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Exaggeration, exaggeration, exaggeration: parties over-egg claims on education
Both major political parties have overstated their claims and counter-claims on education, according to an independent review of Labour's record in office.
The report, led by Professor Anthony Heath from The University of Manchester, says governments mostly fail to introduce policies which can be rigorously evaluated.
The report, published this month in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, praises Labour 's policy on further education and Education Maintenance Allowance.
The Blair and Brown administrations he says, also presided over narrowing inequalities of educational achievement for secondary school students.
And it accepts that New Labour acted on its promises to prioritize education: education spending as a percentage of GDP, grew from 4.5% in 1996/7 to 6.2 per cent in 2010/11.
However, the report draws no firm conclusion on the key areas of educational standards and university tuition fees.
And it is also unclear, it adds, if the narrowing inequalities were down to autonomous developments in society, the continuation of previous education policies not reversed by Labour, or new initiatives.
Only a 2008 evaluation of the 'literacy hour' and a 2004 evaluation of EMAs, which convincingly show positive results, were robust, it says.
The reports co-authors include Dr Alice Sullivan from Institute of Education, University of London, Dr Vikki Boliver, Durham University and Dr Anna Zimdars, King's College London.
Professor Heath, Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Social Change in the School of Social Sciences, received a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list this month.
He said: "New Labour has claimed that its 13 years in power have boosted standards, which is hotly challenged by the Conservatives.
"But the biggest story is how both sides over-claim about their respective successes and failures and the poor quality and lack of decent statistical data.
"But it does seem that on balance, there was little change over time in British levels of educational attainment relative to those in other countries
"We would not rule out, however, the possibility that absolute standards did rise modestly."
He added: "Despite the resources devoted to policy evaluations by the New Labour government, which declared a belief in 'evidence-driven policy', much of evidence is disappointingly uninformative
"The problem with official evaluations is that they range from researchers drawing appropriately tentative conclusions in the face of difficult methodological issues, to essentially puff-pieces for government policies.
"The changes in the definitions, and the incentives for schools to play the system, mean that little confidence can be placed on official pronouncements about the magnitude of any increase in standards.
"We are also inclined to be skeptical about the effectiveness of measures continued from previous Conservative governments such as testing, league tables, and parental choice.
"There is no independent evidence that these have done anything to drive up standards."
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NOTES FOR EDITORS
'Education under New Labour, 19972010', published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, is available on request.
Professor Anthony Heath is available for comment
Authors were:
Professor Anthony Heath, University of Manchester (Principle, Investigator)
Dr Alice Sullivan, Institute of Education, University of London
Dr Vikki Boliver, Durham University
Dr Anna Zimdars, King's College London
For media enquiries contact:
Mike Addelman
Press Officer
Faculty of Humanities
The University of Manchester
0161 275 0790
07717 881567
Michael.addelman@manchester.ac.uk
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Public release date: 26-Jun-2013 Share ] Contact: Mike Addelman
michael.addelman@manchester.ac.uk
44-016-127-50790
University of Manchester
Exaggeration, exaggeration, exaggeration: parties over-egg claims on education
Both major political parties have overstated their claims and counter-claims on education, according to an independent review of Labour's record in office.
The report, led by Professor Anthony Heath from The University of Manchester, says governments mostly fail to introduce policies which can be rigorously evaluated.
The report, published this month in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, praises Labour 's policy on further education and Education Maintenance Allowance.
The Blair and Brown administrations he says, also presided over narrowing inequalities of educational achievement for secondary school students.
And it accepts that New Labour acted on its promises to prioritize education: education spending as a percentage of GDP, grew from 4.5% in 1996/7 to 6.2 per cent in 2010/11.
However, the report draws no firm conclusion on the key areas of educational standards and university tuition fees.
And it is also unclear, it adds, if the narrowing inequalities were down to autonomous developments in society, the continuation of previous education policies not reversed by Labour, or new initiatives.
Only a 2008 evaluation of the 'literacy hour' and a 2004 evaluation of EMAs, which convincingly show positive results, were robust, it says.
The reports co-authors include Dr Alice Sullivan from Institute of Education, University of London, Dr Vikki Boliver, Durham University and Dr Anna Zimdars, King's College London.
Professor Heath, Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Social Change in the School of Social Sciences, received a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list this month.
He said: "New Labour has claimed that its 13 years in power have boosted standards, which is hotly challenged by the Conservatives.
"But the biggest story is how both sides over-claim about their respective successes and failures and the poor quality and lack of decent statistical data.
"But it does seem that on balance, there was little change over time in British levels of educational attainment relative to those in other countries
"We would not rule out, however, the possibility that absolute standards did rise modestly."
