Friday, 8 June 2012

Microsoft Office becomes first non-Metro application within Windows Store, kinda disappoints

Microsoft Office becomes first nonMetro application within Windows Store

You knew it was going to happen, but Microsoft Office 2010 has officially taken roost in the Windows Store, which is made part of Microsoft's next-gen OS known as Windows 8. What makes its arrival noteworthy, however, is the fact that the productivity suite marks the first of the traditional desktop applications available in the digital storefront. Integration leaves much to be desired, however, as you can't actually make the purchase within the Windows Store. Instead, users are kicked over to Microsoft's website, where they're prompted to choose between different editions of Office, which range in price between $119 and $499. In other words, the latest "inclusion" is a half-hearted attempt at best. Still, if you like the idea of a full-fledged desktop productivity suite and LibreOffice simply won't cut the mustard, it's yet one more opportunity to plunk down some cash for the aging software.

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Obama sees fundraising boost in May

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Thursday, 7 June 2012

Judge grants Zimmerman another bond hearing

By Jamie Novogrod, NBC News

Sanford, Fla. -- A new bond hearing for George Zimmerman has been set for June 29, his lawyer confirmed Wednesday.

Zimmerman, 28, who was charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin, returned to jail Sunday after a judge revoked his bail two days earlier.??

Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty; police here in Sanford have said Zimmerman claimed the night of the incident that he acted in self-defense.??

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In court Friday, prosecutors said Zimmerman did not correct his wife, Shellie Zimmerman, during an April 20 bail hearing as she misled the court about their finances, neglecting to disclose they had raised at least $135,000 in a PayPal account.?

In an online statement Monday, Zimmerman?s lawyer, Mark O?Mara, said his client had acknowledged the error, saying Zimmerman allowed the couple's finances to be misstated because of fear and other pressures related to the case.?

"The gravity of this mistake has been distinctly illustrated, and Mr. Zimmerman understands that this mistake has undermined his credibility, which he will have to work to repair,? O?Mara said.

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Virgin Mobile gets iPhone for $549, $30 per month

(AP) ? Virgin Mobile USA, one of Sprint's brands for prepaid, no-contract phone service, said Thursday it will start selling the iPhone on June 29, charging $549 for a basic model.

The high price of the phone comes with an upside: service will start at $30 per month.

That means the phone, plus two years of service, will cost $1,269, excluding taxes. That's nearly $800 less than a subscriber would pay for the same phone, an iPhone 4 with 8 gigabytes of memory, if buying it under the Sprint Nextel Corp. brand. Sprint charges $100 for the phone and $80 per month for service, excluding taxes.

The iPhone has until recently been restricted to contract-based plans. Now, the floodgates appear open for the phone to enter the prepaid, no-contract market, which is aimed at people with low incomes and poor credit. However, the high initial cost of the phone is likely to be an obstacle. Virgin Mobile sells other smartphones for as little as $80.

Last week, Leap Wireless International Inc., the parent of the Cricket prepaid service, said it would start selling the phone on June 22, starting at $400 and $55 per month. Leap's CEO said the phone would likely account for about 10 percent of the phones it sells over the next few years.

For Apple Inc., the maker of the phone, expanding sales to the no-contract segment means a chance to reach buyers who don't have the credit for contract-based plans, or don't want to be tied down with contracts. The number of people on contract-based plans has plateaued, and actually contracted for the first time in the first quarter of this year. Meanwhile, the number of people on no-contract plans is still growing.

In addition to the iPhone 4, Virgin Mobile USA will sell the iPhone 4S, the model launched last year, for $649 with 16 gigabytes of memory.

Virgin Mobile's cheapest plan cost $35 per month, with a $5 discount possible for buyers who set up automatic monthly payment with a credit card, debit card or PayPal account. It provides 300 minutes of calling per month and unlimited texting. Data usage is also "unlimited," but is slowed drastically after the customer has used 2.5 gigabytes since the start of the billing cycle. IPhones with "Sprint" service have true unlimited data.

Virgin Mobile just introduced its first "4G" phone, the $300 HTC Evo V 4G, which can use Clearwire Corp.'s data network in addition to Sprint's. The iPhone, on the other hand, is limited to Sprint's "3G," or third-generation network, which is slower than those of the big iPhone sellers: AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless.

