Botswana to ban wildlife hunting

29 November 2012 Last updated at 11:34 ET

Botswana will ban commercial hunting from January 2014 over growing concerns about the sharp decline in wildlife species, officials have announced.

"The shooting of wild game for sport and trophies is no longer compatible with our commitment to preserve local fauna," the environment ministry said.

The ban is likely to be controversial as many communities depend on hunting for their livelihoods.

As much as a third of the global elephant population lives in Botswana.

Recent estimates place the number at about 130,000.

Conservationists are concerned about the erosion of river banks caused by the animals in some nature parks, the BBC's Letlhogile Lucas in the capital, Gaborone, reports.

The ban, set to come into place on 1 January, could also pose a threat to local communities, in particular bushmen, for whom hunting is a means to survive, our correspondent adds.

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Average trophy fee per species

• Elephant: Up to $30,000, depending on weight
• Lion: $29,000
• Leopard: $7,150
• Buffalo: $3,744
• Giraffe: $3,500
• Zebra: $1,923

Source: Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations

Furthermore, selling hunting licences to wealthy Westerners is an extremely lucrative business, he says.

Hunting concessions currently exist in the northern Okavango Delta and the parks of the Kalahari region, famous for its upmarket safari lodges.

According to the environment ministry's official statement, the government will continue to issue special game licences "for traditional hunting by some local communities within designated wildlife management areas".

Due to its seasonal nature, hunting has only contributed a minimal amount to the tourism sector, which ranks second to the diamond industry in terms of its revenue earnings, the ministry said.

Designated hunting zones will be turned into "photographic areas".

The announcement has been welcomed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

"The ideal scenario would be that it has a similar effect to the ban on whaling 20 years ago," the organisation's spokesman, Adrian Hiel, told the BBC.

"Whale watching is now proven to be more sustainable and profitable than hunting and killing the animals."

Earlier this year, Spain's King Juan Carlos faced international criticism for going on a hunting trip in Botswana.

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SEO: The Death of Three Syrian Children at the Alzaatari Refugee Camp Due to the Cold: Reality That Calls for Urgent Action by UNHRC and Other Humanitarian Aid Organizations

According to a report by Al-Jazeera news on November 27, 2012, ?Three Syrian children have died in the Syrian refugee camp, Alzaatari near the Jordanian-Syrian border, in the last three days. activists have attributed their death to the cold wave sweeping the camp without heaters.?

SEO notes that while the cold weather does pose an additional burden on already mounting demands, ignoring these warnings, can mount to even more deaths as the harsher winter months approach.

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According to a report by Al-Jazeera news on November 27, 2012, ?Three Syrian children have died in the Syrian refugee camp, Alzaatari near the Jordanian-Syrian border, in the last three days. Activists have attributed their death to the cold wave sweeping the camp without heaters.?

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This tragic news coincides with several recent reports that highlight increased fears of the severe impacts of the cold winter weather on the refugees and particularly the young children. Many refugees left their homes during the summer months with only the light clothing on their backs. T-shirts and flip-flops are inadequate for warmth during the winter months, as reported by the New York Times.

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Limitation of a proper source of heating, warm clothing and blankets are an alarming reality for the refugees. ?Hundreds of thousands of children who have fled the fighting in Syria are at risk from cold and disease as winter approaches, according to aid agencies. There are fears that scores of vulnerable children could die in the makeshift camps that litter the border regions in countries like Lebanon and Iraq,? Voice of America stated in a report published on Nov 20th, 2012.

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SEO acknowledges the great efforts implanted by the international aid organizations to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian people, however, given the additional burden of winter, SEO stresses the need to adopt more drastic measures to ensure the refugee's safety and survival through this winter.

SEO urges the UNHRC to strengthen their winter supplies of heaters, cooking stoves, warm clothing and blankets to the Syrian refugees in neighboring countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey. SEO notes that while the cold weather does pose an additional burden on already mounting demands, ignoring these warnings, can mount to even more deaths as the harsher winter months approach.

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I am not a casual fan of the Smiths.

This is most clearly evidenced by the large tattoo on my right shoulder that simply reads ?Morrissey.? I met the singer in a back hallway at Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in March 2009. (Friends who work on the show did me a favor.) I brought a marker, intending to ask Moz to sign my arm, then head to a tattoo parlor to get his signature etched onto my shoulder. I did just that. I have not regretted it even one time. This tattoo was made a permanent part of my body four days after I saw Morrissey play a great show in Montclair, N.J., where I?two months out from my 30th birthday?leapt on stage and managed to grab his hand before a burly security guard wrapped his arms around my waist and flung me into a corral specifically built to deal with the stage invasions that are a fixture at Morrissey shows.

Furthermore, I recently had a rough summer and in the aftermath of two pronounced panic attacks decided the only way to deal with my troubles was to again turn to Manchester?s favorite sons. I now sport across my right bicep?just inches from my Morrissey signature tattoo?ink that reads, ?It takes strength to be gentle and kind.? Non-Smiths fans will think this is a good sentiment, yet maybe an unnecessary piece of body art. Those who are familiar with the band may recognize that lyric from ?I Know It?s Over,? a track off their classic album The Queen Is Dead. But fans with a true obsession for Morrissey, Marr, Rourke, and Joyce will recognize that my particular tattoo was more likely inspired by the version of the song that appeared on the band?s post-breakup live album, Rank, since ?I Know It?s Over? is undeniably a good song on The Queen Is Dead but the live performance of it on Rank captures Morrissey at his most passionate. Embracing the Smiths means, to me, embracing their outsider and underdog ethos, it means identifying yourself with independent values, and it means finding catharsis through lyrics that capture the feelings of loneliness, being different, and raging against a world that looks to put one into a box better than any band before or since.

As mentioned, I am not a casual fan of the Smiths.

