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Route 68 between Research Parkway and Northrop Road is now open after an oil ?truck overturned while coming off I-91 in Wallingford Friday afternoon.
Police said the southbound off ramp from I-91 to Route 68 was also closed for several hours as clean up crews worked to clear the road from oil that spilled from the truck.
The driver suffered minor injuries.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52345470/ns/local_news-hartford_ct/
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File-This undated image provided by NASA shows technicians preparing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. for the launch of NASA?s latest satellite, Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), that will study the sun. The Iris satellite is set to ride into Earth orbit on a rocket, which will be dropped from an airplane flying over the Pacific some 100 miles off California?s central coast Thursday June 27, 2013. (AP Photo/NASA,VAFB, Randy Beaudoin,File)
File-This undated image provided by NASA shows technicians preparing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. for the launch of NASA?s latest satellite, Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), that will study the sun. The Iris satellite is set to ride into Earth orbit on a rocket, which will be dropped from an airplane flying over the Pacific some 100 miles off California?s central coast Thursday June 27, 2013. (AP Photo/NASA,VAFB, Randy Beaudoin,File)
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) ? NASA launched a satellite late Thursday on a mission to explore a little-studied region of the sun and to better forecast space weather that can disrupt communications systems on Earth.
Unlike a traditional liftoff, the Iris satellite rode into Earth orbit on a Pegasus rocket dropped from an airplane that took off around sunset from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on California's central coast. About 100 miles off the coast and at an altitude of 39,000 feet, the airplane released the rocket, which ignited its engine for the 13-minute climb to space.
Mission controllers clapped after receiving word that Iris separated from the rocket as planned and unfurled its solar panels, ready to begin its two-year mission.
"We're thrilled," NASA launch director Tim Dunn said in a NASA TV interview.
The launch went smoothly, but there were some tense moments when communications signals were temporarily lost. Ground controllers were able to track Iris by relying on other satellites orbiting Earth.
Previous sun-observing spacecraft have yielded a wealth of information about our nearest star and beamed back brilliant pictures of solar flares.
The 7-foot-long Iris, weighing 400 pounds, carries an ultraviolet telescope that can take high-resolution images every few seconds.
Unlike NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which observes the entire sun, Iris will focus on a little-explored region that lies between the surface and the corona, the glowing white ring that's visible during eclipses.
The goal is to learn more about how this mysterious region drives solar wind ? a stream of charged particles spewing from the sun ? and to better predict space weather that can disrupt communications signals on Earth.
"This is a very difficult region to understand and observe. We haven't had the technical capabilities before now to really zoom in" and peer at it up close, NASA program scientist Jeffrey Newmark said before the launch.
The mission is cheap by NASA standards, costing $182 million, and is managed by the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Engineers will spend a month making sure Iris is in perfect health before powering on the telescope to begin observations.
The launch was delayed by a day so that technicians at the Air Force base could restore power to launch range equipment after a weekend outage cut electricity to a swath of the central coast.
The Pegasus, from Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., is a winged rocket designed for launching small satellites. First flown in 1990, Pegasus rockets have also been used to accelerate vehicles in hypersonic flight programs.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is running out of time to make good on his lofty vow to confront climate change head-on, and Congress is in no mood to help.
Moving ahead on his own, Obama will announce a set of actions Tuesday that will take years to implement.
The centerpiece of the plan is a push to issue new regulations that would curb greenhouse-gas emissions from existing power plants, according to people briefed on the plan by the administration.
Other components will include energy efficiency, renewable energy sources and help for communities preparing for the effects of climate change.
"This is a serious challenge, but it's one uniquely suited to America's strengths," Obama said Saturday in a White House video announcing the speech at Georgetown University.
Yet environmental activists are frustrated that Obama, despite deeming climate change a priority as far back as his first presidential campaign, waited until his fifth year in office to issue a detailed plan. In his State of the Union address in February, Obama gave lawmakers an ultimatum that if Congress wouldn't pass climate legislation, he'd take action himself. Four months later, Obama appears to be done waiting.
"His view reflects reality," White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday. "We've seen Congress attempt to deal with this issue, and fail to."
Days earlier, as word came of Obama's plans for existing power plants, House Speaker John Boehner called it "absolutely crazy," making clear the obstacles Obama would face in trying to push anything through Congress.
In going it alone, Obama's options are somewhat limited. But environmental activists say taking action to reduce the heat-trapping gases that coal-fired power plants emit would have the most impact. Forty percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, and one-third of greenhouse gases overall, come from electric power plants, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the Energy Department's statistical agency.
The Environmental Protection Agency, using its authority under the Clean Air Act, has already proposed rules for new power plants, but those rules have been delayed. Although finalizing the rules for new plants would likely compel the government to eventually take similar action on existing plants, the Obama administration has until now insisted it's focused on new plants.
