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Thursday, March 21, 2013
March 21- Give Pets A Chance: Milly, Lucy and Ricki | KTLA 5
?Milly? ID# A1369039 is an 8 week old, female, Terrier/Chihuahua Mix, ?Lucy? ID#A1376784 is an?8 week old, female, Boxer Mix and ?Ricki? ID#A1376785 is an 8 week old, male, Boxer Mix.
All the pets featured?are available for adoption at the West LA Animal Shelter.
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Puppy Care Tips: Housebreaking can be a time-consuming process. A puppy should be taken outside every two hours, up to six times a day, particularly after meals.
Crate training provides your puppy with a secure, safe area where he can retreat when he?s tired. Put in some soft bedding and even a treat to help coax him in at first so he learns it is a good place to be. A crate is not to be used for discipline or punishment.
Puppy proofing is very similar to baby proofing?keep your puppy away from anything that could potentially hurt him.
Spay or neuter your dog. This reduces the chances of cancer of the reproductive organs and is recommended by veterinarians to pet owners who do not plan on breeding their pets.
Take him to your veterinarian for a complete physical. Puppies need vaccinations every 3-4 weeks until they?re 16 weeks of age. Your veterinarian is your No. 1 source for questions regarding your puppy?s health and behavior issues.
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National borders are no match for e-commerce - Information Policy
by Allison Enright
Online retailers today are increasingly looking beyond their national borders to gain customers and spur growth. And few are doing this as aggressively as Hiroshi Mikitani, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Rakuten Inc., a Japan-based operator of online marketplaces since 1997.
Until 2010, Rakuten?s online marketplaces were limited to Asia, but since then a rapid-fire series of acquisitions and internal moves have made it a multinational, global company. It now operates marketplaces in 13 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Brazil, and Mikitani says he?s not done expanding. ?From day one we wanted to go international. I was quite aware that [e-commerce competition] was going to be global sooner or later,? he says.
Mikitani doesn?t believe national borders should limit e-commerce, and he?ll lay out how he came to this realization and how he?s leading Rakuten to operate this way during his keynote presentation at the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition 2013 in Chicago in June.? Mikitani?s presentation will take place from 8:45 a.m.-9:15 a.m. on June 5.
In the keynote address, entitled ?Spanning the globe for e-commerce opportunity,? Mikitani will explain his approach to global expansion and how he figures out where he wants to take Rakuten next. Over the last three years, Rakuten has expanded globally in three ways: through acquisition, such as its purchases of Buy.com in the United States and Play.com in the United Kingdom; by investing in existing web companies like Russian e-retailer Ozon.ru and social network Pinterest; and by establishing startups in countries where Rakuten sees potential to grow. ?In developing and emerging markets we go in very small and we create,? he says. He says consumers in these markets are less familiar with online shopping and Rakuten has to convince consumers that shopping online is a good, reliable option.? ?Our approach is, ?Don?t rush. Create a sound business and create the initial momentum.??
Mikitani?s commitment to borderless e-commerce initiative is felt throughout Rakuten, he says. Coinciding with its expansion beyond Japan, Mikitani in 2010 launched his self-proclaimed ?Englishnization? initiative. The intention was to immediately have the company conduct business in English. ?The global marketplace demands the speed of a single language. There is no time for translation, no time for misunderstanding,? Mikitani writes in ?Marketplace 3.0,? his new management book. Now, when employees from Rakuten?s far-flung offices log in for the weekly management meeting every Thursday or Friday?depending which side of the dateline they are?language isn?t a hindrance.
Rakuten also is positioning itself as a merchant of digital goods. In 2012, it acquired Kobo Inc., a Canadian maker of e-book readers and seller of e-books that competes globally with Amazon.com Inc.?s Kindle devices and digital bookstore. Also in 2012, it acquired Wuaki.TV, a video streaming service based in Spain.
Internet Retailer?s editors asked Mikitani to speak at IRCE because he co-founded Rakuten with just a handful of team members and proceeded to build the company into the largest e-commerce company in Japan, and the second-largest in Asia. With operations now in more than a dozen countries, he is taking his approach to e-commerce global.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Lohan booked for lying to cops, reckless driving
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By Natalie Finn, E! Online
Lindsay Lohan?is in the system. Again. The 26-year-old actress was booked on charges of reckless driving and lying to a peace officer Tuesday at the Santa Monica Police Department, after which she was released from custody and sent on her way.
In her imminent future, however, is 90 days of locked rehab,?30 days of community labor, 18 months of psychotherapy, fines and restitution for the other driver.
Lindsay's going to locked rehab -- here's what that means
Lohan?pleaded no contest?Monday to the aforementioned charges stemming from a car crash last summer, after which authorities determined that she was behind wheel despite her initial claim to the contrary.
"As you know, yesterday the court outlined the terms of probation," which required the "Liz & Dick"?star?to appear for booking within seven days, Lohan attorney Anthony Falangetti exclusively tells E! News. "And, of course, Lindsay is committed with following the court and did as she was told."
Get the scoop on Lindsay's bump ride from New York to L.A.
Lohan is required to provide proof to the court by May 2 that she has enrolled in a residential treatment program.
