Saturday, March 31, 2012

Home Improvement | Getting rid of gophers in the garden, and other ...

Operating in the Orange County, Riverside and Los Angeles areas Wheelers pest control is expert at Gopher Control as one of the many species of pests it specializes in eliminating from their client's homes. Gophers are a particularly nasty infestation to have as they are burrowing rodents that live of the roots and tubers they encounter while burrowing.

It is always best to get rid of them when they first appear as if a colony, later to become a gopher town was to develop you might se your, and your neighbor's gardens becoming a desert as the plants die off.

Some information concerning gophers; there are over 100 different species in the United States. All of them have similar characteristics in that they are burrowing animals. They are a rodent and one animal can make an area of up to 2000 square foot into as desert by eating all the roots in its continual tunneling just below the surface. They live for up to three years and are active that whole time.

The most common garden pest is actually the pocket gopher which is a long sleek animal weighing about half a pound and can be as big as 15 inches long in the body, it also has a tail which adds another 7inches. However in California the most common are about half that size and usually stay underground although may sometimes be seen on the edge of their burrow or pushing dirt out. They may also be seen migrating to a new area.

You will know that you have one when little mounds of fresh earth start to get pushed up all over your garden. As soon as you see this it is the time to call in the gopher control people. It is always easier to deal with it when there is only one or two tunnels and it is just starting to dig itself in. If you leave it will not go away and will spread as it, and later they steadily destroy you garden by eating the plants from beneath. Just one gopher can create 5 or six mounds in a day.

There are a few common ways to control gophers; by trapping, baiting or gassing. In order to trap a gopher probe is used to locate the main burrow and then the traps are set in the tunnels leading to the burrow. Normally bait is not necessary but there are occasions when a bated trap is more effective.

Another method is fumigation. But this method is not very effective as the gopher rapidly closes the tunnel behind it if it detects smoke or gas. As professional pest controllers however Wheelers has access to Aluminium phosphide which has been found to be effective.

Gophers are just one of the many pests that are part of the professional expertise of this pest control company. So if you are having any sort of out of the ordinary pest problem consider calling in the experts at eliminating many form of household problems.

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How Internet Forums Can Increase Your Web Site Visitors : Online ...

Author : gregory burrus

One thing that can help you get more traffic to your websites and blogs is by utilizing all the Internet forums. Whatever you are marketing, you should be able to come across at least one forum that covers that niche. The best sources of traffic will be the larger more popular forums and you should use a number of different forums to get more visitors. Finding the best means of driving more traffic to your site using forums is the substance of this article.

An important point to mention when marketing on forums is that your likely traffic will be coming from more than one source. Firstly, you will hopefully get site visitors direct from the forum itself. People will come across your link and if it is intriguing there is a good chance they will click the link to visit your web site. The best part is that as you are promoting in a forum that relates to what you are promoting, the traffic is actually highly targeted. The other way to get more traffic is that every time you post a comment on a forum or ask a question, you will be building links to your site which will help you get better search engine rankings.

The first step is to look for forums that are relevant to your niche, but limit the numbers so that you don?t join more than you can take part in. By joining forums you will have a profile that can include a back link to the site you want to advertise, so don?t forget to do this. The next step is to get the url of your member profile and ping it to all the ping services. This will make sure the search engines index your links to get you started.

Forum signatures must be tackled next and you should insert hyper linked keywords into them that will take users to your webpages. This way every time you leave a comment on the online forum your link will automatically be included to the comment in the signature. However, you will have to realize that some forums will not allow you to add a signature until you have made a particular amount of comments, normally 10, but all forums will require different amounts.

Be sure that you become an active member in each of the forum discussions that you?re a member of and continue logging in every day. This way you will not run the risk of being seen as a spammer but you will get an increasing number of backlinks for the search engines to find and more link exposure to other members of the forum. Another thing you will learn is that the forum pages may also get a good ranking in the search engines, so even those who are not members of the forum, may end up seeing your links. If you become an active forum member, other members will see that you have spoken on a specific topic previously which can gain you an ?expert? status and give further weight to your backlinks.

Gregory Burrus invites you to learn more because it is time to come learn more now;

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SIAM names 2012 Fellows

SIAM names 2012 Fellows [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 30-Mar-2012
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Contact: Karthika Muthukumaraswamy
karthika@siam.org
267-350-6383
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

35 academics and professionals in Class of 2012

Today, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) named 35 academics and professionals to its 2012 Class of Fellows for exemplary contributions to applied mathematics and computational science. The individuals are recognized for outstanding research in the field as well as their service to the larger community.

