SunRype Rocks! | MomsGetReal

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I have to admit, when I opened the box of SunRype Fruit Strips, FruitSource 100% fruit bars, and Just Fruit & Grains bars, I thought, ?Oh boy. I?m going to have to eat all of these myself. My kids will never like them.?

I was, in particular, thinking of my son, who never likes anything. He has Asperger?s, and braces, and an incredibly picky palate.

I was so wrong. And now I?m mourning the rapid loss of product that has occurred over the last week as my children have consumed every SunRype product in sight.

How can I complain? (Well, other than the fact that I could easily have enjoyed eating them all myself).

MomsGetReal readers can get free SunRype product after you purchase one.

SunRype Fruit Strips

The SunRyse fruit strips were the favorite of my daughter (age 10) who thought they were delicious. The strips come in strawberry, wild berry, and strawberry banana. Made of 100% fruit, these portable snacks have no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives. For a mom who is trying desperately to keep chemical warfare to a minimum in order to be effective at raising healthy kids, I truly appreciate that SunRype provides quick, convenient, and tasty snack food that my kids think are fun to eat and don?t think about the fact that they are actually getting a dose of fruit in the process. The SunRype fruit strips are perfect for school lunches, where they don?t get squished (like the bananas they refuse to pack) and don?t take too long to eat (like the apples that come home half-eaten).

SunRype FruitSource 100% Fruit Bars

While my son also loved the strips, he and I both fell head over heels for the fruit bars. They?re almost addictive they?re so delicious! Guilt free pleasure is worth pursuing, and the SunRype FruitSource 100% Fruit Bars are 100% fruit, providing TWO servings of fruit in every bar. (That is often two more servings of fruit than our son eats, ever, so SunRype is not just delicious, but has accomplished something of a miracle). My favorite flavor is the strawberry, but they also come in blueberry pomegranate and mango strawberry (the mango strawberry also has a helping of veggies incorporated into the bar).

SunRype Just Fruits & Grains

As a piece de resistance, the SunRype Just Fruits & Grains bar is a meal on the go. In addition to 100% fruit, these bars have rolled oats, barley flakes, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, unsweetened dried coconut flakes, rice crisps. It?s a bar with substance that doesn?t lose you on texture. Unfortunately, most of my Just Fruits & Grains bars ended up traveling to college with my daughter, who decided they were the perfect on-the-go solution when she doesn?t have a break between classes. These bars come in strawberry mango and summer berries and both are fabulous.

MomsGetReal readers can get free SunRype product after you purchase one.

I talk a lot on MomsGetReal about raising healthy kids and making healthy eating choices. While a real piece of fruit is always your best choice, when you?re on the run, or have a picky child who will not eat fruit any other way, you can?t beat SunRype and their commitment to providing products of the highest quality.

I received SunRype products to review as part of the SheSpeaks program. While this is a SheSpeaks/SunRype sponsored post, my opinions of the product are genuine. This is good stuff.

Thank you SheSpeaks!!

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Social Media Studies Can Confuse | Internet Psychologist | Graham ...

One minute social media is great for business, the next we get research telling us it?s a big failure. Indeed, not so long ago you were told to forget social media?! Now, wouldn?t you know it, there?s a new study telling us the opposite ? that social media usage definitely leads to profits. So what is a business owner to believe? Is it worth spending time and effort on social media activities, or not?

The answer is that you should be asking a different question?!

The latest research shows that if your customers use social media to communicate with you they spend around 6% more with a business than people who do not relate via social media. The researchers found that social media customers are more profitable than those who don?t use social media to connect with a business. In other words, it appears that if you use social media to connect with your customers they will spend more money with you.

But earlier research found that 99% of all purchases had nothing whatsoever to do with social media.

So one study reckons social media lead to higher profits whilst the other implies social media is a waste of time.

Who to believe?

Both of them. That?s because they are both saying the same thing. And that?s why the question ?is social media a waste of time? the wrong question.

The real question to ask is the one answered by the contrasting research studies ? and that is ?does forming deeper relationships with my customers help my business??

And the answer, as shown in both pieces of research, is ?yes?.

The people who spend most with a business are those who relate well to the company and have a stronger bond and affinity than those who only occasionally deal with the business. The reason why 99% of online social media fails to lead to a financial transaction is because there is little, if any, relationship. The 1% of sales are from people who have that strength of attachment to the business.

In other words, as if we didn?t know it, relationships lead to business ? and social media are just one way in which you can strengthen and maintain those relationships.

If you are looking at social media as a way of getting business, without having to do the relationship building stuff, then you are likely to find social media activity is a waste of time. But if you believe that business is all about relationships and you want to use social media as a way of enhancing and strengthening such connections, then it certainly will not be a waste of time.

So, forget what the research says about the effectiveness of social media and the potential for sales. Instead, concentrate on building strong customer relationships, using social media just as one tool in your box of tricks.

Source: http://www.grahamjones.co.uk/2013/blog/social/social-media-studies-can-confuse.html

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Hypertension during pregnancy increases risk of end-stage renal disease

Public release date: 22-Jan-2013
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Women with hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are at higher risk of chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease compared with women without the disorders, according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

"We found that women with hypertensive disorders during pregnancy were at higher risk of end-stage renal disease than women without complicated pregnancies," writes Dr. I-Kuan Wang, Division of Nephrology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, with coauthors.

Hypertensive disorders such as gestational hypertension and preeclampsia in pregnancy can have a major impact on the health of the mother and baby and are risk factors for death. An estimated 5% to 10% of pregnancies are affected by hypertensive disorders. Kidney function can be affected.

Researchers looked at data on 26 651 women in Taiwan with hypertensive disorders in their first pregnancy to determine whether there was an increased risk of end-stage renal disease compared with a group of 213 397 women without the disorders. The women were 19 to 40 years old and did not have a history of hypertension, diabetes or kidney disease.

