Clinton in South Pacific with China in focus

PAPEETE, Tahiti (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in the South Pacific at the top of a six-nation Asia tour during which she aims to reassert American interests in the face of China's growing influence and calm rising tensions over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Clinton landed in Tahiti late Thursday for a brief refueling stop on the trip that will take her from the Cook Islands to Russia's Far East. The journey will keep her half a world away from U.S. politics at the height of the presidential conventions. But it will put her at the center of maritime disputes between China and its smaller neighbors.

Clinton will visit Beijing at the midpoint of the 11-day tour that begins in the remote Cook Islands, where she will be the first secretary of state to visit the South Pacific island chain that's home to just 10,000 people. On the main island of Rarotonga, she will attend an annual gathering of officials from Australia, New Zealand and the tiny nations scattered across the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. officials said Clinton will stress America's commitment to the sprawling yet sparsely populated area. It is threatened by rising waters, which are attributed to climate change, and faces a choice of whether to continue tight ties with the West or embrace burgeoning Chinese investment and power.

From there, Clinton heads to Indonesia, the seat of the secretariat of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, whose members are sharply divided over how to deal with China's expansion and conflicting claims over territory in the South China Sea.

A summit of regional leaders in July failed to reach consensus on how to handle the disputes. Clinton will press them to find common ground and hash out a framework for negotiating with China, U.S. officials said.

One senior official told reporters that it was "absolutely manifest" that ASEAN nations find a way to deal with China. "It's not a matter of geo-strategy, it's a matter of geography," the official said.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly preview the discussions, said Clinton would be stressing the U.S. view "that it is absolutely essential that cooler heads prevail in every capital and that great care be taken on these issues."

The U.S. takes no position on the sovereignty of the disputed territories, though some are claimed by allies such as South Korea, Japan and the Philippines as well as China, but "insists that they are dealt with diplomatically, without coercion (and) without the threat of the use of force."

China has bristled at the U.S. claiming to have a national security interest in the resolution of the disputes and maintains that they should be resolved between it and each of the other claimants individually, a position that American officials and others say puts the smaller nations at a disadvantage.

After Clinton departs Beijing, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is to make his first visit to China as Pentagon chief in a few weeks to underscore the U.S. message.

After visiting China, where she will raise South China Sea issues along with matters such as the unrest in Syria and Iran and North Korea's nuclear programs, Clinton will stop in East Timor, Brunei and then represent the U.S. at a summit of leaders from Pacific Rim countries in Vladivostok, Russia.

Clinton will be the first secretary of state to travel to East Timor when she makes a brief stop in Dili, the capital.

In another U.S. diplomatic first, the well-traveled Clinton will become the only secretary of state to touch ground in all 10 members of ASEAN when she holds talks in the small oil-rich nation of Brunei.

Clinton made history in December and then July by going to two ASEAN nations that had not seen America's top diplomat since the mid-1950s ? Myanmar, which is emerging from decades of isolation, and Laos.

After Brunei, Clinton will move on to Vladivostok to stand in for President Barack Obama at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which is expected to center on trade and food security.

In meetings with foreign leaders there, Clinton also will discuss Syria, Iran and North Korea, and will lay the groundwork for the upcoming U.N. General Assembly, officials said.

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Motorcycles Collide With Styrofoam in the Wreck Caught on Camera

If you ride a motorcycle, I'm warning you, this might be scary.?

Need another reason to trade in that motorcycle for a new or pre-owned automobile at Checkered Flag??

Here's one.? Styrofoam.?

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The drivers in the video were taken to the hospital, but were released with nothing more than road rash.? This accident took place on a Texas highway and was captured by a helmet camera.

All of our Checkered Flag Virginia Beach new and pre-owned car and truck stores accept motorcycles as trade-in toward the purchase of an automobile.? Call (757)490-1111 to reach any of our Hampton Roads dealerships for more information.?

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BREVARD COUNTY ? VIERA, FLORIDA ? The Space Coast Cancer Foundation (SCCF) will host a Patient-Centered Leukemia/Lymphoma Symposium & Survivorship Summit on Saturday, Sept. 8 at the Heritage Isle Clubhouse in Viera, Florida.

During the event, survivors will listen to different talks given by several physicians and will also have the opportunity to receive a massage.

Dr. Richard Levine, left, with Linda Bradley who donated $1,000 to assist with the Space Coast Cancer Foundation Survivorship Summit. The Northern & Central Florida Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society also donated $1000 to help with the expenses. (Image for SpaceCoastDaily.com)

Linda Bradley with Bradley Investments and the Northern & Central Florida Chapter of ?the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society have each sponsored the event with ?$1,000 to help with the expenses.

The event is open to the public free of charge, but donations will be accepted for the Space Coast Cancer Foundation. ?Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with the presentation 9:00 a.m. ? 1:00 p.m.

To register for the Survivorship Summit call 321.264.5504.

