NORTHFIELD, Ill., Aug. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kraft Foods Inc. today announced that the leadership teams for Mondelez International, Inc. and Kraft Foods Group, Inc. will separately present their respective strategies and goals as two independent companies next week. As previously announced, Kraft Foods Inc. plans to spin-off its North American grocery business, to be named Kraft Foods Group, at 5 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2012. ?Following the spin-off, Kraft Foods Inc. will be renamed Mondelez International, Inc.
Mondelez International Presentation at Barclay's Back-to-School Conference
On Thursday, Sept. 6, at 3:45 p.m. EDT, Chairman and CEO Irene Rosenfeld and members of her leadership team will present an overview of the global snacks company Mondelez International and its strategic priorities at the Barclays Capital Back-to-School Consumer Conference in Boston.
Kraft Foods Group Presentation at SeaPort Boston World Trade Center
On Friday, Sept. 7, at 9 a.m. EDT, Tony Vernon, who will become CEO of Kraft Foods Group, and his leadership team will host a separate investor day in Boston to outline the strategic plan for the North American grocery business as it begins its journey as an independent company.
Live audio webcasts of both presentations will be available within the Investor Center section of the Kraft Foods corporate web site, kraftfoodscompany.com. An archived rebroadcast and slides will be available on kraftfoodscompany.com for one year following the webcast.
Kraft Foods Inc. (NASDAQ: KFT) is a global snacks powerhouse with an unrivaled portfolio of brands people love. Proudly marketing delicious biscuits, confectionery, beverages, cheese, grocery products and convenient meals in approximately 170 countries, Kraft Foods had 2011 revenue of $54.4 billion. Twelve of the company's iconic brands ? Cadbury, Jacobs, Kraft, LU, Maxwell House, Milka, Nabisco, Oreo, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Tang and Trident ? generate revenue of more than $1 billion annually. A leader in innovation, marketing, health & wellness and sustainability, Kraft Foods Inc. is a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Standard & Poor's 500, NASDAQ 100, Dow Jones Sustainability Index and Ethibel Sustainability Index. Visit www.kraftfoodscompany.com and www.facebook.com/kraftfoodscorporate.
Tim Reis, head of mobile display for Google, stopped by our Mobile Advertising Conference this month and explained why mobile ads are the next big thing.
We think Reis hits the nail right on the head when he says that cell phones are "extraordinarily personal devices" and therefore must be treated as such by advertisers.
In order to break into a consumer's "circle of trust," mobile advertisers can't spam or mislead its targeted audience while also providing something that benefits them.
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The Adobe Flash Player will now be available on the Google Play Store in the UK. The flash player allows users to view multimedia applications and stream video and audio for both mobile devices and laptops or desktops with ease. On 16 August, Adobe confirmed that it would?remove the flash player from Google Play Store in accordance with an earlier?announcement?in November.
Adobe Flash Player Comes Back to Google Play store in UK . Image Credit: Google Play Store
However, pressure from "strategic partners" in the UK has now made Adobe's Flash Player to arrive on Google's Android app store, according to the?BBC.
"Flash player continues to be available on Google Play for users in the UK for a short while due to requests from strategic partners," said a spokesperson for Adobe, according to BBC.
BBC claims to be one of the strategic partners who asked Adobe to delay the removal of flash player. "Flash is the technology underpinning the BBC's iPlayer application," claims BBC.
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Earlier in August, the company listed out the certified devices that have the ability to run flash player. Installation on a non-certified device could result in unexpected behaviour and potentially destabilise the device, Adobe warns. According to reports, the flash player will not be supported on devices beyond Android 4.0x.
However, thanks to efforts of members of the XDA Developers' forum, it is possible to install flash player on devices running on Jelly Bean. To do so, users will have to side-load the APK (an application package file (APK) is the format used to distribute and install application software onto Android OS).
"Beginning August 15th?we will use the configuration settings in the Google Play Store to limit continued access to flash player updates to only those devices that have flash player already installed," a?statement?on the company blog reads, adding: "Devices that do not have flash player already installed are increasingly likely to be incompatible with flash player and will no longer be able to install it from the Google Play Store after August 15th."
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Home ? business ? PTT on retail store drive as oil margins shrink
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THE NATION August 30, 2012 1:00 am
The group, via its retail business arm PTT Retail Management, has set aside an investment budget of Bt2 billion for retail-store business expansion under the Jiffy Daily brand next year, PTTRM managing director Chakkrit Charuchinda said yesterday.
The company will branch out |with about 30 Jiffy Daily outlets, which have a 24-hour convenience-store format, targeting such communities as universities and office buildings.
The budget will also be used to invest in Jiffy Supermarket expansion in community malls and areas with potential at PTT petrol station sites in the capital's Bang Khae district and on Chaiyaphruk Road in Nonthaburi's Pak Kret district.
Jiffy rebranding, the introduction of Amazon coffee-shop branches and an Amazon coffee production facility all form part of the investment programme.
