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Saturday, 30 June 2012
UK banks face new scandal; Barclays boss in peril
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Friday, 29 June 2012
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Auto Repair: Taking Care of Your Vehicle
There?s probably not a car owner alive who would disagree: auto repair is expensive. And while there?s little you can do about that, there are things you can do to cut down on some of your costs. Ironically, many of the best things you can do include spending more money. How does this make any sense? Well, the more money you spend in maintenance, the less you?ll have to spend on exorbitant major bills. It costs a lot less to keep transmission fluid in your car than it does to have the transmission rebuilt, after all. Here are some things you can do to ensure your car is well cared for.
Communicate Effectively
Those who work in auto repair for a living are often baffled by their own customers. Those outside the industry are accustomed to complaining about mechanics who talk in jargon and never properly get their customers to understand what they have done or what they need to do with their cars. But the same problem exists on the other side of the counter. Customers come in to a shop and expect their mechanics to be mind readers. Without properly communicating the problem, it?s going to be very hard to find a solution.
Fill Up Often
This is something that doesn?t get near enough attention, but it is important. Don?t drive your car out of gas every tank. This is a powerful temptation, considering how expensive gas is these days. Also, filling up is an annoyance and a hassle. Not really, but it can seem that way when you have places to go and things to do. But what you don?t realize is that today?s fuel injected vehicles depend on having an appropriate amount of gas in the tank. Failing to keep at least a quarter of a tank in the car could cause the in-tank electric pump to fail early, which is not going to be cheap to fix.
Don?t Use the Dealership
This should perhaps be amended to say, ?Don?t always use the dealership.? If you have a dealership you think has fair pricing and excellent customer service, of course, there?s nothing wrong with sticking with them. If you?re only barely satisfied with their auto repair, though, you should start shopping around. When it comes to warranty work, you can come back. But for things you?re paying for, you might as well find a good price. It will be rare indeed that you find the best price and service from the dealership. Look around and you?re likely to find something better.
An Austin auto repair?specialist can help if you need to get your vehicle looked at. Look no further than:?http://www.cottmanofsouthaustin.com.
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High court upholds key part of Obama health law
Claire McAndrew of Washington, left, and Donny Kirsch of Washington, celebrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, June 28, 2012, after the courts's ruling on health care. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Claire McAndrew of Washington, left, and Donny Kirsch of Washington, celebrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, June 28, 2012, after the courts's ruling on health care. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
FILE - This Oct. 8, 2010 file photo shows the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court at the Supreme Court in Washington. Seated from left are Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Standing, from left are Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito Jr., and Elena Kagan. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 28, 2012, upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
William Temple, of Brunswick, Ga., waits outside the Supreme Court a landmark decision on health care on Thursday, June 28, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The front of the U.S. Supreme Court is seen on the eve of Thursday's expected ruling on whether or not the Affordable Care Act passes the test of constitutionality Wednesday, June 27, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the vast majority of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul, including the hotly debated core requirement that virtually all Americans have health insurance.
The 5-4 decision means the huge overhaul, still taking effect, will proceed and pick up momentum over the next several years, affecting the way that countless Americans receive and pay for their personal medical care.
The ruling hands Obama a campaign-season victory in rejecting arguments that Congress went too far in approving the plan. However, Republicans quickly indicated they will try to use the decision to rally their supporters against what they call "Obamacare."
Stocks of hospital companies rose sharply, and insurance companies fell immediately after the decision was announced that Americans must carry health insurance or pay a penalty.
Breaking with the court's other conservative justices, Chief Justice John Roberts announced the judgment that allows the law to go forward with its aim of covering more than 30 million uninsured Americans.
The justices rejected two of the administration's three arguments in support of the insurance requirement. But the court said the mandate can be construed as a tax. "Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness," Roberts said.
The court found problems with the law's expansion of Medicaid, but even there said the expansion could proceed as long as the federal government does not threaten to withhold states' entire Medicaid allotment if they don't take part in the law's extension.
The court's four liberal justices, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, joined Roberts in the outcome.
Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented.
Kennedy summarized the dissent in court. "In our view, the act before us is invalid in its entirety," he said.
The dissenters said in a joint statement that the law "exceeds federal power both in mandating the purchase of health insurance and in denying non-consenting states all Medicaid funding."
In all, the justices spelled out their views in six opinions totaling 187 pages. Roberts, Kennedy and Ginsburg spent 57 minutes summarizing their views in the packed courtroom.
The legislation passed Congress in early 2010 after a monumental struggle in which all Republicans voted against it. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said Thursday the House will vote the week of July 9 on whether to repeal the law, though such efforts have virtually no chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has joined in calls for complete repeal.
