Thursday, February 28, 2013

Goldman hires Citigroup lobbyist Amy Overton

(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc lobbyist Amy Overton is leaving the bank for Wall Street rival Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Overton, 43, will handle a broad range of issues for Goldman, a spokesman for Goldman said.

Overton spent less than two years at Citigroup, and previously worked as counsel to Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat of Delaware, during negotiations for the Dodd-Frank Act.

"Amy's long experience with financial services issues will make her a great addition to our team," said Michael Paese, global co-head of government affairs for Goldman Sachs. Overton will report to Paese, and will have the title of vice president, the same title she had at Citigroup.

A Citigroup spokeswoman declined to comment.

Overton also worked at Fannie Mae for seven years leading into the financial crisis, leaving as chief of staff for its government and industry relations department in 2008.

With Overton's joining, Goldman's D.C. office is now evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with four of each.

Paese had been a top staffer for former Democratic congressman Barney Frank. Goldman's lobbying office has two other Democrats, said a person familiar with the matter who did not have authorization to speak publicly about the matter.

Todd Malin, a senior Republican lobbyist, recently left Goldman for Rio Tinto PLC . But the bank has other Republicans in its lobbying group, including Goldman's other global co-head of government affairs, Faryar Shirzad, who splits his time among London, New York and Washington.

(In 3rd paragraph, corrects title for Paese to global co-head of government affairs, not head of Washington government relations office. In last paragraph, corrects title of Shirzad to show other co-head, not global head of office of government affairs.)

(Reporting By Lauren Tara LaCapra; Editing by Leslie Adler)

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It?s Not Just Best Buy ? Study Finds Most At-Risk Retailers From Shoppers? ?Showrooming? Behaviors Are Home, Toy And Pet Stores

Mobile price checkPlaced, the Madrona-backed location analytics startup which emerged from stealth around a year ago, has today released a study which details which retailers are more likely impacted by?the so-called "showrooming" trend. The study also examines?more specifically, how and where this trend may benefit one e-commerce retailer in particular: Amazon, incidentally a company which Madrona is known for having invested in early on.

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Israel: Mortar shell from Syria lands in Golan

Israeli military officials say a mortar shell fired from Syria has landed in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

The officials say the shell landed in an open area near an Israeli village that is close to the Syrian frontier. No one was hurt. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under military policy.

The officials say it's still not clear who fired the shell and whether it was aimed at Israel or was stray fire from the civil war in neighboring Syria.

In recent months, stray fire from the fighting in Syria has landed in Israeli-controlled territory. On several occasions, Israel has returned fire. Israel did not respond to Thursday's shelling.

Israeli military officials fear the fighting in Syria could spill over into Israel.

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Kerry says Iran talks useful, hopes Tehran will engage

PARIS (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday that two days of nuclear talks between Iran and world powers had been useful and said a serious engagement by Iran could lead to a longer-term, comprehensive agreement.

Kerry, who was in Paris meeting the French president and his counterpart Laurent Fabius during a tour of Europe, repeated that Washington was ready to hold bilateral talks with Iran.

He added: "Iran knows what it needs to do, the president has made clear his determination to implement his policy that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon," he added.

(Reporting by Arshad Mohammed and Alexandria Sage; Editing by Alison Williams)

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Friday, February 22, 2013

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Politicians Cry Foul Over High Gas Prices, Urge Action on Keystone KL

Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., posted a "Keystone Clock " on his House Energy Committee's website Wednesday. The chairman states more than 1,615 days have passed since TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline proposal sought approval. Joining Upton's call to build the pipeline is Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio. Executives at TransCanada have tried a different tactic to try to get approval from the Obama administration by claiming the pipeline won't affect global warming.

The tug of war between economics and environmentalism is escalating thanks to 34 straight days of rising gasoline prices.

What does Upton say about President Barack Obama's lack of progress?

The energy committee chairman states on his clock, "The Keystone XL project offers a unique opportunity for the president to increase America's access to stable and secure oil supplies. Energy supply stability is an issue the American people become concerned about, especially when prices are rising."

Upton goes on to say the new pipeline will help "insulate" the United States from global competition for Middle Eastern oil supplies. He calls the huge project a "sensible solution" for America.

How does Boehner criticize Obama with gas prices rising?

Boehner posted a "Running on Empty " graphic Tuesday. The Speaker of the House complains gas prices have "soared $0.43 since Jan. 17" before remarking with his own Keystone clock, "How long will Americans have to wait?"

Boehner cites several sources, including nine Democratic senators, who want Obama to approve the project quickly. The pipeline may not see a decision until mid-June. Around 20,000 jobs and nearly a million barrels of oil a day are at stake for American oil companies.

What is the explanation for rising gas prices as argued by Upton and Boehner?

CNBC reports as many as eight refineries are closing on the East Coast. One such facility closed in January in New Jersey and prices have risen ever since. Crude oil refinement has decreased by 1 million barrels per day in 2013. The rise in gas prices threatens a fragile economic recovery trying to get ahead after the holiday season as investor John Kilduff says gas at $5 a gallon is a "real possibility."

What are some of the highest gas prices in the nation right now?

