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Having a baby is one of the most exciting times in a girl's life! For all her friends, the shower is a way to celebrate this exciting time.

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I have a dear friend?she's Daughter #1's fourth grade teacher. She was also Son #3 & Son #4's teacher, too. She?is expecting her first baby.?I think I'm more excited for this baby than the mom. Okay, maybe not, but shopping for her little baby boy-to-be?is making me pretty darn excited!!

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The class threw her a surprise baby shower!

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I wanted to make?her something special. Where do you go when you want GREAT ideas???You guessed it?

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PINTEREST!!!

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Wow, there are a lot of great ideas out there. People are so creative!! And like I've always told you,?

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I'M A GREAT COPIER!!

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I saw this wonderful idea!

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It's a diaper wreath. How cool is that??!!

So off to Target and AC Moore I went.

I bought a wreath holder.

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I also bought a pack of diapers, different patterned ribbon, a wooden letter L(for the baby's first name), and a fun assortment of baby items. I wanted to keep with a blue theme so everything has some blue on it.

I wrapped the diapers around the wreath holder with rubberbands.

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I then wrapped thin blue ribbon around the rubber bands into bows. At every third diaper, I tied an "It's a Boy" ribbon along with each small baby item I bought. I tied a large blue and teal ribbon on the top of the wreath and added the white wood L letter to the ribbon.

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And the final result

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Just got home from the surprise baby shower. Mama was so surprised and she loved the wreath.?

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I love putting a smile on her face!!!

Hope y'all enjoy your Memorial Day Weekend. I am thankful for?all the men and women who have given their lives to keep our freedom.?

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God Bless You!

Love y'all,

Linda

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For two days John McCain and Ted Cruz have been fighting on the Senate floor over the rules for negotiating a budget, but, like so many fights, it's also about so much more. Cruz is being annoying about the budget, but worse, he just doesn't?get the Senate.?

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London attacker British, of Nigerian origin: source

By Guy Faulconbridge and Michael Holden

LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities have established that one and possibly both of the men who hacked a soldier to death on a London street was born in Britain of Nigerian descent, a source with knowledge of the investigation said on Thursday.

Local media named the man who was definitely born in the country as 28-year-old Michael Adebolajo and said police raided the home of his Nigerian family in a village near the eastern English city of Lincoln. Both men appeared to have converted to Islam from Christian immigrant backgrounds, British media said.

Both suspects in the attack, conducted in broad daylight on Wednesday afternoon, are in custody after being shot by police.

As security experts highlighted the risk to Western cities of "lone wolf" attacks by local people radicalised over the Internet, Prime Minister David Cameron held an emergency meeting of his intelligence chiefs to assess the response to what he called a "terrorist" attack, the first deadly strike in mainland Britain since local Islamists killed dozens in London in 2005.

"We will never give in to terror or terrorism in any of its forms," Cameron said outside his Downing Street office.

"This was not just an attack on Britain and on the British way of life, it was also a betrayal of Islam and of the Muslim communities who give so much to our country. There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act."

The two men used a car to run down the still formally unidentified soldier near Woolwich Barracks in southeast London on Wednesday afternoon and attempted to behead him with a meat cleaver and knives, witnesses said, before telling bystanders they acted in revenge for British wars in Muslim countries.

A dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker showed one of the men, in his 20s and casually dressed, his hands covered in blood and speaking in a local accent apologising for taking his action in front of women but justifying it on religious grounds:

"We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day," he said. "This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

The attack, just a month after the bomb attacks on the Boston Marathon, revived fears of "lone wolves". These may have had no direct contact with al Qaeda but are inspired by radical preachers and by Islamist militant Web sites, some of which urge people to attack Western targets with whatever means they have.

Chilling images of the blood-soaked suspect - who urged Britons to overthrow their government or risk having their children face a fate similar to a dead soldier lying just yards away - were splashed across the front pages of newspapers.

"I apologise that women had to witness that, but in our lands our women have to see the same thing. You people will never be safe. Remove your government. They don't care about you," the man said in the video before crossing the street and speaking casually to the other attacker.

Police said they searched a house in eastern England believed to be the home of the father one of the attackers.

IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN

The grisly attack took place on the edge of London's sprawling Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, a south London working class district which has long-standing historic links to the military.

The victim was wearing a T-shirt saying "Help for Heroes", the name of a charity formed to help wounded British veterans. Britain has had troops deployed in Afghanistan since 2001 and had troops in Iraq from 2003-2009.

Before he was stabbed to death, the victim was knocked over by a blue car which then rammed into a lamp-post. The attackers pounced on him in broad daylight in a busy residential street.

Witnesses said they shouted "Allahu akbar" - Arabic for God is greatest - while stabbing the victim and trying to behead him. A handgun was found at the scene.

Some onlookers rushed to help the victim and one woman tried to engage one of the attackers in conversation to calm him.

"He had what looked like butcher's tools - a little axe, to cut the bones, and two large knives. He said: 'Move off the body,'" Ingrid Loyau-Kennett was quoted by local media as saying.

"He said: 'I killed him because he killed Muslims and I am fed up with people killing Muslims in Afghanistan.'"

'HELP FOR HEROES'

London was last hit by a serious militant attack on July 7, 2005, when four young Islamists set off suicide bombs on the public transport network, killing 52 innocent people and wounding hundreds. A similar attempted attack two weeks later was thwarted.

In 2007, two days after police defused two car bombs outside London nightclubs, two men suspected of involvement, a British-born doctor of Iraqi descent and an Indian-born engineer, rammed a car laden with gas into the Glasgow Airport terminal, setting it ablaze. One of the attackers died and the other was jailed.

Britain has long known political violence on the streets. In 2009, two British soldiers were shot dead outside a barracks in Northern Ireland in an attack claimed by Irish republicans.

Since the 2007 bombings, known as 7/7, security chiefs say they have faced at least one plan to carry out an attack on the level of the 2005 attacks and have warned that radicalised individuals posed a grave risk to national security.

Peter Clarke, the former head of London's Counter Terrorism Command who led the investigation into the 7/7 bombings, said that if the Woolwich attackers did turn out to be acting alone, it showed the difficulty the security services faced in trying to stop them.

