Get An Early Look At New Footage From The Lone Ranger And ...

Disney recently announced that they will be debuting a brand-new :90 sneak peek for the highly anticipated Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films summer blockbuster ?The Lone Ranger? on Sunday, February 3, during the CBS Pregame Show 2:00 PM EST. In conjunction with the release of the new footage, Disney will hold a sweepstakes that offers participants a chance to win prizes provided by SUBWAY? restaurants and Kawasaki.

Wondering what the new trailer will look like? Check it out.

To participate in The Lone Ranger ?Who Will You Ride With on Game Day? Sweepstakes* and get a chance to win prizes for ?You and Your Kemosabe,? tune in and follow @LoneRanger on Twitter. For a chance to win, after the sneak peek airs answer trivia questions about the spot correctly and use #LONERANGER in the reply. All correct entries will be entered in a blind drawing for a chance to win a prize pack, such as Kawasaki helmets, SUBWAY? gift cards, and more. Each prize pack includes two prizes, one each for ?You and Your Kemosabe.? The sweepstakes will end February 4, 2013, at 3:00 p.m. PST. Entries will also be accepted via email to lonerangersweeps@thaweb.com.

Starting today, fans can also text RANGER to Disney** (347639) to receive a Tune In reminder to watch ?The Lone Ranger? new footage debut during the CBS Pregame Show and, in addition, receive updates on ?The Lone Ranger.?

Check Facebook.com/TheLoneRanger or Disney.com/LoneRanger for more details, or follow @LoneRanger on Twitter.

From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, the filmmaking team behind the blockbuster ?Pirates of the Caribbean? franchise, comes Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films? ?The Lone Ranger,? a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes. Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice?taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.

?The Lone Ranger? also stars Tom Wilkinson, William Fichtner, Barry Pepper, James Badge Dale, Ruth Wilson and Helena Bonham Carter.

A Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films presentation, ?The Lone Ranger? is directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Gore Verbinski, with screen story by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Justin Haythe and screenplay by Justin Haythe and Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio. ?The Lone Ranger? releases in U.S. theaters on July 3, 2013.

*No Purchase Necessary. Void Where Prohibited. Open to legal residents 13 years or older of the 50 United States and District of Columbia. To enter each of the ten sweepstakes, entrant must correctly answer on twitter.com the trivia question as posted on twitter.com/longranger and include hashtag #loneranger. Starts after :90 sneak peek plays during CBS Pregame Show on or around 2:30 p.m. PST, February 3, 2013 and ends 3:00 p.m. PST., February 4, 2013. Entrants may also enter by sending their email address to lonerangersweeps@thaweb.com. For official rules: https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-lone-ranger/the-lone-ranger-who-will-you-ride-with-on-game-day-sweepstakes-rules/10151431178693373. Sponsor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

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Euro Accelerators: UK?s Dotforge And Lithuania?s StartupHighway Open Applications

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Europe has gone accelerator crazy. If putting burgeoning startups through a 13 week mentor-led boot camp and throwing a few euros their way is the key to economic growth, then the Euro crisis is all but solved. I jest, of course, and you arguably can't have too much idea-stage money and support. But, seriously, I can barely keep up with these things. To that end, two European accelerators opened to applications this month: Dotforge, a brand new accelerator based in Sheffield, UK, and Lithuania's StartupHighway, which runs for its second year.

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Twitter?prunes Vine's hashtags, censors naughty terms

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Rosa Golijan , NBC News

According to the folks at Twitter, an innocent "human error" was to blame when a pornographic video was featured as an "Editor's Pick" on Vine, but this incident?? combined with a?lack of privacy and abuse prevention controls?? makes it seem as if there's a bit of a porn problem on the new?video-sharing service.

The sudden censorship of certain hashtags further solidifies that belief.

The Verge's Nathan Ingraham was among the first to point out that it appears that the searches for certain naughty hashtags ??such as #porn, #sex, #booty?and similar ??are bringing up no results, even though there are certainly posts with those hashtags.?

I tested this claim by creating a post and tagging it #nsfw. Nothing prevented me from creating this post?? which was entirely innocent, don't worry?? but neither tapping on the hyperlinked hashtag nor searching for #nsfw brought it (or any other posts) into view. Instead, I was shown a frowning emoticon and told that Vine couldn't load any posts. (In the case of searches, the frowning emoticon informed me that no tags matching that term?exist.)?

We have reached out to Twitter to inquire about the missing search results and to see if some sort of cleanup is occurring behind the scenes.?"We're in the process of changing how users find and view sensitive content," a spokesperson explained. "We're experimenting with a number of approaches and will continue to iterate."

Want more tech news?or interesting?links? You'll get plenty of both if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts,?or circling her?on?Google+.

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Don't Let the Wedding Ruin Your Marriage! | Stage Climbing

When you dreamt about your wedding as a child?and maybe even later on? you probably envisioned a beautiful white dress, wedding bells ringing and smiles all around while the bouquet is being tossed. You probably didn?t picture the possibility of the stress of planning the wedding itself reaching the point where much of the joy surrounding that special day disappears and actually becomes a burden on your relationship! While wedding planning can be an exciting time for you and your family, sometimes it?s easy to lose sight of why you?re planning it in the first place. If you?re in the midst of planning your wedding, take a few minutes to remember it?s just a party and the main event happens after the honeymoon literally and perhaps figuratively ends. Don?t fall for some of the classic wedding mistakes many couples make that can wreak havoc on your relationship:

It?s a family affair-Some say a marriage is the joining of two families. This is lovely in theory; however, two families mean more opinions, agendas, and the possibility of clashing personalities. Family members can be at their worst when under the stress this can create. The priorities that exist for you and your partner can get lost when you?re trying to please too many people. To make matters worse, you might be drawn to defend your own family?s agenda, while your partner is doing the same, leading to arguments and conflict between the two of you. Remember, the wedding is a celebration of your love as a couple. If you find that you?re listening to your families more than to each other, make it essential to take some time on a regular basis to discuss what?s important to both of you for the wedding and in your relationship as it transitions to a lifelong commitment. In-laws can only be a problem here if either of you let them get between the two of you.

