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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
IMF: UAE economy recovering, but debt woes linger
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Agency asks Dubai to fix its budget and avoid another boom-and-bust cycle ...
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker not visiting Iowa
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Pope Shifts Church's Tone on Gay People
Pope Francis departed from his predecessors' remarks on gay people, telling reporters today that he was not in a position to judge people based on their sexuality.
"If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?" Francis asked reporters aboard a plane returning to Italy following his first trip abroad as pope to Brazil.
The remarks caused a stir with some gay Catholics wondering if the newly elected pope, a Jesuit who made a career ministering to the poor and marginalized, was signaling a shift in Church doctrine.
In 2005, Francis' predecessor Pope Benedict XVI signed a document calling for a purge of gay priests and during his papacy equated gay people with pedophiles.
"It is remarkable and a decided shift in tone from the past," said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor-at-large of America magazine. "It's probably the most positive statement that a pope has ever made about gays and shows great mercy and compassion."
The comments constituted a shift in tone, Martin said, but that trickles down to changes in policy because "every bishop and archbishop will have listened to what he said... and his advice was not to judge [gay people] but to call them our brothers. It's a shift in tone from exclusion to inclusion."
Pope Francis Touches Millions of Lives During Brazil Trip Watch Video Argentina, Latin America Euphoric Over Choice of New Pope Watch VideoThe pope, speaking casually and appearing relaxed, candidly addressed a question about an alleged "gay lobby" inside the Vatican, including recent allegations in an Italian magazine that a trusted adviser of the pope had been involved in a same-sex relationship.
The pontiff was also asked about reports that some in the Vatican have used information about gay priests to blackmail them. The pope said gay people should be treated with respect, and that no one should use blackmail as an instrument to exert pressure.
Gay Catholics, who have long been marginalized by the church and sometimes denied communion, were cautiously optimistic about the pope's comments.
"This doesn't break new ground on the church's position on homosexual acts, but what we've seen from this pope is a real shift in emphasis," said Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of Dignity USA, a group that advocates for gay Catholics.
"For so long the rhetoric coming out of the Vatican -- about gay and lesbian people and same sex marriage -- has been horrifically damaging. For the first time we're seeing a pope who says: 'Who am I to judge,'" Duddy-Burke said.
Francis, since his election in March, has marked his papacy by reaching out to underprivileged and underserved communities. Unlike his two immediate predecessors, Francis was never in the Vatican hierarchy.
He most recently served as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lived in a modest apartment and used public transportation. In 2010, then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio said he would support same-sex civil unions but not gay marriage.
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Rumor: Former Knicks executive Steve Mills likely new players union head
When Stu Jackson stepped down as the VP and enforcement arm of the NBA, this rumor somehow got started around the Web (as often seems to happen): Jackson was going to take over as the head of the NBA players union.
That doesn?t make much sense ? you don?t take a guy from the enemy?s inner circle and put him in charge of negotiating the next collective bargaining agreement for you. He sees things through their eyes, not yours.
SBN?s Tom Ziller was making this point on twitter when the well connected Zach Lowe of Grantland threw out this comment:
This is not the first time we heard this rumor, it?s been thought of around the league for a while.
Mills (a former basketball player at Princeton) was the COO of Madison Square Garden, the owners of the Knicks and Rangers. His stocked dipped there in part because he helped bring in Isiah Thomas, but this is the Knicks front office so nothing is ever just that simple. He is currently the CEO of Athletes & Entertainers Wealth Management Group.
The union has been without an executive director since Billy Hunter was ousted back at the All-Star Game by a unanimous vote of team representatives. An audit of the union had raised a lot of questions about nepotism and how the union?s money was spent (but there was a lot of other issues with Hunter being let go tied back to how the lockout ended).
We?ll see if this happens, but it?s something to watch.
Either or both sides can opt out of the current CBA in 2017. One side will. If I were a betting man I would bet on another lockout then.
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Man pours hot oil on girlfriend
A 26-year-old man from Ulhasnagar, who had been spurned by his girlfriend, allegedly flung hot oil on the young woman on Saturday evening.
The 21-year-old girl, who suffered injuries on the cheek, hand and leg, has been admitted to hospital. The boy, a vada-pav vendor, is absconding.
A case of ?attempt to murder? has been registered against Telreja at Central Line police station.
The incident took place at the clinic where the girl, Radha (name changed), works as a compounder. Radha had recently started avoiding the accused, Ajit Telreja, her boyfriend of five years, as her parents had disapproved of their relationship.
On Saturday evening, Telreja barged into the clinic carrying oil in a flask. He allegedly hurled the piping hot oil on Radha. The police said they suspect Telreja, who runs a wayside stall, carried oil from the pan he used to prepare vada-pav and bhajiyas.
One of Radha?s colleagues, who happened to be standing near her, has also sustained injuries.
Senior police inspector Ashok Sakpal said that the girl had recently discussed her marriage plan with Telreja.
?Her parents disapproved of the alliance as Telreja was an alcoholic and he earned a living by selling foodstuff on the pavement,? said Sakpal. ?The girl decided to toe her parents? line so as not to shatter the peace at home. As the girl started avoiding him, Telreja decided to get even with her.?
Sakpal said they are questioning Telreja?s relatives to locate his whereabouts.
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Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/1866858/report-man-pours-hot-oil-on-girlfriend
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Animal rights group may come to roo man's rescue
AN ANIMAL rights organisation is assessing the merits of Colin Candy's High Court case to see if it can offer legal help to the kangaroo crusader.
