Improve Your Home, Improve Your Life And Live Better (Nottingham)

Your sense of well-being can be considerably altered depending on how you view your home. Research indicates that many people spend time at work and at home. If you have a home business, you will find that your home has an even greater influence on your attitude about life. When you have a home that you love to retreat to, you will find that you are more resilient when life takes a wrong turn, as it often does. Continue reading to learn more about how to make your place the home of your dreams.

Look for home improvement projects in your home that can be easily accomplished and eliminate something that brings you discomfort or irritation. If there is an area of your house that could be tailored to you, that is one thing that you should consider doing. Being comfortable and relaxed in your own home is what is important. If upgrades and improvements you make are not in line with the taste of potential future buyers, they can make changes to suit their tastes once they purchase it.

Organization can only go so far if your home does not have enough space. You can either expand your home or get rid of extra items. Adding even a small built-on section to your home can greatly increase the feeling of space and movement, add valuable storage options and reduce overall stress levels in the home.

Put in some play areas. While pools and hot tubs are seen as natural additions to your home for enjoyment purposes, you might want to consider adding things like basketball hoops or even an exercise room to enhance the enjoyment of your home. In addition, facilities like these can increase your home?s value and appeal.

Think about the way that you lighting is set up. Lighting is helpful for a room?s appearance and brightness. Some considerations you may want to make are updating your existing fixtures to make them more modern or adding new lights to liven up a dark corner. Installing lighting fixtures is a great project for a homeowner to tackle on his own.

Sharpen your gardening tools, and spruce up the yard! If you take the time and effort to transform your yard into a beautiful garden, you will find yourself spending more and more time at home. You can hire a gardener if you lack a green thumb. It doesn?t matter how you build a garden, as long as you enjoy the results. Plants and greenery are well known for creating fresh air and brightening spaces. Depending on what you choose to plant, it?s possible you?ll be cooking with fresh herbs or picking beautiful flowers every day.

There are lots of ways to improve your home?s exterior. Freshening the exterior of your house is a great way to get a welcoming feeling and a sense of happiness each time you arrive home.

If you are happy with your house, you will want to stay there. As a result, home improvement projects should be viewed as an investment in your own health and happiness.

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Jury selection begins in George Zimmerman trial

George Zimmerman, accused in the Trayvon Martin shooting, in Seminole Circuit Court during his pretrial hearing??

Lawyers on both sides of the George Zimmerman trial today will begin what is expected to be a weekslong process of selecting a 12-member jury in the incendiary case in Sanford, Florida.

Zimmerman's attorneys declined to ask for a change of venue in the case, suggesting they are confident they can find impartial jurors in the area despite the wall-to-wall media coverage that 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's killing attracted last year. Zimmerman, out on a $1 million bond and in hiding for much of the past year, is charged with second-degree murder for killing the unarmed teen in a confrontation in his gated community, where Zimmerman acted as a volunteer watchman.

Prosecutors argue that Zimmerman racially profiled, followed and then shot Martin. Zimmerman's lawyers counter that their client was attacked by Martin and that he acted in self-defense.

Defense lawyer Jose Baez, who represented Casey Anthony in her high-profile trial in Orlando in 2011, said jury selection in this trial will be especially complicated because of the case's racial overtones. (Zimmerman is Hispanic; Martin was black.)

Generally, defense lawyers would be more likely than prosecutors to want to select minorities for a jury, since, on average, African-American and Hispanic people express more skepticism of law enforcement than white people, according to Baez. But in this case, Zimmerman's defense lawyers will want to pack the jury with white "gun-toting Republicans," who would be amenable to their argument that their client shot and killed the unarmed Martin in self-defense. These jurors might also be more convinced by the argument that local police made the right decision not to arrest or charge Zimmerman in the shooting initially.

"It's a very unique case in that respect, where the general rules that a lot of lawyers use are just going be absolutely flipped upside down," Baez said. "Because it is such a racially charged case, I think that the clear line is going to be drawn here between African-American jurors and Caucasian and Hispanic jurors."

