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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Gains in DNA Are Speeding Research Into Human Origins

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Remains from a Siberian cave and faster, cheaper technology are helping scientists draw a complex new picture of human origins.

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Video: Herb's Rant on 'Farce' Conference Calls

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Teens migrating to Twitter ? for privacy?

CHICAGO?? Teens don't tweet, will never tweet ? too public, too many older users. Not cool.

That's been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.

But then their parents, grandparents, neighbors, parents' friends and anyone in-between started friending them on Facebook, the social networking site of choice for many ? and a curious thing began to happen.

Suddenly, their space wasn't just theirs anymore. So more young people have started shifting to Twitter, almost hiding in plain sight.

"I love twitter, it's the only thing I have to myself ... cause my parents don't have one," Britteny Praznik, a 17-year-old who lives outside Milwaukee, gleefully tweeted recently.

While she still has a Facebook account, she joined Twitter last summer, after more people at her high school did the same. "It just sort of caught on," she says.

Teens tout the ease of use and the ability to send the equivalent of a text message to a circle of friends, often a smaller one than they have on crowded Facebook accounts. They can have multiple accounts and don't have to use their real names. They also can follow their favorite celebrities and, for those interested in doing so, use Twitter as a soapbox.

The growing popularity teens report fits with findings from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a nonprofit organization that monitors people's tech-based habits. The migration has been slow, but steady. A Pew survey last July found that 16 percent of young people, ages 12 to 17, said they used Twitter. Two years earlier, that percentage was just 8 percent.

"That doubling is definitely a significant increase," says Mary Madden, a senior research specialist at Pew. And she suspects it's even higher now.

Meanwhile, a Pew survey found that nearly one in five 18- to 29-year-olds have taken a liking to the micro-blogging service, which allows them to tweet, or post, their thoughts 140 characters at a time.

Early on, Twitter had a reputation that many didn't think fit the online habits of teens ? well over half of whom were already using Facebook or other social networking services in 2006, when Twitter launched.

"The first group to colonize Twitter were people in the technology industry ? consummate self-promoters," says Alice Marwick, a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, who tracks young people's online habits.

(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

For teens, self-promotion isn't usually the goal. At least until they go to college and start thinking about careers, social networking is, well, ... social.

But as Twitter has grown, so have the ways people, and communities, use it.

For one, though some don't realize it, tweets don't have to be public. A lot of teens like using locked, private accounts. And whether they lock them or not, many also use pseudonyms, so that only their friends know who they are.

"Facebook is like shouting into a crowd. Twitter is like speaking into a room" ? that's what one teen said when he was participating in a focus group at Microsoft Research, Marwick says.

Other teens have told Pew researchers that they feel "social pressure," to friend people on Facebook ? "for instance, friending everyone in your school or that friend of a friend you met at a football game," Pew researcher Madden says.

Twitter's more fluid and anonymous setup, teens say, gives them more freedom to avoid friends of friends of friends ? not that they're saying anything particularly earth-shattering. They just don't want everyone to see it.

Praznik, for instance, tweets anything from complaints and random thoughts to angst and longing.

"i hate snow i hate winter.Moving to California as soon as i can," one recent post from the Wisconsin teen read.

"Dont add me as a friend for a day just to check up on me and then delete me again and then you wonder why im mad at you.duhhh," read another.

And one more: "I wish you were mine but you don't know wht you want. Till you figure out what you want I'm going to do my own thing."

Different teenagers use Twitter for different reasons.

Some monitor celebrities.

"Twitter is like a backstage pass to a concert," says Jason Hennessey, CEO of Everspark Interactive, a tech-based marketing agency in Atlanta. "You could send a tweet to Justin Bieber 10 minutes before the concert, and there's a chance he might tweet you back."

A few teens use it as a platform to share opinions, keeping their accounts public for all the world to see, as many adults do.

Taylor Smith, a 14-year-old in St. Louis, is one who uses Twitter to monitor the news and to get her own "small points across." Recently, that has included her dislike for strawberry Pop Tarts and her admiration for a video that features the accomplishments of young female scientists.

She started tweeting 18 months ago after her dad opened his own account. He gave her his blessing, though he watches her account closely.

"Once or twice I used bad language and he never let me hear the end of it," Smith says. Even so, she appreciates the chance to vent and to be heard and thinks it's only a matter of time before her friends realize that Twitter is the cool place to be ? always an important factor with teens.

They need to "realize it's time to get in the game," Smith say, though she notes that some don't have smart phones or their own laptops ? or their parents don't want them to tweet, feeling they're too young.

Pam Praznik, Britteny's mother, keeps track of her daughter's Facebook accounts. But Britteny asked that she not follow her on Twitter ? and her mom is fine with that, as long as the tweets remain between friends.

"She could text her friends anyway, without me knowing," mom says.

Marwick at Microsoft thinks that's a good call.

"Parents should kind of chill and give them that space," she says.

Still, teens and parents shouldn't assume that even locked accounts are completely private, says Ananda Mitra, a professor of communication at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

Online privacy, he says, is "mythical privacy."

Certainly, parents are always concerned about online predators ? and experts say they should use the same common sense online as they do in the outside world when it comes to dealing with strangers and providing too much personal information.

