College football coaches preseason poll: Alabama predictably at the top

The USA Today Top 25 football coaches preseason poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, 2012 records, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and ranking in final 2012 poll:

1. Alabama (58)?? ?13-1?? ?1,545?? ?1
2. Ohio State (3)?? ?12-0?? ?1,427?? ?NR
3. Oregon?? ?12-1?? ?1,397?? ?2
4. Stanford?? ?12-2?? ?1,262?? ?6
5. Georgia?? ?12-2?? ?1,250?? ?4
6. Texas A&M (1)?? ?11-2?? ?1,215?? ?5
7. South Carolina?? ?11-2?? ?1,136?? ?7
8. Clemson?? ?11-2?? ?1,047?? ?9
9. Louisville?? ?11-2?? ?1,010?? ?13
10. Florida?? ?11-2?? ?930?? ?10
11. Notre Dame?? ?12-1?? ?872?? ?3
12. Florida State?? ?12-2?? ?844?? ?8
13. LSU?? ?10-3?? ?797?? ?12
14. Oklahoma State?? ?8-5?? ?726?? ?NR
15. Texas?? ?9-4?? ?622?? ?18
16. Oklahoma?? ?10-3?? ?620?? ?15
17. Michigan?? ?8-5?? ?589?? ?NR
18. Nebraska?? ?10-4?? ?426?? ?23
19. Boise State?? ?11-2?? ?420?? ?14
20. TCU?? ?7-6?? ?400?? ?NR
21. UCLA?? ?9-5?? ?202?? ?NR
22. Northwestern?? ?10-3?? ?186?? ?16
23. Wisconsin?? ?8-6?? ?172?? ?NR
24. Southern Cal?? ?7-6?? ?165?? ?NR
25. Oregon State?? ?9-4?? ?135?? ?19

Others receiving votes: Kansas State 113; Miami (Fla.) 101; Michigan State 89; Baylor 80; Virginia Tech 65; Fresno State 62; Arizona State 51; Mississippi 32; Vanderbilt 29; Utah State 23; Brigham Young 20; North Carolina 19; Northern Illinois 19; Tulsa 9; Ohio 8; San Jose State 8; Arizona 5; Cincinnati 3; East Carolina 3; Kent State 3; Mississippi State 3; Washington 3; Central Florida 2; Arkansas 1; Arkansas State 1; Rutgers 1; Tennessee 1; Toledo 1.

Source: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/08/college_football_coaches_prese.html

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Hyderabad Real Estate will get a boost by Telangana formation

The anointing of Telangana as a new state has given ample reason for real estate developers in Hyderabad to rejoice. It is the general perception in realty circles in Hyderabad that with the political turmoil over Telangana done and dusted, real estate development with be on an upswing, resulting in a surge in the business of real estate developers.

With Hyderabad set to become the common capital for both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for 10 years, it would result in a fresh frenzy of real estate activity within the city as well as on the outskirts. It is felt that Hyderabad with its top class infrastructure facilites will attract tremendous global investments. This would result in an wider sphere of development activity in the commercial real estate market, thereby paving the way for the overall development of the city, including the outskirts.

The real estate market in Hyderabad was adversely affected since 2009 due to the Telangana issue and the ambiguity regarding its bifurcation. There was hardly a 10% increase in property prices since 2008. As a result, the residential capital values had reached a point of stagnation, prompting developers to seek other lucrative markets like Bangalore and Chennai. With Telangana all set to become a reality, realty in Hyderabad will be the biggest gainer.

Telangana becoming a state would asuage the fears that property developers earlier had with regard to instability in attracting investments. With that hurdle crossed, capital values on residential property in and around Hyderabad is expected to grow by 6-7% annually in 2013 and 2014. Increase in prices is expected to be faster and a narrowing down of the gap is expected in residential capital values with respect to other cities like Bangalore, Chennai and Pune. However, due to the oversupply of commercial rental space, there is expected to be only a marginal rental appreciation.

Demand for commercial/residential property in and around Hyderabad is expected to surge within 2-3 months, with appreciation in value expected in many areas. Some of these areas are the Central Business District areas like Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills, areas in and around Outer ring road, and places such as Hitech City, Kukatpally, Gachibowli, Chanda Nagar and Miyapur.

