Don?t allow the cost of a fitness center membership or your the fear of a fitness center discourage you against getting into good shape. There are numerous ways to get easily fit into the convenience and comfort of your own property that are as effective as coming to the health and fitness center. Check out these tips on how to make physical fitness feasible, no matter where you choose to go!
In order to burn up that extra fat, you should work towards carrying out resistance training workout routines. Not simply will these exercise routines burn fat whilst you?re moving them, but they?ll build up muscle mass. The greater muscle tissue you may have, the greater number of energy you?ll burn in a resting amount. It?s why once you don?t ingest enough energy on a daily basis, your whole body starts to eliminate your muscles instead of the extra fat. If you?re ingesting less calories, your whole body tries to remove what it is making use of the most.
A personal coach might be an excellent expenditure for those committed to generally enhancing their fitness levels. Not only can a private fitness instructor possess a professional insight to talk about nevertheless they will give one the enthusiasm to stick with an exercise routine. While not for everybody your own trainer can make a big impact.
Manage your inhaling and exhaling! For exercise fanatics who definitely are concentrating on their stomach muscles, exhale as hard since you can ? at the very top placement ? when you find yourself carrying out stomach crunches or rest-ups. This forces your abs muscles to be effective even tougher, which should present you with better brings about not time!
You ought to avoid attempting to physical exercise when you are sick. If all of your signs are on top of the throat, you could possibly still exercising if you would like. When you are ill and working out, the body is going to be attempting to mend on its own. It will not be centered on muscle building and strength. If you are sick and tired, it is advisable to cease exercising before you are far better.
Increase your working form by running faster for shorter distance goes. This will train you how you can manage in suitable type and it will give you a wonderful lower leg workout also. By boosting your form, you can then avoid any kind of movements or jerking that may result in serious injuries.
Far more may not be much better. When you find yourself hitting the gym, particularly when weight lifting, maintain your exercises under one hour. Longer workouts may actually be harmful to muscle mass obtain. Right after an hour or so of your energy, your system commences making increased levels of cortisol, the anxiety hormonal agent, which could slow down androgenic hormone or testosterone, or even damage muscle tissue energy.
If you are looking on an bonus to help you get to adhere to via having a trainer, consider paying the fitness instructor ahead of time. If you are like most people, you will end up more prone to follow through as soon as the cash has been put in, in comparison to cash that is certainly continue to in your wallet.
As you have seen, there are several methods for getting match ? whether both at home and inside a health and fitness center. You can invest nothing or just as much as you want on equipment, but nevertheless, you could obtain an excellent work out. Integrate these tips in your exercise routine and like the perks of just ?rolling from bed? and having straight into your workout.
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Nokia India announced today at the Nokia Strategy Summit in Chennai that its Lumia 900 and Lumia 610 handsets will be coming to India sometime in Q3 of this year. The pair of Lumias will fulfill the desires of both those looking for a high-end powerhouse phone, in the Lumia 900, and those in the market for something more economical, the toned-down 610. Both phones run Windows Phone Refresh (aka Tango), but are much different in the hardware department. While the 4.3-inch Lumia 900 packs a 1.4 GHz processor, 512MB RAM, 8 mega-pixel and 16GB of storage, the 610 has a 3.7-inch LCD, 800MHz processor, 256MB RAM, 8GB of storage and a 5MP camera. Neither a concrete arrival date, nor pricing, were revealed for either device.
Another announcement that came out of today's Nokia Strategy Summit was the mid-June arrival of the 808 PureView, which was originally revealed back at MWC 2012. The 808, if you recall, is the Symbian-powered phone that is equipped with a 41-megapixel camera. It was originally expected to hit shelves in May, but was delayed for unknown reasons. Nokia has put up a website to pre-book the 808 PureView, but has not made any pricing known for that either. It's an odd move for a device that is so close to its release date. The 808 runs a 1.3GHz CPU, 512MB RAM and 16GB of storage, which can be expanded with a microSD card.
The next few months should be pretty exciting for those in India itching for a new Windows Phone device, or a phone with a monster camera hanging off the back of it. We will keep you posted if any further release dates or prices make their way out into the Ether.
Source: FoneArena (Link 2); Via:Mobigyaan (Link 2), Thanks,?ASM,?for the tip!
As for Web searches, police probably can?t require a company like Google to share its data with them without good reason, legal experts say. But unlike phone conversations, emails, and text messages, search queries aren?t protected from voluntary disclosure to authorities, notes Orin Kerr, a computer crime expert at George Washington University. When you pick up the phone to call a friend, the reasoning goes, you?re communicating with that friend, and the phone company is a third party that doesn?t have a right to eavesdrop. But when you type a query into Google?s search bar, you?re communicating directly with Google. That makes Google the ?end user? of your information, and gives it the legal prerogative?at least in theory?to share that information with anyone it likes, including the police or the FBI. Kerr calls it a hole in the country?s privacy laws and has called for it to be patched.
