CSN: Patriots prove they're still AFC's bosses

December 10, 2012, 11:27 pm

Every time the Patriots win a game at Gillette Stadium, a recording of The Who singing, "Meet the new boss / Same as the old boss" echoes across the field as soon as the final gun sounds.

Never was it more apt than on Monday night.

The Texans arrived in Foxboro eager to live up to their NFL-best 11-1 record, and anxious to prove -- to themselves, to a national television audience, and especially to the Patriots -- that it's time for a changing of the guard atop the AFC, a conference the Pats have dominated for more than a decade. Indeed, wide receiver Andre Johnson proclaimed last week that this would be "the biggest game in franchise history".

Instead, the old bosses . . .

Scored the first three times they touched the ball,

Put together their best defensive effort of the year, keeping the Texans off the scoreboard until midway through the third quarter, and

Held Houston to a combined 4-for-16 on third- and fourth-down opportunities, all of which helped them . . .

? Coast to a 42-14 victory that -- to swipe a thought from a Yankee fan about the 1978 A.L. East race -- looked like the first time a second-place team ever eliminated a first-place team from the AFC postseason hunt.

"It's a very convincing win against a good football team," said Wes Welker. "And we're excited about it."

Especially since -- for all their one-game-at-a-time talk during the week -- the Patriots came into this one as fired up as the Texans.

"We came into this game with a chip on our shoulder," said linebacker Jerod Mayo. "Everyone came into this game talking about the Houston Texans . . . We always talk about ignoring the noise, but [we] heard it. [We] heard about it walking down the street. It was a little bit of a motivational factor, for me at least, and I'm sure [for] the other guys . . . as well."

The Texans still hold the No. 1 seed in the playoff standings; they're 11-2 and the Patriots are 10-3. (New England holds the tie-breaker edge on Denver, which is also 10-3, for the No. 2 spot by virtue of its October victory over the Broncos.) If the Pats run the table, however, they'll take over the top seed -- and earn home-field advantage throughout the playoffs -- should Houston lose one of its remaining three games.

But even if they stay at No. 2, the Patriots made a statement Monday night.

"They feel good about the way they played tonight, and they should," said coach Bill Belichick. "They did a good job."

It started early.

After Arian Foster gained 15 yards on the Texans' first official play from scrimmage (a penalty wiped out a 12-yard run by Foster on the first actual play), the Pats' defense stiffened and forced a punt. A 31-yard return by Welker put the ball on the New England 44, and Tom Brady had them in the end zone seven plays later, capping the drive with a seven-yard touchdown pass to Aaron Hernandez.

Houston's only real chance to make a game of it came on the next drive, as the Texans moved from their 20 to the Pats' 21. But Matt Schaub missed a wide-open Foster in the flat and instead tried to hit Kevin Walter down the seam in the end zone. Devin McCourty intercepted the pass and returned it to the 18; Brady then engineered a 6-play, 82-yard drive that ended with a 37-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Lloyd and a 14-0 lead.

"That was a big play by Devin," said Belichick.

The New England defense forced another punt on Houston's next possession, and that set the stage for an 8-play, 70-yard march, with Brady firing his second TD pass of the night to Hernandez -- this one of four yards -- to make it 21-0.

New England wouldn't score on its next four possessions, but the defense kept the Texans pointless, as well. The horse officially left the barn when Brady and the newly returned Donte Stallworth hooked up on a 63-yard touchdown pass with 9:49 remaining in the third quarter for a 28-0 lead.

From there, the teams traded touchdowns -- a one-yard run by Foster to break the shutout; a Lloyd recovery of a Danny Woodhead fumble in the end zone; a 14-yard run by Stevan Ridley, and a one-yard run by Houston backup quarterback T.J. Yates -- for the 42-14 final.

"I finally feel like we put together four quarters of football," said Mayo.

It was a schooling for the young Texans, and at least one of them -- defensive end Antonio Smith -- says he learned his lesson.

"Now we know what we're dealing with," he said.

What they're dealing with, on this night at least, was the new boss. Same as the old boss.

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An older Vega: New insights about the star all others are measured by

Dec. 11, 2012 ? Vega, a star astronomers have used as a touchstone to measure other stars' brightness for thousands of years, may be more than 200 million years older than previously thought. That's according to new findings from the University of Michigan.

The researchers estimated Vega's age by precisely measuring its spin speed with a tool called the Michigan Infrared Combiner, developed by John Monnier, associate professor of astronomy in U-M's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

MIRC collects the light gathered by six telescopes to make it appear to be coming through one that's 100 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope. It's installed at the Georgia State Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy Array located on Mt. Wilson, California.

The tool boosts resolution so astronomers can zoom in, relatively speaking, to observe the shape and surface characteristics of stars that would otherwise look like mere points even through the most powerful telescopes. By tracking stars' surface characteristics, scientists can calculate how fast they rotate and deduce their inner workings.

