Google Launches Dedicated YouTube Video Camera App For iPhone and iPod Touch

Here is an interesting move by Google, which has clearly stepped up its mobile game in recent months: You can now download a dedicated YouTube camera app - YouTube Capture - for iPhone and iPod touch. The app lets you record a video clip and right after you are done filming, you can write a caption, select which networks you want to share to, and publish.

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Towards Effective Economic Governance in Tonga

16 December 2012 During the last two weeks, ?the Ministry of Finance & National Planning ?hosted a team of experts from the World Bank Group who visited Tonga to discuss a series of economic policies to help improve growth, including a new plan to strengthen public finances through effective debt management. The move is expected to support Tonga's long-term economic recovery especially after the global financial crisis. The team of experts met with key staff officers of relevant government ministries,? as well as agencies outside government.

"This is a critical time for the Tongan economy," said the Hon. Lisiate 'Aloveita 'Akolo, Minister for Finance and National Planning, "In particular, the Government is developing?effective?steps to manage Tonga's high debt situation. This is?vital to ensure?our people?can continue to?access? public services like health and education, not just now but for future generations."

Managing the country's debt is a priority for the Ministry of Finance and National Planning to ensure a sustainable and more robust economy. Tonga's current external debt is approx. TOP$335m, its highest ever, with two large concessionary loans from the EXIM Bank of China, the first amounting to approximately T$120m for the reconstruction of the Nuku'alofa Central Business District (CBD) and the second amounting to approximately $80m for road improvements.

The team of experts led by Mr. Alvaro Manoel from the World Bank's Economic Policy and Debt Department has been in Tonga since 29^th November, 2012 to prepare a National Debt Management Strategy and provide training for the Debt Management Section of the Ministry of Finance and National Planning. The team is preparing recommendations on alternative options for debt servicing, and how to implement them. The team's report will be essential for the preparation of future fiscal budgets.

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Issued by the: Ministry of Finance and National Planning, Nuku'alofa, 2012. Dated 12.12.2012

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Resolve Not To Resolve!

Why do so many resolutions not make it past the first week of January?

As we rush headlong towards the start of a New Year, isn't it amazing how time flies? Where did 2012 go to? Mind you, a new year often brings a lot of new things as people prepare for a 'fresh start', and promise to deal with many of the things that have previously held them back. New Year's Resolutions are a popular activity, and the tradition goes back as far as the Roman and Babylonian civilizations, but why do only a fraction of them work? Are people just less tenacious than they used to be, or do people just expect to break them?

Here's food for thought: The problem with resolutions may not be the resolutions themselves, but the way they are put together. People make nebulous statements which have no end point and can't be measured. Here are some examples of what I'm talking about:

"I will make more time for my family"
"I will curse less"
"I will eat less candy"
"I will be nicer to people"
"I will drink more water"

The thing that connects all of these statements is that it's impossible to know if you've achieved them. If they can't be measured and have no deadline, then how can you follow them?

So, if resolutions are a waste of time, what's the alternative? Forget resolutions. Instead, set goals that will work. Resolve NOT to resolve, and instead set yourself some achievable targets.

Have a look at these tips to help you craft some well-written goals which will guide you to great things in 2013.

Be SMART!

SMART, in this instance, stands for Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-Bound. If your goals follow these tenets, then it gives you the impetus to reach the end, and you'll know when you get there! The difference between a goal and a SMART goal is the difference between 'I want to be thinner' and 'I will lose 15 pounds by 1st May'. Which is more likely to be a successful goal?

Share Your Vision.

Tell people. You are more likely to reach a goal when you've shared it with others. Keep a goal to yourself and you are less likely to reach it. Who knows why the psychology of this works, but it does. By involving others in your goals and dreams, it not only motivates you, but enables a support system for you to achieve them. Like it or not, your friend may remind you of your weight loss goal when you're reaching for the third cookie!

Write them down.

While some people might think this practice useless, it is huge. For some reason, written goals are much more likely to be achieved than goals that are not written. And don't just tuck them away, never to be seen again. Keep them visible, in your planner, on your refrigerator, or even in your Smartphone.

Check in on your goals regularly.

Make it a practice to review your goals and progress toward them regularly. Make it a routine to include checking in on your goals when you are establishing your daily or weekly plans. This keeps them alive. It also helps you make space for them in your daily or weekly plans, rather than being trumped by everyone else's "to-do's."

Celebrate.

When you've reached your goal, enjoy it! Celebrate. Plan for the celebration. One of my clients loves to attend plays. Her reward to herself for reaching one of her goals was to see a certain play when she reached her goal. She did both, and both were memorable. Some goals are very lofty and have many subparts. In this situation, celebrate incremental achievements. If you make it a practice to reward yourself or pat yourself on the back as you reach the smaller milestones, you can actually energize yourself towards the final goal. Interim milestones keep the ultimate goal present, keep your energy about them high, and a sense of accomplishment along the way.

