Windsor Entertainment Forum: Not all fun and games | The Lance

Conference to show artists the business side of the music industry

Josh Kolm
ARTS EDITOR

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he Windsor Entertainment Forum returns for a second year on March 3 in hopes of providing educational opportunities for artists in the business and legal aspects of their chosen field.

The event is run by the Entertainment Law Society, one of more than 50 specialized law organizations based out of Windsor Law at the University of Windsor.

Last year, the first edition of the forum focused on the film industry, and featured lectures on copyright law, shooting permits, marketing and contracts, as well as panels from national- and locally-based filmmakers and actors.

This year?s forum will feature the same mindset applied to the music industry, with a dozen professors, musicians, lawyers and record executives set to speak.

?We have most of our speakers finalized,? said Matt McCarthy, co-ordinator of the forum. ?We?ve only been advertising a couple [speakers] at this point, only because there is some degree of uncertainty about a couple of them, but also to keep a little bit more of a buzz for the situation.?

McCarthy expects the final schedule to include somewhere between eight to 12 speakers. The only ones to be announced at this point are musician Karl Wolf and music lawyer Safwan Javed.

This will be McCarthy?s first time on the organization committee, but he is taking feedback from last year?s forum to heart, including allowing more time for one-on-one networking and looking to the potential delegates for what topics they want to learn about.

?Some of it is going to be very structured, other parts are going to be very free form, depending on what the speakers want to do,? McCarthy said. ?The big question that people want? and we?re still taking feedback? is going to be how did these people get where they are now. Most of these people are moderately far along in their careers, and the question people are asking is, ?what did you do when you were at our stage???

The panel topics will be similar to last year?s, but will also include the role of the Internet in today?s music industry, how new media and social networks fit into marketing an artist and can provide a set of niche skills for aspiring industry types. And while DIY and independent musicians are providing more and more competition for the major labels, the forum is more focused on providing the skills for locals to move out of the underground.

?A couple of our members will be coming from major label experience, but we also have a number of local people coming that are much more? I don?t want to say underground, necessarily, but coming from smaller-scale bases,? McCarthy said. ?We don?t just want to make this a conference for up and coming bands. A lot of people in this community might want to get involved in a different level [of the music industry]. And we?re encouraging people to come out so they can learn.?

Murad Erzinclioglu is an independent musician and the music director at CJAM 99.1 FM. The station?s mandate means that most of the music he sees and encourages programmers to play comes from independent bands. While some bands may want to hit it big, he sees the forum as a learning experience, even for those that are happy being independent.

?There?s a big world of music out there, and a lot of ways you can go about being successful. There are definitely more bands in Windsor going the independent route,? Erzinclioglu said. ?But at the very least, even as an independent musician, you?ll have a lawyer or someone in front of you that you can ask stuff, that you wouldn?t be able to otherwise. Anyone who is serious about being in a band needs every weapon they can get in their bag.?

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The Windsor Entertainment Forum will be held at the University of Windsor?s Ron W. Ianni Law Building on March 3 from 12 to 5 p.m. The event is free, and all wishing to attend should RSVP to musicwindsor@gmail.com. For more information, visit windsorentertainmentforum.com.

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Because it's never too early to start the wild speculation.
By Kevin P. Sullivan

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Photo: James Fisher/ New Line Productions

Well, everyone, that's it for our 2012 Oscars coverage. It's been a great awards season. Can't wait to see you next year. ... ... ... Hello, everyone, and welcome to MTV News' 2013 Oscars coverage. It seems like just yesterday that "The Artist" won big and took home Best Picture, but who cares about that movie anymore? That's old news.

This year is sure to be a huge year at the movies, and the nominees for next year's Oscars are already lining up. MTV News has your first look at the likely nominees for the Academy Awards based on everything we know about the Oscars.

Best Supporting Actor
A rare, wide-open race this late in the game, Best Supporting Actor nominations could go to any number of great actors who were not great enough to be considered for the lead. The one lock at this point has to be Christoph Waltz for his work in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained." Waltz won an Academy Award for playing essentially the same character in "Inglourious Basterds," but this time he's a good guy. What could be bad about that?

