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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Monroe and Moroccan Cannon?s Very Merry Christmas
As her twin brother Moroccan Scott - dressed in a pumpkin suit - smiles for the camera in one shot, Monroe cuddles up with mom Mariah Carey and Santa Claus for a sweet picture-perfect memory in another.
No firm totally destroyed by tornado, storm
by Rn T.Com
Damages to the Fairbanks Co. were conservatively estimated at $200,000. That figure is expected to rise significantly. (Doug Walker / Rome News-Tribune)
slideshow A week after an EF-2 tornado etched a swath across Rome and into neighboring Bartow and Gordon counties, a more thorough examination of the damages has resulted in an estimated dollar value for damages to local businesses in the neighborhood of $1.82 million.The figure does not take into account any losses to residential properties.
Floyd County Emergency Management Agency Director Scotty Hancock reported that two-thirds of the losses were incurred by just six businesses, all estimated to be at a minimum of $200,000, however, none were completely destroyed as preliminary assessments indicated.
The Fairbanks/American Pipe buildings, 202 Division St.; the former Habitat for Humanity HomeMart building, 617 Excelsior St.; Shorter University?s warehouse, 218 John Davenport Drive; Brenda White Insurance, 9 N. Hanks St.; the West Rome IGA shopping center on Shorter Avenue; and mini-warehouses at 702 Shorter Ave. were the businesses that were listed as having sustained major damages.
Keith Clark, owner of the West Rome IGA grocery, said he is still working on a final assessment of the damages at his store.
?Ours is over $100,000 in itself,? Clark said. ?Everything from roof damage to sign damage to throwing away over $70,000 worth of product ? produce, meat, the deli ? we just dumped it in the dumpster out back and watched it drive off.?
Clark said the entire roof over the shopping center is going to have to be replaced.
Similarly, Mark White, manager at the Fairbanks Co., indicated the $200,000 figure placed on their business is expected to be well below the actual cost of repairs to the building that essentially lost two exterior walls and a part of its roof.
Thirty-one other businesses or commercial establishments also sustained losses that are being listed as minor, meaning losses of at least $20,000 were estimated.
On Thursday night, Hancock learned that Floyd County became eligible for assistance through the Small Business Administration.
A disaster loan outreach center will open Tuesday from noon to 6 p.m. at the Northwest Georgia Public Health District office, 1309 Redmond Road.
The hours are: Jan. 4 through Jan. 6, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Jan. 7, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and Jan. 9 through Jan. 12, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Hancock said Thursday he felt confident the county would be eligible.
?We?ve not only met but exceeded the threshold,? Hancock said.
Hancock said all they needed was 25 uninsured or under-insured properties to get the designation for assistance.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Nevermore: Beyond Oblivion fades off into... oblivion
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Alexander Baron: Gilad Atzmon wipes Israel off the map (Uprooted Palestinians)
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Windows Phone Marketplace crosses 50,000 apps threshold
2. MYTHiKAL posted on 3 0
I'm not surprise at all.. I have a Family Plan with 5 lines and 2 of the phones are Android while the other 3 are WindowsPhone7's Ever since we started playing/using our WP7s, they completely took me by surprise with how smooth they work and overall how easy they can be.. About a year ago, my only issue was the lack of some of the Apps I wanted were just not there in the WP7 market, but now, everything I need or at least a variation of what I need is out there already. Not to mention the fact that XBox Live works perfectly on this phone just making it that much sweetier.. I Love my Samsung Skyrocket, but I also envy the WP7s the others around me have.. :) If I could, I would have both my Skyrocket and a nice WP7 in my hands.. :)
3. christianqwerty posted on 0 0
wp7 doesnt have: Pandora, Instagram, speed test, words with friends, skype, an actual youtube app, an actual tumblr app,
4. Jeradiah3 posted on 1 0
Hopefully they have those apps cause I'd try a Windows 7 phone when im ready to upgrade with AT&T
5. drahmad posted on 1 0
most of these will be available by next year. i am sure.
6. jabrecer posted on 0 0
@christianqwerty:
They do have Pandora (metroradio, 3rd party app), they have speed test (apps: bandwidth, speed test), a variation of Youtube (by microsoft, very good)
About Skype & instagram, I don't know, I don't need them so far.
7. vvelez5 posted on 0 0
There is plenty different versions of speed test on Windows Phone. MetroRadio is out which is a third party client that works well on Windows Phone. Instagram would be pretty sweet on Windows Phone, Words with Friends too. There is a Youtube app but its meh. Im not a fan of Tumblr so I don't care about that. I keep hearing talks about Skype on Windows Phone especially since Microsoft did buy them out. I have no idea what is taking them so long.
But regardless of the different options of apps on Windows Phone your point is correct where they dont have as many apps also all the apps we want in their marketplace. Obviously that's a developer standpoint and they have to see some sort of reason why they should pursue making their product accessible to the Windows Phone Marketplace. I think with time and since Windows Phone is growing it will only be a matter of time until those developers jump on to the Windows Phone wagon.
I don't blame people not getting Windows Phone for the lack of apps. Microsoft has been doing a good job luring in developers to their platform. They have a hill to climb but they'll get there. As for me I do like my Android but the idea of an LTE capable Lumia for ATT coming is definitely making me wait to upgrade my line until it's release.
