Kepler comes of age: NVIDIA unveils GeForce GTX 680 desktop GPU, 600M series for laptops

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NVIDIA's next-gen GPUs sure took their sweet time arriving, but the first of the Kepler crew is finally available in stores and its 28nm silicon is just itching to show off what it can do. You may be wondering what the 2GB GeForce GTX 680 brings to the gaming table, and whether it'll put an end to AMD's free run at the top of the food chain. Well, NVIDIA now claims it has "the fastest GPU in the world", with both lower power consumption and a 10-40 percent performance advantage over AMD's single-GPU rival, the Radeon HD 7970, at 1920 x 1080. How can it back up such a boast? Ultimately, everything hinges on independent benchmarks (coming soon in our review round-up), but in the meantime we need to look at NVIDIA's new architecture for clues. Intrigued? Then head on past the break.

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PFT: Jaguars in play for Tebow if Jets' deal nixed

Cowboys defensive coordinator Ryan argues with referee Coleman about a penalty call during their NFL football game against the Patriots in FoxboroughReuters

The NFL?s Competition Committee announced several proposed changes to the game-day rules and the league bylaws on a conference call with reporters on Wednesday afternoon.

The rules changes that are being proposed are:

1. Giving the authority to determine replay reviews to the replay official in the booth, not the referee on the field.

2. Modifying the horse-collar tackle rule to remove the exception for quarterbacks in the pocket, so that a quarterback in the pocket may not be yanked down by the back of his shoulder pads or inside collar of his jersey.

3. Changing overtime so that the postseason rule will be used in the regular season as well, and no regular-season games will be ended on a field goal on the first possession of overtime.

4. Adding a loss of down to the penalty for kicking a loose ball, as is the case in college football.

5. Adopting the college rule for too many men on the field, which is a dead-ball foul if a team lines up on offense for more than three seconds, or if a team on defense lines up with too many men and the snap is imminent. In those cases, the officials will blow the play dead and assess a five-yard penalty. This change wouldn?t affect the rulings on players running off the field who don?t get off in time.

6. Expanding the defenseless player rule to protect defensive players on crackback blocks, making it illegal to hit them in the head or neck area.

7. Automatically reviewing turnovers via instant replay, just as scoring plays are automatically reviewed.

The league also considered the following bylaws:

1. Modifying the roster rules for teams that play on Thanksgiving and Christmas.

2. Moving the trade deadline from Week 6 to Week 8.

3. Expanding the roster limit for training camp and the offseason to 90 players, with unsigned draft picks now counting toward that limit, whereas in the past unsigned draft picks did not count toward the 80-player limit.

4. Moving this year?s final roster cutdown day to Friday night instead of Saturday, which is designed to give an extra day of work after cutting down to final rosters for the two teams playing in the first game of the season, which this year is on Wednesday instead of Thursday.

5. Adding an injured reserve exemption so that if a player was on the roster through the first regular season weekend, that player can be placed on injured reserve and designated for return, and then can return to practice six weeks later and play in a game eight weeks later, rather than having all players on injured reserve out for the season.

6. Allowing one roster exemption per team per week for a player who is inactive with a concussion.

PFT Planet, tell us how you feel about the proposed rules changes.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/21/if-tim-tebow-jets-deal-is-nixed-jaguars-will-be-in-the-mix/related/

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Geosphere's dynamic platform displays the latest 3-D modeling, LiDAR imaging, and more

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New Geosphere science posted online March 20, 2012

Boulder, Colo., USA Highlights include new entries to the special issues "Seeing the True Shape of Earth's Surface" and "Origin and Evolution of the Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane." Also online: 3-D modeling of the area in the Pacific Ring of Fire affected by the magnitude 8.1 earthquake on 29 Sept.; another article comparing three different 3-D modeling software packages; and the identification of ancient marine terraces in areas of dense tree cover using airborne LiDAR.

Abstracts for these and other Geosphere papers are available at http://geosphere.gsapubs.org/. Representatives of the media may obtain complimentary copies of Geosphere articles by contacting Christa Stratton at the address above.

Please discuss articles of interest with the authors before publishing stories on their work, and please make reference to Geosphere in articles published. Contact Christa Stratton for additional information or assistance.

Non-media requests for articles may be directed to GSA Sales and Service, gsaservice@geosociety.org.


Emergent and animated COLLADA models of the Tonga Trench and Samoa Archipelago: Implications for geoscience modeling, education, and research
Declan G. De Paor et al., Physics Dept., Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA. Posted online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS758.1.

On 29 Sept. 2009, a deadly tsunamigenic earthquake struck American Samoa. The magnitude 8.1 quake occurred near a point where the Pacific "Ring of Fire" goes through a sharp bend. To the south and west, the Pacific tectonic plate is torn in the subsurface with a part of it subducting under the Tonga region. Authors Declan G. De Paor of Old Dominion University and colleagues have created 3-D models of the complex crustal structure of the region, suitable for viewing in Google Earth. Their models represent a number of working hypotheses that explain the tectonics of the region. Some models, presented in Geosphere's unique online platform, emerge from the Google Earth terrain and are animated to help students understand what's going on. Others permit the user to view the subsurface down to lower mantle levels.


