Temple Run 2 surpasses 20 million downloads on iOS in four days

Temple Run

Imangi Studios, the creators of the hit game Temple Run, released a sequel to its popular Indiana Jones-esque runner game on Apple?s (AAPL) App Store last week. Temple Run 2 features the same gameplay as its predecessor, however it includes a new environment, better graphics and performance, and more powerups and achievements. The game has been well received by iOS users, currently holding a four star rating, and has been downloaded more than 20 million times, six million within the first 24 hour,?in just four days. For context, Angry Birds Space was downloaded 10 million times in less than three days?across multiple?operating systems. Imangi?s original game has been downloaded more than 170 million times on?Android and iOS. Temple Run 2 is available now on the App Store and is slated to arrive on Android this week.

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Landmark for UK citizen science

22 January 2013 Last updated at 06:22 ET By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News

The interim findings of a massive five-year citizen science project, involving more than 25,000 surveys and 500,000 people, have been published.

The Open Air Laboratories (Opal) project was designed to get people outdoors and provide a chance to get involved in scientific research.

The project also found that domestic gardens were home to the greatest number and diversity of earthworms.

Organisers are hopeful of securing funding to continue with the project.

"When we started off, we were really concerned about the lack of opportunities for the person in the street to play an active role in environmental protection," said Linda Davies, Opal director.

"We also realised that huge sectors of society were not involved or didn't really feel any affinity towards the environment."

She added that global agreements, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, called for nations to document all of their flora and fauna.

"So we thought that there were so many things for people who wanted to engage to participate in," Dr Davies told BBC News.

'Very valuable'

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BBC Lab UK: the BBC's citizen science project

• BBC Lab UK has launched a series of ground-breaking scientific experiments, ranging from morality to musicality
• Each experiment is designed and analysed by leading academic researchers
• In 2010, the BBC Lab UK experiment 'Brain Test Britain' generated a Nature paper about brain training

Since its launch in 2007, more than 25,000 sites - ranging from street trees and hedges, allotments and woodlands, and parks and playfields - have been examined and data submitted to the project's database.

Dr Davies said the team behind the project plans to make all the information publicly available.

"There is a huge amount of information that [scientists] can use - it is very valuable long-term data," she explained.

"Some will identify trends, which we can then go on to investigate a lot further, while other show interesting things right from the start of the survey.

"For example, collection of pond sediment has never been done before so we did not know the sort of metal concentrations you would find in those environments."

One highlight, she revealed, was that private gardens were a biological hotspot when it came to earthworms.

"We certainly did not expect to see the highest number of earthworms (in terms of diversity) in back gardens."

Dr Davies was reluctant to expand too much on the project's findings because she said much of the data was still be analysed by scientists but said that they planned to published a detailed report in the spring and release information on the project's website.

She also added that data collection was just one of a number of objectives: "The first objective was just to get people out and enjoying the outdoors."

Another highlight of the project, which received ?14m of lottery funding, was the development of software that provided people with the information needed to take part in surveys, as well as the means to submit their findings - the most successful being the iSpot application for smartphones.

"Uploading photos from mobile phones has been proven to be good enough to confirm identification of numerous species - many more that we first envisaged.

"Many natural history societies have been able to take the photos from iSpot as actual records to add to the national dataset of findings across the country."

High confidence

The organisers also addressed the concern that data collected by citizen scientists would not be as robust as information gathered by professional researchers.

"It is important that from the outset that we design it with scientists so then we can use the data that comes out of it," explained Dr Davies, an urban ecologist from Imperial College.

"[This touches] upon the most important issue for policymakers - can they rely on the data from the public when they are making decisions.

"If you ask people to count the number of earthworms then the confidence level is high.

"If you ask people to identify the earthworm species then that confidence level will fall, but you can account for that in the project design and the analysis of the data."

Although the project had formally ended, she said that organisers were hopeful Opal's work would continue.

"We hope this might inspire others to think about a national monitoring programme that the public could be involved with.

"We think there is far too much out there to shut up shop and walk away now, so we have got to find the means to carry on."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21062303#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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Join Yahoo News' Holly Bailey and Cindy Gallop, founder of Make Love Not Porn, at 12:30 ET Thursday as they discuss the annual Adult Entertainment Expo, "Fifty Shades of Grey" and the changing porn industry.

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How Can A Life Coach Help You?

The term life coach has become so ever more popular during the past decade or so.? I know that growing up?I?ve?never ever heard the term life coach (in English or any other language I was speaking back then).

So why are we hearing and reading the term?life coach?or?life coaching?all over the place nowadays, and is it a good thing? But most of all, how can a life coach help you?? To begin answering those question let?s go in human history in order to understand why life coaches have made their appearance in more recent time.

The Human Race Has Evolved

One thing you are probably aware of is that the human race evolves as time goes on.? We don?t stay the same centuries after centuries.? Just go down history lane and you would easily understand what I mean.

Back in Biblical times people had to kill a lamb in sacrifice for their sin;?aren?t?you glad you don?t have to do this anymore?

More recently in human history you would be burned alive if you were hearing and speaking to spirits, yet it was OK to ship human beings like cattle from another continent to enslave them.? More recently still you could be hanged for a simply theft case.? Any very recently in history, as recent as when you were a child, you may remember that it was OK to inflict corporal punishment on your children or even your school students without getting in ?any trouble with the law.

Looking at our history, needless to say the human race was more mentally primitive and has evolved greatly.? That?s why when I hear people regretting the old days I always say, well, not everything was better in the old days, was it?? I don?t know about you, but I wouldn?t?care too much to have lived in the 17^th?century, do you?

So, yes, thankfully, the mind of the human race as a whole has evolved to the point that we have become less?animalistic?and more spiritual.? Because of such higher spiritual level of energy floating around the universe we are attracting more and more spiritual/mind development information such as this blog and hundreds of others, and we are creating the need for life coaching.? Don?t you love leaving in this day and age? I know I do!

Reaching a Spiritual Maturity like Never Before

People are more interested in their mind and spirituality than ever before, and that?s one of the best things that has ever happened to the human race since its infancy.? Yes, they are still some group of people who are still leaving in some type of? mental stone age, being tyrants by today?s standards, but over all?people are becoming more and more aware of their higher self, and therefore, are more and more attracted to personal development materials. Thus the rise of life coaches.

What I like about life coaching is that people don?t come to us like they would to a doctor.? I mean by that that you go to a doctor because you?re sick or because you want to prevent some potential illnesses.