8. darkurious posted on 0 0
Although there are no official Pandora apps, Radio Controlled and Metroradio plays your Pandora Playlist; quite well, I might add. There is an official Youtube app and there is Metrotube, which will be unavailable after December 31. I can't speak to the other apps you inquire.
11. snowgator posted on 0 0
Certainly there will be Skype. I have heard this company called Microsoft bought them. Figure the makers of Windows Phones have a decent relationship with them.
A lot of these other Apps are really just shortcuts in disguise. I can sure search "you tube", and the site loads up just fine. I am not a huge uploader to sites, so I will just say it makes no difference to me.
But even as a huge WP supporter and extremely happy owner, I will say there are a list of apps that I do wish were there. Would love an ESPN radio app and more streaming radio apps. The game selections (first person shooters, role playing, ect) really need a shot in the arm. But, I am not sure how you complain a whole ton about 50,000 applications in under a year and a half. That is progress.
9. lubba posted on 0 0
I check new app releases and updates every single day and most are NOT compelling! Most and many are low rate, low class useless apps. I cannot congratulate MS for this. Overall MS is just slow slow slow on many fronts; first rate apps, hardware products, software fixes and updates (disappearing keyboard), etc..!
10. DIYguy posted on 0 0
I think MS could be integratin skype to wp so that it would be as a default option in video calls and an option in normal calls.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
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Young Jeezy's TM 103 Can't Top Michael Buble On Charts
Adele came in at #2 on Billboard 200 between Bublé's Christmas and Jeezy's latest.
By Gil Kaufman
Young Jeezy's <i>TM 103: Hustlerz Ambition</i>
Photo: Def Jam
There's just no catching Michael Bublé on the Billboard 200 as 2011 comes to a close. The smooth crooner will top the charts once again next week thanks to his holiday steamroller, Christmas, moving another 467,000 units. In just over two months, MB has sold 2.4 million copies, giving him the second best-selling album of the year to date, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.
And though he's put up very impressive numbers in a short time, there's no way he can surpass 2011's chart champ, Adele, whose 21 sold another 399,000 copies, giving her more than 5.6 million in sales so far this year. Right behind Adele at #2 was the week's only new top 10 entry, Young Jeezy's long-awaited TM 103: Hustlerz Ambition.
The rest of the top 10: Justin Bieber's Mistletoe (#4, 225,000), Drake's Take Care (#5, 131,000), Lady Antebellum's Own the Night (#6, 110,000), Rihanna's Talk That Talk (#7, 99,000), Nickelback's Here and Now (#8, 99,000), Black Keys' El Camino (#9, 92,000) and Now That's What I Call Music! 40 (#10, 88,000).
Just outside the top 10, people were clearly picking up copies of Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto as stocking stuffers, sending the album's sales up 85 percent to 85,000 and eight slots to #12 as it closes in on sales of 1 million. The only other notable new entry on the charts was Common's The Dreamer/The Believer, which will debut at #18 on sales of 69,000.
Several top 20 artists got a serious double-digit boost in the run-up to Christmas, including LMFAO (up 85 percent), Mary J. Blige (up 75 percent), Florence and the Machine (up 101 percent) and Lil Wayne (up 93 percent).
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Israel okays 130 homes in east Jerusalem: official
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Occupied Jerusalem municipality on Wednesday approved plans for another 130 housing units in Gilo, a settlement neighborhood in the annexed eastern sector of the Holy City, a city councilor told AFP.
Pepe Alalu of the left-wing Meretz party said the district planning committee had given the green light to a project to build 130 homes in three 12-storey tower blocks on the northeastern outskirts of Gilo which lies just a few kilometers north of Bethlehem.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Romney looks beyond GOP presidential primary
by Associated Press
LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) ? Republicans have yet to cast a single vote but Mitt Romney is starting to sound like he's already won his party's presidential nomination.The former Massachusetts governor ignored his GOP rivals while speaking to New Hampshire voters Tuesday. With Iowa Republicans set to begin voting in exactly one week, Romney focused instead on President Barack Obama.
"What this president is doing is trying to turn us into an entitlement nation," Romney said inside the packed dining room of the Coach Stop restaurant, hours before he was to head to Iowa to spend the next several days campaigning across that state by bus. "That's a deadening approach to a nation that has always been powered by the pursuit of happiness."
Even when asked about his GOP opponents, Romney avoided any direct criticism and pivoted to the broad issues likely to win over independents, a voting bloc expected to play a critical role in next fall's general election.
"I'm not exactly sure how all this is going to work, but I think I'm going to get the nomination if we do our job right," he said, while promising to reach across the aisle to Democrats if elected. "I'm not going to spend my time bashing the Democrats and attacking them day in and day out, because that makes it impossible to sit down and work together."
In a nod toward the country's surging Latino population, Romney added that he's open to expanding legal immigration.
"It is a great source of vitality," he said. "And to protect legal immigration, and potentially make it larger, we want to stop illegal immigration."
Romney also teased a hypothetical general election sales pitch against Obama in which he'd ask voters, "Do you think you're better off than you were four years ago?"
"We know the answer to that one," he said with a smile.
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Arab monitors head to Syria, opposition skeptical (AP)
BEIRUT ? The Arab League sent monitors to Syria Monday even though President Bashar Assad's regime has only intensified its crackdown on dissent in the week since agreeing to the Arab plan to stop the bloodshed.
