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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Samsung Galaxy S4 Pre-Sales Start At AT&T On April 16, Priced At $249.99 On 2-Year Agreement
AT&T has just posted an update to its Consumer Blog revealing pre-order details of the Samsung Galaxy S4. The phone will be available for order beginning April 16, for $249.99 with a two-year commitment. Samsung had previously announced that the Galaxy S4 would be coming to the U.S. sometime in Q2 2013, and didn't reveal launch pricing at its event earlier in March.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/5G-Uu_Mx4Sw/
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Friday, March 29, 2013
CASIS wants to send your research project into space, give Engadget readers $100 off the application fee
We already told you about the CASIS and MassChallenge startup accelerator partnership aiming to find the next great research project to send into space, and give that project over $100,000 to help bring it to fruition. Now, Engadget wants to help make it easier for you, dear reader, to get your idea into orbit by offering the chance to trim $100 off the $199 application fee.
The process is simple: you click the source link below and fill out a short form outlining your idea and providing your contact info. Then, should CASIS like what it sees, it'll send out promo codes to ten of you to be used when submitting the full application on the MassChallenge website. Sound good? Well, hop to it folks, because CASIS is looking to deliver the promo codes by April 1st. Not that you should need much incentive to jump on the opportunity... we're talking about sending your pet project into space, after all.
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Facebook planning Android-related event on April 4th
It looks like Facebook's got an Android-related event up its sleeve next Thursday April 4th right here in the Bay Area. So, what's this about? A major revamp of Facebook's Android app? An Android-based Facebook phone like HTC's rumored Myst? Whatever it is, we'll obviously be there to liveblog the announcement in great detail, so be sure to tune in at 1PM ET (10AM PT). While focusing its recent efforts on features like Graph Search and News Feed, Facebook's been clear that mobile is a top priority for 2013. Let's just hope this event brings something more exciting to fruition than HTC's half-baked Status.
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Identity theft seminar teaches students safety
Stephen Svetz, investigator with the Arkansas Attorney General?s office, told students about his identity being stolen to help drive home his message of preventing identity theft.
Svetz spoke to a crowd March 12 in the College of Business Auditorium.
?About seven years ago, I used my credit card to reserve a hotel room with a guy over a telephone in Branson,? he said. ?A month after the trip, I get my credit card bill and this guy put a semester?s worth of tuition on my credit card.?
Svetz said the man who stole his identity was not hard to find because he used his own name to charge the card.
Svetz said identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in the United States and has been for the past 10 years.
He discussed the legal troubles Todd Davis, LifeLock chief executive officer, has caused.
Svetz said Davis claimed anyone who purchased LifeLock would never be a victim of identity theft.
Svetz said LifeLock has made a lot of money, but that it doesn?t protect consumers.
The Federal Trade Commission sued LifeLock after an investigation of the identity theft prevention company found false claims were used to promote protection services.
LifeLock agreed to pay $11 million to the FTC and $1 million to 35 state attorneys general. Svetz said the company is back in business with a new business plan that looks beyond the legal troubles.
He told the story of David Lynn Jones, songwriter for Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. Janis Rae Wallace worked for Jones and racked up $350,000 in credit card debt on his account.
Jones lost his home and was a victim of identity theft for seven years.
Svetz said this was the worst case of identity theft he has seen because Jones lost his driver?s license.
Another story Svetz told to illustrate the dangers of identity theft involved Little Rock resident Deldrick Withers.
Withers was pulled over for a broken license plate light during a family visit to Hampton, Ark.
Police ran his name and found that he had five arrest warrants for hot check violations.
Withers was placed in handcuffs and spent 29 days in jail because he lost his driver?s license.
Svetz ended the lecture with a story about a woman he referred to as Nancy.
He said Nancy was a retired military woman who became ill and hired a company employee to take care of her.
One caregiver lived with Nancy full-time and stole $450,000 from Nancy.
Svetz said the caregiver got Nancy?s house and kept it until dying of a drug overdose a few years ago.
Svetz said if Nancy dies before the trial is settled, the caregiver?s family will get the house.
Svetz shared advice on social security numbers.
He said to never put a social security number on a job application, and told the audience to get a new driver?s license number after losing the previous license.
He said to be wary of writing out children?s social security numbers when signing them up for sports, dance classes or other activities.
Svetz said social security cards are the most dangerous pieces of paper in the country, with checks being a close second.
Svetz said to be wary of email accounts because they are vulnerable to hacking.
Mark McMurtrey, Management Information Systems associate professor, said he was glad to have Svetz speak to UCA students.
?Mr. Svetz always brings his real world experience concerning identity theft,? McMurtrey said. ?His anecdotes and real-life stories make the rest of us realize how harrowing identity theft must be.?
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Syrian rebels asks US to shoot down Assad's warplanes with Patriot missiles
Mohamed Al-husain / Shaam News Network / Reuters
A look back at the conflict that has overtaken the country.
By Ayman Mohyeldin and F. Brinley Bruton, NBC News
A Syrian opposition leader said Tuesday that he had asked the United States to defend rebel-held areas with Patriot missiles.?