Taiwan has one of the highest rates of end-stage renal disease in the world.

The incidence of chronic kidney disease was almost 11-fold higher in the group with hypertensive disorders in pregnancy compared with the women without the disorders. End-stage renal disease was 14-fold higher in the cohort with hypertensive disorders. The risk for women with preeclampsia was higher than for those with only gestational hypertension.

"We found an increased risk of subsequent end-stage renal disease among Taiwanese women who had experienced hypertensive disorders during pregnancy, including preeclampsia or eclampsia and gestational hypertension," write the authors. "We also found that women with preeclampsia or eclampsia were at higher risk of end-stage renal disease than those who had gestational hypertension only."

There is little data on the link between hypertensive disorders during pregnancy and the risk of end-stage renal disease. This study is consistent with a Norwegian study that found a similar link between these disorders and later kidney disease.

"Close surveillance for microalbuminuria, blood pressure and diabetes should be considered for women with a history of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy. Preventive strategies, such as pharmacologic or lifestyle interventions, should also be considered for women at high risk of end-stage renal disease," conclude the authors.

"This study by Wang and colleagues is timely because it shows the importance of hypertension during pregnancy as a marker for future chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease and diabetes," write Dr. Julia Spaan from Maastricht University Medical Center, the Netherlands, and Prof. Dr. Mark Brown from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in a related commentary (pre-embargo link only) "It also highlights one of the current pitfalls of clinical practice: although these women have great attention paid to their high blood pressure during pregnancy, there is no structured follow-up of blood pressure or cardiovascular and renal risk factors after pregnancy. Better surveillance after pregnancy should help prevent not only chronic kidney disease but also cardiovascular disease.

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kim.barnhardt@cmaj.ca
613-520-7116 x2224
Canadian Medical Association Journal

Women with hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are at higher risk of chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease compared with women without the disorders, according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

"We found that women with hypertensive disorders during pregnancy were at higher risk of end-stage renal disease than women without complicated pregnancies," writes Dr. I-Kuan Wang, Division of Nephrology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, with coauthors.

Hypertensive disorders such as gestational hypertension and preeclampsia in pregnancy can have a major impact on the health of the mother and baby and are risk factors for death. An estimated 5% to 10% of pregnancies are affected by hypertensive disorders. Kidney function can be affected.

Researchers looked at data on 26 651 women in Taiwan with hypertensive disorders in their first pregnancy to determine whether there was an increased risk of end-stage renal disease compared with a group of 213 397 women without the disorders. The women were 19 to 40 years old and did not have a history of hypertension, diabetes or kidney disease.

Taiwan has one of the highest rates of end-stage renal disease in the world.

The incidence of chronic kidney disease was almost 11-fold higher in the group with hypertensive disorders in pregnancy compared with the women without the disorders. End-stage renal disease was 14-fold higher in the cohort with hypertensive disorders. The risk for women with preeclampsia was higher than for those with only gestational hypertension.

"We found an increased risk of subsequent end-stage renal disease among Taiwanese women who had experienced hypertensive disorders during pregnancy, including preeclampsia or eclampsia and gestational hypertension," write the authors. "We also found that women with preeclampsia or eclampsia were at higher risk of end-stage renal disease than those who had gestational hypertension only."

There is little data on the link between hypertensive disorders during pregnancy and the risk of end-stage renal disease. This study is consistent with a Norwegian study that found a similar link between these disorders and later kidney disease.

"Close surveillance for microalbuminuria, blood pressure and diabetes should be considered for women with a history of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy. Preventive strategies, such as pharmacologic or lifestyle interventions, should also be considered for women at high risk of end-stage renal disease," conclude the authors.

"This study by Wang and colleagues is timely because it shows the importance of hypertension during pregnancy as a marker for future chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease and diabetes," write Dr. Julia Spaan from Maastricht University Medical Center, the Netherlands, and Prof. Dr. Mark Brown from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in a related commentary (pre-embargo link only) "It also highlights one of the current pitfalls of clinical practice: although these women have great attention paid to their high blood pressure during pregnancy, there is no structured follow-up of blood pressure or cardiovascular and renal risk factors after pregnancy. Better surveillance after pregnancy should help prevent not only chronic kidney disease but also cardiovascular disease.

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peterson's place: Santa Barbara Baby Shower!

On January 5, 2013, baby and I enjoyed a lovely baby shower here in Santa Barbara. It was hosted by Mary Given in her home, along with the help of Jess McCormick, Denise Crosby, and Leah Hendrickson. Both my Mom and my Mother in Law were able to be in town, along with other extended family and close friends. Here are a couple photos on our front porch before we headed to the shower. I was 32 1/2 weeks at the time.

It was beautiful and the food was delish!! The photos don't capture ALL the people that were there, it was a full house. Looking around, it was very moving to see all the community we have established here in Santa Barbara. Some people we have known a long time (Jon his whole life!) and others are newer friends. It was an eclectic mix of relationships: family, old friends, new friends, work colleagues, and our church community. Also, we left with LOTS of great stuff to help us prep for the little guy and make sure he is dressed to the 9s. ?

?Thanks again to all!?

Source: http://stacylpeterson.blogspot.com/2013/01/santa-barbara-baby-shower.html

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Video: Poet Richard Blanco: Imagine Obama as a child

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Nuts From the Family Tree: Libster Blog Award Coming My Way!

I checked out a comment to one of my posts here at Nuts to find that Jenny Lanctot at the blog, Are My Roots Showing? nominated me for an award, the Libster Blog Award. You can see her post and her own acceptance of the Award here.? Jenny gave me the award for my post, Cousin Bait Strategy Needed.