Please find their names and affiliations below:

  • Tamer Ba?ar
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Michele Benzi
    Emory University
  • Anthony M. Bloch
    University of Michigan
  • Pavel B. Bochev
    Sandia National Laboratories
  • Richard A. Brualdi
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Gui-Qiang G. Chen
    University of Oxford
  • G. Bard Ermentrout
    University of Pittsburgh
  • Richard S. Falk
    Rutgers University
  • Lisa J. Fauci
    Tulane University
  • David R. Ferguson
    The Boeing Company, Retired
  • M. Gregory Forest
    University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  • Susan Friedlander
    University of Southern California
  • Irene Martinez Gamba
    University of Texas at Austin
  • Walter Gautschi
    Purdue University, Retired
  • Donald Goldfarb
    Columbia University
  • Sven Hammarling
    NAG, Inc. - Numerical Algorithms Group, Retired
  • Pavol Hell
    Simon Fraser University
  • Bruce Hendrickson
    Sandia National Laboratories
  • Kirk E. Jordan
    IBM Corporation
  • Michael I. Jordan
    University of California, Berkeley
  • James P. Keener
    University of Utah
  • Naomi Ehrich Leonard
    Princeton University
  • Philip Kumar Maini
    University of Oxford
  • Geoffrey B. McFadden
    National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Edward Ott
    University of Maryland, College Park
  • Tamar Schlick
    New York University
  • David B. Shmoys
    Cornell University
  • Mary Silber
    Northwestern University
  • Barry F. Smith
    Argonne National Laboratory
  • Tao Tang
    Hong Kong Baptist University
  • Edriss S. Titi
    Weizmann Institute of Science and University of California, Irvine
  • Robert J. Vanderbei
    Princeton University
  • Richard S. Varga
    Kent State University, Retired
  • Jan C. Willems
    K.U. Leuven
  • Thaleia Zariphopoulou
    University of Oxford and University of Texas at Austin

You can read further details about their accomplishments, affiliations, and reasons for recognition here:

http://connect.siam.org/?p=1979

A full list of 2012 Fellows and their affiliations can also be found on the SIAM Fellows page here:

http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2012

The 2012 Class of Fellows was nominated by the SIAM community and will be recognized at the 2012 SIAM Annual Meeting to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July.

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SIAM names 2012 Fellows [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 30-Mar-2012
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Contact: Karthika Muthukumaraswamy
karthika@siam.org
267-350-6383
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

35 academics and professionals in Class of 2012

Today, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) named 35 academics and professionals to its 2012 Class of Fellows for exemplary contributions to applied mathematics and computational science. The individuals are recognized for outstanding research in the field as well as their service to the larger community.

Please find their names and affiliations below:

  • Tamer Ba?ar
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Michele Benzi
    Emory University
  • Anthony M. Bloch
    University of Michigan
  • Pavel B. Bochev
    Sandia National Laboratories
  • Richard A. Brualdi
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Gui-Qiang G. Chen
    University of Oxford
  • G. Bard Ermentrout
    University of Pittsburgh
  • Richard S. Falk
    Rutgers University
  • Lisa J. Fauci
    Tulane University
  • David R. Ferguson
    The Boeing Company, Retired
  • M. Gregory Forest
    University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  • Susan Friedlander
    University of Southern California
  • Irene Martinez Gamba
    University of Texas at Austin
  • Walter Gautschi
    Purdue University, Retired
  • Donald Goldfarb
    Columbia University
  • Sven Hammarling
    NAG, Inc. - Numerical Algorithms Group, Retired
  • Pavol Hell
    Simon Fraser University
  • Bruce Hendrickson
    Sandia National Laboratories
  • Kirk E. Jordan
    IBM Corporation
  • Michael I. Jordan
    University of California, Berkeley
  • James P. Keener
    University of Utah
  • Naomi Ehrich Leonard
    Princeton University
  • Philip Kumar Maini
    University of Oxford
  • Geoffrey B. McFadden
    National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Edward Ott
    University of Maryland, College Park
  • Tamar Schlick
    New York University
  • David B. Shmoys
    Cornell University
  • Mary Silber
    Northwestern University
  • Barry F. Smith
    Argonne National Laboratory
  • Tao Tang
    Hong Kong Baptist University
  • Edriss S. Titi
    Weizmann Institute of Science and University of California, Irvine
  • Robert J. Vanderbei
    Princeton University
  • Richard S. Varga
    Kent State University, Retired
  • Jan C. Willems
    K.U. Leuven
  • Thaleia Zariphopoulou
    University of Oxford and University of Texas at Austin