Getting lost in the details- Another common problem before walking down the aisle is getting too caught up in trivial details. If you?re obsessing over whether the tablecloths are eggshell or off-white, you might not be paying attention to the day-to-day nurturing your relationship needs. Just because you?ve made the decision to get married and made it past the engagement, doesn?t mean your relationship is without conflict. In reality, the best relationships are those where both partners realize the value in working on them on an ongoing basis. You may find it helpful to isolate wedding planning to a select time during the week. During other times, agree to make sure talk isn?t only wedding-related. Instead, stay connected to and focused on the other elements of each other?s lives.

Practice for the future-The stressful nature of planning a wedding gives you and your partner the opportunity to practice resolving many of the issues you will face as a couple. Learning how to compromise is essential. It?s quite rare to find two people who want the exact same things. There may need to be tradeoffs. One of you may want a band while the other wants a DJ. Maybe one partner wants a small wedding, while the other a very large one. When contemplating these differences, practice the art of compromise. For example, financial issues also come up while planning a wedding, as they are costly events. If you haven?t already, this is a good time to have a discussion about priorities when it comes to spending and saving money. If it turns out that you and your partner have very different ideas about how to handle money, the best time to address and resolve it is before the wedding!

Most of all, enjoy the day!-Entertaining out-of-towners, keeping track of your vendors and tracking the weather can be taxing. Trust me on this: When the wedding actually happens, the small details won?t really mean very much. During the reception, take a minute to step outside of the party with your new spouse and look in at the joyous occasion. Everyone is there to celebrate your love and wish you a happy and healthy future together. Most of all, don?t forget to have fun! And the best way to do this is to let your wedding day be one you look back on with positive feelings, by leaving all the trivial nonsense behind.

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Kepler spacecraft recovering from glitch

NASA's Kepler space telescope has resumed its search for alien planets after resting for 10 days to work out kinks in its attitude control system, mission officials announced Tuesday.

Kepler went into a protective "safe mode" on Jan. 17 after engineers detected elevated friction levels in one of its reaction wheels ? devices that maintain the observatory's position in space. Engineers spun the wheels down to zero speed, hoping the break would redistribute lubricant and bring the friction back down to normal.

That phase is now over and Kepler is back in action, though it will take time to determine if the problem is solved.

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Kepler began coming out of safe mode at 2:30 p.m. EST Sunday and started collecting science data again at 8 p.m. EST Monday, officials wrote in a mission update today. [ Gallery: A World of Kepler Planets ]

"The spacecraft responded well to commands and transitioned from thruster control to reaction wheel control as planned," Kepler mission manager Roger Hunter wrote in the update. "During the 10-day resting safe mode, daily health and status checks with the spacecraft using NASA's Deep Space Network were normal."

Kepler flags exoplanets by detecting the telltale brightness dips caused when they pass in front of their parent stars from the instrument's perspective. The telescope requires three functioning reaction wheels to stay locked onto its roughly 150,000 target stars.

When Kepler launched in March 2009, it had four reaction wheels ? three for immediate use, and one spare. But one wheel (known as number two) failed in July 2012, so a major problem with the currently glitchy wheel (called number four) could spell the end of the $600 million Kepler mission.

It's unknown at the moment if the 10-day rest period will bring wheel number four back into line.

"Over the next month, the engineering team will review the performance of reaction wheel #4 before, during and after the safe mode to determine the efficacy of the rest operation," Hunter wrote.

The wheel has acted up before without causing serious problems.

"Reaction wheel #4 has been something of a free spirit since launch, with a variety of friction signatures, none of which look like reaction wheel #2, and all of which disappeared on their own after a time," Hunter wrote.

To date, Kepler has discovered more than 2,700 exoplanet candidates. While just 105 of them have been confirmed by follow-up observations so far, mission scientists estimate that more than 90 percent of them will end up being the real deal.

Follow Space.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall? or Space.com @Spacedotcom. We're also on Facebook? and? Google+.

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U.S. growth seen braking as inventories, government weigh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy likely grew at its slowest pace in nearly two years in the fourth quarter as businesses added less stock to their warehouses and government spending fizzled, setting it up for a difficult start in 2013.

Gross domestic product probably expanded at a 1.1 percent annual rate, braking sharply from a 3.1 percent clip in the third quarter, according to a Reuters poll of economists.

That would mark the weakest growth pace since the first quarter of 2011 and it would show the economy entering the new year with little momentum.

However, an anticipated pick-up in consumer spending and a rebound in business investment should give the recovery a fighting chance even as Washington tightens its belt.

"The fact that GDP could come in above 1 percent is pretty respectable given all the headwinds and the challenges the economy faced in the final three months of the year," said Ryan Sweet, a senior economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester Pennsylvania.

The Commerce Department will release its advance fourth-quarter GDP estimate at 8:30 a.m EST.

The data will be published as officials at the Federal Reserve wrap-up a two-day meeting. Though some of the factors holding back growth were temporary, the report is not expected to give officials at the U.S. central bank any reason to ease up on their ultra-accommodative policy stance.

Economists say a growth pace in excess of 3 percent would be needed over a sustained period to significantly lower high unemployment. Since the recession ended in mid-2009, the economy has struggled to hold above a 2 percent growth pace.

The economy was slammed by a monster storm in late October, which caused extensive damage along the East Coast and may have cut around 0.5 percentage point off fourth quarter growth.

The recovery also had to deal with uncertainty over the so-called fiscal cliff of scheduled tax hikes and budget cuts, which hurt confidence even though data suggests that households and businesses largely shrugged off the worries.

SOME BRIGHT SIGNS

Businesses, caught with too much inventory in their warehouses in the third quarter, appear to have slowed their stock building in the final three months of the year.

That slowdown could cut as much as a full percentage point from fourth-quarter GDP growth, economists estimate.

Government spending is expected to have been a drag on growth as well, as defense outlays reverse after a big burst. Government spending is seen contracting at a rate of at least 3 percent after a gain of 3.9 percent in the prior three months.

Export weakness is also expected to have weighed on growth. Exports have been hampered by a recession in Europe, a cooling Chinese economy and storm and strike-related port disruptions.

But not all the details in the report will be bleak.

Importantly, consumer and business spending are expected to show some strength.

Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of economic activity, is seen accelerating from the prior quarter's 1.6 percent growth pace, while business investment is expected to rebound after its first drop in 1-1/2 years.

That should leave a measure of domestic demand, which excludes inventories and trade, quickening a bit from the third quarter's 1.9 percent rate.

