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EYES ON LONDON: Guilt, fencing drama, tweet insult

U.S. gymnast John Orozco performs on the parallel bars during the Artistic Gymnastic men's team final at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 30, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

U.S. gymnast John Orozco botches his dismount on the vault during the Artistic Gymnastic men's team final at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 30, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

In this multiple exposure photo, Annie Moniqui of Canada competes during the women's 58-kg, group B, weightlifting competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 30, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Chinese gymnast Chen Yibing performs on the rings during the Artistic Gymnastic men's team final at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 30, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Ukraine's Yana Shemyakina loses her epee as she faces China's Sun Yujie during a women's individual epee fencing semifinals match against at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 30, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

LONDON (AP) ? Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you:

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SHOULDERING THE BLAME

The U.S. men's gymnastics team faltered as a team in Monday's finals. But John Orozco thinks he's to blame.

"I feel personally responsible. I did five events and I botched two," he said after the fifth-place finish.

Orozco said he messed up on both the vault ? "If you saw, I fell on my butt" ? and the pommel horse, where "I did so poorly, it counted as if I fell twice."

Sam Mikulak says no one member of the American team was at fault for the performance.

"He's definitely being too hard on himself," Mikulak said, adding the team still showed it is young and improving and "will be a force in Rio."

? Jenna Fryer ? Twitter http://twitter.com/jennafryer

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ANY MEDAL COUNTS

Kristian Thomas finished his floor routine confident he'd done enough to give Britain its first men's gymnastics team medal in 100 years.

But he was too nervous to look.

After his score was posted, and the arena erupted in cheers, he finally glanced over and saw his team had claimed the silver medal.

And then it was gone.

A protest by the Japanese pushed them from fourth to second, knocking Britain down to bronze.

Thomas didn't care.

"We didn't quite get it in our hands, so we never really had it," he said. "Bronze, in our home games, is still absolutely amazing. If someone had told me at the start of the day we'd win a medal, I would have taken that straight away."

? Jenna Fryer ? Twitter http://twitter.com/jennafryer

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China Tests Powerful Rocket Engine for New Booster

China tested a new rocket engine Sunday (July 29) for a more powerful, next-generation booster that will be used to help the country construct its first space station in orbit, and for future missions to explore the moon, according to news reports.

The new liquid oxygen (LOX) and kerosene engine is being designed for China's planned Long March 5 rocket, which will be more powerful than the current Long March 2F rockets that have been used to launch a space lab test module and an astronaut crew on missions to test docking technologies in low-Earth orbit, according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency.

The more capable Long March 5 rocket is expected to help the country achieve its goal of constructing a space station in orbit by the year 2020, as well as play a key role in China's future space exploration aims beyond low-Earth orbit. The rocket's maiden launch is expected to occur in 2014, reported Xinhua.

On Sunday, the new engine endured rotational tests of almost 20,000 revolutions per minute, and was exposed to temperatures of up to 5,432 degrees Fahrenheit (3,000 degrees Celsius) for 200 seconds, Xinhua reported.

"The successful tests confirm the reliability of China's LOX/kerosene engine," Lai Daichu, Chinese test commander, told the newspaper China Daily.

The test was conducted by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) in the city of Xi'an in northwest China.

The liquid oxygen and kerosene engine is non-toxic, pollution-free and more reliable, according to Xinhua. The engine will be capable of 118 tons of thrust, which is more powerful than the 74-ton-thrust engines used on the Long March 2F rockets that have been used to launch China's fleet of Shenzhou spacecraft. [Photos: China's Tiangong 1 Space Lab]

According to Chinese media reports, the Long March 5 rocket will be able to launch a 25-ton spacecraft or satellite into low-Earth orbit, or launch a 14-ton payload into geostationary orbit.

China's most recent space mission, Shenzhou 9, lofted a three-person crew (which included the country's first female astronaut) to the orbiting Tiangong 1 space station prototype module. The flight marked China's first manned docking in space, making it only the third country to accomplish such a feat.

The country outlined its ambitious space program goals in a white paper that was released in December 2011. In addition to constructing a 6-ton manned space station in orbit, China intends to return lunar samples to Earth by 2016 using a robotic spacecraft. In the report, Chinese officials also discussed initial studies of manned missions to the moon.

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Monday, July 30, 2012

Are there any truly original ideas, anymore?

What's wrong with re-telling old stories? Why reinvent the wheel when you can put new rims on it?

On a more elaborate note, I think you're treading dangerous territory by making broad statements like "novels today are cut-and-paste versions of each other" when basic story three-act structure holds a lot of things together, anyways. The heroes journey is everywhere, but that doesn't mean it's all "stolen."

I think in our culture there is a myriad of themes we like to see pop up here and there. Symbols. I am loathe to call them "tropes" as is the common vernacular, but that's probably the best way I can describe them.

What would be enormously helpful is if you could provide more specific examples of what you mean. What shows, novels, or movies have you seen that sparked this question?

Also, if you are wishing to limit this discussion to purely the inclusion of roleplays, then this thread belongs in the RPG Design forum. The Discussion & Debate is for dialogue about things that are not related to roleplay.

Cheers!

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Parents have the natural right | Law Teacher

to care for their children, see to their proper upbringing

and safeguard their best interest and welfare.

This authority and responsibility may not be unduly denied

the parents; neither may it be renounced by them.

Even when the parents are estranged

and their affection for each other is lost, the attachment

and feeling for their offsprings invariably remain unchanged.

Neither the law nor the courts allow this affinity to suffer

absent, of course, any real, grave and imminent threat

to the well-being of the child.? ? Justice Vitug??