ABOUT THE SPACE COAST CANCER FOUNDATION

Space Coast Cancer Foundation was established in May 2006 with a mission to assist cancer patients and their caregivers in our community with the financial and emotional demands that are associated with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Space Coast Cancer Foundation was established in May 2006 with a mission to assist cancer patients and their caregivers in our community with the financial and emotional demands that are associated with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

?We provide patient transportation, direct financial assistance to help pay for pain medication, anti-nausea medication, and other support needs (wigs, scarves, hats) of cancer patients,? said Dr. Richard Levine.

?We collaborate with Walgreen?s Pharmacy for prescriptions that are filled locally. We also assist patients without insurance by contacting pharmaceutical companies for free chemotherapy for those patients that are eligible and qualify.?

In addition to assisting cancer patients and their caregivers, the board of directors supports local oncology education and research. The foundation has available ten $200 educational scholarships for the oncology nurses at each area hospital. This enables oncology nurses employed at the hospitals to receive financial reimbursement for the expense of going to courses to maintain their oncology and chemotherapy certification.

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Video: Isaac?s heavy sheets of rain linger over New Orleans

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New Airborne Defense Against Small Swarming Boats

In a then-classified 2002 war game called Millennium Challenge, the Red Team, commanded by Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper, sent waves of small boats, some loaded with explosives, to overwhelm the defenses of the Blue Team, representing the U.S. Navy. The results were grim. Blue Team lost 16 major warships?including a carrier. But the game was immediately restarted and Blue Team was eventually declared the winner.

Van Riper complained at the time that lessons were not being learned. Swarming speedboats represent a major threat to Navy aircraft carrier groups. Small boats are dangerous because they can emerge without warning from behind islands or other features, and weapons systems are designed to handle fewer, larger opponents, so carriers and other large vessels might be swamped before they can deal with the threat.

Today the Navy appears to be taking the threat more seriously. And existing defense technologies could be combined to create a defensive shield to detect and destroy boat swarms from a safe distance. The latest proposal involves an all-seeing eye in the sky that can pick out small boats at a distance and see over obstacles.

Raytheon's JLENS (Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor) is a blimp-based radar system that provides 360-degree, 24/7 coverage. The unmanned blimps or aerostats are 77 yards long. Each JLENS system, or orbit, has two of them, one with surveillance radar and one with a fire-control radar.

As the name suggests, JLENS was developed for defense against cruise missiles and can track aircraft. But it can also handle surface targets. This June JLENS went through a series of exercises on the Great Salt Lake to test its capability against swarming boats. A number of fast boats carried out tactical maneuvers at both high and low speeds, simulating an aggressive boat swarm. JLENS simultaneously detected and tracked the boats from over a hundred miles away.

JLENS can stay in position at an altitude of up to 10,000 feet for 30 days at a stretch. It provides the same sort of continuous coverage the military gets with manned aircraft like the E-2C Hawkeye but with fewer aircraft, less manpower, and at a lower cost, Raytheon says.

"One system provides the war-fighter the same around-the-clock coverage that it would normally take four or five fixed-wing surveillance aircraft to provide," says David Gulla, vice president of Global Integrated Sensors for Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems business.

Once it's tracking the targets, the JLENS Fire Control System can pass on target information using a network known as Link 16, a system shared by U.S. ships, aircraft, and ground forces. Link 16 provides a secure, jam-resistant data link.

One potential weapon that the JENS systems could unleash is Raytheon's Small Diameter Bomb II. This is a new 208-pound weapon made to attack mobile targets; it also uses Link 16. Unlike SDB I, which was made by Boeing and is suitable for static targets, SDB II has an advanced seeker system with three different modes. The weapon uses laser guidance for situations where the target can be illuminated with a laser designator. Otherwise it has a millimeter-wave radar and an imaging infrared sensor that allow it to detect targets through cloud, smoke, and darkness.

The winged SDB II can glide for more than 45 miles, all the while receiving updates via Link 16. This allows it to drop into a "basket," the small area containing the target. The SDB II?s onboard sensors then precisely locate the target and lock on to it. The SDB II's memory contains a catalog of target types, Raytheon says, so it can distinguish a small attack boat from a nearby fishing vessel.

John O'Brien, Raytheon's SDB II Program Director, says the full networking and multimode seeker make it an effective weapon against swarming boats at all ranges. Plus, the relatively low cost and small size of the weapon should make it possible to deploy large numbers of SDB IIs. In theory, a single B-2 could carry over 200 SBD IIs?enough to take out an entire flotilla of swarming boats in a single sortie. (In practice, however, combat aircraft are seldom loaded to the maximum limit and carry a mix of weapon types.)

As always, though, money is an issue. Two JLENS systems have been built, but it is not certain that production will go ahead as originally planned. Meanwhile a Senate panel has recommended slowing production of the SDB II as Congress tries to slash the budget.

Yet small boats are not expensive, and there are ways of getting them cheaply. Iran recently announced that Revolutionary Guard's naval force would be making unlicensed copies of the British Bladerunner-51. This is one of the world's fastest boats, capable of more than 65 knots (74 mph). Together they form a threat that's not only asymmetric, but also lethally fast.