Best Actress
Here's a category already locked in a dead heat, with a wide variety of potential nominees vying for one of the five spots. The real shock here could be young Quvenzhané Wallis in "Beasts of the Southern Wild," who won over audiences at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and the Academy will jump at any opportunity to honor a child actor. Other potential nominees include Sandra Bullock in "Gravity," a largely solo performance from a previous winner, and Keira Knightley in "Anna Karenina" because it's Keira Knightley in a Joe Wright-directed costume drama. Also, either Charlize Theron or Noomi Rapace could earn nominations for "Prometheus," depending on whose face doesn't get eaten first.

Best Actor
For Best Actor, expect to see a lot of familiar faces and perhaps one familiar face that actually belongs to someone else. I'm speaking, of course, about Joseph Gordon-Levitt in "Looper." It's unclear whether JGL will be in a more supporting role, but early reports peg his prosthetic-enhanced performance as a young Bruce Willis as a career-best. Also, the Academy loves an actor in makeup. You might see the rest of the category filled out with award favorites because they're award favorites, like Daniel Day-Lewis ("Lincoln"), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master"), Brad Pitt ("Cogan's Trade"), and a second nomination for John Hawkes ("The Surrogate").

Best Picture
The 2013 Best Picture category should shake out like filling out the cast of a heist movie. Everyone has a unique role to play. You have the musical ("Les Miserable") and the obligatory Tolkien nominee ("The Hobbit"). There's the populist Ben Affleck film ("Argo") and the critic-loved Ben Affleck film ("Untitled Terrence Malick Project'). Plus, you need a current affairs film ("Untitled International Thriller," formerly known as "Kill Bin Laden") and a movie everyone loved but will never win ("The Dark Knight Rises"). That should just about do it.

Leave your predictions for the 2013 Oscars in the comments section!

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Health aides, lawyers are most sleep deprived

More than half of office workers don't consistently get a good night's sleep

By Eve Tahmincioglu

Home health aides have long had the distinction of being among the lowest-paid workers in the United States, but now it's revealed they also get the least amount of sleep.

Concern over finances and an overall stressful job may be keeping home health aides up at night; but lawyers also made the list of sleep-deprived occupations.?

A new study of professions that get the least and most amount of sleep was commissioned by a mattress company and based on a survey done for the National Center for Health Statistics.?The research found health aides, lawyers and police officers got the least? sleep, while loggers, hairstylists and sales representatives were the among the most-rested workers.

?We encourage people to take stock of their sleep habits and make improvements where they can,? said?Robert Oexman, director of the Sleep to Live Institute in Joplin, Mo., and a consultant for Sleepy's, the mattress company behind the study.

Here?s a rundown of the sleepiest workers based on average amount of sleep per night:

1. Home Health Aides

2. Lawyers

3. Police Officers

4. Physicians, Paramedics

5. Economists

6. Social Workers

7. Computer Programmers

8. Financial Analysts

9. Plant Operators

10. Secretaries

And here are the workers that get the most shut-eye:

1. Forest, Logging Workers

2. Hairstylists

3. Sales Representatives

4. Bartenders

5. Construction Workers

6. Athletes

7. Landscapers

8. Engineers

9. Aircraft Pilots

10. Teachers

Overall, nobody seems to getting a lot of sleep no matter what they do. Even loggers, who topped the list, only clocked an average of seven hours and 20 minutes sleeping, compared with? six hours and 57 minutes for the sleepiest workers, home health aides.

Related: Home health care industry fights overtime proposal?

What?s so important about getting enough sleep anyway?

Turns out, a lot. Two Harvard Medical School studies found that insomnia does a number on your productivity, and a lack of sleep can affect your health.?

You could make up the difference by napping at work. A 2011 study from the National Sleep Foundation and Philips Electronics found that one in four employees admitted taking a nap at work.

That study also found:

• 85 percent of office workers say they could be more productive if they slept more.
• More than half of office workers don't consistently get a good night's sleep.
• Two-thirds of office workers surveyed said lack of sleep means their day begins on a low note.
• Two-thirds of employees do not wake up before their alarm goes off and more than one-third are not ready to get up when their alarm goes off.

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Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine speaks during a news conference as pitchers and catchers officially report to baseball spring training on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, in Fort Myers, Fla. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine speaks during a news conference as pitchers and catchers officially report to baseball spring training on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, in Fort Myers, Fla. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine comes out from the clubhouse for a news conference as pitchers and catchers officially report to baseball spring training on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, in Fort Myers, Fla. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) ? There will be no drinking in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse this season.

