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Love is overrated! Whether admittedly or not we all subscribe to the cliched story of boy meets girl and they fall in love and live happily ever after. You know the story. Lucky for us, sooner or later the firm hand of realism slaps us in the face as we realize that ?love? is actually much more complicated than that.

I always wondered why friendships appear (in most cases at least) to be so much easier than relationships. Believe it or not, the best answer for me came from Kanye West, in his song with Jay Z ?No Church in the Wild? where he said ?love is cursed by monogamy?. However you feel about his brand of music, I think the man made a good point in that statement.

We can have multiple friends and the friends wouldn?t get jealous of each other (one should hope) but this rationale cannot be applied to relationships. The norm in relationships is to have one partner, and one partner only. Although the regular activities you perform with that partner are typically the same as those you perform with your friends apart from sex (in most cases anyway).

In addition to this I believe people jump into relationships too quickly. A friendship must be established in order for any relationship to stand a chance. My mother once told me

?Now you may be surrounded by friends, but when you get married it will just be you and your husband. On a long drive home you will need to be able to talk to him? about anything. If you find yourself scraping for a conversation or having to think twice about what you do or say, then why are you together? He must be your FRIEND?.

I?ve got to thank my mother for possibly the realest relationship advice I?ve gotten to date! According to research carried out by the Guardian, in 2010 34% of marriages were doomed to failure by the time they reached their 20th anniversary. Perhaps its because most couples don?t approach relationship as friends first?

Another very British dating trend is occurring ? couples have gradually decided not to get married all together. In 2012 5.9 million people were cohabiting in the UK, double the figure of cohabitation in 1996. Are people less into making commitments? Is marriage becoming less relevant? Are couples cohabiting rather than get married for economic reasons?

The real reason for this trend is a whole different topic for discussion in itself. Whats for sure is that social and economic pressures definitely influence our outlook on relationships, marriage, and commitment. However, the more appealing idea is that of Mr. Right and happily ever after.

So why jump at the idea of finding your superman without first figuring out whether or not you can fly (Katt Williams on Barack Obama). I say jog on to the nearest store and buy yourself a cape! You cannot help who you like but I believe falling in love is a choice. So the sooner we stop day dreaming and start looking at ?love? more realistically, the sooner we may actually have that 1950?s ?white picket fence? happiness.

This article was written by Kissy Bang Bang, a company that promotes sexual health in a unique way.

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Disable Java? Here's how, after US agency warns of software 'vulnerability.'

To prevent cyber crime, the Department of Homeland Security advises Americans to temporarily disable Java 7 software, commonly used in Web-browser programs.?

By Mark Trumbull,?Staff writer / January 12, 2013

The Java logo at Sun Microsystems' offices in Menlo Park, Calif. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is advising people to temporarily disable the Java software on their computers to avoid potential hacking attacks.

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With an eye on the security of millions of Internet users, the US Department of Homeland Security is advising Americans to temporarily disable Java, a software commonly used in Web-browser programs.

It?s not that Java itself contains a malicious computer virus. The problem is what the agency calls a software ?vulnerability,? a kind of open door for hackers to infiltrate a computer. That can result in identity theft or other bad things happening on your computer.

?We are currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem,? said a notice released this week by CERT, a group sponsored by the Homeland Security Department?s cybersecurity division. The group is based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.?

The recommendation highlights the rising threat level in the realm of cybersecurity, and the growing efforts to make devices and networks more secure. The vulnerability in Java is just one piece of that puzzle, but it?s significant because the software is so widely used in Web browsing.

If you want to follow CERT?s advice and disable Java, how do you do that?

First, if you use a Mac computer from Apple, the answer appears to be simple. According to reports by technology websites including MacRumors.com, Apple has already moved to force a disabling of Java on Macs with the OS X operating system.

For other computer users, a first step may be to check what version of Java you're running. The CERT announcements focus on Java 7. Computer-security blogger Brian Krebs notes some uncertainty about whether other versions going back to Java 4 are affected. But he points to evidence suggesting the problem is limited to version 7.

Oracle, the owner of Java, said on Twitter that the problem is limited to "JDK7," or version 7, and that it hopes to have a fix available "shortly." (JDK stands for Java Development Kit.)

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Lol: NBA's Steve Novak Of NY Knicks Rips Nate "Little Nathan" Robinson For Using The Championship Belt Celebration!

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This Is How Hiroshima Looked From the Ground

This picture, found in a Japanese Elementary School, depicts the mushroom cloud which formed when the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. More »

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You should use a WordPress for Realtors website for the Gen Y ...

You think the earth?s plates have enormous tectonic?shifts when earthquakes occur?

Wait until you get hit with the demographic shifts that are about to take place in your real estate market.

We talked before about the ?silver tsunami? of baby boomers who are retiring, an estimated 77 million of them leaving the workforce at a rate of 10,000 per day.

Well, guess who is going to replace them at the office? A huge bubble of Gen Yers, people born between the years 1979 and 1997.