Activists say government forces have killed several hundred civilians in the past week. At least 23 more deaths were reported Monday from intense shelling in the center of the country, just hours before the first 60 monitors were to arrive. The opposition says thousands of government troops have been besieging the Baba Amr district of in the central city of Homs for days and the government is preparing a massive assault on the area.
France expressed strong concerns about the continued deterioration of the situation in Homs. Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero demanded Syrian authorities allow the Arab League observers immediate access to the city.
"The repression and unprecedented violence committed by the Damascus regime must cease and everything must be done to stop the drama going on behind closed doors in the city of Homs," the French statement said.
In Cairo, an Arab League official said this monitoring mission was the Syrian regime's "last chance" to reverse course.
"Will they facilitate the mission's work or try and curb its movements? Let's wait and see," the official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
The Arab League plan agreed to by Assad last Monday requires the government to remove its security forces and heavy weapons from city streets, start talks with opposition leaders and allow human rights workers and journalists into the country. The monitors are supposed to ensure compliance, but so far there is no sign that Assad is implementing any of the terms, much less letting up on his brutal crackdown.
Although Syria shows no sign of altering its course, the Arab League was sticking to its plan. The team, including Iraqis, Tunisians and Algerians, left Cairo Monday evening headed to Damascus.
Opposition members say the regime's agreement to the Arab plan is a farce.
"I very much doubt the Syrian regime will allow the observers to do their work," said prominent opposition figure Waleed al-Bunni from Cairo. "I expect them to try and hinder their movements by claiming that some areas are not safe, intimidating them or sending them to places other than the ones they should go to."
Some anti-government protesters have even criticized the League's stance to the point of accusing it of complicity in the killings.
Activists said Syrian forces shelled the Baba Amr district of Homs with mortars and sprayed heavy machine gun fire in the most intense assault since the siege began Friday.
Baba Amr has been a center for anti-government protests and army defections and has seen repeated crackdowns by the Syrian regime in recent months. The Syrian conflict is becoming increasingly militarized with growing clashes between army defectors and troops.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, described the attacks in Homs as a kind of "hysteria" as government forces desperately try to get the situation there under control ahead of the monitors' arrival.
"The observers are sitting in their hotel in Damascus while people are dying in Homs," he said.
The Observatory called on the monitors "to head immediately to Baba Amr to be witnesses to the crimes against humanity that are being perpetrated by the Syrian regime."
In Cairo, Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby told reporters after meeting with the monitors that the mission will begin work on Tuesday. Up to 500 monitors are to be eventually deployed and Syria has only agreed for them to stay one month.
Anwar Malek, a member of the monitoring mission, insisted they will have absolute freedom of movement in Syria, adding that the team will travel to flashpoint cities including Homs, Daraa, Idlib and Hama. He and other observers refused to disclose the exact travel itinerary, saying they preferred to maintain some secrecy to ensure the mission's success.
The Arab League has suspended Syria's membership and imposed sanctions on Damascus but is deeply divided on how to respond to the crisis. Gulf countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia have taken a tougher line and are more inclined toward Security Council action on Syria. But other countries, wary of Syria's influence in the region, prefer an Arab solution to the crisis.
Activists say the regime has only stepped up its crackdown on anti-government protesters in the week since it agreed to the Arab plan. At least 275 civilians have been killed by government forces since then, and another 150 people died in clashes between army defectors and regime troops ? most of them defectors.
The stepped up crackdown, including what activists said was a "massacre" in one town where 110 people were mowed down in several hours last week, brought a new round of international condemnation of Syria. Neighboring Turkey said the violence flew in the face of the Arab League deal that Syria signed and raises doubts about the regime's true intentions.
Syria's top opposition leader Burhan Ghalioun, doubtful that the Arab League alone can budge Assad, called Sunday for the League to bring the U.N. Security Council into the effort. The U.N. says more than 5,000 people have been killed since March in the political violence.
Assad stalled for weeks on agreeing to the plan and signed only after the Arab League threatened to turn to the U.N. Security Council to help stop the violence. The opposition believes the authoritarian leader is only trying to buy time and forestall more international sanctions and condemnation.
The U.N.'s most powerful body remains deeply divided over Syria, which has led to its failure to adopt a resolution on and heightened tensions especially among major powers. Western nations and the U.S. are demanding a resolution threatening sanctions if the violence doesn't stop and condemning Assad's crackdown. But Russia and China, which have closer ties to Assad's regime, believe extremist opponents of the government are equally responsible for the bloodshed and oppose any mention of sanctions.
After months of largely peaceful protests that were met with brute force and bullets, some opposition figures have started calling for international military intervention, but that is all but out of the question in Syria, in part because of fears that the move could spread chaos across the Middle East. Syria is a close ally of Iran, borders Israel, and holds sway over the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which now dominates Lebanon's government.
Amateur videos of the violence in Homs were posted by activists on the Internet Monday. The showed gruesome footage of at least four corpses lying in pools of blood in front of a house in Baba Amr, where they reportedly died from mortar shells that struck the neighborhood.
Men could be heard crying for help and women wailing in the video, which also showed several destroyed homes and cars. Other footage showed at least six bodies wrapped in white plastic bags in a home, relatives crying besides them.
