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Biologists: Pet cats kill up to 3.7 billion birds and 20.7 billion mice ...
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:34 EST
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Domestic cats in the United States kill up to 3.7 billion birds and as many as 20.7 billion mice, voles and other small mammals each year, biologists estimated on Tuesday.
Puss is probably the biggest human-induced killer of these species, outstripping better-known culprits such as habitat loss, agricultural chemicals or hunting, they said in a study published in the journal Nature Communications.
A team led by Scott Loss at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington looked at published research into the predation habits of cats.
Cats that have outdoors access kill between 30 and 47 birds apiece in temperate parts of Europe and North America each year, and between 177 and 299 mammals, according to past investigations.
The next step was to get an estimate of the number of cats in the United States.
Loss?s team calculated there were around 84 million cats with owners, of which a couple of million are unlikely to have outdoor access or go hunting.
Added to that are between 30 and 80 million ?unowned? cats ? animals that are wild or free-ranging but without an owner and survive on goodwill.
?We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4 to 3.7 billion birds and 6.9 to 20.7 billion mammals annually,? says the study.
?Unowned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality.?
The paper says the estimates are much bigger than previously thought, and show that cats ?are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic [man-made] mortality for US birds and mammals.?
It adds: ?Scientifically sound conservation and policy intervention [are] needed to reduce this impact.?
The study tried to get a fix on the numbers of reptiles and amphibians that are killed by cats, but drew a blank.
According to the famous ?Red List? compiled by the/ International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), cats on islands have caused or contributed to the extinctions of 33 species of birds, mammals and reptiles.
The study coincides with a fierce debate in New Zealand, where Gareth Morgan, a businessman turned philanthropist, has called for cats there to be eradicated to save the country?s unique species of wildlife, which includes the flightless kiwi.
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Private Internet Access
Private Internet Access is a personal VPN service that manages to remain lightweight while hiding your online activity from eavesdroppers. The service's VPN technology passes all your online activity through an encrypted tunnel from your computer to the destination website so that your data remains safe at all times. If you are on an open wireless network, using a VPN service such as Private Internet Access will keep you safe from malicious individuals after your data.
There are many VPN services on the market, some of which we've reviewed, such as Symantec's Norton Hotspot Privacy which received our Editors' Choice designation, as well as VPN Direct (Premium) and proXPN. Private Internet Access, despite its unwieldy moniker, is a straightforward one-click-to-go VPN client with several advanced features that sets it apart from the competition.
Private Internet Access comes in three payment plans, at $6.95 a month, $35.95 for six months, or $39.95 for a year. Unlike many other competing products on the market, there is no free version or a trial available for users who want to check it out beforehand. I would have liked to see a cheaper one-day pass or something, but considering the monthly plan is roughly equivalent to a grande latte at Starbucks, it's not a bad deal.
A Refresher on How VPN Services Work
Your computer has an IP address assigned by your ISP. A geo-location lookup reveals the geographic location of the ISP or the data center containing the server assigning the address. You may want to change the address so that it will be harder to trace online activity back to you, or trying to access a service that is restricted by geographic region. VPN services override the IP address with one assigned by their networks, so that users can suddenly appears to be from a different country. Considering Facebook is blocked in China, Netflix is restricted outside the US, and some YouTube videos are blocked in Germany, being able to change where you are "from" is useful.
The service creates an encrypted tunnel between the computer and the destination website or network, and all data flows through the tunnel. This means even if you are using a coffee-shop hotspot, you can log into your email or access other accounts without worrying about someone eavesdropping or intercepting data. It's important to remember that the data is only protected while in transit; if the destination site is not using HTTPS, that part of the connection is unencrypted. Anyone who is sitting at that point of exit can see and harvest that information, and there are fairly complicated timing algorithms out there to identify user activity.
At the time of this writing, there are rumors that all VPN services are being blocked in China.
Installation and Getting Started
I downloaded the Windows version of Private Internet Access from the Website and installed it within seconds. I received my login credentials inside the purchase confirmation email.