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/planes-uavs/new-airborne-defense-against-small-swarming-boats-12175104?src=rss

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88% Robot & Frank

Surprisingly charming film, the film depends on the relationship between the robot and frank, and it totally delivered, i was sold by their relationship, wanting to see them work together and bond, and whenever they were apart, i was waiting for them to be together again, the robot is a great character, thanks to the voice by peter sarsgaard, giving him a humanity and a personality that I cared about, langella is good as always, i liked how even tho hes forgetting a lot of things, he can still remember how to pull off heists, the rest of the cast is fine too, a good score, and a nice ending

August 27, 2012

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Business Consulting | Services are usually intangible and they allow ...

Products are typically physical objects or things that can be consumed, touched, in possession of or in any way by the client. Products range an event with an insurance policy from a piece of clothing to a physical location. Services are usually intangible and not the other person, they allow anything themselves. In advice, not the person for example a consultation can touch commitment. Even if information has been exchanged, ends the client not above have no concrete deal through counselling. The service can provide a benefit to the client, as they from where they started before provision of the service, where they want to be change it something in them physically takes can mentally, emotionally. You can have a business that combines products and services. Many service staff for your company add a product helps to increase the interest of the buyer at their offers. People like something tangible for their money. For example, depending on the type of service, the service provider can write a book or workbook, to develop a company or a marketing plan, or drugs provide a diagnosed problem. Now has the company to offer services and products.

Create the backbone of any company, products, and services. One of the first things is independent of the size of the company, a businessman will decide what will offer the deal for people to buy. These are either products, services or a combination of both. Although the idea of products and services could overlap, there are ways to distinguish between the two of them for business purposes.

A business can develop a service line or product line by creating multiple items of the company. Examples of a service line are give more coaching or consulting services with increasingly comprehensive service packages. For example, an accounting professional could begin, by offering one hour consultation on your business books set up. The client can choose the line of available services.

This same accountants could a line in the business offer by the offer of software help with bookkeeping, accounting statements and filing taxes for the customers create.

You will see that a good product or service line offers more opportunities to sell, which can increase potential profits and success for a company to customers.

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Every 4 years, something more than just politics

WASHINGTON (AP) ? So much can change in four years.

Some 16 million babies have been born in the United States since 2008, the last year the Democrats and Republicans met to anoint their presidential nominees. Kids who were toddlers then are starting kindergarten now; that year's nervous high school freshmen are beginning college or work, or at least anxiously looking for jobs.

Nearly 10 million Americans have died, including political lights Geraldine Ferraro, Betty Ford and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who bade his dramatic convention farewell four years ago.

The Iraq war is over, the war in Afghanistan winding down. Osama bin Laden is dead. Yet Guantanamo Bay still holds 168 terror suspects. And too little has changed in a discouraging economy since 2008.

The political conventions are back to ask again if we, as individuals and as a nation, are better off than we were four years ago. That raises the question, where will we be four years from now?

It's fashionable these days to complain that the party gatherings no longer matter, that they're just phony made-for-TV moments ? speeches and sappy films and balloon drops strung together into protracted campaign commercials. That's true, as far as it goes.

The conventions no longer matter in picking presidential nominees. But that's because the choosing moved from the old smoke-filled rooms and rowdy delegate halls to a months-long carnival of democracy: debates and caucuses and primary voting across the country.

The conventions are made for TV. But that means made for all to see, across America and even the world. And the audience now gets to talk back, drafting its own instant platform via Twitter and Facebook and all our other electronic impulses.

The conventions are taxpayer-subsidized political commercials. But if they were only that, few would watch. We've seen too many mean ads already. By now most voters have made up their minds about Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, anyway.

At their best, every four years, these mud-slinging, self-serving, partisan-by-definition displays rise to offer something more: moments that transcend politics.

Together, the two conventions make up a national stock-taking, a pause to remember our roots, figure out who we are and decide what's truly important, without feeling too hokey about it. Like a virtual family reunion, Americans gather around their televisions, computers or smartphones to argue or agree, celebrate the good stuff, mourn our losses and regret our mistakes, to regroup, to look ahead.

The conventions are Barbara Jordan, Jesse Jackson and Obama, their very presence on the podium insisting that the American dream no longer be deferred. And Ferraro and Sarah Palin and Hillary Rodham Clinton, bursting through doors once locked to them.

They are the thousands of Vietnam War protesters chanting outside the 1968 Democratic meeting, who couldn't be silenced by the tear gas and billy clubs of the Chicago police.

They are Robert Kennedy eulogizing the slain president who was also his big brother Jack. Nancy Reagan telling America that its Great Communicator is being hushed by Alzheimer's. Mary Fisher pleading with the nation to come to its senses and find its compassion so her children wouldn't feel ashamed someday to say out loud their mother died of AIDS.

Every four years, the political conventions come along to remind us how wrong we were about some things in the past. And that we know nothing, really, about what's to come.

It's no coincidence that Ronald Reagan, a genius at wielding metaphor, chose to speak at the 1976 GOP convention about what he would write in a time capsule letter to the future.

The conventions are time capsules, lovingly created and then buried in the rush to Election Day.