Here's what Jenny wrote about the award when she won it:
I've been awarded the Liebster Blog Award! (Liebster means "favorite" or "dearest" in German, apparently) The premise behind this award is that when you are nominated, you are supposed to answer 11 questions about yourself (chosen by the person who nominated you), and then nominate 5 bloggers with less than 200 readers and provide 11 questions for them to answer.

I'm honored, and thanks Jenny! Who doesn't like an award? She commented that at the very first she felt like she got a spam when she got the award, and I did feel a tad silly like I was participating in a chain letter, but what the heck, that can be fun! Then I started answering the questions and thought how cool it will be to pass on the award and find out more about other bloggers.

I know some folks out there looked on these awards in the past as a way to drive traffic to a blog, but I see it differently. I like knowing about other genealogy bloggers - we are a community -?and since we're always blogging about our ancestors, here's a time to share something about ourselves... and have some fun.

Here are Jenny's questions for me. Let the Silly begin!!

1. What is your favorite time of day and why?
Morning. I'm a morning person. Now, where the heck is my coffee??

2. How and when did you first discover your passion, whatever that passion is?
Art?was my first passion to appear on the scene, then a couple of years ago Mom hooked me on genealogy. Discovered art on a Friday afternoon in 3rd grade. Discovered the ancestors when Mom told me a story about the counter fitting twins.

3. Hopefully, you?re familiar with The Breakfast Club for this question. When you were in high school, in which social group did you best fit?
Oh, I'm gonna cry: am too old for Breakfast Club! But I'll go ahead and answer about the high school social groups: my high school graduating class was 124 so everyone was always in every one's business. I longed for the protection of a group. High school was so painful! UGH!

4. Where do you write your posts and why did you choose that place?
In my pajamas;) It's comfy! Actually my desktop is in the corner of the art studio. I badly need a new laptop!

5. What always makes you laugh and why?
My dog. He's 16 and still acts like a pup. Mixed breed vigor, or so the vet says and?my dog's?got it.

6. If you could appear on a televised talent show, what would your talent be?
Ha! Bob Ross! Love it when he paints those "happy trees"!

7. Which flower reminds you of happiness?
All of them even the "ugly ones". But I'm a sucker for orchids. Grew them when we lived in Florida and grow them here in SoCal. My house isn't complete without an orchid in bloom.

8. What is your favorite book and why?
I hardly ever met a book I didn't like. Ask my loaded bookshelves, and the stacks next to the bed! I love historical novels especially about areas and time where my ancestors were participants. I've learned a lot from them. Most recently enjoyed, How Green Was My Valley, a 1939 novel?by Richard Llewellyn about a family in the coal fields of Wales. I learned a lot by reading that one, and I could see my ancestors on every page.

9. It?s important to eat your vegetables, but which vegetable do you always resist/avoid eating?
Wow, that's a difficult one. We love veggies in this house. From beets to leeks, on to kale and Brussels sprouts, whatever is in season at the local farmer's market... I'll take it! PS: I love to cook too.

10. What is your favorite thing to do on a rainy day?
Either watch an old movie or do genealogy. Toss up!

11. Who is the one celebrity, past or present, you would like to meet ? and what would you ask that person?
Andy Warhol! Met him once and this next time I'd like to ask him all the questions I should have asked the first time.

OK, the drill is that after answering these question I can nominate five blogs and ask my own questions, and that's the main reason I'm doing this: I'm curious and this seems like a way to get interesting people to answer stuff;)

Here are the five blogs I nominate:

Family History Fun by Sue Scott. I love the way she uses photos and the stories that they tell. Thanks so much, Sue! Maybe my Welsh coal miner ancestors worked for her Oldham coal merchants:) Maybe.

Ancestors Live Here by Leslie Ann. I really enjoy Leslie Ann's down home and personal tone. There one today that talks about sewing kits here. I clearly remember Grandma Kelly's tin box of buttons and the magic it held for me! Thanks Leslie Ann.

Countryfolk by Rhonda. Love reading about Rhonda's problem solving and thinking. Gives me ideas about how to go from one thing out to find solutions... or more questions!

Forgotten Faces and Long Ago Places by Teresa Wilson Rogers. Details in photos: what's not to love about this blog! Get a look at this wedding dress right here!!?Thanks Teresa!

Trails Into The Past by Lisa Suzanne Gorrell. I get a real feeling for her family from Lisa's posts and I appreciate the way she gives her posts texture drawing me in. And, she also participating in the Family History Writing Challenge!

And here are my 11 questions for these nominees if they so choose to participate, and I really hope they do:

Credit for Questions 1 - 5:?Tell us?five important things?about how you get interested in genealogy and why you blog? (Please make it juicy cause it's credit for?five big questions!)

Question 6: Do you watch TV and if so what are your favorite shows/ types of shows?

Question 7: Please tell us about your journey of genealogy education? I'm self-taught and that can be dangerous. I'm curious,?how did you learn what you know, and do you have recommendations (or cautionary tales) for the newbie?

Question 8: When you're not doing genealogy, what's your fav thing to do?

Question 9: Please share your pain: tell us about one of your brick walls and how long you've been working on it. (I need to feel better about my own brick walls;)

Question 10: Has there been one person, web site, or class that was the most beneficial to you?

Question 11: What's the funniest story you can tell us about your interest in genealogy?

Source: http://nutsfromthefamilytree.blogspot.com/2013/01/libster-blog-award-coming-my-way.html

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Video: Michelle Obama prioritizes being a parent

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Israel leader says Iran key issue, not settlements

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Two days before national elections, Israel's prime minister on Sunday shrugged off international criticism of Israeli settlement construction, charging instead that Iran's suspect nuclear program the real threat to regional security.

Speaking to his Cabinet, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had told a group of visiting U.S. senators over the weekend that "the problem is not building ... The problem in the Middle East is Iran's attempt to build nuclear weapons ... This was, and remains, the main mission facing not only myself and Israel, but the entire world."

