'Brien joined the ranks of clergy exposed for sexual abuse over past decades when he stepped down as archbishop of Edinburgh. Younger priests had complained he had behaved inappropriately with them in the 1980s. He has since apologized for sexual conduct "below the standards expected of me".
Benedict dealt with sexual abuse cases in the final years of John Paul's papacy, and when he became Pope, he started out boldly. He ordered Rev Marcial Maciel, founder of the strict Legionaries of Christ order and a favorite of his predecessor, to retire to a monastery in penance for his secret life as father of several children, sexual abuser of seminarians and drug user.
He apologized for the scandals and made private meetings with abuse victims a regular part of his visits abroad.
But the dirt kept surfacing. Four official reports into clerical child abuse in Ireland in as many years exposed details of priestly sin, and how the hierarchy covered it up. One clearly said the Vatican was complicit, leading to a once-unthinkable rebuke by Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Dublin's embassy to the Holy See was closed in late 2011 and relations remain strained.
Between December 2009 and April 2010, three Irish bishops resigned and apologized for mishandling abuse cases in their dioceses. Also in 2010, a German bishop quit and apologized for physically abusing children. A Belgian bishop stepped down after admitting having molested his own under-age nephews. A Chilean bishop accused of abusing an altar boy quit in 2012, saying he had committed "an imprudent act" but the boy was not underage.
Such "zero tolerance" did not always apply to bishops who protected the predators in their dioceses. Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles stayed in office for years despite accusations - later proven true - that he shielded molesting clerics from the police. He has admitted to making "mistakes" and said he had been naïve about the impact of abuse. Bishop Robert Finn still leads the Kansas City diocese after being convicted of failing to alert authorities to a trove of child pornography found on a priest's computer. He apologized "for the hurt that these events have caused".
In these and other cases, the pattern was that the Church acted only under pressure, and resisted calls to punish bishops who had mismanaged them. Catholics who see politicians shamed over sex scandals and executives fired for mismanagement asked why Church decision-makers should not be held responsible.
"We long for the day when Church officials announce that this cardinal or this bishop is being demoted because ... Church officials want to clean things up," said David Clohessy, head of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
No centralized figures exist to gauge the impact of this abuse on Church revenues but in the United States, a study in 2006 by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University (CARA) in Washington showed Catholics became less generous towards their dioceses after 2002, the year the scandals broke.
In a sign they mistrusted their bishops, Catholics continued contributing overall, but gave more to their parishes or charities independent of their dioceses, said Mary Gautier, senior research associate.
From 2005-2011, the Church has incurred more than $2.3 billion in costs related to settlements for abuse, CARA has said.
In Germany, some 180,000 people left the Catholic Church in 2010, a 40 percent jump over the previous year, after sexual abuse allegations exploded there that year. The rate fell back to 127,000 - around the normal level of those leaving for financial or other reasons - the following year.
The abuse is not the only reason Catholics have turned their backs on the Church. A more general retreat from organized religion perplexes leaders who grew up in societies where the Church had deep influence.
The drift is most marked in Europe, Catholicism's traditional heartland. Eight years after Cardinal Ratzinger chose the papal name Benedict in honor of Europe's patron saint, vocations, baptisms and marriages in churches are still declining.
The trend has political consequences. Governments and courts have ignored Church objections and legalized same-sex unions or marriage, and insisted that Catholic adoption agencies help gay couples find a child.
Even in heavily Catholic Poland, politicians are proposing a clearer separation between church and state. The mayor of the southern city of Czestochowa, whose monastery and golden-haloed Black Madonna painting attract millions of pilgrims yearly, wants to offer couples the option of in vitro fertility treatment, firmly opposed by the Church.
Bishops in Europe and North America have begun defending Church teachings more forcefully against such political pressures. In the Philippines, the only country in Asia with a Catholic majority, secularist trends have reached the point where Manila passed a family planning law despite stiff Church opposition.
In the Chicago suburb of Evanston, lawyer Lynne Mapes-Riordan is already preparing for change, studying for a leadership role which the Church does not now allow. "I hope they will open this to women someday," says the 50-year-old mother of two. "I don't have any particular insight as to when that might be."