He added: "Despite the resources devoted to policy evaluations by the New Labour government, which declared a belief in 'evidence-driven policy', much of evidence is disappointingly uninformative
"The problem with official evaluations is that they range from researchers drawing appropriately tentative conclusions in the face of difficult methodological issues, to essentially puff-pieces for government policies.
"The changes in the definitions, and the incentives for schools to play the system, mean that little confidence can be placed on official pronouncements about the magnitude of any increase in standards.
"We are also inclined to be skeptical about the effectiveness of measures continued from previous Conservative governments such as testing, league tables, and parental choice.
"There is no independent evidence that these have done anything to drive up standards."
###
NOTES FOR EDITORS
'Education under New Labour, 19972010', published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, is available on request.
Professor Anthony Heath is available for comment
Authors were:
Professor Anthony Heath, University of Manchester (Principle, Investigator)
Dr Alice Sullivan, Institute of Education, University of London
Dr Vikki Boliver, Durham University
Dr Anna Zimdars, King's College London
For media enquiries contact:
Mike Addelman
Press Officer
Faculty of Humanities
The University of Manchester
0161 275 0790
07717 881567
Michael.addelman@manchester.ac.uk
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ? When UCLA's baseball players went to the weight room for workouts, there were reminders all around about what their program lacked.
Every other sport at the famed school had at least one national championship recognized on the wall.
"We've got to get our name on that board," Nick Vander Tuig remembers coach John Savage telling his players last fall.
Finally, baseball is represented among the NCAA-record 109 team national championships in Westwood.
The Bruins secured their first title Tuesday night with an 8-0 victory over Mississippi State that completed a two-game sweep in the College World Series finals.
"We believed we were the best team in the country from the get-go," second baseman Cody Regis said. "We had that mindset that we weren't going to stop until July 1. That's what Coach always said: 'Season ends July 1 when the tournament is over. And I think we are here because we believed throughout in the process."
That process focused squarely on pitching and defense. The Bruins were among the best in the nation in both. The offense produced just enough. On Tuesday, though, the offense stole the show.
Eric Filia drove in a career-high five runs for the Bruins, who collected 12 hits and scored their most runs in 18 games, and Vander Tuig limited Mississippi State to five hits in eight innings.
"They had a great year," Savage said of his players, "and it was one of those situations where it was our time."
Adam Plutko, the Bruins' No. 1 starter, was chosen the CWS Most Outstanding Player. He beat LSU in the Bruins' first game and was the winner in Game 1 of the finals. He allowed two runs in 13 innings.
Vander Tuig held off the Bulldogs (51-20) when they threatened in the fourth, fifth and eighth innings to record his fourth win in the NCAA tournament. Vander Tuig (14-4) struck out six and walked one. David Berg pitched the ninth.
Filia produced runs with a sacrifice fly, squeeze bunt and two base hits.
"To beat us like they did today, and to do what they did to our pitching staff, which I think is one of the best in the nation," Bulldogs right fielder Hunter Renfroe said, "we didn't do what we were supposed to do. We didn't put up run support like we should have."
Bulldogs starter Luis Pollorena (6-4) lasted one inning. Jonathan Holder, the closer, came on with one out in the fourth inning and went the rest of the way.
UCLA allowed four runs in five games to set a CWS record for fewest in the metal-bat era that started in 1974.
The Bruins' .227 batting average in the CWS also was the lowest since teams went away from wooden bats. Their 19 runs in five games were the fewest by a champion since the CWS went to eight teams in 1950.
After Arizona's title last year, the Pac-12 has now won two straight and 17 titles overall in baseball ? the most of any conference.
Mississippi State was playing for its first national title in a team sport and was the sixth straight Southeastern Conference team to make it to the finals.
"What we did was knock on the door, and UCLA has knocked on the door before and they knocked down the door, and we didn't do that," Bulldogs coach John Cohen said. "It bothered me we didn't play well the last two days. We played 15 postseason games and didn't play well in two of them."
Vander Tuig, who won his fourth straight postseason start, gave up just one earned run in 21 1-3 innings over his last three outings.
"I think back on all the experience I've had in three years and how it really helped me," Vander Tuig said. "I also think of just how many wins this team has had and the opportunities we've had. It's what has gotten me to where I am, trying to keep things simple, making pitches and letting my defense work."
The Bruins won their first title in their third CWS appearance in four years and fifth all-time. They had made it to the finals in 2010 and were swept by South Carolina. Last year they went 1-2 in Omaha.
This season they finished third in the Pac-12, behind Oregon State and Oregon, and then got hot in the postseason.
They made magic with an offense that started Tuesday 264th out of 296 teams in batting (.247) and 215th in scoring (4.7 runs per game), but was among the national leaders in sacrifices, walks and hit batsmen.
UCLA won three straight at home in the regionals and went on the road to upset No. 5 national seed Cal State Fullerton in a two-game super regional.