Scientists uncover evidence of impending tipping point for EarthPublic release date: 6-Jun-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Robert Sanderrs rsanders@berkeley.edu 510-643-6998 University of California - Berkeley
Climate change, population pressure could send planet into new regime for which we are unprepared
A prestigious group of scientists from around the world is warning that population growth, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems, and climate change may be driving Earth toward an irreversible change in the biosphere, a planet-wide tipping point that would have destructive consequences absent adequate preparation and mitigation.
"It really will be a new world, biologically, at that point," warns Anthony Barnosky, professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and lead author of a review paper appearing in the June 7 issue of the journal Nature. "The data suggests that there will be a reduction in biodiversity and severe impacts on much of what we depend on to sustain our quality of life, including, for example, fisheries, agriculture, forest products and clean water. This could happen within just a few generations."
The Nature paper, in which the scientists compare the biological impact of past incidences of global change with processes under way today and assess evidence for what the future holds, appears in an issue devoted to the environment in advance of the June 20-22 United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The result of such a major shift in the biosphere would be mixed, Barnosky noted, with some plant and animal species disappearing, new mixes of remaining species, and major disruptions in terms of which agricultural crops can grow where.
The paper by 22 internationally known scientists describes an urgent need for better predictive models that are based on a detailed understanding of how the biosphere reacted in the distant past to rapidly changing conditions, including climate and human population growth. In a related development, ground-breaking research to develop the reliable, detailed biological forecasts the paper is calling for is now underway at UC Berkeley. The endeavor, The Berkeley Initiative in Global Change Biology, or BiGCB, is a massive undertaking involving more than 100 UC Berkeley scientists from an extraordinary range of disciplines that already has received funding: a $2.5 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and a $1.5 million grant from the Keck Foundation. The paper by Barnosky and others emerged from the first conference convened under the BiGCB's auspices.
"One key goal of the BiGCB is to understand how plants and animals responded to major shifts in the atmosphere, oceans, and climate in the past, so that scientists can improve their forecasts and policy makers can take the steps necessary to either mitigate or adapt to changes that may be inevitable," Barnosky said. "Better predictive models will lead to better decisions in terms of protecting the natural resources future generations will rely on for quality of life and prosperity." Climate change could also lead to global political instability, according to a U.S. Department of Defense study referred to in the Nature paper.
"UC Berkeley is uniquely positioned to conduct this sort of complex, multi-disciplinary research," said Graham Fleming, UC Berkeley's vice chancellor for research. "Our world-class museums hold a treasure trove of biological specimens dating back many millennia that tell the story of how our planet has reacted to climate change in the past. That, combined with new technologies and data mining methods used by our distinguished faculty in a broad array of disciplines, will help us decipher the clues to the puzzle of how the biosphere will change as the result of the continued expansion of human activity on our planet."
One BiGCB project launched last month, with UC Berkeley scientists drilling into Northern California's Clear Lake, one of the oldest lakes in the world with sediments dating back more than 120,000 years, to determine how past changes in California's climate impacted local plant and animal populations.
City of Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, chair of the Bay Area Joint Policy Committee, said the BiGCB "is providing the type of research that policy makers urgently need as we work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare the Bay region to adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change. To take meaningful actions to protect our region, we first need to understand the serious global and local changes that threaten our natural resources and biodiversity."
"The Bay Area's natural systems, which we often take for granted, are absolutely critical to the health and well-being of our people, our economy and the Bay Area's quality of life," added Bates.
How close is a global tipping point?
The authors of the Nature review biologists, ecologists, complex-systems theoreticians, geologists and paleontologists from the United States, Canada, South America and Europe argue that, although many warning signs are emerging, no one knows how close Earth is to a global tipping point, or if it is inevitable. The scientists urge focused research to identify early warning signs of a global transition and an acceleration of efforts to address the root causes.
"We really do have to be thinking about these global scale tipping points, because even the parts of Earth we are not messing with directly could be prone to some very major changes," Barnosky said. "And the root cause, ultimately, is human population growth and how many resources each one of us uses."
Coauthor Elizabeth Hadly from Stanford University said "we may already be past these tipping points in particular regions of the world. I just returned from a trip to the high Himalayas in Nepal, where I witnessed families fighting each other with machetes for wood wood that they would burn to cook their food in one evening. In places where governments are lacking basic infrastructure, people fend for themselves, and biodiversity suffers. We desperately need global leadership for planet Earth."
The authors note that studies of small-scale ecosystems show that once 50-90 percent of an area has been altered, the entire ecosystem tips irreversibly into a state far different from the original, in terms of the mix of plant and animal species and their interactions. This situation typically is accompanied by species extinctions and a loss of biodiversity.
Currently, to support a population of 7 billion people, about 43 percent of Earth's land surface has been converted to agricultural or urban use, with roads cutting through much of the remainder. The population is expected to rise to 9 billion by 2045; at that rate, current trends suggest that half Earth's land surface will be disturbed by 2025. To Barnosky, this is disturbingly close to a global tipping point.
