Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Officials debate whether to scrap malaria program

LONDON (AP) ? The future of a pricey malaria program meant to provide cheap drugs for poor patients may be in jeopardy after health officials clashed over its effectiveness in two new reports.

In 2010, the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria was started by groups including United Nations agencies and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It was a pilot project to subsidize artemesinin combination drugs, the most effective malaria treatment.

The initiative cost more than $460 million, mostly funded by the Global Fund, UNITAID, and the Canadian and British governments. It was tested in eight countries: Cambodia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. Most of the drugs bought were sold in the private sector, where there are few controls on who gets them.

Last week, a report by Oxfam, an international charity, labeled the program a failure and said there was no proof it had saved lives because officials didn't track who received the drugs.

"It's time for this to be scrapped," said Mohga Kamal-Yanni, the paper's author. "If you subsidize drugs and make them cheap, then clearly the supply will increase. But we have no idea whether the drugs are getting to the right people."

According to the World Health Organization, "improving the rational use of (malaria drugs) was not a specific strategic objective" of the program. In a statement, the agency said there was limited information about how many children under five ? those most susceptible to malaria ? received the subsidized drugs.

"No information has been made available on the use of these medicines by the poorest communities," WHO said.

But in another paper published Wednesday in the journal Lancet, experts insisted the program was "an effective mechanism" to lower the price of preferred malaria drugs and make them widely available.

That study didn't include Cambodia and found that everywhere except for Niger and Madagascar, there was a bigger supply of the medicines. Researchers didn't measure whether that lowered the number of malaria cases. The study was paid for by the Global Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Global Fund called the program "a practical approach to fighting disease" and said the malaria drugs were not previously available in many African communities. "The reality of this program is that it is getting life-saving medicine to people who need it most from the private sector outlets where they already seek treatment," the fund said in a statement.

Others suggested the initiative be overhauled.

"We have had caveats about this program since the beginning," said Manica Balasegaram, an executive director at Medecins Sans Frontieres, which is not linked to either report.

He said it was important to use diagnostic tests before giving out malaria medicines, to ensure that people who took them actually had malaria. Giving the drugs to people without the disease could worsen drug resistance and wouldn't cure whatever ailment they did have. "If this program continues, we would like to see serious changes made," Balasegaram said.

Next month, Global Fund officials and others will discuss the program's fate at a previously scheduled meeting.

Since the program's inception, the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative, the world's second-biggest donor to malaria control after the Global Fund, has requested compelling evidence the subsidy program works. Without that, the U.S. group said it is not allowed by law to finance the malaria project. WHO has described the program's future as uncertain.

David Schellenberg, a public health expert at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said it was too early to judge if the program had succeeded. "More people might be inadequately treated if this program is closed," he said. "But this approach will not work everywhere."

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Exhaustive family tree for birds shows recent, rapid diversification

ScienceDaily (Oct. 31, 2012) ? A Yale-led scientific team has produced the most comprehensive family tree for birds to date, connecting all living bird species -- nearly 10,000 in total -- and revealing surprising new details about their evolutionary history and its geographic context.

Analysis of the family tree shows when and where birds diversified -- and that birds' diversification rate has increased over the last 50 million years, challenging the conventional wisdom of biodiversity experts.

"It's the first time that we have -- for such a large group of species and with such a high degree of confidence -- the full global picture of diversification in time and space," said biologist Walter Jetz of Yale, lead author of the team's research paper, published Oct. 31 online in the journal Nature.

He continued: "The research highlights how heterogeneously fast diversifying species groups are distributed throughout the family tree and over geographic space. Many parts of the globe have seen a variety of species groups diversify rapidly and recently. All this leads to a diversification rate in birds that has been increasing over the past 50 million years."

The researchers relied heavily on fossil and DNA data, combining them with geographical information to produce the exhaustive family tree, which includes 9,993 species known to be alive now.

"The current zeitgeist in biodiversity science is that the world can fill up quickly," says biologist and co-author Arne Mooers of Simon Fraser University in Canada. "A new distinctive group, like bumblebees or tunafish, first evolves, and, if conditions are right, it quickly radiates to produce a large number of species. These species fill up all the available niches, and then there is nowhere to go. Extinction catches up, and things begin to slow down or stall. For birds the pattern is the opposite: Speciation is actually speeding up, not slowing down."

The researchers attribute the growing rate of avian diversity to an abundance of group-specific adaptations. They hypothesize that the evolution of physical or behavioral innovations in certain groups, combined with the opening of new habitats, has enabled repeated bursts of diversification. Another likely factor has been birds' exceptional mobility, researchers said, which time and again has allowed them to colonize new regions and exploit novel ecological opportunities.

In their analysis, the researchers also expose significant geographic differences in diversification rates. They are higher in the Western Hemisphere than in the Eastern, and higher on islands than mainlands. But surprisingly, they said, there is little difference in rates between the tropics and high latitudes. Regions of especially intense recent diversification include northern North American and Eurasia and southern South America.

