Feeling flirty? Wait for the sun to shine

Jan. 28, 2013 ? We all know how casual flirtation can lift one's mood, which can be important at this time of year when the winter blues are at their peak. But if you are more serious about your flirting and hope to get that all important phone number, you're better off waiting until it's sunny, according to new French research published in the journal Social Influence.

Nicolas Gu?guen of the University of South Brittany -- who has previously investigated how wearing red lipstick can increase a waitress' tips -- conducted a study in which an 'attractive' 20 year old male approached 18-25 year old women walking alone in the street and asked them for their phone numbers. The women were solicited on both sunny and cloudy (but not rainy) days, when the temperature was about the same.

In the past other environmental factors have been found to make people more likely to flirt or exchange phone numbers -- the presence of pleasant smells, romantic music or certain colours have all been found to have an effect.

Previous research has also shown how the weather can affect certain social behaviours -- sunshine makes people more likely to help strangers or answer a survey, and people tend to leave bigger tips in restaurants on sunny days. But this is the first research to explore how the weather may influence courtship or dating behaviour.

It was found that women were more receptive to being approached and flirted with -- and give out their phone numbers -- on sunny days: over a fifth -- 22.4% -- of women did so when the sun was out, as opposed to 13.9% on the cloudy days.

(The phone numbers were later used to contact the women and tell them the true nature of the study, as per the recommendation of the ethics committee of the lab which reviewed the project!)

The message seems clear: flirting is more likely to have a positive outcome on sunny days. But Professor Gu?guen was careful to include certain caveats regarding the applicability of the research to everyday situations: the sunshine (or other factors) may after all have improved the attractive 20 year old male's flirting skills on those days. Other atmospheric conditions such as windiness or humidity were not accounted for. And, perhaps most crucially, the research was conducted in France, where 'men traditionally approach women in romantic relationships'.

The journal article concludes with suggestions for further study in this area -- for instance, are men themselves more likely to initiate flirting behaviour when the sun is shining? We'll have to wait until the Spring to find out!

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1. Nicolas Gu?guen. Weather and courtship behavior: A quasi-experiment with the flirty sunshine. Social Influence, 2013; : 1 DOI: 10.1080/15534510.2012.752401

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Samsung Galaxy S3 'most recommended' smartphone in UK

Samsung's Android smartphones are most recommended by UK retailers, according to new market research, with the Galaxy S3 being the most recommended handset. According to research carried out by Informa Telecoms and Media, which carried out the survey in leading high-street and carrier stores, sales assistants were more likely to recommend Samsung handsets than competing phones from Apple, HTC, Nokia or others.

At the other end of the scale, Android rivals like ZTE, Motorola, LG, Huawei had next to no in-store presence in the UK, Informa found.

According to UK newspaper The Telegraph, Infroma considers it "likely that sales assistants see the Samsung devices as a safe bet to earn greater commissions."

"The mystery shop showed that the most recommended Samsung handsets were the Galaxy SIII and the Galaxy Note II, despite having been on the market longer than the latest handsets from Apple, Nokia and HTC," said Julian Jest of Informa.

"However, most surprising was the way that, despite an in-store advertising campaign and recent product launch, Apple was recommended in only two stores, 3 and Phones 4 U, with both recommending the iPhone 5."

The Galaxy S3 was the most successful Android phone of 2012, even outselling Apple's iPhone in certain quarters. Sales of the device recently topped 30 million worldwide, as total Galaxy S line shipments reached 100 million.

Source: The Telegraph; via: iMore

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Sandy Victims Face Higher Insurance - Business Insider

New federal flood maps approved Thursday that will govern rebuilding in the state following superstorm Sandy leaves many residents with a tough choice: Go higher now or pay more later.

The new guidelines will force homeowners in flood zones to spend tens of thousands of dollars to raise their houses now or pay exorbitant premiums of up to $31,000 a year for flood insurance later.

"This rule protects the public and our residents by ensuring that the Jersey Shore and our coastal communities will be reconstructed smarter and more resilient," Gov. Chris Christie said in announcing the maps, which were recommended by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to municipalities last month.

Some local officials have voiced concerns about the maps, including their accuracy.

The governor said he did not want to wait for FEMA to adopt new maps within the next two years and leave property owners unsure about what rebuilding standards to follow.

He cited the example of a property in an "A'' flood zone that is now in a "V zone" (where breaking waves are possible) under the new maps. The owner will eventually face flood insurance premiums of up to $31,000 a year if he does not elevate a home. But the owner would pay $7,000 a year if he rebuilds to the now-recommended elevation or $3,500 a year if he rebuilds 2 feet higher than that.

"Folks have to make decisions, and some of them are hard decisions," Christie said.

The governor's announcement came nearly three months after Sandy came ashore south of Atlantic City on Oct. 29, with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph. The megastorm killed 40 people in New Jersey and spawned record coastal flooding. It damaged or destroyed more than 122,000 homes and other structures in New Jersey. The state is seeking billions of dollars from the federal government for rebuilding.

Christie stressed that the guidelines don't force anyone to raise their homes. But he laid out a stark choice: do the elevations called for under the FEMA maps or pay through the nose for flood insurance each year.