Still, I?m far from their most committed devotee. Even at my last Morrissey show?my ninth?I was granted access by a friend of mine named Joey who had secured an extra ticket and allowed me to buy it off him. Joey travels the country when Moz is touring, catching as many of his shows as possible. The cult of Morrissey that still follows the singer around is obsessive to a degree even I can?t imagine, and it spans all demographics?after the show, I went to a diner with Joey, as well as a number of young ladies who fit the stereotype of Smiths fans, and a middle-aged woman, and a couple from California who fashion themselves the surrogate leader of this unlikely pack and go so far as to refer to my friend Joey as their son. These were the types of Smiths fans that view me as chump change because I only have two Smiths-related tattoos.

It?s fandom like this that makes a 658-page book about the Smiths possible, and so I?m likely the ideal reader of Tony Fletcher?s A Light That Never Goes Out, a comprehensive biography of the band that even I found to be a bit too comprehensive. I can?t imagine what someone who wasn?t already deeply in love with the band would think.

The book starts with a simple sentence: ?The story of the Smiths is intrinsically entwined with that of Manchester.? This seems harmless enough, and even passing fans of the band would undoubtedly agree that it?s true. From that simple sentence, though, Fletcher launches into a lengthy exploration of Manchester?its history, its economic circumstances leading into the ?80s, its working-class culture, how its slums came to be built, how Irish immigrants dominated certain neighborhoods, not to mention his breakdown of its music scene as he writes about what seems to be every concert staged in Manchester from the dawn of rock and roll forward. It?s exhaustive, but it?s also exhausting. Even I?a man with the lead singer?s signature tattooed on my shoulder?found much of the information in the first third of the book to be so tangentially connected to the Smiths that it was hard not to get frustrated. Eventually, Fletcher does a good job of looping this vast amount of information back to Morrissey and Marr?s influences and upbringing, but I simply found it hard to read almost 200 pages of a book about the Smiths that take place before the Smiths even meet each other.

Here is Fletcher, on Page 198, speaking to the backgrounds of Morrissey and Marr:

Too much would be made over time of the pair as opposites?in geniality, exuberance, hedonism, sexuality; in hours kept, clothes worn, and books read. In fact, as already noted, they had a phenomenal amount in common: Irish immigrant parents, working class roots, a single female sibling (within close age range), a strong relationship with mother and a distant one with father, the violent drudgery of the Manchester Catholic schools system, and forced slum clearance from the inner city.

As Fletcher himself indicates, all of this is ?already noted.? That?s what?s in the previous 198 pages. The above quote by and large saves you close to an entire book?s worth of reading if you wish to start closer to the actual journey of the Smiths, which would presumably be the story you wanted to read upon purchasing this book.

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Obama Moving To Steal Your Pension Plan | Pakalert Press

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Obama wants all your private retirement money

Obama has been lusting after your private retirement and pension funds for years. Now it?s being reported the federal government is accelerating its plans to grab your monies and tarnish your Golden Years.

Several years ago a radical professor met with some key members of Congress to tout her plan to have the federal government raid private pension plans, including all IRAs and 401(k)s, and fold them into the Social Security Trust Fund, or a new superfund comprised of Government Retirement Accounts (GRAs). The story, although covered, was under-reported by the mainstream media.

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Professor Teresa Ghilarducci, professor of economic policy analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York, met with select Congressmen to advocate the confiscation of private retirement funds: 401(k)s, IRAs and company pension plans. She argued her plan met the needs of ?economic justice.?

During her jaw-dropping testimony before the House Committee on Education and Labor, she pressed for the adoption of a multistage plan:

First, eliminate every tax break for 401(k) and other private retirement accounts.

Second, confiscate by Congressional edict every American?s retirement program. Toss all the money into the bottomless pit of the corrupt government and call the stolen cash ?Guaranteed Retirement Accounts? (GRAs) to make it sound nice and official.

If anyone has the temerity to resist the government theft of their retirement nestegg, she had a solution for that too: fine or jail them.

Obama: scheming to perpetrate biggest theft in history

At the time, James Pethokoukis reported in US News & World Reports, ?In place of 401(k) plans, she would have workers transfer their dough into government-created ?guaranteed retirement accounts? for every worker. The government would deposit $600 (inflation indexed) every year into the GRAs. Each worker would also have to save 5 percent of pay into the accounts, to which the government would pay a measly 3 percent return. Rep. Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee?s Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, said that since ?the savings rate isn?t going up for the investment of $80 billion [in 401(k) tax breaks], we have to start to think about whether or not we want to continue to invest that $80 billion for a policy that?s not generating what we now say it should.??

That foray into the murky swamp advocating the outright hijacking of the previously sacrosanct private pension markets was followed by a flurry of reports in 2010 and 2011, among them Bloomberg?s Business Week revealing the Obama administration sought ways to convert all 401(k) savings and Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) into (government) annuities or other comparable financial structures.

Blogger Brenda Bowers summed it up this way:

?Let us deconstruct this. Here?s how it would work. The government would seize the $3 to $4 trillion in assets currently invested in retirement plans. The government would now own all the assets, having taken them out of the private sector. That would be in return for a promise that the government would make timed payouts?monthly or whatever?to the pensioners over the coming years. The government has already betrayed the public trust by spending the assets in the social security trust fund, leaving worthless IOU?s as placeholders. Now they want to do this with our employee retirement plans and our personal retirement investments.?

NewsMax reports the current drive to replace private pensions and retirement plans with federally managed GRAs has not only picked up speed, but has widened its scope. Newsmax cites the administration?s 256-page Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Proposal touting the reintroduction of the 2008 ?Automatic IRA? that Newsmax points out has ?evolved? into two basic schemes:

1. Secure Choice Pension and Government Retirement Accounts (GRA?s), both of which automatically mandate 5 percent to 6 percent contributions into a basket of federal GRAs. Like Social Security, if the particiapnt dies the government keeps everything and nothing passes on to the decedent?s estate.