In the case of a life coach, the only people that would come to you for help are people that are already ?up there? mentally and aware of their potential power, abilities, and talents to get where they want.? Sometimes, it might still be a subconscious awareness, but it?s there.? If it?weren?t?you?wouldn?t?even look for a life coach.? In other words, a life coach attracts his or her clients naturally, according the universal?Law of Attraction, and it?s beautiful that way.

Reaching for Higher more Spiritual Grounds as an Individual

If you have reached the mental maturity that is given to mankind nowadays, you might be looking for reaching a higher ground of spiritual insight.

Note:?When I say spiritual, please, do not confuse this with religion.? Religion in itself is another topic of its own, and has nothing to do with the spirituality I am talking about.? I don?t have anything against religion in itself, but the spirituality of a person, their awareness of self, is almost never linked to their religion or lack of it.

To give you an example to illustrate this, I am presently reading a book by Kelvin Cruickshank ?a well known psychic from New Zealand who was relating how he started seeing spirits when he was only 4 years old.? When you?re 4 you have no attachment to any religion and most likely no religious beliefs of your own, anyway.? Yet, it?s interesting how the spirituality of a little boy that age was already letting itself known.? Just a parenthesis to make sure we are on the same track here, when I use the word spirituality.

Can we Make our Mind Grow?

Some people have asked me the question, can I make my mind (the higher self part of me grow?) and my answer to such question is yes, of course you can.

Just like you can bury a natural ability of the mind such as a ?psychic gift? you can also develop natural spiritual abilities and higher understandings. But it all depends on what you do.? What I do know is that preventing your mind to grow?doesn?t?give good results.? On the other hand, increasing your mind by empowering it opens many doors to a better you.

To give you another example of what I?m talking about, my aunt (my mother?s older sister) also had psychic abilities as early as 3 or 4 years old.? However, my grandmother got so frightened when my aunt used to tell her that she was seeing a little pig on the ceiling or some children in her bedroom that she did everything in her power to make my aunt (then just a small child)?bury?that psychic ability. ?The funny thing is that my grandmother had psychic abilities herself.

Did it work? Yes, it did. My aunt never had another vision after age six. Not once in her life, and she is 81 now.? However, if you knew my aunt as well as I do, I?m sure you?ll be able to tell that something is ?missing? in her.? I?didn?t?know it all these years living with and around my aunt, but today, as a life coach, I am pretty sure that it has something to do with that buried spiritual gift of hers.

How can a Life Coach Help you?

Bringing your God given gifts back to life, or developing some gifts you?didn?t?know you had, or helping you seeing what?s blocking you from achieving what you want in this life; that?s what a life coach can help you accomplish.

As I always say, a life coach can?t take steps for you, but they can help you to get on the right path or discover a path you?didn?t?know was even there.

People have questions about their health, their financial situation, their job, their relationships and everything in between.? Most of the time, it?s almost impossible to clearly see the whole situation you?re in yourself, but a life coach being an outsider to such situation can see something that was right there, totally blinding you.

It may be some very deep down subconscious beliefs that you may have due to your upbringing.? We all have them, but when it comes to our own we are often times totally blinded by them, not conscious that they even exist and standing between us and the success we are trying to reach for.

A very common denominator we all have is called ?mom?.? For most people what mama said and did has stuck with us all throughout our lives. Many things you?re probably able to find out yourself, but some other things are so much part of your subconscious programming that you can?t see them, unless someone point them out to you.? That?s what a life coach does.

I will never forget a story that famous life coach Harv Eker tells in one of his books. One day a man who came to one of his seminars was telling him that he made very good money up to 5-6 figures a month, yet, he always managed to?dilapidated it all until he was broke by the end of the month. Then, he made another big fat check at the beginning of the month and started the money-wasting game all over again until he was broke.

The man understood he had a problem, but?didn?t?know what it was.? So life coach Harv Eker started to ask him some basic questions about how he was raised and what he was taught as a young child.? Then the man said a key phrase. ?My mother always said that rich people are pigs?.? When the man said that, Eker knew instantly that he had found the root of the money problem that this man had.? Eker said; ?Consciously, we all want to be rich, but most of all, subconsciously we never want to disappoint mom and no one wants to be a pig?.

Consciously no one would waste all their money in order to be broke at the end of the month, but subconscious we do.? As I said in many of my posts before, the subconscious mind?doesn?t?reason logically, it just makes us act based on our programming.? The subconscious mind says ?pig is bad. ??Mom says it bad. ?Must lose money asap in order not to be pig?. That?s as simple as this.

This is an area where a life coach can help you greatly. This man was helped by life coach Harv Eker, until he was healed from his money issue.

So, there you have it. Those are areas where a life coach can come handy.? This is how a life coach can help you.

Over to you know. Please, leave your comments or question down below!

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'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' Thanksgiving: Mama June Quizzes The Family (VIDEO)

"The Biggest Loser"

Returns Sunday, January 6 at 9 p.m. EST and moves to regular timeslot on Monday, January 7 at 8 p.m. EST on NBC <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Jillian Michaels! She's back to help whip contestants into shape. Plus, for the first time, kids (ages 13-16) will be on the show along with 15 adult contestants.

"Downton Abbey"

Returns Sunday, January 6 at 9 p.m. EST on PBS <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Bates was left to rot in jail, Matthew and Mary finally got together and the Dowager Countess was sassy. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Americans! Shirley MacLaine guest stars as Martha, Cora's mother. She's very rich. Season 3 has already aired in the UK and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/26/downton-abbey-season-4-dan-stevens_n_2364574.html">one prominent character is saying goodbye to "Downton Abbey."</a>

"The Bachelor"

Returns Monday, January 7 at 8 p.m. EST on ABC <strong>Starring</strong>: Sean Lowe <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Jilted "Bachelorette" contestant Sean returns to TV as "The Bachelor" and seeks to find love.

"Deception"

Monday, January 7 at 10 p.m. EST on NBC <strong>Starring</strong>: Meagan Good, Laz Alonso, Tate Donovan and Victor Garber <strong>What's It About</strong>: A wealthy socialite and party girl is found dead of an overdose, but something's fishy about her death. Enter FBI Agent Will Moreno (Alonso), who recruits his former partner Joanna Padget (Good), the deceased's former best friend. Joanna hides her true occupation and infiltrates the family she grew up around to find the truth about her friend's death.

"Betty White's Off Their Rockers"

Returns Tuesday, January 8 at 8 p.m. EST on NBC <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Betty White will entertain a ton of guest stars while introducing the elderly pranksters. Kim Kardashian, the ladies of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," Ed Asner and NeNe Leakes are among the names who will appear on the prank show.

