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Friday, June 8, 2012

REBOOTizer Spokesperson Chazz Weaver to ... - Health and Fitness

Celebrated fitness trainer and author Chazz Weaver is slated to speak at the convention for health and fitness professionals, July 5-8th, 2012 in San Diego.

Wilton, CT (PRWEB) June 08, 2012

Celebrated fitness trainer and author Chazz Weaver is slated to speak at the upcoming 2012 IDEA World Fitness Convention, held in San Diego, California July 5-8th, 2012. Weaver?s presentation, on ?Youthfulness from the Inside Out?, is slated to be delivered on Saturday, July 7 from 12:25-12:55p.m. at the BE: FUELED stage.

At the age of 57, Weaver has made national and international appearances to talk health and fitness and has appeared on ABC?s 20/20, Fox Network, and countless local television and radio stations around the world. Galvanized by the deceptions of the health industry, author Chazz Weaver not only tells you the truth about wellness in his book, The OC Diet Revolution, but he also lives it. His IDEA World Fitness Convention lecture to health and fitness enthusiasts aims to address the following message:

?Slow down the aging process from the inside out; how? By neutralizing free radicals which can damage cells and contribute to aging and disease. Help your clients feel their best at any age, by taking better care of themselves and finding effective ways to combat free radicals. We invite you to spend a few moments with us and discover how addressing free radicals positively impacts aging, performance, recovery, and cell health.?

As a spokesperson for REBOOTizer, a revolutionary, all-natural antioxidant/detox supplement, Weaver now conducts health and fitness seminars on the fundamentals of wellness to help ordinary people achieve their fitness and healthy lifestyle goals. He said, ?One of the reasons I continue to pursue my academic research is to provide the resources to consumers looking to take charge of their health and wellness. I look forward to sharing some of my latest undertakings on how to combat free radicals and deliver Oxidative Stress Relief with an enthusiastic audience looking to learn more while participating with REBOOTizer at the IDEA World Fitness Convention.?

REBOOTizer will make its first appearance with Weaver at the IDEA World Fitness Convention as an exhibitor of the four-day conference. Corporate leadership and sampling personnel will both be on hand to sample consumers and distribute free samples of the revolutionary antioxidant product. The convention is one of many events in Southern California where REBOOTizer will have an off-site presence through the rest of 2012 to support growing distribution in California Whole Foods Market locations and other retailers to soon be announced.

REBOOTizer?s unique squeeze-activated MixSystemTM pouch provides maximum potency and rapid absorption of ingredients to athletes looking for immediate performance and recovery benefits. Consumers simply squeeze, shake and drink when ready to reboot. By delivering a powerful boost of potent fruit and plant extracts to the body before or after exercise, athletes are helping to fight and rid themselves of excess free radicals and toxins in the body at their peak occurrences.

REBOOTizer is available nationally for direct purchase online (http://www.rebootizerusa.com) and at Whole Foods Markets in California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii, and at Mother?s Market Kitchen locations in Orange County, CA, among other retailers and distribution networks to be announced throughout the year.

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About REBOOTizer: REBOOTizer is a dietary supplement designed to combat oxidative stress by neutralizing damaging free radicals and assisting the body?s natural detox functions. Developed by leading bio-chemist Anne Sophie Bongain for the Alpenrose Clinic in Switzerland, REBOOTizer?s remarkable supplement system is designed to neutralize toxins and free radicals into ?inert molecules?, boost metabolic efficiency and assist the liver to ?detox? naturally. REBOOTizer is imported by Global Entry, LLC in Wilton, CT.

?Feel Better Today, Live Better Tomorrow?.

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Google Launches Trusted Stores Program, Offers $1,000 Lifetime Purchase Protection

Google today announced the official launch of its Trusted Stores Program. This program is meant to give online shoppers more assurances that participating online retailers are actually trustworthy. Online retailers who choose to participate in this program will be able to display report cards on their sites that rate the stores' overall service and the reliability of their shipping services. The badge, says Google, "is only awarded to online stores that deliver a great overall experience, so even if you haven?t shopped with this merchant before, you can easily tell if they are trustworthy, ship quickly and reliably, and offer exceptional customer service."

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Venus Crosses the Sun for Last Time Until 2117, Skywatchers Rejoice

NEW YORK ? It's something no one alive today will likely ever see again: The planet Venus crossing the sun ? a small, black dot moving across the fiery face of our nearest star.

The transit of Venus across the sun is one of the rarest celestial sights visible from Earth, one that wowed scientists and amateur observers around the world Tuesday (June 5). The event, ?arguably the most anticipated skywatching display of the year,?marked the last time Venus will cross the sun (as seen from Earth) for 105 years.

Only seven Venus transits have been witnessed since the invention of the telescope 400 years ago, and you'd have a long wait for the next one. It won't happen again until Dec. 11, 2117.

To celebrate the last transit of Venus in the 21st century, astronomers and skywatchers came together in many sites around the world. In the United States, NASA beamed images of the transit from an observatory atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii (just one of many webcasts from many countries) and welcomed the public to its various space centers, including the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. [Amazing Venus Transit 2012 Pictures]

"It's truly inspiring to see so many faces here to share this moment with us," Natalie Batalha, the deputy science team leader of NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, told visitors at Ames. "It's going to give you, I hope, a profound feeling of the grandeur of our own solar system. You're going to see Venus in person, with a spotlight shining on her."

Tuesday's transit began just after 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) and lasted about six hours and 40 minutes. It was visible across North America, Europe, Asia and eastern Africa. Because of the International Date Line, some parts of the world saw the transit on June 6.