Prices for a regular gallon of gasoline average $3.75 nationally. Long Island Newsday reports one gallon goes for is above $4 just as higher payroll taxes and the expensive heating oil season kicks in. Gas prices are up more than 28 cents from a month ago in the region.

Gas prices in Michigan have risen 60 cents per gallon in the Detroit area, according to The Detroit News . Prices are expected to rise through April. Prices in Detroit are around $3.88 per gallon on average, a rise of 16 cents in the past week.

The Washington Post reports gas prices haven't risen this fast since 2005. Prices in the nation's capital are within five cents of $4 per gallon thanks in part to refineries, but also because of lower output in Saudi Arabia and tensions in Iraq and Iran.

What has TransCanada said about its proposal?

The oil company is trying a new tactic to please environmentalists, according to the Associated Press . Alex Pourbaix, one of the company's presidents, said Canada is responsible for just 2 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. The Oil Sands in Alberta, the area from where the oil will be transported, makes up just 5 percent of Canada's greenhouse gases. On the whole, Pourbaix argues the resulting one-tenth of 1 percent of global greenhouse emissions is "immaterial."

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Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield arrested on federal bribery charges

JACKSON, Mississippi -- Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield has been arrested on federal bribery charges.

FBI spokeswoman Deborah Madden says Winfield was arrested in Vicksburg by federal agents. No details of Winfield's arrest have been released.

The 39-yar-old Winfield is being held in the Madison County Detention Center in Canton. No initial court appearance has been announced.

He is completing his first term as mayor in the Mississippi River city and qualified to seek re-election.

Winfield also is the subject of a sexual harassment lawsuit from a former city employee. That case is scheduled to go to trial Feb. 10, 2014, before U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette.

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Giving Really Does Beat Receiving

Giving really is better than receiving, new research confirms. ?That research found people in both rich and impoverished countries say they feel better about donating money to charity, spending money on others or giving to others than they do about buying something for themselves.

That simple finding, however, suggests that the positive feeling a person has after giving to another person may be a component of human nature.

"Our findings suggest that the psychological reward experienced from helping others?may be deeply ingrained in human nature, emerging in diverse cultural and economic contexts," said lead author Lara Aknin of Simon Fraser University in Canada.

To prove this, Aknin and a team of researchers studied a poll of 234,917 people from 126 countries around the world. They found that respondents worldwide experienced feelings of well-being after giving to others. Those feelings were universal among people of?different income levels and social structures and in countries with different levels of freedom and corruption.

Researchers say people are more likely to experience those gains in well-being because giving to others is more memorable than spending money on themselves. In all experiments, respondents more easily recalled times when they purchased something for someone else than times when they had bought something for themselves, the researchers found.

"From an evolutionary perspective, the emotional benefits that people experience when they help others acts to encourage generous behavior beneficial to long-term human survival," Aknin said.

The research was published in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.?

This story was provided by BusinessNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience. Follow David Mielach on Twitter @D_M89 or BusinessNewsDaily @bndarticles. We're also on Facebook & Google+.

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Best iPhone calculator app for students

Best iPhone calculator app for students

MyScript Calculator for iPhone is the perfect option for students. It uses an input we are all familiar with, our own handwriting, and not only recognizes the equations you write, but works them out for you.

If you're a high school or college student with an iPhone, you've probably noticed the abundance of calculator apps available in the App Store. While some have specific uses such as finance calculators or engineering calculators, you probably won't need all the functions they offer while studying for a calculus exam. When it comes to schoolwork, math symbols and shift keys on calculators can not only be confusing, but tedious to use, especially if you make a mistake and have to start over.

When you launch MyScript Calculator, you're be presented with a blank sheet of what looks like graph paper. Start writing equations and MyScript will start auto converting what you're writing into typed text to make it cleaner (think OCR for math). This also gives you more space to freehand write as you go. For example, if you draw a division sign underneath a block of numbers you've already written, the content will be moved upwards so you can continue working. If you make a mistake, just scribble a number out and it will disappear. What's more, MyScript will automatically start calculating for you.

MyScript supports basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square roots, exponential equations, and more. There's also an option for degree and radian toggles. They'll automatically appear as you use them, or you can permanently enable them to from the settings menu. When solving for an unknown variable, simply put a question mark where you'd like MyScript to fill in the answer. You can also share any equations you solve with someone else via email, Twitter, or Facebook.

Many scientific and graphing calculator apps can sometimes put a pretty big dent in your wallet. MyScript can perform a lot of the same tasks in a more natural way, and it's free. So, if you're a student looking for the best calculator option for your iPhone, make sure you give MyScript a try.



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National Briefing | Space: A Tablespoon of Progress for Rover

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Fresh off drilling into a rock for the first time, the Mars rover Curiosity is preparing to dissect the pulverized rock to determine what it is made of.

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94% Barbara

All Critics (52) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (3)

Hoss is fantastic. Barbara is ice cold at the start, understandably so. Yet Hoss makes her sympathetic.

[Leaves] you drained and horrified.

Sometimes, the sun shines and the wind blows fresh and the very elements that make for intense hardship also open a window on intense joy.

