Thursday, August 16, 2012

THE OLD WAYS OF OUTSOURCING ARE OVER. Go to market ...

  • A Tablet Straining To Do It All August 15, 2012

    The hot news in Silicon Valley legal circles these days is Apples titanic . Apple maintains that Samsung pilfered some of its iPhone and iPad designs when creating the Samsung Galaxy series of phones and tablets. Its a big, big deal; billions of dollars ... [?]

  • [AppleTell] Humble Bundle 3 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android August 15, 2012

    You have only thirteen days to take advantage of the latest Humble Bundle, in which you pay what you want for four games with a fifth one available if you pay more than the average. As a bonus, all of the soundtracks to the games are included in both ... [?]

  • Germany Investigating Facebook?s Face-Recognition Features Again August 15, 2012

    Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share Data privacy officials in Germany have reopened a probe to look deeper at Facebook?s face recognition technology and determine if the social networking giant was collecting member photos without their knowledge.In June, ... [?]

  • Windows 8 arrives for TechNet & MSDN subscribers, 90-day trial available to all August 15, 2012

    The final, RTM build of Windows 8 is now officially available to download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers after being made available on torrent sites earlier this month. This is the same code that will be available to the general public on October 26 ... [?]

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    Stewart's role uncertain in 'Snow White' plans

    This film image released by Universal Pictures shows actors Chris Hemsworth, from left, Kristen Stewart and director Rupert Sanders on the set of "Snow White and the Huntsman". Universal Pictures is continuing to pursue a sequel to ?Snow White and the Huntsman? in the wake of Kristen Stewart's affair with the film's director. Universal co-chairman Donna Langley said in a statement Wednesday that the studio is ?currently exploring all options to continue the franchise? and that reports of Stewart's exit ?are false.? Since Stewart, who played Snow White in the film, and Rupert Sanders, the married, 41-year-old director of the film last month publically apologized for a tryst caught in photographs, the future of ?Snow White? has been uncertain. (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Alex Bailey)

    This film image released by Universal Pictures shows actors Chris Hemsworth, from left, Kristen Stewart and director Rupert Sanders on the set of "Snow White and the Huntsman". Universal Pictures is continuing to pursue a sequel to ?Snow White and the Huntsman? in the wake of Kristen Stewart's affair with the film's director. Universal co-chairman Donna Langley said in a statement Wednesday that the studio is ?currently exploring all options to continue the franchise? and that reports of Stewart's exit ?are false.? Since Stewart, who played Snow White in the film, and Rupert Sanders, the married, 41-year-old director of the film last month publically apologized for a tryst caught in photographs, the future of ?Snow White? has been uncertain. (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Alex Bailey)

    (AP) ? Universal Pictures is continuing to pursue a sequel to "Snow White and the Huntsman" in the wake of Kristen Stewart's affair with the film's director.

    Universal co-chairman Donna Langley said in a statement Wednesday that the studio is "currently exploring all options to continue the franchise" and that reports of Stewart's exit "are false."

    A beleaguered Stewart got a public defense Wednesday by Academy Award-winner Jodie Foster, who co-starred with a then-11-year-old Stewart in the 2001 move "Panic Room."

    Foster wrote an essay for The Daily Beast in which she blasted the "gladiator sport of celebrity culture" and claimed that if she were a young actor today she would quit before she started.

    "If I had to grow up in this media culture, I don't think I could survive it emotionally," she writes. Of life as a target of paparazzi and criticism, she added: "We seldom consider the childhoods we unknowingly destroy in the process."

    Since Stewart, who played Snow White in "Snow White and the Huntsman," and Rupert Sanders, its married, 41-year-old director publically apologized for a tryst caught in photographs, the future of "Snow White" has been uncertain.

    The film was intended to launch a franchise, and its worldwide gross of $389.3 million was a promising enough start.

    The Hollywood Reporter reported Tuesday that Universal was shifting the sequel to focus on the Huntsman character, played by Chris Hemsworth. The report claimed that Stewart was being dropped.

    Universal declined to comment further on its plans.

    Associated Press

    Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/4e67281c3f754d0696fbfdee0f3f1469/Article_2012-08-15-Film-Snow%20White%20Sequel/id-99a2b0c11cc4401f9a242916d419a942

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    Could New Laws End the Tech World's Patent Wars?

    Shortly after he tossed out Apple's software patent suit against Google-owned Motorola Mobility in June, U.S. Circuit Court Judge Richard Posner made a bold remark to the press. Having presided over yet another battle in the patent wars, Posner questioned the need for patents in software, arguing that beating the competition to the shelves with a new technology is enough incentive to innovate. In fact, he told Reuters, "It's not clear that we really need patents in most industries."

    Then, not one month later, two congressmen suggested a plan to hamstring patent trolls?nonpracticing entities, or NPEs, that compile patents and sue companies for allegedly violating them. The Saving High-tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes (SHIELD) Act would require software patent trolls to pay their defendants' legal fees.

    Would either high-profile plan actually stop or ease the software patent wars?

    Patent Wars 101


    Patent legal battles arise because idiosyncrasies in patent law allow a company to sue another using an ambiguously worded patent. In some of the most notorious cases, the patent may be years or even decades old.

    Consider a particularly flagrant case mentioned in the book Patent Failure that PM wrote about last year. A company called E-Data bought a patent in 1994 for a "System for Reproducing Information in Material Objects at a Point-of-Sale Location." The patent was granted in 1985 for a kiosk that produced custom mix tapes (cassette tapes, that is) on the spot. E-Data latched onto the "point of sale" phrase and argued that the patent should also cover all online sales?anywhere with an Internet connection was a "point of sale." A federal appeals court agreed in 2001, allowing E-Data to sue more than 100 businesses that sold such items online. Most of the companies settled.

