Air Bagan survivor tells of terrifying landing

Members of Myanmar Fire Brigade team gather near a damaged Air Bagan passenger plane in Heho, Shan State, Myanmar, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. The Air Bagan flight packed with Christmas tourists crash-landed on a road in central Myanmar on Tuesday, killing two people and injuring 11, officials said. Four foreigners were among the injured, state television reported. It said the fatalities included an 11-year-old passenger believed to be a Myanmar citizen and a man riding a motorcycle on the road where the plane came down. (AP Photo)

Members of Myanmar Fire Brigade team gather near a damaged Air Bagan passenger plane in Heho, Shan State, Myanmar, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. The Air Bagan flight packed with Christmas tourists crash-landed on a road in central Myanmar on Tuesday, killing two people and injuring 11, officials said. Four foreigners were among the injured, state television reported. It said the fatalities included an 11-year-old passenger believed to be a Myanmar citizen and a man riding a motorcycle on the road where the plane came down. (AP Photo)

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) ? Survivors of a Christmas Day crash-landing of an airliner in Myanmar told terrifying tales of escape Wednesday as carrier Air Bagan said it had found the plane's black box and was investigating the accident that killed two people.

Details of the crash remain unclear, though the airline and officials have blamed heavy fog for the aircraft's crash into a rice paddy field where it burst into flames. Two died and 11 were injured, including four foreigners.

The aging Fokker 100 jet was carrying 71 people, including 48 foreigners, from the city of Yangon via Mandalay to Heho airport, which is the gateway to the popular tourist destination Inle Lake.

"We felt the first bump, then a few big bumps and then (started) sliding very fast," said 31-year-old Australian advertising executive Anna Bartsch. Her boyfriend, Stuart Benson, described the landing like "a roller coaster" ride.

The plane came to a stop and they felt relief ? and then panic.

"In my window I saw the flames, and it was hot and we knew straight away we didn't have much time to get out," Bartsch said during an interview at a Yangon hotel where the airline lodged passengers after evacuating them from the scene.

Passengers rushed up the aisle to the front door, which was initially stuck shut, she said.

"We didn't know then that the wings had come off," Bartsch said.

The door was quickly forced open and passengers raced from the plane, some in shock and some suffering smoke inhalation, she said. Once on safe ground, Bartsch said she saw the pilot and co-pilot with bloodied faces and other people with serious burns.

"It's amazing that the injuries were not more serious," she said. "It could have been much worse."

Air Bagan said late Tuesday that the plane's black box will be sent to Singapore to study the cause of the accident.

Air Bagan has said "the plane hit electrical cables about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from Heho airport as it descended and landed in rice fields."

The Information Ministry said the pilot mistook a road near the airport for the runway before stopping in a nearby rice paddy. It was unclear if the plane made its crash landing on the road or the rice field.

All fatalities were Myanmar citizens, including a man riding a motorcycle where the plane came down and a tour guide aboard the plane. There were earlier reports of an 11-year-old child also among the dead.

The accident has raised concerns about the safety standards of Myanmar's overburdened airlines as foreign visitors have flocked to the country which is emerging from a half-century of military rule.

Air Bagan is one of a half dozen private airlines that fly domestic routes in Myanmar. It is a unit of Htoo Trading Company, which is owned by business tycoon Tay Za.

Associated Press

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The Mine Kafon: A Low-Cost, Wind-Powered Minefield Clearing Device Hits Kickstarter

We brought you a video back at the end of November that showed off Massoud Hassani's mine-clearing device, the Mine Kafon, based on a wind-powered child's toy. Now, the Afghan industrial designer has taken the suggestions of a number of our commenters and put the project on Kickstarter. Hassani is looking for ?100,000 to make the Kafons and document the process.

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Growing Forward 2 Policy Provides Canadian Agricultural Funding ...

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December 19, 2012 09:00 ET

CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO?(Marketwire ? Dec. 19, 2012) - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) recently announced three new Canadian Government funding programs that will come into effect on April 1, 2013 under the funding umbrella Growing Forward 2. The announcement addressed important questions mentioned in our previous article on the potential funding changes in the New Growing Forward 2 Policy Framework. Growing Forward 2 is a five-year agricultural policy framework, providing up to $3 billion in Canadian business grants and loans to support Canada?s agricultural sectors.

1. The AgriInnovation Program: R&D Funding

The AAFC has released some preliminary information regarding the new AgriInnovation Program (AIP). AIP was adapted from the previous Growing Forward framework, which featured a similar two-stream funding program. Stream A of AIP provides grant funding for agricultural industry-led R&D, while Stream B provides loan funding for small business commercialization projects involving agri-food/agricultural related products and technologies.

2. The AgriMarketing Program: Marketing Grant

The new AgriMarketing Program is also adapted from the previous Growing Forward Framework. The new program will focus on providing Canadian grant funding for small business export development through the adoption of quality and food safety assurance systems and implementation of foreign market strategies.

3. The AgriCompetitiveness Program: Agri Funding for Small Business

The AgriCompetitiveness program is a completely new addition to the new Growing Forward 2 Policy Framework. The program provides Canadian business funding support for direct investments that would encourage Canadian entrepreneurs and businesses respond to emerging trends and opportunities in the agricultural industry.

Canadian Government Funding Updates and Application Support

The AAFC is expected to release the new program eligibility and funding details for the New Growing Forward 2 Programs sometime between now and March 2013. Mentor Works Ltd. will continually monitor this policy as it develops and provide notifications and in-depth overviews as details are released. To follow these posts, please sign-up for our Canadian Government Funding E-Newsletter.

Mentor Works Ltd. provides Ontario SMEs with Canadian Government funding advice and application support to create a diversified funding strategy involving Canadian Government Funding Grants, Loans, and Tax Credits for business expansion/development projects. Please contact a Mentor Works (www.mentorworks.ca) Canadian Government Funding Expert for program and service information that would apply to your business.