The secret to success.

The biggest challenge about goal setting is just plain "getting to it. So instead of making a resolution set a goal (or two) this year. Write them down. Tell others. Review them regularly. Then enjoy your celebrations.

Marsha Egan, CPCU, PCC is CEO of The Egan Group, Inc., a Reading, PA based professional coaching firm. She is a certified workplace productivity coach and professional speaker, specializing in leadership development and can be reached at marsha@marshaegan.com or visit http://www.InboxDetox.com.

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Early Daguerreotype Photographs Get Cloudy on Display [Slide Show]

In early 2005 the International Center of Photography in New York City placed on display a number of early daguerreotypes?one of the earliest forms of photography. Within a month spots and hazing began to mar the images. As Daniel Grushkin recounts in "Nano-Scientists Attempt to Save Disintegrating Artworks," a team of conservators and physicists set out to attempt to understand the nanochemistry that was destroying the 150-year-old artworks. These three images from the exhibit demonstrate how these relics of the recent past began to fade before museumgoers' eyes.

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Observatory: Evidence of Ancient Cheesemaking in Northern Europe

[unable to retrieve full-text content]An analysis of fatty acids in pottery shards excavated from archaeological sites in Poland suggests that cheese was being made 7,000 years ago.

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'Liquid that thinks:' Swarm of ping-pong-ball-sized robots created

Dec. 14, 2012 ? University of Colorado Boulder Assistant Professor Nikolaus Correll likes to think in multiples. If one robot can accomplish a singular task, think how much more could be accomplished if you had hundreds of them.

Correll and his computer science research team, including research associate Dustin Reishus and professional research assistant Nick Farrow, have developed a basic robotic building block, which he hopes to reproduce in large quantities to develop increasingly complex systems.

Recently the team created a swarm of 20 robots, each the size of a Ping Pong ball, which they call "droplets." When the droplets swarm together, Correll said, they form a "liquid that thinks."

To accelerate the pace of innovation, he has created a lab where students can explore and develop new applications of robotics with basic, inexpensive tools.

Similar to the fictional "nanomorphs" depicted in the "Terminator" films, large swarms of intelligent robotic devices could be used for a range of tasks. Swarms of robots could be unleashed to contain an oil spill or to self-assemble into a piece of hardware after being launched separately into space, Correll said.

Correll plans to use the droplets to demonstrate self-assembly and swarm-intelligent behaviors such as pattern recognition, sensor-based motion and adaptive shape change. These behaviors could then be transferred to large swarms for water- or air-based tasks.

Correll hopes to create a design methodology for aggregating the droplets into more complex behaviors such as assembling parts of a large space telescope or an aircraft.

In the fall, Correll received the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development award known as "CAREER." In addition, he has received support from NSF's Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research program, as well as NASA and the U.S. Air Force.

He also is continuing work on robotic garden technology he developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. Correll has been working with Joseph Tanner in CU-Boulder's aerospace engineering sciences department to further develop the technology, involving autonomous sensors and robots that can tend gardens, in conjunction with a model of a long-term space habitat being built by students.

Correll says there is virtually no limit to what might be created through distributed intelligence systems.

"Every living organism is made from a swarm of collaborating cells," he said. "Perhaps some day, our swarms will colonize space where they will assemble habitats and lush gardens for future space explorers."

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Barbra Walters names David Petraeus the year?s most fascinating person [VIDEO]

News flash: Sex and lies?are?fascinating.

During her annual ?most fascinating people? special that aired Wednesday, ?The View? host put disgraced former CIA director, adulterer and four-star Gen. David Petraeus at the top of her list, but for a pretty good reason.

?David Petraeus was not chosen this year for his war record or his exemplary service to his country,? she said. ?This is about military honor, colliding with sex and lies in the digital age.?

Only about two-fifths of the people on the list are actually fascinating, however, because?other people on Walters??list make no sense whatsoever. She named Honey Boo Boo, the child star of TLC?s ?Toddlers and Tiaras? and ?Here Comes Honey Boo Boo? as one of the year?s most fascinating people, which can only be true if TLC is your sole portal to information about the outside world.

Walters also honored the worst writer in the entire world, E.L. James, who contributed to the worst literary phenomenon since the ?Twilight? series with her BDSM ?Fifty Shades of Grey? trilogy> And the list includes?British boy band One Direction and Prince Harry (you remember the whole naked billiards incident, right?). Neither Harry nor his royal jewels were available for the televised interview.