Meanwhile, despite being?photographed in a car?that appeared to be approaching AV Club in Hollywood, Lohan has flatly denied that she was out partying last night, just hours after a court appearance that included?getting glitter-bombed?on her way inside and her father?lashing out at her lawyer?afterward.
Check out Lindsay's mug shots
"She is doing good," Falangetti says of his client. "I am happy with how things turn out yesterday and Lindsay is now moving on."
?Reporting by Holly Passalaqua and Claudia Rosenbaum
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Newark, NJ, celebrates as Philip Roth turns 80
FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo, author Philip Roth poses for a photo in the offices of his publisher Houghton Mifflin, in New York. Roth turned 80 on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 and he?s in his hometown Newark, N.J., for the occasion, where several events are planned in his honor. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)
FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo, author Philip Roth poses for a photo in the offices of his publisher Houghton Mifflin, in New York. Roth turned 80 on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 and he?s in his hometown Newark, N.J., for the occasion, where several events are planned in his honor. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)
FILE - In this March 2, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama, right, presents a National Humanities Medal to novelist Philip Roth during a ceremony in the East Room. Roth turned 80 on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 and he?s in his hometown Newark, N.J., for the occasion, where several events are planned in his honor. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? New Jersey's largest city is celebrating the birthday of a native son, author Philip Roth.
Roth turned 80 on Tuesday and he's in Newark for the occasion.
Roth was raised in the city's Weequahic neighborhood, and Newark features prominently in some of his best-known works, from "Portnoy's Complaint" to "American Pastoral."
An exhibit at Newark Public Library showcases photos of Roth's life.
And a three-hour bus tour by the Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee will highlight locations from his novels.
Roth, who lives in Connecticut, is speaking at an invitation-only event at the Newark Museum.
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South Korean banks, media report network crash
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Police and South Korean officials were investigating the simultaneous shutdown Wednesday of computer networks at several major broadcasters and banks. While the cause wasn't immediately clear, speculation centered on a possible North Korean cyberattack.
The shutdown came days after North Korea blamed South Korea and the United States for cyberattacks that temporarily shut down websites in Pyongyang.
Officials at the two South Korean public broadcasters KBS and MBC said that all computers at their companies shut down at 2 p.m. (0500 GMT). The officials said the shutdown was not immediately causing any damage to their daily TV broadcasts.
The officials declined to give their names saying they were not authorized to speak media.
YTN cable news channel reported the company's internal computer network was completely paralyzed. Local TV showed workers staring at blank computer screens, and at one coffee shop employees asked for cash, saying their credit card machine wasn't working.
The state-run Korea Information Security Agency confirmed that computers at at least five South Korean companies were down. The agency was investigating what caused the outage.
Shinhan Bank, a lender of South Korea's fourth-largest banking group, said the bank's system, including online banking and automated teller machines, has stopped working since 2:20 p.m. Thursday. The company is unable to conduct any banking activities at bank windows to customers including retail banking and corporate banking.
The company does not know what caused the paralysis.
Immediate suspicion fell on North Korea.
Tensions between the neighboring countries are high following North Korea's recent nuclear test and U.N. sanctions that followed. Accusations of cyberattacks on the Korean Peninsula are not new. Seoul believes Pyongyang was behind at least two cyberattacks on local companies in 2011 and 2012.
Internet access in Pyongyang was intermittent at times last week, and Loxley Pacific Co., the broadband Internet provider for North Korea, said it was investigating an online attack that took down Pyongyang servers. A spokesman for the Bangkok-based company said Friday that it was not clear where the attack originated. Experts indicated it could take months to determine what happened and one analyst suggested hackers in China were a more likely culprit.
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency blamed the shutdown on the United States and South Korea, accusing the allies of expanding an aggressive stance against Pyongyang into cyberspace with "intensive and persistent virus attacks."
South Korea denied the allegation and the U.S. military declined to comment.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-korean-banks-media-report-network-crash-062049414.html
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China's pig toll tops 13,000; officials say water 'normal'
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A dead pig is seen in a dirty tributary of the Yangtze River, in central China's Hebei province, some 750 miles from the city of Shanghai, in a photo taken on March 12, 2013. The number of dead pigs found in the Huangpu River, which runs through China's commercial hub Shanghai, has reached more than 13,000, state media reported on March 18.
By Ed Flanagan, Producer, NBC News
BEIJING ? To the chagrin of Shanghai city residents, there?s more ?pork chop soup? on the menu for the foreseeable future.?
More than a week since authorities in Shanghai started pulling thousands of dead pigs from one of the city?s major waterways, the Huangpu River, municipal authorities in that city of 23 million are continuing to pull hundreds of carcasses from its waterways each day, bringing the total since last week to over 13,000.?
Workers on Sunday pulled nearly 500 pigs from the Huangpu, bringing the total found from that river alone to over 9,500. The Huangpu River supplies over a fifth of Shanghai?s drinking water.
As the pig tally creeps up, Shanghai government officials have been struggling to put a positive spin on the ghoulish images popping up each day from the city?s waterways.?
