Thursday, February 28, 2013

iPad App Video Review: Year Walk

After the lovely Bumpy Road and the funky Beat Sneak Bandit, Simogo has decided to change up the pace with a bit of unsettling, unnerving, absolutely creepy, isolated first person adventure puzzling based on a particularly horrifying piece of Swedish mythology. Year Walk is the name of said game, and it lives up to all of the hype created by the trailers. With a unique perspective, elegant design, and all the iconic, memorable, terrifying mythological imagery your retinas can handle, this is a must buy.

Based on the Swedish myth of the same name, Year Walk is about people who isolate themselves and completely fast for a full day before going to the local church at midnight. Supposedly, if they make it, they'll get to see the future at a very high price. And a bit of lightheadedness and weakness isn't their only worry on the road. There are plenty of devilish monsters waiting for you along your journey.

This is actually a first person game, in which you swipe the camera left and right, moving forward and backward through different planes as you play. The music is moody and used appropriately, often allowing the sound of footsteps in the snow act as your only soundtrack. You'll have to solve various puzzles to progress, but the more puzzles you solve, the more the landscape around you changes, and the next thing you know, you can't even find your cottage anymore. Through excellent sound design and a few, occasional, earned jump scares, this game can scare the pants off of you if you let it, though wearing headphones and playing in the dark will probably help. No one can deny that the game is at least completely unsettling, and gets into your head at some point without you even realizing it.

Year WalkThe art style is simply excellent and only adds to the unnerving feeling this imagery will illicit. It can occasionally feel like there is too little direction or help for the player, but most of these games have that problem at some point. Most of the time, it was completely manageable. What I really love about this game is that it gives us a slice of another culture's horror, which I always find fascinating to explore. If you also enjoy that aspect, you can download the Year Walk Companion for free, featuring explanations and entries on all sorts of horrors and symbols. Otherwise, you can download the iOS Universal Year Walk for four dollars at the time of this review. I recommend it completely.

Download the free Appolicious Android app

Source: http://www.appolicious.com/games/articles/13263-ipad-app-video-review-year-walk

mega millions lottery jackpot winning numbers mega millions megamillions drawing olbermann mega millions march 30 lucky numbers

Pandora Resurrects Its 40-Hour (Monthly) Limit On Free Music, But This Time It?s Capping Mobile Usage

pandora-radioAs it struggles to deal with rising royalty costs, streaming radio service Pandora is bringing back an old idea by capping free monthly usage at 40 hours. The company previously limited free desktop usage to 40 hours per month, but it lifted the cap in September 2011. CEO Joe Kennedy suggested that Pandora's mobile business is in a similar position to its desktop business a few years ago ? it needs to make more money. At the same time, Kennedy said his goal is still to offer free music to everyone.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/cWpIUWyrMb8/

cpac straw poll i will always love you whitney cummings maine caucus whitney houston has died whitney houston death the vow

Online Gym Network payasUgym Beefs Up With Further $1.4M Funding, Hints At International Expansion

PAUG logo Black with DropshadowLondon-based payasUgym, a site that lets users search for and buy a discounted pass to a local gym, has announced that it's raised a further round of funding: ?900,000 (~$1.4m) led by existing investor Supremum Capital, along with other unnamed private investors. This brings the total raised by the 2011 founded company to ?2 million.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DrNFeUpSZ3w/

whcd 2012 nfl draft kevin durant jazz fest zurich classic selena lamichael james

Nexus One launched into space on CubeSat, becomes first PhoneSat in orbit (video)

Nexus One launched into space on CubeSat, becomes first PhoneSat in orbit (video)

Google's Nexus One has dreamt of space travel for a while now, but on Monday it was finally launched into orbit aboard a CubeSat dubbed STRaND-1, which was developed by Surrey Satellite Technology and the University of Surrey's Surrey Space Centre. STRaND-1 now holds the honor of being the first PhoneSat and UK CubeSat that has made it into orbit. Alongside the HTC-made handset are an altitude and orbit control system, two propulsion setups and a Linux-based computer with a "high-speed" processor. After the Tux-friendly rig conducts a battery of tests, it'll relinquish control of much of the satellite's functions to the smartphone, which still runs Android.

Not only will the mission test how commercial, off-the-shelf tech can survive in the vacuum and conduct experiments, but it'll squeeze in some fun courtesy of apps developed by winners of a competition held last year. An app called 360 will let folks back on terra firma request their own snapshots of earth taken with the phone's shooter and pin them to a map. Ridley Scott might like to say no one can hear you scream in space, but another application loaded onto the device will put that to the test by playing user-submitted shrieks and recording them with the handset's microphone as they playback. Hit the break for more details and a brief video overview of the satellite, or jab the more coverage links to partake in the app shenanigans.

Filed under: ,

Comments

Via: CNET

Source: Surrey Satellite Technology LTD

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/pHC-w-vehPc/

tori spelling marion barber marion barber syracuse ohio state girl with the dragon tattoo ohio state basketball

Announcing the Insert Coin: New Challengers judges!

Announcing the Insert Coin New Challengers judges!

You've already voted for your favorite Insert Coin: New Challengers finalist, right? What? You haven't yet? What are you waiting for? Seriously. The voting's nearly closed! We've already whittled the list down to 10 finalists and asked you to help us get things down to five. Of course, there can only be one big winner, and for that we're bringing in the big guns.

MAKE Magazine Editor-in-Chief and Boing Boing co-editor Mark Frauenfelder will be joining us at Expand to help present the top five projects, each of whom will be getting time on our stage to convince readers and judges alike that they deserve to take home the top prize of $20,000. As for the judges themselves, we couldn't be happier -- the list includes four of the biggest names from the world of design, DIY, crowdfunding and gadget blogging. Check out the judges, after the break.

Filed under:

Comments

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/2RVqFI9nAO0/

ben affleck and jennifer garner google privacy changes windows 8 preview leap year moratorium dwts season 14 cast leap day

Second winter storm in days blasts central U.S.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? Another blizzard bore down on the nation's midsection early Tuesday after lashing the Texas Panhandle with hurricane-force winds, closing highways and cutting power to thousands in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. At least two people were killed in the storm, and Midwesterners still digging out from last week's deep snowpack braced for more.

Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Sly James declared a state of emergency, an unwanted encore just five days after a major snowstorm dumped nearly a foot of snow on his city. Flights in and out of Kansas City International Airport were canceled, schools, government offices and businesses across the region were closed and James urged residents to stay home if they could.

Up to 15 inches or more were forecast for parts of western Missouri, with a foot or more in Kansas City alone: "This one has the potential to be quite serious," James said.

A strong low pressure system fueled the storm, which also included heavy rain and thunderstorms in eastern Oklahoma and Texas. Six counties in Arkansas and all parishes in Louisiana were under a tornado watch through Monday night.

The storm knocked power out to thousands of homes in Texas and Oklahoma and was blamed for the death of a 21-year-old man whose SUV hit an icy patch on Interstate 70 in northwestern Kansas and overturned Monday. In Oklahoma, a person was killed after 15 inches of snow brought down part of a roof in the northwest town of Woodward.

In the Texas Panhandle, wind gusts up to 75 mph and heavy snow had made all roads impassable and created whiteout conditions, said Paul Braun, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Transportation. A hurricane-force gust of 75 mph was recorded at the Amarillo, Texas, airport. The city saw the biggest snowfall total in Texas with 17 inches.

Motorists were stranded throughout the Texas Panhandle, with the NWS in Lubbock reporting as many as 100 vehicles at a standstill on Interstate 27.

Texas Tech's men's basketball team stayed overnight at a hotel in Manhattan, Kan., after playing Kansas State on Monday night, rather try to drive back to Lubbock. Also late Monday, officials with Oklahoma State University announced it would be closed Tuesday due to the weather.

The American Red Cross opened a shelter Monday night in Woodward, Okla., for any travelers who get stranded. It also told its volunteers and workers in Kansas City to be prepared to help in the case of power outages or large numbers of stranded travelers.

Area hospitals closed outpatient and urgent care centers, and the University of Missouri canceled classes for Tuesday. The Missouri Department of Transportation issued a "no travel" advisory asking people to stay off affected highways except in case of a dire emergency.

Winds in excess of 30 mph were expected to cause whiteout conditions by early morning. There also was some concern that early rainfall could form a layer of ice beneath the snow, worsening driving conditions for those who dared the morning commute.

Greg Bolon, assistant Kansas City public works director, said the city's plow drivers had been working around the clock in 12-hour shifts since Wednesday and were bracing for several more days of extended schedules. City plows focused on arterial streets late Monday and early Tuesday.

Bolon asked local residents to be patient with plow drivers, even if they throw heavy snow back into already-shoveled driveways as they clear the streets. He said the long, often-thankless hours can take a toll on workers who are just doing what they're told.

"We're out there doing what we can to get streets open, and when people come out and shake their fists at you, it probably bothers you more mentally because you're doing what you're supposed to do," Bolon said.

He said supervisors were keeping an eye on drivers for signs of fatigue, but he thought most were doing fine because of 12-hour intervals between shifts.

National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Bowman in Pleasant Hill, Mo., said the most intense snow in the Kansas City area was expected from midnight to 6 a.m. Tuesday. Southern parts of the city and counties to the south were expected to see 10 to 12 inches of snow, he said, while the northern part of the city was looking at 6 to 10 inches.

Other weather outlets predicted well more than a foot of snow over a narrow swath of counties in Missouri, which Bowman said was possible but probably on the high side.

"The potential is there," he said. "We're probably being a little more conservative because you're getting into stuff that's never occurred before with that kind of snowfall. There is still some debate about whether we have enough instability to lead to that kind of accumulation."

Meteorologist Mike Umscheid of the National Weather Service office in Dodge City, Kan., said this latest storm combined with the storm last week will help alleviate the drought conditions that have plagued farmers and ranchers across the Midwest, and could be especially helpful to the winter wheat crop planted last fall.

But getting two back-to-back storms of this magnitude doesn't mean the drought is finished.

"If we get one more storm like this with widespread 2 inches of moisture, we will continue to chip away at the drought, but to claim the drought is over or ending is way too premature," Umscheid said.

_____

Associated Press writers Betsy Blaney in Lubbock, Texas, Nomaan Merchant in Dallas, Jill Zeman Bleed and Kelly P. Kissel in Little Rock, Ark., Daniel Holtmeyer in Oklahoma City, Steve Paulson in Denver, Paul Davenport in Albuquerque, N.M., and Roxana Hegeman in Wichita, Kan., contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/2nd-winter-storm-days-blasts-central-us-080407547.html

sasquatch david choe national wear red day gunner kiel gunner kiel groundhog soulja boy

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Alcatel One Touch Fire preview: This anemic Firefox phone might be a tough sell

Alcatel One Touch Fire Hands-onAlcatel One Touch Fire

Another day, another Firefox OS-powered handset here at Mobile World Congress. We had the chance to take a hands-on look at Alcatel?s first Firefox phone on Tuesday and walked away with some distinctly tepid impressions. As a disclaimer, the software we played with was in beta, but Firefox and Alcatel are planning to launch these phones within months, so any performance enhancements they hope to achieve will have to be pushed out relatively quickly.

[More from BGR: Why every rival tech company should be scared to death of Samsung]

From a hardware perspective, there?s nothing wrong with the One Touch Fire. In fact, its soft-touch back, 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen with?165 ppi, 3.2-megapixel camera and HSPA radio are nothing to scoff at in the budget phone market. Alcatel is clearly aiming for first-time smartphone users in developing regions with this phone, and as such it has a perfectly acceptable, possibly even above-average bit of hardware on its hands.

[More from BGR: Hands on with NVIDIA?s blazing fast Tegra 4 reference tablet]

The problem, however, is in the software.

Firefox OS is slow, slow, slow. Swipes from screen to screen take forever to process. Apps frequently crash, a surprising fact given that they?re all HTML5-based, and the user experience is frustratingly bogged down by an OS that struggles to keep up with even the most deliberate user interactions. It?s aggravating to use, and calls to mind the experience of attempting to navigate Android 4.2 on an original Nexus S ? except in this case, it?s the hardware that outclasses the software, not the other way around as in the case of the Nexus S.