People briefed on Obama's plan for existing plants, who were not authorized to discuss the plan publicly and demanded anonymity, said that rather than issue a specific new standard, Obama will announce he's directing his administration to work with states and interested parties to develop a cost-effective, flexible system that can curb emissions without costing so much as to create negative economic impacts.
That's a process that will assuredly drag on for years.
"If EPA proceeds with regulations, they should be based on adequately demonstrated technology and provide an achievable timeframe to allow the coal industry to continue advancing clean coal technologies," said Mike Duncan, who runs the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
So if Obama wants to see the new rules realized while he's still in charge, he has to start now.
Under the process outlined in the Clean Air Act, the EPA can't act unilaterally, but must work with states to develop the standards, said Jonas Monast, an attorney who directs the climate and energy program at Duke University. An initial proposal will be followed by a months-long public comment period before the EPA can issue final guidance to states. Then the states must create actual plans for plants within their borders, a process likely to take the better part of a year. Then the EPA has another four months to decide whether to approve each state's plan before the implementation period can start.
"When you play all that out it does take you to the end of his second term," said Dan Lashof, who directs the climate and clean air program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Still, Obama has the opportunity to "set a clear timetable and expectations about the level of emission reductions that can be achieved," Lashof said.
The rules may also face legal hurdles if opponents challenge them in court. Although the Supreme Court has upheld the EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, the issue remains largely uncharted waters. In one sign of the ongoing legal maneuvering over how much the government can do to tackle emissions, the Supreme Court on Monday said it will consider reinstating an EPA rule overturned by a lower court that would have used the cross-state air pollution rule to impose restrictions on emissions on plants in upwind states.
Another ticking clock is a goal Obama outlined in in his first year in office, during global climate talks in Copenhagen, to cut U.S. carbon emissions by about 17 percent by 2010, compared to 2005 levels. The U.S. for years appeared headed to meet that goal, helped by rock-bottom natural gas prices that made it cheaper for plants to shift from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas. But government data shows that the trend is starting to reverse, raising questions about whether the U.S will be able to meet the goal unless Obama intervenes.
"The administration has no chance of meeting the 17 percent reduction target without such a rule," said Conrad Schneider of the Clean Air Task Force.
Living up to international obligations reflects another challenge for Obama's climate change push: Americans, by and large, are less concerned than their counterparts about what the warming of the planet will mean for them. Just 40 percent of Americans said climate change is a major threat to the U.S. in a poll the Pew Research Center conducted in 39 countries in March and April. Globally, 54 percent of people said climate change threatened their country.
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AP News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/clock-ticking-obama-climate-change-push-191404381.html
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) ? Edward Snowden's stop-and-start flight across the globe appeared to stall in Moscow as the United States ratcheted up pressure to hand over the National Security Agency leaker who had seemed on his way to Ecuador to seek asylum.
In Ecuador's most extensive statement about the case, the foreign minister hailed Snowden on Monday as "a man attempting to bring light and transparency to facts that affect everyone's fundamental liberties."
The decision whether to grant Snowden the asylum he has requested is a choice between "betraying the citizens of the world or betraying certain powerful elites in a specific country," Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters while visiting Vietnam.
But what had been expected to be a straightforward journey to this South America nation dissolved into uncertainty by day's end. Snowden didn't use a reservation for a Havana-bound Russian airline flight that could have served as the first leg of a trip to safety in Ecuador, and his allies would not say where he was or what changed. Patino said Tuesday that he didn't know Snowden's exact whereabouts.
In Washington, the White House demanded that Ecuador and other countries deny Snowden asylum. It also sharply criticized China for letting him leave Hong Kong, and urged Russia to "do the right thing" and send him to the U.S. to face espionage charges.
A high-ranking Ecuadorean official told The Associated Press that Russia and Ecuador were discussing where Snowden could go, and the process could take days. He also said Ecuador's ambassador to Moscow had not seen or spoken to Snowden. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly.
Ecuadoreans debated whether accepting Snowden would be a step too far for leftist President Rafael Correa, who has won wide popularity with oil-funded social and infrastructure programs while picking public fights with his country's main export market, the U.S. Correa has expelled U.S. diplomats, shuttered an American military base and offered refuge at Ecuador's embassy in London to Julian Assange, praising the founder of Wikileaks for publishing reams of leaked secret U.S. documents. Assange has embraced Snowden and WikiLeaks experts are believed to be assisting him in arranging asylum.
With unprecedented international attention focused on Ecuador, many citizens said they felt giving asylum to Snowden would be courting trouble for no reason, particularly with a key U.S. trade agreement up for renewal in coming weeks.
"I think it's just being provocative," said Blanca Sanchez, 50, who sells cosmetics in the capital, Quito. "He needs to take responsibility for himself. This isn't our problem."
