Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Asia stocks rise after Dow closes above 13,000 (AP)

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Artist and Occupy Wall Street demonstrator David Everett Carlson sits in his cardboard box as he paints signs at a rally by supporters of the Occupy movement against the suppression of the movement by the police in Union Square in New York February 28, 2012.  REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY BUSINESS)AP - Asian stock markets rose Wednesday, powered higher by the strongest close for U.S. stocks since before the 2008 financial crisis.


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Mozilla Boot to Gecko hands-on (video)

Mozilla Boot to Gecko hands-on (video)
Here it is, folks: Mozilla's assault on the smartphone. Known as Boot to Gecko, the OS is geared toward hobbyists and consumers alike. Mozilla tells us that all Android users (with unlocked bootloaders) will be able to install the operating system onto their phones, and for less tenacious individuals, the non-profit group has begun lining up partners. We were given a quick demo of Boot to Gecko on a Galaxy S II, which included peeks at the dialer, messaging system, system preferences and, yes, the Mozilla Marketplace. Our initial impression? Boot to Gecko doesn't seem quite ready for prime time, as the operating system froze as we merely tapped through the settings and apps, which then required us to pull the battery. On the upside, the interface seems incredibly slick and the phone booted astonishingly fast -- it was good to go in about two seconds. Be sure to hop the break for the demo video of Boot to Gecko.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Iran's 'Separation:' Oscar glow and slap at Israel

Asghar Farhadi, of Iran, accepts the Oscar for best foreign language film for ?A Separation? during the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Asghar Farhadi, of Iran, accepts the Oscar for best foreign language film for ?A Separation? during the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

In this Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012 photo Israelis wait for the screening of the Iranian movie "A Separation" at a movie theater in Jerusalem. Israeli newspapers warn daily of the Iranian nuclear threat, but for the past week and a half, Israelis filmgoers have packed movie theaters to watch a drama set in Tehran. "A Separation," a domestic drama directed by Iranian Asghar Farhadi, bested an Israeli rival and three others on Sunday to win the award for best foreign film.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

In this undated photo released by Filmiran film distributing company, Iranian actress Leila Hatami, and actor Peyman Moadi, act in a scene of movie "A Separation" which won the Academy Awards in foreign films. Iran trumpeted the Islamic Republic's first foreign film Oscar win Monday as a triumph over archfoe Israel _ even as audiences in Israel packed theaters to watch the movie that beat their country's entry at the Academy Awards. (AP Photo/Filmiran International Company, Habib Majidi)

Asghar Farhadi, from Iran, poses with his award for best foreign language film for "A Separation" during the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

Asghar Farhadi, from Iran, poses with his award for best foreign language film for "A Separation" during the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

(AP) ? Iran hailed the country's first Oscar-winning film as a triumph over arch-foe Israel on Monday after an Academy Award race with its own subplots: Iranian officials giving a grudging nod to cinema and Israeli audiences flocking to see a made-in-Tehran drama.

Iran's state-spun praise for "A Separation," which beat out an Israeli film and three others in the foreign language category, was mostly wrapped in patriotic boasting as a conquest for Iranian culture and a blow for Israel's perceived outsized influence in America.

Yet the high-profile attention by the Islamic leadership also represented a rare stamp of approval for Iran's movie industry.

Iranian filmmakers have collected awards and accolades worldwide for decades, but Iranian hard-liners often denounce domestic cinema as dominated by Western-tainted liberals and political dissenters. Some directors and actors have faced arrest or fled the country. In January, a well-known independent film group in Tehran, the House of Cinema, was ordered closed.

Iranian hard-liners had already taken pot shots at director Asghar Farhadi's film even as it racked up international prizes and pre-Oscar buzz. The film explores troubles in Iranian society through the story of a collapsing marriage. Iranian conservatives were upset with the themes of domestic turmoil, gender inequality and the desire by many Iranians to leave the country.

The divide touches on much deeper fissures in Iran.

Iran's young and highly educated population ? nearly half born after the 1979 Islamic Revolution ? feel increasingly estranged from a theocracy that allows no room for political opposition, has tried to muzzle the Internet and is growing more isolated by its defiant nuclear policies.