Israel, the U.S. and much of the international community believe Iran may decide to produce nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies.

Netanyahu, who has repeatedly spoken of the Iranian nuclear program throughout his four year-term and long before, has claimed credit for helping put the issue on the international agenda.

The international community has slapped tough economic sanctions on Iran, also urging Tehran to open its program to international inspectors. While the sanctions have hit Iran hard, its government has refused to cooperate with inspectors or halt its enrichment of uranium. Enrichment is a key step toward developing a nuclear bomb, though it has other purposes as well.

Netanyahu has welcomed the international pressure on Iran, but he has also repeatedly indicated Israeli might attack Iran, alone if necessary, if he concludes that diplomacy has failed. Netanyahu has warned that 2013 will be a critical year in determining whether Iran reaches weapons capability or not.

The final opinion polls ahead of Tuesday's vote have all predicted Netanyahu's hard-line bloc maintaining a solid lead over center-left opponents.

The Dahaf agency, for example, predicted Netanyahu and his hard-line and religious allies would capture 63 seats in the 120-seat parliament. As the largest member of the block, Netanyahu's Likud-Yisrael Beitenu list would be the senior member of the coalition, and Netanyahu would serve another term as prime minister. The survey interviewed 1,000 people and had a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points.

A new hard-line government would likely mean continued deadlock in peace efforts with the Palestinians and further confrontation with President Barack Obama.

Netanyahu has drawn fierce criticism from the U.S. and other allies for building housing for Jewish settlers in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, lands claimed by the Palestinians for a future state. The Palestinians have refused to negotiate while Israel continues to build in the settlements.

In his comments Sunday, Netanyahu signaled that the settlement construction will continue. He also praised the legacy of Ron Nachman, the longtime mayor of the Ariel settlement, who died Friday. Ariel, with nearly 20,000 residents located deep inside the West Bank, is considered a major obstacle to the establishment of a future Palestinian state.

"Today we part from our dear friend who managed to build Ariel into a city of culture, with a university. I regret that he did not have additional years in which to enjoy the fruit of his labors," Netanyahu said. His government recently approved upgrading a college in Ariel to university status.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-leader-says-iran-key-issue-not-settlements-120243288.html

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Turn up the bass to scare birds away from planes

PLANES and birds aren't good at sharing air space - bird strikes worldwide cause over a billion dollars in damage every year, and put passengers and crew at risk. To scare avians away, a new device will fire low-frequency sound waves at flocks as they near busy flight paths.

Noise makers are often used to scare birds away from airports or contaminated waterways. But loud sounds also annoy any humans within earshot.

Now a system developed by Technology International, based in Laplace, Louisiana, aims to deter birds using infrasound, below the range of human hearing.

The trial version of the Avian Infrasound Non-lethal Denial System has a passive infrasound detector that listens for an approaching flock, and activates a series of rotary subwoofers that generate high-intensity, but low-frequency sound. It worked well in tests.

Thunderstorms also emit lots of infrasound, which may be why birds are naturally averse to it, says Abdo Husseiny, the firm's CEO.

Husseiny adds that the system could be used to keep pigeons away from public squares, or divert flocks away from wind turbines. He says that the equipment should be commercially available within two years.

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Strathmore University ? Is Is the New Kenyan Elite ... - Bnr.Co

Strathmore University was granted a University charter barely a couple of years ago and it is currently causing ripples in the greater education sector in the nation. For a lengthy time the University primarily operated as a college teaching accounting and computer courses. Nonetheless, all that changed because it was granted powers to supply University level courses.

Of course, it really is still a young University and therefore it may be also early to judge. Nevertheless, some of its strengths and attributes are worth mentioning. There is no doubt that the University is renowned for business and IT connected courses. Its MBA program now competes on an equal pedestal with the country?s greatest enterprise schools such as UON and USIU-A. Nevertheless, its MBA plan appears to be gaining momentum by the day. It attracts seasoned professionals from across the world. Some of the speakers have included the famed Harvard strategy guru Michael E. Porter as well as renowned company professors in the world?s elite company school.

Nevertheless, on this front it faces competitors from USIU-A business school which has both the talent and capacity to match it. For instance, USIU has an endowment fund of about 300 million shillings dedicated to business education. It also has captains of market among its alumni. 1 such particular person is Vimal Shah, the CEO of Bidco Oil limited. It is also closely associated with Manu Chandaria, who gave a personal gift to the University.

Even as the University aspires for planet class status, and increasing its financial muscle, it must take care not to water down the high quality of its programs as has happened with the public Universities which have abandoned their scholarly pursuits and rather now act as money minting ventures.

Source: http://www.bnr.co/reference-and-education/college-university/strathmore-university-is-is-the-new-kenyan-elite-university/

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Angled Lens Case Turns Your Smartphone Into a GoPro

G-Form's made a name for itself with extreme phone and tablet cases that can protect a gadget during falls from over 100,000 feet. But since rarely are any of us in a situation where we fumble and drop our toys from space, the company's new G90 case that turns your phone into a GoPro-like action cam is a little more exciting. More »

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Hasbro lands deal for real-world Tetris games, brings us our L ...

Hasbro and The Tetris Company Announce New Face-to-Face Games Based on World-Famous TETRIS ? Video Game

JENGA, BOP IT! Get TETRIS ? Twist for 2013

PAWTUCKET, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, Hasbro, Inc. (NAS: HAS) , a global leader in gaming, and The Tetris Company, LLC, the exclusive licensor of the TETRIS? brand, announced a licensing deal to bring TETRIS, one of the world's most successful video game brands, into a new world of face-to-face gaming developed by Hasbro. Through this agreement, Hasbro has obtained the license to manufacture and globally market multiple face-to-face games based on the TETRIS brand.

