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Friday, March 30, 2012
Cyber-centre to shield EU against online crime
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Commercial construction activity on the rise | Zoliath
The American Institute of Architects recently released a report that showed commercial real estate companies may be increasing their construction spending.
The Architecture Billings Index for the month of February increased to 51. This was slightly higher than January's 50.9, according to the report. The increase was the fourth consecutive month where a rise was noted. The measurement for new projects also increased slightly to 63.4, which was higher than December's 61.2, as well as the highest figure since July 2007.
"The factors that are preventing a more accelerated recovery are persistent caution from clients to move ahead with new projects, and a continued difficulty in accessing financing for projects that developers have decided to pursue," said Dr. Kermit Baker, chief economist for the AIA.
When examining regional figures, the Midwest had the highest index, which was 56, the report noted. In addition, the South was at 51.3, while the Northeast reached 51 and the West earned a mark of 45.6.
With vacancies declining and rents rising, some commercial real estate companies may be looking to get more involved in adding new properties through new construction in the coming months.
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Apple: Battery charging bug is intentional in iPads and iPhones
If your device isn't fully charged at 100% battery life, it's working just as Apple wants it to
Recently, Tecca reported that when your?new iPad display shows it's at 100% power, the battery?may still be charging. Apple is responding to the report, saying that it's not a bug, it's a feature.
When your iPad says that it's powered up to 100%, the device indeed may still be charging. That's because of how the batteries in iPads and other?Apple iOS devices work ? once they reach a full charge, they discharge a bit. The battery then begins a cycle of charging and discharging at near-full power until its unplugged.
"The circuitry is designed so you can keep your device plugged in as long as you would like," says Apple VP Michael Tchao. "It's a great feature that's always been in iOS." The bottom line here: When your iPad or iPhone says it's at 100% power, it's not actually at full power. That battery indicator, while a good rule of thumb, isn't really a legitimate measure of anything.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Vitamins doing gymnastics: Scientists capture first full image of vitamin B12 in action
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Work by University of Michigan and MIT team yields new understanding of crucial reaction in the body and in CO2-scrubbing bacteria
ANN ARBOR, Mich. You see it listed on the side of your cereal box and your multivitamin bottle. It's vitamin B12, part of a nutritious diet like all those other vitamins and minerals.
But when it gets inside your body, new research suggests, B12 turns into a gymnast.
In a paper published recently in the journal Nature, scientists from the University of Michigan Health System and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report they have created the first full 3-D images of B12 and its partner molecules twisting and contorting as part of a crucial reaction called methyltransfer.
That reaction is vital both in the cells of the human body and, in a slightly different way, in the cells of bacteria that consume carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. That includes bacteria that live in the guts of humans, cows and other animals, and help with digestion. The new research was done using B12 complexes from another type of carbon dioxide-munching bacteria found in the murky bottoms of ponds.
The 3-D images produced by the team show for the first time the intricate molecular juggling needed for B12 to serve its biologically essential function. They reveal a multi-stage process involving what the researchers call an elaborate protein framework a surprisingly complicated mechanism for such a critical reaction.
U-M Medical School professor and co-author Stephen Ragsdale, Ph.D., notes that this transfer reaction is important to understand because of its importance to human health. It also has potential implications for the development of new fuels that might become alternative renewable energy sources.
"Without this transfer of single carbon units involving B12, and its partner B9 (otherwise known as folic acid), heart disease and birth defects might be far more common," explains Ragsdale, a professor of biological chemistry. "Similarly, the bacteria that rely on this reaction would be unable to consume carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide to stay alive and to remove gas from our guts or our atmosphere. So it's important on many levels."
In such bacteria, called anaerobes, the reaction is part of a larger process called the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway. It's what enables the organisms to live off of carbon monoxide, a gas that is toxic to other living things, and carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas directly linked to climate change. Ragsdale notes that industry is currently looking at harnessing the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway to help generate liquid fuels and chemicals.
In addition to his Medical School post, Ragsdale is a member of the faculty of the U-M Energy Institute.
In the images created by the team, the scientists show how the complex of molecules contorts into multiple conformations -- first to activate, then to protect, and then to perform catalysis on the B12 molecule. They had isolated the complex from Moorella thermoacetica bacteria, which are used as models for studying this type of reaction.
The images were produced by aiming intense beams of X-rays at crystallized forms of the protein complex and painstakingly determining the position of every atom inside.
"This paper provides an understanding of the remarkable conformational movements that occur during one of the key steps in this microbial process, the step that involves the generation of the first in a series of organometallic intermediates that lead to the production of the key metabolic intermediate, acetyl-CoA," the authors note.
Senior author Catherine L. Drennan from MIT and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, who received her Ph.D. at the U-M Medical School, adds, "We expected that this methyl-handoff between B vitamins must involve some type of conformational change, but the dramatic rearrangements that we have observed surprised even us."
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In addition to Ragsdale and Drennan, the research team included the first author, Yan Kung, from MIT, and co-authors include U-M's Gunes Bender, MIT's Nozomi Ando, former MIT researchers Tzanko Doukov and Leah C. Blasiak, and the University of Nebraska's Javier Seravalli.
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the MIT Energy Initiative. Two U.S. Department of Energy-funded synchrotron facilities were used to produce the crystallographic images: the Advanced Photon Source and its Northeastern Collaborative Access Team beamlines supported by NIH, and the Advanced Light Source. The atomic coordinates for the structures published by the team are deposited in the Protein Data Bank under accession codes 4DJD, 4DJE and 4DJF.
