DNA tentacles identify recurring leukaemia

Cancer cells might evade the body's defences, but dodging DNA tentacles is another matter. A jellyfish-inspired device might make it easier to diagnose cancer in its early stages.

When people with conditions like leukaemia are in remission, it's important to establish as early as possible if their cancer has returned.

Finding out involves passing a sample of blood through a microfluidic device, in whose tiny channels cancer cells can be captured and identified. However, this only works well if blood passes through extremely slowly, so that any cancer cells bump into the channels' sides, which are lined with adhesives designed to trap specific cells. This is highly time-consuming, and the method can also fail to spot cells at the early stages of cancer, when numbers are very low.

So Jeffrey Karp at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, together with Weian Zhao at the University of California, Irvine, and Rohit Karnik at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a better method?&ndsah; by following the lead of jellyfish. "We thought it would be incredibly useful if we could mimic jellyfish and functionalise microfluidic devices with long tentacles," says Karp.

The tentacles are actually strands of DNA encoded to match an enzyme on the surface of leukaemia cells. The researchers found the strands trapped an average of 50 per cent of the cells, compared with 10 per cent using existing systems, and at a much faster flow rate.

The cancer cells could also be cleaved from the tentacles much faster than the team was able to using the adhesive.

"I do like the idea of using long and flexible structures to extend into the flow," says Mehmet Toner at Harvard Medical School, who was not involved in the study. He points out that the tests were performed under idealised conditions, and so more work remains to be done to optimise the system.

"This is really just a first demonstration," says Karnik. "There are a lot of knobs that can be tweaked ? maybe we want longer or shorter strands, for instance."

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When you next shop for that perfect pair of jeans, know that retailers may be harnessing facial recognition technology to determine your age, gender and how regularly you shop at their stores. The data collected will help retailers fine tune their marketing pitches and in-store displays.

Such a service is already being rolled in out Japan via NEC. It runs via the company?s cloud computing technology, which means all a retailer needs is a web-connected computer, a video camera and about $880 a month to pay for it, according to video news website Diginfo TV.?

While facial recognition technology is hardly new, the service highlights the transition of the technology from the land of high security and casinos to the shopping mall ? and is one more data point showing that all anyone needs is your picture to know everything about you.?

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Spain promises to spare needy from eviction after suicides

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos promised on Monday that no needy family will go homeless over mortgage arrears, responding to public fury at a homeowner's suicide as she was being evicted.

Facing accusations that politicians and banks are complicit in de facto "murder", Spain's banking association said its members would suspend eviction orders for two years for those borrowers worst hit by economic crisis and record unemployment.

Banks have repossessed close to 400,000 homes in Spain since a property bubble burst in 2008 and the nation subsequently sank into recession, throwing millions out of work and unable to keep up mortgage payments to the banks.

Last Friday's suicide of 53-year-old Amaia Egana has inflamed a public already angered by what they see as a lack of compassion among Spanish banks, many of which have benefited from taxpayer-funded bailouts organized by the political elite.

Egana, a former Socialist councilor in northern Spain, jumped to her death from her fourth-floor flat as bailiffs were trying to evict her under foreclosure laws.

Speaking in Brussels, de Guindos said action was vital to avoid evictions at a time when huge numbers of homes, built during a frenetic property boom before 2008, lie unoccupied.

"In Spain right now, we have nearly a million empty housing units. In this situation, the government and the economy ministry ... has to take steps so that no family in good faith goes without a home. This is our commitment," he said.

Public pressure prompted Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to call for officials from his conservative People's Party and the opposition Socialists to speed up negotiations on reforming the eviction laws during talks on Monday.

Fans at a Primera Liga soccer match on Saturday protested about the fate of Egana, who killed herself in the Basque town of Barakaldo, and countless others who are losing their homes.

"They're not suicides. They're murders. The banks and politicians are accomplices. Stop the evictions!" read a banner held up by supporters of Rayo Vallecano, which plays in a working class district of Madrid.

Heads of the economy departments of both main parties were expected to look at the possibility of granting moratoriums on mortgage payments for families in dire straits and to change the legal proceedings that lead up to an eviction.

However, the Spanish Banking Association (AEB) said its members had already agreed with the government last week to suspend eviction cases for two years for those most in need.