"Pretty Little Liars"

Returns Tuesday, January 8 at 8 p.m. EST on ABC Family. <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Toby is on the A Team, Garrett's dead, Aria's dad has some strange connection to Ali, Paige saved the day and Ezra's a dad ... and Alex Mack is his baby mama. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Mona is released from Radley and is back at Rosewood High. Clearly, she'll be working with Toby, who the liars are still in the dark about. It's only a matter of time before Spencer learns the truth ... and starts to lose it. Dr. Sullivan will return, hopefully to prevent any breakdowns. Plus, we'll see more about what the hell Byron was doing with Ali the night she died.

"Cougar Town"

Returns Tuesday, January 8 at 10 p.m. EST on TBS. <strong>Where We Left Off: </strong>Jules and Grayson had a quickie beachfront wedding and rode off into the distance on horseback. <strong>What's Ahead: </strong>For starters, it's on TBS! Everybody's favorite wine-guzzlin' crew will be joined by guest stars Alexndra Wentworth, Shirley Jones, Gillian Vigman, Tippi Herden and more.

"Justified"

Returns Tuesday, January 8 at 10 p.m. EST on FX. <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: In Season 3, Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) prevented carpetbagger/gangster Robert Quarles from establishing a criminal network in Harlan, but a pregnant Winona left the US Marshal and he found out his father shot a good man. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) will no doubt continue to be a thorn in Raylan's side.

"Stars In Danger: The High Dive"

Wednesday January, 9 at 8 p.m. EST on Fox <strong>Starring</strong>: JWoww, Bethany Hamilton, Alexandra Paul, Kim Richards, Kyle Richards, David Chokachi, Terrell Owens, Antonio Sabato Jr. <strong>What's It About:</strong> C-list celebrities learn to dive like the pros with the help of Olympian Troy Dumais.

"1600 Penn"

Thursday, January 10 at 9:30 p.m. EST on NBC <strong>Starring</strong>: Josh Gad, Bill Pullman, Jenna Elfman <strong>What's It About</strong>: The Gilchrists are your typical American family ... they just so happen to be the first family of the United States. Gad stars as the hapless son of President Dale Gilchrist (Pullman) and stepson of Emily (Elfman).

"Girls"

Returns Sunday, January 13 at 9 p.m. EST on HBO. <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Jessa bizarrely got married, Shoshanna slept with Ray, Hannah and Adam broke up and Marnie still misses Charlie. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: After months of criticism, Hannah makes a black friend (or more than a friend) -- and it's Donald Glover. Patrick Wilson will also play a love interest for Hannah later in the season and Shiri Appleby joins Season 2 as Adam's new girlfriend, much to Hannah's dismay. Elijah moves in with Hannah -- and starts to question his sexuality. Shoshanna is dealing with her post-sex relationship with Ray. Plus, Rita Wilson will stop by to play Marnie's mom and to help her shape up.

"Shameless"

Returns Sunday, January 13 at 9 p.m. EST on Showtime. <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Karen had her and Lip's baby and fled, prompting Lip to move back home and go back to school. Estefania and Marco were on the verge of breaking up and in happier news, Fiona passed her GED. ("Teen Mom's" Amber: Take note.) <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: It's 137 days since we?ve last seen the Gallagher's. Jimmy has moved into the house with them and Fiona uses the family's money in desperation and the others aren't too pleased. Oh and (shocker) Frank's missing.

"Enlightened"

Returns Sunday, January 13 at 9:30 p.m. EST <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Following her very public breakdown, Amy (Laura Dern) returned to work with a positive outlook ... only to start down the path of revenge after being laughed at by her coworkers. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Will Amy return to the path of enlightenment?

"House of Lies"

Returns Sunday, January 13 at 10 p.m. EST on Showtime. <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Did they or didn't they? Marty (Don Cheadle) and Jeannie (Kristen Bell) ended the season with a romp in the sheets ... maybe. They've gotten rid of the Rainmaker and stand triumphant. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Galweather Stearn brings in a new CEO who's all about female power. Adam Brody returns to TV with a guest role.

"Californication"

Returns Sunday, January 13 at 10:30 p.m. EST on Showtime. <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: After Bates left Karen, Hank sees an opportunity. But when his ex Carrie returns and offers him an anti-depressant-laced drink, Hank loses consciousness just after seeing a vision of Karen, to whom he says, "I love you." <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Hank is penning a rock opera "about love conquering all" with Atticus Fetch (Tim Minchin), a coked up rock star. Maggie Grace has a nine-episode arc as infamous rock groupie Faith, who becomes involved with Hank, and in one episode, Grace's former "Lost" co-star Jorge Garcia will appear as an old contact from Faith's past. Season 6 will also see a guest appearance from Marilyn Manson.

"The Carrie Diaries"

Monday, January 14 at 8 p.m. EST on The CW <strong>Starring:</strong> AnnaSophia Robb, Freema Agyeman, Chloe Bridges, Austin Butler and more. <strong>What's It About:</strong> A prequel to "Sex and the City," the new CW series follows Carrie Bradshaw as a high schooler in the '80s. She's discovering her style, dating, dealing with the death of her mother and falling in love for the first time ... with Manhattan.

"Lost Girl"

Returns Monday, January 14 at 10 p.m. EST on Syfy <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Victory! But the darkness continues to grow in Bo (Anna Silk). <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Bo must make a deadly decision. Plus, tune in for guest star Linda Hamilton and recurring guest star Rachel Skarsten.

"American Idol"

Returns Wednesday, January 16 at 8 p.m. EST on Fox <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Feuds! Divas! Dawgs! Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban join the judging panel alongside veteran Randy Jackson for Season 12.

"Anger Management"

Returns Thursday, January 17 at 9 p.m. EST on FX. <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: After Charlie and Kate slept together, they were in a weird place with their relationship. And when Charlie's daughter Sam kissed a girl at school, a photo wound up on Facebook and Charlie and Jennifer questioned their daughter's sexual orientation. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: 70+ more episodes. And in Season 2, Charlie will blow up at his sister's baby shower and will question if his father Martin is developing Alzheimer's. Cee Lo Green will stop by as a version of himself, seeking Charlie's assistance under Hollywood pressure.

"Archer"

Returns Thursday, January 17 at 10 p.m. EST on FX. <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: The ISIS crew -- including Archer -- were held captive on the Space Station Horizon <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: A "Bob's Burgers" crossover! H. Jon Benjamin provides the voice of both Archer and Bob.