You can read further details about their accomplishments, affiliations, and reasons for recognition here:

http://connect.siam.org/?p=1979

A full list of 2012 Fellows and their affiliations can also be found on the SIAM Fellows page here:

http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2012

The 2012 Class of Fellows was nominated by the SIAM community and will be recognized at the 2012 SIAM Annual Meeting to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July.

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Gas flare on leaking North Sea platform extinguished

By msnbc.com staff and news services

LONDON -- A flare near Total's Elgin drilling platform has gone out, reducing the threat of explosion at a massive gas leak from a North Sea well, the company's chief executive said on Saturday.

"The flare on the Elgin platform was extinguished last night,'' Christophe de Margerie wrote on Total's Twitter account.


A spokesman confirmed the tweet, saying the flame had gone out by itself without technical intervention.???

The flare had been lit as part of Total's response to a gas leak at the Elgin drilling platform off Scotland's east coast, to relieve pressure in the well.

"We received the first indication that the flare may be out at 12:07 (7:07 p.m. ET Thursday) yesterday from our first surveillance of the day," a spokesman told the BBC.

"The news was then reaffirmed at 16:36 (11:36 a.m. ET) following our second flight of the day. We received what we consider final confirmation at 8:20 (3:20 a.m. ET) this morning, when our sea vessels on location reported no further flare activity through the night."

Located about 110 yards away from the rig, it raised fears of a massive explosion were it to ignite the natural gas that has been leaking below the platform for six days.

Oil company says it has found source of gas leak off Scottish coast

While Total had dismissed the risk of a blast, one engineering consultant warned that Elgin could become "an explosion waiting to happen''.

Options to extinguish the flare had included dropping water from a helicopter or spraying nitrogen overhead to starve the flame of oxygen. In the end, the flare went out by itself.

Highly explosive gas cloud
The leak, which began on Sunday, is spewing an estimated 200,000 cubic metres of natural gas into the air per day, forming a highly explosive gas cloud around the platform.

It began after pressure rose in a well that had earlier been capped.

French energy company Total says natural gas is still escaping from its Elgin North Sea platform. They are preparing to drill relief wells to help bring the situation under control, but that could take months. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.

A team of international experts is advising on how to plug the leak and Total said on Friday it would drill two relief wells, a process that could take six months and cost up to $3 billion.

Total evacuated its 238 platform workers, and set up a two-mile exclusion zone for safety reasons, with fire-fighting ships on standby.

North Sea exclusion zone set as gas surges from leak

A senior union official said on Friday that Total had repeatedly assured workers a leak was impossible until just hours before evacuating them.

Msnbc.com staff and Reuters contributed to this report.

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'Hip Hop Squares': New Game Show Coming To MTV2!

Nick Cannon, Mac Miller and Fat Joe will help put fresh spin on iconic 'Hollywood Squares' with new show, set to premiere May 22.
By Rob Markman


Photo: MTV2

Hip-hop is going Hollywood — or is it the other way around? On May 22, MTV2 will premiere "Hip Hop Squares", a fresh new take on the iconic tic-tac-toe game show "Hollywood Squares."

Nick Cannon, DJ Khaled, Fat Joe, Mac Miller and Machine Gun Kelly will be featured as contestants. "Jackass" crewmember Bam Margera, Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley and Wu-Tang's Ghostface Killah also will appear on the show, hosted by New York radio DJ Peter Rosenberg.

" 'Hip Hop Squares' is a great representation of MTV2's new brand filter to deliver smart, funny and relevant content that speaks directly to male Millennials, or 'Malennials,' as we call them," said Paul Ricci, head of programming for MTV2. "The show will refresh an iconic format and create a fun, dynamic series that's unpredictable, heavy on personality and much more 'party' than 'game show.' "

If the new incarnation of "Squares" stays true to the original, two contestants (one representing "X," and the other representing "O") will compete for prizes in a trivia-styled game where the show's stars are situated on a giant tic-tac-toe board.