The team will ban alcohol in the clubhouse and on the last plane flight of road trips, new manager Bobby Valentine announced on Saturday.

The move comes in the wake of last season's September collapse in the AL East, a tailspin that included reports of Boston starting pitchers drinking beer in the clubhouse on their off-days rather than supporting their teammates in the dugout.

It's one of a handful of new rules that Valentine is imposing in his first season as Red Sox manager, and he laid them out with team ownership by his side in a meeting Saturday morning before Boston's first full-squad workout of the spring.

"It's just what I've always done, except for when I was in Texas, I guess," Valentine said when asked why he banned booze. "I'm comfortable with it that way."

When asked how the players reacted to the news, Valentine said, "You mean like standing ovation or booing? I didn't get either of those."

Veteran David Ortiz didn't bat an eye.

"We're not here to drink. We're here to play baseball," the slugger said. "This ain't no bar. If you want to drink, drink at home."

Last season, the Red Sox went 7-20 in September and allowed their nine-game lead in the AL East to swirl down the drain. After manager Terry Francona's team missed the playoffs, the Boston Globe reported that starting pitchers including Josh Beckett, John Lackey and Jon Lester spent some of their off-days drinking beer and eating fried chicken in the clubhouse during games.

Both Beckett and Lester said last week that mistakes were made last season and both vowed it wouldn't happen again.

Valentine has made sure of that.

Ever since taking over for Francona, who guided the Red Sox to two World Series titles in eight seasons and had a reputation as a laid-back manager, Valentine has stressed personal responsibility and accountability with his players.

"Each manager has his own style," team president Larry Lucchino said. "It worked for Tito very well, his style.

"Bobby has his own style that was born of 20-plus years as a manager in the big leagues and in Japan. He's got his own philosophies and I think he'll organize a camp consistent with that. Will there be differences? You bet there will be differences because they're different managers and different coaching staffs."

Valentine played down the changes, saying there was nothing groundbreaking in his philosophy, which tells the players "not to embarrass themselves or the team, the community, their teammates, themselves. I don't think that's a new rule. That's a long-standing rule of life."

"Basically just everyday life," new closer Andrew Bailey said. "Don't embarrass yourself, that's the key word. For me, just do the right thing and you'll be fine."

Beckett, Lester and Lackey were not available for comment after Valentine made the announcement.

Beckett and Lester each addressed the issue at length when they reported last week. Lester said, "It's not something I'm proud of" and vowed to be a better teammate this season.

Both Beckett and Lester were adamant at the time that having beers in the clubhouse did not affect their performances on the mound. Beckett gave up 12 earned runs in his last two starts and Lester went 0-3 with an 8.24 ERA in his last four starts.

"I'm not saying we didn't make mistakes because we did make mistakes in the clubhouse," Beckett said last week. "The biggest mistake I made was not pitching well against Baltimore. I was prepared to pitch every time I went out there. I just didn't execute pitches when I needed to."

Plenty of teams don't allow booze in the clubhouse, including the St. Louis Cardinals, who lost pitcher Josh Hancock to a fatal car accident in 2007 after a night of drinking that began with some postgame beers in the clubhouse.

"I think guys are grown and will be able to make their own decisions," Bailey said. "I know there's no beer on planes, and that kind of stuff, going back to Boston. Just some simple rules that are pretty common."

Third baseman Kevin Youkilis said the players embraced Valentine's message of personal accountability and they were relieved to get back out on the field together to start turning the page on last season's disappointment.

"It was a good meeting," Youkilis said. "We got out here and started playing the game on the field and just doing the little things out here. All the different, new intricate things ... that was the cool thing."

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Don't cloud young minds

THERE is a strong sense of d?j? vu about what is emerging over leaked emails from the Heartland Institute. The US libertarian think tank, which argues that global warming is not primarily caused by humans, intends to develop teaching material that would cast doubt on the scientific consensus on climate change. Its approach is sadly reminiscent of fogging tactics employed by the tobacco industry and creationists.

Children should be taught honestly what we know about climate change, as well as what we don't know and where the uncertainties lie. Yet a plan outlined in documents allegedly from Heartland would build a curriculum around statements such as "whether humans are changing the climate is a major scientific controversy" (see "Climate sceptics may find fertile ground in US schools"). This is to create controversy where none exists.

