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Sunday, 30 December 2012
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Card Playing Day | The Daily Grid
There?s no better time to enjoy a relaxing card game with your family and friends than the week in between Christmas and New Year celebrations, when the excitement of the holidays has calmed down a bit but you still have a few lingering and restless? family members around.
Grab a deck of playing cards and celebrate Card Playing Day by playing some of your favorite card games. Up for a challenge? Take this opportunity to learn a card game you?ve never played before. Find rules for a variety of card games below!
Card Game Rules from bicyclecards.com
Card Games and Rules from Grandparents.com
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Sources: holidayinsights.com, theultimateholidaysite.com
Source: http://blog.calendars.com/2012/12/card-playing-day/
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Shop at a Salvage Grocery Store and Save a Ton of Money on Food
These outlets get their food from supermarkets that have to return groceries to their warehouses. A few of the reasons this happens is if the supermarket orders more items than they need, a case is dropped (lightly damaging the packaging for a couple of cans or boxes), items are overstocked because they're out-of-season, or even if the manufacturer changes the packaging or re-brands the item.
All that unused inventory ends up at these salvage stores, where you can buy them at rock-bottom prices (e.g., Terra Chips for $0.25 a bag or a gallon of juice for $0.75, according to a thread on Frugal Village?though the prices are from a few years ago). Many outlets even accept manufacturer's coupons but might not accept credit cards.
Frugal Village also has a list of salvage groceries by state; it might not be complete, but it's a start. Update: There's another list here (thanks amandaztoy!).
For more facts about salvage groceries, check out the Mint blog article below.
Grocery Outlets: The Secret to Saving Green on Groceries | Mint Life
Photo by Joel Kramer
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Apple to drop patent claims against new Samsung phone
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc has agreed to withdraw patent claims against a new Samsung phone with a high-end display after Samsung said it was not offering to sell the product in the crucial U.S. market.
Apple disclosed the agreement in a filing on Friday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. Representatives for both Apple and Samsung declined to comment.
Last month Apple asked to add the Galaxy S III Mini and other Samsung products, including several tablet models, to its wide-ranging patent litigation against Samsung.
In response, Samsung said the Galaxy S III Mini was not available for sale in the United States and should not be included in the case.
Apple won a $1.05 billion verdict against Samsung earlier this year but has failed to secure a permanent sales ban against several, mostly older Samsung models. The patents Apple is asserting against the Galaxy S III Mini are separate from those that went to trial.
Samsung started selling the Mini in Europe in October to compete with Apple's iPhone 5. In its filing on Friday in U.S. District Court, for the Northern District of California, Apple said its lawyers were able to purchase "multiple units" of the Mini from Amazon.com Inc's U.S. retail site and have them delivered in the United States.
But Samsung represented that it is not "making, using, selling, offering to sell or importing the Galaxy S III Mini in the United States." Based on that, Apple said it agreed to withdraw its patent claims on the Mini, "so long as the current withdrawal will not prejudice Apple's ability later to accuse the Galaxy S III Mini if the factual circumstances change."
The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California is Apple Inc. vs. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd et al., 12-630.
(Reporting by Dan Levine; Editing by Leslie Adler and Dan Grebler)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/apple-agrees-drop-patent-claims-against-samsung-phone-185405069.html
Unselfish brain cells found in monkeys
Brain cells that fire only when monkeys act unselfishly may provide clues to the neural basis of altruism, according to a new study.
In the study, the cells fire in rhesus monkeys when they gave juice away, but not when they received it. The findings, published Dec. 23 in the journal Nature Neuroscience, may shed light on why many animals (including humans) exhibit kind, unselfish behavior that doesn't directly benefit them.
The new findings provide a "complete picture of the neuronal activity underlying a key aspect of social cognition," Matthew Rushworth, a neuroscientist at Oxford who was not involved in the study, wrote in an email. "It is definitely a major achievement."
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The year's top ancient mysteries (and missteps)
The past year saw plenty of controversy over ancient mysteries ? and we're not just talking about Maya prophecies. So what happened to "Franken-saurus," the Gospel of Jesus' Wife and the plan to clone a woolly mammoth?
- Unselfish brain cells found in monkeys
- Starvation didn't wipe out saber-toothed cats
- Two new orchid species found
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The year's top ancient mysteries (and missteps)
Do-gooder impulse
Why animals act unselfishly has been a longstanding mystery. Yet they routinely do: Monkeys will go without food rather than shock compatriots, and mice will also starve rather than hurt friends.