"If you choose not to, you'll have substantially higher flood insurance costs, which could be ... seven or eight times what you pay now," he said at a news conference in Seaside Heights.. "There's going to have to be some hard decisions made. But for the shore as a whole, I think that's the right decision to make."

The FEMA maps show that water levels could rise 1 to 5 feet higher than expected in most flood zone areas under previous maps, a FEMA official has said.

The New Jersey Association for Floodplain Management, a nonprofit group of flood experts, has urged municipalities to adopt the new maps.

Towns should consider adding 2 feet of "freeboard" (leading to buildings that are 2 feet higher) above the ABFE elevations, according to the group. The costs are usually 0.25 percent to 1.5 percent for each additional foot of height, according to the group.

John A. Miller, the group's legislative committee chairman, said the group "backs the Governor's decision today, especially in light of the repetitive major flooding that New Jersey has been experiencing in the last eight years."

The group agrees with Christie that using the maps "will save (people) a great deal in flood insurance premiums; and that most importantly, the Governor's actions will save lives and ensure less damage in future storms," Miller said in an email, noting that he had not read the emergency rule.

But Toms River Business Administrator Paul J. Shives said this week the maps have "serious errors."

The maps are a "problem for Toms River and we've made that known, reached out to FEMA and also to the Governor's Office," Shives said. "It really challenges residents at a point in time they don't need it."

Jeff Tittel, director of the Sierra Club's New Jersey Chapter, said Christie's emergency rules didn't go far enough.

"Flood elevations are going up, not down," said Tittel, who also raised concerns about streamlined permitting and the need to protect against sea-level rise.

Christie said he thinks this is "what we need to do to build a 21st Century Jersey Shore. We don't want to go through this again."

He also thinks there are very few places at the Jersey Shore that couldn't be rebuilt, if appropriate standards are used and dune systems with appropriate protections are built.

"We're trying to keep the Shore affordable" for everyone, he said.

According to FEMA, Sandy and sea-level rise were not included in the analysis that led to the ABFE maps, but the maps take into account storms similar to Sandy.

FEMA is working on new flood insurance rate maps, and the preliminary versions will come out around August, according to Chris McKniff, a FEMA spokesman.

That will kick off a regulatory process that can last a year to 18 months, according to McKniff. Comments will be accepted, appeals heard and the maps governing flood insurance rates will be adopted around mid-to-late 2014.

"The higher you build, the less your insurance premiums will be going down the road. So we do encourage people to build higher," McKniff.

According to Christie's statement, the Advisory Base Flood Elevations could change or become lower.

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(Contributing: The Associated Press, Gannett Washington Bureau and Asbury Park Press archives)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/sandy-victims-face-higher-insurance-2013-1

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Rules for Visiting a New Mom

By Scary Mommy Contributor, Robyn

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You know the scene: A close girlfriend has her long-awaited new baby and you feel the need to hightail it to her house to hold that little bundle of joy. In fact, it takes all of your self-control to not show up at the hospital and interrupt the precious few hours that she?ll have a staff doting on her around the clock. Either it?s because you love that new baby smell or you think Mama is going to have hurt feelings if you don?t show interest in her newest family member, but regardless,?you are going to hold that baby. This is what we do as women, yes?

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Au contraire, mon amie. I distinctly remember being two months into motherhood and realizing that I didn?t need or want any more girlfriends stopping by and over-stimulating my colicky, sensitive child with their scary foreign faces, inappropriately loud voices, or refusal to stop bouncing him for even a few minutes. Give the baby a break from the bouncing, ladies. Do you think I want him to get used to that?? No, I don?t, because I?m tired and I don?t want to have to bounce him myself.

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I assure you that I would not have been hurt had no one come to visit me at all.? Do you think I made this baby by myself?? In fact, I did not. There is a man who lives here to keep me company in the evenings. During the day I was too tired, overwhelmed, and covered in spit-up to care about loneliness, and having company just meant that I?d have to squeeze my fat ass into something that didn?t fit and vacuum the dog hair off the floor.

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Before I became a mother I was one of those girlfriends who showed up just to hold your baby. I hereby publicly apologize to all of the new mommies that I did this to. No mother I know was sitting around, desperately waiting for me to appear at her house empty-handed and hold her baby. I am no Baby Whisperer, believe me.

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There was one instance that I arrived at a girlfriend?s house for no other reason than to hold her new baby and then?I sat down and ate the dinner that her husband had been preparing for them. Me! I did not just have a baby! Why was I eating her food?? Shameful.

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Now I?m a mother and realize that if you want to hold that babe in the first four months before the yummy new baby smell wears off, then there are some rules governing that situation?

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??Bring food that you know they?ll like.?This means a take-out lunch from a higher-end restaurant and bring enough food so that Daddy has something to eat when he gets home. Chicken, fish, steak, or something that fits their special diet.? Don?t be stingy; buy enough for leftovers. Don?t bring Subway; in case you hadn?t heard, Subway is disgusting. Don?t make something on your own unless it actually tastes good. It?s best to spend a little money and treat them to something nice since it?s going to be a long, long time before they go to a restaurant again. I hate to say it, but if you can?t afford to buy her a nice lunch then you need to consider whether you can really afford to hold this baby.