After the ruling, Republican campaign strategists said Romney will use it to continue campaigning against "Obamacare" and attacking the president's signature health care program as a tax increase.
"Obama might have his law, but the GOP has a cause," said veteran campaign adviser Terry Holt. "This promises to galvanize Republican support around a repeal of what could well be called the largest tax increase in American history."
Democrats said Romney, who backed an individual health insurance mandate when he was Massachusetts governor, will have a hard time exploiting the ruling.
"Mitt Romney is the intellectual godfather of Obamacare," said Democratic consultant Jim Manley. "The bigger issue is the rising cost of health care, and this bill is designed to deal with it."
More than eight in 10 Americans already have health insurance. But for most of the 50 million who are uninsured, the ruling offers the promise of guaranteed coverage at affordable prices. Lower-income and many middle-class families will be eligible for subsidies to help pay premiums starting in 2014.
There's also an added safety net for all Americans, insured and uninsured. Starting in 2014, insurance companies will not be able to deny coverage for medical treatment, nor can they charge more to people with health problems. Those protections, now standard in most big employer plans, will be available to all, including people who get laid off, or leave a corporate job to launch their own small business.
Seniors also benefit from the law through better Medicare coverage for those with high prescription costs, and no copayments for preventive care. But hospitals, nursing homes, and many other service providers may struggle once the Medicare cuts used to finance the law really start to bite.
Illegal immigrants are not entitled to the new insurance coverage under the law, and will remain one of the biggest groups uninsured.
Obama's law is by no means the last word on health care. Experts expect costs to keep rising, meaning that lawmakers will have to revisit the issue perhaps as early as next year, when federal budget woes will force them to confront painful options for Medicare and Medicaid, the giant federal programs that cover seniors, the disabled, and low-income people.
The health care overhaul focus will now quickly shift from Washington to state capitals. Only 14 states, plus Washington, D.C., have adopted plans to set up the new health insurance markets called for under the law. Called exchanges, the new markets are supposed to be up and running on Jan. 1, 2014. People buying coverage individually, as well as small businesses, will be able to shop for private coverage from a range of competing insurers.
Most Republican-led states, including large ones such as Texas and Florida, have been counting on the law to be overturned and have failed to do the considerable spade work needed to set up exchanges. There's a real question about whether they can meet the deadline, and if they don't, Washington will step in and run their exchanges for them.
In contrast to the states, health insurance companies, major employers, and big hospital systems are among the best prepared. Many of the changes called for in the law were already being demanded by employers trying to get better value for their private health insurance dollars.
"The main driver here is financial," said Dr. Toby Cosgrove, CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, which has pioneered some of the changes. "The factors driving health care reform are not new, and they are not going to go away."
Justice Ginsburg said the court should have upheld the entire law as written without forcing any changes in the Medicaid provision. She said Congress' constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce supports the individual mandate. She warned that the legal reasoning, even though the law was upheld, could cause trouble in future cases.
"So in the end, the Affordable Health Care Act survives largely unscathed. But the court's commerce clause and spending clause jurisprudence has been set awry. My expectation is that the setbacks will be temporary blips, not permanent obstructions," Ginsburg said in a statement she, too, read from the bench.
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Online:
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Thursday, 28 June 2012
EURO 2012 LIVE: Portugal 0, Spain 0
Portugal's Fabio Coentrao tries to go past Spain's Alvaro Arbeloa during the Euro 2012 soccer championship semifinal match between Spain and Portugal in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Portugal's Fabio Coentrao tries to go past Spain's Alvaro Arbeloa during the Euro 2012 soccer championship semifinal match between Spain and Portugal in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Portugal's Joao Moutinho, left, tackles Spain's Jordi Alba during the Euro 2012 soccer championship semifinal match between Spain and Portugal in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
Portugal's Pepe, right, and Spain's Alvaro Negredo go for a header during the Euro 2012 soccer championship semifinal match between Spain and Portugal in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
Spain's Alvaro Arbeloa, right, and Portugal's Fabio Coentrao vie for the ball during the Euro 2012 soccer championship semifinal match between Spain and Portugal in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
Portugal fans cheer before the semifinal match between Spain and Portugal at the Euro 2012 soccer championship in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? Portugal plays Spain in the first semifinal of the European Championship in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday. Here's the running account of the action and pre-match buildup. All times are local to Poland.
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2122: Ronaldo shoots from 18 yards and the ball passes inches wide of Casillas' left post. Portugal playing with confidence and panache and keeping Spain defense-minded. Iniesta heads down the line with the ball. Assistant on the goal line says ball has crossed goal line. Replay shows it didn't. They must get those decisions right.