    In fact, 85 percent of the technology companies sued by nonpracticing entities (the trolls) settle out of court, according to a study released last year. That study, by James Bessen and Michael Meurer at Boston University School of Law, estimated that the trolls cost companies $500 billion in legal fees, settlements, awards, and hits to their share values between 1990 and 2010. This June, the duo released another study arguing that defendants may have racked up to $29 billion in direct costs from trolls' lawsuits in 2011, and most of those companies were small or medium-size.

    "Patent trolls don't create new technology and they don't create American jobs," Peter DeFazio, a Democrat from Oregon who cosponsored the SHIELD Act, said in a statement. (SHIELD is cosponsored by Jason Chaffetz, R-UT.) "They pad their pockets by buying patents on products they didn't create and then suing the innovators who did the hard work and created the product."

    Tech giants like Apple and Google stockpile patents so they can sue one another, and as a deterrent against legal action (you sue us, we'll sue you). It's a kind of patent arms race, and the trolls or NPEs use similar tactics to sue tech companies. The difference is, they don't make anything. Since they have nothing to protect, deterrents don't faze them.

    Make Them Pay


    The idea behind the SHIELD Act, then, is to make it so that patent trolls have something to lose by filing frivolous lawsuits, since they would be on the hook for paying their opponents' legal fees if they lose.

    "I think the bill would help," Bessen tells PM. "Basically, this would prevent nuisance suits. There are a lot of suits out there where the lawyers are just trying to get the cases to settle for several hundred thousand dollars. Those cases would go away because the trolls would have more than that at stake if they lost." The median settlement is $560,000, and for small companies the median is $360,000, he says. The bigger suits, however?those with millions of dollars at stake?might be immune the new legislation.

    Bessen says the real game changer would be Judge Posner's suggestion: Do away with software patents entirely as a surgical strike against both the trolls and the patent arms race among tech giants.

    "Judge Posner is a highly respected judge and founder of the law in economics movement of analysis. So, for him to argue that patents themselves are not really necessary [is a big surprise]," Bessen says. "It's a question I've been raising in my research?[but] not in such a blunt way. In the 1980s, we didn't have patents and it [technology] was a very innovative industry. What we've seemed to be adding is not more innovation but more litigation. There is very little evidence to indicate that patents have added anything to software-related industries, but they have added costs."

    Would It Work?


    As intriguing as both ideas are, Bessen says, neither is likely to survive. Eliminating software patents entirely is probably too far-out, he says, and the SHIELD Act will no doubt be delayed and shredded in Congress?if it passes at all, it might be unrecognizable from the current document. The America Invents Act, a patent reform bill that passed last fall, suffered a similar fate.

    "It seems a little unlikely that this act would pass without some serious modifications," Bessen says. NPEs would certainly lobby against the law, and Bessen says pharmaceutical companies probably would throw their weight against it, knowing that any patent law changes could eventually affect them. (There is a law on the books today called the English Rule that mimics some parts of the SHIELD Act, but with two important differences: It's not restricted to technology patents, and it's entirely up to the judge's discretion. If a judge deems a suit "frivolous or vexatious," the plaintiff may have to pay the defendant's legal fees.)

    Even if it were possible, it's not clear that eliminating software patents would be wise. Mark Lemley, a technology legal expert and professor at Stanford Law School, says that while software patents are a pain, we cannot simply cancel them. "No one really knows what a software patent is, and there are real inventions out there in software, just as in any other field, Lemley says. "The real problem is that software patents are too broad and too easy to get."

    He says the debate turns on the legal definition of a software patent. Should it be defined by a set of categories, such as data processing and image analysis? Maybe, he says, but that doesn't distinguish code from hardware. So why not define it by key words, so that a software patent contains words like "software" and "computer," but not "antigen" and "semiconductor." Or why not some combination of categories and key words? (For more on proposed definitions, see this analysis by Anne Layne-Farrar at Charles River Associates in Chicago.

    Lemley argues in a new paper that the big problem is patent claims increasingly cover the goal of the software, not the specific code written to reach that goal. For example, there are patents for anything from online sales to video downloads, which are goals. But there are many ways to provide those services. So a patent should cover a specific means of, say, streaming a video, not the act of streaming itself, Lemley says.

    As the drumbeat rises against software patents, one dissenting voice can be found in the person of Michael Mace, an app creator and Silicon Valley veteran, formerly the chief competitive officer at Palm, with past roles at PalmSource, Apple, and other technology companies. Mace says the SHIELD Act is a "reasonable start" to discourage nonpracticing entities. But, he say, "I am not a huge fan of using the risk of legal expenses to deter patent lawsuits?it's a bit too much like playing the lottery in reverse."

    And while some patents should be canceled, he says, that's not a final solution. "Just going back and invalidating a bunch of current patents would simply add more uncertainty to an already unpredictable process. It seems like a Band-Aid on a wound that actually needs stitches."

    Bessen has another solution to the patent wars: Lawmakers should raise the fees that patent owners pay to keep their patents in force. With high enough renewal fees, companies would think carefully about which patents they want to keep and which they would let expire. High renewal fees would be like a tax on companies that rack up large amounts of litigation.

    "It's like a pollution tax," he says. "Those patents pollute the environment, and you're discouraging that kind of pollution."

    Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/news/could-new-laws-end-the-tech-worlds-patent-wars-11711611?src=rss

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    Wednesday, August 15, 2012

    Call to free Ethiopia's jailed Muslim protesters

    Muslim leaders in Ethiopia jailed as part of a "brutal crackdown" must be released immediately, the US-based Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, a demand dismissed by the government.