"The Following"

Monday, January 21 at 9 p.m. EST on Fox <strong>Starring</strong>: Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, Shawn Ashmore, Natalie Zea, Annie Parisse <strong>What's It About</strong>: Ryan Hardy's (Bacon) been out of the FBI game for a while, that is until his biggest catch, serial killer Joe Carroll (Purefoy) resurfaces ... along with a cult-like following ready to carry out his bidding.

"The Taste"

Tuesday, January 22 at 8 p.m. EST on ABC <strong>Starring</strong>: Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre, Brian Malarkey <strong>What's It About</strong>: Think "The Voice" (there are teams and coaches), plus "Top Chef" (culinary competition) and you've got ABC's "The Taste."

"White Collar"

Returns Tuesday, January 22 at 10 p.m. EST on USA <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Peter (Tim DeKay) and Neal (Matt Bomer) stepped into the boxing ring to infiltrate a white collar boxing club. Neal discovered his father was still alive (and played by Treat Williams!) <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Peter and Neal search for the truth about Neal's dad and his crimes and Neal goes undercover with the Irish mob ... And hopefully, more boxing.

"Dallas"

Returns Wednesday, January 28 at 9 p.m. EST on TNT. <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Slaps, sex and secrets filled the first season of the new "Dallas." The season ended with John Ross (Josh Henderson) teaming up with J.R. (Larry Hagman) to destroy Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe) and Elena (Jordana Brewster). <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Familiar faces return and the Ewings say goodbye to J.R. after series star Larry Hagman passed away about half way into filming Season 2. Producers will incorporate his death into the story.

"The Americans"

Wednesday, January 30 at 10 p.m. EST on FX. <strong>Starring</strong>: Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Noah Emmerich <strong>What's It About</strong>: Elizabeth (Russell) and Phillip (Rhys) Jennings are the perfect couple: They've got two kids and are living the life of every American in the '80s ... but they just so happen to be KGB spies posing as regular ol' US citizens.

"Do No Harm"

Thursday, January 31at 10 p.m. EST on NBC <strong>Starring:</strong> Steven Pasquale, Alana de la Garza, Phylicia Rash?d, John Carroll Lynch <strong>What's It About: </strong>A brilliant neurosurgeon (Pasquale) has a big secret: a very villainous dual personality. It's a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde story mixed with a medical drama.

"Rules of Engagement"

Returns Monday, February 4 at 8:30 p.m. EST on CBS <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Audrey (Megyn Price) was upstaged at her own baby shower by Brenda (Sara Rue). Meanwhile, Russell (David Spade) started to display creative talents after taking a break from women. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Sitcom hijinks!

"Smash"

Returns Tuesday, February 5 at 9 p.m. EST on NBC and moves to its normal Tuesdays at 10 p.m. EST timeslot on February 12 on NBC <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Karen (Katharine McPhee) wowed the crowd as Marilyn Monroe in previews of "Bombshell" in Boston. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: More Broadway drama! There's a new musical in town that could rival "Bombshell" for all the buzz. Plus guest stars Jennifer Hudson, Liza Minnelli, Sean Hayes, Jesse L. Martin and more.

"Body of Proof"

Returns Tuesday, February 5 at 10 p.m. EST on ABC <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Peter (Nicholas Bishop) saved Megan (Dana Delany) from a serial killer, but was stabbed in the process. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: New blood! Bishop, John Carroll Lynch and Sonja Sohn are out and Mark Valley is in.

"Community"

Returns Thursday, February 7 at 8 p.m. EST on NBC <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Evil Abed, "lawsuits" and sandwich shops filled the "Community" Season 3 finale that aired what feels like 30 years ago. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Six seasons and a movie. Just kidding, although that'd be cool (cool cool cool). Malcolm McDowell, Tricia Helfer, Jason Alexander and more will drop by for some Human Beings antics. Plus, Chevy Chase will depart the show.

"Touch"

Returns Friday, February 8 at 8 p.m. EST on Fox <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Martin (Kiefer Sutherland) and Jake (David Mazouz) fled to California and met up with Lucy (Maria Bello). <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Martin (Sutherland) and Jake (David Mazouz) soak up the Los Angeles sun ... and find themselves in the middle of a "global conspiracy."

"Survivor"

Returns Wednesday, February 13 at 8 p.m. EST on CBS <strong>Starring</strong>: Jeff Probst, unnamed contestants <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Fans vs. Favorites, Round 2

"Southland"

Returns Wednesday, February 13 at 10 p.m. EST on TNT. <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Cooper saved Tang, and then Tang got a big promotion becoming sergeant and watch commander. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: "One Tree Hill" star Chad Michael Murray joins the cast as goofball Officer Dave Mendoza.

"Zero Hour"

Thursday, February 14 at 8 p.m. EST on ABC <strong>Starring</strong>: Anthony Edwards, Carmen Ejogo, Scott Michael Foster, Addison Timlin, Jacinda Barrett and Michael Nyqvist <strong>What's It About</strong>: Think "National Treasure" and "Da Vinci's Code," but on TV and starring Dr. Greene from "ER." Edwards plays Hank Galliston, the publisher of Modern Skeptic Magazine. When his wife is abducted, Hank and his pals are joined by the FBI as they attempt to crack various conspiracies and get his wife back.

"The Amazing Race"

Returns Sunday, February 17 at 8:00 p.m. EST on CBS <strong>Starring</strong>: Phil Keoghan, unnamed contestants <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Globetrotting adventure.

"Cult"

Tuesday, February 19 at 9 p.m. EST on The CW <strong>Starring:</strong> Matt Davis, Alona Tal, Jessica Lucas, Robert Knepper <strong>What's It About</strong>: Matt Davis stars as Jeff, a journalist who investigates his brother's disappearance and his involvement with a group of obsessive fans who have formed a pseudo-cult around a TV series ... about a cult.

"Golden Boy"

Premieres Tuesday, February 26 at 10 p.m. EST. Special showing on Tuesday, March 5 at 10 p.m. EST before moving to its regular Fridays at 9 p.m. EST time period on March 8 on CBS <strong>Starring</strong>: Theo James, Chi McBride, Kevin Alejandro, Bonnie Somerville <strong>What's It About</strong>: The series charts the rise of Walter William Clark Jr. (James), a beat cop who quickly moves up the ranks of the NYPD before becoming commissioner.

"Psych"

Returns Wednesday, February 27 at 10 p.m. EST <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: Henry (Corbin Bernsen) got back into the detective game with the help of Shawn (James Roday) and Gus (Dule Hill). But the case ended with a bang as Henry was shot by a former friend. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Parminder Nagra joins the cast as a love interest of Gus. Plus, the long-awaited musical episode airs! Look for episodes inspired by "Clue" and "The Blair Witch Project" and for guest stars Jeffrey Tambor and Anthony Michael Hall, as well.

