Western Star Harry Carey Jr. Dies At 91 (VIDEO)

Western Star Harry Carey Jr. Dies At 91 (VIDEO)

Harry Carey Jr., a character actor that starred in popular Westerns such as “3 Godfathers” and “Wagon Master,” has died at the age of 91. Harry’s daughter, Melinda Carey, said her father passed away on Thursday of natural causes surrounded by family at a hospice facility in Santa Barbara, California. Melinda said of her father’s ...

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Sports minister slams CIS League project

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko watches the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Sochi (RIA Novosti / Vladimir Pesnya)

The discussed project of a new football league which would unite the top clubs from the former Soviet States is a false goal, believes Russia?s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko.

??We see that the popularity of football [in Russia] is decreasing, and without proper events to promote this sport the interest towards it can be quickly lost,? Mutko told Rossiya 2 channel. ?But instead of development, we see false goal being set. And the CIS Championships is surely one of those."

The idea of recreating a championship of Soviet Union was raised by Gazprom boss Aleksey Miller, and received backing from CSKA Moscow President Evgeny Giner and Anzhi CEO, Konstantin Remchukov.

"Nobody has the right to organize a hobnob,? the official stressed. ?If this championship will receive they status of commercial event, then let them play as they want, finding dates outside the official calendar. But no national federation would ever agree to give quotas in European events to such a tournament.?

The authors of CIS League project believe it?ll take them one-and-a-half years to prepare everything for the championship?s maiden season.

Meanwhile, clubs from Georgia and Azerbaijan have already stated that they have no interest of playing in the same league with their former Soviet neighbors.

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UFC 155?s Derek Brunson was a cheerleader before he started fighting

Long before he put together a 9-2 record and earned a spot against Chris Leben at UFC 155, Derek Brunson was a cheerleader. As he shows in his audition video for "The Ultimate Fighter," Brunson was an accomplished tumbler and stunter. Skip to the 2:10 mark to see him toss his partner up into one-handed stunts and throw a double-twisting flip.

He talked about his cheerleading past with MMA Fighting, and pointed out how difficult cheerleading can be.

"I can do flips, and I was like tossing girls in the air. That's where I got my strength from, just controlling girls in the air. You get core strength, your chest gets all big. It makes you really strong, like you look on steroids, but you don't have to take steroids because of cheerleading."

Though Brunson wrestled in college, he said he did have scholarship offers for cheerleading. Wrestling and eventually MMA won out. Brunson admitted that MMA is more dangerous than cheerleading, but it's still tough.

"Cheerleading is definitely hard on your body. That's why I decided to wrestle in college, not cheerlead."

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House to return to session Sunday evening

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The House will be back in session Sunday evening as the "fiscal cliff" looms, threatening across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts with the new year.

Officials said the Republican leadership informed the GOP rank and file of the plan to meet during a conference call Thursday.

It is unclear what legislation the House might consider Sunday, since Speaker John Boehner is publicly insisting that the Senate must make the next move to avert the cliff.

With the Senate in session, Democrats in both chambers of Congress have been harshly critical of the House's absence.

The "fiscal cliff" deadline is four days away.

The officials who disclosed plans for the Sunday session did so on condition of anonymity, saying no public announcement had yet been made.

Associated Press

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Clippers roll past Celtics 106-77

Los Angeles Clippers' DeAndre Jordan, top left, grabs a rebound against Boston Celtics' Kevin Garnett in the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Los Angeles Clippers' DeAndre Jordan, top left, grabs a rebound against Boston Celtics' Kevin Garnett in the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Los Angeles Clippers' Blake Griffin, top, shoots over Boston Celtics' Brandon Bass in the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Los Angeles Clippers' Jamal Crawford, left, puts up a shot as Boston Celtics' Jeff Green, center, and Kevin Garnett watch in the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers reacts to a foul call on his team in the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Clippers in Los Angeles, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The Clippers came roaring out of the opening tip and kept on going to their 15th consecutive victory.

Boosted by an early 24-9 lead their starters provided, Los Angeles beat Boston 106-77 on Thursday night to become the first team to win that many in a row since the Celtics four years ago.

Matt Barnes tied his season high with 21 points off the bench, fellow reserve Jamal Crawford added 17 points and Chris Paul had 11 assists as the Clippers scored their sixth straight blowout victory. They haven't had a close win during the streak since Nov. 28, when they beat Minnesota by six points.

"Shows we have a lot of depth. I've probably sat out more fourth quarters this season than any of my previous seven seasons," Paul said. "It's a really good feeling now, a good vibe because everyone is enjoying it."

Blake Griffin had 15 points, Caron Butler added 14 and Lamar Odom 13 rebounds to help the Clippers improve the NBA's best record to 23-6.

"Some people may be impressed by the record, but we can't be," Paul said. "We're not measured by our regular-season wins."

Griffin agreed, saying, "We want to be winning in April, May and June."

Kevin Garnett scored 16 points for Boston, which committed 18 turnovers and never led in dropping to .500 at 14-14 with its fifth loss in seven games. Paul Pierce and Jeff Green added 12 points each to go with 10 apiece from Jason Terry and Rajon Rondo.

Boston's winning streak extended to 19 games in 2008-09.

"Every individual on our team wanted to beat them and every individual tried to do it by themselves instead of just playing our game," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said.

It was the Clippers' largest-ever win against Boston, coming six years to the day of their previous largest, a 100-77 win on Dec. 27, 2006.

"I thought we came out with too much respect. We wanted to back off some of their bigs and Blake hit some shots that he doesn't usually hit," Garnett said. "They came out with a lot of confidence and they packed the paint and that is the reason why have won 15 in a row. They had us on our heels all night."

Barnes had the Clippers' first five points in a 9-0 run that opened the fourth quarter and boosted their lead to 90-67. Willie Green briefly played; otherwise the Clippers' other starters rested to close out the game.

The Celtics were held to 10 points in the final 12 minutes.

"We just want to continue to build good habits," Barnes said. "We jumped on them early and didn't let them have any breathing room."

The Clippers' starters and their bench played to a draw, scoring 53 points each one game after the reserves outscored the starters in a win over Denver on Christmas.