INTRODUCTION

A. Factual and Contextual Background of the Study

People get in and out of relationships all the time. And in the present generation, it is no secret that many people don?t wait for marriage before they engage in sex as part of their relationships. Without the proper protection, and seven to nine months later, a baby is born. But there are people who still believe that the marriage bed should not be defiled, and so they wait for the wedding night before making love, and with that, babies are born.

It is also a fact of life that not all relationships work out ? be they simply ?boyfriend-girlfriend? or husband and wife. Many times relationships crumble ? sometimes with hostility on both parties, but sometimes on friendly terms as well; this is true regardless of the actual length of the relationship ? whether it lasted a month, a year, a decade, or even more.

When two people in a relationship decide to end it, there shouldn?t be much of a problem when only the two of them are involved. But it is a different matter if out of that relationship, a child is born. For while the strings of their relation to each other are cut, their ties with their children??live on through their blood.

The next question to ask then would be who as between the parents would and should have custody of their children. For non-married couples who separate, the law provides that the child shall be under the parental authority of the mother,??who, as a consequence of such authority, is entitled to have custody of the child.??

Between a married couple who is on the brink of separation, sometimes this issue of custody is settled peacefully, as when one parent concedes to let the children live with the other parent, especially when they stay on good terms with each other after the separation. But sometimes this is also a source of dispute between the two separating parents who share the same feeling of animosity. This question has oftentimes been argued before the courts. And the courts will decide based on the circumstances of each case.

In aid of this daunting task of deciding who is a ?better? parent to get custody of the children, courts oftentimes make use of the presumption in favor of the mother, otherwise known as the ?Tender Years Doctrine? in the Family Code. The complete provision states that:

Article 213. In case of separation of the parents, parental authority shall be exercised by the parent designated by the Court. The Court shall take into account all relevant considerations, especially the choice of the child over seven years of age, unless the parent chosen is unfit.

No child under seven years of age shall be separated from the mother unless the court finds compelling reasons to order otherwise.??(Emphasis supplied)

Not in all cases, though, will the custody of the children be awarded to the mother, for it is possible that there exists a compelling reason to award the custody of the children to the father. But all things being equal, and with the children being below seven years of age, custody will be awarded to the mother, with the father granted visitation rights??over his children, in line with upholding the best interests of the child standard by which all else is measured.

The father normally will not have any problem in exercising his visitation rights when he is in good terms with the mother of his children. But problems usually arise when the relationship ended badly and there is a shared feeling of animosity between the father and the mother, and stuck in the middle of it is their children.

There are times when the children are used as ?tools? to get back at their father. There are times when the mother attempts to frustrate (and does succeed to frustrate) the father?s exercise of his visitation rights over his children by making sure that when the time to visit comes, the children are always engaged in some kind of activity or another, so that the father is not able to see his children and just simply be with them. Or she may just altogether deny the father time with his children without any reason at all.

This kind of situation is also detrimental to the children for they are deprived of time that should be spent with their father, more so when the father is not so easily accessible such as when they live far apart. The children then grow up without seeing much of their father, to the point that he is almost like a stranger to them. But this is sometimes without the fault of their father. However, the father has difficulty exercising this right due to the mother?s obstructing efforts.

B. Discussion of the Legal Issues

When a couple separates, custody is oftentimes awarded to the mother, especially if there is no contest from the father, or if the Tender Years Doctrine is properly applicable to the case. The father then is awarded visitation rights to his children. However, there are situations when the exercise of this right to visit is frustrated by actions on the part of the mother of the children.

In these situations, what then can the father do to enforce his right? Is there in fact anything the father can do to enforce his natural and legal right to be with his children? Are these existing remedies effective to ensure that the father will get to spend time with his children? Does the interfering mother face any sanctions or liability for her actions? Are these sanctions enough to deter her from interfering with the father?s visitation? And are these sanctions commensurate to assuage the ?damage? caused to the father and the children when they are deprived of quality time? These are the questions that this study hopes to answer in the next succeeding chapters.

C. Objectives of the Study

The primary objective of this thesis is to study the existing remedies available to a father who is being deprived of the exercise of his right to visit his children by the latter?s mother, who has been granted custody over the children after the couple has separated, and to determine if these are efficient and effective enough for the father to be able to invoke them to enforce his rights, as well as determining how the mother can be deterred from interfering with this right.

This thesis also aims to justify the need for a law declaring a policy whereby the father does not bear the burden of proving his fitness just to exercise his visitation right absent any compelling reasons for its denial, but instead shifting the burden to the other side, i.e. the mother, bearing in mind the best interests of the children.

D. Scope and Limitations

This study will only deal with the situation where there has been a relationship resulting in the birth of children where one parent has custody over the children as opposed to the other parent, who could only exercise visitation rights.

It will not cover a situation where someone other than the parents was granted custody over the children, such as when the grandparents are given the custody of the children over that of the natural parents, or when a stranger (meaning someone who has grown attached to the children by some factor other than direct blood link) is given custody over that of the natural parents in consideration of the best interests of the children.

This study will focus on the battle for custody over the children to give an insight into the situation leading to a grant of custody to the mother, and visitation rights to the father, and also as a possible contributing factor to a subsequent obstruction of his visitation rights by the mother. It will, in relation to the battle for custody, touch upon the topic of the Tender Years Doctrine to help explain why in most cases, the mother, as opposed to the father, is granted custody over the children.

This study will also point out the effects on the visiting parent as well as the children when they are deprived of time for visitation, particularly the effect on the children?s development, and also the effect on the part of the noncustodial parent ? the father ? when he is deprived of time for visitation as well.

Other laws, documents, rules are mentioned in passing only insofar as they are relevant to the topic in that particular part of the study; the thesis, however, does not attempt to make an in-depth study of these other laws, documents and rules.