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For minor crimes, NYers sentenced to Sandy relief

In this Dec. 10, 2012 photo provided by the Manhattan District Attorney?s Office, some minor offenders put in their court ordered community service by helping with the Superstorm Sandy relief effort on Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Offenders were brought from the court to the Coney Island neighborhood in vans provided by the Center for Court Innovation, an independent criminal justice research, development and innovation organization. (AP Photo/Manhattan District Attorney?s Office)

In this Dec. 10, 2012 photo provided by the Manhattan District Attorney?s Office, some minor offenders put in their court ordered community service by helping with the Superstorm Sandy relief effort on Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Offenders were brought from the court to the Coney Island neighborhood in vans provided by the Center for Court Innovation, an independent criminal justice research, development and innovation organization. (AP Photo/Manhattan District Attorney?s Office)

NEW YORK (AP) ? New Yorkers who got into minor trouble in Manhattan have been sentenced to Sandy.

Last week, 70 people who were given community service after pleading guilty to infractions like public drunkenness, open container violations or speeding, were shuttled to Coney Island in Brooklyn to help with cleanup efforts after the devastating storm.

They raked leaves, shoveled mud and picked up garbage and debris. More than 1,000 bags of trash were collected in 732 hours of work. Swaths of Sandy-wrecked filthy streets and sidewalks were cleaned.

"In speaking with community members, we witnessed sadness in some of their faces, but also a determination. Local business owners described the struggle they faced in recovering their businesses," said Moises Reyes, one of the supervisors in the weeklong cleanup effort created by the Manhattan district attorney's office.

Reyes, who works with the nonprofit Bronx Community Solutions, said participants worked really hard. "I believe they saw the need in the community and didn't hesitate or hold back in participating with this special cleanup," he said.

Sandy blew in to the area in late October, swamping subways and darkening swaths of Manhattan for days, downing trees and ravaging coastal areas. Some neighborhoods, like the Rockaways in Queens and Coney Island, were particularly hard-hit.

Cleanup and recovery efforts will take months, and there are thousands of people displaced around the city. Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked the federal government for more than $32 billion to cover the immediate costs triggered by Sandy, plus $9 billion for preventive measures to better protect the area for the next big storm.

Generally, people sentenced to community service in the five boroughs are assigned to city departments like transportation or sanitation, and some have already helped in cleanup efforts that way. But prosecutors in Manhattan wanted to do something specific to help residents reeling after Sandy slammed the city.

"We sat down and asked ourselves if there was something we could do here in criminal court that would help our city in the aftermath of the storm," said Nitin Savur, deputy chief of the trial division.

Savur and his boss, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, focused in on mandated community service ? already aimed at giving back to the city.

"We were willing to send our defendants anywhere in the city that needed help," Savur said.

The district attorney's office partnered with the nonprofit Center for Court Innovation, which works with city and state courts to develop and facilitate alternative criminal justice programs.

Court innovation workers surveyed the badly-hit areas and zeroed in on Coney Island because a large group could work there and assistance was badly needed. The center shuttled the defendants from Manhattan to Brooklyn and supervised cleanup efforts on Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island, not far from the devastated boardwalk.

"We take the supervision seriously, and we take the work enormously seriously," said Greg Berman, director of the organization.

Savur said the district attorney's office is considering more Sandy-related community service efforts. There is no shortage of people who could be ordered to Sandy: About 80,000 of the 100,000 annual cases in Manhattan are lower level misdemeanors and violations that often wind up with some type of community service.

Associated Press

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Epson WorkForce WF-2540

The Epson WorkForce WF-2540 multi-function printer (MFP) is almost identical in most ways to the Epson WorkForce WF-2530 that I recently reviewed. Both models are best understood as personal MFPs for any size office and both offer essentially the same size, speed, and output quality. However the WF-2540 adds a few key features, most notably an Ethernet connector as an alternative to the Wi-Fi that both printers offer. For those who prefer the extra security and reliability of wired network connectivity, that alone makes it well worth the small additional cost.

In addition to the Ethernet connector, the WF-2540 adds a larger, more readable LCD, at 2.5 inches, for the control panel menus and a USB A connector on the front of the printer to let you scan directly to, but not print from, USB memory keys. Beyond that, however, there are few, if any, differences between the two models.

As with the Epson WF-2530, the WF-2540's footprint is only 15.4 by 14.8 inches not including the front output tray, making it small enough to fit comfortably on your desk. More important, it shares the Epson WF-2530's focus on office-related, rather than home-oriented, features. That's not to say that it can't serve in the dual role of home and home-office printer. However, you won't find features like support for printing directly from PictBridge cameras, which you might expect in a home printer.

The Basics
Core MFP features in the WF-2540 include the ability to print and fax from a PC, scan to a PC, and work as a standalone copier and fax machine. Office-oriented features include a 30-page automatic document feeder, which supplements a letter-size flatbed to let you scan multipage documents and legal-size paper easily,

For printing, the WF-2540 offers only a 100-sheet paper capacity and no duplexer (for automatic printing on both sides of the page). This limited paper handling is the main reason the printer is best reserved for one person's use, at least in an office. You can certainly share it on a network easily enough. But unless no one in your office prints very much, you'll have to refill it with paper more often than most people would want to.

Also worth mention is that the WF-2540 allows printing through the cloud and printing with Apple AirPrint. Note, however, that AirPrint requires a Wi-Fi access point on your network, which you may not have if you've chosen to use the Ethernet or USB connection. In addition, both AirPrint and cloud printing require setting up the printer with a wired or wireless network connection.