"PTTRM has been given the green light by its parent PTT for full-scale penetration of the retail sector to compete with multi-retail rivals, whose branches have mushroomed around the country," Chakkrit said.
"We have to look for opportunities in retail-store business all the time, such as the Jiffy catering business, to increase our non-oil business sales. Now, retail oil business yields as little as Bt1.10 per litre in margins," he said.
The company is considering whether to produce Amazon canned coffee, he said.
"We also aim to list PTTRM shares in the Thai stock market in the future."
Meanwhile, PTTRM yesterday signed an agreement with KE Land to form a 50:50 joint venture for the development of a community mall worth Bt600 million, which is part of the company's overall investment budget of Bt800 million for this year.
Under the concept of "green station", the Crystal PTT mall will be the biggest one-stop service operation housing a PTT petrol station.
Crystal PTT, on 12 rai (2 hectares) of land on Chaiyaphruk Road, will comprise 9,000 square metres of retail space. The mall is expected to open in October next year.
Chakkrit said PTT would also expand its petrol-station network and community malls on major roads that are gateways to large cities.
PTTRM has 200 employees and owns 150 petrol stations. The company recorded Bt40 billion in sales last year.
The Rev. Benedict Groeschel, a Franciscan friar from New York who appears often on EWTN, a conservative Catholic TV channel, said that priests who abuse children should not go to jail "on their first offense." He also expressed sympathy for Jerry Sandusky, the ex-football coach at Penn State University who was found guilty of 45 counts of child sexual abuse.?
Groeschel's comments come as the Roman Catholic Church in the United States is hoping to turn the corner on a decadeslong scandal that has cost billions in settlements and damaged its moral standing.
The 78-year-old Groeschel spoke to National Catholic Register on Tuesday. Here's the excerpt concerning sexual abuse: ?
Part of your work here at Trinity has been working with priests involved in abuse, no?
A little bit, yes; but you know, in those cases, they have to leave. And some of them profoundly ? profoundly ? penitential, horrified. People have this picture in their minds of a person planning to ? a psychopath. But that?s not the case. Suppose you have a man having a nervous breakdown, and a youngster comes after him. A lot of the cases, the youngster ? 14, 16, 18 ? is the seducer.
Why would that be?
Well, it?s not so hard to see ? a kid looking for a father and didn?t have his own ? and they won?t be planning to get into heavy-duty sex, but almost romantic, embracing, kissing, perhaps sleeping but not having intercourse or anything like that. It?s an understandable thing, and you know where you find it, among other clergy or important people; you look at teachers, attorneys, judges, social workers. Generally, if they get involved, it?s heterosexually, and if it?s a priest, he leaves and gets married ? that?s the usual thing ? and gets a dispensation. A lot of priests leave quickly, get civilly married and then apply for the dispensation, which takes about three years. But there are the relatively rare cases where a priest is involved in a homosexual way with a minor. I think the statistic I read recently in a secular psychology review was about 2%. Would that be true of other clergy? Would it be true of doctors, lawyers, coaches? Here?s this poor guy ? [Penn State football coach Jerry] Sandusky ? it went on for years. Interesting: Why didn?t anyone say anything? Apparently, a number of kids knew about it and didn?t break the ice. Well, you know, until recent years, people did not register in their minds that it was a crime. It was a moral failure, scandalous; but they didn?t think of it in terms of legal things. If you go back 10 or 15 years ago with different sexual difficulties ? except for rape or violence ? it was very rarely brought as a civil crime. Nobody thought of it that way. Sometimes statutory rape would be ? but only if the girl pushed her case. Parents wouldn?t touch it. People backed off, for years, on sexual cases. I?m not sure why. I think perhaps part of the reason would be an embarrassment, that it brings the case out into the open, and the girl?s name is there, or people will figure out what?s there, or the youngster involved ? you know, it?s not put in the paper, but everybody knows; they?re talking about it. At this point, (when) any priest, any clergyman, any social worker, any teacher, any responsible person in society would become involved in a single sexual act ? not necessarily intercourse ? they?re done. And I?m inclined to think, on their first offense, they should not go to jail because their intention was not committing a crime.
What has the Church learned in terms of preventing this?
We?ve been screening seminarians for decades. That?s nothing new. I?ve been doing it for 40 years, for our old community ? the Capuchins ? for the diocese, for our small religious community. ? It takes a lot of time ? four or five hours ? to do a psychological screening, and I don?t have a lot of time. There were times in the past when I?d do 30 of them. I?d do it for our community and our sisters. Also, it?s very expensive. Now, I never got a nickel, but it costs between $800 and $1,200 for a psychological battery. I used to teach psychological evaluations. You know, we?ve reduced considerably the number of seminarians, and the Church is going to be in plenty of trouble as time goes on ? one pastor for two or three parishes. So permanent deacons, laypeople, deaconesses ? if you don?t want to call them that ? you?re going to need a lot of people helping to keep the parish going. And that may not be a bad thing at all. Years ago, in the New York Archdiocese, you were an assistant for about 25 or 30 years before you became a pastor. We?re making men pastors with five years? experience. It was too long before, and it?s too short at present.