There are some interesting software enhancements, including app search by keyword, allowing discovery without specific apps in mind. Carrier-based billing that gives customers without a credit card a viable way to purchase new content is also a nice touch. But neither of those things make up for the lackluster experience of actually using the device.

Needless to say, we are not sold on Firefox OS just yet. Perhaps future development will render the software a bit more user-friendly, but as we noted yesterday with the ZTE Open, Mozilla might not have the luxury of time with competitors like Nokia?s (NOK) Asha lineup and budget Android phones coming to market that are cheaper and more capable.

This article was originally published on BGR.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/alcatel-one-touch-fire-preview-anemic-firefox-phone-010510244.html

nit championship transcendentalism bells palsy channel 5 news uc berkeley harrison barnes brett ratner

Raw results: Cena conquers Punk and Triple H returns to draw first blood

All WWE programming, talent names, images, likenesses, slogans, wrestling moves, trademarks, logos and copyrights are the exclusive property of WWE, Inc. and its subsidiaries. All other trademarks, logos and copyrights are the property of their respective owners. ? 2012 WWE, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This website is based in the United States. By submitting personal information to this website you consent to your information being maintained in the U.S., subject to applicable U.S. laws. U.S. law may be different than the law of your home country. WrestleMania XXIX (NY/NJ) logo TM & ? 2012 WWE. All Rights Reserved. The Empire State Building design is a registered trademark and used with permission by ESBC.

Source: http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/2013-02-25/wwe-raw-results

ny jets ny jets the situation tim tebow jets katy perry part of me video photoshop cs6 beta cate blanchett

Huawei Ascend W1 launching March 7th in UK on O2: free from ?13.50 per month or ?120 on PAYG

Huawei Ascend W1 launching March 7th on O2 in the UK: free from ?13.50 per month or ?120 on PAYG

We're starting to think Microsoft is onto something with Windows Phone 8, an OS that's capable of delivering a solid user experience on mediocre handset specs. UK network provider O2 seems to feel the same, and in addition to pushing Nokia's Lumia 620 at an attractively low price, has bagged exclusivity for Huawei's Ascend W1. We originally heard the device would be available sometime in Q1, but now we have a specific date: March 7th. Well, that's when you can pick up the "Electric Blue" model, anyway, with an "Electric Pink" option arriving March 18th. It'll cost £120 (around $182 dollars) if you opt for PAYG (SIM-locked, no doubt), or free on contracts starting at £13.50 per month. Sold on those wallet-friendly numbers? Then head past the break and pick out your color.

Filed under: , ,

Comments

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/tG3gFuGo4LY/

oh the places you ll go blunt amendment justin bieber birthday read across america vikings stadium breitbart dead db cooper

The Lego Back to the Future Time Machine Train Is a Must Have

Our friend Masashi Togami, the founder of Team Back to the Future, has a?new BTTF project on Lego Cuusoo: Doc Brown's Jules Verne Train. Like the soon-to-come-to-market Lego Back to the Future DeLorean, this model-created by Sakuretsu-is extremely well designed and fully functional. More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/C4GAd1859UQ/the-lego-back-to-the-future-time-machine-train-is-a-must-have

Fiscal cliff deal kathy griffin jadeveon clowney orange bowl Rose Parade 2013 rex ryan PNC Bank

DC is killing off a major character this week (SPOILER ALERT ...

The death of a major comic book character is one of those pop culture events that gives you a moment to sit back and really consider the big questions. Questions like: ?So, is this a shameless marketing ploy, or is it an actual good story that will nevertheless be pitched as a shameless marketing ploy?? And: ?How long until they bring him/her/it back to life?? Well, even cynical grouches ? who remember the good old days when it seemed like Barry Allen might actually stay dead ? might be a bit surprised by the news that DC is preparing to off one of their main characters. Which character you ask? Take a look ? SPOILERS FROM HERE:

batman-inc-8.jpg

Image Credit: DC Comics

As reported by the New York Post, the current Robin will bite the dust in the upcoming Batman Incorporated #8. The current Robin is Damian Wayne, the 10-year-old son of Bruce Wayne and femme fatale Talia Al-Ghul. Damian was brought back into the continuity by Grant Morrison, who has been shepherding the Bat-titles for the last several years. Morrison?s run is coming to an end this summer, with Batman Incorporated #12, and with Damien?s death, it?s clear that he?s pulling out all the stops for the endgame. He tells the Post, ?He saves the world. He does his job as Robin. He dies an absolute hero.?

Students of Bat-history will know that this is actually the second time a Robin has died in the line of duty. The second Robin, Jason Todd, bit the dust in the iconic ?Death in the Family? storyline in the last ?80s. (Fans were actually allowed to vote on whether he would live or die.) Todd was replaced by Tim Drake, who notably did not die before being replaced by Damian. So, lesson learned: Even-numbered Robins probably aren?t long for this world.

Follow Darren on Twitter: @DarrenFranich

Read More:
DC is making a new ?Batman/Superman? comic book ? Check out art by Jae Lee!
The most powerful person in the comic book industry?

Source: http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/02/26/robin-damian-wayne-dying/

marlins facebook buys instagram kevin systrom fibonacci sequence maryland lottery grand jury ozzie guillen fidel castro

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

How A Teacher Turned To Technology To Solve A Thorny Problem And Raised $100K

Screen Shot 2013-02-26 at 11.32.03 AMThe clincher, the thing that made Quick Key go viral, was a poorly-lit video of an excitable guy holding his iPhone up to a Scantron page, one of those test pages you used to fill out in school. He thumbs through page after page, making comments on students' performance as the app scans the page and instantly reports a grade. The video was amazingly compelling. The creator, Walter O. Duncan IV, can barely contain his excitement. His app looked great, it worked seamlessly, and the video struck a nerve with students and teachers, pocketing 260,000 views on YouTube and popping up on the front page of Reddit.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/QvwDY5L8wJM/

9-11 Chris Brown Tattoo Innocence of Muslims Clara Schumann Jael Strauss Alison Pill Sam Bacile

Top U.S. diplomat kicks off nine-nation "listening tour" (Reuters)

Share With Friends: Share on FacebookTweet ThisPost to Google-BuzzSend on GmailPost to Linked-InSubscribe to This Feed | Rss To Twitter | Politics - Top Stories Stories, RSS and RSS Feed via Feedzilla.

