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When choosing energy efficient replacement windows for your home, there are many factors which will make an impact on the best decision for your home. In the next few weeks we will take time to discuss the different options that can effect your choice of energy efficient replacement windows for your home.

The most important factor of an energy efficient replacement window is the glass itself. Why? The glass in a window makes up about 85% of the window and play a tremendous impact on the efficiency of the overall window itself.

In the home improvement industry, as you begin your search for the best types of glass for your home, there are four basic options that most windows are built on.

1. Single Pane
2. Double Pane
3. Triple Pane
4. Self Cleaning

Single Pane

Single pane windows are probably the most inefficient of all the styles. In today?s market, it is rare to find a window manufacture that carries such a window and if you are looking for such a window, most manufacturers will inform you of the reasons why a double pane window is better. The basic reason is the single pane windows provide little insulation and your money is literally flying out the window.

Double Pane

Double pane windows are two panes of glass that are separated by a spacer system. These windows provide significantly more protection from the elements than a single pane. There are two basic types of double pane windows

1. Builder grade ? These windows have the double panes of glass and yet are not as efficient as possbile as the space is filled iwth air which does little to provide maximum efficiency
2. Energy efficient ? These windows also have the double panes of glass but are filled with a gas to provide protection from the elements.

Triple Pane

Triple pane windows offer the maximum protection and the ultimate energy efficiency for a home. Additionally, the additional glass layer provides a sound barrier many homeowenrs in high noise pollution areas have come to appreciate.

Self-Cleaning

The term self-cleaning is used in the industry to describe one of the newest technological developments for the benefit of the homeowner. Sun-clean glass adds a transparent layer of titanium dioxide which uses UV rays to break down dirt particles. These particles wash away during a rainstorm or if the homeowner sprays the windows down with a hose.

The glass choices for the best energy efficient replacement vinyl window will vary widely and are based on the needs of the home. To determine what may be the best choice for you and your home, we invite you to contact American Exteriors at www.amext.com.

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Pope's butler on trial for leaking secret Church files

Pope Benedict?s former butler is on trial in Rome for the theft and leaking of confidential Vatican information.

Paolo Gabriele, who served the pope meals and helped to dress him, was arrested in May after police found confidential documents in his apartment.

He confessed, telling investigators that he saw evil and corruption throughout the organisation and wanted to help root it out.

Many Italians are angry that the leader of the Catholic Church seems unable to trust his inner circle.

?He has done harm by leaking this information, which was private to the church, because there will always be somebody who takes advantage of things?, one man says.
?He has done harm by leaking this information, which was private to the church, because there will always be somebody who takes advantage of things?, one man says.
Another Rome resident says, ?In a way the Church could come out strengthened by this in the sense it could gain a new openness, a clear transparency in the hierarchy?.

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Kates finds second chance at Virginia Union

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Andre Kates got off to a great start this season, being named the CIAA defensive back of the week after a win over Benedict.

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By: CHRIS HARRIS | Richmond Times-Dispatch
Published: September 29, 2012 Updated: September 29, 2012 - 12:00 AM

RICHMOND, Va. --

People find solace in a variety of places. Andre Kates found peace at Virginia Union.

"This (Union) is a great fit for me. I think I picked a great school," Kates said. "Union makes you feel like home. .?.?. I'm just thankful that they gave me a chance to be here."

Kates' road to Lombardy Street was a long winding one that began at Surrattsville High (Md.) and Friendship Edison (D.C.) before brief stops at the University of Florida and Erie Community College (N.Y.). At ASA Junior College in Brooklyn, N.Y., Kates was named Triumphant Sports junior college player of the year in 2009 and chose Indiana among the 20 scholarships offered.

"That was a big jump," Kates said of his transition from ASA to IU. "When I finally got out there on the field, I was like 'Dang, I'm really here.' I looked around and saw my name on banners that fans were holding. It was a big jump."

Kates played in five games for Indiana and made three tackles, including two solo stops against Towson.

He also held former Ohio State Buckeye and current Houston Texans wide receiver DeVier Posey to zero catches.

However, after expressing on Twitter his displeasure of then-coach Bill Lynch for lack of playing time, Kates was dismissed after two seasons.

Kates said he didn't go on Twitter to call out Lynch and the coaching staff, but rather responded to a question from one of his followers.

"One of the guys I knew asked me about my playing situation and I answered according to how I felt at the time. Not realizing who was following, the media picked up on it.

"So I learned to not talk about football on Twitter," Kates said. "I've grown past that. Like when a defensive back gets beat for a score, you have to forget about it and move on to the next play.

"I've moved on."

Kates talked with Arizona Cardinals defensive back Greg Toler, who played at Saint Paul's College. Toler referred Kates to Union defensive coordinator Kevin Grisby.

"I told (Greg) that I was looking for a D-II to transfer to and he told me that he knew someone that is a real good coach that can get you to that next level, to the NFL, where you want to be," Kates said.

Grisby said Kates' impact has helped turn around VUU's program.

"With him and the other transfers we brought in during the spring, they've shown the team what it takes to win the championship," Grisby said. "Being that we had a young group of guys last year, they really didn't have that type of leadership as far as the hard work it will take to win football games and possibly win championships."

Kates' influence was evident in the Panthers' season-opening victory over Benedict. He had five tackles, four pass breakups, two fumble recoveries, an interception, a safety, a forced fumble and a sack to earn CIAA defensive back player of the week.

"It was a dream come true," Kates said.