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? Don?t eat her food. Does Mama have some pulled pork or a rack of short ribs simmering in the crock-pot when you arrive? Don?t you dare accept any of it if she offers.? She is being polite and you are not actually a guest.? You are an intruder. Remember: ?Everything that you don?t eat is leftovers for them tomorrow, so don?t eat anything at all. You can have some water if you get it yourself. You need to be on high alert to recognize fake offers of food/gifts/favors and so on from this woman; she is likely out of her mind from sleep deprivation and doesn?t know what she?s saying, but she will still remember your greediness years later.

One of my friends left a homemade chicken casserole and fresh chocolate chip cookies at our front door and didn?t even need to come inside.? The hallmark of a truly excellent friend is one who will knock quietly, put the food on the front porch, then get in the car and drive away.

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??Bring a gift, even if you already gave a baby shower gift.?Ask Mama what she needs or check her registry for lingering purchases. Don?t get your panties in a bunch about this one; it can be something as simple as a case of pacifiers or replacement pump pieces?? things that only cost a few bucks. Nobody ever said that a gift had to be a surprise in order to be good. When in doubt, ask what diapers they use and bring those. If you buy the cheapest diapers you can find that are imported from Mexico, she?ll be dealing with scratchy leaky diapers and cursing your name at 4am.

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? Snap Away. If you?re a semi-pro photographer, bring your camera and your most flattering lens. Don?t try to sell her the portraits later. Send them for free.

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? No summer dresses in winter. Don?t bring size-inappropriate-for-the-season clothing that suits your taste and not theirs. Babies grow fast. Use your brain.

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? Don?t bring decorative kick-knacks. As much fun as you might think it is, no mother wants you to decorate her new baby nursery. Decorating the nursery is strictly relegated to mom and dad and you can keep your over-sized stuffed animals, picture frames, and inspirational quotes out of it. Nobody wants something extra to dust around when they have a new baby. Don?t make Mama waste a stamp graciously thanking you for some random thing you dug up at Tuesday Morning that she never wanted in the first place.

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??Make yourself useful.?Is your new-mother friend one of those controlling types who doesn?t want anyone helping with her housework?? Your friend needs to get over it because in about 8 months that baby is going to be mobile and her days of being in control of her surroundings are officially a thing of the past.

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? Do the dishes. If the kitchen sink is full of dishes, turn on the water, rinse them off, and start loading them up in the dishwasher. Load them smart because you know how much we hate it when the dishwasher is loaded wrong.? Don?t halfheartedly ask Mama if maybe you can help out in some way because she?s going to say no even though she means ?God, yes, please someone help me for once.?? Just do it.

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? Or the laundry. Look around and spy a pile of clean clothes that needs to be folded? Do you have two working hands?? Fold the laundry, even the underwear.

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? Be that friend.?One of my friends not only brought food and a gift, but she called from the drugstore to see if I needed anything (indeed, I did need nursing pads for those leaky boobs no one warned me about) and started putting away all of the odds and ends that belonged in the baby?s closet that I couldn?t reach because of my c-section. When she asked what she could do it wasn?t really a question as much as it was a statement and request for orders.

Another girlfriend came over with her husband for an afternoon.? He sat in a chair and rocked the baby while she cleaned my kitchen spotless, including shining up the stainless steel of the refrigerator.? What did I do?? I took a bath and washed and dried my hair for the first time in a week.? You know when your hair gets so dirty that the roots hurt?? That was my hair.? I had an entire hour to myself where I wasn?t listening for the baby to cry for the first time since becoming a mother two months prior.? When I tried to check on the baby in the living room she whispered, ?Get out of here.? He can smell your milk.?

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? But not THAT friend. I can honestly say that there were a few visitors during that time of my life who had me thinking, ?I?m being held hostage by this tiny person who just threw up in my eyes and you didn?t even bring me anything??? Don?t be that friend.? Learn from me, the reformed do-nothing baby holder.? Last summer when a friend had a new baby, I brought a small gift and lunch whenever I went to see her because I knew she felt so overwhelmed.? These days I don?t even give birthday presents without asking Mama what the little one needs, or if my gift idea is OK with her.

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If you?ve been a blatant do-nothing baby holder in the past, fear not.? Make a mental note to buy the child a special gift for their next birthday party and rest easy knowing that at some point, your day of having vomit in your eyes will come and you will find yourself wondering what the hell these baby-holding friends are doing in your house.

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Robyn divides her time between wondering where those 30 points of IQ snuck off to after the birth of her first child and silently judging parents who let their kids eat red dye #40. In her spare moments she updates her blog?therobynnest?and compulsively checks her?Facebook??for Paleo crockpot recipes.

Source: http://www.scarymommy.com/rules-for-visiting-a-new-mom/

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UN Kuwait invasion fund pays out $1.3 billion

GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. panel that settles claims for damages from victims of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait has paid out another $1.3 billion ? bringing the total so far to $40.1 billion.

