Executing the?cost reduction plan CEO Mark Pincus announced in November, Zynga has shut down, pulled from the app stores, or stopped accepting new players to eleven games, with some turning off today. The gaming giant will reallocate resources to more successful titles as well as creating new ones. Along with layoffs, the shutdowns are part of the hard road to recovery for Zynga.
A new variant of the Google Glass augmented-reality headset has been spotted in New York ? one with prescription lenses, which should be welcome news to nearsighted gadget-lovers?around the world.
The device (in Google muted red) was photographed?at a restaurant in New York?by an anonymous tipster, who then sent the picture?in to the blog Road to Virtual Reality. The now-familiar shape of the Glass prototype, with battery pack behind the ear and visor arm in front, adorns a pair of ordinary metal-framed prescription?glasses.
It may come as no surprise that Google,?a company with so many four-eyed nerds (like us!), should make their tech compatible with them, but it's not always possible. Some methods of presenting 3-D or augmented reality simply don't work when paired with glasses, whether for optical or ergonomic reasons. That means that millions don't get the opportunity to see movies in 3-D or try out the latest display technologies.
But luckily for the glasses-wearing public, Google's highly?anticipated headset appears to work well enough to take on the road, although there may still be limitations relating to other visual conditions, like astigmatism.
Google Glass isn't yet available for the public, but a $1,500 "Explorer Edition" developer kit is set to ship early in 2013, at which point it should be slightly more common to see the devices in the wild.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBCNews Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.
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Why does putting up a fresh cat calendar always inspire us to promise ourselves wild things we can never live up to? Fact is, you?re pretty bitchin? already, so feel free to keep these resolutions out of your 2013 plans.
Lose Weight Trimming up is great, but setting unrealistic goals like dropping a third of your body weight by summer is just going to get you down. Which in turn will cause you to assume the fetal position while binging on ice cream. Instead, just focus on staying active and healthy.
Take The Stairs Admirable, but totally undoable. You?ll be in a rush one day, or stuck behind too many slow walkers, or wanting to get in some elevator chat time with that cute guy/girl from the third floor office. Either way, you?ll befriend the elevator again.
Less Time on The Internet I?m pretty sure Facebook and YouTube will be equally entertaining in 2013. Sure, 10 hours a day online is ruining your real life, but think of your Twitter followers!
Eat Healthy Food You should totally attempt to eat some more healthy, home cooked meals. But face it: pizza night isn?t going to take a hike any time soon. It?s all about balance.
Save Money Starting a loose change piggy bank is a great way to save money ? until you get a midnight craving for chow mein (note: It is perfectly acceptable to pay a $20 delivery bill with quarters and dimes!)? A better way to save money is to save up for something you want. Like shoes.
Drink Less If 2013 turns out to be a bust, you?re not going to drink less. And if 2013 has tons of cause for celebration, you?re not going to drink less. Accept it and move on.
Here?s to 2013! A year to be our best without being so hard on ourselves! Tsaketa!
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CALIFORNIA FOCUS - "NEXT ELECTION: WILL GOP FIND ANOTHER BILLIONAIRE?"
The moment one election ends, all politicians' thoughts naturally turn to the next one. And California's 2014 run for governor "which has already informally begun" could be one completely unique.
There's the good chance current Gov. Jerry Brown will try for a second term in his second coming " a fourth overall, which would tie him with Earl Warren for the most often-elected governor in this state's history.
If the 74-year-old Brown opts to slip quietly into retirement " not the sort of thing that's in his nature " Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom stands panting in the wings, ready to jump in. No doubt, Brown will tantalize Newsom, the two-term San Francisco mayor and son of a close associate of Brown's father, as long as he can, keeping him dangling in the wind as a sort of payback for an abortive 2010 primary election run in which Newsom sometimes suggested Brown was a has-been.
Of course, if Brown leaves, there could be plenty of Democratic primary competition for Newsom, starting with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Attorney General Kamala Harris and perhaps including state Controller John Chiang, who has developed a reputation as a rare sort of political straight-shooter and a responsible fiscal steward not afraid of challenging even his own party mates in the Legislature.
But the chances are Brown will run again, leaving some of the others to play musical chairs among
lesser statewide offices.