Assessing the impact of program selection on the accuracy of 3D geologic models
Kelsey E. MacCormack, University Guelph, 50 Stone Rd. East, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada; and Carolyn H. Eyles, McMaster University. Posted online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS732.1.

The increased demand for 3-D geologic models in recent years has led to a rise in the number of 3-D modeling software packages. This article by Kelsey E. MacCormack and Carolyn H. Eyles examines the differences between 3-D geologic models produced using three different modeling software packages (ArcGIS, ROCKWORKS 2006, and VIEWLOG). To ensure that program selection was the only variable influencing the results, identical datasets were interpolated by each of the three modeling programs, using the inverse distance weighting (IDW) and ordinary kriging (OK) algorithms. The results indicate that the 3-D models produced by each of the modeling programs using the OK and IDW interpolation algorithms are inconsistent. MacCormack and Eyles conclude that program selection has a particularly significant influence on the model results when modeling complex subsurface environments with clustered data, a common situation when working with geologic and/or environmental data.


Discovering marine terraces using airborne LiDAR along the Mendocino-Sonoma coast, northern California
Christopher J. Bowles and Eric Cowgill, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8605, USA. Posted online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS702.1.

Marine terraces are planar features in the landscape that record the extent to which Earth's surface has been uplifted above sea level over time. Researchers Christopher J. Bowles and Eric Cowgill present a method for discovering previously unidentified marine terraces in areas of dense tree cover by using data from airborne laser scanning surveys. To test their method, they investigated a 70-km-long section of the northern California coast in Mendocino and Sonoma counties between Fort Ross and Point Arena. In this area, the method reveals 851 individual platforms that Bowles and Cowgill interpret to be a suite of marine terraces. These platforms range in elevation from 100 to 450 meters above sea level, are generally elongate parallel to the modern coastline and one another, and have elevations that increase systematically from west to east in a step-like fashion. Matching the elevations of these platforms with those predicted from sea-level curves suggests the surface-uplift rate for the northern coast of California has been ~0.2 mm/yr over the past two million years. This rate is similar to, but lower than the previously determined uplift rate of ~0.3 mm/yr for a ~23 m-high marine terrace in the area.


Neogene deformation and granite emplacement in the metamorphic units of northern Apennines (Italy): Insights from mylonitic marbles in the Porto Azzurro
Giovanni Musumeci, Universita di Pisa, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Via S.Maria 53, Pisa, Pisa I-56126, Italy and Luca Vaselli, Instituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse-Sezione di Pisa. Published online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS665.1.

In the northern Tyrrhenian Sea, late Miocene intrusions (Monte Capanne pluton and Porto Azzurro pluton) were emplaced at upper crustal levels (less than 0.2 GPa) in the thrust systems of Elba Island. Detailed structural analysis in the contact aureole of the Porto Azzurro pluton (eastern Elba) led to discovery of two decameter-scale carbonate shear zones, namely the Calanchiole and Felciaio shear zones. These structures represent two weakened layers in the contact aureole in which west dipping mylonitic foliation, sheath folds, boudinage structures, and upright folds developed under metamorphic conditions retrograde from pyroxene hornfels (thermal peak) to hornblende-greenschist hornfels facies (retrograde cooling). Moreover, geometric and kinematic features indicate that both shear zones correspond to ductile thrusts, which led to internal stacking of the contact aureole. Authors Giovanni Musumeci and Luca Vaselli conclude that because Elba Island is a key area in the northern Apennines-northern Tyrrhenian Sea system, the shear zones give clear indications that, in the northern Apennines, magmatic activity was coeval with crustal shortening with development of out of sequence thrust systems. This suggestion rules out the previous interpretations emphasizing the role of crustal extension and gives a new perspective about tectonic regime and mode of granite emplacement in the Late Neogene evolution of northern Tyrrhenian Sea-northern Apennine system.


Late Cretaceous gravitational collapse of the southern Sierra Nevada batholith, California
Alan D. Chapman et al., Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA, and Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. Published online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS740.1.

The Sierra Nevada batholith is an ~600-km-long, NNW-trending composite arc assemblage consisting of a myriad of plutons exhibiting a distinct transverse zonation in structural, petrologic, geochronologic, and isotopic patterns. This zonation is most clearly expressed by a west-to-east variation from mafic to felsic plutonic assemblages. To the south, the depth of exposure increases markedly, and fragments of shallow-level eastern Sierra Nevada batholith affinity rocks overlie deeper-level western zone rocks and subjacent subduction accretion assemblages along a major Late Cretaceous detachment system. Alan D. Chapman and colleagues assess the magnitude of displacement along this detachment system by palinspastic reconstruction of vertical piercing points provided by batholithic and metamorphic pendant structure and stratigraphy. Integration of new and published data from plutonic and metamorphic framework assemblages in the southern Sierra Nevada batholith reveal seven potential correlations between dispersed crustal fragments and the Sierra Nevada batholith autochthon. Each correlation suggests at least 50 km of south- to southwest-directed transport and tectonic excision of ~5? km of crust along the Late Cretaceous detachment system. The timing and pattern of regional dispersion of crustal fragments in the southern Sierra Nevada batholith is most consistent with Late Cretaceous collapse above the underplated accretionary complex. Chapman and colleagues thus infer (1) a high degree of coupling between the shallow and deep crust during extension, and (2) that the development of modern landscape in southern California was greatly preconditioned by Late Cretaceous tectonics.