Vega is a summer star in the Northern Hemisphere, just visible toward the west at sunset. It's the brightest star in the constellation Lyra. At 25 light years away, Vega is close on cosmic scales. A light year is the distance light travels in one year.

About six years ago astronomers discovered that Vega is rotating so fast it's nearly flinging itself apart. They haven't been able to agree on many of the related details, however. One of the debates centers on Vega's exact rotation rate, which is essential to gauge both its mass and age. Other controversies deal with Vega's tilt as viewed from Earth and the amount of turbulence in the system from roiling gases at the star's surface.

With MIRC's unprecedented resolution, Monnier and his colleagues have taken steps to rectify competing estimates of Vega's rotation rate and other properties The new findings indicate that the star rotates once every 17 hours, rather than once every 12. The sun's equator, for comparison, rotates much slower -- once every 27 days, or 648 hours. In addition to finding that Vega is older than previously thought, the Michigan group confirmed its mass to be just over two times the sun's.

"Vega continues to challenge and surprise us," Monnier said. "We found out not too long ago that it has a disk of dusty debris, or a leftover solar system, around it. Then we found out it was a rapid rotator. It's a reference point for other stars, but it certainly isn't boring or normal."

The work will help astronomers build more accurate computer models of stars, so they can simulate those too far away to observe and gain a better understanding of their life cycles.

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1. J. D. Monnier, Xiao Che, Ming Zhao, S. Ekstr?m, V. Maestro, Jason Aufdenberg, F. Baron, C. Georgy, S. Kraus, H. McAlister, E. Pedretti, S. Ridgway, J. Sturmann, L. Sturmann, T. ten Brummelaar, N. Thureau, N. Turner, P. G. Tuthill. Resolving Vega and the inclination controversy with CHARA/MIRC. The Astrophysical Journal, 2012; 761 (1): L3 DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/761/1/L3

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Bedroom TV viewing increases risk of obesity in children: More than 2 hours of TV a day adds significantly to children's waist size

Dec. 11, 2012 ? The average American child from age 8 to 18 watches about 4.5 hours of TV each day. Seventy percent have a TV in the bedroom and about one-third of youth aged 6-19 is considered obese. Previous studies have shown that TV viewing time during childhood and adolescence continues into adulthood, resulting in overweight and elevated total cholesterol. An investigative team from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, LA reports new study findings, establishing the relationship between having and watching TV in the bedroom and childhood obesity, specifically high waist circumference.

"The established association between TV and obesity is predominantly based on BMI. The association between TV and fat mass, adiposity stored in specific depots (including abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue), and cardiometabolic risk, is less well understood," says lead investigator Peter T. Katzmarzyk, PhD. "It is hypothesized that higher levels of TV viewing and the presence of a TV in the bedroom are associated with depot-specific adiposity and cardiometabolic risk."

Between 2010 and 2011, 369 children and adolescents aged 5-18 in Baton Rouge, representing a balance between gender, ethnicity, age, and BMI status, were evaluated for a variety of factors, such as waist circumference, resting blood pressure, fasting triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and glucose, fat mass, and stomach fat.

Statistical analysis of the data developed produced two models. Together, these models revealed that children with a TV in the bedroom were more likely to watch more TV. These children also were shown to have more fat and subcutaneous adipose tissue mass, as well as higher waist circumference, when compared with their peers who did not have a bedroom TV. Study participants with a TV in the bedroom and those who watched TV more than two hours a day were each associated with up to 2.5 times the odds of the highest levels of fat mass. Viewing five or more hours a day produced an association of two times the odds of being in the top quartile for visceral adipose tissue mass. Further, a bedroom TV associated with three times the odds of elevated cardiometabolic risk, elevated waist circumference, and elevated triglycerides.

"There was a stronger association between having a TV in the bedroom versus TV viewing time, with the adiposity and health outcomes," notes study co-author Amanda Staiano, PhD. "A bedroom TV may create additional disruptions to healthy habits, above and beyond regular TV viewing. For instance, having a bedroom TV is related to lower amounts of sleep and lower prevalence of regular family meals, independent of total TV viewing time. Both short sleep duration and lack of regular family meals have been related to weight gain and obesity."

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US designates Syria's Jabhat al-Nusra front a 'terrorist' group at lightning speed

The US State Department designated the Jabhat al-Nusra militia fighting Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria a foreign terrorist organization Monday.

The speed with which the US government moved to designate a fairly new group that has never attacked US interests and is engaged in fighting a regime that successive administrations have demonized is evidence of the strange bedfellows and overlapping agendas that make the Syrian civil war so explosive.

The State Department says Jabhat al-Nusra (or the "Nusra Front") is essentially a wing of Al Qaeda in Iraq, the jihadi group that flourished in Anbar Province after the US invaded to topple the Baathist regime of secular dictator Saddam Hussein. During the Iraq war, Sunni Arab tribesmen living along the Euphrates in eastern Syria flocked to fight with the friends and relatives in the towns along the Euphrates river in Anbar Province.