A resident of a neighborhood next to Baba Amr said he heard "loud explosions" throughout the night and Monday morning.
"It doesn't stop," he told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, for fear of reprisals.
The Local Coordination Committees activist network reported at least 23 deaths in intense shelling "targeting homes and anyone who moves" in Baba Amr.
Syrian officials did not comment on the violence in Baba Amr but said armed terrorist groups attacked civilians and security forces in villages in southern Syria. State-run news agency SANA said troops retaliated and killed a number of the gunmen.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Sadrists call for new elections in Iraq
File - In this June 5, 2004 file photo, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, left, steps from an office building in Najaf, Iraq. The political party loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday Dec.26 2011 for the dissolution of Iraq's parliament and new elections in another move that could escalate the country's growing sectarian crisis. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
File - In this June 5, 2004 file photo, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, left, steps from an office building in Najaf, Iraq. The political party loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday Dec.26 2011 for the dissolution of Iraq's parliament and new elections in another move that could escalate the country's growing sectarian crisis. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
BAGHDAD (AP) ? The political party loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for the dissolution of Iraq's parliament and new elections in another move that could escalate the country's growing sectarian crisis.
The anti-American Sadrist bloc is a partner in the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Bahaa al-Aaraji, the head of the Sadrists' bloc in parliament, said the elections are needed because of instability in the country and problems that threaten Iraq's sovereignty.
"The political partners cannot find solutions for the problems that threaten to divide Iraq," he said.
Iraq plunged into a new sectarian crisis last week, just days after the last American troops withdrew at the end of a nearly nine-year war.
The new political crisis has been accompanied by a new wave of attacks on the Iraqi capital by suspected Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaida. A suicide bomber set off a car bomb Monday at a checkpoint leading to the Interior Ministry, killing seven people and injuring 32, officials said. Police and hospital officials said the bomber struck during morning rush hour, hitting one of many security barriers set up around the ministry's building.
Al-Maliki is in a political showdown with the country's top Sunni political figure, Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, after the government issued an arrest warrant for al-Hashemi on allegations his bodyguards ran hit squads targeting government officials.
The prime minister threatened to form a government without al-Hashemi's Sunni-backed political party, Iraqiya, which is boycotting parliament and mulling whether to pull out of the ruling coalition.
Iraq was dominated by the minority Sunnis under Saddam Hussein until the U.S.-led war that began in 2003 ousted him. Majority Shiites have dominated the government ever since, though Americans pushed hard for the inclusion of Sunnis with a meaningful role in the current governing coalition.
Bitter sectarian rivalries played out in 2006-2007 in violence that took Iraq to the brink of civil war and the latest tensions have raised fears of a resurgence of Shiite-Sunni violence.
The political crisis taps into resentments that are still raw despite years of efforts to overcome them. The Sunnis fear the Shiite majority is squeezing them out of their already limited political role. Shiites suspect Sunnis of links to militants and of plotting to topple the Shiite leadership.
The Sadrists have played an important role in maintaining Shiite domination over government ? their support last year catapulted al-Maliki back to the prime minister's office for a second term.
For the proposal to dissolve parliament to gain traction, it would take the consent of at least 1/3 of parliament, the president and the prime minister or a simple majority of lawmakers. Al-Maliki, who only secured his position after nearly nine months of political wrangling after the last elections, would likely be loathe to go through the process again and risk an unfavorable outcome.
Al-Aaraji said the proposal first needs approval of the larger coalition between the Sadrists and al-Maliki's alliance, the two most powerful Shiite parties.
A Shiite lawmaker loyal to al-Maliki, Kamal al-Saiedi, said the proposal should be studied.
"Forming the current government was not an easy issue, therefore going back in the direction of new elections would be more difficult," he said.
A Sunni lawmaker with Iraqiya, the Sunni-backed bloc of the wanted vice president, said new elections would not bring security and stability. He pointed to the prolonged negotiations that were needed to agree on the government in place now, and said a new election would only bring the same people to office.
"We need to sit around the same negotiating table and that is the only path to salvation from this current crisis," said Kamil al-Dulaimi.
Also Monday, a roadside bomb hit a passing army patrol in the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and injuring two, a police officer and a doctor said.
Al-Maliki's adviser for National Reconciliation Amer al-Khuzaie, said leaders of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, one of the top Shiite militant groups, had decided to lay down their weapons and join the political system.
Asaib Ahl al-Haq, or Band of the People of Righteousness, was a splinter group from the Mahdi Army, also headed by al-Sadr. They, along with the Mahdi Army, were two of three Shiite militant groups active in Iraq that were dedicated to fighting the U.S. military presence.
Al-Khuzaie said the group had signed an agreement in recent days renouncing violence. He said they would change their name and join the political process. He said he had been negotiating for months with the group, who said they would join the political process after the U.S. military left Iraq. All American troops departed on Dec. 18.
Officials from the group were not available to confirm the decision.
U.S. officials have warned that these Shiite militant groups could turn against the Iraqi government after the American military has gone. A key test to whether Asaib Ahl al-Haq, an Iranian-funded group, is committed to becoming a peaceful part of the political process is whether they actually turn in their weapons, especially the more powerful and sophisticated weapons they're believed to get from Iran.