"An attack like this doesn't need sophisticated fund raising and sophisticated communications or planning," he told Reuters. "It can be organised and then actually delivered in a moment."

The bombing attacks on the Boston Marathon last month, which U.S. authorities blame on two brothers, have raised the profile of the "lone wolf" threat in the West. A French-Algerian gunman killed three off-duty French soldiers and four Jewish civilians on a rampage in southern France last year.

Britain's involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the past decade has often stirred anger among British Muslims and occasionally made soldiers a target at home. British police have foiled at least two major plots in which Islamist suspects were accused of planning to kill members of the military.

Cameron's office officials had welcomed the condemnation from most mainstream British Muslim groups but that the national security committee had discussed community cohesion.

In signs of a backlash after the attack, more than 100 angry supporters of the English Defence League, a far-right street protest group, took to the streets on Wednesday, some wearing balaclavas and carrying England's red and white flag. They were contained by riot police.

Separately, two men were arrested in connection with separate attacks on mosques outside London. No one was hurt.

Fred Oyat, a 44-year-old local resident, said he witnessed the attack on the soldier from the window of his high-rise apartment overlooking the scene.

"The victim was white," he told Reuters. "I was in my house when four shots rung out. I went to the window I saw a man lying on the ground with a lot of blood."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/london-attacker-british-born-nigerian-descent-source-103255576.html

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Haha, Microsoft Uses Siri to Make Fun of the iPad in a Commercial

Microsoft, which has been trying to force Windows Phone into the Android and iPhone conversation in its recent commercials, is going head on against Apple in its latest spot. That's not surprising (as Samsung loves to pick at Cupertino all the time), but what's hilarious is that Microsoft is using Apple's own Siri to do the ribbing in the commercial. You can hear Siri poke fun of the iPad when compared to the Surface in the ad. It's pretty good (for a commercial). [Windows Video]

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87-year-old woman loses to Trump in civil case

CHICAGO (AP) ? An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday ? she lost.

Jurors sided with the real estate mogul-turned-TV showman in a weeklong civil trial focused on Jacqueline Goldberg's claim that Trump cheated her in a condo bait-and-switch scheme.

The federal jury in Chicago returned with a finding in Trump's favor. Goldberg, of Evanston, had sought various damages totaling around $6 million.

Goldberg herself showed little emotion but her attorney, Shelly Kulwin, slumped over and buried his head on a courtroom table. Trump's attorney Stephen Novack smiled and nodded his head in gratitude at the jury.

The case pitted the suburban Chicago woman against a New Yorker who revels in his image as a big talker with big ideas. Many know him best for his catchphrase on his "Apprentice" TV show: "You're fired!"

In sarcasm-filled closings, Kulwin described Trump in stark, extreme terms ? as villainous and greedy. Trump wasn't in court, but Kulwin displayed a giant photograph of Trump.

"The thought of my grandma being in the same room with that guy. Yuck!" Kulwin boomed.

The dispute centered on the glitzy Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, one of several showcase towers Trump has named after himself elsewhere, including New York, Las Vegas and Hawaii.

Goldberg accused Trump of wooing her into buying two condos at $1 million apiece in the mid-2000s by dangling a promise of share in building profits ? then reneging on the promise after she committed to buying.

At trial, Novack grappled with the portrayal of Goldberg as a former waitress and hat-check girl who learned her values living through the Depression and working her way through college.

He told jurors in his closing he also loved grandmothers, saying, "I happen to be married to one."

But, he added, Goldberg was also a sophisticated, detail-oriented investor who signed a contract stipulating Trump could do what he did: cancel the profit-sharing plan anytime he saw fit.

An often-scowling Trump spent two days testifying himself, bragging about the quality of his developments, verbally sparring with an opposing attorney and drawing rebukes from the judge.

On the stand, Trump denied he ever cheated anyone. Off it, he blasted the woman who brought him there, telling reporters he was the victim, not her. He declared, "She's trying to rip me off."

Goldberg isn't the first to complain about a Trump development.

Dozens of investors in the Las Vegas' five-year-old Trump International Hotel & Tower sued Trump, alleging he manufactured "a purchasing frenzy" to get them to buy in before the property market collapsed.

An arbiter, though, sided with Trump in 2011, and U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro in Las Vegas later refused the disgruntled investors' request to nullify the arbitration finding.

When Goldberg took the stand herself after Trump, she told jurors she initially had qualms about suing such an influential figure. But she added, "Somebody had to stand up to him."

Goldberg told jurors it was Trump's very star power that initially drew her toward investing with him. But it was the profit-sharing proposal that, for her, sealed the deal, she said.

During his testimony, Trump kept talking over Kulwin while Kulwin kept rolling his eyes at Trump's answers, prompting Judge Amy St. Eve to order both men to "stop boxing each other" and behave.

Trump's testimony offered a rare inside look at the business style of the 66-year-old who scrutinizes the competence of contestants carrying out management tasks on his TV show.

He told jurors that he signed every business check in his organization. He also said he couldn't remember when key business decisions were made because he and his top executives aren't in the habit of taking notes.

City pride also intervened at one point in closings when Kulwin made an unfavorable reference to executives in New York.

"Judge, he's mocking New York," Trump's attorney said, standing to object.

"I can't mock New York?" Kulwin shot back. "I thought it was every Chicagoans right to do that."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/87-old-woman-loses-trump-civil-case-192753413.html

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Footwear's (carbon) footprint: Bulk of shoes' carbon footprint comes from manufacturing processes

May 22, 2013 ? A typical pair of running shoes generates 30 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to keeping a 100-watt light bulb on for one week, according to a new MIT-led lifecycle assessment.

But what's surprising to researchers isn't the size of a shoe's carbon footprint, but where the majority of that footprint comes from.

The researchers found that more than two-thirds of a running shoe's carbon impact can come from manufacturing processes, with a smaller percentage arising from acquiring or extracting raw materials. This breakdown is expected for more complex products such as electronics, where the energy that goes into manufacturing fine, integrated circuits can outweigh the energy expended in processing raw materials. But for "less-advanced" products -- particularly those that don't require electronic components -- the opposite is often the case.