The U.N. Compensation Commission did not disclose the identities of the claimants on Thursday but said the money goes toward settling two claims for damages to Kuwait's oil fields, as well as production and sales losses.

The Geneva-based commission was established by the U.N. Security Council in 1991 and is funded by a 5 percent tax on the export of Iraqi oil.

It has approved $52.4 billion in total compensation to more than 100 governments and international organizations, and makes payments every three months.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/un-kuwait-invasion-fund-pays-094150602.html

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Syrian civil war devastates farming: U.N.

ROME/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's 22-month civil war has ravaged vital infrastructure and halved the output of staple crops, the United Nations said on Wednesday, underscoring the lasting damage from which the country will take years to recover.

What began as a peaceful protest movement against President Bashar al-Assad has killed more than 60,000 people, devastated the economy and left 2.5 million people hungry.

Prospects of a negotiated peace have receded as the war becomes more overtly sectarian, making Western powers more wary of supporting the largely Sunni Muslim, and increasingly radicalized, rebellion.

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday pointed to the burning and looting of religious sites of minorities in recent months that suggested an escalation of sectarian strife.

As fighting raged throughout the country, Assad's most powerful foreign backer Russia said the war would not be resolved peacefully as long as rebels insist on his overthrow.

Detailing the damage from the longest and deadliest of the Arab uprisings, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said wheat and barley production in Syria had dropped to 2 million tonnes in 2012 from 4-4.5 million tonnes in normal years.

Agriculture is vital to the economy, accounting for roughly a fifth of gross domestic product before the war.

A U.N. assessment in Syria this month, coordinated with both Syria's government and the opposition, found the conflict was destroying infrastructure and irrigation systems and that insecurity and fuel shortages were making it harder for farmers to harvest crops.

The devastation to farming could push the government to spend more money on food imports, further straining the resources of a country that officials said was self-sufficient in wheat before the conflict.

"The mission was struck by the plight of the Syrian people whose capacity to cope is dramatically eroded by 22 months of crisis," Dominique Burgeon, director of FAO's Emergency and Rehabilitation Division, said in a statement.

"Destruction of infrastructure in all sectors is massive and it is clear that the longer the conflict lasts, the longer it will take to rehabilitate it," he said.

Power cuts and fuel shortages have become part of daily life and residents of central Damascus, which had been spared the worst fallout of the war, say basic services are breaking down.

Drivers in Damascus said there had been no petrol in the capital for two days.

A black market for fuel has developed in which traders charge roughly 20 percent more than government prices, residents said. Some also reported food shortages in the city center.

Severe shortages have also hit other parts of Syria, especially rebel-held areas subjected to daily bombardment by government artillery and warplanes.

SECTARIAN DIVISIONS

Assad and his family, who have ruled the country for more than four decades, belong to the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam. Syria is also home to Christians, Ismailis, Druze and other minorities.

New York-based Human Rights Watch pointed to a video published online in December that showed rebels waving assault rifles and cheering as a Shi'ite place of worship in the northern village of Zarzour burned in the background.

In the video, which Reuters cannot independently verify, one man announces the "destruction of the dens of the Shi'ites and Rafida", a derogatory term used to describe Shi'ites.

Rebels also clashed with Kurdish People's Defence Units in the northern border town of Ras al-Ain on Wednesday, a monitoring group said.

Fighting there has killed more than 56 people over the last week as insurgents brought in heavy weapons including tanks and mortars to attack the Kurdish militants, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

A Turkish official said three people had been wounded in the past week - one of them critically - by gunfire in the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar, just across the border from Ras al-Ain.

Ankara has repeatedly scrambled jets along the frontier and has responded in kind when shells originating in Syria have landed within its borders.

The first Patriot missile batteries being sent by NATO countries to shield Turkey from possible missile attack from Syria are expected to be in place and ready for use this weekend, a senior officer in the Western military alliance said.

RUSSIA STANDS FIRM

Russia, which has a naval base on Syria's Mediterranean coast, said on Wednesday the conflict would not be resolved peacefully as long as Assad's opponents were bent on his exit.

"Everything runs up against the opposition members' obsession with the idea of the overthrow of the Assad regime. As long as this irreconcilable position remains in force, nothing good will happen, armed action will continue, people will die," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference.

Moscow has vetoed three U.N. Security Council resolutions aimed at pressuring Assad to step down or seek a negotiated end to the conflict, and divided world powers have been unable to halt the violence.

U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said their failure had led to a catastrophic humanitarian situation in Syria.

"What we are seeing now are the consequences of the failure of the international community to unite and to resolve the political crisis after nearly two years," she told reporters at the Davos World Economic Forum.

Refugees are flooding out of Syria, straining neighboring countries' ability to cope. Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey each host more than 130,000 registered refugees.

Jordan's foreign minister told Reuters on Wednesday about 20,000 Syrian refugees had fled to Jordan in the last seven days, the fastest influx since the start of the uprising.

"We are making contacts with major donor countries to tell them the camps in Jordan are almost reaching full capacity so we need help to continue building infrastructure for further camps," Nasser Judeh said.