Seth McFarlane, the gratingly obnoxious creator of ?Family Guy? and next year?s Academy Awards host ? and his big set of teeth ? also made the list somehow.

Some of the more respectable and and truly fascinating people who made the list were actor and director Ben Affleck, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AGENTS | Dell Social Innovation ...

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT RETAILERS Ltd
1. OPPORTUNITY ASSESSMENT
a. CHALLENGE
Kigali has 2 millions of people and most of them live on commerce and get products from rural areas, which have been planted there, and there is a high fluctuation of the prices of the agricultural crops because people in the city increase day to day, and people are concentrated in importing external products especially rice from Pakistan and Tanzania, still, agricultural products in the village are cheap because of the lack of the market and so farmers don?t gain from their job.
a. MAIN PROBLEM
-Increase of the population in the city which results into the shortage of agricultural products in the city needed by many people,
-No land to cultivate in the city and so there is dependence on the external,
-Farmers in the village get discouraged as they don?t have market for their crops.
-to overcome the shortage of the agricultural products in the city resulting into the rise of prices of Rwandan crops in the city.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
Due to the above problems in Kigali city, we decided to start a shop that will be specified in providing the Rwandan crops, in GIKONDO Sector where the population from Kigali city will come and buy our commodities such as Bananas, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, cassava and cassava flour, Crocuses,
Our business will be collecting these crops from the Rwanda rural areas that are main producers and bring them in the city these areas are for example MUSANZE, NGOMA, RWAMAGANA, and MUHANGA.
APPROACH
Agricultural product Retailers Ltd is a profit making organization that is intended to provide Rwanda made products to the citizens of Kigali city, by buying them from the rural milieu and selling them in the city, so our major objective is that we will be making profits out of the problem by availability of agricultural product coming from rural areas to the city.
IMPACT
Our business will make a meaningful socio-economical advantage to the people of Kigali and those in the villages especially farmers, in different ways,
-Providing the market for rural farmers? crops or production, so, they will be encouraged to cultivate more because they will know there is a market.
-Providing food for the people of Kigali without scarcity of crops because we will be gathering them from all provinces,
-Employment generation, to the people in village who will be used to carry products from farms and the car owners who will bring them to our store.
-Increase in the personal income of the population in the village by selling more thus interest in the agriculture will rise.
-Reduction in rural exodus.
-Increase in the partner?s income, as we will buy and sell, it is intended that we will make profits that will help us to become wealthier.
-Payment of taxes to the government that will contribute to the country?s economic growth and development.
-Reduction of the capital that is actually spent buying strange commodities like rice and banana among others.
BUSINESS MODEL
As Rwanda is struggling for the vision 2020, it is expected that the population?s standard of living will increase and improve, one of the main way to do it, is through the reduction of the dependence of agricultural products which come from outside of the country. To get to this it is good developing internal farmers, to get to this point it will be good providing ready markets for their products, also as prices of agricultural are to be maintained to the same level in Kigali city, there are many cases where price always fluctuate because of lack of suppliers and many other sellers are not interested in supplying such kind of commodities what causes life in the city to be more and more expensive, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT RETAILERS LTD is one of the solutions to all these problems.
As we know our country has introduced many policies in rural areas like VUP-Umurenge, and EDPRS which are related to the eradication of the poverty in the rural areas, and this is always done by improving agriculture, our business will help people to find the market for their products.
As the general objective , our business will help us to get profit which will lead us to the self dependence without waiting for the government?s jobs, instead we will be job creators.
MARKET ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY
Due to above spoken problems, and knowing that Gikondo is highly habituated by students of SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND BANKING, and workers from many industries in the valley like Mironko, Akagera Motors, Mutara Enterprises Ltd and many others, we discovered that there is a high demand of the agricultural products in this area,. In that fact, we decided to start a shop in that area, our business will cooperate with other shops which are similar like DUHAHIRANE and many others, after finding out that the products below are mostly consumed , we decided to start our business, those products include: Bananas, Cassava and cassava flour, sweet potatoes, crocuses, Irish potatoes, Mushroom, Peas, beans, pineapples etc.
In our business we will try our best to attract customers by providing a good customer care,
As the innovation of our business, we will be supplying Mushrooms which are not a common in this market and after analyzing, we got to know that many people need these products and don?t get it.
After a long time of observation and after finding the source of our income, and as it is stated that we are going to trade agricultural products, we will get them from different provinces of the country , among attached documents is the list of all products that we will be trading , their costs and their origins.

