Android Youtube Player Api - ERROR_CONNECTING_TO_SERVICE

I'm trying to use the new api youtube. I followed the examples provided, but I get the error: ERROR_CONNECTING_TO_SERVICE

The "API key" that I'm using is correct (since it works correctly in the google demos).

Imports:

import com.google.android.youtube.player.YouTubeBaseActivity; import com.google.android.youtube.player.YouTubeInitializationResult; import com.google.android.youtube.player.YouTubePlayer; import com.google.android.youtube.player.YouTubePlayer.Provider; import com.google.android.youtube.player.YouTubePlayerView; 

Classe definition:

public class Track extends YouTubeBaseActivity implements YouTubePlayer.OnInitializedListener {       private YouTubePlayerView ytpv;      private YouTubePlayer ytp;       public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {           ...            ytpv = (YouTubePlayerView) findViewById(R.id.youtube_view);           ytpv.initialize("my_api_key_correctly_created", this);       }       public void onInitializationFailure(Provider arg0, YouTubeInitializationResult arg1) {           Toast.makeText(this, "Initialization Fail" + arg1.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();      }        public void onInitializationSuccess(Provider arg0, YouTubePlayer arg1, boolean arg2) {           ytp = arg1;           Toast.makeText(this, "Initialization  Success", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();            if(ytp !=null)           {                ytp.loadVideo("ZvvgDC_MNqI");           }      } } 

What am I doing wrong? Thank you, and sorry my english:)

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14604280/android-youtube-player-api-error-connecting-to-service

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In Timbuktu, a giant task of reconnecting a remote city to the world

Before they left, Islamists in northern Mali cut Internet and phone connections. Restoring them is just the first step toward piecing Mali back together.

By John Thorne,?Correspondent / January 29, 2013

When the Internet got knocked out three weeks ago here in Timbuktu, Islamist militants who then ran the city did what most of us would do: They harassed their service provider.

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?They all had my number, and they all called to complain,? says Aguissa Maiga, the local chief technician for Orange, a leading telecoms company in Mali that serves many customers in Timbuktu.

There was an irony to the cries for restored connectivity. Militants have spent the past nine months trying to isolate northern Mali as a hardline Islamist realm. Those in Timbuktu ultimately sabotaged telecoms stations as French and Malian forces advanced on the city last week, says Mr. Maiga.

Now he faces the urgent mission of helping get Timbuktu?s citizens back on their phones and back online ? among the first of many tasks involved in knitting a torn country back together.

Administration must be rebuilt, and tens of thousands of displaced people need to return home. Meanwhile, French and Malian forces must keep the peace. Islamists have been evicted from cities and towns, but could turn to a guerrilla campaign. Many in Mali also fear reprisal attacks as authorities work to restore order.

Mali began fraying years ago. Under-development and poor governance in the north helped fuel ethnic Tuareg rebellions, and in recent years enabled criminal networks that Al Qaeda-linked militants tapped for cash.

Last April, Islamist militants capitalized on yet another Tuareg revolt to launch their own takeover of Mali?s north. In Timbuktu, as elsewhere, they set up a harsh rule based on a literalist reading of Islamic texts.

Some things were compulsory ? among them attending prayer and dressing modestly. Others, such as cigarettes, mixed-sex socializing, and music, were forbidden. Punishments ranged from simple beatings to stoning alleged adulterers and cutting off the hands of people accused of theft.

Morality police

Militants in Timbuktu set up morality police to keep an eye on residents and enforce their version of religious strictures, with one office near a busy market. Before long, people were avoiding the area, said a local merchant who asked not to be named because she feared a possible reprisal.

?There were always lots of Islamists in the street, though,? he says. ?Sometimes they would even grab people returning home from prayer at the mosque, and force them to pray again.?

One day the merchant?s sister was caught getting water from a pump by her door while wearing a knee-length dress, the merchant said. She was held for ten hours in a bank ATM booth, then released with a beating. Her brother began monitoring the morality police office, passing information on abuses to Human Rights Watch.

The militants grew watchful against such activities, says the merchant, who escaped suspicion by being discreet. One day he was alarmed by a summons for questioning by a morality police commander over two men who loitered regularly in the area.

?Every day I see them, and one wears dark glasses,? the commander said, according to the merchant. ?Who is that one, and what is he doing??

?He?s old and unemployed, that?s all,? the merchant began. The commander cut him off:??You tell them if they come back again, we?ll take them.?

Reports filtered out

Islamist efforts to escape outside scrutiny ultimately failed. Thanks in part to people like the merchant, reports of life under their rule filtered out of the north, and helped build international pressure for a military campaign to unseat them.

That campaign was kick-started this month by a surprise Islamist advance south to the city of Konna, prompting a distress call from Mali?s interim president and overnight deployment of French troops to lead a counter-offensive.

Somehow during the turmoil, the Orange relay station at Konna was knocked out of service, cutting Internet connections from cities up the line. It was then that Islamists in Timbuktu, served by Konna?s station, began pestering Maiga, the Orange technician.

Over the past weekend, French and Malian forces have pushed into the north, taking cities including Timbuktu apparently without a fight. Islamists there mostly fled town as their enemies advanced ? but not before burning the main Orange telecoms relay and shooting up two others, says Maiga.

?When they realized the French were coming, they decided to cut all communications so people couldn?t give away their positions,? he says.

Today Timbuktu remains offline. Cell phones and the Internet are inaccessible, while the main Orange relay station is a twisted wreck of blackened metal and tumbled machinery. Maiga hopes to get new equipment in place in the coming days.

?They even burned the generator that powers the station, and the fuel tank, and they stole most of the backup batteries some time ago,? Maiga says. He paused, then spoke words that would be as true in many other contexts across northern Mali: ?All these things need to be replaced.?

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Recipe: Pasta e Ceci | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Rustic Italian dishes like this one have very few ingredients but tons of flavor.

Thu, Jan 17 2013 at 6:19 PM

Photo: Kelly Rossiter

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One of the things that I love about rustic Italian cooking is the simplicity of the ingredients and the robustness of flavors. My husband, son and I were in Italy this past November and we had some fantastic dishes, some of which had very few ingredients but tons of flavor. I've been obsessing a bit about Italian food since I got home, although I haven't really had the time to get out my pasta maker. Now that the holidays are past us, I'm going to make it a regular thing to do.