Sprint started selling the iPhone last fall, after its two bigger competitors. Sprint said the iPhones it buys from Apple for Virgin Mobile will count toward its commitment to buy $15.5 billion worth of phones over three years. That's a big and risky undertaking for Sprint, which is in a precarious financial position. The company also said it doesn't expect Virgin Mobile's iPhone sales to materially affect its 2012 operating income before depreciation and amortization.

Sprint shares rose 7 cents to $2.79 in early trading.

Sprint, which is based Overland Park, Kan., doesn't say how many subscribers Virgin Mobile has. Sprint over all has 15.3 million subscribers on no-contract plans, under the Virgin, Boost and Assurance Wireless brands. It has 32.8 million subscribers on Sprint and Nextel contract-based plans.

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Why don't mosquitoes get squashed by raindrops? Scientists find an answer.

A mosquito getting hit by a raindrop is equivalent to a human getting hit by a car, but the insects have evolved a way to roll with it.?

By Stephanie Pappas,?LiveScience Senior Writer / June 6, 2012

A mosquito among water droplets. Thanks to their low mass, mosquitoes can survive hits from droplets 50 times their own weight.

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A mosquito getting hit by a raindrop is the equivalent of a human getting hit by a car. But new research finds that these bloodsucking insects have no trouble absorbing the blow.

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Mosquitoes?weigh so little that raindrops don't splash on them, researchers report Monday (June 4) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Instead, mosquitoes get stuck to the drops, tumbling up to 20 times the length of their bodies before freeing themselves and flying off, unharmed.

"The drop comes at the speed of a comet, and instead of the mosquito resisting the force applied by the drop, it basically gets adhered to the drop like a stowaway," study leader David Hu, a professor of mechanical engineering and biology at Georgia Tech, told LiveScience.

"By doing this, the mosquito really minimizes the force that gets applied by the drop," Hu said. [Gallery: Drop-Dodging Mosquitoes]

Withstanding raindrops

Mosquitoes' uncanny ability to survive rainstorms may be key to their survival in humid climates. It may also be key to engineering tiny?robotic flying machines?that can withstand outdoor environments, Hu said.

No one had researched how these flying robots might survive rain, nor had anyone studied how living insects do so, Hu said. So he and his colleagues engineered an experiment to "smart bomb" mosquitoes with water droplets to see how they'd respond. They put mosquitoes in mesh cages, which vibrated every few seconds to prevent the mosquitoes from landing. They then dropped water on the insects with the same forces that would be present in a rainstorm.

Though?raindrops?are up to 50 times the weight of a mosquito, it was immediately clear that collisions were not fatal. Glancing blows sent mosquitoes spinning in the air, but they soon recovered. Direct hits resulted in the mosquitoes and water drops falling together before the insects got free and continued their flight.

Surviving the deluge

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Wednesday, 6 June 2012

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An educational psychologist is a professional who helps young individuals overcome learning or social problems or emotional issues. Educational psychologists also help parents and teachers in understanding the problems faced by the young people and the ways to help and care for them.

To become an educational psychologist, the basic eligibility requirement is a master?s degree in psychology. In addition, you should also have relevant work experience with young individuals in educational, childcare or community settings.

Following are the skills required for a professional educational psychologist:

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  • A passion to help others with sensitivity, compassion, persistence and patience
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To be a good educational psychologist, you need to work with dedication for the welfare of young individuals while inspiring them to be a confident and successful individual. You will also need to keep yourself well-updated and informed about the latest trends and new findings in educational psychology to improve the quality of coaching and counseling methods.

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Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Retreating glaciers are a threat to biodiversity

ScienceDaily (June 5, 2012) ? The projected disappearance of small glaciers* worldwide threatens to eliminate the water supply for numerous towns in valleys, such as the Ecuadorian capital Quito, fed by the rivers that flow down from the surrounding mountains. But retreating ice is also a threat to freshwater fauna. According to a study published in Nature Climate Change, the local and regional diversity of mountain aquatic fauna will be reduced considerably if predictions are realised. Until now, the impact of global thawing on biodiversity in watercourses had never been calculated in detail.

