Saturday, March 31, 2012

RIM's first loss in 7 years dims outlook further: analysts

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Jerry Lee Lewis weds for 7th time in Mississippi

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2009 file photo, Jerry Lee Lewis performs at the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concert at Madison Square Garden in New York. Lewis has married for a seventh time in Mississippi, and the new bride is his cousin's ex-wife. The Adams County circuit clerk's office said the marriage license shows Lewis was married March 9 to Judith Ann Coghlan Brown. The 76-year-old Lewis, also known as "The Killer," is famous for hits like "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, file)

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2009 file photo, Jerry Lee Lewis performs at the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concert at Madison Square Garden in New York. Lewis has married for a seventh time in Mississippi, and the new bride is his cousin's ex-wife. The Adams County circuit clerk's office said the marriage license shows Lewis was married March 9 to Judith Ann Coghlan Brown. The 76-year-old Lewis, also known as "The Killer," is famous for hits like "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, file)

(AP) ? Rock 'n' roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis has married for a seventh time in Mississippi, and the new bride is his cousin's ex-wife.

The Adams County circuit clerk's office said the marriage license shows Lewis was married March 9 to Judith Ann Coghlan Brown in Natchez, Miss. The 76-year-old Lewis, also known as "The Killer," is famous for top hits like "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On."

The bride, who is in her early 60s, was previously married to one of Lewis' cousins and was close to his daughter, Phoebe Lewis, said the bride's sister, Carolyn Coghlan Gremillion of Madison. She said Brown started working for Lewis several years ago as his caretaker.

Gremillion said the wedding was small. The only guests were Gremillion and her husband, and Lewis' sister and her husband.

"She's real happy," Gremillion told The Associated Press on Friday. "They have a really very loving relationship. I guess she's probably really taken better care of him than anybody."

Gremillion said Lewis had a wild reputation when he was younger, but: "He's a very different man now. You know how people change as they grow older. He's a very spiritual man."

Calls to the Lewis home in Nesbit reached a voice mailbox that was full. Lewis' daughter lives with him.

Judith Brown was previously married to Lewis' cousin Rusty. They divorced in 2010.

Rusty's older sister, Myra Gale Brown, married Lewis in 1957 when she was 13 and was his third wife. That marriage caused shockwaves for Lewis' career.

Lewis' last marriage ended in 2004 when he divorced Kerrie McCarver after 20 years together.

In 2010, Lewis announced a book deal with It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins.

Alberto Rojas, director of publicity for It Books, said Friday that the book deal is still on and that the memoir will be released in 2013.

___

Associated Press writers Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson and Stacey Plaisance in New Orleans contributed to this story.

Associated Press

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Achieving you Personal Finance Goals the Right Way | Personal ...

If you want to achieve your financial goal, don?t fall for get-rich-quick scams. Instead look at the possibilities offered by sound financial planning that can help you achieve your goal. If you deem this tedious and hard to follow, this is understandable especially if you are not taking home a fat paycheck. As they say, quitters never win; in this game plan, all you need is a steeled resolve to stick to your plans to achieve your dream of financial security.

Have Goal Will Plan

Achieving your financial goals is best started with a financial plan. Your personal finance goals should be clearly spelled out. Devising a safety net for the unpredictable future, demands you lay down all your financial cards, in the hope that someday the plan will pay dividends when you most need it.

Ask yourself what you need to have a secure future and your questions will determine the way your goals will be achieved. Achieving your goals may seem highly improbable because you fail to see the numerous possibilities and options where to put your money.

Sound financial advice can bring you nearer to your aspirations. Depending on your purpose, your financial plan will be adjusted accordingly. Whether you are simply hoping to pay your insurance faithfully to the last dollar or to see your investments working, things will depend on your determine to succeed

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Plan for Financial Stability

Once the plan is finalized, it is your turn to make it work. Stay focused on the plan. Financially successful people say it is a difficult task to adhere strictly to the plan but they plodded on looking forward and the financial gains waiting for them at the end.

To stay focused towards your dream of security and gains, ask yourself the following questions:

-What do you wish to achieve?

-How much money do you need to invest?

-How long will it take to realize your financial gains?

-Can you fit in the additional drain in your budget?

With a financial planner to monitor your accomplishments, you can always be on guard to do what you are supposed to do?follow the plan to the letter to achieve your financial security and eventually reap your financial gains.

With a financial planner to monitor your accomplishments, you can always be on guard to do what you are supposed to do?follow the plan to the letter to achieve your financial security and eventually reap your financial gains.

Stay Determined

Want to do the plan without an expert?s help? Take paper and pen and list your financial goals Separate your short-term goals from long-term goals. Estimate the cost for each goal and how long do you need to achieve it?6 months? A year?

Divide the cost of the amount in weeks and that?s how much you are going to put into it weekly. Once you?ve determined your target date, settle for it and start saving. Whatever you have outlined in your personal finance plan, follow it.

Source: http://www.finanzweb.org/achieving-you-personal-finance-goals-the-right-way.htm

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Past decade's extreme weather is manmade, new study suggests

Extreme rainfall and heatwaves over the past decade have been linked to global warming in a new Nature Climate Change study. The relationship between storms and warming is less clear.