Once the Bruins got to Omaha, they made themselves at home in spacious TD Ameritrade Park. UCLA produced just enough offense to support its superb pitching and defense in bracket play, and again in Game 1 of the finals.
The pitching and defense showed up again in Game 2, and this time so did the offense.
"We've been capable all season long," Savage said. "We have good players. I said that all along. They started to believe, and they used the whole field. Fortunately, we had some hits tonight."
UCLA was up three runs early ? a lead that has been insurmountable for every team in this year's CWS.
The Bruins used a hit batsman, a bunt that produced two Mississippi State errors, and Filia's sacrifice fly to lead 1-0 in the first. It was 3-0 in the third after Brian Carroll scored on a safety squeeze bunt by Filia and Pat Valaika's RBI single.
By the time the Bulldogs were forced to call on Holder, it was pretty much game over.
"As far as Mississippi State goes, they'll be back," Bulldogs shortstop Adam Frazier said. "Coach Cohen is doing the right things, the coaching staff has it going in the right direction. I trust coach Cohen will get it to what it is supposed to be, and I've got a feeling this team will be back in the future."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ucla-finally-adds-baseball-record-title-haul-074540548.html
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 file photo made with a multiple exposure, Boston Red Sox's Jon Lester pitches in the third inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers in Boston. A new study suggests the ability to throw hard and accurately first appeared in a human ancestor 2 million years ago. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 file photo made with a multiple exposure, Boston Red Sox's Jon Lester pitches in the third inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers in Boston. A new study suggests the ability to throw hard and accurately first appeared in a human ancestor 2 million years ago. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? It's a big year for throwing. The greatest closer in baseball history, Mariano Rivera of the Yankees, is retiring. Aroldis Chapman, the overpowering Cincinnati Reds reliever, continues to fire fastballs beyond 100 mph.
And now some scientists say they've figured out when our human ancestors first started throwing with accuracy and fire power, as only people can: Nearly 2 million years ago.
That's what researchers conclude in a study released Wednesday by the journal Nature. There's plenty of skepticism about their conclusion. But the new paper contends that this throwing ability probably helped our ancient ancestor Homo erectus hunt, allowing him to toss weapons ? probably rocks and sharpened wooden spears.
The human throwing ability is unique. Not even a chimp, our closest living relative and a creature noted for strength, can throw nearly as fast as a 12-year-old Little Leaguer, says lead study author Neil Roach of George Washington University.
To find out how humans developed this ability, Roach and co-authors analyzed the throwing motions of 20 collegiate baseball players. Sometimes the players wore braces to mimic the anatomy of human ancestors, to see how anatomical changes affected throwing ability.
The human secret to throwing, the researchers propose, is that when the arm is cocked, it stores energy by stretching tendons, ligaments and muscles crossing the shoulder. It's like pulling back on a slingshot. Releasing that "elastic energy" makes the arm whip forward to make the throw.
That trick, in turn, was made possible by three anatomical changes in human evolution that affected the waist, shoulders and arms, the researchers concluded. And Homo erectus, which appeared about 2 million years ago, is the first ancient relative to combine those three changes, they said.
But others think the throwing ability must have appeared sometime later in human evolution.
Susan Larson, an anatomist at Stony Brook University in New York who didn't participate in the study, said the paper is the first to claim that elastic energy storage occurs in arms, rather than just in legs. The bouncing gait of a kangaroo is due to that phenomenon, she said, and the human Achilles tendon stores energy to help people walk.
The new analysis offers good evidence that the shoulder is storing elastic energy, even though the shoulder doesn't have the long tendons that do that job in legs, she said. So maybe other tissues can do it too, she said.
But Larson, an expert on evolution of the human shoulder, said she does not think Homo erectus could throw like a modern human. She said she believes its shoulders were too narrow and that the orientation of the shoulder joint on the body would make overhand throwing "more or less impossible."
Rick Potts, director of the human origins program at the Smithsonian Institution, said he is "not at all convinced" by the paper's argument about when and why throwing appeared.
The authors did not present any data to counter Larson's published work that indicates the erectus shoulder was ill-suited for throwing, he said.
And it is "a stretch" to say that throwing would give erectus an advantage in hunting, Potts said. Large animals have to be pierced in specific spots for a kill, which would seem to require more accuracy than one could expect erectus to achieve from a distance, he said.
Potts noted that the earliest known spears, which date from about 400,000 years ago, were used for thrusting rather than throwing.
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Can thinking about what?s important to you improve your problem-solving powers?
Have a look at the following list of values and personal characteristics. If you had to pick just one, which most defines who you are and what matters to you?
Perhaps what matters most to you isn?t there (this isn?t a comprehensive list!), in that case think about what does matter to you most.
In the burgeoning series of experiments which use this type of self-affirmation exercise, participants are then asked to write a paragraph or two on why this characteristic or value is so important to them. Sometimes they also think about a specific time or story that is illustrative.
