Friday, June 1, 2012

Tech Thursday: Custom-Made Foursquare Jewelry - Travel + Leisure

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For anyone with an addiction to social media (which, naturally, includes yours truly), you know there are tons of benefits that come with taking the time to check-in to the various restaurants, shops, hotels, parks, and?well, anywhere and everywhere you might go. From perks like discounts or freebies, to the satisfaction of becoming the ?mayor? of your favorite coffee shop a la Foursquare, to even, in some cases, winning a free trip?the possibilities are seemingly endless.

One companyhas taken the concept of checking in to whole different level: they?re letting people log into Foursquare through their website and create custom jewelry using their previous check-ins?think: connect the dots. (Fret not: if you?re not on Foursquare, you can use their custom map to create your design, or you could just shop from their pre-existing collection.)

You can choose to include or exclude as many of your check-ins as you want, from all across the world. Once you?re done, just pay up (anywhere from $75?150), and your custom creations?as of now, necklaces, earrings, and cufflinks are being offered?will be manufactured and delivered.

It?s what I think is a genius idea, started up by Rachel Binx and Sha Hwang. You can find everything you?ll need to get your Foursquare glam on, over on their website: meshu.

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?Joshua Pramis is the social media editor at Travel + Leisure, and is currently contemplating a pair of Foursquare cufflinks. Follow him on Twitter: @joshuapramis

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Putumayo AM2 Tea Party Ticket

Harajuku Hearts is pleased to present an exclusive, limited seating Putumayo Brunch Party, hosted by Putumayo designers? Sayaka Nishoka and Shunsuke Hasegawa!

The brunch party will take place Sunday, Jun 17th from 10:30AM - 12:30pm.? Location will be dispensed to ticket holders only. An advance-purchase ticket is required to enter the event, and tickets are limited.

The menu will include a full brunch meal. The location will be provided to ticket holders prior to the event. The location of the party will be walking distance from Anaheim Convention Center or within 5mins driving distance.

Please make note of the following requirements before purchasing a ticket:

Dress Code:
No strict dress code will be enforced, but wearing of one Putumayo item is required for this event. Please also note that wearing of replicas to this event is highly discouraged.?

Cosplay is not permitted. Any and all cosplay ensembles are inappropriate. Examples include, but are not limited to:
? Purposefully replicating anime characters and their respective outfits
? Purposefully replicating brand-themed coordinates (such as those in advertising or print campaigns) in a cosplay-like style or manner
? Mana cosplay
? Chii ears, Naruto headbands, cosplay wigs, etc.
? Cosplay-related props and/or weapons

Anyone wearing cosplay or any outfit deemed inappropriate will be asked to change or leave the event.

General Conduct:
Due to the limited space and liabilities involved, no dolls will be allowed at the tea party. Seating will be assigned on an individual basis. Asking for autographs outside of any designated autograph session is prohibited. Outside food and drink, and solicitations of any kind are strictly prohibited at this event. In consideration of others, please set all mobile communication devices to silent mode. Should you have to communicate with your mobile device, we ask that you temporarily excuse yourself from the party.

Ticketing:
Single ticket price is $50.00. All tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Tickets are bound to a specific name when purchased. Both the tea party ticket and the government issued ID matching name? must be presented to gain entry to the event.

Please purchase the tea party tickets at:
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Syrian troops shell Houla, site of massacre

In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Tuesday, May 29, 2012, purports to show 13 blindfolded and handcuffed bodies on the ground in Deir el-Zour, Syria. U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL

In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Tuesday, May 29, 2012, purports to show 13 blindfolded and handcuffed bodies on the ground in Deir el-Zour, Syria. U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL

In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Tuesday, May 29, 2012, purports to show 13 blindfolded and handcuffed bodies on the ground in Deir el-Zour, Syria. U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL

In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Tuesday, May 29, 2012, purports to show 13 blindfolded and handcuffed bodies on the ground in Deir el-Zour, Syria. U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL

(AP) ? Syrian troops on Thursday shelled the country's central region of Houla where more than 100 people were massacred last week, activists said. At least one person was killed in the latest violence and scores fled in fear of more government attacks.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees activist groups said government troops unleashed heavy machine guns but also used mortars Thursday in Houla, a collection of poor farming villages in the central Homs province. Both groups said a young man was killed by sniper fire.

Survivors of the Houla massacre have blamed pro-regime gunmen for at least some of carnage that began Friday and left 108 people dead, many of them children and women. The Syrian government denied its troops were behind the killings and blamed "armed terrorists."

Activists from Houla said government forces on Friday first shelled the area after large demonstrations against the regime earlier in the day. That evening, they said, pro-regime fighters known as shabiha stormed the villages, gunning down men in the streets and stabbing women and children in their homes.

The Houla massacre was one of the deadliest incidents since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime started in March last year. The U.N. said several weeks ago that more than 9,000 people have been killed in the past 15 months while activists put the number at about 13,000.

The Observatory reported that Houla residents were fleeing Thursday to nearby towns and villages "fearing a new massacre."

In the wake of last week's massacre, the United States, Western and Asian nations expelled Syrian diplomats in protest.