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BookBook arrives for iPad mini, delivers a novella-sized tablet disguise

If Twelve South's BookBook for iPad is War and Peace, its new BookBook for iPad mini case is The Old Man and the Sea: a lot smaller, but no less appreciated. The black, brown or red shell protects Apple's tiny tablet with real leather in much the same way as its larger cousin, including a signature support frame for lifting the iPad to more natural angles. Photographers can also briefly peek the tablet out of its shell to snap photos. While there's only a $10 discount versus the full-size BookBook, we'll live with the $70 price if we can pretend we're engrossed with some light reading while we play Letterpress.

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Predatory fungi are listening for worms, then devouring prey

Dec. 13, 2012 ? For over 25 years, Paul Sternberg has been studying worms -- how they develop, why they sleep, and, more recently, how they communicate. Now, he has flipped the script a bit by taking a closer look at how predatory fungi may be tapping into worm conversations to gain clues about their whereabouts.

Nematodes, Sternberg's primary worm interest, are found in nearly every corner of the world and are one of the most abundant animals on the planet. Unsurprisingly, they have natural enemies, including numerous types of carnivorous fungi that build traps to catch their prey. Curious to see how nematophagous fungi might sense that a meal is present without the sensory organs -- like eyes or noses -- that most predators use, Sternberg and Yen-Ping Hsueh, a postdoctoral scholar in biology at Caltech, started with a familiar tool: ascarosides. These are the chemical cues that nematodes use to "talk" to one another.

"If we think about it from an evolutionary perspective, whatever the worms are making that can be sensed by the nematophagous fungi must be very important to the worm -- otherwise, it's not worth the risk," explains Hsueh. "I thought that ascarosides perfectly fit this hypothesis."

In order to test their idea, the team first evaluated whether different ascarosides caused one of the most common nematode-trapping fungi species to start making a trap. Indeed, it responded by building sticky, web-like nets called adhesive networks, but only when it was nutrient-deprived. It takes a lot of energy for the fungi to build a trap, so they'll only do it if they are hungry and they sense that prey is nearby. Moreover, this ascaroside-induced response is conserved in three other closely related species. But, the researchers say, each of the four fungal species responded to different sets of ascarosides.

"This fits with the idea that different types of predators might encounter different types of prey in nature, and also raises the possibility that fungi could 'read' the different dialects of each worm type," says Sternberg. "What's cool is that we've shown the ability for a predator to eavesdrop on essential prey communication. The worms have to talk to each other using these chemicals, and the predator is listening in on it -- that's how it knows the worms are there."

Sternberg and Hsueh also tested a second type of fungus that uses a constricting ring to trap the worms, but it did not respond to the ascarosides. However, the team says that because they only tested a handful of the chemical cues, it's possible that they simply did not test the right ones for that type of fungus.

"Next, the focus is to really study the molecular mechanism in the fungi -- how does a fungus sense the ascarosides, and what are the downstream pathways that induce the trap formation," says Hsueh. "We are also interested in evolutionary question of why we see this ascaroside sensing in some types of fungi but not others."

In the long run, their findings may help improve methods for pest management. Some of these fungi are used for biocontrol to try and keep nematodes away from certain plant roots. Knowing more about what stimulates the organisms to make traps might allow for the development of better biocontrol preparations, says Sternberg.

The full results of Sternberg and Hsueh's study can be found in the paper, "Nematode-trapping fungi eavesdrop on nematode pheromones," published in the journal Current Biology.

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Judge revokes Lohan's probation, sets hearing date

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2012 file photo, Lindsay Lohan attends the Mr. Pink Ginseng launch party at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Los Angeles city prosecutors said Tuesday Dec. 11, 2012 that they will seek to revoke Lohan's probation because the actress has been charged with three misdemeanors stemming from a June car crash. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2012 file photo, Lindsay Lohan attends the Mr. Pink Ginseng launch party at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Los Angeles city prosecutors said Tuesday Dec. 11, 2012 that they will seek to revoke Lohan's probation because the actress has been charged with three misdemeanors stemming from a June car crash. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2012 file photo, Lindsay Lohan attends the Mr. Pink Ginseng launch party at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Lohan is due to be arraigned on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 on three misdemeanor charges filed after authorities say they determined the actress lied about being a passenger when her Porsche slammed into the back of a dump truck in June. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2012 file photo, Lindsay Lohan attends the Mr. Pink Ginseng launch party at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Los Angeles city prosecutors said Tuesday Dec. 11, 2012 that they will seek to revoke Lohan's probation because the actress has been charged with three misdemeanors stemming from a June car crash. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A judge revoked Lindsay Lohan's probation on Wednesday and scheduled a hearing that could result in more jail time for the closely watched "Liz and Dick" star.

The ruling in Los Angeles came as the 26-year-old actress ? who did not appear in court ? faces misdemeanor counts of reckless driving, lying to a police officer and obstructing an officer from performing duties after an accident in which her Porsche slammed into the back of a dump truck in June.

