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Yvette Rodriguez, right, director of ABCD Head Start and Children's Services, presented community engagement awards to President Joseph E. Aoun and Robert Gittens, center, the university?s vice president for public affairs. Gittens accepted Aoun?s award on the president?s behalf. At left, Sharon Scott-Chandler, executive vice president, ABCD, Inc. Photo by Casey Bayer.

Action for Boston Com?mu?nity Devel?op?ment, a local orga?ni?za?tion that empowers com?mu?nity mem?bers to over?come poverty and achieve their poten?tial, hon?ored North?eastern on Friday for the university?s long-??standing sup?port for ABCD Head Start and Children?s Ser?vices programs.

At the event, Yvette Rodriguez, director of ABCD Head Start and Children?s Ser?vices, pre?sented com?mu?nity engage?ment awards to Pres?i?dent Joseph E. Aoun and Robert Git?tens, the university?s vice pres?i?dent for public affairs. Git?tens accepted Aoun?s award on the president?s behalf. The awards honor those who have sup?ported ABCD Head Start in its efforts to pro?vide ser?vices to area fam?i?lies; they were pre?sented at an annual breakfast?held this year in the Curry Stu?dent Center?that rec?og?nizes par?ents for their vol?un?teer ser?vice to the?program.

North?eastern has part?nered with ABCD Head Start and Children?s Ser?vices through the university?s Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures pro?gram, which was founded in 2009. Co-??sponsored by Boston Children?s Hos?pital, the pro?gram aims to pre?vent early child?hood obe?sity by sup?porting healthy envi?ron?ments for chil?dren at home, in school, and in their com?mu?ni?ties. Pres?i?dent Aoun and Git?tens have served in crit?ical roles in estab?lishing, sup?porting, and growing the pro?gram, which includes research by North?eastern fac?ulty in the Bouv? Col?lege of Health Sci?ences aimed at curbing child?hood obe?sity in Boston?s neighborhoods.

?The part?ner?ship with ABCD has been ter?rific for North?eastern Uni?ver?sity,? Git?tens said in his accep?tance?speech.

Over the last four years, Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures pro?gram?ming has reached more than 500 Head Start fam?i?lies and staff mem?bers. These efforts include the Farm to Family pro?gram, which pro?vides low-??income fam?i?lies with fresh pro?duce; an annual Walk Chal?lenge; the Open Gym pro?gram that gives par?ents and their chil?dren a weekly oppor?tu?nity to engage in phys?ical activity together; and a variety of nutri?tion?classes.

ABCD Head Start and Children?s Ser?vices serves about 2,500 low-??income chil?dren and their fam?i?lies each year, offering a variety of early child?hood edu?ca?tion, health, and case man?age?ment ser?vices at sites throughout the?city.

At Friday?s break?fast, Git?tens stressed the cru?cial role parental involve?ment plays in helping chil?dren grow and suc?ceed. ?Parental engage?ment is what makes Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures suc?cessful and the work of ABCD Head Start suc?cessful,? he explained. ?It really is key to the future accom?plish?ments of your children.?

Rodriguez praised par?ents in atten?dance for helping ABCD Head Start rack up more than 5,000 hours of vol?un?teer ser?vice last year. She also empha?sized the impor?tance of devel?oping strong part?ner?ships with North?eastern and other local insti?tu?tions in an effort to make an impact in local communities.

?This is a true example of a suc?cessful part?ner?ship that serves fam?i?lies,? Rodriguez said. ?ABCD is extremely pleased with our involve?ment in the Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures part?ner?ship and the work we?ve accomplished.?

Source: http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2013/05/head-start/

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ASUS Transformer Book review: meet ASUS' first detachable Ultrabook

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• ASUS announces line of Transformer Books
• ASUS Transformer Book shows sudden sign of life: 13-inch Core i5 model coming to Japan this week
• ASUS Transformer Book hybrid PC gets May 21st release date

For a while, it looked like ASUS' Transformer Book would turn out to be vaporware: after debuting to much fanfare a year ago, it encountered numerous delays, and even missed the crucial holiday shopping season. Now it's finally here, priced at $1,499 with a Core i7 processor, a 13.3-inch (1080p) screen and a detachable keyboard dock housing both a spare battery and a 500GB hard drive. The problem is the timing: Intel is about to launch its new Haswell chips, and here's the Transformer Book, arriving on the scene with a lofty price and a year-old CPU.

It'd be easy enough to tell you just wait for a refresh, which is how we've been ending all of our PC reviews in the weeks leading up to this year's Computex. But it's still worth investigating whether the Transformer Book (aka the TX300) is a compelling idea. Though we've seen many tablet hybrids (the Surface Pro, etc.), they've mostly had smaller 11-inch screens. So what happens when you take that form factor and stretch it to accommodate a bigger screen -- and a more spacious keyboard? And how does it compare to all those convertible options out there, like the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 or the Dell XPS 12? Let's have a look.

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Apps of the Week: Hubble Space Center, Sonic the Hedgehog, Field Trip and more!

A game and a couple of tools highlight this abbreviated list of picks

The combination of Google I/O going on in San Francisco and BlackBerry Live in Orlando this week has our team a little sparse, but we think there are a few great picks to be seen this week regardless. Whether its just four apps or ten, we do our best every weekend to bring you apps that each of the Android Central writers have been using regularly the previous week.

Stick around after the break and see how this week's picks stack up against the rest.