2. A significant change in the current tax law. The current deduction will be replaced with a credit, redeemable only after retirement. That weights it in the government?s favor. Worse, eligibility for the credit will be reached after choosing an option to move the entirety of the retirement balance into the annuity portion of the GRA. That investment sector is funded strictly with long term U.S Treasury Bonds with an estimated future accumulation of 3 percent a year.

For more information focusing on the plan Obama has to grab your pension and retirement monies for the dead broke Uncle Sam, read Dr. Eowyn?s assessment here?and also learn all about the states that are following the federal government?s lead and laying the foundation for legal theft of your retirement assets.

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Recreational Sport ? Steps to Follow When Choosing Your Leisure ...

How do you know which recreational sport is right for you? Though this is a simple question, it may not have a simple answer. Before answering this question, it makes sense to know the definition of a recreational sport. In simple terms, a recreational sport is any sport activity or event that one engages in during leisure time. In other words, it is a sport activity or event performed primarily for entertainment and fun. Though in some cases there may be monetary rewards associated with passtime sport, it is not usually the main goal. Other reasons associated with participating in a leisure activities includes: fitness, health, socialization, competition and sport support among others.

There are several options of leisure activities available for all age categories ranging from indoor to outdoor. Making the decision on which choice to pursue can be a real challenge and this varies significantly from one person to the other. For former professional athletes, the decision may be easier especially if they continue participating in their particular former professional sports (i.e. recreational level). The big task of choosing the right recreational sport is however on beginners. In order to make the right choice(s) if you are a beginner, it is important to consider the following general guidelines:

1. Choose a sport that you understand and are passionate about: Leisure sport in a way becomes part of your lifestyle and therefore needs to be entertaining and enjoyable. Choosing something that you don?t like or have no knowledge about can be frustrating even if your friends adore it. It only makes sense to pursue something that you know its rules and regulations. However, this does not mean one cannot learn a new sport or game, but it easier to do so if you love the sport.

2. Consider your goals and objectives: As mentioned above, there are different reasons that drive people into recreational sports. Choosing a sport that is in line with your goals, for example losing weight will only enrich the whole recreational experience. Some one looking for a recreational sport to aid in cutting down some extra body weight may benefit from running, jogging, walking, hiking or swimming among other high calorie burning sport activities as opposed to playing cards or video games. On the other hand somebody looking for a recreational sport that favors socialization may benefit from the latter.

3. Facilities, tools and equipment required: Different recreational sports may require different tools, facilities or equipment or in some cases may require none at all. These tools, facilities or equipment may also vary depending on the needs of every person. For example if you want to play golf for recreation, you will definitely have to purchase a golf club, balls and perhaps shoes. You will also need an available and accessible golf course to play. In some cases if you have more than one favorite recreational sport, you may have to choose what is more convenient based on availability of facilities. It makes more sense to go running at a nearby track especially if you get off work late in the evenings than having to drive for several miles to get to a golf course (i.e. if you like both golf and running).

4. Availability of time: Since a recreational sport is a pastime sport, choosing the right one may be dictated by how much free time is at one?s disposal. Some leisure sports are more time consuming than others. Additionally some of these sports must only be played outside. Where as some sports such as running, jogging, walking, playing tennis, playing basketball or swimming offers both indoor and outdoor options, some of them, for example playing golf, hiking, kayaking, surfing among other don?t. The more time one has, the more the options to choose from and the vice versa.

5. Seasonality: Though this may not be a big deal to people living along the equatorial line geographically, it definitely affects people living in areas with winter and summer climatic seasons. Some recreational sports such as those requiring snow may only be available during winter and only in some parts of the world. So if skiing is the only favorite recreational sport that one can participate in, it means there will be nothing to do for most of the year i.e. during the other seasons. When deciding on the right sport for recreation, it is advisable to have more than one option especially in a situation where one is affected by seasonal changes.

6. Number of participants required: Where as most sports require participation of more than one person at one time, some can be pursued individually. If your schedule does not allow group or team participation, choosing a recreational sport that will enable you to participate alone is a good idea. Jogging, walking, swimming, biking and running are great examples.

As mentioned earlier, this is not an exhaustive list of guidelines, but it is only meant to give you an idea of how to pick the best sport that will make your recreational life a success. Remember the bottom line is fun and entertainment.

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Laura Ingraham goes off the air ? to pursue modern dance?

Laura Ingraham, a conservative talk radio host, has left the Talk Radio Network after 9 years. Laura Ingraham jokes that she plans to pursue modern dance and the xylophone. If those don't work out, she'll go back to radio.

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Conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham has left her syndicated show. But is expected to be back soon on another radio network.

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She said Tuesday that she's leaving her distributor, Talk Radio Network, after more than nine years because her contract is up. Ingraham said she is in discussions with other distributors about her show, which currently airs on 325 stations nationally.

On her website, Ingraham wrote:

"After more than 9 years with the distributor Talk Radio Network, I decided it was time to move on. After much thought and reflection, I have decided to pursue my first loves--modern dance and the xylophone. In the highly unlikely event that these efforts do not prove fruitful, I intend to return to radio.

Seriously--to the more than 300 stations that carry the Laura Ingraham Show and to all my loyal listeners, I feel the time is right to expand and retool my radio program and to explore other syndication options, which I am now actively pursuing. During this brief hiatus, my team and I will continue to deliver thought-provoking and entertaining analysis via my website."

Talkers magazine says the conservative Ingraham is the most-listened to woman on radio, with an estimated 5.75 million listeners a week. Talkers said that ranks her among the top eight radio hosts overall.

