Menard to fly Wis. workers in to staff ND store

Larry Boutilier, hardware manager, who has been with the Minot, N.D. Menards since 1996, looks over paperwork at the storey in Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The home improvement retailer says it will hire workers from its home base in Wisconsin and fly them to North Dakota to staff a store in Minot, which is near the state's booming oil patch and has more jobs than takers. (AP Photo/The Minot Daily News, Jesse D. Watson)

Larry Boutilier, hardware manager, who has been with the Minot, N.D. Menards since 1996, looks over paperwork at the storey in Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The home improvement retailer says it will hire workers from its home base in Wisconsin and fly them to North Dakota to staff a store in Minot, which is near the state's booming oil patch and has more jobs than takers. (AP Photo/The Minot Daily News, Jesse D. Watson)

Cabinet and appliance manager Brent Fisher, left, who has been with Menards in Minot since 1996, and general manager Phil Graer, right, talk about the advantages of living in the area, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. Menard Inc. says it will hire workers from its home base in Wisconsin and fly them to North Dakota to staff the store in Minot, which is near the state's booming oil patch and has more jobs than takers. (AP Photo/The Minot Daily News, Jesse D. Watson)

Esther Bull, who previously worked at the Richfield, Minn. Menards store, works at the company's Minot, N.D. location Thurdsay, Nov. 29, 2012. The home improvement retailer says it will hire workers from its home base in Wisconsin and fly them to North Dakota to staff a store in Minot, which is near the state's booming oil patch and has more jobs than takers. (AP Photo/The Minot Daily News, Jesse D. Watson)

Juan Vadell, also known as JP, works in the building materials section at the Menards in Minot, N.D. Thurdsay, Nov. 29, 2012. The home improvement retailer says it will hire workers from its home base in Wisconsin and fly them to North Dakota to staff a store in Minot, which is near the state's booming oil patch and has more jobs than takers. (AP Photo/The Minot Daily News, Jesse D. Watson)

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ? Home improvement retailer Menard Inc. says it will hire workers from its home base in Wisconsin and fly them to North Dakota to staff a store in Minot, which is near the state's booming oil patch and has more jobs than takers.

The company said in a statement that it plans to hire 50 workers in Eau Claire, Wis., where it has its headquarters, and fly them weekly to Minot, which is also in the middle of an unprecedented building boom as it recovers from record flooding last year.

Menard, which has more than 200 stores in the Upper Midwest, said this would be the first time it has ferried in workers by airplane, but it believes jetting in employees for weeklong stints and housing them in hotels "is going to be a permanent solution for as far as we can see."

Minot is North Dakota's fourth-largest city and had been growing rapidly even before the flooding that swamped some 4,100 homes and displaced thousands of residents. Its population grew from 36,500 in 2000 to about 41,000 in 2010, U.S. Census data show. City officials say the present population is nearing 50,000.

That means there's strong demand for building materials. Minot store manager Phil Graef said business is the busiest in the five years he's headed the store, the only big-box building supply retailer in town.

"We were starting to stay even with the oil boom, and then the flood happened," Graef said. "Now, we're trying to get ahead of both of those."

Finding workers to keep up has been tough, he said.

"Everybody has a 'now-hiring' sign in their window," Graef said.

Businesses struggle to attract workers throughout North Dakota, which has some 22,000 more jobs than takers and the lowest unemployment rate in the nation, at 2.4 percent, Job Service North Dakota data show. The unemployment rate in Minot is 2.3 percent.

"It's going fast and furious here," Minot Mayor Curt Zimbelman said. "As it is, there is not a big enough labor force around here, and as it gets colder there is less of one."

The unemployment rate in Eau Claire is 6.3 percent, lower than the national rate of 7.9 percent in October. Mike Schatz, the city's economic development director, said its economy strong and there are job opportunities in the town of about 65,000.

"It's not like people can't find work here ? there are plenty of expansions going on," Schatz said.

But Menard spokesman Jeff Abbott said there was good interest when the company held a job fair in Eau Claire earlier this month to hire workers for its Minot store. Menard intends to train the workers at Wisconsin stores and send them to Minot "as soon as possible," he said.

Menard has offered a starting wage of $13 an hour at the Minot store, well above the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, which prevails Wisconsin. It's also the minimum wage in North Dakota, but most jobs there pay more. A listing for a pizza delivery driver in Minot was advertised Thursday at $15 to $20 per hour, plus a $250 signing bonus.

Competition for the Menard jobs has been tough in Wisconsin.

Pam Weaver, of Eau Claire, said her husband, Gary, had his heart set on one of the positions with Menard in Minot but was told Thursday that he wouldn't be hired. No reason was given, she said.

"It's frustrating," Pam Weaver said. "He seemed disappointed."

Gary Weaver, who was laid off from his job as a telemarketer several weeks ago, was back at the unemployment office Thursday filling out job applications, said wife, a 55-year-old claims auditor for a health insurance company.

"Who would have thought that we'd be in our 50s and struggling?" Pam Weaver said. "We're not the only ones. We've had three different friends who have lost businesses in town in the last five years."

Zimbelman, the Minot mayor, and Menards store manager Graef said they hope some Wisconsin workers eventually decide to make Minot their permanent home instead of commuting more than 500 miles by air to get there.

But Eau Claire's Schatz has another idea.

"We would hope just the opposite," Schatz said. "We want them to bring that North Dakota money back to Eau Claire."

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Risks on the Rise: Making a Case for IT Disaster Recovery ...

According to the Forrester/Disaster Recovery Journal Business Continuity Preparedness Survey from 2011 Q4, the top increasing risks cited by a survey of decision-makers or influencers when it comes to IT planning and purchasing for business continuity were as follows:

(48%) ? Increased reliance on technology
(37%) ? Business complexity of our organization
(36%) ? Increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters
(33%) ? Increased reliance on third-parties (i.e., outsourcing, suppliers, etc.)
(26%) ? Increased regulatory requirements
(25%) ? Increased threat of cyber attacks

An increased reliance on technology can be seen from the retail industry that must adapt to include digital transactions to the healthcare industry that relies on electronic patient data entry, information exchange, processing, etc., demarcating the shift from paper records to electronic health record systems (EHRs). [Read more about compliance regulations for each industry in our HIPAA Compliant Hosting and PCI Compliant Hosting white papers].