"For almost 30 years, the TETRIS game has been played by hundreds of millions of players across nearly every mobile and video gaming platform," said Henk Rogers, Managing Director of The Tetris Company. "We're thrilled to be teaming up with Hasbro to expand the TETRIS brand and give our fans fun, challenging face-to-face formats to experience the 'Tetris Effect' in a unique way."

"We're looking forward to offering consumers innovative face-to-face gaming experiences that let them stack and match the TETRIS shapes like never before," said Jonathan Berkowitz, Vice President of Marketing for Hasbro Gaming. "Now players can enjoy the challenging, social fun of two of their favorite Hasbro Gaming brands fused with the puzzle play of TETRIS."

Hasbro will introduce two games in the fall of 2013 based on the incredibly popular TETRIS game. The new BOP IT! TETRIS? game tests players to match the traditional TETRIS block shaped lights as the challenges get faster and the levels go higher. Also, Hasbro's new JENGA TETRIS? game will combine two of the world's best known stacking games, challenging players to push, pull and stack the TETRIS block shapes into a JENGA tower. The games will be launching globally in August 2013.

TETRIS? branded products have been sold worldwide in more than 50 languages. With hundreds of millions of games sold over the last 29 years, the TETRIS brand is stronger than ever and continues its year over year growth. As many as 35 million TETRIS games are played daily online, with over 1 billion played monthly. TETRIS games are played in 95% of the world in over 185 countries.

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/18/hasbro-lands-deal-to-make-real-world-tetris-games/

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ASUS announces USB stick-sized wireless router, available next month

ASUS apparently revealed this adorable wireless router in the middle of CES, but it's understandable, given the size of the thing, how it might have got lost in the cracks. Thankfully, the WL-330NUL USB pocket router has now resurfaced at Expansys and while it doesn't have a price, you can now register your preorder for the first batch. The router houses a single ethernet port and support for both USB 3.0 and 2.0. Powered by the aforementioned port, the router supports 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz WiFi and measures a meager 65mm in length. The release date is pegged for February 14th, just in time for that special someone -- and their unforgivingly snug laptop bag.

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In the current issue of Nature, a team of researchers led by Michigan State University shows that marginal lands represent a huge untapped resource to grow mixed species cellulosic biomass, plants grown specifically for fuel production, which could annually produce up to 5.5 billion gallons of ethanol in the Midwest alone.

"Understanding the environmental impact of widespread biofuel production is a major unanswered question both in the U.S. and worldwide," said Ilya Gelfand, lead author and MSU postdoctoral researcher. ?We estimate that using marginal lands for growing cellulosic biomass crops could provide up to 215 gallons of ethanol per acre with substantial greenhouse gas mitigation.?

The notion of making better use of marginal land has been around for nearly 15 years. However, this is the first study to provide an estimate for the greenhouse gas benefits as well as an assessment of the total potential for these lands to produce significant amounts of biomass, he added.

Focusing on 10 Midwest states, Great Lakes Bioenergy researchers from MSU and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used 20 years of data from MSU?s Kellogg Biological Station LTER Site to characterize the comparative productivity and greenhouse gas impacts of different crops, including corn, poplar, alfalfa and old field vegetation.

They then used a supercomputer to identify and model biomass production that could grow enough feedstock to support a local biorefinery with a capacity of at least 24 million gallons per year. The final tally of 5.5 billion gallons of ethanol represents about 25 percent of Congress? 2022 cellulosic biofuels target, said Phil Robertson, co-author and MSU professor of crop, soil and microbial sciences.

?The value of marginal land for energy production has been long-speculated and often discounted,? he said. ?This study shows that these lands could make a major contribution to transportation energy needs while providing substantial climate and ? if managed properly ? conservation benefits.?

This also is the first study to show that grasses and other non-woody plants that grow naturally on unmanaged lands are sufficiently productive to make ethanol production worthwhile. Conservative numbers were used in the study, and production efficiency could be increased by carefully selecting the mix of plant species, Robertson added.

?With conservation in mind, these marginal lands can be made productive for bioenergy production and, in so doing, contribute to avoid the conflict between food and fuel production,? said Cesar Izaurralde, PNNL soil scientist and University of Maryland adjunct professor.

Additional benefits for using marginal lands include:
New revenue for farmers and other land owners
No indirect land-use effects, where land in another part of the globe is cleared to replace land lost here to food production
No carbon debt from land conversion if existing vegetation is used or if new perennial crops are planted directly into existing vegetation

The research was funded primarily by the Department of Energy?s Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, the National Science Foundation and MSU AgBioResearch. Additional researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland contributed to this study.

Layne Cameron | Source: EurekAlert!
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Movie review: Quartet | canada.com

Quartet

4 stars out of 5

Starring: Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay, Patricia Collins

Directed by: Dustin Hoffman

Running time: 98 minutes

Parental guidance: Coarse language, adult situations

After a lifetime of complaining about his directors, Dustin Hoffman has finally stepped behind the camera himself, and it turns out he knew exactly what he was talking about: Quartet, his filmmaking debut at the tender age of 75, is a gentle, funny, and occasionally ribald drama that celebrates both music and old age.

Oddly, it is an English film, rather than an American one, but beyond the Masterpiece Theatre set design there lies a cunning tribute to the easy command of experienced actors and to the art that brought them there.

It?s set in the fictional Beecham House, a magisterial home for retired musicians somewhere in Britain and named after the famous conductor Sir Thomas Beecham (?His father made laxatives,? says Maggie Smith, the dowager queen of geezer cinema, here playing an imperious old diva named Jean. ?Naming a nursing home after him is frighteningly apt.?)