Hoss is mesmerizing as a woman who holds it all together to the point of losing herself.

It's one terrific film, as smart, thoughtful and emotionally involving as just about anything that's out there.

It's a quiet film built of careful details.

Hoss' outstanding performance is a deep well of subtle yet unmistakable motives and reactions.

A crafty filmmaker, Petzold gives us information in increments. During the first half of his movie, which he co-wrote, we are all but left to our own devices; yet it is fascinating, and appropriate.

Worth seeing ... both for Petzold's singular aesthetic and for Hoss, who as usual is a riveting presence.

A well-observed, compelling, and evocative character piece, haunted by the ghosts of Germany's recent past.

Feels like total immersion into the sights, stresses, and the subtle solidarity among middle-class professionals living in the workers' paradise that Petzold's parents fled.

[R]esides somewhere in an unsatisfying borderland between drama and thriller, never quite catching fire as either...

A superbly crafted low-boil drama that gets its hooks into you the old-fashioned way, through character, and highlights the difficulties and cost of living by principles.

Subtly intriguing and ambiguous, it's filled with suspicion and subterfuge.

Despite the limited scope of its predictable narrative, "Barbara" remains a compelling character study thanks to Nina Hoss's enigmatic performance in the title role.

Christian Petzold's latest thriller threatens to cross over the line from minimalism to nihilism.

Both insightful and poignant, but not mawkish...an intriguing character study set against the backdrop of a dark time in history.

The plotting, the planning and the deepening relationships don't make for kinetic action, but they are the foundation for a smart, engrossing film.

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Kid raps his Bar Mitzvah save the date invitation using Welcome to Atlanta sports theme (Video)

Kid raps his Bar Mitzvah save the date invitation using Welcome to Atlanta sports theme (Video)

By Larry Brown February 21, 2013 - Posted in YouTubeage

Daniel BlumenThis video is a shout out to all my Jewish brethren out there who wanted a Wu-Tang Clan-themed Bar Mitzvah but their parents wouldn?t allow it (yes, I was going to have a different table for all the Wu members). Lest you thought the events portrayed in movies like ?Keeping Up with the Steins? were exaggerated, we have this video to prove that the sort of thing does happen in real life.

A 12-year-old kid named Daniel Blumen aka ?D Mazel Tov? put together a rap video as his Bar Mitzvah?s save the date invitation. Though his rap skills could use some work, the video is high in production value and the lyrics are strong.

He?s got nothing on B-Rad from Malibu?s O.P.P.-themed Bar Mitzvah, but we give him applause for the effort.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Myth of the Movie Musical Renaissance

Fantine (ANNE HATHAWAY) is thrown out of the factory in "Les Misérables". Fantine, played by Anne Hathaway is thrown out of the factory in Les Mis?rables.

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By most accounts, the movie version of Les Miserabl?s has been a success. Reviews were mixed, but it has earned eight Academy Award nominations, plus $140 million in domestic box office?and almost twice that overseas. While the stage version was hugely popular, the film?s success was hardly guaranteed. The recent adaptation of Phantom of the Opera?also a huge Broadway hit?was a critical and commercial failure. (It made just more than $50 million domestically, which was less than its reported budget.) So the movie musical is totally coming back, right?

Of course not. But that won?t stop many, many people from saying so. ?The musical as a motion picture genre has had a remarkable renaissance in the last decade,? declared Craig Zadan and Neil Meron in a press release issued by the Academy last month. Zadan and Meron have helped put together ?a special celebration of musicals of the last 10 years? for this Sunday?s Oscar ceremony. The renaissance of the genre is so remarkable, apparently, that this celebration will showcase a grand total of three examples: Chicago, Dreamgirls, and Les Miserabl?s. That?s it. And for an obvious reason: There simply haven?t been that many good movie musicals made in the last 10 years.

And yet, whenever one comes out, the cry returns: The musical is back! And that cry is not just a decade old. When Evita was released in 1996, the Philadelphia Inquirer asked, ?Movie musicals: on the brink of a renaissance?? Besides the Madonna vehicle, The Preacher?s Wife with Whitney Houston and Woody Allen?s Everybody Says I Love You made this seem like a question worth asking. No notable movie musicals were released for the next five years.

But then Chicago arrived in 2002, with its sardonic humor and slick camerawork, and Billboard wondered, ?Can Chicago Spell a Comeback for the Movie Musical?? The film?s strong box office, Billboard said, boded ?well for the movie musical,? which had recovered from a long ?dry spell? thanks to the previous year?s beloved and bizarre Moulin Rouge. The Telegraph agreed, constructing a narrative that went back to that previous harbinger of the musical?s triumphant return, Evita.

It?s taken a three-step tango for us to welcome back the movie musical as a form. Alan Parker?s grandiose but failed Evita nudged the door ajar; Baz Luhrmann?s wildly uneven Moulin Rouge?flung it wide open; and now the satisfyingly straightforward, professionally polished Chicago steps triumphantly through. Make no mistake, Rob Marshall?s film is much the best of the three, and arguably the most enjoyable picture of its kind since Bob Fosse?s Cabaret in 1972.