A rare celestial sight

Venus transits occur when Venus reaches a point in its orbit that brings the planet directly between the Earth and the sun. Since the tilt of Venus' orbit isn't exactly the same as that of Earth, the events are rare, occurring just four times every 243 years.

The transits occur in pairs eight years apart. Since the June 5 transit followed a previous Venus sun crossing in 2004, this is the last one of the current cycle. Venus and Mercury are the only planets that can be seen crossing the sun from Earth since their orbits are between our planet and the sun. The next Mercury transit will be on May 9, 2016.

Despite the extreme rarity of Venus transits, they hold a wealth of information about Venus, the sun and our solar system. Since the first documented observation of a Venus transit in 1639, astronomers have used the events to measure the size of the solar system, the intricacies of Venus' atmosphere, the width of the sun and more. [Venus Crosses Sun's Hellfire in 2012 Transit (Video)]

In fact, NASA and other space agencies trained a fleet of satellites to watch the Venus transit in unprecedented detail. NASA's powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory captured spectacular photos and movies of the entire transit.

Astronomers and skywatchers were eagerly looking forward to seeing the so-called "Black Drop Effect," an optical illusion that occurs when just after Venus moves on to the sun's disk and just before it exits. During the illusion, the black disk of Venus appears to be connected to the edge of the sun due to a trick of optics, NASA officials said. ?

Even astronauts in space caught Venus transit fever.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit photographed the Venus transit from the observation deck of the International Space Station. He is the first person ever to photograph the transit from space and has been a prolific photographer of Earth and space during his months-long mission aboard the space station.

"For scientific purposes today, the transit of Venus is more of an educational opportunity to look at celestial events and learn and be delighted about how our solar systems, and the dynamics of the planets, operate," Pettit said in a video before the transit.

Venus-watching in the Big Apple

Here in New York City, hundreds of skywatchers flocked to Manhattan's west side where the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York set up two separate observing posts to catch the historic Venus transit. Clouds and occasional rain put a damper on the viewing, but for brief moments the skies parted allowing for amazing views.

Megan McDavid, of Brooklyn, said she came out to see the transit because: "It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This is my last chance, how could you miss it?"

She admitted that the small dot of Venus was "hard to see" without telescope magnification, but said, "I feel lucky we got a few breaks in the clouds and I got a chance to see it."

Elsewhere in Manhattan, nearly 600 people packed the American Museum of Natural History to watch Venus cross the sun. The museum carried NASA's webcast from Mauna Kea live, with the crowd cheering as the event began.

"We watched a dot move across the screen and it was awesome," said skywatching enthusiast Kip Daly, 16, when asked what he'd tell his future children about the transit.

Venus transit and alien worlds

Back in Moffett Field, Calif., people turned out in droves to view the last-in-a-lifetime Venus transit at NASA's Ames Research Center about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of San Francisco. [Skywatchers Pictures of 2012 Venus Transit]

Ames' Batalha kicked things off with a standing-room-only talk at 2:30 p.m. local time (5:30 p.m. EDT; 2130 GMT), about 30 minutes before the transit began.

As hundreds of people listened inside Ames' Exploration Center, Batalha explained why planetary transits intrigued astronomers over the centuries? and why they're still important today. NASA's Kepler space telescope uses transits to detect alien worlds, for example, flagging the tiny brightness dips caused when exoplanets cross their stars from the telescope's perspective.

When Batalha finished, the focus shifted to the live NASA webcast of the transit, which began playing on the Exploration Center's huge screen.

Moans and murmurs ran through the crowd when the feed was lost around 3 p.m. PT, just as Venus was getting set to touch the solar disk for the first time. But an appreciative and reverent silence set in when the video was restored and Venus appeared on the sun's limb.

The crowds were big outside in the parking lot, too, where several dozen amateur astronomers had set up specially filtered telescopes and binoculars. It was a perfect day for viewing, sunny and clear, and hundreds of onlookers queued up to see the spectacular sky show.

One such skywatcher was 6-year-old Natalie Buckley, who came to the event with her family. Natalie said she saw Venus and sunspots through the various telescopes, an experience she described as "cool and weird."

Most of the attendees were doubtless locals, drawn to Ames from various spots around the Bay Area. But two hardcore skywatchers came all the way from Spain.

Oscar Martin Mesonero and Pablo Gonzalez Pena are from Salamanca, which missed the entire seven-hour transit. The two came to California because they could see most of the transit from here, and because they figured the weather would cooperate.

"I'm an eclipse chaser," Martin Mesonero said, adding that he's planning to go to Australia to view a total solar eclipse this November.

He saw the 2004 Venus transit in Spain, but with relatively rudimentary equipment. He and Gonzalez Pena brought a bunch of high-tech, high-performance gear to California with them to document this transit, the last one they'll ever see.

"This is the first time I've taken good pictures and good video," Martin Mesonero said.

Back in New York, younger Venus observers were ecstatic as well.

Lauren Aldorody, 17, said there was just something extra special about watching Venus pass in front of the sun that sets it apart from other celestial events.

"This is probably the top," Aldorody said. "I haven't really seen much, just a few lunar eclipses, but this is way cooler."

SPACE.com assistant managing editor Clara Moskowitz and staff writer Denise Chow contributed to this report from New York. Senior writer Mike Wall contributed from San Francisco.

You can follow SPACE.com Managing Editor Tariq Malik on Twitter?@tariqjmalik.?Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter?@Spacedotcom. We're also on Facebookand Google+.