"Can it really happen? Looking into the past tells us unequivocally that, yes, it can really happen. It has happened. The last glacial/interglacial transition 11,700 years ago was an example of that," he said, noting that animal diversity still has not recovered from extinctions during that time. "I think that if we want to avoid the most unpleasant surprises, we want to stay away from that 50 percent mark."
Global change biology
The paper emerged from a conference held at UC Berkeley in 2010 to discuss the idea of a global tipping point, and how to recognize and avoid it.
Following that meeting, 22 of the attendees summarized available evidence of past global state-shifts, the current state of threats to the global environment, and what happened after past tipping points.
They concluded that there is an urgent need for global cooperation to reduce world population growth and per-capita resource use, replace fossil fuels with sustainable sources, develop more efficient food production and distribution without taking over more land, and better manage the land and ocean areas not already dominated by humans as reservoirs of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
"Ideally, we want to be able to predict what could be detrimental biological change in time to steer the boat to where we don't get to those points," Barnosky said. "My underlying philosophy is that we want to keep Earth, our life support system, at least as healthy as it is today, in terms of supporting humanity, and forecast when we are going in directions that would reduce our quality of life so that we can avoid that."
"My view is that humanity is at a crossroads now, where we have to make an active choice," Barnosky said. "One choice is to acknowledge these issues and potential consequences and try to guide the future (in a way we want to). The other choice is just to throw up our hands and say, 'Let's just go on as usual and see what happens.' My guess is, if we take that latter choice, yes, humanity is going to survive, but we are going to see some effects that will seriously degrade the quality of life for our children and grandchildren."
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Scientists uncover evidence of impending tipping point for EarthPublic release date: 6-Jun-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Robert Sanderrs rsanders@berkeley.edu 510-643-6998 University of California - Berkeley
Climate change, population pressure could send planet into new regime for which we are unprepared
A prestigious group of scientists from around the world is warning that population growth, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems, and climate change may be driving Earth toward an irreversible change in the biosphere, a planet-wide tipping point that would have destructive consequences absent adequate preparation and mitigation.
"It really will be a new world, biologically, at that point," warns Anthony Barnosky, professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and lead author of a review paper appearing in the June 7 issue of the journal Nature. "The data suggests that there will be a reduction in biodiversity and severe impacts on much of what we depend on to sustain our quality of life, including, for example, fisheries, agriculture, forest products and clean water. This could happen within just a few generations."
The Nature paper, in which the scientists compare the biological impact of past incidences of global change with processes under way today and assess evidence for what the future holds, appears in an issue devoted to the environment in advance of the June 20-22 United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The result of such a major shift in the biosphere would be mixed, Barnosky noted, with some plant and animal species disappearing, new mixes of remaining species, and major disruptions in terms of which agricultural crops can grow where.
The paper by 22 internationally known scientists describes an urgent need for better predictive models that are based on a detailed understanding of how the biosphere reacted in the distant past to rapidly changing conditions, including climate and human population growth. In a related development, ground-breaking research to develop the reliable, detailed biological forecasts the paper is calling for is now underway at UC Berkeley. The endeavor, The Berkeley Initiative in Global Change Biology, or BiGCB, is a massive undertaking involving more than 100 UC Berkeley scientists from an extraordinary range of disciplines that already has received funding: a $2.5 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and a $1.5 million grant from the Keck Foundation. The paper by Barnosky and others emerged from the first conference convened under the BiGCB's auspices.
"One key goal of the BiGCB is to understand how plants and animals responded to major shifts in the atmosphere, oceans, and climate in the past, so that scientists can improve their forecasts and policy makers can take the steps necessary to either mitigate or adapt to changes that may be inevitable," Barnosky said. "Better predictive models will lead to better decisions in terms of protecting the natural resources future generations will rely on for quality of life and prosperity." Climate change could also lead to global political instability, according to a U.S. Department of Defense study referred to in the Nature paper.
"UC Berkeley is uniquely positioned to conduct this sort of complex, multi-disciplinary research," said Graham Fleming, UC Berkeley's vice chancellor for research. "Our world-class museums hold a treasure trove of biological specimens dating back many millennia that tell the story of how our planet has reacted to climate change in the past. That, combined with new technologies and data mining methods used by our distinguished faculty in a broad array of disciplines, will help us decipher the clues to the puzzle of how the biosphere will change as the result of the continued expansion of human activity on our planet."
One BiGCB project launched last month, with UC Berkeley scientists drilling into Northern California's Clear Lake, one of the oldest lakes in the world with sediments dating back more than 120,000 years, to determine how past changes in California's climate impacted local plant and animal populations.
City of Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, chair of the Bay Area Joint Policy Committee, said the BiGCB "is providing the type of research that policy makers urgently need as we work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare the Bay region to adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change. To take meaningful actions to protect our region, we first need to understand the serious global and local changes that threaten our natural resources and biodiversity."
"The Bay Area's natural systems, which we often take for granted, are absolutely critical to the health and well-being of our people, our economy and the Bay Area's quality of life," added Bates.
How close is a global tipping point?