In Istanbul, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday called on Syria to stop its attacks, saying U.N. observers monitoring the cease-fire were not there to watch the killings of innocent people.

Ban was speaking about the nearly 300 U.N. observers who were deployed around Syria to monitor a cease fire that went into effect on April 12, as part of an international peace plan negotiated by international envoy Kofi Annan. Despite the cease fire violence continued almost daily.

Meanwhile, a group of army defectors known as the Free Syrian Army warned the Syrian government on Thursday that if it does not abide by Annan's plan by ceasing fire and pulling out troops from residential areas by Friday noon, the group will defend the people.

"After that, the Free Syrian Army will not abide by the Annan plan ... and will defend the civilians," said Col. Qassim Salaheddine in a statement posted on YouTube. Salaheddine identified himself as the FSA commander in Homs province.

Although the FSA claims that it has so far been abiding by Annan's plan, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said gunmen have violated the cease-fire more than 3,500 times. There have been clashes over the past weeks between troops and army defectors in different areas around Syria.

Also Thursday, Syria's state-run TV said that 500 people who had got involved in recent events in Syria have been released from detention. The report gave no further details.

In Damascus, the Syria International Islamic Bank, or SIIB, criticized the latest sanctions imposed Wednesday by the Obama administration as "irrational and unjustified."

The Treasury Department said Wednesday that SIIB has been acting as a front for other Syrian financial institutions seeking to circumvent sanctions. The new penalties will prohibit the bank from engaging in financial transactions in the U.S. and will freeze any assets under U.S. jurisdiction.

SIIB said it would undertake all necessary measures toward the U.S. decision, saying it has no assets or accounts in the United States. It added that the bank, like other Syrian banks, halted all banking operations with the dollar since U.S. sanctions were first imposed on Syria.

With the Obama administration unwilling at this point to pursue military options in Syria, the U.S. has relied heavily on economic sanctions as a means for pressing Assad to leave power. The United States will host other nations in Washington next week to look at ways to tighten international sanctions further.

World powers share a belief that Syria could descend into civil war and plan to map out possible ways to avoid such a disaster for the region, a deputy for Annan said Wednesday. Jean-Marie Guehenno told reporters after privately briefing the U.N. Security Council, the world body's most powerful unit, that diplomats are deeply troubled by Syria's cycle of violence.

Earlier Wednesday, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani warned the West about military intervention in Syria along the lines of NATO's campaign that helped ouster Moammar Gadhafi after the alliance backed the rebel movement in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.

"Creating another Benghazi in Syria will impact Palestine and the ashes of this fire will cover the Zionist regime, definitely," he said using the phrase commonly used by Iranian officials to refer to Israel.

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Associated Press writer Albert Aji contributed to this report from Damascus, Syria.

Associated Press

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A web directory is the same as an online phone book. It contains listings of web sites arranged by category. While most web directories dont provide a lot of traffic it is still important to have your site listed in as many as possible. It helps build your web presence, assists with your sites page rank and link popularity.

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Real estate tax knowledge is imperative for real estate investors and homeowners.

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Real estate taxes are assed according to the sale value of your land or home. Rates are likely to be reassessed each year and normal inflationary increases and land values mean that your real estate taxes will increase with them. There are strict laws in place to ensure that these real estate taxes are paid and if you fall behind you are likely to even lose your home. The bill of rights requires that your property tax bill shows your assessment value of the property and the percentage of the how the figure has been arrived at. Real estate taxes can change according to the local municipal needs and area upgrades that need financing so your real estate taxes can change at any time in relation to municipal budgets.

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UNH to analyze 'bellwether' solar event data from European satellite

UNH to analyze 'bellwether' solar event data from European satellite [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 31-May-2012
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Contact: David Sims
david.sims@unh.edu
603-862-5369
University of New Hampshire

DURHAM, N.H. When the sun launched a moderate, or M-class, solar flare May 17, 2012, it was still one of the largest eruptions seen since late January when our star began to rouse from an anomalously long quiet period. But the event was not just an additional solar wake-up call; it produced something that has the solar physics community puzzled and scientists from the University of New Hampshire poised to analyze a singular dataset gathered during the event by a European satellite called PAMELA short for Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics.

The puzzle is this: The solar event created what is known as a ground-level enhancement (GLE), which is a blast of high-energy particles registered by ground stations on Earth after a very large solar flare and/or another explosive mechanism known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). The May 17 GLE lit up ground stations (neutron monitors) all over the world for the first time in nearly six years, but given the stature, or lack thereof, of the solar explosions, there should have been no GLE at all.

Says James Ryan, an astrophysicist at the UNH Space Science Center (SSC) and UNH co-investigator on the PAMELA mission, "This solar flare was most unimpressive and the associated CME was only slightly more energetic. And looking at it optically, it was remarkably dim, it was, all things considered, a ninety-eight pound weakling of solar events."

Enter PAMELA, which as luck would have it "looks" at an energy range of particles not seen by any other spacecraft. The data PAMELA recorded on the May 17 solar event should provide scientists with an unprecedented view of how the high-energy particles morphed through time and space, and this should provide insight into the mysterious appearance of the GLE.