A spokeswoman for the Barristers Animal Welfare Panel confirmed the organisation was looking into whether there were grounds for an appeal in the ongoing court battle Mr Candy has waged for more than a decade.
The court case started over a kangaroo named Mitchell, which Mr Candy and his family raised from when it was a joey.
In 2001, officers from the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service raided the family's Hervey Bay home and took the kangaroo.
Mr Candy, who now owns five kangaroos, had to sell his house to cover his expenses as he travelled between Brisbane and Hervey Bay for court hearings.
He is attempting to seek compensation for mental anguish, the loss of his home and the loss of the kangaroo.
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Frank ?Arnie? George Jirik - Miller Carlin - Miller Carlin Funeral Home
A Memorial Service celebrating the life of Frank ?Arnie? Jirik, 65, of St. Augusta will be at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 at the Miller-Carlin Funeral Home in St. Cloud.? Brother Walter Kieffer, OSB will officiate and innichment will take place at St. John?s Abbey Cemetery following the service.? There will be a visitation from 4:00-6:00 PM on Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 at the funeral home.? Arrangements are being made with Miller-Carlin Funeral Home in St. Cloud.
Frank was born on October 5, 1947 to Frank and Stella (Skluzacek) Jirik in Northfield.? He grew up on a farm near Webster alongside six siblings.? When he was 19 years old, Frank joined the monastery at St. John?s where he was a monk for approximately 25 years.? On August 22, 1998, Frank married Leslie Ann Gaertner and welcomed his new family enthusiastically.? He was a hardworking man who dedicated himself to many different things.? Frank was most at home outdoors and he loved to go fishing, deer hunting, grilling and camping, as well as sitting by bonfires and watching sunsets.? He also enjoyed gardening and took pride in his lawn.? Frank liked to spend time at his friend?s farm cutting wood, playing card games, and cooking.? His passion, however, was his family and he was sincerely interested in how everyone was doing and what they were up to.? Frank has been described as an approachable, non-judgmental man who was easy to talk to and always had a hug for everyone.? He was a loving husband and will be dearly missed by all who knew him.
Frank is survived by his wife of 14 years, Leslie; his stepchildren Steven (Sunita) Reber, Waite Park; Joe (Mindy) Nelson, Rochester; Greg (Jessica) Nelson, Sartell; his siblings Dave (Bernice) Jirik, Lonsdale; Mary Kay (Dennis) Ceplecha, Webster; Mark (Nancy) Jirik, Montgomery; Anne (Ed) Svoboda, Lonsdale; John (Janet) Jirik, Lonsdale; five grandchildren; 4 godchildren, many nieces and nephews; and many other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents Frank and Stella Jirik and his brother Dan Jirik.
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A Memorial Service celebrating the life of Frank ?Arnie? Jirik, 65, of St. Augusta will be at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 at the Miller-Carlin Funeral Home in St. Cloud.? Brother Walter Kieffer, OSB will officiate and innichment will take place at St. John?s Abbey Cemetery following the service.
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
BET's 'The Game' in Legal War Over a Facebook Page with Stacey Mattocks
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2012 Ford F150 XTR from North America
The cloth seats are comfortable, and honestly having the extra 3rd seat in the front (console folds up into seat) is convenient when required.
Like I mentioned above, the mileage is comparable to the 5L, but the acceleration from the 3.5L EcoBoost definitely blows it away thanks to the turbos.
This is my first truck and if I was to purchase another in the future, Ford is doing a good job in the quality department, so I'd get another without question.
Source: http://www.carsurvey.org/reviews/ford/f150/2012/
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GOP at war with itself on Obamacare funding - HHS watchdog pares back audits amid cuts - AP: HPV vaccine rates still low
By Kyle Cheney
With help from Jason Millman
GOP AT WAR WITH ITSELF ON OBAMACARE FUNDING ? That?s the takeaway from the mixed messages coming from Republican quarters Thursday, with some on the right threatening a government shutdown if Democrats insist on funding the health law and others decrying the threat as akin to ?blackmail.? Republican hardliners in the Senate delivered a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid vowing to fight against any effort to fund the government that includes a continuation of funding for Obamacare. But in a sign of ambivalence in some corners of the party, three senators ? including Senate GOP Whip John Cornyn, pulled their names from the letter. Backers of the effort held firm: ?I would say if we?re not going to have a red line in the sand on Obamacare, what will we have a line in the sand on?? Sen. Marco Rubio told POLITICO Thursday. http://politi.co/14NWRYH
?You put me on a shelf and kept PULSE for yourself.?
Happy Friday and welcome to PULSE, where we?re surprised it took as long as it did (three days) for the Heritage Foundation to connect the birth of the royal baby in England to Obamacare. What?s not surprising is the conclusion. http://herit.ag/15iSfaC
COUNTDOWN TO OCT. 1: 67 days.
HHS WATCHDOG PARES BACK AUDITS AMID CUTS ? The inspector general?s office is scaling back oversight of Obamacare implementation as it copes with a 20 percent workforce cut, the Center of Public Integrity reported Thursday. Projects on the chopping block include an audit of security measures in health insurance exchanges, an investigation into nursing home use of antipsychotic drugs and a study of drugs marketed in Medicare Part D before FDA approval. http://bit.ly/166Wh75
CAP: SGR BILL DOESN?T DO REAL PAYMENT REFORM ? The Center for American Progress says it opposes the current draft of the bill overhauling the Medicare physician payment formula, arguing that the legislation doesn?t establish ?a clear transition to new payment models.? In a letter to House Energy and Commerce leaders today, the left-leaning think tank argues the current bill establishes two duplicative programs that only ?create the appearance of payment reform.? Instead, CAP suggests that Medicare require bundling arrangements or start reducing fee-for-service payments by 2017 or 2018 while allowing doctors to switch into alternative payment arrangements to avoid the financial hit. CAP says the latter approach is similar to a bill from Reps. Allyson Schwartz and Joe Heck.