And as he helps guide his teammates on the field, Kates said Grisby guides him off the field.

"He (Grisby) still has the young mind and he can still relate to people. Anything you need, he's there for you," Kates said.

"A lot of these young men don't have father figures in their lives and Dre is in that same boat," Grisby said. "And that's part of our jobs. We need to make sure that the guys have that type of father figure where we can show them the ins and outs and keep them on the right track."

Union enters today's game against Livingstone tied for 21st in total defense in Division II, allowing 284.5 yards per game.

"I've been coaching for 18 seasons. I've been a coordinator for 13, and as a group, we have a chance to finish as one of the best defenses I've ever coached in the CIAA," Grisby said.

If the Panthers' defense continues to be stout, Kates may achieve the goal that has eluded him.

"A championship," Kates said. "I've never been part of a championship in my life."

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Scent of Danger: Are There Toxic Ingredients in Perfumes and Colognes?

UNNATURAL ESSENCES: The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics commissioned independent laboratory tests that revealed 38 secret chemicals in 17 leading fragrances. To protect trade secrets, makers are allowed to withhold fragrance ingredients, so consumers can?t rely on labels to know what hazards may lurk inside that new bottle of perfume. Image: PhotoDisk/Thinkstock

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Dear EarthTalk: I?ve always suspected that perfumes and colognes must not be too healthy simply because of the way the smell of most of them bothers me. Am I correct? Is there information available on this issue??Lucinda Barry, Minneapolis

Ahhh...the sweet smell of petrochemicals! The Environmental Working Group (EWG) reports that, while many popular perfumes, colognes and body sprays contain trace amounts of natural essences, they also typically contain a dozen or more potentially hazardous synthetic chemicals, some of which are derived from petroleum. To protect trade secrets, makers are allowed to withhold fragrance ingredients, so consumers can?t rely on labels to know what hazards may lurk inside that new bottle of perfume.

?A rose may be a rose,? reports EWG. ?But that rose-like fragrance in your perfume may be something else entirely, concocted from any number of the fragrance industry?s 3,100 stock chemical ingredients, the blend of which is almost always kept hidden from the consumer.?

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a coalition of over 100 groups seeking transparency about chemicals in cosmetics, commissioned independent laboratory tests that revealed 38 secret chemicals in 17 leading fragrances. The top offenders?: American Eagle Seventy Seven topped the list with 24, followed by Chanel Coco with 18 and Britney Spears Curious and Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gio each with 17.

?The average fragrance product tested contained 14 secret chemicals not listed on the label,? reports EWG, which analyzed the Campaign?s data. ?Among them are chemicals associated with hormone disruption and allergic reactions, and many substances that have not been assessed for safety in personal care products.? EWG adds that some of the undisclosed ingredients are chemicals ?with troubling hazardous properties or with a propensity to accumulate in human tissues.? Examples include diethyl phthalate, a chemical found in 97 percent of Americans and linked to sperm damage in human epidemiological studies, and musk ketone, which concentrates in human fat tissue and breast milk.

EWG explains that ingredients not in a product?s ?hidden fragrance mixture? must be listed on the label, so makers disclose some chemicals but ?lump others together in the generic category of ?fragrance?.?

EWG blames the U.S. government in part, pointing out that the Food and Drug Administration ?has not assessed the safety of the vast majority? of secret chemicals used in spray-on products such as fragrances. ?Fragrance secrecy is legal due to a giant loophole in the Federal Fair Packaging and Labeling Act of 1973, which requires companies to list cosmetics ingredients on the product labels but explicitly exempts fragrance,? reports EWG. As such, the cosmetics industry has kept the public in the dark about fragrance ingredients, ?even those that present potential health risks or build up in people?s bodies.?

For more information, check out EWG?s May 2010 ?Not So Sexy? report, available on the group?s website. Also, EWG?s SkinDeep database serves as an evolving source of information on the ingredients (and their health risks) in thousands of cosmetics and related products widely available on store shelves.

CONTACTS: Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, www.safecosmetics.org; EWG?s ?Not So Sexy,? www.ewg.org/notsosexy; Skin Deep, www.ewg.org/skindeep.

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The Pecks: Paint a Victorian outdoor chair in a multi-colored painted ...

Marcia was an art major in college. For her, drawing and painting are second nature, no more difficult to do than, say, inhaling and exhaling.

I, on the other hand, was a communications major. For me, writing and spelling are second nature, no more difficult than, say, writing and spelling, which actually can be quite perplexing at times.

Marcia has done a number of paintings over the years that hang in our house.

I have done a number of stick figures over the years that, if drawn on walls in prehistoric times, would have been ridiculed for being too simplistic.

Or, to put it simply:

Marcia has a bit of Renoir in her.

I have a bit of Renoir's totally unartistic brother/sister/Weird Uncle Gary/ in me.

So, when Marcia said she was going to paint a couple of pieces of metal furniture whose black paint had started to flake and peel, perhaps you can understand why we weren't speaking the same language.

My thought was, buy some black spray paint, touch up the bald spots and, voil?, we're done. So, when Marcia suggested we stop at the home improvement center, I was thinking, "What's this going to take? Five minutes?"

When will I ever learn?

As it turns out, and the accompanying photos will attest, Marcia had something much more ambitious in mind. Also, as it turns out, Rust-Oleum? makes about 3 million (I exaggerate, but only slightly) colors now, not to mention a handful of finishes, too.

The result was something I could never have envisioned.

But then, I'm a word person, remember?