Shanghai is in the process of burning some of the 13,000 pig bodies found in a major waterway. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
A report?Monday?in People?s Daily, the official newspaper of China?s ruling Communist Party, focused on the stepped up food and water quality tests across the city. It also earnestly noted that not only have the numbers of pigs being pulled from the rivers dropped, but the size of them too.
Citing a report from Shanghai?s city government, the paper stated that two thirds of the most recent carcasses found were piglets, suggesting that the worse may have passed.
Social media outrage
Still, the daily sight of carcasses being pulled from the city?s waterways for disposal has angered the public and sparked a spirited discussion on China?s Twitter-like service, Weibo.?
Reports that many of the pigs found have tested positive for porcine circovirus, a virus that has killed large numbers of pigs in the region in recent months, has also raised suspicions about the safety of Shanghai?s water supply.
?The water must have been polluted [by these dead pigs],? wrote one user named Lujun, ?Authorities are being dishonest and trying to hide something.?
?The government is as corrupt as these dead pigs,? another user using the name Ziyoudeweini wrote disgustedly. ?I feel so cold. Who can we count on???
?Water quality in the Huangpu River has been normal up to now,? one official at the Shanghai Information Office assured NBC News Monday. He also stressed that porcine circovirus cannot be contracted by humans.?
Where are they coming from?
Shanghai officials have stepped up surveillance for dead pigs around the Huangpu River and have called upon local government in the nearby city of Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province to step up their own searches.?
Just northeast of Shanghai, Jiaxing is believed to be the source of many of the dead pigs floating down into Shanghai. Shanghai?s Information Office officials declined to speculate on whether Jiaxing was the sole source of all the pigs, but told NBC News that the prefecture was the focus of a joint Shanghai-Jiaxing investigation.
An official at the Jiaxing Environmental Protection Agency declined to comment on the progress of the investigation late Monday.
But steps were being taken in Jiaxing to curb the continued dumping of pigs into the region?s waterways. The city?s local newspaper, Jiaxing Daily, reported that leaflets had been passed out to farmers in the region, urging them to properly dispose of dead pigs with local authorities rather than quietly dumping them into the river.
Jiaxing is likely not the only community to be dumping dead pigs into its waterways, as reports indicate that porcine circovirus has spiked across farming communities this winter, killing more pigs than usual. Many have speculated that farmers have been attempting to discretely dispose of the sick pigs rather than reporting them to authorities and risk investigation.
NBC News? Danny Zhang contributed to this report.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
UFC 158?s Three Stars: Jake Ellenberger, Jordan Mein and Johny Hendricks shine
After months of build-up, UFC came and went and the welterweight belt stayed in the hands of Georges St-Pierre. But the fighters who stood out were not at the top of the card. Read on for the Three Stars of UFC 158, and yes, it's just a coincidence that their names all start with J.
No. 1 star ? Jake Ellenberger: He needed a big win to stay near the top of the UFC's packed welterweight division. His canvas-smelling knockout of Nate Marquardt certainly did the trick. It earned him a $50,000 Knockout of the Night bonus, and pushed him closer to an elusive title shot.
No. 2 star ? Jordan Mein: How do you make sure everyone remembers your UFC debut? Knocking out a fighter who has never been knocked out before is a good start. Mein's first round TKO of Dan Miller showed the amazing amounts of potential for this 23-year-old.
No. 3 star ? Johny Hendricks: When he beat Martin Kampmann, Hendricks was told he would get the next shot at GSP, but Diaz was given the fight instead. Instead of complaining, Hendricks came out on the winning end of a thrilling bout with Carlos Condit.
Who were your Three Stars? Speak up in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.
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Alzheimer's 'Epidemic' Now A Deadlier Threat To Elderly
Social worker Nuria Casulleres shows a portrait of Audrey Hepburn to elderly men during a memory activity at the Cuidem La Memoria elderly home in Barcelona, Spain, last August. The home specializes in Alzheimer's patients.
David Ramos/Getty ImagesSocial worker Nuria Casulleres shows a portrait of Audrey Hepburn to elderly men during a memory activity at the Cuidem La Memoria elderly home in Barcelona, Spain, last August. The home specializes in Alzheimer's patients.
David Ramos/Getty ImagesAlzheimer's disease doesn't just steal memories. It takes lives.
The disease is now the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., and figures released Tuesday by the Alzheimer's Association show that deaths from the disease increased by 68 percent between 2000 and 2010.
"It's an epidemic, it's on the rise, and currently [there is] no way to delay it, prevent it or cure it," says Maria Carrillo, a neuroscientist with the Alzheimer's Association. More than 5 million people in the U.S. have the disease, she says, and that number could reach nearly 14 million by 2050.
One reason Alzheimer's deaths are going up is that deaths from other causes, like heart disease and prostate cancer, are going down, Carrillo says. "We're living longer," she says, "and unfortunately age is still the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease."
There are still no effective treatments for Alzheimer's, and people who have the disease face a greatly increased risk of dying within 10 years, according to an analysis by the Alzheimer's Association of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"If a person is living with Alzheimer's disease in their 70s, it actually doubles their mortality risk," Carrillo says.