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2115: Ronaldo could have passed it but instead chooses a complex reverse switch pass. Portugal appeals for a handball inside the Spanish area but there was no deliberate intent. Spain flows forward ? whistled loudly by what appears to be a Ukrainian crowd that doesn't like the passing game too much ? and Iniesta shoots over the bar again as we pass the 30-minute mark.
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2112: PaulLogoAP: Donbass Arena definitely not full capacity, a lot of empty seats scattered. Absolutely no Portuguese section of fans in ... (via Twitter)
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2110: Hardly any atmosphere out there in the stands. You can clearly hear the players calling to each other. The occasional whistle or cheer when there's a break, but surprisingly calm given the huge stakes and local rivalry.
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2105: Nani breaks clear with a route to goal but clearly dives. He's lucky to get away without being booked. He was in a promising position out on the right. Why do that?
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2103: Ronaldo is tripped just outside the area on the left and takes the kick but fires it straight at the wall. The Real Madrid genius is warming up now and getting into the game. Spain getting very little room or possession to play their usual game, but they still look dangerous.
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2100: Two minutes later Iniesta breaks through again but shoots over. Ronaldo's been somewhat on the periphery of the game until now but he's just burst down the left and put in a cross but his final ball is a little heavy and Casillas comfortably collects. It's 0-0 ? but an entertaining 0-0.
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2056: There's not much space out there but you can count on Iniesta to find some. He dribbles through the Portuguese defense before setting up Arbeloa who blazes over the bar.
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2049: Casillas has to tip over the bar from a corner as Portugal makes a bright start, pinning the Spanish back in their own area. Spain not being allowed to have things their own way as Portugal closes down quickly, harrassing the Iberian neighbours.
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2045: And the Spanish, in red, get the game underway.
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2005: Another gamble by Spanish coach Vicente del Bosque. He's chosen Alvaro Negredo to lead Spain's attack, relegating both Cesc Fabregas and Fernando Torres to the bench. Negredo has played only five minutes so far in a group win over Croatia. His inclusion means Spain's coach has foregone the unorthodox 4-6-0 formation and opted instead for a traditional striker. Spain's lineup is otherwise unchanged from the 2-0 quarterfinal win over France, while Portugal has made one change with striker Hugo Almeida replacing the injured Helder Postiga in attack. The winner will play either Germany or Italy in the final in Kiev on Sunday.
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2000: Tonight's lineups:
Portugal: Rui Patricio, Bruno Alves, Fabio Coentrao, Joao Pereira, Pepe, Joao Moutinho, Raul Meireles, Nani, Miguel Veloso, Hugo Almeida, Cristiano Ronaldo.
Spain: Iker Casillas, Jordi Alba, Alvaro Arbeloa, Gerard Pique, Sergio Ramos, Xabi Alonso, Sergio Busquets, Andres Iniesta, David Silva, Xavi, Alvaro Negredo.
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1945: TrevorHuggins1: Spain will probably do a good job of keeping Ronaldo quiet in open play. The danger is a rash tackle that gives him a dead-ball opportunity. (via Twitter).
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1930: gdunbarap: As usual at Euro 2012 in Donetsk, Roman Abramovich in the VIP box next to Metalist Kharkiv owner Oleksandr Yaroslavsky fo ... (via Twitter)
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1852: The Spain team bus is on its way to the Donbass Arena, driving through the sunny streets of Donetsk accompanied by motor bike outriders.
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1850: From AP reporter Paul Logothetis: "The Spanish FA says over 4,000 fans are expected to be at the Donbass Arena, more than double the amount who showed for the 2-0 quarterfinal victory over France. They will be expecting a better reception from the team after only captain Iker Casillas stayed out after France to thank them for making the long trip, something that drew criticism back in Spain. Two days after the win, Cesc Fabregas said: "It's true we should have showed more affection toward our fans, sometimes we're just under such pressure that ... we forget about the effort they make to come and support us. I'm sorry if that upset them, it won't happen again. Hopefully we can celebrate reaching the final with them on Wednesday."
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Internet Marketing and SEO in Hartford, NY | Business Marketing ...
The most popular way for a person to come across a website in Hartford, NY is by going through a search engine.?Google is the most popular, so it?s important to target their results a lot more than other search engines. Businesses that use internet marketing and SEO have a clear advantage over those that don?t. Here are some incredible stats about search engines that you may not know:
- 75% of Americans use search engines on a regular basis.
- 56% of all Americans are using one each and every day.
- 40% of all search engine searches are for local businesses and services.
- 54% of Americans?frequently use the internet instead of the phone book to find local services.
- 92% of all nearby Hartford, NY searches will eventually convert into a sale.
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The whole search engine industry used to be about very short ?keywords? that would lead people to finding the website they were looking for. Everyone used to merely type things like ?Hartford Real Estate? into a search engine, check out the first number of results then make a decision.