This stained-glass ceiling for women is increasingly out of step in a world where they do every job from soldier to CEO, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the most powerful politician in Europe and even some Muslim countries have had female prime ministers.
Many say the Church cannot operate without women because they pass on the faith as mothers and religious educators. Yet in the traditionalist atmosphere Benedict fostered, small advances like girl altar servers at Mass are being rolled back. Even women who do not advocate female ordination - something the Vatican completely rules out - question what place the Church has for them and their daughters.
Surveys in the United States show Catholic women under 30 are now less religious than men their age: some 45 percent attend Mass once a year or less, compared with 39 percent of men.
When asked in an Indiana University study if they had complete confidence in religious organizations, 16 percent of the men said yes. None of the women did.
Sister Patricia Wittberg, a sociologist who did the study using data from 2002-8, said this was the first generation of American Catholic women who were less religious than men. "That, in my opinion, is extremely ominous," she said. "Who's going to baptize the kids?"
The new pope will also be under pressure to bring the Church leadership to terms with a massive shift in its centre of gravity.
Around 68 percent of the world Catholic population is now in Latin America, Africa and Asia, but that is not reflected at the Vatican. Europe will still have 61 cardinals among the 115 electors in the conclave while the developing world will have only 39 - about 34 percent of the total.
These "Global South" Catholics are far from a bloc. Each area has its own focus and juggling different regional priorities requires the skill of a seasoned diplomat.
Sub-Saharan Africa was the faith's fastest growing region by far over the past century, soaring to 16 percent of the world Catholic population in 2010 from only one percent in 1910. And African Catholics are much more conservative than "inclusive" Catholics in the north.
"Africa stands strongly by Catholic beliefs," said Rev Isaac Achi, whose church near the Nigerian capital Abuja lost 44 parishioners when a Boko Haram Islamist extremist drove a car packed with explosives into it on Christmas Day 2011. "We fight against abortion, we fight against homosexuals, lesbians and contraception."
Thousands of miles to the east, in Luwero, Uganda, mechanic Kizito Emmanuel, 38, agrees. "We don't want any change," he said. "Family planning doesn't need these pills. I don't support priests getting married. As an ordinary Catholic, the biggest challenge I face is a problem of capital."
Poverty haunts many Latin American congregations, too, but the Church's main challenges there are the deep inroads made by evangelical and Pentecostal churches into what was once a Catholic bastion. These Protestant churches offer livelier services, practical help for the poor and an upbeat message more attuned to the continent's growing economies than the sacrifice that Catholics are taught to endure.
The numbers quitting the Catholic Church have been dramatic. In Brazil, the largest Catholic country in the world, just over 65 percent of the population is Catholic now, a steep drop from the 92 percent recorded in 1970.
Miriam Vargas Nunes, 35, a mother of two from Niteroi near Rio de Janeiro, left the Church a decade ago after visiting a Baptist church with friends. "I felt more welcome than I ever did in a Catholic Mass," she said. In Argentina, Claudia Valenzuela, 26, joined an evangelical Bible study group two months ago after losing her job and finding nobody at her Catholic Church to console her.
Much of this change has come with the migration of rural workers to big cities and the drift shows up among U.S. Latino communities as well. A Gallup poll last year tracked Catholics at 54 percent and falling, and Protestants at 28 percent. Latinos with no religion rose to 15 percent from 11 percent in 2008.
There is also an increasingly urgent shortage of priests, particularly in Western countries; so many are near or beyond retirement age that the Church faces a 'clerical cliff' there. Catholicism is centered on sacraments, especially the eucharist at Mass, that only ordained men can administer. Without priests, local churches or parishes cannot operate.
The ranks of the clergy in Europe and North America began to thin out in the late 1960s as discontented priests left and fewer men entered the priesthood. Those who stayed are dying off and new vocations are not sufficient to replace them. In the United States, for example, there were 58,632 priests in 1965 and only 38,964 last year.