But there are other privacy issues to consider, Mitra says.

Someone with a public Twitter account might, for instance, retweet a posting made on a friend's locked account, allowing anyone to see it. It happens all the time.

And on a deeper level, he says those who use Twitter and Facebook ? publicly or privately ? leave a trail of "digital DNA" that could be mined by universities or employers, law enforcement or advertisers because it is provided voluntarily.

Mitra has coined the term "narb" to describe the narrative bits people reveal about themselves online ? age, gender, location and opinions, based on interactions with their friends.

So true privacy, he says, would "literally means withdrawing" from textual communication online or on phones ? in essence, using this technology in very limited ways.

He realizes that's not very likely, the way things are going ? but he says it is something to think about when interacting with friends, expressing opinions or even "liking" or following a corporation or public figure.

But Marwick at Microsoft still thinks private accounts pose little risk when you consider the content of the average teenager's Twitter account.

"They just want someplace they can express themselves and talk with their friends without everyone watching," she says.

Much like teens always have.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46182268/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

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Finance: Reflections from 35 years as a financial adviser | Business ...

Here are some reflections on 35 years as a financial and tax adviser:
Dumb Tax Mistakes

?Paper-filing your return ? think: slow and keypunch errors
?Fudging the numbers
?Failing to file or filing late ? think: big penalties
?Using the IRS as a savings account
?Not taking deductions you are entitled to in the mistaken belief it will decrease your chances of an audit ? guess again
?Turning long-term capital gains into ordinary income by not waiting a few days
?Buying municipal bonds because they are ?tax free?
?Doing anything just because it is tax favored or deductible
?Failing to do tax loss harvesting with your portfolio ? think: interest-free loan to the IRS
?Assuming tax rates will go down ? think: You have got to be kidding
?Having large life insurance policies without a irrevocable life insurance trust ?? think: gifts to the IRS
?Not doing annual gifting if your estate will be taxable

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Dumb Investment Mistakes

?Not diversifying ? think: roulette
?Leverage, leverage, leverage
?Not understanding investments ? think: four years in college to understand how to make a living and not investing time to learn the fundamentals of investing
?Not having an investment philosophy
?Expecting investments to conform to ?your? timetable
?Putting all your investments in a country with only 4 percent of the world?s population and a mountain of debt ? think: USA.
?Ignoring emerging markets
?Setting unrealistic expectations on investment performance
?Assuming real estate, wages, stocks and investments will continue to go up ? think: gravity
?Using your home as a credit card
?Not using 529 Plans for your children?s college savings ? think: tax free
?Following the headlines to inform your investment decisions ? think of a boy with a yo-yo walking up the stairs
?Complacency ? I know it is a pain to get rid of those losers but ?
?Failing to think long-term ? successful investing is about slow and steady accumulation of assets over time
?Holding investments to get long-term capital gains treatment without considering market risk

General Financial Mistakes

?Impulsive decision making
?Spending to your earning level ? think: Oops!
?Not staying on top of declining interest rates to refinance loans ? the banker is not going to call you
?Assuming you have to refinance to get a better rate because your mortgage has been sold on the secondary market
?Deciding that vacation home is just what you need, then having to finance it
?Failure to carry adequate life insurance
?Failing to have a will ? think: chaos and lots of fees
?No estate plan to minimize taxes ? think, again: gifts to the IRS
?Ignoring reality ? hey, a budget is just reality
?Thinking Social Security will be there for you ? hello!
?Not setting financial goals and sticking to them
?Not reviewing your financial plan at least annually
?Putting off saving for retirement until your later years ? think: $2,000 a year for 25 years earning 5 percent grows to almost $100,000
?Lottery mindsets
?Allowing emotions to influence your financial decisions
?Not living within your means
?Having no rainy-day fund
?Living on credit
?Not waiting to purchase something with cash
?Not saving when times are good
?Trying to keep up the Joneses
?Keeping up with the Joneses
?Not having adequate health insurance
?Not teaching your children to be financially responsible ? think: ?The Return of the Dependents?
?Not establishing good credit
?Missing a great educational opportunity by not learning from your financial mistakes
?Following the blind: advice from friends who may know slightly more than you
?Loaning money to family or friends
?Acting as a co-signer

Other Financial Mistakes

?Skipping a loan payment (Skipping a payment now only adds a payment at the end and you pay a lot more in interest.)
?Extended warranties
?Payday loans
?Incurring prepayment penalties without obtaining a correspondent interest benefit

And let?s not forget Tiger!

?Tiger Woods tried to sell an image while privately maintaining a completely opposite life style. This resulted in the loss of endorsement deals, a drop in his game and a very expensive divorce. Talk about financial disasters.

Source: http://business380.com/2012/01/29/finance-reflections-from-35-years-as-a-financial-adviser/

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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Yemeni president arrives in US for treatment

NEW YORK?? The embattled president of Yemen arrived in the United States on Saturday for medical treatment, Yemen's foreign press office said.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh arrived at an unspecified location in the U.S., after a journey that took him from Oman through London.

His staff has said he is in the United States to be treated for injuries suffered during an assassination attempt in June.

Saleh's travel plans in the United States have not been disclosed for security reasons.