As this Sunday?s ?special celebration? demonstrates, Chicago remains the main reference point for the decade that followed. Whenever a new musical?Rent, Mamma Mia!, The Producers, Hairspray?hits theaters, critics and movie lovers cite the Rob Marshall movie and ponder the impending return of the glorious movie musical?as they did, for instance, in the online debate, ?Can Rock of Ages Save Movie Musicals?? (The right answer again, in case you were wondering, is no.)

So what?s going on here? Why does every new movie musical prompt people to wonder if we are returning to some earlier, golden age? The simple answer is that movie musicals inspire nostalgia. But that raises a more complicated question. Why?

It?s worth noting that only a specific kind of movie musical inspires this response. No one asked if Pitch Perfect or Once, for example, would save the movie musical. Some might argue that these are not ?true? musicals, because characters don?t simply break into song; instead, the songs are presented as performances within the movie. But that?s the case with some of the genre?s classics as well, such as 42nd Street and Stormy Weather. Feature-length cartoons don?t prompt movie-musical-renaissance thinkpieces, either?though, for what it?s worth, those have been on the decline lately, too. When people talk about a comeback for movie musicals, they?re most often thinking of big, live-action movies in which characters break spontaneously into song and which lots of people go to see. Think Singin? in the Rain. Think about that one for a minute, actually. Widely regarded as the best movie musical of all time, Singin? in the Rain (1952) is set 25 years prior to its release and depicts the dawn of the ?talkie.? The movie itself looks back fondly on the beginning of the genre?s golden age.

Of the recent musicals that take ?classic? form, a huge number are set in the past. Les Mis?rables takes place in 19th-century France. Chicago is set in the 1920s. Hairspray and Nine revel in the early ?60s. Dreamgirls is divided between that era and the early ?70s. Even Rock of Ages indulges shamelessly in 1980s nostalgia. Since the great era of movie musicals ended, the genre has not only frequently depicted the past, it has been, on some level, about the past.

The movie-musical golden age lasted, roughly speaking, from the 1930s to the early 1960s, when the studio system collapsed. Back then, musicals were frequently among the top grossing films of the year. ?Everybody? saw them. Our entertainment options were far more limited, of course, and tickets to the movies were cheaper. Movie musicals?which generally feature big choruses and group singing and dance numbers in which everyone on-screen joins in?celebrate the coming together of large numbers of people. In other words, they re-enact what movies themselves once did, and what, whenever we see them, we hope they might do again.

But times have changed, irrevocably. Despite a slight uptick in their production lately, musicals today are incredibly difficult to get off the ground. (You may be waiting forever for that Wicked adaptation.) It?s going to stay that way.

There is something inherently fanciful about the musical genre. No matter how ?raw? or ?gritty? a movie like Les Miserabl?s may attempt to be, the act of singing?and in other cases, dancing?to express one?s self in the middle of an otherwise ordinary world will never feel entirely ?realistic.? Like the movies generally, but only more so, musicals conjure a fantasy world, full of melody and?even more crucially?harmony. Musicals are, in that way, grander than life. And they are worth celebrating. But the golden age is never coming back.

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Rewriting a receptor's role

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

In a pair of new papers, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences upend a long-held view about the basic functioning of a key receptor molecule involved in signaling between neurons, and describe how a compound linked to Alzheimer's disease impacts that receptor and weakens synaptic connections between brain cells.

The findings are published in the Feb. 18 early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Long the object of study, the NMDA receptor is located at neuronal synapses ? the multitudinous junctions where brain cells trade electrical and chemical messages. In particular, NMDA receptors are ion channels activated by glutamate, a major "excitatory" neurotransmitter associated with cognition, learning and memory.

"NMDA receptors are well known to allow the passage of calcium ions into cells and thereby trigger biochemical signaling," said principal investigator Roberto Malinow, MD, PhD professor of neurosciences at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

The new research, however, indicates that NMDA receptors can also operate independent of calcium ions. "It turns upside down a view held for decades regarding how NMDA receptors function," said Malinow, who holds the Shiley-Marcos Endowed Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research in Honor of Dr. Leon Thal (a renowned UC San Diego Alzheimer's disease researcher who died in a single-engine airplane crash in 2007).

Specifically, Malinow and colleagues found that glutamate binding to the NMDA receptor caused conformational changes in the receptor that ultimately resulted in a weakened synapse and impaired brain function.

They also found that beta amyloid ? a peptide that comprises the neuron-killing plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease ? causes the NMDA receptor to undergo conformational changes that also lead to the weakening of synapses.

"These new findings overturn commonly held views regarding synapses and potentially identify new targets in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease," said Malinow.

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U.S. says has brought cyber-theft concerns to Chinese government

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has repeatedly taken up its concerns about Chinese cyber-theft at the highest levels of the Chinese government, including with Chinese military officials, the White House said on Tuesday.

The U.S. comment followed a report by a U.S. computer security company that said a secretive Chinese military unit is believed to be behind a series of hacking attacks, which prompted a strong denial by Beijing.

"I can tell you that we have repeatedly raised our concerns at the highest levels about cyber theft with senior Chinese officials including in the military and we will continue to do so," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters. But he declined to comment specifically on the contents of the report.