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The terrain, both actual and human, is similar on both sides of that border, and the rat lines that kept foreign fighters and money flowing into Iraq from Syria work just as well in reverse. Now, the jihadis who fought and largely lost against the Shiite political ascendancy in Iraq are flocking to eastern Syria to repay a debt of gratitude in a battle that looks more likely to succeed every day.

The Nusra Front has gone from victory to victory in eastern Syria and has shown signs of both significant funding and greater military prowess than the average citizens' militia, with veterans of fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya among its numbers.

The US of course aided the fight in Libya to bring down Muammar Qaddafi. In Afghanistan and Iraq, the chance to fight and kill Americans was the major drawing card.

In Iraq, the US toppled a Baathist dictatorship dominated by Sunni Arabs, opening the door for the political dominance of Iraq's Shiite Arab majority and the fury of the country's Sunni jihadis. In Syria, a Baathist regime dominated by the tiny Alawite sect (a long-ago offshoot of Shiite Islam) risks being brought down by the Sunni majority. Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is in the odd position of now rooting for a Baathist regime to survive, frightened that a religiously inspired Sunni regime may replace Assad and potentially destabilize parts of his country from Haditha in Anbar's far west to the northern city of Mosul.

For the US, the situation is more complicated still. The Obama administration appears eager for Assad to fall, but is also afraid of what might replace him, not least because of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile. If the regime collapses, the aftermath is sure to be chaotic, much as it was in Libya, where arms stores were looted throughout the country. The presence of VX and sarin nerve gas, and the fear of Al Qaeda aligned militants getting their hands on it, has the US considering sending in troops to secure the weapons.

That's the context in which today's designation was made ? part of an overall effort to shape the Syrian opposition to US liking, and hopefully have influence in the political outcome if and when Assad's regime collapses. But while the US has been trying to find a government or leadership in waiting among Syrian exiles, Nusra has been going from strength to strength. Aaron Zelin, who tracks jihadi groups at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, notes in a recent piece for Foreign Policy that 20 out of the 48 "martyrdom" notices posted on Al Qaeda forums for the Syria war were made by people claiming to be members of Nusra.

Zelin writes that it's highly unusual for the US to designate as a terrorist group anyone who hasn't attempted an attack on the US. In fact, the US only designated the Haqqani Network in Afghanistan, which had been involved in attacks on US troops there for over a decade, this September.

His guess as to why the US took such an unusual step?

The U.S. administration, in designating Jabhat al-Nusra, is likely to argue that the group is an outgrowth of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). While there is not much open-source evidence of this, classified material may offer proof -- and there is certainly circumstantial evidence that Jabhat al-Nusra operates as a branch of the ISI.

Getting Syria's rebels to disavow Jabhat al-Nusra may not be an easy task, however. As in Iraq, jihadists have been some of the most effective and audacious fighters against the Assad regime, garnering respect from other rebel groups in the process. Jabhat al-Nusra seems to have learned from the mistakes of al Qaeda in Iraq: It has not attacked civilians randomly, nor has it shown wanton disregard for human life by publicizing videos showing the beheading of its enemies. Even if its views are extreme, it is getting the benefit of the doubt from other insurgents due to its prowess on the battlefield.

Will it hurt the group's support inside Syria? It's hard to see how. The US hasn't formally explained its logic yet, but it's hard to see how that will matter either. The rebellion against Assad has raged for almost two years now and the country's fighters are eager for victory, and revenge. The US has done little to militarily assist the rebellion, and fighters have been happy to take support where they can get it.

Most of the money or weapons flowing into the country for rebels has come from Gulf states like Saudi Arabia and Qatar and some of that support, of course, has ended up in the hands of Islamist militias like Nusra.

Usually the US doesn't like support flowing to its designated terrorist organizations, and leans on countries like Saudi Arabia to cut off support. But in this case, a doctrinaire enforcement of its will could look like helping Assad (who has insisted everyone fighting his government is a terrorist since long before Nusra even existed).

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Broadcom intros quad-combo, fast single-card wireless chipsets that put NFC at center stage

Broadcom wants NFC to flow like water, to the point where we can pair speakers and share content between phones like it's no big deal. Accordingly, it's launching two wireless chipsets that should sate both the mobile masses as well as performance lovers. The BCM43341 is reportedly the first to put official NFC support side-by-side with 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and FM radio in a single chip, taking a long stride towards smaller, cheaper phones with NFC tucked inside. We'll admit that we're drawn more to the speed demon of the pair, the BCM20793: the single-card design combines NFC with a 433Mbps implementation of 802.11n WiFi, raising the prospect of some very fast device-to-device Miracast and WiFi Direct connections in more advanced phones and tablets. Both parts should go into full production in the first quarter of 2013, which gives us enough time to prepare for Broadcom's vision of a tap-to-send future.