A more visually oriented person, no doubt, would have seen it coming.

As she'll tell you herself.

Marcia: I first spied the chair years ago in a secondhand shop. It was white, it was rusted, it was ugly and, to make matters worse, it was cast iron, so it was very heavy to boot.

On the other hand, it was also CHEAP, so of course I bought it.

It sat on our deck, white and ugly and heavy, for about a year. Truth be told, every time I'd pass it, I'd get the heebie-jeebies (Dennis: Something like what Obi-Wan? felt when the Death Star? vaporized Alderaan,? I bet).

But remember, I'd tell myself, it was CHEAP.

So one day I spray-painted it black, which was much better, if not entirely free of causing me the heebie-jeebies.

Early this summer, I was looking at it, and a light bulb (Dennis: LED, of course; none of those energy-sucking incandescent bulbs for her) went off in my head: Why not paint it a bunch of colors?

Seriously, what's the worst that could happen? If I don't like it, I can just spray-paint the whole thing black again, right?

I was amazed -- and no, there are nowhere near 3 million colors, despite what my husband says -- at the number of spray-paint colors available that will work on metal furniture, indoors or out. They even cover rust.

We bought nine colors (in a satin finish). I ended up mixing some of my own colors by spraying different ones into a paper cup and brushing them on the metal with old artist paintbrushes.

You may just want to spray your metal furniture black -- or green or yellow or red -- and that's fine. But if you want to get a bit more adventurous, here's one way to do it (the way I chose, turning our Victorian-era wallflower into a real painted lady).

Step-by-step painting tips

1. Ask someone at a paint store for advice; describe what you're planning to do.

2. Clean the furniture in question, using a wire brush to remove dirt, loose paint and rust. If you suspect there is old lead paint on your furniture, contact the national lead information hotline (800-424-5323 or epa.gov/lead). ?

3. Lightly sand any glossy surfaces.

4. Consider priming the surface with an appropriate primer (again, that's a good question for a paint store employee to answer).

5. I sprayed colors -- I was using oil-based paint, so I'd suggest wearing a good mask and latex gloves and doing this outdoors -- onto white paper to see what they really looked like, as opposed to what their caps looked like.

6. I sprayed on a base coat of green paint and let it dry for 24 hours.

7. I then tried using painter's masking tape to mask areas I didn't want painted. NOT A GOOD IDEA. It turned out to be way too much work for the chair, because of the minute details. Instead, I ended up spraying the paint into paper cups and mixing a lot of my own colors, which I then painted onto the metal with small artist paintbrushes. It was surprisingly easy and covered with one coat.

8. Wait 24 hours for the paint to dry if you have overlapping colors, and follow the directions on the can.

Of course, knowing myself, I'll probably get bored with the colors in a few years, but now I know I can repaint it fairly easily.

Who knows? Maybe in five years it will be bright red.

Marcia Westcott Peck is a landscape designer (pecklandscape.com) and Dennis Peck is not. He is the editor of The Oregonian's Living section, which is a good thing for him, because if he actually had to use his hands for anything other than typing, it would not be pretty.

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Woods benched for 1st time at Ryder Cup

MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) ? For the first time in his career, Tiger Woods will be on the bench at the Ryder Cup.

U.S. captain Davis Love III has decided not to play Woods in the Saturday morning session of foursomes. Woods had played every match since making his debut at Valderrama in 1997. He did not play in the 2008 matches while recovering from knee surgery, and he only played four matches in Wales two years ago because the matches were reconfigured due to rain.

Love had said all week he didn't want players to be in all five matches so they could conserve energy for the singles matches on Sunday.

Woods played poorly in a foursomes loss Friday morning and was sent back out. He made seven birdies Friday afternoon in a fourball loss and was benched.

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'Lampard goal' referee welcomes new technology

By GRAHAM DUNBAR

AP Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 4:07 p.m. ET Sept. 27, 2012

ZURICH (AP) - The referee whose mistake at the 2010 World Cup led to calls for the introduction of goal-line technology supports FIFA's bid to use the advancement in the 2014 tournament.

Jorge Larrionda was the referee in South Africa when England lost to Germany in the second round, after his match officials failed to see that Frank Lampard's first-half shot had clearly crossed the line.

Now employed by FIFA to train elite referees, Larrionda acknowledged that he lived through a "difficult moment" in Bloemfontein.

"What we felt at the time was very tough, really," the Uruguayan official told reporters after mentoring the 2014 World Cup referee candidates at FIFA headquarters.

Still, Larrionda believes that his mistake - which ended his involvement at his second World Cup - had a positive effect.

It persuaded FIFA President Sepp Blatter to insist on goal-line technology's approval before the 2014 tournament in Brazil.

"It's for the global benefit of the sport," Larrionda said through a translator. "It's all about protecting the game and to have credible football."

Blatter detailed his expectations to 52 referee candidates this week at a seminar on fitness, psychology and tactics that opens their 18-month training program.

Among those in Zurich, 10 refereed in South Africa, including highly rated Ravshan Irmatov of Uzbekistan, and Englishman Howard Webb, who showed 14 yellow cards and one red in the bad-tempered final between Spain and the Netherlands.

Giving them high-tech help should lift some of the pressure on football's biggest stage, according to FIFA refereeing head Massimo Busacca.

"We know a camera is going to check if it's a goal or not," said Busacca, who did World Cup duty in 2006 and 2010. "Let's see what happens in the Club World Cup in the first experiment."

