Custody, images at stage in Cruise-Holmes divorce

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2006 file photo released by Rogers and Cowan, actor Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes pose in their wedding attire at the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle overlooking Lake Bracciano outside of Rome. Cruise and Homes are calling it quits after five years of marriage. Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family. (AP Photo/Robert Evans, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2006 file photo released by Rogers and Cowan, actor Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes pose in their wedding attire at the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle overlooking Lake Bracciano outside of Rome. Cruise and Homes are calling it quits after five years of marriage. Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family. (AP Photo/Robert Evans, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, actress Katie Holmes joins her husband Tom Cruise as he holds their daughter Suri after Holmes finished the New York City Marathon in New York. Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, file)

FILE - Actor Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes pose during a photo-call for the world premiere of their new film "Knight and Day" at the Lope de Vega theatre in Seville, Spain on Wednesday June 16, 2010. Cruise and Homes are calling it quits after five years of marriage. Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family. (AP Photo/Toni Rodriguez)

FILE - In this June 27, 2005 file photo, Tom Cruise, star of the new film "War of the Worlds," arrives with his fiancee Katie Holmes on motorcycle for a screening of the film at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Cruise and Homes are calling it quits after five years of marriage. Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

FILE - In this Friday April 29, 2005 file photo,Tom Cruise, right, and Katie Holmes laugh as they on Via della Conciliazione Boulevard near St. Peter's Basilica, as they arrive at the St. Cecilia auditorium for the David di Donatello Italian film awards, in Rome. Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family. (AP Photo/Corrado Giambalvo, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? When Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes first got together, he jumped on a couch, she gushed girlishly, and many of their fans said, "Huh?"

Their split could cause just as much drama.

Not only are the images of two Hollywood stars at stake, so is the future of 6-year-old Suri, with some speculating that Holmes' decision to file for divorce in New York might mean she's seeking sole custody of their daughter.

Ultimately, Cruise may have the most to lose.

"There's no question this divorce is going to hurt his public image," said Dorie Clark, author of the forthcoming "Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future."

"His brand was already tarnished significantly when he first got together with Holmes five years ago and was infamously jumping up and down on Oprah's couch, and shortly afterward the videos of him praising Scientology were leaked," she continued. "This divorce is another opportunity for questions to be raised about his personal life, his religious beliefs ? which many consider outside the mainstream ? and that's not what a box-office star really wants."

California divorce attorney Michael Kelly, who is not involved with the Cruise-Holmes case, called Holmes' East Coast filing "a tactical move" that signifies "there will be an attempt to gain an advantage."

New York's comparative-fault divorce laws could be advantageous for Holmes, he said. The couple lived in Los Angeles.

Cruise and Holmes married in 2006 after a whirlwind love affair. He proposed at the Eiffel Tower. Their wedding was held at a 15th century Italian castle.

She filed for divorce Thursday, ending her first marriage. This will be Cruise's third divorce. He was previously married to actresses Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman, with whom he has two children.

Cruise showed up alone at the recent Los Angeles and London premieres of his latest film, "Rock of Ages." Holmes also was absent earlier this month when Cruise received the Friars Club Entertainment Icon Award in New York. But he did bring Suri with him, allowing her to stay up late for the raunchy proceedings.

"Divorce will actually help Katie Holmes' brand," Clark said. "More people are going to be thinking about her and aware of her. This is generating a lot of sympathy and interest from people."

Holmes, 33, rose to fame on the teen soap "Dawson's Creek." She went on to appear in "Batman Begins," and earned raves for her roles in independent films such as 2003's "Pieces of April" and 2005's "Thank You for Smoking." She took a break after giving birth to Suri in April, 2006, and marrying Cruise in November.

She did just a handful of roles until stepping things up in 2011. Holmes played Jackie" Kennedy in the Emmy-winning miniseries "The Kennedys," appeared in Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill" and just wrapped a film with William Hurt. She said she's set to start another project in July.

Meanwhile, Cruise, who turns 50 on Tuesday, has remained a megastar. His latest role, as an Axl Rose-style rock star in "Rock of Ages," has won him strong reviews (though not corresponding box-office results), and his most recent "Mission Impossible" installment, "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol," has made more than $690 million worldwide.

"Tom Cruise's brand has always been the dynamic, likable hero ? the 'Mission Impossible' star that you're rooting for ? and it becomes harder for the public to get behind someone as a hero and want to go to the box office and cheer them on when there are serious questions about what kind of husband and father he is," Clark said.

Holmes' attorney, Jonathan Wolfe, said Friday that "Katie's primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter's best interest."

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AP Entertainment Writer Ryan Pearson contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Suu Kyi tells AFP willing to lead Myanmar if her party wins

Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday that she is prepared to lead her country one day, speaking with AFP in Paris at the end of a triumphant Europe tour.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, in Europe for the first time in a quarter-century after enduring many years of house arrest, also spoke of her joy at the warm reception she received on her five-nation tour.

Asked whether she would be ready to lead the country also known as Burma one day, she said: "I think all party leaders have to prepare themselves for the possibility, if they truly believe in the democratic process.

"But it's not something that I think of all the time. In fact, I think one has to concentrate on present work, of course preparing for the future. The present has to be linked to one's hopes for the future."