Starting the software for the first time opens up a settings window where you enter the login credentials and select the region server to which you want to connect. If you don't care, you can leave it as "auto" and let the software pick. According to my tests, the app really seemed to like the New York region, but that may be because that is where I was based, and the software was simply hitting the closest server.
Like many of its competitors, Private Internet Access uses OpenVPN SSL technology to create its encrypted tunnel. It has an extensive list of servers, with options in the United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, and Romania. The geographic diversity for the U.S. is staggering, with servers available in California, Denver, Florida, Ohio, Texas, "East," "Midwest" (Chicago, Ill.), and "West." The company is poised to roll out 45 more gateways worldwide with dedicated Gigabit ports this month.
Perhaps you are a power user and want more control over your network, or perhaps your ISP is overly restrictive and you need to tweak your settings. You can click on the "advanced" button on the settings screen. Under "advanced" settings, you can select the connection type, specify the remote and local ports to use, enable port forwarding, set up a VPN "kill switch," and turn on DNS leak protection. I will go in detail about these options later in the review.
The software is extremely minimalistic and lightweight. Unlike most other competitors, Private Internet Access showed no actual application window when I launched the program. All I got was a tiny lock icon in the system tray, and when I right-clicked on the icon, I saw a menu listing what servers to connect to and the option to go back into the Settings screen.
No Feedback
While I like the supremely minimalist interface, I found it frustrating when I ran into trouble because there was no way to get any kind of feedback on how to troubleshoot.
Whenever I review a VPN service, I try to schedule a trip so that I can try out the software while on the road. On my most recent trip, I ran into an unexpected snag when I tried to connect. The systray icon was green and my status message said "Connected." Yet when I tried to get to a Website, I kept getting connection errors because the browser didn't think I was connected to a network.
After a little bit of poking around and tweaking, I changed my connection type in the advanced panel from UDP (which is the default) to TCP. It turned out the particular ISP I was connected to blocked or filtered UDP ports. Now, in general, UDP filtering is rare, so this was an edge case to begin with, but nothing in the application hinted at any problems?
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
OpenTable buys food photo-sharing app Foodspotting
NEW YORK (AP) ? Restaurant reservations site OpenTable says it is buying Foodspotting, a mobile app for finding and sharing photos of food, for about $10 million to help it personalize its service.
OpenTable Inc. lets people book reservations online, or through its mobile app, without having to talk to a person. It's used by about 26,000 restaurants around the world. The San Francisco-based company says it will use Foodspotting's formulas for restaurant recommendations to help tailor OpenTable for individual users.
OpenTable says it recently added photos of food from Foodspotting in a partnership with the company.
Foodspotting's founder, Alexa Andrzejewski, will join OpenTable along with most of the startup's 10 employees. OpenTable says it plans to keep the Foodspotting website and app going.
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NYC man found dead, bound with bag over head
By Shimon Prokupecz, NBCNewYork.com
Police are investigating the death of a 48-year-old man who was found tied up with a bag over his head at a home in Harlem Monday morning, a law enforcement official told NBC 4 New York.
Authorities said a woman visiting the home -- either a cleaning person or home health-care aide -- discovered the man in 87 Hamilton Place shortly before 10:30 a.m.
Police sources said the victim, identified as Charles Romo, was found on his knees on the bedroom floor with his hands tied behind his back, his legs tied with a belt and tape around his neck. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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A neighbor told detectives she called police Sunday night after she heard screams from what she thought was an apartment on the first floor, police sources said.
The NYPD responded to her call and found nothing of concern on the first floor. The victim lived on the second floor, which police did not check out because of the nature of the emergency call, police sources told NBC 4 New York.
A medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
The investigation is ongoing.
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The Democrat who beat Nate Silver takes on spending
Politics Confidential
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., defied the odds in November when she won the closest senate race in the country, and now that she's arrived in Washington, she's defiant as ever. But now, instead of defying the pollsters, she's defying the Democratic caucus by taking divergent opinions on issues central to the President Obama's second term agenda, ranging from gun control to the environment.