E. Significance of the Study

The significance of the study lies in the fact that what is involved is not just a life, but many lives ? particularly that of innocent children who, as a result of the attempt of the mother to interfere with the exercise of the father of his visitation rights to his children, suffer the loss of not being able to spend time with their father, and as a result, grow up without the guidance of the father, the latter being like a stranger in the park to his own children. The children are not the only ones who are affected by the deprivation, but also the noncustodial parent, i.e. the father, for as a human being, he also yearns for companionship of his own flesh and blood, even if for just a brief moment in time.

This study recognizes that sometimes there are certain acts of the mother, which to her mind are just, but are actually to the detriment of the best interests of the children, for they grow up without a father-figure.

F. Organization of the study

This thesis is composed of seven chapters.

Chapter One is the introduction part of the thesis. It consists of the factual and contextual background of the study, discussion of legal issues, objectives of the study, scope and limitations, significance of the study, and organization of the study.

Chapter Two gives a brief overview about the family and the relationships within it, particularly that of the parent and child. Chapter Three will then talk about custody, where the relationship between the parents break down, to the point of hostility between the two. This chapter will also discuss several factors which affect custodial determination, such as the Tender Years Doctrine, why more often than not, the children end up with the mother instead of the father, and the latter is only given visitation rights over his children. It will also talk about the rights of the parents over their children after separation.

Chapter Four will narrow down to the main topic of this study, which is the visitation rights of the father. It will also discuss the different remedies available to the father to enforce his rights when there is an attempt by the mother to obstruct them, as shown in jurisprudence, and in practice. In addition, this chapter will discuss the importance of continuing the father-child relationship through the exercise visitation for the development of the children.

In line with this, Chapter Five will make a comparison and analysis of the difference in the treatment of the law when the father does acts which are equivalent to obstructing the mother?s right to see her children, and when the roles are reversed. This chapter will also explore justifiable reasons for depriving the father of his right to visit his children, and the possibilities of shifting the burden of proving the father unfit to exercise his visitation rights to the mother, when custody has already been granted to the mother and in that decision granting custody, there has been no express declaration by the court that the father is unfit to be in the company of his children, instead of the father always being forced to litigate just to enforce this natural right of his. In addition, there will be a comparison between the rights of a father over his legitimate children as opposed to a father over his illegitimate children. Lastly, there will be a discussion of the effectiveness of the remedies in addressing the mother?s intentional interference with the father?s visitation rights.

Chapter Six will constitute the concluding part of this study. And lastly, Chapter Seven will discuss several recommendations to improve the father?s exercise of his right to visit his children who are in the custody of their mother.

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Sunday, July 29, 2012

When the world burned less

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Study: Cool climate, not population loss, led to fewer fires

SALT LAKE CITY, July 30, 2012 In the years after Columbus' voyage, burning of New World forests and fields diminished significantly a phenomenon some have attributed to decimation of native populations by European diseases. But a new University of Utah-led study suggests global cooling resulted in fewer fires because both preceded Columbus in many regions worldwide.

"The drop in fire [after about A.D. 1500] has been linked previously to the population collapse. We're saying no, there is enough independent evidence that the drop in fire was caused by cooling climate," says the study's principal author, Mitchell Power, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Utah.

"The implication is that climate is a large-scale driver of fire. That's a key finding. Climate is driving fire on global and continental scales," says Power, who also is curator of the Garrett Herbarium at the Natural History Museum of Utah, which is part of the University of Utah.

The new study analyzed worldwide charcoal samples spanning 2,000 years. It will be published online during August in the journal The Holocene, which is the name of the geological epoch covering roughly the last 11,500 years of Earth's history. It was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Natural History Museum of Utah.

The study deals with the Little Ice Age, a period when Earth's climate cooled, causing New York Harbor to freeze over in 1780, among other effects. Estimates of when the Little Ice Age started range from the 1200s to the 1500s. It ended in the early 1800s. Possible causes include some combination of increased dust from volcanic eruptions, decreased solar activity, and changes in circulation of the ocean and atmosphere.

"The decrease in fire on a very large scale globally and in the Americas was controlled by this cooling climate, which began prior to the population collapse, and climate alone is sufficient to explain large scale changes in burning," says Power.

"In a cooler atmosphere, you tend to get reduced convection, so you get reduced thunderstorms and ignition from lightning," he says. "Cooler climate also tends to maintain high levels of fuel moisture and soil moisture."

Today, warming climate and drought have been tied to increasing fires in the U.S. West and elsewhere. "In a world where climate is rapidly changing we need to pay more attention to this relationship between climate and fire," Power says

Power conducted the study with 19 other scientists, including paleoecologist Frank Mayle at the University of Edinburgh, U.K., and climatologist Patrick Bartlein at the University of Oregon. Other coauthors who provided charcoal data or samples are from University of Wisconsin, Madison and Oshkosh; Northern Arizona University; University of Gottingen, Germany; Canadian Forest Service; University of Montpellier, France; University of Bern, Switzerland; University of Calgary, Canada; University of Tennessee; Virginia Tech; University of North Carolina; University of Chile; Laval University, Quebec; Fordham College, New York; and Central Washington University.

Cooling Climate or Population Collapse?

After Columbus reached the New World in 1492, explorers brought European diseases such as smallpox that "decimated populations in the Americas 10 million to 100 million dead, with most estimates in the 60 million range," Power says.

"All these people died abruptly Mayans, Incas, Aztecs and down in Patagonia they were all affected," he adds. "Agriculture was sharply reduced. Landscapes that had been cleared for agriculture started a process of plants growing back and infilling those abandoned fields. In terms of greenhouse gases, when you change from maintained cropland to woodlands, plants take up more carbon dioxide and there is less in the atmosphere. This has been pointed to as one mechanism for causing the Little Ice Age."