Source: http://news.feedzilla.com/en_us/stories/politics/top-stories/287311124?client_source=feed&format=rss

bestbuy bestbuy gamestop black friday deals Sephora Cyber Monday 2012 Walmart.com

GOP take aim at Obama for "nonstop campaigning" on sequester (cbsnews)

Share With Friends: Share on FacebookTweet ThisPost to Google-BuzzSend on GmailPost to Linked-InSubscribe to This Feed | Rss To Twitter | Politics - Top Stories Stories, News Feeds and News via Feedzilla.

Source: http://news.feedzilla.com/en_us/stories/politics/top-stories/287509008?client_source=feed&format=rss

los angeles dodgers christie brinkley seattle mariners geraldo rivera supreme court health care joe oliver joba chamberlain

New look at high-temperature superconductors

Feb. 25, 2013 ? While the phenomenon of superconductivity -- in which some materials lose all resistance to electric currents at extremely low temperatures -- has been known for more than a century, the temperature at which it occurs has remained too low for any practical applications. The discovery of "high-temperature" superconductors in the 1980s -- materials that could lose resistance at temperatures of up to negative 140 degrees Celsius -- led to speculation that a surge of new discoveries might quickly lead to room-temperature superconductors. Despite intense research, these materials have remained poorly understood.

There is still no agreement on a single theory to account for high-temperature superconductivity. Recently, however, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have found a new way to study fluctuating charge-density waves, which are the basis for one of the leading theories. The researchers say this could open the door to a better understanding of high-temperature superconductivity, and perhaps prompt new discoveries of higher-temperature superconductors.

The findings were published this week in the journal Nature Materials by assistant professor of physics Nuh Gedik; graduate student Fahad Mahmood; Darius Torchinsky, a former MIT postdoc who is now at the California Institute of Technology; and two researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Explaining the basis for high-temperature superconductivity remains "the hardest problem in condensed-matter physics," Gedik says. But one way of getting a handle on this exotic state of matter is to study what happens to these materials near their "transition temperature," the point below which they become superconductors.

Previous experiments have shown that above the transition temperature, there is a peculiar state where, Gedik says, "the material starts to behave very weirdly": Its electrons act in unusual ways, which some physicists believe is caused by a phenomenon called charge-density waves. While the electron density in most conductors is uniform, Gedik explains, in materials with charge-density waves the density is distributed in a sinusoidal pattern, somewhat like ripples on a pond. But so far, such charge-density waves have only been detected in high-temperature superconductors under special circumstances, such as a particular level of doping (the introduction of atoms of another element onto its surface).

Some researchers have proposed that these waves are elusive in high-temperature superconductors because they fluctuate very rapidly, at speeds measured in picoseconds (trillionths of a second). "You can't see it with conventional techniques," Gedik says.

That's where Gedik's new approach comes in: His team has spent years perfecting methods for studying the movement of electrons by zapping them with laser pulses lasting just a few femtoseconds (or quadrillionths of a second), and then detecting the results with a separate laser beam.

Using that method, the researchers have now detected these fluctuating waves. To do this, they have selectively generated and observed two different collective motions of electrons in these waves: variation in amplitude (the magnitude of modulation of the waves) and in phase (the position of the troughs and peaks of the waves). These measurements show that charge density waves are fluctuating at an interval of only about 2 picoseconds.

"It's not surprising that static techniques didn't see them," Gedik says, but "this settles the question: The fluctuating charge-density waves do exist" -- at least in one of the cuprate compounds, the first high-temperature superconducting materials discovered in the 1980s.

Another question: What role, if any, do these charge-density waves play in superconductivity? "Are they helping, or are they interfering?" Gedik asks. To answer this question, the researchers studied the same material, with optimal doping, in which the superconducting transition temperature is maximized. "We see no evidence of charge-density waves in this sample," Gedik says. This suggests that charge-density waves are probably competing with superconductivity.

In addition, it remains to be seen whether the same phenomenon will be observed in other high-temperature superconducting materials. The new technique should make it possible to find out.

In any case, detecting these fluctuations could help in understanding high-temperature superconductors, Gedik says -- which, in turn, could "help in finding other [superconducting materials] that actually work at room temperature." That elusive goal could enable significant new applications, such as electric transmission lines that eliminate the losses that now waste as much as 30 percent of all electricity produced.

David Hsieh, an assistant professor of physics at Caltech, says the phenomena detected by this research "are known to be very difficult to detect," so this work "is a great technical achievement and a high-quality piece of research." By showing for the first time that the fluctuating charge-density waves seem to compete with superconductivity, he says, "It provides the insight that finding a way to suppress this fluctuating charge-density wave order may simultaneously increase" the temperature limits of superconductivity.

The work, which also included researchers Anthony Bollinger and Ivan Bozovic of Brookhaven National Laboratory, was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:

Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:


Story Source:

The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.


Journal Reference:

  1. Darius H. Torchinsky, Fahad Mahmood, Anthony T. Bollinger, Ivan Bo?ovi?, Nuh Gedik. Fluctuating charge-density waves in a cuprate superconductor. Nature Materials, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/nmat3571

Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.

Disclaimer: Views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/most_popular/~3/x7qwWGOeVnU/130225102555.htm

Edward Gorey drew peterson amber rose nascar nba trade deadline diane lane Argo

Fallout from Olympic wrestling takedown ? a mother's protest

There's been a furor over the decision not to guarantee wrestling a spot in the 2020 Olympics. Rightly so. I know first-hand what the sport does for young men (including my three sons) and an increasing number of young women. Fortunately, the decision is not final. It's time to speak out.

By Michele Weldon / February 25, 2013

Noel Torres celebrates a victory at the state wrestling meet in Wichita, Kan. Feb. 23. Op-ed contributor Michele Weldon the decision to drop wrestling's guaranteed spot in the 2020 Olympics 'not only kills [the Olympic] dream for American wrestlers, it dissolves the recognized importance of a sport that changes, enhances, and saves lives around the world' and 'could also decrease participation.'