It was seen that 1,18,000 residential units were launched by developers in the past 3-4 years, in the region. Of these, as many as 33,000 houses remained unsold, mainly due to the volatile political situation prevailing with respect to Telangana. However, it was seen that there was a 11% increase in residential sales volumes in the first half of FY13 compared to the similar period of FY12. During this period, as many as 8,100 residential units were sold. A further 69,800 units were in various stages of completion, with 70% of them expected to be ready for possession by 2014 end.

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China's army defends "sovereign territory" from Japanese - in video game

By Paul Carsten

BEIJING (Reuters) - He walks backwards, emptying the magazine of his rifle into the three soldiers charging toward him with bayonets raised. They drop dead, and a small Japanese flag, its red sun stylized to resemble a bullet wound, flashes onto the screen.

These are just some of the "guizi", the derogatory Chinese term for the Japanese occupiers during World War Two, that will die at the hands of Chinese troops defending their sovereign land, in a new Chinese video game released on Thursday, the anniversary of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) founding.

"Glorious Mission Online" was developed by Giant Interactive Group, a Chinese developer and publisher, in collaboration with the PLA for use in training simulations.

Now it has been released as an online game, allowing players to defend contested islands in the East China Sea -- Diaoyu to the Chinese, Senkaku to the Japanese.

"Players will do battle alongside the PLA, with guns in hand, and tell the Japanese: 'You will not violate our sovereign territory!'" says a statement on the game's website.

The row over the barren clump of rocks in the East China Sea - administered by Japan - has badly affected relations between Beijing and Tokyo.

Japan's defense ministry declined to comment on the game's release.

The PLA was interested in having a 3D interactive game for simulations with virtual replicas of their weapons, said Richard Chiang, a spokesman for Giant Interactive.

"The military was 100 percent behind this game," he said. "Rather than playing the same foreign games like Call of Duty and being American Marines shooting Russians or whatnot, Chinese can actually play as Chinese soldiers."

Glorious Mission Online plays much like any other first-person shooter, though nationalism is prominent.

One mission has players fighting with "burning passion" from the deck of the Liaoning, China's first aircraft carrier, in a "life-and-death" battle.

"The guizi are coming!" warns the game in a scenario where players are tasked with defending a World War Two-era Shanghai and its cultural artefacts from Japanese invaders.

"The guizi have been obliterated!" Glorious Mission congratulates the player after a grenade explodes under the last enemy's feet. Shanghai's museums are saved.

(Additional reporting by Beijing Television and Antoni Slodkowski in Tokyo; Editing by Ron Popeski)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-army-defends-sovereign-territory-japanese-video-game-153904321.html

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The Case for Alien Life

On Feb. 9, 2013, NASA's Curiosity rover found something on Mars that set a milestone in the search for alien life. Packed with instruments, the rover was an SUV-size speck crawling across the floor of the Gale Crater, whose distant walls climbed 15,000 feet in the thin air. The rover had been lowered to the ground six months earlier by means of a complex, jet-propelled sky crane. Now, almost 221 million miles from home but just a quarter-mile from its landing site, Curiosity was exploring a shallow depression called Yellowknife Bay. The machine trundled up to an outcropping of bedrock, which lay dry and cracked beneath a yellow sky. It drilled into the rock and within minutes pulled a fine gray powder from the narrow borehole. Curiosity scooped up the dust and tasted it.

The sample contained smectite clay, which on Earth is found in alluvial plains and regions washed by monsoons. Today, Mars is a largely arid world whipped by global dust storms, where temperatures can swing 170 F in a day. Three billion years ago, it seems, a river of sweet water cascaded over the rim of Gale Crater and emptied into a lake in Yellowknife Bay. The sky was probably bluer then, and cloudier, and the terrain hadn't yet rusted from gray to red. Mount Sharp, which rises 18,000 feet above the crater floor, may have been capped in ice and snow.

Curiosity found in the ancient clay many of the elements needed for life: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus. We don't know whether bacteria, let alone Earth-like plants and animals, once teemed in Yellowknife Bay, but they could have. The rover was just the newest scout in humanity's decades-long exploration of Mars, an effort that currently includes the dogged 10-year-old Opportunity rover and three orbiters in space. But Yellowknife Bay is the first site ever observed, on Mars or anywhere else, that clearly could have supported extraterrestrial life.