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Work by University of Michigan and MIT team yields new understanding of crucial reaction in the body and in CO2-scrubbing bacteria
ANN ARBOR, Mich. You see it listed on the side of your cereal box and your multivitamin bottle. It's vitamin B12, part of a nutritious diet like all those other vitamins and minerals.
But when it gets inside your body, new research suggests, B12 turns into a gymnast.
In a paper published recently in the journal Nature, scientists from the University of Michigan Health System and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report they have created the first full 3-D images of B12 and its partner molecules twisting and contorting as part of a crucial reaction called methyltransfer.
That reaction is vital both in the cells of the human body and, in a slightly different way, in the cells of bacteria that consume carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. That includes bacteria that live in the guts of humans, cows and other animals, and help with digestion. The new research was done using B12 complexes from another type of carbon dioxide-munching bacteria found in the murky bottoms of ponds.
The 3-D images produced by the team show for the first time the intricate molecular juggling needed for B12 to serve its biologically essential function. They reveal a multi-stage process involving what the researchers call an elaborate protein framework a surprisingly complicated mechanism for such a critical reaction.
U-M Medical School professor and co-author Stephen Ragsdale, Ph.D., notes that this transfer reaction is important to understand because of its importance to human health. It also has potential implications for the development of new fuels that might become alternative renewable energy sources.
"Without this transfer of single carbon units involving B12, and its partner B9 (otherwise known as folic acid), heart disease and birth defects might be far more common," explains Ragsdale, a professor of biological chemistry. "Similarly, the bacteria that rely on this reaction would be unable to consume carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide to stay alive and to remove gas from our guts or our atmosphere. So it's important on many levels."
In such bacteria, called anaerobes, the reaction is part of a larger process called the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway. It's what enables the organisms to live off of carbon monoxide, a gas that is toxic to other living things, and carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas directly linked to climate change. Ragsdale notes that industry is currently looking at harnessing the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway to help generate liquid fuels and chemicals.
In addition to his Medical School post, Ragsdale is a member of the faculty of the U-M Energy Institute.
In the images created by the team, the scientists show how the complex of molecules contorts into multiple conformations -- first to activate, then to protect, and then to perform catalysis on the B12 molecule. They had isolated the complex from Moorella thermoacetica bacteria, which are used as models for studying this type of reaction.
The images were produced by aiming intense beams of X-rays at crystallized forms of the protein complex and painstakingly determining the position of every atom inside.
"This paper provides an understanding of the remarkable conformational movements that occur during one of the key steps in this microbial process, the step that involves the generation of the first in a series of organometallic intermediates that lead to the production of the key metabolic intermediate, acetyl-CoA," the authors note.
Senior author Catherine L. Drennan from MIT and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, who received her Ph.D. at the U-M Medical School, adds, "We expected that this methyl-handoff between B vitamins must involve some type of conformational change, but the dramatic rearrangements that we have observed surprised even us."
###
In addition to Ragsdale and Drennan, the research team included the first author, Yan Kung, from MIT, and co-authors include U-M's Gunes Bender, MIT's Nozomi Ando, former MIT researchers Tzanko Doukov and Leah C. Blasiak, and the University of Nebraska's Javier Seravalli.
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the MIT Energy Initiative. Two U.S. Department of Energy-funded synchrotron facilities were used to produce the crystallographic images: the Advanced Photon Source and its Northeastern Collaborative Access Team beamlines supported by NIH, and the Advanced Light Source. The atomic coordinates for the structures published by the team are deposited in the Protein Data Bank under accession codes 4DJD, 4DJE and 4DJF.
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Five Steps To Profitable Innovation | Self Improvement Blogs from ...
Innovation is one of the hottest matters in business these days.? An increasing number of, companies are coming out with new services designed to amaze their customers and get them to dig deeper into their pocketbooks.
Only drawback is, most of what passes for innovation these days doesn?t stand out as very new, different or compelling.? Because of this, most innovation efforts are fortunate to pay for themselves, much much less truly flip a profit.
To develop new products and services that truly make cash, comply with these five steps.
1. Aim high.
Attempt for disruptive, slightly than incremental, innovation.
Incremental innovation focuses on making small enhancements to present products and services.? It adds a number of new bells and whistles, however does not significantly alter the product or the perceived value to the customer.
Disruptive innovation creates new products or services that clear up buyer problems in fully new and completely different ways.? It essentially alters the client?s perception of worth, and may actually flip markets and full industries upside down.? Usually, disruptive innovation solves issues that prospects didn?t know that they had or were unable to clearly articulate.
Most firms are set up, both structurally and philosophically, to pursue incremental innovation.? The R&D crew strives to extend and enhance present products or services slightly than come up with radically new ones.? People get rewarded for doing issues slightly bit faster, higher and cheaper, not for shaking up the status quo.? Managers are skilled to guard and defend the existing brand rather than search for methods to make their very own products obsolete.
In consequence, the pursuit of disruptive innovation calls for a really totally different method of taking a look at and managing the innovation process.? It involves asking questions like, ?What?s our objective with innovation?? Where do we get new concepts and how will we deal with them after they surface?? How will we keep up with the changing needs of our prospects?? How will we decide customer worth?? How will we reward (or not reward) innovation, and what message does that send to workers??
Incremental innovation usually costs much less and is less complicated to achieve. But it hardly ever leads to a position of market leadership. Disruptive innovation takes longer, costs more, and has a a lot greater failure rate.? But when profitable, the payoff is huge.