Critical applications are the lifeline of companies these days; emphasizing the importance of uptime and availability of hosting solutions as well as IT disaster recovery plans that can replicate systems and data when needed (IT disaster recovery plans are a subset of business continuity plans).

Third-parties can introduce more complexity into an organization?s business processes and workflow. They can also introduce potential new or increased risks, depending on the partner?s security practices and general security awareness. Check for all aspects of their administrative security controls, including security training, up-to-date audit reports, documented policies and contractual obligations.

Subsequent drivers of increased risk are seen below, including the geographic distribution of the organization and financial, political and social instability.

Drivers of Increased Risk

The survey asked respondents how many times in the last five years they had to invoke a business continuity plan ? while 39 percent said never, 18 percent said they had to at least once, and 15 percent said twice. Twelve percent had to invoke a business continuity plan greater than five times in the last five years.

Natural disasters and extreme weather (winter storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc.) were the cause of 55 percent of invocations, and floods accounted for 28 percent. As was seen in the recent Hurricane Sandy disaster, it is ideal to have an IT disaster recovery/business continuity plan in place that is regularly tested to avoid major data loss, or extensive downtime. While the extent of natural disasters cannot always be anticipated, having a plan in place can help expedite recovery. If seeking a managed hosting partner or an IT disaster recovery production site, choosing a facility in a low-risk geographical location can help ensure data and application availability. Find out why the Midwest and Michigan are great places for safe and secure data centers.

Power outages account for 49 percent of business continuity plan invocations. If you?re outsourcing to a data center operator, research their high availability server hosting capabilities. With a high availability hosting infrastructure, you should have:

• Power from separate utility providers
• Multiple Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
• N+1 (fully redundant) cooling, generators and batteries
• Remote offsite backup

Multiple Internet Service providers (ISPs) allows for automatic network failover between providers and network circuits should an anomaly occur. Dual routers and switches also ensure your network is always connected. If power does go out, your data center should be equipped with backup power, including dual generators should one fail.

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Dual UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) battery backup systems can provide emergency power when the input power source fails. Find out more about specific data center features that can eliminate the risk of a power outage. IT failure accounts for 36 percent of invocations. While not always avoidable, initial strategic design and ongoing maintenance of redundant networks can help protect against failure.

Causes of IT Disaster

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Fruit fly studies guide investigators to misregulated mechanism in human cancers

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Changes in how DNA interacts with histones?the proteins that package DNA?regulate many fundamental cell activities from stem cells maturing into a specific body cell type or blood cells becoming leukemic. These interactions are governed by a biochemical tug of war between repressors and activators, which chemically modify histones signaling them to clamp down tighter on DNA or move aside and allow a gene to be expressed.

In the November 19, 2012, online edition of the journal Genes & Development, researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research report findings that may unveil the role of two human genes?MLL3 and MLL4?that are frequently mutated in certain cancers. In addition to its disease implications, the Stowers study exemplifies how the analysis of model organisms like yeast and fruit flies can illuminate human molecular biology.

"We know that fundamental regulatory machineries are highly conserved from yeast to Drosophila to humans," says Stowers Investigator and the study's senior author, Ali Shilatifard, Ph.D., whose lab website describes projects in yeast, fruit flies, and mammalian species. "We use the awesome power of yeast and Drosophila genetics and biochemistry to define the molecular properties of these fundamentally important factors, and then test their function in human cells. In this study, these genes turned out to be frequently mutated in several different types of cancers."

Over a decade ago, studies conducted by Shilatifard's laboratory identified an assembly of proteins known as Set1/COMPASS that biochemically modifies Histone 3 (H3) by planting methyl groups at a very precise location on the histone?namely lysine 4 (K4)?within chromosomes. H3K4 can be mono-, di-, or trimethylated by Set1/COMPASS. H3K4 trimethylation by Set1/COMPASS has now become the hallmark of actively transcribed genes from yeast to human. H3K4 can also be monomethylated, and this modification seems to be specific to enhancers, which are DNA elements that regulate gene expression in a tissue specific manner.

"After we discovered yeast COMPASS, we found that human cells have the same machinery," says Shilatifard. "But rather than one COMPASS methylase, human cells bear six. The question became, why are there six COMPASS family members in human cells?" However, it has not been clear which COMPASS family member functions as monomethylase on enhancers.

The first clue came from Shilatifard's 2011 Molecular and Cellular Biology study reporting that cells from the fruit fly Drosophila contained three COMPASS family members. In the new study, the group, led by postdoctoral fellow Hans-Martin Herz, Ph.D., unveiled the true fly "monomethylator" by blocking the expression of the components of each of the three candidates and imaging Drosophila tissues to assess methylation of H3K4. Attenuating the fly COMPASS-related complex called Trr (for Trithorax-related) caused genome-wide decreases in H3K4 monomethylation, while disabling the other two candidates did not.

To further the case, Herz collaborated with bioinformatician Alexander Garruss to examine where Trr "sits" genome-wide on fly genes and discovered that it associated with DNA regions called enhancer, the activation zones often flanking a target gene. Enhancers are required to switch genes on, a process Shilatifard likens to how an airline pilot commands his control panel by turning on and off switches to get the plane to move forward and gather enough speed to take off. "We found that Trr needs to move to an enhancer for it to become active," says Herz. "That suggests that Trr's presence orchestrates the transition from inactive to active enhancers."

Two mammalian COMPASS-like complexes structurally resemble Trr, which include proteins called MLL3 and MLL4. Focusing on MLL3, the group cultured mouse embryonic cells lacking MLL3 and undertook a global histone methylation analysis to observe where changes in methylation patterns occurred. They found that H3K4 monomethylation was reduced in enhancer regions.

"MLL3 and MLL4 are mutated in numerous cancers," says Shilatifard. "Researchers have found that many lymphomas have mutations in MLL3 and MLL4."

Herz agrees, noting that mutations in MLL3 and MLL4 are seen in human colorectal cancer, medulloblastoma, breast tumors, and leukemia. "This suggests that activation and deactivation of enhancers could play an important role in cancer pathogenesis," he says. "Understanding which proteins carry out this function or how they control enhancer activity could help us to understand how genes that suppress tumor suppressor genes are deactivated in various cancers."

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Stowers Institute for Medical Research: http://www.stowers-institute.org

Thanks to Stowers Institute for Medical Research for this article.

