Fresh iPhone Apps for Feb. 16: MTV Music Meter update, Beat Sneak Bandit, League of Evil 2, Spongebob?s Super Bouncy Fun Time (Appolicious)

Get to know the latest and greatest bands and artists in music with MTV Music Meter, a newly updated service that puts you in touch with the trendiest recording artists each day. The app lets you sample music, read news and even find nearby concerts in its latest version. Following that, we?ve got a mess of new game titles hitting the App Store. First is Beat Sneak Bandit, a rhythm/puzzle/stealth game with a great art style and fresh-feeling gameplay. After that is League of Evil 2, the sequel to one of the best platformers iOS has to offer. Finally, Spongebob?s Super Bouncy Fun Time gives the Bikini Bottom treatment to Angry Birds-style physics games.

Keep up with what?s hot in music with MTV Music Meter, a link to bands that are trending each day. The app is updated daily, bringing a new list of the hottest musical groups to your iOS device, along with sample tracks you can listen to and then access in iTunes to purchase immediately, should you find some you like.

In addition to hearing what artists play, Music Meter?s big new update brings a partnership with Songkick, providing concert and tour information so you can quickly grab tickets to see new artists. You can also watch music videos, get Twitter feeds and read news stories about all the feature musicians in the app. You can now also search through Music Meter for new acts by genre, making it possible to discover even more great new music.

Developer Simogo has successfully married a rhythm game with a stealth and puzzle title, creating something very interesting a lot of fun with Beat Sneak Bandit. The game requires only one control: you tap along with the beat of each level?s soundtrack, and each time you tap with the beat, the titular bandit takes a sneaky step. Your goal is to steal back all the clocks in your town that have been hoarded by a local mansion owner, but in order to snag them all and avoid his security, you?ll need to watch the rhythm of guards, search lights and other obstacles and tap along to the beat.

Mixing elements of stealth gameplay with puzzle-solving in order to navigate each level, you?ll need to keep the beat through each of Beat Sneak Bandit?s many stages. Gather enough clocks for successfully moving in time with the music and you?ll unlock bonus ?shadow stages? to work through as well. The game also includes Game Center support for achievements.

Ravenous Games? sequel to its absolutely stellar platforming title League of Evil has just hit the App Store, bringing another 100 levels of brutally difficult, super-fast platforming gameplay to your iOS devices. Instead of an 8-bit experience, League of Evil packs upgraded graphics and a bunch of new environments.

At its core, League of Evil 2 is more of the same tough platforming gameplay that made the first game such a success, and Ravenous has done well to mimic its award-winning, super-responsive touch controls from its last outing. League of Evil 2 also throws in a storyline with hand-illustrated graphics, user-selectable costumes and even a few boss fights.

Nickelodeon Games has taken a page from Angry Birds, but with a SpongeBob motif, to create SpongeBob?s Super Bouncy Fun Time. The physics puzzler puts you in the role of the titular sponge as he and his starfish friend Patrick go in pursuit of jellyfish to catch. In order to nab them, you?ll have to hit them with SpongeBob?s special cannon, bouncing the bullets around in each level to knock out the jellyfish in as few shots as possible so that Patrick can capture them.

There are more than 100 levels to play through in Super Bouncy Fun Time, and as you capture jellyfish, you?ll also have the opportunity to gather coins that can be used to purchase power-ups to make future levels easier. The game also includes the voice of SpongeBob from the popular cartoon show, as well as Game Center support to provide players with achievements to chase and leaderboards to climb.

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Healthy Thinking 101 | New Health and Fitness

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To begin to start feeling better about your self and your life, consider trying to thinking more positive concerning your present-day circumstances and life experience. Thinking positive can have an incredibly remarkable effect on people through the course of time.

It is also possible that for some time now you have been contained by your own negative thought processes. Repetitive negative thinking could really hold someone in a rut. After some time it can be quite hard to escape out of this ?disappointment rut.?

While I was in the depths of my nervousness, I might end up finding my own self thinking of my problems while at the health club, whilst having supper, while researching, and even at events. Negative thoughts about my entire life adhered to me any place I journeyed.

Lugging around this exasperating heap of anxiousness, reservation, fear and anxiety genuinely had a real damaging effect on me.

To be able to begin the process of being significantly better, I had to start re-training how I typically thought about issues. My chronic thoughts had to change. A fresh much more healthy and balanced state of mind must be adopted.

Mastering different methods of thinking concerning your present-day condition is the solely technique to be OK with exactly how you tend to be at this point. There is not any need to battle and labor hard on this. You actually will not have to do a thing much more than put together tiny, slow, and persistent changes in the means you think regarding yourself and the occurrences in your experience.

Try and observe oneself from a favorable outlook in lieu of a bad one. Move slowly and gradually closer to the favorable end of the spectrum. To imagine to fast and quickly ?leap? to the optimistic end of the selection range is not really only silly but also unattainable. So go bit by bit and do not count on to really with feeling fantastic from the start.

It could help to imagine for a second that you are an top level marathon runner. You comprehend that if you experimented with sprinting to the finish, you may undoubtedly fold in the beginning in the contest. But if you pace yourself and view the run one step at a time, you will inevitably succeed in reaching the finish line.

Though you might want to run through this progression, and start out experiencing great at this time, its difficult for you to do so. Instead you need to practice this procedure one measure, one thought at any given time. The great truth is that with the progress you?re making in the appropriate path, you may see that you simply come to feel slightly better.

Carry out smallish improvements in your thinking, and relish in the healing generated through every single better thought.

Ryan Collins is an author and blogger for men who deal with performance anxiety as well as other sexual performance hindering issues. Visit his blog, overcomeperformanceanxiety.com, to learn how you can start to improve in the bedroom.