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Associated Press writers Mazin Yahya, Sinan Salaheddin and Qassim Abdul-Zahra contributed to this report.
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BREVEMENTE ? Nuevos logos de Cofidis, Youtube, Energy, Caja Rural y Asbanc
Hoy etrenamos esta nueva secci?n de noticias sobre identidad corporativa que no ocupar?n todo un art?culo, sino que se resumir?n brevemente en un mismo post.
Cofidis, estrena identidad corporativa
La compa??a espa?ola l?der en cr?dito personal cambia de imagen. Se ha llevado a cabo un restyling de la marca, para dotarla de modernidad, simplicidad y equilibrio. Su icono, un sol que representaba el positivismo, ha sido afinado y degradado, y se ha marcado mejor la separaci?n entre ?ste y el texto. La tipograf?a se suaviza, sin serifas y en caja baja, m?s redondeada y compacta. Se destaca la C en may?sculas rodeada por los rayos del sol.
Youtube limpia su logo
Youtube ha renovado recientemente la apariencia de su web y con este cambio han aprovechado para limpiar su logotipo de brillos y degradados optando por un conjunto mucho m?s plano (sigue existiendo cierto degradado, pero es muy sutil). Youtube no tocaba su logotipo desde 2006.
Energy es la nueva marca de Mediaset
Mediaset Espa?a contin?a preparando el lanzamiento de su nuevo canal para principios de 2012, que estar? dirigido especialmente al ?p?blico principalmente masculino, joven y urbano?. Energy ser? finalmente el nombre y la marca de la futura cadena. El logotipo de Energy, una ?E? may?scula que ?a?na la esencia y el estilo de la imagen? del resto de canales del grupo, as? como algunos de sus ?elementos m?s representativos? como, por ejemplo, la parte superior de la ?E? -presente en los logos de Telecinco, LaSiete y Factor?a de Ficci?n- adopta el negro como color corporativo.
Caja Rural se renueva, pero solo en Castell?n
Caja Rural ha adoptado un nuevo logotipo, pero solo en su sucursal de Castell?n. En el nuevo logotipo de Caja Rural Castell?n se ha optado por una tipograf?a redonda y en caja baja, en un esfuerzo por transmitir modernidad, simplicidad y cercan?a.
La raz?n de la existencia del c?rculo con la abreviatura ?CS? es que es un icono muy implantado en el imaginario de los castellonenses por su presencia en las matr?culas de los veh?culos durante d?cadas y que sigue siendo muy popular al definir a Castell?n en los foros y redes sociales en internet. Adem?s, se ha incorporado un otra tonalidad de verde, han eliminado el icono de las espigas y se ha apostado por la caja baja.
La Asociaci?n de Bancos Peruanos adopta una imagen corporativa m?s actual
La Asociaci?n de bancos del Per? (Asbanc) ha comenzado a utilizar un nuevo logotipo institucional, tras 15 a?os utilizando su antigua marca.
As? mismo, el gremio bancario relanz? tambi?n su p?gina web (www.asbanc.com.pe).
Un restyling completamente necesario, que dota de contemporaneidad a la marca, con un icono moderno y que sigue bastante las tendencias actuales del dise?o corporativo (degradados, formas en volumen?), todo esto acompa?ado de una tipograf?a sencilla en caja baja. Una mejora sustancial.
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Haiti: Minister attacked while visiting DomRep (AP)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti ? A presidential adviser in Haiti says that a government minister was attacked while visiting the neighboring Dominican Republic.
Presidential adviser Damian Merlo said late Friday that Minister of Haitians Living Abroad Daniel Supplice is doing fine but he had no other details.
The newspaper Le Matin reported that four members of the Dominican police force robbed Supplice and his family Thursday of his cell phone and valuables. The alleged incident happened in the city of Santiago while the minister was in the country for a wedding.
Supplice's Twitter account posted Friday night that he was "doing very well" and would speak to the press Monday.
Neither Supplice nor Dominican police could be reached for comment.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Four out of five bottles of extra-virgin "Italian" olive oil are actually blended with foreign oil, La Repubblica claims
Four out of five bottles of extra-virgin "Italian" olive oil are actually blended with foreign oil, La Repubblica claims
This file photo shows olive oil coming out of a tab of an oil mill in Tuscany. Four out of five bottles of extra-virgin "Italian" olive oil are actually blended with foreign oil in a five-billion euro ($6.5-billion) a year business, La Repubblica daily claims.Source: AFP - Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
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NKorea pointing to heir's uncle playing key role (AP)
PYONGYANG, North Korea ? North Korea on Sunday aired footage showing the uncle and key patron of anointed heir Kim Jong Un wearing a military uniform with a general's insignia ? a strong sign he'll play a crucial role in helping the young man take over power and uphold the "military-first" policy initiated by his late father, Kim Jong Il.
The footage on state television shows Jang Song Thaek in uniform as he pays respects before Kim Jong Il's body lying in state at Kumsusan Memorial Palace. Seoul's Unification Ministry says it's the first time Jang, usually seen in business suits, has been shown wearing a military uniform on state TV.
Little by little, North Korea is offering hints on the details of Kim Jong Un's rise and the future composition of his inner circle as millions continue to mourn for his father, who died just over a week ago. North Korea has also begun hailing Kim Jong Un as "supreme leader" of the 1.2-million strong military as it ramps up its campaign to install him as ruler.