It's still tricky to decide when to blame Alzheimer's for the death of a particular person, though, says Susan Mitchell, a professor of medicine at Harvard and a scientist at Hebrew Senior Life Institute for Aging Research. That's because Alzheimer's patients tend to have other health problems as well, she says.
As a result, Mitchell says, many death certificates still list pneumonia or some other disease as the cause of death, even when the underlying problem is Alzheimer's. "So even the statistics that show dementia increasing as a cause of death are a gross underestimate," she says.
Because Alzheimer's damages cells in the brain, it often kills in ways that are indirect, says Mitchell, an author of a 2009 study of more than 300 nursing home residents with advanced dementia. "In the early and middle stages, the changes to those nerve cells mostly affect memory and behavior problems," she says. "But as the disease progresses toward the end stage, the brain changes eventually affect basic bodily functions," including swallowing.
This seemingly simple act requires the brain to orchestrate a complex sequence of muscular contractions, and that sequence often goes awry in people in the later stages of Alzheimer's, Mitchell says. "That can often lead to a lung infection if the food goes down the wrong way, and that is a common cause of pneumonia," she says.
Alzheimer's and other dementias also can affect a person's balance and ability to walk, which can lead to falls and injury, Mitchell says. And she says damage to the brain itself can cause fatal seizures.
But the most common causes of death in people with late-stage Alzheimer's are fevers and infections, Mitchell says. She says this is because the disease has gradually eroded the body's defenses.
"The body is so debilitated, frail and weak at the end of dementia that some of the usual immunological and metabolic factors that can protect a healthy body from infections and fevers really become susceptible," Mitchell says.
Yet many families of people with Alzheimer's don't realize that the disease goes after the body as well as the mind, Mitchell says. So it's important that health care professionals explain this aspect of the disease, she says.
"By understanding dementia as a terminal illness, we can much better prepare and counsel families about what to expect at the end stage," Mitchell says. And research shows that when they fully understand what is happening, she says, they are less likely to request extreme measures to keep a family member alive.
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Oculus' Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell on the past, present and future of the Rift
As geeks, we have a tendency to let our imaginations run away with us. Science fiction-fueled dreams conjure up images of flying cars, robots and artificial reality. We judge our gadgets by the arbitrary standards of famous speculative works: hoverboards by 2015 and a holodeck in every home. It's a silly and unrealistic way to measure our progress, but it inspires us to build the future we're tired of waiting for. This is the kind of passion we found at Oculus VR headquarters, where founder Palmer Luckey and a platoon of software engineers, hardware gurus and marketing wizards hope to make virtual reality a plausible reality. We sat down with the company's aforementioned founder and VP of Product Nate Mitchell to find out where that passion came from and where Oculus VR is heading.
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THX Sues Apple, Claims iPhone, iMac, iPad Speakers Infringe Patent
THX has filed suit against Apple, claiming that the tech giant has infringed on one of THX's patents for "narrow profile speaker configurations and systems" within the company's iPhones, iPads, and iMacs.
The result? The violations cause THX "monetary damage and irreparable harm," reports Bloomberg, and the company is seeking monetary damages or royalty payments, as well as a court order that would force Apple to cease its alleged infringement.
According to THX's complaint, filed Thursday in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Apple's infringing the patent on its iPhone 4 (and later models), iPads, and iMacs, "which incorporate narrow-profile speaker units that output sound through a duct or aperture having a narrow dimension."
Here's where it gets interesting. The patent that THX is holding over Apple's head was granted to the company in 2008. U.S. Patent No. 7,433,483 describes, in part, "a narrow profile speaker unit comprises at least one speaker outputting sound towards an internal surface and through a duct with an output terminus, such as a slot, having a narrow dimension, effectively changing the cross-section of the speaker's audio output wave. A pair of speakers may face one another, outputting sound towards a common output slot."
As AppleInsider notes, the bit about the duct does look rather similar to the current design of Apple's iMac speakers ? which feature ducts that appear to channel sound in a downward direction from the actual speakers hidden inside the lower portion of the computer's thin body.
Additionally, it remains to be seen just how Apple's existing patents ? which do include patents related to the channeling of audio in different directions within electronic devices ? play into THX's claims. And that's especially true for any patents that happen to predate THX's patent. According to AppleInsider, one of the more relevant patents Apple currently holds, U.S. Patent No. 8,385,568 for "low-profile speaker arrangements for compact electronic devices," was filed for by Apple all of two years after THX's aforementioned patent was granted.
Apple and THX have until May 14 to reach some kind of early settlement over the dispute. As expected, neither Apple nor THX are commenting about the patent allegations in question.
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Friday, March 15, 2013
Lease verses Buy | Doral's Auto Repair
Lease? Or buy? It?s always a tough question for residents in the Castro Valley area. But here are a few ideas that?ll make the choice more clear.
Either option gives you a choice of how you might finance your car. If you buy, you?ll pay the full cost of the car, with maybe an initial down payment, then monthly payments on the balance that pays down the loan principal, and the finance charge.
If you lease, you?re financing the portion of the cost of the car that?s used up during the term of the lease. When the lease is up, you return the car to your local Castro Valley area dealership. You?ll pay some money upfront; fees, security deposit, first month?s payment and maybe a capital reduction. The month payments include a depreciation cost and a finance charge.