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Google Schemer gains photo and landscape support with latest update

Schemer for Android

Although it remains a niche app of sorts, Google hasn't forgotten about Schemer in their run of latest Android app updates. A new update is currently showing as available in the Google Play Store with some notable changes included. Landscape support is now baked into the app as well as support for photos on posts. If you're into scheming, you can grab the download right now at the link after the break.

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Mega-lawsuit says NFL hid brain injury links

FILE - In this July, 1975 file photo, Atlanta Falcons safety Ray Easterling is shown. A concussion-related lawsuit bringing together scores of cases has been filed in federal court, accusing the NFL of hiding information that linked football-related head trauma to permanent brain injuries. Lawyers for former players say more than 80 pending lawsuits are consolidated in the "master complaint" filed Thursday, June 7, 2012, in Philadelphia. Mary Ann Easterling will remain a plaintiff despite the April suicide of her husband, Ray, who had been a named plaintiff in a suit filed last year. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - This Oct. 3, 2011 file photo shows NFL football Commissioner Roger Goodell speaking to reporters after speaking about concussions at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, in Washington. A concussion-related lawsuit bringing together scores of cases has been filed in federal court, accusing the NFL of hiding information that linked football-related head trauma to permanent brain injuries. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Scores of lawsuits involving thousands of former players touched by concussions and brain injuries have been consolidated into one master complaint, setting up a massive and potentially costly case for the NFL.

Lawyers for the players filed the complaint Thursday in Philadelphia, accusing the NFL of hiding information that linked football-related head trauma to permanent brain injuries. Among the illnesses cited were dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

The plaintiffs hope to hold the NFL responsible for the care of players suffering from those health problems.

"The NFL must open its eyes to the consequences of its actions," said Kevin Turner, a former running back with the Patriots and Eagles who has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). "The NFL has the power not only to give former players the care they deserve, but also to ensure that future generations of football players do not suffer the way that many in my generation have."

Also named in the suit was helmet-maker Riddell, Inc.

The suit accuses the NFL of "mythologizing" and glorifying violence through the media, including its NFL Films division.

"The NFL, like the sport of boxing, was aware of the health risks associated with repetitive blows producing sub-concussive and concussive results and the fact that some members of the NFL player population were at significant risk of developing long-term brain damage and cognitive decline as a result," the complaint charges.

"Despite its knowledge and controlling role in governing player conduct on and off the field, the NFL turned a blind eye to the risk and failed to warn and/or impose safety regulations governing this well-recognized health and safety problem."

In response, the NFL cited the many health programs it runs for current and former players, and a series of medical benefits to former NFL players to help them after football. Those include joint replacement, neurological evaluations and spine treatment programs, assisted living partnerships, long-term care insurance, prescription benefits, life insurance programs, and a Medicare supplement program.

"The NFL has long made player safety a priority and continues to do so," the league said in a statement. "Any allegation that the NFL sought to mislead players has no merit. It stands in contrast to the league's many actions to better protect players and advance the science and medical understanding of the management and treatment of concussions."

The league added that in partnership with the NFL Players Association it has spent more than a billion dollars on pensions, medical and disability benefits for retired players.

Turner, however, sees little positive coming from those programs.

"For the longest time, about the first 10 years after I retired in January 2000, I thought I had just turned into a loser overnight," he said. "I couldn't figure out what was wrong. It was a very scary proposition ? until I found out there were a lot more guys just like me. I find they had been through some of the same struggles. I realized this is no longer a coincidence."

Attorneys for the players said they were not trying to tear apart the NFL, only to ensure that it lives up to its obligations to provide a safer sport. And that it offers proper care for those who have retired from the game.

Mary Ann Easterling echoed those thoughts.

She will remain a plaintiff despite the April suicide of her husband, former Atlanta Falcons safety Ray Easterling, who had been a named plaintiff in a suit filed last year. Easterling, 62, suffered from undiagnosed dementia for many years that left him angry and volatile, his widow said. He acted out of character, behaving oddly at family parties and making risky business decisions that eventually cost them their home. They were married 36 years and had one daughter. She believes the NFL has no idea what families go through.

"I wish I could sit down with (NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell) and share with him the pain. It's not just the spouses, it's the kids, too," Easterling, 59, told The Associated Press from her home in Richmond, Va. "Kids don't understand why Dad is angry all the time.

"I think the thing that was so discouraging was just the denial by the NFL."

The list of notable former players connected to concussion lawsuits is extensive and includes the family of Dave Duerson, who shot himself last year.

According to an AP review of 81 lawsuits filed through May 25, the plaintiffs include 2,138 former players. The total number of plaintiffs in those cases is 3,356, which includes players, spouses and other relatives or representatives.

Some of the plaintiffs are named in more than one complaint, but the AP count did not include duplicated names in its total. The master suit contains a provision to allow other players to join it as plaintiffs and attorneys expect that to happen.

"I just want the NFL to stand up and be accountable for its actions," Turner said. "That is how we can prevent more people from suffering and keeping this game that has plenty of benefits. But we can make it safer and I am hoping that's what we do."

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Associated Press Writer Maryclaire Dale contributed to this story from Philadelphia.

Associated Press

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Banking industry gradually finding a new 'normal'

By Wendell Cochran, Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University

Bank profits are rising and lending is growing as the battered industry struggles to regain a semblance of normality, new government figures show.