Extreme weather events over the past decade have increased and were "very likely" caused by manmade global warming, a study in the journal Nature Climate Change said on Sunday.

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Scientists at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Research used physics, statistical analysis and computer simulations to link extreme rainfall and heat waves to global warming. The link between warming and storms was less clear.

"It is very likely that several of the unprecedented extremes of the past decade would not have occurred without anthropogenic global warming," said the study.

The past decade was probably the warmest globally for at least a millennium. Last year was the eleventh hottest on record, the World Meteorological Organisation said on Friday.

Extreme weather events were devastating in their impacts and affected nearly all regions of the globe.

They included severe floods and record hot summers in Europe; a record number of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic in 2005; the hottest Russian summer since 1500 in 2010 and the worst flooding in Pakistan's history.

Last year alone, the United States suffered 14 weather events which caused losses of over $1 billion each.

The high amount of extremes is not normal, the study said.

Even between March 13 and 19 this year, historical heat records were exceeded in more than 1,000 places in North America.

For some types of extreme weather, there are physical reasons why they would increase in a warming climate. For example, if average temperature rises, then so will the number of heat records if all else remains equal, the study said.

Natural weather patterns like El Nino or La Nina can also cause highs in global temperature or increased precipitation which leads to floods.

"Single weather extremes are often related to regional processes, like a blocking high pressure system or natural phenomena like El Nino," said Stefan Rahmstorf, co-author of the study and chair of the institute's earth system analysis department.

"These are complex processes that we are investigating further. But now these processes unfold against the background of climatic warming. That can turn an extreme event into a record-breaking event."

Recent years have seen an exceptionally large number of record-breaking and destructive heatwaves in many parts of the world and research suggests that many or even most of these would not have happened without global warming.

Currently, nearly twice as many record hot days as record cold days are being observed both in the United States and Australia, the length of summer heatwaves in western Europe has almost doubled and the frequency of hot days has almost tripled over the period from 1880 to 2005.

Extremely hot summers are now observed in about 10 percent of the global land area, compared with only about 0.1-0.2 percent for the period 1951 to 1980, the study said.

The link between storms and hurricanes and global warming is less conclusive but at least some of recent rainfall extremes can be attributed to human influences on the climate, it added.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/science/~3/9_UsFHovrL4/Past-decade-s-extreme-weather-is-manmade-new-study-suggests

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Building lightweight trains

ScienceDaily (Mar. 28, 2012) ? The less trains weigh, the more economical they are to run. A new material capable of withstanding even extreme stresses has now been developed. It is suitable for a variety of applications, not least diesel engine housings on trains -- and it makes these components over 35 percent lighter than their steel and aluminum counterparts.

In their efforts to render cars and trains more economical, manufacturers are trying to find lighter materials to replace those currently used. But there is a problem: Lighter materials tend not to be as tough as steel or aluminum, so they cannot simply be used in place of these metals. Rather, it is a question of manufacturers deciding which components can really afford to have weight shaved off and how to integrate them into the overall systems.

Working together with Bombardier GmbH, KraussMaffei Kunststofftechnik GmbH, Bayer MaterialScience AG, DECS GmbH, the DLR's Institute for Vehicle Concepts, the University of Stuttgart and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT in Pfinztal have now developed a polyurethane-based sandwich material that is extremely resilient. "To demonstrate the material, we manufactured a component that is subject to significant stresses and which has to fulfill a number of requirements -- the diesel engine housing for a train," says Jan Kuppinger, a scientist at the ICT. This housing is located beneath the passenger compartment, i.e. between the car and the tracks. Not only does it shield the engine against flying stones and protect the environment from any oil that might escape, but in the event of a fire, it also stops the flames from spreading, thus meeting the flame retardant and fire safety standards for railway vehicles. Kuppinger adds: "By using this new material, we can reduce the component's weight by over 35 percent -- and cut costs by 30 percent."

The researchers opted for a sandwich construction to ensure component stability: Glass fiber reinforced polyurethane layers form the outer facings, while the core is made of paper honeycomb. Polyurethane is a bulk plastic combining two substances. Since it can be adapted to fulfill various requirements, it is referred to as a 'customizable material'. In foamed form it is soft, and can be used for example as a material for mattresses; in compact form it is strong and hard. The researchers began by incorporating various additives into their polyurethane, altering it in such a way as to ensure it would meet fire safety standards. Then, the partners optimized the standard manufacturing process, fiber spraying, by developing a mixing chamber which allows even more complex structures to be produced in any required size. The diesel engine housing they made is approximately 4.5 meters long and more than 2 meters wide.

"This is the first time it has proved possible to use this process to manufacture such a large and complex component that also satisfies the structural requirements," states Kuppinger. Previously, one problem encountered with fiber spraying was that it was impossible to determine the precise thickness of the polyurethane top layers. But now the researchers have found a way to do this, using computer tomography to inspect the manufactured layers and then applying a specially-adapted evaluation routine to establish their exact thickness. This information helps to simulate the strength of the component, as well as its ability to withstand stresses.