2. Get your prospects involved.
A recent study of future mobile phone companies compared new product ideas from customers with those put forth by ?inner? sources: professional developers and know-how experts.? Researchers discovered that the internal experts come up with more new product ideas that had a superb probability of truly making it to market.? Nonetheless, clients created extra new product concepts that really solved their issues, a? significant component in figuring out perceived value.
Getting customers concerned in the inventive/concept era part of your innovation course of might take longer and value more.? But it surely vastly will increase the odds of creating successful new products.? It additionally retains you in touch with the problems your customers face, which may change quite a bit quicker than you think. Your clients signify a bountiful supply of recent product ideas, and the method of partaking them is more likely to produce different advantages like stronger working relationships and deeper loyalty as well.
Earlier than getting clients involved, nevertheless, I strongly suggest unlearning what you suppose you already learn about them.
Our built-in assumptions, beliefs and ?thought bubbles? about the way issues work are so deeply ingrained that we regularly do not realize how strongly they have an effect on our considering and choice-making processes.? This is very true with companies that have been serving the same customer base for a protracted time.? We expect we know all about what our customers want and wish, so we not often take the time to question our attitudes and beliefs.? However in rapidly altering markets, these assumptions can shortly become obsolete.
Until we identify and discard our outdated ideas, attitudes and assumptions about customer relationships, any efforts to invite them into the innovation course of may trigger extra hurt than good.
3. Manage the process.
Many people suppose that as a way to efficiently innovate, all it?s a must to do is provide you with a bunch of artistic ideas.
Not so.
To reap the specified rewards, innovation should be rigorously managed from beginning to end.? It begins with thought technology, followed carefully by thought analysis after which implementation.? Creativity does not turn out to be innovation till you really bring a new services or products to market that prospects are willing to pay for.
To handle the innovation process, start by identifying the innovation model that most closely fits your business.? Develop custom outerwear targets to information your efforts.? Perceive the value of close buyer relationships, but actively seek ideas from many various sources.? Most of all, train your management group to recognize and elegantly handle breakthrough ideas that lead to disruptive innovations.
4. Build a tradition that helps innovation.
To succeed, innovation must develop into an integral a part of the way you do business.? It must be an ongoing process through which you never stop looking for new and better methods so as to add value.? And that requires a culture that helps innovation for the lengthy-term.
To establish a tradition where innovation can flourish, define what successful innovation seems to be like to your business.? Paint an image of what your group seems like when innovation turns into a way of life and the way it will benefit all of your key stakeholders.
Get within the behavior of regularly difficult your assumptions about your business, your market and your industry in order that you do not get caught in ?that is the way we?ve all the time achieved it around here.?? Train your individuals to suppose in another way so they can see the world in new and completely different ways.
Present workers how and where they fit into the innovation process.? Ask for their concepts on learn how to improve merchandise, processes and workflow, and maintain the traces of communication open up and down the organization.
Develop teams with diverse skills and analytical kinds, and learn to get comfy with rivalry, debate, and tension.? Give people steady suggestions on their performance, and reward them (both publicly and privately) for their innovation efforts.? Most of all, show your dedication to innovation via your actions as well as your words.
5. Look exterior the box.
For many companies, innovation stays an inner process.? Ideas are generated, developed, and delivered to market utilizing the talents, abilities and resources that reside within the organization. In a world that does not change very quickly, this approach will typically produce satisfactory results.
However the world strikes a lot quicker today, and relying solely on internally generated concepts may mean that sooner, more agile rivals will beat you to market with new products or services.? For that reason, ahead-wanting corporations have begun experimenting with innovation fashions that combine internal and exterior resources.
Some companies are having success with the ?connect and develop? mannequin, which consists of importing ideas from outdoors sources and enhancing them internally.? Others are ?off-shoring? their R&D centers to place them nearer to sources of uncooked supplies, labor and new ideas.? Whatever the model, the thought is that tapping into concepts and assets outside the organization will allow you to carry new products to market faster, cheaper and with a better chance of success.
The next technology of market leaders will do extra than just brainstorm their approach to success.? They will goal excessive, get clients concerned, set up the correct culture, and look beyond their borders for new product and repair ideas.? Most of all, they may manage the innovation course of as if their very survival relies on it.? In right now?s markets, that might be true.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Except for movie night, Calipari having a ball
Kentucky head coach John Calipari, left, speaks during a news conference, Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Atlanta. Kentucky is scheduled to play Baylor in the NCAA college basketball tournament South Regional finals on Sunday, March 25. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Kentucky head coach John Calipari, left, speaks during a news conference, Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Atlanta. Kentucky is scheduled to play Baylor in the NCAA college basketball tournament South Regional finals on Sunday, March 25. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Kentucky head coach John Calipari speaks during a news conference, Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Atlanta. Kentucky is scheduled to play Baylor in the NCAA college basketball tournament South Regional finals on Sunday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Baylor head coach Scott Drew speaks during a news conference Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Atlanta. Baylor plays Kentucky in an NCAA tournament South Regional final college basketball game on Sunday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Kentucky's Anthony Davis makes his way to a news conference, Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Atlanta. Kentucky is scheduled to play Baylor in the NCAA college basketball tournament South Regional finals on Sunday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Kentucky's Darius Miller listens to a question during a news conference, Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Atlanta. Kentucky is scheduled to play Baylor in the NCAA college basketball tournament South Regional finals on Sunday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
ATLANTA (AP) ? John Calipari is having a ball. Well, except for movie night.
The coach of top-seeded Kentucky has avoided watching other games during the NCAA tournament, and he wants his players to do the same. His message: Focus on us and don't worry about other teams.
So far, it's working just fine. The Wildcats (35-2) are one win away from a return trip to the Final Four. They'll face Baylor (30-7) in the South Regional final Sunday.