"This was one of the big surprises," Jetz said. "For a long time biologists have thought that the vast diversity of tropical species must at least partly be due to greater rates of net species production there. For birds we find no support for this, and groups with fast and slow diversification appear to occur there as much as in the high latitudes. Instead, the answer may lie in the tropics' older age, leading to a greater accumulation of species over time. Global phylogenies like ours will allow further tests of this and other basic hypotheses about life on Earth."

Other authors are G.H. Thomas of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom; J.B. Joy of Simon Fraser University in Canada; and K. Hartmann of the University of Tasmania in Australia.

The work was supported by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Natural Environment Research Council (U.K), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Simon Fraser University, and the Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies.

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Gold Symposium 2012: What is the End Game for the Global ...

Gold Symposium 2012: What is the End Game for the Global Monetary Crisis?

Oct 30, 2012

Thoughts from the presenters at the 2012 Gold Symposium in Sydney on how the monetary crisis may end:

When 90% of the audience puts their hand up in answer to the question ?who owns physical gold or silver??, there was always going to be an element of ?preaching to the converted? at an event titled the Gold Symposium.

We intend to outline over the next week or two what a number of the speakers covered last week in Sydney in more detail, but there was a fair amount of similar content amongst many of them, so we thought to begin with we?d cover the question ?how does it all end?? That way you?ll see a mixture of opinions from the various speakers as to how the current monetary crisis might come to a head. Now on to the various scenarios presented?

Egon von Greyerz ? Matterhorn Asset Management

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Egon von Greyerz

Egon Von Greyerz commented that austerity will be a vote loser, so therefore governments will continue to run ever larger deficits. There will be unlimited money printing as already put in place by Bernanke 2 months ago. The US dollar will fall sharply but so will other currencies. Interest rates and taxes will surge as will unemployment. Asset prices will continue to fall in real terms i.e. against gold and silver. Exchange controls will be implemented to prevent capital leaving the borders of countries.

New political parties and leaders will emerge.?Pensions and social security will collapse. This will result in social unrest and increased crime. Famine will also occur resulting in falling population. Geopolitical problems will emerge.

Eventually all this money printing will result in a hyperinflationary depression.

Jim Rickards ? Author: Currency Wars

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Jim Rickards

Rickards believes the US will not relent in the currency wars. It will continue to debase so we should expect global inflation. Rickards then went on to outline the Four Horsemen of the Dollar Apocalypse. These were his 4 possible outcomes from the ongoing debasement of the US dollar:

??Multiple reserve currencies. So we could see the US dollar fall as the global reserve currency but remain part of the mix. He outlined a possible mix of 35% USD, 35% EUR, 10% JPY, 20% GBP, CNY, CHF, CAD, AUD and other. But with no anchor this option would be inherently unstable.

??IMF?s Special Drawing Rights (SDR?s). Rickards believes this is the prefered option of the global elites. SDR?s would not be a local currency but rather used for global transactions such as for the likes of oil, global corporations and settling global balance of payments (like gold once did). This turns the IMF into a world central bank with currency and an expanded balance sheet and the power elites maintain control.

??Gold Standard. Rickards 3rd option is a return to a gold standard and he went on to outline various options including what the reserve ratio would be and what price gold would need to go to in USD?s at these different reserve ratios. These prices got as high as $30,868 per ounce to balance out existing US money supply and $40,552 to balance out global monetary supplies.

??Chaos. This was his final option and the one he believes is most likely to come about as a result of currency wars. As they will lead to trade wars and geopolitical disagreements and eventually real shooting wars.

Louis Boulanger ? Independent Investment Advisor

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Louis Boulanger

Louis Boulanger, transplanted French Canadian, fellow Aucklander and a friend of ours for a number of years now had a great slide where he presented a number of possible outcomes including a few already mentioned. These were;

? Status Quo ? that is global financial repression in the form of negative real interest rates, inflation, involuntary funding and capital controls
? IMF?s SDR as new global currency ? as per Jim Rickards above
? China?s Renminbi redeemable in silver and gold
? Eurozone fiscal union and a Euro backed in gold
? US dollar becomes redeemable in gold again
? Gold and silver coins are legal tender again
? War, financial collapse, revolution and chaos ? as per Jim Rickards most likely outcome

Louis stated he was an optimist so didn?t think the worst case scenario was as likely. He thought a very possible outcome was China eventually making its currency redeemable in gold and silver. In fact the $64 trillion dollar question was just how much silver China still has. China has a long history in using silver as money and it is unknown how much they still have and how much more they have been accumulating in recent years.

Dan Denning ? The Daily Reckoning Australia

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Dan Denning

Dan Denning?s presentation was chiefly on Exters Inverse Pyramid which we have featured previously here. ?The premise was that a great credit contraction is underway and financial assets are breaking down steadily with gold being at the bottom of the pyramid and will be the last man standing.