(Reporting By Matt Spetalnick)

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Yahoo redesign aims make site more inviting

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo is renovating the main entry into its website in an effort to get people to visit more frequently and linger for longer periods of time.

The long-awaited makeover of Yahoo.com's home page is the most notable change to the website since the Internet company hired Marissa Mayer as its CEO seven months ago. The new look will start to gradually roll out in the U.S early Wednesday.

It's the first time Yahoo has redesigned the page in four years. In that time, the company has seen its annual revenue drop by about 30 percent from $7.2 billion in 2008 to $5 billion last year as more online advertising flowed to rivals such as Internet search leader Google Inc. and social networking leader Facebook Inc.

Mayer, who spent 13 years helping to build Google into the Internet's most powerful company, has vowed to revive Yahoo Inc.'s revenue growth by establishing more of the company's services as daily habits that "delight and inspire" their users.

Yahoo.com's revamped home page figures to play a key role in determining whether Mayer, 37, realizes her ambition.

"We think this will be the new foundation for Yahoo," said Mike Kerns, the company's vice president of product.

Despite the company's recent financial malaise, Yahoo's home page has remained one of the Internet's top destinations. The page attracted 392 million worldwide visitors last month, a 7 percent increase from 365 million at the same time last year, according to the research firm comScore Inc. By comparison, Microsoft Corp.'s msn.com drew a crowd of 334 million, up 4 percent from last year.

But visitors haven't been spending as much time at Yahoo.com when they check in. They also haven't been making as many return visits each month. That's been a problem for many other websites, too, as Facebook and other online hangouts capture more of people's online time.

Yahoo's revamped home page isn't a radical new look, but there are enough changes that could make the website more addictive.

The biggest switch will be in how Yahoo determines which stories to show each visitor on the home page and how the information is displayed.

Kerns says Yahoo has developed more sophisticated formulas to determine which topics are most likely to appeal to different people so the news feed can be fine-tuned to cater to different tastes.

Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., already knows a lot about people who have been coming to its website for years, particularly if they logged in while visiting. People willing to connect Yahoo with their social circles on Facebook also are more apt to see stories that appeal to them. That access will enable Yahoo to pick out stories about subjects tied to a person's interests on Facebook, either directly or through their online friendships.

The news feed also has been retooled so it is constantly refreshed with more material as a person scrolls down the page. The ability to endlessly peruse stories is ideally suited for viewing on smartphones and tablet computers controlled by touch, although the feature also works on desktop machines operated with a mouse or keyboard.

Yahoo's new home page also shows snippets of text from each story, borrowing a page from the Google playbook that Mayer helped write. Those summaries may be especially handy on the smaller screens of mobile devices, a growing market that Mayer has said Yahoo must do a better job reaching if the company hopes to bounce back.

To minimize the chances that its story selections will irritate users, Yahoo is also adding controls that make it easy to inform the website about which topics aren't of interest.

The right side of the new home page will be devoted to a stack of capsules that Yahoo calls "utilities."

The capsules are devoted to weather, finance, sports, friends' birthdays, video clips and Yahoo's Flickr site for photos. Each one can be programmed to automatically show what a user wants to see, such as the weather in a specific city, information about a certain sports teams or the stocks in an individual's investment portfolio. Any of the utilities can be scrapped.

The left side of the page will list various Yahoo services, although slightly fewer than in the old setup.

Yahoo is planning to display just two ads on the home page. It's an implicit bet that the price that the company can charge for those slots will steadily rise if people become more immersed in the rest of the content on the page.

Investors have been betting Mayer will deliver the turnaround that eluded the three other full-time CEOs that preceded her in the past five years. Yahoo's stock closed Tuesday at $21.29, up 36 percent since Mayer's arrival.

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NY Times again prepares to sell Boston Globe

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The New York Times Co. said Wednesday that it is putting The Boston Globe and its related assets up for sale four years after it called off a previous attempt to sell the newspaper.

Mark Thompson, the Times' chief executive, said in a statement a sale would be in the best long-term interests of both properties, "given the differences between these businesses and The New York Times."

Thompson said the sale would help the company concentrate its attention and investments on The New York Times' brand.

The newspapers' differences are stark. The Times has a national ? even international ? audience, and has been adding digital subscribers at a rapid clip. Last year, it launched a Chinese-language website and has a loyal, growing subscriber base in the U.S.

Meanwhile, the Globe is focused on its readers in the New England region, and while its digital subscriptions have been increasing, analysts believe they aren't rising fast enough to be meaningful. The Globe had 28,000 digital subscribers at the end of 2012, up 8 percent from three months earlier.

In comparison, the Times and International Herald Tribune had 640,000 paying subscribers online, up 13 percent over three months.

Analyst John Janedis of UBS said in a research note that the sale has been expected for years and "will allow NYT to focus on the core brand as it attempts to further build out its digital platform."

He estimated that the Globe earned about $37.5 million in profits before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization on $375 million in revenue.

Janedis said the sale could bring in $150 million to $175 million, not including pension liabilities or the value of the Globe's headquarters.