Source: http://newhealthandfitness.org/2012/02/15/healthy-thinking-101/

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Nuclear Safety, Cost Issues Loom As U.S. OKs Reactor

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Steam rises from the cooling towers of nuclear reactors at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle in Waynesboro, Ga. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved Southern Co.'s application to begin full construction of the nation's first new nuclear units since 1978 at Plant Vogtle.

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Steam rises from the cooling towers of nuclear reactors at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle in Waynesboro, Ga. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved Southern Co.'s application to begin full construction of the nation's first new nuclear units since 1978 at Plant Vogtle.

The nuclear industry is celebrating the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission's decision to give the go-ahead for a utility company to build two new nuclear reactors in Georgia, the first license to be granted for a new reactor in the U.S. since 1978. But last year's accident at reactors in Fukushima, Japan, still clouds the future of nuclear power, as does the cost of new power plants.

Southern Co. will build the reactors at its Vogtle site in Georgia, where two older reactors already operate.

Scott Peterson, vice president of the industry's Nuclear Energy Institute, says it's not a "nuclear renaissance," but instead a "first wave" for new reactors.

"It's obviously a critical event for the industry in terms of moving forward with the next generation of reactor technology," he says.

The new reactors would be the first of a standardized design; instead of each one being unique, they'll all be nearly identical.

Costs

But demand for electricity is flat, and the price of natural gas, also used to make electricity, is low. The Vogtle plant will cost $14 billion at least to build. Peterson says that's OK. Nuclear still has a place, he says; gas prices are unpredictable, and so is energy from wind and solar.

"Nuclear plants, because they are very large, 24/7 power producers, really anchor the entire U.S. grid for electricity," he says.

There are objections, however. A coalition called the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy plans to sue to stop the reactors. Alliance head Stephen Smith says the region doesn't need a new plant.

Smith says the power company is motivated by a healthy profit margin guaranteed by the state, "not because we need the power, but because this is going to so help their bottom line by bringing this major financial asset in."

Japanese Meltdown

Smith also argues that engineers are still figuring out what went wrong at the Fukushima meltdown in Japan last year. He says Southern Co. might have to make expensive retrofits if the NRC requires big design changes.

"We would argue that, not only from a safety point of view but also from an economic point of view, that you need to get these lessons learned incorporated in before you rush to build the reactor," Smith says.

Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the five-member NRC, apparently agrees. His was the sole vote against the license. He says he wants Southern Co. to promise it will incorporate lessons learned from Japan. But experts on the NRC staff point out that the new reactors, made by Westinghouse, can already handle some of the things that went haywire in Japan.

For example, in Japan, the reactors lost electric power, so emergency pumps couldn't cool the melting cores with water.

Roger Hannah, an NRC spokesman, says the new reactors use gravity instead of pumps to feed in emergency water.

"These passive systems do not require electricity to operate the cooling system, so you could actually flood the core and provide water for cooling without having access to power," he says.

'Important Test Case'

The Vogtle plant is one of several that have been slogging through the permit process at the NRC.

Energy analyst Richard Caperton at the Center for American Progress says its approval provides the nuclear industry with a shot of adrenaline, but it's also going to be a target.

"This is going to be an important test case," Caperton says. "What we learn form the Southern plant is going to impact what we do with nuclear power over the next 10, 20 to 30 years in this country."

If things go as planned, the reactors will be making electricity four to five years from now. If not, the company is seeking an $8.3 billion loan guarantee from the federal government to cover losses.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/02/10/146672181/nuclear-safety-costs-loom-over-ok-d-reactors?ft=1&f=1007

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Knockout of the week: Frankie Edgar takes out Gray Maynard

Frankie Edgar will head to Japan soon to defend? his UFC lightweight belt against former WEC champ Ben Henderson at UFC 144. How about a little reminder of what Edgar did in his last bout?

His fourth-round knockout of Gray Maynard ended any question about who was the better fighter. With Henderson, he'll have to face a fight who has never been knocked out, and was submitted once in 2007. Who will take the belt home from Japan? Tell us in the comments or on Facebook.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/knockout-week-frankie-edgar-takes-gray-maynard-220105569.html

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Watch OK Go's New Desert Orchestra Stunt Driving Music Video [Video]

Last week we showed you a quick preview of OK Go's new video for "Needing/Getting", and now here's the full monty, compiled from a literal drive-by of 1157 homemade instruments of melodic Rube Goldberg(ish) goodness. More »

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Verizon Business Security Blog ? Blog Archive ? Weekly Intelligence ...

Dave Kennedy
February 3rd, 2012

Best InfoSec risk intel this week: please read Imperva?s Business Logic Attack report. John Levine on the CircleID blog nailed it: ?World Notices That Verisign Said Three Months Ago That They Had a Security Breach Two Years Ago.? Verisign said: ?we do not believe that the operational integrity of the Domain Name System (DNS) was compromised.? Verisign also said, ?non-production corporate network,? and ?Information stored on the compromised corporate systems was exfiltrated.? That is what we know. Everything else is either generalizations about data breaches or is just conjecture; be very skeptical. A colleague-to-colleague appeal to Verisign: Contribute to the community and to our profession and provide us with enough details for mutual defense. If it was just another spear-phishing-delivered-PDF-Trojan, fine?but please say so. ?We don?t want your dirty laundry. We do all want to keep our own houses in order. ?Anonymous attacked four banks in Brazil. ?In Australia, criminals breached hoster Fairfax and domain trader Netfleet. And another round of attacks transforming WordPress into malware distribution platforms is underway.

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