Suu Kyi, 67, flies back on Friday to Myanmar, ending the tour during which she was cheered by large crowds of admirers and toasted by leaders in Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Britain and France.

"So many people from different parts of the world seem to be aware of what we have been struggling for in Burma," she said. "I felt such a tremendous sense of solidarity with us. That has been a surprise."

Suu Kyi on Thursday had breakfast with French former president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, visited parliament and then held a debate with students at the Sorbonne university in Paris.

She admitted her two-week journey was strenuous and quipped: "It's very exhausting, and when people ask me about all the sacrifices that I've made, I'm always tempted to say the greatest sacrifice I have made is sleep."

Myanmar, once under iron-fisted military rule but now run by a quasi-civilian government, faces legislative elections in 2015, which Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy is set to contest.

But Suu Kyi stressed that the hard work needs to be done now.

"I think we can't wait until 2015 to see how things will emerge," she told AFP."It is now that is most important... the next three years will decide what shape 2015 will take."

As Western nations have eased or suspended sanctions, a business bonanza is under way in the resource-rich but impoverished nation.

Suu Kyi, the Oxford-educated daughter of the country's independence hero, stressed that "whether it's investment from China or the West, there should be codes of best practices to ensure that the investments are as beneficial for our people as profitable for the investors.

"We are very keen on businesses signing up to codes of good practices, especially with regards to financial transparency in the extractive industries, which tend to be the most controversial of all."

Suu Kyi's trip has been marred by communal strife in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, bordering Bangladesh. More than 80 people have died in clashes between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya this month, the government said.

Suu Kyi said the key would be to strengthen the rule of law and citizenship laws, to ascertain which Rohingya are legal citizens and which are not.

"Some of them, I'm sure, are in accordance with the citizenship laws, entitled to the rights of citizens, but who these are we have to be able to find out," she said.

"Communal strife, lack of communal harmony, is usually rooted in cultural and religious differences which take time to sort out. But with rule of law, immediate problems could be minimised.

"The problem in the west is... that the border is very porous. And the immigration authorities are not always the least corrupt," she said.

"And so Bangladesh always says that people come over from Burma who belong to Burma, and Burma says that people are coming over from Bangladesh who do not belong here. So that's one problem.

"Another problem is the matter of citizenship. We need fair and strong citizenship laws which will stand up to international scrutiny."

On a lighter note, Suu Kyi -- wearing her trademark flowers in her hair -- had a complaint about the continent she has just toured.

"I have been given many, many flowers. Everywhere I go people give me flowers," she said.

"But there is one problem which I must let our friends in Europe know: the stems of European roses are very thick, and that makes it difficult for me to keep them in my hair. And I would appreciate if they would go in for smaller, daintier varieties."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/suu-kyi-tells-afp-willing-lead-myanmar-her-163459127.html

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Strategy Analytics: Apple Has Shipped 250M iPhones, Made $150B In Revenues In The Past 5 Years

We know that Apple has been making a killing from the iPhone, with the device reigning as the single-most popular smartphone in a number of markets -- despite Android-based handsets collectively having a bigger lead. Now, with the fifth anniversary of the iPhone fast approaching -- it's June 29 -- Strategy Analytics has calculated just how big that killing is: Apple has shipped 250 million iPhones worldwide, and the iPhone has generated $150 billion in cumulative revenues, it estimates. The figures cover the entire family of iPhone devices -- from the first model released in 2007 through to the most recent iPhone 4S. Of them, Strategy Analytics tells me that the device that has topped the list has been the iPhone 4 -- both in terms of price and volume. However, there is a dark shadow around today's news, too. Strategy Analytics believes that if the first five years were awesome, the next five will be a lot more challenging, for several reasons:

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Your Color Red Really Could Be My Blue

Anyone with normal color vision agrees that blood is roughly the same color as strawberries, cardinals and the planet Mars. That is, they're all red. But could it be that what you call "red" is someone else's "blue"? Could people's color wheels be rotated with respect to one another's?

"That is the question we have all asked since grade school," said Jay Neitz, a color vision scientist at the University of Washington. In the past, most scientists would have answered that people with normal vision probably do all see the same colors. The thinking went that our brains have a default way of processing the light that hits cells in our eyes, and our?perceptions of the light's color?are tied to universal emotional responses. But recently, the answer has changed.

"I would say recent experiments lead us down a road to the idea that we don't all see the same colors," Neitz said.

Another color vision scientist, Joseph Carroll of the Medical College of Wisconsin, took it one step further: "I think we can say for certain that people don't see the same colors," he told Life's Little Mysteries.

One person's red might be another person's blue and vice versa, the scientists said. You might really see blood as the color someone else calls blue, and the sky as someone else's red. But our individual perceptions don't affect the way the color of blood, or that of the sky, make us feel.

Some sort of perception

An experiment with monkeys suggests color perception emerges in our brains in response to our experiences of the outside world, but that this process ensues according to no predetermined pattern. Like color-blind people and most mammals, male squirrel monkeys have only two types of color-sensitive cone cells in their eyes: green-sensitive cones and blue-sensitive cones. Lacking the additional information that would be picked up by a third, red-sensitive cone, the monkeys can only perceive the wavelengths of light we call "blue" and "yellow;" to them, "red" and "green" wavelengths appear neutral, and the monkeys cannot find red or green dots amid a gray background. [How Dogs See the World]

In work published in the journal Nature in 2009, Neitz and several colleagues injected a virus into the monkeys' eyes that randomly infected some of their green-sensitive cone cells. The virus inserted a gene into the DNA of the green cones it infected that converted them into red cones. This conferred the monkeys with blue, green and red cones. Although their brains were not wired for responding to signals from red cones, the monkeys soon made sense of the new information, and were able to find green and red dots in a gray image.