U.S and Ecuadorean officials said they believed Snowden was still in Russia, where he fled Sunday after weeks of hiding out in Hong Kong following his disclosure of the broad scope of two highly classified counterterror surveillance programs to two newspapers. The programs collect vast amounts of Americans' phone records and worldwide online data in the name of national security.
Assange declined to discuss where Snowden was but said he was safe. Assange said Snowden was only passing through Russia and had applied for asylum in Ecuador, Iceland and possibly other countries.
State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the U.S. had made demands to "a series of governments," including Ecuador, that Snowden be barred from any international travel other than to be returned to the U.S. The U.S has revoked Snowden's passport.
The White House said Hong Kong's refusal to detain Snowden had "unquestionably" hurt relations between the United States and China. While Hong Kong has a high degree of autonomy from the rest of China, experts said Beijing probably orchestrated Snowden's exit in an effort to remove an irritant in Sino-U.S. relations.
Secretary of State John Kerry urged Moscow to "do the right thing" and turn over Snowden.
"We're following all the appropriate legal channels and working with various other countries to make sure that the rule of law is observed," President Barack Obama told reporters when asked if he was confident that Russia would expel Snowden.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the U.S. was expecting the Russians "to look at the options available to them to expel Mr. Snowden back to the United States to face justice for the crimes with which he is charged."
Carney was tougher on China.
"The Chinese have emphasized the importance of building mutual trust," he said. "And we think that they have dealt that effort a serious setback. ... This was a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant, and that decision unquestionably has a negative impact on the U.S.-China relationship."
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said China had harmed its relationship with the U.S. by allowing Snowden to leave Hong Kong. China's move set a "bad precedent" that could unravel extradition treaties or other legal agreements between countries, she said Monday in Los Angeles.
Assange and attorneys for WikiLeaks assailed the U.S. as "bullying" foreign nations into refusing asylum to Snowden. WikiLeaks counsel Michael Ratner said Snowden is protected as a whistleblower by the same international treaties that the U.S. has in the past used to criticize policies in China and African nations.
Ecuadorean analysts said accepting Snowden could jeopardize tariff-free access to U.S. markets for Ecuador's fruit, seafood and flowers. U.S. trade, which also includes oil, accounts for half of Ecuador's exports and about 400,000 jobs in the nation of 14.6 million people.
The U.S. Andean Trade Preference Act requires congressional renewal soon and hosting Snowden "doesn't help Ecuador's efforts to extend it," said Ramiro Crespo, director of the Quito-based financial analysis firm Analytica Securities. "The United States is an important market for us, and treating a big client this way isn't appropriate from a commercial point of view."
At the same time, high oil prices, a growing mining industry and rising ties with China may give Correa a sense of protection from U.S. repercussions. Many of the Ecuadoreans who re-elected Correa in February with 57 percent of the vote see flouting the U.S. as a welcome expression of independence, particularly when it comes in the form of granting asylum.
"This person who's being pursued by the CIA, our policy is loving people like that, protecting them, perhaps giving them the rights that their own countries don't give them. I think this is a worthy effort by us," said office worker Juan Francisco Sambrano.
In April 2011, the Obama administration expelled the Ecuadorean ambassador to Washington after the U.S. envoy to Ecuador, Heather Hodges, was expelled for making corruption allegations about senior Ecuadorean police authorities in confidential documents disclosed by WikiLeaks.
American experts said the U.S. will have limited, if any, influence to persuade governments to turn over Snowden if he heads to Cuba or nations in South America that are seen as hostile to Washington.
"There's little chance Ecuador would give him back" if that country agreed to take him, said James F. Jeffrey, a former ambassador and career diplomat.
Snowden is a former CIA employee who later was hired as a contractor for the NSA. In that job, he gained access to documents that he gave to The Guardian and The Washington Post to expose what he contends are privacy violations by an authoritarian government.
Snowden also told the South China Morning Post that "the NSA does all kinds of things like hack Chinese cellphone companies to steal all of your SMS data." He is believed to have more than 200 additional sensitive documents in laptops he is carrying.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nsa-leakers-global-flight-appears-stalled-now-051718996.html
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In the ongoing battle against piracy, Disney and Sony have made a bold step: they're both testing an on-demand service (in, um, South Korea) which allows people to rent movies and stream them in their own homes while they're still playing in theaters.
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With the spring TV season drawing to a close (MAD MEN SEASON FINALE TOMORROW YOU GUYS!!), TorrentFreak has done the wonderful service of rounding up a top 10 list of the most torrented shows out there this time around. Can you guess number one? (You can definitely guess number one.)
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June 19, 2013 ? Researchers with the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute have revealed new information about the latest strain of type A influenza, known as H7N9, in a report in the journal PLOS Currents: Outbreaks.