Ireland, once a major exporter of priests, saw only six ordinations while 55 priests died in 2010. Poland was the only European country with positive figures, showing 516 ordinations to 285 deaths. But even there, the deaths are accelerating while the ordinations slow down. Even in Africa, a boom in new priests is not keeping up with growth in the Catholic population.
This means a growing workload. Priests often have to serve more than one parish to make up for missing colleagues. Parishes are being regrouped into larger units to share staff. In Latin America, where there is only one priest for more than 7,000 Catholics compared with one for every 1,500 in Europe, the shortage is cited as one reason so many have found evangelical movements more welcoming.
Inside the Vatican, the new pope will have to face up to the Curia, a centuries-old bureaucracy dominated by Italian clerics, which can make or break a papacy because it can block or delay papal projects.
Most cardinals outlining their priorities for the future put "governance" or "reform of the Curia" high on their list, saying other reforms can flow from that.
The "Vatileaks" scandal last year showed corruption and in-fighting at high levels, and the Curia is not known for efficiency in its ranks. At the Vatican, which spawned the modern term "nepotism" because Renaissance popes gave jobs to their unqualified nephews ("nipote" in Italian), hiring is not always on merit.
The Curia's influence within the Church is surprising, because it has only about 2,000 staff, and they usually leave work in the early afternoon. There are no cabinet meetings, and internal coordination between the departments - allocated such tasks as upholding Catholic doctrine, naming new saints, or promoting Christian unity - is patchy. A serene atmosphere of old-world courtesy prevails.
Weigel, the U.S. theologian, has named a series of reforms a determined pope could make, including introducing a 40-hour work week, turning the staff from an Italian fiefdom to a truly international team, and creating an executive staff for the pontiff. But no structural reform will work, he said, if the staff just have a manager's mentality rather than seeing themselves as missionaries working for the pope.
"The Curia is still deeply influenced by Italianate work habits and that's problematic," he said. "If you look at the rest of this society, it doesn't happen to be functioning very well."


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Murray Archive Poised to Move to Scottish National Library
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The John Murray Archive--a collection built by the famous publishing house that includes, among other important papers, Byron's correspondence--may soon move from London to the National Library of Scotland (at a cost of something close to £33 million). As readers of this blog will know, Byron's literary executor inherited the poet's papers and his daughter bequeathed them to the Murrays. (See the story this week in Scotsman.com.) The British Library has expressed support for the move. The Scottish Library has plans to stage for special exhibitions devoted to the works of Lord Byron, Jane Austen, and others. (See as well this article at the BBC 4 site.)
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Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance with Peggy Cappy Discover how yoga can aid anyone, of any age, who wants to increase strength and mobility. Peggy Cappy shows how yoga poses can increase range of motion, improve awareness of the body, help prevent bone loss and keep metabolism running efficiently. D
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Suze Orman's Financial Solutions for You We all have financial issues and problems. Suze Orman's latest special sharply focuses on her helping individual viewers "find financial solutions for you." As always, Suze's advice is based not just on numbers, but on a critical understanding of ourselves and our emotional needs. D
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Dr. Wayne Dyer: I Can See Clearly Now Dr. Wayne Dyer presents personal stories as well as various philosophical and poetic illustrations to explain that each of our lives is a tapestry composed of all of the choices we've made and will make. There are no wrong roads taken once we understand the forces propelling us towards our life's purpose. D
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Earth Songs Inspired by decades of National Geographic specials, the BBC Planet Earth series, and the beauty of our terrestrial home, EARTH SONGS gently guides the viewer through a journey of ageless wisdom, inspiring poetry and stunning footage of Mother Earth. For more than two years, filmmaker Brian Luke Seaward traveled to many of the world's most pristine locations -- Patagonia (Chile), the Caribbean, Iceland, the Canadian Rockies, Hawaii, Greenland, Alaska, Peru and New Zealand - capturing the Earth's beauty in ways that are rarely seen. Set to a musical score performed by Grammy-nominated artists - including Michael Hoppe, Brian Keane, Secret Garden, Keola Beamer, Zach Bergen, Min TZe Wu and Nigel Holton - the program celebrates the planet's scenic beauty and precious wildlife. D