Along with the Globe, the Times plans to sell the Worcester Telegram & Gazette; the publications' related websites; the Globe's direct mail marketing company, GlobeDirect; and a 49 percent interest in Metro Boston, a free daily newspaper for commuters.

Led by Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the Times Co. is controlled by a family trust whose trustees are the descendants of Adolph Ochs, who bought the newspaper in 1896. The trust holds 90 percent of the non-traded Class B stock that is required to elect a majority of the board.

The Times bought the Globe in 1993 for $1.1 billion from the family of Stephen Taylor, a former Globe executive. But the newspaper has faced difficulties in recent years as advertisers cut spending on newspapers and moved more ads online.

A round of cost cutting in 2009, which involved pay cuts, helped put the newspaper on better financial footing. It prompted the Times to call off a planned sale and rebuff the offers of several bidders. In late 2011, the Globe started charging for access to its online version at BostonGlobe.com. The move helped boost circulation revenues.

Times doesn't separate Globe revenue from Times revenue in its financial statements. But the Globe had an average weekday circulation of 230,351 in the six months through September, up 12 percent from a year ago, according to the Alliance for Audited Media. The newspaper's increase in digital subscriptions more than offset declines in print. But the total is still down significantly from the nearly 413,000 it boasted in September 2002.

Wednesday's announcement follows the sale of several Times assets recently.

In September, the newspaper company sold its About.com website and related businesses for $300 million to Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp. In January 2012, the Times sold its regional media group to Halifax Media Holdings for $143 million.

Asset sales helped triple net income in the final quarter of 2012 to $176.9 million, or $1.14 per share, as revenue grew 5 percent to $575.8 million. Without the sales, earnings per share would have fallen.

Analyst Edward Atorino with The Benchmark Co. said he views the sale as part of a strategy by the Ochs-Sulzberger family that controls the Times Co. to delist as a public company and go private.

"They're selling everything not nailed down," Atorino said. "The family will simply take the Times private. That's the only logical end game."

The Times Co.'s stock has fallen precipitously in recent years from above $50 in 2002 to around $4 during the depths of the recession in 2009. Since then, the stock has recovered somewhat, closing down 4 cents at $9.03 on Wednesday shortly after news of the sale broke.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ny-times-again-prepares-sell-boston-globe-225439854--finance.html

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iPhoneDevSDK details events that led to Apple, Facebook hacking

Feb 20, 2013 - 05:15 PM EST ? AAPL: 448.85 (-11.14, -2.42%) | NASDAQ: 3164.41 (-49.18, -1.53%)

?In January, a number of Apple employees had their Macs compromised following visits to the popular iPhoneDevSDK forum,? Jordan Golson reports for MacRumors.

?Employees from Facebook and likely dozens of other companies were compromised as well,? Golson reports. ?In a blog post today, site owner Ian Sefferman shared some limited details about what happened and what the site is doing about it.?

Golson reports, ?Most notably, the attack was reportedly ended by the hacker on January 30, 2013, meaning the site believes that there is no ongoing threat.?

More info and links in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Lynn Weiler" for the heads up.]

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Analyst: A $330 iPhone could triple Apple's market in China

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FORTUNE -- Adding to the growing literature of sell-side analysts who think the answer to Apple's (AAPL) market valuation woes (down 35% since September) is a low-cost iPhone, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty has looked at China, the world's largest smartphone market, and done the math.

She made several points in a note to clients Tuesday that struck me as new:

  • Contrary to the consensus view -- which assumes that smartphones in China will only get cheaper -- she cites research showing that the average selling price stablized last year and has actually?started?to increase as Chinese users trade up to higher-quality smartphones.?
  • That Apple could launch a 2,000 yuan ($330) iPhone mini and be competitive with flagship?products from Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE and Coolpad.
  • That even at a lower profit margin (say, 40%) and a 1/3 cannibalization rate (i.e. customers buy one third fewer full-priced iPhones), the cheaper iPhone would increase Apple's revenue and gross profits (see her spreadsheet above).
  • That an iPhone mini and a LTE license from the Chinese government this year or next could finally persuade China Mobile (CHL), with 700 million subscribers, to cut a deal with Apple.
  • If all this comes to pass, Huberty estimates that Apple's addressable smartphone market in China, which had dwindled to 10%, could triple to nearly 30%.

This assumes, of course, that Apple can find a way to build a $330 iPhone with cheaper parts, a slower processor, a lower resolution screen and perhaps a plastic body, that isn't, in the phrase Tim Cook used at a Goldman Sachs conference last week, "a crappy product."

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Brit Awards 2013 Complete Winners List

Frank Ocean, the Black Keys and Lana Del Rey rep the U.S. with awards in international categories.
By MTV News staff


Frank Ocean accepts the Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist on Wednesday
Photo: Matt Kent/ Getty Images

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Regenstrief study: Informatics tools underutilized in prevention of hospital-acquired infection

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317-843-2276
Indiana University

INDIANAPOLIS -- Advances in electronic medical record systems and health information exchange are shifting efforts in public health toward greater use of information systems to automate disease surveillance, but a study from the Regenstrief Institute has found that these technologies' capabilities are underutilized by those on the front lines of preventing and reporting infections.