DESPITE HARSH WORDS, WALKER NEEDS OBAMACARE EXCHANGE TO WORK ? Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker penned a sharply worded Wall Street Journal op-ed with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday denouncing Obamacare and the White House?s implementation effort. But Walker?s own recently enacted health reform plan in Wisconsin also counts on Obamacare?s insurance exchanges to work as planned. That?s because instead of opting to expand Medicaid, Walker won passage of a plan that scales back his state?s generous Medicaid program and encourages people to join the exchange instead. The Pro story: http://politico.pro/1dYE64q; ICYMI, the op-ed: http://on.wsj.com/1dXyiYU
PERLIN SLATED TO LEAD AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION IN 2015 ? Jonathan Perlin, president of clinical and physician services at the Nashville-based Hospital Corporation of America, has been tapped as the future chairman of the American Hospital Association. The group named Perlin ?chair-elect designate,? meaning he?ll take over the chairmanship In 2015, at a time when many hospitals may be grappling with the impact of Affordable Care Act cuts and working through the first challenges of implementing the health law. Perlin has previously worked as undersecretary for health in the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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AP: HPV VACCINE RATES STILL LOW ? CDC Chief Thomas Frieden says the country is ?dropping the ball? on getting teenage girls vaccinated against HPV, which commonly leads to cervical cancer, the Associated Press reports. ?About 54 percent of teenage girls have received at least one of the three HPV shots. Only a third was fully immunized with all three doses,? according to the AP. The rate of vaccination is little changed from recent years, and health officials say it?s because doctors aren?t as aggressive about encouraging patients to get the vaccine as they are with others. http://yhoo.it/1dXJnZR
PENN. BROKER SHUTS EXCHANGE LOOKALIKE SITE ? A Pennsylvania insurance broker shut down his website this week after state authorities said it appeared to present itself as the state?s official insurance exchange, local outlet WHYY reported Thursday. The site, PAhealthexchange.com, billed itself as ?The Pennsylvania Health Exchange? and featured a graphic that looked like the state seal, according to the report. The broker, Alan Heffler, said he took the site down immediately after receiving a call from a state insurance official. http://bit.ly/1dYIb8K
NEW DATA SHOWS DRUG USE ROSE SHARPLY FOR WOMEN IN TREATMENT ? Women undergoing substance abuse treatment used alcohol at a declining rate from 2000 to 2010, according to new data released by the Obama administration, but their use of illegal drugs climbed sharply. According to a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 34.8 percent of women in treatment used alcohol in 2010, down from 46.6 percent at the start of the decade. But those using drugs rose to 63.8 percent from 51.1 percent. The report: http://1.usa.gov/19krQO3
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CBO: IMMIGRATION BILL LOWERS DEFICIT BECAUSE OF ENTITLEMENT SAVINGS ? If you exclude the off-budget Medicare and Social Security direct spending that the Senate?s immigration reform is expected to support, the rest of the bill actually increases the deficit by $102 billion over 10 years, CBO director Douglas Elmendorf wrote in a reply to questions from Senate Budget Committee Chairman Jeff Sessions. CBO has estimated that the bill, with entitlement trust fund savings, will reduce the deficit by $260 billion over 10 years. Sessions was wondering what the bill?s deficit impact would be if Social Security and Medicare trust fund savings were retained to pay for future benefits. The CBO letter: http://1.usa.gov/11hFIDP
-- AND THE SENATE COMPOUNDING BILL HAS NO BUDGET IMPACT ? Senate legislation intended to establish a national system of oversight for compounded drugs would have a negligible budgetary impact, CBO reported Thursday. The bill would have a net impact of less than $500,000 in increased revenues or spending, according to CBO. http://1.usa.gov/12OWOGz
PULSE LYRICS
Monday: Styx, ?Come Sail Away?
Tuesday: Metallica, ?Fuel?
Wednesday: Alicia Keys, ?Fallin??
Thursday: Eric Clapton, ?Layla?
Friday: Coldplay, ?Swallowed by the Sea?
WHAT WE?RE READING, by Abby McIntyre
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urged female bloggers at a conference in Chicago to spread information about the health care law, The AP reports: http://wapo.st/1bmG9Dt
In his column in today?s New York Times, Paul Krugman argues that Republicans are digging in their heels on Obamacare because they?re starting to realize the law is probably going to work: http://nyti.ms/13fQ9UW
The Washington Post Wonkblog?s Dylan Matthews takes a look back at a 2009 GOP health care plan, the Patient?s Choice Act, which has a lot more in common with Obamacare than you might expect ? and still has the backing of Rep. Paul Ryan: http://wapo.st/167uiUS
A DOJ investigation is shining light on the potentially problematic situation of physician-owned distributorships, The Wall Street Journal reports: http://on.wsj.com/14OAPVE
Kaiser Family Foundation has compiled an issue brief on what coverage options those with HIV have under the Affordable Care Act: http://bit.ly/1c7B8wq
A leading researcher on?Lou Gehrig?s disease has been arrested on homicide charges in the cyanide death of his neurologist wife. He?s accused of lacing with poison an energy supplement she was taking to help her conceive. AP has the full story: http://wapo.st/15iQURo
Taller women are at greater risk for developing cancer, a new study finds. The LA Times: http://lat.ms/15iIj14
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CORRECTION: A PULSE item on Jonathan Perlin?s selection as chair-elect designate of the American Hospital Association misidentified his current role at Hospital Corporation of America. He?s the president of clinical and physician services.