The authors of the Nature review biologists, ecologists, complex-systems theoreticians, geologists and paleontologists from the United States, Canada, South America and Europe argue that, although many warning signs are emerging, no one knows how close Earth is to a global tipping point, or if it is inevitable. The scientists urge focused research to identify early warning signs of a global transition and an acceleration of efforts to address the root causes.
"We really do have to be thinking about these global scale tipping points, because even the parts of Earth we are not messing with directly could be prone to some very major changes," Barnosky said. "And the root cause, ultimately, is human population growth and how many resources each one of us uses."
Coauthor Elizabeth Hadly from Stanford University said "we may already be past these tipping points in particular regions of the world. I just returned from a trip to the high Himalayas in Nepal, where I witnessed families fighting each other with machetes for wood wood that they would burn to cook their food in one evening. In places where governments are lacking basic infrastructure, people fend for themselves, and biodiversity suffers. We desperately need global leadership for planet Earth."
The authors note that studies of small-scale ecosystems show that once 50-90 percent of an area has been altered, the entire ecosystem tips irreversibly into a state far different from the original, in terms of the mix of plant and animal species and their interactions. This situation typically is accompanied by species extinctions and a loss of biodiversity.
Currently, to support a population of 7 billion people, about 43 percent of Earth's land surface has been converted to agricultural or urban use, with roads cutting through much of the remainder. The population is expected to rise to 9 billion by 2045; at that rate, current trends suggest that half Earth's land surface will be disturbed by 2025. To Barnosky, this is disturbingly close to a global tipping point.
"Can it really happen? Looking into the past tells us unequivocally that, yes, it can really happen. It has happened. The last glacial/interglacial transition 11,700 years ago was an example of that," he said, noting that animal diversity still has not recovered from extinctions during that time. "I think that if we want to avoid the most unpleasant surprises, we want to stay away from that 50 percent mark."
Global change biology
The paper emerged from a conference held at UC Berkeley in 2010 to discuss the idea of a global tipping point, and how to recognize and avoid it.
Following that meeting, 22 of the attendees summarized available evidence of past global state-shifts, the current state of threats to the global environment, and what happened after past tipping points.
They concluded that there is an urgent need for global cooperation to reduce world population growth and per-capita resource use, replace fossil fuels with sustainable sources, develop more efficient food production and distribution without taking over more land, and better manage the land and ocean areas not already dominated by humans as reservoirs of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
"Ideally, we want to be able to predict what could be detrimental biological change in time to steer the boat to where we don't get to those points," Barnosky said. "My underlying philosophy is that we want to keep Earth, our life support system, at least as healthy as it is today, in terms of supporting humanity, and forecast when we are going in directions that would reduce our quality of life so that we can avoid that."
"My view is that humanity is at a crossroads now, where we have to make an active choice," Barnosky said. "One choice is to acknowledge these issues and potential consequences and try to guide the future (in a way we want to). The other choice is just to throw up our hands and say, 'Let's just go on as usual and see what happens.' My guess is, if we take that latter choice, yes, humanity is going to survive, but we are going to see some effects that will seriously degrade the quality of life for our children and grandchildren."
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The work was supported by UC Berkeley's Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
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One of Hollywood's most outspoken supporters of gay marriage and LGBT equality, Miley Cyrus has taken to Twitter to once again stand up for this important cause.
Cyrus - who actually wrote an editorial on the issue and also has a tattoo that expresses her beliefs - posted a photo on the social network yesterday that includes a close-up of her "favorite accessory of the day."
Along with this button, Miley included the hashtag #stopspreadinhate.
Love Miley or hate Miley - and THG has certainly taken issue with some of her wardrobe choices and transparent attempts to break free from her Hannah Montana persona - you've gotta admire a celebrity for taking a controversial stand.
I have loved smooth jazz music since I was a teen.? The amazing sound of Grover Washington Jr?s? saxophone hooked me long ago and never let me go. I have numerous albums and cd?s with? beautiful saxophone sounds from musicians; David Sanborn , Charley Langer, Rod Tate, Kenny G, Mindi Abair and several other incredibly talented jazz saxophone players. I also have plenty of other albums and cd?s by both old and new jazz artists.
The next time you find yourself relaxing to some smooth jazz sounds, or you hear a talented musician playing the saxophone, know that I am right there with you. I?m swaying along to the smooth jazz sounds and smiling with you.
Here?s a list of a fewof the CD?s I have been listening to recently (? alphabetical order) ? Acoustic Alchemy, Boney James, Brian Hughes Chris Standring ,Chuck Loeb,Darren Rahn , Ed Taylor, Euge Groove, George Benson,Jeff Lorber,Jonathan Butler, Keiko Matsui, Michael Lington, Michael Buble?, Mindi Abair ,Nick Colionne, Patrick Lamb, Richard Elliot, Spyro Gyra , Tzeman, Terri Lyne Carrington ,Patrick Yandall
I think every day should have a little sax in it, don?t you? Giggle.