Sunni Muslim Gulf states have supported Assad's opponents and called for them to be armed, but the rebels complain that they have few weapons to challenge Assad's air power.

Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal said Arab countries could not give game-changing weapons.

"Most weapons capable of dealing with the air force or long range artillery are manufactured by others and sold to Arab countries with strict restrictions on third party transfers," he told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

"Saudi Arabia can't give them because it has to get permission from the United States. I assume that other countries that have such weapons face similar restrictions."

President Vladimir Putin told Lebanon's visiting President Michel Suleiman on Wednesday that Moscow could offer financial and humanitarian aid to help Lebanon cope with 200,000 refugees who have crossed into his country from Syria.

(Additional reporting by Timothy Heritage and Thomas Grove in Moscow, Jonathon Burch in Istanbul, Paul Taylor in Davos, Adrian Croft in Brussels and Oliver Holmes in Beirut; Writing by Alexander Dziadosz; Editing by Myra MacDonald)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-civil-war-devastates-farming-u-n-says-153655273.html

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NKorea warns of nuke test, more rocket launches

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2012 file image made from video, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks at a banquet for rocket scientists in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea's top governing body warned Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 that the regime will conduct its third nuclear test in defiance of U.N. punishment, and made clear that its long-range rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the United States. The National Defense Commission, headed by the country's young leader, rejected Tuesday's U.N. Security Council resolution condemning North Korea's long-range rocket launch in December as a banned missile activity and expanding sanctions against the regime. (AP Photo/KRT via AP Video, File) NORTH KOREA OUT

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2012 file image made from video, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks at a banquet for rocket scientists in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea's top governing body warned Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 that the regime will conduct its third nuclear test in defiance of U.N. punishment, and made clear that its long-range rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the United States. The National Defense Commission, headed by the country's young leader, rejected Tuesday's U.N. Security Council resolution condemning North Korea's long-range rocket launch in December as a banned missile activity and expanding sanctions against the regime. (AP Photo/KRT via AP Video, File) NORTH KOREA OUT

U.S. envoy to North Korea Glyn Davies speaks after meeting with South Korea's nuclear envoy Lim Sung-nam, unseen, at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. The North Korean military commission led by leader Kim Jong Un warned Thursday that the regime is poised to conduct a nuclear test in defiance of U.N. punishment, and made clear that its long-range rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the United States. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

U.S. envoy to North Korea Glyn Davies, right, speaks after meeting with South Korea's nuclear envoy Lim Sung-nam at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. The North Korean military commission led by leader Kim Jong Un warned Thursday that the regime is poised to conduct a nuclear test in defiance of U.N. punishment, and made clear that its long-range rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the United States. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

A banner showing starving North Korean children and a rocket is displayed on a street in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. North Korea's top military body warned Thursday that the regime is poised to conduct a nuclear test in response to U.N. punishment, and made clear that its long-range rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the United States. The writing reads " Fired North Korean rocket for whom?" (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

People watch TV showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. North Korea swiftly lashed out against the U.N. Security Council's condemnation of its December launch of a long-range rocket, saying Wednesday that it will strengthen its military defenses - including its nuclear weaponry - in response.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? North Korea's top governing body warned Thursday that the regime will conduct its third nuclear test in defiance of U.N. punishment, and made clear that its long-range rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the United States.

The National Defense Commission, headed by the country's young leader, Kim Jong Un, denounced Tuesday's U.N. Security Council resolution condemning North Korea's long-range rocket launch in December as a banned missile activity and expanding sanctions against the regime. The commission reaffirmed in its declaration that the launch was a peaceful bid to send a satellite into space, but also clearly indicated the country's rocket launches have a military purpose: to strike and attack the United States.

While experts say North Korea doesn't have the capability to hit the U.S. with its missiles, recent tests and rhetoric indicate the country is feverishly working toward that goal.

The commission pledged to keep launching satellites and rockets and to conduct a nuclear test as part of a "new phase" of combat with the United States, which it blames for leading the U.N. bid to punish Pyongyang. It said a nuclear test was part of "upcoming" action but did not say exactly when or where it would take place.

"We do not hide that a variety of satellites and long-range rockets which will be launched by the DPRK one after another and a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out by it in the upcoming all-out action, a new phase of the anti-U.S. struggle that has lasted century after century, will target against the U.S., the sworn enemy of the Korean people," the commission said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

"Settling accounts with the U.S. needs to be done with force, not with words, as it regards jungle law as the rule of its survival," the commission said.

It was a rare declaration by the powerful commission once led by late leader Kim Jong Il and now commanded by his son. The statement made clear Kim Jong Un's commitment to continue developing the country's nuclear and missile programs in defiance of the Security Council, even at risk of further international isolation.

North Korea's allusion to a "higher level" nuclear test most likely refers to a device made from highly enriched uranium, which is easier to miniaturize than the plutonium bombs it tested in 2006 and 2009, said Cheong Seong-chang, an analyst at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea. Experts say the North Koreans must conduct further tests of its atomic devices and master the technique for making them smaller before they can be mounted as nuclear warheads onto long-range missiles.