After months of unrest, Saleh agreed in November to relinquish power.

The U.S. and its allies have pressured Saleh to leave Yemen permanently, but it is unclear how long he will remain in the U.S.

In a speech before he left for Oman, he promised to return home before Feb. 21 presidential elections.

Washington has been trying to get Saleh to leave his homeland, but it does not want him to settle permanently in the United States, fearing it would be seen as harboring a leader considered by his people to have blood on his hands.

Saleh was traveling on a chartered Emirates plane with a private doctor, translator, eight armed guards and several family members, an official in the Yemeni president's office said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

In November, Saleh handed over his powers to his vice president and promised to step down completely after months of protests by millions across the country demanding an end to his nearly 33-year rule. A national unity government was formed between his ruling party and the opposition.

But opponents say he has continued to interfere in the work of a unity government through his allies and relatives in key posts ? particularly his son and nephew, who command the country's most elite and powerful military units. As a result, the past two months have seen persistent violence, power struggles and delays in reforms.

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Saleh agreed to step down in return for a sweeping immunity from prosecution on any crimes committed during his rule, a measure that has angered many in Yemen who want him tried for the deaths of protesters in his crackdown on the uprising against him. Protests have continued demanding his prosecution and the removal of his relatives and allies from authority.

Even since the protests against his rule began a year ago, Saleh has proved a master in eluding pressure to keep his grip, though over the months his options steadily closed around him. He slipped out of signing the accord for the power handover three times over the months before finally agreeing to it.

He was badly burned in a June explosion in his compound in Sanaa. He received medical treatment in neighboring Saudi Arabia for three months. American officials had hoped he would remain there, but the Yemeni leader returned home and violence worsened anew.

His maneuvering and the turmoil on the ground left the United States struggling to find a stable transition in the country to ensure a continued fight against al-Qaida militants based in the country, who make up the most active branch of the terror network in the world. Saleh was a close ally of Washington in the fight, taking millions in counterterrorism aid.

During the past year of turmoil, al-Qaida-linked militants outright took control of several cities and towns in the south, including Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province.

On Friday, government forces battled with the militants near the town of Jaar, which they also control. At least five people were killed in the fighting, Yemeni security officials said Saturday, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46174269/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/

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Oil ends little changed, below $100 a barrel (AP)

Oil prices moved in a narrow range Friday, as Iran prepared to consider a ban on crude sales to European Union countries. Here's how energy contracts traded.

On the New York Mercantile Exchange:

Benchmark crude fell 14 cents to finish at $99.56 per barrel.

Gasoline rose 8 cents to end at $2.9268 a gallon.

Heating oil rose 2 cents to finish at $3.0704 a gallon.

Natural gas rose 7 cents to end at $2.6780 per 1,000 cubic feet.

On the ICE Futures exchange in London:

Brent crude rose 67 cents to finish the day at $111.46 per barrel.

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Online university opens first Valley campus

EDINBURG ? Debbie Buchanan?s workday rarely repeats itself.

As senior education specialist at the Region One Education Service Center, the student testing expert frequenftly attends education seminars across the state and travels throughout the Rio Grande Valley, assisting 37 school districts from Laredo to Brownsville.

At the same time, Buchanan, 52, struggled to make room for her own professional development.

?I always wanted to get a doctorate. It was just a matter of how and ? more importantly ? when,? she said. ?I can?t commit to a class where I need to be there every Tuesday and Thursday.

?That?s just not my lifestyle,? Buchanan added, ?but online, I can do that in the office, at home in pajamas, at an airport, anywhere.?

Inspired by her supervisor, she enrolled in the University of Phoenix in 2008 and within three years, she had earned her doctorate through a dissertation on special education in the Valley.

Buchanan recently offered her praise of the for-profit, online university, which operates more than 200 locations across the country and opened its first physical campus south of San Antonio in Mission this month.

?It?s more rigorous, more demanding than I imagined,? she said. ?So many people dropped out who started in my same (doctoral program) cohort. Those of us who made it to the end have taken ourselves to the next level of our careers.?

?TODAY?S STUDENT?

Earlier this month, local mayors, workforce development officials and university alumni attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by Mikal Powers, the first director the McAllen campus, which is located at 4201 S. Shary Road in Missionf.

A Phoenix graduate himself, Powers said the Valley location has been in the works for at least two years and follows a growing demand from border residents hoping to expand their horizons. Across the Valley, the university currently counts 550 students and nearly 700 graduates.

?Today?s student has broken out of the old model,? Powers said. ?They can juggle one to two jobs, a family (and) community responsibilities. All they want is a flexible schedule.

?We offer that,? he said. ?And sometimes it?s better to sit in classes with peers that are like you, rather than thousands of fresh high school graduates on a traditional university campus.?

With nearly 100 academic programs available online, the university will offer the new campus to Valley residents who still prefer an in-class approach to higher education.

Students can select from 29 different bachelor?s and master?s degree options, mostly in business and criminal justice studies, with local professionals teaching those on-campus classes.

?The No. 1 benefit of being in class with people from professional backgrounds is hearing their perspectives, building a post-graduation network, knowing the faculty all work in the real world and maintain a relevancy in their courses,? Powers said.