In several election-season talks, Brown alluded to California's future, calling it "dynamic" and saying his moves during the last two years have created a solid "framework for a very good credit rating." Brown's clear implication was that he'll want to be around to enjoy the fruits of his very hard work in paring budgets and passing Proposition 30's temporary tax increases.
One person who certainly would not be scared off by a Brown reelection drive is Molly Munger, who refused to knuckle under this year when Brown tried to get her to give up or compromise on her school tax plan, which turned into Proposition 38 last fall. Billionaire Munger put about $20 million into the losing campaign for that one; imagine what she might spend on her own candidacy.
"For sure, she has the ego for a race like that," says one acquaintance. But the more interesting party in this nascent gubernatorial season may be the Republicans, who have no incumbents in statewide office and trail Democrats 44-29 percent in voter registration, with most other voters signed up with no party preference, today's parlance for independent.
Every since then-Attorney General Dan Lungren lost badly to Democrat Gray Davis in 1998, the GOP's gubernatorial runs have been dominated by billionaires and near-billionaires. Its last three candidates for the state's top job fell into that category: financier Bill Simon, muscleman actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and businesswoman Meg Whitman, now the CEO of the seemingly ever-downsizing Hewlett-Packard Co.
Whitman put about $150 million of her own funds into her 2010 run against Brown and lost handily.
But friends of 2002 loser Simon say he's contemplating another run in spite of the evidence that in order to win, a billionaire needs a measure of celebrity to go along with all that cash. Schwarzenegger had both a big name and big money, while Whitman and her primary opponent, former state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, a near billionaire, for the most part had only big piles of cash.
Poizner now says he might run again. The former state insurance commissioner founded and then sold a company that invented and designed the GPS chip for cellphones. He's spent most of the last two years setting up _www.empowered.com_ (http://www.empowered.com/) , an adult-oriented job-training and counseling business where he partners with UCLA, among others.
"I haven't decided to run or not to run," Poizner says. Like other super-wealthy possibilities, he doesn't have to decide soon, because fund-raising is no problem for him. He can write a check for whatever amount might be needed.
Other Republicans thinking of running include Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, best known for getting arrested while trying to carry a gun onto an airplane, and John Cox, a real estate investor and former chairman of the Cook County (Chicago) Republican committee who now lives in Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego.
So there will be no dearth of candidates. The wild card here may be the new Top Two primary system, which got its first outing this year and saw more than 20 contests where the runoff election matched candidates from the same party. Could the next contest pit Brown against Molly Munger in an intraparty grudge match? Brown isn't saying, but may still resent Munger's commercials disparaging Proposition 30, while Munger resents Brown for killing off her rival plan.
That might be as bitter an election fight as California has seen, and it could happen.
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Microsoft is currently investigating reports of a zero day bug affecting Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8, the company announced in a Security Advisory. At issue is a remote code execution vulnerability that would allow attackers to seize control of a Windows PC.
How it works is IE attempts to reference and use an object that had previously been freed. The components of an exploit for such a vulnerability are typically:
Javascript to trigger the Internet Explorer vulnerability
Heap spray or similar memory preparation to ensure the memory being accessed after it has been freed is useful
A way around the ASLR platform-level mitigation
A way around the DEP platform-level mitigation
Microsoft suggests disabling certain services while it works on a patch. Alternately, you can use an alternative browser like Google Chrome (shown above).
"The IE team is working around the clock to develop a security update to address this vulnerability for earlier versions of the product," Microsoft stated. " However, until the update is available, customers using Internet Explorer 8 can block the current targeted attacks by introducing changes to disrupt any of the elements of the exploit."
Those changes include disabling Javascript, disabling Flash, and disabling the MS-Help protocol handler along with ensuring "Java6" is not allowed to run.
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We hope Santa was good to you this year and that you?ve had your fill of turkey and all the trimmings. Now, you?re likely settling in to finish off all your last minute business for the year and preparing to start another. Hopefully, it starts out with a bang for you. Our last round up of the year is short, but we filled with links and information to help get 2013 started off right.
Let?s get started shall we?
Beginner SEO and Marketing
Starting a Small Business: 7 Deadly Sins ? For many of you, a new year means a new business (or restarting an existing one). That?s what makes this post from Small Business Trends such a good fit for our last round up. Have you stumbled across some deadly sins to add to the list?