Businesses who fail to use internet marketing and SEO will have a difficult time getting new customers.
Nonetheless,?these times consumers have grown to be much better at searching with Google, so keywords have progressively become longer as a way to return far more relevant results. For instance, instead of just ?Hartford Real Estate? which may give us some good websites for that keyword, we might be looking for something a little more specific.
Therefore, we might type ?Hartford Low Price Apartments?. The reason we would do that is because we?re fed up searching through websites that don?t offer us the possibility to see any low price housing, so we?re searching using Google instead of simply clicking on various websites.
This kind of mentality seems to have revitalized the world of small businesses online. Instead of just searching for a product or service,people now look for a niche product or service in a particular area. This means that, instead of massive chains dominating the search results, small business websites that use internet marketing and SEO?(even in Hartford) are flourishing.
Without it, you simply aren?t going to know how to get your website found on the front page of Google when local consumers search for your product or service. The competition won?be that fierce considering that you?re competing for much more targeted keywords, but you?ll still need to be able to be found by these Hartford buyers in order to succeed.
With more people moving towards local searches, you?re going to need to target your internet marketing?to certain keywords and areas. If you fail to do it, you?ll be competing with the key players within your industry nationally, and it?s a battle you almost certainly won?t win.
Find out exactly how we can help get you a lot more leads, much more customers, and a lot more money in a trouble free and easy to understand way. Call 518-595-3098 today for a free consultation and online analysis. Hartford, NY internet marketing and SEO services by?James W Sweeney.
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The Emerald Ace—Japan's Prius of the Sea [Video]
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Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Free Internet Marketing Solutions that will Save your Online enterprise
With free Internet marketing services, anybody can save a lot. Rather then shelling out for the advertising and marketing aspect of your product or even services, that slice of money could be put to other important elements of one?s business since many facts websites now offer you knowledge regarding Web marketing services that comes with simply no price tag at all.
It?s not to tell you which will better focus on simply Internet marketing. It still will work your business a lot very good if you mix old fashioned advertisement efforts just like traditional and brand new marketing media.
Here i will discuss few of the free techniques that you could employ to create your products and providers be in their many visible, thus saleable, variety.
1. Promote your business enterprise through free internet search engine submission and optimisation.
Submit your website to varied search engines monthly. As a result many more people are aware that your website actually exists. Aiming for the top engines like google will help a lot in this particular endeavor.
2. Improve your articles.
Remember that information about articles with excellent content as traffic-bringer of websites? This time it?s about building these articles serve your web blog better by using keyword phrase suggestion tools that can be found for free. Update your web site?s content by consistently checking the positioned of your keywords while using the current market.
3. Get free content.
In case you have no time to increase your SEO or search engine optimization optimization-friendliness of your articles, you could look for free material from article directories. Everything you need to do is keep the resource box of those write-ups.
5. Avail of free complete web traffic analyzers.
These are tools that you can make use of without the need of costing you a cent. A person?s website?s hits data will be produced by these types of Internet marketing tool for the analysis.
5. Learn to manipulate web design web templates.
You don?t have to be very techie-geeky to be able to design internet site. Oftentimes, web development templates or custom-made templates are available for the Internet marketer to use.
6. Check your website?s awareness.
Tools such as browser?s search engine position trackers may be used to go to your website?s standing.
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Sabathia on DL with groin strain
This is not good:
He apparently felt it, or at least told the team about it, after taking bullpen yesterday. My guess: it happened when Spider Man flew out of his butt.?UPDATE: It apparently happened during the Yankees-Mets game over the weekend but he didn?t tell the team about it until after his bullpen session yesterday.
Freddy Garcia will take Sabathia?s next turn in the rotation, which would have been Friday, and the turn after that. ?If things go well, that?s all he should miss.
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[title] Interesting Things To Do In Los Cabos
Los Cabos is really a 21 mile corridor which has two well known holiday destinations: Cabos San Lucas as well as San Jose del Cabo. Los Cabos is in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur at the very tip of the Baja California peninsula.
Los Cabos similar to other Mexican destinations is renowned for its sun and sand. Nonetheless it's much more than simply that. The sapphire blue waters that virtually entrance you. Seriously! To maximize the excitement, it's climate is just perfect. With an average temperature of 78 F, it is what tourists from chilly countries like Canada plus Europe miss. The rich waters are also in a comfortable 72 F.
Los Cabos does not just rest on nature's bounty, and also has many things to do which keep tourists arriving year long.
Sunrays and Sand: most favored activity, and so we had to list first. Alongside this tourist corridor, many different companies beaches. If you need calm beaches then head to the beaches along Sea of Cortez. Beaches within the Pacific side sometimes show wild waves. But what are generally guaranteed are soft fine sand and unparalleled landscapes. It's just like you have been transported to a new world. Often the beaches are not congested. A number of the beaches may possibly lack basic amenities such as water and toilets. Pick out the actual beaches that suit your needs.