The scientists produced their diesel engine housing demonstrator as part of the PURtrain project, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The demonstrator passed its first strength test -- in which the scientists placed it in a test rig and then applied forces to it at various locations, measuring the extent to which it deformed -- with flying colors. In the next stage, the researchers want to trial the component in a proper field test. If that, too, proves successful, it will then be possible to use the material to make roof segments, side flaps and wind deflectors for the automobile and commercial vehicle industry, and to ramp up the manufacturing process to produce medium volumes of between 250 and 30,000 units.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Look for Less: Anja Mazur?s Sporty Chic

Alessandra Ambr?sio's little girl looks adorable in her Wildfox sweatshirt and New Balance sneakers. Check her out, plus our look for less.

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

APNewsBreak: Europe faces jihadist threat

Police officers search for clues outside Mohamed Merah's apartment building in Toulouse, France, Friday March 23, 2012. Mohamed Merah, who boasted of killing seven people to strike back at France died on Thursday after being shot in the head by police as he jumped out of his apartment after a fierce gunfight with police, authorities said(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

Police officers search for clues outside Mohamed Merah's apartment building in Toulouse, France, Friday March 23, 2012. Mohamed Merah, who boasted of killing seven people to strike back at France died on Thursday after being shot in the head by police as he jumped out of his apartment after a fierce gunfight with police, authorities said(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

(AP) ? With France's deadly attacks, Islamic terror has apparently struck once more in the heart of Europe ? and authorities say there's a dangerous twist: the emergence of homegrown extremists operating independent of any known networks, making them hard to track and stop.

"We have a different kind of jihadist threat emerging and it's getting stronger," Europol chief Rob Wainwright told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from The Hague. "It is much more decentralized and harder to track."

France's motorcycle gunman traumatized a nation heading into presidential elections and spread fear across the continent that the specter of al-Qaida was once again threatening daily life.

Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent, sowed his terror over the course of nine days, killing paratroopers, Jewish children and a rabbi. He died Thursday in a shootout after police raided the Toulouse apartment where he had been holed up.

Merah traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan and had claimed to have trained with al-Qaida there, but French authorities said Thursday they had no evidence that he had any contact with terrorist groups or that al-Qaida had ordered the killings.

Wainwright warned that Europe faces a tough challenge ahead.

Combating individuals acting in apparent isolation, he said, will take smarter measures in monitoring the Internet, better intelligence and international cooperation in counterterrorism efforts.

And he conceded there were limits to what law enforcement officials can do. "We can't police the Internet," he said.

Other European terror authorities echoed that view, saying that apprehending suspicious individuals with no clear connections to terrorist networks is legally problematic.

"We have one law for war, one law for peace, but we don't have a law for the current situation," said Alain Chouet, a former intelligence director at France's DGSE spy agency.

"If we stopped (Merah) three weeks ago, what would people have said? 'Why are you stopping him? What did he do?'"

German officials expressed the same frustration in the case of Arid Uka, a Kosovo Albanian who gunned down two American airmen and wounded two others last year at the Frankfurt airport before being captured. Aside from illegally acquiring a handgun, the 22-year-old, who was convicted last month, had committed no crime until he shot his first victim in the back of the head.

"A group preparing an attack with bombs or other instruments is running the danger of being detected," said a high-ranking German intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

"A single person or a group of two, they have a greater chance of not being observed by security forces or getting tracked by police. It is very hard to find individuals like this and stop them from acting."

Some experts believe that al-Qaida's new strategy is, in fact, to stop acting like a network.

Encouraging individuals to carry out terrorist attacks, without organizing them in cells, has become integral to the terrorist organization's modus operandi, said Noman Benotman, a former jihadist with links to al-Qaida and who now works for the London-based Quilliam Foundation.

"They are part of the overall al-Qaida strategy, and they are part of the instructions ? or suggestions, if you will ? for groups and individuals seeking guidance or inspiration," he said.

Benotman, who maintains contact with the jihadist community, said that since the death of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida's strategy has evolved to include more individual attacks, rather than the heavily choreographed and expensive operations seen in the Sept. 11 attacks or the London suicide bombings in 2005.

The German intelligence official noted that al-Qaida theorist Abu Musab al-Suri published a book about 10 years ago putting forth the strategy of "leaderless resistance." The official said that with Internet propaganda, "you don't need any teacher or some other person any more to push people toward these actions."

Wainwright also sees al-Qaida's hidden influence in the France attacks.

"He was acting in line with al-Qaida inspired tactics, and although it may not have been closely coordinated, it was certainly al-Qaida inspired," he said.

Wainwright said Merah lacked the professionalism of terrorists of the past. He said the gunman seemed divided between wanting to increase his death toll and publicizing his acts by filming his deeds and bragging about them.

"It is very telling that he filmed his exploits," he said. "Still, in spite of the mistakes, he managed to carry out significant damage. ... That is the challenge for us."

A British security official said the key to targeting this brand of individualized terror was figuring out whether people were simply thinking extremist thoughts or would truly turn violent.

"We prefer the term self-starting over lone wolf," the official told the AP on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his work.

"But the reality is that there are hosts of people like this out there and most of them will never do anything. You have to have information to suggest they are about to do something. Unfortunately, there are no thought police."

There are, nonetheless, plenty of recent examples of the dangers of terrorists working in isolation:

? Maj. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting rampage in 2009.