"Let's become comrades of ... great comrade Kim Jong Un, the sun of the 21st century!" the North's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary carried Sunday by the official Korean Central News Agency.
The new title, a public show of support from top military leadership and the symbolic appearance of Jang in uniform send a strong signal that the nation will maintain Kim Jong Il's "military first" policy for the time being.
South Korean intelligence has reportedly predicted Kim Jong Un's aunt Kim Kyong Hui, a key Workers' Party official, and her husband Jang, who is a vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission, will play larger roles supporting the heir.
Jang and his wife have risen to the top of North Korea's political and military elite since the succession campaign began two years ago. Both 65, they also have the weight of seniority so important in a society that places a premium on age and alliances.
Kim Jong Un made a third visit Saturday to the palace where his father's body is lying in state ? this time as "supreme leader of the revolutionary armed forces" and accompanied by North Korea's top military brass, according to KCNA.
Earlier, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper urged Kim Jong Un to accept the top military post: "Comrade Kim Jong Un, please assume the supreme commandership, as wished by the people."
Kim Jong Un, who is in his late 20s and was unveiled in September 2010 as his father's choice as successor, will be the third-generation Kim to rule the nation of 24 million. His father and grandfather led the country under different titles, and it remains unclear which other titles will be bestowed on the grandson.
Kim Il Sung, who founded North Korea in 1948, retains the title of "eternal president" even after his death in 1994.
His son, Kim Jong Il, ruled the country in his capacity as chairman of the National Defense Commission while concurrently serving as supreme commander of the Korean People's Army and general secretary of the Workers' Party.
Kim Jong Un was promoted to four-star general and appointed a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party. He had been expected to assume a number of other key posts while being groomed to succeed his father.
His father's death comes at a sensitive time for North Korea, which was in the middle of discussions with the U.S. on food aid and restarting talks to dismantle the North's nuclear weapons program. Chronically short of food and suffering from a shortfall in basic staples after several harsh seasons, officials had been asking for help feeding its people even as North Koreans prepared for 2012 celebrations marking Kim Il Sung's 100th birthday.
North Korea has emphasized the Kim family legacy during the sped-up succession movement for Kim Jong Un. State media invoked Kim Il Sung in declaring the people's support for the next leader, comparing the occasion to Kim Jong Il's ascension to "supreme commander" exactly 20 years ago Saturday.
At the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, Kim Jong Un and senior commanders paid silent tribute to Kim Jong Il, "praying for his immortality," KCNA said. The military also pledged its loyalty to Kim Jong Un, the report said.
"Let the whole army remain true to the leadership of Kim Jong Un over the army," KCNA reported ? a pledge reminiscent of those made when Kim Jong Il was named supreme commander.
The call to rally behind Kim Jong Un, dubbed the "Great Successor" in the wake of his father's death on Dec. 17 from a heart attack, comes amid displays of grief across North Korea. The official mourning period lasts until after Kim's funeral Wednesday and a memorial Thursday.
In Pyongyang, workers at beverage kiosks handed steaming cups of water to shivering mourners, including children bundled up in colorful, thick parkas. State media said Sunday the drinks were arranged at the instruction of Kim Jong Un, who ordered officials to take special measures to protect the health of mourners.
A throng of North Koreans climbed steps and placed flowers and wreaths in a neat row below a portrait of Kim Jong Il as solemn music filled the air and young uniformed soldiers, their heads shaved, bowed before his picture.
A sobbing Jong Myong Hui, a Pyongyang citizen taking a break from shoveling snow, told AP Television News that she came out voluntarily to "clear the way for Kim Jong Il's last journey."
Despite the grief, there are signs that the country is beginning to move on, with people going to work and "not giving way simply to sorrow," KCNA said. "They are getting over the demise of their leader, promoted by a strong will to closely rally around respected Comrade Kim Jong Un."
The Korean peninsula has remained in a technical state of war since the Koreas' 1950-53 conflict, but two groups from South Korea have permission from the South Korean government to visit the North to pay their respects, Unification Ministry spokesman Choi Boh-seon said Saturday in Seoul.
One group will be led by the widow of former President Kim Dae-jung, who held a landmark summit with Kim Jong Il in 2000, and the other by the wife of a late businessman with ties to the North.
On Sunday, North Korea accused South Korea of blocking many other groups from visiting Pyongyang to pay respects, warning the action would trigger "unpredictable catastrophic consequences" in relations between the countries. An unidentified spokesman at the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification said North Korea will test how sincere South Korea is in its calls for improved ties with North Korea.
The spokesman's statement was carried by KCNA.
Seoul's Unification Ministry said it will allow only the two groups to visit the North.
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Associated Press writers Foster Klug and Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, and AP Korea bureau chief Jean H. Lee contributed to this report. Follow them on Twitter at twitter.com/newsjean and twitter.com/APKlug.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Exclusive: Amazon weighed buying RIM, interest cooled (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Research In Motion Ltd has turned down takeover overtures from Amazon.com Inc and other potential buyers because the BlackBerry maker prefers to fix its problems on its own, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
Amazon hired an investment bank this summer to review a potential merger with RIM, but it did not make a formal offer, said one of the sources. It is not clear whether informal discussions between Amazon and RIM ever led to specific price talk, or who else had approached RIM about a takeover.