Since June 7, 132 confirmed cases of human infection with H7N9 have been reported in China and 37 people have died, according to the World Health Organization. It is the first time human infection with the avian influenza H7N9 subtype has been detected, and researchers fear that this strain may have pandemic potential.
The possibility of an animal source of the infection is being investigated, as is the possibility of person-to-person transmission.
However, most people who contracted the disease reported having contact with live birds in a bird market prior to infection. Researchers at the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory found that younger women generally have the most contact with poultry, but it is older men who are experiencing the most infections.
The findings suggest that there is something unique about older men that makes them particularly susceptible to H7N9. Their greater risk of infection is not just because they tend to spend more time exposed to an avian source.
Researchers quickly compiled the data using a variety of available sources to discover risk factors, which could aid in containing the spread of H7N9.
"Normally we have to wait for epidemiologists to collect new data in the early days if an outbreak. We were able to combine data from existing sources in an innovative way to rapidly learn about H7N9 risk factors," said Caitlin Rivers of Plainfield, N.H., a graduate student majoring in genetics, bioinformatics, and computational biology and research assistant at the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory.
To contain the spread of this strain of influenza, some Chinese live bird markets have been closed. It may help, but still does not explain the high infection rate of older men. Further studies are required to understand what other factors may be involved in transmission to help contain H7N9's spread.
"In keeping with a commitment to open science, the raw data and calculations are available publicly. We invite others to use and expand upon this work," said Bryan Lewis, a public health policy analyst with the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute.
This work has been partially supported by NIH MIDAS Grant 2U01GM070694-09 and NIH MIDAS Grant 3U01FM070694-09S1.
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A rodent that never gets cancer could hold the key to preventing or treating malignant tumours, say scientists.
Lab studies show the skin cells of the naked mole-rat are high in a natural sugary substance that stops tumours developing.
The findings could lead to new human cancer therapies in the long term, researchers report in Nature journal.
A similar version of the chemical is used as a medicine to treat arthritis and in anti-wrinkle jabs.
A team led by researchers from the University of Rochester, New York, US, investigated the anti-cancer properties of the naked mole-rat.
Unlike other small rodents, such as rats and mice, the curious creature does not get cancer in later life.
Tissue repair Continue reading the main storyEnd Quote Oliver Childs Cancer Research UKThis fascinating research builds on previous work revealing the biological tricks mole rats have evolved to prevent cancer?
The US team, led by Andrei Seluanov and Vera Gorbunova, cultured skin cells from the rodent in the laboratory.
They found that the animal's tissues were rich in high molecular weight hyaluronan (HMW-HA), a gooey sugar that is involved in tissue repair.
Similar versions of the substance are licensed to relieve pain in arthritis and are used as cosmetic fillers to treat wrinkles, say the researchers.
Experiments show that when HMW-HA is removed from naked mole-rat cells, they become susceptible to cancer, suggesting it plays a role in making the rodent "cancer-proof".
Dr Gorbunova told BBC News: "Studying animals that are naturally cancer-resistant can be very rewarding and can lead to discovery of mechanisms that can benefit humans in terms of treatment and prevention of cancer."
Flexible skinThe researchers think the substance gives the naked mole-rat its distinctive, elastic "baggy" skin, which it needs to squeeze through underground tunnels.
Continue reading the main storyWhile it has probably evolved to provide the rodent with an exceptionally flexible skin, it also gives protection against cancer, possibly by stopping cancerous cells from dividing.
The next step, they say, is to test the chemical in mice, then human cells.
Dr Seluanov added: "There's indirect evidence that HMW-HA would work in people.
"It's used in anti-wrinkle injections and to relieve pain from arthritis in knee joints, without any adverse effects.
"Our hope is that it can also induce an anti-cancer response."
The study, carried out with scientists in China and Israel, is published in the journal Nature.
No beautyCommenting on the research, Oliver Childs of Cancer Research UK said new cancer treatments from the research were "a long way off".
"They're not going to win any beauty contests, but these curious creatures have long interested scientists because of their exceptionally lengthy life spans and resistance to cancer," he said.
"This fascinating research builds on previous work revealing the biological tricks mole-rats have evolved to prevent cancer.
"It's a long way off, but it will be interesting to see if further research can find a way to use hyaluronan to help prevent or treat cancer in humans."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22961694#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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Of course, we?ll begin with ?Z?.
Z ? The place for Zzzzzzzzz?s in Savannah -- Zeigler House Inn B&B. With its easy privacy and distinctive southern comforts, you can enjoy breakfast in bed (if you like), Chilled Tea for 2! (an additional perk for summer 2013), and convenient location in the historic district on Jones Street near Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room.Y ? Y?all! It?s the welcoming term for ?you all?. ? Y?all will love Savannah!