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Rick Steves' Italy: Cities of Dreams Travel guru Rick Steves tours the ancient glories and back-street riches of three Italian cities - Rome, Venice and Florence. Starting in Florence, he beholds art by Fra Angelico, Botticelli and Michelangelo before savoring Florentine-style steak. In Rome, he ventures into the rustic neighborhoods of Trastevere and the Ghetto, before setting off for Venice.G
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Daniel O'Donnell Stand Beside Me This rousing concert celebration of Irish, country, gospel, rock, movie tunes and longtime fan favorites includes performances of "Que Sera, Sera," "That's Amore," "Our Anniversary," "Silver Wings," "Blaze of Glory" and many more. Joining Daniel on stage is his six-piece band, backup vocalists, and singing partner of 26 years, Mary Duff.G
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Joe Bonamassa: Tour De Force - Live In London This special is drawn from four different concerts on four different nights in four different venues. Together they chronicle the guitarist's rise from the intimate club environment of the 200-seat capacity Borderline to the Royal Albert Hall. Each evening is marked by a unique theme with different set lists, arrangements and ensembles. The journey begins in The Borderline with a three-piece band.G
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Bee Gees One Night Only This 1997 concert at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, is one of the very few Bee Gees performances filmed. The music special showcases many of the group's disco and pop hits. The Gibb brothers, who comprised the Bee Gees, sang three-part harmony and wrote their own hit songs. Two of the three siblings have died - Maurice in 2004 and Robin in 2012. Barry continues to perform as a solo act.G
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Doctor Who Series "The Curse of the Black Spot" The TARDIS is marooned onboard a 17th-century pirate ship whose crew members are being lured to their death by a beautiful siren. When the captain's son is taken, the implacable pirate must place his life in the Doctor's hands and with him, take an extraordinary leap of faith.G


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Jim Becker wrote:I think you need to tear that dangerous wall back out and hang a tarp. Don't forget that to get the proper structural support from a tarp it needs to be attached to the south wall so it can hang to the north.
The wall has been taken out and I have decided on a blue tarp (to represent the north) and gray duct tape (to represent the south).


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- Study of exclusive one-pion and one-eta production using hadron and dielectron channels in pp reactions at kinetic beam energies of 1.25 GeV and 2.2 GeV with HADES (2012)
- We present measurements of exclusive ensuremathπ+,0 and η production in pp reactions at 1.25GeV and 2.2GeV beam kinetic energy in hadron and dielectron channels. In the case of π+ and π0 , high-statistics invariant-mass and angular distributions are obtained within the HADES acceptance as well as acceptance-corrected distributions, which are compared to a resonance model. The sensitivity of the data to the yield and production angular distribution of Δ (1232) and higher-lying baryon resonances is shown, and an improved parameterization is proposed. The extracted cross-sections are of special interest in the case of pp → pp η , since controversial data exist at 2.0GeV; we find \ensuremathσ=0.142±0.022 mb. Using the dielectron channels, the π0 and η Dalitz decay signals are reconstructed with yields fully consistent with the hadronic channels. The electron invariant masses and acceptance-corrected helicity angle distributions are found in good agreement with model predictions.
- A versatile method for simulating pp -> ppe+e- and dp -> pne+e-p_spec reactions (2010)
- We have developed a versatile software package for the simulation of di-electron production in pp and dp collisions at moderate beam kinetic energies (1-2GeV). Particular attention has been paid to incorporate different descriptions of the Dalitz decay Δ rightarrow Ne + e - via a common interface. In addition, suitable parameterizations for the virtual bremsstrahlung process NN rightarrow NNe + e - based on one-boson exchange models have been implemented. Such simulation tools with high flexibility of the framework are important for the interpretation of the di-electron data taken with the HADES spectrometer and demonstrates the wide applicability within the field of nuclear and hadronic physics.