Shortly before the commission issued its declaration, U.S. envoy on North Korea Glyn Davies urged Pyongyang not to explode an atomic device.

"Whether North Korea tests or not, it's up to North Korea. We hope they don't do it. We call on them not to do it," he told reporters in Seoul after meeting with South Korean officials. "It will be a mistake and a missed opportunity if they were to do it."

Davies was in Seoul on a trip that includes stops in China and Japan for talks on how to move forward on North Korea relations.

White House spokesman Jay Carney on Thursday said North Korea's aggressive stance is unnecessary and warned against any further testing.

"North Korea's statement is needlessly provocative and a test would be a significant violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions. Further provocation would only increase Pyongyang's isolation, and its continued focus on its nuclear and missile program is doing nothing to help the North Korean people."

He said the recent U.N. resolution is a "strong message of the international community's opposition to North Korean provocations and these tightened sanctions will impede the growth of weapons of mass destruction programs in North Korea and the United States will be taking additional steps in that regard."

Carney did not elaborate on what those steps might be.

South Korea's top official on relations with the North said Pyongyang's nuclear and missile development is a "cataclysm for the Korean people," and poses a fundamental threat to regional and world peace. "The North Korean behavior is very disappointing," Unification Minister Yu Woo-ik said in a lecture in Seoul, according to his office.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, a special envoy for South Korea's President-elect Park Geun-hye warned Pyongyang against conducting a third nuclear test.

"President-elect Park makes it clear that North Korea's nuclear ambitions and further provocations against the South will not be tolerated," said special envoy Rhee In-je, speaking to The Associated Press and other selected media in Davos. "In particular, she strongly urges North Korea to refrain from further worsening the situation by conducting a third nuclear test."

Rhee said South Korea wants to leave the window open for constructive dialogue with the North and will continue offering medical and food aid to the communist state. He said Park has proposed a "Trust-building Process on the Korean Peninsula."

"It is a gradual process based on mutual trust and respect, which can begin with keeping promises," he said.

North Korea claims the right to build nuclear weapons as a defense against the United States, its Korean War foe.

The bitter three-year war ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, in 1953, and left the Korean Peninsula divided by the world's most heavily fortified demilitarized zone. The U.S. leads the U.N. Command that governs the truce and stations more than 28,000 troops in ally South Korea, a presence that North Korea cites as a key reason for its drive to build nuclear weapons.

For years, North Korea's neighbors had been negotiating with Pyongyang on providing aid in return for disarmament. North Korea walked away from those talks in 2009 and on Wednesday reiterated that disarmament talks were out of the question.

North Korea is estimated to have stored up enough weaponized plutonium for four to eight bombs, according to scientist Siegfried Hecker, who visited the North's Nyongbyon nuclear complex in 2010.

In 2009, Pyongyang declared that it would begin enriching uranium, which would give North Korea a second way to make atomic weapons.

North Korea carried out underground nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, both times just weeks after being punished with U.N. sanctions for launching long-range rockets.

In October, an unidentified spokesman at the National Defense Commission claimed that the U.S. mainland was within missile range. And at a military parade last April, North Korea showed off what appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Satellite photos taken last month at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri, in far northeast North Korea, showed continued activity that suggested a state of readiness even in winter, according to analysis by 38 North, a North Korea website affiliated with the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.

Another nuclear test would bring North Korea a step closer to being able to launch a long-range missile tipped with a nuclear warhead, said Daniel Pinkston, an analyst with the International Crisis Group.

"Their behavior indicates they want to acquire those capabilities," he said. "The ultimate goal is to have a robust nuclear deterrent."

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Associated Press writers Jean H. Lee and Sam Kim in Seoul and Matthew Pennington in Washington contributed to this report . Follow AP's Korea bureau chief at www.twitter.com/newsjean.

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Supreme Court urged to support gay marriage limits

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court was urged on Tuesday to uphold the constitutionality of two laws that define marriage as the union of a man and a woman, as it prepares to hear arguments in the historic same-sex marriage cases two months from now.

Supporters of the 2008 California prohibition on same-sex marriage known as Proposition 8 told the court that defining marriage should be left to voters rather than judges, and that the ban did not dishonor gays and lesbians.

"That same-sex relationships are not recognized as marriages does not reflect a public judgment that individuals in such relationships are 'inferior' or 'of lesser worth as a class,'" the brief said, "but simply the fact that such relationships do not implicate society's interest in responsible procreation in the same way that opposite-sex relationships do."

In a separate filing, the top three Republican members of the House of Representatives - Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy - urged the court to uphold Section 3 of a 1996 federal law, the Defense of Marriage Act, that has the effect of denying same-sex couples a variety of federal benefits that heterosexual couples receive.

"Judicially constitutionalizing the issue of same-sex marriage is unwarranted as a matter of sound social and political policy while the American people are so actively engaged in working through this issue for themselves," their brief said.

The Supreme Court will on March 26-27 hear arguments on the California and federal laws, in two of the most anticipated cases of its current term. Nine U.S. states have legalized same-sex marriage.

Opponents of both provisions are expected to file their briefs next month. The Obama administration has stopped defending Section 3.