Power agrees population collapse may have led to reduced biomass burning in some local regions of the Americas. But the new study indicates the reduction in fire was actually global and began before Columbus in most areas, suggesting the Little Ice Age triggered most of the reduction in burning not the other way around, Power says.

"If you look at independent climate records, cooling from the Little Ice Age was happening about 200 years before the population collapse," or about A.D. 1300, he says.

Power notes there is room for debate because the Little Ice Age varied in time and space, and didn't affect all parts of the world equally, although most places cooled.
A Record of Fire Left in Charcoal

The study used existing records and-or new samples of charcoal burnt wood or other biomass found in sediment cores from lake bottoms and bogs from some 600 sites around the world, about half in the Americas, and dated within the past 2,000 years.

"Whatever was burning, we see a record of that fire in lake sediments, from either aerial transport or erosion" of burned material, Power says.

Power manages the Global Charcoal Database that compiles data from all the existing studies that date charcoal samples and describe where they came from. The new study included 498 existing charcoal records and 93 new samples.

"We have gone back in and calculated the ages of all these charcoal samples," except for some dated independently in other recent studies, and then used recent radiocarbon dating calibrations to make sure all data are consistent, Power says.

"Greater than 80 percent of biomass burning records show a decline post-1500 in the Americas, he says. The other 20 percent may be from areas that were still fire-prone despite cooling or that simply had burning declines for which there are inadequate charcoal samples, he adds.

The study compared the charcoal records with previously published ancient climate records and population reconstructions. It found:

Clumping all the charcoal data in two groups from the Americas or the Eastern Hemisphere shows that in the Americas, biomass burning declined between 1500 and 1650 and stayed at a minimum until 1700, the same time as the peak of the Little Ice Age. That period was the lowest level of burning in the past 6,000 years.
In the Eastern Hemisphere, there was a prominent decline in burning that began about 1400 well before the population collapse in the Americas. Power says cooling also started about a century earlier in the Eastern Hemisphere than in the Americas more evidence cooling caused reduced burning. There was no parallel population collapse large enough to explain the reduction in burning, although a small downward blip in burning is noted in Europe around the time of the bubonic plague or Black Death.
In tropical Middle America the Caribbean Basin, Mexico and Central America climate cooling starting around 1350, when burning also begins to decline. Population collapse didn't begin until around 1500.
In tropical South America, climate changed around 1350 to 1400. There is debate whether it warmed or cooled. The population collapsed after 1500. Power says neither climate nor population strongly influenced post-Columbian biomass burning in that region, which declined only subtly and not until 1700. It also is possible the population that collapsed didn't use fire very much in agriculture something a recent study coauthored by Power found in French Guiana.
In southern South America, ice-core and tree-ring growth studies show cooling began about 1450, well before an abrupt decline in burning in 1550. That would seem to support the theory that population collapse reduced burning except that the region had little population, certainly not enough for any decline to trigger a reduction in burning.
Ice cores from Greenland show cooling started about 1450, and fire started to decline about 1500, according to charcoal for boreal Canada and the western United States. Cooling and reduced burning stopped about 1800. Despite the 50-year lag, Power says that is more evidence tying climate cooling to reduced biomass burning, particularly since the region had relatively few people at the time.
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When the world burned less Public release date: 29-Jul-2012
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Contact: Lee Siegel
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University of Utah

Study: Cool climate, not population loss, led to fewer fires

SALT LAKE CITY, July 30, 2012 In the years after Columbus' voyage, burning of New World forests and fields diminished significantly a phenomenon some have attributed to decimation of native populations by European diseases. But a new University of Utah-led study suggests global cooling resulted in fewer fires because both preceded Columbus in many regions worldwide.

"The drop in fire [after about A.D. 1500] has been linked previously to the population collapse. We're saying no, there is enough independent evidence that the drop in fire was caused by cooling climate," says the study's principal author, Mitchell Power, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Utah.

"The implication is that climate is a large-scale driver of fire. That's a key finding. Climate is driving fire on global and continental scales," says Power, who also is curator of the Garrett Herbarium at the Natural History Museum of Utah, which is part of the University of Utah.

The new study analyzed worldwide charcoal samples spanning 2,000 years. It will be published online during August in the journal The Holocene, which is the name of the geological epoch covering roughly the last 11,500 years of Earth's history. It was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Natural History Museum of Utah.

The study deals with the Little Ice Age, a period when Earth's climate cooled, causing New York Harbor to freeze over in 1780, among other effects. Estimates of when the Little Ice Age started range from the 1200s to the 1500s. It ended in the early 1800s. Possible causes include some combination of increased dust from volcanic eruptions, decreased solar activity, and changes in circulation of the ocean and atmosphere.

"The decrease in fire on a very large scale globally and in the Americas was controlled by this cooling climate, which began prior to the population collapse, and climate alone is sufficient to explain large scale changes in burning," says Power.

"In a cooler atmosphere, you tend to get reduced convection, so you get reduced thunderstorms and ignition from lightning," he says. "Cooler climate also tends to maintain high levels of fuel moisture and soil moisture."

Today, warming climate and drought have been tied to increasing fires in the U.S. West and elsewhere. "In a world where climate is rapidly changing we need to pay more attention to this relationship between climate and fire," Power says

Power conducted the study with 19 other scientists, including paleoecologist Frank Mayle at the University of Edinburgh, U.K., and climatologist Patrick Bartlein at the University of Oregon. Other coauthors who provided charcoal data or samples are from University of Wisconsin, Madison and Oshkosh; Northern Arizona University; University of Gottingen, Germany; Canadian Forest Service; University of Montpellier, France; University of Bern, Switzerland; University of Calgary, Canada; University of Tennessee; Virginia Tech; University of North Carolina; University of Chile; Laval University, Quebec; Fordham College, New York; and Central Washington University.
Cooling Climate or Population Collapse?