NATO already has Patriot surface-to-air missile batteries in NATO-member Turkey to help defend the country from potential airstrikes by?President Bashar Assad's regime.
Syrian opposition leader Mouaz al-Khatib -- who appeared Tuesday as the representative of Syria at an Arab League summit meeting following the Assad regime's suspension -- said that he had asked Secretary of State John Kerry "to extend the umbrella of the Patriot missiles to cover the Syrian north and he promised to study the subject," Reuters reported.
The insurgents have few weapons to counter Assad's helicopter gunships and warplanes. Al-Khatib added that the United States should play a bigger role in helping end the two-year-old conflict in Syria, blaming Assad's government for what he called its refusal to solve the crisis.?
Al-Khatib, who is considered a moderate preacher, appeared at the summit despite his?resignation as the head of the?Syrian National Coalition?on Sunday, when he slammed the lack of action by the international community.?An estimated 70,000 Syrians have been killed in the two-year conflict.
?We have been slaughtered under the watchful eyes of the world for two years, in an unprecedented manner by a vicious regime,? he said Sunday.
?Everything that happened to the Syrian people ? from destruction of infrastructure, arrest of tens of thousands of their children, displacement of tens of thousands, and other tragedies ? is not enough for the world to make an international decision to allow people to defend themselves," he added.
However, NATO said on Tuesday that it was not going to get involved in the conflict. "NATO has no intention to intervene militarily in Syria," a NATO official told Reuters.
The founder of the Free Syrian Army lost a leg in an explosion in Syria, according to Reuters. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Anti-Assad forces suffered a further blow Sunday night when the founder of the insurgent Free Syrian Army had his leg severed by an explosion in an apparent assassination attempt, opposition sources told Reuters. Colonel?Riad al-Asaad's?wounds were not life-threatening and he was moved from Syria to a hospital in Turkey, a Turkish official said.
The West and Arab nations? perceived inaction in the face of the slaughter and destruction infuriates many Syrian opposition members, who say they cannot topple Assad without military hardware like anti-tank mines and anti-aircraft missiles.
That hesitancy is especially galling for many in the opposition given that other countries are already involved in the war to an extent: Russia, Iran and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah support the regime more-or-less openly, while the United States, Europe and much of the Sunni Arab world are arrayed behind the rebels.
There are fears in the West that heavy weapons given to the rebels could fall into the hands of extremist groups fighting alongside them, such as Jabhat al-Nusra.
Despite of attempts to contain the crisis, the conflict is bleeding across its borders.
The civil war has already displaced an estimated 3 million Syrians, and sent more than a million fleeing into neighboring countries.
The conflict has also inflamed sectarian tensions in neighboring Lebanon, which suffered its own vicious civil war. Fears are growing that the violence will ignite simmering Sunni-Shiite tensions in Iraq.
On Monday, Jordan closed its main border crossing with Syria after two days of fighting there between Syrian troops and rebel fighters.
Rebels have also overrun several towns near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights,?fueling?tensions in the sensitive military zone.?
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
SpaceX Dragon cargo ship leaves space station
This image provided by NASA-TV shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft as it is backed away from the International Space Station early Tuesday March 26, 2013 by the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm. The Dragon is expected to splash down in the eastern Pacific ocean approximately 246 miles off the coast of Baja Calif., later this morning. (AP Photo/NASA)
This image provided by NASA-TV shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft as it is backed away from the International Space Station early Tuesday March 26, 2013 by the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm. The Dragon is expected to splash down in the eastern Pacific ocean approximately 246 miles off the coast of Baja Calif., later this morning. (AP Photo/NASA)
This image provided by NASA-TV shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft after it was detached from the International Space Station early Tuesday March 26, 2013 by the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm. The two spacecraft were traveling Canada at the time. The rising sun and the curvature of the earth can be seen behind the spacecraft. The Dragon is expected to splash down in the eastern Pacific ocean approximately 246 miles off the coast of Baja Calif., later this morning. (AP Photo/NASA)
This image provided by NASA-TV shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft as it is backed away from the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm early Tuesday March 26, 2013 on it's return to earth. The Dragon is expected to splash down in the eastern Pacific ocean approximately 246 miles off the coast of Baja Calif., later this morning. (AP Photo/NASA)
This image provided by NASA-TV shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft after it was detached from the International Space Station at 4:10 a.m. EDT Tuesday March 26, 2013 by the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm. The two spacecraft were traveling over the western edge of California at the time. The Dragon is expected to splash down in the eastern Pacific ocean approximatel 246 miles off the coast of Baja Calif. later this morning.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ? A privately owned cargo ship left the International Space Station with a full science load Tuesday and aimed for a splashdown in the Pacific.
Astronauts released the unmanned SpaceX capsule, named Dragon, from the end of the space station's giant robot arm. The parting occurred 250 miles over the South Pacific and was a poignant moment for the three space station residents, who had helped to snare the Dragon three weeks earlier.