So how do you decide?
First, how big a down payment can you make? A lease would require a smaller down.
How much monthly payment can you afford? Again, lease payments will be much lower for any given down payment.
A lease needs you to have better credit, so that?s a factor.
How long will you keep the car? If you tend to keep your cars around for a while, buying is cheaper. But just two or three years? Then leasing is the way to go.
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If your car might suffer a ding or two, like, say a work truck would, then buying?s better. The leasing company will want their merchandise back at the lease end in tip top shape, and if repairs are needed, you?ll pay.
How many miles do you drive in and around the Castro Valley area? Important to consider because leases have a mileage limit, and if you go over, you pay a hefty charge per mile when the lease is up. So high mileage means a buy.
Will the car be used for business? Check with your accountant, but both financing options have different tax benefits, depending on your circumstances.
Over the short term, leasing is much cheaper. Medium term, leasing and buying costs are about the same. Over the long haul, leasing is always costs more.
Leases may sound a bit complicated, and the typical lease decision weighs more on the monthly payment, rather than price. So sometimes leasers may pay on a higher purchase price than a buyer would.
Here is a tip: If a salesman asks if you?ll be leasing or buying, say you?re not sure yet. Make your best deal, then look at financing options.
Here?s another: With a buy or a lease, if you total the car, you?ll owe the full amount of the loan, or the balance of the lease payments, and usually, it?s less than the car?s fair market value ? and that?s all your insurance company will pay. But ask your agent about gap insurance, which pays the difference between fair market value and what you owe. Big consideration for a lease.
Remember, you have to return your leased vehicle in excellent condition, and may need to do all manufacturer?s recommended service and maintenance, or face penalties. So see your local Castro Valley service center on a regular basis, get the required work done and save the service records. It?s well worth it.
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Capitalism and democracy not compatible on the Internet, author says
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Two decades into the digital age, the Internet is now "enmeshed in the fabric of nearly every aspect of life," says University of Illinois communication professor Robert McChesney. In ongoing debates about its influence and future, there are, he says, celebrants and skeptics.
But there's an "elephant in the room" that's getting little attention, McChesney says in a new book. That elephant is capitalism, and its growing dominance of the Internet is threatening everything from privacy to democracy.
Both the celebrants and skeptics "take capitalism for granted as part of the background scenery" and disregard the political economy, McChesney writes in "Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy," published this month by The New Press.
"When capitalism is mentioned, it is usually as the 'free market,' which is taken as a benevolent given, almost a synonym for democracy," McChesney writes. Yet "really existing capitalism" doesn't fit with the free-market "catechism" or with democracy, he writes; "the crisis of our times is that capitalism undermines democracy."
The Internet has been transformed from the noncommercial and public space that many dreamed of in its earlier days to one that "has been commercialized, copyrighted, patented, privatized, data-inspected, and monopolized," McChesney writes.
As part of that process, advertising has been transformed online in a way that eliminates previous notions of privacy, and the government has surveillance powers that were once unimaginable. Large telecommunication and entertainment corporations that once appeared to be vulnerable, because of the Internet, have prospered through their influence in a "corrupt" policymaking process.
The Internet giants that have risen over the last two decades are not the progressive force some think them to be, and have prospered as the result of monopoly privileges, exploited labor, and government policies and subsidies, he says.
McChesney has written extensively in the past about the politics and economics of the media, the decline of journalism, and corporate influence in the government's media policymaking. He also is a co-founder of Free Press, a media reform organization.
This book comes now, McChesney writes, because he sees the Internet as having crystallized to a significant degree. "We are in a position, in some respects for the first time, to make sense of the Internet experience and highlight the cutting-edge issues it poses for society," he writes.
We also are in a better position to understand what decisions can be made that might determine the future of the Internet and its influence in shaping the society, he says in the book.
Among his prescriptions: broadband availability to all for free as a basic right, strict regulation of advertising and a sharp reduction or elimination of the tax write-off of advertising as a business expense, heavy regulation of digital "natural monopolies" or conversion of them to nonprofit services, large public investments in journalism, net neutrality, strict privacy regulations that make online activities as private as correspondence in the mail, and strong legal barriers against militarization of the Internet and use of it for warrantless surveillance.
Yet while outlining these and other reforms related to the broader communications environment, McChesney pessimistically writes that none of them have a chance of enactment given the power of wealth and corporations in the policymaking process. Movements for democratic reform and revolution will therefore be required, he writes, and he believes those movements are emerging.
"At the center of political debate will be economics: What sort of economy can best promote democratic values and structures and self-governance while nurturing the environment? And at the center of everything will be the Internet. The democratization of the Internet is integrally related to the democratization of the political economy. They rise and fall together."
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Two decades into the digital age, the Internet is now "enmeshed in the fabric of nearly every aspect of life," says University of Illinois communication professor Robert McChesney. In ongoing debates about its influence and future, there are, he says, celebrants and skeptics.
But there's an "elephant in the room" that's getting little attention, McChesney says in a new book. That elephant is capitalism, and its growing dominance of the Internet is threatening everything from privacy to democracy.