The effects can be quite useful across a surprisingly large number of domains. It can help boost self-control in the moment and even increase social confidence for two or more months after it?s carried out.
Problem-solving
In a new study, Cresswell et al. (2013) tested whether a simple self-affirmation exercise would have a beneficial effect on problem-solving under stress, particularly for individuals who have been stressed recently.
In their experiment, half the participants did the self-affirmation exercise while the rest performed a similar, but ineffectual exercise.
The results showed that those who had been stressed recently and were self-affirmed before they began the exercise performed better at the problem-solving task. This suggests the self-affirmation exercise could be useful for people under stress who are, for example, taking exams, going to job interviews or under pressure at work.
What?s fascinating about the self-affirmation task is that it doesn?t have to be related to the area in which you?re looking to improve. So thinking about the importance of your family can increase your problem-solving performance, even though the two have little in common.
We don?t know exactly why the self-affirmation exercise works; indeed the researchers tested a couple of options in their study?that perhaps it improves people?s mood or that they engaged more with the task?but they don?t find evidence for either.
Instead they think it more likely that the self-affirmation exercise helps you move your attention more flexibly, which improves memory function.
Whatever the mechanism, this growing body of evidence on the benefits of self-affirmation is encouraging.
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Source: http://ourbetterhealth.org/2013/05/13/perform-better-under-stress-using-self-affirmation/
The sun, it seems, is in overdrive. Late Monday night, the sun unleashed its third major solar flare in 24 hours ? the biggest and most powerful solar storm of the year, so far.
This latest sun storm erupted Monday (May 13) at 9:11 p.m. EDT (0111 GMT) and registered as an X3.2 solar flare, one of the strongest types of flares the sun can release, space weather officials said. It came on the heels of two other recent X-class solar flares on Sunday night and Monday, all of which were sparked by a highly active sunspot on the sun's far left side.
Officials at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colo., appeared amazed at the intense activity from the crackling sunspot. [Sun Unleashes Biggest Flares of 2013 (Photos)]
"Clearly an extraordinary active region is making its way fully onto the visible disk," SWPC officials wrote in a morning update today (May 14). "Can it keep up this hectic pace?"
Two of the three recent solar flares have been associated with massive explosions, called coronal mass ejections, which flung super-hot solar material into space at millions of miles per hour. Because the sunspot firing off the flares is not yet facing Earth, the solar eruptions pose no threat to satellites and astronauts in orbit, NASA has said.
"This marks the 3rd X-class flare in 24 hours," officials with NASA's sun-watching Solar Dynamics Observatory wrote in a statement. "Just like the two before this one also happened over the eastern limb of the sun and is not Earth-directed."
The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured amazing videos of the major solar flares and eruptions.
According to astronomer Tony Phillips of Spaceweather.com, scientists have just given the active sunspot a name: AR1748. It is one of nine active numbered sunspots currently visible on the surface of the sun.
While AR1784 has been spouting off many solar flares in recent days, most of them more moderate, M-class solar flares, the events on Sunday and Monday are taking solar activity to another level.
"These are the strongest flares of the year so far, and they signal a significant increase in solar activity," Phillips wrote in a Spaceweather.com update this morning.
Scientists use a tiered space weather scale to classify solar flare events, with each level representing a tenfold increase in power over the one before. At the bottom of the scale are A and B type solar flares, which have no effect on Earth. Next are C-class solar flares and the stronger, yet still medium-strength, M-class solar flares, which can supercharge Earth's auroras and cause radio blackouts when aimed at Earth.
X-class solar flares are the most powerful types of solar storms. When aimed directly at Earth, these major solar events can pose a danger to astronauts and satellites in space, as well as interfere with radio and GPS navigation signals.
The X3.2 solar flare is the most powerful yet seen this year and the third-strongest sun storm of the current 11-year solar cycle, called Solar Cycle 24. The second strongest was an X5.4 solar flare in 2012, while the largest event was an X6.9 flare in 2011. So far, there have been 18 X-class solar flares in Solar Cycle 24.
The first X-class solar flare of 2013 (the Sunday event) registered as an X1.7 on the flare scale, with the mid-day Monday flare rating as an X2.8, NASA officials said.
Solar activity on the sun rises and falls over the course of its 11-year cycle. The sun is active phase of Solar Cycle 24 as it approaches its peak activity period, called solar maximum, which is expected to occur later this year.
Scientists have been monitoring solar flares and other space weather events since their discovery in 1843. Today, NASA and other space agencies continuously monitor the sun with spacecraft like the Solar Dynamics Observatory to track potentially dangerous space weather events.
Email Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com or follow him @tariqjmalikand Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebookand Google+. Original article on SPACE.com.