"Sad to see the Dragon go," astronaut Thomas Marshburn told Mission Control. "Performed her job beautifully. Heading back to her lair. Wish her all the best for the splashdown today."
The Dragon was due to splash down off the Baja California coast 5? hours after its space station departure. It will be transported by ship to Los Angeles and then by truck to the SpaceX company's plant in McGregor, Texas.
Within hours, NASA will retrieve the science samples meticulously collected over the weeks and months by space station astronauts, as well as experiments that flew up with Dragon, such as flowering weeds and mouse stem cells. Old space station equipment and other items will be removed by SpaceX in McGregor. In all, more than 1 ton of gear was loaded into the capsule.
Dragon's return to Earth was delayed one day by bad weather in the splashdown zone.
The California-based SpaceX company launched the Dragon from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at the beginning of March. Mechanical trouble caused a one-day postponement in Dragon's arrival at the space station. SpaceX flight controllers at company headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., managed to fix the problem within hours.
SpaceX ? Space Exploration Technologies Corp. ? is run by billionaire Elon Musk, who made his fortune as a co-creator of PayPal. He also owns the electric car maker Tesla Motors.
NASA is paying SpaceX to resupply the space station. This was the second flight of a Dragon to the orbiting outpost under the $1.6 billion contract, and the third delivery mission altogether for SpaceX. The next flight is slated for late fall.
A competitor, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., plans a test flight of its Antares rocket and a dummy payload next month. That launch will be conducted from Wallops Island, Va.
Russia, Japan and Europe also periodically send up supplies, but SpaceX has the only craft capable of returning goods. All the others burn up upon re-entry.
Three astronauts are aboard the space station right now. They will be joined by three more following Thursday's Soyuz launch from Kazakhstan.
With its space shuttles now museum pieces, NASA is paying Russia to launch U.S. astronauts until SpaceX or another American company comes up with spaceships than can safely fly crews. Musk anticipates that happening by 2015.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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Schulze returns to Best Buy as chairman emeritus
FILE - This Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2001 file photo shows Richard Schulze following a news conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Schulze, Best Buy's co-founder and former chairman, is returning to the Best Buy fold as chairman emeritus. The move comes after Schulze considered making a buyout bid for the electronics retailer but never made a formal offer. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chuck Stoody, File)
FILE - This Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2001 file photo shows Richard Schulze following a news conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Schulze, Best Buy's co-founder and former chairman, is returning to the Best Buy fold as chairman emeritus. The move comes after Schulze considered making a buyout bid for the electronics retailer but never made a formal offer. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chuck Stoody, File)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ? Best Buy's co-founder and former chairman Richard Schulze is returning to the Best Buy fold as chairman emeritus.
The move comes after Schulze considered making a buyout bid for the electronics retailer but never made a formal offer.
Best Buy has been working to turn around its results as it faces tough competition from online retailers and discounters. Since hiring turnaround expert Hubert Joly as its CEO in August, the company has cut jobs, invested in training employees and started matching online prices.
Schulze is also nominating two former Best Buy executives to the board: former CEO Brad Anderson and former Chief Operating Officer Al Lenzmeier to the board.
Schulze founded Best Buy in 1966 and is its largest shareholder, with a 20 percent stake in the company. He resigned as chairman last May and left the board in June after a company investigation found he knew about an inappropriate relationship then-CEO Brian Dunn had with a female staffer.
Now Schulze says he supports CEO Hubert Joly's plans to turn around the company. Financial results show that his changes seem to be beginning to help.
Earlier this month, the company reported that U.S. revenue in stores open at least 14 months rose 0.9 percent during the fourth quarter, the best performance in 11 quarters. The metric is a key measure of a retailer's health, because it excludes revenue from stores that recently opened or closed.
The move likely shows that when Schulze was preparing a possible bid for the company, he studied Joly's turnaround plan and got more comfortable with it, said Morningstar analyst R.J. Hottovy. In addition, naming two former executives to the board will likely give Joly some more insight about decisions made in the past, Hottovy added. But he said adding more former executives to the company does not detract from Joly's plan.
"Joly is still in the driver seat here," he said.
Best Buy shares rose 38 cents, or 1.7 percent, to $23.16 in morning trading. Its shares have more than doubled since hitting a 52-week low of $11.20 in late December. They traded as high as $27.95 late last March.
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Make A Successful Marketing Plan With These Tips - We Want CSG
Internet marketing can be an extremely lucrative occupation if done correctly. Keep in mind though, you will need to make a good investment of your time if you want to be successful. Using time wisely is extremely important. Don?t start an Internet promotion business without reading these time-management tips.
Make sure you utilize social media. Set up a fan page on Facebook so that your customers can leave feedback, get news, and connect with each other. This can dramatically increase your online visibility. You can easily chat informally with all your customers using your Twitter account.
TIP! Make sure any tags on your web site are directly associated with its core content. The title of your website can determine how your customers perceive your business?s website.
Add the words ?simple? and ?easy? to your online marketing lexicon. These words will put your customers at ease, as most people do not enjoy products that are difficult to use or put together. That is a simple way to boost business.