Travis Heying/The Wichita Eagle/AP

Enlarge

I?m the mom of a wrestling family. Last August, two of my sons ? both former high school wrestlers ? went to the London Olympics to root for our local star, Ellis Coleman, a.k.a., the ?flying squirrel,? who wrestled Greco Roman. He didn?t win ? in fact, he lost early in the match. But he sure was planning on winning in 2016, 2020, and perhaps beyond.

Skip to next paragraph

' + google_ads[0].line2 + '
' + google_ads[0].line3 + '

'; } else if (google_ads.length > 1) { ad_unit += ''; } } document.getElementById("ad_unit").innerHTML += ad_unit; google_adnum += google_ads.length; return; } var google_adnum = 0; google_ad_client = "pub-6743622525202572"; google_ad_output = 'js'; google_max_num_ads = '1'; google_feedback = "on"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_adtest = "on"; google_image_size = '230x105'; google_skip = '0'; // -->

All that has changed.

The governing board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted by secret ballot Feb. 19 to exclude wrestling from its guaranteed slot in the 2020 summer games, reportedly to ?modernize? the Olympics. If the decision is not overturned, wrestling will have to compete with seven other sports ? from baseball to karate ? for a berth in 2020.

The IOC expunged the sport that has been a mainstay of the Olympics since 1896, maintaining it wanted to focus on 25 core sports. IOC documents indicate that?wrestling's popularity apparently doesn't rank that well based on 39 criteria including TV ratings, ticket sales, and global participation. But while the committee dropped wrestling, it preserved the modern pentathalon ? a five-sport combination of fencing, shooting, horse jumping, swimming, and running.

During last summer's Olympic games, 58.5 million viewers watched Olympic wrestling on television at its highest point, with an average of 23 million viewers. Compare that to the 33.5 million people who watched the pentathalon at its highest viewership, with an average of 12.5 million viewers. As former wrestler John Irving points out in a Feb. 15 New York Times op-ed, there were 29 countries that produced medalists in wrestling at the 2012 games. Only 26 countries even participated in the pentathlon.

The International Olympic Committee's decision has been met globally with repugnance, disbelief, anger, and vigorous advocacy for a sport that goes back to the ancient games in Greece. As a result of the decision, the head of the international wrestling federation was fired, and 10 countries ? including the United States and Russia ? met in Iran last week to strategize on influencing the IOC at a meeting in May. A final decision will be made in September.

The fallout from the takedown of wrestling is a shock not only for the 344 Olympic wrestlers who competed in 2012 (including wrestlers from 29 countries who took home medals), but millions of young athletes, coaches, parents, and fans of amateur wrestling around the world.

More than 56,000 people have signed a petition on change.org. The Save Wrestling Facebook page has close to 41,000 members. My oldest son, Weldon, created a Facebook page, Olympic Wrestling Forever. While none of my sons made it to the Olympics, I know what amateur wrestling does for a young man and an increasing number of young women.

In the US, 272,000 young men and 8,200 young women compete on the high school level in wrestling, according to the National Federation of High Schools. Many of them dream of the Olympics. Eliminating the sport from the Olympics not only kills that dream for American wrestlers, it dissolves the recognized importance of a sport that changes, enhances, and saves lives around the world. Dropping the sport from the Olympics could also decrease participation, which, in the US, has expanded by 40,000 wresters over the past decade.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/Mpp873X8Z0k/Fallout-from-Olympic-wrestling-takedown-a-mother-s-protest

Side Effects bob marley weather lindsey vonn lindsey vonn weather nyc the walking dead

Video: Jennifer Lawrence, ?Argo? win big at Oscars



>> for seth mcfarlane , his opening monologue did last 17 minutes, kicked off a night filled with singing, dancing and awards.

>>> and the oscar goes to -- argo.

>> in a surprise appearance from the white house , first lady michelle obama announced the winner for best picture . ben affleck expressed gratitude for this win.

>> it doesn't matter that you get knocked down in life because that's going to happen. all that matters is that you get back up.

>>> and best actress , a bit of a stumble.

>> you're just standing up because you feel bad that i fell. thank you.

>> later celebrating with her family at the governor's ball.

>> and the oscar goes to daniel day lewis .

>> oscar winner meryl streep presented the award to daniel day lewis for his role in "lincoln."

>> i had actually been committed to play margaret thatcher .

>> in the directing category, ang lee won for " life of pi ." from "django unchained," christoph wallets won for best supporting actor . another performance from the cast of " les miserables ." a moving in memoriam, and "adele" from "skyfall," that went on to win best original song .

>> and the quest to beat tommy lee jones starts now.

>> song and dance for a big welcome. and as the credits ran, the end of the night alongside kristin chenowith and a tribute to the evening's losers. he said before the show this was a one-time thing for him.

>> one and done.

>> what did you think of his performance?

>> he is extremely talented. i agree with savannah that the opening was too long.

>> it's a thankless task. i'm not going to join the legions of people criticizing.

>> there's enough of those people.

Source: http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/50939224/

albert nobbs a star is born oscar nominees oscar nominations 2012 kombucha tea separation of church and state dale earnhardt

Gender gap disappears in school math competitions

Feb. 25, 2013 ? The idea that boys are better at math and in competitions has persisted for a long time, and now we know why: Nobody bothered to schedule the rematch.

Most school math contests are one-shot events where girls underperform relative to their male classmates. But a new study by a Brigham Young University economist presents a different picture.

Twenty-four local elementary schools changed the format to go across five different rounds. Once the first round was over, girls performed as well or better than boys for the rest of the contest.

"It's really encouraging that seemingly large gaps disappear just by keeping them in the game longer," said BYU economics professor Joe Price.

Price co-authored the study with the University of Miami's Christopher Cotton and Rutgers' Frank McIntyre. Their report is published by the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

In the contest, students were paired against a classmate to see who got the most questions right during a 5-minute quiz. In case of a tie, the student who finished first won. The winner earned raffle tickets for a small prize.

Because the schools shared past test scores with the researchers, they could compare how similarly talented boys and girls performed. Even though these matches look even on paper, for some reason boys have the edge when it's the first foray into a competitive setting. On a test worth ten points, it usually amounts to a one-point edge for boys in the initial round.

