Libya church blast kills two Egyptians: embassy

AFP - An explosion rocked a Christian Coptic church near the western Libyan city of Misrata on Sunday, killing two people and wounding two others, all of them Egyptians, an Egyptian diplomat told AFP.

"Two Egyptians were killed and two were wounded," said the diplomat at the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli who declined to be named.

"The church explosion was in the town of Dafniya in Misrata (province). The consul went directly to Misrata to find out the details. We still don't have clear information," the diplomat said.

Earlier, a security official said one Egyptian was killed and three others were wounded in the blast at a Coptic church. The Egyptian diplomat said that one of those hurt in the explosion died later at the hospital.

Residents said the explosion took place in the early afternoon at a Coptic church in Dafniya, a Mediterranean town 30 kilometres (18.5 miles) west of Misrata, where brigades made up of former rebels hold a major checkpoint.

Source: http://www.france24.com/en/20121230-libya-church-blast-kills-two-egyptians-embassy

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Edmonton Real Estate Market Weekly Update - Dec. 28/12

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Here is our update on the Edmonton real estate market. (Previous week?s numbers are in brackets). For the past 7 days:

New listings: 66 (149, 190, 239)
# Sales: 87 (144, 146, 164)
Ratio: 132% (97%, 77%, 69%)
# Price changes: 23 (69, 64, 114)
# Expired/Off Market Listings: 141 (273, 143, 390)
Net loss/gain in listings this week: -162 (-268, -99, -315)
Active single family home listings: 1836 (1908, 2043, 2104)
Active condo listings: 1301 (1338, 1432,1438)
Homes 4-week running average: $401k ($400k, $392k, $390k)

Condos 4-week running average: $224k ($226k, $230k, $228k)The last weekly update of the year... If we based our weekly report on our office productivity I'd telling you the market is on fire, but the numbers show the market looks just as it should for the last week of the year. The only unusual stat is the rising average price of single family homes. The?REALTORS? Association of Edmonton is reporting 684 sales so far this month for the greater Edmonton Area, which should put us around 800 for the month (slightly below average). We'll have our monthly report on Tuesday. Best wishes for a happy new year filled with health, happiness, and spectacular success!

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About Sara MacLennan

Sara MacLennan is the Director of Marketing at Liv Real Estate and a licensed Real Estate Associate. The bulk of Sara?s experience and wealth of expertise lies in on-line technology and marketing both for agents and consumers. Sara is the former National Director for Interactive Marketing for Coldwell Banker Canada where she was responsible for an extensive training program traveling to offices across the country training agents and brokers on marketing and technology. Find Sara on Twitter @edmontonblogger.

Source: http://edmontonrealestateblog.com/2012/12/edmonton-real-estate-market-weekly-update-dec-2812.html

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America Became Real Estate Value Leader in 2012 - TheNicheReport

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Considering that our 2008 housing crash is held as a major lynchpin for the worldwide recession, it would seem odd to hold up our housing market as exceptionally healthy. However, it appears that a strengthening of various market foundations have turned our real estate into one of the world?s most promising property investments.

As I?d mentioned in a previous post, the burgeoning health of the American property market has not gone unnoticed by foreign financiers. In fact, Sweden?s Sovereign Wealth Fund publicly announced an upcoming purchase of $11 billion in American property holdings. This would be the investing body?s first purchase of foreign real estate, and represents an unambiguous endorsement of the growth value of American property holdings. Yngve Slyngstad, Norges Bank Investment Management chief economic officer affirmed national sentiment, stating directly, ?The U.S. is the next real estate market to invest in.?

However, despite the bullish actions of external investors, much of the strength in the American housing market has been motivated by internal factors. This year?s Q3 reports from both major lending bodies as well as financial analysts painted a newly positive picture of the housing market. The rate of mortgage defaults has dropped appreciably, and this has occurred in tandem with a rise in home closes. Ultimately, we?ve seemed to clear the fence in terms of the default wave, and many Americans who had been hesitant to seek new purchases in the post-recession are unfreezing their assets and moving en masse to settle on homes.