RIM's board wants co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie to focus on trying to turn around the business through the launch of new phones, better use of assets such as BlackBerry Messaging and restructuring, two sources said. They did not want to be identified as the discussions are private. RIM and Amazon declined to comment.
While RIM could strike technology licensing deals and other kinds of commercial partnerships to boost revenue, an outright sale or joint venture is not on the cards for now, they said.
"They have had approaches from folks who have wanted to have discussions," said one head of technology investment banking at a Wall Street bank. "The issue is it is hard to find a value that makes sense with a falling knife."
Battered shares in the Canadian smartphone maker jumped 10 percent in after-hours Nasdaq trade after the Reuters report.
RIM's market value has plunged 77 percent in the last 12 months to about $6.8 billion following a series of disappointing quarterly reports, delayed phone launches, weak sales of the PlayBook tablet and other missteps. The shares tumbled last week on weaker-than-expected quarterly results and the announcement of a delay in the launch of the new BlackBerry 10 phones.
A RIM investor who declined to be named said the company was now essentially on the block.
"This story puts RIM in play, because shareholders are going to put it in play," the U.S.-based investor said. "It's over. This is now a company where the activists are in charge."
Activist shareholder Jaguar Financial Corp has called for a sale of RIM as a whole or in separate parts, such as the handset business, the network services operation, or the patent portfolio.
But RIM's management has told interested parties they do not want to sell or break up the company at this juncture, the sources told Reuters. After last week's news, the board instructed the co-CEOs to set aside any options for a sale, one person briefed on the situation said.
"Selling the company or an economic joint venture is probably not in the cards right now," said the source. "Until you stabilize the platform, people are going to be very nervous about spending $10 billion or more."
Some potential corporate and private equity suitors are holding out for RIM's valuation to fall further, people familiar with the matter said.
AMAZON, RIM STILL IN DISCUSSIONS
Amazon and RIM are still discussing ways to expand their commercial ties, which currently include a service launched last year to make Amazon's music catalog available to some BlackBerry users, according to the sources.
Amazon launched the Kindle Fire tablet in November, which, along with the content the company can package with it, is seen as a potentially formidable contender to Apple Inc's iPad and iTunes store. Amazon does not make smartphones.
As for RIM, it feels it could better leverage its assets, such as the BBM instant messaging and the network operation centers that allow for messages to be processed, the sources said.
RIM could also look at licensing out its QNX operating system after the late 2012 launch of BlackBerry 10, which will be the first smartphones using that software, to give handset makers an alternative to Google's Android operating system.
DISTRACTION
RIM's co-CEOs have spent months listening to ideas from investment bankers, strategic parties and private equity firms. These discussions are now viewed as distracting for management, sources briefed on the situation said.
One of them said the board has backed both Lazaridis and Balsillie, but is of the view RIM needs to develop a "deeper bench" of executives.
Spurred by RIM's share drop and Google Inc's $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc in August, Wall Street bankers have tried to pitch RIM to other mobile phone makers, including Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and HTC Corp, in recent months.
Microsoft also looked at RIM at the same time, said one of the sources. Microsoft declined to comment.
But HTC and Samsung already have licensing agreements with Google's Android and did not see the value in tying up with BlackBerry, people familiar with the companies said. Samsung and HTC declined to comment.
(Additional reporting by Soyoung Kim in New York and Alastair Sharp in Toronto; Editing by Tiffany Wu, Paritosh Bansal, Andre Grenon, Phil Berlowitz and Richard Chang)
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Being told painting is fake changes brain's response to art
ScienceDaily (Dec. 20, 2011) ? Being told that a work of art is authentic or fake alters the brain's response to the visual content of artwork, Oxford University academics have found.
Fourteen participants were placed in a brain scanner and shown images of works by 'Rembrandt' -- some were genuine, others were convincing imitations painted by different artists. Neither the participants nor their brain signals could distinguish between genuine and fake paintings. However, advice about whether or not an artwork is authentic alters the brain's response; this advice is equally effective, regardless of whether the artwork is genuine or not.
The study, recently published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, was carried out by Professor Andrew Parker and Mengfei Huang of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, in collaboration with Dr Holly Bridge at the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB) and Professor Martin Kemp of Oxford University's History Faculty.
Professor Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University, said: 'Our findings support what art historians, critics and the general public have long believed -- that it is always better to think we are seeing the genuine article. Our study shows that the way we view art is not rational, that even when we cannot distinguish between two works, the knowledge that one was painted by a renowned artist makes us respond to it very differently. The fact that people travel to galleries around the world to see an original painting suggests that this conclusion is reasonable.'
When a participant was told that a work was genuine, it raised activity in the part of the brain that deals with rewarding events, such as tasting pleasant food or winning a gamble. Being told a work is not by the master triggered a complex set of responses in areas of the brain involved in planning new strategies. Participants reported that when viewing a supposed fake, they tried to work out why the experts regarded it not to be genuine.
Andrew Parker, Professor of Physiology at Oxford University and the study's senior author, said: 'Our findings support the idea that when we make aesthetic judgements, we are subject to a variety of influences. Not all of these are immediately articulated. Indeed, some may be inaccessible to direct introspection but their presence might be revealed by brain imaging. It suggests that different regions of the brain interact together when a complex judgment is formed, rather than there being a single area of the brain that deals with aesthetic judgements.'