The scientists have since been investigating whether the same gene therapy technique could be used to cure red-green color blindness in humans, which affects 1 percent of American men. The work also suggests humans could one day be given a fourth kind of cone cell, such as the UV-sensitive cone found in some birds, potentially allowing us to?see more colors.

But the monkey experiment had another profound implication: Even though neurons in the monkeys' brains were wired to receive signals from green cones, the neurons spontaneously adapted to receiving signals from red cones instead, somehow enabling the monkeys to perceive new colors. Neitz said, "The question is, what did the monkeys think the new colors were?"

The result shows there are no predetermined perceptions ascribed to each wavelength, said Carroll, who was not involved in the research. "The ability to discriminate certain wavelengths arose out of the blue, so to speak ? with the simple introduction of a new gene.? Thus, the [brain] circuitry there simply takes in whatever information it has and then confers some sort of perception."

When we're born, our brains most likely do the same thing, the scientists said. Our neurons aren't configured to respond to color in a default way; instead, we each develop a unique perception of color. "Color is a private sensation," Carroll said.?[How Colors Got Their Symbolic Meanings]

Emotional colors

Other research shows differences in the way we each perceive color don't change the universal emotional responses we have to them. Regardless of what you actually see when you look at a clear sky, its shorter wavelengths (which we call "blue") tend to make us calm, whereas longer wavelengths (yellow, orange and red) make us more alert. These responses ? which are present not just in humans, but in many creatures, from fish to single-celled organisms, which "prefer" to photosynthesize when the ambient light is yellow ? are thought to have evolved as a way of establishing the day and night cycle of living things.

Because of how the atmosphere scatters sunlight throughout the day, blue light dominates at night and around midday when living things lie low, to avoid darkness or harsh UV light. ?Meanwhile, yellow light dominates around sunrise and sunset, when life on Earth tends to be most active.?

In a study detailed in the May issue of the journal Animal Behavior, Neitz and his colleagues found that changing the color (or wavelength) of ambient light has a much bigger impact on the day-night cycle of fish than changing the intensity of that light, suggesting that the dominance of blue light at night really is why living things feel more tired at that time (rather than the fact that it's dark), and the dominance of yellow light in the morning is why we wake up then, rather than the fact that it's lighter.?[Busting the 8-Hour-Sleep Myth: Why You Should Wake Up in the Night]

But these evolved responses to color have nothing to do with cone cells, or our perceptions. In 1998, scientists discovered a totally separate set of color-sensitive receptors in the human eye; these receptors, called melanopsin, independently gauge the amount of blue or yellow incoming light, and route this information to parts of the brain involved in emotions and the regulation of the circadian rhythm. Melanopsin probably evolved in life on Earth about a billion years prior to cone cells, and the ancient color-detectors send signals along an independent pathway in the brain.

"The reason we feel happy when we see red, orange and yellow light is because we're stimulating this ancient blue-yellow visual system," Neitz said. "But our conscious perception of blue and yellow comes from a completely different circuitry ? the cone cells. So the fact that we have similar emotional reactions to different lights doesn't mean our perceptions of the color of the light are the same."

People with damage to parts of the brain involved in the perception of colors may not be able to perceive blue, red or yellow, but they would still be expected to have the same emotional reaction to the light as everyone else, Neitz said. Similarly, even if you perceive the sky as the color someone else would call "red," your?blue sky?still makes you feel calm.

Follow Natalie Wolchover on Twitter @nattyover. Follow Life's Little?Mysteries on Twitter @llmysteries. We're also on?Facebook?&?Google+.

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North Carolina workplace injuries are ... - Wilmington Workers

People all across the country are at risk for a workplace injury. Simply being at work puts almost everyone at risk of some sort of workplace injury, but companies in North Carolina and across the United States often work with government agencies to reduce the likelihood of an injury. This includes educating employees on workplace hazards and the processes and steps used to prevent or reduce injuries.

However, sometimes injuries are unavoidable or a mistake occurs that causes an injury. Because of this, most employers are required to have workers' compensation insurance. This insurance helps pay employees and compensate them for their medical expenses when they are injured on the job. Sometimes the employer's insurance company will deny claims in order to keep costs down.

While there are tips for improving workplace safety such as making sure the workplace is clean and dry, clearing walkways, maintaining proper lighting and wearing proper footwear and protective equipment, accident might still occur. That is why workers' compensation insurance is so important and it is important that they accept a worker's claim.

Without compensation, someone who suffers from a workplace injury in North Carolina might find himself or herself unable to work or pay medical expenses. If a person isn't able to collect a paycheck because of an injury, their financial problems might further compound. Speaking with a workers' compensation attorney can help make sure you are compensated for injuries you sustained at job that you gave so much time and effort to.