This showed "...the commitment of the AEB's members, for humanitarian reasons and because of their social responsibility, to stop evictions during the next two years in those cases of extreme need", it said in a statement on Monday.

Protesters say this will not go far enough given thousands will face difficulties in the next few months.

DESPERATE HOMEOWNERS

Egana's death, and another eviction-related suicide in October, have intensified a popular backlash with many accusing the banks - some of which will receive part of an up to 100 billion euro European bailout - of callous disregard for the effects of unemployment, which has hit 25 percent.

However, a number of banks themselves are in dire straits because of the failure of many borrowers, ranging from small homeowners to major property developers, to repay their debts.

On Monday protesters gathered outside the People's Party headquarters in central Madrid before walking to parliament.

"We are due to be evicted on the 20th of this month, and we have nowhere to go but the street," said Angel Moran, a 59-year-old painter.

He said he had been out of work for four years, had a young daughter to support and the two other people living in his home to share the costs were now also without work.

As property prices have tumbled about 30 percent, hundreds of thousands of people who took on huge mortgages during the boom years now owe more than their home is worth.

Under Spanish law, even when borrowers turn over their homes to the bank, they still owe the entire amount of the mortgage.

A citizens' movement called "Stop Evictions" has organized protests at apartment buildings to block court workers from evicting families.

The pressure by Stop Evictions and other groups led the government to ask banks earlier this year to forgive mortgage debt for properties worth less than 200,000 euros and where all family members are unemployed.

A group of senior judges has pushed for a cross-party agreement on eviction reform, and a police union said it will support officers who refuse to take part in an eviction.

On Saturday, northern Spanish mortgage lender Kutxabank said it was suspending repossessions after the suicide of Egana.

Last week, European Union Advocate General Juliane Kokott issued a non-binding report concluding that Spanish legislation on evictions contradicts European norms for protecting consumer rights. Europe's highest court will rule on the issue.

(Additional reporting by Marco Trujillo and Ibar Aibar, and Robin Emmott in Brussels; Editing by Fiona Ortiz, David Stamp and Giles Elgood)

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Nonprofit Law Blog: Independent Sector Annual Conference 2012

IS 2012 Conf

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Back home after a full day at the 2012 Independent Sector Annual Conference: Game Changers. Here's a recap of my day listening in on great conversations, contributing with questions, and connecting with new and old friends and acquaintences.

Creating and Implementing Game Changing Strategies
David La Piana, La Piana Consulting

David identified when there are possibilities for game changing decisions: (1) when there's an opportunity to take a leap, and (2) when the current business model isn't working. He also used the "five frogs on a log" riddle to illustrate there's a difference between deciding and doing. To move from deciding to doing, you first need pain. David's discussion included a brief descipription of the amazing evolution of The AIDS Healthcare Foundation from a local hospice in L.A. to a ?global organization providing cutting-edge medicine and advocacy to over 130,000 people in 22 countries whose mission is to rid the world of AIDS. He also provided some practical leadership advice: focus on the 20% of the employees who are early adopters most supportive of the game changing strategy and not on the 20% who are always going to be opposed to any big change. The group then discussed the importance of mobilizing local communities post-election while there was still momentum. When I asked about the risks of making game changing decisions, David responded that nonprofit leaders must think big but should always pilot risky projects because, unlike in the venture capital world, nonprofits can often not afford big projects to fail.

Blueprint 2013 ? What?s the Forecast for Philanthropy and the New Social Economy?
Lucy Bernholz, Arabella Advisors / Philanthropy 2173

We were treated to an advance preview of Lucy's annual forecast, which will be available on January 1 for free (thanks in part to the Foundation Center)! To begin, Lucy reiterated a question she admits to asking persistently year after year: what's public, what's private, and who decides? With respect to the use of private resources to do social good, nonprofits are not in the sandbox alone. Joining them are social businesses, impact investors, political spenders, and informally affiliated groups of individuals (e.g., hackers). What's unknown - the relative contributions of each. The audience questioned the impact of private monies on the election, perhaps noting the failures of American Crossroads (Super PAC) and Crossroads GPS (501(c)(4) social welfare organization). But Lucy advised us to check out the Sunlight Foundation's site for a fuller picture. Two technology trends to note: (1) Square, and (2) Data sharing?(but the required culture change must catch up to the tech).