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
07/27/2013 - Washington State Horse Park-BLM Mustang Adoption and Show
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TYLT Energi Sliding Power iPhone 5 Case
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The Energi Sliding Power is a practical and convenient battery case that measures 5.5 x 2.6 x 0.35 inches, weights 3.35 oz, and designed for iPhone 5. As we can see from the images, the iPhone 5 case features thin, compact design, and consists of two parts including a one-piece hardshell case and a removable battery case. In addition to protecting your iPhone 5 from bumps and scratches, the battery case with 2500mAh backup battery is able to conveniently charge your iPhone 5 when you?re on the go. Apart from that, the built-in LED indicator shows you the status of the backup battery.
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US indicts SAC Capital Advisors on fraud charges, but not owner Steven A. Cohen
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July 25, 2013 at 12:18 PM ET
One of the largest-ever insider trading cases took a giant step forward Thursday, when a federal grand jury indicted Steven A. Cohen's hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors on fraud charges.
The hedge fund was charged with wire fraud as well as four counts of securities fraud, and the government is seeking to force SAC to surrender any fraud-related profits. The charges could undermine one of Wall Street's top stock trading firms, although they do not touch founder Steven A. Cohen.
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently filed civil charges against Cohen for what it said was a failure to adequately supervise the people at his firm. Last week a spokesman for Cohen said the SEC charges have no merit.
"SAC has never encouraged, promoted or tolerated insider trading and takes its compliance and management obligations seriously. The handful of men who admit they broke the law does not reflect the honesty, integrity and character of the thousands of men and women who have worked at SAC over the past 21 years. SAC will continue to operate as we work through these matters,? said an emailed statement from SAC Capital.
According to the indictment from roughly 1999 to 2010, SAC obtained and traded on inside information to boost returns and fees and that the scheme involved a number of portfolio managers, research analysts and dozens of publicly traded companies.
The government is also seeking to force SAC to surrender any fraud-related profits.
The criminal charges said SAC's "relentless pursuit of an information 'edge' fostered a business culture within SAC in which there was no meaningful commitment to ensure that such 'edge' came from legitimate research and not inside information."
It added: "The predictable and foreseeable result, as charged herein, was systematic insider trading by the SAC entity defendants resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profits and avoided losses at the expense of members of the investing public."
The indictment said SAC carried out the insider trading scheme with a staff of numerous portfolio managers and research analysts "who engaged in a pattern of obtaining insider information from dozens of publicly-traded companies across multiple industry sectors."
It said SAC sought to hire portfolio managers and research analysts with proven access to public company contacts likely to possess inside information. The managers and analysts were then not questioned when they made trading recommendations that appeared to be based on inside information, the indictment said.
The problem was compounded when SAC on numerous occasions failed to use effective compliance procedures or practices designed to root out wrongdoing. The pursuit of a trading edge overwhelmed limited SAC compliance systems, prosecutors said.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a news conference that SAC was "a magnet for market cheaters."
FBI Assistant Director George Venizelos said in a statement, "This is a case about corporate conduct and corporate responsibility. SAC Capital and its management fostered a culture of permissiveness. SAC not only tolerated cheating, it encouraged it."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Advertisers Warm to Facebook
Facebook Inc. is winning more friends on Madison Avenue.
The social-media giant's better-than-expected second-quarter results, driven in part by a big increase in mobile advertising revenue, signaled that after a rough start, the company has made marketers feel more comfortable with spending money on the social network.
"The service has improved and the company is a more attentive to advertisers now," said Adam Shlachter, senior vice president of media for DigitasLBI, a digital ad agency owned by Publicis Groupe SA. "A year or two ago, the company was a little difficult to work with because they were growing so fast and there was inconsistencies with its service."
Facebook didn't have much presence in mobile advertising a year ago, a concern that contributed to the stock-price slide after its initial public offering price. Then, in the latest quarter, mobile accounted for 41% of Facebook's ad sales?and investor attitudes have recovered with Facebook's ad revenue: the shares skyrocketed 30% Thursday.
"Everything worked this quarter," said Brian Wieser, an analyst with Pivotal Research Group.
In part, Facebook is benefiting simply because it is one of the few online outlets with a big enough audience for the rapidly expanding group of marketers wanting to put money into mobile.
Facebook shares jumped nearly 20% in after-hours trading as Facebook surprised investors with big gains in revenue, earnings and active users for the second quarter on Wednesday. (Photo: Getty Images)
Mobile ad spending in the U.S. is expected to jump 75% this year to $7.7 billion, according to eMarketer, out of total U.S. online ad spending of $41.9 billion.
"There is not an advertiser on the planet that doesn't want to have a mobile strategy," said Rob Norman, chief digital officer of GroupM, a unit of WPP PLC. And Facebook has one of "the largest mobile advertising platforms that offers scale."
American consumers spent 225.4 billion minutes on Facebook's mobile app and mobile Web pages in the second quarter, about double the year ago period, according to comScore. Americans spent about 18.4 billion minutes on Twitter's mobile app and Web pages, by comparison.
What advertisers particularly like about Facebook mobile is the ability to advertise on the news feed?the spot on member's pages where they post their own news and read what their friends are posting. The ads, with colorful photos, are hard to miss, right in the middle of the scroll of updates.