War of Words: Myth-Busting Search Engine Optimization ? SEO is intimidating and overwhelming for a lot of new marketers. If you?ve been putting off your SEO strategy, Lee Odden?s last myth-busting piece of the year is just the kick in the pants you?ll need to put an end to your procrastination.
Is Customer Service the New Marketing ? 2012 seemed to be a big year for customer service and reputation management, but can quality customer service serve another role? V3 seems to think so. They?ve got some great profit-boosting ideas for your customer service strategy.
Intermediate SEO, Marketing & Business Tips
3 Video Marketing Gifts: Content Repurposing Tools & Inspiration for 2013 ? We talked a lot this year about stretching your content budget with repurposing. We also talked a lot about the increasing importance of video marketing. This post from TopRank brings the two topics together. It also gives you the tools and inspiration you need to get started with video marketing in 2013.
3 Creative Ways to Grow Your Email List ? Studies and reports published throughout the past twelve months have shown email marketing is still highly effective and profitable. To help you get more from your email lists in the coming year, Duct Tape Marketing published a post with three interesting ideas to increase your numbers and get 2013 off to a rocking start.
5 Ways to Get More Facebook Likes ? And in line with the previous link, Vertical Response came up with 5 interesting ways to build your business? following on Facebook.
Advanced SEO, Marketing & Business Links
Why Local Blogging Works ? Local material has becoming increasing popular in the blogosphere this year, but do you know why? Matt McGee has a few ideas. If you?re already publishing local content, the concepts discussed in this post might just give you ideas that will strengthen your current following.
Social Signals Important or Just so Much Smoke? ? Changes made by Google, Bing, and other search engines this year have brought the topic of social signals to the front and center of many SEO-related discussions this year. But is there a reason for all this chatter? Or, is everyone overreacting? Small Biz Bee looks at this debate.
Great Posts Published This Week Everyone Should Check Out
WordPress Introduces Unlimited Scalable Business Blogging Platform ? Thriving blogging and content marketing strategies always bring up one common problem: cost. That?s why WordPress has announced a new solution. Do you think this was a good move on their part? Do you think this will be enough to convince companies to make the switch?
Adobe Acquires Behance: Adds Community Features to Creative Cloud ? If you make use of Adobe Creative Cloud, you?ll be rejoicing at this latest news. Do you think this was a smart move for the software giant?
Nielsen and Twitter Team Up to Launch Social TV Rating ? Those of you who love user behaviour and statistics will also have a little something extra to rejoice about in 2013. A new announcement from Nielsen and Twitter will make social TV ratings a hot topic and provide a wealth of information on TV and entertainment. Will you be making use of this new information?
Dec. 27, 2012 ? The rate of people who seek preventive cancer screenings has fallen over the last ten years in the United States with wide variations between white-collar and blue-collar workers, according to a University of Miami Miller School of Medicine study published on December 27 in the open-access journal Frontiers in Cancer Epidemiology.
While earlier diagnoses and improved treatments have increased the number of survivors, cancer remains one of the most prominent chronic diseases and, last year alone, claimed the lives of more than 570,000 people in the U.S.
"There is a great need for increased cancer prevention efforts in the U.S., especially for screening as it is considered one of the most important preventive behaviors and helps decrease the burden of this disease on society in terms of quality of life, the number of lives lost and insurance costs," said lead author Tainya Clarke, M.P.H., research associate in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.
"But despite this," Clarke continued, "our research has shown that adherence rates for cancer screenings have generally declined with severe implications for the health outlook of our society."
For their NIH-funded study, Clarke and her team evaluated the cancer screening behaviors of the general public and cancer survivors to see if government-recommended screenings goals were achieved.
The study looked at cancer screening adherence rates for colorectal, breast, cervical and prostate cancers and compared the screening rates among the general public to all cancer survivors and to the subpopulation of employed survivors.
Results showed that the general public did not meet government recommendations for cancer screenings for any cancer types except colorectal cancer. About 54 percent of the general public underwent colorectal screenings, exceeding the 50 percent goal of the government's "Healthy People 2010" national health promotion and disease prevention initiative.
By contrast, cancer survivors, who are at an increased risk of developing the disease, had higher screening rates and underwent the recommended cancer screenings for all types except cervical cancer, which decreased to 78 percent over the last decade. The study also showed a decline among cancers survivors who sought cancer screenings over the last three years.