Sightseeing: No vacation is usually complete without sightseeing. The tourist corridor has many spots. One can simply just rent a car to explore the region. Go to Land's End, where the Pacific and Sea of Cortez seas meet. In low tide you may also walk on Playa del Amor towards the 62-foot El Arco rockformation!
You can purchase local handi crafts at Mercado Mexicano with Calle Hidalgo and Obregon. On the way be sure and savor Mexican dishes!
Whale Watching: Los Cabos is the better place for sighting whales. This warm climate, shallow waters and the plentiful food generate Los Cabos the ideal destination for these giant marine mammals to give birth and rear their calfs.
Nearly 90% of the planet's whale population comes to waters around Baja from December to March.
Whales can be seen from beaches but better views can be experienced from numerous sea adventures.
All-terrain: Should you be adventurous then you should like going on an ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE and go off-roading on the desert. Truck tours are also offered. These tours allow for tourist to research the best spots, local culture along with creatures.
Sportfishing: Sea of Cortez hosts no less than 650 different types of fish. With regard to fishing all year you won't choose a better location. Along with angling you will also view the beautiful marine wildlife just like whales, seals and also dolphins!
Very good Dining: Inside the Los Cabos area you have many good restaurants from which to choose, you then have a variety of cusine varieties from which to choose. Among the better dining places in Cabo feature incredible mexican cuisine fusions everybody defintley have to test. If you are looking to get local you have to try the standard taco places that serve the traditional and delightful Mexican tacos.
Scuba diving & Snorkeling: To view the marine creatures one has to go underwater. This waters is beautiful and visibility can be full of marine life. You can got to Lover's Beach to snorkel as well as relax in this iconic beach. Other locations are Neptune's Finger as well as Pelican Rock. Close to San Jose del Cabo, Gordo Banks, infested with whale sharks, hammerhead sharks along with sea rays, really is a delightful area.
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Two feet of rain, thousands flee Debby floods
River flooding form Tropical Storm Debby on Tuesday forced up to 20,000 people out of their homes in one Florida county alone, while another area had already seen more than 26 inches of rain -- topping the official forecast calling for up to 25 inches in a few areas by the time Debby moves out Thursday.
In Pasco County on Florida's central Gulf Coast, a mandatory evacuation was ordered between the Anclote and Pithlachascotee rivers, Reuters reported. The Anclote rose from 9 feet before Debby's approach to more than 27 feet on Tuesday, flooding areas with water head-high in places.
Boats were used to reach stranded residents, and 106 homes had been damaged.
Wakulla County, meanwhile, has seen more than 26 inches of rain, weather.com said in a Twitter alert Tuesday morning. Authorities there advised people to stay in their homes due to washed out and flooded roads.
Flash flood warnings were issued for parts of northern Florida and southern Georgia as Debby moved eastward. By midday, Debby picked up speed to 6 mph and winds had dropped to 40 mph, but that didn't stop the rain.
Parts of Interstate 10 in north Florida were closed due to flooding on a 50-mile stretch between Jacksonville and Tallahassee. The Florida Highway Patrol warned motorists to use extreme caution on other parts of the highway.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been impacted, many having to leave flooded homes in Florida's Panhandle on Monday and others losing power or having property hit by twisters.
Video: TODAY tracks Debby's pathIn Tampa Bay, a mother manatee was found dead in the water Tuesday off Bayshore Boulevard. Her two calves, which were still alive and later rescued, washed ashore along the flooded road.
Tropical-storm warnings remained in effect for 450 miles of coastline from the Panhandle's Mexico Beach to Englewood, south of Sarasota. Debby is expected to make landfall on Wednesday in an even weaker state but still dumping rain.
On Monday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a statewide emergency as five inches of rain in the course of an hour fell on some areas.
President Barack Obama called Scott on Tuesday and the federal government stands "ready to provide additional assistance if necessary," the White House said.
St. Marks, Fla., saw 21 inches in a two-day period while other areas got around 20 inches, weather.com noted.
Parts of Live Oak, Fla., were evacuated Tuesday due to flooding, it added.
Some areas of northern Florida and southeast Georgia could see up to 15 inches of rain Tuesday through Thursday, weather.com stated.
The National Hurricane Center predicted parts of northern Florida could see 25 inches of rain by the time Debby crosses Florida and exits into the Atlantic.
Weather.com noted that 2012 broke the record for the most named storms so early in the Atlantic season. Debby makes four so far, "leapfrogging Dennis from July 5, 2005.