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For those of you who would pass over this recipe because it has anchovies in it: don't. I don't like fish and my mother says I always spit it out as a baby. I keep trying and trying it, hoping that somehow I will finally like it, you know, the way you grow into flavors. Happily for my family I no longer spit it out, but I think it's safe to say that at my age, it's never going to taste good to me. However, anchovies have a way of melting into a sauce, adding a depth of flavor without actually making the dish fishy tasting. I have to say, I tasted the sauce half-way through cooking and I thought oh no! I should have added half the number of anchovies that the recipe calls for, but by the time it was all done, the sauce was delicious and I couldn't taste (or smell) the anchovies at all.

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I think the next time I make this, I might mash the chickpeas a bit, so that they are more integral to the sauce, rather than just in it. Needless to say, in Toronto in the month of January there are no ripened tomatoes to be found, so I used some of my home canned tomatoes and they worked perfectly. This recipe is from the website Food52.

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Prep time: 10 minutes?

Total time: 40 minutes?

Yield: 4 servings

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Pasta e Ceci

Ingredients

• 2 cloves garlic
• 4 fillets anchovies
• 4 ripe plum tomatoes
• 3 healthy sprigs rosemary
• Pinch salt and pepper
• 1 can chickpeas
• 4 cups chicken broth or water
• Small dried pasta, like farfalle (for 4)
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• Grated parmesan

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Cooking directions

1. Dice garlic. Cut up anchovies, roughly chop tomatoes.
2. Over medium heat, saute garlic, anchovies and two rosemary sprigs until the anchovies are melted.
3. Add chopped tomatoes. Sautee 10 or 15 minutes, till the tomatoes are fully cooked. Salt as needed.
4. Increase heat and add can of chickpeas, with water in the can, and a few cups of boiling water or heated chicken broth. Add last sprig of rosemary. Bring to soft boil.
5. Add pasta. The liquid should just barely cover the pasta. Reduce heat to healthy simmer and cook till one minute less than the package recommends. Add water or broth if needed. But remember, the broth should be thick, so add the least amount of liquid possible that still allows the pasta to cook. When the pasta is done, spoon into bowls. Add grated parmesan, ground pepper and a few drops of good olive oil.

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Obama uncle in Mass. gets Dec. deportation hearing

BOSTON (AP) ? A federal immigration judge has scheduled a new deportation hearing granted last year to President Barack Obama's uncle in Massachusetts.

Onyango (ohn-YAHN'-goh) Obama is the half brother of the president's late father. He has lived in the U.S. since coming from Kenya as a teenager for school.

On Wednesday, his new hearing was set for Dec. 3.

The 68-year-old Obama was ordered deported in 1992 after he failed to renew an application to stay.

His status emerged after his 2011 drunken driving arrest in Framingham. A judge continued that case for a year without a finding after Obama acknowledged prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him.

His lawyer, Scott Bratton, said Wednesday, "Everybody wants to stay in America," and he hopes the December hearing will settle Obama's case.

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A Way Forward on Immigration?

By MICHAEL FALCONE ( @michaelpfalcone )

NOTABLES:

IMMIGRATION REFORM TAKES CENTER STAGE: A bipartisan group of senators has agreed to an immigration reform framework that includes a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented, a significant step toward a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration system, ABC News-Univision's Jordan Fabian reports. The group of eight senators - four Democrats and four Republicans - identified broad ways to address the core issues facing the country's immigration laws in a four-plus page document, which Senate aides provided to ABC/Univision on condition of anonymity. The principles agreed upon by this "Gang of Eight" include enhancing border security and cracking down on businesses that employ undocumented immigrants. The outline also proposes making it easier for foreigners to come to the United States legally to work or join their families. http://abcn.ws/10XYPPd

WHO IS THE 'GANG OF EIGHT'? The senators behind the framework, Fabian notes, include John McCain (R-Ariz.), who helped lead a failed reform effort in 2007, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.). The senators' announcement comes one day before President Obama will travel to Las Vegas, Nevada, to unveil his own immigration reform plan, which also includes an earned pathway to citizenship and many other elements of the Senate plan. http://abcn.ws/10XYPPd

WHITE HOUSE RESPONSE: From White House spokesman Clark Stevens: "As the President has made clear for some time, immigration reform is an important priority and he is pleased that progress is being made with bipartisan support. At the same time, he will not be satisfied until there is meaningful reform and he will continue to urge Congress to act until that is achieved. The President looks forward to redoubling the Administration's efforts to work with Congress on this important issue this week."

THE ROUNDTABLE:

ABC'S Z. BYRON WOLF: There were at least two separate deals struck to find a comprehensive immigration reform bill during George W. Bush's second term. Both were reached after months of closed-door negotiations on Capitol Hill with a lot of input from Northeast Democrats and Arizona Republicans. Neither could get by a filibuster. But those were half a dozen years ago and more. Now there is a charismatic Latino Republican to lead the charge. And Sen. John McCain, his own presidential aspirations now done, can again take a front seat. But whether the demographic alarm bells of the last two general elections can lead to a bipartisan effort seems settled by this latest proposal. They can. The will is there on both sides of the aisle. But whether that effort that can be passed by a Republican House and get 60 votes in the Senate remains to be seen.

ABC NEWS POLLSTER GARY LANGER: Our ABC News-Washington Post polling underscores the extent to which the immigration issue remains a real challenge for the Republican Party. Overall 57 percent of Americans favor a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants - 82 percent of Hispanics, 71 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents - but just 37 percent of Republicans. So far the GOP has failed to reconcile that gap - to find an immigration policy that works both for the party, and for Hispanics. Voila, they lose Hispanics in the 2012 presidential election by 71-27 percent, a margin surpassed just twice before, in 1996 and 1976, in the past 10 presidential elections.

ABC's MARY BRUCE: In something of a parting gift, President Obama made abundantly clear on Sunday night his deep support and fondness for outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who, in turn, left a possible presidential run in 2016 wide open. Sitting together for their first joint interview, you could almost forget that they once politically bludgeoned each other in the 2008 Democratic primary. "I'm going to miss her," Obama told CBS News' Steve Croft on "60 Minutes." Obama said he proposed the joint interview because he wanted to publicly say "thank you" to Clinton for all of her hard work. For those eagerly looking for hints of Clinton's future ambitions, however, the interview certainly felt like a political endorsement. But while Clinton offered no outright denial, when asked about her plans for 2016 ("I don't think either he or I can make predictions about what's going to happen tomorrow or the next year," she said), the president brushed off the question. "You guys are incorrigible," he told Croft. "I was inaugurated four days ago and you're talking about elections four years from now."