There simply is no credible scientific alternative to the theory that humans are warming the atmosphere. In 2010, a survey of 1372 climate scientists found that 97 per cent of those who publish most frequently in the field were in no doubt. They agreed with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that human activity had caused most of Earth's warming over the second half of the 20th century. By comparison with these scientists, the climate expertise of the small group of contrarians was substantially lower (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003187107).

In the face of such broad agreement, the leaked strategy smacks of tactics used by tobacco companies as the evidence linking smoking to fatal diseases continued to grow. They employed accusations of scientific conspiracy, selective use of evidence and dissenting scientists to contradict public health experts and confuse the public. Oil companies have already used such tactics in the climate change debate.

The approach is also strikingly similar to the "teach the controversy" campaign mounted by the Seattle-based think tank the Discovery Institute. A decade ago, it designed lesson plans for teachers that focused on weaknesses in evolutionary theory and presented "intelligent design" as a scientific alternative. ID proposes that facets of the living world were created by a supernatural "intelligent cause".

An attempt to introduce ID by the district school board in Dover, Pennsylvania, was thwarted in 2005 when a judge ruled that ID is not science but the "progeny of creationism". As an offshoot of religion, its teaching in public schools is unconstitutional.

The judge ruled that focusing on a supposed controversy rather than being straight about science was "at best disingenuous and at worst a canard". There can be no excuse for such deceit in schools, no matter what the agenda.

It is easy to see that libertarians will never be best friends with scientists who tell them their lifestyle is leading the world into danger. But their real beef is with the political response to the science, which is likely to constrain their freedoms. Let's keep that debate where it belongs, in civics or politics classes. To seek to present distorted science to those who will have to deal with the consequences of worsening climate change is deeply cynical.

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Obama: GOP philosophy is 'wrong about America'

President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Miami Field House in Coral Gables, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Miami Field House in Coral Gables, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) ? President Barack Obama on Thursday accused his Republican presidential rivals of peddling a philosophy that is "wrong about America," seeking to rev up his supporters as he hauled in campaign cash in an important swing state.

Obama, appearing in a state he carried in 2008 and one he may need to win again to hold the White House, cast Republicans as protectors of the wealthy, telling supporters at a fundraiser that the GOP hopefuls seeking his job would leave everyone else to fend for themselves. His comments came after he had assailed Republicans earlier in the day for offering what he described as flawed and dishonest plans to lower gasoline prices.

"I'm here to tell them they are wrong about America," Obama said. "Because in America we understand ? yes, we're rugged individuals. Yes, we don't expect a handout. But we also understand we are greater together than we are on our own."

The president was headlining three campaign fundraisers Thursday in Florida, a traditional political battleground that could be key to his re-election hopes. But he had more than the November election on his mind.

An avid basketball fan, the president also lamented missing Thursday night's highly anticipated NBA matchup in South Florida between the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks ? including the Knicks' emerging superstar, Jeremy Lin.

"I'm resentful I'm not going to the game tonight. I'm mad about that," Obama joked. "It's not right. It's not fair."

The Knicks have catapulted to national attention by stringing together a series of wins on the shoulders of Lin, a previously unknown Chinese American Harvard University grad who has captured imaginations among fan and non-fan alike and given rise to a new emotion, "Linsanity." The craze has reached the White House, with presidential spokesman Jay Carney confessing last week that Lin was the subject of presidential talk aboard Marine One, the president's helicopter.

Even though he had to miss the game, Obama still planned to indulge his NBA habit. After speaking at a second fundraiser in the Miami area, the president was headed to the Windermere, Fla., home of Dallas Mavericks guard Vince Carter for a $30,000-a-person fundraiser.

Obama also raised money at the Coral Gables home of developer Chris Korge, a top fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. About 100 supporters paid at least $15,000 to attend the event inside Korge's walled compound.

"We've got a good story to tell about the last three years, but I'm not done here," the president said. "I need five more years."

Last week, Obama took a three-day West Coast trip and raised about $8 million in eight campaign events.

Before his fundraising blitz, Obama spoke to a campaign-like crowd at the University of Miami to defend his energy policy in the midst of spiking gasoline prices.

He predicted his Republican rivals would offer nothing but more drilling and political promises of $2-a-gallon gas.

"That's not a plan, especially since we're already drilling," he said. "That's a bumper sticker."