"All-Star Celebrity Apprentice"

Sunday, March 3 at 9 p.m. EST on NBC <strong>Starring</strong>: Trace Adkins, Stephen Baldwin, Gary Busey, Penn Jillette, Lil Jon, Bret Michaels, Dennis Rodman, Dee Snider, Marilu Henner, La Toya Jackson, Claudia Jordan, Omarosa, Lisa Rinna, Brande Roderick <strong>What's It About</strong>: It's "Celebrity Apprentice," but with contestants who have already been to the boardroom with Donald Trump.

"Red Widow"

Sunday, March 3, 9:00 p.m. EST and moves to its regular timeslot on Sunday, March 10, 10:00 p.m. EST on ABC <strong>Starring</strong>: Radha Mitchell, Goran Visnjic, Clifton Collins, Jr., Sterling Beaumon <strong>What's It About</strong>: Marta Walraven (Mitchell)'s husband Evan supports the family by exporting weed and is involved in the world of organized crime with Bratva, Russian gangsters. After Evan's murder, Marta seeks to protect her kids, but gets tangled in the seedy underworld.

"Fashion Star"

Returns Friday, March 8 at 8 p.m. EST on NBC <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Mentors Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie and John Varvatos return to the show with new host Louise Roe as 13 new contestants compete for the chance to launch their own clothing line.

"Dancing With the Stars"

Returns Monday, March 18 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC <strong>Starring</strong>: Tom Bergeron, Brooke Burke Charvet, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, Len Goodman and unnamed celebrity contestants. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Celebrities dancing.

"The Voice"

Returns Monday, March 25 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. <strong>Starring</strong>: Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Usher and Shakira <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Presumably, a lot less ridiculously outfits without Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green.

"Game of Thrones"

Returns Sunday, March 31 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO <strong>Where We Left Off</strong>: War came. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maureen-ryan/game-of-thrones-finale-recap_b_1566867.html">Read Maureen Ryan's recap for more</a>. <strong>What's Ahead</strong>: Tons of new cast members played by the likes of Diana Rigg, Iwan Rheon, Mackenzie Crook, Clive Russell and many more. Season 3 will be about half of George R.R. Martin's "A Storm of Swords," one of the series' most beloved books.

"How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life)"

Wednesday, April 3 at 9:30 p.m. ET on ABC <strong>Starring</strong>: Sarah Chalke, Elizabeth Perkins, Brad Garrett <strong>What's It About</strong>: Polly (Chalke) is a recently divorced single mom. Since the divorce, Polly's been having some struggles and decides to move back in with her eccentric parents, Elaine (Perkins) and Max (Garrett). Hijinks ensue.

"Family Tools"

Wednesday, May 1 at 8:30 p.m. ET on ABC <strong>Starring</strong>: Kyle Bornheimer, J.K. Simmons, Leah Remini <strong>What's It About</strong>: After Tony (Simmons) suffers a heart attack, he's forced to hand over the family handyman business to his bumbling son Jack (Bornheimer).

"The Goodwin Games"

TBA on Fox <strong>Starring</strong>: Becki Newton, Scott Foley, T.J. Miller <strong>What's It About</strong>: Three estranged siblings reunite after the death of their father and unexpectedly find themselves heirs to a $20 million fortune ... if they adhere to their dad's wishes.

"Save Me"

TBA on NBC <strong>Starring:</strong> Anne Heche, Michael Landes and Alexandra Breckenridge. <strong>What's It About: </strong>Anne Heche stars as Beth, a woman whose life -- and marriage -- is falling apart. However, after a new-death experience, Beth claims God starts speaking to her and sets her on a new life path.

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College Basketball: No. 1 Louisville beats UConn as Russ Smith scores 23

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ? Russ Smith scored 23 points and Gorgui Dieng had six points and 16 rebounds and Louisville, playing just hours after it moved to No. 1, used a strong second half to beat Connecticut 73-58 on Monday night.

The Cardinals (16-1, 4-0 Big East) won their 11th straight game and like the others they relied on their star backcourt and pressure defense.

The only other time Louisville was ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press? Top 25 was the final poll of 2008-09. The Cardinals won the national championship in 1980 and 1986 but the AP does not conduct a post-NCAA tournament poll.

The Cardinals are the third team to hold the No. 1 spot this season along with Indiana and Duke and they celebrated the move with the convincing road win.

Omar Calhoun led the Huskies (12-4, 2-2) with 20 points while Shabazz Napier added 12.

No. 4 KANSAS 61, BAYLOR 44
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) ? Ben McLemore scored 17 points before leaving in the final minutes with a right ankle injury, and fourth-ranked Kansas rolled over Baylor on Monday night.

McLemore hit a 3-pointer and then scored an alley-oop dunk off a feed from Elijah Johnson to make it 61-42 with 2:44 remaining. The Jayhawks were back on offense when the freshman appeared to turn his ankle, lying on the court for several minutes while a trainer examined it.

McLemore eventually stood up and was helped to the Kansas locker room.

The injury was just about the only thing that didn?t go right for Kansas (15-1, 3-0 Big 12), which won its 14th straight game to match the fourth-longest streak in the Bill Self era.

Freshman center Isaiah Austin had 15 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Bears (11-5, 3-1).

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From the mail bag: Is Android affected by the recent Java security issues?

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Hello Androidcentral! I was just curious if any of you guys feel like reporting on the Java vulnerability and let us know how it affects Android as a platform. I know most people say they don't need Java on their computers, but isn't Java needed by Android, especially by developers? Thanks!!!

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Togo Coach not worried with Niger show

On Sunday 13 January 2013, Togo saw off Niger 2-1 in a friendly game played in Lome, Togo.

Placa Fessou sent Togo 1-0 after just five minute, a lead that lasted 83 minutes before Niger leveled two minutes to the end of the game through Ali Rizak.

Mixed reaction

Floyd Ayite of Reims in Francehowever got an injury time winner to for Togo to wrap up their pre-Africa cup of Nations preprations on a high.

Togo?s Coach Didier Six had a mixed reaction after the game

-Although we cannot be satisfied with the performance of the game but the result is good.?

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-We must also understand that we have worked hard physically in our training so there was a bit of fatigue but I'm not worried, he was quoted by MTNFootball.com

The friendly was the second between the two sides in the space of a week. During the first friendly played in Niamey on Saturday 5 January, Niger handed Togo a 3-1 beating.

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Over thirty alumni and friends joined us for our first VTHS Business Networking Breakfast. Everyone in attendance left with new contacts and new business opportunities.