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Ghanaians show democratic mettle in troubled vote

ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana electoral workers tallied ballots on Saturday in elections troubled by technical hitches, but which authorities hoped would ultimately burnish the country's reputation as a model African democracy.

Ghanaians had queued up for a second day in parts of the West African nation to vote after hundreds of newly-introduced electronic fingerprint readers - used to identify voters - malfunctioned.

The decision to extend polling into Saturday was broadly accepted by voters and rival parties, easing worries the problematic poll would trigger the kind of street violence common during elections in West Africa.

"I was happy they extended the time," said Yaw Krampah, a 29-year-old metal worker, as he waited in line on the outskirts of the capital Accra. "But I couldn't sleep at all - this election means so much to me."

Three decades of peace combined with a recent oil-driven boom have made Ghana a darling among investors who say its growth prospects contrast sharply with the economic woes of Europe and the United States.

President John Dramani Mahama, who replaced the late John Atta Mills after his death in July, faces main rival Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who has vowed to provide free education and root out graft.

Early tallies from polling stations point to a tight race, raising the prospect of a repeat of the near-deadlock of the 2008 elections, in which Mills defeated Akufo-Addo in a run-off with a margin of less than 1 percent.

GLITCHES AND DELAYS

Hundreds of electronic fingerprint readers malfunctioned on Friday, causing some people who had waited hours to vote to burst into tears as they were told they had to come back the next morning.

An election commission official said 1.6 percent of the country's 26,000 polling stations had to reopen on Saturday to clear the backlog, adding that officials would launch an investigation into why the machines broke down.

"We are trying to find out what caused this situation," said spokesman Sylvia Annor.

Results are expected within two days with a second round possible at the end of December if no one wins an outright majority. Ghanaians are also electing a parliament, where Mahama's National Democratic Party has enjoyed a slim majority.

"I would like to ask the Ghanaian people to remain very calm...We are on course, and there should be no apprehension," Mahama's campaign director Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah told a news conference.

"Our people should be law-abiding, they should follow the rules of the game...The electoral commission will speak, and when it speaks, we will listen," he said.

A spokesman for Akufo-Addo said late on Friday that the election could still be free and fair if voters delayed by technical glitches are given the opportunity to vote.

Election observers said the poll remained credible.

"Yes, there have been problems, but we are generally satisfied with the process," said Miranda Greenstreet, the co-chairman of Ghana's Coalition of Domestic Election Observers, which has deployed 4,000 poll-watchers.

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Ghana has had five peaceful and constitutional transfers of power since its last coup in 1981, in stark contrast to the turmoil that surrounds it in the region.

Neighbouring Ivory Coast tipped into civil war last year after a disputed 2010 poll and regional neighbors Mali and Guinea-Bissau have both suffered coups this year.

"These elections are important not just to Ghana but for the growing number of states and actors seeking to benefit from increasing confidence in Africa," said Alex Vines, Africa Research Director at Chatham House.

Akufo-Addo, a trained lawyer and son of a former Ghanaian president, has criticized the ruling party for not creating jobs and easing poverty fast enough, and says he would use oil money to pay for free primary and secondary education.

Mahama, meanwhile, says he aims to boost Ghana's per capita annual income to $2,300 by 2017 - double that in 2009.

In a country where campaign messages rarely influence voting choices, many believe most of the 14 million voters will cast their ballots based on ethnic, social or regional ties. Mahama comes from Ghana's north while Akufo-Addo is from the east.

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HTC Windows Phone 8X for Verizon: what's different?

We've seen HTC's Windows Phone 8X in many colors and also many carrier variants -- it's already made its way to AT&T and T-Mobile in the US, and many other operators worldwide. Even though there's already been a heavy dose of coverage on this device, our work isn't quite done yet: Verizon's version has finally graced our reviews desk, which means it's time for us to explain how it differs from the global model, and how it measures up to the competition. The phone will be available in black, red and blue for $199 with a two-year commitment, a $100 markup over the Nokia Lumia 822. Is it worth the difference in price? Join us after the break as we discuss the merits -- and demerits -- of Verizon's newest Windows Phone flagship.

Carrier branding can often do embarrassing things to even the most dignified phones in the industry, but fortunately HTC was the clear winner in this round of carrier-manufacturer negotiations; aside from the typical checkmark logo and LTE branding on the back, we were hard-pressed to find any cosmetic differences between Verizon's model and its global HSPA+ counterpart.

That doesn't mean it's emerged completely unscathed, but most of Verizon's tweaks are actually beneficial additions that make an already attractive phone even more tempting. For instance, this flavor of the 8X comes with Qi wireless charging built in, so you won't have any problem placing it onto a compatible pad, rather than fumbling around for a micro-USB cord.