"In an average year, the fourth named storm would have occurred by August 23," it added. "In terms of named storm counts, we're roughly two months ahead of the pace. That said, there is no correlation between a fast start to the season and the degree of activity of the rest of the season."
Debby was also the first tropical storm of the season to enter the Gulf of Mexico.
Debby earlier left tens of thousands of people without power and forced the closure of key highways and bridges in the Tampa Bay area.
Debby has also spawned some 20 twisters, including one on Sunday that killed a woman, injured her daughter and tore through homes in central Florida's rural Highlands County.
WFLA-TV reported Heather Town died when her home was lifted off its foundation and she and her 3-year-old were thrown into nearby woods. The mother was found clutching the child, who survived.
In Starke, Fla., five dogs drowned early Monday when a swollen creek flooded an animal shelter, The Florida Times-Union reported.
Pinellas County saw flooding and at least 20 homes damaged during a tornado-like storm on Sunday.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Asian shares ease as growth fears persist
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AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Ice Cream Sandwich update now finally live
The Samsung Galaxy S II, the still-popular older brother of the Samsung Galaxy S III, has finally graduated to Android 4.0. Although some AT&T customers reported having access to the Ice Cream Sandwich updates on their S2 devices last week, Samsung said that the upgrades were still being tested and thus pulled them off the Samsung Kies app. Users are now reporting that the update is back up again and is running smoothly. T-Mobile Galaxy S II users, of course, got their ICS update on June 12, so AT&T has been a wee bit behind in getting things up to speed. And for what it?s worth, XDA Developers forum members have posted some sweet pics of what Ice Cream Sandwich looks like on the Galaxy S II on AT&T.
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Emerging tech harnessed to improve the world
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This is an excerpt from Hybrid Reality, a new e-book by Ayesha and Parag Khanna.
The word ?technology? combines the Greek tekhne and logos, symbolizing that technology, like language, is as intrinsic to the human condition as speech. Language, though, does not stand alone; it is part of a larger cultural system. Hence the German word Technik, which denotes not only technologies themselves, but also the skills and processes surrounding them. A century ago, leading Western philosophers appreciated the promise and peril of mass industrialization technologies. Oswald Spengler?s Der Mensch und die Technik: Beitrag zu einer Philosophie des Lebens (1931) proposed to integrate technology into a philosophy of life, arguing that Technik is a process that unites our economic, political, educational and cultural systems. The American sociologist Lewis Mumford, in his Technics and Civilization (1934), emphasized that technology must be more than just objects seen as ends in themselves (monotechnics); it must be a collection of ideas and methods that improve society (polytechnics). Technik unites the scientific and mechanical dimensions of technology (determinism) with a necessary concern for its effect on humans and society (constructivism). Technik, then, is the technological quotient of civilization.
Whereas geotechnology is about power, Technik is about adaptability. We live and die by our Technik, the capacity to harness emerging technologies to improve our circumstances. How does our culture deal with the distribution of technology? Can we devise strategies to maximize the upside of technology while minimizing the downside? Instead of West vs. East and democracies vs. dictatorships, actors ranging from cities to diasporas to corporations to cloud communities will compete and collaborate to attain Technik.
Science-fiction author William Gibson?s famous quip that the future is already here but unevenly distributed is the quintessential encapsulation of the fact that we differ in our stages of Technik. In a world of such diverse political forms??? ?democracies, monarchies, authoritarian states?? ?the ?war of ideas? will never be won. Instead, we will increasingly differentiate societies on the basis not of their regime type or income, but of their capacity to harness technology. Societies that continuously upgrade their Technik will thrive.
When standards of living are so perpetually threatened by technological shifts, shouldn?t Technik be a factor in evaluating societal stability? The contrast between the U.N.?s Human Development Index (HDI) and the reigning obsession with per capita GDP illustrates just how important it is to develop a more neutral, long-term-focused metric for progress. Many wealthy societies have low human-development scores (e.g., Arab petro-states), while China?s score is rising quickly even as its per capita income remains modest. We should layer on technology-focused criteria as well, such as the World Economic Forum?s Network Readiness Index (NRI), which assesses the quality of individual access, government regulation and business investment along more than 50 indicators. Not surprisingly, Sweden, Singapore and Finland are at the top, but interestingly, technocratic China scores higher than democratic India, and India higher than Italy. Good Technik requires a combination of the attributes that deliver high human development, economic growth, political inclusiveness and technology preparedness.
Which societies display the best Technik today? Given the high proportion of Asian leadership with science, engineering and math backgrounds, and their countries? export-led growth creating sizable surpluses, it is no surprise that first Japan, and then Korea and China, have invested so heavily in infrastructure to catch up with?? and potentially surpass????the West.