    "The Ethiopian government should immediately release 17 prominent Muslim leaders arrested as part of a brutal crackdown on peaceful Muslim protesters in Addis Ababa," HRW said in a statement.

    The arrests took place following widespread protests staged by Muslims last month, to dispute what they said was unconstitutional government interference in religious affairs.

    According to HRW, the detainees have been "mistreated" in custody and are being held without charge or access to legal advice.

    "They have had no access to legal counsel or, in several cases, their relatives," HRW said. "Their lack of access to lawyers while detained in a prison known for torture heightens concerns about their safety."

    Muslim groups in the country have staged weekly gatherings since the beginning of the year at two mosques in the Ethiopian capital.

    Protesters accuse the government of forcibly imposing the Al-Ahbash branch of Islam, and appointing leaders of the Supreme Council on Islamic Affairs, who are traditionally elected by members of the Muslim community.

    Muslims officially make up about 30 percent of the country's 83 million people.

    The Ethiopian government denied repression and said the arrests were legal. "There is no crackdown. There are people who are legally apprehended, legally pursued, and this is within the legal bounds, the constitutional bounds, of the government," government spokesman Bereket Simon told AFP.

    This month, police said several people had been arrested in connection with the demonstrations for intending "to carry out acts of terrorism".

    They said the protests had been carried out illegally and accused the movement of extremism, according to a statement from the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

    HRW accused police of illegally harassing, assaulting and arbitrarily arresting protesters and urged the government to engage in peaceful dialogue.

    "The Ethiopian government should address the grievances of its Muslim community through dialogue, not violence... the security forces should be upholding the law, not breaking it," HRW Africa researcher Ben Rawlence said.

    However, Bereket accused the rights group of meddling and said Ethiopia followed its constitution.

    "This is a blatant disregard for the sovereignty of Ethiopia and this country is not led by Human Rights Watch so we go by our constitution, not by the invisible hand of Human Rights Watch," he said.

    At least one of the arrested protestors is a journalist, while the bulk of the detained are members of an Islamic Committee created in January to represent the Muslim community when protests kicked off.

    Several Muslim leaders have recently gone into hiding, and many refuse to speak publicly, citing fear of arrest.

    "They are afraid of going to prison.... The Muslim community is now afraid of the government," said one Muslim living near Awoliya mosque.

    Backed by the West, Ethiopia has long been a bulwark against Islamic extremism in the volatile Horn of Africa region.

    In 2011, Ethiopian troops and tanks rolled into neighbouring Somalia to battle Al Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents.

    Government interference in religious affairs is illegal, according to the constitution.

    In April, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said freedom of religion is respected under the constitution, but said some Muslims in the country were engaged in subversive acts and had attempted to establish an Islamic state.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/call-free-ethiopias-jailed-muslim-protesters-132808525.html

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    Realty Times - Tips For Canadian First-Time Buyers

    Since 2008, the Canadian Finance Ministry has tightened the rules for government-backed mortgages four times. The most recent changes, in July 2012, hurt first-time homebuyers the most, because it made it tougher for them to qualify for a mortgage.

    The maximum amortization period for insured mortgages is now 25 years, down from 30 years. In 2011, 40 per cent of new mortgages were amortized over periods longer than 25 years, says the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals. One-quarter of all mortgages had amortization periods longer than 25 years.

    An RBC report says that based on a typical mortgage size of $288,000 for a bungalow, with a posted mortgage rate of 5.24 per cent, the reduction in the amortization period from 30 years to 25 years raises a homeowner's monthly mortgage bill by $136. The Ministry of Finance says that raises the monthly mortgage payments from nine per cent to 12.5 per cent, depending on interest rate assumptions.

    The government, concerned about high levels of consumer debt, instituted the changes to slow down the real estate market and it seems to have worked. But the improving financial health of the country won't be much comfort for would-be first-time buyers who thought they were close to being able to afford a home of their own, but now have to wait.

    A recent survey by TD Canada Trust says that recent first-time buyers were able to save up for a down payment fairly quickly. A down payment of five per cent (the minimum required) took less than two years for 71 per cent of those polled. A down payment of 10 per cent to 20 per cent was achieved in one to four years by 66 per cent of those surveyed, and 61 per cent were able to save up for a down payment of 25 per cent in three years or less.

    However, the poll found that 29 per cent of first-timers failed to budget for some of the additional costs of homeownership, such as maintenance fees and utilities. Thirteen per cent didn't plan for closing costs (typically about 1.5 per cent of the purchase price of the home), and six per cent didn't budget for anything except for the down payment and mortgage payments.

    If you are thinking of buying a home, first you have to "prove to yourself that you are ready to take on the responsibility of a mortgage," says Farhaneh Haque, director of mortgage advice for TD Canada Trust. "Start by comparing what it costs you to rent monthly to what it would cost if you owned your home. Remember, as a homeowner there are housing expenses such as property tax, insurance, repairs and utilities that should be factored in, in addition to your monthly mortgage payments."

    The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) website includes online worksheets to help first-time homeowners save up for a house. Most people know how much money they make, says FCAC, but do you know where your money is going? The exercise of filling out the worksheet can help you figure out where your money is going and suggest ways to cut expenses.

    "Learning to stick to a budget can seem difficult at first, but the more you use your budget, the easier it becomes," says FCAC. "If you find your actual spending varies a lot from your budget, you will have to re-adjust the figures in your budget to make it more realistic. If your spending varies only a little from your budget, you are on the right track."