Calipari knows he's got an extremely talented group, and he's having a great time coaching them. When on the road, the Wildcats usually head to the movies, so they're not stuck in the hotel room watching other games.
After arriving in Atlanta, they went to see "21 Jump Street." Calipari's assessment: "Awful."
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Sunday, March 25, 2012
Rangers hope for new owners by end of season
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updated 10:49 a.m. ET March 25, 2012
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -Administrators controlling Rangers are looking to secure new owners by the end of the season after receiving five bids for the financially stricken Scottish club.
Offers have been made by the "Blue Knights" consortium run by former director Paul Murray, the owner of English rugby union side Sale Sharks and three other bidders, two of whom are reported to be Chicago-based Club 9 Sports and a Singapore-based consortium.
Paul Clark, Rangers' joint administrator, says a shortlist of "two or three bidders" could be drawn next week.
Clark says Sunday he wants "somebody else to be in control of the football club other than us by the end of the season."
Rangers was forced to seek bankruptcy protection after a long-running dispute with tax authorities.
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PST: Saer Sene scored his first MLS goal on his first shot in the first minute of play, and the New England Revolution beat the Portland Timbers 1-0 on Saturday.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Worry about Chinese demand drives US stocks lower
Damian Bagarozza, right, works with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, March 19, 2012. Wall Street was poised for a lower opening Tuesday March 20, 2012 with Dow futures and the broader S&P 500 futures 0.5 percent lower. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Damian Bagarozza, right, works with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, March 19, 2012. Wall Street was poised for a lower opening Tuesday March 20, 2012 with Dow futures and the broader S&P 500 futures 0.5 percent lower. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Stocks closed lower Tuesday for only the second time in two weeks after two reports suggested an economic slowdown in China, where blistering growth over the past three years has helped sustain the global economic recovery.
Home prices dropped in 45 Chinese cities last month, a result of government policies designed to reduce property speculation. And BHP Billiton, a mining company, predicted that China will not use much more iron ore in 2020 than it does today.
In the United States, stocks recovered some of their early loss but still closed lower. The Dow Jones industrial average declined 68.94 points to 13,170.19. It had been down as much as 116 points.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index closed down 4.23 points at 1,405.52. The Nasdaq composite index dropped 4.17 points to 3,074.15.
Brian Gendreau, a market strategist at the brokerage Cetera Financial Group, said traders were concerned about slower growth in India and Brazil as well. That could rein in a rally that has driven the S&P up almost 12 percent this year.
"If there were skeptics out there that the market might have gotten a little ahead of itself, this was all the news they needed," Gendreau said.
Mining companies, which rely on rising demand from the developing world, plunged. Peabody Energy fell 5.4 percent, Cliffs Natural Resources 2.4 percent and U.S. Steel 0.9 percent. Energy stocks were the worst-performing group in the S&P 500.
Caterpillar, the maker of heavy equipment, led the Dow lower and slid 2.6 percent after it said global sales are growing more slowly. Bank of America, by far the most active stock in the Dow, led the average with a 2.9 percent gain.
Besides the report on home prices and the prediction of weaker demand for iron ore, which is used to make steel, China raised the price of gasoline for the second time in two months. That could hurt demand for fuel.
China's economy grew at an annual rate of 8.9 percent in the last three months of 2011, but the government, which is worried that the economy will overheat, has set a growth target of 7.5 percent this year.
Commodity prices fell broadly, also because of concerns about Chinese demand. Copper fell almost 2 percent. Platinum and palladium also fell. Gold fell more than $20 an ounce to $1,647 and is down 8 percent this month.
The price of oil dropped $2.48 to $105.61 in New York trading. In addition to the worry about China, oil fell because Saudi Arabia promised to fulfill any shortfalls in global supply because of the standoff over Iran's nuclear program.
Yields for U.S. government debt fell slightly after rising for nine consecutive days. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note dropped to 2.33 percent, from 2.36 late Monday, but had recovered to 2.36 percent later Tuesday.
The dollar rose against the euro. Traders tend to buy what they consider safer currencies, such as the dollar, when they are worried about the global economy. The euro fell to $1.322 from $1.324 late Monday.
The U.S. Commerce Department released a mixed report on the housing market. Builders broke ground on fewer homes in February, though they obtained more permits to build homes later in the year.
Gendreau said the report's impact on trading was mild because most housing data in recent months have signaled a modest revival for the industry.
European indexes fell. Germany's DAX lost 1.4 percent, France's CAC-40 1.3 percent and Britain's FTSE 100 1.2 percent.
Among the companies making big moves in the U.S. on Tuesday:
? Tiffany & Co., the jeweler, jumped 6.7 percent after it said it expects higher profits and revenue this year.
? Adobe Systems Inc., a maker of graphic design software, fell 3.9 percent after its quarterly profit fell sharply because of higher operating costs.
? Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., the movie studio, rose 7.2 percent and hit a one-year high. "The Hunger Games," a science-fiction action movie opening Friday, could be a hit.
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Daniel Wagner can be reached at www.twitter.com/wagnerreports.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
World News - Anti-Communist pastor becomes German president
By Reuters
German lawmakers elected Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor and human rights activist from communist East Germany, as president of the European Union's largest country on Sunday by a large majority in a first round of voting.
Norbert Lammert, speaker of the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, said Gauck, 72, had won 991 votes in the federal assembly of national and regional lawmakers that is charged with choosing Germany's largely ceremonial head of state.
His main rival, former Nazi-hunter and journalist Beate Klarsfeld, won 126 votes.