Lohan told police in Santa Monica that her assistant was driving, but detectives now believe the actress was behind the wheel as she headed to a movie set.

Lohan was on probation at the time after previously being convicted of the misdemeanor theft of a necklace and two DUI charges.

A probation violation hearing was set for Jan. 15. A judge could sentence the actress up to 245 days in jail after the Santa Monica case is resolved.

Lohan was not required to appear in court Wednesday. She was represented by her attorney, Shawn Holley.

Lohan also faces a misdemeanor assault charge in New York after a woman claimed she was hit by the actress at a nightclub.

The jewelry case sparked months of court hearings and morgue cleanup duty for the star who has struggled personally and professionally since being arrested twice in 2007 for driving under the influence.

After being removed from supervised probation in March, Lohan attempted to mount a comeback, filming two movies and a cameo with Charlie Sheen in the latest installment of the "Scary Movie" franchise.

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Why no new Christmas carols?

We're still singing songs from the nineteenth century. Why nothing newer?

By John Kehe,?/ Staff writer / December 12, 2012

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A familiar exchange heard in American living rooms these days: "Hey kids, let's all gather around the fireplace and sing songs from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries!"

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Looking up from their texting, the kids exclaim in unison: "Yea! Let us go a-wassailing!"

OK, maybe not ? but you get the picture. People have been singing the same old Christmas carols forever.

Ever wonder why?

Historically it's been nearly impossible for a new Christmas song to break the impenetrable monopoly of "Away in a Manger" (1885); "The First Noel" (1823); "Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful" (1743); "Silent Night" (1818); "Deck the Halls" (1862); "Jingle Bells" (1857); "We Three Kings" (1857); "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (17th century); "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (words 1739, music 1840) ? all still caroling favorites.

Of course, to be fair, there are "new" ones, such as "White Christmas" (1942), "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (1934), and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (1948). Those are only 60 to 80 years old.

So why aren't there any brand-new Christmas songs to sing?

Christmas comes but once a year. And every December folks haul out their ancient collection of raggedy ornaments and faithfully festoon the tree with them. Like these nostalgia-coated collections of ornaments, the old familiar carols trigger fond memories of good times and shared ceremony. It would take a very special new song to break into that tight circle.

It can happen. Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (1994) seems to have slipped into the canon. It gets plenty of radio (and shopping mall) play. And it's featured annually in the newest holiday classic movie "Love Actually," which adds to its luster and exposure.

But the powerful music business engine that pushed holiday hits by gifted songsmiths out of Broadway's Brill Building onto radios and phonographs in every home is long gone. Now it's a digital free-for-all out there.

It's anybody's guess where and when the next great yuletide song will come from. But isn't that what folks love about this season ? to be taken by surprise?

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How to Avoid Working with an Imposter REALTOR?!

No, I?m not suggesting that your agent has forged their real estate credentials?let me explain. Years ago I was out at Maplewood Mall in the upstairs food court eating lunch with my sons and teenaged niece (she?s a 30 something now so it was awhile back). As we shared our fast food fare, an attractive middle-aged woman dressed in very trendy clothing passed by but she was simply trying to hard to appear youthful. My niece mumbled under her breath, ?Imposter Mom?. I had never heard such a thing but found it rather funny. Especially when the gal was well out of earshot, my niece emphatically added, ?Imposter Grandma?s are the worst!?

My niece explained to me that an ?imposter mom? was someone her mom?s age who impersonated a teenager in dress, hairstyle, make up etc. It?s a 40-something who steals her daughter?s latest issue of Seventeen Magazine and tries to be cool. It really doesn?t work. I thought it was hilarious and begged my niece to let me know if I ever was to cross that line.

So this conversation came to mind recently as I hear from people regarding working with real estate agents that are somewhat lacking in the professional department. These agents appear to be REALTORS?. They have real estate licenses, business cards and most even have that handy dandy key that opens those fancy electronic Supra lockboxes. But something is missing and it will come to light soon after the buyer or seller signs the contract. They discover their agent isn?t working full time in real estate. Some don?t want to pay the fees to get access to the electronic lockboxes. Some just don?t work enough to understand how to write a contract clearly as the forms change annually.

I have had the opportunity to work on the other side of a few deals with these imposters. There was the contract with a teacher who only planned to sell in the summer but took listings all year round anyway. Another deal was with a daycare owner who could only return calls after 6 or at naptime. And then there was the agent who worked full time retail who was impossible to get a hold of because of a constantly changing schedule. There are also agents who call or cancel appointments of properties with secure Supra lockboxes because they do not own an electronic key and cannot get into a listing.