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Cairo airport baggage handlers end strike

CAIRO (AP) ? Cairo airport officials say baggage handlers have resumed work after a strike that left passengers on 20 international flights from Europe and Arab countries waiting several hours for luggage.

Baggage handlers went on strike Saturday afternoon to demand stronger safety measures after a colleague died when a conveyer belt used to unload luggage fell on his head.

His EgyptAir co-workers say it took more than an hour for the ambulance to arrive at the scene from the airport's onsite hospital. Hospital officials deny this, and say the ambulance arrived within 10 minutes.

EgyptAir official Alaa el-Shahawy, who is responsible for ground logistics at Cairo airport, submitted his resignation Sunday. Airport officials say he will remain in the job until an investigation is complete.

Officials spoke anonymously in line with regulations.

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US Airways plane makes unusual belly landing at Newark airport

By David Jones

NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International Airport early on Saturday after the plane's landing gear failed to deploy, but no one was injured, airline and government officials said.

Piedmont Airlines flight 4560, operating for US Airways from Philadelphia with 34 passengers and three crew members, landed safely at 1 a.m., and passengers were evacuated on the tarmac and transported to the terminal, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said in an email.

Belly landings are unusual and dangerous because of the threat of fire from the plane fuselage skidding on a hard surface, according to aviation experts.

The airport was closed for more than an hour, and the runway was closed for more than eight hours following the incident, officials said.

The National Transportation Safety Board said in a Twitter post that it was investigating. A US Airways spokesman said the plane is a Dash 8-100 with a capacity of 37 passengers. The plane was made by De Havilland of Canada, which is owned by Bombardier Inc.

The plane left Philadelphia late on Friday night and the pilot made an emergency declaration after the left main landing gear failed to deploy, according to airline and FAA officials. The pilot circled the airport and then decided to land with no gear deployed.

The incident comes nearly three weeks after a Scandinavian Airlines plane with 252 people on board clipped the wing of an ExpressJet, operated by Skywest Inc., with 31 passengers as they were preparing to take off from the same airport. There were no injuries.

(Reporting by David Jones; Editing by Greg McCune and Eric Beech)

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GWH News and Notes: May 31 Progression Pro Wrestling in Atlanta

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Google's AdWords Express Gets a Makeover - Marketing Pilgrim

Google?s AdWords Express which is designed to help small businesses take advantage of paid search by literally doing the heavy lifting for them through placement of ads on behalf of the advertiser, got a facelift of sorts.

Google is on a push to make things more beautiful and efficient. I get it in theory but the whole beautiful part sounds so forced although it is a company mantra these days.

The Inside AdWords blog tells us

Today, when you log into AdWords Express, you?ll notice a brand new look. We?ve listened to your feedback and worked with a lot of small businesses to streamline the AdWords Express experience. It?s part of our ongoing efforts to make Google products more beautiful and efficient.

The first change comes in the dashboard where Google tells us:

Small business owners have told us that they?re busy and that they don?t want to spend time looking for the information they need. We redesigned the dashboard to show you at a glance how many views, clicks and calls your ad has generated. There?s a simple pie chart for tracking your monthly spending, and you can also compare results over time with the new performance graph.

Google couldn?t figure that out on their own? Most SMB?s are pressed for time so if you have to root around for information in a confusing interface that was engineered by engineers for engineers then of course they might not be thrilled. Oh well. The new dashboard looks like this.

Another improvement is the paring down the sign up process to just three steps (which is more of a benefit to Google and, once again, why do they need to ?discover? the idea that the less steps the better for non-engineer types?).

Last but not least is real-time ad previews. They look like this.

OK, so now Google AdWords Express is more beautiful and efficient. Do you feel better?

Source: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2013/05/googles-adwords-express-gets-a-makeover.html

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Miners union threatens strike at South Africa's Amplats

By Helen Nyambura-Mwaura and Sherilee Lakmidas

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Miners at South Africa's Anglo American Platinum reported for work late Thursday, and a labor leader said the workers will strike on Friday in an escalation of unrest that sent the company's shares lower and the rand to a four-year low.

The threatened action is to protest Amplats' plans to cut as many as 6,000 jobs in a bid to return to profit, down from the 14,000 it initially proposed, and comes just as a two-day wildcat strike ends at platinum producer Longman.

"Workers are going underground; everything is normal," Amplats spokeswoman Mpumi Sithole told Reuters late on Thursday.

A branch leader with the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said earlier that miners would not work the overnight shift on Thursday, but another said later in the day that the action would commence on Friday.

"We decided that it would be tomorrow. It's not AMCU that have called the strike, it's the workers," said Evans Ramokga, an Amplats' labor leader also linked to AMCU.

Months of violent labor unrest in the mining sector last year, including the police killing of 34 strikers at Lonmin's Marikana mine, slowed the growth of South Africa's biggest economy and triggered credit rating downgrades.

On Thursday the prospect of another round of trouble sent the rand to four-year lows. Amplats shares fell more than 4 percent by the close and reached an eight-year low.

AMCU's leadership often distances itself from illegal strike action, but the leadership showed that it was in control this week, when leaders addressed the striking Lonmin miners and told them to return to the shafts, which the miners promptly did.

AMCU has succeeded in poaching tens of thousands of members from the once dominant National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).

More than 50 people have been killed in more than 12 months of unrest stemming from a turf war between the two unions. The rivalry was stoked over the weekend when an AMCU organizer was shot dead in a tavern.