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What To Bring On Your Next Camping Trip? | Travel and Leisure Blog

Prior to going on your next outdoor trip you will have to make sure you have got all the most important camping gear to help make the event a joyful one. Camping is generally a joyful experience and something which can be really enjoyed by people of all ages. The reminiscences from camping out trips and also the family bonding experience are priceless.

Whether you?re venturing out into the wilderness or planning to put a tent up in a licensed camp ground, selecting the best equipment ought to help to make sure you?re able to addressing any eventuality that could arise.

You have the choice of picking a one man, two man, three man, or perhaps bigger tent. Take into consideration the way the weather will be more often than not when you?re camping and select a tent which is appropriate.

Never ever rush into selecting a sleeping bag. It ought to provide ample room for any comfy sleep in addition to avoiding the cold. Ensure that if you?re planning summer only expeditions you don?t select a sleeping bag which is created for arctic conditions.

However, you may like the thought of cooking the food by using an open fire it is generally much simpler and a lot safer in case you carry a stove on your camping trips. The particular size will depend upon the amount of people you?ll be serving.

An initial aid kit ought to always be regarded as essential. Consider whether or not to buy a comprehensive first-aid box from a camping store or perhaps put together your own personal kit.

It is usually frustrating to reach your campground simply to realise you?ve forgotten to bring a flashlight. It?s amazing how dark it could become on a night in which there is no moon.

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10 of the most simple skincare ways | Health and Fitness Tips ...

Everyday life can also let us more and more beautiful, the easiest method of skin care! Let us start from skin care.

1, Mashed banana, add milk, applied to the face. Wash after 20 minutes, you can make your skin smooth and delicate.

2, Stir the honey and egg white painted face can make skin smooth and reduce wrinkles.

3, Turmeric powder and milk mixture coated on the face to remove sunburn and reduce the hair on his face.

4, Cereal, cheese and tomato juice Stir painted face, 20 minutes and then cold water wash to help restore sun-darkened skin, the skin shiny.

5, Potato chips attached to the face can reduce the color of freckles and scars.

6, Cucumber juice is great Lifting of water. The cucumber sauce evenly coated on the face can tighten pores. After 15 minutes, washed with water.

7, Lime juice can also help restore the skin tan. Lime juice is a natural bleach, but to pay attention to the role of citrus juice photosensitive after use to avoid the sun, or the white beauties to become the Black Beauty!

8, Honey can make the skin smooth and delicate shiny, and reduce wrinkles.

9, Citrus fruit juices are a good choice to deal with oily skin.

10, Ice friction with the skin can tighten pores and promote blood circulation.

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Nuclear One-Two Punch Could Knock Out Dangerous Asteroid

Destroying a dangerous asteroid with a nuclear bomb is a well-worn trope of science fiction, but it could become reality soon enough.

Scientists are developing a mission concept that would blow apart an Earth-threatening asteroid with a nuclear explosion, just like Bruce Willis and his oilmen-turned-astronaut crew did in the 1998 film "Armageddon."

But unlike in the movie, the spacecraft under development ? known as the Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle, or HAIV ? would be unmanned. It would hit the space rock twice in quick succession, with the non-nuclear first blow blasting out a crater for the nuclear bomb to explode inside, thus magnifying its asteroid-shattering power.

"Using our proposed concept, we do have a practically viable solution ? a cost-effective, economically viable, technically feasible solution," study leader Bong Wie, of Iowa State University, said Wednesday (Nov. 14) at the 2012 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) meeting in Virginia. [5 Reasons to Care About Asteroids]

When, not if

Earth has been pummeled by asteroids?throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, and some of the strikes have been catastrophic. For example, a 6-mile-wide (10 kilometers) space rock slammed into the planet 65 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs.

Earth is bound to be hit again, and relatively soon. Asteroids big enough to cause serious damage today ? not necessarily the extinction of humans, but major disruptions to the global economy ? have hit the planet on average every 200 to 300 years, researchers say.

So humanity needs to have a plan in hand to deal with the next threatening asteroid, many scientists stress.

That plan should include deflection strategies, they say.?Given a few decades of lead time, a threatening space rock could be nudged off course ? perhaps by employing a tag-along "gravity tractor" probe, or even by painting the asteroid white?and letting sunlight give it a push.

But humanity also needs to be prepared for an asteroid that pops up on scientists' radar just weeks before a potential impact. That scenario might demand the nuclear option that Wie and his colleagues are working to develop.

A one-two punch

NASA engineers identified 168 technical flaws in "Armageddon,"?Wie said. But one thing the movie got right is the notion that a nuke will be far more effective if it explodes inside an asteroid rather than at its surface. (At a depth of 10 feet, or 3 meters, the bomb's destructive power would be about 20 times greater, Wie said.)

So Wie and his team came up with a way to get the bomb down into a hole, without relying on a crew of spacewalking roughnecks to bore into the space rock.

The HAIV spacecraft incorporates two separate impactors, a "leader" and a "follower." As HAIV nears the asteroid, the leader separates and slams into the space rock, blasting out a crater about 330 feet (100 m) wide.

The nuke-bearing follower hits the hole a split-second later, blowing the asteroid to smithereens. Simulations suggest the explosion would fling bits of space rock far and wide, leaving only a tiny percentage of the asteroid's mass to hit Earth, Wie said.

This is no pie-in-the sky dream: The researchers have received two rounds of funding from the NIAC program, and they say their plan is eminently achievable.

"Basically, our proposed concept is an extension of the flight-proven $300 million Deep Impact mission," Wie said, referring to the NASA effort that slammed an impactor into Comet Tempel 1 in 2005.

Demonstration mission coming?

The HAIV project is still in its early stages, and much more modeling and developmental work is needed. But Wie and his colleagues are ambitious, with plans for a bomb-free flight test in the next decade or so.

"Our ultimate goal is to be able to develop about a $500 million flight demo mission within a 10-year timeframe," Wie said.

The team's current work involves analyzing the feasibility of nuking a small but still dangerous asteroid ? one about 330 feet (100 m) wide ? with little warning time. However, it wouldn't be too difficult to scale up, Wie said.

"Once we develop technology to be used in this situation, we are ready to avoid any collision ? with much larger size, with much longer warning time," Wie said.