The researchers used the recommended cancer screening rates set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and looked at data from the National Health Interview Survey between 1997 and 2010. In total, 174,393 people were included in the study analysis, with 7,528 employed cancer survivors and 119,374 people representing the general population.
In addition, the study showed that among survivors, white collar workers had higher screening rates than blue collar workers -- a crucial discovery that Clarke hopes will help change current job-related policies and overcome disparities within different professions of working cancer survivors.
The researchers speculated that ongoing disagreements among the United States Preventive Services Task Force, American Cancer Society and others over screening guidelines, as well as the decrease in worker insurance rates over the decade may have influenced the decline in screening rates.
Clarke hopes that more comprehensive research will assess the combined factors affecting screening rates and lead to more effective workplace interventions and increase screening within each occupational sector.
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CAIRO (AP) ? An Egyptian official says the country's top prosecutor has ordered an investigation into accusations against opposition leaders of incitement to overthrow the regime.
The prosecution official said Thursday a judge will investigate the report filed last month accusing Mohammed ElBaradei, Nobel Prize laureate and former head of the U.N. nuclear agency, along with Amr Moussa, former foreign minister and Hamdeen Sabahi, a former presidential candidate, of inciting the overthrow of Egypt's first elected president, Mohammed Morsi.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government policies.
The accusations were filed by a lawyer during a political crisis over a series of presidential decrees that granted Morsi and the committee drafting the disputed constitution immunity from judicial oversight. Tensions were fed by deadly clashes between pro- and anti-Morsi demonstrators.
Plan your island getaway now: In time, the mountainous tropical paradise of Oahu will erode, according to new research, with the biggest losses coming from within the island itself.
To be accurate, you do have some time to book that vacation before Hawaii's Oahu flattens from an island into a low-lying seamount. Researchers writing in the upcoming Feb. 15 issue of the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta estimate that the volcanic island will continue to grow, thanks to plate tectonics, for another 75,000 to 1.75 million years. After that, however, the forces working to eat away at Oahu from the inside out will begin to triumph.
Researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah investigated the forces that add and subtract material from Oahu. The island offers an ideal place to conduct such a study, the researchers said, as it consists of one kind of rock that is exposed to very different levels of precipitation. Various regions in Oahu can record between 2 and 23 feet of precipitation a year, depending on the local climate. [ Gallery: One-of-a-Kind Places on Earth ]
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The researchers measured solids dissolved in both surface and groundwater from 45 streams and 30 springs and wells around the island, adding those new measurements to previously reported data, for a total of 170 water samples scattered across Oahu.
Using that data, scientists calculated the mass Oahu loses each year. Although one might expect rain to carry away most of the soil in such a wet climate, underground freshwater springs actually removed the bulk of the mineral material from Oahu, the researchers found.
"More material is dissolving from those islands than what is being carried off through erosion," study researcher Steve Nelson, a Brigham Young University geologist, said in a statement.
In fact, groundwater carried between three and 12 times as much dissolved solids compared to surface water, the researchers report.
Oahu is made up of the remnants of two collapsed shield volcanoes, the kind known for burping out thick, oozy lava that hardens into new land. One volcano, Waianae, was active from about 4 to 2.6 million years ago; the other, Koolau, developed later.
Today, Oahu grows not because of volcanism, but from geologic uplift. As the younger Hawaiian Islands push the Pacific tectonic plate downward, nearby Oahu "pops up," as if on a seesaw. That uplift pushes Oahu's landforms upward at a rate of 0.2 feet per thousand years, enough (for now) to compensate for the losses caused by groundwater carrying away the island's mass.
Researchers hope that the same methods they used on Oahu can help clarify how other tropical islands change in response to different climate conditions.
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2012 was the year that was supposed to destroy us -- and it nearly did.
After surviving an unparalleled disaster that rocked us to our core (Lindsay Lohan in Liz & Dick), we pulled together as a nation of Thelmas and Louises, ready to boldly drive off the fiscal cliff together.
Now, as December draws to a close, our nation's critics and bloggers have once again generously given us their thoughts on the main cultural and newsworthy events of the year in the form of Top 10 lists. Since my earliest childhood, I have always been a sucker for these holiday treats, savoring the opportunity to measure the tastes of each scribe against my own.