The contestants strategically select which square they wish to capture and ask the star seated there a trivia question. After the question is answered, the contestant can choose whether to agree or disagree. If the contestant is right, they capture the square; if he or she is wrong, their opponent wins the square. The first contestant to line up three squares in a row wins the game.

"They cross the spectrum from musicians and celebrities to athletes and casual fans of hip-hop," Paul Ricci, MTV2′s programming chief said. "The show will refresh an iconic format and create a fun, dynamic series that's unpredictable, heavy on personality and much more 'party' than 'game show'."

Sounds like a ball.

Tune into the premiere of "Hip Hop Squares" at 11 p.m. ET/PT on Tuesday, May 22, on MTV2!

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Can male pattern baldness help us to understand prostate cancer ...

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It is well?understood that male pattern baldness (androgenic alopecia) and prostate cancer are both associated with levels of expression of?androgenic androgens like testosterone and dihydrotestosterone. However, there does not, in general, appear to be a direct correlation between male pattern baldness and risk for prostate cancer (or vice versa).

What is certainly true, as argued by Yassa et al., in a new paper initially published in Expert Reviews in Endocrinology and Metabolism and also accessible on the Medscape web site, is that a better understanding of the exact endocrinologic mechanisms of male pattern balding might help us to better understand the mechanistic drivers of prostate cancer (and to help us to distinguish between different types of prostate cancer).

Some regular readers may be particularly interested in the section of their paper in which Yassa et al. describe what we do and don?t know today about the underlying similarities and differences between the ways in which androgens may drive (or delay) the development of male pattern baldness and of prostate cancer. The authors are clear that this information does not provide us with any new diagnostic or therapeutic insights for either disorder at the present time. Their premise is only that a better understanding of the underlying biochemistry of androgenic alopecia might simultaneously enhance our ability to diagnose and treat prostate cancer.

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Cruise ship heads for Malaysian port after engine fire

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Hollywood's Video Game Invasion of the '90s | Gameforumer.com ...

Hollywood has always had its fingers on
the pulse of popular culture, so when video games began to blossom
during the ?80s, Tinseltown saw an opportunity to expand. Within a few
years, the gaming market was awash with titles featuring A-list actors,
iconic athletes, and all manner of celebrity in-between. It?s hard to
imagine a time when star-power had such sway in video games, especially
when you consider that the concept of celebrity has devolved over the
past decade into anyone who?s willing to share their messy existence of
a life in front of a Bravo TV camera. The number of actors, musicians
and athletes who lent their likenesses to video games throughout the
?90s is absolutely staggering. There?s no way we could go through all
the instances where the player could interact with a celebrity, so we
narrowed the list down to a select few games that represent the vast
scope of this strange trend.

Actors

 Hollywoods Video Game Invasion of the 90s

Privateer
2: The Darkening
- PC
?96

In all honesty, this list
could?ve been populated purely by installments of Wing
Commander, but
for the sake of our collective sanity, I?ve pared it down to arguably
the most star-studded entry in the series. 1996?s Privateer 2: The
Darkening starred a fresh Clive Owen long before his fortune turned
around with roles in Sin City
and Children
of Men
. It also featured the
talents of fabled thespian John Hurt, who won an Oscar for his work in
The
Elephant Man
as well as the
my personal award for Best Cinematic Death in Alien.
While his role as a deranged bartender may have been slightly
below his pay grade, you can?t help but notice how much fun he was
having the whole time. But throughout the years, Privateer 2 has become
synonymous with one name in general. Christopher Walken lends his
strangely hypnotic talents to the game, and in typical Walken fashion,
seems very confused with his presence in the universe. Walken is one of
those actors who?s such an iconic figure, that his mere presence in a
role pulls the audience out of the experience and causes them to focus
on the strange and unnatural world that is his life.

 Hollywoods Video Game Invasion of the 90s

Apocalypse
- PSX ?98

It really seems like Apocalypse
was originally conceived as a film, but ultimately transformed into a
piece of interactive entertainment. The 1998 PSX title famously
plastered Bruce Willis? name and mug on every single piece of
promotional art imaginable. The action icon lent his voice and likeness
as Trey Kincaid, a wise-cracking meat-head who just so happens to be
the only thing that stands between us and armageddon. If you look past
the clunky action and dated visuals, you?ll find an interesting piece
of video game history that featured one of the strongest attempts by
Hollywood to create a game that was cinematic not from a mechanical
perspective, but rather in terms of how the product was marketed. The
phrase ?Starring Bruce Willis? accompanied the title whenever it was
mentioned. While the game itself is sadly forgettable, its legacy lives
on in the fact that developer Neversoft?s next project would be the
immensely popular Tony
Hawk?s Pro Skater.