But the defense team will have to be very careful in its quest to find conservative jurors more amenable to the self-defense argument. Circuit Judge Debra Nelson, who is presiding over the televised trial in the Seminole County Courthouse, will most likely be vigilant to make sure neither side is excluding jurors based on their race, which is illegal under a 1985 Supreme Court decision.

"I think this judge is fully aware of the racial tensions involved and is going to be on high alert," Baez said. If the defense team moves to dismiss an African-American juror during the peremptory strike phase of jury selection, for example, the judge could challenge it to provide a reason for the move. If the team can't come up with a good reason (for example, that the juror attended a rally in support of Trayvon Martin), the judge will assume the attorneys wanted to dismiss the juror for racial reasons and override their preference.

Nelson has ruled that the pool of 500 potential jurors will be kept anonymous during the selection process. It's possible she could order them sequestered during the trial, which is what happened to the jurors in the Anthony case. Nelson rejected the defense's request to sequester them during jury selection.

The pool will shrink rapidly as jurors can make the case that sitting on a jury for weeks would be a hardship. After that process winnows down the lot, the attorneys will go through and disqualify anyone with a personal connection to the case. Both sides will be on the lookout for jurors who have stated their support for either Zimmerman or Martin on social media sites, or been involved in activism around the case. The attorneys may also have potential jurors fill out questionnaires gauging their beliefs about gun control, law enforcement, race and other issues.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/jury-selection-begins-george-zimmerman-trial-121304344.html

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SkyMotion Provides Minute-By-Minute Precipitation Forecasts

iPhone/Android/Windows Phone 8/Web: A lot of weather forecasts will tell you whether it's going to rain in your city on any given day, but SkyMotion narrows the forecast down to the minute, and down to your block.

If this sounds familiar, it's because it shares a few similarities to previously mentioned Dark Sky, but SkyMotion is cross-platform and free. The interface and feature set varies slightly on each platform, but no matter which app you're using, you'll be able to get current conditions and minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts targeted to a single square kilometer. On iOS, you can also report your current conditions to help improve SkyMotion's accuracy over time.

For general weather information, I still prefer Check The Weather's easy-to-read interface and WeatherBug's exhaustive feature set, but when I want to know if it's going to rain during my lunch break, SkyMotion is a perfect companion app.

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Earth's iron core is surprisingly weak

May 20, 2013 ? Researchers have used a diamond anvil cell to squeeze iron at pressures as high as 3 million times that felt at sea level to recreate conditions at the center of Earth. The findings could refine theories of how the planet and its core evolved.

Through laboratory experiments, postdoctoral researcher Arianna Gleason, left, and Wendy Mao, an assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences and of photon science, determined that the iron in Earth's inner core is about 40 percent as strong as previously believed.

The massive ball of iron sitting at the center of Earth is not quite as "rock-solid" as has been thought, say two Stanford mineral physicists. By conducting experiments that simulate the immense pressures deep in the planet's interior, the researchers determined that iron in Earth's inner core is only about 40 percent as strong as previous studies estimated.

This is the first time scientists have been able to experimentally measure the effect of such intense pressure -- as high as 3 million times the pressure Earth's atmosphere exerts at sea level -- in a laboratory. A paper presenting the results of their study is available online in Nature Geoscience.

"The strength of iron under these extreme pressures is startlingly weak," said Arianna Gleason, a postdoctoral researcher in the department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, and lead author of the paper. Wendy Mao, an assistant professor in the department, is the co-author.

"This strength measurement can help us understand how the core deforms over long time scales, which influences how we think about Earth's evolution and planetary evolution in general," Gleason said.

Until now, almost all of what is known about Earth's inner core came from studies tracking seismic waves as they travel from the surface of the planet through the interior. Those studies have shown that the travel time through the inner core isn't the same in every direction, indicating that the inner core itself is not uniform. Over time and subjected to great pressure, the core has developed a sort of fabric as grains of iron elongate and align lengthwise in parallel formations.