As a cooperative agent, it is frustrating to work with an imposter real estate agent, but as a client, it could be down right infuriating! When a buyer signs a listing agreement or contract for buyer?s representation, it is important to ask a few questions regarding how much time and effort your REALTOR? will be putting into your sale or purchase. Finding a home or buyer for your home will take time and hard work on the part of your agent. Your REALTOR? should make the process easier from the time you sign your contract to closing day.

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO ASK WHEN INTERVIEWING REAL ESTATE AGENTS:

• How long have you been licensed to sell real estate?
• How many homes have you sold this past year? In your career?
• What percentage of your business comes from past client referrals?
• Are you a real estate agent or a REALTOR??
• Do you work full time in real estate?
• Do you work individually or as part of a team? If part of a team, are do all team members have similar expertise and quality of service?
• How many clients, buyers and sellers, do you currently represent?

Did you know? Not every real estate agent is a REALTOR?. A REALTOR? is a member of the National Association of REALTORS? and abides by their code of ethics.

Finding the right real estate agent to work with means you will have to take the time to weed out the imposters. See I can overlook the bad styling of an imposter grandma, in fact sometimes they can provide a good chuckle. But in my mind, an imposter REALTOR? is the worst! Buying and selling a home is too important to be represented by someone who is less than 100% a professional.

If you are buying, selling or relocating to Minnesota and need help from a professional REALTOR?, give me, Theresa "Teri" Eckholm, a call or visit my website for a FREE Relocation Packet or FREE Homebuyers Success Packet.?? I specialize in acreage and lakeshore properties in the north and east Twin Cities metro area including Ham Lake, Lino Lakes and all communities in the Forest Lake School District! Serving Anoka, Chisago, Ramsey and Washington Counties in Minnesota.

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IT Asking Services: What Is really a Disaster Recovery Plan? | Aero ...

Companies arrange for various types of activities, but a tragedy that interrupts daily business is one event that several businesses haven?t addressed. Most firms are statistically unlikely to experience a disaster that destroys the IT infrastructure, but businesses that experience such an event usually emerge from it with somber guidance to give: unless an organization includes a disaster recovery plan set up, the likelihood of it remaining in operation after the disaster are grim.Providers of IT consulting companies are familiar with this advice; they give it to clients each day. What starts as a talk about the importance of a recovery plan soon becomes a discussion about what comprises an excellent recovery plan. According to managed service providers that concentrate on business continuity planning, an effective recovery program is made up of the next elements:Offsite Data StorageMany organizations have the experience to shop amazing data offsite, but simply keeping the data offsite does not prepare a company for a tragedy. Along with being copied at another location, the data must be simply recoverable (i.e. moved to new equipment three to five days following the catastrophe). In the time of cloud research, offsite information storage could very well be typically the most popular web-based IT service. To get ready for disasters, companies must store data with a service company that can provide the data within three to five days adhering to a problem declaration.Emergency HardwareThe capability to retrieve lost data from a problem won?t execute an organization much good until it has hardware where the data can be stored. Along with providing knowledge storage, companies of IT consulting companies that specialize in disaster recovery also present crisis hardware. Following a disaster report, the hardware is expediently delivered to the client so it can retrieve this information and recover the IT infrastructure in an of days.Alternative Business LocationA disaster that kills the IT infrastructure often leaves the building uninhabitable. With no spot to house a short-term IT community, an organization lacks a spot to conduct business. Before a catastrophe occurs building an alternative solution business site is essential for restoring the IT infrastructure in a short period. The supplier will advocate the perfect location.Additional StaffFollowing a disaster, a company may require extra staff for various reasons. Added staffing is frequently needed to help apply the community. It may also be required to replace workers who are either temporarily or permanently indisposed, incapacitated, or otherwise unavailable because of the catastrophe. Sometimes, companies conduct business from an alternative location for a period of time of weeks or months. If additional staff is needed by them during this time period, the company may supply it.ConclusionOffsite data emergency equipment, an alternative organization site, storage, and additional staff are the fundamental components of a disaster recovery plan. The unique elements of the approach are developed by a supplier of IT consulting services to generally meet the special requirements of the customer. If your company requires a disaster recovery plan, contact amanaged services company that specializes in business continuity planning today.

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George Heymont: Taking Note

My father was tone deaf. Although he enjoyed listening to Broadway shows, I never heard him sing anything other than "Happy Birthday To You." Nor do I recall his ever playing a musical instrument.

However, over many years of attending opera, musical theatre, and live concerts, I've developed an acute sensitivity to how music enhances certain dramatic moments. Sometimes the power of a film score may grab me with greater intensity than the movie's script. At other times, a passage of music is so beautifully matched to the action that their artistic strengths unite to create pure magic. Earlier this year, at screenings of Chicken With Plums, I was deeply impressed by the beauty of Olivier Bernet's film score (as well as the fact that it ended with the perfect note placed at the perfect moment).

