Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/disruptions-social-media-images-form-a-new-language-online/
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Disruptions: Social Media Images Form a New Language Online ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Disruptions: Social Media Images Form a New Language Online ... Not surprisingly, the largest social networking companies are spending billions of dollars to be the place where consumers latch onto these visual nods. ... According to Instagram, more than 50 percent of people who use the service are outside North America, and global use of social sites continues to rise each year, with more than 63 percent of people online logging into a social media Web site at ...
Coulter: Immigration push gives Democrats '30 million unskilled, law ...
By Arturo Garcia
Saturday, June 29, 2013 20:58 EDT
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In a far-ranging interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, conservative columnist Ann Coulter said that the immigration bill recently passed by the Senate was not only akin to the death of the entire Supreme Court, but that it signaled the end of the Republican party.
?All the Democrats care about here is the votes,? Coulter said on Hannity?s radio show on Friday. ?They don?t care that they?re legalizing law-breakers, they don?t care that they are going to massively harm African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans who dominate the low-wage professions by bringing in 30 million unskilled, law-breaking voters for the Democratic Party.?
The bill, which was approved by the Senate in a 68-32 vote on Thursday, establishes a 13-year path to citizenship for the country?s 11 million undocumented immigrants, and won Republican support by also adding border security benchmarks.
Regardless, Coulter continued to refer to it as an ?amnesty bill,? while fretting that most of these potential new citizens skewed heavily toward voting for Democrats, accurately pointing out Pew Research Center data showing increased support for marriage equality and far-ranging support for President Barack Obama?s re-election bid in 2012.
Coulter also said that Latinos reported ?more negative associations? with capitalism than socialism than members of the Occupy Wall Street movement, but the Pew center noted that most Latino respondents replied negatively to both terms. She also alluded to research indicating heavy Latino support for both the Affordable Care Act and reproductive choice for women.
?Any politician who claims to be pro-life but supports amnesty is a liar,? she continued. ?If you bring in 30 million voters who overwhelmingly support socialism, gay marriage, abortion, Obamacare, then you don?t believe in any of those things. This is changing the electorate so that the entire country becomes California and Republicans never win another election.?
As the Senate bill makes its way to the House of Representatives for consideration, Colter said the passage of new legislation would be like a plane crash killing the entire Supreme Court and Obama replacing the justices with ?9 Ruth Bader Ginsburgs.?
?Do not tell me, Republicans, that voting to confirm nine Ruth Bader Ginsburgs is just another vote,? she argued. ?Amnesty is not just another vote. It is the end of the pro-life movement. It?s the end of the marriage movement. It?s the end of trying to repeal Obamacare. It is the end of everything.?
?I?ve actually come around to your way of thinking on the House,? Hannity answered. ?I think the House should leave it alone.?
Hannity told Coulter that ?sources? told him that Republican members of the House of Representatives supported a five-year ?temporary legal status? clause for undocumented immigrants, which would be rescinded if border security guidelines went unmet.
?That?s not even a believable fig leaf,? Coulter responded. ?They really think we?re stupid. The Democrats must be sitting back thinking, ?I can?t believe Republicans are falling for this.??
Listen to Coulter?s interview with Hannity, as posted by Media Matters on Friday, below.
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Who's the top earner in White House?
By Roberta Rampton and Margaret Chadbourn
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty-two of President Barack Obama's top advisers make the top White House salary of $172,200 per year - but there is one official who earns 30 percent more.
It's not Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. Not Obama's senior adviser and close friend Valerie Jarrett. Not Cecilia Munoz, who is overseeing White House efforts on immigration reform, nor Lisa Monaco, who advises Obama on homeland security and counterterrorism.
The best-paid person of the 460 people who work at the White House is Seth Wheeler, a senior adviser at the National Economic Council, who is crafting Obama's strategy on housing finance.
One of the newest appointees, Wheeler earns $225,000, according to the annual White House report on its $37.9 million payroll released on Friday.
Wheeler has been detailed to the role from the Federal Reserve where the pay scale is higher, a White House official explained.
It also means he earns more than his boss, Gene Sperling, the director of the National Economic Council, who earns the White House limit of $172,200.
At the Fed, Wheeler was chief of staff for the Office of Financial Stability Policy and Research.
He is an ex-Morgan Stanley banker who worked for former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson during the Bush Administration, and was a key architect with the Obama administration's mortgage modification program, helping craft the signature housing aid program known as the Home Affordable Modification Program.