Chancellor Angela Merkel reluctantly accepted Gauck for the mainly ceremonial post after her coalition ally joined opposition parties last month in backing him to replace Christian Wulff, who resigned in a scandal over financial favors.
Unlike Wulff, a former lawmaker from Merkel's ruling centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), the 72-year-old Gauck has no party affiliation. But he is known for speaking his mind - with the eloquence of a seasoned preacher - on controversial issues.
Eighty percent of Germans trust Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor and human rights activist, according to an opinion poll by Infratest published on Saturday.
Yet two thirds said they thought he would be an "uncomfortable" president for the country's political parties.
In Germany, the president is chosen not by voters but by a special federal assembly comprising all 620 members of the Bundestag lower house of parliament and an equal number of delegates from the country's 16 regions.
Gauck's election is assured as he has the support of the three ruling coalition parties including the CDU and of the opposition Social Democrats and Greens.
"We expect a big majority (for Gauck)," said Frank-Walter Steinmeier, leader of the opposition Social Democrats.
His only opponent is Beate Klarsfeld, 73, an anti-Nazi activist endorsed by the small Left Party.
The German head of state has little executive power but is supposed to provide moral leadership, a role for which Gauck, a prominent figure in the peaceful protest movement that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, seems well-suited.
"The president of the federal republic must be the guardian of the soul of our nation," said Sunday's edition of the top-selling daily Bild which also backed Gauck for the job in 2010.
"Gauck's most important task is to restore dignity to this considerably tarnished office."
Merkel and Gauck both hail from formerly Communist East Germany where her father was also a clergyman. They are said to have a good personal rapport, but she blocked a bid to install him as president in 2010 in favor of the ill-fated Wulff.
Gauck has a rich life story shaped by the Cold War. When he was 11 his father was sent to the Siberian Gulag for alleged espionage and did not return for four years.
That experience fostered an abiding aversion to totalitarianism, and he has said freedom will be the leitmotif of his presidency.
After the fall of Communism and Germany's reunification, Gauck oversaw the archives of the dreaded Stasi, the East German secret police, earning recognition for exposing their crimes.
As a purely symbolic head of state, Gauck poses no threat to Merkel's domination of German politics. But his moral authority and rhetorical gifts may dim some of her luster on the public stage.
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PayPal backs down on erotic e-book ban
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In an about face of a policy that in recent weeks threatened to cut off the accounts of?erotica e-book?publishers that may publish "obscene" content, PayPal has updated its policy to focus on the removal of specific e-books, rather than mandate the removal of entire classes of books.
PayPal's director of communications, Anuj Nayar, wrote a blog post on March 8 that made it clear PayPal?"is a payments company. The right to use PayPal?s service is not the same as the right to speak."?And as such, it would not allow its service "to be used to purchase material focused on rape, incest or bestiality."
But back in late February, e-book publishers such as Smashwords said it was given only a few days to "achieve compliance" or else have its PayPal services deactivated. Founder?Mark Coker emailed?Smashwords authors, publishers and literary agents to let them know about PayPal's crackdown in requiring them to remove categories of books that may contain rape, incest or bestiality -- labeling such actions as censorship.
And with that, it was able to rally groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) and the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) for support.
Nayar reiterated PayPal's acceptable-use policy, which?prohibits the use of the payment service for the sale of e-books that contain any of the above practices in text and/or images, as well as anything that includes child pornography.
He also tried to reassure customers and others who clamored against PayPayl for infringing on freedom of speech that the company did not shut down e-book publishers and that it was "working with the small number of affected merchants to come to a mutually agreeable solution that allows maximum freedom of expression, while protecting PayPal from the brand, regulatory and compliance risk associated with this type of content."
Nayar wrote a blog post Tuesday that updated the policy to focus on "individual books, not on entire 'classes' of books. Instead of demanding that e-book publishers remove all books in a category, we will provide notice to the seller of the specific e-books, if any, that we believe violate our policy. We are working with e-book publishers on a process that will provide any affected site operator or author the opportunity to respond to and challenge a notice that an e-book violates the policy."
Smashwords' Coker responded with another email proclaiming victory:?
"This is a big, bold move by PayPal. It represents a watershed decision that protects the rights of writers to write, publish and distribute legal fiction. It also protects the rights of readers to purchase and enjoy all fiction in the privacy of their own imagination. It clarifies and rationalizes the role of financial services providers and pulls them out of the business of censoring legal fiction."
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Monday, March 12, 2012
China's top 2 video websites to merge
BEIJING (AP) ? China's top two video websites announced plans Monday to merge in hopes of creating the dominant competitor in a fast-growing industry that is drawing viewers from bland state television.
Youku Inc. and Tudou Holdings Ltd. said the new company, Youku Tudou Inc., will be created in a stock-for-stock transaction. They said it requires shareholder approval but is expected to be completed by the third quarter of this year.
China's dozens of privately owned video websites have nearly 400 million viewers and industry analysts say the field might represent the future of Chinese video watching and advertising.
Chinese video websites initially imitated Western video-sharing sites that rely on user-supplied content. But they have evolved to act like TV stations, showing imported programs or their own productions to appeal to affluent urban viewers coveted by advertisers.
Youku and Tudou are former rivals and were involved in a legal battle earlier this year over accusations they were misusing each other's content. Both have reported losses recently due to high costs for Internet bandwidth and programming.
Youku had 21.8 percent of China's online video market in the final quarter of 2011, with Tudou in second place at 13.7 percent, according to Analysys International, a research firm in Beijing. Sohu TV, a service of Chinese portal Sohu.com Inc., was in third place with 13.3 percent. Other competitors had single-digit market shares.