Insects, a model group

The research team(1) has focused on the future for populations in streams formed by meltwater in the Alps, Alaska and the equatorial Andes, where the IRD researchers have been working. The IRD team has collected samples from around fifty different sites in the p?ramos. These highly particular herbaceous ecosystems are typical of Andean summits, situated at over 3,500m in altitude between the limits of the forest and the permanent snowline. Ecologists have calculated the population of macroinvertebrates - mainly insect larvae such as Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera and Diptera. These organisms that mostly live at the base of glacial torrents belong to a group that has already been studied extensively, whose environmental needs are relatively well known, and as such can be considered as a model for scientists. For example, following over a year of regular sampling, over 150 species of invertebrates have been identified living in just one p?ramo in the Antisana volcano, the 'water tower? serving Quito.

Extinction between 10 and 40%

In the three regions being studied - temperate, arctic and tropical -, the research team has analysed the reaction of three key elements to the changes in glacial coverage: the local taxonomic diversity (the number of different species present in a stream, for example), or at a regional level (across a hydrographic network, for example), and the variation in this diversity between watercourses. Thanks to this sampling at varying distances from glaciers, the data has revealed that the local diversity increases when moving further downstream. In addition, it seems that the populations in different streams at the same altitude is highly consistent. Within a distance of around one hundred metres, the populations found in two streams that appear the same can be substantially different according to which glacier they drain from. Indeed, the Andean glaciers have diverse actions, melting slower or faster according to their size, which varies greatly, and their exposure to sunlight, for example.

According to these tests, in addition to data from aquatic population studies dating back over 20 years, as soon as the glacial coverage is reduced to the point where it only covers 30 to 50% of the drainage basin, several species begin to disappear. And if the glaciers melted completely, between 11 and 38% of the regional diversity might become extinct, depending on the area being studied, including endemic species.

Fauna unique to these areas

High mountain regions are like isolated islets - migration by new species is restricted and they are favourable to speciation(2). Low temperatures and atmospheric pressure, intense solar rays, irregular rainfall, searing winds, ice... all of these extreme conditions have driven forced the native species to adapt in singular ways, particularly in the tropical Andes. Glacial torrents also impose difficult living conditions on their inhabitants, due to their low mineral content(3) and daily floods(4) that produce major disturbances. A high level of endemism thus characterises the p?ramos, containing species not found anywhere else on Earth, but also inexorably threatened by extinction if glaciers continue to recede.

A loss in services rendered

This study has demonstrated the crucial role played by glaciers in the creation and dynamism of biodiversity, and thus the impact of their reduction for the preservation of this diversity. But this is not the only blow for the planet. The insects play a major role in the functioning of mountain ecosystems, particularly through decomposition of organic matter that enables soil to be formed. They can also be useful downstream, for the 2 million inhabitants of Quito, for example. For these organisms also function as bio-indicators for the quality of the water that supplies the city and can be used as a tool by those who manage this resource. The threat of extinction of several species has led to fears for the loss of these crucial services provided by the ecosystem.

The ecological role played by the majority of invertebrates under threat in glacial rivers is still not well known. The consequences at higher trophic levels, such as for fish, amphibians, birds and mammals, are difficult to predict. But these exceptional ecosystems seem to be condemned to disappear, before they have even had the offer up all of their secrets to researchers.

* see news sheet no.127 - Small glaciers in the tropical Andes: a forewarning of disappearance (http://www.ird.fr/la-mediatheque/fiches-d-actualite-scientifique/127-petits-glaciers-des-andes-tropicales-une-disparition-annoncee)

Notes:

(1) These studies have been led by the IRD and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in collaboration with the universities of Birmingham and Leeds in the UK, Alaska in the US and Paris-Sud 11, as well as the Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica del Ecuador in Quito, and the CNRS.

(2) An ongoing process leading to the emergence of new species.

(3)? Environments less rich in minerals are generally unfavourable for aquatic fauna that draw crucial elements for survival from the water, such as chlorides or sodium.

(4) During the day, the glacier melts and increases the flow in streams, whereas the flows diminish at night.

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Journal References:

  1. Dean Jacobsen, Alexander M. Milner, Lee E. Brown, Olivier Dangles. Biodiversity under threat in glacier-fed river?systems. Nature Climate Change, 2012; 2 (5): 361 DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1435
  2. Dean Jacobsen, Olivier Dangles. Environmental harshness and global richness patterns in glacier-fed streams. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2012; 21 (6): 647 DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00699.x

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Bottom Line - Buckle up! The most dangerous cars in the US

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From 1998 through 2001, the Ram 1500 received failing marks from Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in frontal offset tests.