The current action comes shortly before a round of wage talks being billed as the toughest since the end of apartheid in 1994, as shrinking company margins and falling commodity prices combine with rising worker militancy.

Sithole said Amplats had received no notification of an intent to strike. The company fell to a loss last year in part because of the strikes, which shut its mines near Rustenburg for months.

DEADLY STRIFE

NUM, an ally of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), had enjoyed a near monopoly in the mining sector but started to lose members as a belief took hold that its leaders had become too close to management.

NUM says its rival AMCU has risen to prominence through violence and promises of unrealistic wage hikes at a time of razor-thin margins in the platinum sector in South Africa, home to 80 percent of known reserves of the metal.

NUM also points to its own success in wringing above-inflation wage hikes out of mining companies over the past decade.

The unrest is also rooted partly in glaring income disparities within the mining industry and the wider society.

Patience is wearing thin two decades after the end of white rule as much of the black mine labor force, which is semi-literate and drawn from poor rural areas, still makes only a few hundred dollars a month even after years of big wage rises.

And with an election looming in a year, the ANC is worried about the prospect of big job losses and forced Amplats to scale back its initial plan to shed 14,000 positions.

The cabinet is "extremely, extremely concerned" about the latest unrest, Environment Minister Edna Molewa told reporters at a post-cabinet news conference on Thursday.

(Additional reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas and Olivia Kumwenda in Johannesburg and Wendell Roelf in Cape Town; Writing by Ed Stoddard; Editing by Jane Baird and Cynthia Osterman)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/union-threatens-south-africas-amplats-wildcat-stoppage-092912358.html

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VIP Access: Eli Roth talks Aftershock Pt. 2

In the first screening of the Rotten Tomatoes VIP Access Series, Eli Roth joins Matt Atchity and Grae Drake in front of a live audience to discuss his latest film Aftershock, which he co-wrote, produced, and acts in.

In the second part of this three part series, Eli talks technical details and answers more questions from the live audience.

Warning: Contains some spoilers.

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JK Shin: Galaxy S4 to top 10 million sold next week

Galaxy ?S4 could pass the 10 million mark twice as quickly as the S3

JK Shin has told the Korean press that he expects the Samsung Galaxy S4 to pass 10 million units sold next week. Speaking with the Korea Times, the Samsung co-CEO said he was "confident" the milestone would be met, adding "it is selling much faster than the previous model S3."

The Galaxy S4 benefits from having launched across three major U.S. carriers at the same time as the global launch. By contrast, the U.S. release of the S3 took place several months behind the initial European launch. That device passed the 10 million mark in late July 2012, having begun shipping a little under two months earlier. If the S4 hits 10 million next week, it'd mean S4s are being shifted twice as fast as last year's S3. It'd also make it Samsung's fastest-selling smartphone, the Korea Times notes.

The last set of shipment numbers reported in the Korean press suggested 6 million GS4s had shipped as of May 10. Today's Korea Times article refers to units sold, not units shipped, so it's possible the distinction may have been lost in translation. Either way, that's a lot of Galaxy S4s.

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Comprehending the Need Of Possessing Satisfactory Business ...

The actual One-page Business strategy plan For the Taxes Program

Occasionally the very thought of seated to set up a business plan directs us jogging for the hillsides, even though I preach the value of planning to all of my customers! Small enterprise advice: With no planning, the accounting business moves thin air. If you neglect to program, you want to be able to fail.

What I have learned to find out as a business instructor is that strategic business plans do not have to become lengthy to become very good. Actually, just one web page may consist of all the crucial components you have to demonstrate where youre using the book keeping business and how you happen to be getting generally there. The main cause to experience a business strategy plan is always to clarify your thoughts about what your location is taking your organization. While the on paper, other people will know as well as recognize how well you see plus your program.

Below are a few traits of an effective one-page business strategy plan for the bookkeeping enterprise:

Ease. A new one-page strategy takes a sophisticated issue and also makes it simple.
Emphasis. That targets what?s crucial. There?s no space pertaining to blow or even for filler injections.
Overall flexibility. This is a communication device for employees, prospective staff, companions, stockholders, investors as well as bankers.
Uniformity. This directs precisely the same information to each one who gets it, in contrast to a new oral business presentation, which might alter each time you talk.
Overall flexibility. It is easy to change increase.

The Five Components of the particular One-Page Strategic business plan:

One. Your interesting article Vision Declaration What exactly are a person building?

This can be the place where you describe how well you see your path. Many enterprise trainers will explain which eye-sight phrases needs to be substantial and idealistic. They ought to induce considering and also communicate passion, whilst piece of art an in depth image from the taxes organization you desire. The key to be able to catching your vision is usually to avoid reducing the actual stream regarding feelings.

Two. The actual Quest Statement Why does marketing ebay can be found?

Your mission statement details the purpose which is why your product, services as well as enterprise is available. Fantastic quest claims tend to be quick and also memorable. They communicate in just a few words your companys emphasis and what?s staying given to clients. They will answer the question, Precisely why may customers buy this device or even services? Your mission statement must also echo owners love as well as commitment. In the event the enterprise fulfills a good entrepreneurs passion for imagination, independence or perhaps the have to provide, there exists substance along with staying power from the mission.

Three. Your Objectives Just what outcomes would you like to determine?