After Columbus reached the New World in 1492, explorers brought European diseases such as smallpox that "decimated populations in the Americas 10 million to 100 million dead, with most estimates in the 60 million range," Power says.

"All these people died abruptly Mayans, Incas, Aztecs and down in Patagonia they were all affected," he adds. "Agriculture was sharply reduced. Landscapes that had been cleared for agriculture started a process of plants growing back and infilling those abandoned fields. In terms of greenhouse gases, when you change from maintained cropland to woodlands, plants take up more carbon dioxide and there is less in the atmosphere. This has been pointed to as one mechanism for causing the Little Ice Age."

Power agrees population collapse may have led to reduced biomass burning in some local regions of the Americas. But the new study indicates the reduction in fire was actually global and began before Columbus in most areas, suggesting the Little Ice Age triggered most of the reduction in burning not the other way around, Power says.

"If you look at independent climate records, cooling from the Little Ice Age was happening about 200 years before the population collapse," or about A.D. 1300, he says.

Power notes there is room for debate because the Little Ice Age varied in time and space, and didn't affect all parts of the world equally, although most places cooled.
A Record of Fire Left in Charcoal

The study used existing records and-or new samples of charcoal burnt wood or other biomass found in sediment cores from lake bottoms and bogs from some 600 sites around the world, about half in the Americas, and dated within the past 2,000 years.

"Whatever was burning, we see a record of that fire in lake sediments, from either aerial transport or erosion" of burned material, Power says.

Power manages the Global Charcoal Database that compiles data from all the existing studies that date charcoal samples and describe where they came from. The new study included 498 existing charcoal records and 93 new samples.

"We have gone back in and calculated the ages of all these charcoal samples," except for some dated independently in other recent studies, and then used recent radiocarbon dating calibrations to make sure all data are consistent, Power says.

"Greater than 80 percent of biomass burning records show a decline post-1500 in the Americas, he says. The other 20 percent may be from areas that were still fire-prone despite cooling or that simply had burning declines for which there are inadequate charcoal samples, he adds.

The study compared the charcoal records with previously published ancient climate records and population reconstructions. It found:

Clumping all the charcoal data in two groups from the Americas or the Eastern Hemisphere shows that in the Americas, biomass burning declined between 1500 and 1650 and stayed at a minimum until 1700, the same time as the peak of the Little Ice Age. That period was the lowest level of burning in the past 6,000 years.
In the Eastern Hemisphere, there was a prominent decline in burning that began about 1400 well before the population collapse in the Americas. Power says cooling also started about a century earlier in the Eastern Hemisphere than in the Americas more evidence cooling caused reduced burning. There was no parallel population collapse large enough to explain the reduction in burning, although a small downward blip in burning is noted in Europe around the time of the bubonic plague or Black Death.
In tropical Middle America the Caribbean Basin, Mexico and Central America climate cooling starting around 1350, when burning also begins to decline. Population collapse didn't begin until around 1500.
In tropical South America, climate changed around 1350 to 1400. There is debate whether it warmed or cooled. The population collapsed after 1500. Power says neither climate nor population strongly influenced post-Columbian biomass burning in that region, which declined only subtly and not until 1700. It also is possible the population that collapsed didn't use fire very much in agriculture something a recent study coauthored by Power found in French Guiana.
In southern South America, ice-core and tree-ring growth studies show cooling began about 1450, well before an abrupt decline in burning in 1550. That would seem to support the theory that population collapse reduced burning except that the region had little population, certainly not enough for any decline to trigger a reduction in burning.
Ice cores from Greenland show cooling started about 1450, and fire started to decline about 1500, according to charcoal for boreal Canada and the western United States. Cooling and reduced burning stopped about 1800. Despite the 50-year lag, Power says that is more evidence tying climate cooling to reduced biomass burning, particularly since the region had relatively few people at the time.
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How to add spice in long distance relationships?

Usually it happens that spark of a romantic relationship tends to get lost when the partners are away from each other. According to the relationship experts all relationships need work, it is necessary to keep the spark of love live.
So don?t let distances kill your romantic and lovely feelings for your partner and try to woo him no matter how away he is. Here we bring you some romantic tips which will help you add spice in your long distance relationship:
1. Don?t take each other for granted, make your partner feel special by making regular calls if he is away from you.
2. You can see your loved one on laptops and mobiles every day. Through web cam you can see him doing mundane tasks like washing dishes or working out. You can woo him by asking his opinion on the lingerie you have just picked up.
3. Amaze your partner by giving him romantic surprise gift.? Send him a bunch of red roses or his favourite brand of clothing via post. Moreover, you can heat up his senses by sending lingerie drenched in your favourite perfume.
Follow these points; they will add a magical spark to your love life!
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Best Home Based Internet Businesses ? The Top 5 Today | My ...

The internet has become so powerful that people can now earn money through the use of it. This is actually the common trend nowadays. A lot of successful online entrepreneurs can testify to the huge potential of online businesses. There are actually tons of profitable opportunities on the internet. here I have listed some of the best home based internet business opportunities individuals can start with.

1. Become An Affiliate Marketer

Affiliate marketing involves promoting the products of companies on the internet. as an affiliate marketer, you have to market these products through your website. This is a commission-based business, meaning that for every recorded sale from your site, you will earn a commission. The more sales you make, the more commissions you are paid. To be successful in this field, you need to master web marketing skills and pay-per click marketing strategies.

2. Engage in Freelance Writing and Blogging

Freelance writing is the most popular means of earning money online. This is one of the best home based internet businesses because articles are widely used in promoting all products and services online. There are tons of websites that offer this kind of opportunity. You may opt to make your own blog and turn it into your own money making instrument.