PROS AND CONS

Though students can switch as they please between online and physical classes, the price and success rate of the University of Phoenix could play a larger factor than convenience.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, or NCES, estimated tuition for the online university can top $11,520 per academic year. In contrast, Texas residents attending the University of Texas-Pan American or South Texas College would only pay about $4,795 and $2,678, respectively.

But echoing Powers, Keith Patridge, CEO and president of the McAllen Economic Development Corp., said students will benefit from having an alternative and individually weigh the pros and cons.

?I don?t even begin to profess what?s the best selection for them,? he said. ?When you start looking at population size and look at other metropolitan areas around the country ? tell me how many have just one four-year and graduate-level institution and one two-year community college institution?

?There is such a demand and opportunity that we haven?t even begun to fill the educational needs in our community,? Patridge added. ?Consumers ? students in this case ? benefit from more competition.?

However, competition has bred mixed results.

The NCES says UTPA has a 19 percent student loan default. But the University of Phoenix?s online students have a 93 percent default rate, and students who attend the San Antonio campus have an 85 percent default rate.

That may occur because for-profit students are more likely to be unemployed six years after entering college and make on average between $1,800 and $2,000 less than their peers, the National Bureau of Economic Research reports.

However, graduation rates are nearly identical for UTPA and the University of Phoenix: 35 percent and 34 percent, respectively.

Though Powers could not speak to national studies or statistics, he said his university has revamped its academic and graduate support services to enhance students? employability and success.

He highlighted new online resources that provide financial consultants, career guidance, national and local networks and even daily services, such as daycare and counseling services.

?Take me as a prime example of the transition services offered to re-enter the workforce and apply your new skills,? Powers said. ?If you asked around, you?d be surprised how many University of Phoenix graduates lead McAllen businesses and services.

?We?re dedicated to connecting the goals you want to achieve, the education you need to get there and the people who want to hire you.?

Neal Morton covers education and general assignments for The Monitor. He can be reached at nmorton@themonitor.com and (956) 683-4472.

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Source: http://www.themonitor.com/news/online-58290-opens-university.html

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Isaac Mizrahi: My Infant Line Is the ?Cutest Thing in the World?

The newlywed designer dishes on his new baby fashion collection with bon b?b?.

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast with special guest CrackBerry Kevin, Friday at 5PM ET!

A lot of Canada news this week, which is why three of the four podcasters behind the mic today are from the land up north: international man of mystery Sean Cooper, Myriam Joire (yep, she's got some Canadian blood in her) and our special guest Kevin Michaluk -- also known to millions as CrackBerry Kevin. Brad Molen's here too, and while he's admittedly all US of A through and through, he can still say "eh" like the best of 'em. We kid, of course, but we're serious that we want you to join us tomorrow afternoon at 5PM ET!

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Severe flooding, landslides kill 6 in Fiji (AP)

SUVA, Fiji ? Severe flooding and landslides in Fiji have killed six people and left hundreds more homeless.

The permanent secretary of information for the South Pacific nation said Thursday that heavy rain since last weekend has forced 3,500 people into temporary shelters. Sharon Smith-Johns also says some people have lost all their possessions.

She says a landslide Wednesday killed a family of four, including two toddlers, in the remote Tukuraki village on the main island of Viti Levu. She says two farmers also died in separate incidents as they tried to rescue livestock on the islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu.

Western regions of Viti Levu have been worst hit. Smith-Johns says a break in the weather Thursday is giving people hope that the worst is over.

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Yahoo delivers another listless performance in 4Q (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO ? Yahoo slipped further behind in the online advertising race during the fourth quarter as the Internet company entered the fourth year of a revenue slump.

The results announced Tuesday marked the latest in a succession of disappointing performances. The persisting malaise led to the firing of Carol Bartz as CEO four months ago.

Yahoo Inc. recently replaced Bartz with PayPal executive Scott Thompson, anointing him as the fourth CEO in less than five years to try to snap the company out of a funk that has depressed its stock. Thompson, who was hired just three weeks ago, promised to move quickly to fix the problems.

"There is no question we need to do better and we will," Thompson assured analysts in a Tuesday conference call.

The company earned $296 million, or 24 cents per share, in the October-to-December period. That is down 5 percent from $312 million, or 24 cents per share, a year earlier.

The earnings matched analysts' estimates, but the company missed Wall Street's revenue target.

Fourth-quarter revenue dropped 13 percent from the previous year to $1.32 billion. After subtracting advertising commissions, Yahoo's revenue totaled $1.17 billion, or $20 million below analyst projections. It's the 13th straight quarter that Yahoo's net revenue has declined from the prior year.

Although Thompson said it was still too early to share precise details about his turnaround strategy, he said he will close some Yahoo services. That could mean layoffs among Yahoo's workforce. The company added 300 employees in the fourth quarter to end the year with 14,000 workers.

Bartz had also closed or sold some of Yahoo's less popular services while jettisoning jobs to cut costs and sharpen the company's focus. Those moves, though, didn't increase Yahoo's revenue or stock price, leading Yahoo to fire her in September with more than 15 months left on her contract.