Targets make clear what you?re trying to achieve throughout particular, quantifiable targets. Among the better business advice that I can provide you with is that this: with an aim to be effective, it must be a new well-defined target together with considerable, quantifiable aspects. There are lots of kinds of goals, plus your strategy should include a variety of them. For several organizations two of the most important classes may be the monetary and marketing and advertising objectives. It?s important, nonetheless, in order to target your objectives to hide the total setting of your bookkeeping company, concentrating on the ambitions which can be most important in your success.

Several. The Strategies How does one increase your enterprise?

Tactics collection the particular path, beliefs, ideals, as well as strategy for constructing and managing your small business. Tactics in addition create tips for evaluating essential business judgements. For most sectors read more you can find four to six core techniques that will effective companies comply with. These key strategies are easy to comprehend, stay comparatively continuous over time, are employed through market place market leaders as well as lead to rewarding development. Listed here are a pair of types of the key approach: Price tag is certainly not almost everything, and also Draw in the most effective personnel and present these a new spot available. What are your methods?

Five. The same day loans Plans Exactly what is the make an effort to be performed?

Plans would be the specific steps the organization must carry out to achieve the aims. Prepare or activity goods need to help with the growth of the accounting enterprise. Every plan or perhaps motion product can be, in essence, a task. Strategies ought to be action-oriented, checklist certain jobs and still have specified deadlines or perhaps output deadlines.

If your program?s in some recoverable format, the next step is that will put that very same program in to actions. Adding the blueprint into actions is the most important step because the measures get the job done you wished when you started this procedure. For many business owners, this really is easy you are currently action-oriented! Here is a number of business advice, and a few tips, that will help you placed (whilst) your current accounting strategic business plan for doing things:

Keep your prepare with you.
Put it to use as being a decision-making instrument.
Revise the idea together with brand new views.
Share the idea with individuals you rely on and also whose ideas an individual worth.
Calculate how you?re progressing at least every three months.
Create a price range to fit the blueprint.

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News in Brief: Highlights from the Biology of Genomes meeting

An enormous tree's enormous genome, genes for strong-swimming sperm and more presented May 7-11 in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.

An enormous tree's enormous genome, genes for strong-swimming sperm and more presented May 7-11 in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.

By Tina Hesman Saey

Web edition: May 16, 2013

A record-setting genome for a towering giant
Deciphering the genome of the loblolly pine is a tall order, as is perhaps fitting for a tree that can grow to be 30 meters in height.

Researchers sequenced the conifer?s (Pinus taeda) approximately 24 billion bases of DNA, Steven Salzberg of Johns Hopkins University reported May 10. That surpasses the previous record holder, wheat, by more than 7 billion bases. The DNA is distributed over 12 chromosomes, each about two-thirds the size of the entire human genome.

A preliminary analysis suggests the trees may have up to 64,000 protein-coding genes, although Salzberg says the number is probably smaller. Humans have just over 22,000 protein-coding genes.

Next, the researchers will tackle the sugar pine genome. That one is even bigger, with more than 35 billion DNA bases.

Strong swimming sperm?s secret
A gene variant can make sperm strong and speedy, a study of wild mice suggests.

Researchers compared two species of wild mice -- one promiscuous, one monogamous -- to learn how genetic factors produce physical characteristics that may give one species an evolutionary edge.

By pitting sperm from the two species against each other in a race to the top of a test tube, Hopi Hoekstra, a Harvard University evolutionary geneticist, and her group found that the fastest sperm are ones that have tails with a longer midsection. Hoekstra reported May 9 that the team traced the genetic source of that structural difference to a variant in the PRKAR1A gene. In people, male infertility can accompany mutations in that gene.

The gene?s activity is higher in hybrid males carrying at least one copy of the promiscuous species? version than in males with two copies the monogamous version. And males with the promiscuous gene produce sperm with longer midsections and appear to have a mating advantage even when no other males are around. Of the males that sired pups when left alone with a female for a week, 45 percent carried two copies of the promiscuous species? version of the gene, while only 25 percent had two copies of the monogamous species? version.

In and out of Africa
Migration out of Africa wasn?t a one-way journey, a new study suggests. In about 1,000 BC, a large group of people made the reverse trek from the Middle East into eastern Africa, evolutionary geneticist Joseph Pickrell of Harvard Medical School reported May 11.

Those migrants mixed with east Africans, and their descendants carried their genetic heritage into southern Africa.

Pickrell and his colleagues discovered the back-to-Africa migration while investigating a genetic connection between Italians and some southern Africans. Shared genetic variants between southern Europeans and Africans could mean that factions of the original Middle Eastern population migrated both into Africa and into Europe.

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Citations

P. de Jong et al. The sequencing, assembly, and characterization of a 24Gb conifer genome (P. taeda). Presentation at the Biology of Genomes meeting, May 10, 2013.

H. Hoekstra. The genetics of adaptation in wild mice. Presentation at the Biology of Genomes meeting, May 9, 2013.

J. Pickrell et al. Unraveling waves of population mixture in sub-Saharan Africa using patterns of linkage disequilibrium. Presentation at the Biology of Genomes meeting, May 11, 2013.

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How one group got past IRS scrutiny

MediaTrackers.org

In May 2011, Drew Ryun, a conservative activist and former Republican National Committee staffer, began filling out the Internal Revenue Service application to achieve non-profit status for a new conservative watchdog group.

He submitted the paperwork to the IRS in July 2011 for a news site called Media Trackers, which calls itself a "non-partisan investigative watchdog dedicated to promoting accountability in the media and government." Although the site has investigated Republicans like Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the site's organizers are unapologetically conservative.