In a statement, Youku founder and CEO Victor Koo said the merged entity should have the market's biggest user base and content library.
"Youku Tudou Inc. would establish a clear and dominant leadership position in China's online video sector," Koo said.
Total revenue for Chinese video websites rose 135 percent over a year earlier in the final quarter of 2011 to 1.7 billion yuan ($275 million), according to Analysys International.
Video websites show popular Western series and allow users to download movies and other programming to watch on smart phones or tablet computers.
Beijing has allowed such private companies to flourish with less of the censorship imposed on China's entirely state-owned newspapers, TV and radio, possibly to avoid stifling what is seen as a promising high-tech industry.
Regulators might be driving still more viewers online and away from state TV with rules imposed this year to limit the number of reality, talent and dating shows local broadcasters can show on satellite channels.
The number of Chinese who watch online video jumped from 284 million in 2010 to 394 million in 2011, according to CMM Intelligence, a media consulting firm in Beijing. It said the total might pass 445 million by the end of 2012.
The surging popularity of online video threatens to erode viewership for state TV, which Beijing sees as a tool to mold public opinion. That raises the threat communist leaders might tighten controls to protect their media presence.
Youku reported a 49.6 million yuan ($8 million) loss for the three months ending Dec. 31 but said full-year profit was 200.3 million yuan ($32.3 million), up 450 percent from 2010.
Tudou reported a quarterly loss of 148.9 million yuan ($24 million) and a full-year loss of 511.2 million ($82.4 million).
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Online:
Youku Inc.: http://www.youku.com
Tudou Holdings Ltd.: http://www.tudou.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-top-2-video-websites-merge-112439323.html
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Sunday, March 11, 2012
Direct Email Marketing For Small Business: Strategies To Grow ...
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By: Jonathan McCulloch
Direct email marketing for small business should focus on incentivizing customers to act. It should provide them with a reason to move forward, a reason to entertain making a purchase and ultimately, a reason to inquire. We are all familiar with the "call to action" that marketing loves to say is such a vital part of a successful marketing strategy. Well, that requires a message that not only reaches its intended audience the way it's suppose to, but a message that provides insight into the company's product and service offering in a way that distinguishes that offering. Email marketing is one of the more inexpensive forms of marketing and a vital tool for small business owners who want a cost effective way to reach their customer base. So what are some of the more proactive approaches to email marketing? More importantly, how should that email marketing strategy be put together in order to achieve the best possible results?
Use Email for Discounts:
Direct email marketing for small business must not only incentivize customers to act, but it should also keep those customers coming back for more. One of the more proactive ways to get customers to move forward is to use email marketing for discounts on outdated inventory. Inventory is an expense that all companies, big or small, need to control. Email marketing can help small companies liquidate their outdated and antiquated product offering. In addition, it can be used to get rid of excess raw materials, spare parts and finished goods.
Use Email for Sales Promotions:
It's not always about getting rid of excess inventory, but also about helping to launch that new product line. Email is a fantastic tool to help with new product launches and introductions. Small businesses can use email campaigns to provide their top tier clients with the first shot at buying a new product. That opportunity can come with a discount and promotion for being a preferred customer. When companies want to get their new product launch off the ground, they often turn to email marketing to get it going.
Use Email for Customer Reward Programs:
Another use of email marketing is to promote existing customer reward programs. Small businesses can keep their customer base up-to-date with their existing credits and values within these programs. Consider it a statement of account, except in this case, it's a summary of the customer's accrued credit based on prior purchases. Email marketing can also be used to provide invaluable insight into a customer's current balance on these aforementioned reward programs.
Use Email for Educational Purposes:
What ultimately allows a company to dominate its market? In order to answer this question, think of how market leaders are always viewed as companies whose market knowledge and expertise is vastly superior to its competition. Email marketing can help small businesses appear as experts in their field, a valuable source of information and the first place to call when confronted with issues of a technical nature. The right email campaign can be used to educate a customer base, and this will always position the company as a leader in its market.
There are a myriad of uses for email marketing. Small businesses are able to use email marketing to retain existing customers or pursue new ones. What's ultimately required is a willingness to use the platform to its fullest. Educating customers is one benefit, but equally important is using email to build customer loyalty.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
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Nonprofit Fair Trade Speaker Visits IB 320 Class ? International ...
Don?t miss this exclusive opportunity to hear from Nonprofit Fair Trade Speaker, Doug Dirks this Thursday, March 8th from 9:15-10:30AM in COBE 102A.? Mr. Dirks?will be speaking to the IB320? ?Managing in a Global Economy? class, however all IB Majors are invited to attend this lecture.
Doug? Dirks, Ten Thousand Villages Public Relations
Doug Dirks has developed relationships with many artisans in developing countries during his more than 20 years of working for Ten Thousand Villages.? Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit fair trade organization that markets handcrafted products made by artisans from more than 130 artisan groups in? ?38 countries. As one of the world?s oldest and largest fair trade organizations, Ten Thousand Villages has? spent more than 60 years cultivating long-term buying relationships in which artisans receive a fair price for their work and consumers have access to unique gifts, accessories and home decor from around the world.
A graduate of the University of British Columbia, Canada, Dirks began what he downplays as a ?humble? career, in the late 1970s as an auditor for Arthur Andersen and for the Auditor General of the Government of British Columbia.
In the early 1980s, Dirks served for three years as Job Creation Administrator for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Bangladesh.? During this time, Dirks worked alongside a number of Bangladeshi colleagues to start several small businesses designed to employ women who were otherwise considered unemployable. Some of the products these women made were exported to fair trade organizations such as Ten Thousand Villages U.S. and Ten Thousand Villages Canada.