Setup, Speed, and Output Quality
Setting up the WF-2540 on a wired network was absolutely typical, both for the physical setup and for installing the drivers and other software on the Windows Vista system I tested with.

As with the WF-2530, the WF-2540's speed and output quality are both acceptable but unimpressive. On our business applications suite (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing), the WF-2540 tied the WF-2530 at an effective 2.6 pages per minute (ppm). That makes it significantly slower than either the less expensive Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J430w below, at 4.3 ppm, or the more expensive Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J825DW above, at 4.0 ppm.

For photos, all of these printers were slower than most inkjets, with the WF-2540 essentially tying the WF-2530 for last place, at 2 minutes 16 seconds.

Output quality is another area where the WF-2540 is a close match to the Epson WF-2530. Text quality falls at the low end of a fairly tight range that includes the vast majority of inkjets. It's more than acceptable for most business use like correspondence and reports, but not suitable if you need top quality text, or just have a demanding eye.

Graphics are more than good enough for internal business use, but you may not consider them good enough for PowerPoint handouts or the like depending on how much of a perfectionist you are. Photo quality is easily good enough for business materials with photos, and even for home use with most photos. However, colors in one photo were a little off in my tests, putting the printer in the same league as the low end of what you can expect from drugstore prints.

Thanks largely to its Ethernet connector and ability to scan to a USB key, the Epson WF-2540 is a more attractive choice for the price than the Epson WF-2530. If you don't need those features, you can save some money by getting the Epson WF-2530, or, better yet, the Brother MFC-J430w, with its faster speed. Similarly, if you need those features but speed is a key consideration too, you'll be better off with the Brother MFC-J825DW, which will also give you duplex printing. If you don't need duplexing, however, and don't need the extra speed, the Epson WF-2540 is a more than reasonable choice that can certainly do the job.

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The Girl's Guide to Understanding Travel Insurance ? Go! Girl Guides

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This is a guest post by Virginia of TravelInsuranceReview.com. When she contacted us to give us the low down on travel insurance, we jumped at the chance to get an insider?s view on the industry. Find out what plans are right for you, how and why travel insurance matters, and much more!?

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Wherever a woman goes in the world, there are always risks ? often the same risks you?d face at home: accidents, burglary, severe weather, traffic accidents, illness, etc. When a woman heads out into the world to travel for business, for fun, for learning, or for giving back, her travel insurance plan could turn out to be one of her best friends when things go wrong.

Travel insurance differs little between men and women, but women have unique health concerns to deal with. If a woman becomes pregnant on her trip, for example, and needs to be medically treated, or if that pregnancy disrupts travel plans, having a great travel insurance plan is invaluable.

This is the traveling girl?s guide to understanding travel insurance. Let?s get started with what travel insurance covers.

Travel Insurance has 5 Important Benefits

There are essentially five benefits provided with any travel insurance plan ? these are the ones that travelers think of when they think of travel insurance, and (depending on the trip) these are the benefits that are most important for a woman traveler to have:

1. ? ? ?Medical emergencies?- most people think that as long as they have health insurance, they?re covered, but most health insurance coverage stops at the border (even Medicare does). This benefit covers medical treatment, emergency transport, physician?s fees, medicine and more when you travel outside your health insurance network.

2 . ? ??Trip cancellations?- traveling typically requires at least some investment in up-front cash and often that money is non refundable. No one likes losing money. This benefit reimburses the cost of plane tickets, cruise fare, tour packages, hotel rooms, and more.

3. ? ? ?Emergency evacuations?- an emergency evacuation can easily cost as much as $50,000 and often more. This benefit arranges and pays for emergency evacuation costs such as medically equipped flights to a hospital and then back home after you?re stable.

4. ? ? ?Losses and delays?- travel delays are not only annoying, they can also be costly. The loss of your baggage is even more so. This benefit reimburses you for lost, damaged, destroyed or delayed baggage and the unexpected expenses related to flight delays.

5. ? ? ?Global emergency assistance services?- your lifeline to call when something goes wrong on a trip. These reps can help a girl book a new flight, find a hotel room, call an ambulance, replace a prescription, and overcome critical language barriers.

Depending on your trip, you may not need all of these benefits. For example, if you?re traveling inside your home country you may not need much medical coverage because your health insurance will cover your illnesses and injuries (even if it is at out-of-network coverage rates).

Optional Coverage for Special Circumstances

Depending on the travel insurance plan, you may also have the following benefits:

• Hazardous sports coverage to extend your medical benefits to cover activities like SCUBA diving, rock-climbing, and more
• Pre-existing medical condition waivers to extend your medical benefits if you have an existing medical condition or regularly take medication
• Rental car coverage (at a cost that?s far more competitive than the rental car companies, if you don?t already have the coverage with your credit card)
• Life insurance for flight accidents and AD&D (Accidental Death & Dismemberment)
• Identity theft services in the event your identity is stolen on a trip

Depending on the plan you choose, some of the above are included and some require a special purchase.

Travel Insurance Comes in 2 Popular Flavors

There are only two types of travel insurance that most travelers buy. In fact, the first type is so common it represents over 94% of all travel insurance purchases!

The two flavors of travel insurance are:

1??????Vacation plans?- these are full-featured travel insurance plans, also called package plans, and they deliver the most coverage in a single plan ? including trip cancellation and travel medical, which represent the most expensive risks most travelers face.

2??????Travel medical plans?- these are like regular health insurance that works outside your home country. These plans do not include trip cancellation, but if that?s not a risk for your trip, you can save a whole lot of money by getting one of these plans.

Now that you have a better understanding of what travel insurance covers and the types of plans you can buy, let?s look at how to buy the right plan for your trip.