ABC's SHUSHANNAH WALSHE: It was impossible not to think of the chummy, friendly, laughter-filled "60 Minutes" interview with President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as an endorsement. The passing of the baton was in full effect even as the president called the press "incorrigible" and Clinton protested with a smile that because she is still Secretary of State she's "forbidden from even hearing these questions." But Clinton's name was also mentioned in another interview Sunday, also in a complimentary fashion. On NBC's "Meet the Press," former GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan argued "if we had a Clinton presidency ? I think we would have fixed this fiscal mess by now. That's not the kind of presidency we're dealing with right now." Of course, it was hard to tell which "Clinton" he was talking about, but if Secretary Clinton were to run again and win would that mean a better working relationship with the other side of the aisle? We'll have to remember this and check back then.

VIDEO OF THE DAY: ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE WOULD SUPPORT SANTORUM IN 2016. Wealthy conservative investor Foster Friess is best known in Washington, D.C. for helping fund Rick Santorum's presidential campaign. And the multimillionaire says he would support the former Pennsylvania senator again if he runs in 2016, even likening Santorum to Ronald Reagan. "If people let him out of that box of social conservative, and appreciate how much more he brings to the table, I think he's still one of my favorite candidates," Friess told Yahoo News' Olivier Knox and ABC's David Kerley in the latest edition of "Top Line." Friess spent well over a million dollars on Santorum's campaign. For more on Foster Friess, including his new charity, and his ideas on bipartisanship, check out this week's Top Line: http://yhoo.it/SZjxzn

"THIS WEEK" REWIND:

-SEN. BOB MENENDEZ STAYS OUT OF BOOKER-LAUTENBERG SPANKING FEUD. In an interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz on Sunday's edition of "This Week" New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez avoided commenting on whether Newark Mayor Cory Booker "deserves a spanking" for coveting Sen. Frank Lautenberg's seat. RADDATZ: "In your home state between Newark Mayor Cory Booker and 89-year-old Senator Frank Lautenberg, who basically suggested this week that Booker deserved a spanking because he was coveting his seat. Do you agree with that? Should Cory Booker be making moves now?" MENENDEZ: "You know, that election is next year. And all of the back-and-forth now is something I'm really not focused on." RADDATZ: "Is Booker being disrespectful?" MENENDEZ: "You know, that's a question for Senator Lautenberg and Mayor Booker."

-FACEBOOK CO-FOUNDER ON THE CHRIS CHRISTIE, MARK ZUCKERBERG ALLIANCE. How does Chris Hughes, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The New Republic and Facebook Co-founder, feel about Mark Zuckerberg hosting a fundraiser for Republican Governor Chris Christie? Hughes joined ABC News in a web exclusive to discuss viewer questions from Facebook about Christie, his career successes, The New Republic, and his contributions to Facebook before the "This Week" roundtable on Sunday. This week, Hughes launched a redesign of The New Republic, kicking off with a dynamic interview with President Obama. Before ABC News' Abby Phillip asked Hughes about the sit-down with Obama, she broached the topic of the Christie/ Zuckerberg alliance. "I, for one, have a lot of questions about Chris Christie, particularly because less than a year ago he vetoed a marriage equality bill in the New Jersey state legislature. Which for me personally, I got married to my husband last June, [it] was just really personally frustrating. I mean, there are tens of thousands of couples in New Jersey that can't share their love and be recognized under the law because of that decision. I'm not a single issue voter, and I think most people aren't either, but for me personally, it would raise serious concerns about supporting someone like him." http://abcn.ws/Vqq5ct

-'ZERO DARK THIRTY' FILMMAKERS ON SENATE INQUIRY. During an interview for "This Week," "Zero Dark Thirty," screenwriter and producer Mark Boal told Martha Raddatz that the current Senate inquiry into the Oscar-nominated movie could discourage the making of similar films in the future. "I think that it could discourage other screenwriters or?writers of any kind from making topical movies, it could discourage studios from releasing them," Boal said. "Criticism is fine, and we, I can take criticism onboard?but there is a difference between criticism and investigation. And I think that crosses a line that hasn't been crossed really since the '40s, when you talk about government investigating movies." In December, three members of the Senate Intelligence committee - Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) - asked the CIA to provide information about the details it gave Boal and "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow about the effort to find and later kill Osama bin Laden.

BUZZ

OBAMA, CLINTON ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: FOOLS RUSH IN. President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in their wide-ranging joint interview on CBS' "60 Minutes," defended what some critics have called the administration's unwillingness to engage in the world, particularly on Syria, which Clinton called a "wicked problem," ABC's Dana Hughes reports. Obama pointed to the U.S. role in deposing of Libyan leader Moamer Gadhafi and supporting Egypt's elections following the Arab spring, as success stories. But the president said Syria is a more complicated issue. "We do nobody a service when we leap before we look, where we take on things without having thought out the consequences of it," the president said, calling Syria a classic example of how the United States should be clear about its objectives whenever taking any action. ? Clinton, who has spent the last year doing intense diplomacy on Syria, including attending global meetings with allies, as well as meeting her Russian counterpart to try to find a solution to the conflict, backed up the president's sentiments."I'm older than the president," she joked, then turned serious. "I remember some of the speeches of Eisenhower as a young girl. You know you've got to be careful, you have to be thoughtful, you can't rush in, especially now where it's more complex now than it's been in decades."

REVEALED: OBAMA'S SKEET SHOOTING HOBBY. Amid a push from the White House and progressive Democrats for tighter gun control laws, President Obama revealed this weekend he made time for shooting during retreats, notes ABC's Matthew Larotonda. The revelation came in an interview published this morning in which the president was asked if he had ever held a gun. "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," he responded to the New Republic. "Not the girls, but oftentimes guests of mine go up there. And I have a profound respect for the traditions of hunting that trace back in this country for generations. And I think those who dismiss that out of hand make a big mistake," he said. Last week the president signed several executive orders strengthening gun regulation and revealed proposals that, if enacted, would include bans on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. http://abcn.ws/VqlTJC