The Dec. 6-16 continental club championship in Japan will see FIFA's two preferred goal-line systems finally activated in competitive matches.

The British system Hawk-Eye uses multiple cameras to track the ball and the German-Danish project GoalRef uses magnetic sensors in the goal frame to monitor a special ball.

Though Blatter's wish for goal-line technology is being met, his post-South Africa promise of employing only professional referees in Brazil has proved unrealistic. Just a few 2014 candidates, including Webb and fellow English Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg, are able to make it their full-time job.

"The right word is to work in a professional way," Busacca said. "We want referees with courage. We have to understand how to read the game."

In 2013, the referees and their regular teams of two assistants will work at other FIFA events, including the Confederations Cup in Brazil, Under-20 World Cup in Turkey and Under-17 World Cup hosted by the United Arab Emirates. All will attend a second seminar in Brazil ahead of the Confederations Cup.

The youngest candidate is Neant Alioum of Cameroon, who will be 32 when the World Cup kicks off. The oldest, Badara Diatta of Senegal, will reach the mandatory retirement age of 45 one month after the final.

Busacca stressed that selection for Brazil is still open, and other referees could catch the eye of selectors, chaired by FIFA vice president Angel Maria Villar of Spain.

"The selection will be like a football team," the Swiss official said. "Some coaches have in mind some players. They are playing, and then in two years in 2014 decisions will come."

? 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Ann Romney: biggest fear is for Mitt's "mental well-being" (reuters)

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NASA: Remnants of Ancient Streambed Found on Mars

NASA Press Release:

NASA's Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, which the science team has named "Hottah" after Hottah Lake in Canada?s Northwest Territories. It may look like a broken sidewalk, but this geological feature on Mars is actually exposed bedrock made up of smaller fragments cemented together, or what geologists call a sedimentary conglomerate. Scientists theorize that the bedrock was disrupted in the past, giving it the titled angle, most likely via impacts from meteorites.

The key evidence for the ancient stream comes from the size and rounded shape of the gravel in and around the bedrock. Hottah has pieces of gravel embedded in it, called clasts, up to a couple inches (few centimeters) in size and located within a matrix of sand-sized material. Some of the clasts are round in shape, leading the science team to conclude they were transported by a vigorous flow of water. The grains are too large to have been moved by wind.

This image mosaic was taken by Curiosity's 100-millimeter Mastcam telephoto lens on its 39th Martian day, or sol, of the mission (Sept. 14, 2012 PDT/Sept. 15 GMT).

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Nokia announces Australian carriers: Telstra gets the 920, Vodafone and Optus get the 820

Nokia's started its world tour of local announcements in Australia, letting slip that the Lumia 920 is coming to Telstra's LTE network down under. Those with an eye on the cheaper Lumia 820 are in luck too, as it's going to be carried by both Vodafone and Optus Business. The Finnish phone maker added that a number of leading retailers would be selling both handsets, but declined to go into specifics there. Pricing and availability will be announced toward the end of October, giving us hope that everything's on schedule for a strong pre-Christmas launch.

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Israeli report says sanctions hitting Iran hard

JERUSALEM (AP) ? A new Israeli government report published in local media on Thursday concludes that international sanctions are hitting Iran hard and called for another round, adding a new wrinkle to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that tougher action is needed to prevent the Islamic Republic from developing nuclear weapons.

The Foreign Ministry report ? which surfaced on the same day Netanyahu made his case before the U.N. General Assembly ? adds to the cacophony of voices coming out of Israel over the showdown with Iran.

The prime minister argues that an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities may be the only answer to what he calls a fanatical and intransigent Iranian leadership. President Shimon Peres and others want to give punishing measures more time to persuade the Iranians to enter negotiations.

Four rounds of U.N. sanctions have already been placed on Iran, which insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

Netanyahu has acknowledged that sanctions against Iran are biting but says they have not deterred Tehran from abandoning its nuclear program. He has instead urged the U.S. to draw "red lines" that would make clear which conditions would provoke an American strike on Iran's nuclear facilities ? a demand that Washington has rejected.

Netanyahu reiterated his position on the global stage at the U.N. on Thursday. "For over seven years the international community has tried sanctions with Iran, under the leadership of President Obama, the international community has passed some of the strongest sanctions to date," Netanyahu said. "It's had an effect on the economy, but we must face the truth, sanctions have not stopped Iran's nuclear program either."

The report, according to details published in the Haaretz newspaper, found that Iran's oil exports declined by more than 50 percent in the past year ? from 2.4 million barrels a day to 1 million ? and oil revenues dropped by $40 billion since the beginning of the year.

An Israeli foreign ministry official confirmed the report and said it recommended that another round of sanctions should be imposed. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss internal government documents, refused to elaborate further.

The Foreign Ministry based the findings on data received from countries that have embassies in Iran, according to Haaretz.

The report also claims that sanctions on Iran's central bank have made it difficult for the regime to access its foreign currency reserves, and bread, meat and electricity prices have soared because of the sanctions.

It tracks other findings on the effect of sanctions.

According to the International Energy Agency, Iran's crude oil production fell from nearly 4 million barrels a day in May to 2.9 million barrels a day in July. Imports of Iranian oil by major consumers dropped to 1 million barrels a day in July from 1.74 million barrels a day in June.

Iran relies on crude oil exports for about 80 percent of its foreign revenue.

Speaking on an Iranian TV talk show earlier this month, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admitted that the West's sanctions have curbed oil exports and limited banking ? and the banking embargo has made it difficult to supply meat and other basic needs.