Dig through past conventions, their speeches and platforms, and you'll find a record not just of Americans' politics but also of their worries and fears, longings and dreams. Not just how the parties gave us Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. But also how passion to do something about slavery and civil rights and women's rights and poverty percolated up from the people and into the convention halls and the White House.

This year's speakers will talk about gay marriage, religious freedom, women's health, the national debt, joblessness. And someone may say something in a way that sticks in the national consciousness and helps build a consensus that one day, in hindsight, will seem blazingly obvious.

Conventions are far from perfect. Too much of their time is wasted on things parochial and elitist and just silly. Not much has changed since Bob Dole summed up the GOP event of 1980: "The introducers spoke longer than the speakers. And the speakers spoke too long."

But what else have we got? Self-consciously triumphant inaugurals, ponderous State of the Union speeches. Debates promise some spontaneity, but they're too narrow, focused only on four candidates.

The conventions are a political Olympics, democracy as spectator sport: Score the best efforts of mayors and governors and senators who might be president someday. Catch those candidates and insiders who claim to hate Washington and loathe politics openly reveling in the raucous, strapping national debate, whatever they prefer to call it. Watch regular folks still willing to turn out, in silly hats and buttons, to cheer for something they believe in.

Sure, it can feel predictable. But that's something to be grateful for ? a sign that today's primaries are running fairly smoothly and the nation's many troubles are less devastating than the crises of the past.

Isn't that a good thing so long as it lasts?

After all, the political stage managers won't be able to corral the chaos outside or quiet rising voices within the hall if America faces another crisis as deep as the Depression, another war as despised as Vietnam, another moral test as big as civil rights.

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Disability Benefit Eligibility with a Mental Health Condition

? Disability Information ? Types of Disability ? ? Psychological Disorders

Information provided by Jeffrey W. Goldblatt Law Office - Published: 2012-08-27

Eligibility for Disability Benefits Due to a Mental Health Condition - People who cannot work because of major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, panic or other mental health conditions should understand their eligibility for SSDI or SSI benefits.

Most everyone understands that the Social Security Administration (SSA) provides disability benefits for physical injuries and disabling diseases, from paralysis or traumatic brain injury to chronic painful conditions such as carpal tunnel or back pain. However, the range of conditions covered by Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) includes many debilitating mental disorders.

People who cannot work because of major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, panic or other mental health conditions should understand their eligibility for SSDI or SSI benefits. Evaluation of disability benefits eligibility for mental disorders requires adequate documentation of a medically determinable impairment that matches specific criteria.

The SSA arranges mental disorders into nine diagnostic categories, each with their own required level of severity:

• Organic mental disorders associated with brain dysfunction
• Schizophrenic, paranoid and other psychotic disorders
• Affective disorders, characterized by mood disturbances, including manic and depressive syndromes
• Mental retardation
• Anxiety-related disorders, including phobic disorders and obsessive/compulsive syndromes
• Somatoform disorders, which produce physical symptoms but have no known organic or physiological cause, including chronic pain disorders
• Personality disorders that significantly impair a person's social or occupational functioning or cause subjective distress
• Substance addiction disorders, which can be based on various diagnoses from depression and anxiety to liver damage and pancreatitis
• Autistic disorder, based on qualitative deficits in reciprocal social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication skills, and imaginative activity

Helping Clients Pursue Disability Benefits for Depression or Anxiety Disorders

People who wonder if they are eligible for Social Security disability benefits for depression, anxiety or other mental health issues should be aware that the SSA requires thorough documentation of a person's medical history and inability to work. An SSDI attorney can explain the complexities of the process, the likelihood of an administrative appeal and other factors involved in seeking disability benefits.

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Web Writing Tips ? Mistakes To Avoid In Web Content Creation

Web Content

Web writing is now a hot career. A lot of peopleboth working in the corporate world and notare into writing for the internet. It?s comparatively easy than other online jobs particularly SEO article writing for those who have the knack for being word mercenaries. Besides, web writing tips abound everywhere so even the first-timers will not remain clueless on how to get the job done. In the following, instead of talking more how-to tips, we will talk about the common mistakes you should not commit when writing web content.

The use of business speak. Web content creation is about writing in simple, understandable, and interesting manner. Business speak, including jargons and technical terms, has no room in this kind of writing. This is because online readers don?t have the time and patience in deciphering it. What they want are plain but informative and engaging articles. Hence, if you want to thrive in the industry, you?d better learn how to do away with trying too hard to sound smart.

The magnification of features. Web writing tips frequently talk about magnifying the features of what your topic is. While it?s OK to present the characteristics of something, it can?t do much when it comes to increasing the effectiveness of an article. See, presenting benefits can go a lot farther. If you tell your readers how they can benefit from choosing what you?re offering, then they can promptly perform the action you want them to do. Say, if you want them to visit a site or purchase a product, show them the great reasons why and they?ll surely move.

The writing for the wrong audience. Most web content writers don?t recognize the vitality of knowing who they are writing for. See, when you create an article, it makes a whole lot of difference if you have a picture of who you are writing it to. This way, you can choose your words and tone appropriately. Your way of speaking with a professor is different with your way of speaking with a child, right? Hence, you must always write for the right audience in your online business today.