Outer orb sits in habitable zone of binary star system
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BEIJING ? And then there were two. The Kepler spacecraft has spied the first pair of planets passing in front of the binary star system they orbit. Adding spice is that the outer planet ? a potential Neptune-like world ? inhabits the life-friendly zone around the two stars.
?It receives about 88 percent the amount of energy the Earth receives from the sun,? says William Welsh of San Diego State University, who is scheduled to report the finding August 29 at the International Astronomical Union meeting. ?And it?s a multiple planet system. It?s hard enough to imagine how you get one planet in the binary; now we have two.?
The system, called Kepler-47, could have even more planets: A tantalizing but unconfirmed hint of an additional world lurks in the blinking starlight produced when the planetary companions pass between the two stars and Earth. The additional blink has been seen clearly just once, so more observing time would be needed to confirm a third planet. Kepler-47 is in the constellation Cygnus.
The results also appear online August 28 in Science.
So far, scientists know that the outer planet, Kepler-47c, is roughly 4.6 times wider than Earth and that it goes around the stars every 303 days. The inner planet is three times wider than Earth, and whips around the stars every 49 days. One of the stars is similar to the sun, and the other is much smaller and dimmer. The two stars orbit one another about every seven days.
Determining the boundaries of the habitable zone in binary systems usually isn?t simple because the moving stars create a shifting region in which liquid water could survive on an orbiting planet. But this pair of stars cooperated. ?It?s a sunlike star and a real wimpy star,? Welsh says. In the case of the smaller one, ?you just ignore it.?
Kepler-47c is probably too big and gassy to host life, but if it had an Earth-sized moon, that could serve as a potential exo-incubator. ?It?s pure speculation,? Welsh says. ?But being in the habitable zone, if it had a big moon around it, it?s in the right place to have the conditions you would need for life.?
There is no evidence of such a moon, but smaller ones, more like Saturn?s moon Titan, could be present. ?If this object had a moon the size of Titan, that could be very interesting,? Welsh says.
Terri Herlihy and Ven Budhu during judging on "Project Runway."
By Anna Chan, TODAY
Terri Herlihy is still hurting from her experience on the "Fix My Friend" episode of "Project Runway" that aired Aug. 23. During the episode, which featured real women who had been nominated by their friends to appear on the show for a makeover, viewers saw?Herlihy repeatedly insulted by designer Ven Budhu and brought to tears.
He insinuated she was fat numerous times, telling her that all of the belts were too small for her, said that she had no sense of style, no shape, that her before photo was "a nightmare." He mentioned several times that she was 40 and a size 14.?
In reality, Herlihy told The Clicker, she was a size 10 during filming, and had turned 36 just two days before. And her experience on the show was worse than what Lifetime aired, she said.
Herlihy told us that during filming, she was "bullied" into wearing no shoes or accessories. In fact, Herlihy said, she and her friend Theo Thomas (the pal who brought her on the show) had to go rummaging in "Runway's" accessories bins themselves because Budhu, who was supposed to figure out her look from head-to-toe as part of the challenge, was going to send her down the runway for judging without any accessories. "My friend found the shoes. My friend found the belt. My friend did it all," she said. "She laid into him, but they didn't show that."
"I think (the producers) did a great job of editing it because it was so much worse than what was shown," Herlihy told us. "They edited it to my advantage because I would've kept looking stupider on TV."
Herlihy said that even though the episode was edited to her advantage, it was still tough to watch.
"I was horrified watching the show with my three daughters," she said. "I let him bully me, but I didn't know what he was saying behind the scenes when I wasn't around, in the confessional. It was hard to explain to my kids, 'Yeah, he was mean, but it didn't bother Mommy,' even though it did. I have to let them know something. It's how you teach your kids not?to do?this."
She also said that she didn't react on the show because she wanted to teach her children not to be prejudiced or be bullies.?Had she known just how bad it got behind her back, though, Herlihy said she wouldn't have let her daughters -- ages 14, 11 and 8 -- watch the show.
But?the controversy?didn't end with the taping. As the episode aired Thursday, Budhu continued to hurl insults at Herlihy via Twitter, saying?she had a bad attitude and blaming editing for making him look like the bad guy. He has since deleted the tweets and offered up an apology. "I feel awful and I sincerely apologize to my client and viewers as (my)?remarks were unintentional," he wrote.
Herlihy said she was disappointed that Budhu wasn't eliminated for his behavior and after essentially failing the challenge to create makeover-worthy fashions for a real-world client.
"If he would've gone home, that would've been a different story," Herlihy said. "But because they kept him, that's why I feel like (it's) not only putting me down, but putting down every person who isn't a size 6 or below. How many people has he hurt or affected in some way from all his comments?"
Sean Herlihy / Courtesy of Terri Herlihy
Terri Herlihy and her husband, Sean.