Some of the signs:

Profits are up. Banks made $35.6 billion in the first quarter, according the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. That?s the best quarter since mid-2007, before the industry was plunged into its worst crisis in a generation.
Lending is growing, despite a small downturn in the first three months of the year. Business lending is up by 14 percent in the past year.
Troubled assets are down. The amount of troubled assets ? a combination of nonperforming loans and the value of foreclosed property ? continues to tumble, according to an analysis of FDIC quarterly financial reports by the Investigative Reporting Workshop. At the end of March, the nation?s banks were carrying over $240 billion in troubled assets, but that?s the lowest level since December 2008, when the scope of the financial crisis was beginning to be understood.

To some extent, whether banking is back depends on which banker you talk to.

Herbert Marth Jr., president of the $390-million asset Central Virginia Bank in Powhatan, Va., laughs at the question. ?Oh, man. No.?

?Business people are still very cautious. Loan demand is still very, very weak. That?s probably the toughest issue right now,? he says.

At Northwest Financial Corp., which owns three banks in Iowa, President Jeff Plagge says, ?I?m not sure what ?normal? is.?

Still he senses that people think it is time to get back to business, although they remain wary because of events like last week?s stock price tumble caused by worry over European financial issues. Unlike Marth, Plagge sees some rekindling of loan demand.

?In our three banks we are seeing people kind of back to what I call ?normal,?? he says. Strong grain and livestock prices over the past few years have helped many banks in the agricultural heartland get through the crisis in better shape than banks elsewhere. Only two Iowa banks have failed since the beginning of 2007.

He also is vice chair of the American Bankers Association and says that ?even in the most troubled places? his colleagues around the country ?at least think it?s found the bottom.?

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You couldn?t blame bankers for being a bit cautious about saying the industry is out of the woods. It has been traumatized by its experiences over the past five years. For many banks there still is a mountain of troubled debt and a long line of foreclosures to work through.

Since the end of 2007, 438 banks have failed, and another 788 have merged into other institutions, meaning that on average banks have gotten larger. The rate of failures has slowed, peaking at 157 in 2010, down to 92 last year and 24 so far this year.

Between September 2008 and December 2008, the federal government handed out $204.9 billion in capital assistance to more than 800 banks through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). All but about $11.6 billion of that has been repaid, according to the Treasury Department. Workshop records show that 393 banks still have not repaid their TARP investments. (Note: The Workshop links TARP investments to individual banks, not just to the holding companies that own them. The Treasury Department says it invested in 707 institutions.)

By its accounting, Treasury has lost about $2.7 billion of TARP funds in banks and related financial institutions that failed, including $2.3 billion to CIT Group Inc., which declared bankruptcy in 2009, less than a year after getting the TARP money. The company?s bank subsidiary, CIT Bank, did not fail and continues to operate. Treasury also has accepted less than its full investments in some cases where banks merged into other institutions.

Since TARP began in 2008 Treasury has collected nearly $21.5 billion in interest and dividends on its investments. Of the active banks that still owe money, 197 are behind on their dividend payments, owing a total of more than $305 million at the end of April, according to the Treasury Department. The Treasury Department has installed government observers in 51 TARP banks to better oversee their activities.

It may be awhile before the government sees much of the money it is still owed. While the nation?s largest banks lobbied for and got quick permission to pay back their government funds (in part because they wanted to escape restraints on executive pay), smaller regional and community banks have had a harder time getting out of the program.

The Inspector General for the TARP program reported to Congress in late April that the banks still in TARP are generally smaller community banks and that they are institutions that ?have an uphill battle to exit TARP because they cannot find new capital to replace TARP funds.?

The Central Virginia Bank, where Marth is president, is an example of the issues smaller banks face trying to exit TARP. Marth says having TARP money, ?definitely helped us out and continues to help us out.? The $390 million-asset bank got an $11.4 million infusion from TARP in January 2009.

Marth says the bank mostly needed the money because it lost $18 million overnight in September 2008 when the government took over mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, wiping out the bank?s investment in their preferred stock. ?If we had that money today, we wouldn?t have needed TARP,? he says.

Central Virginia has had a difficult time keeping up its payments because of heavy loan losses in 2009 and 2010. At the end of April it owed the Treasury about $1.3 million in dividends on TARP. The bank worked its way back to profitability in 2011.

Marth says that when the economy and capital markets improve, ?We ought to be able to raise additional capital.? But, he adds, given the uncertainty around the financial situation in Europe, ?Right now is not the time.?

The largest outstanding TARP advance went to Synovus Financial Corp. of Columbus, Ga., which received $967.9 million in December 2008. Synovus is current on its dividends and has never missed a payment, according to Treasury Department reports. The smallest remaining TARP investment is $301,000 owed by tiny The Freeport State Bank, Harper, Kan. , which also is current on its dividend payments. In its statements on TARP, Treasury is generally upbeat. It highlights that between repayments and dividends, the bank investment program is in the black.

Paul Miller, FBR Capital Markets, discusses whether there's still room to run for the regional banks.

But the Inspector General?s report?in April takes a much tougher tack.

The IG says, ?TARP?s costs and legacies involve far more than just dollars and cents. Using a microscope to narrowly focus on the profit or loss of TARP risks losing sight of the bigger picture of whether TARP has been successful in meeting its goals. It also glosses over whether lessons learned from the financial crisis have been adequately implemented so that Treasury, banking regulators, and Congress do not find themselves in the position of rushing out another massive bailout of the financial industry, i.e., TARP 2.0.?

For example, the IG says, ?A significant legacy of TARP is increased moral hazard and potentially disastrous consequences associated with institutions deemed ?too big to fail.??

In other words, the government came to the rescue to prevent imperiled big banks from failing, even though there was widespread agreement that it was the banks? own actions that put them and the whole financial system in jeopardy. The lesson to the banks: ?It doesn?t matter what we do, the government will save us if we are big enough.? Since the advent of TARP in September 2008, the biggest banks have gotten bigger and claimed a larger share of banking assets and deposits.