Keynote - Game On: Reality after the Rhetoric
Matt Miller, Washington Post

So many interesting tweetable observations (thanks to Independent Sector, Lucy Bernholz, Rafael Lopez, and Sarah Beaulieu):

  • Upward mobility, economic security and equality are critical to America's path forward. U.S. should be leading the way.
  • U.S. being behind France in upward mobility is like France being behind U.S. in croissants and afternoon sex.
  • Main wild card right now is debt limit (not fiscal cliff); need to say debt limit is unconstitutional.
  • "Filibuster reform" is the least sexy, most important issue in the U.S. Senate.
  • Simpson-Bowles proposal assumes fed spending at 21% GDP. Not possible with our current population.
  • If we don't take care of Medicare, we will make it impossible for money to be spent on other social services.?Progressives need to "demagogue responsibly" on Medicare.

Reimagining Ways to Finance the Sector
Moderator: Laura Callanan, McKinsey & Company

Panelists: Lucy Bernholz; Paula Goldman, Omidyar Network; Julie Mikuta, New Schools Venture Fund; Conan Smith, Michigan Suburbs Alliance; Dan Winterson, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

This session focused on alternative ways to think about funding the work of the nonprofit sector, including impact investing (using a broad definition encompassing mission-related investing and program-related investments), venture philanthropy, and social impact bonds (SIBs). A good resource on SIBs from McKinsey is available here. "SIBs are structured to get proven solutions to scale with no risk to public budgets?governments pay for the solutions only if they work. But despite this risk shifting, a SIB?s structure involves several actors?each charging a fee or return. As a result, this tool is a more expensive way to scale programs than if government simply contracted directly with a service provider. These additional costs will be worth it in many cases, but SIBs won?t be suited to every situation." - McKinsey on Society

Blending Profit and Purpose: Game Changer?
Moderator: Paul Clolery, The NonProfit Times

Panelists: Phil Buchanan, The Center for Effective Philanthropy; Jan Masaoka, California Association of Nonprofits; Marc Thibault, American Sustainable Business Council; Robert Wexler, Adler & Colvin

This session was structured as a debate over?new for?profit vehicles and ventures for serving the public good (so-called "hybrid organizations" like the benefit corporation). Jan and Phil argued against the hybrids stating they were unnecessary vehicles that were too easily used for greenwashing. From this perspective, the danger of hybrids is magnified because of the efforts to give them tax benefits and public contracting preferences on par with charitable nonprofits. Rob and Marc countered that hybrids are necessary to fill a hole in the choice of legal structures for companies that wanted to engage in public good without necessarily focusing only on shareholder interests. Rob cited the 2010 eBay vs. Newmark case for the proposition that corporate actions must value shareholders, but this case leaves much room for directors who still have "close to a free hand when considering matters that are most likely to have broader social or environmental implications? how products are manufactured, marketed and sold, corporate investments, fair trade, employment and supplier issues" (Mark A. Underberg -?Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation). Playing devil's advocate, I questioned whether the benefit corporation was the right type of hybrid for receiving any tax benefits or public contract preferences; perhaps a new type of hybrid holding assets in charitable trust (and subject to Attorney General oversight) and subject to independent audits would be more appropriate for such benefits. Such hybrid might otherwise not be able to meet all of the requirements of 501(c)(3) but would go further on the charitable side of the spectrum of the hybrids (perhaps even more so than the L3C).

Looking forward to day 2 of the Conference.

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Source: http://www.nonprofitlawblog.com/home/2012/11/independent-sector-annual-conference-2012.html

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Michelle Malkin ? Assimilation, not amnesty

Here we go again. The GOP got a drubbing on Election Day. But instead of talking about the poisonous effects of identity politics, economic illiteracy, the government school monopoly, and the Right?s woeful competitive disadvantage in mainstream American culture, the usual pandering suspects ? led by GOP Sen. Lindsey Grahamanesty ? have resurrected illegal alien amnesty-mania.

My work on illegal immigration, border security, and national security began as an editorial writer at the Los Angeles Daily News in 1992, where I first bore witness to the Balkanization wrought by open-borders multiculturalists. Invasion, published in 2002, documented how systematically lax enforcement of our immigration laws combined with suicidal political correctness paved the way for the September 11 terrorist attacks.