X ? X-ray. Early development of X-ray began here in Savannah, by a Jones Street doctor.
W ? Walking! Flat Savannah and east/west, north/south streets make a brisk walk or leisure stroll so easy.
V ? Verse to Vegetarian?s haven. Fresh markets, vegan and vegetarian restaurants are near, and plentiful in Savannah.
T ? Tea Party for Two! Yes, our Savannah bed and breakfast introduced the ?Chilled Tea Party for Two!? as a comp summer 2013 perk. It?s getting great buzz! Tea cafes, too, like Savannah Tea Room, and SCAD's Gryphon serve up delicious tea lunches. Southern tea (sweet tea, of course) is year around.
S ? Speakeasy, sassy southern women, seafood, shrimp and grits, and southern food. Yes, Zeigler House Inn has private passes to the speakeasy (for our guests), plus recommendations where to find the rest.
R ? Rain. Yes, we love the rain, especially the summer rain. It cools the air, keeps Savannah?s gardens and landscapes lush, the pollen tamed, and gives one the opportunity to pretend to be Gene Kelly ? dancing and Singing the Rain.
Q ? Quasi calm and peacefully quiet, except for St. Patrick?s Day celebration time [around March 17]!P ? Pulitzer Prize? winning poet?s hometown ? Conrad Aiken. Pair martini cocktails with a visit to Bonaventure Cemetery. Graveside Mr. Aiken and his wife placed a marble bench just for visitors to sit a spell and visit.
O ? Onseason and onstage. Savannah seems to be always onseason and dressed for company, onshore near the Atlantic Ocean.
N ? Nature encircles ? the terrestrial and aquatic, the night sky to the brilliant sunrises and sunsets, the gardens. The city tree-scapes shade and colorful flowers decorate our corner of the world.
M ? Mannerisms, museums, mint julep and martinis, shaken or stirred. Savannah society is known for its good manners and friendly welcome. The South?s oldest museum is here ? Telfair Academy of Arts. Of course, we enjoy our southern cocktails!?L ? Leg room! Savannah?s uncrowded city, and beauty on and off-the-beaten paths, plus along nearby Tybee Beach offer plenty of leg room to move about freely, uncramped and unhurried. There's plenty of leg room, too, at Zeigler House Inn -- 12 foot ceilings, plus seven choices of big inn rooms and B&B suites.
K ? Kelly green is a favorite color year around, especially during February and March Irish celebrations.
J ? Our Jones Street inn in Johnny Mercer?s hometown. The songwriter / lyricist who penned words to Hooray for Hollywood, Moon River, And The Angels Sing, and Days of Wine and Roses (plus another thousand or so), now legendary in America's Songbook of great musical compositions, including many written along side Henry Mancini.I ? Icy beer spiked beverages (Wet Willies) and ice cream (Leopold?s Ice Cream to be specific). Be here in time for Savannah Craft Brew Fest (August 31, 2013), or simply enjoy an icy cold one on River Street or when sunning at Tybee Island beach [Pinterest photos].
H ? Historical architecture, sometimes haunted.?G ? Girlfriends? getaways and grits, creamy grits.?
F ? Farm to table food, in a city where farming slaves were ?free at last, free at last?! During the Civil War (1861-1865), Savannah is where plantation freemen received ?forty acres and a mule?. The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum in Savannah is near Zeigler House Inn, a place to celebrate a period of peaceful transition in this city of American The South.?
E ? Eastbound, east coast USA, easy leisure! Head east, southeast to be exact, to the Georgia?s Atlantic Ocean coast.
D ? Day boat and delicious -- fish, shrimp, oysters. C ? Charm and cooking -- southern cooking -- candor and cocktails!?B - Budget-friendly city, bed and breakfast comforts, baths (pampered baths!), and ballast stones -- the cobble stones from international ships that line the ramps to and along River Street, along the Savannah River.
A ? Angels -- a city of angels! From our own angel bed (a French-style bed without posts) to angels found in the statuaries and monuments in the parks, squares, and strolls through park-like cemeteries, you?ll sense that ?Angels are among us? here.?
Angelic to zealous, classic and eclectic, Savannah is a heavenly spot for a summer, fall, winter or spring trip to the Georgia Coast. For those of us who live in Savannah, we?re grateful to the pioneers, colonists, early settlers, the City of Savannah, and our colleagues in tourism.
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Earlier this month many people were surprised to hear the revelation that a number of major web companies may have granted user data access to the U.S. government through a secret program called PRISM. But it's fair to say that Andrew Keen was likely not exactly dying of shock as these allegations surfaced -- he's been arguing for years that the social web is not nearly as safe as many people presume, and that we give up important rights and principles when we become lax about our privacy.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/0melH417siE/
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Vice President Joe Biden knows how to work a room. In remarks made on Tuesday night at a fundraiser for Massachusetts Senate candidate Ed Markey in front of an audience of donating (doting?) Democrats, Biden went for the jugular. In a reference to Al Gore, who introduced Biden at the Washington, D.C., event, Biden said, [...]