The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite: The roles of basement terranes and magma source development in the Early Cretaceous Sierra Nevada batholith
Jade Star Lackey et al., Geology Dept., Pomona College, Claremont, California 91711, USA. Posted online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS745.1.

The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite is one of the largest (more than 2000 square kilometers) and oldest intrusive complexes in the Sierra Nevada batholith (California, USA) and therefore contains a wealth of information about nascent magmatic processes in a convergent margin arc. Because the suite intrudes both accreted oceanic and/or island-arc terranes and continental crust, it provides perspective on how convergent margin magmatism recycles existing crust versus reworking of fringing island arcs into continental crust. Such insight informs our understanding of how continental crust formation may have operated in the Phanerozoic as compared to earlier in Earth history. Jade Star Lackey and colleagues present new data showing that the largely tonalitic suite was emplaced over about 19 million years (124? Ma), in three pulses that young from west to east. Although the Fine Gold Intrusive Suite is comparable to the Late Cretaceous voluminous intrusive suite of the eastern Sierra in terms of duration and age zoning of magmatism, the influence of preexisting basement compositions and differing degrees of organization of the magma sources with age is more pronounced. In addition, the findings show that recycling of fringing arc terranes into continental crust is relatively rapid and that estimates of the growth of Phanerozoic continental crust from such reprocessing should be revised upward.


Magma hybridization in the middle crust: Possible consequences for deep-crustal magma mixing
Calvin G. Barnes et al., Dept. of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1053, USA. Posted online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS730.1.

The compositions of magmas in many continental arcs -- zones of intense magmatism formed long continental margins above subduction zones -- are commonly explained by equilibrium of the magmas with garnet. Where its chemical effects are observed, magma-garnet equilibrium is traditionally interpreted to occur at or near the base of continental crust, because magnesium-rich garnet is not stable at lower pressures. This study by Calvin G. Barnes and colleagues describes examples from north-central Norway in which the process of magma mixing in the middle crust resulted in garnet stability at lower-than-expected pressure conditions. Garnet became stable because the hybrid magma was both Fe- and Al-rich, owing to mixing of Fe-rich basaltic magmas with Al-rich granitic ones. Mixing of similar end members to produce Fe- and Al-rich hybrids in the lower crust should result in formation of high proportions of garnet in the hybrid. The high-density, garnet-rich hybrids so produced could promote delamination and foundering of the lower crust.

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Contact: Christa Stratton
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New Geosphere science posted online March 20, 2012

Boulder, Colo., USA Highlights include new entries to the special issues "Seeing the True Shape of Earth's Surface" and "Origin and Evolution of the Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane." Also online: 3-D modeling of the area in the Pacific Ring of Fire affected by the magnitude 8.1 earthquake on 29 Sept.; another article comparing three different 3-D modeling software packages; and the identification of ancient marine terraces in areas of dense tree cover using airborne LiDAR.

Abstracts for these and other Geosphere papers are available at http://geosphere.gsapubs.org/. Representatives of the media may obtain complimentary copies of Geosphere articles by contacting Christa Stratton at the address above.

Please discuss articles of interest with the authors before publishing stories on their work, and please make reference to Geosphere in articles published. Contact Christa Stratton for additional information or assistance.

Non-media requests for articles may be directed to GSA Sales and Service, gsaservice@geosociety.org.


Emergent and animated COLLADA models of the Tonga Trench and Samoa Archipelago: Implications for geoscience modeling, education, and research
Declan G. De Paor et al., Physics Dept., Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA. Posted online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS758.1.

On 29 Sept. 2009, a deadly tsunamigenic earthquake struck American Samoa. The magnitude 8.1 quake occurred near a point where the Pacific "Ring of Fire" goes through a sharp bend. To the south and west, the Pacific tectonic plate is torn in the subsurface with a part of it subducting under the Tonga region. Authors Declan G. De Paor of Old Dominion University and colleagues have created 3-D models of the complex crustal structure of the region, suitable for viewing in Google Earth. Their models represent a number of working hypotheses that explain the tectonics of the region. Some models, presented in Geosphere's unique online platform, emerge from the Google Earth terrain and are animated to help students understand what's going on. Others permit the user to view the subsurface down to lower mantle levels.


Assessing the impact of program selection on the accuracy of 3D geologic models
Kelsey E. MacCormack, University Guelph, 50 Stone Rd. East, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada; and Carolyn H. Eyles, McMaster University. Posted online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS732.1.

The increased demand for 3-D geologic models in recent years has led to a rise in the number of 3-D modeling software packages. This article by Kelsey E. MacCormack and Carolyn H. Eyles examines the differences between 3-D geologic models produced using three different modeling software packages (ArcGIS, ROCKWORKS 2006, and VIEWLOG). To ensure that program selection was the only variable influencing the results, identical datasets were interpolated by each of the three modeling programs, using the inverse distance weighting (IDW) and ordinary kriging (OK) algorithms. The results indicate that the 3-D models produced by each of the modeling programs using the OK and IDW interpolation algorithms are inconsistent. MacCormack and Eyles conclude that program selection has a particularly significant influence on the model results when modeling complex subsurface environments with clustered data, a common situation when working with geologic and/or environmental data.