REPUBLICAN RE-BRANDING: THE HAPPY PARTY? Nearly three months after losing the 2012 presidential election, Republicans seem to have a simple prescription for what ails their party: Turn those frowns upside down. "We want to build a massive party that's exciting, that smiles, has a good message across America, and that's what you're going to see," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told reporters at a news conference on Friday shortly after he was re-elected to another two year term. Priebus may be following the advice of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who told his fellow Republicans at the same gathering on Thursday to "learn to be a happy party" and to try to be "cheerful and persistent." It's all part of the GOP's effort to re-brand itself as a more inclusive and inviting party after suffering stinging losses at the polls on Election Day last November, especially among some key segments of the electorate like Hispanics, African Americans and young voters. "It doesn't matter where you live, who you are, what you look like, or what your last name is," Priebus said on Friday, "because we will be a party for everyone, everywhere." haron Day, a GOP activist from Florida who serves as co-chair of the RNC, put the party's new approach even more bluntly: "I will talk to a head of lettuce if I can get them to vote Republican." http://abcn.ws/YtaxFJ

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: PALIN AND FOX NEWS PART WAYS. Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Fox News have parted ways, a source close to Palin told ABC News. The same source said it was her decision to leave the network and that Fox offered her an opportunity to renew her contract, reports ABC's Shushannah Walshe and Chris Good. In a statement from Fox News, Executive Vice President for Programming Bill Shine did not comment on whose decision it was to end the relationship, instead saying, "We have thoroughly enjoyed our association with Gov. Palin. We wish her the best in her future endeavors." Palin originally signed on with Fox as a contributor in January 2010, when the network announced her hiring along with plans for her to "host periodic episodes of Fox News Channel's 'Real American Stories,' a series exploring inspirational real-life tales of overcoming adversity throughout the American landscape that will debut in 2010." http://abcn.ws/VnHNwY

WHO'S TWEETING?

@SteveCase: Tech firms holding out hope for #immigration reform http://bit.ly/Wqkjp6 "Policymakers have deeper understanding of importance" #STEM

@CPHeinze: Norquist on 2016: "We have a wealth of opportunity. You guys are stuck with Cuomo and that character from Maryland." http://tinyurl.com/at8dm7z

@jimgeraghty: Iowans Prepare for a Long-Forgotten Ancient Ritual: Open Seat Senate Race http://bit.ly/XM9Zoc

@JenniferPreston: Your thoughts on new #immigration agreement? Links to interesting reaction? Details of deal w/document here - http://nyti.ms/Uw9cKy

@RealClearScott: CT Gov. Dan Malloy may be vulnerable in '14 as GOP looks to regain foothold in New England: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/28/malloy_may_face_tough_re-election_fight_in_conn_116821.html ?

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Japan plan to launch the world's first 4K TV broadcast in July 2014 ...

Japan plan to launch the world?s first 4K TV broadcast in July 2014

The Japanese government is plan ?to launch the world?s first 4K TV broadcast in July 2014,correctly two years ahead of schedule, to help stir demand for ultra high-definition televisions, the Asahi newspaper reported on Sunday without citing sources.

The service will begin from communications satellites, followed by satellite broadcasting and ground digital broadcasting, the report said.

The 4K TVs, which boast four times the resolution of current high-definition TVs, are now on sale by Japanese makers including Sony, Panasonic and Sharp. Other manufacturers include South Korea?s LG Electronics.

Japan?s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications had aimed to kick-start the 4K TV service in 2016. That has been brought forward to July 2014, when the final match of the 2014 football World Cup is set to take place in Brazil.

In Japan, the development of super high-definition 8K TVs is in progress, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications plans to launch the test 8K TV broadcast in 2016, two years ahead of schedule.

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Snoqualmie Pets 101: Great Activities to do with your Dog | Living ...

This is the latest from guest columnist, Melissa, who is a Pet-ology Expert and In-home Dog Trainer at Le Chic Pet in Issaquah.? To get more training tips visit the LeChic website.

When people and dogs do things together it?s a good thing all around. It helps owner and pet communicate better; the dogs can learn a new skill and better manners. This makes the dog easier to live with and less likely to be given up. Most are fun for kids of all ages, plus as an added bonus, you can find new friends ? people who share your interests and love of dogs.

These are just a few of the many activities you can take up with your pet. The winters are long, cold and rainy here in the NW and most clubs do a lot of indoor fun things. Kids love it and dogs too. So give one a try, and you?ll have a happier healthier pet.

Dock Dogs:? I must admit this sport inspired this post. I just got back from watching Puget Sound Dock Dogs compete at the Washington Sportsmen Show in Puyallup. Does your dog like to swim? This might be the sport for you and your pup. Dogs compete in jumping for distance or height from a dock into a body of water.? Labs and Retrievers may naturally excel but all breeds who like water are welcome to try.

Dog Carting:? A sport in which our gentle giants excel. Do you have a Bernese Mountain Dog or Saint Bernard? They may be well-suited to this sport. Also known as dry land mushing, it is an activity in which a dog pulls a dogcart filled with supplies or firewood or sometimes people. ?Draft dogs,? as they are called, are still in use in some parts of the world and can be a fun sport for our larger, furry friends.

Agility:? Handler and dog work together to get through an obstacle course for both time and accuracy. Fun to watch and fun to participate in, dog agility is one of the most popular dog sports. Busy breeds excel at this sport particularly well. Take your Jack Russell Terrier, Border Collie or Sheltie for a fun run through a course. Through a tunnel, on a see-saw or over an a-frame, the courses are just complicated enough to require human help. This creates a more harmonious owner /pet relationship and helps improve communication

Earth Dogs:? This sport tests the instincts and working ability of our terrier and Dachshund furry friends. These dogs were bred to hunt vermin and other rodents that live in underground dens. Earth dog involves man-made tunnels that the dogs must negotiate scenting their quarry. No animals are harmed in this sport but it can help give purpose to our more tenacious furry pals.

Nose Work:? I tried this one with my Schnauzer/Poodle mix just for fun. Truthfully the hounds and Shepherds did better than she did, but it was fun to watch her use her natural scenting ability and try to hunt out treats and toys. It?s fun, burns energy and helps build confidence.

Herding:? A competitive dog sport in which herding breeds move sheep or ducks around a field or large area. Have you ever had a Corgi or Collie who seemed to feel a need to herd your children around the house? Kids getting their heels nipped? Not quite sure why Fido is stalking all the neighborhood animals? Give him an outlet for all the instinctual behavior and learn how to herd.

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Green Tea and Viagra: A Recipe for Fighting Cancer?

Discovered: Erectile dysfunction meds and green tea team up to fight cancer; cell phone towers are responsible for many bird deaths; look at this tractor beam in action; shooting your belly full of botox won't make you skinny.