I had jazz tunes on the music player on Katherines Corner for two years. But sadly the free music player is gone now.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Games for smartphones, tablet computers and Facebook are becoming essential for major video game companies even as the industry's largest U.S. trade show remains largely a showcase for their latest flashy console titles.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo conference kicked off in Los Angeles on Tuesday amid a startling reality for the industry: Revenue from traditional video games is on the decline, despite more people playing games than ever.
Even the companies best known for hardcore shooters and racing games can't ignore those dynamics in the age of "Angry Birds" and "Words With Friends."
For instance, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., the company behind hardcore console games such as "Grand Theft Auto" and "BioShock," is unveiling several mobile games at the show this week. One of them is inspired by this year's presidential elections ? "Comedy Central's Indecision Game."
Zynga Inc., whose games are played mainly on Facebook and mobile devices, will have a presence at E3 for the first time. Though the company isn't planning any announcements, it will be meeting with game developers at the conference.
In many ways, the video game industry itself is following the career trajectory of "Words With Friends" creator Paul Bettner.
Bettner had worked on hardcore video games such as "Halo" for some 15 years before the birth of the iPhone inspired him and his brother to create "Words With Friends." That game went on to become highly popular, famously credited with getting actor Alec Baldwin kicked off an airplane for not shutting it off at takeoff.
Now, when Bettner thinks about what games he wants to create next, he thinks about what games his wife would want to play.
"That's another way of saying what games does everyone want to play?" he says.
Nick Earl, the head of Electronic Arts Inc.'s mobile and social studios, sees all game labels bringing their best titles to mobile devices.
He cites EA's "FIFA" soccer games as a good example. Separate versions are available for game consoles and mobile devices.
Earl says the mobile versions help expand the gaming audience, with newcomers and returning players who have not been gaming for a while.
"The iPhone initially started out at pure mass-casual games, like 'Scrabble,'" he says. Now, the games are becoming more serious, more immersive and, especially on tablets, more like the games people are used to playing in their living rooms.
Players "want to be able to dive into the game regardless of what device they are on," Earl says.
While people typically buy traditional video games up front, paying as much as $60 a disc for the latest blockbuster, mobile games are generally free or cheap to play.
For free games, companies make money when gamers pay a few dollars here and there for optional virtual items and more in-depth experiences. Paid games typically cost less than $7.
Even if relatively few people end up paying, it's often enough because mobile games cost less to make and distribute than traditional games, which can cost tens of millions of dollars to develop.
Games for the iPhone, the iPad and Android devices are more popular than ever. Of the 10 most popular paid apps on iTunes, five are games.
By contrast, brick-and-mortar retail sales of video games discs, consoles and accessories declined in the double-digit percentages in the first four months of 2012, compared with a year earlier, according to the latest numbers available from market researcher NPD Group.
That said, the majority of the industry's revenue is still generated from traditional games. About two-thirds of the roughly $1 billion that people spent on games in April went to new, physical retail games, according to NPD.
That's one reason companies are still making new blockbusters. At E3, EA is showcasing games such as the shooter "Battlefield 3," ''Need for Speed Most Wanted" and "Dead Space 3," for example.
But mobile games offer the potential to tap into a new audience.
"Revenue is rising, but the number of players is rising faster," Gartner analyst Brian Blau says of the overall game software market. "Not all players are being monetized to the fullest extent."
Zynga, for example, has some 250 million people playing its games on Facebook each month, but only a small number of them pay money for the virtual cows, poker chips and other digital items.
Zynga partly makes up for it by releasing games and updates every couple of months rather than once or twice a year, as traditional game companies do. Its popular titles include "FarmVille," ''Zynga Poker" and "Draw Something." Zynga has also bought Bettner's "Words with Friends" and employs him to create more titles.
If companies such as Zynga can get more people to pay, it could mean big opportunity for a genre that is still in its early stages.
For small-time game developers, the fact that it's much easier to create an iPhone game app than a blockbuster shooter for the Xbox is spurring new job prospects.
"A few years ago, independent developers couldn't support themselves making mobile games," says Joe Minton, the president of Digital Development Management, a talent agency for video game developers.
But mobile games are becoming so popular that now they can. He notes that in the U.K., most of the large console game companies are gone, and smaller mobile game developers have sprung up in their place.
One remaining hurdle might be attracting the most dedicated gamers.
Rob Pardo, vice president of game design at "Diablo III" developer Blizzard, believes mobile and social gamers moving to the hardcore realm would need to be a natural transition. It's not something the industry could force, but needs to be something that players themselves want.
"What I'm excited to see is when these social gamers start wanting something with higher fidelity and a little bit more gameplay, maybe they'll come to 'Diablo III' or 'Diablo IV,'" he said.
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AP Entertainment Writer Derrik J. Lang contributed to this story from Los Angeles.
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In Singapore, pests like termites and bed bugs are amongst the major headaches which ordinary households cannot solve on their own. Termite control Singapore companies are therefore important for residents who suffer from the damage and other problems caused by termites and other pests at home. If you want to have a pest management company that is both successful and sustainable, you have to take into account several factors.