Discovering marine terraces using airborne LiDAR along the Mendocino-Sonoma coast, northern California
Christopher J. Bowles and Eric Cowgill, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8605, USA. Posted online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS702.1.

Marine terraces are planar features in the landscape that record the extent to which Earth's surface has been uplifted above sea level over time. Researchers Christopher J. Bowles and Eric Cowgill present a method for discovering previously unidentified marine terraces in areas of dense tree cover by using data from airborne laser scanning surveys. To test their method, they investigated a 70-km-long section of the northern California coast in Mendocino and Sonoma counties between Fort Ross and Point Arena. In this area, the method reveals 851 individual platforms that Bowles and Cowgill interpret to be a suite of marine terraces. These platforms range in elevation from 100 to 450 meters above sea level, are generally elongate parallel to the modern coastline and one another, and have elevations that increase systematically from west to east in a step-like fashion. Matching the elevations of these platforms with those predicted from sea-level curves suggests the surface-uplift rate for the northern coast of California has been ~0.2 mm/yr over the past two million years. This rate is similar to, but lower than the previously determined uplift rate of ~0.3 mm/yr for a ~23 m-high marine terrace in the area.


Neogene deformation and granite emplacement in the metamorphic units of northern Apennines (Italy): Insights from mylonitic marbles in the Porto Azzurro
Giovanni Musumeci, Universita di Pisa, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Via S.Maria 53, Pisa, Pisa I-56126, Italy and Luca Vaselli, Instituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse-Sezione di Pisa. Published online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS665.1.

In the northern Tyrrhenian Sea, late Miocene intrusions (Monte Capanne pluton and Porto Azzurro pluton) were emplaced at upper crustal levels (less than 0.2 GPa) in the thrust systems of Elba Island. Detailed structural analysis in the contact aureole of the Porto Azzurro pluton (eastern Elba) led to discovery of two decameter-scale carbonate shear zones, namely the Calanchiole and Felciaio shear zones. These structures represent two weakened layers in the contact aureole in which west dipping mylonitic foliation, sheath folds, boudinage structures, and upright folds developed under metamorphic conditions retrograde from pyroxene hornfels (thermal peak) to hornblende-greenschist hornfels facies (retrograde cooling). Moreover, geometric and kinematic features indicate that both shear zones correspond to ductile thrusts, which led to internal stacking of the contact aureole. Authors Giovanni Musumeci and Luca Vaselli conclude that because Elba Island is a key area in the northern Apennines-northern Tyrrhenian Sea system, the shear zones give clear indications that, in the northern Apennines, magmatic activity was coeval with crustal shortening with development of out of sequence thrust systems. This suggestion rules out the previous interpretations emphasizing the role of crustal extension and gives a new perspective about tectonic regime and mode of granite emplacement in the Late Neogene evolution of northern Tyrrhenian Sea-northern Apennine system.


Late Cretaceous gravitational collapse of the southern Sierra Nevada batholith, California
Alan D. Chapman et al., Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA, and Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. Published online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS740.1.

The Sierra Nevada batholith is an ~600-km-long, NNW-trending composite arc assemblage consisting of a myriad of plutons exhibiting a distinct transverse zonation in structural, petrologic, geochronologic, and isotopic patterns. This zonation is most clearly expressed by a west-to-east variation from mafic to felsic plutonic assemblages. To the south, the depth of exposure increases markedly, and fragments of shallow-level eastern Sierra Nevada batholith affinity rocks overlie deeper-level western zone rocks and subjacent subduction accretion assemblages along a major Late Cretaceous detachment system. Alan D. Chapman and colleagues assess the magnitude of displacement along this detachment system by palinspastic reconstruction of vertical piercing points provided by batholithic and metamorphic pendant structure and stratigraphy. Integration of new and published data from plutonic and metamorphic framework assemblages in the southern Sierra Nevada batholith reveal seven potential correlations between dispersed crustal fragments and the Sierra Nevada batholith autochthon. Each correlation suggests at least 50 km of south- to southwest-directed transport and tectonic excision of ~5? km of crust along the Late Cretaceous detachment system. The timing and pattern of regional dispersion of crustal fragments in the southern Sierra Nevada batholith is most consistent with Late Cretaceous collapse above the underplated accretionary complex. Chapman and colleagues thus infer (1) a high degree of coupling between the shallow and deep crust during extension, and (2) that the development of modern landscape in southern California was greatly preconditioned by Late Cretaceous tectonics.


The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite: The roles of basement terranes and magma source development in the Early Cretaceous Sierra Nevada batholith
Jade Star Lackey et al., Geology Dept., Pomona College, Claremont, California 91711, USA. Posted online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS745.1.

The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite is one of the largest (more than 2000 square kilometers) and oldest intrusive complexes in the Sierra Nevada batholith (California, USA) and therefore contains a wealth of information about nascent magmatic processes in a convergent margin arc. Because the suite intrudes both accreted oceanic and/or island-arc terranes and continental crust, it provides perspective on how convergent margin magmatism recycles existing crust versus reworking of fringing island arcs into continental crust. Such insight informs our understanding of how continental crust formation may have operated in the Phanerozoic as compared to earlier in Earth history. Jade Star Lackey and colleagues present new data showing that the largely tonalitic suite was emplaced over about 19 million years (124? Ma), in three pulses that young from west to east. Although the Fine Gold Intrusive Suite is comparable to the Late Cretaceous voluminous intrusive suite of the eastern Sierra in terms of duration and age zoning of magmatism, the influence of preexisting basement compositions and differing degrees of organization of the magma sources with age is more pronounced. In addition, the findings show that recycling of fringing arc terranes into continental crust is relatively rapid and that estimates of the growth of Phanerozoic continental crust from such reprocessing should be revised upward.