"Considering all of the uncertainty last quarter associated with the election and the fiscal cliff, a steady pace of underlying demand speaks volumes about the economy's resilience," said Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securities in New York.

"There is good reason to expect the pace of underlying demand will accelerate," he said.

The housing market was likely another bright spot. Residential construction is expected to have gained further momentum after notching a 13.5 percent growth pace in the third quarter.

Homebuilding is seen adding to growth last year for the first time since 2005 and its continued recovery should help ensure the economy remains on a modest growth path.

(Reporting by Lucia Mutikani, editing by Tim Ahmann)

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Office 365 brings the cloud home

Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium, a subscription-based version of the new Office software, debuts today.?

By Matthew Shaer / January 29, 2013

A Microsoft Office logo is shown on display at a Microsoft retail store in San Diego in this file photo from 2012. Microsoft has launched its new Office software, which features constantly updated, online access to documents from a range of devices.

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On Tuesday, Microsoft took the wraps off Office 365 Home Premium, a cloud-heavy and subscription-based version of its popular Office software.?

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Here's how it works: For $100 a year, or?$8.34 a month, Microsoft will allow you to access the Office 365 suite from up to five devices, including tablets, laptops, and PCs. The company will also throw in?20 GB of SkyDrive cloud storage and "60 free Skype world calling minutes per month to call mobile phones, landlines, or PCs around the world," per the Microsoft press release.?

Content across all five devices will be synced, meaning that you can create a Word document on your PC and edit on your tablet, and Microsoft will automatically update the software as new versions become available. (It's worth noting that the?Office 365 debuted in 2011,?but the early version focused on companies and students. This new iteration, Office 365 Home Premium, takes aim at everyone in between.)?

Daunted by the possibility of forking over a hundred bucks a year for X amount of years? Worry not. You can still get?a Traditional Home and Student Office 2013 suite for a one-time fee of $140; a Home and Business package will set you back $220.?

"This is Office reinvented as a consumer cloud service with all the full-featured Office applications people know and love, together with impressive new cloud and social benefits,"?Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer said in a statement.

The new Office has been kicking around since last July, when it debuted in beta form. For the most part, reviews of the software have been positive, with critics singling out the welcome addition of the app store, the varied storage options, and the clean, clear look of the interface.?

"Office 2013 is a top-notch product: fast, intuitive and feature-rich," concludes Dana Wollman of Engadget. "All of the new features work as promised, and are easy to get the hang of. At the same time, since the UI is similar to the previous version, it should be easy to master if you're upgrading from Office 2010."?

As for the subscription model, well, Preston Gralla of Computerworld says you should evaluate how you use Office before signing up. Here's Gralla:?

If you use Office on multiple computers, there's no doubt that the new subscription service could make sense for you. Not only will you save money, but the Web-based tools also make it easy to see at a glance all of your Office files on all of your computers. Given that you also get additional SkyDrive storage and 60 free minutes of Skype, it's a no-brainer.?If you only use Office on one or two computers, though, it's not clear whether you'll want to move to a subscription model. You'll pay more money for Office and the extras might not be worth it for you.

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'Hansel & Gretel' Tops Box Office With Modest $19 Million

Ensemble comedy 'Movie 43' flops, collecting just $5 million during its first weekend.
By Ryan J. Downey

Jeremy Renner in "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters"
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Boeing 787 probe shifts to monitoring system maker

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2013 file photo, officials inspect an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 which made an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport in Takamatsu, western Japan. The joint U.S. and Japanese investigation into the plane's battery problems has shifted from the battery-maker to the manufacturer of a monitoring system Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2013 file photo, officials inspect an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 which made an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport in Takamatsu, western Japan. The joint U.S. and Japanese investigation into the plane's battery problems has shifted from the battery-maker to the manufacturer of a monitoring system Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

TOKYO (AP) ? The joint U.S. and Japanese investigation into the Boeing 787's battery problems has shifted from the battery-maker to the manufacturer of a monitoring system.

Japan transport ministry official Shigeru Takano said Monday the probe into battery-maker GS Yuasa was over for now as no evidence was found it was the source of the problems.

Ministry officials said they will inspect Kanto Aircraft Instrument Co. on Monday as part of the ongoing investigation. It makes a system that monitors voltage, charging and temperature of the lithium-ion batteries.

All 50 of the Boeing 787s in use around the world are grounded after one of the jets operated by All Nippon Airways made an emergency landing in Japan earlier this month when its main battery overheated. Earlier in January, a battery in a Japan Airlines 787 caught fire while parked at Boston's Logan International Airport.

GS Yuasa shares jumped on the news it is no longer being investigated, gaining nearly 5 percent in Tokyo trading. The issue had plunged 12 percent after the battery problems surfaced in Japan.

Ministry officials stopped short of saying that Kanto's monitoring system was under any special scrutiny, saying it was part of an ongoing investigation.

"We are looking into affiliated parts makers," Takano said. "We are looking into possibilities."

Kyoto-based GS Yuasa declined to comment, noting that the investigation was still underway.

Hideaki Kobayashi, spokesman for Kanto Aircraft, based in Fujisawa, southwest of Tokyo, declined comment. He said it was too early to tell whether its system was behind the problems.

Last week, U.S. federal investigators said the JAL battery that caught fire showed evidence of short-circuiting and a chemical reaction known as "thermal runaway," in which an increase in temperature causes progressively hotter temperatures. It's not clear to investigators which came first, the short-circuiting or the thermal runaway.

Deliveries of the jet dubbed the Dreamliner were three years behind schedule because of manufacturing delays. Much of the aircraft is made by outside manufacturers, many of them major Japanese companies who make about 35 percent of the plane.

It is the first jet to make wide use of lithium-ion batteries, the kind usually found in laptops and other gadgets. They are prone to overheating and require additional systems to avoid fires.

Investigators have been looking at the remnants of the ANA flight's charred battery, but it is unclear whether the battery or a related part was behind its overheating. Investigators have said the ANA battery and the JAL battery did not receive excess voltage.

Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways was the "launch customer" for the 787, and has been forced to cancel services ? 643 domestic flights through Feb. 12, affecting 69,000 passengers, and 195 international flights through Feb. 18, affecting 13,620 passengers.

Japan Airlines, which has fewer 787s than ANA, has deployed other aircraft in its fleet, minimizing its flight cancellations.