Source: Coast River Business Journal, "5 tips to prevent slips, trips and falls at work and home," June 19, 2012

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Family Readiness Group: How the FRG can help you

I never knew what the FRG was until my husband joined the Army last March. In the Marines, I was too new and too young to really put any thought into what they offered ? and the Marines (at least a decade ago) weren?t nearly as family oriented as the Army.

When we moved to Ft. Bliss, I attended my first FRG meeting with Sam. It was attended by all the soldiers and their wives, girlfriends, husbands, boyfriends, etc. Children were welcome and pizza was served. This was the first meeting with an entirely new group of people, and they began to put an order to things ? activities, fundraising, speakers.

There is an FRG meeting once a month, and an event each holiday and special occasion. They have hosted Easter, Christmas, and Halloween parties, sent off officers to retirement with dinners, and welcomed families to the area.

So what is the FRG? What else do they do and why? How can they help me and my family? Do they help with anything I need?

Here is what the FRG isn?t responsible for:

• Acting as surrogate parents
• Acting as social workers
• Supporting a divided ?club? atmosphere (i.e. enlisted/officer, single/married spouses/parents etc?)
• Providing a babysitting service
• Lending money, cars, or other items

It?s important to realize the boundaries and responsibilities of a group that provides so much.

The FRG is a group of command-sponsored people who support the company or battalion they are associated with in different ways. These can include family members, soldiers, civilians in direct contact with the military, and volunteers. In ours, there were jobs: president, vice, secretary. Each one was involved in a different aspect of putting together the parties and raising money.?

The FRG also plays a large role in helping families when a member is deployed (usually a mom or dad). They help families prepare for both the deployment of the battalion and adjusting to life with them gone. They also prepare for field exercises (which can last a few weeks or months) and keep everyone involved updated on dates, times, and what to expect while the military members are away.

FRGs can often provide classes and workshops to help prepare for deployments, financial burdens, low level family problems, and they promote using resources available on and off base to help families in need.

At meetings in some companies, there may be a speaker from on-base services you might want to be more familiar with ? MWR (Morale, Welfare, and Recreation), someone from the base hospital, a counselor, housing personnel ? each might be invited to come share with you what they do and what services they offer that you may not be using yet.

We have a newsletter that comes out several times each month to tell us about upcoming events for the kids, for just us, and what?s going on in the company. From promotions to homecomings, these newsletters keep everyone updated at the same time.

The FRG also helps with newcomers ? those new to the company/battalion, to the base, or to life in the military. Some do a? ?Welcome Wagon? or baskets to new families in the area. Others throw baby showers and host meal trains for new and expecting parents. Volunteers are always needed for these types of things.

Want to get involved in your FRG? Attend the next meeting or call up one of the leaders. Chances are they?re looking for help in various areas, and you can spend a little or a lot of time assisting our soldiers and their families in making the military life a little easier.

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YouTube gives strong boost to Google's bottom line

By Julia Boorstin, cnbc.com

YouTube made a lot of headlines when it launched its original content channels ? but it also is making a lot of money. More specifically, its revenue this year is expected to be twice the cost of the company back in 2006.

?Following Google?s? shareholder meeting Thursday, Citi analyst Mark Mahaney updated his analysis of YouTube, with an even more bullish take on the video site than he?d had before.

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Mahaney said the role that YouTube plays at Google is underappreciated: It puts Google ?squarely in the middle of one of the largest trends in advertising today ? the migration online of TV/video ad budgets.? What?s remarkable for a company that?s been around since 2005 is that it?s managed to keep up massive growth: 20 percent year-over-year unique visitor growth and nearly 40 percent year-over-year growth in page views.

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And then there?s the increasingly large role YouTube plays boosting Google?s bottom line. Mahaney estimates that YouTube is likely on track to generate more than $3.5 billion in revenue this year, for 50 percent year-over-year revenue growth. That?s more than double the revenue Mahaney had forecast last year. Putting that number in context: it?s about 50 percent more than Yahoo!?s? ?total display ad revenue and in line with Netflix's total subscription revenue.

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Though the vast majority of YouTube?s videos are user-generated content, advertisers are increasingly paying attention to the original programming YouTube is rolling out on its original channels. The likes of Jay-Z, Madonna, Ashton Kutcher and Lady Gaga, plus a number of TV producers, are putting together and curating channels ? exactly the kind of professional content that advertisers feel comfortable with, along with the potential to reach many more people than even broadcast TV.

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Gmail for iOS gets notification support and persistent logins, brings joy to Apple mobile masses

It took quite awhile for the official Gmail app to arrive for our Apple-toting friends, but when it debuted, it lacked many features enjoyed by Android users. Well, today the iOS Gmail app got a refresh that brings it a bit closer to the green bot version. Chiefly, notification support to allow folks to set up banner alerts and lock screen notifications, so they no longer have to check their inbox for new messages. Not only that, the app now has persistent login capability, meaning no more re-entry of your Gmail credentials every time you're preoccupied slaying space pigs for a few hours. Interested parties can hit the source link to get the new goodies.

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Perry Calls Obama's Use of Executive Privilege 'Nixonian'

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Tropical Storm Debby turns sights on Fla., Ala.

A state of emergency has been declared in Louisiana in preparation for Tropical Storm Debby and oil rigs across the Gulf have been evacuated. The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel reports.