These essential lists provide us with a sense of perspective, comfort and order. They fulfill a deeply spiritual need to make sense of our existences in the face of a cruel and capricious universe. As the Italian novelist Umberto Eco explains, "It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die."
And so, in recognition of their enduring value, instead of offering my own Top 10 films, plays or books, I present to you my Top 10 Top 10 Lists of 2012. I hope that a close inspection of these items (varied in content, unparalleled in exuberance) helps you grapple with the incomprehensible as we begin to face new mysteries in 2013. Without further ado, these are the lists that fascinated and enlightened me this year:
10. Top 10 Most Disgusting Objects Allegedly Found in Fast Food (TheWeek.com)
The list that inspired me to learn how to cook.
9. (Tie) Top 10 Best Dressed at the Golden Globes (Vogue)and Top 10 Worst Dressed at the 2012 Teen Choice Awards (Wetpaint.com)
Any list that places Tilda Swinton on top and Justin Bieber on bottom is one we need to talk about.
8. Top 10 Disturbing Products Derived From the Human Body (Listverse.com)
For teaching us that Soylent Green is no longer science fiction... in China, at least.
7. Top 10 Worst Grooming Mistakes (FoxNews.com with Men's Health)
The most insightful, significant and responsible piece of journalism from Fox News in a long time.
6. Top 10 Credenzas (Elle D?cor)
For alerting us to the harsh truth that you are nothing without a credenza. Nothing.
5. Top 10 Weirdest Animal Stories of 2012 (National Geographic)
We finally found a species that urinates out of its mouth. Thank you, National Geographic!
4. Top 10 Items From Oprah's New 'Favorite Things' List That We Actually Love (Business Insider)
Question: What could be better than the very best of anything Oprah?
3. Top 10 Worst Tweets of 2012 (Time magazine)
Answer: Reading a tweet from Oprah begging you to watch her network.
2. This list
Unfortunately, I missed out on the number one spot, which clearly had to go to...
1. Top 10 Mitt Romney Out of Touch Moments (ThinkProgress)
The most devastating and effective gag reel produced all year, featuring the GOP's number one mistake this election cycle.
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An Iraqi woman carries her child as wades through flood water, after heavy rain fell in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
An Iraqi woman carries her child as wades through flood water, after heavy rain fell in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
An Iraqi family make their way through flood water, after heavy rain fell in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Iraqis make their way through flooded streets after heavy rain fell in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
RAMADI, Iraq (AP) ? Thousands of Iraqi demonstrators massed in a Sunni-dominated province west of Baghdad Wednesday, determined to keep up the pressure on a Shiite-led government that many accuse of trying to marginalize them.
It was the third major protest in less than a week in Anbar, Iraq's largest province, once the heart of the deadly Sunni insurgency that erupted after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
The unrest is part of a larger picture of sectarian conflicts that threaten the stability of the country, a year after the last U.S. troops left.
The demonstrations follow the arrest last week of 10 bodyguards assigned to Finance Minister Rafia al-Issawi, who comes from Anbar and is one of the central government's most senior Sunni officials. The case is exacerbating tensions with Iraq's Sunnis, who see the detentions as politically motivated.
Protesters turned out Wednesday near the provincial capital Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad. The city and nearby Fallujah were the scenes of some of the deadliest fighting between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents.
Demonstrators gathered along a highway linking Baghdad with neighboring Jordan and Syria. They held banners demanding that Sunni rights be respected and calling for the release of Sunni prisoners in Iraqi jails. "We warn the government not to draw the country into sectarian conflict," read one. Another declared: "We are not a minority."
Al-Issawi made an appearance at the rally, arriving in a long convoy of black SUVs protected by heavily armed bodyguards. He condemned last week's raid on his office and rattled off a list of grievances aimed at Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government.
"Injustice, marginalization, discrimination and double standards, as well as the politicization of the judiciary system and a lack of respect for partnership, law and constitution ... have all turned our neighborhoods in Baghdad into huge prisons surrounded by concrete blocks," he declared.
Iraq's majority Shiites rose to power following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime, though the country's minority Sunni Arabs and Kurds do hold some posts in the government.