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Sharp seeks 2,000 job cuts, gets 3,000 volunteers

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are coming to the end of their whirlwind international promotional tour for "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2," and while the on-screen couple have yet to confirm they've reunited off-screen, they appear to be enjoying each other's company. Following the final "Twilight" film's Germany premiere in Berlin on Friday, Robert, 26, and Kristen, 22, were photographed heading to the Berolina Bowling Lounge to relax after their completing their red carpet duties.

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My ramblings on disengaging and letting the SS win... | Step Talk

I have basically disengaged from SS17 after the emails he sent to DH about me (and DH). I try to not discuss SS with DH if he brings him up and if SS comes around I basically do my own thing and leave any conversation/entertainment of SS to DH. SS comes over walks in the door, says hi to his dad and will not even acknowledge I am in the room. He will stay for a few hours spend the whole time talking to DH and even if I am in the room he will not say one word to me unless I speak to him first.

I have mixed feelings about this. Basically, I feel that by me withdrawing from anything that has to do with SS makes SS think he has WON the battle. I know that SS wants his dad to himself and does not want my input nor me being around when he is around. So when I disengage he HAS won. He gets his dad all to himself and he is LOVING it and I think DH LOVES it too! DH doesn't require SS to speak to me but always says I need to be the bigger person since I am the ADULT. DH loves that NOW SS is showing more one-one time with him and loves that he is now being all dependent and lovey with him (and I sit in the sidelines like a non-existent person when SS is around).

Not only has SS won this battle but what about the future battles. Since I have disengaged from SS and SS has "disengaged" from me where will this leave me for the future?

SS17 will graduate in the next year or two (hopefully) so will SS insist to DH that I am not invited to his graduation?

Then what about when he gets married or has his first child?

And to tell you the truth it gripes me for 4 reasons:

1) SS thinks he has WON!
2) SS treats me like I am a non-person but I have to treat him like the KIng of England!
3) BM will be invited to all of these LIFE events and will LOVE it that I am not invited!
4) BM will see all of this as the "HAPPY FAMILY" occasions and at each one will try to prove her agenda to DH!

So in the end does disengaging profit a SP any at all?

- I am not spoken to in my own home and treated like I am not in existence!

- I will be uninvited to any and all LIFE events for SS (if he and BM has their way). Which in turn will leave me out of DH's major LIFE events too! SS, DH and BM will have these "HAPPY FAMILY" occasions and I will be left out in the cold.

- DH will always feel like he needs to show SS extra attention when he is around so I will always be left on the back burner again!

Step parenting sucks! I feel like no matter what I do my back is up against the wall and I can't win!

I just want a "normal" family. Where the parents/adults are there for each other and for the children and the children don't try to come between the husband and wife team.

My parents have been married 65 years and not once would one of my siblings think to invite my father and not my mother or vice versa (even though my father is a jerk)!!!

Not once would one of my parents go to a graduation, wedding or birth of a grandchild and expect the other parent to stay at home alone because they were not "invited"! Either both were invited or both stayed at home!

I am sick of the whole step parenting scene!

What is your thoughts or experiences?

Source: http://www.steptalk.org/node/92141

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The $14,000 Dottling Gyrowinder Watch Winder Is Exercise In Technical Excess

Watch winders, like other special accoutrements of the rarified man (or woman), are ostentatious and useful. This one, made by Dottling and called the Gyrowinder, is just ostentatious.

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Paint Your Pet's Portrait Fundraiser | Triangle Arts and Entertainment

Helping Paws International is hosting a Paint Your Pet?s Portrait Fundraiser on November 18, 2012 at Wine & Design in Raleigh, NC.

Have you always dreamed of trying to paint a picture?? Well here is your chance to try.? With the help of a local artist giving you stroke-by-stroke instructions you will paint your pet?s portrait on a 16?20 canvas. What a lovely holiday gift for that special person your list.? Everything will be provided & refreshments will be served.? You may also bring your own wine and beverages.

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To Reserve you spot:

Registration Steps:? Registration Deadline is November 14

1) Go to this link, Helping Paws Sign up link: http://wineanddesignus.com/calendar/?month=11&year=2012&calendarID=2

2) Scroll down to Nov 18 & click on the Helping Paws logo

3) Scroll down and fill out the info blocks

4) Click Book Now which will take you to the pay page.? Fee is $60.00.

If you do not want to go through Wine & Design?s PayPal system, then you can pay by calling Wine & Design at: 919-374-0667

5) Select the picture of your pet you want to paint (You may have more than one pet in the picture).? It should be at least 300dpi and of good quality as it will be blown up to 16?x20? for the canvas.

6) Email the picture to Wine & Design at:

petnight@gmail.com

Attn: Helping Paws Pet Portrait Fundraiser

November 18

Your name, pet(s)name

7)? Please send an email saying you have completed sign up TO Helping Paws at: HelpingPawsIntl@gmail.co

About Helping Paws:

The Helping Paws is a non-profit, all volunteer organization.? Helping Paws trains, certifies and supports therapy dogs, assistance dogs & the reading support dogs in our B.A.R.K.S. Book Buddies. The dogs and their owners volunteer in all types for healthcare facilities, hospice, autistic camps & classrooms, schools, etc.

More info can be found at http://www.helpingpawsintl.org, and on FaceBook.

Contact:

Helping Paws International

Jeani Gray, CEO

P.O. Box 91282, Raleigh, NC? 27675
919-740-6630

http://www.helpingpawsintl.org/

http://www.barks-hp.org/

HelpingPawsIntl[at]gmail.com

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The 10 Companies That Control the News - 24/7 Wall St.

Ten major media companies control most of the news content in America. Each of these companies reaches millions of people. The five largest reach more than 50 million people each.

Read: The 10 Companies That Control the News

Discussions about news media in America often focus on two main issues. The first is whether the news is influenced by one person or family who owns a controlling interest in the media company. Sumner Redstone owns voting control of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB) and CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS). The Sulzberger family has controlled The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) for over a century.

The second is whether the personalities who deliver the news also influence it. People like Brian Williams, Rush Limbaugh and Oprah Winfrey are believed to be able to express their opinions on facts and events. While this may be true, their influence is also fleeting. Keith Obermann, the central personality at MSNBC for years, quit the network and can no longer be found on air.

The most objective way to measure who controls the content and distribution of news is by looking at audience size. How many people watch a media company?s network news or cable news, read its magazines, listen to or watch its local news channels, or go to its websites? Research firms that independently track traffic and viewership include Nielsen for TV, the Audit Bureau of Circulations for newspapers and Comscore for online traffic.