If you issue a news release, it might drum up some internet business. If you have a knack for writing clear, concise information, it is easy to get that information published on the web. The materials will then be released to a carefully selected audience. This is a very easy method to boost your business profile.
To get the most from your Online marketing efforts, be sure you always provide original content rather than just copying what others have written. Advanced and improved algorithms used by search engines are able to detect duplicate articles and can penalize you in the long run. You need to know how to innovate.
TIP! Post customer commentary about your products on your website. People like to research what other consumers are saying about a product they are thinking of purchasing.
Offer to give a certain percentage of your business profits to charity to increase the amount of visitors. You need to make a point to note this on your site so your customers feel they are contributing. You do not have to give up a big chunk of your profits to make a difference and to improve your marketing benefits.
It?s just a fact of psychology that most people respect positions of authority. You can make use of that fact in your marketing. Don?t be afraid to let it be known that you are indeed the head honcho. Go with describing your position as the President or the CEO.
You do not have to spend all of your time with Web marketing. Strategize your approach, use your time efficiently and you will see success!
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MTV's VMAs taking a road trip to Brooklyn in 2013
FILE - This Sept. 6, 2012 file photo shows video of the year winner Rihanna arriving at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards will be held at the Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, file)
FILE - This Sept. 6, 2012 file photo shows video of the year winner Rihanna arriving at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards will be held at the Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, file)
NEW YORK (AP) ? The Video Music Awards are taking a road trip to Brooklyn.
MTV's showcase awards show is traditionally held in Los Angeles or Manhattan.
This year the show will be held Aug. 25 at the new Barclays Center, home of the New York Nets and the recent Rolling Stones and 12-12-12 concerts.
MTV will celebrate 30 years of the VMAs this year. From Kanye West and Taylor Swift to the Madonna-Britney Spears-Christina Aguilera kiss, the show has become known more for its pop culture moments than the winners of its signature moonman trophies.
The VMAs were last held in New York in 2009 and have been in LA since.
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Former rebels besiege Libyan premier's office
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? About 200 former rebel fighters in Libya have besieged the prime minister's office, demanding that he resign.
The militia members, who did not threaten violence, want Prime Minister Ali Zidan to step down in accordance with a political isolation law banning members of the former regime from political life.
He served as an ambassador under Moammar Gadhafi, who was ousted in an eight-month civil war.
The law is controversial because it bans anyone who worked with Gadhafi from 1969 until he was killed in 2011.
The prime minister's convoy was seen moving around the capital, Tripoli, last week with more security guards than usual ? after an influx of militias from around the country.
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Leading experts disagree on evidence behind prostate cancer screening recommendations
Mar. 25, 2013 ? Do the results of recent randomized trials justify the recent U.S. recommendation against yearly measurement of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) as a screening test for prostate cancer? That's the topic of debate in a special "point/counterpoint" section in the April issue of Medical Care.
The recommendation against routine PSA measurement relies too heavily on randomized trial data, according to an article by Ruth Etzioni, PhD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, and colleagues. They argue that modeling studies provide a truer picture of the long-term benefits of PSA screening. But Dr Joy Melnikow of University of California, Davis, and colleagues disagree, asserting that randomized trials provide a sufficient level of certainty to recommend against PSA screening.
Point: Short-Term Trials Don't Reflect Long-Term Risk Last year, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended against routine PSA measurement to screen for prostate cancer. The recommendation was mainly based on two recent studies -- one conducted in Europe and one in the United States -- in which men were randomly assigned to annual PSA screening or no screening. Both studies concluded that annual screening did not reduce the risk of death from prostate cancer.
But randomized trials have important limitations as a basis for screening policies, according to Dr Etzioni and colleagues. They note that screening trials generally provide short-term results, in contrast to the long-term results generated by population-wide screening programs. They argue that taking the randomized trial data at face value "misrepresents the likely long-term population impact of PSA screening (relative to no screening) in the United States."
Dr Etzioni and coauthors discuss the results of modeling studies that give a different picture of the benefits of PSA screening. Based on those models, screening may explain 45 percent of recent declines in U.S. deaths from prostate cancer, while changes in treatment account for 33 percent. When the randomized trial data are extrapolated to the U.S. population over the long term, the absolute reduction in deaths attributed to screening appears at least five times greater than in the original trial reports.
Modeling studies also suggest a lower rate of overdiagnosis -- screening detection of slow-growing prostate cancers that otherwise would have caused no harm -- than reported in the trials. Dr Etzioni and colleagues conclude, "With a disease whose hallmark is a lengthy natural history, the harms of developing cancer screening policies based primarily on limited-duration screening trials may well outweigh the benefits."
Counterpoint: Trials Are Best Evidence on Screening Effects But in their "Counterpoint" essay, by Dr Melnikow and colleagues notes that the U.S. and European trials provided 11 to 13 years' follow-up in more than 250,000 individuals. They also point out that the U.S. trial was highly representative of the population and showed no reduction in death resulting from annual PSA testing. (Dr Melnikow and colleagues were members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force when the recommendation was made.)