Japan?s technology obsession and idiosyncratic social traits make it a fascinating case study of the early Hybrid Age. Japan already has 38 of the top 50 cities ranked by speed of Internet connection. Its resilience as a society is demonstrated by its ability to rebound from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, keeping supply chains intact and rebuilding coastal communities. More broadly, Japanese society has embraced robots to such an extent that it seems to prefer a man-machine hybrid civilization to an ethnically mixed one. Robots are increasingly employed in building homes, caring for the elderly and even entertaining the masses???witness Hatsune Miku?s sold-out holographic concerts.
But there are costs to such a rapid embrace of robots: Males unable to meet traditional expectations become alienated and retreat into Internet addiction and virtual companionship, accelerating a decline in the birthrate. If any country becomes the first to feature human and robot citizens fruitfully co-creating a new hybrid culture, it is likely to be Japan?? but it needs to make sure there are enough humans there to enjoy it.
Singapore, once a colonial swamp governed from India, is today a seamlessly efficient cosmopolitan world capital of finance and, increasingly, innovation. Indeed, the lack of natural resources has made it an innovator in the most (un)expected areas, from fuel refining to water desalination. Now its Biopolis and Fusionopolis complexes aim to capture the edge in life sciences and immersive media. Peter Schwartz likes to call Singapore ?the best-run company in the world,? and indeed it is the leading role model in city-state Technik for entities from Abu Dhabi to Moscow to Kuala Lumpur. It must, however, evolve its political and educational systems to ensure that its own people are innovating in addition to all the talent it imports.
Finland, the so-called ?open-source nation,? is a leading Western example of Technik. Finland?s sophisticated population has embraced the digital life and pioneered mobile technology (Nokia) and an open-source operating system (Linux). In Helsinki, mobile phones are as much for banking and street navigation as for communication. In no other country does one so strongly feel that a mobile phone is part of one?s identity. It cannot be the weather that has earned the country the second position worldwide in the United Nations World Happiness Report.
Israel presents another example of rising Technik. Not only has it made major investments in biotechnology and other strategic sectors, but for several years its chief scientist gave out nonrecourse loans to more than 4,000 startups. Rwanda, Mongolia and many other nations are seeking to copy Israel?s blueprint as the ?startup nation.? Technology will long outlast the United States as Israel?s key ally.
Even a country still as overwhelmingly poor as India can elevate its Technik. Its mobile-phone penetration rate is skyrocketing, a biometric national identity card scheme is gradually delivering rights and services to hundreds of millions of previously disenfranchised citizens, digital kiosks in dusty villages are spreading access to information and education, and a sophisticated Right to Information Act requires publishing all laws on the Internet. Parts of India such as its tech hub, Bangalore, represent the leap from an agricultural to a service economy in a single generation.
The United States is home to some of the key pioneers of Technik, whose innovations help society adapt to the future?? yet it struggles to keep first-mover advantage over their innovations. Semiautonomous government agencies such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have invented technologies?? from the World Wide Web to robotic exoskeletons????that eventually gained widespread application. However, the U.S. share of global R&D, like global GDP, has fallen to around 20 percent, and since not enough of those funds are devoted to commercialization initiatives, the United States sometimes has to buy things it invented a decade ago from competitors abroad. Fortunately for America, it is still home to most of the world?s ?silicon superpowers?: IBM, Google, Cisco, Apple, Microsoft and more. Those companies? hardware and software platforms are the foundation for almost endless innovation by diverse users worldwide, a contribution no Europeans or Asians can match. Technik is big business: Led by American ingenuity, we are entering the age of the $1 trillion corporation?? ?and the first to cross the mark probably won?t be one of the usual suspects but a manufacturer of 3-D printers that allow anyone to turn virtual designs into physical objects.
IBM is perhaps the leading example of how firms themselves should perpetually seek to upgrade their Technik. Having spun off its hardware production divisions over the past decade, IBM now invests in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, clean energy and devices for high-tech health care. As a globally integrated enterprise with almost 500,000 employees worldwide (including 100,000 in India alone), it is also a de facto leader in spreading Technik to other societies. For its part, Apple exhibits the clever trait of creativity with control, bringing large swaths of humanity into its exclusive orbit of products and interfaces. Its $100 billion in cash outstrips the GDP of more than 100 individual countries. Apple products are undeniably one of America?s most coveted exports.
Even companies in traditional sectors can demonstrate enormous staying power and Technik by diversifying businesses, exploring new markets and hedging risk. For example, super-major oil companies such as BP and Chevron are among the leading investors in clean energy, and Coca-Cola and McDonald?s own a growing share of the health food sector. Large players constantly ?spin in? dynamic newcomers, incorporating their innovations and modifying their business models to stay on top.