By Michael B. Sauter, 24/7 Wall St.

????Some vehicles can survive car crashes and protect the occupants much better?than others. To find out which motor vehicles perform?best and which the worst, nonprofit group Insurance Institute for Highway Safety performed crash tests. IIHS, which is ?dedicated to reducing the frequency and consequences of crashes on U.S. roads,? rated the cars in four separate categories. 24/7 Wall St. examined the ratings and identified the seven current-generation models that received a ?marginal? or ?poor? rating in two of the four categories.

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The four rating categories of the IIHS?tests are: (1) a frontal offset crash test in which the vehicle travels at 40 miles per hour and hits a barrier head-on; (2) a side-impact crash test in which a 3,300 lb. ?SUV-like? object strikes the driver side at 31 mph; (3) rollover ratings in which a metal plate hits the corner of a vehicle to determine how much force it can take before rolling over; and (4) a rear-impact protection rating, which focuses on the ability of seats and seat belts to protect against whiplash.

The cars with the worst scores most commonly received poor grades in the rollover and rear impact tests. In both of these tests, six of the seven models received a score of ?marginal,? the second-worst grade. The next most common issue was side impact, in which one model received a ?marginal? score and two received a ?poor? score, the worst grade given in these tests.

The poor ratings of these models does not appear?to have affected their sales. In fact, sales of all models went up between 2010 and 2011 -- the most recent two years of available data. In all but one case, according to data provided by Edmunds.com,?sales grew at least 19 percent during that time. And while most of these models? sales are still below 2007 levels, sales the Jeep Wrangler not only increased the most, but have jumped 50 percent since then.

In addition to IIHS ratings, 24/7 Wall St. also looked at several other measures of overall safety and quality for these vehicles. Included in this analysis are?Consumer Reports?ratings, crash safety ratings performed by the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration, and JD Power?s Initial Quality report. Based on our analysis, it appears that these models persistently have quality issues as several received similarly poor reviews from government test ratings. In the JD Power?s study, five of the seven models scored a three or less out of five, and none scored higher than a four.

Several of the models listed in this study had a two-door and four-door version, which were tested?separately and each received poor IIHS scores. 24/7 Wall St. referred to the model only once, but mentioned the scores of each version. In addition, one of the vehicles, the Chevrolet Colorado, is essentially identical to another vehicle, the GMC Canyon. General Motors, which makes both vehicles, uses the same frame for both. In this case, 24/7 Wall St. listed only the Canyon, which is the more popular vehicle.

These are the most dangerous cars in America.

1. Ram 1500

  • ?Make:?Dodge
  • ?Bad ratings:?side-marginal; rollover-marginal
  • ?2011 sales:?156,983
  • ?Price:?$22,120
  • ?JD Power Initial Quality:?2/5

Though Dodge has been offering?the half-ton Ram 1500 since 1981, its safety track record has long been unimpressive. From 1998 through 2001, the truck received failing marks from IIHS?in frontal offset tests, and was rated ?poor? in protecting heads and left legs, as well as in restraining the crash test dummy. Though frontal offset ratings have since received ?good? ratings from the IIHS, the vehicle?s side-impact and rollover ratings remain substandard. Curiously, it was the opposite in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tests. The agency found fault with the Ram?s performance on frontal impact tests but not with side impact tests. Despite safety concerns, the model has been selling well, and from 2007 to 2011 Dodge sold more than 100,000 trucks each year.

2. Colorado Crew Cab

  • ?Make:?Chevrolet
  • ?Bad ratings:?side-poor; rollover-marginal; rear-marginal
  • ?2011 sales:?31,026
  • ?Price:?$17,475
  • ?JD Power Initial Quality:?3/5

The Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon crew cab are fundamentally the same light truck made by General Motors with differing cosmetic features. The small pickup performed quite?poorly in the IIHS?tests, earning a ?poor? side-impact grade and ?marginal? grades for rollover and rear safety. Sales of the Colorado have been especially poor in recent years; GM sold 75,716 such cars in 2007 and only 31,026 in 2011. Making matters worse, a November, 2011, recall of 5,220 Colorados and Canyons due to seat belt safety concerns did not help either the brand?s sales or its safety record.