They add that, because of "competing causes of death," it becomes even less likely that a large reduction in deaths from prostate cancer will appear over long-term follow-up. The chances of overdiagnosis and potential harms from screening are also likely to increase with continued aging. Dr Melnikow and coauthors conclude, "Projections from models are subject to mistaken assumptions and investigator biases, and should not be accorded the same weight as evidence from randomized controlled trials."
In an editorial response, Dr Etzioni's group points out that modeling plays an essential role in addressing questions about the harms and benefits of screening. "While we acknowledge the centrality of screening trials in the policy process," they write, "we maintain that modeling constitutes a powerful tool for screening trial interpretation and screening policy development."
The debate is "no mere academic exercise," according to an editorial by Ronnie D. Horner, PhD, of University of Cincinnati Medical Center. With the increased emphasis on disease prevention under health care reform, it is essential to offer those services most likely to represent value -- including cancer screenings. While there's no easy answer, Dr Horner writes, "I am hopeful that this Point-Counterpoint exchange will initiate a discussion among healthcare scientists that will yield greater guidance for determining whether a health care service is, indeed, value health care."
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Iran denies link to group arrested in Saudi Arabia
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign ministry said the country was not linked to a group of alleged spies arrested in Saudi Arabia, Iranian media reported on Sunday.
Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday that it had detained an Iranian, a Lebanese, and 16 Saudis for spying. Political analysts and press in Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia have accused Shi'ite Iran of being behind the alleged espionage.
The two countries are locked in a struggle for influence across the region, backing opposing sides in Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Gulf Arab foreign ministers, meeting in Riyadh last month, issued a statement condemning what they said was Iranian "meddling" in their countries - an accusation Tehran rejects.
Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, denied that an Iranian national was involved in the alleged spy ring and called the allegations a "repetitive scenario", according to Iran's English-language Press TV on Sunday.
"Raising such baseless issues at the media level is merely for domestic consumption," he said, according to Press TV.
Leaders of Saudi Arabia's Shi'ite minority have also criticized the arrests of 16 members of their community, which they said sought to exploit sectarian tension.
The Saudi government has previously blamed unrest among Shi'ites in the Qatif district of oil-producing Eastern Province on an unnamed foreign power, which officials privately acknowledge means Iran - a charge local Shi'ite activists have denied. Sixteen people have been killed in Qatif in clashes with police in the past two years.
Riyadh also accuses Tehran of having masterminded an alleged plot to assassinate its ambassador in Washington that was announced by U.S. police in late 2011. Iran denies this.
Kuwait said in 2010 it had uncovered an Iranian spy ring, Yemen said last year it had arrested Iranian spies and that Tehran was backing rebels in the north, and Bahrain has accused Iran of plotting attacks on its territory. Tehran has denied all these charges.
(Reporting By Yeganeh Torbati; Additional reporting by Angus McDowall in Riyadh; Editing by Pravin Char)
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Homeowner Susie Salazar Loses Insurance Policy Over Pit Bull ...
If you're shopping around for homeowners insurance, you'll probably want to make sure that it covers things like flooding, wintertime slip-and-fall injuries on your property, even sinkhole damage. You probably aren't thinking about whether it will cover the family dog. And you certainly wouldn't guess that the kind of dog you have could cause your policy to be rescinded.
But that's exactly what Susie Salazar's pit bull, Gauge, ended up costing her. Salazar, who lives in Greeley, Colo., had an employee from American Family Insurance come by her home to check out a plumbing claim that she had. The employee met Gauge and asked Salazar what breed he was. A couple of weeks later, an AFI rep called Salazar to tell her that the company was dropping her policy, KUSA-TV in Denver reported.
"We were informed that you have a pit bull in your home, and we have to drop your coverage," Salazar recalled being told by the AFI rep. "I'm mad, I'm upset," Salazar continued. "They don't even know my dog. They don't know what kind of dog he is. He's just full of joy and love. He's just a happy, happy dog." She said that AFI had insured her for 17 years, and she didn't sign any paperwork that mentioned anything about pit bulls. She's had Gauge for four years.
"These are tough situations," AFI spokesman Steve Witmer told KUSA. "Many years ago, we made a decision that there were certain breeds of dogs that we would no longer insure, and pit bulls are one of those breeds." Witmer explained that the costs of dog-bite claims were too high for the company to continue to cover.
According to the Insurance Information Institute, dog bites made up more than a third of homeowners insurance liability claims in 2011 and cost insurance companies a total of $478.9 million. That was up 16.1 percent from 2010 and 47.7 percent from 2003. The average cost per claim in 2011, the Institute said, was $29,396. Sixty-two percent of U.S. households -- or 72.9 million -- own a pet, according to the American Pet Products Association. Of those, 46.3 million own a dog.
Salazar said her pit bull is like family and should not be a reason to have her homeowners insurance policy denied. "You treat them the same way you treat your kids," she said. There are other insurance companies who do cover pit bulls, but the premiums may spike to cover a dog, according to Bankrate.com.