Writing too much. Many writers think that the more words they write, the smarter they appear. But, this style doesn?t work among the online public. This is because they are never fond of reading lengthy write-ups. They only have patience to go through 200 to 500-word long articles. Anything higher can already be taxing. Thus, as a writer, it is your job to provide the information they need in the most concise and comprehensible way possible.

Publishing before proofreading. This sounds a stupid mistake but sadly, a significant number of writers still err on this. They click the ?publish? button without even ensuring that all the words are spelled correctly. Consequently, their reputations get hurt by their seemingly minor slip-ups. The truth is, all the lists of web writing tips must emphasize the necessity of proofreading. It doesn?t only make your articles look better but your repute a lot higher too.

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Cameleon ? Nutrition In Holistic Fitness Marketing

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Running a fitness centre doesn?t end in making people sweat with the exercises and routines you instruct them to complete. New fitness marketing techniques now make use of a more holistic approach which does not merely focus on physical activity, but on diet and nutrition as well.

Folks have the tendency to believe that consuming less is always the best option when hitting the gym, particularly when they are attempting to lose weight. Calorie-burning exercises are not signals to starve. These are in fact the times when our bodies require more food to get an uninterrupted flow of nutrients that are needed for greater metabolic demands. Starvation diets could cause intense physical exhaustion because you deprive your body of glucose to fuel its functions. The resulting fatigue disturbs normal day-to-day functions and dampen efforts in performing exercises. It also contributes to mood swings, body aches, drowsiness, intellectual declines, vitamin insufficiencies, and certain medical ailments.

A diet plan must be healthy and consistent while drawing an array of nutrients from the different food groups within caloric limits. Based on an individual?s fitness goals, diet and exercise should always complement each other. A nutrition plan low in carbohydrates, for instance, is not recommended for a person training for a marathon who runs many miles each day because his type of exercise burns more. Persons who lift weights for body building need food choices which are loaded with protein. Protein aids in building muscle mass and in muscle repair. Low-glycemic diets are for those who need to drop extra weight. Low-glycemic food options take a longer time to be absorbed compared to their high-glycemic counterparts, thus making a person feel full for a longer period and decreasing his inclination to overindulge. Low-fat, low-sodium, and low-cholesterol eating plans are also good for people who exercise to keep their hearts healthier.

Focusing on different aspects of your client?s health to make his individual fitness objectives more attainable is a holistic gym promotion strategy. Valuable customers will feel your guidance in all of their efforts. Having a nutrition specialist in your staff to take a seat and plan daily meals with gym members is a fantastic investment. Without the proper nutrients that allow the person to perform at his best, exercise efforts can remain futile. You may even put up a mini restaurant within your health club if you have extra space and resources so as customers may avail of pre-set and individualised meals to save them from the trouble of cooking by themselves.

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Since there are several different types of bank accounts, inflation will have varying degrees of impact on them. Inflation erodes the value of our money. Higher inflation leads to a greater amount of funds needed to purchase consumer goods. As goods become more expensive we need our investment rates of return to

To unbound a piece of real estate from a mortgage.

Some long-term, high yield?certificates of deposit?have call features, meaning that the issuing bank may choose to terminate or call the CD after a predetermined period of time.? The original investment with accrued interest will be return to the investor.? Only the issuing bank may call a CD, not the account holder.? A bank might decide

The location at which a transaction takes place. Systems that allow bank customers to effect transfers of funds from their deposit accounts and other financial transactions at retail establishments.

An amount owed under a court order.

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Join hosts The Bad Seed and Nadine Michel on 6thManRadio as they welcome hip hop veteran MC Shan to the show. Shan stops by and discusses the infamous beef with longtime collaborator Marley Marl as well as the KRS ONE classic battle.

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The Keys is joined by Ken Whaley former Mortgage Specialist for Wells Fargo Bank who has help thousands of homeowners save their properties, Henry Nelson, Vice President 1209 Enterprise, LLC.

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(and Receive) Cell Phone (SMS) Text ... - What's On My PC - Blog

I have been finding that many people do not realize that there is an instant messaging (chat) feature in Gmail that lets you send and receive instant messages with other Gmail chat users. This feature is typcially turned on by default.? To make sure it is turned on, click on the gear icon and choose Settings.? Click the Chat tab to determine if chat is on or off.

Now that you have discovered Gmail chat, did you know you can send and receive SMS text (cell phone) messages using Gmail chat?

Here?s how to turn the SMS text messaging feature on:

Gmail chat lets you easily send text messages to and from cell phones. If this feature isn?t already enabled on your account, you can enable it by following these steps:

1. Click the gear icon in the upper right, then select Settings.
2. Select the Labstab.
3. Scroll down until you see Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat, select Enable and Save Changes.