"There are barriers in transferring money, there are barriers in selling oil," said Ahmadinejad. "We are going ahead, and God willing we will succeed."

In Tehran, food prices have risen sharply since the summer, with a 1.5 kilogram (52-ounce) tub of yogurt doubling in price to about 24,000 rials (87 cents) since early September.

On Wednesday, the moderate Shargh newspaper used Central Bank reports to estimate the prices of meat and rice, both staples of Iranian kitchens, have risen 48 percent and 34 percent, respectively, since last year.

Parliament speaker Ali Larijani said inflation has risen to 29 percent, newspapers reported Wednesday.

According to Haaretz, Israel's Foreign Ministry believes that Iranian citizens are blaming their leaders for the sanctions, and believe another round of sanctions could tip the balance and push Iran to negotiate a compromise on its nuclear program. The anonymous senior Israeli ministry official quoted in Haaretz did not explain how the ministry had reached those conclusions.

A poll published in Haaretz Thursday underlined jitters in Israel over the possibility it may strike Iran's nuclear program to prevent it from advancing. Fifty percent of Israelis polled said they feared the existence of their country was in danger if a war with Iran erupts, and 56 percent said they thought there was a high or medium chance that war could break out next year.

The survey, conducted by pollster Camile Fuchs, questioned 502 Israelis and had a margin of error of 4.2 percent.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-report-says-sanctions-hitting-iran-hard-100034237.html

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Outsourcing is the Best Way to Stay Flexible, Even Elastic! | SPK and ...

The technology industry loves buzzwords. The decade of the ?80s was all about synergy and paradigm shifts. In the ?90s, it was the web and the Internet. The turn of the century brought talk about virtualization and social media. Today it?s all about the cloud.

Of course, each of these buzzwords reflects an actual trend in the IT business. The Internet did spring up in the ?90s and changed the way we do almost everything. Virtualization has revolutionized software development and testing as must as it has deployment. And the combination of the Internet and virtualization has given us the cloud.

This nebulous entity brings huge resources into the reach of normal people and, of course, businesses. One star of the cloud era is Amazon with its huge online virtual stores and its web hosting/web storage offerings.

Amazon?s EC2 service (Elastic Cloud) allows businesses to expand and contract their online resources according to their current needs. It?s flexible and yet simultaneously cost effective, especially when compared to the costs of permanently buying servers, managed services and/or entering into co-location contracts.

Outsourcing is the elastic cloud for the IT needs of your company. From engineering management to build-and-release management, from IT services management to data server operations,?a professional IT outsourcing company allows your business to remain flexible and utilize resources only when you need them.

Long term staffing commitments can place pressure on your business in terms of taxes, employee benefits, healthcare packages, pension schemes, physical resources (like office space) and hardware resources (like desktop computers, phones, mobile devices, etc.).

However using the ?elastic? approach of outsourcing IT tasks means that your long-term commitments are reduced but yet the manpower, skill sets and expertise needed to move your business forward remain available.

Outsourcing makes it possible to gain the competitive edge by tapping into expertise that?s not available internally within your business. Any new activity that your business starts needs the right skills to carry it through to a successful completion. If your business lacks these skills you either need to find permanent employees with the right skills, train your existing staff or use an outside resource.

Using outsourcing, rather than finding new staff, allows your business to remain flexible and it brings fresh, outside expertise to help you ramp up your next project quickly. In the meantime your existing staff can continue to innovate and drive your business forward.

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Senate Finance Committee Quizzes ... - The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The Senate Finance Committee has asked Quadriga Art, a direct-marketing firm, to provide financial records about its ties to the Disabled Veterans National Foundation, a charity the committee is investigating because it has spent little money on services that directly help veterans.

Most of the money the veterans? group has raised from an extensive direct-mail operation has gone to pay bills at Quadriga and its subsidiary Brickmill Marketing Services. It owes? about $17-million to the two companies, a Quadriga spokeswoman said last month.

The finance committee?s letter asks Mark Schulhof, Quadriga Art?s chief executive, to provide details about business dealings among Quadriga, its related entities, and the veterans? charity from 2008 to 2011. It requests information about the goods and services the companies have offered, their cost, the revenue they have earned, and the money they have collected?and are still owed?by the charity.

CNN, which has broadcast numerous stories about charities affiliated with Quadriga, reported on Monday that California and New York regulators are also investigating the company.

A source close to the New York investigation confirmed that the attorney general?s office had sent subpoenas asking Quadriga about its business practices. A spokesman for the California attorney general?s office declined to comment on the report.

?Based on the recent media coverage, it is not surprising that we have received some inquiries from regulators,? Quadriga Art said in a statement. ?This is a regulated industry. We have received many inquiries over the past several decades, and we always cooperate with inquiries from industry regulators. We have always been found to have abided by all federal and state rules and regulations and have never been fined.?

Quadriga and Brickmill argue that a heavy investment was needed to get the veterans? charity off the ground and that it has helped the charity accumulate 2 million donors.? The veterans group also defended its spending?in a formal response to the finance committee, noting that it started in 2007, just before the recession hit, but that ?our supporter file is growing, and we expect the deficit to start being reduced.?

In a new video that Quadriga has distributed to clients, Mr. Schulhof says his company has not made any profit from DVNF?s business but believes it will make money in the long run.

?This is not making millions off the back of veterans,? he says. ?What this is is helping charities do good, helping charities build direct-mail files. Direct-mail files help charities sustain long-term survivability.?