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
BlackBerry CEO says Samsung?s smartphone security will never be ?top-notch? [updated]
DEAR ABBY: My 25-year-old son, "Mark," lives at home, has a full-time job and dates a girl, "Julia," who is a minister's daughter. He keeps bringing her to our home on occasions when she's "sick" or needs to catch an early flight and he needs to drive her to the airport. They are seeing only each other.Julia is in pre-med and Mark thinks she's wonderful and smart. Abby, when she's here, she holes up in his room and never comes out. She's as quiet as a mouse. I am boisterous, and I get the feeling I turn her off. ...
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Movie review - The Salt Lake Tribune
Teen girl Lore (Saskia Rosendahl, center) guides her siblings (Nele Trebs, Mika Seidel, Andr? Frid, from left) across wartorn Germany, with the help of a Jewish survivior, Thomas (Kai Malina, background), in the drama "Lore."
Movie review: Teen confronts Nazi lies in tough-minded ?Lore?
By Sean P. Means
| The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published 6 hours ago ? Updated 6 hours agoAustralian director Cate Shortland?s absorbing German drama "Lore" probes the waning days of World War II from a seldom-seen angle: the families of Nazis who believed Hitler?s lies.
Teenage Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) is the oldest of five siblings who must go it alone across Germany when their Nazi officer father (Hans-Jochen Wagner) disappears and their mother (Ursina Lardi) faces arrest. Lore must beg for food on the road as she learns about Hitler?s death, the Allies? division of Germany ? and the reports of concentration camps where Jews were murdered systematically. As she tries to reconcile these truths with what her parents taught her, she discovers that her siblings? hope for survival is a stranger, Thomas (Kai Malina), who carries a yellow Star of David with his papers.
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?Lore?
Opens Friday, March 22, at the Broadway Centre Cinemas; not rated, but probably R for sexuality, war violence and language; in German with subtitles; 109 minutes.
Shortland (who directed the coming-of-age drama "Somersault") and co-writer Robin Mukherjee adapted a story from Rachel Seiffert?s novel The Dark Room. They weave an emotionally complex tale of a teen girl?s beliefs crashing into reality. Rosendahl?s performance is raw and compelling, as Lore fights for her siblings? survival and grows up in a hurry.
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Friday, March 22, 2013
Avoid Amputating People in Your Photos with This Cropping Cheat Sheet
Cropping photos of people can be tricky. There are so many places on the human body you can cut off! This photography cropping illustration from Digital Camera World shows you the best?and worst?areas to crop a subject so you can avoid creating awkward people photos.
The green lines are the "good" places to crop and the red lines are the ones to avoid. So, for example, if you're not cropping above the elbow, you should show the elbow, wrist, and hands. Here's the cheat sheet, which might come in handy whether you're editing the photo on your computer or stepping in closer to get a more interesting photo (click to expand, right-click to save):
The guide essentially follows the rule of "don't crop off at the joints." A few commenters on Digital Photography World, however, say the green crop line at the knees breaks that rule, but the illustration might be suggesting to crop just above the knees. You can play around with that crop area to see what looks best to you; as long as the person doesn't look amputated, you've avoided the biggest issue with cropping people photos!
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
'Sideline quasars' helped to stifle early galaxy formation
Mar. 21, 2013 ? University of Colorado Boulder astronomers targeting one of the brightest quasars glowing in the universe some 11 billion years ago say "sideline quasars" likely teamed up with it to heat abundant helium gas billions of years ago, preventing small galaxy formation.
CU-Boulder Professor Michael Shull and Research Associate David Syphers used the Hubble Space Telescope to look at the quasar -- the brilliant core of an active galaxy that acted as a "lighthouse" for the observations -- to better understand the conditions of the early universe. The scientists studied gaseous material between the telescope and the quasar with a $70 million ultraviolet spectrograph on Hubble designed by a team from CU-Boulder's Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy.
During a time known as the "helium reionization era" some 11 billion years ago, blasts of ionizing radiation from black holes believed to be seated in the cores of quasars stripped electrons from primeval helium atoms, said Shull. The initial ionization that charged up the helium gas in the universe is thought to have occurred sometime shortly after the Big Bang.
"We think 'sideline quasars' located out of the telescope's view reionized intergalactic helium gas from different directions, preventing it from gravitationally collapsing and forming new generations of stars," he said. Shull likened the early universe to a hunk of Swiss cheese, where quasars cleared out zones of neutral helium gas in the intergalactic medium that were then "pierced" by UV observations from the space telescope.
The results of the new study also indicate the helium reionization era of the universe appears to have occurred later than thought, said Shull, a professor in CU-Boulder's astrophysical and planetary sciences department. "We initially thought the helium reionization era took place about 12 billion years ago," said Shull. "But now we think it more likely occurred in the 11 to 10 billion-year range, which was a surprise."
A paper on the subject by Shull and Syphers was published online this week in the Astrophysical Journal.