"We don't know if it's boys getting excited and over-performing or if it's girls being too uncomfortable with the situation," Price said.

But here's another twist: Six classrooms de-emphasized the speed component. Ties weren't decided by who finished first. And though there was still just five minutes on the clock, the students were told, "It's not a race."

With those two small adjustments, girls competed evenly with boys from the start. BYU math professor Jessica Purcell, who was not involved with the study, wasn't surprised that the format adjustments resulted in more parity.

"In mathematical settings without time pressure or competition, such as classes I have taught or classes I have taken, males and females seem to do equally well," said Purcell, a recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship.

Since boys' competitive advantage is so short-lived, the study authors suggest that a little encouragement could go a long way.

"What motivated us was how to get girls to thrive in a competitive environment," said Price, noting that he has two daughters. "You might guess that girls would shy away from competitive work environments. What our results would hint is that if you convince them to stick around and give it a shot, they will acclimate and do just fine."

Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:

Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:


Story Source:

The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Brigham Young University.

Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.


Journal Reference:

  1. Christopher Cotton, Frank McIntyre, Joseph Price. Gender differences in repeated competition: Evidence from school math contests. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013; 86: 52 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.12.029

Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.

Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/living_well/~3/b6wDk7sKfIw/130225153029.htm

samuel adams snowy owl one for the money 10 minute trainer sarah burke death etta james funeral erin brockovich

BlackBerry launches the Z10 in India for $800

BlackBerry launches the Z10 in India for a cool $800

The BB10-toting BlackBerry Z10 has just been unveiled in India, priced at Rs 43,490 ($800) for an unlocked unit. Coinciding with the announcement, the BlackBerry Music Store has also gone live in the country starting today, offering a mix of local and international music. Support for local languages aside, the app offerings have also been given an Indian flavor with the inclusion of country-specific goodies spanning various genres including news, banking, travel, entertainment and lifestyle. The subcontinent is quite important for the company formerly known as RIM, and its devices are still popular in the region, despite taking a beating in market share recently (see coverage), courtesy the BBM service that makes them the go-to smartphones for those hooked on to the instant messaging platform. However, the Z10's sticker price puts it in the same league as the 16GB iPhone 5 and HTC's full-HD Butterfly (both costing roughly $50 more), and it remains to be seen how the price-sensitive Indian market will react to the new entrant.

Filed under: , ,

Comments

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/25/blackberry-z10-india/

mirror mirror robyn texas relays meniscus the colony kids choice awards ncaa final four 2012

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Hold the pepperoni ? and a gun ? at this pizzeria

By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News

A Virginia Beach pizzeria is serving up pies with a big slice of politics, offering a 15 percent discount to anyone who walks in with a firearm or shows a concealed weapon permit.

Amanda Lucier / The Virginian-Pilot via AP

Lee Lazernick, right, asked his mother Thelma Lazernick, left, to pose with a customer's Ruger Mini-14 .223 semi-automatic rifle on Feb. 18, at All Around Pizza and Deli in Virginia Beach, Va.

The owner of All Around Pizzas and Deli says it's his way of showing that the gun-control movement turns his stomach.

"I've always been a supporter of the right to carry," Jay Laze told NBC affiliate WAVY. "You're either on one side or the other and it seems like more politicians are against us rather than for us.

"I want to show them they really aren't representing the people or the constitution they are sworn in under."

Laze said the gimmick is a hit and that 80 percent of his customers are coming in packing heat. One brought an AK-47, according to the Virginian-Pilot.

Christopher Cody was strapped when he came in to eat.

"Not everyone who owns a gun is dangerous," he told WAVY. "All the laws that are coming out are trying to protect the children. I've been sitting here with a gun for the last 45 minutes and it hasn't caused any kind of problem."

Laze, who says he has been robbed four times in the past, got the idea from a Utah ice-cream shop that offered a similar discount and said the price-cut is so popular he may make it permanent.

Related:

NRA exec accuses Obama of gun 'charade' at State of the Union

Amanda Lucier / The Virginian-Pilot via AP

Jay Laze, center talks with customers including Andy Elliott, left, who brought his 9 mm handgun to All Around Pizza and Deli in Virginia Beach, Va., on Feb. 8, where anyone who carries a gun or brings a concealed handgun permit is offered a discount.

?

Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/19/17016843-hold-the-pepperoni-and-a-gun-at-virginia-pizzeria?lite

oklahoma news nascar news doppler radar colorado rockies moonshine news channel 4 radar weather

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Educational Jargon ? WordPress @ ScienceGeek.net

Every profession develops its own vocabulary, and new teachers quickly come to realize that education is no exception. I can remember even during my education classes at UCSB that there were several student teachers who delighted in this educational jargon. One student teacher in particular seemed incapable of completing a thought without trying to impress us with his favorite word ? metacognition. At first I considered this professional vocabulary to be humorous and harmless. Over the years I have continued to be humored by the many additions to the lexicon of educationally impressive phrases, buy I no longer consider the jargon completely harmless.

What harm can there be in the use of educational jargon? Well, anyone who has ever received a medical diagnosis from a doctor who insists on presenting simple concepts in complex verbiage knows that the way in which information is presented can be powerful. As educators, it is important to remember that our partners are parents and students. Jargon tells our partners that ?You are not one of us.?

It has been my observation that the farther one moves away from direct contact with students within an educational organization, the more likely it becomes that you will find those professionals most steeped in the current jargon. Put another way, I rarely hear the ?latest? jargon from my teaching peers at my high school. I don?t often hear it from administrators at my school site. On those many occasions when I have attended staff development at the district office, I often add to my collection of jargon. At times it seems that those folks who no longer work directly with students and parents have acquired an entirely new language.

Years ago I began ?collecting? some of these terms and adding them to my ?Educational Jargon Generator.? Sometimes, the only way to maintain your mental health is to maintain a sense of humor. One of my recent favorites is the word ?agendize,? which I first heard at my district office. Perhaps it was the widespread reference to terrorists who might ?weaponize? anthrax that started this trend. In short, you take a noun, add ?-ize? and suddenly you?ve invented a verb!

New teachers ? remember that it is your job to take sometimes complex concepts and distill them in such as way as to make them understandable to your students. Too often, we ?jargonize? (see how easy that is!) and do the opposite. We take simple concepts and make them seem complex by draping them in the lingo of our profession.