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The cancer-fighting properties of green tea and erectile dysfunction meds. Ever wonder why men who drink green tea and have Viagra prescriptions live so long? Of course you didn't, nobody wonders that. But according to a new study led by Kyushu University's Hirofumi Tachibana, it could be true! He gave mice suffering from cancer a cocktail of green tea and PDE5 inhibitors (the kind of drug in Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, and other brands of erectile dysfunction medication), finding that malignant cells stopped growing when subjects took the healthy/arousing mixture. The EGCG catechin found in green tea has long been thought to have cancer fighting properties, but Tachibana's work shows that the PDE5 enzyme could be stifling it. Luckily, we already have a drug that suppresses PDE5, and it just happens to be used for erectile dysfunction. Tachibana warns the public from trying this remedy at home right now, and in the meantime researchers in the U.S. plan to set up human trials this year.?[The Japan Times]

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Cell phone towers are killing many birds. The verdict's out on cell phones' link with brain cancer, but it's very clear cell phones are having a negative effect on bird populations. Around 7 million birds have been killed each year by flying into cell towers, according to a new paper in Biological Conservation. And many of them are rare species, such as the yellow rail (2,000 die from cell phone tower collisions each year, and there are only about 20,000 total). Researchers suggest that affixing blinking red lights to the towers could lower deaths by 70 percent. [Scientific American]

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Tractor beams made real, on a miniature scale. Star Trek?is coming true?at least on a miniature scale.?We brought you news of a real-life tractor beam's invention last October, and now University of St. Andrews researcher Tomas Cizmar and his colleagues have caught the tractor beam's effect in action. What you're looking at below is light attracting particles towards it. "When the right configuration of particles occurs the tractor beam makes it stable and the whole structure moves against the tractor beam," says Cizmar.?Light's ability to push objects away from it has been demonstrated before, but this ability to beam particles up is shown here for the first time.?[New Scientist]

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No, injecting botox into your belly won't make you skinny. It might iron out the wrinkles in your stomach skin, but injecting Botox into your belly won't slim you down according to a new study from the Mayo Clinic. Data on this was split previously, with some researchers saying that botulinum toxin A injections could reduce waistline fat by delaying emptying of the stomach. This would induce a great feeling of fullness and discourage?overeating, the thought went. But the Mayo Clinic's Mark Topazian and his colleagues found no evidence that the injections corresponded with weight loss. ""On the basis of our findings, I would not recommend gastric Botox injections to people who want to lose weight. There are some risks with this treatment and we found that there was no benefit in terms of body weight loss," Topazian says. "Unless future studies show different results I'd advise patients to seek other means of achieving weight loss."?[American Gastroenterological?Association]

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Cancer network benefits from student's efforts | TribLIVE

Elizabeth Forward sixth-grader Alexis Korenosky presents a check to Don Furko of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network while gifted support teacher Lois Leggett, left, and Janice Korenosky look on. Cindy Shegan Keeley | Daily News

By Carol Waterloo Frazier

Published: Sunday, January 27, 2013, 9:00?p.m.
Updated 17 hours ago

When Alexis Korenosky had to do a project for her Gifted And Talented Education class to raise money for an organization, the decision was easy.

?I was thinking of my Pap and I wanted to do something to make a difference and that was important to me,? the Elizabeth Forward sixth-grader said. ?My Pap died of pancreatic cancer so I wanted to raise money for that.?

She first thought of having a walk-a-thon but her gym teacher suggested a dance-a-thon, which is what she did but with a twist ? it was a Wii dance-a-thon.

The Nov. 12 ?Dance for Pancreatic Cancer? also had a Chinese auction and bake sale.

?It was pretty hard to put together,? she said of the project. ?I was worried at first that no one would come, but we had so many people. I couldn?t believe it.?

Her hard work paid off and last week she presented a check for $609 to Don Furko, affiliate coordinator for the Pittsburgh Affiliate of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

Middle school principal Mike Routh was impressed with Alexis? project.

?I really never saw kids have such a great time. Some kids you wouldn?t think would take part in something like that did. It was an awesome event and we need to do more things like that,? Routh said.

Gifted support teacher Lois Leggett said she encourages the students to devise a business plan for a project. ?This really meant something to Alexis and it showed in what all she did.?

Janice Korenosky said she is proud of her daughter.

?She was very close to my dad, who died of pancreatic cancer three years ago in February,? Janice Korenosky said. ?This was very important to her and she really did a lot of work. I think this really helped our family because we were able to do something to raise more awareness of pancreatic cancer.?

Janice Korenosky said her father was never sick. He was diagnosed with diabetes first then he became jaundiced and that?s when doctors discovered the cancer. ?He lived for a year after he was diagnosed. He was 71 when he died,? she said.

Furko said his father also died of pancreatic cancer ? 55 days after being diagnosed and not long after being diagnosed with diabetes.

?My dad was always about 205 pounds but he experienced severe weight loss that could not be explained. The cancer wasn?t diagnosed until he experienced pain,? Furko said.

Citing how deadly pancreatic cancer is, Furko said the survival rate five years after diagnosis is 6 percent, the lowest of all cancers. The first-year survival rate is 25 percent.

This year, he said, 44,000 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and 37,000 will die.

?The number that will die of this cancer this year is about how many people will fit in PNC Park,? Furko said. ?We hope to double the survival rate by 2020.?

Furko said there appears to be a link between being diagnosed with diabetes after age 40 and pancreatic cancer. ?We don?t know what comes first, the cancer or diabetes. My dad?s pancreas was malfunctioning and that?s how his diabetes was diagnosed. Better testing is needed for pancreatic cancer. Of the 10 major cancers, this is the only one with no preemptive testing.?

Some symptoms of this cancer include back pain, abdominal pain, and reflux. While those are things the person can experience, there are some signs others may see that could indicate a problem such as jaundice or drastic, unexplained weight loss.?

Just as Alexis did something in her Pap?s memory, Furko promised in his father?s eulogy that he would do something to spread the word about pancreatic cancer. That something occurred in November 2011 when he was in Harrisburg and saw a large group with purple T-shirts ? the color symbolic for this type of cancer. That?s when he got involved with the Pittsburgh group.

Looking ahead, Alexis said she may do more to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer. ?I might do something different next year to raise money for this because it?s a good cause.?

The Pittsburgh Affiliate of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network meets monthly at Gilda?s Club. The next meeting is Feb. 14 at 6:30 p.m. Information is available online at pancan.org/pgh.

Carol Waterloo Frazier is an editor for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-664-9161, ext. 1916, or cfrazier@tribweb.com.

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US to provide aerial refueling for French Mali effort

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French fighter jets stand in the airport of Bamako, Mali. The United States agreed to fly tankers to refuel French fighters and bombers attacking militants who have established a foothold in Mali, expanding American involvement in the conflict.