7 Steps to Buy the Right Travel Insurance Plan

In order to figure out what coverage you need, travelers should follow these steps:

1. ? ? ?Don?t buy your plan on a booking site.?These are one-size-fits-all plans that are heavily weighted in favor of the travel insurance company. So many travelers have been left high and dry with these plans that some states are now banning due to complaints.

2. ? ? ?Determine your coverage needs.?Depending on your trip, your style of travel, the activities you want to do, where you?re going, and how much you?ve pre-paid, determine what coverage you need on your trip.

3. ? ???Check your credit card travel protection benefits. In most cases, the cancellation benefit is severely limited (but it might be enough) and you won?t have any travel medical coverage. The car rental, baggage, and travel assistance coverage is often identical to travel insurance, however, and it won?t cost you extra. Cha-ching!

4. ? ? ?Decide whether you need the optional coverage.?If you have a pre-existing condition or plan to participate in hazardous activities, for example, you?ll want to purchase the waivers to these common exclusions.

5. ? ?? Compare travel insurance quotes to get the best value. While you may be worried about adding the cost of travel insurance to your trip, it turns out it?s not all that expensive when you consider what you might have to pay out of pocket for a medical emergency in a foreign country.

6. ? ???Buy the coverage early.?Many plans require that you purchase your travel insurance plan soon after making your first trip payment. It?s a critical factor that can affect whether your coverage is valid when you need it, so buy it quickly after making your first trip purchase.

7. ? ? ?Read and understand your coverage.?All travel insurance plans come with a free review period which you can use to carefully review the travel plan (don?t worry, they?re a lot easier to read than other legal docs) and make changes or cancel the plan.

Remember, any insurance plan ? homeowners, auto, life ? is purchased to protect us against the unexpected stuff that can happen, so take a little time and think about what?could?happen on your trip (not that it will) and then protect yourself with travel insurance. After that, bon voyage!

Want to compare travel insurance plans now??See?Travel Insurance Review?for a great travel insurance comparison tool and?tips to save money on your travel insurance plan

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5 Ways to Streamline Your Small Business Accounting in 2013 ...

The shiny New Year is just around the corner.

A sparkling, uncluttered, ready to conquer the world desk awaits you.

Bookkeeping, receipt recording and accounting pains are a distant memory.

It?s an image that almost beats a sandy beach at a luxury resort.

How do you make that vision a reality?

It?s easier than you think!? Here are 5 easy ways to streamline your books in 2013.

Streamline Your Small Business Accounting Idea #1

Dump the ?shoulds?.

Do any of these sound familiar?

• I should run all those detailed reports every month.
• I should manually review and input every single expense this month.
• I should use the accounting software ________ because everyone else does. (Does this one remind anyone else of the famous mom lecture about jumping off bridges?)
• I should have my accountant on speed dial, constantly bombarding her with questions.
• I should ...

No wonder you feel overwhelmed.? No one needs that crazy amount of work and information every month!? Sure there are times for detailed reports, but every month?? I?m a numbers geek and I don?t do that.

It?s time to replace should with need.

• I need to look at a few key numbers every month to make sure my business is on track.
• I need a solution to get all my receipts and expenses recorded zippity quick.
• I need to use an accounting system or service that works for me.

The rest of that monthly mayhem?? Here?s your hall pass.? You?re officially excused from all that crazy make-work.? Don?t you feel better already?

Streamline Your Small Business Accounting Idea #2

Use the right tools for you and your company.

You?re unique and so is your business.? That means the right solutions for your colleague?s company is not necessarily the right one for yours.

A great example of this is QuickBooks ? the 800 pound gorilla accounting solution for small to mid-size businesses.? While this is a quality service, it?s often not the right one for start-ups or micro-businesses.? Especially for those who don?t have an accounting background.

If you?re struggling in this area, here are a few other solutions that might be a better fit:

• WaveAccounting.com
• LessAccounting.com
• Xero.com
• Kashflow.com

And receipts?? Stop making yourself crazy!? There are a couple easy to use, cost effective solutions.? The one I use and love is Shoeboxed.com.? Others swear by Neat Receipts.

Remember every dollar of expense you fail to record costs you $1.35!

Streamline Your Small Business Accounting Idea #3

Schedule time to do and review.

At the beginning of every month, schedule a one hour slot for this.? This should be treated as any other important meeting. ?It?s crucial to respect and protect this time.

Spend the first 30 minutes getting caught up on any bookkeeping requirements, such as capturing expenses.? The second half of the hour should be to review your key metrics (no more than 5 numbers).? Are you on track?? If so, what is working best?? If not, what needs to be fixed?

Once you?ve got a system in place it IS possible to do this in 60 minutes per month.

Streamline Your Small Business Accounting Idea #4

Call in reinforcements.

Where is it written you have to do everything in your small business? Hint: Nowhere.

Bookkeepers are a budget friendly solution to keeping on top of your expenses, receipts, invoices and payments.? Ask friends and colleagues for recommendations.? When you begin working with a bookkeeper set clear expectations about the deliverables and your monthly budget.

Consider partnering with a coach to create a system that works with you, not against you.? Preferably the solution should have a process, and where possible leverage technology (if this sounds appealing check out my service Tame the Paper Beast).

Streamline Your Small Business Accounting Idea #5

Reward Yourself.

It doesn?t have to be a trip to that sandy beach we talked about in the beginning.? It can be as simple as a 15 minute music break.? 10 minutes to read the next chapter in a novel. Eat that Godiva chocolate you?ve been saving.? Call a friend to chat.

Your brain can be trained.? If you always get to do something fun right after finishing the monthly bookkeeping, it will get easier to motivate yourself to start.? Yes accomplishment is its own reward, but to drive the point home, give your brain a little bit more (truffle anyone?).

Final Thoughts

Keeping up with your books, and keeping your desk clutter free, doesn?t have to be hard or painful.? It can be quick, rewarding and grow your profit.