The inspector general?s report also notes, as the Workshop has reported previously, that TARP did not stimulate bank lending, even though that was a stated goal of the program. ?This may be in part due to Treasury?s failure to require?increased lending in exchange for TARP funds,? the report says.

"Treasury did not even require TARP recipients to report on how they used TARP funds, providing an opaque cover for those institutions that continued to cut lending,? the IG says.

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'Band of Brothers' honored on D-Day anniversary

SAINTE-MARIE-DU-MONT, France (AP) ? A statue in the likeness of a Pennsylvania native whose quiet leadership was chronicled in the World War II book and television miniseries "Band of Brothers" is being unveiled near the beaches where the D-Day invasion of France began in 1944.

The 12-foot (3.6-meter) tall bronze statue in the Normandy village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont shows Maj. Dick Winters with his weapon at the ready, evoking the massive Allied operation that paved the way for the end of the war.

The unveiling is one of many ceremonies Wednesday commemorating the 68th anniversary of the invasion.

Winters ? a native of Ephrata, Pennsylvania who died last year aged 92 ? only accepted serving as the statue's likeness after monument planners agreed to dedicate it to the memory of all junior U.S. military officers who served that day.

Associated Press

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ClearMechanic Releases Spoof Commercials to Promote Online ...

YouTube spots jump on humorous video trends to bring new product to market.

San Francisco, CA ? ClearMechanic, provider of technology to improve the auto repair experience, today released the first in a variety of spoof infomercials to promote their new service, an online scheduling solution that works like an ?OpenTable? for car repairs.

The commercials, produced by a comedy team that has had videos featured on FunnyorDie.com, are meant to highlight how difficult it is to connect with repair centers on the consumer?s own schedule. In each clip, an overly-amped spokesperson introduces the viewers to a variety of situations where a product like ClearMechanic?s scheduling solution would come in handy.

Launching this summer at select repair centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, customers looking for a service center can visit ClearMechanic.com, search for appointment availability at multiple dealerships and repair shops and instantly book an appointment with their provider of choice.?? Customers will no longer need to make time-consuming phone calls or fill out elaborate online scheduling forms.

?We used the spoof YouTube commercials in our marketing campaign because it directly targets those we?re serving ? enthusiasts of online services,? said Brad Simmons, CEO of ClearMechanic. ?Our aim is to make scheduling car repairs as easy and convenient for consumers as companies like ZocDoc and OpenTable have made making doctor?s appointments and restaurant reservations. The YouTube commercials directly reach this demographic and hopefully poke some fun at the frustration we all feel with the current process.?

Studies show the average age of loyal dealership service customers is now over 50 years old.? ClearMechanic?s new solution aims to bridge the gap between service centers and young consumers by making it more convenient to schedule vehicle services online.

ClearMechanic has assembled select, highly rated Bay Area service centers to participate in the pilot program, with a consumer roll-out planned for this summer.

To see the first ClearMechanic YouTube commercial, click here.

About ClearMechanic, Inc:

Founded in 2009, ClearMechanic has proven experience creating award-winning applications for the automotive repair industry. Their existing mobile and web applications have delivered more than 200,000 repair recommendations and bring transparency and ease to repair center customers. ClearMechanic?s goal is to create a win-win for service centers and their customers and bring today?s Internet customers back to the service bay.

For more information, please visit www.clearmechanic.com.

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Methods For 2013 On Rudimentary Plans For Become Bankrupt ...

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Senate GOP blocks Democrats' equal pay bill

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Ridley Scott's Prometheus Examines the Roots of Alien 's Mythology

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Co-screenwriter Jon Spaihts speaks with Scientific American about the Alien universe and humanity's quest for knowledge in Scott's latest film

By Larry Greenemeier ?| June 4, 2012?|

alien,science fiction,movie HOSTILE TERRITORY?: In Prometheus moviemaker Ridley Scott takes audiences back to universe he created in the original sci-fi horror film Alien. Image: Courtesy Kerry Brown, Twentieth Century Fox

More than three decades ago Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic Alien introduced moviegoers to a menacing, insectlike, parasitoid extraterrestrial species. The film's sequels and spinoffs over time created a rich mythology of a universe in which the films' predatory antagonists and doomed heroes coexist, complete with terraformed colonies, interstellar mining and commerce, and a recurring role for the fictional Weyland Corp., whose relentless efforts to capture and control the alien species set in motion much of the film franchise's narrative.

Scott returns to this universe on June 8 with the opening of Prometheus, a movie set in the same cosmos as the Alien films but several years earlier than the original. Although the moviemakers are keeping many plot details confidential in advance of the film's release, Scott has made clear that Prometheus is not a prequel to Alien. Instead, the new movie centers on scientific exploration?sponsored by Weyland, naturally?on board a spacefaring vessel named for the Titan in Greek mythology who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans?and paid a terrible price for doing so.

The Prometheus is following a star map found at various unrelated archeological sites on Earth. The commonality of these images leads the scientists to believe that the map may help them discover humanity's origins.

Scientific American spoke with Prometheus co-screenwriter Jon Spaihts about the film's scientific pursuits, its portrayal of late 21st-century technology and the dangers faced by humans in such a hostile cosmos.