"So it looks like?(the show's producers are)?all for it ... because it was adult bullying at its best about my weight," she added. "I can't imagine all the girls, women, teenagers watching that show who are bigger than me and what they think."
Herlihy and a friend have since launched a Facebook page called Terri's Redemption to draw attention to the bullying she experienced and to try to prevent other women from feeling discriminated against because of their clothing size.
Lifetime has not yet replied to requests for comment or responded to an invitation for Budhu to make a remark.
Herlihy and her friend Theo weren't the only ones who were appalled by Budhu's behavior. The 36-year-old said that designer Gunnar Deatherage, who treated his own model like a prized client, saw how upset she was and tried to make her "Runway" experience a bit better.
"Gunnar actually stuck up for me, and he spoke to hair and makeup that day and explained to them what was going on," Herlihy revealed. Part of the challenge includes the designers telling the hair and makeup folks how they'd like their models to look. "(I understand that)?they didn't really take Ven's directions of what he wanted my hair and makeup to be. So I'm very thankful for Gunnar. And that wasn't aired on the show, and I wish it was."?
Deatherage wasn't the only one who wanted to make things right. Michael Costello, who finished fourth in season eight and third in "Project Runway: All Stars," took to Twitter Thursday night and offered to make Herlihy a dress.
"I just wanted to do something for her that makes her happy, something that she can enjoy," Costello told us. The designer himself was bullied by a fellow contestant during his first run on the show.
Like Herlihy, he thought Budhu should've been auf'ed. "It would've been right if they would've eliminated him," Costello said. "Nathan's dress wasn't actually that bad compared to what Ven did. (Nathan) achieved the challenge. His client was happy."
But auf'ed or not, the "Runway" alum thinks Budhu's career might not be able to recover.
"I think he literally destroyed his fashion career with this episode," Costello said. "I don't think any woman would want to wear anything from him ever again after seeing the way Terri was treated. ... It's sad because he's a great talent, he's very skilled."
Costello also said he wondered if there was something more the show could've done. "I think a PSA message would've been very powerful at that point," he said. "But also doing something about empowering women and making women feel good, because that's what the episode was about."
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DENVER (AP) ? Democrats in several states are already using the incendiary comments about rape made by Missouri Rep. Todd Akin as political bludgeon.
In interviews, news releases and tweets, they've blasted Akin for saying victims of "legitimate rape" are able to naturally prevent pregnancy and tried to tie their opponents running for the U.S. House to legislation he's supported.
Those moves might only be the beginning, as Akin has so far refused to drop out of the race despite pleas from top Republicans and the widespread condemnation of his remarks.
For example, in Illinois, Democratic challenger Cheri Bustos called on her opponent, GOP Rep. Bobby Schilling, to return a $2,000 donation from Akin. Schilling did so and issued a statement expressing his disgust with Akin's remarks.
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), established in 1968, allows homeowners and businesses in flood-vulnerable areas to purchase affordable coverage. Although NFIP is used by more than 20,000 communities (or about 5.6 million policyholders nationwide), it was slated to expire on July 31st, which would have rather unceremoniously left thousands of low-land and waterside properties to sink or swim. However, according to a recent article in National Mortgage Professional Magazine, a rescue ship is on the way, as Congress prepares to pass a five-year extension on the insurance program.
This is a major win for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), which has been working diligently to clean up and re-authorize the bill to ?ensure that the federally-backed flood insurance program operates smoothly and without delay, remains efficient and effective in protecting property owners, and creates more stability in the housing market,? says NAHB chairman Barry Rutenberg.
But why did the program require reauthorization to begin with? The article explains, ?In the past few years, the NFIP has experienced several short-term lapses in authorization, forcing many home buyers to delay or cancel closings due to the inability to obtain NFIP insurance for a mortgage. In other instances, builders were forced to stop or delay construction on a new home due to the lack of flood insurance approval, resulting in unnecessary delays and job losses.?
Further complicating the situation was what?s known as ?residual risk? language in the flood insurance bill, which would have made insurance mandatory for properties located near levees, dams, and other high-risk bodies of water. The NAHB, in conjunction with a dedicated group of bipartisan senators, were successful in removing this fine print, because, as chairman Rutenberg made clear, ?NAHB believes the local investment in these flood control structures takes into account the risks, and to mandate the purchase of additional flood insurance policies at a cost to the homeowner is simply unfair??
The flood insurance bill comes bundled in a larger legislative package, which also contains a student loan bill and transportation reauthorization. The Senate and House have already approved the legislation, and President Obama is expected to sign it into law shortly. Barry Rutenberg, who has worked so tirelessly to champion the bill, expects the program to remain, ?available, affordable and financially healthy? throughout 2017, which might just be a lifesaver for thousands of homes and businesses.
The Syrian army recaptured three Christian neighbourhoods in the historic heart of Aleppo from rebels Thursday but fierce clashes continued in other parts of the main northern city, residents said.
Loyalists forces also battled rebels in Damascus, shelling districts and storming houses, after launching a ferocious assault to try to reinforce its hold on the capital, activists said.