    Once you think you have a large enough down payment to think about buying a home, most major Canadian banks have worksheets on their websites to help calculate what your can afford. The RBC calculator is here.

    RBC says a common first-time buyer mistake when looking for a mortgage is focusing too much on the interest rate, rather than the type of mortgage they are buying. Over the last several years, variable-rate mortgages have proven to be money savers, but if you are worried that rates may go up, a fixed rate provides peace of mind. Most banks also offer a combined fixed and variable-rate mortgage option.

    As demonstrated by the difference between the monthly payments in 25 and 30-year amortization periods, you can save a lot of money by having a shorter amortization - but that requires a larger down payment. Another way to reduce total interest costs is to increase the frequency of payments when you can afford it. Make sure your mortgage allows you to do this and to use prepayment privileges without penalty. It's a competitive mortgage market, with banks, credit unions and mortgage brokers all interested in securing your business, so shop around for the best rates and terms.

    Getting preapproved for a mortgage is a great idea because then you will know exactly how much you can afford, and in a hot real estate market you can make an offer immediately if you find the house of your dreams.

    First-time buyers can also take advantage of the Home Buyers' Plan, which allows you to withdraw up to $25,000 from your registered retirement savings plan to buy or build a home.

    Published: August 14, 2012

    Use of this article without permission is a violation of federal copyright laws.




    Source: http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20120814_firsttimebuyers.htm

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    MLSP Review ? Truth Revealed | Internet and Email Marketing News

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    Tuesday, August 14, 2012

    IN DESPERATE NEED OF MORE CHARACTERS -MALE AND FEMALE!

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    Nathaniel Latimer's school for the troubled is a place for kids with 'special abilities' that make them more advanced.

    However, after the government discover about these kids, both professors and students are being taken and used for their own uses. When they return (If they do) They are like mindless zombies. Just stronger. So much stronger...

    Come come please! We are in desperate need for more characters to be claimed!!!!

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    Debate joined on Medicare; Romney, Obama go at it

    WASHINGTON (AP) ? Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama in person and in TV advertising Tuesday of cutting Medicare "to pay for Obamacare," launching a strong counterattack to Democratic charges that he and running mate Paul Ryan would radically remake the popular health care program that serves tens of millions of seniors.

    The charge drew a blistering response from Obama's campaign, which labeled the ad dishonest and hypocritical.

    Obama "has taken $716 billion out of the Medicare trust fund. He's raided that trust fund," Romney said at a campaign stop in Beallsville, Ohio, as he neared the end of a multi-state bus trip punctuated by his weekend selection of a ticket mate.

    "And you know what he did with it? He's used it to pay for Obamacare, a risky, unproven, federal takeover of health care. And If I'm president of the United States, we're putting the $716 billion back," he said.

    Aides said a commercial containing the same allegation would begin airing immediately in several battleground states, although they declined to provide details.

    In a campaign without summer doldrums, the rival sets of ticket mates campaigned in a half-dozen of the most hotly contested states, in settings as diverse as a coal mine in Ohio (Romney); a wind farm in Iowa (Obama) and a casino in Nevada (Ryan.)

    Vice President Joe Biden stirred controversy in Virginia when he said the Republicans would favor the big banks over the interests of consumers. He said Romney has said he is "going to let the big banks once again write their own rules. Unchain Wall Street."

    "They're going to put y'all back in chains," Biden told his audience.

    Romney's campaign reacted strongly to that, saying the comments were "not acceptable in our political discourse and demonstrate yet again that the Obama campaign will say and do anything to win this election."

    But that tempest was modest compared to the building struggle over Medicare.

    Romney's criticism on that subject appeared an attempt to gain some measure of control over an issue likely to play a significant role in the outcome of the election. Florida, Pennsylvania and Iowa are among the top five states in the country in the percentage of people 65 and over, and all three are battleground states.

    In a rebuttal issued shortly after the Romney TV ad was released, Obama spokeswoman Lis Smith said the president's health care law did not "cut a single guaranteed Medicare benefit, and Mitt Romney embraced the very same savings when he promised he'd sign Paul Ryan's budget. ...The truth is that the Romney-Ryan budget would end Medicare as we know it."

    In the days leading to Ryan's selection, opinion polls generally showed a close race with Obama holding a modest advantage despite a sluggish economy and unemployment of 8.3 percent. Romney's pick for a running mate drew enthusiastic support from conservatives pleased that he had tapped a lawmaker known as an intellectual leader of the effort to rein in big government benefit programs and reduce future deficits.

    But Democrats, too, said they were happy with the selection. They have quickly set out to draw attention to Ryan's plans, which contain deep cuts in projected spending in social programs as well as changes to Medicare for future retirees, and to try and saddle Romney with their political ownership.

    Polling generally shows that the public places more trust in Democrats' ability to handle Medicare than they do Republicans, and that people also generally oppose plans to replace the current program with one in which future seniors receive a fixed amount of money from the government to be used to purchase health coverage.

    At the same time, polling shows the public strongly believes the financial security of Medicare as well as Social Security must be guaranteed for the long term, and government reports for years have warned of a looming shortfall if something isn't done to change course.

    Ryan and Romney have both cited a desire to right the program's finances as a motive for their plans.

    Moreover, Romney's attack during the day suggests he hopes to overcome a generic Republican disadvantage on the issue by telling voters that Obama has cut spending for a program that is overwhelmingly popular, and put the money toward one that is controversial.

    "So now the money you paid for your guaranteed health care is going for a massive new government program that's not for you," says the announcer in the ad, referring to the health care law that Obama signed into law in 2010. "The Romney-Ryan plan protects Medicare benefits for today's seniors and strengthens the plan for the next generation," the ad concludes.