Participants were shown a variety of portraits, some genuinely painted by Rembrandt and others not. This was chosen as a good test case, because recent scholarship has determined that many fakes and copies of his works exist. There was no evidence that the brain signals of the participants could reliably pick apart the true Rembrandts from the copies or fakes, so this research will not help to resolve the arguments that sometimes rage among connoisseurs and experts.
FMRIB is a multi-disciplinary neuroimaging research facility, which focuses on the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for neuroscience research. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) measures brain activity by detecting the changes in blood oxygenation and flow that occur in response to neural activity -- when a brain area is more active it consumes more oxygen and to meet this increased demand blood flow increases to the active area. FMRI can be used to produce activation maps showing which parts of the brain are involved in a particular mental process.
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Report: US mistakes led to Pakistan airstrikes
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Wall Street Journal says Pentagon investigators have determined that mistakes by a joint U.S.-Afghan special operations team led to the airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last month.
The newspaper says the Defense Department investigation found that coalition troops conducting operations along the Afghan border with Pakistan incorrectly believed there were no Pakistani forces in the area.
After the U.S. and Afghan commandos were attacked by militants, they called in airstrikes against two encampments they thought were used by militants. They were actually were Pakistan border posts.
The Journal, citing anonymous U.S. officials familiar with the report, says an opportunity to stop the fighting was missed when a U.S. serviceman gave incorrect data to the Pakistanis, so they did not know their posts were under attack.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Vitamin D Prevents Fractures, But Role in Cancer Remains Unclear (LiveScience.com)
Taking vitamin D, along with calcium supplements, may reduce your risk of breaking a bone, but there's not yet enough evidence to say whether it may lower your risk of cancer, a new analysis concludes.
People who were taking vitamin D and calcium supplements were 11 percent less likely to fracture a bone than people not taking the supplements, according to the study.
There was an even larger reduction in fractures ? about 30 percent ? among elderly people living in institutions who were taking vitamin D, said study researcher Mei Chung, a nutritional epidemiologist and assistant director of the evidence-based-practice center at Tufts Medical Center.
Chung's analysis was requested by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and was the only study the group requested be done in advance of their draft statement on recommendations for vitamin D intake, set to be issued in January, she said.
As to the studies examining the vitamin's role in cancer prevention, "We just don't have good enough information," Chung said, and factors such as how much vitamin D people were getting in their diets, and how much sun exposure they got were not well-controlled in the previous studies she reviewed for her analysis.
The results of the new study are published online today (Dec. 19) in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
Vitamin D in the body
Vitamin D is present in very few foods, though some foods are fortified with it, according to the National institutes of Health. Fish such as salmon and tuna and egg yolks are good sources of it. It's also synthesized by the skin when we're exposed to ultraviolet rays in sunlight.
Research has shown that vitamin D is involved with the depositing of mineral in bone, Chung said, but its potential role in cancer is less clear. Some research has suggested it may promote cell division and other processes that may lead to cancer, but other work has shown it may have the opposite effect, she said. The vitamin's effects may vary across different parts of the body ? it could promote some cancers, but inhibit the development of others.
Chung's analysis included 19 studies examining the effects of vitamin D on bone fractures, and 28 studies of its effects on cancer.
In terms of reducing fractures, vitamin D only reduced the risk when taken in conjunction with calcium, the study showed. The benefit was seen among people taking from 300 International Units (IU) to 1,100 IU daily, according to the study.
The studies she examined conflicted in their findings about whether vitamin D might prevent cancer, Chung said. Three of the studies were prospective randomized controlled trials ? considered the strongest type of scientific evidence, in which participants are divided into two groups at the study's start and asked to either take vitamin D or a placebo ? and these studies suggested that high doses of vitamin D (1,000 IU a day) may reduce cancer.
However, the levels of vitamin D in the blood of participants in those studies were not measured, Chung said, and without such measurements, conclusions cannot be drawn. Some people in the placebo group may have in fact been taking vitamin D supplements, perhaps as part of a multivitamin, and study participants could vary greatly in terms of the levels of vitamin D in their diets, and their sun exposure. ?
Some of the prospective, observational studies Chung analyzed ? in which researchers did measure blood levels of vitamin D, and tracked those levels with cancer cases ? suggested that people with higher levels may have a lower risk of colorectal cancer, but the data for breast cancer and prostate cancer were mixed, and higher vitamin D levels brought an increased risk of having any type of cancer in general. Therefore,?a general conclusion about vitamin D and cancer risk could not be made, she said.
More studies needed
To better determine whether vitamin D lowers cancer risk, controlled trials are needed in which participants' blood levels are measured, and other data on diet and supplements are collected, Chung said.
Taking vitamin D along with calcium has been associated with an increased risk of kidney stones, she noted.
In the body, almost every organ has receptors for the active form of vitamin D found in our blood, Chung said, which is known to affect many cellular processes. Better understanding of the vitamin's role in all such processes would be helpful in assessing the vitamin's potential in preventing diseases, she said.
This story was provided by MyHealthNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience. Follow MyHealthNewsDaily on Twitter @Facebook.
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