CNN?s latest report highlights Quadriga Art?s direct-mail campaign for St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School, in Thoreau, N.M., an effort that left the school in debt.

Dig deeper: See The Chronicle?s article?about Quadriga?s ties to the veterans? charity.

Send an e-mail to Suzanne Perry.

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Barnes & Noble launching Nook Video this fall with a little help from HBO, Sony, Disney, Viacom, more

We caught wind of an upcoming video offering from Barnes & Noble a couple of weeks back, as part of a tip on new tablet offerings from the company. And while we've yet to hear anything official on the latter, this morning the bookstore pulled back the curtain on Nook Video, a new service boasting support from heavy hitters like HBO, Sony, Warner Brothers, Viacom and Disney. The fruits of those partnerships include standard and high-def movies and TV shows like The Avengers, Brave, The Amazing Spider-man, Breaking Bad, The Daily Show and Game of Thrones, which can be watched on Nooks, and non-Barnes & Noble tablets and smartphones, courtesy of a forthcoming free app from the retailer, letting you pick up where you left off on different devices.

The offering can also be linked to UltraViolet purchases, making it possible to add titles purchased with that feature logo to the Nook Cloud offering. Nook Video will be arriving in the US this fall, followed by a "holiday" release in the UK.

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Mom furious male vice principal spanked her daughter

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A Texas mother is furious that male vice principal left her daughter bruised and blistered after a spanking, which the girl opted for over another day of in-school suspension for cheating in class.

Taylor Santos, a sophomore at Springtown High School, northwest of Fort Worth, Texas, told school officials?that she didn?t know another student had copied her classwork, but school officials gave both girls two days of in-school suspension as punishment.

After serving one day, Taylor said she didn?t want to miss any more classes, so she went to the vice principal?s office and opted instead for a paddling ? a legal form of punishment in schools in Texas and 19 other states,?according to the?Center for Effective Discipline.?

Because school policy says spanking or paddling requires that parents give permission, the vice principal had Taylor call her mother, Anna Jorgensen, who gave her approval.

"I knew school policy was females swatted females and males swatted males,? Jorgensen told WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth.??If Taylor wanted that, I said that would be fine.?

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But what happened instead was the vice principal himself swatted Taylor while a woman was present in the room, despite school policy that states ?corporal punishment shall be administered only by an employee who is the same sex as the student."?

After learning who did the spanking and seeing the wounds on her daughter's body, Jorgensen said she was horrified.

"I came unglued," Jorgensen said. ?It looked almost like it had been burned and blistered, it was so bad,? she said of her daughter?s bottom, adding that she took photos of injuries to prove how red they were.

Jorgensen called the vice principal to complain, but he told her it was perfectly normal for her daughter?s bottom to look like that. He reportedly added that he wasn?t aware of the school?s same-sex swatting policy.

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Springtown Superintendent Mike Kelley told WFAA that school officials never administer corporal punishment unless a parent requests it. While he declined to speak on Taylor?s case specifically, he stressed that two adults are always present when corporal punishment is administered, but he said the school district may have made an error.

WFAA reported that Kelly wants to do away with the current policy because the male-to-female ratio of administrators at the school makes it a difficult policy to adhere to. He will reportedly ask the school board to get rid of the same gender requirement at a board meeting Monday.?

For her part, Jorgensen said she will be in attendance at that meeting to urge the school board to keep the gender-based policy.

"I think Taylor is proof that we need to keep that policy," Jorgensen said. "I don't believe a man intentionally meant to do that to her, but it still happens, because men are too big and strong to be hitting 96-pound girls."

More than 220,000 school children nationwide were subjected to physical punishment during the 2005-2006 school year, according to the Center for Effective Discipline, citing the most recent figures available.

At one school in Florida,?the woodshop class at?Holmes County High School?actually makes the paddles used to spank any of the more than 500 students.?

In another Florida town, east of Tallahassee, townfolkd make paddles out of plexiglass for?Madison?County Central's elementary and middle school, the dean of schools said.

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Egypt-based group claims Israel border attack

CAIRO -- A shadowy group inspired by al-Qaida and based in Egypt's Sinai peninsula has claimed responsibility for a shootout along the Israeli-Egyptian border in which three militants and an Israeli soldier were killed.

Ansar Jerusalem, in a statement posted on militant forums late Saturday, linked the attack to a video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad that has sparked protests across the Muslim world. It says the militants were Egyptian.

It said the operation was a "disciplinary attack against those who insulted the beloved Prophet." The low-budget film was produced in the United States.

The group said three militants had crossed the border into Israel early Thursday and remained hiding until midday Friday, when they saw and attacked an Israeli patrol.

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Television and the Civil Rights Movement - Confessions of an Aca-Fan

Many of us may think we know the history of the role which American broadcast television played in fostering public awareness and rallying support behind Martin Luther King and his 1960s era Civil Rights struggle. We can all picture in our heads the black and white fuzzy images of King?s powerful remarks in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, for example, and we know that people across the country must have watched those amazing words in their living rooms.

Not so fast, argues Aniko Bodgroghkozy, the author of a new book, Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement.? Bodgroghkozy certainly argues that television played important roles in sparking the consciences of viewers around the country as the networks and the activists made reluctant, tentative, highly compromised ?common cause? with each other to transform the civil rights struggles into a prime time spectacle. But, some of what you believe happened ? starting with how the networks covered the March on Washington ? turns out to be a bit more complex than popular memory and imagination might suggest.