The West stepped up the pressure on President Bashar al-Assad's government, with Britain joining the United States in warning it against using its chemical weapons in a conflict that shows no sign of ending after more than 17 months of bloodshed.
Washington is also ramping up its military presence in the region, dispatching a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to deal with "threats" from Iran and the turmoil in Syria.
Aleppo residents spoke of heavy exchanges in the heart of the city during the army's offensive to recapture neighbourhoods seized by the rebels at the weekend.
"We have had the worst two days of our lives," said Sonia, the wife of a wealthy businessman in the northern city told AFP.
"If our house weren't built like a fortress, we'd all be dead. The entrance is very badly damaged."
Rebels had seized control of three Christian quarters of the Old City of Aleppo during the weekend, including Jdeide and Telal, once frequented by tourists for their restaurants and handicraft shops.
The rebel Free Syrian Army had also seized the nearby neighbourhood of Sulamaniyeh, most of whose inhabitants are Armenian Christians.
The neighbourhood is home to some ancient monasteries and a cathedral of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
"Battles on Monday and Tuesday were very violent, and they lasted for many long hours before the army managed to expel the rebels," a resident of the neighbourhood told AFP by telephone.
"After cleansing the area, hundreds of residents of the districts of Telal and Sulamaniyeh took to the streets to celebrate and express their support for the army," he added.
After the rebels' expulsion, residents set up "popular committees" to prevent their return, another resident told AFP.
Communities like those in the heart of Aleppo are among those in which support for Assad's government and suspicion of the rebels runs highest.
But in the southern belt of Damascus, where fighting also raged on Thursday, opposition to the the government runs high.
"Parts of Damascus look like Gaza, with the army deployed on the outside, setting up major checkpoints, but unable to get in," said a Damascus resident and opposition activist who identified herself as Samara.
"Fear is everywhere," Samara told AFP via Skype. "Most people in the violence-stricken areas are stuck in their homes."
The army shelled the south Damascus district of Al-Hajar Al-Aswad, scene of bitter fighting last month, as well as the town of Daraya, on the capital's outskirts, for a second day in a row, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"The situation in Daraya is tragic," said Abu Kinan, an activist based in the suburb of sonme 200,000 people. "I am alive now, but they are shelling non-stop. Death is everywhere."
At least 41 people were reported killed in Damascus on Wednesday alone after troops backed by combat helicopters and tanks attacked several areas in the southern belt where anti-regime sentiment is strong, the Observatory said.
It was some of the worst violence since the army claimed to have reclaimed most of the capital a month ago.
"Regime forces are carrying out summary executions and destroying the homes of their opponents in a bid to crush the revolt once and for all," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
An activist who gave his name as Omar told AFP from the Damascus district of Qaboon, which was the scene of heavy fighting on Wednesday, that the army and the rebels were playing a game of "cat and mouse."
"The army's attempts cannot succeed, because they cannot get into the neighbourhoods where the Free Syrian Army are hiding," he said.
Turkish and US officials began their first "operational planning" meeting aimed at hastening the end of Assad's embattled regime. Turkey has given shelter to the rebel leadership as well as tens of thousands of vilian refugees.
Turkish foreign ministry deputy under-secretary Halit Cevik and US ambassador Elisabeth Jones led the delegations made up of intelligence agents, military officials and diplomats at the Ankara talks, a foreign ministry source told AFP.
The officials were to discuss contingency plans in the case of potential threats including a chemical attack by Assad's regime which Washington has said would be a "red line".
British Prime Minster David Cameron and US President Barack Obama warned after a Wednesday telephone call that they would be forced to consider a new course of action if Syria threatened to use chemical weapons against rebel fighters.
The two leaders agreed that the use of chemical weapons -- which Syria admitted possessing in July -- would be "completely unacceptable."
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said the United States was preparing for "threats" from Iran and Syria's turmoil as an aircraft carrier headed to the region ahead of schedule.
The Observatory said that nearly 25,000 people have now been killed in Syria since March 2011. The UN puts the death toll at around 17,000.
The latest Apple v. Samsung case is winding down (hooray!) and the jury was given a huge list of instructions in court today to prepare them for their deliberation. Barring any last-minute changes, the jury should cloister tomorrow and start their decision making, wrapping up this particular battle in the patent holy-war. We have no idea how things will work out, and it's very likely that neither side will get what they wanted, but we can be sure that the cost of it all will be paid by us consumers in the long run. We're just glad that this means we'll get a break from ZOMG PATENTS!! being plastered all over the Internet for a little bit.
I read through the written document of jury instructions (all 109 grueling pages of it) and it's all pretty standard. One thing did catch my eye that's worth sharing -- jurors have received an unspecified number of unspecified devices to use in their deliberations. We're not sure exactly what devices or how many, but the screenshots that remind jurors not to accept any software updates on the Android devices are of a Samsung Droid Charge. We can be sure the iOS phones will have a 3.5-inch screen, a huge bezel, and a round button, though. I'll let you pore over the instructions yourself, here's a pdf file of them. Keep caffeine handy.