"One thing we don't hide is: 'Yeah, we're conservative?free-market, free-enterprise, full-spectrum conservative,'" Ryun told Mother Jones magazine last year.

Eight months passed without word from the agency about the group's application, Ryun said. In February 2012, Ryun's attorney contacted the IRS to ask if it needed more information to secure its non-profit status as a 501(c)3 organization. According to Ryun, the IRS told him that the application was being processed by the agency's office in Cincinnati, Ohio?the same one currently facing scrutiny for targeting conservative groups?and to check back in two months.

As directed, Ryun followed up with the IRS in April 2012, and was told that Media Trackers' application was still under review.

When September 2012 arrived with still no word from the IRS, Ryun determined that Media Trackers would likely never obtain standalone non-profit status, and he tried a new approach: Starting over. He applied for permanent non-profit status for a separate group called Greenhouse Solutions, a pre-existing organization that was reaching the end of its determination period.

The IRS approved Greenhouse Solutions' request for non-profit status in three weeks.

When news broke last week that the IRS had applied heavier scrutiny to conservative groups seeking non-profit status from 2010-2012, Ryun said he became convinced that his second application was approved quickly because he applied under the Greenhouse Solutions title, which he called a "liberal-sounding name."

"Within three weeks, Greenhouse received permanent non-profit status from the IRS, and the IRS approval was transmitted to us from its Cincinnati office. We then rolled the Media Trackers project into Greenhouse and began work on a number of new projects," Ryun told Yahoo News in an interview. "Do I think we benefited from what many think is a liberal-sounding name? Absolutely."

In December 2012, Ryun simply made Media Trackers a project of Greenhouse Solutions and withdrew the Media Trackers application.

The IRS website explains why some requests for tax-exempt status take longer than others to process.

"Sometimes, representatives of exempt organizations and practitioners question why certain applications for tax exemption are processed faster than others. Not all applications are the same," the site reads. "While many are complete when received and involve straight-forward scenarios, others may be incomplete or involve complex issues that require further development."

The IRS is currently under fire from both Democrats and Republicans, and Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday announced that he had directed the FBI to launch a criminal probe into the IRS. The same day, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration submitted a review of the IRS' practices, which found that the agency had used "inappropriate criteria" to determine which groups were eligible for non-profit status. Current and former IRS officials are expected to testify about the issue before House committees starting Friday.

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'Out of Time' Fossil Reveals Ancient Ocean Diversity

A fossil that once lined a mule track in Iraq has revealed the surprising survival of a group of ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles that swam the seas more than 66 million years ago.

Researchers had previously believed that ichthyosaurs declined throughout the Jurassic Period, which lasted from 199 million to 145 million years ago, with the only survivors rapidly evolving to keep ahead of repeated extinction events. The new fossil, however, dates from the Cretaceous Period, which lasted from 145 million to 66 million years ago. It looks remarkably like its Jurassic brethren, revealing a surprising evolutionary statis.

The fossil "represents an animal that seems 'out of time' for its age," study researcher Valentin Fischer of the University of Li?ge in Belgium said in a statement. [Ichthyosaur Images: Photos of a Sea Monster]

Ichthyosaur evolution

Ichythyosaurs were dolphin-shaped swimming reptiles that gave birth to live young. They lived in the oceans at the same time dinosaurs were tromping around on land. Previously, researchers thought only one group of ichthyosaurs, called ophthalmosaurids, made it out of the Jurassic into the Cretaceous. The newly named fossil, dubbed Malawania anachronus, is a Cretaceous survivor that does not belong to the ophthalmosaurids, however. That means a "ghost lineage" of ichthyosaurs survived alongside the ophthalmosaurids, changing very little over millions of years.

The fossil in question was first found in the 1950s by British petroleum geologists, who noticed the slab being used as a stepping stone on a mule track in Iraq. The geologists rescued the fossil and took it to the United Kingdom, where it stayed unstudied until the 1970s. Because researchers didn't know where in the rock record the fossil had come from, they struggled to determine its age. (Layers of earth build up over time, meaning, in a general sense, the oldest layers will be on the bottom and the more recent layers more toward the surface.)

Dating the fossil

Modern technology made dating the mysterious fossil possible. Jeff Liston of National Museums Scotland was able to sample the stone slab and found pollen, spores and other microfossils that helped pinpoint the place and time of fossilization. The result, reported Tuesday (May 14) in the journal Biology Letters: The fossil out of time came from the Early Cretaceous.

The resulting ichthyosaur family tree suggests these marine reptiles stayed diverse into the Cretaceous, only to go mysteriously extinct 95 million years ago.

"This 'living fossil' of its time demonstrates the existence of a lineage that we had never even imagined," Fischer said in a statement. "Maybe the existence of such Jurassic-style ichthyosaurs in the Cretaceous has been missed, because they always lived in the Middle East, a region that has previously yielded only a single, very fragmentary ichthyosaur fossil."

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Global shares fight back, oil slides as dollar momentum returns

By Marc Jones

LONDON (Reuters) - Signs the dollar was preparing for another move higher held down oil and gold prices on Tuesday and helped shares shake off worries over weaker-than-forecast German sentiment data.

Wall Street looked set to open up by the smallest of margins with investors still looking for clear directional catalysts after last week's repeated record highs.