I have had the joy of watching Bodgroghkozy develop from a young graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying under John Fiske and Lynn Spigel, to the author of an important first book about the ways the student protests of the 1960s engaged with television, through to the publication of this masterful new book, which represents the culmination of more than a decades work in the archives. Bodgroghkozy has already written the definitive accounts of the controversy surrounding The Smother?s Brothers Comedy Hour and the reception of Julia by black and white viewers, both essays often assigned in television history classes around the country. Her work moves back and forth between news and entertainment programming, showing the ways that they were sometimes aligned, sometimes contradictory, in their depictions of the current state of race relations in the 1960s. Her work is surprisingly nuanced in dealing with the diversity of perspectives within the network journalists, within the civil rights movement, and with white southerners, as the country sought to resolve deep rooted conflicts around segregation. She offers rich readings of key programs and broadcasts which are contextualized by contemporary responses from newspapers and letters housed in archives, combining insights from social and political history alongside those she brings to the table as a gifted broadcast historian.

The book?s consideration of media and political change is well timed, offering a rich historical counter to current debates about the role of new media in informing recent struggles, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement. For me, it especially resonates with the work that my Civic Paths team at USC has been doing on the DREAMers, undocumented youth whose current civil rights struggles are informed by their saavy use of YouTube and various social media platforms. But, as the country?s first black president seeks re-election,? Equal Time offers us some great resources for placing into perspective various attempts to mobilize popular memories of the Civil Rights era.

The following interview demonstrates Bodgroghkozy?s careful, nuanced, yet engaged mind at work, describing some of the ways that Equal Rights helps to revise our understanding of this important era both in the history of American politics and in the evolution of television as a medium.

You can also follow this link for an interview with the author on public radio.

You begin the book with a powerful quote from Martin Luther King: ?We are here to say to the white men that we are not going to let them use clubs on us in the dark corners. We?re going to make them do it in the glaring light of television.? To what degree were the tactics King brought to the civil rights movement designed to encourage and shape television attention? What did King and the other civil rights leaders hope to accomplish by getting access to broadcast media?

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King?s quote is really noteworthy because he and civil rights leaders of the era so very rarely talked openly about their strategies to elicit television coverage.? To be open about their ?media campaign? would have appeared manipulative, anathema for a movement that was attempting to appeal to the moral conscience of the nation.? King and the SCLC (the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, his organization) understood the power of strong visual images and the need to communicate a stark message of moral clarity ? and to communicate that message and those images to a national audience that could put pressure on congressmen, senators, and the president to pass federal legislation around civil rights and voting rights.? Accessing a national audience was key.

You have to remember that in the early 1960s, there were few truly national media outlets.? There were the picture magazines, Life and Look, which reached a huge readership, and to a lesser extent the newsmagazines like Time and Newsweek.? None, of course, had the reach of network television, which by the early 1960s had over ninety percent penetration in U.S. households.? This time period is also when the networks finally begin to invest significantly in their news divisions (CBS and NBC inaugurate their half hour nightly news shows in the fall of 1963 and throughout the early/mid 1960s large numbers of prime time news documentaries, special reports, bulletins and the like).? So you?ve got network news becoming a serious journalistic venue reaching unprecedented numbers of citizens.

King and the SCLC in particular appeared to intuitively understand the nature of television news and the need for dramatic pictures.? They knew to schedule marches no later than about 2:00 in the afternoon in order to work with the demands of the TV news room: film had to be flown to New York, printed, edited, and readied for broadcast for the nightly news.? And they knew that the news cameras would stick around only if the marches and demonstrations led to confrontation and even violence.? The movement did need to create situations in which white racists would beat and brutalize civil rights activists.

On the one hand, one could say that the movement was manipulating the media as well as Southern white police officials like Birmingham?s Bull Connor or Selma?s Jim Clark by creating a setting for confrontation (and certainly segregationists argued that these were all publicity stunts).? On the other hand, blacks had been beaten, lynched, and brutalized ?in the dark corners? for decades and decades.? Staging this brutality out in public and inviting new forms of national media to witness it was a novel and clearly powerful tactic that both assisted the movement in making its larger arguments about Jim Crow and black disempowerment, but also played to the strengths of television as ?new media.?

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Was the goal to reach white viewers, black viewers, or some kind of community which included people of multiple races?

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The goal clearly was primarily to reach white viewers, particularly outside the South.? Frequently network news stories about civil rights would be ?blacked out? on Deep South TV stations.? Steven Classen has written superbly in his book, Watching Jim Crow, about the case of Jackson, Mississippi?s WLBT-TV which systematically censored network news stories about civil rights or race relations and eventually, after long legal struggles by civil rights activists, finally had its broadcast license revoked by the Justice Department in 1969.? King would frequently appeal to ?the conscience of the nation.?? He was obviously referring to the mass audiences produced by media like network television and to nationally distributed magazines.

The movement really didn?t need television to appeal to African Americans (either in the South or the North).? There was a very robust black press that was very effectively distributed to black communities.? News weeklies like the Chicago Defender and the Pittsburgh Courier had national reach with black train porters often working as an informal distribution system to get these newspapers to black communities around the country, and especially into the Deep South.? The movement needed to reach and impact whites outside the South in order to make the case that segregation in Birmingham, Alabama or Albany, Georgia or voter disenfranchisement in Selma, Alabama weren?t regional issues to be solved at the state level, but rather national problems of concern to all Americans to be dealt with in Washington.? And Washington politicians would only care if they were hearing from constituents en masse.