GOP ?moderates? and strategists assume that waving the magic amnesty wand and opening up the welfare/entitlement state to generations of illegal immigrants will translate into electoral gains for the party. They?re deluded. They pretend amnesty will come at no cost to legal immigrants and native-born Americans. They pretend they can ?secure the border first? by making the same empty, token gestures that have left our borders a bloody joke for decades.

The promise of ?securing the border first? is a Kabuki compromise.

These GOP amnesty-peddlers are as deluded now as they were in 2007 when Bush/McCain/Kennedy spearheaded a failed amnesty campaign. They?ve learned nothing.

How about clearing naturalization application backlogs instead of expanding illegal alien benefits? How about tracking and deporting violent illegal alien criminals instead of handing out driver?s licenses to illegal aliens? How about streamlining the employee citizenship verification process for businesses (E-verify) and fixing outdated visa tracking databases instead of indiscriminately expanding temporary visa and guest worker programs?

Let?s drop the semantic games. Whether Shamnesty Twins Graham and McCain call it a ?pathway to citizenship,? ?regularization,? or ?comprehensive immigration reform,? they are talking about permanently rewarding and incentivizing more mass illegal immigration above all else.

I repeat: There is no such thing as a temporary amnesty. And amnesty begets more amnesty. Since Reagan, there have been seven illegal alien amnesties passed into law since 1986:

?The 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act blanket amnesty for an estimated 2.7 million illegal aliens
?1994: The ?Section 245(i)? temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens
?1997: Extension of the Section 245(i) amnesty
?1997: The Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act for nearly one million illegal aliens from Central America
?1998: The Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti
?2000: Extension of amnesty for some 400,000 illegal aliens who claimed eligibility under the 1986 act
?2000: The Legal Immigration Family Equity Act, which included a restoration of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty for 900,000 illegal aliens]

Not one of those amnesties was associated with a decline in illegal immigration. On the contrary, the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. has tripled since President Reagan signed the first amnesty in 1986. The total effect of the amnesties was even larger because relatives later joined amnesty recipients, and this number was multiplied by an unknown number of children born to amnesty recipients who then acquired automatic US citizenship.

Obama?s amnesty-by-executive order will produce more of the same.

Better Get Out The Vote efforts and data-mining by Republicans won?t solve the root causes of new generations of Democrats? collective alienation from a common civic culture, core American values, and the sanctity of individual rights over the collective.

Left-wing academics and activists spurned assimilation as a common goal long ago. Their fidelity lies with bilingualism (a euphemism for native language maintenance over English-first instruction), identity politics, ethnic militancy, extreme multiculturalism, and a borderless continent.

J. Christian Adams gets to the heart of the problem (emphasis added):

Understand something ? I have been ambivalent about the immigration issue for many years. But the vote this week was extremely racially polarized, and deliberately so. Sixty-two percent of whites voted for Romney. Ninety percent of black voters and 71% of Hispanic voters went for Obama. That?s how the race groups working for the Democrat Party want it. They are very very effective at keeping the races politically polarized.

Those numbers are frightening, and no amount of traditional ?outreach? is going to change them, even a new-found acceptance of illegal immigration. Those calling for outreach to minorities are only half right. Something needs to be done, but they naively prescribe the mistakes of the past that will forever alter the demographic character of America, without altering the vote totals for the GOP. In time, the electoral percentages will actually grow worse for the GOP after concessions on immigration. More drastic and daring efforts are needed.

There is only one way to obtain the support of Hispanics and other minorities eventually. Conservatives must first confront and destroy the credibility of the racial interest groups that serve as the gatekeepers to these communities. Once-relevant and noble groups like the NAACP, and others less noble such as LULAC and MALDEF, must be exposed as the frauds that they have become in 2012. Their finances and racialist agenda must be revealed and lampooned. Their racial extortion of corporate America must be confronted. The entire political operation of these groups must be vivisected by some of the brightest investigative and journalistic conservative minds.

Otherwise, the skilled and experienced racial-antagonism operation of these racial organizations will keep the herd together, voting in solid blocks no matter how much ?outreach? the GOP conducts after agreeing to amnesty.