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Aereo has announced that its streaming TV service will land in Atlanta on June 17th?and it still hopes to be in 22 new cities by the end of the year, too.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Last year, the inaugural Digital NewFronts didn't skimp on the hype.
Google, Hulu, Yahoo and others made brash, glitzy presentations to advertisers trumpeting their ascendancy in a rapidly changing media landscape. Even Jay-Z dropped by.
There will be plenty of the same this week in New York at the second Digital NewFronts, the digital world's take on the annual TV "upfront" tradition. But ahead of this year's five-day-long overture to Madison Avenue, the talk is of both the great progress of digital entertainment and unrealized promises.
"It was absolutely a learning experience," Doug McVehil, senior vice president of content and programming for the music video destination Vevo, says about last year's NewFronts."I know there's some things we can do better this year both at the presentation itself and in terms of follow-up. But we're all fairly new at this. This is a young thing for the digital media industry."
In 12 months' time, the industry has come a long way. Netflix's first major original series, "House of Cards," proved that streaming video can compete with the most prestigious cable programs. Google's YouTube rolled out its 100-plus funded channels in a bid to bring higher quality videos (and thus advertisers) to its platform. One of the biggest TV stars, Jerry Seinfeld, launched a handsome Web series, "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee."
But some of the digital series touted last year have disappointed. Although Yahoo's "Bachelor"-spoof "Burning Love" has proved a modest hit, its Tom Hanks animated sci-fi series, "Electric City," didn't live up to its creator's reputation. While the top YouTube channels have grown considerably, several of its star-driven efforts have fizzled.
"Last year, there were some big promises about not only the quality but the volume of shows that people are going to make," says Eric Berger, executive vice president of digital networks for Sony Pictures TV, which owns the video site Crackle. "If you look back over the course of the year, as we talked to brands and agencies, there're some questions about quality and about the volume of things that were actually produced."
Crackle didn't participate in the NewFronts last year but will this year. It will be promoting, among other shows, an upcoming second season of Seinfeld's series.
Naturally, growing pains are inevitable, especially when so much is changing so fast. The wide array of NewFront presenters this year exhibits the evolving nature of media companies.
New presenters include The Wall Street Journal and Conde Nast, both venerable publishers known for their print products. But Conde Nast earlier this year launched online series slates for two of its magazines (GQ and Glamour), with plans to do the same for its other properties, including Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. The Journal, more than any other newspaper, has developed live video programing with its "WSJ Live" app.
"The Journal has really transformed itself since News Corp.'s acquisition into a complete content provider and not just business, finance and economics," says Michael Rooney, chief revenue officer for The Journal, explaining its entry to the NewFronts. "The world still needs to learn and understand about that and what we have to offer."
Yahoo will come into its presentation on the heels of acquiring the rights to archival clips to all 38 years of "Saturday Night Live." YouTube recently announced that in May it will begin a series of theme weeks to highlight its premium channels, starting with comedy. On Sunday night, Vevo will kick off the fourth year of its flagship program "Unstaged," a concert live stream. (Vampire Weekend will perform with Steve Buscemi directing the webcast.)
Performances will play a big part of Vevo's presentation, with appearances by Carly Rae Jepsen, Kendrick Lamar and Jessie Ware. But McVehil says at this year's NewFronts, brands want more than a good show.
"As we mature, I think it's going to be about people looking hard at real numbers and performance and judging companies based on that more than how sexy their presentation was," McVehil says.
Some companies are going it alone. NBCUniversal's digital division, having been a part of the NewFronts last year, held a separate event in New York last week, as did the gaming network Machinima. The talent agency CAA will preview its clients' digital projects this week, but not in an official NewFront.
Still, there are close connections for several of the 18 media companies in the NewFronts. Disney Interactive has several YouTube channels and in February partnered with Vevo to produce family friendly music content.
Ad agency Universal McCann predicted deals at the NewFronts could reach $1 billion. That's still a fraction of what broadcast upfront presentations pull in, but few don't expect digital media to continue to increase their share of the advertising pie.
"We're bigger this year, both in terms of the scope of the event and the amount of content," says Mark Walker, senior vice president of Disney Interactive Entertainment. "We had a few programs before and some speculation. Now, we have conclusively demonstrated that there's a robust audience demand for the kind of high quality video content that we're producing."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/higher-expectations-digital-media-newfronts-131732617.html
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Authorities now say a 5-foot part that's believed to be from a hijacked 9/11 World Trade Center jetliner came from a wing.
Police said Monday the rusted metal part from a Boeing 767 is a trailing edge flap support structure. It helps secure wing flaps that aid in regulating plane speed.
Investigators initially thought it was part of the landing gear, because both pieces have similar hydraulics.
Authorities believe the aircraft part is from one of the two hijacked planes that brought down the trade center and killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001. But Boeing officials can't determine which flight.