Veteran teachers ? if you have some favorites that you have collected in ?professional development? and don?t see them within my??Educational Jargon Generator?then by all means, please share them with me by email.

Comments are closed.

Source: http://www.sciencegeek.net/Wordpress/?p=1811

new york auto show 2012 tulsa easter eggs pineapple upside down cake free ecards flying car masters golf tournament

Cassini sheds light on cosmic particle accelerators

Feb. 19, 2013 ? During a chance encounter with what appears to be an unusually strong blast of solar wind at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected particles being accelerated to ultra-high energies. This is similar to the acceleration that takes place around distant supernovas.

Since we can't travel out to the far-off stellar explosions right now, the shockwave that forms from the flow of solar wind around Saturn's magnetic field provides a rare laboratory for scientists with the Cassini mission -- a partnership involving NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency -- to observe this phenomenon up-close. The findings, published this week in the journal Nature Physics, confirm that certain kinds of shocks can become considerably more effective electron accelerators than previously thought.

Shock waves are commonplace in the universe, for example in the aftermath of a stellar explosion as debris accelerate outward in a supernova remnant, or when the flow of particles from the sun -- the solar wind -- impinges on the magnetic field of a planet to form a bow shock. Under certain magnetic field orientations and depending on the strength of the shock, particles can be accelerated to close to the speed of light at these boundaries. These may be the dominant source of cosmic rays, high-energy particles that pervade our galaxy.

Scientists are particularly interested in "quasi-parallel" shocks, where the magnetic field and the "forward"-facing direction of the shock are almost aligned, as may be found in supernova remnants. The new study, led by Adam Masters of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan, describes the first detection of significant acceleration of electrons in a quasi-parallel shock at Saturn, coinciding with what may be the strongest shock ever encountered at the ringed planet.

"Cassini has essentially given us the capability of studying the nature of a supernova shock in situ in our own solar system, bridging the gap to distant high-energy astrophysical phenomena that are usually only studied remotely," said Masters.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA and ASI, the Italian space agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:

Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:


Story Source:

The above story is reprinted from materials provided by NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.


Journal Reference:

  1. A. Masters, L. Stawarz, M. Fujimoto, S. J. Schwartz, N. Sergis, M. F. Thomsen, A. Retin?, H. Hasegawa, B. Zieger, G. R. Lewis, A. J. Coates, P. Canu, M. K. Dougherty. Electron acceleration to relativistic energies at a strong quasi-parallel shock wave. Nature Physics, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/nphys2541

Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.

Disclaimer: Views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/space_time/nasa/~3/TVsTkT_g5Js/130219163211.htm

Richard Engel Daniel Inouye steelers scarlett johansson tim tebow survivor snl

Video: Geriatric sea otter stays fit by shooting hoops

Sorry, Readability was unable to parse this page for content.

Source: http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/50862493/

London 2012 basketball London 2012 Slalom Canoe Alex Morgan Misty May Treanor Lolo Jones Aly Raisman Marvin Hamlisch

Nudes check out nudes at Austrian museum

RETRANSMISSION OF XRZ102 In this Monday, Feb. 18, 2013 photo, Naked Museum visitors look at pictures of the show "Nude Men from 1800 to Today" during a special opening to friends of nudism at the Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria. The show "Nude Men from 1800 to Today" opened its doors from 19 October 2012 to March 4,2013, looking at how artists have dealt with the theme of male nudity over the centuries. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

RETRANSMISSION OF XRZ102 In this Monday, Feb. 18, 2013 photo, Naked Museum visitors look at pictures of the show "Nude Men from 1800 to Today" during a special opening to friends of nudism at the Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria. The show "Nude Men from 1800 to Today" opened its doors from 19 October 2012 to March 4,2013, looking at how artists have dealt with the theme of male nudity over the centuries. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

VIENNA (AP) ? These museum goers didn't just leave their coats at the coat check. They handed over their shirts, trousers and underwear.

Everything, in fact, except their shoes and socks. After all, the stone floor can get chilly when you're touring an art exhibit in the nude, which was what more than 60 art lovers did in a special after-hours showing at Vienna's prestigious Leopold museum.

For many, the tour of "Nude Men from 1800 to Today" ? an exhibit of 300 paintings, photographs, drawings and sculptures focused on the bare male ? was a goose-bump-raising instance of life imitating art.

"I can't say I'm sweating," said office worker Herbert Korvas as he stood waiting in the atrium with other young men, wearing only socks, sneakers and a smile. Despite the cold, he said he was drawn to the idea of naked museum viewing "because it was something different."

But after a while it really wasn't. With no other viewers around, nude quickly became the new normal as the visitors quickly gathered around a ? dressed ? exhibition guide and moved slowly from one art work to the next, listening intently to their history.

And they weren't the first visitors to get naked either, despite the hoopla around the event that drew dozens of reporters and camera teams from Austria and elsewhere.

A man had already stripped at the exhibition of pictures and sculptures in November, calmly sauntering through the exhibition and dressing again only after a security guard asked him to do so. That act made news ? and sparked demand for Monday's all-nude showing, said museum spokesman Klaus Pokorny.

"We got requests from all over the world from people who were inspired by the exhibition ... who asked us 'can we visit the exhibition naked?'" he said.

On Monday, interest was definitely skewed along gender lines. Irina Wolf smiled as she looked around at the mostly male crowd lining up for tickets.

"I'm at a big advantage here," she said. "Only men around."

While Wolf said she is not someone who regularly strips in public places, the 40-something computer engineer and occasional theater critic, said "I want to see how I relate to such a group."

For others, Monday's event fulfilled a long-cherished wish ? even though they had a hard time explaining why.

Florian Kahlenberg from Munich said he found it "interesting to stroll through a museum naked, adding. "I've always wanted to do that."

Few visitors, naked or dressed, have complained about the show, despite some explicit material showing sexual acts. Described as among the most successful ever staged by the Leopold, it has drawn well over 100,000 people.

That fits with Vienna's relaxed attitude. Its turn-of-the-century decadence allowed Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt to flourish, and the Leopold itself has a world-class collection of those and other artists known for their explicit depiction of the flesh.