This primitive do-gooder impulse in animals may have evolved into the altruism we see in humans today, said study co-author Michael Platt, a neuroscientist at Duke University.
But understanding how altruism works in the brain has been trickier. When people do something unselfish such as give to charity, reward circuits that usually fire when eating chocolate or doing something pleasurable are activated, Platt told LiveScience.
Clearly, though, people feel a difference between doing good for themselves and being kind to others. That raised the question of how the brain encodes unselfish, other-oriented acts separate from personal gain.
Playing for juice
To find out, Platt and his colleagues taught rhesus monkeys to play a simple computer game where they looked at different shapes to either give themselves, a nearby neighbor monkey, or nobody a squirt of juice.
Unsurprisingly, monkeys almost always give themselves juice when they have the option.
After teaching the monkeys the rules of the game, the researchers set up another trial where they could either give the other monkey juice or give it nothing. None of the choices led to a tasty juice squirt for the actor monkey. [ Image Gallery: Cute Gelada Monkeys ]
During the trials, electrodes in the monkey's brain recorded the electrical firing from neurons in brain regions suspected of playing a role in altruism.
Helper monkeys
The monkeys consistently preferred doling out juice to other monkeys over giving nothing. When the researchers replaced the second monkey with another bottle of juice, the monkeys showed no preference for dispensing juice, showing that they were motivated by the reward to the other monkey.
A brain region called the orbitofrontal cortex, which is known to play a role in reward processing, fired when monkeys got juice squirts for themselves.
"The orbitofrontal cortex seems to be all about your personal reward. It's egocentric," Platt said.
Intriguingly, however, some neurons in a region called the anterior cingulate gyrus fired when the monkey got its own juice, while others fired when monkeys gave their neighbors juice.
That same brain region has been implicated in other social processes. For instance, a person's anterior cingulate gyrus fires when he watches his romantic partner get pinched, for instance, Platt said.
While it's not clear exactly what's going on in the monkeys' brains, the results suggest that this brain region may be partly responsible for creating primitive forms of empathy.
Platt speculates that this region may operate similarly in humans and may encode vicarious experiences when others are happy or sad.
"That vicarious experience and reward is perhaps what actually drives giving behavior and perhaps drives charity in people," he said.
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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50314249/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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Friday, 28 December 2012
CPEhr Releases Annual Report: 2013 Human Resources Updates
Los Angeles, CA, December 28, 2012 ?(PR.com)? Human Resources Outsourcing firm CPEhr announced today the release of their annual report highlighting important employment information that will impact business in 2013. The report, titled ?2013 Human Resources Updates,? covers a wide range of topics that will directly affect employers in the coming year.
Over the past year, dozens of new California employment laws and legislative bills were passed, to go into effect on January 1, 2013. Additional changes affect employers nationwide in the areas of payroll tax limits, workers? compensation insurance, and most significantly, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Health Care Reform.
?2012 was one of the most turbulent years in recent memory in regards to new laws and legislation impacting employers across the country,? says Ari Rosenstein, director of marketing at CPEhr. ?From the looming fiscal cliff, to Health Care Reform, to volatile insurance markets, to new employment regulations, it is no wonder employers are feeling overwhelmed and resisting growth. We hope our annual report will provide some insight into what they can expect in 2013.?
The report draws from CPEhr?s human resources experience on a wide range of employment, payroll, tax and insurance areas. Topics covered in the report include:
> California Labor & Employment Law Updates
> Health Care Reform in 2013
> Other PPACA Updates for 2013
> Workers? Compensation Reform?
> 2013 Workers? Compensation Insurance Rates
> Payroll & Taxes ? 2013 Updates
> Employee Training & Development
?By publishing this annual report, we hope that employers will gain a basic understanding of the new laws and how to prepare for the coming year,? says Rosenstein.
The report can be downloaded from the CPEhr corporate website here: 2013 California Human Resources Updates.
Contact Information:
CPE HR, Inc.
Ari Rosenstein
877-842-4987
Contact via Email
www.cpehr.com
Twitter: @cpehr
Facebook: www.facebook.com/cpehr
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Source: http://money.rambergmedia.com/cpehr-releases-annual-report-2013-human-resources-updates/
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White House meeting a last stab at a fiscal deal
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama was preparing to present a limited fiscal proposal to congressional leaders at a White House meeting Friday, a make-or-break moment for negotiations to avoid across-the-board tax increases and deep spending cuts at the first of the year.