Best wishes for a happy and successful 2013!

Nicole Fende is The Numbers Whisperer? and author of How to be a Finance Rock Star. She also teaches entrepreneurs to Tame the Paper Beast.

This article is from the SmallBizLady special blog series: 31 Ways to Boost Your Small Business in 2013. #Boost2013

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Melinda F. Emerson, known to many as SmallBizLady is one of America's leading small business experts. As a seasoned entrepreneur, professional speaker, and small business coach, she develops audio, video and written content to fulfill her mission to end small business failure. As CEO of Quintessence Multimedia, Melinda educates entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies on subjects including small business start-up, business development and social media marketing. Forbes Magazine named her #1 woman for entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter. She hosts #SmallBizChat Wednesdays on Twitter 8-9pm ET for emerging entrepreneurs. She also publishes a resource blog http://www.succeedasyourownboss.com Melinda is also bestseller author of Become Your Own Boss in 12 months; A Month-by-Month Guide to a Business That Works. Her latest ebook, How To Become a Social Media Ninja; 101 Ways to Dominate Your Competition Online was released in 2012.

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Cultural Appropriation

I tentatively bring you a topic that is quick to draw anger on the internet. I?m asking, as always, for levelheaded discussion.

Before I pose the question, let me give you a bit of a backstory:

I live in a western city that I would venture to guess houses more immigrants than locals. I?ve been raised around a vast number of cultures and grown to have appreciations for many aspects of them. For as long as I can remember I?ve been completely enamored by bhindis and saris. Aside from equating them to princess-like garb, I didn't know much about them. I was unsure if there was cultural significance to the saris, so I began to research. In my research a term called ?Cultural Appropriation? began to appear again and again. Not just saris, or bhindis, but other traditional wear and patterns were the topic of discussion. I invite you to search out theses articles, but what it boils down to is that it is frowned upon for westerners to take part in anything that is not theirs for the fear that the traditions will become watered down.

Please note, before responding that I?m specifically avoiding topics of racism. What I?m wondering is why is it culturally offensive to appreciate different parts of different cultures?

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Mars rover Curiosity nearing Yellowknife Bay

Dec. 11, 2012 ? The NASA Mars rover Curiosity drove 63 feet (19 meters) northeastward early Monday, Dec. 10, approaching a step down into a slightly lower area called "Yellowknife Bay," where researchers intend to choose a rock to drill.

The drive was Curiosity's fourth consecutive driving day since leaving a site near an outcrop called "Point Lake," where it arrived last month. These drives totaled 260 feet (79 meters) and brought the mission's total odometry to 0.37 mile (598 meters).

The route took the rover close to an outcrop called "Shaler," where scientists used Curiosity's Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument and Mast Camera (Mastcam) to assess the rock's composition and observe its layering. Before departure from Point Lake, a fourth sample of dusty sand that the rover had been carrying from the "Rocknest" drift was ingested and analyzed by Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument.

Curiosity ended Monday's drive about 30 percent shorter than planned for the day when it detected a slight difference between two calculations of its tilt, not an immediate risk, but a trigger for software to halt the drive as a precaution. "The rover is traversing across terrain different from where it has driven earlier, and responding differently," said Rick Welch, mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We're making progress, though we're still in the learning phase with this rover, going a little slower on this terrain than we might wish we could."

Curiosity is approaching a lip where it will descend about 20 inches (half a meter) to Yellowknife Bay. The rover team is checking carefully for a safe way down. Yellowknife Bay is the temporary destination for first use of Curiosity's rock-powdering drill, before the mission turns southwestward for driving to its main destination on the slope of Mount Sharp.

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project and the mission's Curiosity rover for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the rover.

More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl , http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ . You can follow the mission on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity .

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UFC on Fox 5?s Three Stars: Matt Brown, Abel Trujillo and Daron Cruickshank

Heading into UFC on Fox 5, the UFC appeared to have put together their best card yet to appear on the network. But with such high expectations, there's no way it could deliver, right? Wrong. From the Fight of the Night, that aired on Facebook, to the main event, the UFC showed the best of the promotion. But who really stood out?

No. 1 star -- Matt Brown: It is really, really fun to watch Matt Brown fight, so it makes sense the UFC would put his bout with Mike Swick at the start of their Fox broadcast. Brown rewarded that faith by knocking out Swick hah

No. 2 star -- Abel Trujillo: In his first UFC fight, Trujillo dealt with a last-minute opponent change after Tim Means slipped in the sauna. Trujillo then dealt Marcus LeVesseur a beating that ended with a second-round TKO.

No. 3 star -- Daron Cruickshank: In his first post-TUF fight, Cruickshank impressed. In the first round, he hit Henry Martinez so hard that you were bound to wonder if Martinez's chin was literally made of stone. In the second round, we found out it wasn't. Cruickshank landed a perfectly timed headkick to knock Martinez out.

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Report sees middle class gains, resource shortages

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Nearly two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities by 2030, with most people middle class, connected by technology, protected by advanced health care and linked by countries that work together, perhaps with the United States and China cooperating to lead the way.

That's the best case scenario in a report, Global Trends 2030, released Monday by the U.S. government's National Intelligence Council.

In the worst case scenarios, rising population leads to conflict over water and food, especially in the Mideast and Africa, and the instability contributes to global economic collapse.

The study is the intelligence community's analysis of where current trends will take the world in the next 15 to 20 years, intended to help policymakers plan for the best and worst possible futures to come.

The report is broken down into what the National Intelligence Council calls megatrends that are likely to occur and game-changers ? the what-if's that are less certain but would be so significant that they can't be ignored.

Among the major trends: the rise of a global middle class that is better educated, connected via technology and healthier due to advances in medicine. Power will no longer reside with one or two key nations, but be spread across networks and coalitions of countries working together.