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Likewise, you can increase your reliability and credibility by having the right equipment for the job. At the start of your business, it is vital to invest in equipment and machineries that are of excellent quality.
Check On Your Competitors And Do Better
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The E3 2012 Nintendo Press Conference broadcast aired today, has revealed brand new information about Nintendo?s game lineup. Nintendo?s E3 2012 keynote conference started on June 6th at 9:00AM PDT / 12:00PM EDT / 5:00PM GMT and lasted an hour and a half. What follows is a bulletpoints roundup.
It started with the expected showings of all Wii U features, Pikmin 3, New Super Mario Bros. U, Luigi?s Mansion 2: Dark Moon, Lego City: Undercover. Surprises this year were: Batman: Arkham City ? Armored Edition, Just Dance 4, Zombi U, with Scribblenauts Unlimited, Wii Fit U, SiNG, and NintendoLand being revealed for the first time.
Here?s the full E3 2012 Nintendo broadcast video:
E3 2012 Nintendo Press Conference Roundup:
Mr. Miyamoto (Mario/Zelda/DK creator) opened Nintendo?s E3 2012 presentation with a Wii U talk. Showing a black colored Wii U and Wii U GamePad controller.
Pikmin 3 gets shown with gameplay trailer. It?s been 10 years since the original Pikmin game. The HD graphics resolution makes the playfield more detailed to see more and the environments more realistic. New Rock Pikmin, used to break hard objects. Basic controls with Wiimote and Nunchuck. But the Wii U GamePad-only controls will add precise aiming as you throw your Pikmin around the playfield, allowing up to four leaders control the playfield, heavily using the GamePad to give you an overview. New Fruit-collecting mode shown. Replay feature of your level can be viewed to learn
Next Reggie (Nintendo USA president) gets whistled onto stage ?like a Purple Pikmin? lol. Says 23 Wii U games will be shown on-stage, not all the Wii U & 3DS games on the showfloor this week, so more to come. Wii U promises to be ?Games / Social / Entertainment?, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video & YouTube apps will come to the Wii U. Asymetric gameplay allows just one player to connect to lots of other players online.
Wii U hardware will support two separate Wii U GamePads. A demonstration video displays all the buttons / gyroscope / rumble / speakers / camera features of the Wii U GamePad.
The Wii U startup screen Miiverse is shown, lets you talk to your friends via speech bubbles next to their avatars to exchange messages / status updates with them via the touch screen. Miiverse will eventually be accessible via your 3DS, PC and mobile devides.
New Super Mario Bros. U ? a renamed New Super Mario Bros. Mii ? will be compatible with Miiverse to connect with friends and family to talk about specific levels. Mario?s flying Squirrel Suit was shown. 4-player co-op is back. Baby Yoshi?s allow you to float like a balloon. The player with the GamePad can help other players throughout the level, as (s)he can see more of the level.
Third party support for Wii U was shown off, starting with Warner Bros.?s Batman: Arkham City ? Armored Edition. A unique experience: Scanning is done with the Wii U GamePad, and armored suits for Batman & Catwoman, there?s a new BAT mode that collects kinetic energy in his suit to expand all at once in a super attack, Batarang controlled with motion-controls.
Scribblenauts Unlimited announced for Wii U. 5th Cell shows the new HD graphics in a trailer, you can create anything as you explore a more open world. And uncover the tale behind Maxwell?s magical notebook.
Wii U third party support showed footage for: Darksiders II, Mass Effect 3, Tank Tank Tank! from Namco Bandai, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Trine 2: Director?s Cut, Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor?s Edge, and Aliens Colonial Marines.
43 million copies of Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus have been sold worldwide. Wii Fit U announced for Wii U. The Wii U GamePad shows the second screen is used to bring you more into the sports games. New Fit Meter comes with it to allow you to run outside and when you get back add what you did to your calories burned per day counter. Mini-games include: Trampoline Jump, Snow racing game, Waiter balance game, and Body Test is a health management tool for your family, which takes pictures and weighs you to come to your ideal BMI, it allows you to only display such numbers only on the Wii GamePad privately.
SiNG announced for Wii U. Is a karaoke machine. Wii U GamePad allows you to read the lyrics as you sing into the microphone.
Scott from Europe comes on-stage to do a Nintendo 3DS talk for a few minutes, but on e3.nintendo.com he?ll give an hour-long talk Wednesday evening. New Super Mario Bros. 2 for 3DS has gold everywhere with even Mario himself turning into gold (if he collects enough coins?), Raccoon Suit shown in trailer. August 19th, 2012 release in America.
Paper Mario for 3DS looks like paper dioramas. Collect stickers to turn into battle commands during fights or find secret places / hidden places. Promises more game depth. Coming this holiday season.
Luigi?s Mansion 2: Dark Moon for 3DS. Luigi has mission-based challenges in each of the multiple mansions. Many new kinds of ghosts to capture.
3DS third-party lineup includes: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow ? Mirror of Fate, Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, Scribblenauts Unlimited, and Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance.