I am glad that jurors have a chance to actually hold the devices in their hands when trying to decide if one looks like the other. Too often court documents are fabricated with the app drawer open on Samsung devices to make them look more like an iOS device, so jurors need a chance to see just how the appear to the user -- not the lawyer.
This round is winding down, and all that's left is the verdict, and the weeks worth of online analysis about how it was wrong, how the jury should have seen things, and how one side sucks more than the other. Oh, and the inevitable appeals.
I am loving this whole concept of minimalist running. There is something natural about running almost barefoot. You really can feel the difference when you put on a pair of Vibrams compared to a normal running shoe. The key is to make sure you do the proper training before you jump right in.
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This PDF from Vibram will help you. Just follow this link and you will get some amazing tips.
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For me it is about strengthening my feet and calves. I could not believe how much pain I was in when I did not to the proper training and I just went out running. It really challenged me and pushed me to get my feet in better shape. This style of running is more natural.
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Make sure you follow the Vibram manual for getting started. Another area that Billy Beck III introduced me too was using a golf ball to break down the scare tissue and massage the bottom of the foot. This technique is amazing for overall foot health. Even if you do not get into minimalist running give the golf ball a try, your feel will love you for it.
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I will keep you updated on my new training experience of minimalist running. If you have some experience I would love to hear your comments and thoughts below.
NEW YORK (AP) ? Six-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift will perform at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards next month. But she won't be the only gold winner in the room.
The U.S. Women's Gymnastics team ? known as the Fierce Five ? will be presenters at the Sept. 6 show. Gabby Douglas, McKayla Maroney, Alexandra Raisman, Kyla Ross and Jordyn Wieber won the women's team gold medal this month. Douglas, Maroney and Raisman also won individual medals.
Miley Cyrus, Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller will also present awards.
Drake and Rihanna lead with five nominations each. They'll battle Katy Perry, M.I.A. and Gotye for video of the year.
Comedian Kevin Hart will host the VMAs live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Performers include Green Day, Alicia Keys, Pink and One Direction.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 22, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mortgage applications decreased 7.4 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association?s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending August 17, 2012.
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RE/MAX CEO HONORED AS LEADING REAL ESTATE BUSINESS WOMAN
DENVER - August 22, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- As hundreds of local business leaders gathered at the Denver Marriott City Center on Thursday, August 16, in celebration of the Denver Business Journal?s 2012 Outstanding Women in Business, RE/MAX CEO Margaret Kelly took the stage as the leading business woman in real estate.
Housing Starts Edge Down 1.1 Percent, Permits Rise In July
WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Nationwide housing production edged down 1.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 746,000 units in July, according to newly released figures from HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau. However, builders pulled more permits for planned new-home projects than they have in any month since August of 2008.
Central Coast Regional MLS offers zipFormMLS-Connect?
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Scientists use light to 'tag and track' genetic processesPublic release date: 13-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Amanda Siegfried amanda.siegfried@utdallas.edu 972-883-4335 University of Texas at Dallas
In a new study, UT Dallas researchers outline how they used fluorescent molecules to "tag" DNA and monitor a process called DNA looping, a natural biological mechanism involved in rearranging genetic material in some types of cells.
The UT Dallas "tag and track" method not only sheds light on how DNA loops form, but also might be adapted to screen drugs for effectiveness against certain viruses that shuffle genetic material, such as HIV.
Until now, scientists primarily had "snapshots" of the initial and final stages of DNA loop formation, with only limited information about what happens during the intermediate steps, said Dr. Stephen Levene, professor of bioengineering, molecular and cell biology, and phyiscs at UT Dallas. He is senior author of the study, published online and in an upcoming issue of the journal Nucleic Acids Research.
"Scientists have known for more than 30 years that DNA looping is an important part of molecular biology and gene regulation, but until our work, there have been few serious attempts to understand the basic biophysics of the process," Levene said.
DNA looping is a mechanism common in many instances of natural gene-splicing. Proteins within cells or proteins made by invading viruses latch onto specific docking points on a DNA molecule. They bring those points together to form a loop, and then snip out the genetic material between the points while reconnecting the now-loose ends.
DNA loop formation is especially important in organisms whose genetic material is circular, including some bacteria and viruses. Human DNA is linear, but the possibility that DNA looping takes place in human cells is an ongoing area of investigation, Levene said.
Levene and UT Dallas doctoral student Massa Shoura, the lead author of the paper, used a protein called Cre in their experiments. Cre is made by a virus that infects bacteria and is so good at forming DNA loops and excising genetic material that scientists routinely use it to delete genes from laboratory animals, which are then used to study the role of genes in human disease.
Levene and Shoura engineered isolated segments of DNA to contain Cre's docking points. They also inserted into those points a molecule that fluoresces when exposed to certain wavelengths of light. By monitoring the changes in fluorescence, the researchers could watch the steps of the loop formation.
The information the researchers have gleaned is not only useful for understanding basic biology and genetics, but also might lead to more efficient methods for screening potential new drugs for anti-HIV activity.