Besides closing services, Thompson said Yahoo will expand into some fields where he sees opportunities to make money. He didn't elaborate on that or on which services to close.

Thompson also pledged to develop more innovative products to keep Yahoo's audience of 700 million users on its websites for longer periods. Accomplishing that could make Yahoo more attractive to online advertisers. Thompson said he hopes to harness the data that Yahoo collects about its audience to help advertisers do a better job of putting their marketing messages in front of the people most likely to buy their products.

"I'll always ask a lot of questions and I'll immerse myself in the details but when it comes to making decisions, I make them quickly and then push to move fast, fast, fast," Thompson said.

But Yahoo isn't promising a quick start under Thompson's leadership. Yahoo predicted its net revenue in the current quarter will range from $1.02 billion to $1.1 billion. The mid-point of that target works out to $1.06 billion, unchanged from last year's first quarter.

Investors appear to be taking a wait-and-see attitude with Thompson. Yahoo's stock shed 15 cents to $15.54 in extended trading after the report came out. The stock price has fallen by about 40 percent from five years ago.

Yahoo's downturn in revenue has occurred as advertisers are shifting more of their budgets to the Internet as people spend more of their time on the Web. The biggest beneficiaries of this boom so far have been Internet search leader Google Inc. and Facebook, the owner of the largest online social network.

While Yahoo continued to struggle during the final three months of last year, Google's revenue rose 25 percent from the same period in 2010. As a privately held company, Facebook doesn't disclose its financial results, but data compiled by independent research firms show that its website has been luring advertisers away from Yahoo.

Google has become so dominant in Internet search that Yahoo teamed up with another rival, Microsoft Corp., in an effort to become more competitive and save money. Yahoo's search engine now relies on Microsoft's technology to handle most requests. The alliance, forged in mid-2009, hasn't generated as much revenue so far as Yahoo had hoped, although there were signs of progress in the fourth quarter.

Net revenue from search totaled $376 million in the fourth quarter, a 3 percent decrease from a year earlier. The company, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., had been suffering year-over-year declines of more than 10 percent in previous quarters.

As it tries to boost its revenue and lift its stock price, Yahoo is considering selling its stakes in China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan. Yahoo is pursuing those negotiations with "great enthusiasm," according to Tim Morse, the company's chief financial officer. Neither Morse nor Thompson elaborated on when a deal might be reached.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120124/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_yahoo

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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Obama offers condolences to Paterno's family (AP)

WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama has offered his condolences to the family of legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who died Sunday of lung cancer.

The White House says the president spoke with Paterno's wife, Sue, and son, Jay, on Monday to express his condolences.

The White House says the president recalled fond memories of when he first met Coach Paterno and said he and first lady Michelle Obama would keep the Paterno family in their prayers.

Penn State is planning a memorial service on Thursday for Paterno, who was fired in November after he was criticized over his handling of child sex-abuse allegations leveled against his former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky.

Paterno won two national championships and 409 games ? the most in the history of major college football.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Mitt Discloses (TIME)

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Video: Nat Gas Spikes

Chesapeake will cut nat gas production, sending prices higher. Dennis Gartman, founder of the Gartman Letter, weighs in.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting Earth

This colorized NASA image, taken Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows a flare shooting out of the top of the sun. It was taken in a special teal wavelength to best see the flare. Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is already bombarding Earth with radiation with more to come. The Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado observed a flare Sunday night at 11 p.m. EST. Physicist Doug Biesecker said the biggest concern from the speedy eruption is the radiation, which arrived on Earth an hour later. It will likely continue through Wednesday. It's mostly an issue for astronauts' health and satellite disruptions. It can cause communication problems for airplanes that go over the poles. (AP Photo/NASA)

This handout image provided by NASA, taken Sunday night, Jan. 22, 2012, shows a solar flare erupting on the Sun's northeastern hemisphere. Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is already bombarding Earth with radiation with more to come. The Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado observed a flare Sunday night at 11 p.m. EST. Physicist Doug Biesecker said the biggest concern from the speedy eruption is the radiation, which arrived on Earth an hour later. It will likely continue through Wednesday. It's mostly an issue for astronauts' health and satellite disruptions. It can cause communication problems for airplanes that go over the poles. (AP Photo/NASA)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption.

The solar flare occurred at about 11 p.m. EST Sunday and will hit Earth with three different effects at three different times. The biggest issue is radiation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado.

The radiation is mostly a concern for satellite disruptions and astronauts in space. It can cause communication problems for polar-traveling airplanes, said space weather center physicist Doug Biesecker.

Radiation from Sunday's flare arrived at Earth an hour later and will likely continue through Wednesday. Levels are considered strong but other storms have been more severe. There are two higher levels of radiation on NOAA's storm scale ? severe and extreme ? Biesecker said. Still, this storm is the strongest for radiation since May 2005.

The radiation ? in the form of protons ? came flying out of the sun at 93 million miles per hour.

"The whole volume of space between here and Jupiter is just filled with protons and you just don't get rid of them like that," Biesecker said. That's why the effects will stick around for a couple days.

NASA's flight surgeons and solar experts examined the solar flare's expected effects and decided that the six astronauts on the International Space Station do not have to do anything to protect themselves from the radiation, spokesman Rob Navias said.