Here?s how to use the SMS text messaging feature, in Gmail chat, to send (and receive) text messages:

1. Enter your contact?s name in the ?Search or invite friends? box in Chat, and select Send SMS from the box of options that appears to the right of your contact?s name. Or, if you already have a Chat window open for this contact, just click Options, and select Send SMS.
2. In the dialog box, enter a phone number in the ?Send SMS messages to this number? field. This feature is only launched in selected countries. Click herefor the list of supported countries and operators. If you are not located in one of these countries you can still use it, but you won?t see the SMS option in Chat until you enable it manually in the Chat settings page.
3. Click Save.
4. A Chat window appears. Just type your message as you would normally. When you hit Enter, the message will be sent to the phone number you entered.

If your contact replies, the text message response will appear as a reply in Chat. These conversations are stored in your Chat history just like regular chats (but keep in mind that you can?t go off the record while communicating via SMS).

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Court finds Norwegian mass killer Breivik sane

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was jailed for a maximum term on Friday when judges declared him sane enough to answer for the murder of 77 people last year, drawing a smirk of triumph from the self-styled warrior against Islam.

An unrepentant Breivik, 33, gave the Oslo court a stiff-armed, clench-fisted salute before being handed the steepest possible penalty, 21 years. His release, however, can be put off indefinitely should he still pose a threat to a liberal society left traumatized by his bomb and shooting rampage last July.

Justifying blasting a government building and gunning down dozens of teenagers at a summer camp as a service to a nation threatened by immigration, he had said only acquittal or death would be worthy outcomes. But his biggest concern was being declared insane - the sole verdict he had said he would appeal.

Judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen dismissed a prosecution call for her to label Breivik mad, a ruling that would have seen him confined indefinitely to psychiatric care rather than prison.

Some survivors of the slaughter at the Labour party youth camp on Utoeya island had been keen to see Breivik held clearly responsible for his actions - and to avoid the insanity verdict that would have triggered lengthy and traumatic appeal hearings.

For many Norwegians, still shocked by their bloodiest day since World War Two, the details were academic, however.

"He is getting what he deserves," said Alexandra Peltre, 18, whom Breivik shot in the thigh on Utoeya. "This is karma striking back at him. I do not care if he is insane or not, as long as he gets the punishment that he deserves."

Breivik, who had surrendered to police on the island without a fight, admitted blowing up the Oslo government headquarters with a fertilizer bomb, killing eight, on Friday, July 22, 2011, then shooting 69 at the ruling party's summer youth camp.

Dressed in a black suit with a tie and still sporting the under-chin beard familiar from the 10 weeks of hearings that ended in June, Breivik smirked when he entered the courtroom and gave his now familiar, far-right salute when his handcuffs were removed. He smiled again as the judge read out the verdict.

He will not appeal, his lawyer said. "He told me he will accept this verdict," Geir Lippestad told Reuters.

A lawyer for some victims and their families said they, too, were satisfied: "I am pleased, although that's not really the right word, and relieved. This is what we hoped for," said Mette Yvonne Larsen, who represented some of those affected in court.

"I have already received many messages from clients telling me this is justice served and they are happy it's over and will never have to see him again."

The killings shook the nation of five million which had prided itself as a safe haven from much of the world's troubles, raising questions about the prevalence of far-right views in a country where oil wealth has attracted rising immigration.

Breivik will now be kept in isolation inside Ila Prison on the outskirts of Oslo inside relatively spacious quarters that include a separate exercise room, a computer and a television.

He had described an insane verdict as "a fate worse than death". Were he to have been found insane and decided to appeal, the entire trial would have had to be repeated.

Breivik justified his killing spree arguing that the centre-left Labour party is deliberately destroying the nation by encouraging Muslim immigration. His views, spread over the Internet and aired during the trial, drew support from a few in Europe but even most of the hardest right-wing fringe groups kept their distance from the self-confessed mass killer.

Although his victims were mostly teenagers, with some as young as 14, he rejected being called a child murderer, arguing that his victims were brainwashed "cultural Marxists" whose political activism would adulterate pure Norwegian blood.

He stalked his victims dressed as a policeman, tricking them into thinking he was the help sent from the shore after the initial attack. He then shot them from close range before finishing them with a shot to the head.

"I stand by what I have done and I would still do it again." he said during his court testimony.

Some Norwegians now believe their country must draw on the experience to debate issues like immigration as their oil wealth attracts large numbers of foreign workers.

These are being discussed more openly after the killings by Breivik, who believed the government's immigration policies were adulterating "Norwegian blood" and leading to war with Muslims.

One team of court-appointed psychiatrists concluded he was psychotic while another came to the opposing conclusion. To make the ruling more difficult, several other experts who testified described a slew of mental conditions Breivik probably suffered.

Still, polls showed that around 70 percent of Norway's public thought such a complex attack could not have been carried out by a madman and Breivik had to bear responsibility

Breivik has said he would accept a sane verdict, but derided a jail term as "pathetic", and said acquittal or execution were the only reasonable outcomes.

A commission investigating the attack earlier this month concluded that all of part of it could have been prevented and intelligence, police and government blunders likely cost lives.