Many Sunnis see the arrest of the finance minister's guards as the latest in a series of moves by the Shiite prime minister against their sect and other perceived political opponents. Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, one of the country's highest-ranking Sunni politicians, is now living in exile in Turkey after being handed multiple death sentences for allegedly running death squads ? a charge he dismisses as politically motivated.
"This sit-in will remain open-ended until the demonstrators' demands are met, and until the injustice against ends," cleric Hamid al-Issawi told The Associated Press at the protest. He accused al-Maliki's government of trying to create rifts between Sunnis and Shiites.
"These practices are aimed at drawing the country into a sectarian conflict again by creating crisis and targeting prominent national figures," the cleric said.
Al-Maliki has defended the arrests of the finance minister's guards as legal and based on warrants issued by judicial authorities. He also recently warned against a return to sectarian strife in criticizing the responses of prominent Sunni officials to the detentions.
In a recent statement, the prime minister dismissed the rhetoric as political posturing ahead of provincial elections scheduled for April and warned his opponents not to forget the dark days of sectarian fighting "when we used to collect bodies and chopped heads from the streets."
The political tensions are rising at a sensitive time. Iraq's ailing President Jalal Talabani is incapacitated following a serious stroke last week and is being treated in a German hospital. The 79-year-old president, an ethnic Kurd, is widely seen as a unifying figure with the clout to mediate among the country's ethnic and sectarian groups.
Also Wednesday, the United Nations mission to Iraq said its monitors have determined that a hospital that treated a member of an Iranian exile group who died this week at a refugee camp near Baghdad did not consider his health condition serious enough to warrant hospitalization when he arrived for treatment in November.
An organization representing the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq exile group on Monday accused Iraqi authorities of preventing 56-year-old Behrooz Rahimian from being hospitalized, and alleged that the U.N. failed to take sufficient steps to intervene. Iraq considers the MEK a terrorist group and wants its members out of the country.
The U.N. mission in Baghdad said in a statement Wednesday that it "does not have any indication so far that treatment was obstructed by the Iraqi authorities." It noted that representatives for the refugee residents told U.N. monitors that Rahimian "appeared to be in good condition until the time of his death."
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Associated Press writers Adam Schreck and Sinan Salaheddin contributed.
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Some areas see a sharp rise, others see stagna?tion, even declin?e.
Average land prices in most middle class neighbourhoods in Lahore increased by a meagre 2.79% per year during the past five years, according to the data. DESIGN: FAIZAN DAWOOD.
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A glut of new real estate developments in Lahore over the past five years has created a housing surplus in the city, keeping prices throughout much of the provincial capital largely stagnant, according to new data released by Zameen.com.
As a precursor to creating a real estate price index, Zameen.com, one of the largest real estate websites in Pakistan, has compiled data on average real estate prices for Lahore since it began tracking data in 2007. The data is based on land and house price listings on Zameen.com. While the website is not able to keep track of actual sale prices of each property listed, the trends in listing prices are often a useful proxy for actual prices. It was this data that was shared with The Express Tribune and it does not paint a pretty picture for real estate investors in the city.
Average land prices in most middle class neighbourhoods in Lahore increased by a meagre 2.79% per year during the past five years, according to the data. During that time, inflation averaged 13.83% per year, meaning that most people who invested in land in the provincial capital lost money in real terms. Any property price increase they saw was wiped away by inflation.
House prices fared only marginally better, with the average price of a home in a middle or upper-middle income neighbourhood in Lahore increasing by a meagre 3.73% per year during the past five years, again well below inflation.
There was, nonetheless, some significant variation within house prices. The average 1,210-square-yard (two kanals, in local parlance) house in middle and upper-middle income neighbourhoods in Lahore saw its prices rise by only 3.42% per year during the five years between 2007 and 2012. The average price increase for a one kanal (605 square yard) house in those neighbourhoods rose by an even worse 2.35% per year, according to Zameen.com?s data.
Property prices towards the lower end of the spectrum ? 10 marlas (303 square yards) ? rose by an average of 5.3% per year during the period covered by Zameen.com?s data, which suggests that demand among the lower end of the middle class remains more robust.
These property price growth rates are not the entirety of a real estate investor?s returns on his or her investment, of course. There is also rental yield, the annual rent received from a property divided by its total price. Data on the rental yields in Lahore are not currently available, but it seems highly unlikely that yields would be high enough to beat the inflation rate over the past five years.