Heitkamp, who says growing the economy is her top priority, is concerned that the president is changing his focus to issues like climate change and gun control.
"I think, you know the one thing that has gotten lost by everyone is one of the best ways that we can perform here is by getting people back to work, making sure that this economic recovery, slow as it is, gets amped up and moves forward," Heitkamp tells Politics Confidential. "It's one of the reasons why I've been such a big proponent of the Keystone Pipeline. There's a shovel ready, private sector jobs program, good paying jobs."
On the topic of gun control, Heitkamp does not hesitate when asked if she'll support an assault weapons ban; her answer is a definitive no.
"There's literally hundreds of thousands of guns already out there," says Heitkamp. "This isn't a solution to the problem, that's my first thing. And I think if you read the case, the Second Amendment case, you got some serious Second Amendment challenges in all of this, and my personal perspective is that you are ignoring what could actually work to prevent this from happening because you are following an agenda that you already had before this ever happened, instead of taking a look at this circumstance, these situations and how do we prevent this violence."
Heitkamp says mental health needs to be part of the conversation in finding solutions to gun violence.
?It's good early prevention, it's good early detection of people who could possibly be doing these things, and then getting intervention,? says Heitkamp. ?Take a look at what happened in Aurora, Colorado, when they called the mother, what did the mother say? ?Oh my son could never do this?, no she said ?You have the right person, I'm sorry'. Now there's a message.?
Heitkamp, who has already faced criticism from environmental groups, may also soon be targeted by an outside group built from the remains of the president's campaign and led by the president's 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina. The new group plans to put pressure on Republicans and Democrats who don't go along with the president's agenda.
"I would tell you as you talk about Jim Messina, the president lost North Dakota by almost 22 percentage points and I was still elected the United States senator and I was elected because I promised people I was going to be their voice not the voice for a political party, not the voice for a president who happens to be in the same political party that I am but I am the voice for the people of North Dakota," Heitkamp says. "I'll make my decisions based on what I believe is in the best interest of the people of North Dakota, the people of this country. And if in six years people don't agree that I made the right choices, I'll find something else to do."
To hear more about Heitkamp's fearless brand of politics, and to find out what she thinks about proving the otherwise infallible Nate Silver wrong on election night, check out this week's Politics Confidential.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Computers and Technology|Hardware: Economical Brother HL ...
There are hundreds of companies in the world which are producing ink and cartridges, but which toner cartridge is the best for your printer? That's surely the question that you have in your mind. Let me tell you that Brother HL2130 is definitely one of the best options you have. Because Brother HL2130 is a quality ink cartridge that gives you an excellent printing result. Just the way you want it.
Ink or cartridges can be called the most important component of a printer. A printer is nothing without an ink or a toner cartridge because it controls the amount of ink that is being provided to your printer. If it supplies too much ink, your print is more likely going to be all smudged. If it's not supplying enough then your print is hardly dark enough or readable. What you need is a cartridge that can create a balance between the two extremes and produce a magnificent result and Brother HL2130 cartridges do exactly that! Now, printers have proven to be the most widely used electronics in the world and we cannot even imagine our lives without printers. It's a fact that over one hundred thousand printers are being produced daily. So with this sort of an increase in the demand of printers, there is a high demand of ink and cartridges as well. And millions of ink cartridges are being produced to meet the booming demand of the users. Brother HL-2130 and Brother TN2000 cartridges are some fine examples of ink/ cartridges.
Like I mentioned earlier, with the boom in the demand of ink and cartridges, many companies are producing a number of ink and cartridges, but it's hard to find a quality toner cartridge which is reliable. Brother HL-2130 cartridges are fine cartridges which are reliable and fairly priced too. Brother HL-2130 printer cartridges are low maintenance, high quality and an environment friendly cartridges. Almost all Brother cartridges spend less time in restocking the paper, which will surely save your time. Its recycling friendly designed which consumes low power, which will surely save your power. Its sharp, quality printing result will surly satisfy your printing needs.