[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]

Prometheus is not a prequel to Alien but both films are set in the same universe. What does this mean exactly?
If a prequel is a story that presets the conditions for another story?gives you everyone's back story and so forth?and is mated to a specific set of characters and a specific tale, then this is not that. This is a story that shares a storytelling universe with the Alien films, in particular the first film. There are also some scientific notions and some storytelling archetypes that we inherit, but we are really not telling the same story at all. We're opening up a whole new branch of science fiction mythology.

What storytelling archetypes did you inherit, and how did you weave the old and new mythologies together?
One of the things I was very aware of in composing the story is that in the Alien universe there are a number of dualities that leap to the fore. There's a core duality between humanity and the alien species, obviously. The Xenomorph [as the alien came to be known] wasn't just something dangerous but something demonic in the perfection of its adaptation to destroy us. And it made Ripley?the female protagonist of Alien and its sequels?feel that much more innocent, vulnerable, human, real. This conflict between human and alien is central to these films.

A secondary duality is between the human and the artificial person. Whether we're talking about Ash in the first film, Bishop in Aliens or David in the new movie, an android is always there, and there's always a tension between the human and artificial characters that seems intrinsic to these stories. And then there's also a duality between the humans and "the Company," an implacable and self-serving interest, a heartless force. Although these movies are science fiction, we can relate [because of] similar tensions in day-to-day life. People feel uneasy about our dependence on artificial intelligence and robotic appendages as machines get closer and closer to us. And there's certainly a widespread tension between us and the corporate forces in our lives. All of these forces become concrete representations in the universe where Prometheus and the Alien movies take place.

The Alien films never fully explained the origin of the Xenomorph creatures, even though the first movie presents the audience with a derelict ship filled with alien eggs that have seemingly been abandoned on a hostile planet. What approach does Prometheus take to exploring the origins of life?

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The Difference between Strategists and Strategic Planners | In the ...

I?ve met both over my long career as an executive, a consultant, and a board member. Strategists and Strategic Planners may read the same periodicals and have similar destinations in mind, but there is a difference between the two. Strategic Planners, at the outset, are disadvantaged by the definition of their role. They are staffers, not line managers. Strategic Planning positions exist inside companies, and in external consulting businesses. Consultants earn a living by the clock. The ramification of this incentive is easy to deduce. They spend weeks, sometimes months assessing, discussing, assembling teams, leading SWAT analyses, and on, and on, and on. Internal Strategic Planning managers do the same thing . . . in some cases, less. Less? Yep, they bring in consultants to do their job.

Rather than break new ground, the finished plan is usually a?convoluted?extension of the current strategy. Crown Corporations and government agencies are the worst offenders. British Columbia Lottery Corporation, ICBC, and BC Hydro?s most recent strategic plans all exceed 30 pages. Take a peak; their well-crafted documents are posted as ?Service Plans? on-line, and they differ little from prior versions. Strategic Planners are the architects of these documents. They are not brilliant strategists; they are brilliant bureaucrats.?

An organization?s best strategists are in the C-Suite, and the CEO is usually the catalyst. C-Suite strategists can draft an effective Strategic Plan within a day because they have an intimate knowledge of the business and are constantly thinking strategically. The best ones bring clarity and purpose to a document that can be written on just one piece of paper.

Here are the key differences between the species:

Strategists are obsessed with bolstering their company?s competitive advantage. Strategic Planners are obsessed with preparing a document.
Strategists trash complexity so that plans are clear and transparent. Strategic Planners build plans to pre-defined formats. In the case of BC Crown Agencies, the government format demands verbosity.
Strategists motivate employees to invest time and energy in the stated strategic direction. Strategic Planners collaborate with management to uncover strategic direction.
Strategists take an enterprise to the next level. Strategic Planners never transform an enterprise.

In the final analysis, companies with a C-Suite that drives strategy are action-oriented, less bureaucratic, and better-performing. I?ll leave you with one question. Why don?t giant innovators like Apple, Google or Facebook have Strategic Planning Departments?

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Police: Shots fired at Canada mall, 1 dead

Police set up a perimeter outside the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto, Saturday, June 2, 2012. Panic broke out at the Eaton Centre Saturday after shots were fired at the downtown mall packed with weekend shoppers. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Victor Biro)

A couple hugs as a police officer questions a man outside the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto, Saturday, June 2, 2012. Shots were fired at Toronto's downtown Eaton's Centre Saturday evening. Police are confirming one person has died. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Victor Biro)

Police walk up Yonge Street outside the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto, Saturday, June 2, 2012. Shots were fired at Toronto's downtown Eaton's Centre Saturday evening.(AP Photo/The Canadian Press, John Chidley-Hill)

Emergency personnel wheel a shooting victim towards an ambulance for transport to hospital outside the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto, Saturday, June 2, 2012. Panic broke out at Eaton Centre Saturday after shots were fired at the downtown mall packed with weekend shoppers. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Toronto Star, Rick Madonik) TORONTO OUT; ONLINE OUT

TORONTO (AP) ? A gunman fired shots in a crowded food court in one of Canada's busiest malls Saturday killing a man and injuring seven others, police said.

Police Chief Bill Blair said the shooting at Eaton Centre in downtown Toronto targeted one individual and there were a number of innocent bystanders. Police constable Victor Kwong said two people were in critical condition after being shot at the Eaton Centre in downtown Toronto, including a 13-year old boy. The 25-year-old man who was killed died at the scene, he said.

Kwong said six people were shot in all, including the deceased. Two people were trampled on and pushed, including a pregnant woman who went into labor after she was pushed, he said.

Blair said investigators have a description of the suspect.

"A lot of innocent people were hurt and a lot of innocent people were put at risk," Blair said. "We will be relentless in our pursuit of the individual."