David Evans ? Gold Nerds Gold Stocks Researcher

While David Evans likely outcome to the monetary crisis did not differ markedly from the others mentioned so far, he gave an interesting presentation where he gave a possible timeframe for the existing debt to be inflated away. Evans believes without political interference, the current debt bubble would collapse in a massive deflation like the 1930?s. But governments and banks will interfere to prevent this by manufacturing more money. They are deliberately causing inflation to reduce the real value of all the debt that has been accumulated. His scenario assumes that central banks manage to stay in control and this is their best case outcome if they do. The main risks they (and we) face are:

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David Evans

1. Deflation
2. Hyperinflation
3. Banking crisis
4. Physical gold market blows up (see permanent gold backwardation below by Keith Weiner)
5. Major War (a.k.a. Jim Rickards chaos outcome)

If the bankers succeed he sees high but tolerable inflation, or a more intense version of the 1970?s. David calculated that if this inflation started in 2014 it would take 14 years for ?reversion to mean? of the current debt from 350% of GDP back to 150% of GDP. This is based upon annual inflation of 12% versus modern CPI of 5-8% and interest rates of 6%, so real interest rates would be -6%. He projected gold would rise 21% per annum under this scenario which is similar to what it has done in USD terms for last 11 years. So by 2028 gold might reach US$50,000 ? although before we get too excited this would only be $8,400 in todays money due to the amount of inflation required between now and then. At around this time interest rates may also rise rapidly to say 15-20%, governments would have to cut spending drastically and run surpluses to finally bring the inflation to an end!

Keith Weiner ? Gold Standard Institute USA

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Keith Weiner

Keith Weiner concurred with Professor Fekete, who he studied under, that permanent gold backwardation is the likely end result. That is where the futures price of gold will remain permanently below the price in the physical market. Normally when this occurs it is arbitraged away as there is ?free money? to sell your physical gold and buy a futures contract at a lower price.

However permanent backwardation would mean that no one was willing to sell their physical gold at any price. Paper money, govt bonds etc would all be worthless in this scenario.

What Do We Reckon?

We?re hoping for a more severe version of the 1970?s much like David Evans predicts ? so this would be a stagflationary environment as we wrote about 2 weeks ago. Maybe hoping isn?t quite the right word to use, but this outcome would likely be the least severe for most people given how unprepared the majority are.

The downside is that perhaps the status quo remains and we get more of the same in terms of the banking elite running the global monetary system for many decades yet. However we?re not so sure that David Evans outcome of a long term inflation and then high interest rates to put an end to it is that likely. 14 years of very high inflation might be pushing it for central banks to remain in control.

We don?t know what the ?end game? will be exactly but we don?t think it will be the status quo. Gold is likely to return to the monetary system in some form or another. We would be inclined to think that Louis Boulanger?s theory that China will attempt to make the Renminbi redeemable in gold (and silver) seems like a possible outcome, after a period of high inflation.

Regardless of the final outcome gold, silver and other hard assets seem to us to be a must have protection in the years to come. Unsurprisingly the presenters at the Gold Symposium all thought much the same. That hoarding gold and silver and delaying ?investing? in other assets until golds price equals its value was also a wise option

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Hugh Jackman: My Mother Abandoned Me When I Was Eight

Hugh Jackman is one of Hollywood's most charming men, yet it turns out his road to stardom had its fair share of tragedy. In a new interview, the Australian actor has opened up about how his mother abandoned him and his siblings when he was only eight years old.

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Study: Climate-changing methane ?destabilizing? off East Coast

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In this visualization, the Gulf Stream is seen as the dark red current coming into the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico.

A changing Gulf Stream off the East Coast has destabilized frozen methane deposits trapped under nearly 4,000 square miles of seafloor, scientists reported Wednesday. And since methane is even more potent than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas, the researchers said, any large-scale release could have significant climate impacts.

Temperature changes in the Gulf Stream are "rapidly destabilizing methane hydrate along a broad swathe of the North American margin," the experts said in a study published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

Using seismic records and ocean models, the team estimated that 2.5 gigatonnes of frozen methane hydrate are being destabilized and could separate into methane gas and water.


It is not clear if that is happening yet, but that methane gas would have the potential to rise up through the ocean and into the atmosphere, where it would add to the greenhouse gases warming Earth.

The 2.5 gigatonnes isn't enough to trigger a sudden climate shift, but the team worries that other areas around the globe might be seeing a similar destabilization.?

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"It is unlikely that the western North Atlantic margin is the only area experiencing changing ocean currents," they noted. "Our estimate ... may therefore represent only a fraction of the methane hydrate currently destabilizing globally."

The wider destabilization evidence, co-author Ben Phrampus told NBC News, includes data from the Arctic and Alaska's northern slope in the Beaufort Sea.

And it's not just under the seafloor that methane has been locked up. Some Arctic land area are seeing permafrost thaw, which could release methane stored there as well.

An expert who was not part of the study said it suggests that methane could become a bigger climate factor than carbon dioxide.