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A singer's talent for phrasing, coloration, and understanding a lyric's intent can make all the difference in the world. In his article in The New York Times entitled Gifts of Voice That Keep On Giving, music critic Anthony Tommasini paid tribute to how carefully 70-year-old Barbra Streisand and 85-year-old Barbara Cook had taken care of their vocal instruments through decades of interpreting the American songbook.

"The best pop singers seem never to age. Look at Frank Sinatra. You cannot say his singing declined as he matured; rather, it changed, mellowed and took on more vocal weight and emotional depth. He may have given some shaky performances toward the end, but no one said he was too old to sing. Like Ms. Cook, Ms. Streisand has had to learn to adjust her vocal artistry as her voice has weathered. High notes do not come as easily, though even in her vocal prime, Ms. Streisand's high range was not her comfort zone. In those days, whether she let a top note shimmer with penetrating power or coaxed her voice to reach the peak of a phrase with breathy expressivity, her singing was driven by the instincts of a born actress who was using her voice 'as a means to an end' (as Ms. Streisand explained in a 2009 interview). Both [Ms. Streisand and Ms. Cook] offer inspiring examples of how to adapt artistry to changes in vocal capacities."

I wish I could say the same for Shirley Jones, who made her debut at The Rrazz Room in October singing songs from her most popular movie musicals (Oklahoma! Carousel, and The Music Man) as well as some cabaret chestnuts by Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Kern, and Rodgers & Hart.

In her heyday, Ms. Jones (whom I saw in 1968's short-lived Maggie Flynn) had a beautiful lyric soprano. Now 79 and the proud grandmother of 12, her voice has grown huskier in its lower range and she has become more of a belter.

While some of Jones's choices were unnerving ("Can't Help Lovin' Dat' Man" from 1927's Show Boat and, without doubt, the strangest interpretation of "Send in the Clowns" I've ever heard), the most shocking aspect of her performance was her continual difficulty finding the correct pitch. Although Ms. Jones has retained a rich, warm sound with no discernible wobble (and no obvious signs of fraying), her aim -- though well-intentioned -- is often haphazard. Many of the problems she encountered could easily be solved by redefining her comfort zone and making a simple investment in having her arrangements transposed down by about a third.

Having perfect pitch can be a blessing or a curse. It's handy when learning music to know that you don't have to worry about understanding one note's relationship to another. But it can just as easily become a nagging curse that makes one acutely aware of how a singer's pitch problems are sabotaging her performance.

While Ms. Jones did none of the scooping some performers rely on late in their careers, her hit-and-miss approach to many phrases was the aural equivalent of watching a pilot try to land a plane in strong crosswinds. No skid marks, but many moments of alarm and uncertainty.

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One doesn't expect a dramatization of Homer's Iliad to get upstaged by some hipster rushing into the theatre with his bicycle, but that's exactly what happened during the Berkeley Repertory Theatre's adaptation of the epic Greek poem. Conceived by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, this 100-minute-long monologue was powerfully performed by Henry Woronicz under Peterson's careful direction.

When the creative team first put this production together at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey, they worked carefully to find a way for the poet (Homer) to address the audience as contemporaries so that his account of the Trojan War could seem fresh and relevant.

Sometimes strange things happen to me during a live performance. One would think that Homer's tale of the Trojan War would be enough to keep anyone's mind busy but, as I watched the performance, I felt myself bookmarking chapters of Homer's tale by successive lighting cues, costume adjustments, and transitions bookended by the repositioning of a chair, door, or table.

What riveted my attention, however, was Brian Ellingsen's magnetic performance as the musician/muse who accompanies Homer's tragic song. One rarely gets to hear a double bass used as a solo instrument (except, perhaps, in jazz ensembles). But Mark Bennett's piercing score (whether melodic or percussive, whether capturing the wooden sonority of a double bass or the metallic ring of a nearby stanchion) grabbed my attention and became the most powerful force of the evening for me.

Henry Woronicz and Brian Ellingsen in An Iliad
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With a fierceness to match the love between Achilles and Patroclus, the ominous percussiveness necessary to narrate a tale of war, and the aching sounds to match King Priam's sorrow as he begs for the body of his slain son, Hector, Bennett's music became an integral part of the story in the most remarkable way. While I don't wish to diminish Henry Woronicz's bravura performance as a storyteller, it was Bennett's music that made the evening soar for me.

There are many golden moments in the retelling of Homer's story which parallel the futility of our two recent wars in the Middle East. If Woronicz's recital of the names of wars men have fought from ancient times up to the present doesn't send a chill up your spine, you've probably lost all hope of learning anything from history.