3. CX-7

  • ?Make:?Mazda
  • ?Bad ratings:?rollover-marginal; rear-marginal
  • ?2011 sales:?35,641
  • ?Price:?$22,190
  • ?JD Power Initial Quality:?4/5

Although it will be replaced?by the newer CX-5 model next year, the CX-7?s safety record certainly will not be?remembered fondly. Despite ?good? scores in front and side impact ratings, low grades in rollover and rear-impact measures go against perceptions that the CX-7 is a safe car to drive. Sales rose from about 20,000 in 2009 to 35,641 in 2011. Still, this is down from 2007 when 42,199 CX-7 cars were sold.

4. CX-9

  • ?Make: Mazda
  • ?Bad ratings:?rollover-marginal; rear-marginal
  • ?2011 sales:?34,421
  • ?Price:?$29,725
  • ?JD Power Initial Quality:?4/5

Assembled in Hiroshima, Japan, the Mazda CX-9 received ?marginal? scores in both rollover and rear safety ratings. The CX-9 also had the lowest strength-to-weight ratio of all midsize SUVs tested by the IIHS. This ratio measures how much force a car?s roof can handle before it crushes five inches, and then it is divided by the?weight of the car. Despite these poor ratings, the number of CX-9s sold increased from 25,484 in 2007 to 34,421 in 2011.

5. Pathfinder

  • ?Make:?Nissan
  • ?Bad ratings:?rollover-marginal; rear-marginal
  • ?2011 sales:?25,935
  • ?Price:?$29,290
  • ?JD Power Initial Quality:?3/5

The Nissan Pathfinder earned ?marginal? ratings in rollover and rear-impact testing from the IIHS. The Pathfinder?s performance in government rollover tests is likewise troubling, as it registered an estimated 20 percent to 30 percent risk of rolling over during testing. At a price of $29,290, the cost of a Pathfinder is similar to that of the Mazda CX-9 or the 4-door Jeep Wrangler. According to Edmunds sales figures, both these models have outsold the Pathfinder in the past three years.

6. Wrangler

  • ?Make:?Jeep
  • ?Bad ratings:?side-marginal (2-door), side-poor (4-door); rear-marginal (both)
  • ?2011 sales:?122,460 (all Wranglers), 46,803 (2-door), 75,657 (4-door)
  • ?Price:?$22,970 (2-door), $30,745 (4-door)
  • ?JD Power Initial Quality:?3/5

With ?marginal? ratings in side and rear-impact protection, the two-door Wrangler joins other SUVs, such as the CX-7, CX-9 and Pathfinder, as a poor performer in IIHS?tests. One of the few car models that actually underperforms?the two-door Jeep Wrangler is the larger four-door version. This version of the Wrangler also received a ?marginal? rear-impact rating, yet was also given a ?poor? side-impact rating. During a recent IIHS?side-impact test, a dummy was struck by the steel bars supporting the four-door Wrangler?s convertible roof. Both of the models? overall poor performance stems in part from the fact they were unable to protect the driver?s or back-seat passengers? heads and other bodily parts in simulated accidents. Despite earning the lowest score of any mid-size SUV from?Consumer Reports,?the Wrangler still sells especially well with more than 120,000 sold in the U.S. in 2011.

7. SX4

  • ?Make:?Suzuki
  • ?Bad ratings:?rollover-marginal, rear-marginal
  • ?2011 sales:?12,520
  • ?Price:?$13,849
  • ?JD Power Initial Quality:?2/5

The least-expensive car on this list, the Suzuki SX4?performed poorly in rollover and rear-test ratings. Among the more than 30 small cars tested by the IIHS, the SX4?was the only small car to receive two scores of ?marginal? or ?poor? out of four ratings. Similarly, the SX4 also received a ?fair? rating, the second-lowest possible, in government side-crash testing. The model?s U.S. sales also have languished, falling from 30,166 in 2008 to 12,520 last year.

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Monday, 4 June 2012

Timeshare Occupancy, Sales Up Slightly in U.S. - WORLD ...