By Reuters

WASHINGTON - The United States has agreed to fly tankers to refuel French jet fighters and bombers attacking al-Qaida-affiliated militants who have established a foothold in northern Mali, U.S. defense officials said on Saturday.

The decision, in response to an earlier French request, expands U.S. involvement, which so far has been limited to sharing intelligence and providing airlift support to carry a French mechanized infantry unit to Mali.

NBC's Richard Engel expects a support role for the U.S. in the current conflict in Mali with no "boots on the ground." Engel talks to MSNBC's Craig Melvin about the ongoing conflict.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told his French counterpart, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, about the U.S. decision to provide aerial refueling support during a phone call on Saturday, Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement.

France intervened militarily in Mali two weeks ago to halt the advance of al-Qaida-affiliated militants who launched an offensive that threatened the Malian capital, Bamako, in the south of the country.

For two weeks, French jets and helicopter gunships have been pursuing the retreating Islamists, attacking their vehicles, command posts and weapons depots. The aim is to block the advance of the rebels until forces from the ECOWAS grouping of West African nations can deploy to take over the fight.

A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said three U.S. KC-135 tankers would provide aerial refueling as necessary to French aircraft, including tactical jets and bombers. The U.S. planes are stationed at Moron Air Base in Spain.

The defense official said the United States expected the tankers to be involved in the operation for a period of months as needed. They will be operating under the U.S. Africa Command, which coordinates U.S. military involvement with African countries but is based in Germany.

In his phone call with Le Drian, Panetta commended France for leading the fight against Malian rebels affiliated with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and noted that "recent operational successes have helped turn back terrorist advances," Little said in the statement.

Little said Panetta and Le Drian also discussed plans for the United States to transport troops from African nations, including Chad and Togo, to support the international effort in Mali.

Panetta has said the United States has no plans to put combat troops in Mali. Defense officials have said a small number of U.S. military personnel were temporarily at the airport in Bamako to deal with the logistics of the airlift of hundreds of French troops and tons of supplies.

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alaskasmith: SEO and Web Design for Business Growth | NestaSoft

None can deny the importance of Search engine optimization (SEO) for making a name in business with highly competitive online world. Today, internet has become a powerful tool to promote your offers or services on global scale and get exposure for grabbing more and more clients worldwide. Even with limited resources and meager staff, you can do huge advertisement for your company or brand on vast scale in an effective manner.

Search engines need quality

Recently, there has been quite a lot of work in Google?s SEO mechanism. It always shows high-quality well-designed sites in top results. Same is true for all major search engines. Besides, the content in website also matters a great deal. For instance, a web site having keyword based descriptions about products will surely get more traffic than others with general content. Smart content developers first use Adwords or other search tools to derive highly searched keywords and insert them in their web pages sensibly. Besides key words, number of monthly searches on global or local level and CPC (cost per click) are especially considered to make sure they get as much traffic as possible.

Web design increases ranking

A web layout that is masterfully designed with appropriate visuals will rank high in search engine indexes. It?s highly important to have a clear interface with high-quality content and required number of backlinks. Images and videos have primary role in attracting visitors. You might have observed, some big sites only have meaningful images with upper tabs on home screen and there are a few or no words at all.

Designer-cum-SEO expert

Whenever you?re hiring a web designer, make sure he keeps abreast of the latest techniques, tips and tricks to rank high among search engines and navigate more traffic to your website. Instead of adding art infusion, it should be decent, simple, user-friendly and attractive. Having all categories? links or tabs separately in home page is important. Email subscription options also help get more traffic.

How SEO experts work

SEO experts have a thorough knowledge about how to have more visitors to the web page or a particular link. They use these tools for this purpose:

• Social media like Facebook, Twitter and so on
• Ezine publishing (with backlinks in the author bio)
• Content publishing to high-traffic websites
• Keyword usage
• Connection with social networking sites
• Google analytics to check website?s progress
• Blogging
• Guest posting
• Email alerts
• Press release
• Link building
• Branding

Some use a few and others almost all of these tools for effective search engine optimization.

Web design impacts SEO

Companies prefer having websites that have convincing interface, vivid animations, rich visuals and concise content with catchy titles. In fact, their online presence speaks a lot about their success and image. Clients surf online, view their website and try to assess them abruptly at a very first visit. Well-designed and focused website definitely gives great impression and convinces the visitors to take interest in companies? offers and services.

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Sandy aid bill heads to Obama's desk

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Three months after Superstorm Sandy ravaged coastal areas in much of the Northeast, Congress on Monday sent a $50.5 billion emergency relief measure for storm victims to President Barack Obama for his signature.

"I commend Congress for giving families and businesses the help they deserve, and I will sign this bill into law as soon as it hits my desk," Obama said in a statement late Monday.

Despite opposition from conservatives concerned about adding billions of dollars more to the nation's debt, the Senate cleared the long-delayed bill, 62-36, after House Republicans had stripped it earlier this month of spending unrelated to disasters. All 36 votes against the bill were from Republican senators.

"This is a huge relief," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., noting the vote came 91 days after Sandy struck.

The House passed the bill two weeks ago. Lawmakers say the money is urgently needed to start rebuilding homes, businesses, public transportation facilities and other infrastructure damaged by the Oct. 29 storm, one of the worst to strike the Northeast.

Sandy roared up the East Coast and is blamed for more than 130 deaths and tens of billions of dollars in property damage, particularly in New York and New Jersey. The measure is aimed primarily at helping residents and businesses as well as state and local governments rebuild.

The biggest chunk of money is $16 billion for Housing and Urban Development Department community development block grants. Of that, about $12.1 billion will be shared among Sandy victims as well as those from other federally declared disasters in 2011-2013. The remaining $3.9 billion is solely for Sandy-related projects.

More than $11 billion will go to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster relief aid fund for providing shelter, restoring power and other storm-interrupted utility services and meeting other immediate needs arising from Sandy and other disasters. Another $10 billion is devoted to repairing New York and New Jersey transit systems and making them more resistant to future storms.

Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., said Republicans weren't seeking "to undermine" help for Sandy victims but instead were trying to make sure that the money was actually being spent on emergency needs.

"We're simply trying to say we need some standards," Coats said.

Earlier in January, Congress approved and Obama signed a $9.7 billion bill to replenish the National Flood Insurance Program, which has received well over 100,000 flood insurance claims related to Sandy. Added to the new, $50.5 billion package, the total is roughly in line with the $60.4 billion that Obama requested in December.