A solar eruption is followed by a one-two-three punch, said Antti Pulkkinen, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Catholic University.

First comes electromagnetic radiation, followed by radiation in the form of protons.

Then, finally the coronal mass ejection ? that's the plasma from the sun itself ? hits. Usually that travels at about 1 or 2 million miles per hour, but this storm is particularly speedy and is shooting out at 4 million miles per hour, Biesecker said.

It's the plasma that causes much of the noticeable problems on Earth, such as electrical grid outages. In 1989, a solar storm caused a massive blackout in Quebec. It can also pull the northern lights further south.

But this coronal mass ejection seems likely to be only moderate, with a chance for becoming strong, Biesecker said. The worst of the storm is likely to go north of Earth.

And unlike last October, when a freak solar storm caused auroras to be seen as far south as Alabama, the northern lights aren't likely to dip too far south this time, Biesecker said. Parts of New England, upstate New York, northern Michigan, Montana and the Pacific Northwest could see an aurora but not until Tuesday evening, he said.

For the past several years the sun had been quiet, almost too quiet. Part of that was the normal calm part of the sun's 11-year cycle of activity. Last year, scientists started to speculate that the sun was going into an unusually quiet cycle that seems to happen maybe once a century or so.

Now that super-quiet cycle doesn't seem as likely, Biesecker said.

Scientists watching the sun with a new NASA satellite launched in 2010 ? during the sun's quiet period ? are excited.

"We haven't had anything like this for a number of years," Pulkkinen said. "It's kind of special."

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NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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Sunday, January 15, 2012

'Toddlers' mom OK with 'Sexy' song

By Ree Hines

A video featuring 5-year-old "Toddlers & Tiaras" star Isabella Barrett belting out LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" recently led some to question whether or not the song -- not to mention the nightclub setting in which she sang it -- was tot-appropriate. Of course the pageant princess's mom, Susanna, wasn't one of those questioning it. She thinks it's just fine.

The mother took a moment to defend her daughter's routine to TMZ.

"We went for a pet charity event," Susanna said of Isabella's "Cocktails that Care" stop at New York's Libation. "There was pets there. There was vendors there. We were having a good time. The DJ called her up, and she sang a couple of songs that were already playing in there. And then we left by 9."

And as for that one song in particular ? the one with lyrics that include "I got passion in my pants, and I ain't afraid to show it" ? Susanna explained just how her Isabella came to know the words by heart.

"We just listen to the radio, and that's a real catchy song," she said.

Listen to Isabella's take on the song here, and then listen to "LMFAO's" full track here. But be warned -- while Susanna's certain the song is toddler-safe, the gyration-filled video might not be work-safe for grownups.

This song controversy isn't the first time little Isabella's made headlines since her "Toddlers" appearance. In December, the tyke took a pot shot at one of her TV pageant competitors, Paisley Dickey, stating that Paisley was trying to copy her ("but my mom doesn't dress me up as a hooker").

What do you think? Was the song and the nightclub venue inappropriate for a kid? Share your thoughts on our Facebook page.

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Educating women about heart attacks could save lives

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BINGHAMTON, NY Heart attacks in women go largely unrecognized 30 to 55 percent of the time and those who miss the warning signs and fail or delay getting help, run the risk of death or grave disability. But researchers at Binghamton University and SUNY Upstate Medical University have developed an educational program they believe will shorten the time to treatment and ultimately, save lives.

Women often don't have the same kind of chest pains that men generally experience during a heart attack. They may also have a range of other symptoms, not all of them easy for the typical sufferer to identify and so in many cases, they tend to just ignore the warning signs.

In hopes of shortening women's time to treatment, Pamela Stewart Fahs, professor and Decker Chair in Rural Nursing at Binghamton University's Decker School of Nursing, is collaborating with Melanie Kalman, associate professor and director of research, and Margaret Wells, assistant professor, in the College of Nursing at SUNY Upstate Medical University, on a project called "Matters of ?Your Heart." The goal is to develop an effective program to educate women about heart attack symptoms and also to teach about the early warning signs that a heart attack might be on the way.

Stewart Fahs, Kalman and Wells conducted the first phase of their project under an intramural research grant from SUNY Upstate. Their first task was to develop a questionnaire to measure a woman's knowledge of heart attack symptoms and warning signs. They then created a pilot version of an educational presentation.

Working with 141 post-menopausal women, Stewart Fahs and Kalman held small-group sessions to administer the questionnaire, present the program and then give the questionnaire again.

"We did find that the educational program increased knowledge," Stewart Fahs says.

The researchers based the presentation in part on a program that Stewart Fahs developed several years ago to teach rural residents about symptoms of a stroke. That program employed an acronym created by the American Heart Association FAST, for Face, Arm, Speech and Time.

The new program uses a similar mnemonic device, and Stewart Fahs says the method seems to help, especially when women practice putting it to use. The next phase of the project will focus on testing whether using acronyms for female heart attack and its warning symptoms improve knowledge as compared to using an educational program without them. The work will begin this spring, thanks to a grant from the Rural Nurse Organization. Stewart Fahs will administer the questionnaire and program to women in rural areas, while Kalman and Wells concentrate on urban Syracuse, NY. The population they have studied so far is too small to reveal whether the program works better for one demographic or the other, Stewart Fahs says.