It is also important to recognise that the averages do not mean that any individual investor would not have been able to beat inflation, or even make good money. Indeed, the data suggests that patterns across Lahore are far from uniform.
Buyers of property in Bahria Town, Valencia Housing Society, and Wapda Town saw their property prices increase by an average of 10.76%, 8.06%, and 7.68% per year respectively. Somewhat surprisingly, Gulberg houses fared the worst: prices actually declined even in nominal terms by an average of 7.66% per year, though in that case, it may simply be that the higher-end properties in Gulberg are no longer on sale and thus no longer show up in the average for the neighbourhood.
Anecdotal evidence, however, does seem to suggest that Lahoris increasingly prefer to live in housing societies built by large real estate development companies, with all the amenities and comforts that such societies offer. Those anecdotes are backed up in the data, with the higher price increases being in the middle-priced housing societies, and the worst drops coming in the larger houses in older neighbourhoods.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 26th, 2012.?
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Study shows rapid warming on the West Antarctic Ice SheetPublic release date: 23-Dec-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Pam Frost Gorder Gorder.1@osu.edu 614-292-9475 Ohio State University
COLUMBUS, OhioIn a discovery that raises further concerns about the future contribution of Antarctica to sea level rise, a new study finds that the western part of the ice sheet is experiencing nearly twice as much warming as previously thought.
The temperature record from Byrd Station, a scientific outpost in the center of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), demonstrates a marked increase of 4.3 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4 degrees Celsius) in average annual temperature since 1958that is, three times faster than the average temperature rise around the globe.
This temperature increase is nearly double what previous research has suggested, and revealsfor the first timewarming trends during the summer months of the Southern Hemisphere (December through February), said David Bromwich, professor of geography at Ohio State University and senior research scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center.
The findings were published online this week in the journal Nature Geoscience.
"Our record suggests that continued summer warming in West Antarctica could upset the surface mass balance of the ice sheet, so that the region could make an even bigger contribution to sea level rise than it already does," said Bromwich.
"Even without generating significant mass loss directly, surface melting on the WAIS could contribute to sea level indirectly, by weakening the West Antarctic ice shelves that restrain the region's natural ice flow into the ocean."
Andrew Monaghan, study co-author and scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), said that these findings place West Antarctica among the fastest-warming regions on Earth.
"We've already seen enhanced surface melting contribute to the breakup of the Antarctic's Larsen B Ice Shelf, where glaciers at the edge discharged massive sections of ice into the ocean that contributed to sea level rise," Monaghan said. "The stakes would be much higher if a similar event occurred to an ice shelf restraining one of the enormous WAIS glaciers."
Researchers consider the WAIS especially sensitive to climate change, explained Ohio State University doctoral student Julien Nicolas. Since the base of the ice sheet rests below sea level, it is vulnerable to direct contact with warm ocean water. Its melting currently contributes 0.3 mm to sea level rise each yearsecond to Greenland, whose contribution to sea level rise has been estimated as high as 0.7 mm per year.
Due to its location some 700 miles from the South Pole and near the center of the WAIS, Byrd Station is an important indicator of climate change throughout the region.
In the past, researchers haven't been able to make much use of the Byrd Station measurements because the data was incomplete; nearly one third of the temperature observations were missing for the time period of the study. Since its establishment in 1957, the station hasn't always been occupied. A year-round automated station was installed in 1980, but it has experienced frequent power outages, especially during the long polar night, when its solar panels can't recharge.
Bromwich and two of his graduate students, along with colleagues from NCAR and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, corrected the past Byrd temperature measurements and used corrected data from a computer atmospheric model and a numerical analysis method to fill in the missing observations.
Aside from offering a more complete picture of warming in West Antarctica, the study suggests that if this warming trend continues, melting will become more extensive in the region in the future, Bromwich said.
While the researchers work to fully understand the cause of the summer warming at Byrd Station, the next step is clear, he added.
"West Antarctica is one of the most rapidly changing regions on Earth, but it is also one of the least known," he said. "Our study underscores the need for a reliable network of meteorological observations throughout West Antarctica, so that we can know what is happeningand whywith more certainty."