The aid package was greased for passage before the last Congress adjourned and the new one came in on Jan. 3. But Speaker John Boehner refused to bring it to the floor after two-thirds of House Republicans voted against a "fiscal cliff" deficit-reduction deal raising taxes on couples making more than $450,000 a year while deferring some $24 billion in spending cuts to defense and domestic programs.

The ruckus after the Senate had passed an earlier $60.4 billion Sandy relief package by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on Dec. 28 exposed deep political divisions within Republican ranks. "There's only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims, the House majority and their speaker, John Boehner," Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fumed at the time.

Top House Republicans responded by bringing new Sandy aid legislation to the floor under ground rules designed to win over as many Republicans as possible while retaining support from Democrats eager to approve as much in disaster aid as possible.

GOP leaders cut spending in the Senate bill unrelated to disasters. One would have transferred $1 billion for training Iraqi policemen to instead be used to bolster security at U.S. diplomatic missions. The shift in money followed a Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed.

Also deleted were $188 million for an Amtrak expansion project that included new, long-planned tunnels from New Jersey to Penn Station in Manhattan, and another $150 million for fisheries disasters that states such as Alaska and Mississippi could have shared.

After all the cost-cutting, 179 House Republicans still voted against the disaster aid package with only 49 favoring it. GOP leaders had to rely on yes votes from 192 Democrats to pass it.

As with past natural disasters, the Sandy aid bill is not offset with spending cuts, meaning the aid adds to the deficit. The lone exception is an offset provision requiring that $3.4 billion for Army Corps of Engineers projects to protect against future storms be covered by an equal amount of unspecified spending cuts in other programs before next October.

The Senate on Monday rejected, 35-62, an attempt by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, to amend the final package Monday with a provision to cut federal programs across the board by one-half of 1 percent through 2021 as a way to prevent the disaster aid from swelling the U.S. debt.

As of Monday, FEMA said it spent $3.3 billion in disaster relief money for shelter, restoring power and other immediate needs arising from the storm.

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, New Hampshire, Ohio, Delaware, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia have shared that money.

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Nokia intros Music+ subscription service with unlimited downloads, web listening

Most of the bigger streaming music services have both a free tier for casual listeners and a paid level for truly committed music fans. Nokia doesn't want to be the exception to the rule. It's launching Nokia Music+, a paid version of its existing platform. Paying €4 per month ($4 in the US) gives perks that you'd normally expect from a more expensive alternative like Spotify or Slacker's premium tier: the upgrade ratchets up the audio quality, adds lyrics, allows unlimited skips in Mix Radio and enables as many downloads for offline play as the phone can hold. Aren't you suddenly glad that you picked up a 32GB Lumia 920? Not that you'll always need it to tune in -- Music+ adds web streaming for anything with a suitably capable browser. Nokia hasn't said just which countries beyond the US will get the more advanced service, but it should make a formal debut within the next few weeks.

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'2-D' electronic devices, may be possible: Fine patterns made with single-atom-thick graphene and boron nitride

Jan. 27, 2013 ? Rice University scientists have taken an important step toward the creation of two-dimensional electronics with a process to make patterns in atom-thick layers that combine a conductor and an insulator.

The materials at play -- graphene and hexagonal boron nitride -- have been merged into sheets and built into a variety of patterns at nanoscale dimensions.

Rice introduced a technique to stitch the identically structured materials together nearly three years ago. Since then, the idea has received a lot of attention from researchers interested in the prospect of building 2-D, atomic-layer circuits, said Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan. He is one of the authors of the new work that appears this week in Nature Nanotechnology. In particular, Ajayan noted that Cornell University scientists reported an advance late last year on the art of making atomic-layer heterostructures through sequential growth schemes.

This week's contribution by Rice offers manufacturers the possibility of shrinking electronic devices into even smaller packages. While Rice's technical capabilities limited features to a resolution of about 100 nanometers, the only real limits are those defined by modern lithographic techniques, according to the researchers. (A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter.)

"It should be possible to make fully functional devices with circuits 30, even 20 nanometers wide, all in two dimensions," said Rice researcher Jun Lou, a co-author of the new paper. That would make circuits on about the same scale as in current semiconductor fabrication, he said.

Graphene has been touted as a wonder material since its discovery in the last decade. Even at one atom thick, the hexagonal array of carbon atoms has proven its potential as a fascinating electronic material. But to build a working device, conductors alone will not do. Graphene-based electronics require similar, compatible 2-D materials for other components, and researchers have found hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) works nicely as an insulator.

H-BN looks like graphene, with the same chicken-wire atomic array. The earlier work at Rice showed that merging graphene and h-BN via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) created sheets with pools of the two that afforded some control of the material's electronic properties. Ajayan said at the time that the creation offered "a great playground for materials scientists."

He has since concluded that the area of two-dimensional materials beyond graphene "has grown significantly and will play out as one of the key exciting materials in the near future."

His prediction bears fruit in the new work, in which finely detailed patterns of graphene are laced into gaps created in sheets of h-BN. Combs, bars, concentric rings and even microscopic Rice Owls were laid down through a lithographic process. The interface between elements, seen clearly in scanning transmission electron microscope images taken at Oak Ridge National Laboratories, shows a razor-sharp transition from graphene to h-BN along a subnanometer line.

"This is not a simple quilt," Lou said. "It's very precisely engineered. We can control the domain sizes and the domain shapes, both of which are necessary to make electronic devices."

The new technique also began with CVD. Lead author Zheng Liu, a Rice research scientist, and his colleagues first laid down a sheet of h-BN. Laser-cut photoresistant masks were placed over the h-BN, and exposed material was etched away with argon gas. (A focused ion beam system was later used to create even finer patterns, down to 100-nanometer resolution, without masks.) After the masks were washed away, graphene was grown via CVD in the open spaces, where it bonded edge-to-edge with the h-BN. The hybrid layer could then be picked up and placed on any substrate.

While there's much work ahead to characterize the atomic bonds where graphene and h-BN domains meet and to analyze potential defects along the boundaries, Liu's electrical measurements proved the components' qualities remain intact.

"One important thing Zheng showed is that even by doing all kinds of growth, then etching, then regrowth, the intrinsic properties of these two materials are not affected," Lou said. "Insulators stay insulators; they're not doped by the carbon. And the graphene still looks very good. That's important, because we want to be sure what we're growing is exactly what we want."