? Taimour Abdulwahab, an Iraqi-born Swede, who targeted Christmas shoppers in Stockholm in December and blew himself up.

? Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was sentenced last month to life in prison after admitting he attempted to blow up an international flight with a bomb in his underwear as the plane approached Detroit on Christmas 2009.

President Barack Obama said last summer that a "lone wolf" terror attack in the U.S. is more likely than a major coordinated effort like 9/11.

In the case of Merah, it's still too early to know whether he was acting alone or had outside support.

Authorities are trying to determine whether Merah's 29-year-old brother, Abdelkader, was involved, and are searching for accomplices who might have encouraged Merah to kill or furnished the means to do so.

Merah told negotiators he killed to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children and to protest the French army's involvement in Afghanistan as well as France's law against the Islamic face veil.

French authorities have acknowledged that Merah had been under surveillance for years and that his travels to Afghanistan and Pakistan were known to French intelligence, raising the question of whether security services might have been able to act against him before he was able to carry out his attacks.

German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich told German media that there were striking similarities between the Uka and Merah attacks, and that it drives home the need for a "security partnership" between intelligence services and Muslim groups and communities.

"We need them to report the first signs," he said. "We need the help of society."

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Associated Press writers Thomas Adamson in Paris, Michael Corder in The Hague, Karl Ritter in Stockholm, Eileen Sullivan in Washington, Jan Olsen in Copenhagen, and Victor Simpson in Rome contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Saturday, March 24, 2012

How to Approach Your Business's Customer Service on Twitter ...

Twitter is one of the most popular social media sites out there today. It?s not just a way to tell your followers about your current activities; it?s also fantastic for staying in touch with your customers. This is the truth: companies are using Twitter for customer service more and more often. This is not a new thing; it has been growing and growing as the web becomes more and more social. So the question is, then, how does a person use Twitter for customer service? How do you truly get it to work for you? Let?s figure it out in this article.

One of the first things you should think about is offering Real Time customer service. Your brand can be reinforced if you offer top-quality customer support on Twitter. Your customers may have various concerns that need to be addressed in timely manner. Usually, you can be more rapid in resolving complaints, if you make real-time customer service available through Twitter. By allowing you to take care of your customers in a more professional manner, it provides you with an advantage over your competition. If you do not delay in getting back to them, your customers will feel valued. Therefore you should stop making them sit and wait and allow Twitter to make your service much better than it has the potential to be.

If a person is trying to figure something out and can?t explain it to you via Twitter, your job then becomes showing them how to use your website to get in contact with you or helping them email you directly. It?s important to leverage Twitter so completely that there are no holes in your customer service. Twitter offers you a great way to create really strong communication with your customers.

It can take some time to become accustomed to getting asked questions on Twitter but it is really worth the effort. You need to focus first on offering high quality customer service. You want to offer more and better help to people than your competitors can offer.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Android Central 90: Galaxy S III rumors, ICS update allegations, and other things left unsaid

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Thing 1: Samsung Galaxy S III rumors, leaks, and nonsense

Thing 2: ICS updates; and lack of them

Thing 3: New phone reviews



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Acer Iconia Tab A510 preorders start today at $449

Acer Iconia Tab A510

Acer this morning announced that the new 10.1-inch ?Iconia Tab A510 (we're all friends here, let's just call it the A510) is now available for preorder for for $449. As you'll recall from our first look at CES back in January, the A510 is packing NVIDIA's Tegra 3 quad-core (OK, its 4-PLUS-1) system on a chip, with the extra fifth core for low-power tasks. It's got a 1280x800 resolution (at a 16:10 aspect ratio), which is looking a bit dated next to its big brother, the A700, to say nothing of the new iPad.

The A510, as it should, comes with Android 4.0 already on board, as well as with such productivity apps as Polaris Office 3.5, and Acer's own Acer Print. Other specs of note:

  • HDMI out
  • USB 2.0 port
  • 1GB RAM
  • 32GB storage
  • microSD card
  • Wifi 802.11 b/g/n
  • Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
  • 5MP rear camera, 1MP front-facing camera

The A510 also is an Olympic Games Tablet Edition (that should fit nicely with Acer's new Acer Ring quick-launcher that we first saw in the A200). It's got the Acer and Olympic logos printed on the soft-touch finish, which comes in either silver or black.

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Texas Rare Earth Resources Corp. Selects the Strategic ...

TexasRareEarth-BadgeMarch 21, 2012 (Source: Businesswire) --?Texas Rare Earth Resources Corp.?(the ?Company?) (OTCQX: TRER), a mineral exploration and development company, today announced the Strategic Communications practice of?FTI Consulting?(NYSE: FCN) as its new communications firm of record.

?Selecting FTI Consulting is a natural next step in our company?s evolution. Our shared commitment to strategic communications, particularly at this critical time where we are completing the Preliminary Economic Assessment on our Round Top Project, will serve our business and various stakeholders well,? said Marc LeVier, chief executive officer of Texas Rare Earth Resources. ?FTI Consulting has extensive experience within the mining industry and its professionals are already applying their communications expertise to help us effectively articulate our long-term value proposition."