The ease and speed with which iron grains in the inner core can deform and align would have influenced the evolution of the early Earth and development of the geomagnetic field. The field is generated by the circulation of liquid iron in the outer core around the solid inner core and shields Earth from the full intensity of solar radiation. Without the geomagnetic field, life -- at least as we know it -- would not be possible on Earth.

"The development of the inner core would certainly have some effect on the geomagnetic field, but just what effect and the magnitude of the effect, we can't say," said Mao. "That is very speculative."

Gleason and Mao conducted their experiments using a diamond anvil cell -- a device that can exert immense pressure on tiny samples clenched between two diamonds. They subjected minute amounts of pure iron to pressures between 200 and 300 gigapascals (equivalent to the pressure of 2 million to 3 million Earth atmospheres). Previous experimental studies were conducted in the range of only 10 gigapascals.

"We really pushed the limit here in terms of experimental conditions," Gleason said. "Pioneering advancements in pressure-generation techniques and improvements in detector sensitivity, for example, used at large X-ray synchrotron facilities, such as Argonne National Lab, have allowed us to make these new measurements."

In addition to intense pressures, the inner core also has extreme temperatures. The boundary between the inner and outer core has temperatures comparable to the surface of the sun. Simultaneously simulating both the pressure and temperature at the inner core isn't yet possible in the laboratory, though Gleason and Mao are working on that for future studies. (For this study, Gleason mathematically extrapolated from their pressure data to factor in the effect of temperature.)

Gleason and Mao expect their findings will help other researchers set more realistic variables for conducting their own experiments.

"People modeling the inner core haven't had many experimental constraints, because it's so difficult to make measurements under those conditions," Mao said. "There really weren't constraints on how strong the core was, so this is really a fundamental new constraint."

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Forecasters Had Chance To Warn Moore, Okla., Before Tornado

Melissa Block talks to Jon Hamilton about the science of tornadoes.

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Tunisian feminist arrested for alleged provocation

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) ? An outspoken Tunisian feminist who scandalized the country by posting topless photos of herself online has been arrested and may be charged for conducting "provocative acts" at a religious center where police prevented hardline Islamists from holding their annual conference, the Interior Ministry said Monday.

Amina Tyler, 19, describes herself as a member of the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN, which uses nudity in protests. On Sunday she went to the central Tunisian city of Kairouan, where police prevented the hardline Ansar al-Shariah group from holding a conference after it was deemed a threat to public order.

Tyler allegedly scrawled FEMEN on the wall near the main mosque and may have intended to hang a banner on the building before an angry crowd of locals gathered shouting at her to leave.

Video posted by the Tunisian online Nawaat news site shows Tyler, with dyed blond hair, clutching a banner and being hustled away by police and put into a van as residents chased her.

A local resident shouts at the camera: "She is dishonoring us. We will protect our town, but a dirty girl like her shouldn't come among us."

In March, Tyler posted pictures of her topless body with the phrase "my body is my own" scrawled on it, and she went into hiding after receiving death threats. Her family took her to stay with relatives outside the capital before she escaped and hid with friends.

Last month she said she wanted to do one more dramatic protest before leaving for France to study journalism.

Mohammed Ali Aroui, the spokesman for the Tunisian Interior Ministry, described her acts as provocative and said she is under investigation and may be charged for her behavior on Sunday. He added that he understood the angry reaction of local residents to her appearance.

The ministry had banned Ansar al-Shariah's annual conference, citing it as a "threat to security and public order," and sent 11,000 soldiers and police to prevent hardline Muslims, known as salafis, from entering Kairouan.

There were minor clashes in the central city, but it was a Tunis suburb that saw the most severe violence involving hundreds of protesters, burning tires, rocks and tear gas. The state news agency said one person was killed.

Aroui said Tyler was able to make it into Kairouan through multiple police checkpoints because she had been wearing a veil and they did not recognize her.

Tunisia was ruled with an iron hand for 23 years by dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali until he was overthrown in a popular uprising in 2011 that sparked the Arab Spring across the region. With his fall, Tunisia has witnessed an explosion of new groups and movements from across the political spectrum.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tunisian-feminist-arrested-alleged-provocation-170229924.html

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