Boeing, which competes against Airbus of France, has halted 787 deliveries. Boeing has orders for more than 800 of the Dreamliner planes.

The 787 is the first airliner made mostly from lightweight composite materials that boost fuel efficiency. It also relies on electronic systems rather than hydraulic or mechanical systems to a greater degree than any other airliner.

Analysts say customers won't come back to the 787 unless its safety is solidly assured.

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Report: Galaxy Tab 3 initially coming in 10.1-inch version, Galaxy Note 8.0 LTE planned

We've learned much about the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 over the past week, and now we're seeing further indications of what plans Samsung might have for its Galaxy Tab line. Samsung fansite SamMobile, which broke some of the Note 8.0 news a few days ago, now says that Samsung plans to launch new Galaxy Tabs this year, but only 10.1-inch versions are on the cards at the moment. The "Tab 3 7.0," it reports, has been mothballed in favor of the stylus-toting Galaxy Note 8.0. Depending on sales of the Note 8.0, SamMobile's source says, an 8.0-inch Tab 3 may be offered at some point in the future.

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ACFW-Arkansas presents: Lori A. Ramsey | American Christian ...

Lori A. Ramsey, wife (18 years), mother of six, and author is the February guest for ACFW-Arkansas.

Lori has several titles to her name, both non-fiction and fiction. She will be speaking on her book: How to Write a Book in 30 Days ? A Simple Guide through the steps from idea to writing the book to self-publishing to marketing. The book is available on Amazon.com. Check out Lori?s website at laramsey.com, or visit her author page on Facebook at LoriARamsey.

Our meeting starts at 1pm and is at the Administration Building of the White County Library at Spring Park in Searcy, Arkansas on February 9^th.

ACFW ? Arkansas is the Arkansas chapter of the American Christian Fiction Writers. Contact us for more information about ACFW or our meetings at acfwarinfo@gmail.com.

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• Before starting an online business, it is essential to decide upon a target audience. Questions like ? who are the target group, what are their needs, etc. are relevant to a business & should be duly considered.
• A well designed website is a very important aspect of online business. Since for an online business the website is going to be the point of contact between the sellers & customers, it is essential that the website is an appealing one & makes a positive impression on the visitors? minds.? A well designed website with good content can also attract word-of-mouth publicity for the business which will lead to increased visibility and more sales.
• An SEO optimized website is a must, if one wants to attract more of web traffic. There are other ways to increase the flow of visitors to a website too, like listing the business on Online Business Directories. This is a foolproof way of providing more exposure to the online business.
• The special offers, discounts and deals should be displayed in a prominent manner on the website, so that visitors can easily spot the offers & respond if they want to. For this, providing up to date contact information (of the company) on the website is also essential. Another important point that needs to be ensured is to keep the navigation part (while browsing the website) easy and hassle-free for the visitors.
• Building contacts is very essential for the online business in the long run. For this, an online business can make use of networking tools like blogging, twitter, Facebook, etc. to build up a network of useful contacts.

The best thing about Online Business is that it is easy to measure the results & to determine whether the strategies being implemented are having the desired effect or not. Implementing the tips mentioned above will ensure that the Online Business turns out to be a successful venture.

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The Age of the Earth--An Age-Old Question [Excerpt]

Lord Kelvin applied thermodynamics to the problem of Earth?s age. Although his estimates are now known to be incorrect by several orders of magnitude, they shook up the established theories of 19th-century geologists

By Paul S. Braterman

From Stars To Stalagmites: How Everything Connects Image: Paul S. Braterman

Editor's Note: This excerpt is from the first chapter of From Stars to Stalagmites: How Everything Connects, by Paul S. Braterman. Earlier in the chapter the author discusses the ideas among geologists in the 19th century that physical processes such as erosion had always occurred at the same rates and that the features of Earth were static, leading them to conclude that the planet had had no beginning nor would it have an end. Here he writes about how the ideas of physicist William Thomson would end up turning those theories on their heads, paving the way for our current understanding of Earth's early history and age.

Other developments, however, were to undermine this view. I have already mentioned steam engines and railways. Science in the mid 19th century was much occupied with matters concerning work and energy, and the efficiency of heat engines. This period saw the development of a new subject, thermodynamics, dedicated to such matters. One of the most fundamental results of thermodynamics (the First Law) is that energy is conserved. Another (the Second Law) is, that since energy tends to spread out and degrade irreversibly over time, there could be no such thing as a perpetual motion machine. Any real process, and certainly such a process as the uplift and erosion of the Earth, is operating against friction, with overall irreversible degradation of energy into heat, and this is something that cannot continue on its own indefinitely. Yet the Earth, as seen by Hutton and Lyell, appeared to be just one such machine, running through cycles of uplift and erosion with no visible source of energy to drive the process. Conflict between the thermodynamicists and the geologists was inevitable.

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, in whose honour the absolute temperature scale is now named, was among the most distinguished scientists of the late 19th century. His work straddled the boundary between pure and applied research. Among other things, he played a major role in establishing the relationships between heat, work, and electricity, worked out the theory for how much information (as we would now say) could be carried by the first submarine cable, and improved the form of the compass and the methods of navigation. He was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy (i.e. Physics) at Glasgow University when he was 22, and held that Chair for more than 50 years.

Kelvin was interested in the age of the Earth, considered as a problem in physics, from a very early stage. It was the subject of a prize undergraduate essay, and also of his inaugural lecture at Glasgow, now unfortunately lost. He was also a sharp critic of the science of geology as it was developing. He argued (correctly) that extreme uniformitarianism was not compatible with the laws of physics. Things must have been very different at some time in the past, and would be different again in the future. The Earth was losing heat and must have once been a molten ball. The Sun was emitting energy, could not have been there forever, and must eventually run out of energy, plunging the Earth into utter cold and darkness.