Timeshare sales slightly increased last year and owner occupancy remained high, according to a recent study by Ernst & Young on behalf of the American Resort Development Association. The annual study, "State of the Vacation Timeshare Industry: United States Study 2012 Edition," showed nearly 80 percent of owners continued to travel to their timeshare destination--a figure that continues to outpace traditional hotel occupancy (60 percent in 2011, according to Smith Travel Research December 2011 report) year after year.

Twelve percent of the timeshare occupancy rate was comprised of renters, with 86 percent of timeshare resorts offering some form of rental program. The U.S. timeshare industry represents $6 billion-plus in annual sales.

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Howard Nusbaum

"Our 8 million owners continue to value the proposition of vacationing better with timeshare as the products offer flexibility and rejuvenating amenities for the whole family," said Howard Nusbaum, president and CEO of the American Resort Development Association (ARDA).

ARDA points to the spacious accommodations, such as the option to prepare meals in the timeshare unit rather than dining out for every meal as with a traditional hotel stay, and the expanded rental programs as factors in attracting new consumers to the products. Fifty-eight percent of timeshare sales are from new owners, and 72 percent of resorts have at least half of their sales from new owners, according to the survey.

Additionally, timeshare resorts continue to add flexibility and ease to the way a consumer can buy timeshare intervals. Instead of selling just one week per year, many offer increased flexibility through "points" that owners can use to customize their vacation needs. They can break up or extend vacation weeks, travel during various times of the year, and/or stay in various unit types at a range of locations. Some also offer biennial products that allow owners to use intervals every other year, instead of each year.

About 72 percent of survey respondents have intervals of the traditional weekly variety; about 67 percent have some form of points-based products; and 42 percent of respondents have biennials.

The continued growth in the rental market and sales from existing owners are also indicators of the industry's vitality. In 2011, renters accounted for 10.4 million nights of total occupancy, while 42 percent of timeshare sales are from those who already own a timeshare product, demonstrating the continued high satisfaction with the product offerings.

The industry's outlook for the future remains positive based on consumer demand for expanded product offerings, occupancy remaining steady, and the success of rental programs with existing inventory.

The report was conducted by Ernst & Young and commissioned by the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) International Foundation. The American Resort Development Association (ARDA) is the Washington D.C.-based professional association representing the vacation ownership and resort development industries. Established in 1969, ARDA today has almost 1,000 members ranging from privately held firms to publicly traded companies and international corporations with expertise in shared ownership interests in leisure real estate. The membership also includes timeshare owner associations (HOAs), resort management companies, and owners through the ARDA Resort Owners Coalition (ARDA-ROC).

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Sunday, 3 June 2012

Photo of 'napalm girl" from Vietnam War turns 40

TRANG BANG, Vietnam (AP) ? In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village.

She will always be naked after blobs of sticky napalm melted through her clothes and layers of skin like jellied lava.

She will always be a victim without a name.

It only took a second for Associated Press photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut to snap the iconic black-and-white image 40 years ago. It communicated the horrors of the Vietnam War in a way words could never describe, helping to end one of the most divisive wars in American history.

But beneath the photo lies a lesser-known story. It's the tale of a dying child brought together by chance with a young photographer. A moment captured in the chaos of war that would be both her savior and her curse on a journey to understand life's plan for her.

"I really wanted to escape from that little girl," says Kim Phuc, now 49. "But it seems to me that the picture didn't let me go."

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It was June 8, 1972, when Phuc heard the soldier's scream: "We have to run out of this place! They will bomb here, and we will be dead!"

Seconds later, she saw the tails of yellow and purple smoke bombs curling around the Cao Dai temple where her family had sheltered for three days, as north and south Vietnamese forces fought for control of their village.

The little girl heard a roar overhead and twisted her neck to look up. As the South Vietnamese Skyraider plane grew fatter and louder, it swooped down toward her, dropping canisters like tumbling eggs flipping end over end.

"Ba-boom! Ba-boom!"

The ground rocked. Then the heat of a hundred furnaces exploded as orange flames spit in all directions.

Fire danced up Phuc's left arm. The threads of her cotton clothes evaporated on contact. Trees became angry torches. Searing pain bit through skin and muscle.

"I will be ugly, and I'm not normal anymore," she thought, as her right hand brushed furiously across her blistering arm. "People will see me in a different way."