Musicians

 Hollywoods Video Game Invasion of the 90s

Revolution
X ? Arcade ?94

It might?ve taken them nearly
25 years to reach the peak of their popularity, but Aerosmith was smart
to capitalize outside the world of music while on this precipice. One
of these non-musical ventures was Revolution X, an arcade light gun
shooter that later got ported to most home consoles of the mid-?90s.
The game presented a dystopian future where the world government
declared war on this planet?s unfortunate youth. Lucky for us
youngins, Steven Tyler and friends were on hand to lend their support
during our uprising. Most of the band was nearing their 50s by the time
the game was released, which makes me question which side of this
conflict they would really support. The game culminated in a final
battle at London?s legendary Wembley Stadium ? why the war ended here
was never quite explained, but many theorize that Aerosmith was still
bitter over being snubbed from 1985?s Live Aid. Still, no matter how
cheesy the idea of an aging rock band leading a Gen-X revolution is,
Aerosmith can still rest easy knowing that they were never subjected to
a Make
My Video title for Sega CD; Mark
Wahlberg is still trying to
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Groupon says 4th-quarter was weaker than reported

(AP) ? Groupon Inc. said Friday that its fourth-quarter loss was wider than initially reported because it needed to increase the amount of money it sets aside for refunds.

The disclosure weakened the company's first quarterly report since it went public in November, which already had disappointed investors, and added to its list of fumbles.

Groupon prominently promises to refund money to any user unhappy with a deal, an important part of its business model that has made it so popular. The need for the revision, however, indicates it might not have the controls in place to adequately keep up with its own success.

Groupon said that it was selling online deals at higher prices during the period. and that put it on the hook for larger refunds. The revision lowered the company's quarterly revenue by $14.3 million and widened its loss by $22.6 million, or 4 cents per share.

The company originally reported in February a surprise loss of $42.7 million, or 8 cents per share, for the period. It said at the time that its revenue nearly tripled to $506.5 million from the same quarter a year earlier.

Groupon's auditor Ernst & Young also flagged a weakness in the company's internal controls over its financial statement for the period in a regulatory filing Friday.

Groupon said it is working to identify and address the underlying causes and said it may have added expenses to solve the problem, including the cost of hiring more financial staff for the quickly growing company.

The company's shares plunged in after-hours trading on the news.

This is not the first time Groupon has struggled to get its financial reporting in order. The company faced federal scrutiny before its initial public offering for the way it accounted for revenue.

Groupon makes money by sending out frequent emails to subscribers offering a chance to buy discount deals for anything from manicures to ballroom dance lessons. The company takes a cut of what people pay and gives the rest to the merchant.

The company used to report all of its gross billings, not just the money it gets to keep, as revenue. After federal regulators questioned the practice, Groupon submitted new documents in September that showed that net revenue in the first half of 2011 was about half of what it originally reported.

The company's rapid growth, financial reporting difficulties, high marketing expenses and enormous employee base have caused some IPO experts to compare its ascent to the late 1990s tech boom ? and bust.

Groupon has failed to impress investors since its market debut. It started strong, pricing above expectations at $20 and raising $700 million in its offering. Its shares soared 31 percent in its first day of trading, closing at $26.11. It has fallen 30 percent since then, closing regular trading Friday at $18.38.

The company has struggled with intense competition from other daily deal sites and complaints by merchants after they've been overwhelmed by customers using, and sometimes abusing, the company's offers.

Groupon also issued a more modest growth forecast for its first quarter as the number of subscribers signing up for its service and the number of merchants joining appears to be slowing.

The company stood by its 2012 first-quarter expectations for revenue of $510 million to $550 million. But that is still single-digit growth year-over-year when it delivered double-digit growth in every quarter of 2011.

"We remain confident in the fundamentals of our business, as our performance continues to highlight the value that we provide to customers and merchants," Groupon's Chief Financial Officer Jason Child said in a statement.

The company also said Friday that it would extend its "lockup" period one month beyond what it had set out at its IPO. These agreements restrict the sale or transfer shares held by certain stockholders, often executives in the company. The agreements also prevent key stockholders from unloading shares or flooding the market, which could hurt its price.