So why does a pair of sneakers, which may seem like a relatively simple product, emit so much more carbon dioxide in its manufacturing phase?

A team led by Randolph Kirchain, principal research scientist in MIT's Materials Systems Laboratory, and research scientist Elsa Olivetti broke down the various steps involved in both materials extraction and manufacturing of one pair of running shoes to identify hotspots of greenhouse-gas emissions. The group found that much of the carbon impact came from powering manufacturing plants: A significant portion of the world's shoe manufacturers are located in China, where coal is the dominant source of electricity. Coal is also typically used to generate steam or run other processes in the plant itself.

A typical pair of running shoes comprises 65 discrete parts requiring more than 360 processing steps to assemble, from sewing and cutting to injection molding, foaming and heating. Olivetti, Kirchain and their colleagues found that for these small, light components such processes are energy-intensive -- and therefore, carbon-intensive -- compared with the energy that goes into making shoe materials, such as polyester and polyurethane.

The group's results, Kirchain says, will help shoe designers identify ways to improve designs and reduce shoes' carbon footprint. He adds that the findings may also help industries assess the carbon impact of similar consumer products more efficiently.

"Understanding environmental footprint is resource intensive. The key is, you need to put your analytical effort into the areas that matter," Kirchain says. "In general, we found that if you have a product that has a relatively high number of parts and process steps, and that is relatively light [weight], then you want to make sure you don't overlook manufacturing."

Kirchain and his colleagues have published their results in the Journal of Cleaner Production.

The sum of a shoe's parts

In 2010, nearly 25 billion shoes were purchased around the world, the majority of them manufactured in China and other developing countries. As Kirchain and his co-authors write in their paper, "An industry of that scale and geographic footprint has come under great pressure regarding its social and environmental impact."

In response, companies have started to take account of their products' greenhouse-gas contributions, in part by measuring the amount of carbon dioxide associated with every process throughout a product's lifecycle. One such company, ASICS, an athletic equipment company based in Japan, approached Kirchain to perform a lifecycle assessment for a running shoe manufactured in China.

The team took a "cradle-to-grave" approach, breaking down every possible greenhouse gas-emitting step: from the point at which the shoes' raw materials are extracted to the shoes' demise, whether burned, landfilled or recycled.

The researchers divided the shoes' lifecycle into five major stages: materials, manufacturing, usage, transportation and end-of-life. These last three stages, they found, contributed very little to the product's carbon footprint. For example, running shoes, unlike electronics, require very little energy to use, aside from the energy needed to infrequently wash the shoes.

The bulk of emissions, they found, came from manufacturing. While part of the manufacturing footprint is attributable to a facility's energy source, other emissions came from processes such as foaming and injection molding of parts of a sneaker's sole, which expend large amounts of energy in the manufacture of small, lightweight parts. As Kirchain explains it, "You have a lot of effort going into the molding of the material, but you're only getting a very small part out of that process."

"What stood out was this manufacturing burden being on par with materials, which we hadn't seen in similar products," Olivetti adds. "Part of that is because it's a synthetic product. If we were looking at a leather shoe, it would be much more materials-driven because of the carbon intensity of leather production."

An improved design

In tallying the carbon emissions from every part of a running shoe's lifecycle, the researchers were also able to spot places where reductions might be made. For example, they observed that manufacturing facilities tend to throw out unused material. Instead, Kirchain and his colleagues suggest recycling these scraps, as well as combining certain parts of the shoe to eliminate cutting and welding steps. Printing certain features onto a shoe, instead of affixing them as separate fabrics, would also streamline the assembly process.

Kirchain and Olivetti view their results as a guide for companies looking to evaluate the impact of similar products.

"When people are trying for streamlined approaches to [lifecycle assessments], often they put emphasis on the materials impact, which makes a lot of sense," Olivetti says. "But we tried to identify a set of characteristics that would point you to making sure you were also looking at the manufacturing side -- when it matters."

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BWCC News: Lyals Battle New Position with MBDA Business Center

Lyals Battle, a member of the BWCC GovCon Council, has recently begun a new position as a business consultant with the MBDA Business Center in Washington, DC.? The MBDA Business Center is a business development consulting group managed by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) that provides services in facilitating access to capital; providing access to markets; enhancing business efficiencies, etc.?

The MBDA Business Center of Washington, DC has developed a stellar record in providing consulting services to minority businesses since its inception in 2004..? The Center has helped its clients to secure more than $1.6 billion in financing and over $380 million in contract awards, and has assisting in creating over 1,450 new jobs.? The Center has also served over 850 minority businesses.? It?s clients range in annual revenues from $1 million to more than $100 million and represent a variety of industries, including construction, customer service, event planning, information technology, janitorial, logistical services, management consulting, office products, etc.

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More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows

An American flag blows in the wind at sunrise atop the rubble of a destroyed home a day after a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

An American flag blows in the wind at sunrise atop the rubble of a destroyed home a day after a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

A member of a security team helps guard an area of rubble from a destroyed residential neighborhood, one day after a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against the winds. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

A deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. A quick look at some basic facts:

Q. Is global warming to blame?

A. You can't blame a single weather event on global warming. In any case, scientists just don't know whether there will be more or fewer twisters as global warming increases. Tornadoes arise from very local conditions, and so they're not as influenced by climate change as much as larger weather systems like hurricanes and nor'easters. They're not easy to incorporate in the large computer simulations scientists use to gauge the impact of global warming.

And when scientists ponder the key weather ingredients that lead to twisters, there's still no clear answer about whether to expect more or fewer twisters. Some scientists theorize that the jet stream is changing because sea ice in the Arctic is shrinking. And the jet stream pattern drives weather in the Northern Hemisphere.

Q. How does this tornado season stack up against previous ones?

A. The season got off to a quiet start this year. Typically, there are more during spring, and the numbers dwindle in the worst heat of the summer. An unusually cool spring kept the funnel clouds at bay until mid-May this year. The last two seasons illustrate the extremes in tornado activity. In 2011, the United States saw its second-deadliest tornado season. Last year, it was busy in April but there were few twisters after that.

