Pebble Blue Samsung Galaxy S III launch might be delayed, faulty battery cover could be to blame

Although there has been no word (yet) about the Australian launch of the Galaxy S III ? we?ve seen a few things, however ? there could be a global delay of the ?Pebble Blue? Samsung Galaxy S III. For those playing along at home, we?re simply referring to the blue version of the Galaxy S III that?s meant to look more like a pebble.

There has been no confirmation from Samsung about the delay, however, multiple online retailers in Europe have sent emails to customers informing them of a delay due to Samsung cancelling shipments to suppliers. It has been reported that 600,000 Pebble Blue battery covers (back covers) had to be destroyed by Samsung because they were defective.

Another reason that has been reported is that Samsung only started production of the blue model at the start of last week, which won?t give them enough time to fulfil demand by the expected June 20th release date. Local suppliers such as Kogan and MobiCity haven?t reported any slowed shipments as of yet, but we?ll let you know should we hear anything.

Samsung Australia will surely cover the official reasons at their launch event next Friday when they layout their local launch plans for the Galaxy S III. The white version is confirmed to be arriving on time, with battery covers working as expected.

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May is Skin Cancer and Brain Tumor Awareness Month - Yes

Happy Memorial Day weekend! ?That being said, here's a little note from The Skin Cancer Foundation:


"Those tempted to kick off summer by getting a ?base tan? should be aware that there is no such thing as a safe, healthy or protective tan. The misconception that a base tan will protect the skin is dangerous; even for those who never burn, prolonged exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation can lead to skin aging (including wrinkles, lines and age spots) as well as skin cancer. In fact, about 65 percent of melanomas and 90 percent of nonmelanoma skin cancers are associated with sun exposure." -?skincancer.org

Reconstruction.? I've had a hard time finishing this series up.? Hence the nearly two week gap.? It has been difficult focusing in on a way to sum up a seven year journey of reconstruction and healing in a few short paragraphs.

While losing a parent is different than losing a spouse, or what I imagine must be the unbearable pain of losing a child, the stages of grief are the same.? And eventually a person hits that upward turn and begins reconstruction.? Having been a designer on several hotel renovations, I see a resemblance between the reconstruction of a building and that of a life.? Once all the demolition is complete, there is always something uncovered that was unexpected.? Sometimes small, often times large, something ugly is always found.? With a hotel renovation it could be mold, electrical wiring issues, plumbing problems, rotted subfloor, and a plethora of other un-pleasantries.?

We all have a tendency to blame someone for our problems, and generally if we have a "character flaw" we, with the help of secular psychologists, point the finger at our parents.? {Of course our character and personality are created by the experiences we have growing up and help define what we eventually begin to believe about other people, ourselves and God.? However, we are not helpless.? We have a choice to let those things impact us positively or negatively.} ?Well I have my fair share of character flaws, so I went along with society and blamed my mother. ?Surely she's the reason for my irrational temper, unreasonable expectations {of myself and others}, and intense perfectionism.?Sure, I'll blame the mother who every morning prepared me breakfast before going to school, who read a devotion to me while I ate, would bring forgotten school assignments to me in class, who drove me all around town for a thousand activities, who took side decorating jobs and substitute teaching to pay for my thousand activities, and who took a job as a full time teacher when I graduated high school just so she could buy me a newer car to take to off to college that my dad didn't think was necessary.? I suppose it was easier to focus on a few bad things then the endless good things, and of course it's always easier to blame someone.? However, God, even after I yelled and cursed at Him, allowed me the opportunity to reconcile that relationship. I will never be able to grasp how lucky I am that I did not loose my mom before I could begin a good relationship with her. ?{Mom is still here in this world - she will be about 40 minutes down the road from our new house, and I can't wait to enlist her help in landscaping and DIY adventures!}

Oh, and yes, I said I yelled and cursed at God.? I could write a whole post on that, but most people wouldn't care for it.

As I at the beginning, it has been difficult writing about reconstruction because there is an incredible amount to say. ?Instead of boring you, I have decided to keep it short and bring back the question "why do bad things happen?" ?Plenty of people have spent a whole book or series of books to try to answer this question, but I'm going to sum it up to the core of what I believe. ?First, it's a fallen world; when Adam sinned, we all sinned. ?Second, we are not the center of universe. ?Sometimes when someone close to us dies, it's not about us. ?It could be about that person, or someone else involved - so stop trying to make it about you (sorry to be blunt, but it's just the reality of it). ?Third, "God works all things together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose." ?We may never see the result of that in our time here on earth, but Paul taught us that in Romans, so I'm clinging to it. ?Not to mention I have truly seen the truth in that. ?It's amazing to reflect through how that verse has held so true in my life. ?Finally, speaking of our time here on earth, our time here is like two pixels?of an incomprehensibly large image.?