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McAfee wants to return to US, 'normal life'

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2012, file photo, software company founder John McAfee listens to a question during an interview at a local restaurant in Guatemala City. McAfee said Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, a live-stream Internet broadcast from the Guatemalan detention center where he is fighting a government order that he be returned to Belize, that he wants to return to the United States and "settle down to whatever normal life" he can. Police in neighboring Belize want to question McAfee in the fatal shooting of a U.S. expatriate who lived near his home on a Belizean island in November. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2012, file photo, software company founder John McAfee listens to a question during an interview at a local restaurant in Guatemala City. McAfee said Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, a live-stream Internet broadcast from the Guatemalan detention center where he is fighting a government order that he be returned to Belize, that he wants to return to the United States and "settle down to whatever normal life" he can. Police in neighboring Belize want to question McAfee in the fatal shooting of a U.S. expatriate who lived near his home on a Belizean island in November. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

In this photo released by Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman's office, software company founder John McAfee is photographed in an immigration detention center in Guatemala City, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. The anti-virus guru was arrested at a hotel in an upscale neighborhood with the help of Interpol agents, hours after he said he would seek asylum in the Central American country. Guatemalan authorities were awaiting orders from their Foreign Ministry about whether to send him back to Belize, where he is a person of interest in the killing of a fellow expatriate American. (AP Photo/Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman's office)

BACALAR, Mexico (AP) ? Software company founder John McAfee said Sunday he wants to return to the United States and "settle down to whatever normal life" he can.

In a live-stream Internet broadcast from the Guatemalan detention center where he is fighting a government order that he be returned to Belize, the 67-year-old said "I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years."

Police in neighboring Belize want to question McAfee in the fatal shooting of a U.S. expatriate who lived near his home on a Belizean island in November.

The creator of the McAfee antivirus program again denied involvement in the killing during the Sunday address streamed live over the Ustream website, during which he answered what he said were reporters' questions.

His comments were sometimes contradictory. McAfee is an acknowledged practical joker who has dabbled in yoga, ultra-light aircraft and the production of herbal medications.

The British-born McAfee first said that returning to the United States "is my only hope now." But he later added, "I would be happy to go to England, I have dual citizenship."

He was emphatic that "I cannot ever return to Belize ... There is no hope for my life if I am ever returned to Belize."

"If I am returned," he said, "bad things will clearly happen to me."

He descibed the health problems that had him briefly hospitalized earlier this week after Guatemalan authorities detained him for entering the country illegally. He apparently snuck in across a rural, unguarded spot along the border.

"I did not eat for two days, I drank very little liquids, and for the first time in many years I've been smoking almost non-stop," he said. "I stood up, passed out hit my head on the wall, came to," though he now said he was feeling better.

McAfee praised the role his 20-year-old Belizean girlfriend, Samantha Vanegas, played in his escape from Belize, where he claims he is being persecuted by corrupt politicians. Authorities in Belize deny that they are persecuting him and have questioned his mental state.

"Sam saved the day many times" during their escape, he said, and suggested he would take her with him to the United States if he is allowed to go there.

He confirmed that journalists from Vice magazine who accompanied him on his escape after weeks of hiding in Belize had unwittingly posted photos with embedded data that revealed his exact location.

"It was an error anyone could make," he said, noting they were under a lot of pressure at the time.

McAfee has led an eccentric life since he sold his stake in the software company named after him in the early 1990s and moved to Belize about three years ago to lower his taxes.

He told The New York Times in 2009 that he had lost all but $4 million of his $100 million fortune in the U.S. financial crisis. However, a story on the Gizmodo website quoted him as describing that claim as "not very accurate at all."

McAfee's Guatemalan attorney, Telesforo Guerra, says that he has filed three separate legal appeals in the hope that his client can stay in Guatemala, where his political asylum request was rejected.

Guerra said he filed an appeal for a judge to make sure McAfee's physical integrity is protected, an appeal against the asylum denial and a petition with immigration officials to allow his client to stay in this Central American country indefinitely.

The appeals could take several days to resolve, Guerra said. He added that he could still use several other legal resources but wouldn't give any other details.

Fredy Viana, a spokesman for the Immigration Department, said that before the agency looks into the request to allow McAfee to stay in Guatemala, a judge must first deal with the appeal asking that authorities make sure McAfee's physical integrity is protected.

"We won't look into (allowing him to stay) until the other appeal is resolved," Viana said. "The law gives me 30 days to resolve the issue."

McAfee went on the run last month after Belizean officials tried to question him about the killing of Gregory Viant Faull, who was shot to death in early November.

McAfee acknowledges that his dogs were bothersome and that Faull had complained about them, but denies killing Faull. Faull's home was a couple of houses down from McAfee's compound in Ambergris Caye, off Belize's Caribbean coast.

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