"We may approach a turning point" from a warming driven by man-made carbon dioxide to a warming driven by methane, Jurgen Mienert, the geology department chair at Norway's University of Tromso, told NBC News.

"The interactions between the warming Arctic Ocean and the potentially huge methane-ice reservoirs beneath the Arctic?Ocean floor point towards?increasing instability," he added.

For thousands of years, permafrost has trapped Siberia's carbon-rich soil, a compost of Ice Age plant and animal remains. But global warming is melting the permafrost and exposing the soil, causing highly flammable methane to seep out. NBC's Jim Maceda reports.

He also noted, however, that "one of the big unknowns?is?the magnitude of rapid methane escape from the ocean floor, and how natural filter?systems react and affect the future ocean, its environment and the climate."

Relate: Thawing Arctic permafrost is releasing methane

Another unknown is what caused the Gulf Stream changes, said Phrampus, an earth sciences PhD candidate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

"Multiple events can play a factor, such as changing sea level or an addition of cold/fresh water from the north," Phrampus said, adding he was?hopeful that the changes might be "reversible under their own influence."

But, he added, "we need more data to resolve this, and we are currently investigating this process."

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Should All Authors Blog? | Rachelle Gardner

typewriterA few years ago, the standard wisdom was that authors, both fiction and non-fiction, should have blogs in order to gather an audience and build relationships with readers. Now, not so much.?As social media and online marketing have evolved, my thoughts on blogging have changed. I think each author needs to carefully consider whether blogging is an appropriate vehicle for them based on:

1. If they can do it well;

2. If they enjoy it; and

3. If their writing career can benefit from it.

If blogging doesn?t suit you, don?t spend too much time trying to make it work.

Why aren?t blogs the appropriate vehicle for all authors??

  • The proliferation of blogs in the last five years has made it increasingly difficult to stand out in the crowd.
  • Many authors are blogging faithfully but it doesn?t seem to be increasing readership of their books.?
  • Many authors seem to be blogging to an audience that?s mainly other writers.
  • Many authors have a hard time figuring out what their blogs should be about (mostly fiction authors).

So, how do you decide if you should have a blog? Here are my thoughts:

Have a blog if:

1. You have something important to say and it seems people want to hear it.

2. You understand that blogging is about offering something of value, NOT about promoting yourself and your books.

3. You enjoy blogging (for the most part, anyway).

4. You find blogging contributes to your creativity and enthusiasm for writing your books, rather than sucking all the energy out of you.

5. You can find the time for blogging without it completely stressing you out.

6. Your books have a highly defined target audience, making it easy to target your blog.

7. Your books are topical (especially non-fiction), so that you have a clear and obvious theme for your blog.

Don?t have a blog if:

1. You keep asking yourself and others, ?But what should I blog about??

2. You only want to blog to promote your books and/or because you think you ?have to.?

3. The whole idea stresses you out.

4. You honestly don?t have the time in your schedule to blog regularly.

5. You?ve been blogging for a year or more, and haven?t built up to a traffic level that seems worth it.

Nowadays there are numerous alternatives to blogging when it comes to online networking and promotion.

For example:

  • email newsletters
  • using Facebook effectively
  • leveraging all the various ways Goodreads offers for promoting books
  • learning how to attract a readership through Pinterest
  • having an effective LinkedIn profile page
  • connecting with readers on Google+

(See author Jody Hedlund?s post last week on this same topic.)

Do you think authors need blogs nowadays? Do YOU blog? If so, how?s it going? If not, why not?

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? 2012 Rachelle Gardner, Literary Agent

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Monday, October 22, 2012

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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Anderson Silva, ?Big Nog? and Glover Teixeira dominate at UFC 153

To the surprise of few, UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva easily disposed of light heavyweight Stephan Bonnar in the first round of the main event at UFC 153 in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night.

After standing at the fence to dodge Bonnar's punches early in the round, Silva pounced. He landed a knee to Bonnar's chest, then followed up with ground and pound until the fight was stopped in the first round.

"I'm not the best. I just do things that people think are impossible," Silva said after the fight. "I'm going to fight at 205 again. I fought at 205 to save the event."

Silva and Bonnar took this fight on short notice after UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo was injured and had to pull out of UFC 153. Silva moved up in weight, which meant questions about his intentions to fight at a bigger weight class.

Earlier in the night, Dave Herman said in his pre-fight video that jiu-jitsu doesn't work. He may want to rethink that stance after being submitted by Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in the second round.

In the second round, Nogueira grappled to get Herman close to a submission, but Herman defended each hold. But late in the round, Nogueira used beautiful jiu-jitsu to maneuver Herman into an armbar that he couldn't get out of. Herman tapped at 4:31 of the second round, giving Nogueira the win.

"I feel so happy, because this man said jiu-jitsu doesn't work. But jiu-jitsu does work. Jiu-jitsu is Brazilian. Jiu-jitsu is an art," Nogueira said.