Groupon said that its lockup agreements were originally scheduled to expire on May 2 but the company will be reporting its earnings on May 12 and the agreement forbids the two being so close to each other. As a result, the lockup period will be automatically extended through June 1.

Shares of Groupon, based in Chicago, plunged $1.24, nearly 7 percent, in after-hours trading.

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Sharief Easterling: Thank Based God

The Based God is legendary. Revolutionary, iconic, and prolific to say the least, he's quickly become one of the most polarizing figures in hip hop. His "Based" movement that started in Berkeley, California has now reached the east coast, and even over seas. Controversial lyrics like "bitches on my dick cause I look like Jesus Christ" consistently make him a topic of discussion on the hip hop gossip sites. With over 400,000 twitter followers and millions of youtube views it doesn't seem like we'll be getting rid of Lil Boss anytime soon.

Brandon McCartney, more commonly known as Lil B, has created an innovative new style of rap more similar to that of spoken word. Following a "stream of consciousness" type of flow he freestyles over instrumentals conveying his most honest and sincerest emotions. This avant-garde approach to rap has resulted in a large cult like following for the California MC. To appease the Based God and show their undying devotion daily "girlfriend offerings" are made by fans via twitter and even during live performances (this actually happens). Stemming from
an alib in his hit "Wonton Soup" this, like many other Based God lyrics, has taken on a life of its own.

Its remarkable that an unsigned artist could generate so much interest with the current state of the industry. With no famous guest appearances, radio spins, or backing from a major label, Lil B has still managed to develop an internet following large enough to keep him touring everywhere from L.A. to the U.K. Since 2011 his tireless work ethic has produced an unprecedented ten mixtapes. In an era where it seems quantity is more valuable than quality that stat alone is grounds enough for major respect. But make no mistake Lil B's music is most certainly quality, actually it is of the highest. Its just hard for some to accept that he doesn't fit into the traditional parameters of what a rapper should be. He raps about being broke, calls himself a bitch, and even had the audacity to entitle an album I'm Gay. Way too outlandish for many hip-hop purists to co-sign, but isn't that the essence of the culture itself; new innovative methods of self expression without any rules to stifle your creativity?

Based God represents the future. Whether its his music or the lane the music is creating his impact will be revolutionary. He's continuously pushed the boundaries of subject matter with songs about domestic violence, Aids, cancer, gang violence and many other topics rap artists are too afraid to address. Along with his radical delivery and style of dress he's become a pioneer of the "new age" of hip hop. Although multi-platinum mainstream success may never be a reality for this McCartney, for future generations his influence will be undeniable.

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House approves Republican deficit-cutting plan

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio takes questions during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 29, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio takes questions during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 29, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., holds her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 29, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

FILE -- In this April 5, 2011 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. speaks at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on the rich. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/File)

(AP) ? A divided House approved a $3.6 trillion Republican budget on Thursday recasting Medicare and imposing sweeping cuts in domestic programs, capping a battle that gave both political parties a campaign-season stage to spotlight their warring deficit-cutting priorities.

But the partisan divisions over the measure, which is dead on arrival in the Democratic-led Senate, also underscores how tough it will be for lawmakers to achieve the cooperation needed to contend with a tsunami of tax and spending decisions that will engulf Congress right after this fall's elections.

"This is very easy," Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan group that advocates debt reduction, said of House passage of a budget that will go no further in Congress. "When you get to the budget bomb at the end of the year, it's for real. You're going to actually have to pass something."

The fiscal plan the House passed Thursday by a near party-line 228-191 vote would reshape and squeeze savings out of Medicare and Medicaid, the federal health insurance programs for the elderly and poor. It would force deep cuts in a wide range of spending, including rail projects, research and Pell Grants for low-income college students.

It would block President Barack Obama's plans to raise taxes on couples earning above $250,000 a year. Instead, it would collapse the current six income tax rates into just two, with a top rate of 25 percent ? well below the current 35 percent ceiling ? while erasing tax deductions and other breaks that the GOP plan failed to specify.

Overall, the GOP budget would cut spending $5.3 trillion more deeply over the next decade than Obama would ? out of more than $40 trillion that would be spent. It would cut taxes by $2 trillion more than the president's plan. That leaves Republicans seeking a hefty $3.3 trillion in deeper deficit reduction than Obama.