The new study measured the awareness, adoption and use of electronic medical record systems and health information exchange by hospital-based infection preventionists (formerly known as infection control professionals) to report and share information critical to public health. Infection preventionists are often responsible for reporting information on patients diagnosed with health-care-acquired infections like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, as well as sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia.

Prior research at Regenstrief and other academic institutions has shown that health information exchange can increase the completeness and timeliness of infection reporting to local and state health agencies. In this study, the researchers found that half of the infection preventionists surveyed were unaware of whether their hospital or health system participated in a health information exchange. Only 10 percent of infection preventionists indicated that their organizations were formally engaged in health information exchange activities.

While 70 percent of infection preventionists surveyed reported access to an electronic medical record system, less than 20 percent were involved in the design, selection or implementation of the system. Without such involvement, those surveyed indicated the information systems often did not include modules or components that supported infection control activities.

"There is a push from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to reduce hospital-acquired infections and increase the use of electronic health record systems," said lead author Brian Dixon, MPA, Ph.D., Regenstrief Institute investigator and assistant professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are encouraging local and state health departments to use health information technologies to improve infectious disease reporting and prevention activities. We found that while hospital-based infection preventionists -- the people on the front line -- may have access to health information technology, they lack specially designed computer tools needed to sift through the massive amounts of data in electronic medical records.

"We learned that hospital infection preventionists are frustrated with inefficient lists of patients whose electronic medical charts they must examine individually," said Dr. Dixon, who is also a health research scientist with the Richard Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center. "They say they want electronic alerts and reminders when the system detects something of potential importance. There needs to be concerted R&D to meet this gap in decision support."

In addition to Dr. Dixon, co-authors of the study are Josette Jones, Ph.D., of the School of Informatics and Computing; and Shaun Grannis, M.D., M.S., of the Regenstrief Institute and the IU School of Medicine. The Regenstrief Institute is the home of internationally recognized centers of excellence in biomedical and public health informatics, aging, and health services and health systems research.

"Infection Preventionists' Awareness of and Engagement in Health Information Exchange to Improve Public Health Surveillance" was published online on Feb. 18 in the American Journal of Infection Control. The study was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"Well-designed and supported electronic medical records systems and health information exchange can provide tools that can help prevent and halt the spread of infection among hospitalized patients," Dr. Dixon said. "But to do so effectively, infection preventionists must be made part of the selection and implementation of health information technologies."

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Regenstrief study: Informatics tools underutilized in prevention of hospital-acquired infection [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 20-Feb-2013
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Contact: Cindy Fox Aisen
caisen@iupui.edu
317-843-2276
Indiana University

INDIANAPOLIS -- Advances in electronic medical record systems and health information exchange are shifting efforts in public health toward greater use of information systems to automate disease surveillance, but a study from the Regenstrief Institute has found that these technologies' capabilities are underutilized by those on the front lines of preventing and reporting infections.

The new study measured the awareness, adoption and use of electronic medical record systems and health information exchange by hospital-based infection preventionists (formerly known as infection control professionals) to report and share information critical to public health. Infection preventionists are often responsible for reporting information on patients diagnosed with health-care-acquired infections like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, as well as sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia.

Prior research at Regenstrief and other academic institutions has shown that health information exchange can increase the completeness and timeliness of infection reporting to local and state health agencies. In this study, the researchers found that half of the infection preventionists surveyed were unaware of whether their hospital or health system participated in a health information exchange. Only 10 percent of infection preventionists indicated that their organizations were formally engaged in health information exchange activities.

While 70 percent of infection preventionists surveyed reported access to an electronic medical record system, less than 20 percent were involved in the design, selection or implementation of the system. Without such involvement, those surveyed indicated the information systems often did not include modules or components that supported infection control activities.

"There is a push from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to reduce hospital-acquired infections and increase the use of electronic health record systems," said lead author Brian Dixon, MPA, Ph.D., Regenstrief Institute investigator and assistant professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are encouraging local and state health departments to use health information technologies to improve infectious disease reporting and prevention activities. We found that while hospital-based infection preventionists -- the people on the front line -- may have access to health information technology, they lack specially designed computer tools needed to sift through the massive amounts of data in electronic medical records.

"We learned that hospital infection preventionists are frustrated with inefficient lists of patients whose electronic medical charts they must examine individually," said Dr. Dixon, who is also a health research scientist with the Richard Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center. "They say they want electronic alerts and reminders when the system detects something of potential importance. There needs to be concerted R&D to meet this gap in decision support."

In addition to Dr. Dixon, co-authors of the study are Josette Jones, Ph.D., of the School of Informatics and Computing; and Shaun Grannis, M.D., M.S., of the Regenstrief Institute and the IU School of Medicine. The Regenstrief Institute is the home of internationally recognized centers of excellence in biomedical and public health informatics, aging, and health services and health systems research.

"Infection Preventionists' Awareness of and Engagement in Health Information Exchange to Improve Public Health Surveillance" was published online on Feb. 18 in the American Journal of Infection Control. The study was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"Well-designed and supported electronic medical records systems and health information exchange can provide tools that can help prevent and halt the spread of infection among hospitalized patients," Dr. Dixon said. "But to do so effectively, infection preventionists must be made part of the selection and implementation of health information technologies."