In less than eight years from now, the workplace will flip from 50% baby boomers and 25% Gen Y workers to 50% Generation Y workers.

That means there will be a bubble of these people now making serious money in this country.

Are you prepared to market to them?

For example, some real estate agents and brokers might still scoff at the use of social media and posting on Facebook and Twitter. They are probably not seeing huge returns on the investment of their time.

That all changes with Gen Yers. These people were RAISED on Facebook and Twitter ? it?s in their DNA.

Going to the park to walk the dog? Let your friends know on Facebook. Ate a tasty sandwich. Tweet it.

In fact, they have already moved on to the next big things with Pinterest, LinkedIn, and a preference for messages via videos on You Tube.

Computers, that?s old school. It?s ALL mobile with them.

Ever sat down to dinner with a Gen Yer? During the meal, the conversation is between you, them and whoever they are texting.

These people are technologists. There were practically born with computerized circuitry in their veins.

They are going to start making serious money. They are going to start buying houses.

What are you doing to appeal to them?

The first thing you had better do is make sure your web site is wired for 2013, not 2003. That means a site that you can change quickly, optimize for search engines easily AND feed posts to all those outlets out via RSS, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

The best way to do that today is with a WordPress real estate site created specifically for brokers and agents.

Why WordPress?

How?s this for validation? In the NAR 2011 Realtor Technology Survey Report, they asked what were the most valuable technology tools Realtors started using in the past 12 months. WordPress was one of them.

Real estate agents are learning that WordPress sites are the website of choice when it comes to owning a site that is able to service the rapid pace of change in today?s marketplace.

You can?t wait a week for your webmaster to make changes on your site. You can?t wait until whenever when you need to update listings on your site.

GenYers operate at one speed ? NOW.

Now is the time to start preparing for this generation. Gen Xers (born between 1965 and 1978) are also still out there and will be coming into higher incomes as well. And, they too are wired big time.

It?s seems pretty darn evident ? get your website up to speed. The techno-saavy, high-speed generations are about to take over.

To read on CNN how Gen Yers will change the workplace, click here.

To learn more about how you can easily convert to a WordPress platform for your real estate website, click here.

Source: http://blog.spatialmatch.net/2013/01/why-you-should-be-thinking-about-gen-y/

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Geonaute's 360 degree sports camera catches all the action, even our hands on

Sport and action cameras are big business, and even though there are a couple of main players, it doesn't stop other's trying to get a bite of the apple. Geonaute, however, have come at the situation from a different angle. Heck, they're coming at it from every angle, with its 360-degree offering. Equipped with three 8-megapixel wide-angle lenses the camera captures an almost spherical field of view. This might initially sound like a strange idea... after all, who wants all of that in one video, won't it all be warped beyond recognition? The short answer is no, in fact it's much better than you would ever have thought, and we'll explain why shortly. Going back to the camera itself, it looks a little like the innards of those security cameras you find in government buildings etc that peer at you ominously. However, in this case, the three lenses have color detail around them which makes them look anything but sinister, and the circular base section might look a little large, but in fact it's light in the hand -- and actually helps it sit quite comfortably atop a helmet.

In 360 video mode the advertised resolution is up to 2,048 x 1,024. In photo mode you'll get single shot, burst and time-lapse modes with a top resolution of 4,096 x 2,048. The actual FOV is 360 degrees on the horizontal, and 150 degrees vertically, but the end result is a fairly complete viewing sphere. The 3,000 mAh battery should be good for two hours of footage, and the microSD card slot will take cards of up to 32GB. While there is a waterproof housing, the camera itself will take the elements on pretty well thanks to its IPX7 rating. Read on after the break for more impressions.

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Ringgold middle-schoolers begin new year with new wing after tornado damaged school in 2011

Ringgold middle-schoolers begin new year with new wing after tornado damaged school in 2011

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Students march into their completed new school at Ringgold Middle on the first day of school in 2013. (Catoosa News photo/Dennis Norwood)

slideshow At exactly 8 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 7, the announcement came over the school intercom, ?We're looking forward to a great day at Ringgold Middle School.?

And with that, for the first time since the April 2011 tornado that ripped through the city, the middle school was whole again. This was the day the eighth-graders were welcomed back as their new wing was complete. As Catoosa County superintendent of schools Denia Reese said, ?This is last piece of major disaster recovery construction to be rebuilt after the tornado.?

The 42,000-square-foot wing completes the middle school and contains 14 new classrooms and three science labs. It is not just for the eighth-graders, who had only begun their middle school careers at the time of the disaster, but all of the school's 750 students will get use out of the rooms for band, art and computer classes, according to Reese.

Doug Suits, the school system?s director of facilities, said the building is extremely energy-efficient, easy to heat and cool.

?The middle school (students) especially like the mall atmosphere the new wing conveys.?

The hallways are wide and open, with high ceilings. The chorus room is especially nice, with a wall of windows facing the outside.

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