Talkers also says that Ingraham's departure "comes as no surprise to industry observers who have long known of the not-so-secret friction that has existed for years between Ingraham and TRN?s top management. ?TALKERS has reached out to Talk Radio Network for information but has yet to receive a response."

On Tuesday, Ingraham's time slot on the Talk Radio Network was filled by Tammy Bruce. Bruce's own website describes her as "an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Reagan progressive feminist."

In the meantime, Ingraham said she'll keep her opinions flowing on her website, on Twitter and during Fox News Channel appearances.

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Spoke to soon? Perhaps Angus T. Jones had a change of heart or maybe he realized that you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you -- either way, the 19-year old star has issued an apology for encouraging people to stop watching Two and a Half Men. Yes, the very show that pays him a reported $350,000 per episode.

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jazz: What Your Emergency Survival Kits Should Contain | Travel ...

Emergency survival kits are just that they are kits that will help you get through a real emergency. A survival situation is the balance between life and death. There are so many situations where you would need a survival kit.

You can put together or purchase a kit for the home,the car and outdoors. Every home in America should have at least one survival kit for every member of the house. The last decade has seen some of the worst violence in American history.

The last decade has also seen some of the worst storms in all of history. Having a survival kit is not a luxury it is without a doubt a necessity. The Federal government even recommends that every home should have an emergency kit for every member of the household.

For the Home Family of Four

Each emergency kit should contain at least:

Three days of water Three days of food Medical supplies Important documents (at least copies) Can opener portable radio flashlight candle lighter city map portable car charger for cell phones

To effectively survive any disaster natural or man made the above items need to be present and ready for use. You can either put together this kit yourself or you can buy one. You want to be sure to have enough food and water to last at least three days.

Medical supplies should be a freshly stocked first aid kit and if any family member is diabetic or needs other life saving treatment/medication than that should also be present (rotate frequently to insure freshness).

Keep copies of all your important documents in the kit. Things like birth certificates, insurance policies for the home and the car and any other documents that may be hard to replace in a time of crisis.

A can opener ( you would be surprised how many people forget this) so you can open canned goods. A portable battery operated radio so that you can get news from the outside world is also important. Flashlights so that you can see should the power go out, candles for the same reason.

Make sure you have a lighter they are more reliable than matches. A map of your neighborhood or city so you know exit routes. Portable car charger for cell phones.

A good investment is a solar hank cranked lantern and radio just in case the emergency lasts longer and you run out of batteries.

Keep some cash and some change stashed in your kit. If the power goes down so does the ATM?s bank?s and other places that you can get money. Remember when the power goes down there is no place to ge gasoline either.

Any good survival kit will be compact enough to move around yet stacked enough with the gear that you and your family will need to make it through the crisis. A lot of families by one kit for each member although it is not necessary.

Hope for the Best Plan for the Worst

It is always best to plan ahead just in case. There were so many families that lost their basic ability to feed their families during some of the awful storms mother nature threw at them. Many times these storms struck in the dead of the night without warning.

Hundreds and in some cases thousands of people were killed or died after the fact. A little planning can go a really long way in surviving it does not take long to put a kit together and to purchase one is relatively inexpensive.

It is worth the peace of mind to be prepared.

For the Individual

If you are an outdoors person and journey into the woods, out on the ocean or anywhere that takes you away from the population and emergency kit should be a part of your planning as well. In the event you never use the items in your emergency kit that is perfect but if you need the items it is nice to know that they are there!

The same items for the home can be used in your outdoor survival kit just scale it down to make it easy to carry!

Paul is a long-time survivalist and writer. He?s always been prepared and now tries to get his family and friends prepared as well. You can read more about this topic and find survival gear at this website.

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Venezuela's Hugo Chavez heading to Cuba for more treatment after cancer fight

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has asked his country's legislature for permission to travel to Cuba for more medical treatment after spending much of the past 18 months fighting cancer.

The Tuesday request says Chavez has needed "various sessions of hyperbaric oxygenation" and physical therapy to continue "consolidating the process of strengthening health." The request doesn't provide more details about the treatment.

Hyperbaric treatments can be used for a broad variety of conditions.

The 58-year-old president first underwent cancer treatment in Cuba in June 2011 and suffered a relapse in February. He has since said he's recovered from the pelvic cancer and won re-election in October.

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Nokia unveils two new cellphone models, priced at $62

Country music titan Dolly Parton is anything but shy.In an exclusive interview with "Nightline," Parton dished about her love life (including those rumors that she is secretly gay), losing a drag queen lookalike contest and building an entertainment empire estimated at half a billion dollars.Watch the full story on "Nightline" tonight at 11:35 p.m. ETIn her long reign as a country music legend, Parton, now 66, has done it all. In her new motivational memoir, "Dream More," which will be released on Nov. 27, Parton talks about growing up dirt poor in Sevierville, Tenn. ...

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Where to Get the Most Cash for Your Old iPhone

Every time the latest version of a smartphone or tablet arrives, a new market for the previous models arrives too. Some buyers hope they can get decent used smartphones for less money than brand-new ones, and others think the latest version is too small an upgrade to justify the higher price. If you strategize well, you can sell your old phone on this secondary market for a surprising amount of cash. But before you can sell it, you have to get it ready for its new owner by backing it up, erasing your data, and restoring the factory settings. To boost the phone's resale value, you might also consider using Ultrasn0w (a program available on iphone-dev.org) to unlock it so that it can work on different carriers. Unlocking is legal but won't work on all phones?Verizon and Sprint devices, which operate on the CDMA network, can't be unlocked to work on AT&T and T-Mobile's GSM networks and vice versa. Finally, box up the phone in whatever original packaging you have left so it looks as close to new as possible.