But the Austrian capital's acceptance of nudity goes beyond museum exhibits. Thousands of men, women and children skinny dip daily in the Danube along stretches reserved for them during the summer, while racy lingerie ads dot huge billboards across the city all year round and a mass-circulation daily regularly prints photos of half-naked women.

Still, there are limits to Viennese tolerance. The Leopold was forced into cover-up mode last year after complaints over promotional posters plastered city-wide that showed three young and athletic men of different races wearing nothing but blue, white and red socks and soccer boots.

Swaths of red tape were subsequently placed over their sensitive parts.

____

Associated Press video journalist Philipp Jenne contributed.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2013-02-19-Austria-Naked%20Show/id-cb0e0b3f21a646518779579d7b0bf818

cinco de mayo osama bin laden death spinal muscular atrophy brooklyn nets may day protests tony nominations 2012 facebook organ donor

London in the mist: Thick fog blankets the east as Britain wakes up to frosty but beautiful morning

  • Early morning cloud hung over River Thames obscuring the city's landmarks and reducing visibility to 15m
  • Poor visibility due to fog also caused problems at Heathrow Airport where 63 flights were cancelled
  • The Met Office said today's temperatures will reach up to 8C at the tip of Cornwall

By Leon Watson

|

A thick layer of fog blanketed London and the east of England today as the nation's capital appeared to be transformed into a JMW Turner landscape.

As commuters went to work, an early morning cloud hung over the River Thames obscuring the city's landmarks and reducing visibility to around 15 metres.

The shroud stretched from Yorkshire in the north to Kent in the south.

Early morning fog obscures a view of the Gherkin and the Tower of London on the River Thames. This picture was taken from Tower Bridge

Early morning fog obscures a view of the Gherkin and the Tower of London on the River Thames. This picture was taken from Tower Bridge

Dickensian: Tower Bridge this morning through heavy fog and low cloud in London

Dickensian: Tower Bridge this morning through heavy fog and low cloud in London

JMW Turner painting show coal being loaded on the River Thames

JMW Turner painting show coal being loaded on the River Thames

Poor visibility due to fog also caused problems at Heathrow Airport where 63 flights were cancelled. The 31 arrivals and 32 departures were scheduled for between 6am and 11am, a Heathrow spokeswoman said.

There were also severe disruptions at London City Airport and both airports have advised passengers to check with their airlines.

London City posted on its website: 'Due to low visibility this morning, flights to and from London City airport are experiencing disruptions.'

?

The Met Office had issued a yellow fog warning covering large parts of the country yesterday which was in force until 11am today. The east coast and East Anglia saw the worst of it, while pockets of Devon were also affected.

However, forecaster Sarah Holland said: 'There has been thick fog and in some places freezing fog, but this is expected to clear by late morning. It has stretched from eastern parts up to Yorkshire, the east Midlands and London and the south east.'

She added that the focus for the rest of the week will be on cold and dry weather across the UK.

A commuter taking picture of HMS Belfast war ship through heavy fog and low cloud this morning in London

A commuter taking picture of HMS Belfast war ship through heavy fog and low cloud this morning in London

People walk to work through heavy fog near Tower Bridge

Shrouded: People walk to work through heavy fog near Tower Bridge in central London

The South Bank overlooking the Thames towards Tower Bridge, which is just visible

The South Bank overlooking the Thames towards Tower Bridge, which is just visible

Fog on the Thames: Barely visible commuters crossing the London Bridge

Fog on the Thames: Barely visible commuters crossing the London Bridge

'It has been very dry for the last few days and that is set to continue for the next few days.

'Temperatures will drop off after the mild weekend with most areas seeing daytime temperatures of 4C to 8C, through to the latter part of the week where some areas of the country will see 3C to 4C, which is average or just below for the time of the year.'

The Met Office said today's temperatures will reach up to 8C at the tip of Cornwall with around 6C in western coastal areas. Temperatures in the east will hover between 1C and 4C.

Temperatures will hover around freezing across most of the South tonight. While winds are expected to reach speeds of 25mph in South Western areas making it feel even colder.

The Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge shrouded in fog early morning in central London

The Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge shrouded in fog early morning in central London

The fog on the Thames at Westminster began to lift late morning

The fog on the Thames at Westminster began to lift late morning

Meg, eight, and Morgan, 12, from Devon, looking at snowdrops at the Rococo Gardens, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

Meg, eight, and Morgan, 12, from Devon, looking at snowdrops at the Rococo Gardens, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

Snowdrops cover the woodland floor at the Rococo Gardens, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

Snowdrops cover the woodland floor at the Rococo Gardens, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

People enjoy the sunny weather punting on the river in Cambridge

People enjoy the sunny weather punting on the river in Cambridge

Enjoying the sun: A punt passes under a bridge over the River Cam in Cambridge

Enjoying the sun: A punt passes under a bridge over the River Cam in Cambridge

Frost on the fields in Cambridgeshire as the sun tried to break through the early morning cloud

Frost on the fields in Cambridgeshire as the sun tried to break through the early morning cloud

Walkers walking in the early morning mist on the Old Kilpatrick Hills in West Dunbartonshire

Walkers walking in the early morning mist on the Old Kilpatrick Hills in West Dunbartonshire

A frosty, but beautiful, late winter morning in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, as the sun tries to break through the mist and low cloud

A frosty, but beautiful, late winter morning in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, as the sun tries to break through the mist and low cloud

The sky starts to turn pinky-orange as the sun begins to set and ducks and swans relex on the River Nene in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

The sky starts to turn pinky-orange as the sun begins to set and ducks and swans relex on the River Nene in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

Beautiful morning: The sun illuminates the ice on this plant in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

Beautiful morning: The sun illuminates the ice on this plant in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

The sun rises over the South Shields pier at the mouth of the River Tyne in Tyne and Wear

The sun rises over the South Shields pier at the mouth of the River Tyne in Tyne and Wear

?

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280973/London-mist-Thick-fog-blankets-east-Britain-wakes-frosty-beautiful-morning.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Yunel Escobar Eye Black Cruel Summer Endeavor shaun white carolina panthers amanda bynes Revolution TV Show