Farhadi, in his acceptance speech Sunday in Los Angeles, said he hoped the Oscar would raise awareness of Iran's sizable artistic achievements and rich culture that has been "hidden under the heavy dust of politics."

That has been the case in of all places, Israel, which feels its very existence threatened by Iran.

The Iranian film has drawn tens of thousands of Israeli movie-goers since it opened in mid-February. Some came to see the Oscar competition for Israeli director Joseph Cedar's "Footnote," the saga of a Talmudic scholar. But many were drawn by a chance to glimpse inside Iranian society.

"It's very well acted, exceptionally well written and very moving," said Israeli film critic Yair Raveh. "Ultimately you don't think about nuclear bombs or dictators threatening world peace. You see them driving cars and going to movies and they look exactly like us."

After a Sunday screening in Jerusalem, 70-year-old Rina Brick said she was surprised by the humanity of the Iranian bureaucrats portrayed in the film.

"Our image of how Iran works is less democratic than we see here," she said. "The judge, the police, everyone behaves as if they are in a Western country."

Still, Iran's nuclear program was on the minds of some. Israel has not ruled out military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities, which the West fears could be used to develop weapons. Tehran insists they are for peaceful purposes like energy production.

Moshe Amirav, a political science professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said he "didn't stop thinking about the bomb the whole time" he was watching "A Separation."

"I said, what a contrast that we see this Iranian film with such admiration, and then when we leave we think about how they want to kill us," Amirav said.

Iranian cinema has reaped praise and prizes at top festivals for decades. But while the government often highlights sporting achievements and technological leaps as a source of national pride, it is typically dismissive of international cultural and entertainment awards.

However, taking the Oscar over an Israeli rival was too powerful for state image builders to ignore.

A state TV broadcast said the award succeeded in "leaving behind" a film from Israel. Javad Shamaghdari, head of the state Cinematic Agency, portrayed the Oscar win as the "beginning of the collapse" of Israeli influence that "beats the drum of war" in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Still, Iranian artists and many fans did not try to score any propaganda points and were simply delighted by the country's first Oscar.

Tahmineh Milani, director of the acclaimed 2005 film "Unwanted Woman," said the Oscar was a source of "national pride" that "revived hope in the hearts of all Iranians."

"I feel fresh air in my lungs," said Erfan Khazaei, an art student at Azad University, who watched the Oscar ceremony on satellite TV with four friends. "Now we are more hopeful about the future."

The Academy Awards were not broadcast live on Iranian TV, and many Iranians watched via satellite dishes, which are illegal but widely used. Clips of Farhadi's acceptance speech were later aired on state TV.

"A Separation," tells the story of a couple heading for divorce and dealing with domestic troubles, including a young child and an aging parent. It portrays a husband who is protective of his father, who is suffering from Alzheimer's. He is in conflict with his wife, who wishes to emigrate. Their daughter is torn between them.

While its themes are not overtly political, ultra-conservatives denigrated the film as an indirect slap at the country.

Prominent hard-line sociologist Ebrahim Fayyaz called it a "black realistic film" that portrays the country as an old man, a symbol of tradition and the past who is afflicted with a mind-crippling disease.

He said the movie suggests emigrating to the West as a solution. "The West awards movies that are in the direction of their policies," he told the Nasim news agency.

Iranian authorities have long had an uneasy relationship with the country's filmmakers. The leadership gives latitude to explore many social topics, but draws a sharp line on works with clearly anti-establishment overtones.

In January, the regime ordered the closure of the House of Cinema, an independent film group that had operated for 20 years and counted Iran's top filmmakers, including Farhadi, among its members.

Officials said it lacked the proper permits, but artists and others contend it was a political decision because the group often took liberal stands contrary to the government's cultural policies. Last month, Farhadi proposed that Iranian authorities allow a vote among artists about its fate.

Iranian cinema has for years been one of the nation's main cultural exports, but also the target of political crackdowns.

Last year, film director Jafar Panahi, who won awards at Cannes, Venice and other major film festivals, was sentenced to a six-year house arrest and a 20-year ban on filmmaking after being convicted of "making propaganda" against Iran's ruling system.

In 2007, the Cannes jury prize went to the animated film "Persepolis" based on Marjane Satrapi's graphic novels about growing up during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. She now lives in self-exile in Paris, fearing possible arrest if she returns to Iran.