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Macmillan CEO John Sargent, who testified this week at a trial over alleged price-fixing of e-books, was no one's idea of a friendly witness.
Of the five publishers the U.S. Justice Department sued last year, Macmillan was the last to settle and the most defiant. The government alleged that Macmillan, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group (USA) and Hachette Book Group illegally conspired to raise wholesale prices in an effort to help Apple make headway against Amazon in the e-books market. Speaking last month at BookExpo America, the publishing industry's annual convention, Sargent labeled the government's view of the e-market as "extraordinarily myopic."
"They carried the water for Amazon, when it had 92 percent of the market," he said, criticizing the justice department for caring more about price than a possible monopoly. "The senior guys, (Attorney General) Eric Holder, are just incompetent."
Apple is the only defendant left in the antitrust suit, filed in response to the 2010 launch of the iBookstore and a new "agency" pricing system. Publishers, who had worried that Amazon's pricing of some new e-book releases at $9.99 was crippling to the industry, welcomed the arrival of Apple and an "agency" model that allowed publishers, not retailers, to set the cost of e-books. Many new releases were sold for $12.99 or $14.99, a change the government has cited as unfair to consumers.
Apple has insisted that its entrance into the e-book market improved the online book industry and stabilized prices for the long term.
Sargent, 56, has said he only settled because Macmillan, owned by the German-based Holtzbrinck Publishers, was "not large enough to risk a worst-case judgment," an opinion he clearly still held on the stand. Whether under direct or cross testimony in U.S. District Court on Monday and Tuesday, the lean, graying Sargent changed neither his posture nor manner of speaking. His dark, deep-set eyes stared right at the questioning attorney, his head was erect, chin upturned, his answers crisp and often terse.
"What I'm doing here is negotiating," he said in response to questions from Justice Department lawyer Mark Ryan about exchanges he had with Apple over contract terms.
Sargent is seasoned in conflict. In January 2010, soon before Apple announced its e-book store, Sargent became the point man in the publishers' dispute with Amazon when the online retailer disabled the "buy" tabs for releases by Bill O'Reilly, Jonathan Franzen and other Macmillan authors.
Sargent said that he had proposed that Amazon either accept the agency model or face a "window" of seven months before new e-books would become available ? a policy that had become common among publishers in 2009 because of fears that cheap e-books of new releases were harming the hardcover market. The standoff ended after a few days with Amazon agreeing to the agency system.
Sargent acknowledged that his initial discussions with Amazon did not "go well" and that having four other major publishers sign with Apple would strengthen Macmillan's position in negotiations. But he resisted suggestions by Justice Department lawyer Mark Ryan that he had forced Amazon to adopt the agency system. When Ryan suggested that Apple pressured Sargent into making Amazon accept agency, the Macmillan CEO said that such a scenario was "completely alien" to him.
Sargent also denied that he consulted with Apple on his negotiations with Amazon. He said that the practice of telling one client about his talks with a rival client was bad business and bad ethics, if only because an executive for one retailer might take a job with another retailer and reveal what Sargent had said.
"There's no trust left (if that happens)," Sargent explained.
The rise of e-books is the trial's backdrop, from Amazon's introduction of the Kindle reading device in 2007, to the explosive growth of digital sales in 2008 and 2009. All the while, publishers' feared that Amazon was dominating the market and selling books at unsustainable prices.
Both Ryan and Apple attorney Orin Snyder noted a Macmillan strategic memo from 2009 that referred to the e-book market as "fluid" and to the likely emergence of Barnes & Noble, Google and other new competitors. Asked by Ryan whether the memo contradicted Sargent's pre-trial testimony that Amazon was consolidating its hold, Sargent said it didn't. He called Barnes & Noble's entry a question mark because the superstore chain had no experience designing electronic devices. Sony, an early maker of e-readers, was "clearly failing." And Google, he said, has never showed a knack for retail.
"They're very good at running search engines," Sargent said.
With publishers accused of collusion on prices, Sargent found himself discussing the shifting relationships among rival houses. They might fight to sign up a given author, or juggle release schedules of popular books in hopes of gaining a coveted No. 1 spot on one of the New York Times' best-seller lists. At other times, they are business partners with common goals, whether fighting piracy or censorship.
Overall, publishers do not view the market as a zero sum game in which the purchase of a Macmillan book comes at the expense of one from Simon & Schuster or Random House. They are more likely to see a sale for one publisher as helpful to others, what economists might call a "multiplier effect." Just as reading often begets more reading, the sale of a book, hopefully, leads to the sale of more books.