The chief medical examiner's office says its workers will sift soil at the site for human remains starting Tuesday.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jet-part-found-last-week-nyc-wing-163129144.html
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LONDON, April 27 (Reuters) - Manchester United will be backed by their owners to "kick on" after securing their 20th league title, manager Alex Ferguson said. United clinched the Premier League crown with a 3-0 win over Aston Villa on Monday and Ferguson is already making plans to defend it next year with the support of the club's American owners. "Having spoken with the Glazer family, there is every intention to kick on," Ferguson told reporters. "We possibly need two players. It depends. ...
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Following a soft launch in its native Netherlands back in October, Planspot -- described as an all-in-one event marketing tool -- is seeing its official International push today, including the U.S., now that it has the needed media partnerships in place. Competing with the likes of London-based Evently, and indirectly, HootSuite, Sproutsocial and Mailchimp, the web app's dashboard hooks into social media, Press Release distribution, mailing list management, and partner publisher and event-listing websites to take the pain out of event marketing and promotion online.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/u1YtP1ojbcU/
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It was just a month ago that North Korea started allowing mobile internet access to visitors (while still restricting it from citizens), but now a tour group says that program has ended. First reported by North Korea Tech, a post on the Koryo Group site indicates that tourists can still purchase SIM cards for international calling, but internet access is not available, a return to its policy from January. A recent blog post from the 22nd goes into more detail, explaining that 3G Koryolink access for foreigners "has been restricted to long term visitors/residents of Pyongyang only." With no word from the government on the policy change you'll have to insert your own reasoning, although we'll imagine Eric Schmidt is not pleased.
[Image credit: Jean Lee, Instagram]
Via: TechCrunch, North Korea Tech, Tech in Asia
Source: Koryo Group (1), (2)
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From a timing perspective, it became much more attractive for Hotels to feel like they could get away with these fees when the arilines started in earnest with the ala carte fees for bags, choosing seats, etc. on top of the rates.
Personally as a consumer, I would prefer these businesses just give me one figure, with all taxes, "Resort Fees", "Energy Fees", etc. when I make a reservation. Who do they think they're fooling? Is the general public that stupid???
Source: http://www.vimovingcenter.com/talk/read.php?4,200448,200448
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Well, well, it looks as if Comcast has planned something relatively major for Xfinity TV subscribers. The company just announced that from March 25th through March 31st, it's set to give customers an all-access viewing ticket to a plethora of TV series from various networks, which will also include on-demand content for those with the proper All Video On Demand credentials. Thanks to the Xfinity Watchathon Week, as it's formally known, folks with an Xfinity TV account can have the chance to check out shows from networks they may not be subscribed to, including ones such as HBO, Showtime and Stars, as well as others like A&E, AMC and BBC America -- so yes, you can catch up on (or watch for the first time) Mad Men, The Walking Dead, Downton Abbey, The Sopranos and, of course, Girls (!). There are still quite a few days to go until Comcast's Watchathon kicks off, so, perhaps, now might be the perfect time to set a cal reminder and start stacking up on some popcorn.
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An armory employee shows off the AR-15. (WAND-TV)
A youth baseball league in Illinois is raffling off an AR-15 military-style assault weapon to raise money for its kids.
The Atwood-Hammond little league partnered with the local armory for the raffle, which launched on Tuesday. "It has been going gangbusters," Charidy Butcher, co-owner of the Atwood Armory, told RawStory.com. ?My phone has been ringing nonstop since 4:30 this morning. It?s just been crazy."
Butcher said she's received calls from people as far away as Washington state wanting to enter the June 29 drawing. A ticket costs $20.
"It?s for a good cause, for the kids, and we?re just trying to raise as much money as we can," she said. "Their fundraiser last year only raised $10.?
The winner of the rifle?a Rock River Arms AR-15?will have to go through a standard background check, Butcher added. The rifle is similar to the one used in the Dec. 14 shootings in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
According to Atwood-Hammond commissioner Steven McClain, the league is in desperate need of new equipment. "When you don't have enough stuff to even practice with, it's hard to run a team," McClain told WAND-TV.
It's not the first gun fundraiser for the Atwood Armory. Earlier this month, the shop raised more than $7,000 for a cancer charity with a similar raffle.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/little-league-gun-raffle-ar-15-133837381.html
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Have you ever been asked by a client, ?How much will a home improvement or remodeling project add to the value of my home??
Determining the return on such an investment can be challenging, given the many variables that go into its calculation. The cost of labor, expenses for materials, and depreciation over time are just a few of the factors that have to be considered.
Though this is a daunting task for the homeowner, MiRealSource members have access to a terrific, easy-to-use tool that allows you to answer that very question ? in just minutes!