'AGENTS OF THE PEOPLE'

In the California case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had last February voided Proposition 8 but on narrow grounds, saying the state could not take away a right to same-sex marriage that it had previously allowed.

The law was allowed to remain in effect during the appeals process, which gives the Supreme Court a chance to accept or reject a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, or perhaps issue a narrower ruling affecting only California.

In their brief, supporters of Proposition 8 also said they are legally entitled to defend the ban "as agents of the people" because state officials including Governor Jerry Brown refused.

They raised this argument after the Supreme Court asked them to explain why they had "standing" to sue. If the court finds they do not, it could leave the 9th Circuit ruling intact, which could result in same-sex marriage being legalized in the state.

The New York case, U.S. v. Windsor, seeks to invalidate Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between only a man and a woman for the purpose of federal benefits such as Social Security survivor payments and the right to file joint federal tax returns.

In October, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York struck down Section 3, joining a May 2012 ruling by a federal appeals court in Boston.

Charles Cooper, a former lawyer in the U.S. Department of Justice under President Ronald Reagan, represents Proposition 8 supporters.

Paul Clement, a solicitor general under President George W. Bush, is representing the House Republican lawmakers, whose brief identifies them as the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The two Democratic members of that group, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, do not support their position taken on Section 3.

Equality is also a theme of two other major Supreme Court cases this term: a challenge to affirmative action in admissions at the University of Texas, and whether a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act should stay on the books.

The same-sex marriage cases are Hollingsworth v. Perry, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 12-144; and U.S. v. Windsor, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 12-307.

(Editing by Howard Goller and Lisa Shumaker)

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Astronaut snaps beautiful photo of 'night-shining clouds'

Even when night blankets the land, some clouds high in the atmosphere may still glow, as seen in this photograph taken by a crewmember aboard the International Space Station on Jan. 5, looking down over French Polynesia in the South Pacific.?

Known as polar mesospheric or noctilucent clouds, these formations have been spotted from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres on ground, in airplanes and on spacecraft, according to the NASA Earth Observatory.

The clouds, also called "night-shining" clouds, form about 47 to 53 miles (76 to 85 kilometers) above the Earth's surface, according to the Earth Observatory. They form near the boundary between two layers of the atmosphere called the mesosphere and the thermosphere, in a region called the mesopause.

The combination of low temperatures at this height and the cloud's position relative to the sun explains the glowing. At these altitudes, temperatures can drop below minus 200 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 130 degrees Celsius). Any water present in the atmosphere freezes into ice crystals. These sky-high crystals may then be illuminated by the sun, which has set from the point of view of people on the ground but can still backlight the clouds, the Earth Observatory reports.

The clouds are sensitive to changes in the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, as well as high-altitude temperatures. They may also be getting brighter as a result of climate change, according to a recent study, which suggests that the upper atmosphere is more humid, resulting in more and brighter clouds.

Such clouds are most often seen in the far northern and southern latitudes (above 50 degrees) in the summer when, counter-intuitively, the mesosphere is coldest.

The orange band below the clouds in the astronaut's photo is the atmospheric layer known as the stratosphere, according to the Earth Observatory. Below the stratosphere is the troposphere, the layer of atmosphere nearest the ground, in which the bulk of Earth's weather occurs.

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No bombshells expected from Clinton in Benghazi testimony

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discusses the Algerian hostage situation at the State Department Jan. 18, 2013.??No one expects any bombshell revelations about Benghazi when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies in Congress on Wednesday about the Sept. 11, 2012, attack that claimed the lives of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens. But Republicans are sure to link that terrorist strike to bloody conflicts across North Africa and in Syria to hammer President Barack Obama?s handling of the war on terrorism.

?They were spiking the ball on al-Qaida throughout the course of this entire campaign,? Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, slated to become his party?s senior member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Fox News on Tuesday.

Recent events?including a deadly hostage crisis in Algeria and France?s military intervention in Mali to battle al-Qaida-linked Islamist fighters there?raise the ?big question of how this administration is dealing with extremists and militants,? Corker said.

(Obama?s inaugural address on Monday went long on priorities like advancing gay rights, battling climate change and overhauling the nation?s immigration laws. He made no mention of terrorism and did not name al-Qaida. But he frequently contended on the campaign trail that Osama bin Laden?s organization had been ?decimated? and was ?on the run.? Aides say ?core? al-Qaida has suffered heavy losses and that Obama?s aggressive expansion of America?s drone war in places like Yemen shows he?s mindful of the rise of dangerous offshoots.)

Clinton, in one of her final acts as America?s top diplomat, will go before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at 9 a.m. and the House Foreign Affairs Committee at 2 p.m.

She had been expected to testify in December, but suffered a concussion in a fall at her home while recovering from a stomach bug, then needed treatment for a blood clot near her brain. She had taken questions from lawmakers on the issue once before, but Republicans complained that she had not shared much information.

?I think she?s been forthcoming, I do,? Corker said. ?I just don?t think it has been extensive up until this time. Because of the injury she sustained from a fall at her home, we?ve only had undersecretaries there.?