In countries where there are declining birth rates and an aging population like the U.S., economic growth may slow. Sixty percent of the world's population will live in cities.

Yet even with these advances, food, water and energy will be more scarce.

"Nearly half of the world's population will live in areas experiencing severe water stress," the report said. Africa and the Middle East will be most at risk of food and water shortages, but China and India also vulnerable.

Among the anticipated crises is the worry of global economic collapse, fighting among nations that don't adapt rapidly enough to change and the possible spillover of instability in the Mideast and South Asia to the rest of the world.

Technology is seen as a potential savior to head off some of this conflict, boosting economic productivity to keep pockets filled despite rising population, rapid growth of cities and climate change.

The report outlines several "Potential Worlds" for 2030.

Under the heading "Stalled Engines", otherwise known as the "most plausible worst-case scenario, the risks of interstate conflict increase," the report said. "The U.S. draws inward and globalization stalls."

In the most plausible best-case outcome, called "Fusion," the report said, "China and the U.S. collaborate on a range of issues, leading to broader global cooperation."

And under another heading, the report describes a world where "inequalities explode as some countries become big winners and others fail. ... Without completely disengaging, the U.S. is no longer the 'global policeman.'"

The report warns of the mostly catastrophic effect of possible "Black Swans," extraordinary events that can change the course of history. These include a severe pandemic that could kill millions in a matter of months and more rapid climate change that could make it hard to feed the world's population.

Two positive events are also listed, including "a democratic China or a reformed Iran," which could bring more global stability.

One bright spot for the U.S. is energy independence.

"With shale gas, the U.S. will have sufficient natural gas to meet domestic needs and generate potential global exports for decades to come," the report said.

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Private college presidents pay was up slightly

Compensation for private college presidents has continued to drift upward, while the number crossing the $1 million barrier ? a signal of prestige, and a magnet for criticism ? held steady at 36, according to a new survey.

The latest annual compilation by The Chronicle of Higher Education covers data from 2010, due to lag time in the release of federal tax information. That year, median compensation for the 494 presidents in the survey ? leaders of institutions with budgets of at least $50 million ? was $396,649, or 2.8 percent higher than in last year's survey. But median base salary fell slightly, by less than 1 percent.

The highest paid was Bob Kerrey, who was president of The New School in New York until December 2010 before returning to Nebraska, where he made an unsuccessful run to return to the U.S Senate. Kerrey's total compensation was valued at just over $3 million. His base salary was just over $600,000, but he received the remainder in the form of a retention bonus, deferred compensation and other benefits.

It is common for such payments to inflate compensation for presidents in their final year in a position. Three presidents in 2010's top 10 are no longer at those institutions: Kerrey, David Pollick of Birmingham-Southern College, and Steven Sample of the University of Southern California.

The highest-paid in 2010 who remains on the job is Shirley Ann Jackson of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, who was No. 2 at $2.34 million, followed by Pollick, at $2.31 million. The highest base salary belonged to John Sexton of New York University and totaled $1.24 million out of $1.48 million total compensation.

The Chronicle has previously compiled salary data for the presidents of public institutions, which was available for 2011. Those figures showed three public university presidents earned more than $1 million in 2011, led by Gordon Gee of Ohio State with total compensation of just under $2 million.

Then there's the other end of the scale ? presidents of roughly two dozen Roman Catholic institutions including Villanova University, Boston College, Marquette and a number of smaller schools, whose compensation is zero. All are either clergy or members of religious orders.

The Chronicle reports this year that half the institutions that employed the 50 highest-paid college presidents in 2010 used a practice called "grossing up," adding additional cash and benefits to compensation packages to make up for the taxes recipients pay. The practice has been largely abandoned at publicly traded companies due to shareholder criticism, but appears alive and well in the non-profit sector.

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Your Help Needed to Study Andromeda Galaxy

A group of astronomers is inviting the public to join their star-hunting team in a search of the bright Andromeda Galaxy.

The project aims to identify star clusters in our neighboring galaxy, also known as M31. All it takes to find the clusters in Andromeda is an Internet-enabled computer and a desire to help, said Anil Seth, the team's lead investigator. "No special training is required," he said.

The so-called "Andromeda Project," which began Wednesday (Dec. 5), will generate the largest sample of clusters from a single spiral galaxy when it is completed.

Scientists expect the project could identify 2,500 new star clusters when finished. This would provide useful goalposts to chart how the galaxy, which is on a collision course with the Milky Way, formed and evolved. [When Galaxies Collide: Q&A on Our Milky Way's Future]

"The general benefit is to better understand how spiral galaxies form," said Seth, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Utah.

"Andromeda is the nearest example of a [spiral] galaxy, except for the Milky Way," he said. "We can study in detail things we can't see in larger distances."

PHAT science

Seth's team is using images from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT), which will generate pictures of a third of the galaxy when the survey is completed next summer. (Getting the other two-thirds would take too much telescope time, Seth said.)

The massive project is taking up two months of Hubble Space Telescope time, making it one of the largest surveys completed by the telescope.? Around 20 institutions are involved with many different science goals; Seth's group has one of the projects.

At first, Seth's team manually identified 600 clusters in 20 percent of the images that had been taken so far. The process took months. They aimed to automate the rest of the search using a computer program.

But when the team asked the software to do the same thing, difficulties arose. Since the background of the galaxy varies behind the star clusters, this made it difficult for an automated program to do the job.

"We couldn't get to the point where we could pick out a large number of clusters we identified by eye," Seth said. "There were thousands of candidates that weren?t real clusters."