Q. What happened in Oklahoma?

A. The tornado destroyed an elementary school and flattened neighborhoods with winds up to 200 miles an hour. The National Weather Service made a preliminary ranking of the twister as an EF4, the second-most-powerful classification.

Q. How did it form?

A. Like the most destructive and deadly tornadoes, this one came from a rotating thunderstorm. The thunderstorm developed in an area where warm moist air rose into cooler air. Winds in the area caused the storm to rotate, and that rotation promoted the development of a tornado.

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Kerry vows better security at US diplomatic posts

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Secretary of State John Kerry is vowing that the Obama administration will spare no expense or effort to protect U.S. diplomats serving overseas.

Speaking to State Department trainees on Monday, Kerry said he was fully committed to implementing and expanding on the recommendations of an independent review board that investigated the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. He said the risks to American officials abroad are not new and noted that most of the 244 diplomats who have been honored for having been killed in the line of duty died long before Benghazi.

Kerry said the risks can never be eliminated, but they can and will be mitigated because America's national security interests demand diplomatic outreach even in the most dangerous places.

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Why Brushing Your Teeth Makes Orange Juice Taste Like Death

If you're going to have a glass of orange juice and brush your teeth (a good idea), there's only one order in which to do them. It makes sense that your minty toothpaste-mouth would make OJ taste weird, but why so down-right heinous?

As Bytesize Science explains, it's because your tongue gets coated with a particularly troublesome foamy oral detergent. It's about as tasty as it sounds. But whatever the reason, it's not the worst thing in the world; you should be brushing your teeth after breakfast anyway, you freak. [Bytesize Science]

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Legal Theory Lexicon: Conduct Rules and Decision Rules

Introduction

Substantive rules of law (such as the rules of torts, contract, and property) are usually assumed to be addressed to two audiences. As?conduct rules, the substantive law is addressed to everyone (citizens, officials, and noncitizens). Thus, property law tells us who has dominion over which resources. If this land is mine, then the law communicates the message that I can use my land and exclude others from its use. These very same legal rules also serve as?decision rules, they tell courts how to resolve disputes. We usually assume that the content of the conduct rules are the decision rules are identical, but this need not be the case.

Acoustic Separation

Professor Meir Dan-Cohen of U.C. Berkeley proposed a very famous thought experiment. He asked us to imagine?acoustic separation?between ordinary citizens, who would only "hear" the conduct rules, and officials (such as judges), to whom the decision rules would be addressed. You might imagine that courtrooms are isolated by a giant "cone of silence".

Dan-Cohen's thought experiment leads naturally to the following question: should decision rules and conduct rules have the same content or should they differ?? And if they differ, how could the law prevent acoustic leakage, e.g. prevent ordinary citizens from learning about the content of the decision rules?

Example?

Here's a pretty clear example. Suppose that we have a conduct rule that says, "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." This might be a good conduct rule, because we want citizens to inform themselves about the content of the law, and we certainly don't want citizens deliberately insulating themselves from knowledge of the law in order to create a defense if they charged with its violation. But at the same time, we might prefer that ignorance of the law would serve as an excuse, at least some of the time, when it comes to actually convicting and punishing defendants. Punishment is expensive and injurious, and sometimes no really good purpose will be served by punishing someone who is reasonably ignorant of the law's content.

The Technology of Acoustice Separation

But how can we excuse ignorance of the law without altering the conduct rule?? One way to accomplish this goal would involve some obfuscation by judges. Opinions might state boldly: "Ignorance of the law is no excuse," while simultaneously excusing ignorant defendants on the ground that "knowledge of the legal status of the intentional content is part of the mental state that is an element of the crime." The first formulation is easily accessible to ordinary folks; the second is couched in language that may be opaque except to those trained in the law.

Normative Implications

Even if it is possible to create acoustic separation between conduct rules and decision rules, doing so may be problematic on normative grounds.? For utilitarians or welfarists, the only question is whether acoustic separation will produce good consequences, but for fairness-based (or deontological) approaches, the deception involved in acoustic separation seems problematic.? This intuition is reflected in a variety of legal doctrines (such as the "void for vagueness" doctrine in constitutional law) and in the notion of "publicity" that is usually included in formulations of the ideal of the rule of law.

Using the Distinction?

The distinction between conduct rules and decision rules may not arise frequently--because the conditions for acoustic separation may be rare and because the law usually aims at congruence between the two sorts of rules, but in almost every legal context the distinction could become relevant.? It is almost always worth asking, "Is there any discrepancy between the conduct rules and decision rules in this area of law?"? And if there is such a discrepancy, then further questions are in order: "Is this accidental or does it serve some function?" and "Is this instance of acoustic separation normatively justified?"

References

Meir Dan-Cohen?Decision Rules and Conduct rules: On Acoustic Separation in Criminal Law, 97 Harvard Law Review 625 (1984) (available to subscribers on Jstor?and anthologized in Meir Dan-Cohen,?Harmful Thoughts: Essays on Law, Self, and Morality(Cambridge University Press 2002).

Criminal Law Conversations?(Paul H. Robinson, Stephen Garvey, & Kimberley Kessler Ferzan eds., Oxford University Press 2009). ?This volume contains several essays that comment on Dan-Cohen's idea.

Paul H. Robinson,?Rules of Conduct?and Principles of Adjudication, 57 U. Chi. L. Rev. 729 (1990).

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Refresh Roundup: week of May 13th, 2013

Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it's easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don't escape without notice, we've gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!

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Tree health policy to 'stop spread'

20 May 2013 Last updated at 08:20 ET By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News

Strengthening biosecurity at UK borders and a plant health risk register would help protect the nation's trees from pests and diseases, a report concludes.

The recommendations were made by the Tree Health and Plant Biosecurity Expert Taskforce, convened by the UK environment secretary.

Tree experts have warned that UK tree species face an "unprecedented threat" from non-native pests and diseases.

The report was unveiled on Monday at the 100th Chelsea Flower Show.

The taskforce was convened in November 2012, after the potential devastating ash dieback disease was recorded for the first time in the wider environment, to review domestic and international risks to UK trees and shrubs from new and emerging pests and diseases.

Taskforce chairman Prof Chris Gilligan said: "The UK needs to be better prepared for threats to plant health.