After a surprising rise in U.S. retail sales boosted optimism about the recovery in the world's top economy on Monday, Germany's ZEW monthly sentiment survey underscored the uncertainty that continues to weigh on Europe.

The monthly poll of economic sentiment rose to 36.4 points from 36.3 in April, undershooting the consensus forecast in a Reuters poll of 30 economists of 38.3, with the institute blaming the miss on the euro zone's woes.

Europe's top shares on the FTSEurofirst 300 <.fteu3> had fallen after the data but gradually struggled back to positive territory by 1245 GMT as investors took the opportunity to get back into the market.

Monday's strong U.S. retail sales had prompted Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to upgrade their view on second-quarter U.S. growth. More data will be released this week, including industrial production, housing starts and consumer sentiment.

Dan Morris, a macro strategist at JP Morgan, said the recent rise in the dollar was also a sign investors were becoming increasingly confident about U.S. growth.

"It is an indicator that the United States is doing better so that should generally be a positive signal for equities ... the only thing that has really changed is the perception now of (better) U.S. economic growth," he said.

DOLLAR HIGH

The dollar had been quiet for most of the day, pushing the focus onto the euro which had a mixed day, and the Australian dollar after its finance minister suggested interest rates could be cut again.

Disappointment in the euro over the ZEW figures was initially offset when Spain announced plans for a 7 billion euro 10-year bond sale, seen as a sign of confidence, but the rebound fizzled to leave it at $1.2970, well below $1.30 where it started the day.

Spain auctioned just over 4 billion euros of treasury bills after a well-received bond auction last week and an 8 billion euro debt sale by Italy on Monday.

Despite the lift, the benchmark German Bund stayed well inside its tight recent range, while yields on Italian and Spanish bonds edged up again leaving them at their highest in two weeks.

The initial lull in the dollar had allowed gold to find a firmer footing after three days of falls and helped oil to steady. But as the greenback began to gather momentum again, selling resumed.

In contrast to the still weak euro zone, economists are beginning to shake off fears of a U.S. spring slowdown and the pick up has stirred market talk that the Federal Reserve could scale back its aggressive bond-buying program.

Brent crude oil slipped back towards $102 per barrel as traders were caught between hopes of a revival in global economic growth and evidence of ample supply stocks from the West's energy watchdog, the International Energy Agency.

"Following several years of stronger-than-expected North American supply growth, the shockwaves of rising U.S. shale gas and light tight oil and Canadian oil sands production are reaching virtually all recesses of the global oil market," the IEA said.

(Reporting by Marc Jones; Editing by Jeremy Gaunt/Ruth Pitchford)

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BIG Weekend at the Rec Field Planned | The Oakland Journal

Oakland?s Great Spring Recreation Sports Weekend May 18th-May 19th
day 1
Saturday night 2 All-Star Baseball Games
Minors 5:00 on Field 5 immediately followed by
Majors 7:30 on Field 5
day 2
Sunday 12:00 Baseball/Softball parade followed by
Mid Season Ceremony including
Oakland Hall of Fame Inductions and
the Re-dedication of the Danny D?Elia bulding
with special guest Mrs. Edna D?Elia
then the party:? the Baseball/Softball Party with:
Air rides, snow cone machine, hot dogs, drinks all FREE

Don?t miss the Great Spring Sports Weekend May 18th- May 19th!

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Mad Men, Season 6

It?s been noted before that Pete Campbell badly wants to be Don Draper, but every time Pete pulls a move from the Draper playbook it goes horribly awry. When Pete casually beds a secretary, she gets pregnant and spurns him. When he frequents a whorehouse, he bumps into his father-in-law. When he leases a sex pad, it turns into a hospice for his doddering mother.

Pete and Don?s storylines paralleled again this week. Both men abandoned the SCDP office to deal with women locked away in rooms. While Don acted out his domination fantasies with Sylvia, Pete subdued his mom with a steady stream of insults and gin. In the end, even though Pete was dealing with a parent, it was Don who seemed more childlike. There was something almost motherly in the tender way Sylvia patted Don?s cheek as she told him his little boy?s game -- put on this sexy red dress, now take it off, and whatever you do you must think only of me -- was finally over.

Joan mentioned the tale of Rip van Winkle as she suffered in that hospital waiting room??You like that story? I know it. I could tell it to you,? said the solicitous Bob Benson?and again my thoughts drifted to Don, a man falling swiftly out of step with the times. As you note, Hanna, Don still gets drunk at the office, still shaves off the sideburns every other man grows out, and still hearkens back to the earnest simplicity of the Depression when Ted speaks the language of dippy, high-concept sitcoms. I think Peggy spoke for Don?s colleagues, for most of Mad Men?s audience, and for many of our commenters when she urged Don, ?Move forward.? Don is asleep in a prior era, due to wake up and realize the world has moved on without him.

Or perhaps he?s awoken already, and his fear and disorientation spurred these power grabs? It?s when Don?s lost control that he becomes controlling. Megan isn?t reliant on him anymore, she?s a TV star, so his ears perk up when Sylvia purrs, ?I need you and nothing else will do.? What happens next seems slightly out of nowhere: an elaborate game of Simon Says that soon has Sylvia naked and subservient. My first interpretation was that this behavior stemmed from Don?s neediness?a pathetic bid to reclaim lost authority. But some of our commenters suggest an intriguing alternative take.