- Measurement of the quasi free np → npπ+π− and np → ppπ−π0 reactions at 1.25 GeV with HADES (2014)
- We present the results of two-pion production in tagged quasi-free np collisions at a deutron incident beam energy of 1.25 GeV/c measured with the High-Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES) installed at GSI. The specific acceptance of HADES allowed for the first time to obtain high-precision data on π+π− and π−π0 production in np collisions in a region corresponding to large transverse momenta of the secondary particles. The obtained differential cross section data provide strong constraints on the production mechanisms and on the various baryon resonance contributions (∆∆, N(1440), N(1520), ∆(1600)). The invariant mass and angular distributions from the np → npπ+π −and np → ppπ−π0 reactions are compared with different theoretical model predictions.
- Pluto: a Monte Carlo simulation tool for hadronic physics (2007)
- Pluto is a Monte-Carlo event generator designed for hadronic interactions from Pion production threshold to intermediate energies of a few GeV per nucleon, as well as for studies of heavy ion reactions. The package is entirely based on ROOT, without the need of additional packages, and uses the embedded C++ interpreter of ROOT to control the event production. The generation of events based on a single reaction chain and the storage of the resulting particle objects can be done with a few lines of a ROOT-macro. However, the complete control of the package can be taken over by the steering macro and user-defined models may be added without a recompilation of the framework. Multi-reaction cocktails can be facilitated as well using either mass-dependent or user-defined static branching ratios. The included physics uses resonance production with mass-dependent Breit-Wigner sampling. The calculation of partial and total widths for resonances producing unstable particles is performed recursively in a coupled-channel approach. Here, particular attention is paid to the electromagnetic decays, motivated by the physics program of HADES. The thermal model supports 2-component thermal distributions, longitudinal broadening, radial blast, direct and elliptic flow, and impact-parameter sampled multiplicities. The interface allows angular distribution models (e.g. for the primary meson emission) to be attached by the user as well as descriptions of multi-particle correlations using decay chain templates. The exchange of mass sampling or momentum generation models is also possible. The first feature allows for consistent coupled-channel calculations, needed for a correct description of hadronic interactions. For elementary reactions, angular distribution models for selected channels are already part of the framework, based on parameterizations of existing data. This report gives an overview of the design of the package, the included models and the user interface.


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In certain cases, surgery may be necessary to relieve pain. New procedures using miniature surgical equipment, video cameras and other technology have been developed in recent years. Most surgeries are faster, less invasive and more effective than ever before. Surgery is a treatment of last resort, but it has a place in the treatment of pain. In general, it is considered only after all other possible conservative treatments have failed. Dr. Richard Kube will carefully explain the risks and benefits you agree to any surgery. You and your family members and you should understand what the surgery can and cannot accomplish; what the probability of short and long-term success is; and what side effects or complications may be experienced as a result. Prairie SurgiCare is a surgical suite that is customized to perform spine and pain procedures, including minimally invasive procedures & motion preservation techniques. This is part of the plan to continue to be on the cutting edge of healthcare offerings within the industry, to continue to create unique patient offerings to provide the best possible clinical outcomes for the patients.


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- A Minute to Learn it - Student Loan Repayment
- When do I begin repayment on my Federal Direct Student loan?
- Loan Prepayment During School
- Loan Prepayment During Repayment
- What happens to my Federal Direct loan if I do not attend school at least half-time?
- What are my repayment options?
- What is an Income-Based Repayment Plan?
- What is the repayment period under an Income-Based Repayment Plan?
- What percentage of my post-college income should I plan to pay toward my loans?
- Do you have any suggestions for what I should be doing now to prepare myself for repaying my loans?
- When should I consolidate my federal loans?
- What are my Stafford or Federal Direct Subsidized and/or Unsubsidized Loan cancellation options?
- What is Loan Forgiveness?
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- A Minute to Learn It - Trouble with Repayment
- What happens if I default on a loan?
- If I default on a student loan, how can I fix it?
- Are my parents responsible for paying back my student loans?
- Can I get federal financial aid if I am in default on a student loan?
- Accessing Your Loan Borrower Information
- What happens to my loans if I change schools or move?