Liu said the next step is to place a third element, a semiconductor, into the 2-D fabric. "We're trying very hard to integrate this into the platform," he said. "If we can do that, we can build truly integrated in-plane devices." That would give new options to manufacturers toying with the idea of flexible electronics, he said.

"The contribution of this paper is to demonstrate the general process," Lou added. "It's robust, it's repeatable and it creates materials with very nice properties and with dimensions that are at the limit of what is possible."

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Norwegian Study: Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared

Numerous news outlets are reporting the findings of a study from the Research Council of Norway ? a government agency ? which concludes that (in Bloomberg's version) "After the planet's average surface temperature rose through the 1990s, the increase has almost leveled off at the level of 2000, while ocean water temperature has also stabilized." The New York Times' Dot Earth blog offers some reasons to be skeptical of the findings.

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Only Miss. abortion clinic gets license warning

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ? Mississippi's only abortion clinic said it received notice Friday that the state Health Department intends to revoke its operating license.

However, the clinic, Jackson Women's Health Organization, is not expected to close anytime soon.

Under a state administrative procedures law, the clinic can remain open while it awaits a hearing by the department. That could be more than a month away.

Clinic owner Diane Derzis said this week that she expected the notice about a possible license revocation.

Health Department workers inspected the facility Jan. 16 to see if it had complied with a 2012 state law that requires anyone doing abortions at the clinic to be an OB-GYN with hospital admitting privileges.

Derzis said local hospitals would not issue privileges to out-of-state physicians who do most of the abortions at the clinic.

Admitting privileges can be difficult to obtain. Some hospitals won't issue them to out-of-state physicians, while hospitals that are affiliated with religious groups might not want to associate with anyone who does elective abortions.

"They were clear that they didn't deal with abortion and they didn't want the internal or the external pressure of dealing with it," Derzis told The Associated Press on Jan. 11.

Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, who signed the 2012 law, has said repeatedly that he wants Mississippi to be abortion-free and that he'd shut the clinic if he had the power to do it.

Supporters of the law say it's intended to protect women's safety. Opponents say admitting privileges are unnecessary because the clinic has an agreement to transfer patients to a local hospital if an emergency arises; the patients would be tended by physicians on duty at the hospital.

The clinic filed a federal lawsuit last summer as the law was about to take effect, arguing that the law is unconstitutional because it would effectively block women's access to abortion in Mississippi by closing the facility where most of the 2,000-plus abortions a year are performed in the state. A 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade established the nationwide right to abortion.

U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III gave the facility time to try to comply with the law, blocking any criminal or civil penalties during that period. Clinic attorneys are asking Jordan to extend his injunction on the law.

The clinic filed a plan with the state Health Department showing that it intended to seek admitting privileges for its physicians, and the department allowed six months for that process, until Jan. 11. The Jan. 16 inspection was triggered by the clinic's missing the Jan. 11 deadline.

The Health Department wrote a letter Thursday that was delivered to the clinic Friday, showing the findings of the inspection. The department noted that none of the three physicians affiliated with the clinic have local hospital admitting privileges. It said one of the physicians previously had the privileges, but those had expired July 27.

The department also noted that the clinic had too few parking spaces available. State regulations require the clinic to be "located in an attractive setting with sufficient parking space provided." The department told the clinic to submit a plan within 10 days showing how it would correct the parking situation. The clinic's parking lot holds fewer than 20 cars.

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Ryan says GOP needs to pick its fights with Obama

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Rep. Paul Ryan has a message for fellow Republicans: Let's stick together and carefully pick our fights with President Barack Obama.

In a speech Saturday to conservatives, the Wisconsin congressman and 2012 vice presidential nominee outlined a pragmatic approach for dealing with a second Obama administration. Saying that Obama would attempt to divide Republicans, Ryan urged them to avoid internal squabbles.

"We can't get rattled. We won't play the villain in his morality plays. We have to stay united," Ryan said at the National Review Institute's weekend conference on the future of conservatism. "We have to show that if given the chance, we can govern. We have better ideas."

The GOP is reeling from back-to-back presidential defeats and trying to determine whether to oppose Obama at every turn or shape his proposals with conservative principles.

How the party rebounds was a major theme of the three-day meeting of conservative activists, a dominant voice in the GOP. A similar theme dominated the Republican National Committee's winter meeting, which ended Friday in Charlotte, N.C.

With a surging minority population altering the electorate, Republican leaders have discussed the need to attract more women and Hispanics while at the same time standing firm on the values that unite conservatives. Republicans said despite the losses, the party could return to power by projecting optimism and attracting new voters with a message of economic opportunity.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a star among conservatives after surviving a union-led campaign to recall him from office, said government needed "brown-bag common sense," a reference to his frugal practice of packing his own lunch of ham-and-cheese sandwiches every day. Qualities like optimism, staying relevant to voters and showing courage in tackling big problems would be rewarded at the voting booth, he said.

"We've got to learn to be more optimistic. We've got to learn to give a viable alternative to the voters," Walker said.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said Republicans needed to use upcoming fights over the budget and the deficit as "leverage points" to tame long-term spending and debt. Projecting an upbeat outlook for the party, he said Obama's policies would drive many voters to Republicans just as many Americans turned to Ronald Reagan after the economic turmoil of the late 1970s.

"We're on the verge of a rebirth of conservativism," Cruz said.

Looking ahead, Ryan rejected the notion that Republicans were "in the wilderness," noting that the party controls the House and most statehouses. But he said Obama's victory over Romney meant that Republicans would need to recalibrate their approach to deal with the new political realities.

"If we want to promote conservatism, we'll need to use every tool at our disposal," Ryan said. "Sometimes, we will have to reject the president's proposals ? that time may come more than once. And sometimes we'll have to make them better." He said Republicans should have two main goals for the next four years, namely "to mitigate bad policies" and "to advance good policy wherever we can."

Ryan acknowledged that "we all didn't see eye to eye" on the recent "fiscal cliff" vote to deal with a combination of spending cuts and higher taxes that were set to take effect at the start of the year. He defended his support for the bill, saying it was the only way to avoid sweeping tax increases and prevent the economy from going into a free-fall.

As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan said Republicans needed to guard against a debt crisis for the country that would undermine the economy. He said he would promote changes to Medicare and Medicaid and would propose a budget "that will balance and pay down the debt."

But November's election results still linger. Ryan said he was "disappointed" by the outcome, saying he was "looking forward to taking on the big challenges" while living at the vice president's residence. "My kids were looking forward to having a pool," he joked.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ryan-says-gop-needs-pick-fights-obama-204420214--politics.html

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