The episode?s title is ?Man With a Plan.? What was Don?s plan? Did he begin plotting when he overheard that fight between Sylvia and Arnold? Did he anticipate trouble with Sylvia lounging alone downstairs in his building, nothing better to do than toy with Don?s marriage? Maybe, just maybe, Don tortured Sylvia because he knew it would send her back into Arnold?s arms and safely out of town. Maybe Don was acting. I mean, consider: When he ordered Sylvia to crawl on all fours, he didn?t even manage to own the line as convincingly as Mickey Rourke did in 9 ? Weeks. (And Kim Basinger complied. Linda Cardellini didn?t.)

Speaking of ?80s flicks, I chuckled at the Maverick vs. Ice Man duel going down between Don and Ted Chaough. Like Sylvia, Ted at first goes woozy for Don?s dominatrix routine, but then ignores it. I?ve come to love laid-back but together Ted, who is eager to ?rap? about ?groovy? stuff yet still starts meetings on time. We?d always thought Don was the one with the high EQ?able to suss out the subconscious desires of consumers, clients, and gorgeous women everywhere. But it?s Ted who?s got Don sized up. ?He seems more interested in me than in the work,? Ted astutely comments to the bedridden Frank Gleason. It?s not even clear that Don can spot the insecurities driving his own behavior. He has no perspective. Ted suggests as much: ?Sometimes when you?re flying, you think you?re right side up, but you?re upside down.?

Matthew Weiner has often confessed that he plans this show one season at a time, with no idea what lies beyond. The first season of Mad Men was tightly focused: It was about a man whose life is a lie, a man who understands the lies we all tell ourselves, a man whose gift for spinning lies makes him a genius in the ad game. That theme was fairly well resolved, or at least explored to its outer reaches. Yet the show continues. And I remain fascinated by the evolution of Don in Season 6.

He is often pitiful in ways we?ve never seen before?eavesdropping on the wrong side of closed doors, sweating at the very moment he claims he is calm, tuning out his wife like they?re a zipless old couple. He has now lost much of the respect of Peggy and Joan, the rare co-workers who could always glimpse the decent man beneath the roguish exterior. He?s oblivious in meetings, dumbly eating toast. He is two bare feet away from becoming a slightly more with-it Bert Cooper.

Developments I am looking forward to in the second half of this season:

1) Any sort of shenanigans involving John Slattery and Harry Hamlin. Bring on the oily banter! I wanna party with these dudes.

2) Anything at all involving Sally Draper. Where?d you go, Sally? We are all antsy to reacquaint ourselves with your charming m?lange of vulnerability and sass. Shouldn?t you be smoking weed with Glenn by now?

3) The unraveling of the Bob Benson mystery. Did you notice Ted accepted Bob?s extra coffee?the one Don always refuses? Might be an omen! What is the deal with this dude? Is Bob an FBI mole sent to spy on Madison Avenue?s seditious anti-war activity? Has Mad Men warped my view of human behavior so severely that I cannot imagine a man with no guile? Is Bob a refugee from another, gentler show?like maybe I Dream of Jeannie? Just a nice guy whose ?every good deed is not part of a plan,? as Joan?s mom insists?

Which reminds me: Who, ultimately, was our ?Man With a Plan?? Was it Bob, with his job-saving, Good Samaritan maneuver? Don, laying out his complicated regimen for Sylvia? Roger, who?d been anticipating a chance to re-boot Burt Peterson? Or was it Bobby Kennedy, or Richard Nixon, whose fates were dramatically altered by the end of the episode?

It?s over when I say it?s over,

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BlackBerry announces BBM for iPhone, Android due this summer

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 14 (Reuters) - Ronaldinho and Kaka were both left out of the Brazil's squad for the Confederations Cup, named by coach Luiz Felipe Scolari on Tuesday. Scolari had been expected to include at least one of the experienced pair in his squad for the competition which Brazil hosts in June. Chelsea midfielder Ramires was another surprise exclusion. Brazil have played five matches under Scolari, with one win, three draws and one defeat. ...

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How the Smithsonian is 3D-Scanning Its Entire Collection

The Smithsonian's been a fan of 3D scanning and printing for some time, but now it's decided to use lasers to preserve its entire collection for future generations.

Vince Rossi and Adam Metallo lead the project, which will see a team work through a prioritized list of 14 million objects??from artworks to lab specimens?which need scanning over the coming years. The video above shows how the team went about capturing a digital copy of the Philadelphia gunboat?America's oldest fighting craft. [Engagdet]

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Nokia reveals another new Lumia smartphone in UK ad, teases 'more than your eyes can see' (video)

We're still days away from Nokia's London media event, but the comapny's apparently got a real taste for teasers. A new 20-second promo clip aired today in the UK, and although it doesn't outline any outright specs or model numbers, we get a (very) up-close look at a dual-flash arrangement (unlike the xenon flash seen on Verizon's Lumia 928), a glossy white shell and some metal detailing. We're relieved that Nokia has something new to unveil in the UK next week, but we're now itching to hear exactly how this Windows Phone will differ from the now-public Lumia 928. We'll have all the details on Tuesday morning.

Update: The Verge has managed to upload a digital copy of the ad. See it for yourself right after the break.

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Like a Boss: Building personal yet professional relationships with ...

Posted by Aramis Watson on 13 May 2013 / 0 Comment

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One of my favorite SNL digital shorts is one titled ?Like a Boss? which starts out with Seth Rogen giving Adam Samberg?s ?boss? character a performance review.