Once inside a host cell, HIV produces an enzyme similar to Cre, called an integrase. As its name suggests, the integrase slices into the host's DNA and inserts HIV's genetic material.
"Our fluorescent-tag technique could be used in the lab to more closely examine how HIV inserts itself into the host's genome," Shoura said. "By labeling and monitoring the process, we also could test drugs designed to interfere with the integrase."
"We estimate that using fluorescence-based methods such as this for drug screening could be as much as 10,000 times more efficient than methods that are currently used," Levene said.
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Other UT Dallas researchers from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology who participated in the study were senior scientist Dr. Alexandre Vetcher; doctoral students Stefan Giovan, Farah Bardai and Anusha Bharadwaj; and former undergraduate student Matthew Kesinger. The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation funded the research.
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Scientists use light to 'tag and track' genetic processesPublic release date: 13-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Amanda Siegfried amanda.siegfried@utdallas.edu 972-883-4335 University of Texas at Dallas
In a new study, UT Dallas researchers outline how they used fluorescent molecules to "tag" DNA and monitor a process called DNA looping, a natural biological mechanism involved in rearranging genetic material in some types of cells.
The UT Dallas "tag and track" method not only sheds light on how DNA loops form, but also might be adapted to screen drugs for effectiveness against certain viruses that shuffle genetic material, such as HIV.
Until now, scientists primarily had "snapshots" of the initial and final stages of DNA loop formation, with only limited information about what happens during the intermediate steps, said Dr. Stephen Levene, professor of bioengineering, molecular and cell biology, and phyiscs at UT Dallas. He is senior author of the study, published online and in an upcoming issue of the journal Nucleic Acids Research.
"Scientists have known for more than 30 years that DNA looping is an important part of molecular biology and gene regulation, but until our work, there have been few serious attempts to understand the basic biophysics of the process," Levene said.
DNA looping is a mechanism common in many instances of natural gene-splicing. Proteins within cells or proteins made by invading viruses latch onto specific docking points on a DNA molecule. They bring those points together to form a loop, and then snip out the genetic material between the points while reconnecting the now-loose ends.
DNA loop formation is especially important in organisms whose genetic material is circular, including some bacteria and viruses. Human DNA is linear, but the possibility that DNA looping takes place in human cells is an ongoing area of investigation, Levene said.
Levene and UT Dallas doctoral student Massa Shoura, the lead author of the paper, used a protein called Cre in their experiments. Cre is made by a virus that infects bacteria and is so good at forming DNA loops and excising genetic material that scientists routinely use it to delete genes from laboratory animals, which are then used to study the role of genes in human disease.
Levene and Shoura engineered isolated segments of DNA to contain Cre's docking points. They also inserted into those points a molecule that fluoresces when exposed to certain wavelengths of light. By monitoring the changes in fluorescence, the researchers could watch the steps of the loop formation.
The information the researchers have gleaned is not only useful for understanding basic biology and genetics, but also might lead to more efficient methods for screening potential new drugs for anti-HIV activity.
Once inside a host cell, HIV produces an enzyme similar to Cre, called an integrase. As its name suggests, the integrase slices into the host's DNA and inserts HIV's genetic material.
"Our fluorescent-tag technique could be used in the lab to more closely examine how HIV inserts itself into the host's genome," Shoura said. "By labeling and monitoring the process, we also could test drugs designed to interfere with the integrase."
"We estimate that using fluorescence-based methods such as this for drug screening could be as much as 10,000 times more efficient than methods that are currently used," Levene said.
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Other UT Dallas researchers from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology who participated in the study were senior scientist Dr. Alexandre Vetcher; doctoral students Stefan Giovan, Farah Bardai and Anusha Bharadwaj; and former undergraduate student Matthew Kesinger. The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation funded the research.
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In today?s world everything is about ?convenience? and ?instant? solutions. If you need clothes you can buy online, books with a 1-click option at Amazon, video on demand, laundry services to the door, instant coffee, instant messaging and the list goes on. Everything is about the ?instant? fix and it has become a great word for marketing any service. We have learned to expect everything in a matter of moments or minutes.
The new generation is learning, as we have to become ?impatient? and expect everything in life to happen ?instantly?, ?faster?, ?quicker? and ?better?. What we don?t realise is that we have become ?impatient? with everything and everyone including ourselves.
Be patient, Rome wasn?t built in a day!
This attitude towards life has led us to feel increased chaos within ourselves and in our interactions with the world. We feel the need to feel good ?now? and if we can?t, we?ll find a way to escape our reality with a night out or some form of distraction that keeps us from really experiencing life the way its meant to be.
Many of us set goals for ourselves and when we can?t find that instant fix, we feel lost, alone and sometimes even depressed. Some of us can?t sleep at night because our minds are trying to plan ways to make that ?instant? fix happen whether to solve a problem or achieve quick gratification. ?This is a self-inflicted feeling of helplessness and chaos. Who is the culprit? Your mind.