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Evernote's Windows Phone app gets PIN lock, Business support in update

Evernote has been one busy bee, er, pachyderm lately -- extending its proverbial trunk to a more professional crowd with the launch of Evernote Business and even cozying up to Samsung's Terminator-sounding T9000 smart-fridge. For its next trick, the popular productivity app is giving some extra love to Windows Phone users by way of a feature-laden update. One of the shiny new bells and whistles is support for the aforementioned Evernote Business, including note creation and searching via Business Notebooks. There's also a new PIN lock feature to ensure that your notes can't be viewed when sharing your Windows phone with members of the unwashed masses. Other key features include joined notebooks and new style options for text as well. For info about the update straight from the elephant's mouth, just head on to the Evernote Blog by clicking on the source link.

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Tony Ortega: Scientology Spying Portrayed in TV True-Crime Docudrama Airing January 16

Discovery Channel's true-crime sister network, Investigation Discovery, is airing a one-hour dramatization of Nancy Many's life as a Scientology spy next week, at 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 16.

The show is based on Many's 2009 memoir, My Billion-Year Contract, in which she describes one of the most remarkable careers in Scientology -- from working directly with church founder L. Ron Hubbard, to spying for the church on its enemies, to running the Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles, and to being sent to the Rehabilitation Project Force prison detail in Florida while she was five months pregnant.

All of that material is covered in the one-hour dramatization of Many's life which is airing next week on ID, kicking off a new true-crime series called Dangerous Persuasions, which portrays good people manipulated into doing bad things. In Canada, the show debuts on January 18 on the History Channel, and will kick off a new series by the name of Brainwashed. Well-acted and produced, the detailed and accurate docudrama also features Nancy narrating the story, as can be seen in the teaser video the network has posted.

Many has been very effective at keeping this a secret, but recently she let us in on it, and now that she's seen the final edit, she's very happy with how the production turned out.

"Out of the blue I got a request last spring from two separate production companies wanting to put my book in a docudrama format," Many says. She chose a British production company whose executives had some previous experience working on Scientology stories.

"This past summer they came to the U.S. and interviewed me and several other people, including Paulette Cooper," she says.

For part of her career in the church, Nancy was a Boston-area volunteer who helped the church carry out covert operations. In one of her assignments, she was asked to tail Cooper, who had written a book about Scientology in 1971 and was considered the church's biggest enemy at the time.

"I was briefed as to when she was coming into Boston, and exactly which clothes she'd be wearing the next day," she says, and she admits it puzzled her how her handlers knew what Cooper would be wearing in the future -- later, she learned that Scientology was being fed information by Cooper's roommate, an operative who called himself Jerry Levin.

In Many's book, one of the most disturbing episodes describes her time as a prisoner in the RPF, five months pregnant, forced to live in a parking garage in Clearwater, Florida. Later, she was running the Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles when she and her husband made a break for freedom after they were threatened with further RPF stints -- then had to go back for their young son.

For more peeks inside the documentary, read the rest of this story at tonyortega.org.

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Canadian PM agrees to pay more heed to native demands

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed in a meeting with native leaders on Friday to pay more attention to their demands, trying to mollify an aboriginal protest movement that has threatened to blockade roads and railways across the country.

Faced with a seemingly intractable situation that has confronted successive governments, Harper agreed to a high-level dialogue with the natives and to have his office take increased responsibility for their issues, Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan said.

"Working together remains the best way to achieve our shared objective of healthier, more prosperous and self-sufficient First Nations," he told a news conference, using the formal name for most of Canada's aboriginal groups.

Hundreds of aboriginal protesters had blocked the main entrance to a downtown building where Harper was preparing to meet about 20 native leaders on Friday, demonstrating their frustration, but also highlighting a deep divide within the country's First Nations on how to push Ottawa to heed their demands.

The noisy blockade, which lasted about an hour, ended just before the meeting, even as other leaders chose to boycott the session with Harper.

Chiefs have warned that the "Idle No More" aboriginal protest movement is prepared to damage the economy unless Ottawa addresses the poor living conditions and high jobless rates facing many of Canada's 1.2 million natives.

Native groups complain that Canada has ignored treaties signed with British settlers and explorers that they say granted them significant rights over their territory.

Ottawa spends about C$11 billion ($11.1 billion) a year on its aboriginal population, but living conditions for many are poor and some reserves have high rates of poverty, addiction, joblessness and suicide.

'THE NATIVES ARE RESTLESS'

The meeting was hastily arranged under pressure from an Ontario chief who says she has been subsiding only on fish broth for a month. It took place in a building across from Parliament where Harper and his staff work.

Outside in the freezing rain, demonstrators in traditional feathered headgear shouted, waved burning tapers, banged drums and brandished banners with slogans such as "Treaty rights not greedy whites" and "The natives are restless."

Until midday on Friday, it was uncertain if the meeting would go ahead, with many native leaders urging a boycott and others saying it was important to talk to the government.

"Harper, if you want our lands, our native land, meaning everyone of us, over my dead body, Harper, you're going to do this," said Raymond Robinson, a Cree from Manitoba.

"You'll have to come through me first. You'll have to bury me first before you get them," he shouted toward the prime minister's office from the steps outside Parliament.

The aboriginal movement is deeply split over tactics and not all the chiefs invited to the meeting turned up. Some leaders wanted Governor-General David Johnston, the official representative of Queen Elizabeth, Canada's head of state, to participate.

Johnston had declined the invitation, saying it was not his place to get involved in policy discussions. He instead later hosted a ceremonial meeting at his residence.

The elected leader of the natives, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo, who led the delegation that met with Harper, said in a statement his people wanted a fundamental transformation in their relationship with Ottawa. He said they would press for a fair share of revenues from resource development as well as action on schools and drinking water.

The meeting did not resolve those issues, but Matthew Coon Come, grand chief of the Crees, praised Harper's pledge to consult. "The (commitment to) high-level dialogue for me was the highlight," Coon Come told CBC television.

BANGED ON THE DOOR

Gordon Peters, grand chief of the association of Iroquois and Allied Nations in Ontario, threatened before the meeting to "block all the corridors of this province" next Wednesday unless natives' demands were met. Ontario is Canada's most populous province and is rich in natural resources.

Peters told reporters that investors in Canada should know their money was not safe.

"Canada cannot give certainty to their investors any longer. That certainty for investors can only come from us," he said.

Manitoba Grand Chief Derek Nepinak, who said on Thursday that aboriginal activists had the power to bring the Canadian economy to its knees, was one of the leaders of the protest at the building where the meeting occurred.