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
It's not our home
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You?re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can?t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise
Laura Story, "Blessings" (only second half of song above)

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Can you Defeat Alzheimer's Disease with Exercise? | Heartfelt Care

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The younger mice aggroup also exercised every day for 30 days.

At the end of the 30 days the underwater chore was repeated.

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None of them remembered how to do the strain.

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Business pre 30 June Tax planning checklist | Morris Accounting

Posted by NathanMorris on May 25, 2012 ? Leave a Comment?

Every business should know their likely tax result, based on knowing their sales and profit numbers.? If you don?t, don?t stress there are a couple of quick things you can do pre 30 June to help your tax bill come tax time.

1 Consider purchasing assets post 30 June to take advantage of new depreciation rules

2 Consider making superannuation contributions for directors pre 30 June

3 Consider paying your staff compulsory contributions pre 30 June

4 Review insurances pre 30 June and pay for these upfront

5 Pay your accounting fees in advance

6 Review marketing strategies and pay these campaigns before 30 June.

7? Consider an R&D programme for additional tax deduction incentives.

Most of all have a chat with us to see what your likely tax result is and ways to improve for this 2012 financial year, better still plan ahead for 2013!

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Auto Loan Rate Deal of the Day: Heartland Area Federal Credit Union at 2.50% APR

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Times-Picayune to cut paper to 3 days a week

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? The Times-Picayune, one of the nation's oldest newspapers, will no longer offer print editions seven days a week and instead plans to offer three printed issues a week starting in the fall. The change means New Orleans would become the largest metro area in the nation without a daily newspaper in the digital age.

The changes announced Thursday were combined with similar moves at three major Alabama daily newspapers also owned by the Newhouse family group's Advance Publications. The Birmingham News, the Press-Register in Mobile and The Huntsville Times will switch to publishing three days a week as part of a new focus on online news. At all four papers, there will be unspecified staff cuts. All four papers will continue to publish continuously on their websites, and online access will remain free.

Newspapers have struggled in recent years as consumers increasingly get their news online. Print advertising declined as the economy went into recession, and newspapers have yet to learn how to make online advertising as profitable as its printed counterpart.

"For us, this isn't about print versus digital, this is about creating a very successful multi-platform media company that addresses the ever-changing needs of our readers, our online users and our advertisers," said Advance Publications' president of local digital strategy, Randy Siegel, in an interview with The Associated Press. "This change is not easy, but it's essential for us to remain relevant."

Siegel didn't say how much money the reduced print runs in Louisiana and Alabama would save, nor how many staff members would be laid off or hired in the new online units.

"To get good quality information is not cheap," said Jennifer Greer, chair of the journalism department at the University of Alabama. "What you are seeing is people trying to figure out a business model that works in a digital age."

The decision was met with sadness by some residents in New Orleans, where The Times-Picayune won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Staffers continued reporting despite being forced out of the newspaper's offices amid widespread flooding and power outages.

The storm drove away thousands of residents, some of whom never came back. The city ? and its newspaper ? struggled to recover in the years since.

The paper was a lifeline for the Southern, working-class city, providing government announcements, obituaries, Carnival and scoops on local corruption, said Cheron Brylski, a 53-year-old New Orleans-based political consultant. Not having the paper every day is like losing a sports team, she said.

"Where is New Orleans headed since Katrina? This is not something that helps our recovery," she said.

The papers in Alabama also have long histories. The Mobile paper has roots to 1813 with the founding of the Mobile Gazette and became a daily in 1832, according to a history of the publication on al.com. And in 2007, the Birmingham News won a Pulitzer Prize for a series on corruption in Alabama's two-year college system.

Birmingham News employees were told during morning meetings that longtime Editor Tom Scarritt will retire this fall when the new companies are created, according to two reporters who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the changes for the company.

In New Orleans, a new company, the NOLA Media Group, would be created to oversee both The Times-Picayune and its affiliated website, NOLA.com.

The announcements mirror changes Advance Publications made in Michigan. In 2009, the company shut the Ann Arbor News but created AnnArbor.com, a news website that still publishes print editions on Thursday and Sunday.

In February, it launched the MLive Media Group, which runs MLive.com, to focus its efforts in Michigan digitally. Meanwhile, all of its eight other newspapers in the state offer three days of home delivery with newsstand sales from three to seven days a week.

Newspaper analyst Ken Doctor, who writes the Newsonomics blog, said the company is trying to hold on to declining print ad revenue for a few more years, and expects Advance to eventually cut print runs at its other newspapers in New Jersey, Oregon, Ohio and elsewhere. The company owns The Oregonian in Portland, Ore.; The Plain Dealer in Cleveland; and The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J.