This was Nogueira's first fight since his arm was broken by Frank Mir at UFC 140. He had surgery and intense physical therapy to rehabilitate his arm, giving him a chance to win in front of a home crowd in Rio de Janeiro.

As expected, Glover Teixeira dominated Fabio Maldonado on the way to an early stoppage win. But what wasn't expected was how Maldonado stood in for 10 minutes of straight punishment.

Teixeira knocked Maldonado down early in the first round, and proceeded to ground and pound him in a full mount for most of the round. With his face badly swollen and bruised, Maldonado managed to work his way back to his feet. Though wobbly, he did managed to punch Teixeira with a big enough punch to send him reeling, but it was the last show of offense from Maldonado.

Teixeira dominated the second round in the same way. Maldonado's face was bruised and bleeding. The doctor checked the cut halfway through the round and let the fight continue. He checked again at the end of the second, and mercifully stopped the fight.

"He is not human! I told [trainer] John Hackleman in the locker room that I was going to knock this guy out. This guy got knocked down, and he held on. He is not human," Teixeira said.

Jon Fitch showed he was anything but boring in a decision win that stopped hot prospect Erick Silva. The judges saw it 30-27, 29-28, 29-28 for Fitch.

Fitch used grappling to control Silva in the first round, but things got interesting in the second. Silva took Fitch's back and sunk in a rear naked choke. It was the kind of choke that would stop most fighters, but Fitch survived. When Fitch maneuvered out of the choke, he took top position, waylaid Silva with strikes, then worked his grappling game.

In the last 30 seconds of the second round, Fitch took Silva's back then transitioned to an armbar. Though Silva got out, the round clearly took its toll on Silva, the much younger fighter. The third round featured Fitch taking advantage of a clearly tired Silva. It was Fitch's ground and pound at its best. He landed 108 ground strikes throughout the bout.

"I didn't have a choice. I would have beaten anyone tonight. Any weight class. I needed a win. My family needed a win," Fitch said after the bout.

Their first fight ended quickly with a no contest after an unintentional eye poke stopped Wagner Prado. This time, it was all Phil Davis, as he outgrappled Prado for two rounds. Davis used his high-level wrestling skills to control Prado and stymie any shot at striking that the young fighter may have. In the second round, Davis was close to getting an arm triangle when he transitioned to an anaconda choke. Prado tapped at 4:29.

"Normally I'm the young lion coming in, but it's a different feeling getting in the gym, knowing someone like Wagner Prado is coming to knock your block off," Davis said after the fight.

Demian Maia started off the pay-per-view with a submission that showed his world-class submission skills. Maia had Rick Story in a a rear-naked choke in the first round, but had trouble getting his elbow underneath Story's chin. He then switch to crank Story's neck. Though Story tried to hold out, blood trickled out of his nose and he tapped at 2:30 in the first round.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/anderson-silva-bigg-nog-glover-teixeira-dominate-ufc-043457097--mma.html

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Legendary pilot re-enacts historic sound barrier flight

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AP) ? Sixty-five years after becoming the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound, retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager is still making noise.

The 89-year-old Yeager, who was featured in the movie "The Right Stuff," flew in the back seat Sunday of an F-15 Eagle as it broke the sound barrier at more than 30,000 feet above California's Mojave Desert ? the same area where he first achieved the feat in 1947 while flying an experimental rocket plane.

The F-15 carrying Yeager took off from Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas and broke the sound barrier at 10:24 a.m. Sunday, exactly 65 years to the minute the then-Air Force test pilot made history.

It also happened on the same day that daredevil skydiver Felix Baumgartner shattered the sound barrier after making the highest jump ever from a balloon 128,100 feet above the Earth.

Baumgartner hit Mach 1.24, or 833.9 mph, according to preliminary data, and became the first man to reach supersonic speed without traveling in a jet or a spacecraft. He landed safely in the New Mexico desert after a descent of just more than nine minutes.

Yeager told reporters after his flight that he was unaware of the skydiver's feat.

Asked by a young girl if he was scared during Sunday's flight, Yeager joked, "Yeah, I was scared to death." But the legendary pilot said he continues to fly all the time and it was just another flight to him.

Yeager flew the F-15 as it took off and landed, said Airman Timothy Young, a Nellis spokesman. The plane was piloted by Capt. David Vincent of the 65th Aggressor Squadron at Nellis.

"It was a great honor to have him fly out of Nellis," Young said. "We pride ourselves on training fighter pilots and to have someone of his caliber here is such an honor."

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Amazon says Kindle users are entitled to e-book refunds

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Owners of Amazon.com's Kindle e-readers will receive refunds on past e-book purchases and see e-book prices drop if a judge approves legal settlements with publishers accused of fixing prices, according to the Internet retailer.

Amazon told Kindle owners in emails on Saturday that they could receive a refund of between 30 cents and $1.32 for e-books they bought between April 2010 and May 2012. The books must have been published by three publishers who have agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused them of inflating e-book prices.