By NBC News and news services

Updated at 10:13 p.m. ET: Parts of Florida and Alabama were under a tropical storm warning Sunday as Debby churned off the Gulf Coast, leaving wary residents to closely watch a storm whose path has so far been difficult to forecast.

Underscoring the storm's unpredictable nature, forecasters discontinued a tropical storm warning for Louisiana after forecast models indicated Debby was less likely to make a westward turn than initially predicted. Coastal Alabama and parts of Florida, including the Panhandle, remained under tropical storm warnings.

Debby already had dumped heavy rain on parts of Florida and spawned some isolated tornadoes, causing some damage to homes and knocking down power lines. High winds forced the closure of an interstate bridge that spans Tampa Bay and links St. Petersburg with areas to the southeast.

The first named storm of 2012 to enter the Gulf of Mexico, was centered about 115 miles south-southwest of Apalachicola, Florida and was nearly stationary, the National Hurricane Center said in its 7 p.m. CDT update.

Debby, no longer expected to gain hurricane strength, packed winds of 60 mph, the Miami-based center said.

Citing a "significant change in the forecast track," the NHC said Debby is expected to hit the Florida Panhandle near Panama City on Thursday as a tropical storm. "This forecast remains uncertain due to weak steering currents," the NHC said.

The NHC had previously predicted that the storm would track westward toward the Louisiana coast as a weak hurricane, spurring Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal to declare a state of emergency.

Chris Landsea, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center, said forecasters rely on computer models which were contradictory until Sunday.

"They came into a bit more of an agreement that the westward turn is less likely," he said.

Landsea said every storm is different and has different characteristics, "and in this case it's a very unpredictable storm." He said Debby was could become a hurricane.

A major concern will be flooding from heavy rainfall. Parts of Florida and southeast Georgia could receive 10 to 15 inches of rain, with some areas getting as much as 20, he said.

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This Sunday handout image provided by NASA shows a satellite view of Tropical Storm Debby as it nears the northern rim of the Gulf of Mexico.

Debby's top sustained winds were at about 60 mph (95 kph). The storm was moving toward the northeast at 3 mph (6 kph).

Near the mouth of the Mississippi southeast of New Orleans, Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said officials were making preparations to protect the main highway from tidal flooding.

At least one tornado linked to the storm touched down Saturday in southwest Florida, but no injuries were reported. Another was reported Sunday in Venice, damaging some homes.

"This is quite common with this type of storm," senior hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart with the National Hurricane Center said of the twisters. "They tend to not be very large or long-lived, which can be difficult to detect on radar. So people need to keep an eye on the sky."

Debby has shut nearly a quarter of offshore crude oil and natural gas production, the U.S. government said.

BP Plc, the largest oil producer in the Gulf of Mexico, shut in all of its production. The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, the only U.S. port for handling the largest oil tank ships, stopped operating due to rough seas.

ConocoPhillips and Royal Dutch Shell Plc had also shut some of their production as of Sunday as the first storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season to threaten offshore production gained strength in the Gulf.

The storm has a 30 percent chance of reaching hurricane strength before landfall and could temporarily disrupt 55 percent of Gulf offshore oil production and 44 percent of natural gas production due to short-term evacuations, according to Weather Insight, a unit of Thomson Reuters.

Despite storm warnings in the Panhandle, Debby hadn't totally dampened vacations.

Thousands were on the beach at Pensacola Beach, Fla., on Sunday morning. Many used their phones to take photos of huge waves crashing into the concrete supports of a fishing pier. There wasn't any rain yet; just gusty winds and dark, fast-moving clouds.

Few people were in the water. Red flags warned tourists to stay out of the surf, and lifeguards cruised the sand on all-terrain vehicles, blowing whistles at anyone who got near the waves.

Workers with rental companies used pickup trucks to gather chairs and umbrellas as a precaution against an unusually high tide.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this story.

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Euro 2012: How Soccer is Going Digital

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Sales of pre-owned homes slide in May

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In this June 13, 2012, photo, a woman walks to an open house in San Diego.

By Bill Briggs

Sales of existing-homes fell 1.5 percent in May, according to a report Thursday by the National Association of Realtors, offering another realty reality check that the sweet sounds of any possible residential revival will contain sour notes.

Purchases of previously owned U.S. homes dipped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.55 million in May from 4.62 million in April. But sales posted a 9.6 percent increase last month compared to the 4.15 million-unit pace in May 2011.

While most housing analysts expected a small May skid, some real estate experts are convinced a few key ingredients, including tighter supplies, are present for a national ? albeit slow ? residential resurgence.

?The slight pullback in monthly home sales is more likely due to supply constraints rather than softening demand.?The normal seasonal upturn in inventory did not occur this spring,? said Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist. ?Even with the monthly decline, home sales have moved markedly higher with 11 consecutive months of gains over the same month a year earlier.?

One buzzword being bandied about lately among many Realtors with equal parts hope and hate: inventory ? and the lack thereof.

Nationally, total housing inventory at the end of May dropped 0.4 percent to 2.49 million existing homes available for sale, NAR reported. That represents a 6.6-month supply of available homes at the current sales pace. In April, there was a 6.5-month supply.?