It?s also important to remember this was the Cold War era and to some extent the movement was aware of the global audience. We aren?t really in the satellite era yet (although the Telstar communications satellite goes up in 1962 and live satellite transmission is possible).? The 1963 March on Washington coverage is transmitted live to most European countries.? Nevertheless images are traveling more quickly in this era and there?s lots of concern about how global audiences are making sense of the ?leader of the Free World? oppressing its black citizens.

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Does television mean something different in the context of this movement than newspapers and print based media?

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I think the distinction is more ?visual media? versus ?print media.?? My book was going to press just as Martin Berger Seeing Through Race came out.? He examines the photojournalism around the civil rights movement and comes to some similar conclusions to mine about network news coverage.? In both cases, the emphasis is on dramatic images of moral clarity: good versus evil, clearly marked.? It calls to mind Peter Brooks? arguments about ?the melodramatic imagination? and the moral occult: in a secular era, we need narratives to give us that clarity that used to be presumably provided by the church in the pre-modern era.

Both television news and photojournalism assumed a white viewer.? The preferred images are of helpless, supplicating or brutalized black bodies that need assistance.? The white viewer is hailed into the position as saviour or rescuer.? The white viewer, whose conscience is being appealed to, is called on to do something, respond in some way to come to the aid of the helpless black victim.? Berger very usefully traces this trope back to abolitionist iconography with the widely circulated image of the kneeling, supplicant slave holding up his chained arms.? In television news coverage, black civil rights activists are almost always mute; only King is authorized to speak.? Preferred images include docile marchers, praying bodies, and, of course, tear-gassed, whipped, beaten bodies.? Print media had a significant role to play as well and Richard Lentz in his (terribly titled!) book Symbols, the News Magazines, and Martin Luther King does a great comparative analysis of Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report in their coverage of King and the movement.

But ultimately I think the power of the civil right movement comes from its visuality and the movement?s intuitive grasp of how to communicate via imagery.? Print media, I think, functioned in an ancillary role providing background, context, and information to the images.

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Aniko Bodroghkozy joined the Media Studies Program and English Department at the University of Virginia in 2001. Prof. Bodroghkozy received her PhD in 1994 from the University of Wisconsin/Madison?s Department of Communication Arts where she worked with John Fiske and Lynn Spigel. She received an MFA in Film from Columbia University in New York, and a BA High Honours from the Department of Film Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Prof. Bodroghkozy?s first book, Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion was published by Duke University Press in 2001. She has published numerous articles on American cinema and television and the social change movements of the postwar era. Her work has appeared in scholarly journals such as Cinema Journal, Screen, Television and New Media, and the online TV Studies journal Flow.

Source: http://henryjenkins.org/2012/09/television-and-the-civil-rights-movement-an-interview-with-aniko-bodgroghkozy-part-one.html

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Are you drinking your calories? | USA TODAY College

By Matt Rourke, AP

It?s 8 a.m. on Friday morning and you need caffeine. A quick stop at Starbucks for a low fat Caramel Macchiato does the trick. After your workout, you chug a small Razzmatazz Jamba Juice with protein boost. Later that night you have three vodka and Cokes at the bar.

Hydrated? Maybe. But you?ve also consumed almost a days worth of calories through these drinks, based off of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration?s recommended 2,000 calorie diet.

Your morning buzz cost you 240 calories 7g of fat and 31g of sugar. The post-workout smoothie was 290 calories, 1g of fat and 54g of sugar. Finally, three glasses of vodka and Coke set you back 936 calories, 195 g sugar and 0g of fat. Your total caloric intake for the day is 1,466 calories and you haven?t counted one meal yet.

Many college students pump their bodies full of caffeine, sugar and alcohol to make it through their day.

?I think that college doesn?t really allow for kids to live a healthy lifestyle ? so in order to keep up, stay awake, go out all that stuff, people rely on drinks,? said Emily Lowe a junior at University of Oregon.

Lowe works hard to make conscious choices when she drinks anything besides water. Her go-to drink at Starbucks is a tall skinny latte, which is 90 calories. On occasion she gets it with vanilla flavoring for 100 calories.

?Even with things like Jamba Juice, they think it?s healthy, but it?s 400 calories in a drink. That?s a meal ? that?s not a drink. Then they?ll have food thinking that?s not a meal,? said Emily Lowe a junior at University of Oregon.

Sugar alone is not the only culprit in weight gain. Officials with the American Beverage Association criticized studies that point to sugary drinks as a major cause of weight gain. They say that sugar-sweetened beverages make up only 7% of the calories in an average American diet.

It is important to look at the calorie and sugar content of food and beverages which are clearly displayed on all processed food labels, as well as accessible on the Internet.

?With these hidden calories, insulin resistance is increasing among young adults, which can potentially lead to obesity and diabetes. Presently, it is estimated that almost 30% of college students are obese. Both diabetes and obesity are preventable diseases, but action needs to be taken early, which includes making healthy dietary choices and increasing physical activity,? said Dr. Leslie Axelrod a professor at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.

You might also be interested in:

1. CDC study: Binge drinking prevalent among college-aged students
2. Binge drinking: Unsafe for you AND grandpa
3. After four months in Europe, making sense of the U.S. drinking age
4. FDA to propose nutritional label changes for campus dining
5. How Iowa City didn?t stop underage drinking

The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of USA TODAY.

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