Rogen: ?Mr. Samberg Thanks for coming to your performance review?

Samberg: ?No problem?

Rogen: ?So you?re in charge around here, is that fair to say??

Samberg: ?Absolutely, I?m the boss ?

Rogen: ?Okay, so take us through a day in the life of the boss

Samberg: ?Well the first thing I do is??

Then Adam kicks into a long string of things that are boss like, and some that are not remotely boss like or otherwise. Every time I watch this short I think of my own boss list. One of the items that is always at the top of my boss list is supervision of my staff, or as Adam puts it in the short, ?direct work flow?. We can agree that although a core function of most jobs, direct supervision and mentorship of our supervisees is something that we don?t spend as much time on as we would like. Yes we have one on ones, guide progress and help to extinguish fires but we don?t often set up our supervisees with a plan and help them create a clear vision of their development and what they want to accomplish under our supervision. Even in longstanding supervision relationships ease of communication and dialogue can take a backseat to actual structured development.

The book ?It?s OK To Be The Boss? by Bruce Tulgan?explores the topic of under management and how it impacts functionality, production and overall process in an organization.

Everyone knows what a micromanager is, but do you know what an under manager is? According to Tulgan, an undermanaging boss is someone who, ??doesn?t?set expectations,?doesn?t?monitor and measure performance constantly, is quick to correct failure and slow to give praise?. In this type of managing there is little trust and the supervisor and the supervisee are both feeling lost in the relationship. Those that are in the management positions are often afraid to be labeled a micromanager so they back off actions that they perceived to be under this umbrella. However, providing feedback, guidance, direction and communicating a clear outcome are not unto themselves micromanaging, as with everything it?s the style in which something is delivered that makes the distinction. We as mangers control the delivery of the message even if we ourselves?didn?t?write the speech. When we build supervisory relationships where there is open dialogue and a bridge towards trust, it makes those speeches that we?didn?t?write easier to deliver and easier for our supervisees to hear and understand.

Building good supervision relationships often take time, more time than many busy schedules allow. There is the process of building trust between two people but it?s also a process of shared power and influence. Some might think that the power is mostly in the hands of the supervisor. I would say that the power dynamic in how a supervisee/supervisor relationship progresses can and should be one of an equal power exchange. The ideal process is that each person would bring in knowledge and are open to being developed by each other; -Tulgan calls this dynamic, a dyad. He states that a dyad is two individuals or units regarded as a pair being impacted by personality, style, identity and communication skills. To accomplish a successful dyad the following things must happen: there has to be transparency of expectations and boundaries, the dyad must be productive and evolving, supervisors need an awareness and acknowledgment of areas of growth and training, and feedback and motivation are both encouraged.

As we approach the end of the year we often use the time to both reflect and rationalize how well we supervised and how we were supervised ourselves. Sometimes the best thing to do is follow the advice of the lyrical genius of John Mayer ?It?s better to say too much then never say what you need to say again. Even if your hands are shaking, and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open, say what you need to say? Don?t be afraid to be the boss-someone?s gotta do it!

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As NASDAQ rallies, smartphone sector has been a crushing disappointment

NASDAQ Smartphone Market Comparison

Over the last 12 months, the NASDAQ has moved up by 17%, a respectable performance. However, most of the best-known hedge funds in the world continue lagging both NASDAQ and the broader S&P index woefully. The smartest investors in the world are having trouble matching index funds in both 2012 and 2013. Probably the biggest reason for this is the way smartphone-related stocks have underperformed. This was something that was extremely difficult to predict in early 2012. Not only has Apple tanked over the past year but other hedge fund darlings have also lagged behind NASDAQ: Omnivision, the camera module champion, is down 16% in a year and Qualcomm, the key phone chip vendor, is up by only 4%.

[More from BGR: No Home for Facebook at AT&T: HTC First to be discontinued]

The smartphone market has put in torrid volume sales growth as unit growth in Q1 2013 topped 40% again. Mobile app usage has beat all estimates and an average American iPhone owner now spends 2 hours a day on mobile apps. LTE growth has been strong and the number of consumers switching to 4G phones is growing robustly every month. So on the surface, the smartphone industry is cruising along smoothly.

[More from BGR: Another reason for Facebook Home?s rough start: The team behind it didn?t fully understand Android]

But what even the savviest investors in the world did not realize a year ago was that even robust volume growth and strongly increasing consumer interest in mobile content cannot guarantee stable profit growth in the smartphone world. Apple?s margins are coming down rapidly, pressured by the cheap tablet competition and Samsung?s formidable high-end smartphone roster. Tablet demand is shifting towards 7-inch models and smartphone demand is shifting towards China and India from the lucrative North American market.

In 2013, Qualcomm now estimates that China-India demand for 3G devices will be than?41 million units higher than demand in the United States. As recently as in 2012, the U.S. demand for 3G devices was 35 million units above China/India. This flip has profound implications for the smartphone industry because the hot growth segment in India right now is the sub-$100 category of smartphones.

Smartphone and tablet volume growth is no longer driven by affluent hipsters in Red Hook and Russian Hill but is instead coming from Guangzhou and Hyderabad. Markets have started suspecting that this is a game where high-tech champions like Apple and Qualcomm will have to give up fat profit margins to stay ahead. Is this an overreaction? That is perhaps the most important question in the tech stock universe for the next 24 months.

This article was originally published on BGR.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nasdaq-rallies-smartphone-sector-crushing-disappointment-162047178.html

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