    Ryan, interviewed on Fox News Channel, said he and Romney believe Medicare can be a winning issue for Republicans in the fall. "Absolutely, because we're the ones who are offering a plan to save Medicare, to protect Medicare, to strengthen Medicare," he said.

    Ryan didn't say so, but the budgets he has written in the House both called for leaving in place the cuts to Medicare that he is now criticizing. Romney has consistently favored restoring the funds, and his running mate said, "I joined the Romney ticket."

    Romney decided to go on the attack on one issue as the president's re-election campaign sharply criticized him on another.

    "Romney's plans would cut college aid for nearly 10 million students ... and eliminate the tax deduction for college tuition," says a new television commercial that Obama's re-election campaign said would run in several battleground states. The commercial cites estimates from the budgets that Ryan has prepared as chairman of the House Budget Committee, and Romney's own proposals.

    Obama and Romney clashed over yet a third issue during the day, laying out different views on energy policy.

    The president taunted his challenger for opposing an extension of a tax break for wind production, quoting him as once having said, "You can't drive a car with a windmill on it. ..."

    "I don't know if he's actually tried that. I know he's had other things on his car," Obama joked, referring to the often-repeated tale of a Romney family road trip with their dog, Seamus, in a carrier strapped to the roof of the car.

    Government estimates say that more than 6,000 jobs statewide and 20 percent of Iowa's electricity needs come from wind power, and the state's senior GOP leaders all support renewing an extension of a wind tax credit that Romney opposes.

    The wind tax provision is one of dozens of credits that would be renewed in legislation making its way to the Senate floor, including several that deal with energy such as of biodiesel, geothermal, biomass and hydropower.

    Romney's campaign did not respond to repeated quests for his position on the other portions of the bill, which includes items such as a tax break for developers of NASCAR facilities and purchasers of electric motorcycles.

    The former Massachusetts governor sounded eager to challenge Obama's energy policy as he campaigned in coal country in southeastern Ohio. Accusing the president of waging a war on coal, he said Obama favors production of energy that comes only "from above the ground," a reference to wind power and other alternative sources.

    "I'm for all of the above whether it comes from above the ground or below the ground," he said.

    ___

    Associated Press writers Kasie Hunt in Ohio, Ken Thomas in Iowa, Matthew Daly in Virginia, Steve Peoples in Nevada and Philip Elliott and Julie Pace in Washington contributed to this story.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/debate-joined-medicare-romney-obama-223516815.html

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    The Wonderful World of Plastic Surgery | General health


    Health and Fitness | General health | * Written by Anna Woodward | Monday, 13 August 2012 07:23 | Word Count: 491

    Have you ever thought about having plastic surgery? What if you could change something about your appearance that would boost your self-confidence and enhance your looks? Would you do it? Many people have done it and seem to be satisfied with the results. Part of the reason is simply that this form of enhancement has come a long way towards being safe, effective and affordable. Nowadays there are numerous techniques that can be performed on the human body with significant effect.

    The art of cosmetic surgery is extremely popular today, with procedures for every part of the body. A few of the more common procedures include:

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    - Liposuction
    - Face lift
    - Nasal refinement - rhinoplasty
    - Botox injections

    But what's behind the belief that we should allow a qualified surgeon to "carve" a new figure or face from the one we were born with? Why would anyone in his or her right mind want to do that?

    It's beauty, of course. Everyone wants to look and feel beautiful and young. It's that intangible feeling which has been sought after for many years by millions of people.

    The human body is very beautiful. It's an art form of the highest quality. But sometimes it just needs a little help. A nudge in the right direction. That's where plastic surgery can help encourage us to think about how we look and how others perceive us.

    So what is plastic surgery? It's another form of art in which the human form is enhanced. It can restore a more natural-looking youthfulness, and the results can be dramatic and attractive.

    And it isn't only outwardly appearances that can change. After surgery, there will most likely be many wonderful inward changes. Our perception of ourselves can transform our lives in many ways. Sometimes, people have even testified they feel like an entirely different person. That's not a bad deal if your appearance is causing you to feel inferior.

    Many of us have heard the story of a woman who lost her husband. She began to live like a hermit. Her daughter talked her into having one or two minor techniques done. Voila! After surgery, she felt so much better about herself, that she bought an entire new wardrobe and joined the local senior action group. Why? Because her new appearance helped her to see herself in a whole new light.

    It's vital when searching for a plastic surgeon that you choose one who is board certified. This means they have honed their skill and craft after years of experience. It also means they have been legally approved to practice this form of surgery.

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    Monday, August 13, 2012

    Obama announces measures to soothe drought pain, attacks Ryan

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced an emergency purchase of up to $170 million of meat and fish on Monday on a campaign trip to drought-hit Iowa, and accused Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan of blocking disaster aid to farmers.

    Obama named the Wisconsin congressman, the presumptive Republican nominee for vice president, as "one of those leaders of Congress standing in the way of the Farm Bill." The 2012 bill, which includes disaster aid programs, is stalled in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

    "So if you happen to see congressman Ryan, tell him how important this farm bill is to Iowa and our rural communities," Obama said in remarks to be delivered in Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River on the western edge of Iowa.

    "It's time to put politics aside and pass it right away."

    As the House Budget Committee chairman, Ryan has demanded large cuts in Farm Bill spending, including food stamps for the poor. He was also campaigning in Iowa on Monday, two days after being chosen to be Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's running mate for the November 6 election.

    Ryan voted for a $383 million livestock disaster aid bill that the House passed on August 2 before a five-week recess. A Romney campaign spokesman said "no one will work harder to defend farmers and ranchers than the Romney-Ryan ticket."