"In the last few years alone, several previously unknown pests and pathogens have emerged, posing significant risks to the UK's crops as well as trees in woodlands, commercial forests and in urban environments."

Plant scientists at a number of government bodies, including the Forestry Commission and the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), have warned that the threat from pathogens was continuing to grow as a result of increasing levels of international trade and travel, and changes to the environment.

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Environment Secretary Owen Paterson welcomed the report's recommendations, adding that plant health was one of Defra's top priorities.

"We are already working on implementing a plant health risk register and are putting plans in place to predict and control the spread of tree diseases," he said.

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Symptoms of ash dieback

• Diseased saplings typically display dead tops and side shoots.
• Lesions often found at base of dead side shoots.
• Lesions on branch or stem can cause wilting of foliage above.
• Disease affects mature trees by killing off new growth.

Mr Paterson added that he planned to hold a summit "with all the main people, groups and businesses who have an interest in our trees".

He also revealed that he planned to impose an import ban on sweet chestnut trees from areas where sweet chestnut blight was considered a problem.

Recently, the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) called for an import ban as the blight (caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica), usually fatal to infected trees, continued to spread through much of mainland Europe.

The UK had a close escape in late 2011 when the disease was identified at nine locations but the infected trees were destroyed before the fungus became established in the surrounding environment.

Speaking to the BBC, Fera's head of plant health public engagement Dr David Slawson echoed Prof Gilligan's views: "Firstly, it is important to say that is very difficult to prioritise what are the main threats but I would always say the main threat is 'unknown'."

"It may sound slightly alarming, but the likes of Phytophthora ramorum was not defined by science when it started causing problems."

The Forestry Commission said P. ramorum, first found in the UK in 2002, infected few trees until 2009 when the pathogen was found infecting and killing large numbers of Japanese larch trees - an important economic timber species - in South West England.

Since then, it has been recorded in all other British nations and the Northern Ireland.

'Time for action'

The HTA said the ash dieback outbreak illustrated the "severe implications that pests and diseases can have on the UK natural environment and rural economy".

HTA policy manager Gary Scroby said the taskforce's call for a plant health risk register was one that the horticulture industry fully supported.

"Our members need to know where to look for up-to-date scientific advice on plant health concerns, and it is therefore important that the proposed register is refreshed on a regular basis," he said.

Woodland Trust chief executive Sue Holden said a "stringent and robust" tree health action plan from the government was long overdue.

"So we are relieved to move a step closer to it today with this essential piece of work from the taskforce," she said.

Ms Holden added that the Trust was pleased Owen Paterson had stated the government considered plant health as equally serious as animal health.

"It should be noted, however, that last year animal health received 15 times more funding than plant health, so we believe there is still a great deal of work to be done to level the playing field."

Prof Gilligan, head of Cambridge University's School of Biological Sciences, said:"By increasing our understanding of what pests and diseases are the biggest threats and how best to mitigate their impact, we can minimise potentially devastating outbreaks."

The report was launched at the Stop the Spread show garden at the Chelsea Flower Show, which was designed to contrast "the beauty of a British garden with the potentially damaging effects that plant pests, diseases and invasive non-native species could have on our gardens, woodlands and countryside".

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Caesars Entertainment Atlantic City Presents the Atlantic City Food ...

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Caesars Entertainment Atlantic City will proudly present the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival?s fifth annual celebration, beginning Thursday, July 25, with events taking place throughout the weekend.The four-day culinary and spirits festival, will feature a star-studded roster of the world?s most renowned culinary experts and TV personalities, including Robert Irvine, Rocco DiSpirito and The Neelys, and more.? Festival guests will have access to events at all four Caesars Entertainment resorts and casinos ? Caesars, Harrah?s Resort, Showboat and Bally?s, and this year, the beach!

?Tourism along the Jersey Shore and famed Atlantic City Boardwalk is alive and well and we?re thrilled to bring back the exciting Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival for its fifth anniversary celebration,? says Danny Brockdorf, Regional Vice President of Marketing for Caesars Entertainment. ??Despite the challenges brought on by Hurricane Sandy last October, the Jersey Shore is as strong as ever and we are looking forward to attracting both new visitors and loyalists to Atlantic City for a weekend of amazing food, great wine and spirits and all-round Jersey fun.?

?Amazing Venues ? Celebrity Chefs ? Food ? Wine ? The Beach!

The 2013 festival will present an acclaimed roster of both local and national talent and will once again showcase several of the world?s greatest culinary influencers as well as authorities in the wine, beer and spirits industry. With access to a multitude of unparalleled events including delicious tastings and dazzling demonstrations, the festival will offer delicacies for every palate.? Festival highlights include:

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• The Grand Market: Foodies, prepare your palate for perfection! The signature event of the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival, The Grand Market will most certainly be the indulgence highlight of your year.? Our exclusive world of dining perfection is sure to excite, inspire and amaze. Eat and drink your way through this eclectic tasting village. Featuring a wide selection of foods, wines, craft brews and liquors from world-renowned culinary masters, you will experience a true flavor adventure during your three-hour gourmet journey. And when you find something you love, take it home with you! Purchase your favorite flavors while culinary demos by celebrity chefs provide you with tips to enhance your home dining experiences.

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• Blues Brews & BBQ: Throw on your boots, foodies ? this festival is taking a tasty trip to the south! Kick your feet up as BBQ vendors take over and cook up some the best ribs, chicken and brisket you?ve ever tasted. And let?s not forget about the ice-cold beer! While you?re here, you can purchase some of the latest BBQ merchandise around.

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• Beach Soir?e: It?s time to let loose and have some fun, because when the sun goes down, the festival heats up. Enjoy an evening beachside party while savoring refreshing cocktails and gourmet passed appetizers. After all, live entertainment, dancing and fun are always a great way to end your day. Robert Irvine and The Neelys will host this exclusive Beach Soiree, welcoming you to a party that you won?t soon forget.