What helps build audience size across news media? The largest factor is likely branding. Nearly all the companies that control the news are themselves a recognized news brand, or they own powerful brands: CBS is its own brand, Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) owns NBC and Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI) owns USA Today. News brands in most cases have reputations that have been built over decades.

In an interview with 24/7 Wall St., Tom Rosenstiel, Director of Pew Research Center?s?Project for Excellence in Journalism observed, ?These are mostly familiar brands that have been in the marketplace for a long time, and that have been engaged in repertorial journalism. As a consequence, they offer things that consumers really can?t find anywhere else.?

These powerful news brands?also have been created at great cost, making it hard for new entrants to compete effectively with them. The number of brands spending money on gathering news has not grown a great deal, according to Rosenstiel. Those that do tend to spend money are ?legacy media.? They have ?a number of reporters who know how to call people up, report, observe events with press passes,? and have a ?shoe leather, boots-on-the-ground orientation.?

The composition of media property ownership reflects how Americans consume news today. Most of the largest brands have only a fraction of their business in magazines or radio, which once represented a much larger share of American media. None of the largest media companies derive more than 10% of total audience from newspapers, and five do not have any presence at all in the medium. Meanwhile, eight of the largest media corporations have at least 20% of total viewership from local TV, and seven of the ten have at least 15% of total viewers online.

As a measure of audience and news content broadcast at the local level, in individual cities, is just as important as news broadcast nationally because of the overall size of the country?s combined local markets. Many of the largest news organizations own televisions stations in the country?s most populated cities. Some companies have dozens of local radio stations. Others own dozens of newspapers. A large media company may offer news access to millions of people, even if it does not have a single national news outlet such as a television network, a widely visited website or a national magazine or newspaper.

Based on Pew?s State of the News Media report, 24/7 Wall St. identified the 10 companies that control the news in America. We considered newspaper circulation, television viewership at the national and local level, radio audience and online traffic. Unless otherwise indicated, all figures related to viewership are as of June 2012. In several cases, the media companies surveyed only gave Pew the audience size for their largest property. Where this was the case, the sizes of the total online audience and the largest online property were recorded as identical.?Companies that have the greatest effect on news consumption are those that own media across several of these property types. For example, CBS, which is the biggest media company by audience, owns network television, local television, local radio and national Internet businesses. Together, these CBS outlets reach over 130 million people, an extraordinary number given that the entire population of the United States is about 315 million.

Source: http://247wallst.com/2012/11/12/the-10-companies-that-control-the-news/

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Fungal Meningitis Pathogen Discovers New Appetite for Human Brains

The primary culprit in the recent flare-up caused by tainted steroids, Exserohilum rostratum, is not an especially picky eater. Although the fungus prefers grasses, it will dine on many items?including humans

By Jennifer Frazer

Image: Glenn Roberts

The nation's ongoing fungal meningitis outbreak has killed 30 and sickened 419 people so far, but the fungus responsible has never wrought such havoc before.

The fungus, Exserohilum rostratum, is a plant-eating generalist equipped with a spore-launching mechanism ideal for going airborne, is not an especially picky eater and, although it prefers grasses, will dine on many items?including humans.

But just how a pathogen typically associated with the great outdoors got into the three lots of injectable steroids prepared inside an admittedly filthy laboratory?and why only three lots?remains a puzzling mystery.

The errant fungus has been identified in lab samples from 52 of those affected and was similarly found growing in unopened vials of the steroid alleged to have caused the outbreak, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A third recalled lot is still being tested. But E. rostratum is not a household name, even among mycologists.

Glenn Roberts, a retired medical mycologist, says that in his 40 years of experience at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., he had seen only one case: a soft-tissue arm wound in an immunocompromised patient. He was shocked when he heard the identity of the pathogen in the epidemic that originated with the New England Compounding Center pharmacy in Framingham, Mass.

?I could hardly believe it because it?s just so uncommon,? he says.

And yet, outside in the air and on plants, E. rostratum is not so uncommon.

In press reports, it has been described as occurring "on grasses," but that is not the full story. The fungus, which seems to prefer tropical and subtropical environments, has turned up on a wide variety of plant species, says Kurt Leonard, an emeritus professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota who retired in 2001 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cereal Disease Lab (then the Cereal Rust Lab).

Early in his career, Leonard untangled the taxonomic mess of similar-looking, but only distantly related, fungi with multicellular dark spores that were causing disease in grains such as corn. He named one new genus he had created?Exserohilum?for the prominent protuberances called hila (the belly buttons of the fungal and botanical world) on its spores.

The modus operandi of one species in this genus ? E. rostratum -- was to infect a plant and in some cases precipitate tissue death. Plant defenses?which can include induced cell fortification, cell suicide, toxic chemicals, and defensive enzymes and proteins?typically were sufficient to keep the infection in check, but not strong enough to eliminate it. The payoff came when the plant died?the fungus was first in line to feed on its decaying remains. "I think it's just a general weak pathogen of plants," Leonard says, "something that can infect plants while alive and not really do much damage until the leaf senesces."

Leonard found E. rostratum on corn, sorghum and Johnsongrass fairly often, although it was not nearly as common as several more severe corn pathogens. It was an opportunist and would sometimes infect ears and stalks when insects drilled into the plant, creating a convenient landing pad of dying tissue for the fungus.

Most often the fungus shows up on grasses and other monocots?plants often distinguished by flower parts in threes and parallel leaf venation?such as pineapples, bananas and sugarcane, but it has also been found on non-monocots such as grapes and muskmelon. It's a fungus that is not, apparently, very picky about its food. "It's just a really common fungus in the environment that mostly lives on dead and dying plant tissue," Leonard says. There are many such others, and many of them can also occasionally infect animals or people.

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For Global Entrepreneurship Week .CO are releasing some ...

Entrepreneurs take note; from November 12 to 19 some of the world?s most desirable domain names will come up for auction; thanks to a collaboration between .CO Internet, the company responsible for the international .CO domain, and Sedo.co, the world?s largest domain marketplace.

There will be 150 .CO domains up for auction, which the companies have?especially?selected for the week. ?Some 50 of the domains will come from .CO Internet?s own reserve of premium domains, making this one of the largest single releases of reserved .COs in the provider?s two year history.