It was obvious to Dirks that these sales made a tremendous difference in the lives of the women artisans.? He returned to the United States in 1985 ready to promote the sale of products made by these artisans, beginning his more than 20 year tenure with Ten Thousand Villages U.S. as Marketing Director and later in the role of Producer Relations Director.
A native of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, Dirks moved to New Hamburg, Ontario in 1996 to work with Ten Thousand Villages Canada as Executive Director.
In 2002, Dirks returned to the United States to take on the role of Marketing Director for Ten Thousand Villages U.S. Since 2006, Dirks has been a Ten Thousand Villages artisan storyteller in his role as a Public Relations representative. His wife, Joanne is the manager of the Ten Thousand Villages retail store in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. He served as board chair for the Fair Trade Federation from 2008 ? 2010.
Dirks has traveled to many of the 38 countries where Ten Thousand Villages buys products and has met many of the artisans who handcraft the products featured at Ten Thousand Villages. His travels have enabled him to collect many personal artisan stories showing how sales through Ten Thousand Villages have positively affected the lives of artisans, their families and their communities.
Dunia Marketplace will be hosting Doug Dirks visit to Boise March 8 -11, 2012.? Dunia Marketplace, located in Boise?s historic Hyde Park, purchases a majority of the items in their non-profit fair trade store from Ten Thousand Villages and covers southern Idaho with off-site sales and the message of fair trade.
For more information on Doug, click on the following links to see YouTube videos of his stories.
For more information on Ten Thousand Villages, go to http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/
For more information on Dunia Marketplace, go to http://www.duniamarketplace.com/
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Carp dominate crayfish in invasive species battleground
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Louisiana red swamp crayfish and common carp are two of the most invasive species on the planet yet how they interact has only recently been revealed by scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.
The study, published in the online journal PLoS ONE, investigated the interaction between the crayfish and carp in Kenya's Lake Naivasha between 2001 and 2008.
The crayfish were introduced to the Lake in the 1970s and have adopted a central role in the food web for more than 30 years, yet the carp, introduced a little more than a decade ago, appear to have driven the crayfish away.
Lead author Dr Jonathan Grey from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences said: "We first noticed the carp in our nets in 2003; by 2006 it was the dominant fish species in the Lake and at the end of our research in 2008, carp completely dominated the system.
"Although the carp have been fantastic for the local community's commercial fishing industry, it's been to the detriment of the crayfish."
The aim of the study was to see how the carp and Louisiana red swamp crayfish interacted between one another in Lake Naivasha, a large scale natural experiment which would help ecologists understand and predict changes in ecosystems with successive invaders.
Dr Grey said: "The movement of organisms around the globe is an important aspect of human-mediated environmental change.
"Classical studies have tended to focus on the effects of an invasive species on a native species; of course the reality is that many ecosystems will receive multiple invaders which will interact not only with the recipient community but also with each other."
Many interactions between existing and introduced species are realised through diet so the research team used a natural chemical signal of diet in the species' tissues to determine how they react to each other, a technique called stable isotope analysis.
"Because the signal reflects diet over space and time, our approach offers an appropriate scale for the study of population niches, the 'space' that a species occupies in a food web.
"Carp and crayfish eat the same types of food from the lake bed if they are not in conflict however with the carp's population increase the crayfish were forced to eat a lower quality diet, including hippo dung.
"The dietary niche of the crayfish has been squeezed to such an extent that it is now almost impossible to catch crayfish in the Lake anymore."
Lake Naivasha is extremely important to the local community and the wider economy of Kenya because of its large volume of freshwater both for drinking and floriculture, and the commercial fishery industry. Yet it has been the subject of a catalogue of ecological errors from species introductions over the last 100 years which affect its ability to provide ecosystem goods and services.
"The Lake provides such an important resource for the local community. We know that the influx of carp has helped commercial fishing in the area but with its continual dominance we don't know to what extent it will affect the lake's water quality and the wider ecosystem on which the thriving floriculture and agriculture industries rely," Dr Grey said.
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Murder charges against Calif. doc seen as warning
Doctor Hsiu Ying "Lisa" Tseng is shown in court, Friday March 2, 2012, to face murder charges, as her arraignment was postponed until March 9, in Los Angeles. The prosecutor took the rare step of charging this doctor, Tseng, with murder in the prescription drug overdose deaths of three patients. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Doctor Hsiu Ying "Lisa" Tseng is shown in court, Friday March 2, 2012, to face murder charges, as her arraignment was postponed until March 9, in Los Angeles. The prosecutor took the rare step of charging this doctor, Tseng, with murder in the prescription drug overdose deaths of three patients. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The prosecutor who took the rare step of charging a doctor with murder in the prescription drug overdose deaths of three patients said Friday that the case should serve as a warning to unethical physicians who become pill pushers.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said his office will continue to prosecute greedy and unethical doctors after charging Dr. Hsiu-Ying "Lisa" Tseng, 42, with second-degree murder and 21 other felony counts. If convicted of all the charges, she faces a maximum sentence of 45 years to life in prison.
"This case was beyond anything else we have ever seen," said Cooley, who stressed that these types of cases must be carefully researched before the extreme charge of murder is filed.
Tseng made her first court appearance Friday, wearing a pink sweatshirt and looking glum. Her arraignment was postponed until March 9, when her bail, currently $3 million, also will be reviewed.
Her lawyers declined to comment after the hearing.