"They have been restless about finding better ways to reach and engage the Facebook audience especially on mobile," said Tony Pace, chief marketing for the Subway sandwich chain, which advertises on Facebook.
Over the past year, Facebook has put some of its top engineers to work on ad problems and encouraged engineers?a group usually confined to Facebook's offices?to spend more time with marketers and visit the headquarters of big clients to better understand their objectives and how they approach advertising.
More broadly, Facebook is trying to demonstrate its effectiveness as an advertising platform. For example, Facebook now works with Datalogix, which identifies people who have been exposed to an ad on Facebook and then mines credit-card and retailer purchase data to determine whether those people bought the product.
Facebook's "focus on measurement" has helped advertisers get the data they need to prove placing ads on the site helps their business, said Vik Kathuria, managing partner at MediaCom, an ad-buying firm owned by WPP.
To be sure, advertisers have some concerns, particularly about the potential for ad overload.
REUTERSFacebook is winning more friends on Madison Avenue.
This fall, Facebook plans to offer video advertising to run in the news feed, according to people familiar with the matter. Ad buyers and advertisers are worried that the ads could turn consumers off. People familiar with Facebook's plan said that the company is going to limit the number of video ads that consumers will see daily.
Facebook "must balance the users experience with making money," said Sean Corcoran, directors of digital media at Mullen, an ad agency owned by Interpublic Group of Cos.
During Wednesday's call with analyst, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the company closely watches people's sentiment around ads.
"We haven't measured a meaningful drop in satisfaction when we ask people about their experience with Facebook," Mr. Zuckerberg said. "We're comparing that to the result we get when we ask the same question to people using a version of Facebook with no feed ads at all."
The company said that on average ads make up about 5% or 1 in 20 stories in the news feed.
Write to Suzanne Vranica at suzanne.vranica@wsj.com and Evelyn M. Rusli at evelyn.rusli@wsj.com
A version of this article appeared July 26, 2013, on page B1 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Marketers Warm to Facebook's Mobile Ads.
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This Is What Photosynthesis Looks Like From Space
Plants grown and sustain themselves through photosynthesis?a seemingly invisible process that converts sunlight into energy. Now, NASA scientists have developed a way to measure photosynthesis from satellites with unprecedented detail.
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Retired NFL Player Weighs in on Troubles for Top Athletes - Eric Alvarez
Freddie Scott II played with and learned from some notable role models during his 4 years in the NFL
"Peyton Manning,? Scott said.? ?I was there his rookie year with the Colts.? ?Barry Sanders retired the year I was there in Detroit.?
Now, he's paying it forward.? Last month, he warned rookies of the pitfalls of fame and fortune at the NFL Rookie Symposium in Aurora, OH.? While he was there, news broke that Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez had been arrested in connection with a murder.
"[My response was] shock, disappointment...a lot of questions,? Scott said.
While Hernandez is surely the most prominent, he's by no means the only athlete making headlines.? Four Vanderbilt football players and three others at MTSU are currently in the midst of their own controversies.
?I think that we really need to peel the onion back a little more and say, ?okay, what are the reasons why young men feel like these behaviors are acceptable,?? Scott said.
That's why Scott created Unlock the Champion, a Nashville non-profit that keeps athletes of all ages grounded.? Scott says a star player's negative perception can start as early as middle school.
?You're groomed in a culture that because you?re an athlete, rules that apply to everyone else, do not apply to you,? Scott said.
Scott says the best way is to fight that is through a year-round support system that starts early in life with friends and neighbors.
?You never know the level of impact that you can have on a young person by showing them an alternative to some of the decisions that we're seeing rampant today,? Scott said.Retired NFL Player Weighs in on Troubles for Top Athletes - Eric Alvarez
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
What's in a name? Debate rages over Tulsa landmarks honoring Ku Klux Klan member
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People walk past The Tavern in the Brady Arts District in Tulsa, Okla., on June 27. The area is named after Wyatt Tate Brady, who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
By Justin Juozapavicius, Associated Press
TULSA, Okla. -- When Wyatt Tate Brady arrived here in 1890, Tulsa was just a spit of a town ? an untidy tangle of dirt streets and a handful of tents occupied by white men seeking their fortune in uncharted Indian lands.
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A shoe salesman by trade, the brash and ambitious Missourian saw an opportunity and seized it. He opened a general store, followed by a hotel ? the first with baths.
By the time Oklahoma became a state in 1907, Brady was a celebrated city father. He signed Tulsa's incorporation papers, started a newspaper and chartered a train filled with boosters, including humorist Will Rogers, to promote the new boomtown to people in the East.
But a lesser-known side of Brady has become the focus of debate in his adopted hometown nearly 90 years after his death. The son of a Confederate veteran, Brady was a member of the local Ku Klux Klan. And new questions have emerged about his involvement in the most notorious event in Tulsa history, a 1921 race riot that left 300 black residents dead.
The issue is especially sensitive because Brady's name is all over town ? on a street, a mansion, a theater and a historic neighborhood. It's also the name of the city's most ambitious development effort in a generation ? a glitzy downtown entertainment district.
Brady's membership in the Klan was never a secret. It had been noted in Tulsa's historical records but was largely forgotten until a new Tulsa-based literary magazine, This Land, published a long article in late 2011 by author Lee Roy Chapman, who detailed Klan activities and Brady's involvement with the group.
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Smoke rises over Tulsa's Greenwood District during race riots on June 1, 1921. The violence left 300 blacks dead and hundreds more wounded in a span of 18 hours.