The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph used for the quasar observations aboard Hubble was designed to probe the evolution of galaxies, stars and intergalactic matter. The COS team is led by CU Professor James Green of CASA and was installed on Hubble by astronauts during its final servicing mission in 2009. COS was built in an industrial partnership between CU and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder.
"While there are likely hundreds of millions of quasars in the universe, there are only a handful you can use for a study like this," said Shull. Quasars are nuclei in the center of active galaxies that have "gone haywire" because of supermassive black holes that gorged themselves in the cores, he said. "For our purposes, they are just a really bright background light that allows us to see to the edge of the universe, like a headlight shining through fog."
The universe is thought to have begun with the Big Bang that triggered a fireball of searing plasma that expanded and then become cool neutral gas at about 380,000 years, bringing on the "dark ages" when there was no light from stars or galaxies, said Shull. The dark ages were followed by a period of hydrogen reionization, then the formation of the first galaxies beginning about 13.5 billion years ago. The first galaxies era was followed by the rise of quasars some 2 billion years later, which led to the helium reionization era, he said.
The radiation from the huge quasars heated the gas to 20,000 to 40,000 degrees Fahrenheit in intergalactic realms of the early universe, said Shull. "It is important to understand that if the helium gas is heated during the epoch of galaxy formation, it makes it harder for proto-galaxies to hang on to the bulk of their gas. In a sense, it's like intergalactic global warming."
The team is using COS to probe the "fossil record" of gases in the universe, including a structure known as the "cosmic web" believed to be made of long, narrow filaments of galaxies and intergalactic gas separated by enormous voids. Scientists theorize that a single cosmic web filament may stretch for hundreds of millions of light years, an eye-popping number considering that a single light-year is about 5.9 trillion miles.
COS breaks light into its individual components -- similar to the way raindrops break sunlight into the colors of the rainbow -- and reveals information about the temperature, density, velocity, distance and chemical composition of galaxies, stars and gas clouds.
For the study, Shull and Syphers used 4.5 hours of data from Hubble observations of the quasar, which has a catalog name of HS1700+6416. While some astronomers define quasars as feeding black holes, "We don't know if these objects feed once, or feed several times," Shull said. They are thought to survive only a few million years or perhaps a few hundred million years, a brief blink in time compared to the age of the universe, he said.
"Our own Milky Way has a dormant black hole in its center," said Shull. "Who knows? Maybe our Milky Way used to be a quasar."
The first quasar, short for "quasi-stellar radio source," was discovered 50 years ago this month by Caltech astronomer Maarten Schmidt. The quasar he observed, 3C-273, is located roughly 2 billion years from Earth and is 40 times more luminous than an entire galaxy of 100 billion stars. That quasar is receding from Earth at 15 percent of the speed of light, with related winds blowing millions of miles per hour, said Shull.
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Twitter Turns 7 - Business Insider
Today is Twitter's 7th anniversary.?
To celebrate co-founder Jack Dorsey's first tweet, here's a promo video the company made with some interesting stats about the company such as the first retweet, first tweet from space, and the #Jan25 hashtag that documented the 2011 revolution in Egypt.
Twitter now has 200 million active users posting 400 tweets a day, the company says.
Take a look:
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Syria regime, rebels want probe of chemical attack
In this Tuesday March 19, 2013, citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, black smoke rise from buildings due to government forces shelling, in Aleppo, Syria. Syria's main opposition group demanded Wednesday a full international investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack in the country's north, calling for a team to be sent to the village where it reportedly occurred. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)
In this Tuesday March 19, 2013, citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, black smoke rise from buildings due to government forces shelling, in Aleppo, Syria. Syria's main opposition group demanded Wednesday a full international investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack in the country's north, calling for a team to be sent to the village where it reportedly occurred. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)
Map locates Khan al-Assal, Syria, where the government and rebels accused each other of attacking with chemical weapons
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian victims who suffered an alleged chemical attack at Khan al-Assal village according to SANA, receive serum treatments, at a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday March 19, 2013. Syria's information minister says a chemical weapon fired by rebels on a village in the north of the country is the "first act" by the opposition interim government announced in Istanbul. He says 16 people were killed and 86 wounded in the attack. Rebels have denied the accusation and say regime forces fired the weapon. (AP Photo/SANA)
In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian citizens inspect destroyed houses that were destroyed from a Syrian forces airstrike, at al-Marjeh neighborhood, in Aleppo, Tuesday March 19, 2013. Syria's state-run news agency says 25 people have been killed in an alleged rebel chemical attack in northern Syria. Rebels in northern Syria deny the government claim and blamed regime forces for Tuesday's missile attack on Khan al-Assad village in northern Aleppo province. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)
In this Tuesday March 19, 2013, citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, black smoke rises from a building due to Syrian government forces shelling, in Aleppo, Syria. Syria's main opposition group demanded Wednesday a full international investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack in the country's north, calling for a team to be sent to the village where it reportedly occurred. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)
BEIRUT (AP) ? Syria's government and rebels on Wednesday both demanded an international investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack, as the country's feared arsenal became the latest propaganda tool in the 2-year-old civil war.