"It still feels like we can get better," said Ronny Turiaf, who had four points and five rebounds. "We're just having fun. We're in the now. We're just trying to ride the wave."

Garnett had six points in the third when the Celtics were narrowly outscored 22-20, but still trailed 82-67. The Clippers' 9-0 run pushed their lead to 21 points before Boston went on a 10-4 run, including 3-pointers by Courtney Lee and Rondo to end the quarter.

The game got chippy at times. In the third, Jared Sullinger was called for a flagrant-1 foul for grabbing the front of Griffin on his way up to dunk. Then Butler and Pierce emerged from a big mass both holding onto the ball, leading to a jump ball. In the first, Rondo was lying on the ball and Paul tried to take it out from under him on the sideline, leading to a testy moment.

The Celtics cut their deficit to four points early in the second quarter ? the closest they came after the opening quarter ? with consecutive 3-pointers by Terry and Lee before the Clippers' second unit rebuilt the double-digit lead the starters had created. Crawford scored 13 points for Los Angeles, highlighted by a fast-break floater and a rainbow 3. He scored the final four points to keep the Clippers ahead 60-47 heading into halftime.

NOTES: The Clippers are assured of finishing December as their best month ever with two games remaining, including the second half of a back-to-back at Utah. They've already surpassed the franchise record for most wins in a month, bettering the old mark of 12 shared by the 1974-75 Buffalo Braves and the 1991-92 Clippers (which included Celtics coach Doc Rivers). ... Boston fell to 5-9 on the road. ... The Clippers' last loss was on Nov. 26 at home against New Orleans. ... Justin Bieber (who had Paul's young son sitting on his lap), Billy Crystal and Olympic 200 sprint champion Allyson Felix were among the Clippers' 67th consecutive sellout crowd.

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Report: Cisco To Sell Off Linksys - Business Insider

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Cisco wants to sell its home wireless router unit, Linksys, and may already have a buyer, according to several reports.

Cisco has hired Barclays to shop Linksys around, sources told Bloomberg reporters Serena Saitto and Jordan Robertson. Meanwhile, rumors are circulating that Belkin might already be in the process of a deal for Linksys, a blogger that covers Cisco, Brad Reese, writes.

Belkin also sells wireless routers.

This isn't the first time rumors about the sale of Linksys have surfaced.? Last year, when Cisco hit a tailspin, reorganized and shut down its consumer videocamera unit, Flip, pundits speculated that it could get rid of? Linksys, too. The rationale for shedding Linksys is that Cisco's wants to get rid all of its consumer-only businesses and focus exclusively on enterprises and service providers.

Cisco CEO John Chambers has recently said that Cisco's new strategy is to become an all-around enterprise IT company, with more products and services for the data center.

Cisco bought Linksys in 2003 for $500 million in stock. The home router business has grown more?? competitive and has low margins, so Cisco not even be able to sell Linksys for the $500 million it paid for it, according to Reuters.

It looks as if Linksys sales may be declining, too. Cisco doesn't report revenues on the Linksys products directly. It is lumped into a business unit it calls "other."? Revenues for the "other" unit were $220 million, down 11% over the year-ago quarter, in its most recent quarterly report.

Cisco had no comment.

UPDATED:? The headline of this story originally said that that Cisco was looking to sell its router business when it should have specified Cisco's Linksys wireless router unit.

Don't miss:? The 10 Best Enterprise Tech Companies To Work For

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Understanding the advantages of software development outsourcing

Some time ago, organizations generally appointed offshore suppliers so as to outsource services associated with non-critical commercial processes like contact marketing and customer support. Outsourcing has also been employed for labor-intensive tasks since the labor expenses in some nations are quite economical. Nevertheless, an entirely new trend is emerging these days. With the growth of communication and information technologies, organizations are outsourcing important tasks like?software?development. A fundamental feature that helps any business to run efficiently is known as software development. It helps you in operating your business effectively and enhances your productivity with minimum effort.

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Remote software development is generally developed and used in the office itself. However, the rising expenses of keeping in-house professionals have turned out to be too expensive. This is the reason why businesses these days are outsourcing software development mostly to save cash.

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Software development outsourcing ? What are the benefits?

One of the big reasons why organizations are outsourcing software development is the rising expenses. You?ll be able to save a substantial amount of money since you need to make your payments for the services just on a per assignment basis. Outsourcing will help you in getting a devoted team of IT experts who don?t really work as your employees. As a result, you needn?t pay any salary, incentives, or paid holidays. The huge number of flourishing projects performed by experts also made outsourcing trendy. The constructive results of the completed assignments helped organizations in getting the task completed without putting in too much time or effort on the development part.

One more benefit of outsourcing is that, it bridges the gaps in your business. If your organization runs short of the basic work force to start IT projects, a devoted panel of remote software development providers can fill the gap in your company. This helps in improving the competence of your organization even without appointing new staff and connoisseurs.

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The Point Radio: WWE Celebrates 10 Years Of Saluting The Troops

For ten years, The WWE has celebrated the holidays with their tribute To The Troops. This year, however, there a few new twists. WWE Superstars John Cena & Shamus explain it all, plus are you really surprised that AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #700 has shown up on eBay?

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Dreidel-like dislocations lead to remarkable properties

Dec. 14, 2012 ? A new material structure predicted at Rice University offers the tantalizing possibility of a signal path smaller than the nanowires for advanced electronics now under development at Rice and elsewhere.

Theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and postdoctoral fellow Xiaolong Zou were investigating the atomic-scale properties of two-dimensional materials when they found to their surprise that a particular formation, a grain boundary in metal disulfides, creates a metallic -- and therefore conducting -- path only a fraction of a nanometer wide.

That's basically the width of a chain of atoms, Yakobson said.

The discovery reported this week in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters sprang from an investigation of how atoms energetically relate to each other and form topological defects in two-dimensional semiconductors. In recent work, Yakobson's group has analyzed defects in graphene, the single-atom sheet of carbon that is under intense scrutiny by labs around the world.