The measure immediately became grist for the presidential campaign.

"House Republicans today banded together to shower millionaires and billionaires with a massive tax cut paid for by ending Medicare as we know it and making extremely deep cuts to critical programs needed to create jobs and strengthen the middle class," White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a written statement.

At nearly the same time, GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney issued a statement of his own.

"The House budget and my own plan share the same path forward: pro-growth tax cuts, getting federal spending under control and strengthening entitlement programs for future generations," Romney said.

With such stark differences over what to do about huge federal budget shortfalls, it was easy to predict that the two parties would disagree vehemently over the House plan.

It was also easy for the two sides to remain divided because there is little practical consequence if Congress' budget is ignored or, like this year, if a final version is never approved. That's because the budget is a non-binding blueprint that legislators are supposed to follow as they work on spending and revenue bills later in the year, but don't really have to.

Come January, though, a series of potentially cataclysmic fiscal events will occur almost simultaneously that lawmakers and the new president will have to confront and agree to do something about, one way or another.

Tax cuts first approved under President George W. Bush will expire, imposing tax increases on virtually every working American. Billions of dollars in spending cuts to defense and domestic programs, triggered by the failure of Congress' debt-cutting super committee, will start taking effect unless legislators block them.

Right around that time, the government should hit its debt limit and need renewed borrowing authority to avoid a federal default. A new limit will be required from lawmakers who fought right to the brink in a similar battle last summer.

Congressional gridlock on spending bills, always a likelihood, may be threatening a federal shutdown. And a payroll tax cut, extra unemployment benefits and a host of temporary tax breaks for businesses will all be about to expire.

"You've got a budget just about to blow up. There's never been anything like this," Bixby said of the intersecting decisions that will have to be made.

Work on those problems could well start in a postelection session of Congress. Whether either party has more leverage than it does in today's stalemated Washington will depend on how the congressional and presidential elections are decided.

In one indication of the pressures that will face lawmakers seeking middle ground, a coalition of both parties' moderates offered a compromise budget this week that combined tax increases with spending cuts in an attempt to curb federal deficits. It lost resoundingly on Wednesday, garnering only 38 votes.

That measure's two leading sponsors, Reps. Steve LaTourette, R-Ohio, and Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., said in separate interviews that 100 or more lawmakers had told them they would support the bipartisan proposal or were leaning toward doing so.

But then came a flood of lobbying. Conservative groups like the anti-tax Americans for Tax Reform and the Club for Growth pushed Republicans to oppose the bipartisan plan, while the AFL-CIO, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and other groups brought pressure from the left.

"A vote for Cooper-LaTourette is a vote for deep cuts in Social Security benefits, cuts in Medicare benefits and Medicaid" and tax breaks for the wealthy and for U.S. firms shipping jobs abroad, said a letter the AFL-CIO sent lawmakers.

"People are afraid of campaign money drying up, they're afraid of being attacked by ads on TV, they're afraid of losing goodwill, especially if they see you're not going to win," said Cooper, explaining the clout opposition groups had with lawmakers facing re-election this fall.

LaTourette said that after the bipartisan plan failed, he telephoned Erskine Bowles to apologize "for damaging his hard work." Bowles, a former White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, was a leader of Obama's bipartisan deficit-reduction commission along with former Wyoming GOP Sen. Alan Simpson. LaTourette and Cooper used the commission's debt-reduction plan as a model.

"I wasn't surprised that both the right and the left came at us," LaTourette said. "I was surprised at the ferocity of the attacks."

Associated Press

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Many billions of rocky planets in the habitable zones around red dwarfs in the Milky Way

ScienceDaily (Mar. 28, 2012) ? A new result from ESO's HARPS planet finder shows that rocky planets not much bigger than Earth are very common in the habitable zones around faint red stars. The international team estimates that there are tens of billions of such planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone, and probably about one hundred in the Sun's immediate neighbourhood. This is the first direct measurement of the frequency of super-Earths around red dwarfs, which account for 80% of the stars in the Milky Way.

This first direct estimate of the number of light planets around red dwarf stars has just been announced by an international team using observations with the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile [1]. A recent announcement, showing that planets are ubiquitous in our galaxy used a different method that was not sensitive to this important class of exoplanets.