    U.S. farmers are suffering through their worst drought in a half a century as concern mounts that livestock producers can't afford the soaring cost of corn, a staple for feed.

    Under the plan announced by Obama, the Agriculture Department will buy pork, lamb, chicken and catfish with money from an emergency fund for responses to natural disasters. The food will be sent to assistance programs, such as food banks.

    Obama planned a three-day swing through Iowa, a battleground state the Democrat hopes to win in November. He planned to visit a farm in the No. 1 corn-producing state to witness the impact of the drought. The Iowa corn crop is forecast 25 percent smaller than 2011 due to the worst drought in half a century.

    Swing states, including Iowa, Ohio, Florida, and Colorado, could hold the key to Obama's White House re-election bid.

    The White House also is directing the Department of Defense to "encourage" its vendors to speed up purchases of lamb, pork and beef and freeze the food for later use.

    "This is a win-win. Farmers and ranchers will have an opportunity to sell more of their products at this critical time and taxpayers will get a better price on food that would have been purchased later," a White House official said.

    "The president has directed his administration to continue exploring every possible avenue to provide relief to communities struggling with this historic natural disaster."

    INCUMBENT'S ADVANTAGE

    Analyst Mark McMinimy of Guggenheim Partners noted the "incredibly fortuitous timing" of the announcement, which he said demonstrated the advantages that Obama has as an incumbent running for re-election. The money for the purchases will come from a fund reserved for helping farmers and ranchers hit by natural disaster.

    Last week the governors of two poultry-growing states, Maryland and Delaware, asked the Obama administration for relief from the requirement to use corn ethanol in gasoline, saying the crop was needed to feed livestock.

    The announcement of the purchases, a small amount compared to annual U.S. meat production, had little immediate impact on livestock prices in Chicago markets.

    Livestock prices are expected to weaken as the higher cost of corn, soybeans and hay forces farmers and ranchers to send animals to slaughter sooner. On Friday, the government said high feed prices were expected to squeeze returns to producers.

    So far this fiscal year, the Agriculture Department has spent $941 million to buy more than 1 billion lbs (453.6 million kg) of food, from apricots and beans to potatoes and walnuts along with meat, eggs and fish, for the school lunch and food donation programs.

    (Additional reporting by Charles Abbott; Editing by Paul Simao)

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-announces-measures-soothe-drought-pain-attacks-ryan-165151914.html

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    New class of drugs may affect cancer and aging

    ScienceDaily (Aug. 13, 2012) ? In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on Aug. 6, an international team led by Igor Roninson, of the University of South Carolina and the Medical University of South Carolina, reported the development of a new class of drugs that may prove useful in the treatment of cancer and aging-associated disorders.

    In 2000, Roninson led a group that reported in PNAS that a single protein, called p21, turns on multiple genes implicated in cancer and in other disorders associated with advanced age such as Alzheimer's disease and arthritis. These harmful changes are especially prominent in senescent (aged) cells. Senescence in cells arises with the passage of time, but it can also be brought on after damage by various factors, including chemotherapeutic drugs and radiation used in cancer treatment.

    Since the original discovery, Roninson has sought to understand the mechanism of this surprising effect of p21 and develop drugs that would block the harmful effects of senescent cells in different diseases. In the Aug. 6 publication, Roninson and colleagues reported a solution to this puzzle that holds significant therapeutic promise.

    The gene expressing p21 is turned on in damaged cells, and the protein stops these cells from dividing by binding to enzymes that are called cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs). The best-known CDKs are essential for cell division, and p21 binding inhibits their activity. The new study reports that the disease-promoting effects of p21 are mediated, at least in part, by its effect on a different CDK, called CDK8, which regulates the activity of many different genes but is not required for cell division. In contrast to its effect on other CDKs, p21 stimulates rather than inhibits CDK8, turning on multiple CDK8-regulated genes. Roninson's team, together with Senex Biotechnology, a company he founded, has developed a new class of drugs that inhibit CDK8, and they showed that these drugs overcome some of the most troublesome effects of cancer chemotherapy.

    Chemotherapy can shrink or even eliminate tumors, but it also wreaks havoc on the rest of the body, damaging normal tissues. Among other harmful effects, chemotherapy causes damaged cells to produce molecules that promote the growth, drug resistance and the spread of those tumor cells that survived the treatment. Co-author Hippokratis Kiaris of the University of Athens (Greece) demonstrated this adverse effect of chemotherapy by treating healthy mice with a common chemotherapy drug, allowing the mice to recover, and then injecting them with cancer cells. These mice, having undergone a chemotherapy-like regimen, developed tumors much more efficiently than a control group not treated with the anticancer drug.

    Furthermore, the blood of the mice pre-treated with the anticancer drug contained a higher amount of proteins that stimulate the growth of tumor cells. However, when the mice were injected with Senexin A, a synthetic CDK8 inhibitor developed by Roninson's team, the anticancer drug no longer stimulated the growth of tumors. The CDK8 inhibitor also increased the ability of the anticancer drug, when injected in tumor-bearing animals, to destroy the tumors. While the CDK8 inhibitor stopped the production of the harmful proteins by senescent cells, it did not reverse senescence, which is a necessary cancer-preventive program in our cells. By creating a synthetic chemical that can inhibit the harmful effects of senescence, the team offers a new pharmacological approach to treating cancer and potentially age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's, atherosclerosis and arthritis.