Specifically, the article said, Brady created an environment of racism that led to the riot. Dozens of businesses were looted and burned to the ground, and the chaos decimated the Greenwood District, where grocers, newspapers, prominent doctors and attorneys had thrived in an area historians often call the Black Wall Street.
Even before the article was published, Tulsa had struggled to come to terms with its racial past. Black leaders had complained that the riot has been downplayed in local history. The city council, community leaders and residents are weighing what to do about a once-proud name that is suddenly tainted.
"There are councilors who are concerned and ashamed that we have this name, and we know what Mr. Brady stood for," said Jack Henderson, the council's lone black member who plans to introduce a law Thursday to rename Brady Street as Burlington Street.
Blacks account for roughly 16 percent of the city's population of 400,000.
Henderson's proposal, which is expected to come to a vote next week, reflects a recently discovered 1907 document on which someone crossed out Burlington Street and wrote Brady Street in its place.
The downtown area is "growing like it's never grown before," Henderson said in an interview. "So changing the name of the street isn't going to stop the momentum."
The council has asked business owners in the new Brady Arts District about the name, which is widely used in promotional marketing. The owners opposed any name change, concluding that it's better to be reminded of the city's checkered past in order to create a better world.
"Rather than seeking to revise history, today's residents, visitors and merchants should regard the name as a demonstration of a new set of principles," they said in a July 14 letter. "Removing the name is to surrender to the past."
Business owners have also protested that changing the name of the street would confuse visitors and hurt sales, among other concerns.
Most politicians have remained mum on the issue. Others quarrel with the idea that Brady was a major instigator of the riot. Mayor Dewey Bartlett said he's read accounts that showed disagreement over Brady's role in the unrest.
The mayor wants to keep the Brady name, citing concern that the renaming effort could become a slippery slope for other streets and landmarks named after people with questionable pasts.
"We look at history as a good teacher, not something to emulate, obviously, but in this case something to learn from and avoid," Bartlett said in an interview. "My opinion, I guess, is that I have not heard a strong groundswell of support for changing the name and to what? What are we going to call it next?"
The entertainment district is at the core of Tulsa's effort to rejuvenate its moribund downtown, which had long been pocked with half-empty offices, blank storefronts and weeds. The improvements come after the city invested decades, and many millions of dollars, in failed attempts to revive the area.
Today the district has been reborn. It has a new ballpark, boutiques, a cigar bar, trendy restaurants and a museum and park dedicated to Oklahoma's Dust Bowl balladeer, Woody Guthrie. The elegant Brady Theater is one of the jewels, opened by Brady in 1914 as the biggest arena between Kansas City and Houston. It's now a popular showplace for indie and classic rock shows.
"We've been here over six years, and no one seemed to notice or care" about renaming Brady Street, said Janet Duvall, executive director of the Tulsa Glassblowing School, one of many specialty shops that have taken root along the street in question. "The success is finally here, and now we think we need to put someone else's name on it."
Others say the name can serve as an omnipresent reminder of "never again" as the city moves ahead.
"It's like changing the name of the city of Tulsa because it has a racist past," said Kuanza Johnson, a California transplant and teacher, who is black and lives in the Brady Heights Historic District. "Where do you stop?"
Anna Taylor, a white resident of the historic district, agrees, saying the city need not dredge up the battles of the past.
"It's not going to change anything," she said.
Confusion over the name seems especially apparent in the Brady Heights neighborhood, a section of large, nearly 100-year-old homes, including the Greek Revival-style mansion Brady built in 1920 and named Arlington, after Robert E. Lee's Virginia estate.
Once home to business barons, the neighborhood is now is full of young families in fixer-uppers and newcomers to the city. Until recently, many never even knew who the district was named for.
Still, "You don't revamp history," said Susan Kufdakis, who lives with her parents in Brady's old mansion, which has been turned back into a single-family house after being divided up in apartments. "You shouldn't forget who Brady was, but you keep history the way it is."
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Elba Kufdakis, left, and daughter Susan Kufdakis speak outside the historic Brady Mansion in Tulsa, Okla., on June 27.
This story was originally published on Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:20 AM EDT
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
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University of Vermont professor named Pew's 'Biomedical Researcher of the Month'
WHAT: Microbiologist and molecular geneticist Aimee Shen, Ph.D., was named The Pew Charitable Trusts biomedical researcher of the month for her creative research on health care-associated infections. Specifically, Shen studies the bacterium Clostridium difficile, the cause of thousands of diarrhea-related deaths every year in the United States.
The bacteria form hardy spores that can survive antibacterial treatments. Shens University of Vermont laboratory focuses on germinationthe process by which the spores become infectious bacteria againwith the long-term goal of developing new therapeutic tools to block it.
Shens story is part of Pews ongoing biomedical researchers of the month series that highlights research being conducted by Pew-sponsored scientists. Since 1985, Pews biomedical programs have provided funding to more than 500 early-career investigators who, like Shen, show outstanding promise in science with the potential to advance human health. The scholars exceptional research has earned them Nobel Prizes, Lasker Awards, MacArthur Foundation genius grants and other distinctions.
WHO: Experts are available for interviews regarding Shen's research and the program:
- Aimee Shen, Ph.D., 2012 Pew scholar and assistant professor, College of Medicine, University of Vermont
- Anita Pepper, Ph.D., director of the Pew Programs in the Biomedical Sciences
Pews biomedical programs include the Pew scholars and the Pew Latin American fellows programs.
WHERE: Visit http://www.pewhealth.org/other-resource/One-Researcher's-Quest-to-Prevent-Healthcare-Associated-Infections-85899492077 to view the full video profile.