Listed inventory is 20.4 percent lower than it was one year ago at this time when a 9.1-month supply existed.?Compare that to the peak of the market in July 2007 when unsold inventory hit a record of 4.04 million homes.

?Because new inventory is down year on year, that means there are fewer homes (for buyers) to choose from,? said Jed Kolko, the chief economist for Trulia. ?That can hold back sales. You can?t sell homes that aren?t on the market.?

According to a survey released last week by Realtor.com, inventory of for-sale, single-family homes, condos and townhouses in 144 of the 146 markets?surveyed dipped in May compared to the same month in 2011.

In Sacramento, existing inventory at the end of May was 1,413 single-family homes ? as compared to 4,111 homes the same month last year ? a 66 percent plunge, said Brian McMartin, a broker associate with Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, Mason-McDuffie, in Sacramento.

That?s causing Sacramento agents and buyers to be frustrated because the demand to buy there is gaining energy.

"At that rate, we have less than a month of inventory left, assuming nothing else came on the market,? McMartin said. ?Sales here are up but not exponentially. We have an inventory issue.

?We have buyers frustrated, getting out-bid left and right, making 5, 10, 20 offers, having to overbid.?

The inventory shortage apparently is helping drive prices, however, Yun said. The median price for a home resale rose to $182,600 in May, according to NAR. That's 7.9 percent higher than the same month one year ago - and the highest since June 2010.

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How humans predict other's decisions

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI) in Japan have uncovered two brain signals in the human prefrontal cortex involved in how humans predict the decisions of other people. Their results suggest that the two signals, each located in distinct prefrontal circuits, strike a balance between expected and observed rewards and choices, enabling humans to predict the actions of people with different values than their own.

Every day, humans are faced with situations in which they must predict what decisions other people will make. These predictions are essential to the social interactions that make up our personal and professional lives. The neural mechanism underlying these predictions, however, by which humans learn to understand the values of others and use this information to predict their decision-making behavior, has long remained a mystery.

Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI) in Japan have now shed light on this mystery with a paper to appear in the June 21st issue of Neuron. The researchers describe for the first time the process governing how humans learn to predict the decisions of another person using mental simulation of their mind.

Learning another person's values and mental processes is often assumed to require simulation of the other's mind: using one's own familiar mental processes to simulate unfamiliar processes in the mind of the other. While simple and intuitive, this explanation is hard to prove due to the difficulty in disentangling one's own brain signals from those of the simulated other.

Research scientists Shinsuke Suzuki and Hiroyuki Nakahara, a Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience at RIKEN BSI, together with their collaborators, set out to disentangle these signals using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) on humans. First, they studied the behavior of subjects as they played a game by making predictions about the other's behavior based on the knowledge of others and their decisions. Then they generated a computer model of the simulation process to examine the brain signals underlying the prediction of the other's behavior.

The authors found that humans simulate the decisions of other people using two brain signals encoded in the prefrontal cortex, an area responsible for higher cognition (Figure 1). One signal involves the estimated value of the reward to the other person, and is called the reward signal, referring to the difference between the other's values, simulated in one's mind, and the reward benefit that the other actually received. The other signal is called the action signal, relating to the other's expected action predicted by the simulation process in one's mind, and what the other person actually did, which may or may not be different. They found that the reward signal is processed in a part of the brain called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. The action signal, on the other hand, was found in a separate brain area called the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex.

"Every day, we interact with a variety of other individuals," Suzuki said. "Some may share similar values with us and for those interactions simulation using the reward signal alone may suffice. However, other people with different values may be quite different and then the action signal may become quite important."

Nakahara believes that their approach, using mathematical models based on human behavior with brain imaging, will be useful to answer a wide range of questions about the social functions employed by the brain. "Perhaps we may one day better understand how and why humans have the ability to predict others' behavior, even those with different characteristics. Ultimately, this knowledge could help improving political, educational, and social systems in human societies."

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Asia stocks fall amid US jobs, housing gloom

BANGKOK (AP) ? Asian stock markets fell Friday as gloomy economic reports from the world's two biggest economies piled up, heightening fears of a sharper global downturn.

The U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday that the four-week average of applications for unemployment benefits jumped to the highest level in nine months. Meanwhile, sales of previously owned homes fell 1.5 percent in May.

A further sign of weakness in the world's No. 1 economy came from the Philadelphia branch of the Federal Reserve, which issued a report showing that manufacturing in the northeast had experienced a sharp decrease due to a steep fall in company orders.

Appetite for financial assets such as stocks was also dented by the results of a monthly HSBC survey, which showed that manufacturing in China has continued to contract. China's growth has been a pillar of the global economy in recent years, so its slowdown has been of particular concern to investors.

Meanwhile, infighting over Europe's heavy debt burden continued to brew, leading IMF head Christine Lagarde to warn that the euro is under "acute stress" and to urge leaders of the 17 countries that use the currency to consider steps such as jointly issuing debt.

"With signs of weakness in the US economy, the persistence of the eurozone debt crisis and the threat of a hardlanding in China looming, the prospect of a synchronized economic slowdown is real," analysts at DBS Bank Ltd. in Singapore said in a market commentary.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.2 percent to 8,802.54 and South Korea's Kospi slid 2.1 percent to 1,848.57. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index lost 1 percent to 19,067.51 and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was down 1 percent at 4,046.70.