Some electronics stores, among them Apple and RadioShack, have trade-in programs, and many websites serve as go-betweens for you and potential buyers. For gadgets such as the iPhone that cause near mayhem when new models come out, you need not look any further than Craigslist, where a few sentences including the state of your phone, your asking price, and any extra features?an intact warranty, for instance?will be enough to flood your inbox with emails from interested (and nearby) buyers. As of this writing, a 16 GB black AT&T iPhone 4 could fetch about $150.

Electronics more than one or two generations older than the current version are tougher sells, but it's certainly not impossible. Amazon, Best Buy, and Gazelle all have programs that let you trade your gadgets in exchange for gift certificates. You rate the condition of your phone?perfect, good, or mediocre?then send it in for the service to verify your judgment and to receive a gift card. With Amazon's exchange service, if the phone is worth more than what you guessed, you'll get a gift certificate for the higher amount, and if you overestimated, Amazon gives you the option of taking the lower amount or not selling at all. Though all three programs are nearly identical in process, they aren't in results: At press time, Amazon offers the most for a 16 GB black AT&T iPhone 4?a "like new" phone will get you $170 and a "good" one goes for $145. Best Buy offers slightly lower amounts?$152 for "perfect" and $145 for "good." Gazelle is the cheapskate of the group, offering just $145 for a "flawless" phone and $140 for a "good" one. Prices are bound to fluctuate as new models arrive, so it's still important to check all your options before choosing one.

The same services will work for much more than iPhones. If you have something really old, though, you might be better off giving eBay a shot. There, an obsolete-technology collector may be just the match for your old Walkman.

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After Electoral Rebuke from Diversifying American Electorate, What's ...

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Warning to GOP: Same Cast of Characters + Same Plot = Same Ending

Immediately following the 2012 elections, Republican leaders began to talk openly about the stark choice they face as a party: appeal to a diversifying America, or risk extinction as a national party.? Evidently, the House GOP missed the memo.? After an election in which immigration hard liners helped define and defeat Mitt Romney, immigration hard liners are pursuing the elimination of a program that ? you guessed it ? promotes diversity in our immigration visa system.

This week, the House will vote on a ?STEM? bill written by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX).? It eliminates a whole category of ?diversity visas? and redirects them to foreign students who graduated from American schools with degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math.? Why rob Peter to pay Paul?? Because this is Smith?s style.? He is exploiting the high-tech community?s legitimate need for more green cards in a way that pits constituencies against each other, reduces overall legal immigration levels and gives the back of the hand to lower-skilled immigrants from diverse backgrounds.

While Smith?s new bill includes a provision on family-based immigration in order to appear reasonable, the devil is in the details.? Crafted without Democratic input, the provision allows some relatives of legal residents to enter the country sooner, but with fewer rights than current law.? Still others who can currently immigrate legally are cut out completely.?? As a result, the bill stands little chance of getting approved.

Said Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America?s Voice Education Fund, ?We just had an election where the Lamar Smith approach to immigration policy was adjudicated and failed.? The policies and rhetoric of Smith and his allies ignored our nation?s diversity, drove Latino voters into the arms of Democrats, cost the GOP a chance at the White House and the Senate and reduced GOP ranks in the House.? And now, their first act on immigration is to move a Smith-crafted immigration bill that eliminates the diversity visa program?? If this is the ?new? Republican strategy on immigration, it sure looks a lot like the old Republican strategy on immigration.?

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Don McNay: Going for Your Dream Job

"You've got to know when to hold them,
Know when to fold them,
Know when to walk away,
Know when to run"
-Kenny Rogers

My father was a professional gambler. I'm an entrepreneur. However, the biggest risk taken by my family came from my wife Karen, a Catholic school principal who grew up on a dairy farm.

She didn't win the lottery, but she won a professional jackpot. Starting in July, she will be president of the Ursuline Academy in New Orleans, one of the most prestigious private schools in the country.

Founded in 1727, the Ursuline Academy is the oldest Catholic School and also the oldest all-girls school in the United States. It has incredibly impressive alumni, with several nationally and internationally famous graduates.

Karen wasn't looking for a new job. When the headhunters first called, her reaction wasn't positive. We were just married in June, she loved her current job, never lived outside Kentucky and was finishing her doctorate.

Her biggest concern was me. My structured settlement business operates nationally and my writing internationally, thanks to my syndicated column and Huffington Post contributions, but I am as deeply rooted in the legal, business and media communities in Kentucky as anyone can be.

A fear was that moving from Kentucky would damage my career. I love New Orleans and have been there many times, but have few clients in the area.

I happen to love Louisiana history. My high school civics teacher, Dick Maile, was an All-American basketball player at LSU and started me on a fascination that continues 40 years later. My friend and former New York Times reporter Gary Rivlin (who wrote a must read book about payday lending called Broke USA) is writing a book about post-Katrina New Orleans and told me I would love living there.

Being the son of a gambler and an entrepreneur taught me one thing: the biggest risk in life is not taking one.

We could stay in Kentucky and continue to be happy. Or she could try for a job that comes along once in a lifetime, and I could commute back and forth from Kentucky as I expanded my business to New Orleans and nationally.

Ultimately, we chose to roll the dice.

Karen read the description of what the Ursuline Academy was looking for and realized it was the position she had always dreamed of. It was also a position that would allow her to be a role model for a generation of Catholic girls and make a real difference.

I picked up a midlife, second career as a writer in order to advocate social justice and to educate people about personal finance. The Ursuline commitment to social justice is right up my alley.

The school took a big financial hit after Hurricane Katrina, but kept paying their teachers while the school was being repaired and no tuition was coming in.

That commitment was a big reason Karen applied for the position. She wanted to be in a culture that understood the long-term benefits of valuing their people.

As application time loomed, it was a time of prayer, intense conversations and gnashing of teeth. Love can conquer all, but developing a good plan really helps.

We developed a strategy where I would keep up our house in Kentucky and commute back and forth to New Orleans as I developed business in both places. I caught a break that my son-in-law, Clay Bigler, who serves as President of McNay Settlement Group, grew up as the son of a New Orleans bank president and saw the opportunity for us to open a branch in New Orleans.