To return to a global perspective, new reports are emerging which point to a distinctly different outlook for real estate investing across the western world as a whole. According to a new release from Bloomberg, economic growth outlook across the EU appears to be stagnating. The U.K. in particular seems caught in a stumble, as retail and consumer spending dipped last month, an inverse trajectory from that observed in the United States. The swift return in American consumer confidence seems motivated largely by the return of the housing market. While our export sales and new business investment remained relatively stable throughout even the immediate post-crash period, the newfound strength in the housing market is co-reinforcing business development and consumer spending.

The positive macroeconomic trends in our housing market are working in dual effort with broader market gains, and are now?marshaling?consumer confidence in the domestic market. These differing market silos are cross-pollinating our market recovery, and seem to be the reason why the United States housing market has become a comparative leader. As the previously mentioned Bloomberg report outlines, the growth in the U.S. economy outstripped Commerce Department projections, growing 3.1% annually above the predicted 2.7%. The crucial housing market health metrics have all demonstrated growth this year, with turnover, home starts, and median home prices rising on a national scale.

Other economic power players have not reported similarly positive returns in FY2012. Japan continues to experience problematic rates of inflation, which has consequentially extended their national recession. However, America?s climbing volume of new building permits as well as a surge in home appliance and furniture sales indicate that momentum is maintaining across various segments of our housing market. Whether or not these indicators translate into persistent growth in FY2013 ultimately remains to be seen.

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Harrison Stowe is a writer for NVR Inc., a prime developer of?new condos in Maryland. Addressing a range of real estate topics including investment, mortgages, and new construction, Stowe combines finance knowledge with additional experience working with Ryan Homes in the current real estate market.

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Best videos of 2012: Sea lice reduce pig to bones

Joanna Carver, reporter

This underwater pig feast comes in at number 5 in our best videos of 2012 countdown.

Who knew sea lice were so industrious? This time-lapse shows how they quickly devour a dead pig in an experiment probing how bodies decompose underwater. After four days, the carcass is reduced to bones before shrimp sneak in to dine on the cartilage.

The cage prevents large predators like sharks from tucking in. But it doesn't prevent an octopus from trying to access the pig's remains at the end of the clip.

Gail Anderson of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, and colleagues are studying the process to see how seasonal changes and depth can affect decomposition. To find out more about the research, check out the original article, "Sea lice mob devours pig from inside out".

If you enjoyed this post, watch an elephant carcass ravaged by wild animals or a dead pig mimic how smokers decay.

Source: http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/26f8f7a8/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Cblogs0Cnstv0C20A120C120Cbest0Evideos0Eof0E20A120Esea0Elice0Efeast0Eon0Epig0Bhtml0Dcmpid0FRSS0QNSNS0Q20A120EGLOBAL0Qonline0Enews/story01.htm

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At General Electric, pro bono work required for its ... - GE Careers Blog

Bobby Simpson, senior counsel, labor and employment law for GE Home and Business Solutions, is shown in the Monogram Experience Center at GE. He volunteers as general counsel for the University of Louisville?s Bingham Child Guidance Clinic.

Read more at Business First.

Source: http://careers.geblogs.com/at-general-electric-pro-bono-work-required-for-its-attorneys/

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Jet lag: Canada?s toughest opponent at WJHC?

THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY -- The puck drop for Canada's first three games at the world junior hockey championship in Russia is 4:30 a.m. ET.

Host city Ufa is 10 to 14 hours ahead of the Canadian players' body clocks, depending on what part of the country they're from. A Canadian junior team hasn't travelled this far, or crossed this many times zones, since the 2001 tournament in Moscow. Ufa is another 1,160 kilometres and two time zones to the southeast.

Jet lag and travel fatigue will be major challenges, barriers as significant on the road to gold as the Russians, Swedes and Americans.

Hockey Canada enlisted the expertise of Calgary sleep specialist Dr. Charles Samuels to draw up a plan to combat jet lag and sleep deprivation.

"I've met with sleep doctors, sports psychologists, neuropsychologists," Canadian head coach Steve Spott said. "I've met with just about every doctor possible."

Anyone who flies across time zones has experienced the sleep disturbances, fatigue, impaired concentration and digestive problems that occur until the body adapts to the new environment.