Benchmarks in Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia fell while the Philippines rose. Markets in mainland China were closed for a public holiday.

Sentiment was also shaken after Moody's Investors Service lowered the credit ratings of 15 major banks, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, saying their long-term prospects for profitability and growth are shrinking.

Downgrades generally make it more costly for banks to raise money by selling debt because investors demand higher interest in return for taking on riskier debt.

"Of course, they deserve it for years of mismanagement and speculative trading activities ... and also the exposure to sovereign bank debt," said Francis Lun, managing director of Lyncean Holdings in Hong Kong. "So, as a result, all these major international banks are being downgraded to a more realistic level."

Asian financial shares sputtered after the ratings slap. South Korea's Shinhan Financial Group Co. tumbled 4 percent while Australia & New Zealand Banking Group lost 1.7 percent. Hong Kong-listed Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, the world's biggest bank by market value, fell 1.2 percent.

Falling commodities prices hurt mining and raw materials shares in Australia. BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, fell 2.6 percent. Newcrest Mining Ltd. dropped 3.3 percent. Hong Kong-listed Jiangxi Copper Co. fell 1.7 percent.

On Thursday, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 251 points, its second-worst loss of the year. The Dow lost 2 percent to close at 12,573.57. The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 2.2 percent to 1,325.51 and the Nasdaq composite fell 2.4 percent to 2,859.09. All three indexes lost their gains for the week.

Benchmark oil for August delivery was up 64 cents to $78.85 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $3.25, or 4 percent, to settle at $78.20 per barrel in New York on Thursday.

In currency trading, the euro fell slightly to $1.2553 from $1.2558 late Thursday in New York. The dollar rose to 80.34 yen from 80.29 yen.

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PFT: Leaf faces lockdown addiction treatment

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It?s easy to understand how Commissioner Roger Goodell got so much power under the labor deal, but it?s far more complicated to come up with a way to change the status quo.

Chiefs tackle Eric Winston recently expressed regret that the players didn?t push harder during the most recent CBA negotiations to remove from Goodell the ability to impose a penalty and then review his own decision under multiple disciplinary policies.? Falcons receiver Roddy White was more pointed, blaming the NFLPA for ?failing? the players by not stripping this power from Goodell in 2011.

But anyone who claim that last year the players ?allowed? Goodell to have his current power either doesn?t get it, or is deliberately distorting the facts.? Goodell already had the power, obtaining it not from the current NFLPA leadership but from former union boss Gene Upshaw, via past labor deals.? When the time comes to renegotiate the labor contract, the parties come to the table with the rights and duties they already possessed.

And if one side wants to taketh something away, that side had better be ready to giveth something in return.

As it relates to his power over issues like player discipline,Goodell flatly refused to surrender that power during negotiations occurring after the players and the league worked out a deal on the manner in which the money gets divided.

?The answer to that is no, I?m not going to be open to that,? Goodell said at the time.? ?I?m not going to hand off the brand and the reputation of the NFL to somebody who is not associated with the NFL.? I promise you that.? That is one of the number one jobs as a commissioner in my opinion.?

The fact that the lockout already had ended when terms like Goodell?s power over the disciplinary process were being debated made it harder for the players to dig in.? Still, with Goodell making it clear that he had built a bunker on that point would have made it virtually impossible to change the pre-existing approach.

In theory, the players could have reopened the monetary side of the deal and offered a penny or two on the dollar in order to buy Goodell?s disciplinary power.? But at what point should the financial interests of the many players who never get called to the principal?s office yield to the interests of the few who find themselves in water hotter than the average bathtub?? Only a small percentage of the league?s 1,900 or so players end up under scrutiny from Goodell.

Should the players have made a concession that affects all of them in order to protect a few?

More importantly, and as explained last night, the CBA doesn?t give Goodell a blank check to do whatever he wants to do.? Though he?s the judge, jury, and executioner, his power to be the judge/jury/executioner must be exercised fairly and impartially and in accordance with the rules contained in the CBA.? If he fails to do that, Goodell is subject to external oversight, through the federal court system.

In the bounty case, it?s inevitable that Goodell will uphold the suspensions, and that the players will sue.? Then, questions regarding, for example, whether the league failed to produce its evidence on a timely basis and whether the suspensions should be dismissed based on that glitch will be resolved by someone ?who is not associated with the NFL.?

A far more subtle, but perhaps far more important, point arises from the disconnect between the limited evidence that Commissioner Goodell has made available to the players and the extensive evidence of which Judge/Jury/Executioner Goodell is otherwise aware.? In this relatively rare instance in which Goodell has meted out discipline based on facts that are hotly contested, the judge/jury/executioner knows much more than the persons being punished.? So how can the persons being punished, who have access only to a sliver of the file, get a fair shake when they don?t know what the judge/jury/executioner already knows?

Think of it this way.? You?ve been accused of a crime.? Before the trial, the judge and the jury (and, technically, the executioner) are fully aware of the investigation and all evidence that was collected, in large part because the judge and the jury ultimately presided over the investigation.? Then, the judge and the jury decide what the sentence should be, before the trial even starts.

Through it all, the judge and the jury never give you any evidence.? Instead, they periodically share with you (and the media) summaries and characterizations of evidence, which may or may not be factually accurate.? Then, three days before the trial, you get a small stack from the thousands of documents generated by the investigation.