The Strategic Communications practice of FTI Consulting, formerly known as FD, is one of the world?s most highly regarded communications consultancies. With more than 20 years of experience advising management teams in critical situations, the Strategic Communications practice supports clients in protecting and enhancing their reputation in the capital markets, society and the political environment. FTI?s Strategic Communications practice provides financial communications, corporate communications and public affairs services, with specialty offerings that include strategy consulting, research, creative engagement, crisis and issues management, and change communications.

About Texas Rare Earth Resources

Texas Rare Earth Resources Corp.'s primary focus is exploring and developing its Round Top heavy rare earth minerals project. The Round Top project is located in Hudspeth County, Texas, 85 miles east of El Paso, Texas. The Company?s common stock trades on the OTCQX U.S. Premier tier under the symbol ?TRER.?

For more information on Texas Rare Earth Resources Corp., visit our website at?trer.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release that address activities, events or developments that Texas Rare Earth Resources expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including such things as the potential development of the Round Top rare earth project, estimates of mineralized material, the potential ratio of heavy to total rare earth minerals present at the Round Top project, the number of metric tons of rhyolite contained at the Round Top project, possible low costs of production, advancement of exploration and resource definition, future mineralogical and metallurgical analysis, future baseline environmental studies, future geological modeling and test table construction, timing for completion of the pre-feasibility study, the preliminary economic assessment, the feasibility study, potential land and permitting efforts, timing for core hole drilling, expected results of future metallurgical testing, the Company?s focus on Dysprosium, Neodymium, Terbium, and Yttrium, future production decisions and timing for anticipated production and other such similar matters are forward-looking statements. When used in this press release, the words ?potential?, ?indicate?, ?expect?, ?intend?, ?hopes,? ?believe,? ?may,? ?will,? ?if, ?anticipate? and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Texas Rare Earth Resources to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Such factors include, among others, uncertainty of mineralized material estimates, risks relating to completing drilling and metallurgical testing at the Round Top project, risks related to project development determinations, risks related to fluctuations in the price of rare earth minerals, the inherently hazardous nature of mining-related activities, potential effects on Texas Rare Earth Resource?s operations of environmental regulations, risks due to legal proceedings, risks related to uncertainty of being able to raise capital on favorable terms or at all, as well as those factors discussed under the heading ?Risk Factors? in Texas Rare Earth Resource?s latest annual report on Form 10-K as filed on November 22, 2011 and other documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Although Texas Rare Earth Resources has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Except as required by law, Texas Rare Earth Resources assumes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

Source: http://www.raremetalblog.com/2012/03/texas-rare-earth-resources-corp-selects-the-strategic-communications-practice-of-fti-consulting-as-n.html

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Unlocked 16GB GSM Galaxy Nexus going for $459 today

Galaxy Nexus

If you've been holding off on buying a GSM Samsung Galaxy Nexus, you're starting to run out of excuses. The unlocked 16GB version is going for just $459 today on Daily Steals. That's still a chunk of change, to be sure, but it's much better than $700 or so some of us paid to import it back in the day.

And if you're worried about using the Daily Steals site, we've ordered from 'em before. Ask Jerry how his GNex is doing. Hit the link below to check out the whole thing.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

9 Ways for Your Business to Succeed on the Internet without a Website

It is possible to succeed and profit on the Internet without a website. I have been marketing online for over 2 years, most of that time without a Web site. I have sold well over $10,000 in product using nothing more than an e-mail account.

You can achieve this kind of success on the Internet if you look at cyberspace as an extension of mail-order marketing. The Internet is an additional promotional tool for getting prospect leads and selling products.

Here are nine ways to succeed on the Internet without a web site. In each case, the goal is to direct people to your e-mail account to obtain more information.

1) Place classified ads (similar to print classifieds) in the commercial on-line services including America On line (keyword: classifieds), Compu Serve (Go classifieds) and Prodigy (Jump classifieds). Do you promote a specific product or service off line? Adver tise it with an online classified and have people contact you via e-mail for more information. Send sales info by return e-mail or regular mail.

2) Place classified ads in Web classified malls. Check out http://www.imall.com for an example. Do a search in a search engine for ?classified malls? to locate others.

3) Use autoresponders. These are e-mail robots that automatically send information to the person that sent e-mail to the autoresponder. You will also receive a digest of the e-mail addresses and the messages sent to your autoresponder. Save this information for follow-up marketing. Visit http://www.netopp.com/JS-2528 for information on reliable autoresponders at great prices.

4) Use Internet Newsgroups to network and locate target customers. Offer items for FREE such as a catalog, report or article. Be careful of blatant advertising. You want to offer information of value to users. At the end of your FREE article or report, briefly tell people what you do and how to contact you for more information. Visit http://www.dejanews.com for information on over 15,000 news groups.

5) Advertise in e-mail newsletters and online mailing lists. Just like a magazine or newspaper, you can advertise in other people?s e-mail publications. This is a great way to reach your customers directly by e-mail. Visit http://www.liszt.com for information on thousands of e-mail lists. Send e-mail to ad rates@info back.net for advertising information in my e-mail newsletter.

6) Buy solicited e-mail lists. Similar to direct mail, you can send advertisements about your products directly to people?s e-mail accounts along with instructions on how to get more information. However, be careful about renting unsolicited e-mail lists. This can be very damaging to your business if used incorrectly. Visit http://www.postmasterdirect.com for information on solicited e-mail lists.