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• Gospel Brunch: Start your Sunday with some serious flavor! Join us at the House of Blues for an inspiring gospel performance and an amazing buffet. The Neelys will be on hand to welcome you with a tasty hospitality and a hearty spread. While the choir performs, you can enjoy a delicious, traditional buffet featuring pecan caramel sticky buns, hickory-smoked bacon and sausage links, homemade biscuits and country gravy, homemade waffles, an omelet station, southern fried chicken, homemade macaroni and cheese, Creole chicken and shrimp jambalaya and much more!?

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• Island Luau: Aloha indulgence! It?s time to party, island-style. Immerse yourself into a world of hula dancers and flamethrowers while The Neelys host this island luau featuring their spin on some of your favorite Hawaiian treats. Throughout the event, you?ll be whisked away to a tropical oasis right here on the Harrah?s Resort Pool Deck as the sun majestically sets in the distance. Come hungry, because on this island the food really is paradise!

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Tickets for the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival will go on sale March 8, 2013 and can be purchased online at www.acfoodandwine.com, www.ticketmaster.com or by calling Ticketmaster at 800-736-1420.

Caesars Entertainment Total Rewards members will have the opportunity to purchase discounted tickets to all Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival events during the pre-sale dates, beginning Friday, February 22^nd at 10am.? The Early-Bird public pre-sale starts on Friday, March 1^st at 10am with the full public on-sale for all events kicking off on Friday, March 8^th at 10am.

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About Caesars Entertainment

Caesars Entertainment Corporation is the world?s largest casino entertainment company. Since its beginning in Reno, Nevada, more than 70 years ago, Caesars has grown through development of new resorts, expansions and acquisitions, and now operates casinos on four continents. The company?s resorts operate primarily under the Harrah?s?, Caesars? and Horseshoe? brand names. Caesars also owns the World Series of Poker? and the London Clubs International family of casinos. Caesars Entertainment is focused on building loyalty and value with its guests through a unique combination of great service, excellent products, unsurpassed distribution, operational excellence and technology leadership. Caesars is committed to environmental sustainability and energy conservation and recognizes the importance of being a responsible steward of the environment.? For more information, please visit www.caesars.com.

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Scientists shape first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan

May 15, 2013 ? Scientists have created the first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, giving researchers a valuable tool for learning more about one of the most Earthlike and interesting worlds in the solar system.

Titan is Saturn's largest moon -- at 1,600 miles (2,574 kilometers) across it's bigger than planet Mercury -- and is the second-largest in the solar system. Scientists care about Titan because it's the only moon in the solar system known to have clouds, surface liquids and a mysterious, thick atmosphere. The cold atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, like Earth's, but methane on Titan acts the way water vapor does on Earth, forming clouds and falling as rain and carving the surface with rivers. Organic chemicals, derived from methane, are present in Titan's atmosphere, lakes and rivers and may offer clues about the origins of life.

"Titan has so much interesting activity -- like flowing liquids and moving sand dunes -- but to understand these processes it's useful to know how the terrain slopes," says Ralph Lorenz, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., who led the map-design team. "It's especially helpful to those studying hydrology and modeling Titan's climate and weather, who need to know whether there is high ground or low ground driving their models."

Titan's thick haze scatters light in ways that make it very hard for remote cameras to "see" landscape shapes and shadows, the usual approach to measuring topography on planetary bodies. Virtually all the data we have on Titan comes from NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft, which has flown past the moon nearly 100 times over the past decade. On many of those flybys, Cassini has used a radar imager, which can peer through the haze, and the radar data can be used to estimate the surface height.

"With this new topographic map, one of the most fascinating and dynamic worlds in our solar system now pops out in 3-D," says Steve Wall, the deputy lead of Cassini's radar team, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "On Earth, rivers, volcanoes, and even weather are closely related to heights of surfaces -- we're now eager to see what we can learn from them on Titan."

There are challenges, however. "Cassini isn't orbiting Titan," Lorenz says. "We have only imaged about half of Titan's surface, and multiple 'looks' or special observations are needed to estimate the surface heights. If you divided Titan into 1-degree by 1-degree [latitude and longitude] squares, only 11 percent of those squares have topography data in them."

Lorenz's team used a mathematical process called splining -- effectively using smooth curved surfaces to "join" the areas between grids of existing data. "You can take a spot where there is no data, look how close it is to the nearest data, and use various approaches of averaging and estimating to calculate your best guess," he says. "If you pick a point, and all the nearby points are high altitude, you'd need a special reason for thinking that point would be lower. We're mathematically papering over the gaps in our coverage."

The estimations fit with current knowledge of the moon -- that its polar regions are "lower" than areas around the equator, for example -- but connecting those points allows scientists to add new layers to their studies of Titan's surface, especially those modeling how and where Titan's rivers flow, and the seasonal distribution of its methane rainfall. "The movement of sands and the flow of liquids are influenced by slopes, and mountains can trigger cloud formation and therefore rainfall. This global product now gives modelers a convenient description of this key factor in Titan's dynamic climate system," Lorenz says.

The most recent data used to compile the map is from 2012; Lorenz says it could be worth revising when the Cassini mission ends in 2017, when more data will have accumulated, filling some of the gaps in present coverage. "We felt we couldn't wait and should release an interim product," he says. "The community has been hoping to get this for a while. I think it will stimulate a lot of interesting work."

The map, as well as a paper on the project ("A Global Topography Map of Titan"), appear in the journal Icarus (see link to abstract below).

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and ASI, the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the US and several European countries.

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Investing in Carnival Games | Uncommon Wisdom Daily

Publisher?s Note:

If there?s one universal goal that unites investors, it?s the peace of mind that comes with having a healthy, protected nest egg available when we or our loved ones need it most.

The good news is, there is truly an unlimited amount of profit that can be made in the markets. Just about anyone can become a success story by making consistently smart, safe decisions.

However, with the markets climbing to new all-time highs day after day, we?re faced with as many opportunities as questions about just how long the good times will last this time.

Because we?ve all seen too many flash crashes and bear markets, we know that there?s no time like right now to stock up on investments that can reward us regularly, both in good times as well as uncertain ones.

And so, a lot of you have been writing in, asking about our favorite, lowest-risk ways to participate in today?s market, without putting the wealth you?ve accumulated over a lifetime in harm?s way.