Lawmakers and White House officials held out a slim hope for a deal before the new year, but it remained unclear whether congressional passage of legislation palatable to both sides was even possible.
The Friday afternoon meeting among congressional leaders and the president ? their first since Nov. 16 ? was likely to center on which income thresholds would face higher tax rates, extending unemployment insurance, and preventing a cut in Medicare payments to doctors, among other issues.
For Obama, the eleventh-hour scramble represented a test of how he would balance strength derived from his re-election against an avowed commitment to compromise in the face of divided government. Despite early talk of a grand bargain between Obama and House Speaker John Boehner that would reduce deficits by more than $2 trillion, the expectations were now far less ambitious.
Although there were no guarantees of a deal, Republicans and Democrats said privately that any agreement would likely include an extension of middle-class tax cuts with increased rates at upper incomes, an Obama priority that was central to his re-election campaign.
A key question was whether Obama would agree to abandon his insistence during the campaign on raising taxes on households earning more than $250,000 a year and instead accept a $400,000 threshold like the one he offered in negotiations with Boehner. Another was whether Republicans would seek a higher income threshold.
The deal would also likely put off the scheduled spending cuts. Such a year-end bill could also include an extension of expiring unemployment benefits, a reprieve for doctors who face a cut in Medicare payments and possibly a short-term measure to prevent dairy prices from soaring, officials said.
If a deal was not possible, it would become evident at Friday's White House meeting, and Obama and the leaders would leave a resolution for the next Congress to address in January.
Such a delay could unnerve the stock market, which edged lower for a fifth day Friday amid worries that lawmakers would fail to reach a budget deal. Economists say that if the tax increases are allowed to hit most Americans and if the spending cuts aren't scaled back, the recovering but fragile economy could sustain a traumatizing shock.
Obama called for the meeting as top lawmakers on Thursday alternately cast blame on each other while portraying themselves as open to a reasonable last-minute bargain.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid all but conceded that any effort at this late date was a long shot. "I don't know timewise how it can happen now," he said.
The No. 2 Senate GOP leader, Jon Kyl of Arizona, said it is "pretty unlikely" that Senate Republicans would agree to legislation averting the fiscal cliff if it wouldn't pass muster in the House.
"If you know the House isn't going to do something, why go through the charade?" he told reporters. "That becomes political gamesmanship."
Obama and Reid, D-Nev., would have to propose a package that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell would agree not to block with procedural steps that require 60 votes to overcome.
Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said he still thinks a deal could be struck.
The Democrat told NBC's "Today" show Friday that he believes the "odds are better than people think."
Schumer said he based his optimism on indications that McConnell has gotten "actively engaged" in the talks.
Appearing on the same show, Republican Sen. John Thune noted the meeting scheduled later Friday at the White House, saying "it's encouraging that people are talking."
But Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., predicted that "the worst-case scenario" could emerge from Friday's talks.
"We will kick the can down the road," he said on "CBS This Morning."
"We'll do some small deal and we'll create another fiscal cliff to deal with the fiscal cliff," he said. Corker complained that there has been "a total lack of courage, lack of leadership," in Washington.
If a deal were to pass the Senate, Boehner would have to agree to take it to the floor in the Republican-controlled House.
Boehner discussed the fiscal cliff with Republican members in a conference call Thursday and advised them that the House would convene Sunday evening. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., an ally of the speaker, said Boehner told the lawmakers that "he didn't really intend to put on the floor something that would pass with all the Democratic votes and few of the Republican votes."
But Cole did not rule out Republican support for some increase in tax rates, noting that Boehner had amassed about 200 Republican votes for a plan last week to raise rates on Americans earning $1 million or more. Boehner ultimately did not put the plan to a House floor vote in the face of opposition from Republican conservatives and a unified Democratic caucus.
"The ultimate question is whether the Republican leaders in the House and Senate are going to push us over the cliff by blocking plans to extend tax cuts for the middle class," White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said. "Ironically, in order to protect tax breaks for millionaires, they will be responsible for the largest tax increase in history."
Boehner, McConnell, Reid and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi are all scheduled to attend Friday's White House meeting with Obama. Vice President Joe Biden will also participate in the meeting, the White House said.
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Associated Press writers Alan Fram, Charles Babington and David Espo contributed to this report.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-meeting-last-stab-fiscal-deal-085552437--politics.html
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