7) Build your own ?house? customer e-mail list. Save the e-mail address of anybody that contacts you via e-mail. These people are good prospects to contact for follow-up marketing. They?ve already shown an interest in your business. When sending follow-up marketing messages by e-mail you incur no costs for postage or printing. Great! Integrate your e-mail list-building with all forms of marketing, both on and offline.

8) Get FREE publicity online with press releases and articles you have written. At the end of an article, offer something FREE to readers via e-mail. Visit http://www.gebbieinc.com/presto.htm for information on blasting press releases online.

9) Host online Forums. On America OnLine and CompuServe there are numerous forums covering almost every topic. Contact the administrators of these and propose to be a guest expert for a future forum. This establishes you as an expert. People who participate in the forum might contact you about doing business.

By putting these ideas to work, you can build your business on the Internet with only an e-mail account.

Source: http://www.bizoffice.com/9-ways-for-your-business-to-succeed-on-the-internet-without-a-web-site/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=9-ways-for-your-business-to-succeed-on-the-internet-without-a-web-site

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6waves Lolapps Sheds Most Of Its Development Team To Focus on Publishing Games

6L-Logo_v26waves Lolapps, the social gaming company that was formed out of a merger just half a year ago, shed most of its employees on the development side today to focus on publishing other studios' titles. The decision today seems to undo some of what that merger agreement created last July and we hear it had to do with a limited runway of cash. Last summer, social gaming company Lolapps merged with game publisher 6waves to form a new entity that was a dual producer and publisher. They then raised funding from Korean gaming giant Nexon and Insight Venture Partners. The amount they raised was undisclosed, but an SEC filing showed a $35 million round. The company insists, however, that the merger is still in place and Lolapps is not being spun out. They didn't disclose how many people were laid off.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/-Z8x074aMgM/

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Tax debt relief ? When to seek professional assistance

Oftentimes, taxpayers get confused when to seek tax debt relief when their tax debt amount spirals out of control. But it is usually said that the best way to judge is by the outstanding tax debt amount you owe. For instance, if your IRS tax debt has exceeded the USD$10,000 limit, it is high time you seek professional tax relief. As far as IRS tax relief options are concerned, you have different methods to choose from. The most prominent of the tax debt help options include the following-Tax debt settlement is good provided the tax debt amount is lower than USD$10,000. In this a payment plan is usually drawn up by making a request through Form 9465.

Offer in Compromise ? In this the IRS may agree to accept an amount of outstanding tax debt that can be paid in a lump sum. However, in order to qualify for this tax debt reduction program, you have to satisfy stringent norms.

Partial Installment Plan ? You will be allowed to opt for this tax debt reduction option provided the IRS approves of the same. In this method too, you are allowed to pay lower than what you owe to the Internal Revenue Service.

Source: http://www.colininjapan.com/finance-and-money/tax-debt-relief-when-to-seek-professional-assistance/

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Monday, March 19, 2012

Mass Effect 3 Review | Video Games News, Reviews, Release Dates

This Mass Effect 3 review is coming out a bit late (blame school), so if you?re reading this, you may have already heard about the controversies surrounding it. I know that this was the case for myself, so I went into the game with a healthy dose of trepidation?the Mass Effect games have long been favourites of mine, and I was afraid of seeing them ruined. After spending some time with the game, I can confidently say that, while it isn?t quite the masterpiece I had hoped for, Mass Effect 3 is fun, engaging, and worth a look.

If you?ve never played the series before, Mass Effect 3 is all about the invasion of Earth by the Reapers, a collective of gigantic Lovecraftian machine-gods determined to wipe out and harvest all space-faring sentient life in the Milky Way for their own sinister purposes. You play as Commander Shepard, who has been under house arrest since the events of the previous game for blowing up a Mass Relay (interstellar devices that allow for quick travel between solar systems) and destroying a settled colony of hundreds of thousands of people, all in order to slow down the Reaper advance. The game begins with the Reapers arriving at Earth, forcing Shepard back into service with his old crew in order to unite the various species of the galaxy against the threat.

For the most part, the game presents this adventure phenomenally well. Mass Effect 3 is still a big hammy space opera, and though its tone is often darker than its predecessors, there are several events in the game that are stunning both visually and emotionally, making it hard for players not to get caught up in the war effort. Although the number of recruitable squadmates is down from previous games, that doesn?t seem to be an issue here. If anything, the huge cast of Mass Effect 2 was overwhelming, making it easy to neglect certain people. Conversely, ME3?s characters are incredibly detailed and complex. BioWare did such a good job here that you may find yourself warming up to someone that you disliked in previous titles (i.e. Kaiden, Liara). The only real weak part of the characters are the hit-or-miss romances. Admittedly, a few of them have rather touching moments, but others are weird or just downright awkward.

Every major character from previous games, assuming they are still alive, makes an appearance here in some form or another. More often than not it?s a brief cameo with some dialogue, but some characters are fairly integral to the plot. There are a lot of in-jokes and throwbacks to ME1 and ME2 that are sure to go over newcomers? heads. In fact, contrary to BioWare?s claims, a lot of content is going to be lost on new players. Unless they want to read the entire codex, they?re just going to have to roll with the loads of information that gets thrown at them, though they should still be engaged despite this.