As our friend and colleague Nilus Mattive shared with you yesterday, there?s a wide universe of stocks that can work hard on your behalf by generating income for you every day that you own them.

Today, in the second of a four-part series, Nilus expands on that idea a bit further, showing you where you can find some of these hardworking stocks while giving you some insights that are both humorous and yet brutally accurate.

Enjoy this story, and I?ll rejoin you at the bottom with today?s top stories and a timely comment from reader Alex V. I think we can all relate to. ? Best wishes, Brad

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Last week I found myself reading a news item with the following headline: ?Man Loses Life Savings Playing Carnival Game, Wins Giant Banana.?

I mean, how could anyone NOT want to hear that story, right?

In case you didn?t see it, here?s the gist ?

A 30-year-old New Hampshire man was at a fair when he started playing a game called ?Tubs of Fun.? His intent was to win a $100 Xbox Kinect.

After blowing $300 trying unsuccessfully, he did what any dedicated person might do ? he went home, grabbed the rest of his life savings ($2,300), and proceeded to toss all of THAT money into the carny?s bucket, too!

A day later the man returned to the carnival, and complained. He was refunded $300 ? plus a stuffed banana with dreadlocks.

Still unsatisfied, he filed a report with the local police requesting a deeper investigation into whether the game was rigged.

And in an equally strange ending to this bizarre tale, a website ended up reimbursing him for all his losses after the story went viral and garnered an outpouring of response from all corners of the Internet.

So What Does This Story Have
To Do With Investing? Everything!

Besides being one more piece of evidence that moral hazard is alive and well in America, this story illustrates the very idea of (literally) throwing good money after bad.

Heck, even when I was in elementary school I knew that carnival games were almost ALWAYS rigged in some way!

So, yes, the idea of a grown man squandering more than $2,000 on a ball-toss game ? for a prize worth $100 ? borders on the absurd.

Yet millions of investors do the same thing on a regular basis, with far-greater sums of money.

Sound investing is about putting the odds in your favor.

They succumb to the same deadly combination of impulse, miscalculated odds and a cavalier attitude toward their money ?

They take outsized risks for very small potential rewards ?

And once they?re deep in the hole, they start taking even BIGGER chances in the hopes of making things right again!

Obviously, I advocate a much-different approach. It?s a pretty simple two-step process, really:

Step #1. Set some cash aside for emergencies ? and not the kind that involve carnival games.

Having some money in reserve just helps you sleep well at night. Moreover, it also gives you the ability to hop on opportunities that pop up during short-term market swings.

It doesn?t matter to me whether you keep the money in cold, hard cash ? in an ultra-conservative money market fund ? or in some other physical asset like gold.

The point is just that you need to feel comfortable and prepared for life?s inevitable curveballs. Because only then are you ready to invest with confidence and for the longer term.

That brings me to ?

Step #2. Put the bulk of your wealth in investments that produce big streams of cash.

This is why I love dividend stocks so much. The very best ones kick off big ? and growing ? streams of steady income no matter what the market does in the short term. Meanwhile, high-quality dividend-payers also tend to rise handsomely over time.

Better yet, you can find solid dividends in just about every corner of the markets: blue-chip firms that sell big-name household products ? natural-resource companies that operate as Master Limited Partnerships ? high-growth technology companies ? and even plenty of far-flung foreign investments!

Of course, dividend stocks are just one example of the kind of cash-gushing investments I recommend focusing on.

There are also niche parts of the bond market that can hand you outsized returns with minimal risk. For example, I Bonds remain great investments at current rates. And I also continue to recommend high-grade corporate debt through low-cost mutual funds like Vanguard?s VFICX.

Plus, you can invest in real estate in all its various forms ? everything from individual properties to Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).

The critical part is focusing on lower-risk, higher-reward strategies that pay you through thick and thin. After all, you can?t retire on stuffed bananas!

Best wishes,
Nilus

P.S. I?ll be back with another piece tomorrow at this same time. In the meantime, Brad wanted me to remind you that Sean Brodrick?s newest presentation about investing in junior-resource companies comes offline at 11:59 p.m. TONIGHT ? and, along with it, a special offer to subscribe to Sean?s Junior Resource Millionaire service at a steeply discounted price. So if you haven?t yet claimed your potential $1,195 reward just for watching, click here now so you don?t miss out!

Now, let me turn it back over to Brad for today?s market highlights ?

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In Other Market News:

• Low prices at the pump boosted retail sales by 0.1% in April, after a 0.5% decline in March. ?The big positive here is that the declines in gas and food prices appear to be freeing up cash for spending in other places,? opines Mark Vitner, senior economist for Wells Fargo. ?The first few months of the year were dominated by the rise in the payroll tax. After having to stretch their budgets early in the year, consumers have a little newfound cash.?

• Retailers whose fortunes are tied to the housing market are also seeing some improvement. Vitner warns, however, ?This is not a game-changing report for consumer spending.?

• The House of Representatives recently passed the ?Full Faith and Credit Act,? which prioritizes Treasury debt payments and Social Security payments in the event the U.S. hits its debt ceiling. While Treasury debt and S.S. would be protected, unemployment benefits, Medicare payments, and salaries for military personnel and air-traffic controllers would not be protected, drawing criticism from some.

• Alan Binder, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, points out: ?Ending the Treasury?s legal authority to float more debt means the budget must be balanced immediately. Even if you think balancing the budget is a sensible long-run goal, balancing it in a day is a horrible idea.?

• Web surfing is becoming more social, thanks to advances and increased competition in software, browsers and functionality. Apple?s Safari controls 59% of the mobile-browsing market thanks to the popularity of the iPhone, while Microsoft?s Internet Explorer controls 56% of the desktop market. Google?s Chrome has just released software to allow developers to add voice recognition to their websites and to allow users to sync their Google notes directly with their Google Drive storage service.

• With new ?add-ons? and apps that feature games and third-party software from a home screen, Jay Sullivan, COO of Mozilla, says browsing ?will be more lively, quick and fun.? Mozilla has rolled social media integration for its Firefox browser and is working to convince website developers to adopt a new identity system called Persona, which would eliminate passwords.

• Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications (which owns 55%) and Vodafone Group (45%), will pay out a $7 billion dividend to its owners, down from $8.5 billion last year. This distribution, payable June 25, comes as a surprise to Verizon Chief Executive Lowell McAdams, who had hinted Verizon Wireless might not pay a dividend this year.

• Verizon is encouraging Vodafone to sell its 45% stake in the venture. One Citigroup analyst said the timing of the dividend payment suggests a deal is not imminent, but they ?still ascribe a 55% probability? of a buyout within 12 months.

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Thanks to Nilus for today?s lead story, and thank you to our readers for your insights, questions and other feedback. Keep your comments coming!

I enjoy hearing what you have to say, and giving you the information you need to make the best-possible investing decisions for your own account.

Alex V. writes:

?I think Bill Gross (who declared an end to the bond bull run) has anticipated the fact that Bernanke and the Fed have to remove the foot from the pedal. There are those who say the landing will not be soft. Let us see what other central banks do also.

?Improper pricing of certain values in assets exists as a result of the sustained relaxed and stimulative monetary policies that have been maintained steadily for so long. Good luck, and safe landing.?

Alex, we are in agreement here! Keep watch, because we are currently hard at work preparing a special presentation about the bear market in bonds and the ramifications it can have for our readers. Make sure to keep your eyes peeled; it?s shaping up to be fantastic.

And remember, I headed up the research team (which included Nilus Mattive, the writer of today?s lead story as well) that predicted, as early as last summer, the peak of the bond market to occur this year. So, we?ve been watching this move for a good long while.

Let us know your view on bonds, fixed assets and income-paying stocks. You can reach us at feedback@uncommonwisdomdaily.com.

Good Luck and Happy Investing.

Brad Hoppman
Publisher
Uncommon Wisdom Daily

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Video Game to Help Kids Fight Cancer

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Doctors can't inject cancer patients with intelligent nanobots programmed to launch surgical counterstrikes against the disease. That didn't stop a team of medical researchers and software programmers from developing a video game several years ago that helped young patients imagine such an empowering scenario. Based on the success of that project, the team recently launched a sequel geared for mobile devices that they hope will further encourage kids undergoing chemotherapy and other treatments to better understand what's happening inside their bodies and how they might regain their health. Re-Mission 2 is a collection of six free online games--accessible via Web browser or Apple iPad--that share the theme of taking the fight to cancer. They do this by arming patients with a virtual arsenal of chemo, radiation and targeted cancer drug attacks designed to crush advancing malignant forces. The game--and its 2006 predecessor Re-Mission--are the product of HopeLab, a nonprofit founded in 2001 by Pamela Omidyar, wife of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. It's hard to deny that a diversion such as "Stem Cell Defender," in which players protect white blood cells from a bacteria invasion by unleashing antibiotic bombs, could do wonders for a child's morale during long waits at a doctor's office or hospital. (Bacterial infections, nausea and constipation are some treatment-related effects patients may experience.) HopeLab, however, insists the games do more even more than this, claiming they improve treatment outcomes by educating young patients about the disease and how it can be fought. Such knowledge makes these patients more likely to adhere closely to their treatment regimens. HopeLab has backed this claim over the past few years with a number of studies, although the organization is careful not to directly associate game play with actual cancer remission. In the most recent study, HopeLab worked with Stanford University associate professor of psychology and neuroscience Brian Knutson on a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study analyzing brain regions activated when people play the original Re-Mission. The paper, published in the March 2012 PLoS ONE, compared brain scans in 57 cancer-free undergraduates who were randomly assigned to actively play Re-Mission or passively watch the game. Re-Mission players experienced more activity in neural circuits associated with incentive motivation when compared to those who merely observed game play. Such reward-related activation could shift attitudes and emotions and boost players' adherence to prescribed chemotherapy and antibiotic treatments to fight infection, the researchers said, although they acknowledge that further tests are needed on actual cancer patients before they can read too much into the results. An earlier study published in the journal Pediatrics in August 2008 (pdf) sought to determine whether video games could encourage adolescent and young-adult cancer patients to more consistently take self-administered treatments such as oral chemotherapy, a particularly difficult problem in that age group. The study--which included 374 adolescents and young adults with malignancies including acute leukemia, lymphoma, and soft-tissue sarcoma--found that those who played Re-Mission took their medication more consistently, increased their knowledge of the disease and generally played a more active role in their treatment (pdf). Although that study was led by principal investigator and former HopeLab president and CEO Pamela Kato, it also included researchers from West Virginia University and the University of Texas Health Science Center. Re-Mission 2 caters to kids who have grown up playing Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja and other games on the Internet or via apps on their mobile devices. In fact, the sequel can be played only online or on the iPad. HopeLab is working on versions that will work on Android devices. This is a calculated switch from the format of the original version of Re-Mission, which took players on a quest heavily influenced by popular video games at the time, most notably Tomb Raider. Instead of Lara Croft, Re-Mission featured a microscopic robot named Roxxi, clad in form-fitting silver body armor, who traveled through the bodies of fictional cancer patients, blasting cancer cells and battling the side-effects of cancer and its treatments. The Re-Mission re-boot is a welcome change, says Brooke Jaffe, a 21-year-old junior at Barnard College in New York City. Quest games like Tomb Raider that are played on PCs and video game consoles like Xbox or the Wii can be intimidating to people who don't already play them, adds Jaffe, an English major who became aware of HopeLab's work after she was successfully treated for papillary carcinoma--thyroid cancer--in 2011. Re-Mission 2 is a much more casual approach to gaming. It may not have the complicated 3-D graphics and the emphasis on anatomical realism of its predecessor, but it's certainly more accessible to a kid waiting to undergo treatment, or who is fatigued from having just undergone treatment, says Jaffe, one of 120 teens and young adults HopeLab recruited to help develop and evaluate Re-Mission 2. The idea is that patients will get a lot more enjoyment from playing 10 minutes of one of Re-Mission 2's simpler games than they would from 10 minutes of the original version, which might require 30 minutes of play to get past the first level. Images courtesy of HopeLab Follow Scientific American on Twitter @SciAm and @SciamBlogs. Visit ScientificAmerican.com for the latest in science, health and technology news.
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