In shock, she sprinted down Highway 1 behind her older brother. She didn't see the foreign journalists gathered as she ran toward them, screaming.

Then, she lost consciousness.

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Ut, the 21-year-old Vietnamese photographer who took the picture, drove Phuc to a small hospital. There, he was told the child was too far gone to help. But he flashed his American press badge, demanded that doctors treat the girl and left assured that she would not be forgotten.

"I cried when I saw her running," said Ut, whose older brother was killed on assignment with the AP in the southern Mekong Delta. "If I don't help her ? if something happened and she died ? I think I'd kill myself after that."

Back at the office in what was then U.S.-backed Saigon, he developed his film. When the image of the naked little girl emerged, everyone feared it would be rejected because of the news agency's strict policy against nudity.

But veteran Vietnam photo editor Horst Faas took one look and knew it was a shot made to break the rules. He argued the photo's news value far outweighed any other concerns, and he won.

A couple of days after the image shocked the world, another journalist found out the little girl had somehow survived the attack. Christopher Wain, a correspondent for the British Independent Television Network who had given Phuc water from his canteen and drizzled it down her burning back at the scene, fought to have her transferred to the American-run Barsky unit. It was the only facility in Saigon equipped to deal with her severe injuries.

"I had no idea where I was or what happened to me," she said. "I woke up and I was in the hospital with so much pain, and then the nurses were around me. I woke up with a terrible fear."

Thirty percent of Phuc's tiny body was scorched raw by third-degree burns, though her face somehow remained untouched. Over time, her melted flesh began to heal.

"Every morning at 8 o'clock, the nurses put me in the burn bath to cut all my dead skin off," she said. "I just cried and when I could not stand it any longer, I just passed out."

After multiple skin grafts and surgeries, Phuc was finally allowed to leave, 13 months after the bombing. She had seen Ut's photo, which by then had won the Pulitzer Prize, but she was still unaware of its reach and power.

She just wanted to go home and be a child again.

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For a while, life did go somewhat back to normal. The photo was famous, but Phuc largely remained unknown except to those living in her tiny village near the Cambodian border. Ut and a few other journalists sometimes visited her, but that stopped after northern communist forces seized control of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975, ending the war.

Life under the new regime became tough. Medical treatment and painkillers were expensive and hard to find for the teenager, who still suffered extreme headaches and pain.

She worked hard and was accepted into medical school to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. But all that ended once the new communist leaders realized the propaganda value of the 'napalm girl' in the photo.

She was forced to quit college and return to her home province, where she was trotted out to meet foreign journalists. The visits were monitored and controlled, her words scripted. She smiled and played her role, but the rage inside began to build and consume her.

"I wanted to escape that picture," she said. "I got burned by napalm, and I became a victim of war ... but growing up then, I became another kind of victim."

She turned to Cao Dai, her Vietnamese religion, for answers. But they didn't come.

"My heart was exactly like a black coffee cup," she said. "I wished I died in that attack with my cousin, with my south Vietnamese soldiers. I wish I died at that time so I won't suffer like that anymore ... it was so hard for me to carry all that burden with that hatred, with that anger and bitterness."

One day, while visiting a library, Phuc found a Bible. For the first time, she started believing her life had a plan.

Then suddenly, once again, the photo that had given her unwanted fame brought opportunity.

She traveled to West Germany in 1982 for medical care with the help of a foreign journalist. Later, Vietnam's prime minister, also touched by her story, made arrangements for her to study in Cuba.

She was finally free from the minders and reporters hounding her at home, but her life was far from normal. Ut, then working at the AP in Los Angeles, traveled to meet her in 1989, but they never had a moment alone. There was no way for him to know she desperately wanted his help again.

"I knew in my dream that one day Uncle Ut could help me to have freedom," said Phuc, referring to him by an affectionate Vietnamese term. "But I was in Cuba. I was really disappointed because I couldn't contact with him. I couldn't do anything."

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While at school, Phuc met a young Vietnamese man. She had never believed anyone would ever want her because of the ugly patchwork of scars that banded across her back and pitted her arm, but Bui Huy Toan seemed to love her more because of them.