3. Answer Online Surveys

This is could be the easiest job to earn money online. You can earn money just by answering surveys. To get qualified on paid surveys, you have to register on a paid survey company website which usually requires a membership fee. once a member, this internet business will definitely bring you earnings.

4. Sell Goods On eBay

eBay is a favorite site for the best home based internet business where thrifty buyers usually check for the best deals online. You can either sell your personal goods or look for clients who require assistance in selling their goods on eBay. Try putting your goods in auctions for a better potential for profit.

5. Become a Data Entry Expert

Data entry is probably the easiest business in the internet. as long as you are computer literate, then you can work for any data entry job. Since data entry is common online, expect to have bigger competition, but don?t worry, it is still in high demand.

The chances of earning money from these ventures is not questionable; however before deciding to pursue any of these home based internet businesses, take time to reflect on how prepared you are to engage in the business. although some people may have earned a fortune in these different areas, not all who tried succeeded. Your success depends on you. Do the work and reap the benefits

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Health Care's New Rules: If You Don't Buy Insurance, Will You ...

By Joseph Antos and Michael R. Strain

Now that the Supreme Court has decided that ObamaCare?s mandate to buy health insurance is a tax, will the IRS be able to collect it?

Generally speaking, if you owe the IRS, it will get the money from you?with the possible exception of the ObamaCare tax. Though ObamaCare?s individual mandate imposes a tax on people who do not purchase government-approved health insurance, the law explicitly neuters the IRS?s ability to collect the tax.

Bizarre? Yes. And it matters. If policymakers expect uninsured young people to buy health insurance when it is even more expensive than it is today, the threat of serious consequences for not doing so must be real. Yes, the threat that the IRS might come after you if you do not do what you are told looks real at first glance. But Democratic politicians, fearing public backlash for making the mandate too intrusive, pulled its teeth.

First, the tax (nee penalty) is too small to matter to the people who are its target. In 2014, the tax will be the larger of $95 or 1 percent of taxable income for an individual. By 2016 it rises to $695 or 2.5 percent of income. Young people would not want to pay a dollar if they could avoid it, but avoiding the tax means signing up for insurance that many do not think they need. That insurance is not free. Even with subsidies, they will pay at least 3 percent of their incomes for premiums and up to 6 percent of the cost of the insurance in deductibles and copayments. That adds up to a lot more than 95 bucks.

Second, the law counts on most of the scofflaws turning themselves in. If you do not have insurance and think you owe the tax, then you will be asked to check a box to that effect on your tax return. If you choose to ignore the mandate, you might also choose not to check the box. But even those who do confess that they do not have insurance may not be liable for the new tax. Illegal aliens, Native Americans, prisoners, those who are without insurance for less than 3 months, those who do not have to file an income tax return, anyone who faces a hardship or cannot find affordable coverage, and others are all exempt.

Third, the law requires the IRS to sift through 140 million income tax returns to track down the few scofflaws who are actually liable. This requires collecting information from both the insurance companies and the individual filers in an expensive feat of bureaucratic detective work. What are the specifics? The details of any plan other than taking your word for it have not been worked out yet, but the likely scenario finds insurance companies sending documentation to the IRS and to the taxpayer, which the taxpayer would then include with his return. That means even more bureaucracy and regulatory burden than the healthcare industry and the IRS currently have. And more bureaucracy and regulation mean greater expense, both to insurers (who will pass those costs to consumers in higher premiums) and to the government.

Taking all parts of ObamaCare together, the IRS is expected to spend $881 million from 2010 through 2013 on thousands of new workers and upgrades to computer systems?amazing, since the bulk of ObamaCare does not even go into effect until later years.

Finally, even if the IRS has determined that you owe the new tax, it has very limited ability to force you to pay it. Basically, the IRS has two options: To ask you for the money and to reduce the size of your tax refund. But the IRS cannot reduce your refund unless you overpay. Since taxpayers have great control over their withholding, a savvy taxpayer who does not want to buy insurance could easily work the system to ensure that the IRS could not hold back his refund to enforce the mandate tax. And half of American households do not owe any income tax to begin with, so good luck getting the money from them. In addition, with electronic filing, the IRS may have already sent you the full refund before they?ve figured out that you owe the ObamaCare tax. All in all, it could take years for the IRS to collect its money.

This contrasts sharply with the way the IRS collects other taxes. To put it simply, the IRS gets the money it is owed because it has broad powers to enforce compliance. After all, there?s a reason we?re all scared of the IRS.

To enforce tax compliance, the government can bring a lawsuit against you, but that option is generally reserved for the most serious tax evaders?not individuals who owe a $695 penalty. In contrast, the ObamaCare law says that anyone who does not have health insurance and fails to pay the tax cannot be criminally prosecuted or criminally penalized. There goes the government?s strongest weapon.

What happens most of the time is very simple: If you refuse to pay your taxes, then the government takes your stuff. The government can take all the assets you currently have and assets you expect to receive in the future. For example, the money you have in your checking and savings accounts, your car, your boat, your retirement account, any rental income, and wages that have not been paid to you can be taken by the IRS in order to collect the money you owe. The IRS?s power is so strong that it holds third parties liable if they choose not to surrender property that the IRS demands. So your bank has to comply with the IRS.

Not so if the tax you refuse to pay is the ObamaCare tax. Under ObamaCare, the IRS cannot seize any of your property to enforce the mandate penalty. The IRS cannot go after the money in your bank accounts, and it can?t sell your car. It can?t send you to jail, and it can?t touch your stuff.

Congress has enacted a law that cannot be enforced. Congress purposely limited the enforcement powers of the IRS to avoid the public outcry that a strong mandate to buy government-approved insurance would evoke. The mandate may be constitutional, but as Chief Justice Roberts pointed out, a constitutional law is not automatically good policy.