Witnesses said multiple shots were fired in the mall's food court and that hundreds of panicked shoppers sprinted for the exits. The mall, which is popular with tourists, was evacuated.

Swarms of people watched from outside as an injured man with visible bullet wounds was wheeled out on a stretcher.

Toronto Blue Jays baseball player Brett Lawrie was in the mall when the shooting took place and was one of the first to take to Twitter to break the news.

"Pretty sure someone just let off a round bullets in eaton center mall ... Wow just sprinted out of the mall ... through traffic," he tweeted. "People sprinting up the stairs right from where we just were ... Wow wow wow."

He later tweeted that he was "Rattled right now."

Marcus Neves-Polonio, 19, was working in the food court when he saw a man pull out a gun and start firing. At least two people were on the ground, he said.

"All of a sudden a herd of people were just running toward us, a massive crowd of people screaming, running, freaking out," said Hannah Stewart, 21, a shopper. "We saw this girl, sitting on the ground, and she had blood on her toes." The girl appeared to have been one of the victims and told Stewart she had just been shot.

Another victim said he was hit in the leg by a stray bullet.

"We had just gone shopping. We heard shots and hit the ground. A couple of seconds later I got hit," said Nicholas, who declined to provide his last name in an interview on CP24 television as he left the hospital. "I actually ran. It was a survival instinct. I'm tired but I'm pretty good."

He said he didn't see the shooter. "Nothing surprises me, but out in the open? Come on," he said.

Tonya Mahmood said her sister was shot in the leg but is doing better.

"We're just waiting to see if she'll need surgery," she told CP24 outside the hospital. "She's one of the nicest persons in the whole world. She was just shopping with her friends and she got shot. It's just heartbreaking. We're so lucky. We're thanking God. My parents are thanking God that it was the leg. It could have been anywhere else."

Erica Solmes, who manages the McDonald's in the mall's food court, said she heard about 15 shots ring out before a stampede of people made a dash for the exits.

Blair called the Eaton Centre an iconic landmark in Toronto, Canada's largest city.

"Any place for discharging a firearm in Toronto is dangerous. In the food court of the Eaton Centre on a Saturday evening, it's not only dangerous, it's outrageous," he said. "I believe every Torontonian is shocked and appalled by this crime."

Toronto prides itself on being one of the safest cities in North America. Many Canadians have long taken comfort in the peacefulness of their communities and are nervous about anything that might indicate they are moving closer to their American counterparts.

In 2005, a 15-year-old girl was killed during the Christmas holidays just north of the mall in a shooting that shocked the city during a year of record gun deaths in Toronto. In that case, Toronto teen Jane Creba was shopping with family on busy Yonge Street when she was caught in the crossfire of a shootout between rival gangs.

"Today harkens back to that terrible moment," Blair said. "I am very sadly reminded of that. That was one of the most tragic and shocking events that ever took place in Toronto."

Kwong said police are in the process of reviewing security tapes. He said they had concluded a search of the mall.

"It's absolutely terrible," Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty called it a case of "senseless, tragic violence" and expressed his condolences to the victims and their families.

The area around the mall was quickly blocked off after the shooting and the Eaton Centre itself was evacuated and closed down. A portion of a major subway line, which services the mall, was also temporarily shut down.

Police spent much of Saturday evening trying to clear out thousands of people who were milling around outside the mall, mostly trying to figure out what happened.

Associated Press

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Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest | Chief Writing Wolf

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), left, with his father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). A study found the younger Paul?s oratory to be at an eighth-grade level. Photo courtesy Ed Reinke, Associated Press / October 2, 2010)

As if we don?t have any more reason to loathe our Congressional representatives, along comes this Los Angeles Times report that proves how pathetic they?ve become.? The nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation claims that the degree of discourse in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives has dropped one full grade ? down to the sophomore level.? High school sophomore, that is.? So, if you call these people sophomoric, you?re not being disrespectful; you?re just being honest.? I feel vindicated!

?Congress is changing as an institution, and what you see is more and more members gearing their speeches as sound bites or YouTube clips,? said Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation.? ?You can [hark] back to a golden age of Congress when members quoted Shakespeare on the floor and really engaged in debate and talked to each other and tried to reason back and forth.?

The report came out last week.

Consider Everett M. Dirksen, the legendary Republican senator from Illinois, who defended a civil rights bill in 1964 by paraphrasing 19^th century French writer Victor Hugo: ?Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come.?

But, in an analysis of floor debates over the last several years, the study found that newer lawmakers tended to speak at a lower grade level than the veterans of congressional speechifying.? And political moderates among both Republicans and Democrats tended to carry on at a higher grade level than those more partisan liberals or conservatives.

Thus, it should be no surprise that the lawmakers at the bottom of the list, speaking at the lowest grade level, are among the most ardent tea party Republicans in the freshman class.? Rep. Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, Rep. Robert Woodall of Georgia and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky were the bottom three ? all speaking at about an eighth-grade level, the study found.

On the surface, I know this is ripe for mockery and a plethora of ?Saturday Night Live? skits.? But, if you consider the important role our elected officials play in the formation of national and foreign policies, then it actually becomes disturbing.? There?s a sharp difference between speaking in a palatable vernacular and just talking stupid.? That the relatively neophyte ?Tea Party? has already had such a dramatic impact on both houses of Congress and elected individuals who can?t even form complete sentences also says a lot about the American electorate.