Referring to Amazon's disabling of the "buy" tabs in 2010, Ryan asked Sargent whether he was worried a customer who might have bought a Macmillan book would instead buy one from a different publisher.
No, Sargent responded, he worried only that the customer didn't buy a Macmillan book.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/court-hears-terse-testimony-e-book-trial-222332272.html
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Khaled boasts to MTV News that his upcoming album will prove that 'what I do, nobody can do.'
By Rob Markman
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In response to the recent news reports about the National Security Agency's surveillance program, President Barack Obama said today, "When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls." Instead, the government was just "sifting through this so-called metadata." The Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made a similarcomment last night: "The program does not allow the Government to listen in on anyone?s phone calls. The information acquired does not include the content of any communications or the identity of any subscriber."
What they are trying to say is that disclosure of metadata?the details about phone calls, without the actual voice?isn't a big deal, not something for Americans to get upset about if the government knows. Let's take a closer look at what they are saying:
Sorry, your phone records?oops, "so-called metadata"?can reveal a lot more about the content of your calls than the government is implying. Metadata provides enough context to know some of the most intimate details of your lives. And the government has given no assurances that this data will never be correlated with other easily obtained data. They may start out with just a phone number, but a reverse telephone directory is not hard to find. Given the public positions the government has taken on location information, it would be no surprise if they include location information demands in Section 215 orders for metadata.
If the President really welcomes a robust debate on the government's surveillance power, it needs to start being honest about the invasiveness of collecting your metadata.
Republished from the EFF under Creative Commons
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/why-the-metadata-the-nsa-has-on-you-matters-512103968
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BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steven A. Cohen's embattled hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors is facing a much tougher and less glamorous future, as outside investors pull the bulk of their money from the firm in the wake of an ongoing insider trading probe. The billionaire trader, who founded SAC in 1992, will have to consider shedding staff, shuttering offices and scaling back some of its trading - something that could cost Wall Street firms hundreds of millions of dollars a year in trading commissions, industry experts said.
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Data pulls TSX lower as energy shares, banks slip
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index slipped to its lowest in more than two weeks on Monday after sluggish data raised concerns about half of the global economic recovery and caused declines in the energy and financial sectors. Weakness in Canadian Natural Resources Ltd
In e-books trial, U.S. says Apple conspired with publishers
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc conspired with publishers to raise the price of e-books in a scheme costing consumers "hundreds of millions of dollars," a U.S. government lawyer said on Monday. A three-week trial got under way before a federal judge in New York in a case pitting the Justice Department against the popular iPad and iPhone maker that could shine a light on the secretive Silicon Valley giant's business practices.
Regulators propose new oversight of AIG, Prudential
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regulators on Monday proposed designating non-bank financial companies including American International Group and Prudential Financial
Detroit carmakers lead Canadian sales, Toyota not far behind
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian auto sales rose 5.3 percent in May, marking a slowdown from April, but far outpacing the lackluster 2.4 percent year-to-date growth, according to DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc. Across Canada, 185,040 vehicles were sold last month, just shy of the record set in May 2007 when 185,471 cars and trucks were sold, according to the independent auto analyst who compiles auto sales data.
Rajaratnam's brother in plea talks over insider charges
(Reuters) - Rengan Rajaratnam, the younger brother of imprisoned hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, is negotiating with prosecutors on a possible resolution to his criminal insider trading case, including a possible plea, a court filing shows. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan agreed to delay a scheduled conference to July 30 from June 4, which federal prosecutors in a May 30 letter said would "permit the defendant and the government to continue discussions that may lead to the resolution of this case before trial."
Insight: IRS has long history of burying non-profits in paperwork
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internal Revenue Service staff have a long history of discouraging applications for tax-exempt status from controversial groups by burying them in complicated questionnaires, according to former IRS officials. Among other reasons, they said, the tactic was sometimes used to persuade groups to drop their applications so the IRS could avoid making a ruling. This approach - allegedly used in the recent IRS targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups - has been around for decades, the officials said, citing lengthy questionnaires sent to applicants including religious and gay-rights organizations and a children's summer camp group that promotes atheist thinking.
Zynga slashes work force by a fifth, shares dive
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New rule lets Canadians cancel wireless contracts after two years
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadians will be able to cancel their cellphone contracts after two years without penalty, instead of the three years that is the industry standard now, under a mandatory wireless code announced by the country's telecom watchdog on Monday. Critics have long held that Canada's three providers that have almost the entire market, BCE Inc
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SHIPROCK, N.M. (AP) ? Actor Martin Sheen has an upcoming role in New Mexico - that of mentor at a drama camp for American Indian youth.
The Farmington Daily-Times reports (http://bit.ly/11bbIpA ) the famed star will be in the Navajo Nation community of Shiprock this week, to help out with a local community camp and series of drama workshops. The "Apocalypse Now" and "Wall Street" star will be working with both children and adults.