When the trial starts, the prosecutor presents what amounts to an opening statement ? and then she rests her case without calling a single witness.? Then the judge and the jury, fully aware of and intending to rely on all facts and documents and evidence and testimony that won?t be introduced in support of the allegations or otherwise shared with you, turns to your lawyer and says, ?Got anything to add??

How under those circumstances could your lawyer even begin to know what to say?? How could your lawyer change the minds of the judge and the jury without knowing precisely what caused them to reach their conclusion weeks before the trial began ? and without having a chance to test that evidence before the judge and the jury adopted a position on what the evidence means?

That example describes a classic kangaroo court, a term that arose from the perception that justice occurs by a series of leaps, not via a deliberate and even-handed process.? And while so many are quick to point out that the players accused of participating in the bounty program aren?t having their rights determined by a court of law, the truth is that those rights are being assessed by an informal court of law crafted by the NFL ? as demonstrated by the fact that Monday?s hearing was fully transcribed by (you guessed it) a court reporter.

Though the CBA gives the NFL the power to craft that informal court of law, it doesn?t give the NFL the right to create a process that lacks fairness and impartiality for the people whose interests are at stake.

The NFLPA has not given up the right to challenge the NFL?s procedures, and the NFLPA appears to be intent on doing so, aggressively.

As it should.

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The best way to Adequately Do Fitness Workout routines Effectively ...

How to Effectively Do Fitness Workouts Effectively

Receiving fit does not need to revolve around hours of difficult function at the health club. A no health club workout is perfect for those people that aren?t members of a health club, and do not have any gear of their very own. There happen to be fascinating procedures devised whereby people today can use their very own physique weight as a tool to construct muscles. Here we show you the secrets of your no fitness center exercise equipment. Certainly, when you adore going towards the fitness center, that?s good! However, in this write-up you?ll discover some clever ideas that may aid you inside your efforts to obtain fit inside a quantity of methods; and not just in the fitness center.

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A good solution to ensure that that you just keep motivated is usually to have your goals written down. This may help you possess a sturdy sense of direction along with your workout program. This way you realize where you happen to be and exactly where that you are going. Follow this guidance if you want your fitness plan to succeed.

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Certainly, in case you enjoy going for the fitness center, that?s fantastic! On the other hand, in this write-up you will find some clever tips that can aid you in your efforts to get fit in a number of methods; and not just at the health club.

Eat apples and pears to increase your health and fitness. Research have shown that those who ate at the very least three compact fruits each day lost more weight, and had been in much better shape, than these who did not consume any. Possessing a diet regime high in fruits and vegetables has extended been recognized to promote wellness.

Learn tips on how to do squats by working with a chair. Squats is usually good for you personally, so long as you might have very good form. Discover the best way to do that by sitting in a chair, but standing back up the second you really feel your bottom touch it. This is the most beneficial strategy to find out the right squat approach.

A very good method to ensure that you just keep motivated is always to have your objectives written down. This will assist you to possess a powerful sense of direction together with your workout strategy. This way you understand where you will be and exactly where you?re going. Follow this guidance if you would like your fitness program to succeed.

If you?d prefer to prevent unnecessary soreness following your routine run, constantly incorporate a cooldown to permit the sudden buildup of excess lactic acid to circulate by means of your muscles. As well as a brief walk following your run, always let time to stretch your muscles to avoid any pulls or cramping.

Try to operate out your personal function out program. A great deal of plans give a great core grounding in lifting or some other form of sportsrelated function out; if you?re just a newbie looking to get a couple exercises that match your skill it truly is in some cases very best to test out the waters on your personal. That becoming said, when you happen to be prepared to move on to critical work outs you need to appear for a trainer?s suggestions.

The longer you physical exercise, the extra fat you?ll burn off in the fitness center. So, when you are operating out at the gym or at home, be certain that you are listening to good music. Music must be uplifting, which can give you the motivation to push tougher to reach your aim.

If you might have a desk job and are concerned about staying fit, think about storing a ministepper beneath your desk and use it to get a handful of minutes of every single hour. Even 5 minutes of fitness per hour will make a large distinction. This will also help stop the soreness and stiffness connected with prolonged periods of inactivity.

Getting into shape and becoming healthful can seem like a challenge, nevertheless it is often really enjoyable too. Take the suggestions that was shared with you right here and put it to make use of inside your fitness routine. Look at fitness as every day to day activity. Do a bit a lot more every time and increase the number of occasions you workout to assist reach your objectives.

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Air Canada embarks on its first biofuel-powered flight from Toronto to Mexico City

Not looking to be left out of the biofuel party, Air Canada is the latest to try out the eco-friendly alternative for its jet engines. An Airbus A319 will make the outfit's pseudo-sustainable flight from Toronto to Mexico City powered by a 50 / 50 mixture of the aforementioned material and regular ol' jet fuel. This particular blend is derived from recycled cooking oil and meets all standards to avoid any modifications to the aircraft's existing systems -- while still offering a 40 percent cut in emissions. In addition to green-powered trips, the airline is implementing several other measures to improve its impact on Mother Nature, including the use of iPads over paper documents for pilots. Here's to hoping that the company will be fueling it's own 787s with the blend in the near future.

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