- What are the conditions under which I may apply for a deferment or forbearance?
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- What is the Standard Repayment Plan?
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- What is Identity Theft?
- How can identity theft occur?
- What do thieves do with a stolen identity?
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- What is a credit card?
- What should I be careful about when using a credit card?
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- I have a lot of credit card debt. How can I reduce it?
- What if I go over my credit limit?
- How can I manage my money so I can take control of my finances?
- How do I decide which bank I should use?
- How does a checking account work?
- Virtual Money Management
- How do check cashing services work?
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Douglas S. Cain sees Eagle Pass as the "Gateway" to the Eagle Ford Shale
By: Ricardo E. Calderon
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Texas transportation and oilfield equipment entrepreneur Douglas S. Cain, President of Lake Truck Lines, Inc. and Lake Oilfield Services, Inc., envisions Eagle Pass, Texas as "the Gateway to the Eagle Ford Shale and the Permian Basin Shale" because of its strategic geographic location within the Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas play and its United States-Mexico border location and proximity to strategic barite mines in northern Coahuila, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, and Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Cain is such a strong believer of this vision that he already invested his money in what his mind tells him by opening a transportation and oilfield equipment transloading warehouse in Eagle Pass.
Founded in 1949 in Houston, Texas by Joe P. Cain, Lake Truck Lines, Inc. is a leader in the oil and gas transportation industry and recently relocated its corporate headquarters from Houston to San Antonio, Texas to better serve its oil and gas drilling customers and take advantage of the booming Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas field in South Texas.
Douglas S. Cain learned about Eagle Pass after meeting State Representative Alfonso "Poncho" Nevarez, District 74-Democrat, in February 2013 at the 83rd Texas Legislature and Nevarez encouraged Cain to look into Eagle Pass as its U.S.-Mexico business center. Cain and Nevarez struck up a friendship and mutual respect and admiration for each other and the rest is history.
Lake Truck Lines, Inc. transports cement and drilling fluids to oil and gas drilling sites to the Eagle Ford Shale and the Permian Basin Shale in West Texas. In addition to Lake Truck Lines, Cain has opened a second business named Lake Oilfield Services, Inc. to provide oilfield equipment to oil and gas drilling companies in the United States.
Cain learned that many oilfield equipment is difficult to manufacture and his experience led him to a manufacturer in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico who custom manufactures his transportation and oilfield equipment. Lake Oilfield Equipment, Inc. entered into an agreement with the Torreon, Coahuila company to custom design and manufacture Lake Truck Lines transportation equipment as well oilfield equipment for its oil and gas drilling clients.
Lake Truck Lines, Inc. transports cement and drilling fluids to the oil and gas drilling sites including a critical component known as barite which is utilized in the horizontal drilling or fracking drilling process which is mined in Mexico and China. Cain found barite mines in northern Coahuila, Mexico near Musquiz, Coahuila, Monclova, Coahuila, Monterrey, Nuevo León, and Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico to supply him for his oil and gas drilling clients.
Cain opened a Lake Truck Lines, Inc. transloading and transportation warehouse in Eagle Pass with Mexican Customs Broker Fernando Barrera Berlanga after meeting with Representative Nevarez and visiting Eagle Pass. Currently, Lake Truck Lines, Inc. is operating 5 to 12 pressurized tractor-trailer tanks out of Eagle Pass and hopes to open Lake Oilfield Services, Inc. by the end of the year, providing valuable employment to Eagle Passans.
Cain stated that his research and experience lead him to believe that "Eagle Pass is going to explode and grow in the oil and gas industry because of its strategic geographic location within the Eagle Ford Shale and the U.S.-Mexico border." "The Eagle Ford Shale will become the biggest oilfield in Texas surpassing the Permian Basin Shale," said Cain. "The Eagle Ford Shale has 227 oil and gas drilling rigs operating while the Permian Basin has 394 rigs. Texas has a total of 832 oil and gas rigs operating currently, comprising 47 percent of the total oil and gas rigs in the United States," said Cain. As the price of natural gas increases in the future, the Eagle Ford Shale will open more drilling rigs surpassing the Permian Basin Shale.