A group of former opera singers live in uneasy companionship, given the realities ? a faint tendency to crankiness, a touch of senility, the occasional attack of I?m-too-old-for-this selfishness ? of such a place. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood, based on his play, reminds us that an old folks? home is much like a high school, with similar jealousies, territorial imperatives and tempers in the eating room (?You can?t save seats.?)

Hoffman has populated the place with a collection of actual retired musicians, notably soprano Dame Gwyneth Jones, who play and sing throughout the film and who co-star in the closing credits with old photographs of themselves, a montage that is strikingly moving.

In the foreground is a grand assortment of scene-stealers; indeed, scenes are stolen so often in Quartet that the cumulative effect is of evanescence, as if the movie itself has been quietly taken away, leaving only a few stray Verdi arias and the floating smile of accomplishment.

Most of this theft is done by the quartet of the title. Billy Connolly is Wilf, a naughty old man whose twinkly flirtations and indecent proposals ? he invites female staff members to enjoy some ?rumpy-bumpy? ? are an irresistible reminder of the deathless libido, or at least of its shadow.

Tom Courtenay, looking groomed and regal in a stylish scarf, is his friend Reggie, an old tenor still keeping in the game by learning the ins and outs of rap music for the regular music appreciation classes he gives for students (?Lady Ga-Who??) Reggie is elegance itself, but we see a hidden pain ? or maybe just a hidden pool of grumpiness ? when he begins to insult one of the home?s waitresses who gives him apricot jam, rather than marmalade, for his morning toast.

Their old boy roughness is softened by Pauline Collins as Cissy, a slightly addled old singer who veers into something approaching Alzheimer?s every once in a while. Cissy scurries about Beecham House with a giant handbag, getting everything charmingly, girlishly wrong, until she gets it charmingly right.

Their uneasy harmony ? in every sense ? is tipped when Jean moves in: a formidable opera star, now fallen on hard times and furthermore an old flame of Reggie?s, who doesn?t seem to have forgiven her for some ancient romantic betrayal.

Smith moves through the film with the haughty bearing of a luxury cruise ship whose captain has decided he will ignore warnings of icebergs ahead.

Hoffman is clearly crazy about all of them, and he gives them room both to inhale the exotic sounds of classical music, beautifully played and sung by the actual musicians around them, and to indulge the slightly less rarefied tantrums to which they are all prone.

This means that not every moment is fully occupied, and some of that slack is taken up by Michael Gambon as Cedric (?See-dric,? he corrects everyone), an impresario in caftans and rude manners who adds a note of camp.

Quartet is one of those movies whose plot swings on a gala concert, in this case a tribute to Verdi that will raise enough money to keep Beecham House in business.

It?s a thin device, but it does allow Cedric to vamp noisily around the home, telling the Gilbert and Sullivan acts to shut up. It?s also a chance for Wilf, Reggie, Cissy and Jean to reunite for their famous quartet from Rigoletto, if only they can talk Jean into ignoring the frailties of age ? she?s constantly looking into mirrors with a disapproving pucker ? and sing again.

It?s something of a fantasy, of course: the grand home, the witty companionship, the gorgeous music-making, but it?s fantasy of the best kind. ?Old age is not for sissies,? Cissy keeps saying, despite the fact that in her case, it clearly is. It is also for dreamers.

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Helicopter crashes in central London

London --

A helicopter crashed into a crane and fell on a crowded street in central London during rush hour Wednesday, sending flames and black plumes of smoke into the air. The pilot and one person on the ground were killed and 13 others injured, officials said.

The helicopter crashed in misty weather just south of the River Thames near the Underground and mainline train station at Vauxhall, and close to the headquarters of spy agency MI6.

Police said one person had critical injuries. Six were taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries and seven treated at the scene, ambulance officials said.

"It was something of a miracle that this was not many, many times worse," police Cmdr. Neil Basu said.

The pilot, who was killed, had requested to divert and land at the nearby London Heliport because of bad weather, the heliport said in a statement.

"The London Heliport never gained contact with the helicopter," the statement said.

The aircraft, an AgustaWestland 109, was on a commercial flight, said Philip Amadeus, managing director of RotorMotion, an executive helicopter charter business.

The company identified the pilot as Peter Barnes, 50, whose career included flying in films including "Saving Private Ryan" and the James Bond movie "Die Another Day."

"He was a very highly skilled pilot, one of the most experienced in the U.K., with over 12,000 flying hours," Amadeus said. "We are devastated by the loss of a highly valued colleague and very dear friend."

Police identified the other fatality as 39-year-old Matthew Wood, from south London.

The crash unfolded at the height of the morning commute when thousands of pedestrians in the area were trying to get to work. The weather at the time was overcast and misty with fog and poor visibility, according to the Met Office weather forecasting service.

Video from the scene showed wreckage burning in a street, and black smoke in the area, with a line of flaming fuel and debris marking the area where the helicopter smashed down. Witnesses said the disaster unfolded when the helicopter hit a crane atop a 50-story residential building, the St. George Wharf Tower.

"I was 100 percent sure it was a terrorist attack," said Allen Crosbie, site manager for the landscape firm Maylim Ltd., who was working at the scene.

"There was debris everywhere, a ton of black smoke ...People were just panicking."

British aviation authorities had issued a "notice to airmen" warning pilots about the crane, which extended to 770 feet above ground. The crane is lit at night, and police said investigators would look at whether the light was faulty.

The area, roughly 10 blocks from the major Waterloo train and Underground station, is extremely congested during the morning rush hour. Many commuters arrive at the main line stations from London's southern suburbs and transfer to buses or trains there.

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Got sugar? Venezuela faces shortages of staple foods

The increased difficulty in finding basic consumer goods in Venezuela is raising concerns about the viability of Ch?vez's socialist economic policies at a time when the country is already on edge due to his prolonged absence.

By Andrew Rosati,?Correspondent / January 17, 2013

Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, one of them holding a sign with an image of him, gather outside of the National Assembly during the state-of-the-nation address in Caracas, Venezuela earlier this week.