With these being reserved name the companies have placed a starting bid of $500USD on each of the potential domains (GoDaddy auctions some domains with a starting price of over $4,500 USD).

With good domain names becoming increasingly scarce, 2012 has been a year when several of the large domain organisations have proposed or furthered the creation of new domain name structures.

ICANN, the organisation which is responsible for the management of the internet, released the names of dozens of Generic Top Level Domain which companies had applied for. ?This system allows companies to create their own .COM like customised domains such as .APP, .LIKE, .GOOGLE, .APPLE. ?Several of these domains are expected to go live in 2013.

In October, the operator of the UK?s national domain system made proposals that would allow UK companies apply for .UK domains?alongside the usual .CO.UK domains.

The release of these premium .CO domains comes a year after the release of the .XXX domain for adult content.

Sedo?s Chief Sales Officer, Liesbeth Mack-de Boer, says the auction is designed to help with the challenge entrepreneurs face in registering strong domains, ?.CO has become the premier choice for start-ups who may not be able to register legacy extensions which are often more cost-prohibitive or already registered. For entrepreneurs and start-ups, this premium .CO auction provides a great opportunity to purchase a domain that will help grow their business.?

?The .CO domain was built from the ground up to support entrepreneurs,? said Lori Anne Wardi, .CO Internet?s Vice President, ?so it?s really exciting for us to help Sedo to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week by making some of the hottest .CO domain names available to cool global start-ups who will use them to build the businesses and brands that help shape the future.?

With 150 domains up for auction (you can see them all here) here what we think are some of the best (our personal favourites are geek.co and holy.co);

home.co	maps.co	vault.co
picture.co	close.co	subject.co
lesson.co	this.co	habit.co
demo.co	warn.co	little.co
weapon.co	folder.co	under.co
funny.co	kicker.co	wiggle.co
result.co	hot.co	past.co
medico.co	donor.co	holy.co
body.co	nifty.co	rave.co
myth.co	made.co	caffeine.co
zest.co	lists.co	foo.co
curation.co	astrology.co	graph.co

.CO Internet and Sedo said the domains have been chosen to appeal to various parties involved in the start-up process; including, Entrepreneurs, incubators, accelerators, VCs, angels, investors, start-ups, founders, innovators, developers, designers, agencies, marketers.

The auction process starts on Monday, November 12 on Sedo.co.

Source: http://sociable.co/web/for-global-entrepreneurship-week-co-are-releasing-some-premium-domain-names/

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India Golden Triangle Tours- A Golden Break To Enjoy Indian History

Delhi, Agra and Jaipur are three cities which are included by this fascinating India Golden Triangle Tours. The tour is basically target main things of these cities which is famous historically and culturally. The tour is very famous amongst history enthusiastic where they get chance to know the extensive information about India and its cities. All these cities are a bustling city and a home of beautiful monuments and structures. For getting information in details, it will be fine to book a tourist guide during your tour so that they could elaborate all the things for you. Prefer tourist guide according to your language as it will be helpful in communicating.

About Tour
Well, if you are thinking that what will be included in golden triangle India tour package, then dont worry, I will be here to elaborate you. The tour starts from Delhi which is a hub of plenty of historical sites for example Jama Masjid, Red Fort, India Gate, Lotus temple, Akshardham temple, Birla Temple and etc and each monument has its significant and identity which displays the rising India. Take a rickshaw drive to narrow streets of Delhi, eat at the local shops, do shopping at the colorful markets and enjoy your vacation with full swing. Dont forget to see the Rashtrapati Bhavan a home of Indian President and metro museum a center of developing India.

Jaipur and Agra
After exploring Delhi, you will be taken to Jaipur and Agra. Jaipur falls in the middle of this tour and a colorful city of Rajasthan. Jaipur is the essence of Mughal past and empire. Here you can see various royal residences of Royal families where once they used to live their life. City palace (a palace of white marvel looks elegant and still gives tantamount competition to modern architectures), Hawa Mahal (a palace of nine hundred windows takes you in the airy world. Agra is its final destination and a home of shahjahan and Mumtazs love story. During your tour you will feel blessed and this is why that you got an opportunity to see Taj Mahal a world admired monument which is an illustrious example of true love. It was built by Shahjahan a fashionable emperor of Mughal in the memory of his lovely and beautiful wife Mumtaz. People, who belong to journalism, take inspiration from the beauty of Taj Mahal to write something touchy. Apart from Taj Mahal you can see abandoned city of Fathehpur, Agra fort and other handicrafts which are globally famous. Afterwards, your tour will be finish after reaching Delhi.

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You will get confuse due to jumble of online presence travel and tour operators. Select your tour as per your standard as these operators offers you reasonable tour packages which is simple to select. Ascertain yourself by getting all the information regarding your itinerary before going on India golden Triangle tour. Find details on hotels and cities you will be going to stay and reveals. Rates are normally under your budget. Most important thing is select your tour that you will enjoy with your loved ones. Celebrate your vacation with golden triangle tour!

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Avoid These Estate Planning Mistakes That May Increase Your ...

George Sterling | Friday, November 9th, 2012

If you plan on leaving your wealth for your children, then effective estate planning is the most important thing you should care about. Here are some common mistakes people make that have them end paying extra and unnecessary taxes to the IRS taxing authorities resulting in reduced wealth left for heirs. If you follow the steps, you can easily avoid paying the taxes.

Keeping yourself well informed of the State Estate Tax Law

Many states in the U.S have their own death tax or state tax laws. Many of these authorities have separated themselves from the federal estate tax. In simple language, it means that your estate is subject to all state tax even if it isn?t due on Federal estate tax.

For this year only, the federal estate tax exemption currently resides at $5.12 million. Without effective estate planning and having no knowledge of the state estate tax law, your heirs could end up paying a lot of state estate tax upon your death. To avoid this situation, refer and review your current financial standing and produce effective plans to minimize the tax.

Leaving all your estate to your spouse

This is a general mistake that a lot of couples make. In this scenario, the husband may leave everything he owns for the wife and vice versa. This is generally ineffective because the co-owned estate could end up having more state estate tax than the normal $1 million upon death. Although if one of the spouses die, the state estate tax exempts death tax for the first spouse to die, but this also means that the combined estate now owned by the living spouse may be subject to double death tax. This will probably exceed the $1 million exempt.