Generations of scientists and science-fiction fans (often, those are the same people) have thought we'd find life strewn throughout the stars?if not civilizations, at least bacterial mats, or tentacled beasts on ocean floors, or something. But for decades the evidence was thin. Now, in 2013, the data is on the side of the believers. It has been provided by increasingly sophisticated probes, space telescopes, and rovers. Planets were once thought to be rare; by the time the Kepler space telescope ran into severe mechanical problems in May, it had proved that alien worlds actually number in the billions. Scientists imagined the universe to be parched; new studies show that it's filled with watery planets. And, surprise: Life isn't some delicate thing, like a pasty tourist stuck beneath a beach umbrella; it's now known to be more like a hardy soldier, able to infiltrate the harshest environments.

The exciting exobiological news keeps coming: In April, astronomers identified a trio of planets that appear capable of supporting Earth-like life. They orbit their stars' habitable zones, the just-right distance where water neither freezes nor boils, but collects in sloshy, life-friendly oceans. One of the worlds, dubbed Kepler-62e, even shows signs of a humid atmosphere strewn with clouds. More such discoveries will come.

Louisa Preston, an astrobiologist at Open University in the U.K., investigates the telltale signs of biology that could help us locate life in space. "It's now predicted that there are 17 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone," Preston says. "And since our galaxy is one of hundreds of billions in the universe, the chances of finding life are increasing exponentially." Here are three reasons, in detail and based on current research, why we are much more likely to find life than to discover we are alone.

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/deep/the-case-for-alien-life-15756398?src=rss

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How To Take Beautiful Photos

Have you looked at a stunning photo and wished that you could take such a beautiful picture? Here are a few key points that can help you improve your photography skills.

The first thing to remember is that photography is an art. Just like art, once you understand the basics and start putting them into practice, you'll find your photography skills will improve.

Taking beautiful photos is all about light. Without light there would be no photography and taking a great photo means being in the right place at the right time to get the perfect light, particularly for outdoor shots. Variations in light conditions can make all the difference between a good photo and a great one. The best advice is to experiment and take lots of pictures under various lighting.

The amount of light that falls on your camera sensor when the shutter is opened is known as exposure and is another important factor in producing a great photo. Too much light, overexposure, will result in the photo appearing pale and washed out, while too little light, underexposure, will result in loss of details hidden in shadow.

Even if your exposure is correct, your potentially beautiful photo could be marred by lack of focus. Focus is controlled by the aperture setting. A wide aperture setting will produce a shallow depth of field while a small aperture will give a greater depth of field. Remember that you will need to increase the exposure to compensate for reduced aperture settings.

You can control items such as lighting and exposure by using additional lights and screens. You can also gain more control by arranging your subject and by using props to enhance the subject. This technique, known as staging, can add interest to your photo. It also allows you to compose your photo to get a better balance in the relationship between the subject and background.

The most important tip is to take photographs. The more you take, the more you experiment, the more experience you'll gain. Remember, practice makes perfect. Sure, you'll end up with loads of poor photos, but in the age of digital cameras, this is not a big deal. For every hundred photos you take, you'll see one that will excite you.

And don't despair. If that otherwise perfect shot is ruined by a blemish, there are always photo-editing software programs that can help you. Try Corel PaintShop Pro, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Serif Photoplus, ACDSee or Xara, just to mention a few.

A final tip, keep your eyes open and try to view every scene as a photo. Great photo opportunities are all around; you just have to see them. Good luck capturing the perfect shot!

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Avis aux m?dias : D?veloppement ?conomique Canada

31 juil. 2013 10h00 HE

DRUMMONDVILLE, QU?BEC--(Marketwired - 31 juillet 2013) - Le ministre de l'Infrastructure, des Collectivit?s et des Affaires intergouvernementales et ministre de l'Agence de d?veloppement ?conomique du Canada pour les r?gions du Qu?bec, l'honorable Denis Lebel, proc?dera ? une annonce concernant les centres communautaires Drummondville-Sud et Saint-Pierre.

Date :	le 1er ao?t 2013
Heure :	10 h 30
Lieu :	Centre communautaire Drummondville-Sud inc.
	Porte 2
	1550, rue Saint-Aim?
	Drummondville (Qu?bec)

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