Punxsutawney Phil: Will He See His Shadow!?

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Family Home and Life: Free January Scrapbook Pages

I have my January Scrapbook pages for you. Yes it's?February?1st, I know. Here's a link to my other scrapbook pages and I will add these to that link if you want to find them at a later time. They are based on my color?palette?from yesterday, Snowed In.There is a Scrapbook button on my right side bar for these pages too. Enjoy!

Snowed In Jan 2013?

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Snowed In Let It Snow?

Snowed In Forest?

Snowed In Pine Branch?

Snowed In Polka Dots?

Snowed In Snow Fall?

Snow In Snow Flakes?

Snowed In Snowing Snowman

Snowed In Snowman Holly

Snowed In Stripes

Snowed In Blue?

Snowed In Charcoal?

Snowed In Gray?

Snowed In?Lavender

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Internships now ?as important as a first class degree? | Graduate Fog

GOOD GRADES ARE WORTHLESS WITHOUT RELEVANT EXPERIENCE, SAY UK?S BIG GRADUATE RECRUITERS

Graduates who worked hard on their studies but spent their summers doing bar work or a shop job will miss out on the best graduate jobs in 2013, analysts have said.

In an astonishing illustration of employers? ever-increasing demands on young applicants, half of the UK?s top graduate recruiters said those without relevant experience have ?little or no chance? of being offered a job at their firm this year, even if they have a first-class degree from a top university. Martin Birchall, managing director of High Fliers Research, said:

?This latest research confirms that taking part in work placements or internships whilst at university is now just as important as getting a 2.1 or a first-class degree. Graduate recruiters warn that in a highly competitive job market, new graduates who?ve not had any work experience at all during their studies are increasingly unlikely to be offered a good graduate job after university.?

While on one hand it seems fair that employers should favour candidates with experience over those without, Graduate Fog is concerned that this now seems to be an issue of the quality?and relevance of that experience. What they seem to be saying is that a candidate who has spent their summers working as a waitress is not as impressive as one who has spent their summers working for a big PR firm or at an investment bank. If that is the case, is it really fair? Are all the best opportunities really open to all?

PR internships are often unpaid ? and investment banking internships are always in big cities, usually London. If you are an undergraduate whose parents live in a rural area or you can?t afford to work for low wages, can you hope to compete with those based in cities who have greater financial support from their families? The report also showed that a third of this year?s entry-level positions will be filled by graduates who have already worked in their organisation, so it?s clear that getting ?in? with the right people as an undergraduate is a major boost to your job hunt once you graduate ? an enormous advantage. But what if you?re a young person who is not in a position to be able to gain that advantage?

The good news is that the total number of vacancies among the big graduate recruiters is expected to rise by 2.7% in 2013, echoing the findings of the recent Association of Graduate Recruiters report which also predicted a jump this year. However, recruitment is still well below pre-recession levels ? this year?s intake is 11% less than it was in 2007. And, with many of the Class of 2012 still struggling to find their way into proper, paid, full-time jobs, this looks set to be another year of tough competition for the best graduate positions.

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*ARE GRADUATE RECRUITERS DEMANDING TOO MUCH?
Are good quality work experience opportunities really open to all? Is it fair that an unpaid internship may be seen as more valuable than a shop job, when so many young people are struggling with their finances? Are graduate recruiters demanding more and more from their young applicants? And are you confident you will be able to offer what they?re looking for? Could you afford to do the best internships during your summer holidays ? or did you have to focus on finding a job near you that paid a decent wage?

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Source: http://graduatefog.co.uk/2013/2400/internships-important-class-degree/

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Religious groups get new opt-out on birth-control coverage

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration is announcing a broader opt-out for religious nonprofits that object to providing health insurance that covers birth control.

The administration is allowing religious nonprofits to offer coverage that does not include contraception. In such a case, a third-party issuer will handle all business related to providing birth-control coverage for women, according to a source familiar with the changes who spoke only on condition of anonymity.

Religious groups had said the old birth-control coverage rule violated their religious beliefs. Many filed lawsuits or said they would simply not comply.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/source-religious-opt-birth-control-162029684--politics.html

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Growthology: Video Streaming Quality and Viewer Behavior

Startups and businesses that offer video on their website or
on a mobile platform face a fickle audience. If videos don?t load or are
frequently interrupted with buffering, viewers are more likely to abandon the
video and not return to the site. These are the finding of study by S. Shunmuga
Krishnan and Ramesh K. Sitaraman, ?Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer
Behavior: Inferring Causality Using Quasi-Experimental Designs,? who analyzed 23 million video views from 6.7 million unique viewers (paper
available here).

I am not terribly surprised by the results. We might intuitively expect video failing to stream smoothly or quickly would lead to viewers giving up on watching the video. But the authors importantly establish a causal link and offer some nuanced findings that I think are informative. My high-level takeaway is that as internet speeds increase, consumers become more impatient and expect better quality from video providers. Here are some selected highlights from the paper:

• If a video fails to start up within two seconds, viewers start to abandon the video, and the drop off is steep. However, abandonment varies by internet speed. Viewers with faster internet connections have less patience and abandon sooner. Mobile connections give a lot more slack.

• Longer videos get more slack to startup (lesser abandonment rate from delays in starting up) than shorter clips.
• Viewers who dealt with rebuffering interruptions and delays viewed the videos for less time.
• Viewers who have difficulties are less likely to return to the site, and this is persistent for at least a week.

Knowing this is important because abandonment rate, how long videos are viewed, and return viewers are all factors for generating revenue.