The settlements are subject to court approval, and a hearing is scheduled for February.

If approved, the settlements would also limit the publishers' ability to set future e-book prices, which should lead to lower costs for Kindle users, according to Amazon.

"We think these settlements are a big win for customers and look forward to lowering prices on more Kindle books in the future," Amazon told customers in the emails.

Amazon did not immediately respond to questions on Saturday about how many customers could be affected.

The settlements came about after the Justice Department in April accused Apple Inc and five publishers of illegally colluding on prices as part of an effort to fight Amazon's dominance of e-books.

Three of the publishers - News Corp's HarperCollins Publishers Inc, CBS Corp's Simon & Schuster Inc and Lagardere SCA's Hachette Book Group - decided to settle.

Amazon was not a party to this lawsuit.

The three publishers have denied they did anything wrong, but agreed to settle the lawsuit to avoid the cost and risk of a trial, according to the settlement website, ebooksagsettlements.com.

If the court approves the settlements, the publishers will pay for e-book refunds that will be applied automatically to the Amazon.com accounts of eligible customers. Customers can use the refunds to purchase Kindle books or print books or request a check for the amount of the refund.

Electronic books more than doubled in popularity in 2011, with e-book sales making up 15 percent of the market last year, up from 6 percent in 2010, according the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group.

While e-books increased in sales power, bringing in more than $2 billion in 2011, the majority of publishers' revenue still came from printed books, at $11.1 billion in 2011.

(Reporting By Tom Polansek; editing by Todd Eastham)

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Saturday, October 13, 2012

than 33000 Pets Saved in First Two Months of 2012 ... - Life With Cats

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Shelters compete to save more lives, earn more than $500000 in prize grants. The real winners are the animals, and 33000 of them have won so far.

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Mars rover Curiosity preparing for second scoop

ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2012) ? On Sol 65 (Oct. 11, 2012) of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed several activities in preparation for collecting its second scoop of soil. Like the first scoop, the next will come from a ripple of sand and dust at "Rocknest," and will be used for cleaning interior surfaces of the sample-handling chambers on the arm.

The Collection and Handling for In-Situ Martian Rock Analysis (CHIMRA) tool on the end of arm shook out remnants of the first scoopful and posed for camera inspection to verify it was emptied. The Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) moved close some loose material on the ground to get a good look. Seeing more detail in the object will help engineers finish assessing whether this loose material from the spacecraft poses any concern for future operations.

A raw image from that MAHLI activity is at http://1.usa.gov/Qgs5ha .

Sol 65, in Mars local mean solar time at Gale Crater, will end at 2:22 a.m. Oct. 12, PDT (5:22 a.m., EDT).

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SRK to be a trademark | NG

SRK to be a trademark

The actor has sent an application to the Trade Mark Registry that his often-used initials not be used without his permission

Mehul S Thakkar
Posted On Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 02:25:09 AM

Shah Rukh Khan is a brand by himself. And very soon his often-used initials ? SRK may become a very valuable property.

Mirror found out that the actor has recently applied for a trademark on his name SRK at the Delhi office of the Trade Mark Registry.

However, he has not received a final confirmation on it yet. According to the rules, once his trademark SRK is published in the Indian Trademark Journal, anybody who has an objection can file a notice within three months.

Interestingly, Sachin Tendulkar had applied for the same, to trademark his name SRT, earlier this year. In fact, we had told you how when Vidhu Vinod Chopra needed to use the cricketer?s name in his film Ferrarri Ki Sawaari, he had to seek Sachin?s permission.

In the West, getting a trademark on one?s name isn?t uncommon. In fact, Roger Federer, Michael Gordon and Jennifer Lopez are among some of the names that have been trademarked in the past.

And now, SRK is ready to add his name to the list. A source close to the actor told Mirror, ?SRK has become bigger with every project. He has taken this decision after a lot of thought.

Career wise, it is a great decision to safeguard his brand.?

Interestingly, the application submitted by the actor to the Trade Mark Registry (of which, Mirror has a copy) bars several industries from using his name. For example, tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, water and even other non-alcoholic drinks can?t use the actor?s name.

The same goes for fresh fruits, vegetables, salt, mustard so on and so forth.

What is a Trademark?

? A ?trademark? is that symbol you will use to do so. Registering a trademark is a legal process provided for under the Trade Marks Act, 1999

? Types of trademarks available

? Names, including your own name or surname.

? An invented word or any arbitrary dictionary word or words. It does not need to be descriptive of the character or quality of the goods/service.

? Letters or numerals or any combination.

? Symbols

? Monograms

? Combination of colours or even a single colour in combination with a word or device.

? Shape of goods or their packaging.

? Marks constituting a 3-dimensional sign.

? Sound marks when represented in conventional notation or described in words by being graphically represented.

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Origin Closes EUR 500 Million Notes (Australia)>> LNG World News

Origin Closes EUR 500 Million Notes

Origin Energy announced the successful completion of the ?500 million (approximately US$646 million) seven year medium term notes (Notes) issue under its Euro Medium Term Note Program, which was announced on 3 October 2012.