"His pay reflects the anomaly of the Fed pay scale," said Phillip Swagel, who served in the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush.
"It is noteworthy that the NEC is pretty political so it's fascinating that they have a Fed employee in a political position," Swagel said.
Federal employees who work for banking regulators, including the Fed, have higher pay scales than employees of other federal departments, said Julia Gordon, director of housing finance and policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.
"I'm sure if he went back to Morgan Stanley, he'd be making 10 times that," Gordon said.
Wheeler replaces Jim Parrott, who had been detailed to the White House from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and earned $144,385 last year. Parrott left the White House in January, and recently joined the Urban Institute.
Wheeler's salary approaches that of Vice President Joe Biden, who this year is poised to earn $230,700. Obama's salary is $400,000.
HOUSING SYSTEM 'IN SHAMBLES'
The housing advisor position has been held by four different people during the Obama administration, punctuated by lengthy vacancies between advisers, said Gordon, who hopes the White House now begins to takes a more active role on the issue.
"Our housing system is still in shambles," Gordon said.
"Just because people hear that prices are going back up doesn't mean we've fixed anything. A lot of the underlying problems are still there."
One of the key issues is reforms for mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were seized by the government in 2008 as the housing crisis threatened their solvency.
The companies own or guarantee half of all U.S. mortgages and have been propped up with $187.5 billion in taxpayer funds.
Democrats and Republicans want to reduce the government's role and put more of the risk of lending onto the private sector, but they disagree on how far to go.
The salary report can be found at - http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/annual-records/2013.
(Reporting by Roberta Rampton; editing by Jackie Frank)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/makes-most-obamas-white-house-225727881.html
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Video: End of the Year Dow Forecast
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Scientists produce Star Trek-like deflector device for cancer-free ...
Scientists at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK are working on a Star Trek-like deflector shield to enable the transport of humans between planets and stars without subjecting them to lethal doses of cosmic radiation.?This research comes at a vital time, as numerous groups, including NASA, look to send humans to Mars ? but without adequate shielding from the Sun?s harsh cosmic rays, it could be a one-way trip full of vomiting, diarrhea, and more serious symptoms of radiation poisoning, such as death.
Other than time and money, one of the biggest barriers to sending humans to other planets is Solar radiation (from flares and coronal ejections) and galactic cosmic rays. The exact origin of GCRs is unknown, but it?s theorized that they originate in supernovae and the dense nuclei of other galaxies. In any case, both forms of radiation consist of high-energy protons that bombard every square inch of the Solar System, including Earth. Being hit by a high-energy proton is bad news, and if you get hit by enough you will develop radiation sickness, your tissues will degenerate, and you might develop cancer.
Fortunately, here on Earth you?re protected from Solar radiation and GCRs by a number of awesome effects. The Earth?s atmosphere absorbs most Solar radiation. The Earth?s magnetic field deflects all but the most powerful GCRs. There?s also an interplanetary magnetic field, produced by the Sun, which deflects GCRs at the edge of the Solar System (the heliopause; the region of space that Voyager-1 recently traversed). As a result, we receive very little radiation from space here on Earth ? about 0.4 milli-Sieverts (mSv) per year. Astronauts aboard the Apollo missions, though, which traveled far away from Earth?s atmosphere and magnetic field, received on the order of 1.2 mSv per day, or 1100 times more radiation than those of us down on Earth.
XKCD?s radiation dose chart. Click to zoom in.
As we know from XKCD?s amazing Radiation Dose Chart (pictured above), we know that a dosage of around 100 mSv in a single year increases your chance of developing cancer. It?s estimated that a trip to Mars could expose the astronauts to as much as 1,000 mSv (1Sv) or more. Solar radiation and GCRs are unlikely to cause acute radiation poisoning ? you need a bigger dose in a shorter period ? but unless you want everyone to develop cancer, or spend the entire trip vomiting and ejecting liquid poop, spacecraft will need adequate radiation shielding.
Which leads us neatly onto the?Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK, which has devised a ?mini magnetosphere? that essentially recreates the protection provided by the Earth?s magnetic field. The scientists have so far used the magnetosphere to protect a scale spacecraft from radiation (pictured right, in a plasma stream), and they?re now working on a concept spacecraft,?called Discovery, with a full-scale magnetosphere that could theoretically take humans to Mars.
The advantage of the magnetosphere method is that it?s significantly lighter than conventional radiation shielding, which usually consists of thick metal plates. Other viable methods have popped up in recent months, though. Most notably, Inspiration Mars, which will send two humans to Mars in 2018, will employ a radiation shield fashioned out of food, water, and poop stored against the hull of the spacecraft.