Magma hybridization in the middle crust: Possible consequences for deep-crustal magma mixing
Calvin G. Barnes et al., Dept. of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1053, USA. Posted online 20 Mar. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GS730.1.

The compositions of magmas in many continental arcs -- zones of intense magmatism formed long continental margins above subduction zones -- are commonly explained by equilibrium of the magmas with garnet. Where its chemical effects are observed, magma-garnet equilibrium is traditionally interpreted to occur at or near the base of continental crust, because magnesium-rich garnet is not stable at lower pressures. This study by Calvin G. Barnes and colleagues describes examples from north-central Norway in which the process of magma mixing in the middle crust resulted in garnet stability at lower-than-expected pressure conditions. Garnet became stable because the hybrid magma was both Fe- and Al-rich, owing to mixing of Fe-rich basaltic magmas with Al-rich granitic ones. Mixing of similar end members to produce Fe- and Al-rich hybrids in the lower crust should result in formation of high proportions of garnet in the hybrid. The high-density, garnet-rich hybrids so produced could promote delamination and foundering of the lower crust.

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Relationship Advice ? Love Isn't Everything

Is there an assumption that girls are more focused on love than guys, and is that a fair and accurate characterization?

I think there?s definitely an assumption that that?s the way the world works. Just as there?s an assumption that guys cheat and girls don?t. I think the reality, certainly from my experience and my exposure, is that more guys are actually looking for love than girls.

I don?t know if we have a generation of men who weren?t loved enough by their mother?s, but there is a real desperation in the male community right now. A whole generation of men who want validation from women. Whether they?re seeking their mother?s validation or not, I don?t know.

Women on the other hand are enjoying a new age. It?s an age where they can go out and work. Not only be a part of the work force, but also hold down really high value, high status, and well paying jobs. Once upon a time, the high point of a woman?s success was when she got married, had kids, and became a good housewife. That wasn?t too long ago, probably only thirty to forty years ago.

Now those things rarely if ever feature in a woman?s top three or four achievements in her life. There are more opportunities for them now. As a part of this, I think you will find that women are incredibly open to the possibility of getting involved in casual relationships. They?re happy to have relationships that aren?t completely based around love. They?re happy to, if they do experience love, just to let it happen organically, and not to feel like they have to force it.

I was able to use that to my advantage because that?s where my mindset was also at. I didn?t have a lot of success with women when I was growing up. I felt like I missed the boat in that regard, and a part of that was that I felt like I was playing catch up from the ages of twenty-four to thirty.

It was a good opportunity for me to recognize that I could still have a fulfilling relationship with someone who was enjoyable to be around, without having to put the pressure on myself to be in love with that person.

As you progress and you start to check boxes with what you wanted to achieve in pickup, maybe love will one day find you too. It happened to me: I went from a place of not believing in the very existence of love, to meeting a girl who flipped that on its head for me.

However, that process found me, I didn?t have to try to force it, so that?s what I would encourage guys to do. Focus on getting as much relationship experience as you can, and give yourself the green light to be able to that without having to consider love as a necessarily integral part of those relationships. Then, when the time is right, love will come find you.

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Study: free apps drain 75 percent more power, badly built advertising to blame

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It's often said there's no such thing as a free lunch and that's doubly the case for free apps. A team from Purdue University found that nearly quarters of the power used when you run an app like Angry Birds is actually used for adverts. It developed eprof, an app that investigates what processes are draining from your battery. Loading it onto the very old-school Android-powered myTouch 3G and Nexus One (not to mention a HTC HyTn II running Windows Mobile 6.5). Drilling down into those Angry Birds figures: the game itself only consumes 18 percent of the power, while advertising platform Flurry has 45 percent and GPS location tracking a further 15 percent. Project leader Abhinav Pathak lays the blame at the feet of poorly coded apps that need to be made significantly more efficient. He's now working with Microsoft to bring his software to Windows Phone and will present his findings at the EuroSys conference in Bern next month. If you don't think you'll be able to give up free apps, just remember to shut down GPS before you start smashing those pigs.

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Real Estate, Real Property and Leased Land Definitions, Dialogue ...

Delaware, and the rest of the authentic British Colonies, has some land that is leased fairly than owned by the residents of that land. Much of it is not evident to the informal observer.

The land on Lewes Beach front is leased, not owned by the house homeowners. The land of Lewes Beach front is owned by the Town of Lewes. The lands of Rehoboth by the Sea and Dewey Beach front consist of leased land way too. Most of the leases on that land will NOT be renewed but will return to the owners and the properties on top of that land will be eliminated by the house homeowners at their cost. Significantly of the land in Riverdale, on Indian River Bay, adjacent to Oak Orchard is leased as nicely. In Riverdale the leased land is owned by Chief Clark of the Nanticoke Indians.