If you?ve ever listened to President George W. Bush or half-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin, then you know some folks not only can?t, but shouldn?t speak publicly.? Yet, both those clowns appealed to a wide range of people and made into high-ranking positions of power.? With his frequent verbal stumbles, Bush made the U.S. the laughing stock of the world.? Here we are ? the richest, most powerful nation on the planet ? and we had a Chief Executive who couldn?t even pronounce the word ?nuclear.?? I think Sarah Palin only made it into the governor?s mansion because there weren?t enough people in Alaska to vote otherwise.? The largest state in the Union (geographically) has a population smaller than the city of Dallas.? But, when she said ?refudiate? in a 2010 interview and then compared herself to William Shakespeare, I?m sure it made even Alaskans cringe.

Has it really gotten that bad?? I knew reading and writing skills among our grade and high school students have been dropping for years ? much to the chagrin of, well, no one in Congress who seem more concerned with gay marriage and Obama?s birth certificate.? But, if adults can?t speak properly in public, why should kids?? Why criticize the younger generations for being so obsessed with cell phones and video games?? It?s really kind of frightening to realize any one of those kids could be sitting in the Oval Office and many others will be in Congress ? all trying to balance budgets and pass laws.? What are they going to do?? Communicate via Twitter?? I?m afraid that?s where we?re headed, but I still hate to think that?ll be the case.

In the meantime, I?ll keep reading, writing and speaking out publicly about the issues that matter most to me.? Besides, I feel an obligation to refute all that stupidity coming out of Washington.

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DonorCommunity and Merchant Data Systems Introduce Innovative ...

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DonorCommunity, Inc, developers of an innovative cloud computing software platform for nonprofits, and Merchant Data Systems (MDS), a full-service payment processing company, announced today occurance of a new partnership that could fundamentally change how nonprofits process donations.

Thanks for the alliance, DonorCommunity clients can be capable of collect, approve and process donations at specially discounted rates, whether comes from virtual reality, a call, a pos device or a computer. MDS may donate Totally in the company?s profits from processing these donations time to the nonprofit in the MDS ProcessGive rebate program. Initially ever, payment processing might be a fresh availability of revenue as an option to a cost nonprofits must incur to electronically process donations.

These benefits extend for virtually any new processing account that MDS acquires from a participating nonprofit. One example is, a private business owner could support a favored nonprofit by selecting MDS because companys payment processing provider. Once implemented, the nonprofit would earn ProcessGive rebates on every transaction this company processes in the MDS service.

In addition, the alliance between DonorCommunity and MDS allows nonprofits to implement entirely new varieties of fundraising campaigns which may have zero time before been possible. One example is, a nonprofit could create a branded report on MDS on the net which were sold using DonorCommunitys Online auction marketplace marketplace Manager application; earning rebates on every auction sale. Later, when the card is required to accumulate items, the nonprofit would earn a different rebate driven by a volume of the charge.

Under the the agreement, MDS has secured the rights to trade annual subscriptions to DonorCommunitys integrated platform of constituent relationship management, deals, online donations, event management, internet promotion, web 2 . 0, and Website content management applications. Therefore, DonorCommunity has named MDS since its preferred provider of payment processing services, offering thing processing, debit card processing, check acceptance, point-of-sale equipment, payroll processing, proprietary on the net and loyalty programs.

Were serious about our partnership with MDS with the new and innovative opportunities this creates for nonprofits to meet their fundraising goals, said David Blyer, DonorCommunity founder and CEO. While there are lots of online donation sites around, most charge a hefty percentage mainly for placing a Donate Now button on a Website followed by forwarding the transactions to a payment processing vendor. With DonorCommunity and MDS, donation processing might be a seamless area of a variety of fundraising campaign while producing a wholly new stream of nonprofit revenue. It really is a game changer on the nonprofit community.

DonorCommunity shares our persistence for helping nonprofits leverage online technology to raise funds and serve constituents with less effort and efficiently than another time, said Drew Freeman, Merchant Data Systems President. As partners, had to be able to introduce a wholly home business model for processing donations and raising funds. Were proud to complete our part to enhance nonprofits with the essential contributions they generate to communities.

About DonorCommunity

DonorCommunity is a cloud computing software firm which enables nonprofit organizations cultivate donors, forge closer relationships with stakeholders, engage their communities and lift funds year-round. DonorCommunity offers a suite of fully-integrated Web applications for constituent relationship management, deals, online donations, event management, internet promotion, web 2 . 0, and Website content management. All of your platform is furnished upon an all-inclusive, annual subscription basis that unlimited users, unlimited training, unlimited support and free Hosting service. To learn more, visit http://www.DonorCommunity.com.

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Merchant Data Systems was founded in 1997 to the principles of delivering outstanding customer care for both our Merchant and purchases Partner clients. Were a full-service payment processing company enabling merchants to look at cards and much more. Our team offers Credit and Debit Card Processing, Check Acceptance, EBT, POS Equipment Sales & Leasing, Merchant Payday loan, a Proprietary Gift certificate and Loyalty programs plus merchant-friendly PCI DSS Compliance solutions. Our company offers industry-leading Payroll programs to streamline our merchants operations and help them to realize personal savings. Merchant Data Systems can get together with every merchant; anywhere, anytime and clients of Merchant Data Systems can accept every strategy for Payment. MDS also actively pursues Acquisitions and Equity Partnerships giving the opportunity for Cash, Equity with the unparalleled support infrastructure standing behind our Partners. Merchant Data Systems proprietary residual software ensures accuracy and promptness on residuals and dividends. Merchant Data Systems provides most technologically advanced and secure payment processing solutions and merchandise available positioning Merchant Data Systems as a one-stop seek out all payment processing needs. Visit us at http://www.merchantdatasystems.com.

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