(Additional reporting by Victoria Klesty, Vegard Botterli, Terje Solsvik, Alister Doyle; Editing by Alistair Scrutton and Alastair Macdonald)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/court-finds-norwegian-mass-killer-breivik-sane-082140655.html

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DJ Khaled 'Didn't Want To Rush' Just Blaze Collaboration

Even though the Blaze-produced track, featuring an unknown MC, didn't make Kiss the Ring, Khaled says it 'might be on the next album.'
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SKorean court rules Samsung didn't copy iPhone

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? South Korea's Samsung won a home court ruling in its global smartphone battle against Apple on Friday when Seoul judges said the company didn't copy the look and feel of the U.S. company's iPhone, and that Apple infringed on Samsung's wireless technology.

However, in a split decision on patents, the panel also said Samsung violated Apple technology behind the bounce-back feature when scrolling on touch screens, and ordered both sides to pay limited damages.

The Seoul Central District Court ruling called for a partial ban on sales of products including iPads and smartphones from both companies, though the verdict did not affect the latest-generation phones ? Apple's iPhone 4S or Samsung's Galaxy S3.

The ruling affects only the South Korean market, and is part of a larger, epic struggle over patents and innovation unfolding in nine countries. The biggest stakes are in the U.S., where Apple is suing Samsung for $2.5 billion over allegations it has created illegal knockoffs of iPhones and iPads.

The Seoul ruling was a rare victory for Samsung in its arguments that Apple has infringed on its wireless technology patents, which previously have been shot down by courts in Europe where judges have ruled that they are part of industry standards that must be licensed under fair terms to competitors.

"This is basically Samsung's victory on its home territory," said patent attorney Jeong Woo-sung. "Out of nine countries, Samsung got the ruling that it wanted for the first time in South Korea."

The ruling ordered Apple to remove the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad 1 and iPad 2 from store shelves in South Korea, ruling that the products infringed on two of Samsung's five disputed patents, including those for telecommunications technology.

The court also denied Apple's claim that Samsung had illegally copied its design, ruling that similar rectangular screens with rounded corners had existed in products before the iPhone and iPad.

"Based on the similarity in these features, it is not possible to assert that the two designs are similar," the court said in a ruling issued in Korean that was translated into English by The Associated Press. It also said individual icons do not appear similar to the icons Apple used in the iPhone.

But the court ruled that Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung had infringed on one of Apple's patents on the feature that causes a screen to bounce back when a user scrolls to an end image. The court banned sales of Samsung products using the technology, including the Galaxy S2, in South Korea.

Court spokesman Kim Mun-sung said the court's ruling was to take effect immediately, although companies often request that sanctions be suspended while they evaluate their legal options.

Nam Ki-yung, a spokesman for Samsung, said the company welcomed the ruling. "Today's ruling also affirmed our position that one single company cannot monopolize generic design features," he said.

Apple did not respond to multiple calls seeking comment.

The court also ordered each company to pay monetary compensation to its competitor. Samsung must pay Apple 25 million won ($22,000) while Apple must pay its rival 40 million won.

South Korea is not a big market for Apple, and the ruling is not likely to have a big impact on jury deliberations in the U.S.

However, some industry watchers expressed concern over the South Korean ruling to protect industry standard patents. They say the decision could invite a trade war by giving Samsung and fellow South Korean company LG ? both industry standard patent holders ? more room to block rivals' entrance into South Korea if they don't agree to licensing terms.

"It would mean that foreign companies would either have to bow to Samsung's and LG's demands ... or stop selling in Korea," said Florian Mueller, a patent expert in Munich, Germany who has been closely following the case.

Courts in Europe, including Netherlands, France, Italy and Germany have rejected similar claims by Samsung that Apple violated its wireless patents, with judges arguing that the patents have become part of industry standards. Standard-essential patents are a crucial technology for new players to make products compatible with the rest of the market and must be licensed under fair and reasonable terms.

Europe's anti-trust regulator launched an investigation earlier this year into whether Samsung was failing to license those patents under fair and reasonable terms.

In Friday's ruling, the South Korean court said Samsung did not abuse its market power as an industry standard patent holder.

Apple filed suit against Samsung in San Diego, California, in April 2011, alleging that some of the South Korean company's smartphones and computer tablets are illegal knockoffs of Apple's iPhone and iPad. Samsung denies the allegations and argues that all companies in the cutthroat phone industry mimic each other's successes without crossing the legal line.

Cupertino, California-based Apple is suing Samsung for $2.5 billion and demanding that the court pull its most popular smartphones and computer tablets from the U.S. market, making the case one of the biggest technology disputes in history.

Jury deliberations in San Diego began Wednesday after three weeks of testimony. The case went to the jury after last-minute talks between the companies' chief executives failed to resolve the dispute.

Shortly after Apple filed its suit in the U.S., Samsung filed a complaint in South Korea against Apple for allegedly breaching its telecommunications patents.

The battle is all the more complex as Apple and Samsung are not only competitors in the fast-growing global market for smartphones and tablet computers, but also have a close business relationship.

Samsung, the world's biggest manufacturer of memory chips and liquid crystal displays, supplies some of the key components that go into Apple products, including mobile chips that work as a brain of the iPhone and the iPad.