Now lets have a look at Brother HL-2130 printer. Brother HL-2130 toner cartridge is a mono laser cartridge whose max black print speed (ppm) and max print quality (dpi) are 20 and 2400 x 600 respectively. It usually comes in black and is a light weight toner cartridge. Its compatible printer can print document sizes A4, A5, A6, B5, B6, Letter (LTR) and connects through a high speed USB port, 2.0 connections and supports Mac OS, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. If you're buying the Brother HL-2130 printer itself, rather the cartridges separately then you should also get a CD-ROM (including User's Guide), Quick Setup Guide, Inbox Toner Cartridge (TN-2030) - 700 pages in accordance with ISO / IEC 19752, Drum (DR-2225) and AC Power Cord because its all included in the package. In short, it is ideal for small offices and costs incredibly fair, which not only suits you, but also suits your pocket.
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Leading Online Marketing Ideas To Expand Your Business
Posted by Sawyer Lunthmoreland on Jan 27, 2013 in Internet Marketing |
Internet marketing is the promotion of products over the internet. It easily brings together the creative aspects of the internet with the technical. This will bring a rise in sales to companies that put time into it. You will be reading many tips that will help you develop internet marketing for your company.
To create a quality newsletter, you need to write educational content. Your goal is to provide interesting information to your audience. Mention your products into your educational content, write informative texts about the products themselves, or explain how your product can have an educational use. Remember that people subscribed to your newsletter to learn something.
An important tip regarding Internet marketing is that if want to expand globally, you need to think globally. This is important because in order to best cater to people from other countries, you may wish to consider making changes to your site if it contains cultural sensitivities or humor intended solely for Americans.
It?s important that if you?re linking on someone else?s site for internet marketing that you make sure your link is a ?do-follow? link. You can click the page source of any link and look at the HTML. Unless it specifically says something to extent of ?do not follow," you know you?re safe here. Always be sure to check this.
Use forums to gain readers. Posting a teaser paragraph in several different forums can get people?s attention very quickly. The best way to do this is to find the forums that your target audiences frequent the most, and post it there. Make sure the paragraph is enticing and entertaining to gain the most.
Whether you?re allowing comments on your blog or website, you?re always going to run across a few jerks when running a business. Make sure you never reply to the buffoons of the world. Simply delete their comments and get on with your day. Do not appear childish by engaging in a back-and-forth with idiots.
When starting an online business, find a niche and become the authority on that product. For example, instead of selling shoes, sell extra wide shoes for men. While you narrow your playing field, you bring in traffic that has difficulty finding your product through other avenues, increasing your chances of making a sale. In addition, your business will be easier to find online because of your detailed key phrases. Try entering a search for ?shoes" and then enter a search for ?men?s extra wide shoes" and see what a difference a niche can make.
Internet marketing is often seen through banner ads, but these are not highly recommended. Do not invest much of your resources in banner ads if you want to successfully market your products or services online. Banner ads are increasingly being blocked with extensions in browsers, effectively deleting your ads from sites.
Creating a site map is very helpful for both search engines and visitors. It will help to find all of your pages, especially if you have a larger site. There are free tools that will help you create XML sitemaps, which are used by the major search engines to index webpages accurately.
Keeping yourself motivated is an important part of internet marketing and it is hard to keep your enthusiasm up if you keep jumping from project to project. Try sticking with just one project and stay with it until you see positive results. It may take some discipline, but it will be worth the effort.
When you concentrate on improving your internet marketing efforts, you are making excellent use of your valuable time. The marketplace accessible online is the largest in the world, and the potential customer base is incredibly vast. Reading articles like this one can pay off in a big way when you pick up useful new internet marketing tips.
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Michigan makes case for No. 1 with 74-60 win
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) ? Possible No. 1 ranking? Yeah, that's nice, Michigan's Trey Burke said Sunday outside the locker room at Illinois' Assembly Hall.
But after the win that should give the No. 2 Wolverines their first top ranking since the 1992-93 season, the sophomore guard wanted to talk defense and what a team does when one of its big, defensive rocks goes down.