In a lengthy series of publications, Kelvin attempted to quantify these general objections. He developed a way of estimating the age of the Earth?s solid crust from cooling arguments. It is hot down a mine, and the deeper you go, the hotter. If you could go down deep enough, you would, at a depth of some miles, reach the Earth?s mantle, where the rock is actually molten. So if we have cooler rocks on top and hotter rocks lower down, heat must be flowing up through the rocks from the centre outwards. Knowing how fast the temperature increases as we go down, and how effectively the rocks of the crust conduct heat, Kelvin calculated how fast the Earth was losing heat. Where was this heat coming from? Kelvin thought he had the answer. He assumed (correctly) that the Earth was originally molten, and that heat must have dissipated as the Earth?s rocks solidified from an originally molten state (the opposite kind of process to ice absorbing heat as it melts). From an estimate of the thickness of the solid rock layer (the crust), and from measurements of how much heat it takes to melt a given amount of rock, he was able to estimate how much heat has been given out by this process of solidification. Then, by running the model backwards through time, he calculated that the thickness of the Earth?s solid crust corresponded to 100 million years. At this date before the present, all the rocks now on the surface would have been molten, and this, according to his argument, is therefore an absolute upper limit on the age of the solid crust of the Earth.

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Egyptians gather to mark uprising anniversary

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Egyptian protesters try to tear down a cement wall built to prevent them from reaching parliament and the Cabinet building near Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Egypt?s black-clad riot police fired tear gas in fierce dawn clashes with dozens of protesters. The violence which was soothed hours later in central Cairo comes on eve of the second anniversary of Egypt?s Jan. 25 uprising, which toppled longtime authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak in 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

Egyptian protesters try to tear down a cement wall built to prevent them from reaching parliament and the Cabinet building near Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Egypt?s black-clad riot police fired tear gas in fierce dawn clashes with dozens of protesters. The violence which was soothed hours later in central Cairo comes on eve of the second anniversary of Egypt?s Jan. 25 uprising, which toppled longtime authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak in 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

FILE - In this Tuesday Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, Demonstrators deface a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt. More Arabs are politically engaged than ever before, demanding to be heard. They're learning what it means to question everything and everyone after decades under heavy autocracies where discussion, innovation and public participation were discouraged or crushed. This week, as Egyptians prepare to mark on Friday the anniversary of the start of the revolution that swept aside Hosni Mubarak, the issue seems to come up at every panel that even tangentially touches on politics or strategy. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 file photo, an Egyptian protester shouts in front of anti-riot policemen who blocked a bridge in Cairo, Egypt. More Arabs are politically engaged than ever before, demanding to be heard. They're learning what it means to question everything and everyone after decades under heavy autocracies where discussion, innovation and public participation were discouraged or crushed. This week, as Egyptians prepare to mark on Friday the anniversary of the start of the revolution that swept aside Hosni Mubarak, the issue seems to come up at every panel that even tangentially touches on politics or strategy. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ali, File)

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 file photo, Egyptian anti-government activists clash with riot police in Cairo, Egypt. More Arabs are politically engaged than ever before, demanding to be heard. They're learning what it means to question everything and everyone after decades under heavy autocracies where discussion, innovation and public participation were discouraged or crushed. This week, as Egyptians prepare to mark on Friday the anniversary of the start of the revolution that swept aside Hosni Mubarak, the issue seems to come up at every panel that even tangentially touches on politics or strategy. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 file photo, Effigies of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak can be seen hanging from traffic lights, as Egyptian anti-government protesters gathered in Tahrir (Liberation) Square, watch U.S. President Barack Obama, not seen, live on a TV broadcast from Washington, speaking about the situation in Egypt. More Arabs are politically engaged than ever before, demanding to be heard. They're learning what it means to question everything and everyone after decades under heavy autocracies where discussion, innovation and public participation were discouraged or crushed. This week, as Egyptians prepare to mark on Friday the anniversary of the start of the revolution that swept aside Hosni Mubarak, the issue seems to come up at every panel that even tangentially touches on politics or strategy. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

CAIRO (AP) ? Egyptian opposition protesters are gathering in Cairo's Tahrir Square to mark the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime.

The protesters, mostly led by liberals and secularists, are using the anniversary to stage a show of strength in a bid to force President Mohammed Morsi to amend a disputed constitution drafted by his Islamist allies. They are also demanding freedom of expression and the independence of the judiciary.

Hundreds of thousands are expected to turn out for the rallies planned in Cairo and several major cities. Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups are staying off the streets to avoid clashes.

Friday's rallies come a day after opposition protesters battled police for hours near Tahrir. The clashes injured scores of opposition protesters.

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Millburn Fencing Kicks off - Millburn-Short Hills, NJ Patch

Millburns fencing season is in full swing and the boys team has started off strong.?

Beginning in mid-December, Millburn traveled to Governor Livingston and posted their first win at 17-10. The epee squad, led by starters Ricky Eschenbach, Albert Reiss and Keegan Caulfield, along with subs Josh Novick, Carrick Irwin and Alex Holmes led the team with an 8-1 record. ?

The team then traveled to Jersey City to meet up with St Peters Prep at Cobra Fencing Center. After a first round with Millburn leading 5-4, St Peters Prep returned the favor by winning the second round 5-4. St Peters Prep continued to fence strong and upset Millburn to win the third round 6-3 and the meet 15-12, handing Millburn their only loss of the season so far.

The following three meets, all at home, were won handedly by Millburn. The boys defeated Randolph 21-6 with saber squad Alec Tabatchnick, Dan Dembner and Ben Goldman along with subs Martin Krastev, Andrew Singer and Drew Vreeland going 9-0 on the night.

Next matchup was a 23-4 win over Somerville. This time the foil starters, Andrew Brod, Andrew Afable and Alex Brod, with the help of subs Alex Ren, Jan Piotrowiak and Michael Tai posted a 9-0 showing.

The foil squad had another 9-0 night against Montclair Kimberly, this time with subs Alex Ren and Tobias Simon. The epee squad posted a 7-2 night in the 20-7 victory.

A 16-11 win over Livingston on Jan. 10 gave Millburn their sixth win of the season. Alec Tabatchnick, Ben Goldman, Andrew Afable, Alex Brod and Albert Reiss all went 2-0 to help the Millers in the victory.

The ?Millers traveled to Bernards High School and added another victory to their record. An 8-1 night from the saber squad and a 7-2 posting from epee assisted in another 16-11 win. Alec Tabatchnick and Ricky Eschenbach had 3-0 nights while Dan Dembner, Ben Goldman, Andrew Afable and Albert Reiss all went 2-0.?

Millburns match up against West Essex on Jan. 15?had the Millers posting another 16-11 victory.? The saber squad starters, Dembner, Tabatchnick and Goldman all went 3-0 along with foil starter Andrew Brod.

