Analysts predict that the cavemen-themed kid flick will take the top spot this weekend.
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U.S. President Barack Obama ended his Middle East trip with a visit to the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, Saturday.
By Steve Holland, Reuters
PETRA, Jordan -- President Barack Obama marveled at the sights of Jordan's ancient city of Petra on Saturday as he wrapped up a four-day Middle East tour by setting aside weighty diplomatic matters and playing tourist for a day.
The visit followed a trip to Israel and the Palestinian Territories that was capped by Obama's brokering of a rapprochement between Israel and Turkey, but which offered little more than symbolic gestures toward Middle East peacemaking.
Before heading to Petra, Obama used his stop in Jordan to ratchet up criticism of Syrian President Bashar Assad, but he stopped short of promising military aid to Syrian rebels to help end a two-year-old civil war that has claimed 70,000 lives.
President Obama receives applause from a crowd in Jerusalem Thursday by challenging groups that reject Israel.
U.S. officials privately voiced satisfaction with the results of Obama's first foreign trip of his second term, but the president's aides had set expectations so low that it was not hard to proclaim it a mission accomplished.
Shifting into sightseeing mode on Saturday, Obama flew by helicopter to Petra and took a walking tour of the restored ruins of a city more than 2,000 years old which is half-carved into sandstone cliffs.
Ordinary tourists had been cleared out for the president's visit, and guards with assault weapons dogged his every step.
"This is pretty spectacular," the president, wearing sunglasses, khaki trousers and a dark jacket, said as he craned his neck to look up at the Treasury, a towering rose-red fa?ade cut into a mountain. "It's amazing."
The U.S. president arrived in Jordan on Friday after an unexpected diplomatic triumph in Israel, where he announced a breakthrough in relations between Israel and Turkey after a telephone conversation between the countries' prime ministers.
President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the Israeli people to put themselves in the shoes of Palestinians and recognize their "right to self-determination, their right to justice." NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu apologized on behalf of his country for the killing of nine Turkish citizens in a 2010 naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, and the two feuding U.S. allies agreed to normalize ties.
The 30-minute call was made in a runway trailer at Tel Aviv airport, where Obama and Netanyahu huddled before the president boarded Air Force One for a flight to Jordan.
The rapprochement could help Washington marshal regional efforts to contain spillover from the Syrian civil war and ease Israel's diplomatic isolation in the Middle East as it faces challenges posed by Iran's nuclear program.
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Obama, left, looks at the Treasury while he receives a tour of the ancient historic and archaeological site of Petra on Saturday.
During his visit, Obama appeared to have made some headway in easing Israelis' suspicions of him, calming their concerns about his commitment to confronting Iran and soothing his relationship with the hawkish Netanyahu.
Obama attempted to show Palestinians he had not forgotten their aspirations for statehood but he left many disappointed that he had backtracked from his previous demands for a halt to Israeli settlement building in the occupied West Bank.
The president offered no new peace proposals but he promised his administration would stay engaged while putting the onus on the two sides to set aside mutual distrust and restart long-dormant negotiations - a step the president failed to bring about in his first term.
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Members of the U.S. Secret Service Counter Assault Team survey a path after Obama walked through it during his tour of the ancient historic and archaeological site of Petra on Saturday.
After visiting both Israel and the West Bank, President Obama met with King Abdullah of Jordan, a country facing some very turbulent times of its own, post Arab Spring. But there may be no stronger Arab ally to the U.S. and Israel than Jordan. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
As Obama's critics were complaining that his Middle East trip was heavy on symbolism and lacking in substance, the last-minute move toward Israeli-Turkish reconciliation gave his aides a chance to tout a tangible achievement.
On the last leg of his trip, Obama promised further humanitarian aid in talks with Jordan's King Abdullah, a close ally, as the economically strapped country grapples with a refugee crisis caused by Syria's civil war.
Obama also used the opportunity to underscore U.S. wariness about arming rebels fighting to overthrow Assad, despite pressure from Republican critics at home and from some European allies to do more.
He warned that a post-Assad Syria could become an "enclave" for Islamist extremism and insisted it was vital to help organize the Syrian opposition to avoid that, but he stopped short of announcing any new concrete steps.
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Mar. 22, 2013 ? Catching rides on cargo ships and fishing boats, many invasive species are now covering our shorelines and compromising the existence of our native marine life.
In a study published in Ecology Letters, Northeastern University Prof. David Kimbro and his team examine what factors allow some invasive species to survive in their new environments and others to fail.