Both the celebrants and skeptics "take capitalism for granted as part of the background scenery" and disregard the political economy, McChesney writes in "Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy," published this month by The New Press.
"When capitalism is mentioned, it is usually as the 'free market,' which is taken as a benevolent given, almost a synonym for democracy," McChesney writes. Yet "really existing capitalism" doesn't fit with the free-market "catechism" or with democracy, he writes; "the crisis of our times is that capitalism undermines democracy."
The Internet has been transformed from the noncommercial and public space that many dreamed of in its earlier days to one that "has been commercialized, copyrighted, patented, privatized, data-inspected, and monopolized," McChesney writes.
As part of that process, advertising has been transformed online in a way that eliminates previous notions of privacy, and the government has surveillance powers that were once unimaginable. Large telecommunication and entertainment corporations that once appeared to be vulnerable, because of the Internet, have prospered through their influence in a "corrupt" policymaking process.
The Internet giants that have risen over the last two decades are not the progressive force some think them to be, and have prospered as the result of monopoly privileges, exploited labor, and government policies and subsidies, he says.
McChesney has written extensively in the past about the politics and economics of the media, the decline of journalism, and corporate influence in the government's media policymaking. He also is a co-founder of Free Press, a media reform organization.
This book comes now, McChesney writes, because he sees the Internet as having crystallized to a significant degree. "We are in a position, in some respects for the first time, to make sense of the Internet experience and highlight the cutting-edge issues it poses for society," he writes.
We also are in a better position to understand what decisions can be made that might determine the future of the Internet and its influence in shaping the society, he says in the book.
Among his prescriptions: broadband availability to all for free as a basic right, strict regulation of advertising and a sharp reduction or elimination of the tax write-off of advertising as a business expense, heavy regulation of digital "natural monopolies" or conversion of them to nonprofit services, large public investments in journalism, net neutrality, strict privacy regulations that make online activities as private as correspondence in the mail, and strong legal barriers against militarization of the Internet and use of it for warrantless surveillance.
Yet while outlining these and other reforms related to the broader communications environment, McChesney pessimistically writes that none of them have a chance of enactment given the power of wealth and corporations in the policymaking process. Movements for democratic reform and revolution will therefore be required, he writes, and he believes those movements are emerging.
"At the center of political debate will be economics: What sort of economy can best promote democratic values and structures and self-governance while nurturing the environment? And at the center of everything will be the Internet. The democratization of the Internet is integrally related to the democratization of the political economy. They rise and fall together."
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Did 'Watchmen' Kill The 'BioShock' Movie?
We may finally have an answer about what happened to Gore Verbinski's proposed "BioShock" adaptation. It may have been the financial failure of "Watchmen" that doomed the video game movie. Also, see what went into turning Anthony Hopkins into Alfred Hitchcock in today's Dailies! » Featurette for "Oblivion" [Yahoo! Movies] » "Watchmen" may be responsible [...]
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New approaches for controlling pesticide exposure in children
Mar. 13, 2013 ? New research on household pesticide contamination emphasizes the need for less reliance on pesticides and more emphasis on neatness, blocking cracks where insects can enter and other so-called "integrated pest management" (IPM) measures, scientists have concluded.
Their study appears in the ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Chensheng Lu and colleagues cite previous studies showing that urban, low-income, multifamily, public housing dwellings are prone to severe pest infestation problems. Families in Boston public housing developments, for instance, rank pest infestation, pesticide use and pest allergies second only to crime as matters of concern. In an effort to encourage use of IPM, which reduces reliance on traditional pesticides, Lu's team studied exposure to 19 pesticides among children in 20 families in Boston's public housing.
They found pesticides in all of the homes, along with indications -- such as sighting of live pests or pest debris -- that traditional pesticides were not effective. "The results from the current study, as well as other recent studies, conducted in low-income public housing, child care centers and randomly selected homes in the U.S. should accentuate the need for alternative pest management programs," the report states. IPM focuses on eliminating the cause of pest infestations by minimizing access to food, water, hiding places, and sealing cracks and other openings in walls to prevent entry of pests.
The authors acknowledge funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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- Chensheng Lu, Gary Adamkiewicz, Kathleen R. Attfield, Michaela Kapp, John D Spengler, Lin Tao, Shao Hua Xie. Household Pesticide Contamination from Indoor Pest Control Applications in Urban Low-Income Public Housing Dwellings: A Community-Based Participatory Research. Environmental Science & Technology, 2013; 47 (4): 2018 DOI: 10.1021/es303912n
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Dropbox's redesigned desktop client brings more notifications, faster sharing and a fresher look
In a world that's becoming increasingly swamped with cloud storage options, it's good to see a true, original gangster innovating like the pressure is on. In a matter of moments, Dropbox is going to launch a re-imagined desktop client -- one that promises "more visibility into activity in one's Dropbox, faster access to your files, and a brand new look and feel." The changes here are fairly subtle, but they're ones that power users are bound to appreciate. You'll be able to accept invitations with less friction, see links or albums that people have shared with you, and keep tabs on what's changed in your Dropbox. There's also a newfangled way to share your stuff with a link, right from the Dropbox menu.