Every MiRealSource member has access to RPR, a Web-based program developed by the National Association of REALTORS? that provides several tools for REALTORS? to use to help them accurately determine a home?s value. The Home Improvement Calculator is one of those tools.
Once you open any property in RPR, one of your options will be to open the ?Refined Value? tab.
The screen will refresh and you will see the ?Refined Value? page, which contains four different ways to pinpoint the most accurate price for a given property.
The tool we want you to focus on is the 2nd one on the page,
?Refine the Value Based on Any Home Improvements.?
When you click to open the ?Add a Home Improvement? menu, you have a choice of any of the pre-selected projects, or you have the option to add your own by selecting ?Other? at the bottom of the list. ?(See diagram on next page.)
Within seconds the tool will calculate the value change from the home improvements, which is then added to the estimated valuation of the property.
Source: http://www.mirealsource.com/determining-the-return-on-investment-for-home-improvements/
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How we think about problems depends in part of how we are taught to do so. And that education is seeped in our culture and language. Metaphors, mnemonics, analogies, riddles, word choice for explanations are tightly interwoven into our language. Just like it was probably impossible for Romans to invent calculus given their numeral system, it is difficult to think clearly about some problems in some languages. I?ve learned advanced physics and mathematics in English and find it very difficult to express thoughts in those domains in Russian (my native language). But when I first came to New York, I marveled at how poor my cohorts? geometry proofs were ? their presentations took a lot of space and too many steps to achieve what I was taught to do in minimal configuration. I was taught to jump and bound from concept to concept (in geometry), while the students in America were taught to crawl through ideas. I found that maddening! But it was a different math language, and as such it allowed for a different set of affordances?
It is difficult to easily show the differences in thought process that language makes in this short blog. But here?s a bit on difference in thoughts that culture and background knowledge makes ? these are analogies taken from high school students? writing. Notice the strong anchor of time and place. Enjoy!
PS: I?ve been collecting these types of analogies for years. Unfortunately, I no longer have the reference for the one above.
Source: http://www.interfaces.com/blog/2013/03/culture-education-language-and-thinking/
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FARMINGTON HILLS ? The number of home sales in southeast Michigan sagged in February ? due to far fewer foreclosure sales ? but home prices surged, according to figures released Monday by the Farmington Hills real estate research firm Realcomp II Ltd.
Total home and condominium sales in February in the 10-county region were 4,442, down 7.3 percent from 4,793 a year earlier. But the median sale price jumped 34.5 percnet to $80,000 from $59,500 a year earlier.
The price increases were led by Oakland County, up 47 percent, and Wayne County, up 40.6 percent.
The number of homes for sale in the region fell 23.4 percent to 20,421 homes, from 26,670 homes a year earlier. And the median amount of time a home was on the market before its sale continued to fall, from 91 days a year ago to 84 days now.
The number of foreclosure sales across the region tumbled 28.2 percent from 2,297 a year ago to 1,650 this year. The number of non-foreclosure sales rose 11.9 percent from 2,496 a year ago to 2,792 this year.
By county and city submarkets, sales results were as follows:
City of Detroit: 279 foreclosure sales, down 18.7 percent from 343 a year earlier. 122 non-foreclosure sales, up 24.5 percent from 98 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $9,000, up 13.2 percent from $7,951 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $15,000, up 23.3 percent from $12,175 a year earlier.
Dearborn/Dearborn Heights: 39 foreclosure sales, down 50.6 percent from 79 a year earlier. 122 non-foreclosure sales, up 24.5 percent from 98 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $45,833, up 27.7 percent from $35,900 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $62,750, up 8.2 percent from $58,000 a year earlier.
Genesee County: 162 foreclosure sales, 32.2 percnet from 239 a year earlier. 188 non-foreclosure sales, up 3.3 percent from 182 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $20,750, down 13.5 percnet from $24,001 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $74,750, up 6 percent from $70,500 a year earlier.
Grosse Pointes: 17 foreclosure sales, up 54.5 percent from 11 a year earlier. 27 non-foreclosure sales, down 3.6 percent from 28 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $103,050, up 20.5 percent from $85,500 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $214,000, up 10.9 percent from $193,000 a year earlier.
Huron County: No foreclosure sales, down 100 percent from one a year earlier. 10 non-foreclosure sales, up 42.9 percent from seven a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $86,500, up 16.6 percnet from $74,200 a year earlier.
Lapeer County: 28 foreclosure sales, down 28.2 percent from 39 a year earlier. 32 non-foreclosure sales, down 3 percent from 33 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $81,105, up 41.1 percent from $57,500 a year earlier. Median sales price on non-foreclosure sales, $110,000, down 15.5 percnet from $130,158 a year earlier.
Livingston County: 58 foreclosure sales, down 7.9 percent from 63 a year earlier. 127 non-foreclosure sales, up 27 percent from 100 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $130,100, up 50.4 percent from $86,500 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $174,900, up 4.3 percnet from $167,750 a year earlier.