We have about 50 percent the inhabitants of Sussex County dwelling on leased land most of that leased land is located in what men and women call cellular residence parks or communities. Nonetheless, in people communities there are seldom any houses that are truly mobile phone and there are even two tale stick developed households on some of the leased lands in those communities. Condominiums and city homes are occasionally discovered on leased land as nicely. Some people find all this instead tough to recognize.

We Realtors and Attorneys use the phrase payment easy to explain land that is becoming marketed as actual residence that is true estate. We employed the phrase leased land or leasehold fascination to identify land that is not transferring as actual estate.

This fairly prolonged text is concerning Leased Land, Actual Estate, Private Property, Chattels, Cell Households, Homes on Leased Land and a lawful dissertation to define, identify and determine the variations.

Terminology is crucial when discussing Actual Estate, i.e. actual house.

Black&#146s Legislation Dictionary is the recognized, definitive resource for legitimate definitions under our American Regulation which is derived from English Law

House: In the stringent legitimate sensation, an aggregate of rights which are assured and guarded by federal government. BL6, p. 1216.

PERSONALTY: Personal residence movable residence chattels property that is not connected to real estate. BL6, p. 1144

Residence: (private house) ? In wide and normal perception, every thing that is the matter of ownership, not coming below the denomination of actual estate. A proper or fascination fewer than a freehold in realty, or any proper or interest which one particular has in things movable. BL6, p. 1217

For that reason personalized house, is that which can be easily eradicated from the genuine estate, and is not true estate. Personal residence incorporates crops, bushes, shrubs, trailers, sheds, vehicles, mobile phone homes, produced properties that have a Division of Motor Automobile title rather of a deed, and the contents of a residence or building. In a property or enterprise the private residence incorporates drapes, lighting fixtures, rugs (not mounted carpeting) totally free-standing cabinets and cupboards, home furniture, and all the contents of closets, drawers and structures. Properties with out a foundation, that is sheds that are just supported by blocks are chattel home, that is private house, and not part of the actual estate. These kinds of chattel includes puppy homes and particularly the minor storage buildings that are so common outside of homes right now.

LANDS: In the most basic sensation, comprehends any ground, soil or earth in any respect? Black?s Legislation dictionary sixth Ed. (BL6), p.877

Private Property: As safeguarded from becoming taken for manifeste makes use of, is such residence as belongs definitely to an person, and of which he has the exceptional appropriate of disposition. Property of a particular, mounted and tangible nature, able of getting in possession and transmitted to another, this sort of as residences, lands, and chattels. BL6, p. 1217. Private house is land, houses, and chattels. Non-public residence is guarded from staying taken for public employs. Private property is owned totally.

Real ESTATE synonymous with genuine property? and p.1218 Actual Home ? A basic time period for lands, tenements, hereditaments (those items which are hereditary) which on the demise of the proprietor intestate, passes to his heir.? BL6, p1263

ESTATE: The diploma, amount, character and extent of curiosity which a person has in Genuine and Private residence. An ESTATE in lands, tenements, and hereditaments signifies this sort of interest as the tenant has therein. BL6, p.547 The definitions right here all refer to: actual estate = actual residence = estate = lands, tenements, and hereditaments. At very first, one may well assume that &#145real property? is the suitable phrase for ?all lands?. But it doesn?t state the manner of possession as clearly as the definition of estate. We just experienced a massive instance of this when the 1000?s of leased land plenty under the houses of numerous thousand individuals, in Angola, Pots Nets, and Long Neck locations owned by the Robert Tunnel household was inherited by the young children.

IN OUR Region THERE ARE Several LEASED LAND Attributes AND These Attributes ARE THE Actual ESTATE OF THE Operator OF THE LAND &#150 NOT THE Proprietor OF THE Home WHICH IS Upon THAT LAND. If you look at the definition for ESTATE it refers to an curiosity in the exact same content articles defined in genuine house and genuine estate.

What is this LAND and WHO owns it and HOW is it owned? Land can be non-public property OR estate, i.e. actual estate. Estate is an curiosity in &#147real property? by a particular person or an actuel. Private property is owned definitely by an specific.

Curiosity: A lot more notably it means an appropriate to have the benefit of accruing from something any correct in the character of home, but less than title. ? BL6, p.812. By this definition it?s distinct that Fascination can?t be TITLE, because it is significantly less than title. Curiosity might be a home appropriate to land, but it?s not an appropriate to complete possession of land. These who dwell on leased land, as a result, have only an curiosity in the land and that curiosity is a lease-keep curiosity. Is there a definition of home that says it?s land held in complete possession, as does private property?s definition? We can delve into this a lot more.

Absolute TITLE ? As used to title to land, an exclusive title, or at minimum a title which excludes all other individuals not suitable with it. An absolute title to land can?t exist at the very same time in distinct persons or in distinct governments. BL6, p.1485

Non-public Property ? ? is these kinds of property as belongs totally to an personal, and of which he has the exceptional appropriate of disposition. BL6, p.1217

Own ? To have an excellent authorized title to keep as property to have a legitimate or rightful title to to have to have. BL6, p. 1105. To ?own? is to have title. An interest is Much less THAN TITLE.