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Source: http://www.growthology.org/growthology/2013/01/video-streaming-quality-and-viewer-behavior.html

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Reconcilable differences: Study uncovers the common ground of scientific opposites

Jan. 30, 2013 ? Searching for common elements in seemingly incompatible scientific theories may lead to the discovery of new ones that revolutionize our understanding of the world.

Such is the idea behind a mathematical framework Princeton University researchers developed that strips away the differences between scientific laws and theories to reveal how the ideas are compatible. In a recent report in the journal Physical Review Letters, the authors explain how the mathematical model finds common ground between the famously at-odds physics equations that govern classical and quantum mechanics.

In their paper, the researchers attempt to reconcile classical and quantum mechanics. Simply put, classical mechanics -- based on the ideas of English scientist Isaac Newton -- describes the ordered laws of motion for large objects and systems. Quantum mechanics relates more to the chaotic motion and activity of microscopic particles.

Lead author Denys Bondar, a postdoctoral research associate in Princeton's Department of Chemistry, explained that the Princeton framework -- called operational dynamic modeling -- is intended to streamline the development of novel theories, a typically painstaking process that can be for naught if the end result does not agree with experimental data. The framework unpacks and mathematically tests the basic algebra of a theory against that of observed data. If they reconcile, the newborn theory might be valid, Bondar said.

"We have a new theoretical tool that we can use to look at old problems and try to solve new problems," Bondar said. He worked with second author Renan Cabrera, a Princeton postdoctoral research associate in chemistry; senior researcher Herschel Rabitz, Princeton's Charles Phelps Smyth '16 *17 Professor of Chemistry; Robert Lompay, a physics graduate student at Uzhgorod National University in Ukraine; and Misha Ivanov, a physics professor at Imperial College London.

The Princeton model builds on theorems that Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest developed in the 20th century to illustrate the similarities between classical and quantum mechanics. Putting these theorems into action, Bondar and his colleagues pared the differences between these branches of physics down to a single mathematical consideration: to commute or not to commute. This Shakespearean-sounding crossroads relates to whether the result relies on the order of the experimental measurements.

If the same conclusion can be drawn regardless of how the measurements are arranged, the theory is commutative. If the result depends on a specific sequence, it is non-commutative. At this point, any novel theory can be characterized as classical or quantum, Bondar said. If the theory is commutative it is classical; if not, it has quantum elements.

"Scientists are taught from the time they are students that classical and quantum mechanics can never be reconciled," Bondar said. "But now we have one equation for classical and quantum mechanics. We can make the transition from classical to quantum mechanics in a smooth and straightforward way."

The benefit of the model, Cabrera said, is that experimental systems can be constructed more in accordance with particular mechanics as they are being developed. In addition, it can reveal if and how a novel theory relates to classical or quantum mechanics in a way that might not have been considered initially, he said.

"This model allows us to experience mathematically classical or quantum theories in a more similar way than before and find common ground only differentiated by the ability to commute or not commute," Cabrera said.

Robert Gilmore, a physics professor at Drexel University, said that the Princeton framework is a unique and well-designed initial step toward bringing classical and quantum mechanics under the same theoretical roof. Gilmore is familiar with the work, but had no role in it.

The researchers "provide the smoothest possible transition from quantum mechanics to classical mechanics," Gilmore said. "Their vision is that it is possible to formulate physical theory in such a way that both classical mechanics and quantum mechanics play by the same rules. In order to do this, they upend one of the classical early results of quantum mechanics: the Ehrenfest theorems."

Though the model is simple -- its experimental basis is the position and velocity of a single electron -- it could be matured to describe more complicated physical phenomena, Gilmore said.

"In order to deepen our understanding of quantum mechanics, this theory must be extended in several directions," he said. "This paper seems to provide one footing for a larger foundation that will be needed to build a more comprehensive theory including both classical and quantum mechanics."

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1. Denys Bondar, Renan Cabrera, Robert Lompay, Misha Ivanov, Herschel Rabitz. Operational Dynamic Modeling Transcending Quantum and Classical Mechanics. Physical Review Letters, 2012; 109 (19) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.190403

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Wedding Jewelry To Match The Engagement Ring

If you want the traditional wedding, odds are you went for the traditional round-cut diamond solitaire ring during the engagement. Now, you are planning the wedding and you want the jewelry to match it. Many brides are opting for very fancy wedding jewelry to complement the engagement ring, from diamond earirngs to diamond pendants. On a pure white bridal gown, diamonds bring a rainbow of sparkles that is the height of elegance and taste.

If you are still planning the wedding, you can shop for diamond earrings and pendants online to get just the right look. Unlike the diamond engagement ring, the earrings and pendants can look expensive while being more affordable since they may only be worn on occasion and not daily. Many brides wear their hair up for the special occasion to show off large and glorious dangling diamond earrings and beautifully elegant pendants. This even allows for the use of hair jewelry, a rapidly rising trend in bridal jewelry.

You can pick diamond jewelry that has stainless steel metal settings for him and for her, to match white gold or platinum rings. No one would know that the difference in price if both sets of jewelry has diamonds in it. In addition, men can wear diamond studded watches or stainless steel bracelets as wedding jewelry accents too. Accentuating the elegance of this important occasion with jewelry can be done in style with diamonds, but still remain affordable by carefully mixing and matching white gold and platinum with jewelry with stainless steel settings.

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Source: http://www.abazias.com/education/news/fine_jewelry/Bridal_Jewelry_.asp

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