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While President Hugo Ch?vez convalesces in Cuba following his fourth cancer operation, Venezuelans face a struggle of a different kind in the midst of shortages of basic food products.

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Consumers are having to scour markets for staples such as sugar, milk, chicken, and harina pan, a corn flour used to make arepas ? corncakes that predominate the Venezuelan diet.

"We're replacing one product with another," says Rosa Garcia, a realtor who was on a three-day hunt for meat across various Caracas neighborhoods. "First there was no beef, now no chicken. Last night I made eggs for my family's dinner."

Grocery shopping in Venezuela is rarely an easy task, with consumers often forced to deal with long lines and sporadic shortages at their local markets. But the increased difficulty in finding basic consumer goods in recent weeks is raising concerns about the viability of Mr. Ch?vez's socialist economic policies at a time when the country is already on edge due to his prolonged absence and the uncertainty of Venezuela's political future. Ch?vez has not been seen or heard from since early December.

Political woes may now be accentuating economic problems, explains Ronald Balza, an economics professor at both the Central University of Venezuela and Andr?s Bello Catholic University. "People are making 'nervous purchases,'" buying up what they can in the midst of political instability, fearing the possibility of a devaluation, Mr. Balza says.

"It's the government," says Maria Gonz?lez, a homemaker who blames the administration for a lack of cooking oil and sugar at her middle class supermarket in eastern Caracas.

Economists say local businesses are struggling to satisfy levels of consumption that went up during last year's election season when the Ch?vez administration boosted imports of all kinds in an effort to woo the voting public. Conindustria, a confederation of private Venezuelan industries, estimates that in 2012 the country broke spending records with as much as $54 billion spent on foreign goods.

"Consumption has increased faster than production and the availability of foreign currency is insufficient to cover imports," says Balza.

Blame game?

Since the October presidential election, foreign currency, which is regulated by the government at an official rate and made available to businesses through government-administered exchange markets, has become increasingly scarce. Foreign currency, namely US dollars, is paramount to providing basic food products in the country as internal production has fallen due to price controls and the availability of cheap imports during an oil bonanza. This, coupled with Ch?vez's nationalization of more than 1,000 businesses and properties during his tenure, has deterred domestic production.

Critics of the Ch?vez administration say the dollar crisis is further complicating an already rigid climate for businesses, with the greatest fallout coming in the food sector. The Central Bank of Venezuela released its monthly scarcity index on Friday, comprised of a sampling of goods from markets across the country, indicating that in December shortages reached their highest levels in four years.

However, the Ch?vez government, which has a long history of applying price controls on many consumer staples in what it says is an effort to curb inflation, blames business for the shortages. It has now launched a nationwide crackdown on "hoarders and speculators" whom it believes are manipulating the market for windfall profits.

"The radical and irresponsible right wants to keep the population in a constant state of anxiety and therefore they?ve launched a new campaign of shortages," said Food Minister Carlos Osorio.

On Saturday, government officials announced they would expropriate a Pepsi franchise in Vargas state after finding 8.5 tons of unused sugar in a warehouse. The multinational said this is the amount of sugar needed for 13 days of production.

Analysts warn, however, that while using up company inventories may temporarily refill store shelves across the county, in the long run such practices are unsustainable.

The 'how' and 'when'

According to Jos? Luis Saboin, a senior economist at the Caracas think-tank Econanalitica, unpopular economic adjustments to rectify Venezuela's dollar squeeze have been delayed as President Ch?vez is still confined to a hospital bed and is so far unable to assume power for his fourth term in office.

Devaluing the currency, raising taxes, and cutting public spending are among the measures that the government could implement to further stretch petro-dollars. Yet such decisions are unlikely to be taken in the short run given the looming possibility of another presidential election should Ch?vez not recover.

"No one knows when or how the government is going to make adjustments, because no one knows if the president is ever going to return," says Mr. Saboin.

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Can Obama keep warmer inauguration weather pledge?

WASHINGTON (AP) ? It will be the first up or down fact check of a Barack Obama campaign pledge for his second term: Promised warmer Inauguration Day weather. Will he ? or Mother Nature ? deliver?

It's looking like an uncomfortably close call ? the emphasis on the word uncomfortable for people who will be outside on what's predicted to be a downright chilly day.

In September, campaigning in Colorado, Obama was talking to a potential voter who mentioned he had been one of the hundreds of thousands of people outdoors at Obama's bone-chilling first inaugural when the noontime temperature was an unseasonable chilly 28 degrees. Obama promised: "This one is going to be warmer."

Scientifically, the president doesn't have control of day-to-day weather. While his policies can lessen or worsen future projected global warming on a large scale, they cannot do anything about Washington's daily temperature on Jan. 21.

Still, it's a promise that for a long time looked close to a sure thing. The history of local weather was on Obama's side. On average, the normal high is 43 degrees and the normal low is 28 but that's just around dawn. There have been 19 traditional January inaugurations and only two were colder: Ronald Reagan's second in 1985 was a frigid 7 with subzero wind chills and John F. Kennedy's in 1961 was a snowy 22. Jimmy Carter's 1977 inauguration also was 28.

And then there was the general warming trend Washington had been stuck in. The last time the nation's capital stayed below freezing all day was Jan. 22, 2011. The city has gone a record more than 700 days since it had two or more inches of snow.

So a dozen days before Inauguration Day, when asked if it this inauguration would be warmer than in 2009, Mike Halpert, deputy director of the federal Climate Prediction Center said: "Sure, that would be something I'd bet on. Now looking at the (long-range computer forecast) models, I'd definitely bet on it. It's very very likely be warmer than it was four years ago."