Lego City: Undercover for Wii U was shown off for the first time. It?s an open world game. It allows you to: Solve crimes using the Wii U GamePad, scan for hidden criminals, choose a disguise and go undercover, has your expected Lego game humor with lots of action-movie gags. A portable version for 3DS is also in development.
Ubisoft shows off some games for Wii U. The games are Just Dance 4, up to four dancers can dance at the same time. The Wii U GamePad can decide the next move for the dancers, allows you to be the puppet-master.
Zombi U exclusively for Wii U lets you use the GamePad as a radiation scanner, sniper zoom to lineup shots, shake to get rid of nearby zombies, hack doors to get away from zombies. One bite and you?re dead in the game.
Ubisoft closes showing off the other Wii U games they have lined up, including: Assassin?s Creed III, Rabbids Land, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2013, Rayman Legends, Sports Connection, and The Avengers: Battle for Earth.
NintendoLand announced for Wii U. It?s like Wii Sports mini-games for the Wii U to let you understand the system?s features through play. Katsuya Wii U software producer explains the new types of play. Your Mii will visit a Nintendo theme park ?NintendoLand? with 12 different attractions to play in: The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest, Pikmin Mini-game, Luigi?s Ghost Mansion (like Pac-Man Vs.), Animal Crossing: Sweet Day, Takamara?s Ninja Castle, Donkey Kong?s Crash Course, and more. Brand new forms of multiplayer gameplay promised with friends and family. Can also be used to play competitively by yourself. Miiverse ties into this game in 3D, may hint at online multiplayer? More details promised later on.
Wii U launch reaffirmed for this year, with Holiday 2012 release date. Tagline: ?Together. Better.?
The Wii U?s ?Panorama View? allows you to watch videos in all 360 degrees. The Wii U GamePad gives someone a second screen to see the same video from a different direction, at the same time!
The other E3 2012 Press Conference Roundups:
What?s your favorite E3 2012 Nintendo announcement?
Tags: Lego City: Undercover, New Super Mario Bros. U, NintendoLand, Pikmin 3, Scribblenauts Unlimited, SiNG, Wii Fit U
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George Zimmerman was expected to be back in jail later Sunday afternoon. NBC's Charles Hadlock reports from Sanford, Fla.
By Charles Hadlock, NBC News, and M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com
George Zimmerman, the man charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, has returned to Florida to surrender after a judge revoked his bail, Zimmerman's attorney said Sunday.
Charles Hadlock is a correspondent for NBC News. M. Alex Johnson is a reporter for msnbc.com. Follow M. Alex Johnson on Twitter and Facebook.
Zimmerman, 28, arrived in the state Saturday night from an undisclosed "secure location," where he has been staying because of "significant threats against his life," his lawyer, Mark O'Mara, said Sunday. He was expected to be back in the Seminole County jail by midafternoon ET.
Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Fla., was released on $150,000 bail on April 20 after he was charged with killing Martin, 17, who was unarmed, in February. The case divided the country along racial and ethnic lines; Martin was black, while Zimmerman is the son of a white man and a Peruvian woman.
But Seminole County Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester revoked Zimmerman's bond Friday after learning that Zimmerman and his wife may have misled him about their assets when he set bond. Prosecutors demonstrated that Zimmerman had at least $135,000 he didn't disclose in a special PayPal account he had set up to pay for his defense.
By concealing the defense contributions, Zimmerman benefited from a lower bond than he might have been granted had he and his family told the truth about how much money they really had, Lester said.
O'Mara said in a posting on the defense team's website that he would seek a new bond hearing, at which he would argue that "the vast majority" of the donated money was in an independently managed trust and that neither "Mr. Zimmerman or his attorneys have direct access to the money."
Benjamin Crump, an attorney for Martin's family, said Lester's finding that Zimmerman was dishonest is "very important because his credibility is the most important thing in this entire case."
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But "the defense team hopes that Mr. Zimmerman's voluntary surrender to Sanford police will help demonstrate to the court that he is not a flight risk," O'Mara said.
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Live from London, Meredith Vieira previews Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee weekend, including never-before-seen home movies released by Prince Charles. Camilla Tominey and NBC's Ben Fogle chat about the excitement in the air.
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By Will Fitzgibbon, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
LONDON -- It will be a weekend of celebration across Britain. Not least among suffering retailers, who amid the country's double-dip recession will be cheering as loudly as the flag-flying crowds lining London's River Thames to mark Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.
But despite the estimated 823 million pounds ($1.25 billion) expected to be spent by revellers this weekend, British businesses have proved stingy when it comes to raising the funds for the piece de resistance: Sunday's advertising-free pageant will include?a three-hour flotilla featuring more than 1,000 boats.
The committee responsible for the event earlier this year tried entice British companies into contributing to its 10.5 million pound ($16 million) cost. But with a?ban on advertising on either the riverside or on participating boats,?it proved to be a difficult sell and organizers had to draw on contributions from foreign companies and individuals to make up the shortfall.