But flat graphene has no band gap; electrons flow straight through. "There is a lot of effort to open a gap in graphene, but this is not easy," said Yakobson, Rice's Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and professor of chemistry. "People are trying different ways, but none of them are straightforward. This motivated the search for other two-dimensional materials."

Molybdenum/sulfur (or tungsten/sulfur) materials are becoming interesting to scientists because they have a useful natural band gap, about two electron volts in the case of molybdenum/sulfur. And while they are technically two-dimensional materials, the energies at play force their atoms into a staggered arrangement.

"It's more complex than graphene," Yakobson said. "There's a layer of metal in the middle, with sulfur atoms above and below, but they're fully connected by covalent bonds in a honeycomb lattice, so it's one compound."

Chemical vapor deposition is typically used to grow such material; under high temperatures the atoms (like carbon for graphene) fall into line and form sheets. But when two such blooms appear and they meet, they don't necessarily line up. Where they merge, they form what are called "grain boundaries," akin to grains in wood that join at awkward angles. (Think of a branch meeting a tree trunk.) Those grain boundaries affect the electrical properties of the merged material.

Zou calculated those properties based on the atomic energies of the elements. In looking at the elemental bonds, the researchers found the expected "dislocations" where the energies force atoms out of their regular patterns. "Where the sheets meet, they cannot have an ideal lattice structure, so they have these stitches, the dislocations. Each grain boundary is just a series of these dislocations," Yakobson said.

It was only coincidence that the dislocations took on dreidel-like shapes for a paper published during Hanukkah, he said.

"We found order in this complexity and chaos, the exact structures that are possible at the grain boundaries and the dislocations types," he said.

The growing molybdenum/sulfur sheets can meet at any angle, and though the sheets are semiconducting, the boundaries between them generally stop electrical signals in their tracks. But at one particular angle -- 60 degrees -- the periodic dislocations are close enough to pass signals on from one to the next along the length of the boundary. "Basically, they're metallic in this direction," Yakobson said.

"So in the middle of these domains of semiconducting material, you have this boundary line that carries current in one direction, like a wire. And it's only a few angstroms wide," he said.

"Metal disulfides may be promising for future electronic devices based on materials with reduced dimensions," Zou said. "It is important to understand the effects of topological defects on the electronic properties as we push toward post-silicon devices."

Yuanyue Liu, a graduate student in Yakobson's group, is a co-author of the paper.

A U.S. Army Research Office Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative grant and the National Science Foundation (NSF) supported the research. Computations were performed at the NSF-funded Data Analysis and Visualization Cyberinfrastructure at Rice.

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1. Xiaolong Zou, Yuanyue Liu, Boris I. Yakobson. Predicting Dislocations and Grain Boundaries in Two-Dimensional Metal-Disulfides from the First Principles. Nano Letters, 2012; : 121214084937009 DOI: 10.1021/nl3040042

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Gov. Brown Being Treated for Prostate Cancer | KTLA 5

SACRAMENTO, Calif. ? Gov. Jerry Brown is receiving radiation treatment for early stage prostate cancer, his office announced Wednesday.

The 74-year-old governor is undergoing ?conventional radiotherapy? and maintaining a full work schedule during the treatment, according to a statement released by the governor?s office.

?Fortunately, this is early stage localized prostate cancer,? Dr. Eric Small, Brown?s oncologist at UC San Francisco, said in the statement. ?The prognosis is excellent, and there are not expected to be any significant side effects.?

The governor?s office said the treatment will be completed the week of Jan. 7, about the time Brown is expected to unveil his proposed budget and deliver a State of the State address.

Brown?s spokesman Gil Duran declined to provide details about when the governor was diagnosed, what form of radiotherapy he is receiving and the stage of his cancer.

?We have no further comment,? Duran said.

This is the governor?s second bout with cancer during his return engagement as California?s chief executive.

Last year, he had a cancerous growth removed from the right side of his nose and some reconstructive surgery.

He had been treated for the same type of cancer ? basal cell carcinoma ? in 2008, when he had a small spot removed near his right ear.

Although it was one of the most common, curable forms of skin cancer, Brown?s office did not disclose that the governor had it last year until after he had been treated.

Reporters had earlier asked about a bandage on Brown?s nose following a biopsy, and his wife, Anne Gust Brown, had denied it was cancer.

Brown?s most recent diagnosis is a blow to his healthy image. At 74, he is California?s oldest governor and has gone out of his way to show that his age and health are of no concern.

He has challenged reporters to pull-up contests ? and won ? jogs in the Oakland hills and around the Capitol, and he boasts of his running time.

He made headlines in August after challenging New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to ?a three-mile race, a push-up contest and a chin-up contest.? ?Whatever he wants to bet,? Brown said, ?I have no doubt of the outcome.?

Medical experts said the information provided by Brown?s office Wednesday suggests he has an excellent chance of recovery, with minimal disruption to his normal schedule.

Besides skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in U.S. men, according to the American Cancer Society.

The organization estimates that about one out of six men will be diagnosed with the disease during his lifetime, and most cases occur in older men.

Nearly all men diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer have high ?cure? rates, meaning they will be disease-free after five years.

The fact that Brown?s cancer is localized means that it has not invaded other organs, making it easier to treat, said Dr. Israel De Alba, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at UC Irvine.

An external beam of radiation will probably be focused on the cancer for a few minutes a day, as opposed to more invasive therapy that involves putting radioactive material inside the prostate, physicians said.

Possible side effects include nausea, vomiting and pain in the treated area.

?Most patients that we see have a normal life and continue with their usual activities,? De Alba said.

Other doctors agreed, noting the early stage of the disease.

?It won?t affect his function as governor,? said Dr. David B. Agus, a prostate cancer expert who is a professor of medicine and engineering at USC. ?He will be able to function in his job and reduce our deficit.?

Doctors also praised Small, Brown?s oncologist, whom they described as one of the world?s premier experts on prostate cancer.

?He?s in very good hands,? said Stuart Holden, director of the Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

?I would say his chances of living 10 to 15 years is in excess of 80%, assuming nothing else gets him.?