Over on the mobile side, notifications for shared folders will also show up on the latest versions of Dropbox's iOS and Android apps (and on the web at dropbox.com/events). Keep an eye on the source link; the new download links should be live any minute.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
MeeGo To MOOCs, Ex-Nokians Launch Eliademy To Put Education In The Cloud
Legend has it that Anssi Vanjoki, the ex-Nokia VP who many inside the company once thought would be its next CEO, used to refer to the now-defunct MeeGo OS team as the ?Alpha team? based on their hard work and ability to produce results with limited resources. It perhaps shouldn?t be a surprise then to learn that more than one startup has been created by members of the MeeGo alumni. In that group, alongside Jolla -- the mobile phone upstart hoping to resurrect the fortunes of Nokia?s abandoned open source OS -- is the equally ambitious CBTec, which has its sights set on the $18 billion online learning industry.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/93H4hM2mcNY/
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Getting Married In May
Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Getting Married In May
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are reportedly set to walk down the aisle this spring in May. The “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” co-stars obtained a wedding license at the end of February which states the couple must marry within 90 days. A source told The Sun newspaper, “Brad and Angelina left themselves short of time ...
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Rodman plans to vacation with North Korean leader
FARGO, N.D. (AP) ? Former professional basketball star Dennis Rodman says he plans to return to North Korea to vacation with Kim Jong Un.
Rodman met with the authoritarian leader in late February during a visit that was not endorsed by the U.S. State Department. The visit came during a period of tension between the countries over North Korea's nuclear weapons testing.
Rodman traveled to Fargo, N.D., over the weekend for a promotional appearance at a local bar. The former Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls star told KVLY-KXJB (http://bit.ly/ZFvL1t ) that he doesn't think Kim wants war and that he considers the leader a friend even though he doesn't condone what he does.
Rodman said he plans to return to North Korea in August to vacation with Kim, who is a diehard basketball fan.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Senate Democrats prepare government funding bill
FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2013 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. leaves a Republican caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington. A Senate bill to carry the government through September denies the Obama administration money for implementing new regulations on Wall Street and expansion of government health care subsidies but provides modest additional funding for domestic priorities like Head Start and health research. Looking to next year, House Republicans prepare a now-familiar budget featuring futile gestures to block "Obamacare" and turn Medicare into a voucherlike program for future retirees. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2013 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. leaves a Republican caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington. A Senate bill to carry the government through September denies the Obama administration money for implementing new regulations on Wall Street and expansion of government health care subsidies but provides modest additional funding for domestic priorities like Head Start and health research. Looking to next year, House Republicans prepare a now-familiar budget featuring futile gestures to block "Obamacare" and turn Medicare into a voucherlike program for future retirees. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
FILE - In this June 5, 2012 file photo, Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. takes part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. A Senate bill to carry the government through September denies the Obama administration money for implementing new regulations on Wall Street and expansion of government health care subsidies but provides modest additional funding for domestic priorities like Head Start and health research. Looking to next year, House Republicans prepare a now-familiar budget featuring futile gestures to block "Obamacare" and turn Medicare into a voucherlike program for future retirees. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Senate Democrats are preparing a catchall government funding bill that denies President Barack Obama money for implementing signature first-term accomplishments like new regulations on Wall Street and his expansion of government health care subsidies but provides modest additional funding for domestic priorities like health research.
The measure expected to be released Monday is the product of bipartisan negotiations and is the legislative vehicle to fund the day-to-day operations of government through Sept. 30 ? and prevent a government shutdown when current funding runs out March 27.
Passage in the Senate this week would presage an end to a mostly overlooked battle between House Republicans and Obama and his Senate Democratic allies over the annual spending bills required to fund federal agency operations.
The bipartisan measure comes as Washington girds for weeks of warfare over the budget for next year and beyond as both House and Senate Budget Committees this week take up blueprints for the upcoming 2014 budget year.
The first salvo in that battle is coming from House Republicans poised to release on Tuesday a now-familiar budget featuring gestures to block "Obamacare," turn Medicare into a voucher-like program for future retirees and sharply curb Medicaid and domestic agency budgets. Such ideas are dead on arrival with Obama and Democrats controlling the Senate, but will ? in concert with new taxes on the wealthy enacted in January ? allow Republicans to propose a budget that would come to balance within 10 years.
"We think we owe the American people a balanced budget," House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said on "Fox News Sunday."
Senate Democrats are countering on Wednesday with a budget plan mixing tax increases, cuts to the Pentagon and relatively modest cuts to domestic programs. The measure would not reach balance, but it would undo automatic budget cuts that started taking effect this month and largely leaves alone rapidly growing benefit programs like Medicare.
"We need to make sure that everybody participates in getting us to a budget that deals with our debt and our deficit responsibly," Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., said Monday evening.
The upcoming debate over the long-term budgetary future promises to be stoutly partisan, even as Obama is undertaking outreach to rank-and-file Republicans in hopes of sowing the seeds for a bipartisan "grand bargain" on the budget this year after two failed attempts to strike agreement with House Speaker John Boehner. Obama's budget is already weeks overdue and Press Secretary Jay Carney deflected questions about it Monday, other than to promise that it would "for a period of time" bring deficits below 3 percent of gross domestic product, a measure that many analysts say is sustainable without damaging the economy.