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    1. D. C. Porter, E. Farmaki, S. Altilia, G. P. Schools, D. K. West, M. Chen, B.-D. Chang, A. T. Puzyrev, C.-u. Lim, R. Rokow-Kittell, L. T. Friedhoff, A. G. Papavassiliou, S. Kalurupalle, G. Hurteau, J. Shi, P. S. Baran, B. Gyorffy, M. P. Wentland, E. V. Broude, H. Kiaris, I. B. Roninson. Cyclin-dependent kinase 8 mediates chemotherapy-induced tumor-promoting paracrine activities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206906109

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    Sunday, August 12, 2012

    Full color images at 100,000 dots-per-inch resolution, using metal-laced nano-structures

    ScienceDaily (Aug. 12, 2012) ? Researchers from A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) have developed an innovative method for creating sharp, full-spectrum colour images at 100,000 dots per inch (dpi), using metal-laced nanometer-sized structures, without the need for inks or dyes. In comparison, current industrial printers such as inkjet and laserjet printers can only achieve up to 10,000 dpi while research grade methods are able to dispense dyes for only single colour images.

    This novel breakthrough allows colouring to be treated not as an inking matter but as a lithographic matter, which can potentially revolutionise the way images are printed and be further developed for use in high-resolution reflective colour displays as well as high density optical data storage.

    The inspiration for the research was derived from stained glass, which is traditionally made by mixing tiny fragments of metal into the glass. It was found that nanoparticles from these metal fragments scattered light passing through the glass to give stained glass its colours. Using a similar concept with the help of modern nanotechnology tools, the researchers precisely patterned metal nanostructures, and designed the surface to reflect the light to achieve the colour images.

    "The resolution of printed colour images very much depends on the size and spacing between individual 'nanodots' of colour," explained Dr Karthik Kumar, one of the key researchers involved. "The closer the dots are together and because of their small size, the higher the resolution of the image. With the ability to accurately position these extremely small colour dots, we were able to demonstrate the highest theoretical print colour resolution of 100,000 dpi."

    "Instead of using different dyes for different colours, we encoded colour information into the size and position of tiny metal disks. These disks then interacted with light through the phenomenon of plasmon resonances," said Dr Joel Yang, the project leader of the research. "The team built a database of colour that corresponded to a specific nanostructure pattern, size and spacing. These nanostructures were then positioned accordingly. Similar to a child's 'colouring-by-numbers' image, the sizes and positions of these nanostructures defined the 'numbers'. But instead of sequentially colouring each area with a different ink, an ultrathin and uniform metal film was deposited across the entire image causing the 'encoded' colours to appear all at once, almost like magic!" added Dr Joel Yang.

    The researchers from IMRE had also collaborated with A*STAR's Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) to design the pattern using computer simulation and modelling. Dr Ravi Hegde of IHPC said, "The computer simulations were vital in understanding how the structures gave rise to such rich colours. This knowledge is currently being used to predict the behaviour of more complicated nanostructure arrays."

    The researchers are currently working with Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd (ETPL), A*STAR's technology transfer arm, to engage potential collaborators and to explore licensing the technology. The research was published online on August 12, 2012 in Nature Nanotechnology.

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    WikiLeaks: Our site's been hit by weeklong attack

    (AP) ? The secret-busting organization WikiLeaks says it's been the victim of a sustained denial-of-service attack which has left its website sluggish or inaccessible for more than a week.

    In a statement released late Saturday the group said the assault intensified around the beginning of August and has since expanded to include attacks against affiliated sites.

    Denial-of-service attacks work by overwhelming websites with requests for information. WikiLeaks has said it's been flooded with 10 gigabits per second of bogus traffic from thousands of different Internet addresses.

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    Saturday, August 11, 2012

    US sanctions Assad allies Iran and Hezbollah

    The United States slapped new sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime and its supporters on Friday, seeking to put further pressure on Damascus to end its bloody crackdown on opponents.

    The State Department and US Treasury unveiled fresh measures that officials said were taken in response to the unfolding conflict in Syria, where 21,000 people have died in the past 17 months in the face of diplomatic stalemate.

    The sanctions came with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set to fly to Istanbul for further talks on the Syrian crisis, with Washington focused on supporting the Syrian opposition seeking to topple Assad.

    The United States has been forced to seek strategies outside the UN Security Council, as China and Russia have on three occasions vetoed resolutions backed by Western powers targeting Syria's regime.

    In the first measure announced on Friday, the treasury denounced the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah for backing Assad and added it to a list of organizations under sanctions for their ties to the Syrian regime.

    "This action highlights Hezbollah's activities within Syria and its integral role in the continued violence the Assad regime is inflicting on the Syrian population," the treasury said in a statement.

    Washington already classes Hezbollah a "terrorist organization" and it is under US sanctions, but Friday's move explicitly ties the group to the violence in Syria, where Assad is attempting to put down a revolt.

    "Hezbollah's extensive support to the Syrian government's violent suppression of the Syrian people exposes the true nature of this terrorist organization and its destabilizing presence in the region," said David Cohen, the Treasury's under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.

    And in a second move against Assad's regime, the US State Department slapped sanctions on Syria's state oil company Sytrol for trading with Iran, under measures designed to starve both Assad and Tehran of much-needed revenue.

    "This kind of trade allows Iran to continue developing its nuclear program while providing the Syrian government with resources to oppress its own people," State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said.

    Citing Syria and Iran's "two-way trade in the energy sector, in which Syria sent 33,000 metric tons of gasoline to Iran in April, a deal said to be worth $36 million, the department said the measure should send "a stark message."

    "Though these sanctions are a direct result of Syria's provision of gasoline to Iran, the United States views Iran's broader support for the Assad regime as completely unjustifiable," Ventrell said.

    "Iran is actively advising, supplying, and assisting the Syrian security forces and regime-backed militias that are carrying out gross human rights abuses against the Syrian people."