-Los Angeles Times

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Schizophrenia linked to social inequality

Dec. 14, 2012 ? Higher rates of schizophrenia in urban areas can be attributed to increased deprivation, increased population density and an increase in inequality within a neighbourhood, new research reveals. The research, led by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London, was published today in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Dr James Kirkbride, lead author of the study from the University of Cambridge, said: "Although we already know that schizophrenia tends to be elevated in more urban communities, it was unclear why. Our research suggests that more densely populated, more deprived and less equal communities experience higher rates of schizophrenia and other similar disorders. This is important because other research has shown that many health and social outcomes also tend to be optimal when societies are more equal."

The scientists used data from a large population-based incidence study (the East London first-episode psychosis study directed by Professor Jeremy Coid at the East London NHS Foundation Trust and Queen Mary, University of London) conducted in three neighbouring inner city, ethnically diverse boroughs in East London: City & Hackney, Newham, and Tower Hamlets.

427 people aged 18-64 years old were included in the study, all of whom experienced a first episode of psychotic disorder in East London between 1996 and 2000. The researchers assessed their social environment through measures of the neighbourhood in which they lived at the time they first presented to mental health services because of a psychotic disorder. Using the 2001 census, they estimated the population aged 18-64 years old in each neighbourhood, and then compared the incidence rate between neighbourhoods.

The incidence of schizophrenia (and other similar disorders where hallucinations and delusions are the dominant feature) still showed variation between neighbourhoods after taking into account age, sex, ethnicity and social class. Three environmental factors predicted risk of schizophrenia -- increased deprivation (which includes employment, income, education and crime) increased population density, and an increase in inequality (the gap between the rich and poor).

Results from the study suggested that a percentage point increase in either neighbourhood inequality or deprivation was associated with an increase in the incidence of schizophrenia and other similar disorders of around 4%.

Dr Kirkbride added: "Our research adds to a wider and growing body of evidence that inequality seems to be important in affecting many health outcomes, now possibly including serious mental illness. Our data seems to suggest that both absolute and relative levels of deprivation predict the incidence of schizophrenia.

"East London has changed substantially over recent years, not least because of the Olympic regeneration. It would be interesting to repeat this work in the region to see if the same patterns were found."

The study also found that risk of schizophrenia in some migrant groups might depend on the ethnic composition of their neighbourhood. For black African people, the study found that rates tended to be lower in neighbourhoods where there were a greater proportion of other people of the same background. By contrast, rates of schizophrenia were lower for the black Caribbean group when they lived in more ethnically-integrated neighbourhoods. These findings support the possibility that the socio-cultural composition of our environment could positively or negatively influence risk of schizophrenia and other similar disorders.

Dr John Williams, Head of Neuroscience and Mental Health at the Wellcome Trust said: "This research reminds us that we must understand the complex societal factors as well as the neural mechanisms that underpin the onset of mental illness, if we are to develop appropriate interventions."

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1. J. B. Kirkbride, P. B. Jones, S. Ullrich, J. W. Coid. Social Deprivation, Inequality, and the Neighborhood-Level Incidence of Psychotic Syndromes in East London. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2012; DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbs151

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Google has no plans to develop Windows 8 or WP apps, cites lack of users

If you're eager to load up a Windows Phone or Windows 8 PC with dedicated Gmail or Google Drive apps, it's time you ease up on the anticipation, as Mountain View isn't bent on bringing apps to the platforms thanks to a lack of interest. "We have no plans to build out Windows apps," Google Apps product management director Clay Bavor told V3. "We are very careful about where we invest and will go where the users are but they are not on Windows Phone or Windows 8." That might sound grim, but Bavor added that a change in user base would warrant applications brewed up by Page and Co. As it stands, however, Google's focused on polishing its iOS and Android efforts, so Redmond devotees should get mighty comfortable with the search giant's web-based offerings.

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Viruses cooperate or conquer to cause maximum destruction

Dec. 13, 2012 ? Scientists have discovered new evidence about the evolution of viruses, in work that will change our understanding about the control of infectious diseases such as winter flu.

Researchers at the University of Exeter's conducted experiments to manipulate a virus to see if it could evolve the ability to switch its behaviour according to how many other viruses infect a host.

Previous research has focussed on trying to force harmful microbes to become less threatening to human health as they evolve. But the new research, which was carried out in collaboration with the University of Oxford, proves viruses can readily develop the ability to adjust their behaviour to maximise their spread, in response to whether they are infecting as a single entity or in combination with other viruses.

Helen Leggett, a postgraduate researcher at the University of Exeter, was the lead scientist on the work, which is published online Dec. 13 in the journal Current Biology. She said: "Scientists are constantly searching for ways to limit the damage viruses can cause, to help reduce the impact of illnesses like winter flu and to respond to the next pandemic. Our work proves that regardless of how we try to manipulate viruses, they will always switch their behaviour to serve their own purposes and kill as many cells as possible. This study involved a relatively simple virus. If it can evolve so quickly, it's reasonable to assume that a lot of other viruses and parasites can, too."

The study was funded by the European Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust and the Natural Environment Research Council, while Helen Leggett is supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

The work also shed light on why organisms cooperate with each other. The virus would only cooperate with viruses which were related to it. When it infected alone it would clone itself within the cell, and would cooperate with those new viruses. In this context, cooperation meant killing the host relatively slowly so that the virus could replicate more. But when it interacted with other viruses which were not related, it killed the cell faster, allowing it to out-replicate and dominate the other viruses.

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1. Helen?C. Leggett, Rebecca Benmayor, David?J. Hodgson, Angus Buckling. Experimental Evolution of Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in a Parasite. Current Biology, 2012; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.045

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Banks should cut pay to win over investors - BoE's Jenkins

LONDON (Reuters) - Banks could win back the stock market's confidence by slashing management salaries and having their investments independently valued, a senior British central banker said on Wednesday.

The banking industry, shunned by equity investors since parts of it were bailed out in the 2008 crisis, should at the same time raise new capital to demonstrate it can absorb any future financial hits, the Bank of England's Robert Jenkins told an investor conference in London.

Jenkins said the measures, set out in what he called a "dream speech" delivered by a fictional banking chief executive to shareholders, could pre-empt efforts by regulators to impose tighter rules on the sector and remove a key source of uncertainty.