In a second phase of their research, Kalman and Stewart Fahs plan to give the presentation to many more women over a broader geographical area. Eventually, they hope to do a longitudinal study to discover whether their program improves the way women respond when they experience signs of a possible heart attack.

"Having knowledge doesn't necessarily change your behavior," Stewart Fahs says. "But if you don't have the knowledge, you're unlikely to change."

Once they've perfected the program, the researchers will share it with hospitals, community health agencies and other healthcare organizations. Besides offering the PowerPoint slides for classroom use, they might someday use communication technologies to give the presentation a broader reach, Stewart Fahs says.

"There should be a way, through cell phone apps or some kind of Internet application, to get this message out to women once it's fully developed and tested."

Stewart Fahs, Kalman and Wells hope that the results of their latest research will include better outcomes for more female victims of heart attack.

"The more aware you are of the signs and symptoms," Stewart Fahs says, "And the more aware you are of the risk of heart disease for women, the better able you are be proactive."

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BINGHAMTON, NY Heart attacks in women go largely unrecognized 30 to 55 percent of the time and those who miss the warning signs and fail or delay getting help, run the risk of death or grave disability. But researchers at Binghamton University and SUNY Upstate Medical University have developed an educational program they believe will shorten the time to treatment and ultimately, save lives.

Women often don't have the same kind of chest pains that men generally experience during a heart attack. They may also have a range of other symptoms, not all of them easy for the typical sufferer to identify and so in many cases, they tend to just ignore the warning signs.

In hopes of shortening women's time to treatment, Pamela Stewart Fahs, professor and Decker Chair in Rural Nursing at Binghamton University's Decker School of Nursing, is collaborating with Melanie Kalman, associate professor and director of research, and Margaret Wells, assistant professor, in the College of Nursing at SUNY Upstate Medical University, on a project called "Matters of ?Your Heart." The goal is to develop an effective program to educate women about heart attack symptoms and also to teach about the early warning signs that a heart attack might be on the way.

Stewart Fahs, Kalman and Wells conducted the first phase of their project under an intramural research grant from SUNY Upstate. Their first task was to develop a questionnaire to measure a woman's knowledge of heart attack symptoms and warning signs. They then created a pilot version of an educational presentation.

Working with 141 post-menopausal women, Stewart Fahs and Kalman held small-group sessions to administer the questionnaire, present the program and then give the questionnaire again.

"We did find that the educational program increased knowledge," Stewart Fahs says.

The researchers based the presentation in part on a program that Stewart Fahs developed several years ago to teach rural residents about symptoms of a stroke. That program employed an acronym created by the American Heart Association FAST, for Face, Arm, Speech and Time.

The new program uses a similar mnemonic device, and Stewart Fahs says the method seems to help, especially when women practice putting it to use. The next phase of the project will focus on testing whether using acronyms for female heart attack and its warning symptoms improve knowledge as compared to using an educational program without them. The work will begin this spring, thanks to a grant from the Rural Nurse Organization. Stewart Fahs will administer the questionnaire and program to women in rural areas, while Kalman and Wells concentrate on urban Syracuse, NY. The population they have studied so far is too small to reveal whether the program works better for one demographic or the other, Stewart Fahs says.

In a second phase of their research, Kalman and Stewart Fahs plan to give the presentation to many more women over a broader geographical area. Eventually, they hope to do a longitudinal study to discover whether their program improves the way women respond when they experience signs of a possible heart attack.

"Having knowledge doesn't necessarily change your behavior," Stewart Fahs says. "But if you don't have the knowledge, you're unlikely to change."

Once they've perfected the program, the researchers will share it with hospitals, community health agencies and other healthcare organizations. Besides offering the PowerPoint slides for classroom use, they might someday use communication technologies to give the presentation a broader reach, Stewart Fahs says.

"There should be a way, through cell phone apps or some kind of Internet application, to get this message out to women once it's fully developed and tested."

Stewart Fahs, Kalman and Wells hope that the results of their latest research will include better outcomes for more female victims of heart attack.

"The more aware you are of the signs and symptoms," Stewart Fahs says, "And the more aware you are of the risk of heart disease for women, the better able you are be proactive."

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Friday, January 13, 2012

Qualcomm GameCommand coming to Android

Mobile phone chip maker, Qualcomm will launch its new Snapdragon GameCommand app for the Android Market on 10th January next week. Qualcomm's new app for the Android platform is like a library of games exclusively optimised for the smartphones with the company's Snapdragon mobile processors. Along with that, the Snapdragon GameCommand will also aggregate and provide gaming news from top gaming news websites.

The Snapdragon GameCommand app will offer GamePack which includes game titles exclusively meant for Snapdragon devices on Android platform. Games like Fight Game Heroes which is a one-on-one battle match featuring mixed martial arts fighters. Other titles meant to be GameCommand exclusive are Bunny Maze 3D and Desert Winds.

This concept of Qualcomm is similar to Nvidia's Tegra Zone that features games exclusively and specifically optimised for devices with Low Power GeForce Graphics chip integrated with the Nvidia Tegra 2 mobile processor.