The government?s inability to enforce the individual mandate is just one of many problems with ObamaCare. Mandate or not, laws should be enforceable, and they should be reasonable. This law has to go. The American public should turn the tables on the government and enforce a mandate of its own: Create and execute reasonable health policy.

Joseph Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Healthcare and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, where Michael R. Strain is a research fellow. This post first appeared at The American.
Source: http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/07/27/health-cares-new-rules-if-you-dont-buy-insurance-will-you-really-pay-the-tax/
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Sipa in marketing push - The Nation

Jirapan Boonnoon
The Nation July 27, 2012 1:00 am

The move is aimed at supporting and driving local software firms to provide software for the local market. The 40 participating software companies are expected to see revenue growth of about 20-30 per cent.

Suwimol Taewasillachaikul, vice president of Sipa, said the agency expected the cooperation would boost the efficiency of local software companies. They would be able to provide products and services confidently, tap opportunities and become more competitive. The Marketing Weapon for Thai Software project will have two levels - basic and advanced marketing - starting next month and finishing in November.

"This is the first time that we are working together and providing a training course and consultation for local software businesses, which number about 40, and 240 sales officers," Suwimol said. "They should be able create revenue growth of about 20-30 per cent after they complete the project.

"The cooperation is also likely to include the hosting of a marketing clinic and match-making between local software companies and local businesses who want to utilise software and technology to leverage their business so as to create growth."

Somporn Maneeratanakul, president of the ATSI, said the Bt5-million project would help local software firms create their own marketing arm and marketing tools to expand their customer base. It also will help them become competitive and encourage businesses to use more locally developed software. Last year, Sipa worked with the Thailand Development Research Institute to survey the value of the local software industry and learned that there were about 800 active software companies nationwide.

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healthy vegan friday #1 (!!!) | the veggie nook

Hello you vegan-friendly treats! It?s finally time- the first Healthy Vegan Friday (HVF). In case this is your first time here, or missed my brief intro to it the other day here?s what you?ve missed!

Welcome to the weekly blog hop, Healthy Vegan Fridays! This weekly link up is a place to share your healthy vegan recipes that make use of whole ingredients and minimize the use of processed and refined foods. The recipes shared on this link up are intended to emphasis the beauty, creativity and benefits of a healthy, plant-based diet!

This blog party is hosted by three vegan food bloggers:

When you link up to Healthy Vegan Fridays, your submissions will be shared on all three blogs. The following week, we will feature the top three submissions, as chosen by you, the readers (i.e. the posts with the most views). In addition, each of us will choose 3 submissions to feature on our own blogs. These chosen posts will be ones that we find the most creative, inspiring or tasty! We will also Pin, Tweet and/or post on Facebook all featured recipes. Scroll down for the submission guidelines.

I don?t know about you guys, but I?m excited! I hope a bunch of you will join in the fun! While it may start small, Carrie, Shelby and I are hopeful it will keep growing and growing! We hope it becomes a source of healthy vegan inspiration for you!

For my submission this week I am choosing to highlight one of my older recipes that I posted back in March, before my blog was even 1 month old. It remains the most popular recipe post on my blog, and for good reason! It?s an oatmeal cookie recipe with 2 variations:

Oatmeal-Tahini-Date Cookies (pictured) or Oatmeal-Tahini-Lime Cookies with Coconut!

These cookies contain loads of healthy ingredients like oats, almonds and tahini for plenty of fiber and healthy fats, with no added oils! They are rustic, chewy, and quite different from each other despite their similar bases. The date cookies have a wonderful earthiness and warmth from the dates and cinnamon and the lime and coconut cookieshave a tropical feel with an intriguing flavour from garam masala.

Submission Guidelines

Maximum of 2 submissions per week

You do not have to be a vegan food blogger to link up, but all recipes must be 100% vegan.

All recipe submissions should focus on the most whole, unprocessed and unrefined ingredients as much as possible, although we will still accept recipes that make use of some processed/refined ingredients.

You may submit current or past recipes, just make sure they are not ones that you have shared previously on this blog hop.

Besides recipes, feel free to submit informative posts that are aimed at promoting vegan, plant-based diets.

You must provide a link back to this blog party on your submitted post. You can either grab our badge to display or a clickable link back somewhere on the post you are submitting.

When linking up, please make sure to link back to the post you are submitting, not the homepage of your blog

A special note for submissions on my blog only: since my blog is hosted on WordPress.com (not self-hosted or Blogger) the Linky Tools List cannot be displayed directly on my blog. Click the ?Click here? link under the ?Time to Submit? heading at the bottom of the page to be directed briefly to another site to add your submission and view the list. (Sidenote: I am in the process of moving to a self-hosted blog so this will *hopefully* be the only time this is an issue!)

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By linking up to Healthy Vegan Fridays, you guarantee that the pictures and posts are your own and not that of someone else. You also agree to give permission to all hostesses (Shelby, Gabby and Carrie) to make use of your pictures and posts on our own Healthy Vegan Friday posts, as well as giving us permission to re-post them on Pinterest, Twitter and/or Facebook.

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Friday, July 27, 2012

Lana Del Rey's Cover Of Nirvana's ?Heart-Shaped Box?: Would Kurt ...

Given Lana Del Rey?s obsession with fallen icons, it makes sense that she would get around to covering a Kurt Cobain classic. (Of course, she also has quite a thing for Cobain?s onetime rival, Axl Rose, too.) During a gig at Sydney?s Enmore Theatre last night, the new face of H&M belted out an even more somber (if you can believe it) rendition of Nirvana?s 1993 alt rock staple ?Heart-Shaped Box?, complete with a haunting, string-laden background.