You wind up visiting every major planet over the course of the story, giving you plenty of eye candy to look at. The Citadel, the massive ancient space station that serves as the seat of galactic society and government, plays a large role, making it a far more relevant place to visit. The graphics are mostly fantastic; scenery is breathtaking throughout, and the facial animations for major characters are the best in the series, although the game sometimes skirts the uncanny valley, and most NPCs look alike. The game sounds great, too. Though it was sad to hear that Jack Wall left the project, Clint Mansell, known for his work on Darren Aronofsky?s films, turns in some fantastic pieces. Overall, the game is less synth-heavy, but Faunts makes a return to the soundtrack to make up for it.

In terms of gameplay,?it is a mixed bag, but largely improved. Combat is the finest it has even been, and the streamlined interface is fantastic, making the RPG elements simpler without removing depth of customization entirely. Mass Effect has always felt like it wanted to be more of an action shooter, and it has certainly come into its own in that regard. Aside from the Soldier, which is too plain by comparison, the classes are all inspired and satisfying. For example, the Vanguard plays like a character from a fighting game, body checking opponents from across the level while punching them to death, while the Engineer plays like a space-wizard, shooting balls of fire and lightning at enemies while summoning familiars (Combat Drones) to aid them. Exploring the galaxy has never been so much fun.

Throughout, you can initiate sidequests by receiving them from Admiral Hackett of the Systems Alliance Navy, or by eavesdropping on conversations at the Citadel. These are essentially divided into three categories: N7 missions, which are single-player versions of the multiplayer maps; planet scanning missions; and what I like to call hide-and-seek missions, which require you to find items scattered around normal combat levels. Hide-and-seek are basically fetch quests, and thus the least interesting. Planet scanning is far less tedious than it was in Mass Effect 2, but it?s still largely superfluous making me wonder why BioWare bothered to leave it in. There?s a minigame that occurs if you use your scanners too often in a region where Reapers starts to chase after you, but it?s little more than a harmless distraction. N7 missions are interesting, and it make me wish BioWare hadn?t bothered with the fetch mission and planet scanning nonsense and just made a few more of them. However, as a complete package the gameplay is pretty solid.

This now brings me to the matter of the game?s ending and Day-One DLC (which you can read a review of here). Yes, it?s true, the ending is a bummer and a bit disappointing in context of what has occurred over the course of the game. In fact, if you start to look closer the plotholes become even more obvious, and it?s sad that it doesn?t really take into account the choices made over the course of the game, though that?s not necessarily a new thing. For example, many choices made in earlier games have been overwritten by non-game lore, such as the book that made it so Udina is always the human council member in ME3 despire the player?s personal recommendation. However, I disagree with the sentiment that the ending destroys what has made the game great up until that point. Certainly, I wish the ending was more satisfying given the build up, but I loved playing the game anyways. Regarding the DLC, it?s a bit harder. This isn?t the first time a BioWare game has had Day-One DLC, as they used it for Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins as an incentive to buy new, but it?s the first time they?ve charged for it. Having played with the DLC, I can safely say that it?s not necessary to enjoy the main thrust of ME3?s plot, but the added character gives so much depth to the story that it?s hard to imagine why BioWare wouldn?t have just bundled it in.

Worse than the ending and DLC, I felt that the biggest problems is the game?s bugginess. I could forgive the constant pop-in and occasional frame rate stutter, as it?s a huge game, but the constant lock-ups were incredibly frustrating. Thank goodness the save system is fairly forgiving. Furthermore, there were a couple of sidequests that glitched and prevented me from completing them, though I was fortunate enough to not have to experience the already infamous face/stat import bug.

Thank goodness the multiplayer wound up being so good, otherwise these issues might have damned the game. The multiplayer plays out like Gears of War?s Horde Mode, with four players co-operatively defending against increasingly difficult waves of enemies. There are 10 in all, with an 11th that requires players to pull back to a specific location for dust-off. The inclusion of the six different player classes are truly the shining point of the game, making combat fun to play with friends and strangers alike. Equipment can be bought with in-game or real currency in order to acquire new weapons, consumable equipment, and playable species. There are six multiplayer maps in total, the N7 missions found in single-player, and there are three available enemy types to play against: human Cerberus troopers, Reaper forces, or the robotic Geth.

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Mass Effect 3 is a great game, albeit a flawed one. It has several memorable moments that outshine anything done in the previous titles (or gaming in general), but is unfortunately blemished by a sloppy ending, some mismanaged DLC, and some game-breaking bugs. Multiplayer is one of the game?s saving graces, though. Although this game isn?t perfect, I?m confident I?ll wind up playing it far longer than I ever played Mass Effect 1 or 2 if only for the multiplayer alone. Be sure to check it out.

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Source: http://trendygamers.com/2012/03/18/mass-effect-3-review/

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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Yacsdc ? Blog Archive ? Principal Currency Trading Market ...

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These days rumours company accounts in excess of 80Per cent with the over-all every day hobby. These trades are executed from business finance institutions to specific professionals.