I figured out that my years of accumulating frequent flyer miles was about to come in handy.

One irritant is that several people kept asking Karen if I would go along with her going after her dream job. If it had been reversed, and she was asked to alter her career to follow my dreams, I doubt the question would have come up.

It also gave us a calling. To show the young women in her school that their president could be married to someone with similar professional accomplishments and make it work.

When we spent time with the search committee and board of directors, it was an impressive group of people with big time credentials, but what impressed Karen and I was their love and commitment to the school. She wanted to work with people like that.

Now she will.

I'm also proud that we both saw the opportunities and not the obstacles. My biggest fear was that my Kentucky clients would think I was abandoning them. I've been calling them in droves and the reaction has been enthusiastic. By keeping the house and office in Kentucky, they know I will be available when needed.

They also think it might be a good idea to visit me in the New Orleans office. Especially when Mardi Gras, the Super Bowl or the Jazz Festival are happening.

We don't hit New Orleans until July, but it looks a trail of Kentuckians will be right behind us. Which means the risk of losing touch with our friends isn't much of a risk after all.

Organisms need to grow or die. We are going to get a lot of change thrown at us at once, but out of change comes growth and opportunity.

Sometimes you get to fulfill your dreams. Sometimes you never knew they were your dreams until the opportunity knocks on your door.

Or a headhunter calls out of the blue.

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Don McNay, a financial consultant and award-winning writer, is an expert on managing money and one of the world's leading authorities on how lottery winners handle their winnings.

His syndicated financial column appears regularly in The Huffington Post and in hundreds of publication worldwide. McNay also has appeared in several hundred television and radio programs, including CBS Morning News, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, ABC News Radio, BBC News, KPCC- Los Angeles, WLW-AM-Cincinnati, Al Jazeera-English, CBC Television (Canada), CTV (Canada) and Radio Live (New Zealand).

His insight has been sought by hundreds of print publications, including the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and Forbes.

Life Lessons from the Lottery: Protecting Your Money in a Scary World is McNay's fourth book. Two previous books, Wealth Without Wall Street and Son of a Son of a Gambler: Winners, Losers and What to Do When You Win the Lottery, have been Amazon bestsellers in a number of business and investing related categories.

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Israel accuses Palestinian of spying for Hezbollah

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency says a Palestinian man has been charged with relaying information to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon about sensitive government sites, including parliament.

It identified the suspect as Azzam Mashahara, a resident of east Jerusalem, which Israel captured in 1967.

Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem, unlike Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza Strip, have Israeli identity cards that allow them to travel freely within Israel.

The agency said the indictment was handed down on Sunday, a day after Mashahara was arrested.

All of the sites identified in the Shin Bet agency statement appear on Google Earth. Mashahara was charged with maintaining contacts with a foreign agent and relaying information to the enemy.

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Gaza truce holding even after Palestinian death

Crowds have been massing at the border between Israel and Gaza, and Israeli soldiers killed a man they said was trying to cross the border.

By Karin Laub and Sarah El Deeb,?The Associated Press / November 23, 2012

A Hamas police officer keeps Palestinians from approaching the Gaza-Israel border on Friday. One man was killed by Israeli soldiers during an attempted border crossing, testing the day-old ceasefire.

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Israeli troops fired Friday to push back?Gaza?crowds surging toward Israel's border fence with the Hamas-ruled territory, killing one Palestinian and wounding 19 in the first violence since a truce between Israel and Hamas took hold a day earlier.

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Hamas security tried to defuse the situation and keep the crowds away from the border, signaling the incident is unlikely to jeopardize the Egyptian-brokered cease-fire.

The truce, which calls for an end to?Gaza?rocket fire on Israel and Israeli airstrikes on?Gaza, came after eight days of cross-border fighting, the bloodiest between Israel and Hamas in four years.

On Friday, hundreds of Palestinians approached Israel's border fence in several locations in southern?Gaza.

In the past, Israel's military barred Palestinians from getting close to the fence, and soldiers routinely opened fire on violators to enforce a 300-meter-wide no-go zone meant to prevent infiltrations into Israel.

Since the cease-fire, growing numbers of Gazans have entered the no-go zone, testing expectations that such restrictions would now be lifted.

In one incident captured by Associated Press video, several dozen Palestinians, most of them young men, approached the fence, coming close to a group of Israeli soldiers standing on the other side.

Some Palestinians briefly talked to the soldiers, while others appeared to be taunting them with chants of "God is Great" and "Morsi, Morsi," in praise of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, whose mediation led to the truce.

At one point, a soldier shouted in Hebrew, "Go there, before I shoot you," and pointed away from the fence, toward?Gaza. The soldier then dropped to one knee, assuming a firing position. Eventually, a burst of automatic fire was heard, but it was not clear whether any of the casualties were from this incident.

Most of those approaching the fence were young men, but the crowds also included farmers hoping they could once again farm lands in the buffer zone. Speaking by phone from the buffer zone, 19-year-old Ali Abu Taimah said he and his father were checking three acres of family land that have been fallow for several years.

"When we go to our land, we are telling the occupation (Israel) that we are not afraid at all," he said.

Gaza?health official Ashraf al-Kidra said a 20-year-old man was killed and 19 people were wounded by Israeli fire near the border.

Israel's military said roughly 300 Palestinians approached the security fence at several locations in southernGaza, tried to damage it and cross into Israel. Soldiers fired warning shots in the air to distance the Palestinians from the fence, but after they refused to move back, troops fired at their legs, the military said. It also said a Palestinian infiltrated into Israel in the course of the unrest, but he was returned to?Gaza.