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2013 International Astronautical Congress Student Paper ...

1. Introduction

Organised by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is the world?s largest astronautics/space engineering conference. ?As part of each IAC, there is a student paper competition (the E2.1 Student Conference) with prizes for best papers/presentation. Papers may be on any subject related to space sciences, industry or technology and must be the work of the author(s) (no more than two students).

There are two categories: a) Undergraduate b) Postgraduate. For both categories, there is an age limit ? entrants must have been no more that 28 on 1 January 2013. For the IAC2013 in Beijing, the selection of the two UK entrants will be carried out by the British Interplanetary Society Space Education and Outreach Committee (BIS-SEOC). This process will extend until after the main IAC abstract submission activity (deadline 21 February 2013) to allow undergraduate students to make as much progress as possible on their project work before the selection takes place.

Please note that abstracts already submitted/accepted for other IAC2013 sessions may not be submitted for this competition.

2. Process

To enter, all that is required is for students to email a one-page abstract to Prof Chris Welch, BIS-SEOC IAC Competition Co-ordinator by the deadline given below. Once the abstract has been received, the student supervisor will be emailed to confirm their support for the entry. The format of the abstract should be:

Student Name

Student Age on 1 January 2013:

Affiliation

Student Email

Category (UG or PG)

Paper Title

Supervisor Name

Supervisor Email

Abstract

Important
  1. The information above and the abstract text itself should be submitted in the body of the email NOT as an attachment of any sort. Any abstracts submitted as attachments will be rejected.
  2. Since the abstracts will be rendered anonymous before shortlisting, do not include any identifying information in the abstract text.

Once all the abstracts have been submitted, a shortlist will be drawn up and the finalists will invited to the BIS in London to present their work and a winner and runner-up selected in each category (please note that the BIS is unable to pay travelling expenses for attending the final selection). The winner in each category will represent the UK in the student paper competition at IAC2013.

3. Timetable
Saturday 23 February 2013 Call for Abstracts
Friday 5 April 2013 Deadline for submission of abstracts
Friday 3 May 2013
Notification of shortlisted finalists
Wednesday 22 May 2013 Finalist presentations at BIS HQ ? Winners and runners-up selected
4. Attendance at IAC2013

Entry into the UK selection will be taken to indicate agreement to represent the UK at IAC2013, if selected. Winners are responsible for making their own arrangements to attend IAC2013. Each of the two prize winners will be presented with a cheque for GBP 600 at IAC2013 in Beijing after the student competition has taken place.

5. Queries

Please email any queries to Prof Chris Welch (chris.welch@isunet.edu).

Be sociable; support the BIS!

Source: http://www.bis-space.com/2013/02/19/9003/2013-international-astronautical-congress-student-paper-competition-uk-selection

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Dubai to educate Saudi tourists on traffic laws | Transport and ...

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High court limits detention powers in searches

(AP) ? The Supreme Court has limited the power of police to detain people who are not at home when their residence is to be searched.

By a 6-3 vote Tuesday, the justices sided with a Long Island, N.Y., man who was picked up about three-quarters of a mile away from his apartment as police searched it for a gun.

Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his opinion for the court's majority that the authority of police to detain people found at home during a search authorized by a warrant is limited to the immediate vicinity of the premises. He said that concern for officer safety diminishes the farther away from the home the detention occurs.

In dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer said he would have upheld lower court rulings in favor of the police "in light of the risks of flight, of evidence destruction, and of human injury present in this and similar cases." Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas joined Breyer's dissent.

The Fourth Amendment usually requires police to strongly suspect an individual has committed a crime before he can be detained. But the court in 1981 ruled in Michigan v. Summers that police could detain people without suspicion during a search to keep them from doing harm to officers, keep them from fleeing and allowing them to, for example, open a door instead of having the police bash it in.

In this case, Chunon Bailey, also known by the alias of Polo, left his basement apartment in Wyandanch, N.Y., shortly before police began their search. Unaware of the impending search, Bailey and another man got into Bailey's black Lexus and drove away, apparently to get the friend home by 10 p.m. to comply with a condition of his parole.

Officers followed in an unmarked car and stopped the Lexus a few minutes later. Bailey and his friend were handcuffed and taken back to the apartment where, by then, police had found a gun and drugs.

Bailey tried and failed to get courts to throw out anything he said to police when he was stopped and also a key to the apartment police found when they patted him down. He was found guilty of cocaine possession and other crimes and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Kennedy said none of the concerns present in the court's 1981 case justified Bailey's detention. "The categorical authority to detain incident to the execution of a search warrant must be limited to the immediate vicinity of the premises to be searched," he said. To do otherwise gives the police too much discretion, Kennedy said.

But the ruling may not let Bailey off the hook entirely. Kennedy said the government still can argue that another rationale made the decision to stop and detain Bailey legal. The justices ordered the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to take a new look at Bailey's case.

The case is Bailey v. U.S., 11-770.

Associated Press

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