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This research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
Contact:
David Bromwich, 614-292-6692; Bromwich.1@osu.edu
Written by Pam Frost Gorder, 614-292-9475; Gorder.1@osu.edu
Additional contacts:
Andrew Monaghan, 303-497-8424; monaghan@ucar.edu
Media contacts for Andrew Monaghan:
David Hosansky, 303-497-8611; hosansky@ucar.edu
Zhenya Gallon 303-497-8607; zhenya@ucar.edu
Editor's note: Contact Pam Frost Gorder for images related to the story.
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Study shows rapid warming on the West Antarctic Ice SheetPublic release date: 23-Dec-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Pam Frost Gorder Gorder.1@osu.edu 614-292-9475 Ohio State University
COLUMBUS, OhioIn a discovery that raises further concerns about the future contribution of Antarctica to sea level rise, a new study finds that the western part of the ice sheet is experiencing nearly twice as much warming as previously thought.
The temperature record from Byrd Station, a scientific outpost in the center of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), demonstrates a marked increase of 4.3 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4 degrees Celsius) in average annual temperature since 1958that is, three times faster than the average temperature rise around the globe.
This temperature increase is nearly double what previous research has suggested, and revealsfor the first timewarming trends during the summer months of the Southern Hemisphere (December through February), said David Bromwich, professor of geography at Ohio State University and senior research scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center.
The findings were published online this week in the journal Nature Geoscience.
"Our record suggests that continued summer warming in West Antarctica could upset the surface mass balance of the ice sheet, so that the region could make an even bigger contribution to sea level rise than it already does," said Bromwich.
"Even without generating significant mass loss directly, surface melting on the WAIS could contribute to sea level indirectly, by weakening the West Antarctic ice shelves that restrain the region's natural ice flow into the ocean."
Andrew Monaghan, study co-author and scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), said that these findings place West Antarctica among the fastest-warming regions on Earth.
"We've already seen enhanced surface melting contribute to the breakup of the Antarctic's Larsen B Ice Shelf, where glaciers at the edge discharged massive sections of ice into the ocean that contributed to sea level rise," Monaghan said. "The stakes would be much higher if a similar event occurred to an ice shelf restraining one of the enormous WAIS glaciers."
Researchers consider the WAIS especially sensitive to climate change, explained Ohio State University doctoral student Julien Nicolas. Since the base of the ice sheet rests below sea level, it is vulnerable to direct contact with warm ocean water. Its melting currently contributes 0.3 mm to sea level rise each yearsecond to Greenland, whose contribution to sea level rise has been estimated as high as 0.7 mm per year.
Due to its location some 700 miles from the South Pole and near the center of the WAIS, Byrd Station is an important indicator of climate change throughout the region.
In the past, researchers haven't been able to make much use of the Byrd Station measurements because the data was incomplete; nearly one third of the temperature observations were missing for the time period of the study. Since its establishment in 1957, the station hasn't always been occupied. A year-round automated station was installed in 1980, but it has experienced frequent power outages, especially during the long polar night, when its solar panels can't recharge.
Bromwich and two of his graduate students, along with colleagues from NCAR and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, corrected the past Byrd temperature measurements and used corrected data from a computer atmospheric model and a numerical analysis method to fill in the missing observations.
Aside from offering a more complete picture of warming in West Antarctica, the study suggests that if this warming trend continues, melting will become more extensive in the region in the future, Bromwich said.
While the researchers work to fully understand the cause of the summer warming at Byrd Station, the next step is clear, he added.
"West Antarctica is one of the most rapidly changing regions on Earth, but it is also one of the least known," he said. "Our study underscores the need for a reliable network of meteorological observations throughout West Antarctica, so that we can know what is happeningand whywith more certainty."
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This research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
Contact:
David Bromwich, 614-292-6692; Bromwich.1@osu.edu
Written by Pam Frost Gorder, 614-292-9475; Gorder.1@osu.edu
Additional contacts:
Andrew Monaghan, 303-497-8424; monaghan@ucar.edu
Media contacts for Andrew Monaghan:
David Hosansky, 303-497-8611; hosansky@ucar.edu
Zhenya Gallon 303-497-8607; zhenya@ucar.edu
Editor's note: Contact Pam Frost Gorder for images related to the story.
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Microsoft is currently investigating reports of a zero day bug affecting Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8, the company announced in a Security Advisory. At issue is a remote code execution vulnerability that would allow attackers to seize control of a Windows PC.
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