The struggle to attain Technik could become the new global class struggle: those whose wages and quality of life benefit from technology versus those perpetually lagging behind prevailing standards. In the new global class struggle, there would be no clear geographic boundaries such as North and South, since the disparities of Technik exist?? ?and could widen????both across and within nations and cities. Technik is therefore a quality we must all strive for: whether as individuals, companies, communities, cities or countries.
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Philippines' musicians sing their way out of poverty
On a mock-up stage in a Philippine music studio, single-mum Joanna Talibong is singing for her life.
The former church-choir girl is nervous and struggling to stay in key as she battles through more than a dozen takes of the syrupy Olivia Newton-John ballad "Suddenly".
If she and keyboard-playing friend Jason Panggoy can get their video-demo right, they stand a chance of securing a series of gigs in South Korea that would enable them to start a long journey out of crushing poverty.
"I did not finish college, so I don't have many job options... overseas I can earn a lot more," the carpenter's daughter tells AFP during a break from singing at the studio in a rundown quarter of Manila, the country's capital.
Roughly nine million Filipinos, or 10 percent of the population, work overseas because there are so few job opportunities in their largely impoverished homeland.
While many toil as largely anonymous maids, sailors, construction workers and labourers in foreign countries, tens of thousands also stand under spotlights entertaining crowds as singers and musicians.
From high-class hotel bars in the Middle East to Las Vegas casinos, ex-pat pubs in Asia and luxury cruise liners sailing the Caribbean, Filipinos are often found performing near-perfect cover versions of almost any genre.
Talibong is desperate to join them, or she will be forced back to a bar in a small northern Philippine city where for the past three months she and Panggoy have played to tobacco traders and travelling salesmen for $3.50 a night.
Adding to her problems is her nine-month-old son, who has a clubbed foot and lives with his grandparents while Talibong pursues her musical career.
Her manager has lined up a six-month booking for Talibong and Panggoy at bars in South Korea that would pay them each $800 a month, and she knows exactly where her first pay cheques would be be spent.
"My priority is an operation for my son's clubbed foot. That's really my goal. That's what's pushing me to work really hard," says Talibong, who is just 21 years old.
But first the duo's demo tape -- which also includes a Taylor Swift and Matchbox 20 numbers -- must pass muster with the artist review board in Seoul, a review process that takes about a month.
Their manager, Wilma Ipil, who has been sending an average of two bands to South Korea every month since 2008, concedes the duo may not get the gig, amid growing competition from other Filipino talents trying to make it overseas.
"Previously, even inexperienced musicians got hired," says Ipil, who sang in Hong Kong, Thailand and China herself before going into band management.
"But now, with the wealth of talent available, promoters have become more discriminating."
Nevertheless, the demand for Filipino performers overseas is enormous, according to Jackson Gan, the head of the music studio where Talibong is recording her demo.
"Our only competition is ourselves. The whole world knows that if you have a low budget but need quality, you get Filipino talent," says Gan, who also acts as an agent for other export acts.
Gan estimates between 25,000 and 30,000 Filipino musicians and singers play in 3,000 clubs, hotels, cruise ships and restaurants around the world at any one time. The pay generally ranges from $800-1,500 a month, according to Gan.
He says even Malaysian, Indonesian, Australian, and Chinese bands tend to recruit Filipina lead singers.
Gan attributes the success of Filipino performers overseas to the deep roles music and dance have in local culture.
Singing contests are often the highlights of village fairs and beauty contests, while song and dance are a staple of the most popular national television game shows.
Karaoke is one of the country's most loved forms of entertainment, with guests at weddings and birthday parties expected to be able to belt out songs behind a microphone to entertain their hosts.
Karaoke is also a mainstay at bars, restaurants and shopping centres.
"Some of my singers were discovered at karaoke joints," says Gan, a 20-year veteran of the business, whose scouting regimen sees him serving as judge at singing contests in remote villages across the country.
Gan says Philippine musicians are also well-known for their warm audience rapport, a reflection of a general easygoing nature for which Filipinos are famous.
"That is a very important part of the music. It's not just plain singing," he says.
However Gan says most performers have a short shelf-life overseas, particularly the female lead singers who often have to end their foreign sojourns when they have babies or for other family reasons.
And although many can copy perfectly the world's most popular songs, few cover band members will ever get a recording contract.
But there are some inspirational success stories for those who continue to dream of making it big.
The most famous is Arnel Pineda, who for many years fronted Filipino bands in Manila bars and in Hong Kong.
His big break came in 2007 when members of US rock group Journey were looking for a new lead singer and saw clips of him singing the band's songs on YouTube.
Pineda was hired soon after an audition in the United States, and his first album fronting the band debuted in the top 10 of the American Billboard Charts. Pineda and Journey continue to perform at sold-out concerts around the world.
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