Macomb County:?271 foreclosure sales, down 27.3 percent from 373 a year earlier. 515 non-foreclosure sales, up 14.4 percetn from 450 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $58,000, up 41.5 percent from $48,000 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $97,000, up 11.8 percent from $86,750 a year earlier.
Oakland County: 303 foreclosure sales, down 38.2 percent from 490 a year earlier. 807 non-foreclosure sales, up 12.6 percent from 717 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $75,500, up 21.8 percent from $62,000 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $165,000, up 35.2 percent from $122,000 a year earlier.
Sanilac County: Three foreclosure sales, down 76.9 percent from 13 a year earlier. Two non-foreclosure sales, down 66.7 percent from six a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $85,146, up 209.6 percent from $27,500 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $106,200, down 0.7 percent from $107,000 a year earlier.
St. Clair County: 44 foreclosure sales, down 18.5 percent from 54 a year earlier. 39 non-foreclosure sales, down 15.2 percent from 46 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $43,805, down 8.6 percent from $47,925 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $100,000, up 0.1 percent from $99,950 a year earlier.
Tuscola County: 10 foreclosure sales, up 400 percent from two a year earlier. 10 non-foreclosure sales, up 11.1 percent from nine a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $22,130, down 42.5 percent from $38,500 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $68,498, up 82.7 percnet from $37,500 a year earlier.
Wayne County, except Detroit: 383 foreclosure sales, down 32.3 percent from 566 a year earlier. 680 non-foreclosure sales, up 16 percent from 586 a year earlier. Median sale price on foreclosure sales, $24,000, up 14.3 percent from $21,000 a year earlier. Median sale price on non-foreclosure sales, $83,000, up 18.6 percent from $70,000 a year earlier.
Source: http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/03/11/home-sales-sag-as-foreclosures-fall-but-prices-jump/
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Popular vampire movie "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" was savaged at the Razzie Awards on Saturday, earning seven "wins" in the annual contest for the worst movies and performances of the year.
"Twilight" star Kristen Stewart, co-star Taylor Lautner and director Bill Condon were awarded Golden Raspberry statuettes for their parts in the final installment of the blockbuster film franchise. That film alone has taken an impressive $829 million at the global box office.
Robert Pattinson narrowly escaped a personal mauling, but the entire "Twilight Saga" cast earned a Razzie for "worst screen ensemble."
The Razzies, created in 1980 as an antidote to the backslapping of Hollywood's glitzy awards season, also singled out R&B star Rihanna for scorn.
The singer was deemed worst supporting actress for her debut movie role as a sailor in 2012 sci-fi action movie "Battleship."
American comic actor Adam Sandler, a frequent Razzie target, was awarded not-so-coveted golden raspberry statuettes for worst actor and worst screenplay for his comedy "That's My Boy" about a father reuniting with his long-abandoned son.
Last year, Sandler swept all 10 Razzie categories for his comedy "Jack and Jill," in which he played both the male and female leads.
The winners rarely turn up to the Razzie ceremony, which was held on Saturday night in a Hollywood hotel near the Dolby Theatre, where the 85th annual Academy Awards will be handed out on Sunday.
The nominees and winners of the Razzies were chosen by more than 650 members of the Golden Raspberry Foundations and 70,000 votes cast on movie review website Rotten Tomatoes.
(Reporting By Jill Serjeant; Editing by Eric Walsh)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/final-twilight-saga-movie-gets-mauling-razzies-030828385.html
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Samsung's really playing up its media chops here at Mobile World Congress. In addition to demoing the new HomeSync Android box, the Korean company is showing off its recently announced service for finding and watching TV content. The product was originally called TV Discovery, but just five days later it's resurfaced under the moniker Video Discovery. This new name is more accurate, as the service does deliver content recommendations for both live programming and movies and TV shows on demand.
We saw Video Discovery demoed with a Galaxy Note 8.0 and a Samsung Smart TV. You'll need a device with an IR blaster to adjust the TV channel or volume, with the app serving as a touchscreen remote. There are several modes for browsing content, including a timeline view that looks almost identical to the standard TV guide menu. You can also browse by genre or view current programming across all channels. When we skimmed through live TV listings, we simply had to tap the large "Watch Now" button next to a listing for the show to turn up on screen a few seconds later.
Perhaps the most useful feature, at least for those of you who know what you want: type in a search, and you'll see results from several content providers, including Blockbuster and Netflix (in the US) in addition to cable channels. Samsung reps said Discovery will also deliver personalized recommendations based on viewing preference and history, but the trade show employees on hand didn't seem entirely confident on some of the features, so we'll have to play with the service a bit more after it launches in April to confirm final functionality. But why not take a look for yourself now? Hit up the hands-on video after the break.
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