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University of Vermont professor named Pew's 'Biomedical Researcher of the Month'
WHAT: Microbiologist and molecular geneticist Aimee Shen, Ph.D., was named The Pew Charitable Trusts biomedical researcher of the month for her creative research on health care-associated infections. Specifically, Shen studies the bacterium Clostridium difficile, the cause of thousands of diarrhea-related deaths every year in the United States.
The bacteria form hardy spores that can survive antibacterial treatments. Shens University of Vermont laboratory focuses on germinationthe process by which the spores become infectious bacteria againwith the long-term goal of developing new therapeutic tools to block it.
Shens story is part of Pews ongoing biomedical researchers of the month series that highlights research being conducted by Pew-sponsored scientists. Since 1985, Pews biomedical programs have provided funding to more than 500 early-career investigators who, like Shen, show outstanding promise in science with the potential to advance human health. The scholars exceptional research has earned them Nobel Prizes, Lasker Awards, MacArthur Foundation genius grants and other distinctions.
WHO: Experts are available for interviews regarding Shen's research and the program:
- Aimee Shen, Ph.D., 2012 Pew scholar and assistant professor, College of Medicine, University of Vermont
- Anita Pepper, Ph.D., director of the Pew Programs in the Biomedical Sciences
Pews biomedical programs include the Pew scholars and the Pew Latin American fellows programs.
WHERE: Visit http://www.pewhealth.org/other-resource/One-Researcher's-Quest-to-Prevent-Healthcare-Associated-Infections-85899492077 to view the full video profile.
CONTACT: Chelsea Toledo at 202-540-6846, ctoledo@pewtrusts.org
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For information regarding the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences, please visit http://www.pewscholars.org.
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Celebs React to Royal Baby After He Steals Their Spotlight
Hollywood stars were put in an unusual situation this week: for once, the world was paying attention to someone other than them! We're talking, of course, about Kate Middleton and Prince William's new little prince, who was the subject of the entire Internet for a good hour on Monday. How did celebs react to this tiny British baby stealing their thunder? By making Twitter jokes, of course! We've rounded up the funniest royal baby tweets from our favorite actors, comedians, and possibly one or two fictional characters.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
India police file charges in Cronje fixing scandal
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Monday, July 22, 2013
ABC's O'Brian named Al-Jazeera America president
NEW YORK (AP) ? Al-Jazeera America said Monday it will bring in a quartet of veteran U.S. television news executives, led by ABC's Kate O'Brian as president, to run the new cable news network and pinpointed Aug. 20 as the launch date.
Ehab Al Shahibi, executive director for international operations for Al-Jazeera and the man who has overseen development of the American outlet, is the interim chief executive officer.
Qatar-based Al-Jazeera, formed in 1996, has expanded quickly around the world but struggled to gain access to U.S. cable and satellite systems. At the beginning of this year, it bought former Vice President Al Gore's Current TV, giving the company access to some 50 million homes initially, and began to set up a network specifically for the U.S. audience.
O'Brian has worked at ABC News for three decades, and since 2007 has been the network's senior vice president for news, leading its breaking news coverage.
"She is a highly experienced and award-winning journalist who fully understands what Americans want to see and hear when they watch the news," said Mostefa Souag, acting director general of the Al-Jazeera Media Network. "Kate has the vision, tenacity and integrity to ensure that Al-Jazeera America will quickly become the success we expect it to be."
Three other Americans who have extensive experience in television news, but aren't working there currently, will join Al-Jazeera as senior vice presidents.
David Doss, a producer for news shows at ABC and NBC News who had most recently been producing broadcasts for Anderson Cooper at CNN, will be in charge of news programming.
Marcy McGinnis, currently teaching journalism at Stony Brook University, will be responsible for news gathering, similar to a job she held at CBS News a decade ago.
Shannon High-Bassalik has run local news operations, worked at MSNBC and most recently produced CNN's morning news show before it was remodeled. She will be in charge of documentaries and programs.
Al-Jazeera has announced that a handful of familiar names to American viewers ? Sheila MacVicar, Ali Velshi and Soledad O'Brien ? will be doing on-air work for the network. The network also has said it will air a regular newsmagazine, "America Tonight," on weeknights.
O'Brian started work at ABC more than 30 years ago as an intern at "20/20." ABC News President Ben Sherwood wrote to his staff on Monday that "I will miss the sound of her voice, urgent and measured, calling in the middle of the night, when news is breaking somewhere around the world."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/abcs-obrian-named-al-jazeera-america-president-201030033.html
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EU adds Hezbollah's military wing to terrorism list
By Justyna Pawlak and Adrian Croft
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union agreed on Monday to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on its terrorism blacklist, a move driven by concerns over the Lebanese militant group's roles in a bus bombing in Bulgaria and the Syrian war.
The powerful Lebanese Shi'ite movement, an ally of Iran, has attracted concern in Europe and around the world in recent months for its role sending thousands of fighters to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, an intervention that turned the tide of a two-year-old civil war.
Britain and the Netherlands have long pressed their EU peers to impose sanctions on the Shi'ite Muslim group, citing evidence it was behind an attack in the coastal Bulgarian city of Burgas a year ago, which killed five Israelis and their driver.
Until now, many EU governments had resisted lobbying from Washington and Israel to blacklist the group, warning such a move could fuel instability in Lebanon and add to tensions in the Middle East.
Hezbollah functions both as a political party that is part of the Lebanese government and as a militia with thousands of guerrillas under arms.
Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said the decision was "hasty" and could lead to further sanctions against the movement that would complicate Lebanese politics.
"This will hinder Lebanese political life in the future, especially considering our sensitivities in Lebanon," he told Reuters. "We need to tighten bonds among Lebanese parties, rather than create additional problems."
The blacklisting opens the way for EU governments to freeze any assets Hezbollah's military wing may have in Europe.
"It is good that the EU has decided to call Hezbollah what it is: a terrorist organization," Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said on the sidelines of a meeting of EU foreign ministers who decided on the blacklisting.
"We took this important step today, by dealing with the military wing of Hezbollah, freezing its assets, hindering its fundraising and thereby limiting its capacity to act."
By limiting the listing to the armed wing, the EU was trying to avoid damaging its relations with Lebanon's government.
Hezbollah does not formally divide itself into armed and political wings, and Amal Saad Ghorayeb, who wrote a book on the group, said identifying which figures the ban would apply to would be difficult.
"It is a political, more than a judicial decision. It can't have any real, meaningful judicial implications," she said, adding it appeared to be a "a PR move" to hurt Hezbollah's international standing, more connected with events in Syria than with the case in Bulgaria.
Israel's deputy foreign minister Zeev Elkin welcomed the decision, but expressed disappointment only the armed faction was included.
"We (Israel) worked hard, along with a number of countries in Europe, in order to bring the necessary materials and prove that there was a basis for a legal decision," Elkin told Israel Radio.
Hezbollah parliamentary member al-Walid Soukariah said the decision puts Europe "in confrontation with this segment of people in our region."
"This step won't affect Hezbollah or the resistance. The resistance is present on Lebanese territory and not in Europe. It is not a terrorist group to carry out terrorist attacks in Europe, which is forbidden by religion."
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The Iran-backed movement, set up with the aim of fighting Israel after its invasion of Lebanon three decades ago, has dominated politics in Beirut in recent years.
In debating the blacklisting, many EU governments expressed concerns over maintaining Europe's relations with Lebanon. To soothe such worries, the ministers were expected to issue a statement pledging to continue dialogue with all Lebanese political groups and to maintain financial aid to Beirut.
Already on the EU blacklist are groups such as Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that rules the Gaza Strip, and Turkey's Kurdish militant group PKK.
Their assets in Europe are frozen and they have no access to cash there, meaning they are blocked from raising money for their activities. Sanctions against Hezbollah will go into effect later this week.
Hezbollah denies any involvement in last July's attack in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian interior minister said last week Sofia had no doubt the group was behind it.
"We should name names because time has come to tell the truth," Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Antanas Linkevi?ius said before Monday's meeting. Vilnius holds the rotating presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2013.
In support of its bid to impose sanctions, Britain has also cited a four-year jail sentence handed down by a Cypriot court in March to a Hezbollah member accused of plotting to attack Israeli interests on the island.
The decision also comes at a time of strained relations between the EU and Israel after Brussels pushed ahead with plans to bar EU financial aid to Israeli organizations operating in the occupied Palestinian territories.
(Additional reporting by Dan Williams in Jerusalem and Oliver Holmes, Stephen Kalin and Reuters Television in Beirut)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-poised-blacklist-military-wing-hezbollah-082809478.html
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Royal baby: Waiting nears end with Kate in labor
LONDON (AP) ? The wait is almost over.
News that Prince William's wife Kate is in labor invigorated the makeshift encampment outside St. Mary's Hospital ? a melange of journalists, photographers, curious onlookers and a few die-hard royalists.
Reporters filed updates in a dozen languages outside the Lindo Wing, although no news has emerged since Kate was admitted early Monday. Tourists photographed the plain, 5-story brick building, its front door flanked by four police officers, and snapped the scurrying, coffee-swilling photographers and journalists.
Terry Hutt, a 78-year-old carpenter from Cambridge in eastern England, sensed an end to the vigil he has kept for 12 days, sleeping outside the hospital on a bench covered with a Union Jack blanket.
Hutt, who is proud to have met every royal from the late Queen Mother on, said he was doing his bit for Britain by camping outside the hospital in his red, white and blue Union Jack suit, holding flags and congratulatory banners.
"To me, the royal family play a very, very important role," he said. "Visitors from all over the world haven't got a king and queen. It's a plus for us."
As London commuters rushed past the hospital to work, Pascal Faure, a maintenance contractor originally from South Africa, stopped to snap a picture on his phone for friends at home and in Australia.
"It's part of their heritage, I guess, their culture," said Faure, who claimed his own tenuous royal connection: "Apparently my third cousin once removed is Chelsy" Davy, Prince Harry's former girlfriend.
He also had more insight than most into the 5,000-pound ($8,000) -a-night private wing where the Duchess of Cambridge is giving birth. He fixed the air-conditioning there last week ? a good thing, too, as Monday is scheduled to be the hottest day of the year in London.
"If the air-con stops working, I'll probably be the one to go in," he said,
Some bystanders were bemused by the scale of the media throng, but many were happy to enjoy the sense of occasion.
"It's probably quite good for the whole country and likewise for the rest of the world," said Matt Hicks, an event manager from Australia's Gold Coast.
"I love the royals ? what it's all about, the history behind it," he said. "I know this country is quite divided about it, but back in Australia we love the royals."
Whether a boy or a girl, the baby will be third in line to the British throne. Most bystanders expressed no preference about the baby's gender.
"A girl maybe, if it's as beautiful as Kate," said Katya Im-Albon, a tourist from Switzerland.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/royal-baby-waiting-nears-end-kate-labor-095344674.html
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