The Notes will be issued by Origin Energy Finance Limited (a subsidiary of Origin).

Origin Executive Director, Finance and Strategy, Ms Karen Moses said, ?Origin continues to focus on managing the maturity of its existing debt facilities, and the proceeds from the issue of Notes will be applied to the refinancing of existing debt and used to fund Origin?s cash contribution to Australia Pacific LNG.?


LNG World News Staff, October 12, 2012

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Wall Street posts worst week since June, banks weigh

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Friday, October 12, 2012

Dragon capsule reaches space station, chocolate ripple ice cream intact

SpaceX's Dragon capsule delivered cargo including a little ice cream to the International Space Station Wednesday, confirming that a new era for NASA has finally been realized.

By Pete Spotts,?Staff writer / October 10, 2012

This image from NASA-TV shows the capture of the Dragon capsule by a robot arm on the International Space Station early Wednesday. It's the first official delivery by the California-based SpaceX company under a $1.6 billion contract with NASA. The contract calls for 12 such shipments.

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The International Space Station welcomed its first commercial resupply mission Wednesday with the arrival of Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon capsule.

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Dragon is laden with scientific gear, replacement parts for the space station, and a welcome shipment of chocolate ripple ice cream stashed in an otherwise empty lab freezer the capsule carried up.

The capsule, which launched Sunday night atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, reached the orbiting outpost about 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Using the station's robotic arm, Akihiki Hoshide, a station flight engineer, snagged Dragon at 7:56 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. A little over an hour later, Dragon was safely docked with the station.

"Looks like we've tamed the dragon," said station commander Sunita Williams when the arm initially captured the capsule.

"We're happy she's on board with us," she said, adding a special shout-out for the ice cream.

The mission marks an important milestone for NASA along a path first set out under the Bush administration and confirmed by President Obama. After the space shuttle Columbia disaster in February 2003, NASA has pivoted to focus on sending humans beyond low-Earth orbit, while it has steered the job of ferrying supplies and astronauts to the space station to private companies.

The effort to carry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit took a step forward in August, when NASA announced agreements worth a combined $1.1 billion to help SpaceX, Boeing, and Sierra Nevada Corporation develop such capabilities. But Dragon's arrival at the space station Wednesday ? the first flight under a 12-flight, $1.6-billion contract ? shows that the goal of bringing commercial carriers into the station resupply business is now being realized.

SpaceX is one of two US companies with resupply contracts. The second, Orbital Sciences Corp., is slated to test-fly its Antares booster by year's end and loft its first demonstration flight early next year.

Thursday, the station crew is schedule to open Dragon's hatch and inspect the craft's interior before unloading the cargo. Dragon will remain docked at the station until Oct. 28, when it's slated to return 1,673 pounds of hardware and experiment samples to Earth. Dragon's ability to return cargo from the space station to Earth is a unique capability among all the craft currently serving the station. Dragon will parachute to an ocean splashdown off the southern California coast, where it will be plucked out of the water and returned to an unloading facility at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, Calif.

Although a key stage of Dragon's first commercial mission has been completed, the launch Sunday evening saw one of the nine engines powering the Falcon 9's first stage shut down 79 seconds after launch.

The first-stage propulsion system is designed to withstand the loss of two engines before the delivery of its primary payload is jeopardized, the company notes. Once on-board computers detected the failure, they quickly readjusted the rocket's path to keep it on course to intercept the space station.

The course correction, however, came at the expense of a second payload the Falcon 9 was carrying -- a prototype communications satellite for ORBCOMM Inc. and built by Sierra Nevada. Although the satellite is on orbit, it's hurtling around Earth at a much lower altitude than planned.

It's common for commercial launch companies to piggyback several payloads on one rocket. This was to be the first demonstration that a commercial satellite and a government station-resupply payload could share the same ride. Even with the failure of one engine on the first stage, the second stage carrying both payloads could have delivered the satellite to its proper orbit as well. But the satellite was deposited short of its goal to avoid either the second stage or the satellite coming too close to the space station as they headed higher.

SpaceX engineers are still trying to uncover the cause of the engine failure. ?

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/science/~3/no2gZgIYGdY/Dragon-capsule-reaches-space-station-chocolate-ripple-ice-cream-intact

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Android and iOS to get Microsoft Office 2013 apps in March

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Friend describes deadly beauty surgery at Pa. inn

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? A Philadelphia woman known as "the Black Madam" performed deadly cosmetic surgery on a London dancer in an airport hotel room, then used glue to close the wounds and fled when the client went into respiratory distress, witnesses testified Wednesday.

A judge upheld a third-degree murder charge against Padge Gordon after the woman's friend testified about getting silicone injections to enlarge their buttocks in February 2011.