Cain also cited that the Eagle Ford Shale does not recognize the U.S.-Mexico border imaginary line as it extends into northern Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas, Mexico. As Mexico begins to explore and drill the Eagle Ford Shale, there is going to be increased demand for his two companies' services and Eagle Pass is the perfect site for his companies' operations. Furthermore, as Mexico slowly begins to open its oil and gas drilling to foreign-owned investment and operators, the U.S.-Mexico border will begin to play a more important role in the future of the energy industry.
Cain has invested his companies' money in the future of Eagle Pass as the gateway to the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin Shale opening its warehouse locally. Lake Truck Lines, Inc. and Lake Oilfield Services, Inc. have a working relationship with Tri-Mex Services of the state of Coahuila to supply barite to American oil and gas drilling operators through his companies. Cain envisions Eagle Pass playing an important role for his companies as well as overall in the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin Shale oil and gas drilling due to its strategic geographic location and proximity to the barite mines in northern Coahuila, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, and Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Cain stated that "there are tremendous opportunities for those companies who want to take aggressive risks in the oil and gas industry." Eagle Pass has a bright future in the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin Shale oil and gas play.


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Diseases from unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Children are especially vulnerable, as their bodies aren't strong enough to fight diarrhea, dysentery and other illnesses.
90% of the 30,000 deaths that occur every week from unsafe water and unhygienic living conditions are in children under five years old. The WHO reports that over 3.6% of the global disease burden can be prevented simply by improving water supply, sanitation, and hygiene.
In Africa alone, people spend 40 billion hours every year walking for water. Women and children usually bear the burden of water collection, walking miles to the nearest source, which is unprotected and likely contaminated.
Time spent walking and resulting diseases keep them from school, work and taking care of their families. Along their long walk, they're subjected to a greater risk of harassment and sexual assault. With safe water nearby, women are free to pursue new opportunities and improve their families' lives.
Feeding our world takes up to 90% of our freshwater withdrawals. When a water project is built in a community, members can often use the new water source to grow small gardens near their homes and secure their own food supply. Self-sufficient households are less affected by conflict, famine or inadequate government services.
In most rural communities worldwide, women and young girls are responsible for walking to collect water for their families. Building a water project nearby can give women the freedom to pursue an education or earn extra income. Water Committees are often the first chance for women to step into elected leadership roles.
At the end of 2012, we hit a milestone - we reached three million people served. But by 2050, the world's population is estimated to grow by three billion and 90% will be in the developing world. Unless sustainable water solutions are scaled fast, regions already stressed for water sources will be over capacity.
The walk for water that used to take everyone here three hours, now takes 15 minutes. And the water is safe to drink.
A hygiene worker teaches your village the importance of sanitation. Your community builds latrines and sets up handwashing stations.
You join the Water Committee to oversee your village's new water source. As a woman, this is your first local leadership position.
You use the extra time and new water source to start a vegetable garden and feed your family. You sell your extra food at the market.
Your kids spend more time in school instead of walking for water. They graduate to become teachers, nurses or business owners.
A nearby community learns how water changed your village. They petition for a water project too, and the cycle starts again.
"Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city, and bankers and corporate executives have cited it as the only natural limit to economic growth."- Margaret Catley-Carlson, Vice-Chair, World Economic Forum
charity: water focuses on life's most basic need -- water. But to significantly cut down disease rates in the developing world, water is just the first step. Almost everywhere charity: water builds a freshwater well, we also require sanitation training. In some communities, we build latrines; at the very least, we promote simple hand-washing stations made with readily-available materials. Clean water can greatly alleviate the world's disease burden, but only with education and hygienic practice. charity: water is committed to using water as a gateway to sanitary living.
Even in regions prone to natural disasters, water infrastructure has proven to be a smart investment,
sometimes reducing flood damage or disease rates among survivors.
Clean water transforms lives, communities and generations -- and at a surprisingly low cost.
Just $30 can provide clean water for one person.