Here?s a novel idea. Perhaps Republicans should ask themselves and the nation: What would the Founding Fathers say?

I?ve reminded you all before of our founders? counsel:

The Founding Fathers were emphatically insistent on protecting the country against indiscriminate mass immigration. They insisted on assimilation as a pre-condition, not an afterthought. Historian John Fonte assembled their wisdom, and it bears repeating this Independence Day weekend:

*George Washington, in a letter to John Adams, stated that immigrants should be absorbed into American life so that ?by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, laws: in a word soon become one people.?

*In a 1790 speech to Congress on the naturalization of immigrants, James Madison stated that America should welcome the immigrant who could assimilate, but exclude the immigrant who could not readily ?incorporate himself into our society.?

*Alexander Hamilton wrote in 1802: ?The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.?

Hamilton further warned that ?The United States have already felt the evils of incorporating a large number of foreigners into their national mass; by promoting in different classes different predilections in favor of particular foreign nations, and antipathies against others, it has served very much to divide the community and to distract our councils. It has been often likely to compromise the interests of our own country in favor of another. The permanent effect of such a policy will be, that in times of great public danger there will be always a numerous body of men, of whom there may be just grounds of distrust; the suspicion alone will weaken the strength of the nation, but their force may be actually employed in assisting an invader.?

The survival of the American republic, Hamilton maintained, depends upon ?the preservation of a national spirit and a national character.? ?To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens the moment they put foot in our country would be nothing less than to admit the Grecian horse into the citadel of our liberty and sovereignty.?

The late Texas Democratic Rep. Barbara Jordan, a fierce, iconoclastic advocate of the rule of law, defined comprehensive immigration reform this way: ending chain migration; ending the idiotic Diversity Visa Lottery program; enforcing strict deportation policies not just for illegal aliens convicted of aggravated felonies and other crimes, but for all border/visa violators; opposing welfare programs for illegal aliens; and pushing for real employer sanctions. ?Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence,? she asserted. ?[T]hose who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.? In the report from the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform following up on her work, the panel wrote:

We believe these truths constitute the distinctive characteristics of American nationality:

*American unity depends upon a widely-held belief in the principles and values embodied in the American Constitution and their fulfillment in practice: equal protection and justice under the law; freedom of speech and religion; and representative government;

*Lawfully-admitted newcomers of any ancestral nationality?without regard to race, ethnicity, or religion?truly become Americans when they give allegiance to these principles and values;

*Ethnic and religious diversity based on personal freedom is compatible with national unity; and

*The nation is strengthened when those who live in it communicate effectively with each other in English, even as many persons retain or acquire the ability to communicate in other languages.

As long as we live by these principles and help newcomers to learn and practice them, we will continue to be a nation that benefits from
substantial but well-regulated immigration.

Those principles have been abandoned, scorned, and sabotaged. You have not heard an iota about them from Washington. It is the erosion of Americanization and the ascendancy of the collectivists that helped create the conditions for Election Day.

Amnesty instead of assimilation is a recipe for even greater GOP losses at at the ballot box.

Amnesty instead of assimilation is a recipe for the furtherance of American decline.

***

Related:

Mark Levin blasts the amnesty-pushers.

Heather Mac Donald: Why Hispanics Don?t Vote for Republicans

National Review: The amnesty delusion

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Rough economy is just crushing millennials

By Heesun Wee, cnbc.com

While the continued economic slump hobbles many Americans, the downturn is crushing young people.

Almost half of millennials?those between 18 and 34?think they'll be worse off than their parents, according to research from Demos, a non-partisan policy and research center.?

And voters under age 30 in Tuesday's presidential election identified unemployment (49 percent) and rising prices (37 percent) as the most pressing economic issues they face, according to the Pew Research Center .

All this is forcing some young people to skip one of their favorite past times?eating out.

(Read more: Why More Millennials Go Part Time for Full Time Pay)?

Among the heaviest restaurant users, new research shows in the year ending July 2012, millennials ate out 203 times annually ? 49 times or 19 percent less than they did in the year ending July 2007, according to the NPD Group, a consumer market research firm.