Tseng is one of just a few doctors nationwide to be charged with murder related to prescription drugs. Authorities have been cracking down on drug deaths, which fueled by prescription drug overdoses now surpass traffic fatalities. But the murder charges could be hard to prove because the victims played a role by seeking out and taking the drugs.
Tseng, a licensed osteopath, and her husband, also a physician, set up a storefront office in the Los Angeles suburb of Rowland Heights in 2005. Three years later, she was under investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the California Medical Board for prescription irregularities reported by a pharmacy. Patient deaths were linked to her in 2009, according to authorities, but not all led to murder charges.
Tseng wrote more than 27,000 prescriptions over a three-year period starting in January 2007 ? an average of 25 a day, according to a DEA affidavit. DEA agents swept into her office in 2010 and suspended her license to write prescriptions.
She was arrested this week after voluntarily surrendering her license to the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. Her husband continues to run their clinic.
The case highlights a murky region of medicine as patients hooked on prescription drugs seek out a source for their addiction. Prosecutors have charged many doctors with dispensing prescription drugs illegally, arguing they wrote prescriptions outside the normal course of practice and for no legitimate medical purpose.
There are about 880,000 doctors nationwide who are registered to write prescriptions, and federal agents investigate somewhere between 200 and 300 suspected dirty physicians every year, said DEA spokesman Rusty Payne.
But filing a murder charge against a doctor in a case where a patient dies from an overdose is extremely rare.
In 2008, Harriston Bass was convicted of second-degree murder in Nevada for the death of Gina Micali, 38, who died after taking the pain reliever hydrocodone. Bass was sentenced to 25 years to life.
A Georgia doctor was sentenced to life in prison in October 2007 for the drug overdose death of his patient and housemate. Noel Chua was found guilty of felony murder and violating the state's controlled substances act in the death of Jamie Carter III, who died of multi-drug intoxication. Among the prescriptions Carter received from Chua were oxycodone and methadone.
In Florida, Dr. Sergio Rodriguez faces three counts of first-degree murder in the overdose deaths of three patients. His case is still pending.
The second-degree murder charges that Tseng is facing rely on the theory of "implied malice." Authorities said Tseng knew that her prescriptions could have a deadly result because others in her care had died before the three alleged murder victims named in the criminal complaint.
The three victims were otherwise healthy men in their 20s who came to her with complaints of pain and anxiety. Records of the Osteopathic Medical Board showed that she gave them cursory exams that didn't meet the level of adequate medical care before issuing prescriptions for opiates and benzodiazepines.
Among the victims was Joey Rovero, a 21-year-old Arizona State University student who drove with two friends to Southern California to get prescriptions from Tseng in December 2009.
Rovero's mother, April, said her son had prescriptions filled for 90 tablets of oxycodone, 90 tablets of the muscle relaxant Soma and 30 tablets of the anti-anxiety medication Xanax. An autopsy found the younger Rovero died from a mixture of alcohol and moderate to trace levels of the three drugs Tseng gave him.
Rovero, who founded the National Coalition Against Prescription Drug Abuse, said murder charges against Tseng are appropriate in her son's case because Tseng was told by the coroner that some of her patients were dying from overdosing on pills she prescribed.
"From all indications, she (Tseng) was warned," prior to the death, Rovero said. "It was like she wasn't listening. There were all these red flags and she did nothing."
Records showed that Rovero complained of wrist pain, but the doctor did not establish which wrist was hurting, nor did she explore the source of his complaint of anxiety.
Tseng was also charged Thursday in the 2009 deaths of Vu Nguyen, 29, of Lake Forest, and Steven Ogle, 25, of Palm Desert.
Tseng's attorneys have declined opportunities to comment, but she has previously said she is not guilty of any wrongdoing.
"I was really strict with my patients, and I followed the guidelines," she said in a 2010 interview with the Los Angeles Times. "If my patient decides to take a month's supply in a day, then there's nothing I can do about that."
Roger Rosen, a defense attorney who represented a doctor convicted with running a pill mill and sentenced to four years in prison, said doctors sometimes begin prescribing for legitimate pain management and become victimized themselves by those seeking medication for other reasons. He said many patients lie to their doctors to get medication.
"I don't know what doctor in their right mind would want to go into pain management these days. It's as if you have a bull's-eye painted on you," Rosen said. "Delivering babies is a lot easier."
Ron Clyburn knows what Rovero's mother is experiencing. In April 2008, his 23-year-old son Alex died after overdosing on pills prescribed by Masoud Bamdad, a Southern California doctor who was convicted of selling prescriptions and sentenced to 25 years in prison. However, jurors couldn't reach a verdict on four counts, including one that accused Bamdad of causing Alex Clyburn's death.
"If it's a case where the doctor is clearly abusing that privilege and people are dying, then they should be prosecuted," Clyburn said. "Looking at it from a legal standpoint, to prove murder there has to be a lot of data to back that up. It would be a shame if prosecutors filed these charges just for effect, because this is such a hot issue."
In January, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles charged a Santa Barbara doctor with illegally prescribing large amounts of painkillers to patients who didn't need the drugs, and for accepting sexual favors as payment from some women. Despite having a dozen of his patients die of overdoses since 2006, Diaz was not charged in their deaths.
A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office said at the time that the direct connection between a doctor's prescription and a patient's death is difficult to prove.
Prescription drug abuse is so great in the U.S., some agents who once chased Mexican and Colombian drug traffickers are now investigating doctors who push pills illegally, said Payne, the DEA spokesman. But doctors are only one part of the problem.
"We go after the biggest and most egregious cases," Payne said. "We have to hit the problem at every level."
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