"This approach will put us ahead of the regulators and leave them with no place to go; they will cease to be a factor in the management of our business," Jenkins told a conference organised by the Association of British Insurers.

The ABI, whose members own about a fifth of the London stock market, warned in a report this month that investors were put off buying bank stock because new regulations were eroding the sector's shareholder returns.

Financial watchdogs worldwide, eager to prevent a repeat of the 2008 crisis, are pushing banks to restructure and hold more capital, eroding their profitability. In Britain, the sector has also been hit by multi-billion pound penalties for misdemeanours including the mis-selling of loan insurance.

Jenkins, a member of the BoE's Financial Policy Committee and a former investment banker and fund manager, said banks should ask senior staff to accept a "sharp and permanent" cut in fixed pay in return for a one-off award of deferred shares.

High pay for senior bankers has come under the spotlight since taxpayers were forced to provide lenders with billions in emergency finance four years ago, leaving some, including Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyd's Banking Group in Britain, under partial state ownership.

Jenkins said his manifesto could "transform the rating" of any bank that put it into practice.

"The pieces are there for someone at CEO level to come forward and become a financial statesman," he told the conference.

(Reporting by Myles Neligan; Editing by Helen Massy-Beresford)

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Israeli troops clash with Palestinian protesters

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) ? Dozens of Palestinian youths are clashing with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron, throwing stones and bottles at the troops.

The Israeli forces have responded with tear gas. There are no immediate reports of serious injuries.

Thursday's clashes came a day after a Palestinian teenager was shot dead by Israeli forces in the city, near the Cave of the Patriarchs, a holy site revered by Jews and Muslims.

Tensions have been heightened since Wednesday's shooting. Israel's paramilitary border police force said it shot the 17-year-old after he brandished a gun that later turned out to be fake.

But the Palestinians claimed the youth was unarmed, and had failed to heed orders to halt at a military checkpoint because he was hard of hearing.

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Charlie Sheen Donates $75k to Help Girl?s Cancer Fight

Charlie Sheen has found a good way to worm his way back into our hearts: Donate money to people in need.

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Skills that will Make you More Money Online - Internet Marketing ...

December 11th, 2012 | 10 comments

I started my Internet Marketing career back in 2004, writing articles as a ?ghost writer? and selling them for $11 per 350 word article. Then I learned how to promote my website (my only website at the time) with articles (along with SEO and other marketing techniques,) and started making a few bucks from adsense and affiliate sales. Then I learned how to write an ebook and I sold that ebook, which taught people how to effectively market with articles, and made tens of thousands of dollars with that. So I wrote more ebooks and made much more money from them.

Then, after Jonathan Leger promoted that first ebook back in 2005 (or maybe it was 2006?) I learned the POWER of email marketing. So I learned about that and started building email lists. Then, over time, I realized that software products typically sell much better and solve more problems, so I started outsourcing software development. Then I started doing $5,000, $10,000, $20,000 and even $40,000.00 promotions to my lists!

Then I realized, if I only knew how to code, I could save thousands of dollars, get products done quicker, produce better products (no more communication errors) and kick out many more products and at the same time build my lists MUCH faster ? lists full of proven buyers.

I?m still learning the coding part. I?m fairly proficient with HTML and I?m learning PHP and MySQL currently, but there is no doubt in my mind that once I am proficient with a few good coding languages I will once again multiply my income.

So why am I giving you a run-down of my Internet Marketing? It?s not because I like to brag. The fact is I?ve been Blessed and I constantly strive to remain humble. But I want to share with you what has worked for me, so that you might decide to go down a similar path? a path that has been very kind to me over the years!

You don?t need to go down the same path? many paths lead to success, but there are a few skills I HIGHLY recommend you learn if you want to be a successful Internet Marketer!

1. ?> CODING! It took me YEARS and years and years to realize the potential in coding and I have to admit, I owe this to Jonathan Leger, who not only showed me the enormous power of email marketing, but who also showed me the enormous power of developing your own software! For the longest time I was perfectly content with outsourcing all of my coding. But after working with Jon, I?ve realized that a good coder can get his own product done 10x quicker (or more) and make it potentially 10x better and save thousands and thousands of dollars at the same time!

That?s HUGE because even if you have a great coder you?re outsourcing to, he can?t read your mind and the best you can do is TRY to explain exactly how you want things. This may not sound like a big issue, but believe me, I?ve outsourced MANY software projects including systems that have $100,000+ invested in them. Coders who write their own code and develop their own products are almost ALWAYS many times more successful than people with similar marketing knowledge who outsource all of their development! If you plan to be in the Internet Marketing space long term, LEARN CODE!

2. List Building ? I?ve probably said it 1,000 times over the years and I?ll say it once again: The Money Is In The List! If it weren?t for my lists I would have a JOB right now. It?s that simple. You can constantly fight with the search engines and other sites building traffic to your sites in order to get more and more people to them (it?s a never ending battle) or you can put that time and effort into building your list and literally have money on demand! This isn?t hype, email marketing is the real deal. Email marketing has made mannnnnnnnnnnnnny millionaires and it is probably one of the, if not THE, most realistic and relatively easy ways for an ?average Joe? type of person like me to reach 7 figures.

3. Outsourcing ? Obviously the more you can do on your own the better. After-all, I just said learning to code is huge. HOWEVER, if it weren?t for outsourcing I would be limited to writing content, conducting SEO and selling ebooks for the most part. And while I?ve made alot of money doing those things and there are millionaires out there who do just that, there is SO much more potential online that you could be tapping into and all you have to do is find qualified people to do those things, whatever they are!

I?ve spent close to $100,000 on oDesk, probably more, over the years outsourcing different projects. And while I would be MUCH better off if I could do all of those things myself, I can?t (for now.) So outsourcing is still better than just not doing those things!

4. SEO ? I almost didn?t list this one, but if you?re in the Internet Marketing niche, you really do need to know SEO. You don?t need to be an expert, but you do need to know how SEO works and you need to keep up with the SEO world for the most part, simply because if you?re going to be marketing to Internet Marketers, they?re going to expect you to know. AND search engines are one of the better traffic sources? traffic that you can retain via email marketing. So I do recommend you learn SEO, if you haven?t already, and subscribe to some of the top SEO newsletters so you can ?stay on top of the game? as much as possible.