His trip to Florida came as gasoline has reached the highest price at the pump ever for this time of year: an average of $3.58 per gallon. White House advisers see it as a cyclical occurrence but knew Obama had to address the topic, one of deep concern to consumers and growing fodder for Republicans seeking to unseat Obama.

Obama said gasoline prices were "like a tax straight out of their paychecks." He promoted an energy agenda of oil, gas, wind, solar, nuclear and biofuel energy.

And he took aim at Republicans.

"You can bet that since it's an election year, they're already dusting off their three-point plans for $2 gas. I'll save you the suspense: Step one is to drill, step two is to drill, and step three is to keep drilling. ... We've heard the same thing for 30 years. Well, the American people aren't stupid."

Obama insisted there are no short-term solutions to high gas prices, and that anyone suggesting otherwise was not being honest. Still, he sought to offer something to anxious voters by saying he had ordered his administration to search for every possible area to help consumers in the coming months.

He sought to take credit for rising oil and natural gas production, a greater mix of energy sources and decreased consumption. He promoted an energy strategy that the administration says will reduce dependence on foreign oil in the long term.

Republicans have seized on the issue, citing Obama's decision to reject a permit for a cross-country oil pipeline as evidence of a misguided policy. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has warned of $5-a-gallon gasoline, while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has said he could lower prices to $2.50 a gallon.

Obama aides worry that the rise in prices could reverse the country's economic gains and the president's improved political standing. A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that though Obama's approval rating on the economy has climbed, 58 percent disapprove of what he's doing on gas prices.

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Guideline gets kids the right drug for pneumonia (Reuters)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - After one hospital set guidelines for how to treat children with pneumonia, the number getting the right antibiotic shot up, a new study finds.

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A Successful Peace Corps Long Distance Relationship ? Greater ...

Last week was a tough week to be away from home. Valentine?s day and our three-year anniversary. Yet it?s a time to reflect and be amazed at how lucky I?ve been to have Amanda?s support, love, and companionship all this time and how special our relationship is to have stayed so strong and close through almost 18 months apart. I miss and love her very much. This post will focus on our long-distance relationship and how other people who are in relationships and planning on joining the Peace Corps can think about what it means to be apart for this long and stay together.

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I remember Amanda telling me before I left for the Peace Corps that she had done some research on the internet about how relationships in the Peace Corps tend to work out, and the results were not good. I think it?s safe to say that a majority of people who go into the Peace Corps in a relationship with someone back in the US end up breaking up before their service is over. So we went into this well aware that we couldn?t be sure of how things would end up, but sure that we wanted to stay together and confident that through good and open communication things would work out for the best. This week marks our third year of officially dating and it seems like an appropriate moment to contribute to the online record of Peace Corps relationships with a positive story about how we have maintained and even grown our relationship despite the distance. I can?t give a how-to for others, but I can share what has worked for us and hope that others find value or comfort in our experiences. I?ll give my thoughts here, and then I?ll ask Amanda to reflect and give her perspective too, so that both sides are covered.

Open and honest communication is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a successful Peace Corps long-distance relationship. You?ve got to be proactive about talking about things that you?re feeling, even though you may be embarrassed or frustrated at yourself for feeling them. Ignoring your emotions rarely makes them irrelevant. You can give yourself time to process them and understand them better before voicing them, but it?s almost always better to have things in the open rather than hidden. You?ve got to trust that if things are meant to work out, then they will work out, and if they aren?t, they won?t.

The three factors that I think have made the biggest difference in our staying close and committed, apart from intrinsic relationship things, are clear expectations, shared experiences, and the internet.

We began dating only four or five months before I was planning on going into the Peace Corps, so from the beginning we knew that this was something very important to me and Amanda understood that it was a deep part of my personality and values that I wanted to have this experience. Soon before my original leave date I injured myself playing sports and was deferred for a year. This turned out to be a happy twist of fate because it allowed our relationship to grow and deepen, but always with the same understanding that I would be going into the Peace Corps eventually. I think this helped set down clear expectations that made the transition easier than it might have been. To be sure, it was anything but easy, but still easier than having decided while dating to join the Peace Corps. We decided to stay together, but not promise each other anything about the future that we couldn?t be sure about. We only said that we?d always be open about what we were feeling and needing and if something changed for one of us, that we?d tell the other about it. This feels like the best way we could have begun.