That was more than a week ago. The forecast changed. An Arctic cold front looks to be racing toward the mid-Atlantic, so it will be cooler than normal, but probably not cooler than 2009, said Christopher Strong, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Sterling, Va., that oversees forecasts for the capital area.

Look for highs that day in the upper 30s with noon temperatures in the "middle 30s," Strong said. That would keep Obama's pledge.

"That's certainly below normal," Strong said. "It's not as cold as it can be."

The weather would be closer to normal for Cleveland rather than Washington, Strong said. And there's a 30 percent chance of light snow showers.

But that Arctic front could move in faster than expected with even cooler temperatures, Strong said. So he put the chance of the noon temperature being colder than 2009's 28 degrees at 20 percent.

Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private service Weather Underground, said he thinks there's a 30 percent chance that Obama's promise won't be kept.

Another factor is that earlier this month cold air suddenly appeared in the uppermost atmosphere and that often means considerably colder weather for America's East coast for several weeks and it appears to be starting, said Climate Prediction Center forecaster Anthony Artusa.

Extreme cold on Inauguration Day, folklore says, can be a killer.

In 1841, newly elected president William Henry Harrison stood outside without a coat or hat as he spoke for an hour and 40 minutes. He caught a cold that day and it became pneumonia and he died one month after being sworn in. Twelve years later, outgoing first lady Abigail Fillmore got sick from sitting outside on a cold wet platform as Franklin Pierce was inaugurated and she died of pneumonia at the end of the month. Doctors now know that pneumonia is caused by germs, but prolonged exposure to extreme cold weather may hurt the airways and make someone more susceptible to getting sick.

And there's one thing Washington's history shows. Bad weather generally creates bad traffic jams. John F. Kennedy found that out in his 1961 inauguration when 8 inches of snow fell overnight and crippled the city for what at that time was Washington's worst traffic jam. Thousands of cars were abandoned in the snow.

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Rising rents are fueling demand among buyers for large Manhattan apartments, according to first quarter reports.
More families, developers say, are opting to stay in the city, rather than migrate to the suburbs.

?We are seeing huge demand for larger units where families want to stay in NY and locals who live here want to stay,? said Laurie Golub, chief operating officer of HFZ Capital.

?As new schools open, like the Avenue School downtown and some of the NYC public schools that have been approved, where there is demand to stay families are driving prices of larger units up.?

A year end study compiled by appraisal firm Miller Samuel, also found the pricing trend to be on an upward swing.
Douglas Elliman reported their strongest fourth quarter sales in more than 25 years coupled with the lowest inventory in their sales portfolio in more than 10 years.

?Listing inventory fell to its lowest level since 2001, when we began tracking it,? said Jonathan Miller, CEO of Miller Samuel.

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As is traditional during the month of January, a slew of real estate organizations released their year-end reports and New Year forecasts.

Most reported growth in 2012 of Manhattan apartment prices, with the borough experiencing the greatest appreciation gains in the country. This, as sales inventory continued to fall on the island.

Rents on average grew overall between 4 to 5 percent during 2012 in New York proper, according to the annual market study of real estate value trends unveiled by Integra Realty Resources.

Residential brokerages, which issue their own internal data reports, reported significant rental increases also despite a softening in 4th quarter prices.

Over the past year Douglas Elliman reported a 10% increase in Manhattan rent, with Citi Habitats reporting a 5% rise for 2012.

?Continued demand resulted in a competitive market for apartment-seekers,? said Gary Malin, president of Citi Habitats. ?Average rents are up across all apartment categories when comparing 2012 to 2011. Studio apartments rented for 4%, one and three bedroom homes both increased in price by an average of 5%.?

Differently than in past years, the effects of Hurricane Sandy increased demand for apartments during the normally slow month of December. AC Lawrence reported a 45% increase in transaction activity during the month of December over 2011.

?Our team at AC Lawrence felt some pent up demand from people who held off renting until December,? said Marc Lewis, chairman of AC Lawrence. ?In past years, I?ve said ?there are only eleven months in the rental calendar? but because of Sandy, this was not the case. We experienced a much busier December than in the past.?

Most reports, internal and external, reported stability in vacancy rates throughout the year and into the foreseeable future.

New York City leads the nation in vacancy rates, followed by San Francisco and Boston.

?New York has been hovering in the three to 3.1 range over the last two years,? said Patrick C. Kerr, of Integra Realty Services.

?We see a fairly stable vacancy rate, in the 4% range projected over the next several years. That is also considering that there is going to be a lot of product coming online.?

Prices also rose across the river in New Jersey, but at a slower rate than Manhattan, growing by 3 percent in 2012.

?If you want to have a lower rent just hop on the PATH train and go over to Hoboken,? said Raymond T. Cirz, chairman of Integra Realty Resources. ?You can reduce your rent by 25%.?

While the ?Gold Coast? of New Jersey saw rates rise, some saw Brooklyn rents fall, but not all.

The city?s most populous borough remains immensely popular among a younger U.S. transplant population who are driving rental activity but resisting rental increases.

According to Miller Samuel, Brooklyn transactions rose by 12.5% in December, but rents dropped by 2.6%
during 2012, with a 5 percent drop in price in December alone.

In contrast, MNS reported the opposite pricing trend in Brooklyn, seeing a 15.8% increase in prices for studios, 10.7% uptick for one-bedrooms and a 10.2% rise for two bedrooms.

What this all means in terms of data consistency will have to be hashed out over time by individual market movers. Either way, some senior executives advise younger brokers not to take all data forecasts to heart when making every single market decision.

?Forecasts are always wrong, you?re best doing the opposite,? said chief executive officer of Vornado Realty Trust, Michael D. Fascitelli. ?We can?t predict the future. We don?t have a crystal ball. Your belly will tell you the right answers.?

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Source: http://www.rew-online.com/2013/01/16/home-teams-say-own-goal-pushing-apartment-prices-up/

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