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Murphy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Associated Press writer Daniella Cheslow in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Unique Benefits of Condominiums ? hot news

Condominiums are some of the most popular types of housings in the Philippines today. Part of what made it popular, according to real estate experts, is because of its benefits that conform to the fast-changing lifestyles of many modern Filipinos. Here are some of those benefits that made condominiums the most popular and modern type of housing in the Philippines:

Common Benefits of Modern Housings

Like other types of modern housings in the Philippines, condominiums are also known for its location which enables its residents to access their workplaces effortlessly. This is because most condominiums are found near or within business and commercial districts, such as the many condo for sale found in Makati City.

Although found in business and commercial districts, these types of modern housings are still known to maintain the privacy and peace of each of its residents. The view of the whole city from their windows is simply stunning.

Another common benefit that condominiums can also offer is maintainability and security. Although in the past, condominiums were the only types of housing that can offer such advantage, many of today?s apartment buildings and townhouses in business and commercial districts are also known to offer such benefits. This allows its residents to live in luxury while assuring their own security.

However, there are other reasons why condominiums became a very popular type of modern housing in the Philippines. Other than its location or its own maintenance and security personnel, condominiums are also known for its collection of amenities that made it even more popular compared to other popular types of modern housings in the Philippines, particularly with the many new condo for sale.

There are many popular types of condominiums in the Philippines today, and most of them are found in business and commercial districts. Other than the advantage of living within walking distance from their workplaces, residents can also enjoy a few activities through its own collection of amenities.

According to real estate experts, condominiums are the only types of housings found in the middle of a busy district that offers amenities such as gyms, indoor swimming pools, as well as sports complexes, which aims to offer a way for their residents to relieve their stress through gym, swimming, or through sports.

Another unique benefit of condominiums is that there have also been a number of these types of housings found around the outskirts of Metro Manila as well as in the provinces. These types of condo for sale are known as condominium complexes, which are types of condominiums that aim to offer Filipino families with an environment to grow their children safely. For more information visit to our site at http://www.alveoland.com.ph/

 

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Sterling Life Coaching Stretches Self-help, Self-improvement And ...

It?s essential to learn everything you could about life coaching services for you to find a lifetime coach. Through word of mouth is invariably the best option. For somebody else to believe they can show me what best for my situation and the way to turn with my life is exactly absurd?. She wanted to swap careers, she was very serious about life coaching in addition to she felt she was coaching friends and co-workers for. Lots of ?ndividuals are frustrated with the lives, but not they all are ready to create a change and advance. What you can get from this coaching training is improvement within your business and everyday living coaching skills that may help you become the very best coach which you could be.

There needs to be no mystery surrounding that the coaching process succeeds or what the role of this coach is. You, as a living coach, will contribute a whole lot in the improvement life coaching of them persons. Knowing the period of time a coach has spent within the field and the amount of similar cases which will coach has handled may help you produce a better option. Coaching discovers what your address is at the offer moment, goes through some deep exploration of who you?re, finding your strong points and putting them used to the excessive. If you can be a Christian, you could say which they came from The lord. There are several coaches who specialize in fields for example business coaching and / or relationship coaching.

What different kinds of things would I enjoy help them carry out? Find a good non-profit organization (along the lines of SCORE the Females Business Development Middle, or Count Everyone In) in your town, to help one create powerful online business and marketing maneuvers, and a approach, to make ones endeavor successful. You?re either really able at helping people convert their lives ? or you are not! If you find individual who is loving along with inspirational, kind and support, who lets you see your own process and doesn?t meet with you as despite the fact you?re beneath your ex? A Coach is surely an expert communicator and harmonizes with you on how to discover better, relate well utilizing others, listen aggressively, influence, Coach, motivate and aid others. But even before that your Life coach requires his own emotional baggage at bay. Your life coach is a resource for you because you implement your improvements in order that your actions are actually as productive as they can.