The South Korean firm overtook Apple in less than three years in smartphone markets. In the second quarter of this year, Samsung sold 50.2 million units of smartphones, nearly twice as much as Apple's 26 million units, according to IDC.

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Do Post-Market Drug Trials Need a Higher Dose of Ethics?

Patients who sign up for trials testing more than one already approved intervention do not always know if one is being tested for harmful side effects

By Katherine Harmon

Uninformed consent?: Some trials performed after treatments are approved fail to inform participants that one or more of the treatments being tested might have more serious side effects than they realize. Image: iStockphoto/monkeybusinessimages

Say you have high blood pressure. There's a new blockbuster drug on the market, and your doctor lets you know about a new clinical trial you can join that is testing the new treatment against an old tried-and-true one. What's not to like? You're going to be taking, under the care of experts, one of two U.S. Food and Drug Administration?approved medications.

What you might not know?even after you sign up for the trial and have inked the informed-consent form?is that scattered reports are starting to suggest that the new medication might occasionally cause severe side effects. And the real reason the trial is being conducted with these previously released drugs is to test whether the new medication really is a lot riskier to everyone or just to a subset of patients.

If you found that out, would you still sign up for the trial? The problem is that many patients?and often even the institutional review boards that approve the trials?are never informed of these lingering questions.

This is one of the big ethical holes often left open in post-market trials, says Ruth Faden, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, who co-authored a new essay on this topic in The New England Journal of Medicine, which was published online August 22. She and a team of co-authors released a formal Institute of Medicine (IOM) report earlier this year recommending that the FDA improve this and other ethical aspects of post-market trials?especially those it requires.

This issue hit the headlines two years ago, when the FDA suddenly restricted the use of Avandia, a drug that had been approved to treat diabetes.? It had become clear that patients in post-market trials were at increased risk for heart attack and stroke?risks about which drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline knew but had not informed patients.

When patients sign up for clinical trials to test an experimental drug, procedure or device, they give their informed consent after doctors counsel them about the risks and uncertainty associated with a not-yet-approved intervention. Volunteers are often more than willing to accept those risks if the experimental intervention offers potentially more promising treatment for their condition, compared with what is on the market.

The benefits of signing up for a trial testing a drug that is already on the market are less clear. Patients and their doctors will already have the option to choose that same drug without being part of a study, ideally taking any known risks into consideration. If they sign up for a trial, however, they will be randomized into groups and required to take one of the test therapies?especially if one is suspected to cause occasional severe side effects?"Now you've got this heightened ethical obligation toward these people," Faden says. "They need to understand why this particular trial is being conducted." This step is often lacking in post-market trials, especially those conducted by the pharmaceutical companies and their contractors, she notes.

With so many new therapies being fast-tracked through the FDA approval process, post-release vigilance is becoming increasingly important, Faden and her colleagues noted in the piece. And when suspicion arises that a new medication might be causing more harm than it is worth, a large, formal, randomized controlled clinical trial is necessary. But informing patients fully of the risks they are taking is ethically imperative, the researchers concluded. "That's a hard sell," but potential trial participants would need to knowingly shoulder the risks to hopefully help others down the road.

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Gibbons are soprano singers of the animal world

If you want to hear the clear, piercing voice of a soprano, don't bother with the opera. Just listen to a gibbon. Giving gibbons helium to breathe and studying its effect on their calls provides evidence that the apes call to each other using similar mechanisms to trained human sopranos.

Gibbons are known for their high-pitched "songs", which are unusually melodious for animal calls (listen to a recording).

Wondering how they produce the songs, Takeshi Nishimura of Kyoto University in Aichi, Japan, and colleagues recorded the calls of a captive white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) ? first in normal air, and then in air that contained 20 per cent oxygen, 30 per cent nitrogen and 50 per cent helium.

It sounds like a prank, but making an animal inhale helium and measuring how it affects their calls offers clues to how their vocal system works.

It's unclear how most animals produce their calls, but it's thought that in many cases it is the fixed shape of their vocal tract that determines the exact frequency of the sound waves, which make up the call. Because sound waves have a higher frequency in helium than in air, the gas affects the fundamental frequency of these calls.

Unchanged frequency

However, humans can control the frequency of the sound source, and change the shape of their vocal tract to modify it further. One result of this is that the fundamental frequency is not affected when humans breathe helium ? although the resulting sound is altered because the helium changes how the air behaves in the vocal tract, boosting the higher harmonics.

Nishimura's experiment showed that gibbon calls are affected by helium in a similar way to human calls. When the gibbon was breathing helium, the fundamental frequency of her calls was unchanged, suggesting it was produced independently of her vocal tract (listen to a recording).

Gibbons' high-pitched calls are quite simple compared to normal human speech, which uses combinations of different frequencies to produce consonants and vowels. Gibbon calls don't bother with such complexity, but neither do soprano singers. Both sacrifice detail for sheer volume and a purity of tone that allows the call to resonate ? which explains why it's difficult to make out the words when listening to opera.

While other animals such as howler monkeys can produce loud calls that carry for many kilometres, soprano calls are probably unique to gibbons, says Nishimura.

Journal reference: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22124

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