Now, we?re not quite sure what it is about these American girls that makes them want to cover Nirvana when they travel south of the border, but as Miley Cyrus has shown, if you?re going to do it, you?d better do it right. Head below to watch, then let us know if you?ve got a new complaint to lodge against Lana, or if she rocked it.

Lana Del Rey covers Nirvana?s ?Heart-Shaped Box in Sydney

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Home Improvement- Decorating Your Bathroom and Dining Room ...

Home improvement is the process by which your room would be attractive. It is not a big deal to decorate and design your room but you have to look for easy ideas and suitable for your budget. But it needs lots of creativity by which you would be surprised, place your small things here and there it can change the look of your home, apply more aesthetic value for good appearance, place some accessories, apply different color in your cozy nook, by doing this definitely you would be surprised at the final look against marvel at the easy with its performance..

Before starting your home improvement of bathroom interior designing and dining room interior designing you can get the fresh idea from the sites which show the ideas of interior decoration or by looking magazines of home interior designing, because it can make interior decorating look very easy. It always comes at a fraction of cost while you design from interior person but simplicity defines easy home decoration.

Choose the color, theme, and furniture which you want to apply in your bedroom interior design. To make the equipment simple for you multi- tasking is required. All the amusement sets should be set up and positioned in a particular room mutually for which you require furniture that could help in multi-tasking. By using old cabinet in your bathroom easy home d?cor can be done.

Suppose your room have lack of appearance or look drab, then shift the furniture and arranged them with a novel arrangement by using some easy home beautification thoughts. If they are fitted against the wall then drag them and fit them in a new angle position. If you want to neat up the dull look you should trial with new shades and colors and also keep in your brain the best home interior designing ideas are always have the capability to find the walls done it spongy colors.

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

EYES ON LONDON: No immigration staff strike

LONDON (AP) ? Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you:
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NO STRIKE
Lots of people are coming to London from overseas, and it now looks like they're going to have fewer problems getting in.
A British union has just called off a strike planned for Thursday by immigration staff at London's Heathrow Airport. Authorities had feared a walkout over pay and job losses would throw the Olympics into turmoil. Authorities this week urged the workers to consider the damage such action would inflict on Britain's image with the world watching.
?Raphael Satter ? Twitter http://raphae.li/twitter
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CARTOGRAPHIC CONUNDRUM
When it comes to the Olympics, geography can be politics.
Georgia's National Olympic Committee is fuming over two Russian athletes, born in what was then the Soviet Union's republic of Georgia, describing their place of birth as breakaway republics that Georgia and the international community do not recognize.
"Politics should not meddle in sports," says Georgiy Asanidze, a member of Georgia's Olympic Committee.
The games' official website lists Russian wrestler Besik Kudukhov's place of birth as "South Ossetia, Russia." The place of birth of another wrestler Denis Tsargush, born in the town of Gudauta, is also listed as Russia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia threw off most Georgian control in separatist wars in the 1990s, but Georgian authorities retained control of swaths of South Ossetia and a small piece of Abkhazia until the 2008 war with Russia. Afterward, Russia recognized their independence, as did Nicaragua, Venezuela and a handful of tiny Pacific nations.
?Misha Dzhindzikhashvili, Batumi, Georgia
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THE GREATEST
Will he? Won't he? British newspapers have buzzed with speculation that Muhammad Ali may have a role in London's Olympic Opening Ceremony on Friday.
The 1960 heavyweight boxing gold medalist and former world champion is in town this week, but looks far too frail to play a significant part in director Danny Boyle's spectacular on Friday night.
At an award ceremony on Tuesday, Ali was helped onto stage and sat largely motionless. Parkinson's disease has stolen the 70-year-old's once-world-beating strength and quick reflexes and frozen his beautiful face into a mask. Ali did not speak at the ceremony.
Among those who hope Ali will make an appearance, however brief, at the Opening Ceremony is Tyrone Monaghan. His father, Paddy, a bare-knuckle boxer, struck up a long friendship with Ali when both were younger. On visits to Britain, Ali regularly would drop by the Monaghans' house ? to drink tea, chat and even spar with Tyrone.
"There are so many great things about him," Tyrone says of Ali. "You can't sum it up in one sentence."
?John Leicester ? Twitter http://twitter.com/johnleicester
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WEASLEY'S TORCH
At least he'll be right at home with fire.
Among Wednesday's Olympic torch carriers through the streets of London: Rupert Grint, who played Harry Potter's faithful friend Ron Weasley in the Potter movies.
Grint, 23, will be carrying the torch briefly at Middlesex University shortly after lunch.
?Danica Kirka ? Twitter http://twitter.com/danicakirka
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ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Wednesday marks the first day that London's usually aggressive drivers have to respect the unpopular "Games Lanes" ? known informally as Zil lanes, after the Russian limos ? or face a stiff fine.
There were fears of massive tie-ups as two-lane motorways were effectively cut in half to make way for the "Olympic family" vehicles allowed to use the special lanes, so many commuters seem to have switched to public transport to avoid the hassle.
On the A40 highway into central London, rush hour traffic was lighter than usual, and the Zil lane was completely empty save for a few black BMWs and a couple of truck drivers who didn't seem to have got the message.
As the road spilled onto Marylebone Road near Madame Tussauds wax museum, a large electronic sign told motorists they were free to use the Games Lanes at that point, but few ventured over the imposing double-width, solid line painted on the roadway for the Olympics period ? despite the reassurances, they were apparently afraid that London's ubiquitous traffic cameras would cause them to be fined.
Eventually, as traffic slowed and a second sign said all lanes were open, drivers crossed the line and normal traffic patterns resumed.
?Greg Katz ? Twitter http://twitter.com/Gregory_P_Katz
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EDITOR'S NOTE ? "Eyes on London" shows you the Olympics through the eyes of Associated Press journalists across the 2012 Olympic city and around the world. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.
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