Completely avoiding death tax is a hard task, but with effective estate planning, you could significantly reduce the amount.

eBook Review: "Love at First Click: The Ultimate Guide to Online ...

1 in 5 relationships start online. There are over 1,000 dating sites. It can be overwhelming to decide which sites to use or how to present yourself in your online profile. That's where online dating experts come in like Laurie Davis. (Fun fact:?She met her fiancee via Twitter).?Laurie is?an online dating coach and founder of?eFlirtExpert.com, which provides the ultimate guide to finding love online. I had the pleasure of reading?her book "Love at First Click: The Ultimate Guide to Online Dating." It?really clicked (get it?) with me because I've had quite the interesting experience with online dating myself.

Laurie and I had a pretty similar introduction to online dating. I found it fairly normal when there was still a lot of stigma around it. As it became more socially acceptable I would try to convince my friends to join because at least they'd get a date out of it. However, Laurie was a savvy online dater who was able to dig through the hundres of sites and millions of profiles for her friends to recommend compatible matches. Then after one of her friends moved in with one of his online matches, she realized she had a knack for this. (Kim, not so much...). She has created a successful business being a coach and mentor to many online dating virgins or not so virgin.

I loved how she said online dating is really more like online meeting and offline dating. It's true. The dates don't happen on the computer. You're simply scanning a profile, deciding if there's anything in common that you'd think "Hey I'd enjoy this person's company" and then you make plans to meet offline.

She offers some "vows" that all online dating virgins should take. Totally agree with all of them and some offered refreshers like don't get discouraged, which I easily do. Can't tell you how many times I deactivated my OkCupid.com account only to reactivate it a few months later.

Even though I've been doing this for awhile, I still learned some new tips:

• Wear red in your main profile pic. Apparently in 100% of studies, men find women wearing red in their photos more attractive or "desirable."?
• It's unlikely you'll like your match on paper. Laurie (and much like my friends) insist on being open-minded. Yes, have your boundaries (what you're not willing to be flexible on) but online dating gives you a chance to meet people you otherwise wouldn't.
• Watch out for scams. Apparently there are?fraudulent?members lurking around trying to get?private?information?out of you. Haven't run into this issue but a good reminder about cyber safety.
• Make ABCD lists when it comes to matches. You'll have to read what A, B, C and D mean.
• Sunday is the most active days for most sites. Who knew?
• Your first encounter is not a date, more like a second first impression.?I know some people have mixed thoughts about this. I tend to keep it casual for the first meeting because you still don't know a lot about that person. Also, if they're not what they look like in their pics or you're not clicking then you can finish your drink and make an excuse to leave.

A tip I totally agree with pertains to texting: After 10pm is booty call territory. Beware of late night texts as they send the wrong signal. And don't drink and text!

You should read this book if you're new to online dating, have tried online dating before and felt frustrated, not sure how to navigate all the dating sites or are looking for dating tips in general. This book offers advice for online and off. Although I feel like I've tried every dating site, I still learned some things. Now I just need to hire Laurie to help me meet better matches!

What are your thoughts on online dating?

Disclaimer: I received a copy to review for press purposes. All opinions expressed are my own. The book's official release date is?January 8th, 2013. But it's available for pre-order now - don't miss out!

Source: http://www.ihaveadegreeinthis.com/2012/11/love-at-first-the-ultimate-guide-to-online-dating-by-laurie-davis-book-review.html

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Vigo Historical Society celebrating 90th birthday ? News ? News ...

TERRE HAUTE ? At age 90, the Vigo County Historical Society is looking ahead to a bright future.

To celebrate its birthday, several past presidents of the society, which formed in 1922, gathered at the Vigo County Historical Museum on Wednesday to reminisce and talk about the organization?s future.

Ralph Courtney, who served as president in the 1970s, recalled the discovery of human bones near the site of the former Fort Harrison along the Wabash River. That discovery, believed to be the bones of settlers who had lived at the fort, led two curious women to climb down into a deep hole where the bones had been uncovered by excavating equipment.

Getting into the pit was one thing, getting out was another, Courtney recalled.

?They couldn?t get out,? he said, adding that emergency responders had to be called to free the women.

Visiting the Historical Society?s museum at South Sixth and Washington streets is not nearly so hazardous, and that?s what society members hope the public will do. To celebrate 90 years, the museum is featuring a special exhibit through the end of the year and will host the ?Stiffy Green Fur Ball? on New Year?s Eve at the Ohio Building complete with live music and the famous local dog.

There will also be a holiday open house at the museum the first Sunday in December, said Marylee Hagen, the museum director.

Admission to the museum, which is open 1 to 4 p.m. every day but Monday, is free; however, donations are gratefully accepted.

Despite being founded in the 1920s, the society did not acquire the historic, Italianate home on South Sixth Street until the 1950s when it was donated by the Hulman family. Since then, the home, built shortly after the Civil War, has served as a showplace for historic treasures.

?The history [in Vigo County] is just amazing,? said Jan Buffington, a past society president and current volunteer greeter at the museum.

Making visitors aware ? and proud ? of local history is the primary goal of the museum, said Dorothy Jerse, a former museum director who was also at the museum Wednesday. Her hope was always to impress visiting school children with the rich history of Terre Haute to give them a sense of pride in their home community, she said.

?This is one way to get people excited about their heritage,? Jerse said.

The museum is also a rich resource for people writing histories or doing historical research, said Don Layton, a retired history professor at Indiana State University and former society president.

Not everything about the museum is native to the Terre Haute area. For example, an authentic pre-Revolutionary War military ?red coat? as worn by British soldiers in colonial times, is on display in the museum?s popular military room. The rare coat has been borrowed for historic displays in Pittsburgh and at the Smithsonian.

Other items are distinctly linked to Terre Haute, such as the museum?s large Coca-Cola exhibit to commemorate the birthplace of the Coke bottle. Also very popular is ?Punch,? a large wooden jester once a fixture in downtown Terre Haute.

And, of course, there is ?Stiffy Green,? a pet dog famously stuffed and placed in a mausoleum at Highland Lawn Cemetery and moved to the museum in the 1980s.

?He?s very popular,? Hagen said.

Reporter Arthur Foulkes can be reached at 812-231-4232 or arthur.foulkes@tribstar.com.