Jubilee fever is gripping the U.K. in the form of royal souvenirs ? but the ultimate Jubilee gift may be a one-of-a-kind desk complete with a hidden diamond, which will be auctioned off for charity. NBC's Ben Fogle reports.
Lord Salisbury, the chairman of?Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant,?reportedly said that he did not wish to empty the public purse. ?
Instead organizers had to approach a number of non-British companies to pay for the costs, which include 7,000 stewards as well as festivities planned in Battersea Park.
'Six-figure checks' Official supporters include American oil company Chevron, advertising company AMV BBDO and Boris Johnson, who is London's New York-born mayor. An additional 20 publicly listed donors have contributed to the tab.
Read more stories from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Companies from America, Australia and the Far East have reportedly signed "six-figure checks" as contributions.
However, the British public will never know the full list of organizations that contributed to the funding as the Jubilee Foundation only lists the donors who wish to be named.
While more than a century separates festivities marking Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne from those honoring her predecessor Queen Victoria, surprising similarities connect the commemorations. NBC News' Jim Maceda reports.
Among this list there are 14 U.K. individuals and companies and six foreign individuals and businesses. This list includes American banking giants Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan and Japanese brokering house Nomura Group.
According to a Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant spokeswoman, there are "a considerable number of contributors who have made donations and do not wish to be named."
More Diamond Jubilee coverage from Britain's ITV News
Other events, where companies are allowed to market themselves, have proved more popular to companies.
With just days to go until the country's largest river event in 350 years, a complex security operation has kicked in to ensure the safety of the thousand boats that will accompany the Queen down the Thames for the Jubilee river pageant. The flotilla will include sailing ships, music barges and a Hawaiian war canoe. ITN's Fatima Manji reports.
The biggest commercial boon will be the Queen's Jubilee Picnic, to be held in the gardens of Buckingham Palace on Monday and attended by 13,000 guests.?
Supermarket giant Waitrose may be providing 10,000 free hampers for the Jubilee Picnic but its commercial gains are already pouring in.
Waitrose has predicted its strawberry sales will increase seven-fold and "sales of Elderflower cordial have been soaring by an incredible 1,000 percent."
London is getting dressed up for the Jubilee weekend .. hanging out the bunting for the Queen's procession. In the royal mews at Buckingham Palace they're preparing for a second grand royal occasion in just over a year. The carriage that will take the Queen and Prince Philip back after a service at St Paul's Cathedral s being polished up again. ITN's Tim Ewart reports.?
A survey by Moneysupermarket.com also suggests Britons will spend 823 million pounds ($1.26 billion), or an average of 40 pounds ($61) per person on Jubilee-related purchases.
However, not everything is in the best possible taste. Diamond Jubilee sick bags are among the items being sold.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Justin Combs, the 18-year-old son of hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, will attend UCLA on a $54,000 football scholarship.
It is one of 285 athletic scholarships the university hands out every year.
It comes at a time when student fees are rising and a year after the university had to use more than $2 million in student fees to cover an athletic department funding gap.
Money for Combs' scholarship will not affect need-based scholarships awarded by the university, UCLA spokesman Ricardo Vazquez told the Los Angeles Times.
"There is a big separation between financial aid based on need and how that's funded and how athletic scholarships are funded and awarded to students," he said, noting that athletic scholarships come from athletic department ticket sales, corporate partnerships, media contracts and private donations.
The newspaper said Justin Combs defended taking the scholarship on Twitter: "Regardless what the circumstances are, I put that work in!!!! ... PERIOD."
The senior Combs is worth an estimated $475 million and gave his son a $360,000 Maybach car for his 16th birthday, the Times said.
Justin Combs, a 5-foot-9, 170-pound defensive back, graduated from New Rochelle Iona Prep in New York with a 3.75 grade point average. He also had scholarship offers from Illinois, Virginia and Wyoming.
If needy students are unaffected, there is no problem, said Emily Resnick, outgoing president of UCLA's Undergraduate Students Association. "If his athletic abilities deserve it, then more power to him."
Joelle Gamble, who will graduate from the university in a few weeks, said the scholarship could be considered an investment since UCLA would probably benefit by the celebrity Combs could bring to the school.
"It's how college athletics works. This is how we're going to get money," she said.
A few years ago, former Southern California basketball coach Tim Floyd said fame was a factor when he offered a scholarship to rapper Master P's son, Romeo, for the 2008-2009 season. But Romeo left the team in 2010 after playing just 19 minutes in two seasons as a Trojan.
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Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com
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Public release date: 6-Jun-2012
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I have loved smooth jazz music since I was a teen.? The amazing sound of Grover Washington Jr?s? saxophone hooked me long ago and never let me go. I have numerous albums and cd?s with? beautiful saxophone sounds from musicians; David Sanborn , Charley Langer, Rod Tate, Kenny G, Mindi Abair and several other incredibly talented jazz saxophone players. I also have plenty of other albums and cd?s by both old and new jazz artists.
Book Club Summer Reading List has Been posted click the beach ball 