President Barack Obama said the United States is investigating whether chemical weapons have been deployed in Syria, but noted that he is "deeply skeptical" of claims by President Bashar Assad's regime that rebel forces were behind such an attack.
"Once we establish the facts, I have made clear that the use of chemical weapons is a game changer," Obama said in a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
The use of chemical weapons by either side is a nightmare scenario. Along with its warnings about Assad, the West is just as concerned that rebel forces, including some linked to al-Qaida, could get their hands on Syria's chemical weapons supplies.
Despite the importance, any clear confirmation of the nature of the attack that took place Tuesday in the northern village of Khan al-Assal, killing at least 31 people, is unlikely. Syria's government seals off areas it controls to journalists and outside observers.
The two sides blamed each other for a chemical attack without offering clear proof or documentation, as has frequently been the case in the Syrian civil war.
If confirmed, it would be the first time a chemical weapon has been used in Syria's war that has already killed an estimated 70,000 people.
Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Jaafari told reporters at the United Nations Wednesday that he had asked U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to form "a specialized, independent and neutral technical mission to investigate the use by the terrorist groups operating in Syria of chemical weapons" in Khan al-Assal.
Jaafari called the attack "very serious and alarming and unacceptable and unethical."
U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said he would have something to say "once we receive any formal request, which we have so far not received." He said the secretary-general remains convinced that the use of chemical weapons by any party under any circumstances would constitute "an outrageous crime."
Syria's main opposition group also demanded an international investigation.
"All evidence now indicates that the Assad regime is using these weapons against its own people," the main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, said.
"The Coalition demands a full international investigation, and asks for a delegation to be sent to inquire and visit the site," the group said in a statement.
Obama has declared the use, deployment or transfer of the weapons to be his "red line" for possible military intervention in the Arab country.
"When you start seeing weapons that can cause potential devastation and mass casualties and you let that genie out of the bottle, then you are looking at potentially even more horrific scenes than we've already seen in Syria," Obama said in Jerusalem, "and the international community has to act on that information."
Russia and Iran, Assad's main allies, backed his regime's charges.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast blamed "armed opposition groups," calling use of chemical weapons "an inhuman act."
"Undoubtedly, the responsibilities of a repetition of such crimes would fall on those committing it and the countries that support them," he was quoted by state TV as saying, apparently referring to Gulf states such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia
"There's definitely a propaganda war between the regime and opposition," said Ayham Kamel, a Middle East analyst at the Eurasia Group in London.
"Because we cannot verify either claims, we are going to be stuck in the same cycle of accusations, unless some international mission is actually sent there to verify what happened," he said.
Jordan's king warned Wednesday that an extremist Islamic state could form on his border.
King Abdullah II told The Associated Press in an interview that in his view, Assad was beyond rehabilitation, and it was only a matter of time before his authoritarian regime collapses.
"The most worrying factors in the Syrian conflict are the issues of chemical weapons, the steady flow or sudden surge in refugees and a jihadist state emerging out of the conflict," the king said.
The opposition's disunity was on display again Wednesday.
About a dozen members of the Syrian National Coalition suspended their membership a day after it elected the first rebel prime minister.
Among them were senior members including Suheir Atassi, Kamal Labwani, and spokesman Waleed al-Bunni.
Atassi said explained why she suspended her membership. "I refuse to be a follower and I refuse to be simply a woman who decorates their gatherings and conferences while they make all the decisions," she wrote on her Facebook page.
Coalition members have complained of the dominance of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood in the SNC, and Hitto was one of the top Brotherhood candidates.
In fighting Wednesday, activists reported intense clashes in the Quneitra region on the cease-fire line between Syria and Israel in the Golan Heights.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels seized control of parts of villages a few kilometers (miles) from the cease-fire line after fierce fighting with regime forces.
It said seven people, including three children, were killed by government shelling villages.
Activists on Facebook pages affiliated with rebels in Quneitra announced the start of the operation to "break the siege on Quneitra and Damascus' western suburbs."
The fall of Quneitra in rebel hands would be significant because it is close to the Israeli frontier.
Israel has said its policy is not to get involved in the Syrian civil war, but it has retaliated to sporadic Syrian fire that has spilled over into Israeli communities in the Golan Heights.
Also Wednesday, Assad made a rare public appearance, visiting a fine arts school in Damascus and meeting the parents of students who were killed in the civil war, state TV reported.
Photos run by the Syrian state media showed Assad shaking hands and listening closely to people who were said to be parents of war victims. It was his first appearance outside his palace since January, when he delivered a speech.
"All of Syria is wounded, and there is no one who hasn't lost a relative, a brother, a father or a mother," Assad said, according to the official news agency SANA.
"However, all that is happening cannot make us weak, and the battle is a battle of will and steadfastness," he added.
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Associated Press writers Bassem Mroue and Ben Hubbard in Beirut, Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, Donna Cassata in Washington and Jamal Halaby in Amman contributed.
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