The principle contributors in the Forex market are: finance institutions, middle finance institutions, business companies, specific people and professionals and stockbrokers and also the significant reasons they have fun playing the Forex market are:

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Your Budget of Asia

Your Budget of England

Your Budget of Quebec

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The Eu Central Lender

The Save Lender of Sydney

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Individuals that do trades for many good reasons as well as: betting, a traveller hoping currency, etc

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Agent companies primary intent is to collect buyers and sellers of currency. Most Forex brokers ask for no revenue. Broker agents get their cost through the propagate.

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Money Producer (with doing business table) The broker may be the version of any exchange created by the speculator. Whenever a speculator starts up a exchange the broker starts up the identical exchange in the other way, when the speculator desires a single foreign currency pair, the broker shorts the identical foreign currency pair. There are numerous ways for Money Producers to hedge independently.

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Jasen Russell, Kony 2012 Video Creator, Arrested For Drunken Masturbating in Public


Jasen Russell, the man behind the now-famous Kony 2012 video, was arrested in San Diego today for masturbating and being drunk in public apparently.

Russell was taken into custody by San Diego cops, according to reports.

In addition to allegedly masturbating, officials say that the Kony 2012 creator vandalized cars. Must have been some kind of epic bender he was on.

More details to follow as the story develops ...


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Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/03/jasen-russell-kony-2012-video-creator-arrested-for-drunken-mastu/

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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Court says no TV cameras at health care arguments

(AP) ? The Supreme Court rejected requests from news organizations Friday for live, televised coverage of this month's historic arguments on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul but agreed to release audio recordings of the proceedings on the same day.

The court will post audio files and transcripts on its website (http://www.supremecourt.gov ) within two hours of the end of the proceedings on each of the three days set aside for argument, March 26-28.

The C-SPAN cable network said it would play back the arguments on a broadcast channel and on radio as soon as they are available.

The justices have never allowed cameras inside the courtroom and decided not to make an exception for the health care case despite what the court called "extraordinary public interest."

A statement issued by the court's public information office and a letter from Chief Justice John Roberts to C-SPAN did not say anything about cameras or live coverage, even though many news organizations, including The Associated Press, and several members of Congress had asked the court to permit cameras into the courtroom to cover the proceedings.

One of the lawmakers, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., called the decision on expedited audio a step forward but said he was disappointed that Americans will not be able to "witness these public proceedings as they happen."

The decision harks back to Bush v. Gore, the case that sealed George W. Bush's election as president in 2000. That was the first time the justices provided audio of the arguments on the same day after they turned away pleas to air the proceedings live in a case that riveted the nation.

Then, as now, C-SPAN and other organizations told the court they would broadcast the arguments live and in their entirety.

In subsequent years, the court would occasionally authorize same-day release of audio in high-profile cases.

But beginning in October 2010, the justices said they would no longer entertain requests for same-day release of audio of argument sessions. Instead, the court began posting audio files of all arguments on its website on Fridays. They made an allowance for the six hours of health care arguments, the most time set aside for any issue in more than 45 years.

In recent years, argument transcripts have been made available just a few hours later.

Reporters are not allowed to carry recorders or cameras into the courtroom.

Associated Press

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We all struggle every day to be better and achieve our goals. Constancy and perseverance are attitudes of people with true ambitions. Whoever wants to achieve something must make an effort and compete with others to get what they want.

Throughout our life we will have more than one obstacle in our way, but we must never give up to adversity. There will be times when we do things wrong and that will make us doubt our capacity, but we must always keep in mind that it is all in the mind and if we want something, we only must think about it.

Nowadays, in Facebook we can post self improvement messages so our friends see our positive attitude. In this article we show you some self improvement statuses for Facebook that you can post in your wall. Your contacts will love them.

The Best Self Improvement Statuses for Facebook:

- ?I feel I have triumphed in life. All my past mistakes taught me valuable lessons. In order to win we must know how to lose and make the best of it.?
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- ?The worst thing someone can do is thinking that they have succeeded because they have made some money. A person?s true goal must be to try and improve what they have already done.?
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- ?We all make mistakes. Ponder what you did wrong, look for a solution and you will have done a lot to improve yourself.?
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- ?I think I only need a chance to get what I want. That is why I give my best every day, and when you get a chance give to your fullest.?
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- ?The word impossible should not be part of the vocabulary for someone who wants to embrace glory. If you have fallen, get up again and move on with your head up high.?
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- ?Nobody likes the bitter taste of defeat, but we must know that people?s grandeur is in overcoming past events and facing the future with courage.?
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- ?Life is like a big race where many people will fall defeated down the road and only the strongest will get to the finishing line. If an obstacle stopped you, put it aside and go ahead until you get to the goal.?
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- ?Not all of us are fortunate enough to have our family?s support to get ahead, but that is not an excuse for giving up our dreams. Nothing is impossible.?
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- ?If you really want to better yourself, do not waste your money and save for the future.?
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- ?If you want to be better you must only learn from your mistakes and not look back. The future is the only thing that counts.?
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- ?Hope for a better future is possible if everybody firmly wants to overcome their differences and live peacefully.?
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We hope these self improvement statuses for Facebook pleased you. Remember we can all be better.

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