5. Social Media ? This is looking to be the future of free traffic generation, so staying on top of the most popular social media sites is definitely a requirement for any Internet Marketer! I admit, I?m not much of a social media expert, but I do keep up with the latest happenings in regards to social media marketing and I learn a little more each day.

Why Don?t I Mention Affiliate Marketing?

I?ve made a great deal of money with affiliate marketing. So why don?t I have that listed above? Because I don?t see it as a skill. If you have a list that converts, you really don?t need any skill at all in order to make loads of affiliate sales. You just need to be honest and recommend products that you really do believe are helpful. That?s it. Are there techniques that can be leveraged in order to make good affiliate sales? Absolutely and if you want to go that route, there is nothing at all wrong with that. There is alot of money it! One Week Marketing (OWM) is one coarse I highly recommend.

But if you build a responsive list that trusts you, the affiliate marketing part will come and in my opinion it?s easier to build a list than it is to master any affiliate marketing technique. Everyone IS different though, so I definitely wouldn?t say that applies to everyone. If you do decide to master an affiliate marketing technique, OWM is what I recommend. PotPieGirl is definitely the real deal and one of the only people I would listen to if I decided to concentrate on affiliate marketing.

So there you have it. If you can learn just a few of those skills and put them into action, you have a VERY good chance of making a good living with your online business, as I?ve enjoyed since I went full time in 2007 after getting out of the Army (did IM for 3 years part time while in the Army.) And if you can learn and master all 4 of those skills, it is very possible to earn a 7 or even 8 figure income online! Just start with one, learn it? put it into action and then start learning another!

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Laser Fusion Put On a Slow Burn By US Government

Please uprate previous comment. It is not a troll. The NIF project is funded primarily by the NNSA, the part of the Department of Energy which deals with the science & engineering of nuclear weapons. The DoE does not dispute this, it just likes to de-emphasize the reality of the primacy of the weapons effort.

The design of the experiment and system matches the thermonuclear secondaries for weapons. Contrary to some people's belief, the nuclear physics is not difficult---it is the fluid mechanics and radiation transfer in extreme conditions which is the scientifically difficult part. (Radiation-driven secondaries are much much more difficult than fission primaries).

The primary purpose of the NIF is to gain experimental data to calibrate the simulation codes for nuclear weapons engineering & reliability in the absence of nuclear weapons testing.

There is a small energy related research project, but it is very very very far from practicality. There is little attention to actual engineering issues, compared to say ITER (magnetic confinement fusion) project, which is pretty heavily focused on engineering practicalities. Lasers are horribly inefficient energy transfer if you care about power breakeven but much better for making clean data for weapons code calibration. Most of the funded experimental runs will be for weapons, not energy research.

In any case, neither inertial confinement nor magnetic confinement fusion will be used as a power source with customers for at least 60-100 years.

We already know how to make nuclear reactors---and if we are not funding and churning out high-quality modular fission reactors now, it's foolish to think about fusion.

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Smuggler's tunnels: Detecting tunnels using seismic waves not as simple as it sounds

Dec. 10, 2012 ? You'd think it would be easy to use seismic waves to find tunnels dug by smugglers of drugs, weapons or people. You'd be wrong.

Nedra Bonal of Sandia's geophysics and atmospheric sciences organization is nearing the end of a two-year study, "Improving Shallow Tunnel Detection From Surface Seismic Methods," aimed at getting a better look at the ground around tunnels and learning why seismic data finds some tunnels but not others.

Her eventual goal is to come up with a seismic detection process for the border and other areas where tunnels pose a security threat. Bonal's project is funded by Sandia's Early Career Laboratory Directed Research and Development program.

Most tunnels are found by tips from people rather than by scientific methods, Bonal said.

If researchers discover what it takes to pinpoint tunnels, the next step would be to develop streamlined seismic methods that would be more practical for the Border Patrol and military.

The study arose from earlier work at Sandia detecting shallow tunnels. Bonal said she was surprised when standard refraction and reflection processing techniques Sandia used could not successfully pinpoint some tunnels.

Researchers speculate the difficulty might be what's called a halo effect around a tunnel, in which fracturing and other geological anomalies create diffuse boundaries and hide the tunnel. The earlier, broader research produced several successes in tunnel detection, but was not focused specifically on what happens in the area where tunnel and earth meet, which might help explain why tunnels can be detected in some cases but not others.

Bonal is looking at whether seismic waves are strongly impacted by fracturing or saturation of pores in rock or soil, as well as varying pressures at different depths. Physical processes change from shallow depths to deeper depths, but it isn't clear just where that change occurs, she said.

In addition, the halo effect is both asymmetrical and complex.

"It depends on the geology or the soil as well as the seasonal variation, rain events and the relation to the water table," Bonal said. "So it's a pretty complex regime just from the hydrology standpoint."

More research is needed, but asymmetry may turn out to be an advantage because an asymmetric area might show up better than a symmetrical one, she said. "These anomalous areas are what we may identify as tunnels in the data," she said.

Bonal began her project by figuring out what gaps existed in current scientific knowledge, then modeling real-world scenarios based on collected data that would affect hydrology models and in turn, seismic waves: an area's soil and other geology, the depth of rock fracturing around a tunnel in a particular environment, the probable tunnel size, its relation to the water table and seasonal variations in that relationship.

"We try to get some bounds to this problem," she said. "If we can't see it in the best-case scenario, then there's really no point in trying to see it in more subtle factors that may affect the seismic waves."

The team ran the hydrology models to get some results, then converted those results into seismic velocities that could be plugged into Sandia's 3-D elastic seismic wave propagation simulation code, Bonal said. These results will produce synthetic seismograms that will be compared to field data from the real environment and can be used to develop other processing techniques. That will in turn produce data that's expected to look like what's collected in the field.

"We can then compare the effects of a tunnel versus no tunnel and changes in fracturing and saturation of the tunnel halo versus no changes to assess their impact on seismic waves," she said.