How long does gratification from an instant fix really last? It?s almost always, just fleeting. If we?d only allow ourselves to see that, we?d do things very differently. Some of us lose instant friends as fast as we make them. Others forget to appreciate their partners, when their needs are met easily and sometimes we forget to appreciate a good meal when the restaurant took that little bit longer to serve. This applies to almost everything in our lives.
Patience is a virtue but the rewards of this virtue are much greater than we let ourselves acknowledge or believe.
A friend of mine messaged me the other day asking, ?how do I discipline my mind?? It was a complex situation in her mind because she was quite eager to get it done quickly. I?m sure she was quite surprised when my response simply was ?Just refuse to listen to negative thoughts that?s how. It takes time, be patient.?
The solution was so simple that it took a while for her to understand it. I have been caught in this situation many times myself. Where I have been presented with a simple solution but my mind is only wired to process the complex. We have become so conditioned to accepting complexity as a reality that simplicity is no longer comprehendible.
How can it be so simple? Life really is simple but it?s how you choose to see it. If you believe that every desire, need, want or issue in your life can be sorted by a snap of your finger or buy purchasing a solution tailored for your problem, you will be disappointed time and time again.
We are ever changing creatures in every single way, in how we interact with the world, in the development of our personality, our beliefs, our behavior, our needs, wants and they way we communicate. We are constantly going through change.
To make the good changes in your life, one requires a great deal of patience. Patience with yourself, with others, with your environment, with work, with friends and the list goes on. To be a patient person, simplifies many situations in our lives that we perceive as complex. Rome wasn?t built in a day.
Don?t make life hard on yourself by allowing impatience to get the better of you. Practice patience. You can easily start by just paying more attention to the people around you whether a waiter, a janitor, a colleague, friend or family member. Be more patient with them and be more patient with yourself.
Sit down for a few minutes today and think about the complex situations in your life right now and think about the timelines you have set for yourself to resolve it. Are they unrealistic? Are they unyielding and difficult? Are they making you feel more pressured?
We always have the choice to make life easier on ourselves. So what will you choose, to be impatient and cause discomfort to yourself? Or to be patient and allow life to unfold with ease?
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About 100 protesters in New York gathered to speak out against a new NBC television reality show that will pair celebrities and service members for quasi-military exercises.
The show, called "Stars Earn Stripes," is hosted by retired general Wesley Clark and co-stars Republican ex-governor Sarah Palin's husband Todd, actor Dean Cain, boxer Laila Ali and former US Olympic champion skier Picabo Street.
NBC says it's "an action-packed competition show that pays homage to the men and women who serve in the US Armed Forces and our first-responder services."
Protesters said it was in bad taste when US troops are in conflicts in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
"Having my son return from two REAL wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with the cost of war carried in his body and heart, I find this deeply offensive," said Sarah Fuhro, a member of Military Families Speak Out.
"Having met wounded children and refugees from these and other wars, I find this disgusting. I hope NBC will reconsider this form of entertainment."
Seven Nobel Prize winners, including South Africa's Desmond Tutu, have also signed a letter asking NBC to yank the show.
Joan Wile, founder of Grandmothers Against the War, called NBC's plan "an abomination" and a "reality show glamorizing war while our young people die in real wars."
ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2012) ? Contrary to clinical recommendations, older women with early stage breast cancer may want to undergo radiation after lumpectomy to help ensure that they will not need a mastectomy in the future. That is the conclusion of a new study published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The findings indicate that current thinking on the risks and benefits of radiation for early stage breast cancer in older women may be inaccurate.
National treatment guidelines state that older women with early stage breast cancer that has not spread to the lymph nodes and that is driven by estrogen in the body can be treated with lumpectomy and estrogen blockers without the need for radiation. Benjamin Smith, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and his colleagues evaluated information on 7,403 women aged 70 to 79 years who were treated with lumpectomy for such breast cancers between 1992 and 2002 and whose data were contained in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare database, which links cancer registry information to a master file of Medicare enrollment. Approximately 88 percent of these women received radiation after their lumpectomy.
When the investigators looked to see what happened to these women after their breast cancer was treated, they found that within 10 years after treatment, 6.3 percent of women who did not get radiation eventually had their breast removed by mastectomy, compared with only 3.2 percent of women who received radiation. The reasons for mastectomy are not reported by this dataset, but the most likely reason for mastectomy in this patient group is recurrence of cancer in the breast. The researchers were also able to identify which women were more and less likely to benefit from radiation. Specifically, radiation did not seem to benefit women ages 75 to 79 years with non-high grade tumors (which contain cells that look only moderately abnormal under a microscope), suggesting that this group can probably skip radiation. Patients with high grade tumors (which contain very abnormal-looking cells), regardless of age, seemed to derive the most benefit from radiation.
"These data are important because they suggest that radiation is likely of some benefit to certain women where national guidelines say that radiation is not needed," said Dr. Smith. "Our data could be helpful to women when they decide whether or not to undergo radiation," he added.
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