Shared experiences are perhaps the most important and unexpected boost to our relationship, and are mostly a coincidence. This may not be encouraging to those reading this blog for advice on how to make their relationship work, but it could give you ideas about how to strengthen your ties. My sector is teaching English as a foreign language, and I work in a Spanish-speaking country. Amanda is a Spanish teacher, so essentially we both speak the same languages and we?re both high school foreign language teachers now. This is a whole area that we didn?t have in common before and gave us a new dimension with which to commiserate, exchange experiences and ideas, and connect. Without this connection we would have had much more trouble finding experiences in common and being able to put ourselves in the others? shoes. I suggest that other couples find shared experiences that can connect them across the distance, be it tv shows, books, hobbies, or work-related topics.

The third factor is the internet. That seems like a bit of a cop-out, because it pretty much amounts to communication, but the advent of Skype, blogs, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail have made physical distance much less relevant. To stay connected we video chat about twice per week, email periodically, share links on Facebook, follow each others? blogs, I upload videos to show what my house looks like, and create photo albums to make my life more concrete and accessible to everyone back home. In fact, as a side note, I feel closer to my parents now than at any time since high school because I Skype with them almost ever single week and share my experiences through this blog and photo albums. Sharing pictures and videos has been particularly powerful in closing the gap between our worlds, though nothing that can be communicated on the internet meant as much as Amanda and my family coming to visit me here and seeing everything with their own eyes.

Even with these strengths, the challenges are significant. My experience is that it is often easier for the partner in the Peace Corps to deal with the changes because there are so many new and exciting challenges to confront while the partner at home in the states likely has to adapt to the same life without their main support. It?s easier to build a life from scratch in the Peace Corps than it is to try to build a life around a hole in your daily routines and emotional well-being. The volunteer will be meeting literally thousands of new people while the partner back home will likely have much the same social environment. How each person deals with the social changes will have a lot to do with their social environment and personality. In many Peace Corps sites, technology will not be as accessible as it has been for me. And there is no smoothing over the fact that two years and three months is a really, really, really long time to be apart from the person you love. To make it work you will need to both look for opportunities to grow and challenge yourselves as individuals and share those successes and failures with each other. Make plans to visit each other, share as many details that will make your world come alive as possible. Admit when you?re having a lonely week. Talk about your jealousies, but take care that you?re not trying to manipulate the other into being more dependent on you. Encourage independence and branching out. See these two years as an opportunity rather than a sacrifice. Become the people you always wanted to be and then fall in love with each other all over again. It?s hard as hell, but not impossible. Be flexible, open, understanding, patient, and optimistic. It?s worth a try.

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Apple's 2012 enviromental report reveals giant solar array

Apple just released its 2012 environmental report, detailing all the ways it's conserving energy and working to make Mother Earth a slightly cleaner place. A highlight of that effort is clearly the company's data center in Maiden, North Carolina. The giant white-roofed server bunker will soon be home to the largest end user-owned solar array in the US -- covering 100 acres and producing 42 million kWh of electricity each year. The 20-megawatt installation is only the beginning too. A five-megawatt fuel cell facility will soon be going up alongside it. Hit up the source link for the full report, but be forewarned, it comes only in PDF format.

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(Reuters) ? Hedge fund manager Brian Kim pleaded not guilty in New York state court on Friday to charges of running a $6 million Ponzi scheme and fleeing the country before his trial in a separate theft case. The Manhattan District Attorney?s office said Kim, 36, claimed he was an accomplished trader investing in stable [...]

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SEOUL, South Korea ? Kim Jong Il, North Korea?s mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69. Kim?s death was announced Monday by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to China [...]

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Android Central weekly photo contest winner: Animals

The winner of this weeks Android Central photo contest is Andrew Hammer.  He gives us this lovely picture of a butterfly, taken with his T-Mobile Galaxy S II.  It's a stunner, and fits in perfectly with the animal theme we asked for last week.  It's hard to believe pictures this great can come from our Android phones.  Thanks for entering everyone, and Andrew, check your inbox for details about your prize.

The pictures you guys are sending in are phenomenal.  It's difficult for us to pick a winner each week, but we're loving it.  Look through this weeks runners-up to see what I mean.  We'll be back tomorrow with another contest for the week, as long as you guys promise to keep sending in such great pictures!

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Internet and Online Business ? Social Media and Its Role in the ...