?"I've been doing this for 35 years and that has always been the case (millennials eating out). But not the last few years," said Harry Balzer, NPD's chief industry analyst. "This is all about how the economic downturn is affecting this group more than anybody else," he said.

?(NPD defines dining out as everything from a Starbucks latte to a full sit-down meal at a restaurant.) Dining out costs roughly three times more than packing a sandwich or eating at home.

?"I always bring my own lunch to save money," said Andrew Welsch, 28, of Long Island, N.Y. "My friends do the same thing. I still have to pay back my student loans," he said.

?A generation defined by debt
Young people are cutting back on daily expenses such as dining out because personal debt levels are rising. Among college graduates, two-thirds owe an average of $28,500 in student loans, according to the Census Bureau and the Institute of Education Science. Average.

Related: Hey Gen X, tell us how you are feeling about the economy

Many millennials are accumulating personal debt that spans unpaid student loans, credit card bills and medical expenses, according to the Demos report released last year.

With money tight, millennials voted this week with the economy on their minds. Voters under 30 also cited taxes and housing as important issues they face, said Scott Keeter, director of survey research for the Pew Research Center. He's also an exit-poll consultant for NBC News.

Weak job prospects
Weak job prospects are also hurting millennials. The unemployment rate for 18- to 34-year-olds for October was 10.8 percent, higher than the national unemployment rate of 7.9 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Underemployment and low wages are problems too. More than half (57 percent) of young people would like to be working and earning more, and just half (53 percent) are working in their chosen fields, according to Demos research. Among millennials, more than half (56 percent) reported annual pretax incomes below $30,000.

With small incomes and little to no personal savings, many young people have delayed big life decisions.

Almost half (46 percent) have delayed buying a home, and nearly one third of millennials (33 percent) have postponed moving out on their own, according to Demos research. Welsch is holding off on getting an apartment with his girlfriend until after he completes his masters degree at the City University of New York.

Millennials have put off starting a family (30 percent), and a quarter has pushed back getting married.

Real happy hours
Welsch and others like him are riding out the economic downturn by reducing expenses such as dining out to celebrate birthdays. The gang used to gather at "a nice, mid-range restaurant ? not McDonald's," he said.

But with the group unemployed or hours cut back, that tradition has been scrapped too. "We have to skip out on nonessentials like eating out, which is fun," he said.

With so many young people struggling, there could be a ripple effect for the restaurant industry. Younger diners traditionally have helped define eating trends as early adopters. "This group has been influential in their choices," said NPD analyst Balzer.

As a comparison, those aged 50 and older are eating out more since the depths of the 2008 financial crisis ? 209 times annually this year compared to 197 outings for the year ending July 2007, according to the NPD Group's research.

So while older Americans fill sit-down restaurants, you'll likely find young people at bars, and enjoying a cheaper beer and snack.

"We?re a big fan of happy hour," said Welsch. "If we?re going out for drinks, it has to be happy hour ? or we wouldn't do it."

With additional reporting by Erin Horan.

Source: http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2012/11/12/15056552-economy-stinks-for-many-but-its-crushing-millennials?lite

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Michel Bourez and Adriano de Souza secure place in quarter-finals ...

Michel Bourez and Adriano de Souza secure place in quarter-finals at O?Neill Coldwater Classic

French Polynesia?s Michel Bourez and Brazil?s Adriano de Souza made it through into the quarter-finals at the O?Neill Coldwater Classic, the ninth of ten stops on the 2012 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Championship Tour, after emerging triumphant in their respective Round 5 heats that went down at Santa Cruz in California, America, on Tuesday, November 6.

Facing-off against America?s Damien Hobgood in the third heat, Bourez put on a superb performance to claim victory and thus the quarter-final spot, bringing the contention for the event title to an end for his rival in the process.

The fourth heat saw De Souza remove America?s Kelly Slater from the competition to get his hands on the last quarter-final spot that remained.

With demanding conditions on offer at the point-break of Steamer Lane on the final day of the competition, the stage was set for a battle of wits and skills between the elite ASP surfers.

The third heat of Round 5 pitted Bourez against Hobgood in a man-on-man battle for the quarter-final spot.

As the heat got underway, the French Polynesian surfer got off to an excellent start, locking a juicy wave to unleash a series of exquisite tricks and thus earning an 8.50 for the effort. He later backed it up with an impressive 6.50-point ride to get to a heat-total of 15.00 points.