The wrap-up spending bill for the half-completed fiscal year released Monday, however, is another matter entirely. It's a lowest common denominator approach that gives the Pentagon much-sought relief for readiness accounts but adds money sought by Democrats like Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., for domestic programs such as Head Start, health research, transportation and housing.
The Senate measure would award seven Cabinet departments ? including Defense, Commerce, justice, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs ? with their line-by-line detailed budgets, but would leave the rest of the government running on autopilot at current levels. All domestic agencies except for Veterans Affairs would then be subject to a 5 percent across-the-board cut while the Pentagon would bear an 8 percent cut.
Mikulski needs GOP votes to pass the measure through the Senate, which Democrats control with 55 votes but where 60 votes are required for virtually every piece of substantive legislation. Using their leverage, Republicans have denied a White House request for almost $1 billion to help set up state health-care exchanges to implement Obamacare as well as smaller requests for financial regulators to implement the 2010 Dodd-Frank law overhauling regulation of Wall St. and for the IRS to police tax returns.
It is hoped that the pre-negotiated Senate measure could return to the House ? which passed a different catchall spending bill last week ? and pass through that chamber unchanged and be sent on to Obama well in time to avert a politically disastrous government shutdown.
House Republicans weighed in strongly and successfully against a proposal by Mikulski to give the Obama administration greater flexibility to transfer funds between accounts to cope with the across-the-board spending cuts, known as sequestration. By law, the across-the-board cuts are supposed to be taken in equal measure from front-line programs like air traffic control, meat inspection and the Border Patrol and lower-priority items such as agriculture research and subsidies for airline travel to rural airports.
Even as many Republicans attack the administration for choices such as ending White House tours or canceling early snow removal from Yellowstone National Park, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee in particular fear that giving Obama greater flexibility would erode Congress' control over the federal purse, which is enshrined in the Constitution and zealously guarded.
Thirty-eight Senate Republicans voted last month to give Obama significant flexibility to manage the automatic cuts, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Richard Shelby of Alabama, the party's senior member on the Appropriations Committee.
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New fish species described from the streams of Manyas Lake basin, Turkey
Monday, March 11, 2013
The newly described species Alburnoides manyasensis, belongs the large carp family Cyprinidae that includes freshwater fishes such as he carps, the minnows, and their relatives. This is the largest fish family, and more notably the largest family of vertebrate animals, with the remarkable numbers of over 2,400 species. Cyprinids are highly important food fish because they make the largest part of biomass in most water types except for fast-flowing rivers.
The genus Alburnoides is widely distributed in Turkey in rivers and streams of basins of the Marmara, Black and Aegean seas, being absent only from the Mediterranean Sea basin. It is distinguished by small black spots located on each side of the fish, especially prominent on the anterior of the body. The description was published in the open access journal Zookeys.
Alburnoides manyasensisis is described from the Koca Stream drainage of Lake Manyas, Marmara Sea basin in Anatolia and is currently only associated with this specific locality. The name of the species is an adjective that is derived from the name of Lake Manyas to which the new species is possibly endemic.
The new species inhabits clear fast running water with cobble and pebble substrates. It is a comparatively small representative of the family with maximum known body length of only 92 cm while the largest representative of the family, the giant barb (Catlocarpio siamensis) can reach up to the astonishing 3 m in length.
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Turan D, Ekmekci FG, Kaya C, Guclu SS (2013) Alburnoides manyasensis (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae), a new species of cyprinid fish from Manyas Lake basin, Turkey. ZooKeys 276: 276: 85?02, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.276.4107
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Debating The Future Of Daylight Saving Time
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Kane County Chronicle | Orsini named CFO at Cadence
WINFIELD ? Cadence Health has selected a finance professional from a rival health system to become its new CFO.
This week, Cadence, which operates Delnor Hospital in Geneva and Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, announced that it had hired John Orsini as its next CFO and executive vice president.
Orsini, 49, had served in a similar position at Presence Health, a health care system formed from the merger of Provena Health and Resurrection Health Care in 2011. Presence operates 12 hospitals.
Orsini had worked at Chicago-based Resurrection from May 2010 until he resigned in November.
Cadence had been seeking a CFO since July 2012 to replace former CFO and executive vice president Jim Spear, who had retired last summer.
In a prepared statement, Cadence President and CEO Michael Vivoda said Orsini was selected ?because of his proven expertise in the strategic financial management of multi-hospital systems.?
Vivoda said that experience ?will be vital to the system?s long-term success and stability.?
Before joining Resurrection, Orsini, a licensed CPA, had held corporate finance positions at Scripps Health in San Diego and Catholic Healthcare West in the southwest United States.
Orsini?s hiring marks the latest executive hire at Cadence. Last spring, Cadence hired Vivoda as president and CEO, replacing former CEO Luke McGuinness.
And in fall, Cadence hired Robert Friedberg as president of Delnor and Brian Lemon as president at CDH.
Those executive selections represented promotions from within the organization, which was formed after CDH and Delnor merged in 2011.
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