The accepted rule is it takes a day for every hour of time difference to adapt. Samuels aims to accelerate the adjustment by a few days.

Travel fatigue gets less attention than jet lag, he says, but for athletes who travel to far-flung places a lot, it can be damaging to performance. The cumulative effects of extensive travel fatigue the body and mind. Even though the Canadian team is travelling to Ufa once, the sheer distance and time spent on planes can catch up with them later.

Samuels drew up Canada's plan from a template he created for the Vancouver Canucks in their 2011 Stanley Cup final against the Boston Bruins.

"That's an extreme example because you're coast to coast, Boston to Vancouver," Samuels said. "We take that experience and translate it to this, which is even more extreme.

"It's basically a survival situation if you look at the frequency of games, the time of the games and then the fact there's virtually no time to recover before the finals."

The Canadian team is currently in pre-competition training in Finland, which is a four-hour time difference from Ufa. The players were on a strict schedule from the moment the wheels went up on their flight from Calgary on Saturday.

One of the worst things a team can do, says Samuels, is get on the plane exhausted. But it was inevitable the players would feel some fatigue after a stressful selection camp.

"We really talked about on the flight, eye shades, ear plugs, noise cancellation headphones, all the pillows and comfort you need and the plane is for rest. No screwing around," Samuels said. "You're not watching movies, you're not playing cards, you're not doing anything. You're either sleeping or your eyes are closed and you are resting."

Taking synthetic melatonin supplements, scheduled exposure to light and dark, and shifting meal times towards the destination are all elements of the Canadian team's plan.

If it's time for light exposure and there isn't any, the team has hand-held lights called Litebooks with them.

The company's website cites NASA research that shows scheduled exposure to a specific type of light, as well as timed avoidance of light, can speed the shifting of the body clock.

"We're using these Litebooks because there's limited light in Ufa and in Helsinki," explained Scott Salmond, senior director of hockey operations. "We're planning on one Litebook per three players and players have to spend a set amount of time around that light."

"When it is light outside, we plan on getting outside and we're going to go for walk. Our schedule in Finland is based very much on what our schedule will be like in Ufa and we're trying to change our clocks, even though we're in Helsinki and we're four hours different," Salmond continued.

"We've got a day-by-day plan on how we deal with jet lag and that includes what kind of activities we're doing and what times of the day we're going to meet and what time we're actually scheduling rest for players."

Canada plays the host Finns in an exhibition game Thursday and another against Sweden on Saturday before travelling to Ufa the following day. Their first game is Dec. 26 versus Germany.

Canada's opening three games are at 3:30 p.m., local time, which means no pre-game skate in the morning. Samuels is pleased about that because he sees those skates as simply draining players of precious energy they'll need later in the tournament.

"I'm respectful of the coaches," he said. "But I tell them 'Don't be pushing these guys because there's no upside.' There are very fit athletes and the most important thing is not draining them. Overtraining them is way worse than undertraining them."

Compact tournaments like the world juniors are an emotional roller-coaster as a country's fortunes can change on one goal. The players' brains will be in overdrive during games and they'll feel wired and unable to sleep when they return to the hotel.

"The bottom line is every effort goes into reducing cumulative sleep debt," Samuels said. "By the time they get to the finals, they've accumulated a lot of sleep debt."

Thirteen players on Canada's team travelled to Yaroslavl, which is 250 kilometres northeast of Moscow, for a pair of games against the Russians in August.

"It's definitely tough," forward Mark Scheifele said. "It's a big transition with the time change and being in a different country, there's definitely a little bit of culture shock.

"I found the biggest thing was the sleep patterns. You're changing 10 or 11 hours. It's a big time change, but the trainers and the doctors are helping out as much as possible. By the end of our time in Russia, I was sleeping great."

Source: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/juniors/2012/12/18/jet_lag_canada_world_juniors_wjhc/?utm_source=Home%20Lineup%20RSS-Images&utm_medium=feed&utm_content=Jet%20lag:%20Canada%E2%80%99s%20toughest%20opponent%20at%20WJHC?

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Abnormals, A Love Story

You're a supernatural and you've been invited to spend a week in the countryside, so you can learn about other non-humans for college credits... Something isn't quite right about that creepy mansion.

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