Hobgood did not look in rhythm during the course of the battle and despite displaying immense desperation during his hunt for a couple of decent scores, the American surfer only managed to score a 6.00 and 2.00 off his best-two waves, thus finishing with a heat-total of 8.00 points.

The fourth heat saw De Souza take on the greatest surfer in history, reigning 11-time ASP World Champion and current No.2 Slater in a battle for the quarter-final spot.

With two such formidable talents in contention for a place in the next round, heavy fire-works were promised.

However, the challenging conditions kept both the surfers from really unleashing their true potential and thus it turned out to be a relatively low-scoring heat.

This, however, did not prevent De Souza from getting the better of his intimidating rival through a heat-total of 10.50 points, which comprised of a 2.67 and 7.83-point ride, against Slater?s two-wave total of 9.40 points, which included a 5.00 and 4.40-point ride.

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Shopping and Product Reviews by Yemegimle: iMore Editors ...

iMore Editors' Choice for November 10, 2012

Every week, the editors at iMore carefully select some of our favorite, most useful, most extraordinary apps, accessories, gadgets, and websites. This week's selections include a few games, an app for storing videos in various formats, a game based off a Disney movie, an app for viewing photos on your favorite social networks, and an app for storing all your kids' art projects.

While updating my new and improved best free iPad games feature I stumbled upon RAD Soldiers. I remember hearing about the game back in the spring before launch, but it apparently went live while I was off gallivanting on Android Central over the summer. This turn-based tactical shooter is absolutely great. It has a cartoony, Team Fortress 2-feeling art style, lots of unlockable characters, equipment, and get-ups, plus the gameplay itself has a ton of depth. There are a variety of maps in both offline challenge and online multiplayer varieties, though there's just the one King of the Hill game type for now. . There's a slight dash of in-app purchasing, but I've been able to enjoy RAD Soldiers plenty so far without paying a dime. If you're into Hero Academy, definitely give this a shot.

Air Video - Chris

This week?s pick is an app called Air Video. Air Video lets you watch videos stored on your PC or NAS in just about any format on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. To get it to work you must install a small piece of software on your PC or Mac and point it in the direction of your stored video files. The files can be on your PC or Mac or on a shared folder on a NAS device or even a portable hard drive.

Once you have installed the software, fire up the Air Video app and you will now see the folders that you setup to view in the PC or Mac install. You will now be able to play any of the videos no matter what format they?re in; some obscure formats may struggle. It works because the PC or Mac converts the video files on the fly and streams them to your iPhone or iPad; it works perfectly and the video quality is excellent.

If you have a large pool of videos on your PC, Mac or NAS and want to access them on your iPhone or iPad, Air Video is the best app to do it. It comes in a free version and a paid version; the difference is that the free version will only display a small number of files in any given folder.

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Wreck-it-Ralph - Rene Ritchie

Wreck-it-Ralph is the new Disney movie, and like all movies these days, there's an iOS game to go with it. (There's actually two, one called Fix-it-Felix, which seemed to suck, and another called Wreck-it-Ralph, which is the one I'm picking). Wreck-it-Ralph harkens back to the classic gaming era when kids would have to travel to arcades and shove whatever quarters they could get their hands on into ginormous cabinets just to lose themselves for a few minutes in 8-bit wonder.

There were no polygons or orchestras to hide behind, no particle effects or immersion tech to distract from poor gameplay. These simple suckers had to nail it each and every time, or no quarters for them. And nail it they did, over and over again.

Now Wreck-it-Ralph is no Donkey Kong, but it does capture the spirit of that time and those games. You start as Fix-it-Felix. Wreck-it-Ralph breaks the windows of your building. You have a tool. You jump from window sill to window sill fixing the panes. Flower pots block your way up. Shutters block the sides. It becomes like a maze. And Ralph keeps trying to drop stuff on your head and knock a life out of you. Once you fix all the windows, you go on and up to the next level.

There's more to it, of course, but I don't want to spoil either the game or the movie for you. If you love classic games but you itch for something new, give Wreck-it-Ralph a try.