"We're asking him (Harper) to come out here and explain why he won't speak to the people," said Nepinak, who banged on the door at the main entrance to the building after choosing to boycott the meeting.

Nepinak and other Manitoba chiefs are also demanding that Ottawa rescind parts of recent budget acts they say reduce environmental protection for lakes and rivers. The most recent budget act also makes it easier to lease lands on the reserves where many natives live, a change some natives had requested to spur development but which others regard with suspicion.

Duncan said the government was convinced it acted appropriately and constitutionally with the legislation.

In Nova Scotia, about 10 protesters blockaded a Canadian National Railway Co line near Truro on Friday afternoon, CN spokesman Jim Feeny said.

A truck had been partially moved on the tracks and was cutting off the movement of container traffic on CN's main line between the Port of Halifax and Eastern Canada, he said. Passenger services by Via Rail had also been disrupted.

The incident was the latest in a series of rail blockades staged by protesters in recent weeks to press their demands.

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(Additional reporting by Louise Egan in Ottawa and Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Dan Grebler and Peter Cooney)

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A rock is a clock: Physicist uses matter to tell time

Friday, January 11, 2013

Ever since he was a kid growing up in Germany, Holger M?ller has been asking himself a fundamental question: What is time?

That question has now led M?ller, today an associate professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, to a fundamentally new way of measuring time.

Taking advantage of the fact that, in nature, matter can be both a particle and a wave, he has discovered a way to tell time by counting the oscillations of a matter wave. A matter wave's frequency is 10 billion times higher than that of visible light.

"A rock is a clock, so to speak," M?ller said.

In a paper appearing in the Jan. 11 issue of Science, M?ller and his UC Berkeley colleagues describe how to tell time using only the matter wave of a cesium atom. He refers to his method as a Compton clock because it is based on the so-called Compton frequency of a matter wave.

"When I was very young and reading science books, I always wondered why there was so little explanation of what time is," said M?ller, who is also a guest scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "Since then, I've often asked myself, 'What is the simplest thing that can measure time, the simplest system that feels the passage of time?' Now we have an upper limit: one single massive particle is enough."

While M?ller's Compton clock is still 100 million times less precise than today's best atomic clocks, which employ aluminum ions, improvements in the technique could boost its precision to that of atomic clocks, including the cesium clocks now used to define the second, he said.

"This is a beautiful experiment and cleverly designed, but it is going to be controversial and hotly debated," said John Close, a quantum physicist at The Australian National University in Canberra. "The question is, 'Is the Compton frequency of atoms a clock or not a clock?' Holger's point is now made. It is a clock. I've made one, it works."

M?ller welcomes debate, since his experiment deals with a basic concept of quantum mechanics ? the wave-particle duality of matter ? that has befuddled students for nearly 90 years.

"We are talking about some really fundamental ideas," Close said. "The discussion will create a deeper understanding of quantum physics."

M?ller can also turn the technique around to use time to measure mass. The reference mass today is a platinum-iridium cylinder defined as weighing one kilogram and kept under lock and key in a vault in France, with precise copies sparingly dispersed around the world. Using M?ller's matter wave technique provides a new way for researchers to build their own kilogram reference.

De Broglie's "crazy" idea

The idea that matter can be viewed as a wave was the subject of the 1924 Ph.D. thesis by Louis de Broglie, who took Albert Einstein's idea that mass and energy are equivalent (E=mc2) and combined it with Ernst Planck's idea that every energy is associated with a frequency. De Broglie's idea that matter can act as a wave was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929.

Using matter as a clock, however, seemed far-fetched because the frequency of the wave, called the Compton, or de Broglie, frequency, might be unobservable. And even if it could be seen, the oscillations would be too fast to measure.

M?ller, however, found a way two years ago to use matter waves to confirm Einstein's gravitational redshift ? that is, that time slows down in a gravitational field. To do this, he built an atom interferometer that treats atoms as waves and measures their interference.

"At that time, I thought that this very, very specialized application of matter waves as clocks was it," M?ller said. "When you make a grandfather clock, there is a pendulum and a clockwork that counts the pendulum oscillations. So you need something that swings and a clockwork to make a clock. There was no way to make a clockwork for matter waves, because their oscillation frequency is 10 billion times higher than even the oscillations of visible light."

One morning last year, however, he realized that he might be able to combine two well-known techniques to create such a clockwork and explicitly demonstrate that the Compton frequency of a single particle is, in fact, useful as a reference for a clock. In relativity, time slows down for moving objects, so that a twin who flies off to a distant star and returns will be younger than the twin who stayed behind. This is the so-called twin paradox.

Similarly, a cesium atom that moves away and then returns is younger than one that stands still. As a result, the moving cesium matter wave will have oscillated fewer times. The difference frequency, which would be around 100,000 fewer oscillations per second out of 10 million billion billion oscillations (3 x 1025 for a cesium atom), might be measurable.

In the lab, M?ller showed that he could measure this difference by allowing the matter waves of the fixed and moving cesium atoms to interfere in an atom interferometer. The motion was caused by bouncing photons from a laser off the cesium atoms. Using an optical frequency comb, he synchronized the laser beam in the interferometer with the difference frequency between the matter waves so that all frequencies were referenced solely to the matter wave itself.

"Our clock is accurate to within 7 parts per billion," he said. "That's like measuring one second out of eight years, about as good as the very first cesium atomic clock about 60 years ago. Maybe we can develop it further and one day define the second as so many oscillations of the Compton frequency for a certain particle."

M?ller's proposal to make a mass standard based on time provides a new way to realize plans by the international General Conference on Weights and Measures to replace the standard kilogram with a more fundamental measure. It will involve an incredibly pure crystal of silicon, dubbed an Avogadro sphere, which is manufactured so precisely that the number of atoms inside is known to high accuracy.

"Our clock and the current best Avogadro spheres would make one of the best realizations of the newly defined kilogram," he said. "Knowing the ticking rate of our clock is equivalent to knowing the mass of the particle, and once the mass of one atom is known, the masses of others can be related to it."

And what about the question, What is time? M?ller says that "I don't think that anyone will ever have a final answer, but we know a bit more about its properties. Time is physical as soon as there is one massive particle, but it definitely is something that doesn't require more than one massive particle for its existence. We know that a massless particle, like a photon, is not sufficient."

M?ller hopes to push his technique to even smaller particles, such as electrons or even positrons, in the latter case creating an antimatter clock. He is hopeful that someday he'll be able to tell time using quantum fluctuations in a vacuum.