Around this time, the Zooniverse website caught wind of Seth's work and proposed a different approach: crowdsourcing the images. Zooniverse has several successful projects under its umbrella, including Galaxy Zoo, an effort to classify galaxies observed by Hubble and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Crowdsourcing was a new idea for most of the science team, but Seth said members enthusiastically embraced the idea. They spent half a year preparing some 12,000 images for public consumption, and hope to generate 50 to 100 views on each image by the summer of 2013.

Probing Andromeda's origins

Scientists have several methods to double-check the public's accuracy. These include inserting synthetic star clusters into the images as a test, as well as recycling several of the pictures the astronomers analyzed themselves.

With the information that comes out of this project, the team expects it can begin to answer two major questions about Andromeda: the age of the star clusters, and how stars formed within the galaxy.

"Clusters are good objects to study the formation history [of Andromeda] because they're all born at the same time," Seth said. "Rather than having a single star, we have hundreds of thousands of stars we try [identifying] because they're all the same age. We have a better handle on the age of objects."

More star cluster work is already on tap with the PHAT imagery. Seth's team has picked out Hubble images to analyze for information about how fast stars and clusters are moving.

For that work, the team is using the W.M. Keck Observatoryin Mauna Kea, Hawaii as well as the MMT Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. Seth estimated they have analyzed the spectra of more than 10,000 stars from PHAT.

Collaborators on the Andromeda Project include several American universities, Chicago's Adler Planetarium, Oxford University and the European Space Agency.

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Cancer Kick ? Stanford University Awards The Leukemia ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. and STANFORD, Calif., Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ ? Stanford University School of Medicine has presented John Walter, CEO of The Leukemia Lymphoma Society (LLS), with the 2012 Spirit of Hope Award for Outstanding Health Care Organization in recognition of LLS?s 35 years of funding support to Stanford?s researchers.

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In the last 15 years alone, LLS has awarded more than $27 million in research grants to Stanford University investigators, who are at the forefront of discovering innovative diagnostics and treatments.

The event was hosted by one of Stanford?s esteemed researchers, Beverly Mitchell, MD, director of Stanford Cancer Institute, who has made many significant contributions to LLS over the years. Dr. Mitchell currently leads an LLS Specialized Center of Research (SCOR), a program that funds teams of researchers representing different disciplines who are engaged in collaborative efforts to discover new approaches to treat patients with hematological malignancies.

Among their many cutting-edge projects, the team is testing a new targeted drug for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), with a long-term goal of preventing the disease from advancing to acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). This same drug is being advanced in clinical trials by Onconova Therapeutics Inc., a partner in LLS?s Therapy Acceleration Program, a strategic initiative to form corporate partnerships to advance sponsored research in the clinic.

Dr. Mitchell also served as a past chair of LLS?s Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee and was a member of its national Board of Directors.

?It is truly a great honor for LLS to be recognized by a world-class research institution such as Stanford,? Walter said. ?For more than 35 years we have shared a commitment to advancing outstanding cancer research and transforming the most promising discoveries into treatments to help patients live better, longer lives.?

About The Leukemia Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia Lymphoma Society ^? (LLS) is the world?s largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer. The LLS mission:?Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin?s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world and provides free information and support services. ?Founded in 1949?and headquartered in White Plains, NY, LLS has?chapters?throughout the United States and Canada. To learn more, visit www.LLS.org or contact?the?Information Resource Center at (800) 955-4572, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET. www.lls.org.

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Bacteria blamed for world's worst extinction

SAN FRANCISCO?? Nickel-eating bacteria may have worsened the world's worst mass die-off by producing huge amounts of methane, a new study suggests.

The study is the latest attempt to explain how most of the world's ocean species died off in just a few hundred thousand years at the end of the Permian era, about 250 million years ago. The researchers presented their findings Tuesday here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

The study proposes that a series of steps caused the mass extinction, but that bacteria played a key role. First, massive volcanic activity in Siberia released nickel into the atmosphere, which somehow reached the ocean. As a result, populations of ocean-dwelling bacteria that use nickel in their metabolic pathway exploded, releasing huge amounts of methane into the atmosphere and depleting ocean oxygen levels as a byproduct of that metabolism. Because methane is a greenhouse gas, the catastrophic gas release trapped heat in the atmosphere and caused the mass extinction by making the climate uninhabitable.

But while the findings are intriguing, many of the steps in this process are speculative, said Anthony Cohen, a researcher at the Open University in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the study. [ Wipe Out: History's Most Mysterious Extinctions ]

"There are a lot of assumptions you have to make," Cohen told LiveScience.

For instance, it's not clear how the huge nickel deposited in lava flows in Siberia could have made it into seawater around the globe, he said.

The Great Dying
During " The Great Dying," up to 90 percent of the world's species perished. Though no one knows exactly how the mass die-off occurred, fossil records suggest gradual changes like ocean acidification and lessening atmospheric and oceanic oxygen first killed off species slowly, and cataclysmic volcanic eruptions or asteroid impacts then quickly wiped out the vast majority of life.

Another theory holds that vast troves of the greenhouse gas methane, which are normally trapped beneath the seafloor, were released from the ocean rapidly, causing apocalyptic levels of global warming.

Methane explosion
But just what caused that massive methane release remained a mystery. Daniel Rothman, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his colleagues wondered whether ocean-dwelling bacteria that churn out methane were the culprits.

His team found through genetic analysis that bacteria called methanosarcina evolved the ability to break down nickel and make methane as part of its metabolism about 251 million years ago. The bacteria may have exploded in population, thereby releasing the ocean's vast methane reserves. And because the bacteria add an oxygen molecule to methane during metabolism, an exponential rise in methanosarcina may have catastrophically depleted ocean oxygen levels.

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But in order for methanosarcina to rapidly reproduce, the population would need a huge source of nickel.