ESTATE: The degree, amount, naturel and extent of fascination which a particular person has in true and private home. An estate in lands, tenements, and hereditaments signifies this sort of interest as the actuel has therein. ? - BL6, p.547 From these definitions, it?s basic that we cannot definitely ?own? genuine estate. We can only have a qualified possession of qualified and explained possession of Genuine Estate. Thus, we need to have that Deed Description to identify it and qualify it. That possession is also qualified by a variety of federal government legal rights, decrees and legal guidelines, from antiquity, these kinds of as rights in opposition to trespass. That possession is certified by taxation, zoning, legal rights of way, and a myriad of other entailments. We require, as a result, a title search to establish individuals entailments, some of which are invisible.

As a result there is NOT as considerably big difference in the rights and privileges of possession and interest as 1 is led to think. I have no difficulty with individuals who stay on leased land rather of owning the land. Generally they are paying out considerably less than it would price them to individual the same house. Nevertheless, they don&#146t often get any appreciation of the land the landlord will get the appreciation in real value, while the resident can appreciate the life style for significantly less value for each thirty day period or 12 months.

Even so, since an interest in leased land is not routinely transferable and is NOT Actual Estate and given that the chattel house upon it, the mobile phone property is individual residence, with no a deed but instead has a title &#one hundred fifty Realtors are not by regulation supposed to be concerned in the sale of this sort of &#150 but we are. We are intended to only be offering real house. It gets all cloudy and foggy doesn&#146t it. That is why there are men and women and firms who promote mobile phone homes on leased land who are not realtors and don&#146t need to have to be. In reality, although no one particular will discuss it, Realtors are not intended to promote cellular properties on leased land. We don&#146t need to have to engage in that fight any much more than I just did by describing it.

Possession: The comprehensive dominion, title, or proprietary, like correct in a factor or claim? Possession of house is possibly complete or qualified. The ownership of home is absolute when a solitary man or woman has dominion in excess of it, and may use it or dispose of it in accordance to his joy, subject matter only to common legal guidelines. The ownership is qualified when it is shared with one particular or more folks, when the time of satisfaction is deferred or limited, or when the use is restricted. ? BL6, p. 1106 This sort of sharing is common with husband and wife, companions, households and corporations, and so on.

DOMINION ? Normally approved definition of ?dominion? is ideal handle in appropriate of ownership. The term implies each title and possession and seems to require a full retention of control more than disposition. ? - -BL6, p. 486 I believe you?d concur that zoning, developing codes, residence proprietors affiliation covenants, condominium files of use and enterprise licensing is a restriction on the use of land (if it really is Real Estate). And there is clearly the truth that failure to shell out residence taxes on actual estate will result in decline of explained home. That?s absolutely not absolute possession. But personal home is defined as Absolute Ownership, not qualified (interest).

Home (tangible) ? All residence that is touchable and has actual existence (physical) regardless of whether it is actual or individual. ? - BL6, p. 1218 In summation, it requires a very good attorney, and a single effectively versed and knowledgeable in actual estate to realize the sophisticated definitions, rights, liabilities, and privileges of genuine estate possession. I have been purchasing and promoting real estate for myself and assisting other individuals in the acquiring and selling of genuine estate for thirty a long time. I have taught courses on genuine estate and actual estate legislation. And, I would NOT think about acquiring a house, or purchasing house on leased land with no the professional and paid out assistance of an lawyer who is a genuine estate professional in the specific county in which the property is positioned. Other attorneys from other regions are not valid alternatives at all.

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With over 2 million real estate agents in accordance to the Countrywide Affiliation of Realtors (NAR), turning out to be a profitable genuine estate agent requires a lot more than just a license and a knowledge of existing legal guidelines and rules.The initial calendar year decrease out range approximated to be from 40% to eighty% demonstrates that a lot of genuine estate agents are not as successful as they could be and investigation suggests that ninety% give up immediately after 3 several years. The adhering to seven suggestions may possibly help you steer clear of turning out to be 1 of these stats.

  1. 1st and Foremost YOU are an enterprise. Real estate agents operate for a broker, but are unbiased, commissioned revenue men and women. This signifies that you are a little organization and should run your apply as an enterprise. Once again, don?t forget you are a little company proprietor.
  2. Embrace an Organizing Frame of mind. If you don?t have a strategy, then you are on some else?s system ? usually the productive actual estate agent?s. During the very last 10 years, what I have learned as a performance enhancement expert or mentor is that most individuals spot a lot more price in planning a trip to the grocery keep or a holiday than organizing their lives both professionally or personally.
  3. Research Your Market place System. Because you, as the true estate agent, are liable for your own costs, do your investigation specific to your advertising and marketing program within your strategic program. Time invested in constructing your marketing and advertising plan is absolutely effectively invested. Observe: Remember an organization strategy usually is info driven, although a strategic strategy identifies who does what by when.
  4. Set up Revenue Ambitions. Using your strategic motion strategy, create profits ambitions. If you are new to this business, it might take six months just before the very first sale. HINT: Use the W.H.Y. S.M.A.R.T. requirements for goal environment.
  5. Produce a Monetary Spending budget. Budgeting is essential presented the up and down of this unstable market place area. Your monetary spending budget ought to plan for your marketing and advertising costs, any added fees such as training and your forecasted earnings.
  6. Make Managing Your self a Concern. Developing a business is not simple. You have to find out how to handle oneself specially in the region of time conduite, ongoing actual estate organization training coaching persevering with education units, and individual existence stability. Genuine estate is stated to be a 24/seven enterprise significantly like any modest business. Nevertheless, it is crucial not to drop sight of your personalized lifestyle including household, close friends, physical wellness, and many others.
  7. Find a Mentor or a True Estate Coach. Heading it on your own is not simple. Consider the time to find a mentor who can assist you steer via some of the acknowledged hurdles and assist you in the course of the ?peaks and valleys.? If you have the sources, you might want to seek the services of an actual estate mentor or an govt mentor who specializes in little enterprise aid and product sales.