"It's a big bet to retain profitability and hope that in the shock therapy, there are profits on the other end," he said.

Print circulation has been dropping steadily over the years at the four newspapers affected by Thursday's announcement, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. On average, the four papers' circulation in the half year through March fell about 6 percent from a year ago.

Nonetheless, the Times-Picayune remains one of the nation's most successful newspapers. Of the top 50 large-sized markets, the newspaper has the highest rate of readership of its daily edition in the U.S., according to Austin, Texas-based Scarborough Research, a firm that tracks the industry.

The Times-Picayune's average paid circulation was 133,557 in the six months through March, down 49 percent compared to March 2005, a few months before Hurricane Katrina hit.

The Birmingham News' circulation of 103,729 is down 29 percent from five years ago; the Press-Register's of 82,088 is down 18 percent; and The Huntsville Times' of 44,725 is down 15 percent.

Die-hard supporters and even Mayor Mitch Landrieu pledged to make sure the newspaper remained a part of New Orleans culture.

"Through wars and floods, the 'Aints and a Saints Super Bowl victory, the TP has been and remains an integral part of our daily routine and our culture," Landrieu said.

Anne Milling, a longtime member of the advisory board to The Times-Picayune, said an online-focused model wouldn't work in New Orleans. She said she and other supporters were exploring bringing in new owners committed to a daily paper, or even starting a new daily publication.

"We always do things differently," she said. "It's part of our tradition: You wake up with a cup of chicory coffee and read the newspaper."

___

Business Writer Ryan Nakashima in Los Angeles, Phillip Rawls in Birmingham, Ala., and Janet McConnaughey in New Orleans contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Affiliate Marketing Tips - Online Business Expert Articles

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By Andrew Holtom

If you?ve not tried email marketing as part of your affiliate marketing efforts, then it?s definitely something that should be considered. It?s got a high response rate when it comes to making sales ? but only if it?s done in the right way. In this article I?m going to share with you some of the basic, and not so basic rules that will help you get the best for your business and your subscribers.

So let?s start off by looking at the best practices.

Always include an unsubscribe link. Without this you could put yourself in hot water. The CAN-SPAM regulations state that all email marketing should contain a link that provide the option to unsubscribe from your promotional emails. Tools such as Aweber will automatically add an unsubscribe link to the bottom of each email. If you don?t include an unsubscribe link then a reader may click on the Spam button in their email client and they won?t be able to hear from you again. If you receive several of these, then it?s possible that your emails will be redirected to the spam folder of everybody that you send to. Not a good outcome for affiliate marketing efforts!

Attain permission to email your subscribers. Without permission from your recipients, sending emails to them is spamming. Sending any promotional emails without permission is considered spamming and it can get you into trouble. Email marketing tools will help you to gain permission, and some of them will not allow you to contact people without this permission.

Include your contact information. Again, another CAN-SPAM regulation is to include your address and contact details on all your email marketing. After all your contacts may want to contact you via phone or through mail with questions or even to make a purchase, so help them out by adding this information to the footer of every email. Even when you are involved in affiliate marketing, making yourself credible brings bigger and better results.

Timing is everything. The time that you send your emails should be related to your target audience. If you are targeting businesses, then it may be an idea to send them emails for them to open first thing in the morning. If you are targeting consumers then after 5pm or at weekends could have an increased open rate for you. As with any aspect of marketing, it?s wise to try different times, analyse your results and apply your findings to your future activity.

Branding needs to be consistent. Every touch point with clients needs to be in line with your brand identity. This means image, style and content. If you don?t keep your branding consistent, then you could lose subscribers as they will become disengaged. They are looking to you to stay in line with what they are expecting from you. This doesn?t apply just to small businesses, but to affiliate marketing professionals too.

Consider subject lines. Most subject lines should be written to reveal the content of the email, however there is another approach that you can take. You might want to try out the curiosity of your readers by writing an intriguing subject line. Alternatively, write something friendly that has some relation to the content of the email.

Email marketing can do wonders for your affiliate marketing sales if it?s implemented in the right way.

Andrew Holtom is an internet marketing consultant. If you want to discover the secrets of successful list building, then check out this FREE video that reveals all.

You can find Andrew at his website where he shares many more proven techniques for making money online through internet marketing.

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Off the Clock: Disrupted Daily Rhythms Hinder Fertility in Mice

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Mice whose sleep patterns were altered had more difficulties conceiving and carrying pregnancies to term. The findings may have implications for women trying to conceive.


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?My biological clock is ticking.? The phrase typically pops up in movies about middle-aged women who want to start a family before menopause makes it impossible. But a new study published May 23 in PLoS ONE indicates that another clock may also be important for females trying to conceive: the one that regulates our waking and sleeping cycles.?