As you'd expect, the Verizon 8X runs on the network's LTE service, as well as EVDO / 1x. Pleasantly, though, the 8X offers quad-band (850/900/1900/2100) HSPA+ and quad-band (850/900/1800/1900) GSM / EDGE radios, which Verizon has thankfully left wide open for global roamers and even customers on GSM networks in the US (namely, AT&T and T-Mobile). While the theoretical max is only 14.4 Mbps, this is still perfectly workable as an alternative for anyone who might want to swap SIM cards.

Verizon's 8X also includes access to Data Sense, a feature that's exclusive to Big Red until early next year. We've already discussed the app at length in our review of the Nokia Lumia 822, but in short, it's a clever feature that offers several ways to manage and monitor your data usage, in addition to compressing web pages in much the same way that Opera works on mobile devices.

Aside from those key differentiators, there aren't many carrier-specific initiatives to get frustrated over. You'll find a few small items of Verizon bloatware attached, such as My Verizon Mobile, VZW Navigator and NFL Mobile. Fortunately, they can all be easily uninstalled from the app menu, and as a bonus you won't find the same suite of Amazon apps that come preloaded on new Android devices. Fans of Google search, however, will be disappointed to discover that Bing is not only the default search engine on IE 10 -- it's the only search engine. If you want to go Google, your best bet is to download the search app or simply put Google's home page in your bookmarks for easy access.

This may come as no surprise to anyone, but the internal specs on the Verizon 8X are the same as its global counterpart, with the exception of carrier-specific radios. There's a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 processor running the show behind the scenes, which is complemented by 1GB of RAM, an Adreno 225 GPU and 16GB of internal storage. It also offers a 4.3-inch display with 720p resolution (342ppi, for those pixel counters out there) and a 1,800mAh battery. For imaging, you'll have the same 8-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, BSI sensor and autofocus, as well as a 2.1MP front module with a wide-angle lens.

Regardless of how you feel about the Windows Phone ecosystem, there are two areas in which the platform has always excelled: performance and battery life. As we expected, the Verizon 8X does great in both categories. We enjoyed incredibly smooth performance with no visible lag, speedy internet browsing and no indication that this particular unit suffers from the random reboot problem we've experienced on 8X devices in the past. Here's how it fares in the cold hard metrics:

	HTC 8X (Verizon)	Nokia Lumia 822	HTC 8X (T-mobile)	HTC 8X (AT&T)	HTC 8X (global)	Nokia Lumia 820 (global)	Nokia Lumia 920 (global)
WPBench	229	239	225	219	221	224	227
Battery rundown	2:00	2:27	2:17	2:16	2:30	2:07	2:36
SunSpider (ms, lower numbers are better)	904	921	902	912	914	909	914
AnTuTu (*GFX test off)	11,790	11,376	11,190	11,852	11,775	11,506	10,957*

Don't get too nervous about the two-hour battery life, as the number above represents how long it lasts on WPBench's CPU-intensive drain test. While it's a little shorter than its WP8 competition, we didn't find any reason to be terribly concerned -- the 8X got us through a full day of solid use with plenty of life to spare, and light users will likely get a day and a half. Phone calls sounded perfectly clear and static-free, and our LTE tests yielded average speeds of 18 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up.

Folks who are interested in getting a Windows Phone and are loyal to Verizon have but two choices: the HTC Windows Phone 8X ($200) and the Nokia Lumia 822 ($100). (Samsung is planning to release its WP8 device, the ATIV Odyssey, sometime this month.) You likely won't see a large enough difference in performance between the two devices, but the extra hundred bucks will get you a better-looking display and Beats-enabled sound. Additionally, we're much more fond of the 8X's fit, feel and design. Still, the less expensive Lumia 822 offers the same amount of storage and has a microSD slot, whereas the 8X does not. As you can see, there are quite a few pros and cons to juggle, but suffice to say, this is the best iteration we've seen of HTC's signature Windows Phone so far.

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/08/htc-windows-phone-8x-verizon-review/

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Ringwood traders organise Christmas event after popular annual parade is cancelled

Ringwood traders organise Christmas event after popular annual parade is cancelled

5:00pm Saturday 8th December 2012 in News By Katie Clark

DISAPPOINTED Ringwood traders have organised their own Christmas event after the popular annual parade was cancelled.

Following news the traditional Ringwood procession through the town would not take place this year due to no-one coming forward to organise it, traders and local people have organised a new venture.

Trevor Johnson from Paperview in Christchurch Road, said: ?As a six-year trader in the town, I was also quite disappointed by the lack of an event.

?So a few of us got together to do something new, and I think we have created quite a magical event.

?It?s important for a town to have something at Christmas. It?s not just a Santa hunt, a lot of work has gone into organising this at the last minute, so we are hoping it will be as good as the parade.

?We wanted to turn a bad news story into a good news story.

?This is an event the whole family can take part in.

?It would be lovely to get a lot of people in Ringwood for the event to celebrate Christmas.?