Volcanoes fuel extinction
Around the same time, cataclysmic volcanic activity at the Siberian Traps in Norilsk, Russia, spewed up to 2.7 million square miles (7 million square kilometers) of nickel-rich lava.

"The world's largest nickel deposits are in Siberia," Rothman said during the AGU conference. "They are there as a result of Siberian volcanism around 252 million years ago." [ Watch Live: Latest News from 2012 AGU Meeting ]

So the bonanza of nickel needed to spur a population explosion in methanosarcina likely came from the Siberian Traps. If that's the case, then catastrophic volcanoes and methane-making bacteria may have combined to cause the world's worst extinction event.

Though many of the study's proposed causes for the Permian extinction are familiar, it does provide a new timeline of events, Cohen said.

"Quite a lot of the ideas have been around for a long time. It's just putting them together."

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AT Internet Incorporates Digital Element Technology in Web and ...

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ATLANTA?(BUSINESS WIRE)?

Digital
Element, the leading provider of IP geolocation
technology, today announced that AT
Internet, one of the world?s leaders in web analytics, has deployed
its NetAcuity?
IP geolocation technology to provide worldwide geographic analyses to
its global customer base.

AT Internet has deployed Digital Element?s technology in its analytics
packages for both the web and mobile platforms. By doing so, AT Internet
is able to help its customers better understand the geographic makeup of
Internet traffic and perform segmentation analyses for marketing and
sales activities.

?Our core competency is to handle huge volumes of data and provide
accurate analyses for our customers,? said Yan Corneille, solutions
architect, AT Internet. ?As a leading web analytics provider, we needed
to provide reliable geolocation analyses as part of our packages. The
maintenance of an accurate IP geolocation database is full-time work
that we chose to let the specialists at Digital Element handle.?

According to Corneille, Digital Element?s technology addresses AT
Internet?s business needs by:

• Maintaining current and accurate geolocation data;
• Automatically updating data sources for its geographical services; and
• Monitoring geo-data quality.

Implementing a non-invasive technology was an important factor for AT
Internet in complying with data privacy laws. NetAcuity resides inside
the AT Internet network, does not store any IP data, and remains
isolated from any AT Internet customer data.

About Digital Element

Digital Element delivers the de facto standard in IP Intelligence,
providing coverage for 99.9999 percent of the Internet. Digital
Element?s patented technology combines Internet routing infrastructure
analysis with hundreds of millions of partner-derived online end-points,
resulting in the most accurate IP geolocation data available today. Most
of the world?s largest networks, websites, video portals and social
networks deploy Digital Element?s IP technology to target advertising,
localise content and video streaming, manage geographic rights and
enhance analytics. As an industry pioneer, Digital Element has long been
a technical leader in evolving non-invasive IP Intelligence technology.

For more information on how to uncover new levels of insight about
online users, please visit www.digitalelement.com.
Digital Element is a business unit of Digital
Envoy.

About AT Internet

AT Internet, European leader in the field of Web Analytics since 1995,
helps companies drive their online performance and optimise their
presence on all online marketing channels such as web and mobile sites,
applications, e-CRM, social media etc. The company?s Online Intelligence
solutions provide reliable, valid, complete decision-making data. AT
Internet has placed agility at the heart of its innovation process to
provide its clients with an evolutionary and 100% modular solution that
responds to the challenges faced by companies today. The strength of AT
Internet?s technology and the quality of its customer relations are
recognised worldwide. AT Internet has more than 3,500 clients all over
the world from all sectors. The company, which has more than 150
employees, is present in 20 different countries through its subsidiaries
and partners.

www.atinternet.com.

Digital Element
Carabiner Communications
Jan Sisko, 678-461-7438
jsisko@carabinerPR.com

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PELTO: "More on Commissioner Pryor's new communications ...

Cross post from Jon Pelto's Wait What?

Last Wednesday, a Wait, What? blog post began with the reminder that, "Today's double barreled lesson; (1) There is always room for one more Director of Communications on the ship of state, even in the face of a billion dollar deficit, and (2) there are simply no qualified PR people in Connecticut."

The piece reported that Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, was bringing in yet another out-of-state person to help him run Connecticut's Department of Education.

This time it was a new public relations person, the third he has had since becoming Commissioner about a year ago.

On Friday night, the CT Mirror got word that Donnelly's salary will be a paltry $82,000, not the six figure income I had reported, although that's still well over $100,000 with benefits.

CTMirror wrote,

"Three. That's the number of spokespeople the Connecticut Department of Education has had in the last year following the death of the longtime spokesman Tom Murphy, who was well-respected for his exceptional knowledge about education policy in the state.

First came Mark Linabury, who now heads the Bureau of Choice Programs at the department. Then came Jim Polites, a former teacher and previous spokesman for Democratic legislators. On Friday, the education department announced Polites would be moving to Linabury's department to "direct community affairs."

The new spokeswoman, who started Friday, is Kelly Ann Donnelly, whose background is largely in communications for political campaigns in New York and New Jersey. Donnelly's salary is $82,000 a year."

Donnelly will field questions from the media as the state education department works to implement Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's education reforms."

As noted on last Wednesday, although Donnelly has absolutely no background in public education or education policy, she is an experienced political operative, having worked on numerous political campaigns in New Jersey and New York.

Apologies to Ms. Donnelly, considering I mistakenly reported that her salary was over $100,000.

Since becoming Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor has hired a series of new, out-of-state, senior managers and consultants, almost all of whom have worked for or with him in his previous jobs. ?Most recently, Pryor hired a "Chief Turnaround Officer," who had previously worked in New York City, where she was widely known as the person in charge of closing down public schools. ?She had also previously served as a consultant for the Superintendent of the Louisiana Recovery School District in New Orleans.

Source: http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/diary/14605/pelto-more-on-commissioner-pryors-new-communications-persononly-making-82k

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