Why we should care
Once invasive species arrive in their new location, they begin multiplying, and in some cases, overpowering the local marine life. This can have a very strong impact on our ecosystems and businesses, such as fisheries.
Understanding what makes these invaders thrive or fail in their new environments is not only key to preventing the collapse of local marine life, but also figuring out ways to make some invaders work to benefit their new locations. "Not all invasive species are bad. In fact, we need some of them to succeed. But invasions are certainly a double-edged sword because many invasions cost us a lot in terms of money and natural heritage."
Prof. Kimbro, currently stationed at Northeastern University's Marine Science Center in Nahant, collected synthesized research on marine diversity reports published from 1997-2012 to better understand the specific biological and environmental properties that allow invasive species to succeed or fail.
"For the past 15 years, marine scientists have conducted a lot of experiments that have taught us a lot about specific invasions in many different places. But unlike terrestrial scientists, no one had pieced all of these unique stories together to see if they collectively tell us a general and useful message. And until we see cattle swimming and kudzu growing in the ocean, we can't just recycle the messages from land studies and use them to manage our coastal systems."
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Mar. 22, 2013 ? Recent measurements of the rate at which children show DNA changes not seen in their parents -- the "mutation rate" -- have challenged views about major dates in human evolution.
In particular these measurements have made geneticists think again about key dates in human evolution, like when modern non-Africans split from modern Africans. The recent measurements push back the best estimates of these dates by up to a factor of two. Now, however an international team led by researchers at the University of T?bingen and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, present results that point again to the more recent dates. The new study is published in Current Biology.
The team, led by Johannes Krause from T?bingen University, was able to reconstruct more than ten mitochondrial genomes (mtDNAs) from modern humans from Eurasia that span 40,000 years of prehistory. The samples include some of the oldest modern human fossils from Europe such as the triple burial from Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic, as well as the oldest modern human skeletons found in Germany from the site of Oberkassel close to Bonn.
The researchers show that pre-ice age hunter-gatherers from Europe carry mtDNA that is related to that seen in post-ice age modern humans such as the Oberkassel fossils. This suggests that there was population continuity throughout the last major glaciation event in Europe around 20,000 years ago. Two of the Dolni Vestonice hunter-gatherers also carry identical mtDNAs, suggesting a close maternal relationship among these individuals who were buried together.
The researchers also used the radiocarbon age of the fossils to estimate human mutation rates over tens of thousands of year back in time. This was done by calculating the number of mutations in modern groups that are absent in the ancient groups, since they had not yet existed in the ancient population. The mutation rate was estimated by counting the number of mutations accumulated along descendent lineages since the radiocarbon dated fossils.
Using those novel mutation rates -- capitalizing on information from ancient DNA -- the authors cal-culate the last common ancestor for human mitochondrial lineages to around 160,000 years ago. In other words, all present-day humans have as one of their ancestors a single woman who lived around that time.
The authors also estimate the time since the most recent common ancestor of Africans and non-Africans to between 62,000-95,000 years ago, providing a maximum date for the mass migration of modern humans out of Africa. Those results are in agreement with previous mitochondrial dates based on archaeological and anthropological work but are at the extreme low end of the dates sug-gested from de-novo studies that suggest a split of non-Africans from Africans about thirty thousand years earlier.
"The results from modern family studies and our ancient human DNA studies are in conflict" says Krause. "One possibility is that mutations were missed in the modern family studies, which could lead to underestimated mutation rates." The authors argue that nuclear genomes from ancient mod-ern humans may help to explain the discrepancies.
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It seems like every day now that North Korea has some sort of threat, warning, accusation, or other message to send about the "flames of justice" they are ready to hand out to anyone who messes with them. Today's potential targets: Guam and Japan.
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The North is still peeved about the (still) ongoing military?exercises being run by the United States and South Korea until the end of April. Ever since they began earlier this month, the North has had almost daily complaints about them, arguing that they are an attempt to blackmail and intimidate the DPRK with threats of nuclear retaliation. (The latter part is not entirely untrue.) In response, they've claimed that armistice agreement between them and the South is over and today, they reminded the world once again that they have?their?own nuclear weapons and aren't afraid to use them:
The U.S. should not forget that the Anderson Air Force Base on Guam where B-52 takes off and naval bases in Japan proper and Okinawa where nuclear-powered submarines are launched are within the striking range of the DPRK's precision strike means.?Now that the U.S. started open nuclear blackmail and threat, the DPRK, too, will move to take corresponding military actions.