Getting an unbelievable product sales individual and entering the real estate industry does not promise similar revenue success. Nonetheless, these 7 suggestions could assist you steer clear of numerous of the pitfalls by not getting one particular of the four genuine estate agents who give up within a single year or one particular of the 9 who give up immediately after three years.

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Link between cadmium in food and breast cancer | Science News ...

New research from Karolinska Institutet in suggests that there is a link between dietary cadmium and breast cancer. The results, which are presented online in Cancer Research, are based on data from over 55,000 women.

"It's been known for some time that cadmium is toxic and, in certain forms, carcinogenic," says Bettina Julin, doctoral student at Karolinska Institutet's Institute of Environmental Medicine. "Our point of inquiry was whether there was some connection between dietary cadmium and, specifically, breast cancer. At the same time, we must remember that cadmium concentrations in our food are generally quite low and that there are several other scientifically established causes of breast cancer."

The study is based on a survey of the dietary habits of 55,987 women in Uppsala and V?stmanland carried out in 1987. The researchers estimated how much cadmium the women had ingested with their food on the basis of the cadmium content of every single food item that they ate. Over the 12-year follow-up period, they were able to note 2,112 cases of breast cancer occurring post-menopause.

The researchers divided the participants into three groups depending on their dietary cadmium intake. Doing this, they found that the group with the highest cadmium intake had a 21 per cent greater risk of developing breast cancer than the group with the lowest. They also discovered, importantly, that the women who ate mostly wholegrain products (e.g. wholemeal bread) and vegetables were less likely to develop breast cancer than women who had been exposed to cadmium through other sorts of food. The researchers also note, however, that bread and vegetables are the most common sources of dietary cadmium, a fact that complicates the interpretation of the results of their work.

"We certainly cannot advise women against eating a certain kind of food; indeed, it seems as if wholegrain products and vegetables even provide a degree of protection against cancer," says lead investigator Agneta ?kesson, docent at the Institute of Environmental Medicine. "On the other hand, these findings are interesting given the current debate on what levels of cadmium we're to accept in our environment, bearing in mind the health hazards it poses."

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Dietary Cadmium Exposure and Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer: A Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study. Bettina Julin, Alicja Wolk, Leif Bergkvist, Matteo Bottai & Agneta ?kesson. Cancer Research, online 15 March 2012

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Boost Weight Loss By Improving Cardiovascular Fitness | welcome ...

No matter how many products you can find for losing weight, there will never be a good substitute for an active lifestyle. Weight gain and poor fitness are quite often the result of people not wanting to do hard training workouts. In your quest for a healthy life, it only takes small intervals of activity each day to get the necessary exercise. Even though any activity is good, cardiovascular exercises are especially beneficial to your overall health and fitness levels. Also, a good way to burn belly fat is with the P90X fitness program.

When you first begin doing a little cardiovascular exercise, you might notice you feel a little out of breath. When you do exercise your muscles demand oxygen to work and your respiratory system isn?t usually used to the increase, which is why this happens. But things do get much easier as you get more accustomed to doing exercise. When you initially walk around the block you?ll most likely end up sweating quite a lot and you?ll probably feel quite warm. Because of this you?ll intake more air into your lungs, meaning more oxygen can be supplied around your body for doing the exercise. When you keep doing exercise regularly you?ll quickly notice that you?re not gasping for air as much. This means you?re improving your respiratory function, which has the added side effect of making you feel more energized. As you improve your fitness level you will see a loss of fat which is one of the many great benefits of becoming fitter. As you increase the amount of exercise you?re doing your body starts to use more energy. Stored fat deposits will be used to provide this extra energy. You don?t have to even do exercise in a gym to see the benefits. Even small amounts of exercise can add up to help you lose weight after time.

People everywhere should be concerned about their wellness and fitness levels, and finding daily activities for improving their health. It doesn?t take a health club membership and hours of strenuous exercising to become fit. Instead, it should mean finding ways to include a brisk walk in your lunch break or after work. Try to get out of the habit of driving your car everywhere, and when possible, walk wherever you need to go. Instead of fighting for the closest parking place, park farther away, so you have to walk more steps. Once you start a walking program, you will find it easier and easier to do, until you will be adding harder exercises.

From increasing your cardiovascular fitness you can not only lose weight but you can boost your health as well. Don?t worry about a costly membership at the gym or exercise equipment as you don?t need them. You only need to think up of some ways of getting additional exercise into your day. Your reward will be the feeling of being refreshed every morning when you get up. Additionally you?ll also feel more energetic.

Now you will feel that your aim to lose weight is more achievable. Lastly, don?t forget to check out our full P90X reviews and this post about the Hip Hop Abs workout.


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