A strong body of evidence links daily wake-sleep cycles to feminine reproductive cycles. When scientists remove a female mouse?s suprachiasmatic nucleus?the pacemaker in her brain that regulates daily circadian rhythms?her estrous cycle ceases, and she becomes infertile. In human females, working night shifts and frequently traveling across time zones has been associated with menstrual irregularities, reduced fertility and a greater number of negative pregnancy outcomes such as low birth weight, preterm birth and miscarriage.

But ?one of the issues with these epidemiological studies,? says Keith Summa, a medical and doctoral student at Northwestern University, ?is that there are other factors associated with shift work that may also be playing a role.? For example, women who work night shifts also tend to sleep less. ?Our study provides stronger evidence that reproductive problems are due to circadian disruption itself,? Summa says.

Summa and his colleagues divided a group of 48 inseminated female mice into three groups. Then they fiddled with the rodents? sleep patterns by changing the lighting conditions in the cages. The control mice experienced a normal light-dark cycle: 12 hours of ?daylight? and 12 hours of ?nighttime,? on a set schedule that never wavered.

The researchers shifted the light-dark cycles for the two less-fortunate groups of mice.? In one cage, the morning lights went on progressively later; mice began the experiment with a ?daytime? of 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., but then after five days, researchers shifted the light forward by six hours, so that daytime would last from noon to midnight instead. The five-day period allowed the mice to adjust to each new schedule before it shifted again.

In the third cage, mice received the reverse treatment: the lights were turned on progressively earlier. For these mice, if ?daytime? started at 6 a.m. during the first five-day period, it would begin at midnight during the next period, and so on.

The five-day shifts occurred over 25 days. By the end, 90 percent of the mice that were kept on a consistent light-dark schedule carried full-term pregnancies. In contrast, mice exposed to daylight that shifted forward had successful pregnancies 50 percent of the time, and the animals exposed to daylight that shifted backward had a success rate of only 22 percent.

?The degree to which it affected fertility was surprising,? says Tamara Varcoe, who studies circadian rhythms at the University of Adelaide in Australia and was not involved with the research. ?They show very profound effects just from doing a relatively minor intervention.? She and Summa agree that the next step is to determine exactly when and why the fertility losses occur.

?We didn?t see evidence of late loss of pregnancy, suggesting effects are occurring early on,? Summa notes. He suggested that maybe the circadian disruptions prevent embryos from implanting in the uterine wall.

Last year, Varcoe?s lab disrupted the circadian rhythms of pregnant rats, but didn?t observe fertility impacts. Importantly, Varcoe?s group began adjusting the light-dark cycle after the rats were confirmed pregnant, whereas Summa?s group began immediately after insemination. Varcoe agrees that the fertility losses that Summa observed may be due to embryo implantation problems.

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Advantages of Condominiums than Sacramento Homes for Sale

If you would just see the latest real estate percentages (sold properties), you would find out that condominiums are now in demand among young professionals. This happens due to the fact that owning condo units have lots of great benefits specially for young professionals. Apart from the notion that condo units are cheaper than homes for sale, condominiums offer round the clock security. Furthermore, most of condo units in the region are very accessible to various important establishments such as schools, malls and business districts, as well as different kinds of public transportations, like Buses, cabs and Metro rail transits.

Such advantages and benefits are the primary reasons why most young professionals in the region would look for condo units being sold and become a resident of the property for the rest of their lives.

I would say that condo living has good advantages because? owning a condo unit would only mean that you are protected from dangers of the outside world, and apart from what was mentioned above, you have the luxury to experience a one of a kind services that only a condominium setting could afford to provide.

Condo units are also popular amongst young adults because it has the comfy and lavish amenities you can only find in most hotels and resorts in the region. Condominiums have swimming pools, gyms, saunas, elegant lobby, conference hall, auditorium and helipad. You cannot have such hotel like amenities when you would just settle in buying homes.

But owning condo units have some disadvantages too. Most condo units are high rise and there are units that have very low window casements and such units could pose real danger specially when children are playing near the casements. To avoid such ugly scenario, be sure to install safety locks and close the windows when children are around. But in the event that you need to open the window to breathe some fresh air, you may open the windows but don?t leave it wide open when you are not around to avoid any unexpected accident involving your children. One more thing, never allow your children to play near the window unsupervised and take away things that they may climb on like desks, slabs and chairs.

Condo units are one of the best investments you can ever have but you must find a condo that fits your loved ones lifestyle and personal needs. Lastly, be vigilant in purchasing a condo so the safety of your children won?t be compromised and you won?t end up as the loser.

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