The Internet and Online Business ? Social Media has become known in the industry of small business, home business, and networking groups. It is a tool used, as one of a marketing strategy, to reached large crowds in a short period of time. Social media enables everyone to socialize and access information instantly using the highest means of communication, that is the internet and mobile phones ? thereby giving a boost in the economy. The role of internet and online business through social media helps to uplift the economy of a certain country, region or area.

This famous business trend is advantageous because you can reach your target market faster compared to the usual method of advertisement. The Internet and Online Business ? Social Media is one helpful tool to use as your marketing strategy because people tend to influence one another just by talking or using any means of communication.

Once your products or services are read on the web information is already given and your business will surely start. Because of this, you as a businessman can help uplift the economic situation of your place as well as yourself.

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Germany?s enthusiasm for solar power is understandable. We could satisfy all of the world?s energy needs for an entire year if we could capture just one hour of the sun?s energy. Even with the inefficiency of current PV technology, we could meet the entire globe?s energy demand with solar panels by covering 250,000 square kilometers (155,342 square miles), about 2.6 percent of the Sahara Desert.

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Alleged iPad 3 Retina Display examined under a microscope

There are no shortage of iPad 3 rumors out there. Quad-core A6, LTE radio, Retina Display -- we've heard it all, but haven't actually seen much in the way of evidence. Now Mac Rumors claims to have gotten its paws on part of the mythical beast. The site has a 9.7-inch LCD, in the same aspect ratio as the iPad and iPad 2 that certainly appears to be rocking a full 2048 x 1536 resolution. Without a way to power the screen its a little tough to be certain, but the same area of the alleged iPad 3 panel does seem to house twice as many pixels as its predecessor when viewed under the same magnification. Could this in fact be the Retina Display destined to put iOS 5.1 in the hands of millions of tablet fans? We'll just have to wait for Tim Cook to reveal of its secrets too us, which should be happening sooner, rather than later.

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Discovery Communications Inc. Earnings: Earnings Higher Than ...

S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) component Discovery Communications Inc (NASDAQ:DISCA) reported net income above Wall Street?s expectations for the fourth quarter. Discovery Communications is a global media and entertainment company that offers programming across multiple distribution platforms in more than 170 other countries.

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Discovery Communications Inc Earnings Cheat Sheet for the Fourth Quarter

Results: Net income for Discovery Communications Inc rose to $336 million (86 cents per share) vs. $194 million (45 cents per share) in the same quarter a year earlier. This marks a rise of 75.9% from the year earlier quarter.

Revenue: Rose 10.5% to $1.12 billion from the year earlier quarter.

Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: Discovery Communications Inc beat the mean analyst estimate of 69 cents per share. Analysts were expecting revenue of $1.11 billion.

Quoting Management: David Zaslav, Discovery?s President and Chief Executive Officer said, ?Discovery?s strong 2011 results and operating momentum exemplify the power and universal appeal of our non-fiction programming, as well as the opportunities inherent in the global distribution platform Discovery has built over the last 27 years. Through our continued focus on creating high-quality programming and leveraging that content around the globe, as well as across a growing number of digital and consumer platforms, we were able to take additional share of a strong global advertising market, build new brands and create additional growth drivers across our portfolio. Heading into 2012 we remain focused on taking market share globally while delivering value to our shareholders through sustained financial results and capital returns.?

Key Stats:

The company has now seen net income rise in three straight quarters. In the third quarter, net income rose 27.4% and in the second quarter, the figure rose more than twofold.

The company has now topped analyst estimates for the last four quarters. It beat the mark by 4 cents in the third quarter, by 2 cents in the second quarter, and by 2 cents in the first quarter.

Gross margin shrank 0.7 percentage point to 70.6%. The contraction appeared to be driven by increased costs, which rose 13.4% from the year earlier quarter while revenue rose 10.5%.

Revenue has risen the past four quarters. Revenue increased 18.3% to $1.09 billion in the third quarter. The figure rose 10.8% in the second quarter from the year earlier and climbed 8.2% in the first quarter from the year-ago quarter.

Looking Forward: Analysts have a more positive outlook for the company?s next quarter performance. Over the past month, the average estimate for the first quarter of the next fiscal year has gone up from 59 cents per share to 60 cents. The average estimate for the fiscal year has remained at $2.39 per share.

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