Now read:?NASA working on faster-than-light space travel, says warp drives are ?plausible?
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How Evolution Gave Humans the Ability to Throw a Fastball
As babies, it doesn't take long for us to realize that?as fun as it is to grab on to everything within our reach?it's even more fun to chuck those things as far and as hard as we can. And now, thanks to a new study, we know the reason behind that delightfully destructive pitcher's instinct?and it all started with Homo erectus almost two million years ago.
Neil Roach, lead author of the study and professor at George Washington University, is no stranger to the study of throwing mechanics. Previously, though, his test subjects included retired Hollywood chimpanzees, and he ultimately found that, though these star chimps could toss with some accuracy, they were severely lacking in power. Thanks to their high shoulders, chimps are stuck with throwing 20mph underhand balls at best. So this time, wanting to see why that evolutionary divide might have occurred, Roach and his colleagues used motion capture technology and 20 (human) members of Harvard's baseball team to construct 3D representations of every leg, hip, torso, elbow, and shoulder movement behind a fastball.
Ultimately, Roach discovered that the trick behind our speedy toss is the elastic energy produced in our shoulder rotation?the fastest motion a human body is capable of. As Discover Magazine notes:
Professional pitchers can reach a rotation of 9,000 degrees per second. At that speed, if the arm could rotate a full 360 degrees it would complete 25 rotations in one second.
A fact that may be a fun little bonus for us, but for our ancestors, the ability to throw with force could have meant the difference between life and death. Stronger throws allowed easier hunting, which meant more food and a better chance of survival.
There are three upper body anatomical shifts, in particular, that allow our faster throws, and using fossil records, the researchers were able to determine that we started evolving towards this more advantageous ability around two million years ago. Of course, evidence regarding ancient humans' hunting practices is limited, but with the facts we do have, it seems highly likely that baseball's biggest stars owe it all to good ol' Homo erectus. [Nature via Discover Magazine]
Top image of pre-haircut Tim Lincecum from here.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/how-evolution-gave-humans-the-ability-to-throw-a-fastba-597597447
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Enriching Your Child's Education - SpecialEdPost
Reading together is an enriching and bond-creating experience.
Summer time can be a great time for supplementing your children?s education by planning some additional activities at home.
As a parent, one of your highest priorities is ensuring that your child receives an exceptional education. After all, the quality of her education will play a very real role in her success as an adult. When school systems seem to be more focused on ensuring that kids pass standardized tests through memorization and repetition than providing an actual education, though, it can be quite frustrating. Taking matters into your own hands by actively working with your child to supplement her education at home is one of the most effective ways of ensuring that she meets and exceeds her academic goals, but it?s not always easy to know where to start. These tips will help you ensure that your little one is learning and growing intellectually, even if the education provided by a public school system is less than thorough.
??Assess Her Actual Skills ? Before you can help your child to improve academically, you must first know where she stands. Since objectively assessing her existing skills can be difficult for any parent, it?s wise to look into online or print tests that will provide you with real, incontestable results so you know where to begin.
??Rethink Your Stance on Screen Time ? For babies and young toddlers, the American Academy of Pediatrics has long held a stance of severely limiting screen time. After all, the very young brain learns from things that respond to speech and interaction, something a television just can?t do. Older kids, however, can learn from educational and intellectually worthwhile electronics and computer games. In fact, some kids may learn better that way. Before you take an aggressive approach to banning electronics usage, consider the benefits of educational software and programming.
??Take Advantage of Library Programs ? Even families with a tight budget can take advantage of programs at the local library, as they tend to be very low cost or even free. These programs also tend to be aimed at boosting literacy skills and fostering a love of reading, something that will have a very real effect on your child?s ability to learn and comprehend new concepts.
? Read Together ? Local library programs are great, and can have a very real impact on your child. One thing that trumps the library in terms of value and inspiration, however, is reading together. Your child wants to spend time with you, so making a habit of reading together from an early age is one of the most effective measures you can take to supplement her formal education at home.
??Play Trivia Games ? Family game night is a great way to spend time together having fun, but it can also be an exciting opportunity to enrich your kids? general knowledge skills if you?re playing trivia games.
Read more at?How to Supplement Your Child?s Education at Home.
[Via Full-Time Nanny]
Source: http://specialedpost.com/2013/06/28/enriching-your-childs-education/
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