The Millers last meet was a 21-6 win over Morristown. Millburn dominated and was able to put in early substitutions. Zack Sustiel, Anand Thandi, Daniel Gold, Misheel Boldbaatar, Ethan Hu, Satyen Gupta, Zachary Vinik and Wilson Chang all saw some action and helped Millburn with the win.

On Saturday, Jan. 12, Millburn fenced in the annual Cetrulo Tournament at Voorhees High School. Forty-eight teams from around the state competed in this all day event.

After the morning competition, all three of Millburns squads advanced to the top eight final pools. After the long day of fencing, the Millers had fenced well and ended up tied for 2nd^?with Watchung Hills in the annual event.?

Millburn girls fencing have had some exciting meets this season with all their wins coming down to their last few bouts.

The season started off with a 10-17 loss to Governor Livingston and a 11-16 loss to Oak Knoll. Chaerin Ahn went 2-1 in the Governor Livingston meet for Millburn.

Before the holiday break, Randolph came to Millburn and won a 15-12 decision over the Millers. Saber starter Dana Leichter went 3-0 with foilist Leyla Aytaman and epee fencer Karen Fich both going 2-1.

After the holiday break the girls came back focused and ready to fence. Somerville came to Millburn on Jan. 4?and were greeted with a 12-15 decision loss to the Millers.

Saber starters Dana Leichter, Rachel Legow and Jordan Hsu went 7-2 for the night. Julia Burzynski and Josie Brown each went 2-1 on the foil strip.

The next match up against Montclair Kimberly proved to be very exciting. After losing the first round 3-6 to the Cougars, the Millers rallied to win the second round 5-4.?

The Millers battled to bring the score to 10-11 only to be followed by two straight losing bouts.

With wins by foilist Josie Brown and epee fencers Jacqueline Zhu and Karen Fich it came down to the final bout tied at 13.? Senior Saachi Gupta took the strip and battled to win a 5-3 decision and mark the second win for the Millers. Fich and Zhu each went 3-0 in epee and Saber fencers Leichter and Hsu were 2-1 along with Gupta.

An 18-9 loss to Livingston on Jan. 10?put the Millers record at 2-4 for the season.?

Millburn epees had the best night for the team winning 6 of 9 bouts with Zhu posting a 3-0 record. Missing some starters for this match-up allowed for some substitutions with Evalina Patino, Grace,Chang, Ilina Ghosh, Naya, Ubushin Kiera Sullivan and Elizabeth Kuiken getting some time on the strip.

On the road for the next two meets, the girls first faced a very strong 13-0 Bernards team. Bernards proved to be dominant and handed the Millers a 22-5 loss. Leichter had 2 of the 5 wins for Millburn.

The team traveled to West Essex? on Jan. 15?where despite 3-0 performances by Leichter and Julia Burzynski, the Millers lost 17-10.

Millburns last meet against Morristown proved to be very exciting.

In the home meet, the Millers came out ahead with a 5-4 lead after the first round. The Colonials returned the favor and won the second round 5-4. Starting the third round, the sabers took 2 of the 3 bouts to bring the score to 11-10. Morristown fought back taking 2 of the 3 foil bouts.

As the crowd gathered and both teams boys and girls rooting for their fencers, the epees took to the strip. Morristown's O?shea fought for the first win 5-2.? Millburn's Karen Fich was up next and in a very close bout tied at 4, Fich scored the winning touch to bring the match to 13-13.

Final epee fencer Jacqueline Zhu met up against Morristowns Van Euwen. After Van Euwen scored the first 2 touches, Zhu came back to tie it. Another touch by Van Euwen and then one by Zhu brought the bout to 3-3 when time ran out. The 1-minute overtime coin toss gave priority? to Morristown. Zhu needed to get the final touch to win. 20 seconds into the last minute, Zhu scored and the gym erupted with cheers. The Millers record is now 3-6.

Millburn fencing's next meet is 6 p.m Tuesday, Jan. 22 at Millburn High School against Newark Academy.

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India mulls raising taxes on the rich ? Chidambaram comments ...

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: India should consider the argument for higher taxes on the ?very rich?, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said in comments likely to fuel speculation about steps he may take in next month?s budget to boost tax flows and narrow a yawning fiscal gap.

In an offthe- record pre-budget meeting with Chidambaram and Finance Ministry officials on Jan. 7, some economists pressed for higher taxes on the rich to make sure they are paying their fair share, alarming business lobby groups that warn such a move would stifle growth.

The Indian finance minister?s comments come against the backdrop of a global debate, from the United States to France, about whether the very wealthy pay enough taxes. The growth rate of Asia?s third-largest economy is widely expected to slip to a decade-low in fiscal 2012/13 as the government grapples with ballooning budget and current account deficits and high inflation. Chidambaram wants to plug holes in the nation?s finances by cutting expenditure and increasing revenues through improved tax collection. ?I think we should have stability in tax rates but we should consider the argument that very rich should be asked to pay a little more on some occasions, but that is not the view I am expressing. That is simply the argument I have heard and I am repeating,? Chidambaram said in a TV interview aired yesterday.

Chidambaram offered no definition of the ?very rich?, but his comments are likely to please many in his centre-left Congress party who feel recent reforms to further liberalize the economy favor corporate India at the expense of the common man. The Congress party is facing a tough fight to hold on to power in a series of state elections this year and general elections due by May 2014. ?It is good electoral politics but economically doesn?t make sense,? said Venugopal Dhoot, who controls India?s diversified Videocon Group and ranks 38th in Forbes? India rich list with a net worth of $1.5 billion. It was not immediately clear if Chidambaram was referring to higher taxes on income, assets or capital gains in a regime that currently makes India a good place for the rich to live.

At present the top income tax rate is 30 percent, which applies to earnings above 1.0 million rupees ($18,500) a year. There are just 35 million taxpayers in a country of 1.2 billion people, and of them about 1.5 million declare annual earnings of more than 1.0 million rupees, according to the Finance Ministry. There is no inheritance tax, an issue Chidambaram raised as a concern after being appointed finance minister last August.