The truce allowed both Hamas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step back from the brink of a full-fledged war. Over eight days, Israel's aircraft carried out some 1,500 strikes on Hamas-linked targets, whileGaza?fighters peppered Israel with roughly the same number of rockets.

The fighting killed 166 Palestinians, including dozens of civilians, and six Israelis.

In Cairo, Egypt is hosting separate talks with Israeli and Hamas envoys on the next phase of the cease-fire ? a new border deal for blockaded?Gaza. Hamas demands lifting of all border restrictions, while Israel insists that Hamas must halt weapons smuggling to the territory.

In Israel, a poll showed that about half of Israelis think their government should have continued its military offensive against Hamas.

The independent Maagar Mohot poll released Friday shows 49 percent of respondents feel Israel should have kept going after squads that fire rockets into Israel. Thirty-one percent supported the government's decision to stop. Twenty percent had no opinion.

Twenty-nine percent thought Israel should have sent ground troops to invade?Gaza. The poll of 503 respondents had an error margin of 4.5 percentage points.

The same survey showed Netanyahu's Likud Party and electoral partner Israel Beiteinu losing some support, but his hard-line bloc would still able to form the next government. Elections are Jan. 22.

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Among different types of online marketing and advertising options, the pay per click or PPC is the most preferred option. It provides good value for money because only those consumers who are really interested in the product click on the ad link. This is an efficient and effective form of advertising that provides the best results. At the same time, this form of advertising has advanced to a very high level. It is not possible for business owners to spend a great deal of time in planning and managing the PPC campaign. For this reason, hiring the best PPC company is a more sensible option.

This is especially important for new business owners who are just starting their online business. The complex world of PPC advertising involves searching the niche keywords, choosing the right PPC ad program, planning and managing the PPC account, analyzing the result, among many other things. It requires lots of knowledge and experience to plan and manage such an advertising campaign. Only the best PPC company that employs such professionals can provide the desired result.

A new business owner has to spend lots of time trying to learn various tips and tricks involved with this ad system. It can take weeks and months before everything becomes clear, and even after that a continuous monitoring of the PPC advertising is needed. Online business owners usually work on tight budget and it is best if they outsource low value or specialized works to an outside agency. The PPC company manages PPC advertising processes according to the client?s specific requirements.

With its extensive knowledge of the industry, the PPC company can prepare the most effective advertising plan. The company also advises clients how to optimize the ad campaign to achieve the best result. An effective PPC advertising campaign results in better return on investment. The business owner does not have to spend lots of money on hiring different types of professionals. The best PPC company provides all types of advertising professionals under one roof.

If a business owner tries to take advantage of PPC advertising without any professional help then it can mean paying different professionals to handle various tasks associated with advertising, increasing the advertising budget. This can be avoided completely by dealing with a company that specializes in PPC advertising. PPC advertising provides targeted traffic which means access to potential consumers who are really interested in the product. These are the consumers who are really interested in the product and it is easy to convert such visitors into customers. The best PPC company helps achieve great advertising results within the specified budget and time limit.

There is complete control over the advertising expenditure and there is no need for the business owners to get involved with the nitty-gritty of advertising. They are left to handle and develop their core business which is more important. Ideally, if a business is going to spend more than $500 every month on PPC advertising then it is better to hire the best PPC company to handle this advertising job. It is also important to deal with a certified PPC company that is an authorized partner of the search engine company providing pay per click advertising program.

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Giving graphene the bends makes it transistor-ready

Sometimes bending something destroys it, but graphene grown on a rippling surface develops the semiconducting properties required for it to act as a transistor. The technique could be what's needed for the wonder material to finally replace silicon as the bedrock of computing.

Graphene is a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, with the atoms arranged in a hexagonal grid, like chicken wire. As well as being thin, super-strong and very flexible, this structure allows electrons to zip through at high speeds. It therefore seems poised to become the basis for ultra-fast computers.

But there's a problem. Materials used to make transistors have to be able to switch current on and off to create logic circuits. This switchability depends on there being a difference, known as a band gap, between the energy possessed by the material's free electrons, and the energy they would need to move around and conduct electricity. Only applying the right amount of external energy allows electrons to jump the band gap to become conducting.

Semiconductors like silicon have band gaps, making for good transistors. But because of its natural conductivity, graphene has a band gap of zero ? making it unsuitable for transistors.

Nanoribbon solution

Various solutions have been proposed for turning graphene into a semiconductor, including adding an insulating layer between two layers of graphene to reduce its conductivity, or carving it into very narrow ribbons, which alters its structure, making it easier to turn current off.

However, both of these use conventional etching techniques, placing limits on just how small such graphene transistors could get. For example, creating ribbons any less than 10 nanometres wide has until now left them with edges so ragged that the band gap disappears.

Now Ed Conrad at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and colleagues have found a way to create much narrower nanoribbons, without destroying their semiconductor capabilities, in a much simpler way.

The trick was to grow graphene sheets on a rippling surface covered in parallel trenches, each 18 nanometres deep. The team found that where the surface of the sheet dipped into a trench, the graphene's properties became semiconducting, with a band gap of 0.5 electronvolts, rather like the nanoribbons. Crucially, however, these strips of semiconductor were just 1.5 nanometres wide and sleek, not ragged.

Silicon replacement?

"The results are very important, because the existence of a band gap makes it possible to use graphene in nanoelectronics," says Luis Brey at the Materials Science Institute in Madrid, Spain. But the reason the gap exists is not yet clear. "More theoretical work is needed in order to understand how a 0.5 electronvolt gap appears in this structure," he says.

Chris Howard at University College London calls the work a strong development that opens up many potential applications, including high-performance electronics.

Silicon won't be replaced just yet, adds Conrad. "But graphene could push Moore's law to its limits."