M?ller's coauthors are post-doctoral fellows Shau-Yu Lan, Michael A. Hohensee and Damon English; graduate students Pei-Chen Kuan and Brian Estey; and Miller Postdoctoral fellow Justin M. Brown. All are in UC Berkeley's Department of Physics. The work was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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Intel's Mooly Eden: 'Voice will do to touch what touch did to keyboards'

We've spent a big chunk of this morning talking to Intel's Mooly Eden, who showed us through the company's new perceptual computing platform. He's an effusive and passionate speaker who describes himself as one of the company's dreamers and thinks that a user interface revolution is shortly upon us. We've already spent some time interacting with the company's new depth-camera and eye-tracking technology, but now we wanted to dig deep to understand the thinking behind the system and what technical and practical limitations that need to be addressed before we can get to the computing future of Star Trek.

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The Real Estate Investor&#39;s Mindset: Live The Way You Believe ...

The real estate market is picking up steam. In some places such as San Francisco and New York City, the recovery has turned into a frenzy where rents are surging and multi-bidding situations are now the norm. As a prodigious wealth builder, it?s important to assess your local real estate environment.

I?m down in the Sunday open house trenches to get a first hand view of what?s going on. I talk to Realtors about their property listing durations, understand why the sellers are selling, and get opinions on the market. You can never fully trust a Realtor because to them, it?s ?always a good time to buy or sell property.? By going to open houses yourself, you can at least observe the amount of foot traffic and listen to the enthusiasm or lack thereof.

It should be obvious I?m an advocate of homeownership by now for the following reasons:

1) You have to live somewhere.

2) The homeownership stock is better quality than the rental stock to live.

3) Most people can?t save for poop, so paying down principle is better than poop.

4) Tax shield on income, which is especially helpful for those in higher brackets.

5) The long term trend is always up so long as there is limited land and population growth.

6) You can potentially make a lot of money over time.

7) More control over your lifestyle e.g. never have to move, remodel as you will.

8) Build real assets that can be passed along to your children.

9) Inflation hedge.

10) Inflation play.

There?s nothing wrong with renting if you don?t have the money, don?t know what to do with your life, have a lot of debt, or are not sure whether you want to live in one place for more than five years. The mobility of being a renter is wonderful, so is the lack of responsibility for property taxes and maintenance. Just know the return on rent is always -100% every month. At least with homeownership, you have a chance of making some money.

This post isn?t about the merits of homeownership. This post discusses how to think about your current living situation and whether it gels with your investment outlook. Remember, the name of the game is passive income, increasing assets, and creating financial freedom.

A RENTER IS NEGATIVE REAL ESTATE

A renter benefits when home prices and rents go down, which is why I say renters are ?short? real estate. If rents and home prices go up, renters get ?short squeezed? as they have to pay more of their disposable income on rent, a downpayment, and a mortgage. The concept is the same with the stock market. If you short Apple stock at $520, it means you believe you can buy back the stock at a lower price and pocket the different. If Apple rebounds to $600, you may have to buy back the stock at $600 and lose $80 a share.

With inflation, population growth, QE3, QE4, QE Infinity, and limited land, the natural trajectory is ?up and to the right? for rent and housing prices. Housing costs are a key component of inflation and something we must all pay in some way or another.?A renter is a price taker, just like a car driver is a price taker of gasoline. As a renter, you may actually not want rents to drop because that signifies a weakening economy.

If you are still renting 40 years from now, you won?t have a place to live rent-free in retirement, nor will you have an accumulated asset you can pass down or draw from. Like gasoline and tuition, the rent you pay now will undoubtedly be much higher when you become a senor citizen. Don?t believe me? Just ask your parents or grandparents what they were paying in rent during their working days.

A ONE PROPERTY HOMEOWNER IS NEUTRAL REAL ESTATE

When it comes to investing, everything is relative. Given you have to live somewhere, if you live in your home, you are neutral on real estate. If the market goes up, your house value goes up, but it doesn?t matter because you aren?t selling. You can take out a home equity line of credit to buy a Porsche 911 Turbo instead of a Honda Accord, but that?s not very wise.

Let?s say your $500,000 home appreciates by 20% to $600,000 over 10 years. You put 20% down ($100,000) and now your equity is worth $200,000 for a 100% increase. Awesome! But the house you want to upgrade to now costs $1 million from $800,000, because it too has gone up! The only thing that allows you to purchase more house is not your own home equity, but your savings and investments.

On the other hand, if you want to downsize from a $1 million dollar house to a $600,000 house, you have benefitted more financially if you are OK with the downgrade. You made $200,000 ($800,000 to $1 million) and only have to put $120,000 down on a $600,000 house. You therefore bank the $80,000 and pay a smaller $480,000 mortgage if you are fine with simpler living. As a homeowner, you are in a neutral positive situation.

On the flip side, if your $500,000 home loses 20% of its value to $400,000, you?re not really affected either because you aren?t moving anywhere unless you can?t afford the payments. Interestingly, that $1 million dollar house you?ve been eyeing may have also lost 20% of its value down to $800,000. You no longer have to put $200,000 down and take out a $800,000 if you want to move up. You can now put $160,000 down and assume a $640,000 mortgage instead! In a declining market, those who have the financial means to ?upgrade? are the ones who benefit.

As a one property homeowner, you?re like a small boat who happily floats along the rolling waves. Unless you are easily susceptible to sea sickness, the movements don?t really matter.

A MULTI-PROPERTY OWNER IS BULLISH ON REAL ESTATE

The only way to really benefit from a real estate recovery is to buy more than one property. When the markets are hot, you can raise the rent or sell the property to realize a gain. If you only own one property that you live in, you can?t do much at all except for downsize.

Why do you think there are countless examples of real estate magnets like Li Ka Shing, Sam Zell, and Donald Trump? They made their money (and lost some as well) through buying multiple properties on debt. Many have also gone bust buying at the wrong time, being over levered, and not holding on long enough. Over the long run, property has proven to be a consistent wealth builder for so many.

To recap, the point of this post is to get you thinking about how your outlook on housing and the economy fits with your current living situation. If you are very negative on housing, then owning multiple properties doesn?t make sense. If you believe there will be a multi-year housing market recovery like I do, renting doesn?t make sense because you?ll get squeezed. Rental yields are much higher than mortgage rates, which makes for an instant positive carry while you wait for capital appreciation.

Make sure your living situation is congruent with your real estate investor beliefs. Live the way you believe and everything will fall into place over time.

Are you short, neutral, or bullish on property? If you are incongruent with your beliefs, do you plan to change?

Photo: Santorini Property Overlooking The Crater, Sam D, 2011.

Regards,

Sam

Source: http://www.financialsamurai.com/2013/01/04/the-real-estate-investors-mindset/

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