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He called it, and now Silver's a pop-culture star

NEW YORK (AP) ? The other night, Nate Silver got a little taste of what things are going to be like for him, post-Election 2012.

The 34-year-old statistician, unabashed numbers geek, author and creator of the much-read FiveThirtyEight blog at The New York Times had gone out for a drink with friends on Manhattan's Lower East Side. But he couldn't stay incognito; Immediately, he says, people sitting at the bar recognized him.

He was surprised, but probably shouldn't have been. After all, for 24 hours, ever since his election forecasts had proved uncannily successful ? he correctly predicted the presidential winner in all 50 states, and almost all the Senate races ? he'd been hailed as the election's "other winner," who'd silenced doubters and proven the value of a cool-headed, math-based approach.

That very night, he'd appeared on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" for the second time in three weeks. "Don't you want to stand up and say, 'I am Nate Silver, bow down to me!!'" Stewart roared, as the bespectacled Silver sat and chuckled. His name was trending on Twitter and he was the subject of a satirical Twitter hashtag, "Drunk Nate Silver." The Hollywood Reporter said he'd "made statistics sexy again." Many called his story a real-life "Revenge of the Nerds" tale.

And oh, his new book had soared to No. 2 on Amazon, after he linked to it on Twitter an hour after the first network call for President Barack Obama. ("This is probably a good time to link to my book," he'd tweeted at 12:13 a.m. ? the closest he came to gloating.)

Even so, Silver says he wasn't quite prepared for that incident in the bar.

"It's odd," he said Thursday in a telephone interview from his Brooklyn home. "Is this going to happen every day, as opposed to once a month? I still have to get accustomed to this."

Silver, who uses computer models that he runs on a beat-up laptop at home, is quick to acknowledge the accomplishments of others using similar methods. "It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis," he said. And he noted that similar work was being done with, for example, weather, all the time. "You have to give those forecasters way more credit," he said. "Their forecasts have real life-and-death consequences"

In politics, too, others have used similar computer models to predict races. What Silver has done, though, is not only arrive at a formula that uses aggregated polls and other weighted factors to achieve his predictions, but to write about them in an accessible and engaging way.

His father, political science professor Brian Silver, attributes his son's success to a two-pronged drive: "He's driven by a need to get the answers to a problem, but he also is very concerned with the narrative, with telling the story," said the elder Silver, who teaches at Michigan State University.

The father recalls his son at 2 years old, already revealing himself as a prodigy with numbers ? his mother asked him to count to three, and he went to 20. By four, he understood negative numbers, and could multiply in his head.

Needless to say he was a math whiz, but he also was a debating champion, winning competitions in high school. "On the debate team, it was OK to be a geek," Brian Silver explained. Nate then went off to the University of Chicago, where he earned a degree in economics.

A few years in consulting followed. It bored him, but it was during those years that Silver turned his love of baseball into a sophisticated forecasting system of player performance. That became his new career; he sold the system to Baseball Prospectus, and wrote a weekly column there on baseball research.

In 2007, Silver started writing about politics ? at first under a pseudonym, "Poblano." He quickly gained an audience for his forecasts during the presidential primaries. In March of 2008, he began his FiveThirtyEight blog, and a few months later revealed his name.

"People had been thinking Poblano was a major pollster," said his father. "He was just a kid with a B.A. in economics."

With his success in the 2008 race ? he got every state right except for Indiana ? Silver was already a big name. In 2009 he was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People. In 2010, he licensed his blog to The New York Times.

But the 2012 election brought a new level of pressure. While Democrats flocked to his blog and took daily solace in his consistent prediction that Obama would win ? though not by a lot ? commentators on the right were critical, and he was accused of weighting his forecasts too heavily toward Democrats.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, called him a "joke." Silver responded by betting him that Obama would win, a bet that Scarborough didn't take him up on and that was later criticized by the Times ombudsman. (That bet was the poker player in him, Silver says now; he spent a couple years playing serious online poker.)

Much more disturbing, said Silver, were what he called the homophobic comments that some resorted to on the Web. "That was a little shocking," he said. Added his father: "It got very personal."

But Silver says he always felt confident in his projections. "I didn't see any particular reason for the polls to be off the mark," he said. "Republicans said Democrats were oversampled, but without much justification. I felt pretty confident personally." Silver predicted 90.9 percent certainty that Obama would win, and forecast him getting 313 electoral college votes; he has 303 without Florida, which is still counting and could take him to 332.

On Election Day itself, Silver felt nervous, but only because there was nothing left to do. Once the early results started coming in, he relaxed. And then, of course, came vindication. "You know who won the election tonight? Nate Silver," said Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Even Bret Baier on Fox gave credit on air to Silver. On "The Daily Show," Stewart basically credited Silver with saving the reputation of arithmetic ? and more. "Like, gravity would have been up for grabs," Stewart quipped, if Silver had been wrong.

There have been some gripes that Silver doesn't reveal his actual formula. "He has very carefully explained how he does things," his father answers. "But he's not giving away his code. He shouldn't be expected to do that."

Nate Silver does say, however, that in the future, "Maybe we'll have to be clearer." He also voices concern that precise forecasting could have the frightening effect of influencing voter behavior ? something that obviously doesn't happen in areas like weather. "You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast," he said.

Silver also says he doesn't necessarily expect the same results forever. "I know we're going to have some misses sooner or later," he said, adding that an incorrect forecast on the Senate race in North Dakota is "proof that we can be wrong ? and polls can be wrong." Others have pointed out that Silver's forecasting is, of course, only as good as the polls he is using, since he's not a pollster himself.

For now, though, he's trying to enjoy it all as much as he can.

"When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame," he observed wryly. "Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by The Onion ? or be the subject of a cartoon in The New Yorker. I guess I'm kind of an outlier there."

What's ahead for Silver? Turns out, forecasting his own future feels much more difficult than forecasting an election.

"It can be a fulltime job, figuring out what your job is going to be," he quipped.

For now, he has a second book to write, part of a two-book deal. And FiveThirtyEight is set to remain at the Times until mid-2013. After that, he doesn't know yet, though he noted, with understatement: "I know I'll have more opportunities now." But he added: "I'm sure there will be a FiveThirtyEight forecast in 2016."

For now, he prefers to look at life, and life choices, as a poker player, since he loves the game.

"You get steely nerves playing poker," he said. "It's part skill and part luck. You hope you win enough bets to make a living on, right?"

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