Theresa Gyamfi testified that Gordon gave them the injections in their room at the Hampton Inn and left when 20-year-old Claudia Aderotimi started having trouble breathing. The Londoners had no contact information for the woman they'd met through an intermediary online and knew only as "Lillian."

Gyamfi, 22, said they had had the same procedure done by Gordon at the hotel months earlier and had no problems. They then came back for a "touch-up." But Aderotimi had trouble breathing almost immediately after the second procedure, Gyamfi said. Aderotimi died at a hospital hours later.

Gordon, who remains in jail on $750,000 bond, looked down at the defense table when Gyamfi described learning of her friend's death and viewing the body at the hospital.

Delaware County Medical Examiner Frederic Hellman testified that the industrial-grade silicone went into the woman's blood, liver, lungs and brain. He said Aderotimi died of a pulmonary embolism.

Defense lawyer Christopher Mannix said he plans to challenge those medical conclusions at trial, along with allegations his client performed the injections. The 42-year-old Gordon, also known as Padge Windslowe, is also charged with practicing medicine without a license.

Police believe Gordon has performed at least 14 cosmetic surgeries, moving locations and using different names to avoid detection. They investigated Aderotimi's death, with help from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, before filing the murder charges.

In the interim, Gordon was charged with aggravated assault for allegedly injuring an exotic dancer at a New Year's Eve 2011 "pumping party" in Philadelphia, when she allegedly injected a group of dancers on a dining room table. The dancer spent two weeks in the hospital with respiratory problems, after silicone particles attached to her lungs were too small to remove surgically, her doctor has said.

In court Wednesday, Gyamfi explained why she and her childhood friend traveled to the U.S. "We basically came here to get injections to enhance our figures," she said.

They also were celebrating Aderotimi's upcoming birthday on the second trip. They paid Gordon about $2,000 each on the first trip and $1,800 on the second trip for the injections.

Gordon arrived at the hotel room on Feb. 7, 2011, took needles from a bag and silicone from a jug to enlarge the women's buttocks, and then closed the wounds with cotton balls and glue, Gyamfi testified. Gordon left the hotel after Aderotimi became ill ? and told them to call an ambulance if she didn't get better, Gyamfi said.

Gyamfi said she and her friend thought Gordon was a nurse. But Mannix questioned whether they really thought they were signing up for a legal procedure.

Third-degree murder carries a potential 20- to 40-year sentence.

"She took a product meant for industry and food grain and she injected it into a young woman who was otherwise healthy, at age 20 ... who then died," Assistant District Attorney Bridget Kirn said. "That is ... clear, clear evidence of malice, and disregard of the known and unknown risks she caused to other unknown women."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/friend-describes-deadly-beauty-surgery-pa-inn-204143900.html

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Tencent number 1 on list of China's top 100 tech companies ...

tencent-penguins.jpg TechWeb, in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Bureau, has issued a white paper on the top 100 internet and telecommunications businesses as ordered by revenue. The Chinese tech industry posted a huge profit of 11.8 billion RMB in 2011.

Top 10 via Tech in Asia:

  1. Tencent (HKG:0700) makes China?s biggest social network and is also top in social gaming. Plus, it makes WeChat, the world?s biggest messaging app. Oh, and it does e-commerce. And lots more.
  2. Netease (NASDAQ:NTES) must?ve had a good year to make it so high up the list - but then this list is about revenues, not a company?s market cap. Netease is primarily a web portal, but it also does online gaming (it runs World of Warcraft in the country), and also the Evernote-esque, Youdao Yunbiji service.
  3. Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) is the nation?s top search engine by a big margin, and also has a major ad platform and some social services too.
  4. Sohu (NASDAQ:SOHU) is another web portal, and is pushing its streaming video site pretty hard these days. It also runs the Sogou search engine which is sneaking up on Google?s market share.
  5. Shanda (NASDAQ:SNDA; FRA:RZP) here means Shanda Interactive, which makes the Kindle-like Bambook e-reader, and has lots of web services like an e-bookstore, cloud storage, and more. Its gaming subsidiary is separate.
  6. Alibaba is China?s biggest e-commerce company in every sector, running Tmall, Taobao, and Alibaba.com.
  7. Perfect World (NASDAQ:PWRD) is China?s fourth-biggest social gaming platform.
  8. Giant Interactive (NYSE:GA) is a tad smaller than perfect World in terms of gaming revenue, coming in sixth in that respect in the country. It runs games like Allods Online in the country.
  9. Besttone (SHA:600640) is a telecoms firm, and the only one in the top 10 that we?ve never looked at before.
  10. Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) is talked about a lot these days - and on this site - as it runs Sina Weibo, China?s hippest Twitter-like service. But Weibo is proving costly to run and hard to monetize - hence having China?s hottest social media site doesn?t equate to stellar revenue.

Baidu representatives will be happy to see their company so high on the list, after criticism by ratings agencies caused Baidu shares to drop sharply on the NASDAQ exchange.

Source: http://shanghaiist.com/2012/10/10/tencent_number_1_on_list_of_chinas.php

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