Journal reference: Nature Physics, DOI: 10.1038/nphys2487

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Can't stop smoking? Live longer by cutting back

If you?ve been trying to quit smoking and failed, take heart. New research suggests just cutting down on the number of cigarettes you smoke each day can significantly lower your risks for poor health.

Researchers at American friends Tel Aviv University looked in survival rates among people who smoke but reduced their number of cigarettes because they couldn?t entirely quit.

The study took place over a 40 year span and the researchers for the study looked at survival rates and life expectancy.

People who reduced cigarette consumption had a 15% lower risk of dying compared to people who stop smoking altogether whose risk of early death went down 22%.

Vicki Myers, a researcher at Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine said in a press release that smoking fewer cigarettes is a valid health risk reduction strategy, though stopping altogether is still best.

The investigation included 4, 623 Israeli males who smoked at baseline, with an average age of 51. The men were part of the Israeli Ischemic Heart Disease Study.

The men took part in two interviews ? one in 1963 and a second in 1965 to assess their smoking habits. The researchers looked at how many died over a 40 year period.

The first interview allowed the investigators to categorize the men according to how man cigarettes they smoked each day. In the second interview the researchers noted whether the men had decreased or increased their consumption or stayed the same.

Cutting down on smoking lowered the chances of dying from any cause by 15% and reduced the risk of death from heart disease by 23%.

If you smoke and quit completely, your chances of living to age 80 go up by 33%; from the study finding. Participants who curbed smoking saw a 22% increased chance of living to age 80.

Myers explained in a media release that it?s never too late to try to quit smoking or at least cut down. In the study, people whose average age was 50 were able to either quit or reduce the number of cigarettes they smoke.

Myers says though the message that cutting down on smoking has benefits for health might be controversial because it is better to quit, there are long-term benefits from smoking less.

If you do smoke, be thoughtful toward others. Limit your cigarette consumption so you don't expose others to second-hand smoke; especially children. If you're trying to quit, change your daily habits to improve your chances of success.

The study looked at the health benefits over a long period of time, making it a first, notes Myers, who also says cutting back on cigarettes is better than not taking any action to curb health risks that come from smoking. Make it a goal to quit smoking, which is shown to help reduce symptoms of cough after just two weeks.

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For instance, you?d currently have necessary to technique your current financial institution along with make application for one of their own lending products, which will was not genuinely excellent when you merely wanted handful of money right away. Finance institutions along with banking institutions currently have lengthy techniques in regards to financial individuals cash. There?s the troublesome activity involving kind answering, in addition to handing through records plus identity. Then this finance institutions them selves must perform assessments to make sure you happen to be seeking what can that you can truly pay off, which you are additionally a trusted consumer. I can agree that this complete procedure took too wish for the needs of the ultra-modern working day consumer; this is one of many main reasons why pay day loans are getting to be so well received.
Even so, can the following level of popularity final? Will payday loans continue being a perfect personal alternative for those who need to have a tiny more money from a single calendar month to an alternative? Effectively a way of checking out it really is in which Ten years back, no one could have ever before dreamt that pay day loans will be seeing that popular as there?re at this time. It may be in which payday cash advances or perhaps quick lending options will have a much more regulations compared to accomplish nowadays, yet there are no very clear signs in which anything at all will minimize or maybe total stand still the achievements of payday advances.
If perhaps payday cash loans ended up some sort of craze, subsequently at this point his or her attractiveness would have been limited fairly. Somewhat, if feels like these are attaining energy. The particular Payday Loans Online around this variety of lender alternative centers on the ease where somebody can easily borrow money and in addition they method in which consumers could defer a payment with their mortgage loan up until the next week, and also accruing additional involvement in the end. It could be the last mentioned of them criticisms are going to be searched into, as a technique of developing payday advances far more dependable for just a moment. And so in some ways there could possibly be several modifications to the manner these are regulated, however right now there really isn?t any sign of their recognition diminishing.
Lots of might not be accustomed to the phrase payday loan, but people who find themselves, realize that this can be a buddy in need. Sure, it?s actually a mortgage loan that can help you to get over your entire emergency monetary desires just before the precise salaryday will come. This bank loan can assist you to obvious several of the tiny economic requirements which come about during this month. This particular personal loan ensures that a person quit excessive plus dry when you have to pay for your boy?s the summer months undertaking as well as your wife?s abrupt demand for extra revenue. Nonetheless exactly what actually is any payday loan? Very well, any payday loan is actually a compact financial loan that may be paid from the banking companies along with the finance institutions momentarily of energy i.electronic. until your next cash advance.
Instant payday loans simply no fax required is usually a loan that?s provided without any mortgages or even sec and you?re simply to repay the money with each of our next pay day advance. This particular bank loan signifies that you are able to get hold of your loan throughout a few events of the application. You may take advantage the financial loan at minimum and also zero documents. Without a doubt, about the common belief and also meeting which a mortgage has to move across rigorous critique connected with loan application, you can aquire use of pay day loans without having problems. This specific personal loan involves anyone to just post the job and also you could receive the expected cost on the same day.
There are several economical businesses that supply their own online aid for that disbursal these personal loans and you simply only have to log on to their internet site to the distribution of your use. In this article, it is necessary to populate the web based application form as well as inside Twenty four hours of submitter, you would be keeping the asked for dollars. None are you needing fax needed the job neither of them do you have to endure some sort of credit check required. When we have already brought up that it financial loan is for the intention of sufficing your current vital yet tiny fiscal wants, hence the importance of the money normally will not meet or exceed the actual control regarding $1500.
Quick Instant Pay Day Loans isn?t one who requires that you successfully pass a strict credit score assessment and other troublesome records, so that you are approved your loan total within just A day of the submission within your app. Payday loans simply no fax needed does not necessarily mean that you have to stand in the lending institution?s queue for two hrs or faxing our application as well as anticipating them endorsement to get a 7 days; on-line distribution associated with program could bring you your loan within seconds.
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