The HARPS team has been searching for exoplanets orbiting the most common kind of star in the Milky Way -- red dwarf stars (also known as M dwarfs [2]). These stars are faint and cool compared to the Sun, but very common and long-lived, and therefore account for 80% of all the stars in the Milky Way.

"Our new observations with HARPS mean that about 40% of all red dwarf stars have a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone where liquid water can exist on the surface of the planet," says Xavier Bonfils (IPAG, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble, France), the leader of the team. "Because red dwarfs are so common -- there are about 160 billion of them in the Milky Way -- this leads us to the astonishing result that there are tens of billions of these planets in our galaxy alone."

The HARPS team surveyed a carefully chosen sample of 102 red dwarf stars in the southern skies over a six-year period. A total of nine super-Earths (planets with masses between one and ten times that of Earth) were found, including two inside the habitable zones of Gliese 581 and Gliese 667 C respectively. The astronomers could estimate how heavy the planets were and how far from their stars they orbited.

By combining all the data, including observations of stars that did not have planets, and looking at the fraction of existing planets that could be discovered, the team has been able to work out how common different sorts of planets are around red dwarfs. They find that the frequency of occurrence of super-Earths [3] in the habitable zone is 41% with a range from 28% to 95%.

On the other hand, more massive planets, similar to Jupiter and Saturn in our Solar System, are found to be rare around red dwarfs. Less than 12% of red dwarfs are expected to have giant planets (with masses between 100 and 1000 times that of Earth).

As there are many red dwarf stars close to the Sun the new estimate means that there are probably about one hundred super-Earth planets in the habitable zones around stars in the neighbourhood of the Sun at distances less than about 30 light-years [4].

"The habitable zone around a red dwarf, where the temperature is suitable for liquid water to exist on the surface, is much closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun," says St?phane Udry (Geneva Observatory and member of the team). "But red dwarfs are known to be subject to stellar eruptions or flares, which may bathe the planet in X-rays or ultraviolet radiation, and which may make life there less likely."

One of the planets discovered in the HARPS survey of red dwarfs is Gliese 667 Cc [5]. This is the second planet in this triple star system and seems to be situated close to the centre of the habitable zone. Although this planet is more than four times heavier than Earth it is the closest twin to Earth found so far and almost certainly has the right conditions for the existence of liquid water on its surface. This is the second super-Earth planet inside the habitable zone of a red dwarf discovered during this HARPS survey, after Gliese 581d was announced in 2007 and confirmed in 2009.

"Now that we know that there are many super-Earths around nearby red dwarfs we need to identify more of them using both HARPS and future instruments. Some of these planets are expected to pass in front of their parent star as they orbit -- this will open up the exciting possibility of studying the planet's atmosphere and searching for signs of life," concludes Xavier Delfosse, another member of the team (eso1210).

Notes

[1] HARPS measures the radial velocity of a star with extraordinary precision. A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from a distant observer on Earth. Due to the Doppler effect, this radial velocity change induces a shift of the star's spectrum towards longer wavelengths as it moves away (called a redshift) and a blueshift (towards shorter wavelengths) as it approaches. This tiny shift of the star's spectrum can be measured with a high-precision spectrograph such as HARPS and used to infer the presence of a planet.

[2] These stars are called M dwarfs because they have the spectral class M. This is the coolest of the seven classes in the simplest scheme for classifying stars accordingly to decreasing temperature and the appearance of their spectra.

[3] Planets with a mass between one and ten times that of Earth are called super-Earths. There are no such planets in our Solar System, but they appear to be very common around other stars. Discoveries of such planets in the habitable zones around their stars are very exciting because -- if the planet were rocky and had water, like Earth -- they could potentially be an abode of life.

[4] The astronomers used ten parsecs as their definition of "close." This corresponds to about 32.6 light-years.

[5] The name means that the planet is the second discovered (c) orbiting the third component (C) of the triple star system called Gliese 667. The bright stellar companions Gliese 667 A and B would be prominent in the skies of Gliese 667 Cc. The discovery of Gliese 667 Cc was independently announced by Guillem Anglada-Escude and colleagues in February 2012, roughly two months after the electronic preprint of the Bonfils et al. paper went online. This confirmation of the planets Gliese 667 Cb and Cc by Anglada-Escude and collaborators was largely based on HARPS observations and data processing of the European team that were made publicly available through the ESO archive.

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  1. Bonfils et al. The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XXXI. The M-dwarf sample. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012 (in press) [link]

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