Initially, the Snapdragon GameCommand would be available only in North American market. Only after the launch, the availability of the same app in other markets would be announced.

The mobile processor makers such as Qualcomm and Nvidia are creating specific and exclusive list of games that are deemed to perform with the respective hardware in smartphones as well as tablets. So if you have an Android smartphone with Qualcomm hardware inside it, then you can choose the games from GameCommand to have the best graphics experience from your device.

Soon when Intel steps into the smartphones and tablet arena with Intel Medfield, we shall get to see Intel's own apps optimised to work well with the Intel hardware.

Source: http://www.themobileindian.com/news/4661_Qualcomm-GameCommand-coming-to-Android

'All My Children's' Lucci to host 'real-life soap' (AP)

NEW YORK ? "All My Children" veteran Susan Lucci is returning to the world of soap operas. But this time, the stories will be real.

Lucci will host and narrate "Deadly Affairs," a new prime-time series airing on Investigation Discovery. The show will explore true stories of romance gone wrong and the crimes of passion that resulted, the network announced Thursday.

"They are deceptive love relationships, love triangles and betrayal that have deadly consequences," Lucci said. "And they end in tragedy.

"Every day you hear these stories and you think, `Oh, my goodness!' Then they disappear. You don't know what happened next, and you don't know why they happened. I'm hoping that, in exploring them, we'll shed some light on human nature."

Lucci won lasting fame as devious, often-wed Erica Kane throughout the run of daytime drama "All My Children," which aired from 1970 until ABC canceled it last September.

"As Erica, I got punished for my wrong deeds," Lucci noted. "I wound up in jail several times, even in a blood-stained ball gown. But with `Deadly Affairs,' these are not characters on a soap opera. This is real life."

Describing her new show as a "real-life soap," she called her hosting role "a perfect match," adding, "I couldn't help but smile" after getting the series offer.

Filming of the 10-episode season is expected to begin in March, with its premiere slated for this fall, Investigation Discovery said.

Lucci also has guest shots on the Lifetime drama "Army Wives" and TV Land's sitcom "Hot in Cleveland." But she has closed the book on Erica Kane after 41 years.

"I miss Erica tremendously," she said. "That's the same thing I hear from people I meet."

Another long-running ABC soap, "One Life to Live," comes to an end Friday, but Lucci expressed confidence that the soap opera genre will endure.

"If it has good writing and good production values," she said, "it has a future."

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Chavez resumes program after cancer treatment (AP)

CARACAS, Venezuela ? Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resumed his Sunday television and radio program after a hiatus of seven months due to his cancer treatment.

Chavez launched the program "Hello, President" in typical style, attacking his political opponents and the U.S. government while visiting an oil project in eastern Venezuela.

Referring to his political opponents, Chavez said: "It seems there's confusion, divisions in their ranks."

The leftist leader has used the program during his 13-year-old presidency to make announcements, chide critics and entertain his supporters, singing and telling stories in monologues often lasting four to five hours.

"I'm just starting my training," said Chavez, who is running for re-election in October.

The 57-year-old president had a tumor removed from his pelvic region in June and underwent four rounds of chemotherapy from July to September in both Cuba and Venezuela. He has repeatedly said he is now cancer-free, although he hasn't revealed what type of cancer he was diagnosed with.

Chavez's program on Sunday was episode No. 376 of his presidency. The last edition occurred June 5 before he underwent cancer surgery in Cuba.

Sipping coffee, Chavez said, "They still say I'm dying" and added, "With the grace of God... I will be here with you for a long time."

He called for a round of applause for his new defense minister, Gen. Henry Rangel Silva. The U.S. has accused Rangel of aiding drug traffickers and Colombian rebels, and political opponents have highlighted what they say are antidemocratic tendencies for suggesting in a 2010 newspaper interview that neither the military nor the public would accept an opposition victory in the upcoming presidential vote.

Rangel, a former intelligence chief, stood and smiled in the audience while Chavez praised him and referred to his opponents as "squalid ones."

"Give thanks to God that the squalid ones attack you," Chavez said. "I'd be very worried if they applauded you."

Rangel's appointment was one of several recent changes in Chavez's inner circle as the president prepares his re-election campaign.

Diosdado Cabello, a former army officer who participated in a 1992 coup attempt led by Chavez, took over last week as National Assembly president, showing Chavez expects to count on him in the coming year after Cabello also assumed a top party post.

Cabello, a former vice president who is thought to have close ties to the military, has long been a close ally of Chavez, but his standing appeared diminished after he lost a 2008 state governor re-election bid to an opposition leader.

Chavez has also said another close ally, Vice President Elias Jaua, will run for state governor in the key state of Miranda, which includes part of Caracas and surrounding areas.

Chavez spoke against a backdrop of oil processing machinery, and the camera cut to a live conversation with oil workers.

He noted that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was set to arrive later Sunday to begin a four-nation Latin American tour. Chavez rebuffed critical comments by U.S. officials, who have urged countries to insist that Iran stop defying international efforts to assess its nuclear program.

"What the empire does is make you laugh, in its desperation to do something they won't be able to do: dominate this world," Chavez said.

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