Precision strike, or no, the North can indeed threaten Japan, and certainly Seoul, with its medium-range missiles and rockets. After so many repeated threats, it's easy to dimiss their chatter for idle trash talk, but with so much military hardware on display lately?Kim Jong-un spent yesterday overseeing mock drone strikes?thing can always get out hand quicker than people expect. Earlier today, the North set off air raid warning sirens, but it's not clear if it was a planned drill, or they?legitimately?believed U.S. bombers were getting too close for comfort.
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The war jitters are also completely?understandable when a real legitimate cyberwar is taking place online. Today the South, claimed that yesterday's big cyber attack on their companies actually came from Chinese IP addresses, but haven't abandoned the?possibility?that they were actually spoofed by North Korean hackers.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/did-north-korea-threaten-blow-today-112509321.html
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The founder of Orchha, Maharaja Rudra Prathap Singh was also the first king of Orchha. He was the Bundela chief who built the fort of Orchha for which the place is now famous among the tourists. The Chatur Bhuj Temple, yet another attraction of the town of Orchha was built by the Queen of Orchha, Ganeshi Bai, at the time of Akbar. The Raj Mandir was built by Madhukar Shah during his reign from 1554 to 1591. The Raja Mahal, Jahangir Mahal and the Ram Raja Temple are the other main tourist attraction of the town of Orchha.
The town of Orchha stands on the banks of the River Betwa, where stands a huge palace fort surrounded by a battlement wall. This fort consists of several buildings that are connected to each other which were constructed during different times. The most notable ones are the Raja Mahal and the Jahangir Mahal.
Built on a square base which has a fully plain exterior is the Ram Raja Temple. This has projecting windows and a line of delicate domes along the summit.
The Jahangir Mahal is built on a rectangular base and has a circular tower at each corner which has a dome on top of it.Two lines of beautiful balconies that are supported on brackets mark the middle storey. The roof is crowned by eight large grooved domes, with smaller domes between them, connected by an ornamental railing. The Jahangir Mahal is considered to be a singularly beautiful specimen of theMughal architecture.
Chaturbhuj Temple is an old temple built in the 9th century. It is built on a vast platform of stone. The more ignored and neglected these buildings and monuments are the more favorite they are for the insects and bees.
A lot of Chatris or monuments and memorials can be dotted on the vicinity of the fort and the Betwa River. The architecture of the monuments of Orchha has attracted numerous architects and a documentary based on them was made by the LIK team of the IIT Roorkee.
The famous tourist spot, Khajuraho is easily accessible from Orchha. The nearest railway station to Orchha is at Jhansi.
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We?re so pleased to feature a guest post today from Persis Swift, Marketing Communications Specialist at CAI. She?s got some great insights on how to motivate your employees! And now, without further ado, take it away, Persis?
All employers have a desire to direct a business that runs efficiently and produces stellar results. One way to fulfill this goal is to ensure your employees are engaged and satisfied with their roles at the company. Many positive results arise when employees are content with their position and duties for their job. Some results include increased employee morale, decreased turnover and better productivity. Several strategies can help you create a work environment that encourages employees to be motivated and work harder.
Here are three actions that you can implement at your organization to improve engagement and productivity:
Employees work harder when they have an attainable goal to work towards. Opportunities for a promotion, raise or special assignment are likely to keep your staffers engaged. Share with them the different opportunities available, and assist them in creating a path to secure the results they want, which will help you secure the results you want.
Transparency is an essential element for companies wanting to be successful. There are a number of ways you can promote transparency at your organization. Instruct your managers to communicate frequently with their direct reports about their progress and opportunities for growth. Make sure everyone receives positive and constructive feedback. In addition, don?t shy away from answering questions about company finances, improving benefits and other topics that are top of mind to your employees.
Having a successful business is dependent on many factors, including how satisfied the employees who work for you are. An easy way to turn unhappy workers into more content ones is to recognize the contributions they?ve made for your organization?s benefit. You can reward your employees in a number of ways. Some options include free lunch, a raise, an office, extra time off ? just be sure they are rewards your team members will enjoy and appreciate.
For additional tips to keep your workforce engaged, please call a member of CAI?s Advice and Counsel Team at 919-878-9222 or 336-668-7746.
Persis Swift is the director and main author of Workplace Insights, a blog by CAI that posts HR-related articles every Tuesday and Thursday morning. CAI is a trusted resource for HR, compliance and people development with offices in Raleigh and Greensboro.
Source: http://www.timeforbusinessblog.com/2013/engagment-and-productivity.php
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