The two decided to marry in 1992 and honeymoon in Moscow. On the flight back to Cuba, the newlyweds defected during a refueling stop in Canada. She was free.

Phuc contacted Ut to share the news, and he encouraged her to tell her story to the world. But she was done giving interviews and posing for photos.

"I have a husband and a new life and want to be normal like everyone else," she said.

The media eventually found Phuc living near Toronto, and she decided she needed to take control of her story. A book was written in 1999 and a documentary came out, at last the way she wanted it told. She was asked to become a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador to help victims of war. She and Ut have since reunited many times to tell their story, even traveling to London to meet the Queen.

"Today, I'm so happy I helped Kim," said Ut, who still works for AP and recently returned to Trang Bang village. "I call her my daughter."

After four decades, Phuc, now a mother of two sons, can finally look at the picture of herself running naked and understand why it remains so powerful. It had saved her, tested her and ultimately freed her.

"Most of the people, they know my picture but there's very few that know about my life," she said. "I'm so thankful that ... I can accept the picture as a powerful gift. Then it is my choice. Then I can work with it for peace."

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Online:

http://www.kimfoundation.com

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Saturday, 2 June 2012

The Real Reason Video Game Consoles Still Have Optical Drives ...

With the rise of online gaming and digital downloads, video gamers in the United States and other developed countries might well wonder why the gaming consoles they buy still come with optical disk drives - and why the next generation of machines will also still have them. The answer, according to recent reports, has nothing to do with protecting retailers.

Earlier this week, ReadWriteWeb reported on the rise of digital downloads and the pressure it is putting on videogame retailers. (See "Game Over for GameStop and Video Game Retailers?") And this week, The Wall Street Journal revealed that Sony flirted with shipping a 2013 successor to the Playstation 3 without an optical drive, then decided to keep it. Microsoft will also ship its next-gen console with an optical drive.

Why bother?

Blaming Slow Net Connections

The Journal claimed Sony and Microsoft based their decisions on shoddy Internet service overseas, which might mean that players would have to spend hours or even days trying to download large game files, and might incur bandwidth fees from their Internet Service Providers.

That reasoning makes no mention of the struggles of game retailers like GameStop, but no doubt comes as a relief to them anyway - at least for the time being.

Still, the fact that Sony - which co-created the CD, DVD and Blu-ray formats - even considered dropping the optical drive from its next-gen console clearly shows where the industry is heading. According to the Journal, even GameStop?s CEO admits that a move to digital downloads is ?inevitable.?

ReadWriteWeb talked to a producer of a popular first-person shooter, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid antagonizing retailers. ?We all want the industry to go that way. It gets games to customers faster, and it gives publishers a lot more room for price flexibility,? the producer said. He also noted that smaller publishers, such as Hothead Games (makers of the Deathspank parody series), were ?basically built on Steam and the Apple Store,? and suggested that digital consoles could open doors for even more indie shops. As Hothead expressed the situation on its own forums: Digital platforms allow for a much higher level of creativity due to the lower investment required to bring them to market.?

So, is the issue of lousy Net access in the developing world the real holdup? Or are there other factors in play?

Who Goes First?

According to the anonymous?producer, ?No one [in the console business] wants to be the first one to cut the cord.? Retail sales still account for the majority of total game sales, and systems are too competitive for one manufacturer to take the plunge alone. There?s also currently no solid model for incorporating storefronts into digital sales beyond game cards, and no secondary market for preowned digital titles.

Are the video retailers worried? GameStop has declined to be interviewed on these topics, so we went back to a local GameStop outlet and asked the clerk we talked to previously.

He wasn?t too concerned, even allowing that he?d heard rumors of ?some pretty big things that might be in the works? with a console vendor. He seemed confident that even a disc-less platform release would still give plenty of time for retailers to adapt.

?We get a big pop in sales for consoles and one or two big games in the first month after a new [console] release, but it really takes a year or so for the new system to come into its own,? he said. ?That gives us some time to figure out how things are going to work.?

The clerk pointed out that even though the Playstation 3 launched in 2006, the store still sells plenty of used Playstation 2 games.

Microsoft and Sony have declined to comment about the degree to which they plan to push online sales for in-game ?extras,? but again, the clerk was optimistic. ?As long as people want to play a game before they buy it or pay for things in cash, we?ll be in business.?

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