In 2009, his predecessor withdrew a 10 percent surcharge on the 30-percent rate paid on earnings above 1.0 million rupees. A government official with direct knowledge of the debate in the Finance Ministry said the focus is on plugging loopholes in the collection of income tax paid by individuals and companies. ?There are options of revisiting the inheritance tax and surcharge on income tax paid by the individuals,? the official said, declining to say if these were firm proposals on the table for the budget to be unveiled around the end of February. ?Even if they bring (back) the surcharge that will only add about 15-20 billion rupees, which is a drop in the ocean and will be lost in the decline of tax revenues that will arise due to lower compliance if tax rates are raised,? said Surjit Bhalla, chairman of advisory firm Oxus Investments.

India?s richest people tend to own businesses and other assets and thus have comparatively little exposure to salaries tax. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani, for example, was paid salary and perks of 150 million rupees ($2.8 million) in the last fiscal year by Reliance Industries, which he controls. According to Forbes, Ambani is worth $21 billion. Similarly, Azim Premji, founder of India?s No 3 software exporter, Wipro Ltd, and India?s third-richest person with a net worth of $1.2 billion, took home a salary and allowances of $84,696 in the last financial year, less than half of what the company?s chief financial officer was paid.

Premji said at a gathering of business leaders in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday that in principle he was not against higher taxes for the wealthy.? Reuters

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The RSPB: News: Future brighter for wildlife crime fighters

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Hanging on to the hen harrier as an English nesting bird is a priority for the National Wildlife Crime Unit

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The RSPB has welcomed the Home Office?s and Defra?s agreement today to fund the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) for another year, beginning on 1 April 2013.

The Home Office and Defra have committed ?136,000 each for the next financial year, securing the future of the unit. The current funding arrangement was due to run out at the end of March.? No decisions have been taken for funding the unit beyond 31 March 2014.

Vital

RSPB Conservation Director Martin Harper said: ?The continued support for the unit is great news. The illegal killing of birds of prey is threatening the security of some species, with the hen harrier facing imminent extinction in England as a nesting species. The unit is a vital part of the UK?s fight against wildlife crime, and we?re relieved these crime fighters have been given a further year to provide the protection our wildlife deserves.?

The NWCU is jointly funded by the Home Office and Defra, with other contributions coming from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), ACPO Scotland, the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.

The NWCU leads the fight against serious and organised wildlife crime such as: rhino horn theft; ivory smuggling; and bird of prey persecution across the UK. The strategic unit collates intelligence and provides specialist skills and expertise to enforcement agencies including the Police and UK Border Agency. One hundred and thirty-eight MP?s have signed Early Day Motion 603 calling for Defra and the Home Office to maintain its current level of funding with long-term certainty beyond March 2013.

The work of the NWCU was warmly praised by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee in its recent inquiry into wildlife crime and is widely recognised as punching above its weight. The Committee called on the Government to maintain the current level of funding, with longer-term certainty, to allow the unit to focus on its core duties.

Key role

Martin Harper said, ?Both Richard Benyon at Defra and Jeremy Browne at the Home Office have played a key role in securing this funding for a unit which provides great value for money. For a relatively small amount, the UK has a unit with a world-wide reputation for delivering an effective response to the threats that criminals pose to our wildlife. What we now need is for its long-term future to be secured so that it can make strategic long-term plans.?

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Big bankers defend against critics amid crisis

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) ? Leading world bankers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, are on the defensive amid demands to regulate their industry more closely.

Bankers have been widely blamed for the financial crisis that has left more than 200 million people unemployed around the world and dramatically reduced the living standards of many in the developed world.

But James Dimon, chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Co., says "we're doing the right thing" and insists that the world needs banks so that people can buy houses and governments can function.

Axel Weber, chairman of Swiss-based bank UBS, acknowledges "excesses" of the past but says it is pointless to debate breaking up banks.

Both spoke Wednesday in Davos at the annual gathering of more than 2,500 corporate and political leaders.

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From dark hearts comes the kindness of humankind

Jan. 22, 2013 ? The kind?ness of humankind most likely devel?oped from our more sin?is?ter and self-serving ten?den?cies, accord?ing to Prince?ton Uni?ver?sity and Uni?ver?sity of Ari?zona research that sug?gests society's rules against self?ish?ness are rooted in the very exploita?tion they condemn.

The report in the jour?nal Evo?lu?tion pro?poses that altru?ism -- society's pro?tec?tion of resources and the col?lec?tive good by pun?ish?ing "cheaters" -- did not develop as a reac?tion to avarice. Instead, com?mu?nal dis?avowal of greed orig?i?nated when com?pet?ing self?ish indi?vid?u?als sought to con?trol and can?cel out one another. Over time, the direct efforts of the dom?i?nant fat cats to con?tain a few com?peti?tors evolved into a community-wide desire to guard its own well-being.

The study authors pro?pose that a sys?tem of greed dom?i?nat?ing greed was sim?ply eas?ier for our human ances?tors to man?age. In this way, the work chal?lenges dom?i?nant the?o?ries that self?ish and altru?is?tic social arrange?ments formed inde?pen?dently -- instead the two struc?tures stand as evo?lu?tion?ary phases of group inter?ac?tion, the researchers write.

Sec?ond author Andrew Gallup, a for?mer Prince?ton post?doc?toral researcher in ecol?ogy and evo?lu?tion?ary biol?ogy now a vis?it?ing assis?tant pro?fes?sor of psy?chol?ogy at Bard Col?lege, worked with first author Omar Eldakar, a for?mer Ari?zona post?doc?toral fel?low now a vis?it?ing assis?tant pro?fes?sor of biol?ogy at Ober?lin Col?lege, and William Driscoll, an ecol?ogy and evo?lu?tion?ary biol?ogy doc?toral stu?dent at Arizona.

To test their hypoth?e?sis, the researchers con?structed a sim?u?la?tion model that gauged how a com?mu?nity with?stands a sys?tem built on altru?is?tic pun?ish?ment, or selfish-on-selfish pun?ish?ment. The authors found that altru?ism demands a lot of ini?tial expen?di?ture for the group -- in terms of com?mu?nal time, resources and risk of reprisal from the pun?ished -- as well as advanced lev?els of cog?ni?tion and cooperation.

On the other hand, a con?struct in which a few prof?li?gate play?ers keep like-minded indi?vid?u?als in check involves only those mem?bers of the com?mu?nity -- every?one else can pas?sively enjoy the ben?e?fits of fewer peo?ple tak?ing more than their share. At the same time, the reign?ing indi?vid?u?als enjoy uncon?tested spoils and, in some cases, reverence.