While having several social networks is considered the "cool" thing to do nowadays, that doesn't mean that browsing content across a bunch of them is fun. Cooliris attempts to fill the gap by allowing you to view photos from popular networks all in once place. It can integrate your iPhone or iPad native photos with Facebook, Instagram, and Google images accounts. It doesn't share them but allows you to view photos all in once place.

I personally detest the Facebook app and the loads times you have to endure to view photos. Cooliris shows me all my friend's and my own Facebook images all in once place quickly and seamlessly. I can also flick to my Instagram and Google photos just as easy. The conversation feature lets you share selected photos with friends who can then jump on Cooliris and comment and interact. It's somewhat like Photo Stream but across several services.

The only thing I'd like to really see in a future update is the ability to integrate and pull photos from your Twitter friends as well. Those can be a pain to weed through and there are a strikingly low number of apps that pull out photos well. That would really send the app over the top. But for now, it's a good start and with a price tag of free, it's definitely worth checking out.

From the moment your child picks up their first crayon and scribbles out a masterpiece, the question of what to do with all of that priceless art comes up. If you're like me, it's hard to part with anything they've created, and now that my kids are a bit older, I have boxes of their artwork saved. Luckily, I found an app to help me out with not only being overwhelmed by all the art, but also preserving the memories for years to come without fear of them being damaged by time, water, etc.

Art My Kid Made allows you to take a picture of your child's art and socialize it by sharing to Facebook or Twitter or uploading to the Art My Kid Made gallery. You can do some simple effects like crop, enhance, add stickers and effects, or rotate before uploading. My favorite feature is the Evernote setting which allows you to automatically back-up each image so you can access it on any device and rest easy knowing you have a copy of all those precious drawings, paintings and collages. Beyond the social aspect of the app with the Twitter and Facebook integration, the Art My Kid Made gallery allows other parents to 'like' uploaded images and check out the Artist of the Day.

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Hill Climb Racing is a physics based driving game where the goal is to drive as far as possible. Many games of similar style (like Jetpack Joyride) require you to avoid obstacles and enemies along the way, but Hill Climb Racing takes a different approach. Instead, you must use the gas and break to control the speed of your car to prevent flipping on hills. If you flip your car (and hear the cringing sound of the driver breaking his neck), then you lose (or win, if you're breaking a record). Hill Climb Racing turned out to be more challenging that I was expecting which is why I like it. I also like it because it's a game that you can just pick up for a few minutes without getting sucked into hours and hours of wasted time.

Your choice?

Now that we've chosen our favorites for the week, we want to hear yours! Did you pick up a killer app, accessory, or game this week? Let us know in the comments below!

Source: http://yemegimle.blogspot.com/2012/11/imore-editors-choice-for-november-10.html

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Fall Fair | St. Patrick's Parish St. John's NL

Our Fall Fair is approaching and we are hoping to see all parishioners and friends take part in the various events. ?If you can donate any of the following items, it would be greatly appreciated:

- baked goods ? cakes, cookies, breads, etc.
- small cakes for our ?Cake Walk?
- knitted and crocheted items
- preserves, beet, jams, pickles, and the like
- items for prizes for our Card Game

Baked goods can be dropped off at K of C building on Sunday morning after 11:00 a.m. Mass. ?All other items can be dropped off at the Parish Office throughout the week between 10:00 a.m. ? 3:00 p.m.

Activities for our Fall Fair:

Friday, November 16 ?? 7:00 P.M. ? Pot luck & Family night at St. Patrick?s Parish Meeting Room. ?Come together for food and fun. ?A great opportunity to get to know other families in the parish. ?Bring along your favorite board game along with your food so your little ones can play a game with other children.

Sunday, November 18? 1:30 P.M. ? Fall Fair Games/Attractions at K of C building, St. Clare Avenue. ?Lots of baked goods, knitted and crocheted goods and games of chance. ?Come along and bring a friend or two.

Monday, November 19 ? 7:30 P.M. ? Card Game at K of C building, St. Clare Avenue. ?Tickets can be purchased at the Parish Office. ?Tickets are $5.00 each. ?Door prize is $100.00. ?Bring your own cards and baskets. ?Please pass the word along to all those who enjoy a games of cards.

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Source: http://stpatricksstjohns.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/fall-fair/

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