The senator added, ?I really don?t expect any bombshells? on Wednesday. Still, he said, ?this is the beginning, really? of a process that should see a ?top-to-bottom review? of the State Department?s process of handling security concerns at its overseas posts.

?It?s almost full of sclerosis and unable to really attend to the issues of security and make decisions that need to be made in this regard," Corker said.

Clinton will appear one day before Democratic Sen. John Kerry goes before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he used to chair for a confirmation hearing to succeed her as secretary of state. Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, Kerry?s successor, will lead both hearings.

Republican Sen. John McCain, who has frequently assailed the administration over the attack on the consulate in Benghazi and who recently joined the committee, will join in the questioning of Clinton and Kerry. Earlier this month, McCain released a list of questions that he planned to ask regarding Benghazi.

The Sept. 11 attack raised new questions about Obama?s handling of the ?Arab Spring? uprisings that toppled authoritarian regimes in places like Egypt and Libya. It also triggered a months-long battle over how the administration handled repeated requests from Stevens for more security and then explained the tragedy to the American public.

Most notably, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration to be Clinton?s successor in the face of Republican opposition. Rice went on major Sunday news shows one week after the attack in Benghazi and, relying on administration-approved talking points, described it as emerging from a protest against an Internet video that ridicules Islam. There was no such demonstration.

Some of the anger has fizzled, sapped by contentious congressional hearings and a scathing report commissioned by Clinton that faulted the State Department for its handling of repeated requests from Stevens for more security. That report also refuted media reports that the administration chose not to send in troops who might have been able to save Stevens and his colleagues. (Hillary Clinton herself took at least symbolic responsibility in October.)

But Clinton is sure to face tough questions about the security failures in Benghazi, notably in the face of warnings from Stevens and others that Islamists were increasingly active in Libya. She will also likely be asked about the administration's changing public explanation of what happened.

?It is important to learn all we can about what happened in Benghazi because at the end of the day, it could happen again. After all, al-Qaida and associated groups plan to attack over and over again, as we saw most recently in Algeria," House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., said last week.

"My intention is for this hearing to focus on why this attack was not better anticipated, what leadership failures at the State Department existed, and what management deficiencies need to be corrected in order to better secure our diplomatic facilities abroad and protect our diplomats serving in them," Royce said.

Obama initially connected the attack with the Sept. 11, 2001, strikes rhetorically as "acts of terror," but the administration went on to link it to popular Muslim anger over an Internet video ridiculing Islam. Republicans accused the administration of misleading the public by playing down intelligence that it was a terrorist attack. The White House flatly denies deliberately misleading the public.

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We live only to Protect

Six Elements are called to Protect 'The Immortal one' from the Darkness.

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Polka

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May I reserve the Immortal? :)

~^.'.^~Beautiful people come in different sizes~^.'.^~

Kura Ravengade

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yeah. you sure can :)

reserve for this is 24 hourse , is that ok?

Polka

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Can I reserve Air or Ice? You choose, I can't. XD

ETA: I lied, can I have Ice and Light? :D

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"She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite."

bandgeek

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Polka: yes that's okay. Ad do you prefer anime or real pictures for the FC :)

Kura Ravengade

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Do you mind me having air?

I have a thousand years of experience, went through a thousand years of battles, and have a thousand years of wisdom. What makes you think you'd out-smart me?

WHERE IS THE END OF THE WORLD NOW, HUH APOCOLYPSE THEORISTS?! Yeah, I said it. Hate me. I dare you! I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU- -Sorry, but we are experiencing technical dificulties-

Asher MstrImmortalis

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Can i reserve water?

It's official, my reign of terror is coming to an end. Vega, rest in peace, because I will be doing the same...

deathrisesagain

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Kura- Which ever you prefer

BandGeek- can you choose one and I shall reserve it

Asher- you can have air :)

Death- you can have water

again it's a 24 hour reserve :) xxx

Polka

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One question, what's your age range for the elementalists?

deathrisesagain

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I don't mind, its born into the same family as the previous elementals

so whichever age you see fit :)

I'm going to do younger for my character

Polka

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Eep, never mind, I can't choose. Good luck.

bandgeek

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Hmm. Maybe I should go for Ice. This seemed nice, considering the fact that this is another element role-play. Does this have any more genre we should look out for that you didn't tagged?

code6435

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I will reserve ice for you

And a bit of action, maybe romance (though I'm not overly keen)
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Polka

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Ok, so i just thought of another question. What are the weapon limits? Like Medeval style, modern, or futuristic? I'm asking for those who may have a character that rather use weapons then their abilities.

deathrisesagain

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Well this is set in modern day.... I haven't created a roleplay for such a long time I'm a bit rusty so sorry you have to keep asking questions

SO modern weapons :)

Polka

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It's ok Polka, it's hard for the old folks like you and i to create a rp and have everything in it. Being around for so long, you tend to forget little things like this. It's kool Polka.
Would throwing knives count as modern?

deathrisesagain

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Yeah I don't see why not :)

By the way Death, you going for anime or real pic for you character ? that is something else I forgot to specify

Polka

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Probably real, i tend to stay away from anime, because i could never tell if they are female or male, or their ages and such.

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