The group has devised a hunt for Santa Claus which has children solving clues and completing tasks in various places to get one step nearer to meeting Santa, with a bit of help from Forest Forge Theatre Company.

Starting from the Elf Station outside Paperview the youngsters will be led to Santa?s magical grotto in a courtyard together with some four-legged friends including miniature donkeys, as well as carol singers.

All the children taking part will get a present.

The free event is also supported by the Rotary Club.

It will take place on Tuesday, December 18 between 3.30pm and 7.30pm.

Ringwood Town Council has also agreed to free parking for the event.

Source: http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10096876.Ringwood_traders_organise_Christmas_event_after_popular_annual_parade_is_cancelled/?ref=rss

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1. I can't get internet connection in columbus, ohio

2. i drop at least 6 calls or more a day.

3. i cann't make/recieve calls on a 5 mile stretch on way home.

4. my evo NEVER HAD THESE PROBLEMS.

5. sprint AGREES THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH APPLE AND SPRINT AND IS TRYING TO SOLVE PROBLEM, BUT MIGHT TAKE MONTHS.

6. I can't wait that long i want you to take back my phone and be done with it and ill keep using me evo on your network.

7. sprint denied me a return on day 15 after thanksgiving and the store was closed on thanksgiving, so how can they accually count a day when they are not open

8. I had apple check out phone and they found nothing wrong and even replaced phone with another new one, and said sprint service with iphone doesn't work AT ALL.

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i am screwed for 2 more years right.

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and a sprint rep even said to sell the phone on ebay or he would buy it for 100.00 if i would be willing to deliver it to him. what a joke.

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HELP ME PLEASE SPRINT NETWORK. SHOW ME SOME CUSTOMER SERVICE LIKE MY TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION DOES ON A REGULAR BASIS. SHOW THAT YOU ARE A CARING COMPANY TO A GREAT CUSTOMER...IF YOU DARE.

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What do you do to a computer to get it ready to sell?

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Penguins help out Father Christmas in Japan

Everyone knows that Father Christmas is traditionally helped by elves, but as they are presumably very busy getting ready in the North Pole, a flock of penguins are helping out at an aquarium near the Japanese capital Tokyo.

Visitors to Yokohama's Sea Paradise are treated to a daily "Penguin Christmas Parade" in which six cape penguins, wrapped up in their best Christmas outfits, waddle alongside Father Christmas.

The aquarium's caretaker Shingo Sato said: "We hope combining the normal joy of seeing animals with Christmas gives visitors extra pleasure."

After the parade, the penguins have one more special task to complete when darkness falls, as they are the ones who get to turn on the aquarium's Christmas lights.

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35 Symptoms of Perimenopause: Anxiety and Estrogen Dominance ...

In Part I of this post, Dr. Jennifer Landa, Chief Medical Officer with Body LogicMD, discussed the role of fluctuating levels of progesterone in women who suffer with anxiety and panic attacks during perimenopause.

Today, Dr. Landa continues the discussion and includes the role of estrogen dominance. I always say that perimenopause is a full body contact sport.? Coping effectively with the symptoms requires that you come at it from several different angles.

While fluctuating levels of progesterone, and even cortisol, are a big part of the problem when it comes to what causes anxiety during perimenopause, estrogen dominance is an equal part of the problem as well.

But, don?t despair ladies.? If you think this mountain is just too high for you to climb, it?s not. You?can?effectively manage your symptoms.? It takes patience, knowledge, and the right type of therapies to help you get through it.? But, get through it you will. I promise!

If you are interested in looking into bioidentical hormone therapy, check out Dr. Landa?s bio at the end of the post.? You can also click on the Body LogicMD graphic in my sidebar, and it will take you to their site where you can locate a physician near you.

Dr. Jennifer Landa

Not only do fluctuating levels of progesterone, and the stress hormone, cortisol, cause anxiety during perimenopause, but compounding the whole problem is the issue of estrogen dominance.?

When progesterone declines, women often suffer from estrogen dominance, which means that she doesn?t have enough progesterone to keep up with the amount of estrogen.

This leads to symptoms like anxiety, sleeplessness, irritability, mood swings, breast tenderness, weight gain, bloating and more.? This problem is further aggravated by the presence of xenoestrogens ? estrogen-like compounds that exist in the environment.

These can be in the form of chemicals in household products, such as shampoo and body lotion. Harmful ingredients in these products include parabens, like methyl, ethyl and propylparaben.? People are also exposed to hormones through food. Sadly, hormones are injected into chicken and cows?that are raised to be a part of the human food supply.

The solution is to decrease your exposure to xenoestrogens and decrease stress through relaxation techniques, such as meditation, yoga, tai chi, massage, deep breathing, etc. It is important to evaluate stressors in your life and remove what?you can.? There are supplements that may be helpful for decreasing cortisol production including B vitamins, vitamin C, magnesium and ashwagandha ? just to name a few.