The standard used to show the relationship of saturation in pores in rock or earth to seismic velocities is an oil industry standard called the Biot-Gassmann theory. However, few experiments have tested that theory at shallow depths where border tunnels are commonly dug, Bonal said.

"The few that have been done have shown that the Biot-Gassmann theory tends to overestimate the velocities for those unconsolidated near-surface materials where the pressures perhaps aren't as great" as at depths where the oil industry operates, she said.

The very near surface behaves one way, but at some point behaviors change because of greater pressures and other factors, she said. The Biot-Gassmann theory holds well at greater depths where pressure is more intense and the rock is more consolidated, while another theory, Brutsaert, describes what happens very close to the surface.

"But there's sort of a middle regime where I'm looking where I'm not real sure either one of them works as well as they need to," Bonal said. She expects to have the modeled data results soon to compare with seismic data collected from previous experiments to help resolve the issue.

Experimentally verifying at what depth or in what materials competing theories work best lies outside the scope of her LDRD, but Bonal hopes to work on those puzzles in a future project. "I think there are still plenty of questions we have that need to be answered but I am very excited about the progress made so far. I have been able to detect a tunnel that I previously had not seen by other analyses," she said.

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Brain displays an intrinsic mechanism for fighting infection

Dec. 10, 2012 ? White blood cells have long reigned as the heroes of the immune system. When an infection strikes, the cells, produced in bone marrow, race through the blood to fight off the pathogen. But new research is emerging that individual organs can also play a role in immune system defense, essentially being their own hero. In a study examining a rare and deadly brain infection, scientists at The Rockefeller University have found that the brain cells of healthy people likely produce their own immune system molecules, demonstrating an "intrinsic immunity" that is crucial for stopping an infection.

Shen-Ying Zhang, a clinical scholar in the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, has been studying children with Herpes simplex encephalitis, a life-threatening brain infection from the herpes virus, HSV-1, that can cause significant brain damage. The scientists already knew from previous work that children with this encephalitis have a genetic defect that impairs the function of an immune system receptor -- toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) -- in the brain. For this study they wanted to see how the defect in TLR3 was hampering the brain's ability to fight the herpes infection.

When TLR3 detects a pathogen it triggers an immune response causing the release of proteins called interferons to sound the alarm and "interfere" with the pathogen's replication. It's most commonly associated with white blood cells, found throughout the body, but here the researchers were examining the receptor's presence on neurons and other brain cells.

"One interesting thing about these patients is that they didn't have any of the other, more common herpes symptoms. They didn't have an infection on their skin or their mouths, just in their brains. We therefore hypothesized that the TLR3 response must be specifically responsible for keeping the herpes virus from infecting the brain and not necessary in other parts of the body," says Zhang.

The lab, headed by Jean-Laurent Casanova, collaborated with scientists at Harvard Medical School and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute to create induced pluripotent stem cells. Made from the patients' own tissue, the stem cells were developed into central nervous system cells that carried the patients' genetic defects. Zhang exposed the cells to HSV-1 and to synthetic double-stranded RNA, which mimics a byproduct of the virus that spurs the toll-like receptors into action. By measuring levels of interferon, Zhang showed that the patients' TLR3 response was indeed faulty; their cells weren't making these important immune system proteins, leaving them unable to fight off the infection.

Zhang also exposed the patients' blood cells to the virus and found that the TLR3 defect was not an issue there as it was in the brain -- interferons were released by other means.

Because the toll-like receptors on neurons proved to be vital in preventing the encephalitis infection, the researchers concluded that brain cells use it as an in-house mechanism to fight infection, rather than relying on white blood cells. When its function was impaired, patients couldn't get better.

"This is evidence of an intrinsic immunity, a newly-discovered function of the immune system," says Zhang. "It's likely that other organs also have their own specific tools for fighting infection."

The researchers are putting together a pilot study to test an interferon-based treatment in patients with the encephalitis, believing it will help speed recovery and increase the survival rate when used alongside antiviral drugs. They'll also explore whether the brain displays an intrinsic immunity to other types of viral infection.

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Apple Maps' 43-Mile Mistake Could Strand Travelers in Outback

Apple's new map system on iOS 6, which replaced Google Maps, has drawn plenty of criticism from pundits. Now, it's the subject of a warning by Australian police. Officers in Mildura are warning drivers to be wary of Apple's new maps system, which shows their fair town as being in the middle of Murray Sunset National Park.

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Canon imageClass MF4890dw

Essentially identical to the Editors' Choice Canon imageClass MF4880dw in most ways, the Canon imageClass MF4890dw mono laser MFP adds one feature. Its automatic document feeder (ADF) can duplex, meaning it can turn pages over to scan both sides. For anyone who has to deal with scanning, copying, or faxing duplex documents, this can save loads of time, making it well worth the extra cost.

The duplexing ADF also offers a somewhat higher paper capacity than the MF4880dw's ADF, at 50 sheets rather than 35. Beyond that, however, it's hard to find any other difference between the two printers. Both are good choices for either sharing on a network in a micro or small office or for use as a heavy-duty personal printer; both let you connect to either a wired or Wi-Fi network; and both limit their Wi-Fi capability to infrastructure mode only, which means you can only connect to a network with an access point.

Basic MFP features include the ability to print and fax from as well as scan to a PC, including over a network, plus the ability to work as a standalone copier and fax machine. As is typical for a small-office MFP, the ADF can scan up to legal-size pages and is paired with a flatbed that's limited to letter size.

Paper handling for printing is suitable for most small offices with light- to medium-duty print needs, with one 250-sheet tray, a manual feed, and an automatic print duplexer. Very much worth mention is that the combination of a duplexing ADF and duplexing printer lets you copy both single and double-sided originals to your choice of single or double-sided copies.

Setup and Speed
Setting up the MF4890dw is typical for a small-office mono laser MFP. Given its size, at roughly 14.2 by 15.4 by 17.0 inches (HWD), you probably won't want the printer sitting on your desk, but you should be able to find room for it even in a small office without too much trouble. For my tests I connected it to a network using the Ethernet port and installed the drivers on a Windows Vista system.