    Friday's sanctions followed measures last month against 29 members of the Syrian regime, including the ministers of finance, economy, justice and information, as well as the governor of the central bank.

    While Washington had already frozen assets of around 100 regime members and barred US firms from doing business with them, the move by the treasury in July represented a significant ramping up of pressure on Assad's inner circle.

    In addition to new sanctions, Clinton is expected to announce on Saturday in Istanbul an additional $5.5 million in humanitarian assistance for those fleeing the conflict in Syria, a US official said.

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    Postcards from Mars reveal Martian bedrock (+video)

    A panoramic view of Mars sent back to Earth from NASA's Curiosity rover shows a terrain scientists describe as similar to the?Mojave Desert in?Southern California. Curiosity will begin a four-day software upgrade over the weekend.?

    By Steve Gorman,?Reuters / August 9, 2012

    A 360-degree panorama in color of Gale Crater Vista, taken by NASA's Curiosity rover is displayed at the Malin Space Science Systems control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., early morning Thursday.

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    The science rover Curiosity took a break from instrument checks on its third full day on Mars?to beam back more pictures from the Red Planet, including its first self-portrait and a 360-degree color view of its home in Gale Crater, NASA said on Thursday.

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    The panoramic mosaic, comprising 130 separate images that Curiosity captured with its newly activated navigation cameras, shows a rust-colored, pebble-strewn expanse stretching to a wall of the crater's rim in one direction and a tall mound of layered rock in another.

    That formation, named Mount Sharp, stands at the center of the vast, ancient impact crater and several miles from where Curiosity touched down at the end of an eight-month voyage across 352 million mile (566 million km) of space.

    The layers of exposed rock are thought to hold a wealth of Mars' geologic history, making it the main target of exploration for scientists who will use the rover to seek evidence of whether the planet most similar to Earth might now harbor or once have hosted key ingredients for microbial life.

    But mission controllers at the?Jet Propulsion Laboratory?near Los Angeles are exercising caution immediately following Curiosity's jarring, death-defying descent to the surface on Sunday night.

    They plan to spend weeks putting the nuclear-powered, six-wheeled rover and its sophisticated array of instruments through a painstaking series of "health" checks before embarking on the thrust of their science mission in earnest.

    The $2.5 billion Curiosity project, formally named the Mars?Science Laboratory, is NASA's first astrobiology mission since the Viking probes of the 1970s and is touted as the first fully equipped mobile geochemistry lab ever sent to a distant world.

    Equipment Checkups?

    After three full days on the Red Planet, "Curiosity continues to behave flawlessly" and has "executed all planned activities" without a hitch, mission manager?Michael Watkins?said at a JPL news briefing.

    The latest round of equipment checks included an instrument designed to determine mineral composition of powdered rock and soil samples; one to analyze soil and atmospheric samples for organic compounds; one to detect traces of water locked in shallow mineral deposits; and another that uses particle X-rays to identify chemical elements in rocks and soils.

    The very delivery of Curiosity to the surface of Mars?already has been hailed by NASA as the greatest feat of robotic spaceflight.

    The car-sized rover, which flew from Earth encased in a protective capsule, blasted into the Martian sky at hypersonic speed and landed safely seven minutes later after an elaborate, daredevil descent combining a giant parachute with a rocket-pack that lowered the rover to the Martian surface on a tether.

    Since then, the rover has been sending a string of early images back to Earth, relayed by two NASA satellites orbiting Mars, providing glimpses of a terrain that scientists say appear reminiscent of the Mojave Desert in?Southern California.

    One shot beamed back late Wednesday night, the first taken by Curiosity of itself, shows the rover's top deck strewn with dark pebbles apparently kicked up from the ground when the craft landed. NASA scientists said the gravel does not appear to pose any risk to instruments on the vehicle.

    Two separate high-resolution "Navcam" images taken of the surface show that thrust from the sky-crane rockets during descent carved out a 1.5-foot (0.5-meter) trench in the surface, exposing what appears to be Martian bedrock underneath.

    When Curiosity wakes up for its fourth day on Mars, early Friday?California?time, mission controllers plan to conduct additional instrument checks and prepare the craft for an upgrade of its main computer software for surface operations. All other activities will be suspended during that upgrade, which will begin on day 5 of the mission and last four days.

    (Reporting by?Steve Gorman; Editing by Anthony Boadle)

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    Friday, August 10, 2012

    William and Kate to visit Pacific Islands: palace

    Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine will visit the Pacific Islands of Solomon and Tuvalu in September as part of a tour marking the queen's Diamond Jubilee, the palace said.

    The royal couple will begin the nine-day trip, designed to mark the 60-year reign of William's grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, with a stop in Singapore from September 11-13, St James's Palace has confirmed.

    The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will move on to Malaysia where they will visit the capital Kuala Lumpur and Borneo's Sabah state from September 13-15.

    The pair will then travel to the Solomon Islands, a former British protectorate northeast of Australia, between September 16-18 before a final stop in the tiny nation of Tuvalu from September 18-19.

    Queen Elizabeth is head of state in the Solomons and Tuvalu, both of which are members of the Commonwealth.

    Catherine has already revealed that William, second in line to the British throne, has been making some special preparations ahead of the trip.

    "William's been practising his dance moves," the Duchess joked as the couple met Solomon Islands' governor general Sir Frank Kabui at a reception in June.

    "We're extremely excited. Both of us have never been anywhere near there," William said during the event at London's historic Guildhall.

    A spokeswoman at St James's Palace said further details about the tour would be released towards the end of August.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/william-kate-visit-pacific-islands-palace-184929742.html

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