PAMELA is a mission carried out by a European collaboration led by Italy and Russia together with German and Swedish institutes, and collaborators in the U.S. at UNH, New Mexico State University, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Launched in 2006 and dedicated to studying cosmic rays, just two weeks before the most recent blast from the sun PAMELA was retasked to focus on solar physics due to the sun's ever-increasing activity.

For decades, there has been strong debate as to what complex processes produce the extremely energetic particles that are registered on the ground; is it the shockwave in front of a CME or do the particles come from the solar flare itself? The most recent event has the potential to be a "real bellwether" according to Ryan because it will allow the study of the evolution of the flare from low to high energies without interruption.

"The PAMELA satellite provides us with a bridge that has never existed before," says Ryan, "a bridge between solar energetic particles measured by other spacecraft and those made on the ground by neutron monitors, like the one we've operated here in Durham for decades. Spanning that gap has opened up new opportunities."

The opportunity for Ryan and his SSC colleague Ulisse Bravar, UNH's principal investigator for the PAMELA mission, is to begin doing the detailed analysis of the May 17 data that will provide the scientific community with fresh insights.

UNH is funded for the PAMELA mission through the National Science Foundation's Solar, Heliospheric, and Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) program for the very purpose of analyzing data from these sorts of solar events because, notes Ryan, "this is an untapped capability of PAMELA. The NSF saw the value in getting this data and of having UNH, which has a strong history in solar physics, lead that effort."

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The University of New Hampshire, founded in 1866, is a world-class public research university with the feel of a New England liberal arts college. A land, sea, and space-grant university, UNH is the state's flagship public institution, enrolling 12,200 undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students.

Photograph to download: http://www.eos.unh.edu/newsimage/pamela_sm.jpg

Caption: The Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics, or PAMELA, satellite. Credit: PAMELA mission.


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UNH to analyze 'bellwether' solar event data from European satellite [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 31-May-2012
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Contact: David Sims
david.sims@unh.edu
603-862-5369
University of New Hampshire

DURHAM, N.H. When the sun launched a moderate, or M-class, solar flare May 17, 2012, it was still one of the largest eruptions seen since late January when our star began to rouse from an anomalously long quiet period. But the event was not just an additional solar wake-up call; it produced something that has the solar physics community puzzled and scientists from the University of New Hampshire poised to analyze a singular dataset gathered during the event by a European satellite called PAMELA short for Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics.

The puzzle is this: The solar event created what is known as a ground-level enhancement (GLE), which is a blast of high-energy particles registered by ground stations on Earth after a very large solar flare and/or another explosive mechanism known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). The May 17 GLE lit up ground stations (neutron monitors) all over the world for the first time in nearly six years, but given the stature, or lack thereof, of the solar explosions, there should have been no GLE at all.

Says James Ryan, an astrophysicist at the UNH Space Science Center (SSC) and UNH co-investigator on the PAMELA mission, "This solar flare was most unimpressive and the associated CME was only slightly more energetic. And looking at it optically, it was remarkably dim, it was, all things considered, a ninety-eight pound weakling of solar events."

Enter PAMELA, which as luck would have it "looks" at an energy range of particles not seen by any other spacecraft. The data PAMELA recorded on the May 17 solar event should provide scientists with an unprecedented view of how the high-energy particles morphed through time and space, and this should provide insight into the mysterious appearance of the GLE.

PAMELA is a mission carried out by a European collaboration led by Italy and Russia together with German and Swedish institutes, and collaborators in the U.S. at UNH, New Mexico State University, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Launched in 2006 and dedicated to studying cosmic rays, just two weeks before the most recent blast from the sun PAMELA was retasked to focus on solar physics due to the sun's ever-increasing activity.

For decades, there has been strong debate as to what complex processes produce the extremely energetic particles that are registered on the ground; is it the shockwave in front of a CME or do the particles come from the solar flare itself? The most recent event has the potential to be a "real bellwether" according to Ryan because it will allow the study of the evolution of the flare from low to high energies without interruption.

"The PAMELA satellite provides us with a bridge that has never existed before," says Ryan, "a bridge between solar energetic particles measured by other spacecraft and those made on the ground by neutron monitors, like the one we've operated here in Durham for decades. Spanning that gap has opened up new opportunities."

The opportunity for Ryan and his SSC colleague Ulisse Bravar, UNH's principal investigator for the PAMELA mission, is to begin doing the detailed analysis of the May 17 data that will provide the scientific community with fresh insights.

UNH is funded for the PAMELA mission through the National Science Foundation's Solar, Heliospheric, and Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) program for the very purpose of analyzing data from these sorts of solar events because, notes Ryan, "this is an untapped capability of PAMELA. The NSF saw the value in getting this data and of having UNH, which has a strong history in solar physics, lead that effort."

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The University of New Hampshire, founded in 1866, is a world-class public research university with the feel of a New England liberal arts college. A land, sea, and space-grant university, UNH is the state's flagship public institution, enrolling 12,200 undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students.

Photograph to download: http://www.eos.unh.edu/newsimage/pamela_sm.jpg

Caption: The Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics, or PAMELA, satellite. Credit: PAMELA mission.


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