Naturally, one-on-one life move coaching delivers unbiassed feedback from an authorized expert qualified to concentrate between the essay sentences, assist you to drive out the haze that is certainly creating confusion and even asymmetry, and navigate in direction of just what everyone presently cannot find out or understand. Most companies place their coaches thru extensive training as well as screening. Coaching them involves recognising the initial burdens of job that weigh heavily for the business owner, and the significance of taking effective stage that reinforces self confidence. At the very least it is important to treat them inside way where they might take a positive outlook along with them when buying a new job. The Bureau in Labor Statistics is trying the consulting marketplace, of which life coaching can be described as large part, to continue to cultivate heavily through 2016. At that point that its likely we?d watch a large decrease in may be people calling themselves coaches and also an increase inside credibility and the stature with the industry.

If you?re at the transition point inside your personal or proficient life then coaching can provde the confidence to fixed priorities, take selections not to mention make modifications that may ultimately make it easier to achieve a pleased life. For example having experienced several failed organisations, then achieving great success can be a knowledge which people is able to use. Often relatives as well as friends bring their goals in to the play, which is vs your goal. But this might take considerable time and might be considered a very slow tool for starting the company. If you don?t believe to you coaching business enough to lease a coach yourself, how will you be capable to enrol potential people into your systems? In fact, Evolved Coaching?s existence is located purely on good results. Keep in brain to ask about the cost of the course, time involved, assist obtainable plus proposals from earlier students.

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Video Conference Phone | Meridian Central - cofynypov's posterous

The technology regarding videoconferencing has been available as soon as the 70?s. The use of ?videotelephony? was basically displayed because of the Bell System (today At&T) and has been known as their ?Picturephone.? Demonstrations with this new method of telephone communication to anyone vtc services was common at the time. It turned out imagined that every home would someday have got a video screen associated to their house telephone. However, the cost of this revolutionary video conferencing method has been quite expensive even for institutional use. Nearly all businesses would not afford to very own and work videoconferencing products for most group meetings or seminars however important.

Logistics causes it to be cloud videoconferencing difficult for staff members to attend group meetings. With video conferencing, each one can enroll in in minutes without having to leave your business or spot.
Video conferencing (vtc) and telepresence are now available as cloud services.

Visual conversation has significantly improved comments during any discussion that is definitely just not available over the telephone. A person gather an obviously better feeling if a customer comprehends you, a sales rep is explaining things effectively, or regardless of if the even target audience likes or agrees with ones presentation. It could possibly then allow you to ask vtc video conferencing better questions looking just as before for the reaction to gather in which visual comments.

Video conferencing is better to the environment It goes without saying that, along with delegates definitely not travelling to group meetings, holding some sort of video conference is far more kind to the environment, particularly if there is certainly substantial journey involved such as going abroad. Keeping the business carbon impact down has become more and more important to businesses and so video conferencing helps keep away from unnecessary journey whilst not jeopardising necessary business opportunities.

Any time a company is equipped to hold exercise sessions and basic conference meetings from your comfort of all of their individual places of work, they have observed a way to retain everyone about the same page and to keep the company flowing as you cohesive unit. Video conferencing allows the organization these added benefits. There are also other conferencing technologies that are available to help realize these ambitions.

The basic basic principle of the online teleconference group meetings that you should fully grasp, though, is the fact that some software requires DSL or high speed broadband, while you can find some texts that will allow regarding dial-up internet connections. Even so, it?s important to remember that if you have some sort of DSL, high speed broadband, or cable connection internet connection then this ability to utilize teleconference achieving software raises. There will certainly be significantly less hassle as well as the whole method will be more quickly than in case using dial-up internet connections.

Certainly, you can add several users as you like to your account and they?ll be able to arrange their own conference calls, presentations or lectures.

Subsequently every one is going to be proud to state that ? I provide assistance to my United states, as my personal organization provides adopted some sort of village by way of connecting as a result of Video Conferencing.?

Travel is generally a must regarding leveraging brand-new market chances in today?s globalized economic system. Journeying to carry out face-to-face interactions along with clients, buyers, business partners and expert co-workers, and nothing will ever replace the nearness and impact regarding live communications. But the bills that come about on regular and recurrent business trips is usually reduced by way of video conferencing software use within Video communication. With high quality, supply, secure, reliable and easy to apply, one or maybe a team can easily interact and share written content in High Definition.

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Crafting An Effective Video Game Review ? boatswain.info

Fundamentally, producing a critique on nearly anything is summary simply because you are attracting your own thoughts, appreciation or perception. While it?s supplied a critique creator will need to basic what he produces about something he previously first-fretting hand experience of, he will be able to give target points rather than count by himself views.