Some women may need support with progesterone supplementation.? If you suspect these issues, you can obtain hormone testing with a hormone specialist who can guide you in the proper supplementation of progesterone that will help restore balance and your peace of mind.

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Dr. Jennifer Landa is the Chief Medical Officer for BodyLogicMD and practices anti-aging and preventive medicine at BodyLogicMD of Orlando, helping women and men suffering from menopause, andropause and other hormone imbalances achieve a longer, better life. Using individual, customized wellness programs tailored to address each patient?s specific, personal needs, Dr. Landa combines customized nutrition and fitness regimens, pharmaceutical-grade supplements, stress reduction techniques and natural bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) to ensure her patients enjoy restored energy, improved mental clarity and the highest quality of life possible.

Dr. Landa stresses the importance of treating the whole patient by finding the root of the issue, instead of simply using a one-size-fits-all treatment approach for individual symptoms. her practice emphasizes the prevention of disease and encouraging optimal overall health, rather than tackling illness once it has already occurred. Dr. Landa is passionate about sharing her knowledge and experience to ensure each and every patient can enjoy living life to the fullest. The BodyLogicMD of Orlanda office is located at 175 Lookout Place, Suite 200 Maitland, FL 32751. P: (407) 287-6315

Source: http://www.theperimenopauseblog.com/35-symptoms-of-perimenopause-anxiety-and-estrogen-dominance/

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Megan Phelps-Roper of Westboro Baptist Church: An heir to hate

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Sony to discontinue the production early 2013 of Cassette Player/ Recorder

All good things must come to an end and I am sorry to report that Sony WILL discontinue early January 2013 once and for all the production of its latest Cassette Player/ Recorder! So if you are interested in getting one of this soon collectable Cassette Player/ Recorder TCM-410, TCM-400 and TCM-450 from Sony rush to your nearest Yodobashi Camera and grab one before it is too late!

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'Drop to your knees and thank me?you are nothing': Donald Trump attacks fellow Apprentice star Alan Sugar on Twitter

US businessman Donald Trump launched into a furious Twitter rant at Alan Sugar last night.

Over a series of messages Trump personally insulted the host of the UK version of The Apprentice branding him ?dopey? and suggesting Sugar would be nothing without him.

Trump, who hosts the US version of the show, tweeted: 'When I made the Apprentice the #1 show in the US, that was a good day for you...and many others. Drop to your knees, Sugar, and say thank you, Mr Trump?.

He added: ?Look in the mirror and thank the real Lord that Donald Trump exists. You are nothing!?

Although there are no signs of any response from Lord Sugar this morning, the gossip website DigitalSpy says Sugar did reply ? suggesting he has subsequently deleted his tweets.

The spat apparently began when Donald Trump criticised ?garbage wind turbine? subsidies in Scotland, saying they are destroying the country and Scottish people don?t want them.

Sugar allegedly responded to the tweet by say that, in fact, it is Trump himself that Scots don?t want.

Several messages about wind turbines were then exchanged, with Trump going on to question Sugar?s skills as a businessman, suggesting he ?should not be doing The Apprentice?.

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Trump went on to tweet: ?Sugar?unlike you, I own The Apprentice. You were never successful enough...... to do The Apprentice but I approved you anyway. Without my show you'd be nothing?.

According to Digital Spy, Sugar responded: ??You approved me! What a load of rubbish dream on You don't own apprentice Mark Burnett does. Shut up and argue with Obama. Success is measured with what you have in business. I own all my real estate with no bank borrowing how about you big shot??

The Twitter spat then got increasingly personal, with Trump continuing to assert that Sugar?s celebrity status is down to him and suggesting Sugar has ?little persona?.

Sugar responded by saying Trump had ?had a charisma bypass?.

At this point Piers Morgan waded into the row, suggesting Trump fire Sugar from The Apprentice.

Morgan tweeted: ?Don't wish to interfere obviously @realDonaldTrump - but it may be time to fire @Lord_Sugar from YOUR show for his impertinence??

The exchange continued with Sugar mocking Trump for having less followers than him on Twitter, before former Labour spin doctor Alistair Campbell waded in to question Trump?s motivations for his Scottish wind turbine concern.

Caitlin Moran tweeted during the exchange: ?Lord Sugar vs Donald Trump on Twitter is like a 50ft high Mr Burns and a 50ft high Del Boy fighting in the middle of Tokyo #rivetted?.

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Should US export natural gas? Study for DOE fuels fiery debate.

According to the study, global market conditions are not yet ripe for US natural gas exports, but when they are, the exports would benefit the economy. A key issue is how that benefit is shared.

By Mark Clayton,?Staff writer / December 6, 2012

In this file photo, crew members with Anadarko Petroleum Corp., work on a drilling platform on a Weld County farm near Mead, Colo. A Department of Energy study considered the idea of exporting the US supply of natural gas.