Social orders main?tained by those who bend the rules play out in nature and human his?tory, the authors note: Tree wasps that police hives to make sure that no mem?ber other than the queen lays eggs will often lay illicit eggs them?selves. Can?cer cells will pre?vent other tumors from form?ing. Medieval knights would pil?lage the same civil?ians they read?ily defended from invaders, while neigh?bor?hoods ruled by the Ital?ian Mafia tra?di?tion?ally had the low?est lev?els of crime.

What comes from these arrange?ments, the researchers con?clude, is a sense of order and equal?ity that the group even?tu?ally takes upon itself to enforce, thus giv?ing rise to altruism.

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T-Mobile Has The Nexus 4 In Stock! You Guys! Hurry!

If you're quick, you can snag a Nexus 4 from T-Mobile right now for $199 on contact. Ever since its launch, the phone has been rather hard to purchase. Blame Google. Blame LG. But it doesn't matter 'cause right now you can buy one right this very second.

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Can A Messaging App Beat Standalone Social Networking? Khosla-Backed Stealth Startup Just.me Gears Up For Launch With iOS Beta

Just.me, the new project from Keith Teare, co-founder of TechCrunch and partner at Archimedes Labs, has launched in beta as an app for iOS -- ahead of a public release on the App Store, likely in a month. An Android app is coming soon -- due this quarter. Just.me is a unified messaging platform that offers private, shared and public messaging functionality within a single app interface.

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Animals on Drugs, Elliot Smith's Lost Sessions, and Prohibitionsists Unclear on the Concept

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People seek high-calorie foods in tough times

Public release date: 22-Jan-2013
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Contact: Anna Mikulak
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Association for Psychological Science

Bad news about the economy could cause you to pack on the pounds, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

The study shows that when there is a perception of tough times, people tend to seek higher-calorie foods that will keep them satisfied longer. When subconsciously primed with such messages, a "live for today" impulse is triggered causing people to consume nearly 40 percent more food than when compared to a control group primed with neutral words.

"The findings of this study come at a time when our country is slowly recovering from the onslaught of negative presidential campaign ads chalked with topics such as the weak economy, gun violence, war, deep political divides, just to name a few problem areas," said Juliano Laran, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Miami School of Business Administration, who conducted the research with doctoral student Anthony Salerno. "Now that we know this sort of messaging causes people to seek out more calories out of a survival instinct, it would be wise for those looking to kick off a healthier new year to tune out news for a while."

Further, when the same group primed with "tough times" messages was then told the food they were sampling was low-calorie, they consumed roughly 25 percent less of the food. According to the researchers this is because if people perceive that food resources are scarce, they place a higher value on food with more calories.

Several studies were conducted as part of the research. In the first one, the researchers invited study subjects to join in a taste test for a new kind of M&M. Half the participants were given a bowl of the new candy and were told that the secret ingredient was a new, high-calorie chocolate. The other half of the participants also received a bowl of M&Ms but were told the new chocolate was low-calorie. All of the participants were told that they could sample the product in order to complete a taste test evaluation form.

In reality, there was no difference in the M&Ms that the two groups were given to taste. The researchers were actually measuring how much participants consumed after they were exposed to posters containing either neutral sentences or sentences related to struggle and adversity. Those who were subconsciously primed to think about struggle and adversity ate closer to 70 percent more of the "higher-calorie" candy vs. the "lower-calorie" option, while those primed with neutral words did not significantly differ in the amount of M&M's consumed.

"It is clear from the studies that taste was not what caused the reactions, it was a longing for calories," continued Laran. "These findings could have positive implications for individuals in the health care field, government campaigns on nutrition, and companies promoting wellness. And, certainly beware of savvy food marketers bearing bad news."

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For more information about this study, please contact: Anthony Salerno at asalerno12687@hotmail.com.

The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "Life-History Strategy, Food Choice, and Caloric Consumption" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.

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Public release date: 22-Jan-2013
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Contact: Anna Mikulak
amikulak@psychologicalscience.org
202-293-9300
Association for Psychological Science

Bad news about the economy could cause you to pack on the pounds, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

The study shows that when there is a perception of tough times, people tend to seek higher-calorie foods that will keep them satisfied longer. When subconsciously primed with such messages, a "live for today" impulse is triggered causing people to consume nearly 40 percent more food than when compared to a control group primed with neutral words.

"The findings of this study come at a time when our country is slowly recovering from the onslaught of negative presidential campaign ads chalked with topics such as the weak economy, gun violence, war, deep political divides, just to name a few problem areas," said Juliano Laran, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Miami School of Business Administration, who conducted the research with doctoral student Anthony Salerno. "Now that we know this sort of messaging causes people to seek out more calories out of a survival instinct, it would be wise for those looking to kick off a healthier new year to tune out news for a while."

Further, when the same group primed with "tough times" messages was then told the food they were sampling was low-calorie, they consumed roughly 25 percent less of the food. According to the researchers this is because if people perceive that food resources are scarce, they place a higher value on food with more calories.

Several studies were conducted as part of the research. In the first one, the researchers invited study subjects to join in a taste test for a new kind of M&M. Half the participants were given a bowl of the new candy and were told that the secret ingredient was a new, high-calorie chocolate. The other half of the participants also received a bowl of M&Ms but were told the new chocolate was low-calorie. All of the participants were told that they could sample the product in order to complete a taste test evaluation form.

In reality, there was no difference in the M&Ms that the two groups were given to taste. The researchers were actually measuring how much participants consumed after they were exposed to posters containing either neutral sentences or sentences related to struggle and adversity. Those who were subconsciously primed to think about struggle and adversity ate closer to 70 percent more of the "higher-calorie" candy vs. the "lower-calorie" option, while those primed with neutral words did not significantly differ in the amount of M&M's consumed.

"It is clear from the studies that taste was not what caused the reactions, it was a longing for calories," continued Laran. "These findings could have positive implications for individuals in the health care field, government campaigns on nutrition, and companies promoting wellness. And, certainly beware of savvy food marketers bearing bad news."

###

For more information about this study, please contact: Anthony Salerno at asalerno12687@hotmail.com.

The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "Life-History Strategy, Food Choice, and Caloric Consumption" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/afps-psh012213.php

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