The default setting for the MF4890dw driver after installation is for duplex printing, which is the setting I used for our official tests. However there's a significant difference between Canon's ratings for the printer in duplex and simplex (one-sided) modes, at 16 pages per minute (ppm) for duplex and 26 ppm for simplex, so I tested both.

The rated speeds should be close to what you'll see when printing a text file with little formatting. On our tests, I timed the printer (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing) at 9.6 ppm in duplex mode and 12.2 ppm in simplex mode. Not surprisingly, both modes were essentially tied with the MF4880dw. A better indication of the speed relative to the competition, however, is that even in duplex mode, the MF4890dw was essentially tied with the similarly priced OKI MB451w that I recently reviewed, even though the MB451w was set for simplex mode as the default setting.

Output Quality
Output quality for the MF4890dw is more than acceptable for most business use, with text at the high end of the range that includes most mono laser MFPs, and both graphics and photo output at the low ends of the equivalent, but much tighter, ranges for graphics and photo quality.

For text, that translates to the output being suitable by most people's standards for any business use short of high-quality desktop publishing. Graphics output is a step down from that level, suitable for any internal business need, but only potentially good enough for PowerPoint handouts or the like, depending on how demanding an eye you have. Photo quality is easily good enough to print Web pages with recognizable photos, but only potentially good enough for newsletters or the like, depending once again on the quality level you insist on.

Much like the Canon MF4880dw that's it's so similar to, the MF4890dw delivers a well-balanced set of features that add up to making it a solid performer. Unlike the MF4880dw, however, it also offers a single feature ?in the form of its duplexing ADF?that stands out as a reason to choose it or not. If you rarely, if ever, need to scan, copy, or fax duplex documents, you can save a few dollars by choosing the nearly identical but cheaper MF4880dw. If scanning in duplex is something you need, however, the Canon imageClass MF4890dw is easily worth the extra cost, and it also gives you all the features that make the MF4880dw Editors' Choice.

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YouTube pushes new UI for tablets via its mobile website, Android app

As we should all understand by now, YouTube is constantly changing its look. The latest versions of Google's video streaming juggernaut to be refreshed are its experiences for tablets. The Android app has a brand new UI for 10-inch slates, and if you prefer the mobile website to its apps, you'll see the fresh look popping up there as well. Just like the changes to its site layout pushed to all a few days ago it brings the guide feature, promising easy access to subscribed channels. As YouTube continues to pick up higher profile content to show subscribers, it's no surprise the new changes are intended to funnel viewers there. Check out the new updates and let us know if you think they're for the better.

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Day Trading Stocks and Making $10,000 A Week | Guerilla Stock ...

Posted On : 2012-10-31 20:47:51

Listen to the day trader that made $10,000 last week. His name is JB. He runs a stock trading and education service and he specializes in showing how the average person can make thousands of dollars a week day trading.

In this video you'll hear a webinar JB did last week for clients. In the winter season, JB does weekly webinars for clients.

JB is both a swing trader and day trader. In the type of market that we have been in between September through the end of October, it is amazing that anyone can make a profit trading in this market. The way JB did it was day trading because the ranges have compressed before the Presidential Election in November 2012.

It doesn't work to try and force swing trades in a range bound market. So rather than swing trade or doing a buy and hope strategy, you need to be going for smaller scalps. JB will show you how.

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Tips for Pet Photography

Everyone wants to shoot wonderful pictures for the lovely pet, but it seems not easy to take good photos with the small animals. Reference the following few tips may help you improve the shooting skills of pet photography. Just save an unforgettable moment for your pet!

1. Get down, and don't be afraid of dirty

If you still follow the usual habits of viewing angle, and shooting animals from up to down. Then you can try to get down, lying on the floor, and shooting in the horizontal line with the pet. Commanding angle cannot bring us a good pet photograph, it is often stereotyped, and numb. Instead, only if you can parallel to see your pet?s eyes, you can find the best shooting angle, and make the small animal in the photo shows its personality and temperament.

2. The correct light source

Open flash toward to the pet while shooting will make pet?s eyes turn to be strange color. Because the pupil of the animals is relatively large, when the light passes through the pupil landing on the retina, the retinal will reflected back to the light in place of the optical path at the same time, so that the eyes you shot may be green, yellow or red. Therefore, you can try to let the flash facing the ceiling and using the reflected light to light the pet and then shooting. Or you can take out the flash from the camera and take it in your hand to light in a side. What?s more, you can also choose to use a variety of indoor lighting or outdoor natural light instead of using flash as much as possible.

3. Fill the viewfinder

Photography is an art of choices. How to get rid of redundant elements in the viewfinder is the basic skill of picture composition. Using the telephoto lens or wide-angle lens are also good ways. The trick is very simple, is that come closer and closer. In short, you have to try to make pets fill the viewfinder so you can shoot a lifelike pet photograph.

4. Focus on pet?s eyes

Maybe you have already used a maximum aperture when in a dark light shooting, which means a very shallow depth of field. Even so, the focus must fall on the pet's eyes. This is the changeless rule. Taking a clear shot for the "window to the soul," and do not miss the moment the small pets talking to you with its eyes.

5. Take care of your pet when shooting

Adjust your camera in automatic or aperture priority status, then hand on your camera on one hand and take care of your pet by another hand. You can tease it, or touch its fur to make it comfortable and relax. Small animals unlike the model can easy to pose, so you should have to master the timing of pressing the shutter.

Then do you want to share more of your pet?s beautiful pictures with more people? Here is a method you could try. You can easily take your photographs into a video for protection and sharing online with a short movie, it is a way you can also add many funny elements such as music, subtitle and watermark into a video with your photos. You can go to visit http://www.league-soft.com/ to get a Video Editor to help you take your favorite pictures into a video. And you can also find many other video software on our site to convert video to video or edit videos. For example, mpeg to mov converter for Mac is a software supports to convert mpeg to mov format in clicks.

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I am a photography enthusiasts and Video researcher. I like to share some knowledges and skills which I studied. In my experience of Converting Videos, these are 2 conversions that I have tried before and found it is helpful. You can go to convert mkv to avi and convert flv toquicktime to get more info.

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