Plans are for Sheen to work with the camp's drama clinic, which will produce a 45-minute video starring both Sheen and the children.
Every year, the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health puts on a summer camp, Native Vision summer camp, on tribal lands.
This year, the camp will be held at Shiprock High School and the Phil L. Thomas Performing Arts Center in Shiprock.
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Information from: The Daily Times, http://www.daily-times.com
By Martin Gladwin
The quick answer to the question is ?almost always? but the true answer is quite a bit more involved.
Sure Internet Marketing is worthwhile but as with any type of marketing it is only useful if it?s done well. For example you can spend thousands of dollars on a television marketing campaign but if no one sees your commercials or your commercials don?t reach your target audience and generate sales, the advertising wasn?t worthwhile. So perhaps a better answer to this question would be that Internet Marketing is worthwhile when it works. This is a rather vague statement but this article will investigate the issue further and explain how you can make Internet marketing work for your business.
One of the most basic principles of marketing is to make sure you reach your target audience. This is so important because your target audience is the people who are most likely going to be interested in purchasing your products or services. It is much easier to sell your products or services to those who already have an interest in the products and services you have to offer than it is to convince those who are not interested in your products or services at all. As an example let?s look at a business who sells fishing rods. You will want to market your products to those who enjoy fishing either competitively or as a leisure activity because among this audience you are likely to find people who may be interested in purchasing a new fishing rod. It would make sense to place an advertisement for your business on a website selling bait and tackle or a website which organizes fishing trips in exotic locations. On the other hand it wouldn?t make any sense to put your advertisement on a website selling telescopes because you are not likely to reach a large target audience here. There may be some stargazers with an interest in fishing but your advertising dollars and efforts would be better spent placing advertisements with websites more closely related to your business.
Another element to consider when buying advertising space on another Internet website is traffic ? how much traffic does the other website receive, and how good is that traffic. This is important because you want to place your advertisement on a website which is similar to your own and so it?s likely to attract a similar crowd of people but you also want your advertisement to receive enough attention too. For this reason it is important for your advertisement to appear on a website which receives a great amount of traffic each month. This will help to make sure your business is getting a great deal of useful interest through this advertising.
When it comes to advertising on the internet, there is often little difference between great advertising and spam. Some business owners get carried away trying to get as much exposure as possible and can by going overboard they end up being considered spam. Internet users who see your advertisement in a couple of key locations will likely notice the advertisement and may be compelled to visit your website immediately or may keep your website in mind for future use. However, Internet users who see your advertisement everywhere they look may view your advertisement as spam. This can be harmful because they are not likely to visit your website because they expect it to not be worthwhile.
In any Internet marketing campaign it is important to carefully monitor the results of your marketing efforts and make changes to your campaign as necessary. This is important because you want to make sure your getting the best out of your marketing efforts the only way to do this is to evaluate the results of your advertising carefully. One way to do this is to place specially coding in each one of your advertisements so you will know which advertisements are generating business for you and which ones are not. You can use this information to decide whether you should modify the ineffective website or stop running these advertisements. If you decide to modify them you will want to continue to monitor the results to determine whether or not the changes made the advertisements more effective.
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Crowdstar, the social and mobile gaming company that has built several fashion-focused titles, just picked up another $12 million from existing investors to bring two products to market later this year. As you might expect, both are mobile and Crowdstar CEO Jeffrey Tseng says the company now has a renewed focus on tablets. Competing companies like Finland’s Supercell have made tablet gaming their bread and butter, with higher engagement and player spending fueling revenue growth. We picked up the new funding through an SEC filing, but Tseng later confirmed it. “So it’s the same internal investors, but I can’t talk much about the products,” Tseng said. He said that one will be fashion-focused like Top Girl and Social Girl while the other one will be different. An early player on the Facebook platform, Crowdstar had to migrate onto iOS and Android like the rest of the industry. Zynga is making a similar transition, but as the legacy leader on Facebook, it’s had a tougher time involving job cuts and studio closures. While it was never anywhere near the size of Zynga, Crowdstar has stayed small through the transition with 70 people overall. Back in 2011, when it was crossing over to iOS, the company’s previous CEO Peter Relan said Crowdstar would have a three-prong strategy involving mobile platforms, Facebook and international reach. But since then, they’ve shifted their entire focus to mobile. “We’ve completely switched to mobile and the focus will be on tablets,” Tseng said. The new round brings Crowdstar’s overall funding to date to more than $46.5 million. It comes as marketing spending has risen on mobile platforms, bringing the cost of launching a new game into the millions of dollars. “Platform are getting to the point where the fidelity and expectations have to be higher,” Tseng said.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/0p-GkXglksk/
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