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One of the key energy battles of the next decade is emerging now: what to do with the new natural gas geyser now whooshing onto the?domestic?US?energy market. Keep it at home, or export a big part overseas?

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It's hardly an academic question. Companies are?lining up for federal permits to build at least nine liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities that would allow that US energy?resource?to be shipped overseas. Opposing them are environmentalists, members of Congress,?and some industry groups?worried it will mean higher energy costs for US consumers and manufacturers?and potentially the loss of some jobs.

Debate over the issue popped up briefly in Congress this year, but was swamped?by?a deluge of other election issues. Even though energy policy was a centerpiece of both presidential campaigns, neither Mitt Romney nor President Obama ever unpacked for the public the potentially explosive LNG export issue.

Is it wise to sell the US gas surplus abroad if it ends up hiking energy prices at home? Which sectors of the economy would be winners ? or losers? What would be the impact on domestic energy prices and the economy overall?

Answers to those questions are now emerging. According to a much-anticipated new study commissioned by the US Department of Energy?and released late Wednesday, the US would get a net overall positive economic boost from exporting a big fraction of its domestic natural gas resources to Asia and other energy-hungry global markets. But that?s only if global market conditions make such exports feasible, which is not currently the case, according to the study.

The study for the DOE, by the NERA Economic Consulting of Washington, said the US economy would benefit under all future scenarios in which exports are envisioned. The Energy Department says, meanwhile, it will evaluate the study along with other information.

"Across all these scenarios, the U.S. was projected to gain net economic benefits from allowing LNG exports. Moreover, for every one of the market scenarios examined, net economic benefits increased as the level of LNG exports increased,? the study found. ?In particular, scenarios with unlimited exports always had higher net economic benefits than corresponding cases with limited exports."

But while the study projects $47 billion in increased economic activity by 2020, it also goes on to detail that this largesse will not be doled out equally, saying there would be "winners and losers."

"Different socioeconomic groups depend on different sources of income, though through retirement savings an increasingly large number of workers share in the benefits of?higher income to natural resource companies whose shares they own," the study found. "Nevertheless, impacts will not be positive for all groups in the economy. Households with income solely from wages or government transfers, in particular, might not participate in these benefits."

Even so, overall "net benefits" from such exports to the economy overcame ?the losses from reduced capital and wage income to US consumers," it found. "LNG exports have net economic benefits in spite of higher domestic natural gas prices,? the firm concluded.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/3KaL8JR32QM/Should-US-export-natural-gas-Study-for-DOE-fuels-fiery-debate

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Don?t cut corners when it comes to clean knives

ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2012) ? Poor hand hygiene is often thought to be the main cause of outbreaks of foodborne illnesses. Although it is well recognized that utensils used for food preparation can harbor bacteria, a new study by Qing Wang and her colleagues from the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia, USA, is the first to find that viruses can just as easily be spread by cross-contamination from utensils such as knives and graters.

Their study is published in the Springer journal Food and Environmental Virology.

The leading cause of foodborne illness in the US is currently Norovirus, with produce and ready-to-eat foods being identified as the main food types responsible for outbreaks. Previous research has shown that the prime time for food contamination occurs during preparation close to the time when food will be consumed. Although virus transfer between hands, produce and food-contact surfaces is known to occur readily at this point, to date there is little data on the potential role of kitchen utensils used for food preparation in this cross-contamination.

In this study, the researchers looked at the transfer of the Hepatitis A virus and Norovirus between a range of fruit and vegetables and different kitchen knives or flat steel coarse graters. Tests were done with uncontaminated utensils on contaminated produce and contaminated utensils on uncontaminated produce.

Results found that when using uncontaminated utensils, more than half of all knives and graters were contaminated after preparing the contaminated produce. Tests using a contaminated knife or grater very often resulted in contamination of the produce being cut or grated. In fact, after being used on one contaminated piece of produce, sterilized knives and graters were capable of cross-contaminating up to seven further pieces of produce that were chopped or grated afterwards.

As seen in previous studies, the level of contamination observed differed with produce used and type of virus. The authors suggest that the difference in the structure of produce surface may influence virus transfer as well as the binding affinities of the different viruses to produce. For example, the smooth surfaces of a honeydew melon transferred more Norovirus to knives than the rougher surface of a cantaloupe, but the opposite was observed for Hepatitis A virus.

This study demonstrates the ease with which viruses can transfer between produce and utensils using procedures commonly adopted in kitchens. This could pose a significant health risk. The authors conclude that ." .. great emphasis on utensils as virus vehicles should be placed, and it is important to provide knowledge and training for food workers and consumers to limit virus spread."

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1. Qing Wang, Marilyn Erickson, Ynes R. Ortega, Jennifer L. Cannon. The Fate of Murine Norovirus and Hepatitis A Virus During Preparation of Fresh Produce by Cutting and Grating. Food and Environmental Virology, 2012; DOI: 10.1007/s12560-012-9099-4

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