Once more, producing a critique is summary but a customer will need to basic his summary conception for the target points and confirm or deny them based upon his experience.

The ideal illustration showing this is how you will be looking at a motor vehicle wherein fast loans engineers who fashioned it say it could are 200 mph. The customer will need to, if ready to perform the try, see if it could indeed are topping speed. In that case, only a customer could state that the automobile life around the anticipation.

So, how would you assessment a video sport?

You Must Engage in ? there is no way you can certainly create very good and trustworthy article on a video sport if you haven?t experienced it. For that reason, you must take your time to listen to it and locate about what you discovered the experience and compare them to the private games experience.

Evaluate the Images ? for present day stomatolog krakow video games, the graphic counsel is vital simply because they give lifestyle into a sport hence, the name InvideoIn sport. Checking the graphics would need move to various quality and display size if ever the operation is afflicted with every last setting up. It?s also wise to see if the experience supplies the builders promised with regards to the video.

Hear and Criticize the Sound ? tuning in is certainly distinctive from criticizing. You?ll want to first tune in baseny ogrodowe you?ll discover how the mp3 will be noted and put into your sport. If you have seen ample, criticize it and create some points through the experience.

Study the Settings ? playing a video sport perfectly usually means you should also learn to successfully utilize the settings then take into account the awareness of each one option or secrets. Some video games are simply much less sensitive than these. If you wish to make a distinction the handle awareness with video games, then accomplish that try not to add too much.

Study the Idea on the Account ? studying the storyplot on the computer game is very simple than you considered but checking whether it?s competitive is tough. Nevertheless, you ought to be trustworthy about it for the reason that the majority of the avid gamers basic their awareness for the article on the sport. If you are playing a follow up, one example is Muscle size Influence 3, you must homework about the article on the first 2 versions and discover if you find continuity.

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Evacuations in Syria as diplomatic pressure mounts (Reuters)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - The first wounded and sick women trapped in the most embattled district of the Syrian city of Homs have been evacuated, and talks were held to evacuate more on Saturday, while pressure mounted on President Bashar al-Assad's government to call a ceasefire and let in humanitarian aid.

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Women prefer the natural approach to menopause

23 February, 2012

By Staff Writer
NYR Natural News

Natural Health News ? Menopausal women prefer non-medical treatment for their symptoms and want more support from their GPs ? and their partners.

This is the conclusion of a new study published in the?British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

The study looked at 4407 women aged 45 to 54 living in north east Scotland. The women were asked to complete a questionnaire about their menopausal symptoms and how they managed them.

The questionnaire included a symptom checklist which asked about problems such as stiff joints, aches and pains, headaches, vaginal dryness, hot flushes, night sweats, depression, anxiety, mood swings, decreased sexual interest and menstrual symptoms.

Participants were asked whether they had experienced the symptom in the last month and how bothered they were by this.

The study found that nearly half of the women (46.7%) experienced hot flushes, 46.4% night sweats and 28.2% vaginal dryness. Approximately two-fifths of women reported these symptoms as quite a bit or extremely bothersome.

Surgically menopausal women (participants who have had a hysterectomy and/or oopherectomy) reported the most bother from menopausal symptoms and the greatest frequency of bothersome symptoms.

The study also looked at the different management strategies women adopt, from HRT to alternative therapies and social support. It found that the most common management strategy used by menopausal women was social support through talking to friends or family. This was reported by more than 60% of women.

Only 8% of women experiencing a physiological ( as opposed to surgical) menopause were using HRT. Instead more women reported taking vitamins, minerals and supplements and herbal remedies rather than HRT. Around 38% of women, for example, had used herbal remedies.

In addition, one third of women thought that their GP was very supportive, however 34% wanted to have more support from them. One fifth of women wanted more support from their spouse or partner.

Dr Lisa Iversen, Academic Primary Care, Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen and co-author of the paper said:

?Our results provide a powerful reminder that the menopause is a time of life when women experience numerous symptoms, many of which are bothersome.

?We found that many women used non-medical approaches to help relieve the symptoms suggesting a large need for effective non-hormonal management options for menopausal women.?

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