If you're Michigan (19-1, 6-1 Big Ten), you plug in a couple of other big guys. And you win ? in this case 74-60 over the Illini, most of it without 6-foot-8, 250-pound Jordan Morgan. The starting forward limped to the locker room less than two minutes into the game with a sprained right ankle and didn't come back.
"Coach (John Beilein) calls him the minister of defense," Burke said, crediting the Mitch McGary, John Horford and Max Bielfeldt, the three big men who picked up the slack.
"I say this every game," Burke added, "but it just starts with defense. I think that started in the first half."
And that No. 1 ranking, which will likely be Michigan's after Duke's lopsided loss to Miami earlier in the week opened the door when the AP poll comes out Monday, doesn't mean much yet, Beilein was quick to remind.
"You compete for a Big Ten championship, then you go on you compete for a national championship," he said. "That's the number one you want down the line."
Illinois (15-6, 2-5) and first-year coach John Groce, whose team has been doomed by cold shooting since mid-December and shot 37.1 percent Sunday, could do little but marvel at the Wolverines.
"I give Michigan a lot of credit," Groce said. "You make one mistake and they exploit it like that."
Burke scored 19 to lead Michigan. Nick Stauskas scored 14 points and Glenn Robinson III and Tim Hardaway Jr. added 12 each.
Brandon Paul led Illinois with 15 points but had five of the Illini's 15 costly turnovers.
Beilein said he didn't yet know the severity of Morgan's sprained right ankle but said he couldn't have returned to the game even if baldy needed.
The Wolverines hardly missed him ? they seemed to have an answer for everything Illinois offered.
The Illini fought back to within seven points with just over nine minutes to play when a Richardson steal set up Joseph Bertrand for a soft jump shot that floated into the bucket.
The wave of noise that rose from the crowd trying to will the Illini back into the game didn't last long.
First, with 8:40 to play, Mitch McGary pulled down the rebound off a miss by Burke and dropped the ball into the bucket.
Then Burke scooped the ball up off a Paul turnover at the other end and, with a dunk, put the Wolverines back up by 11 at 59-48. With 8:21 to play and shooting just 37.1 percent on the night, Illinois couldn't find a way back.
Morgan appeared to roll his right ankle as he came down under the Wolverine basket, but Michigan lost little if anything inside without the 6-foot-8, 250-pound forward.
McGary, Bielfeldt ? a redshirt freshman with strong ties to Illinois ? and Horford picked up most of Morgan's minutes, and his slack.
McGary, a 6-10, 250-pound forward, hasn't started a game this season but averages 16 minutes a night anyway. Bielfeldt, though, plays less than six minutes a night, and was all nerves in his first minutes on the court. The 6-7, 245-pound forward badly missed his first free throw, at least a foot right of the basket, and the crowd, well aware that the athletic administration building on the Illinois campus bears his big-donor family's name, let him have it.
So did his teammates, Beilein said.
"It was not a great initial debut with the air ball. That's one of the first things we made fun of," the coach said. "All his teammates were on him in the locker room."
But with another chance at the line minutes later, Bielfeldt sank both shots, finishing with four points in six minutes.
Horford had seven points and five boards in 17 minutes while McGary had six points and eight rebounds.
"It gave three guys the opportunity to play that (don't) get as much as they like, Beilein said of Morgan's injury. "I'm really impressed with the big guys and how they stepped up there."
Illinois' big-man combination of Nanna Egwu, Sam McLaurin and Tyler Griffey wasn't much of a match for them. The Wolverines scored 42 points in the paint.
Groce said his big men weren't bad, just not as good they'd like to be, especially McLaurin, the 6-8 grad-student transfer he called his team's defensive Kevin Garnett
"I really have a high regard for Sam's intelligence and ability to execute our defense, and I think we'll look at the film and he wasn't on his Ps and Qs like normal," said Groce, who last faced Michigan as the coach at Ohio, leading the Bobcats to a second-round NCAA Tournament upset last spring.
Michigan took the lead for good with 15:21 to play in the first half when Burke hit a jump shot to go up 8-7. With a 9-0 run that ended only with a 3-pointer by Paul with 10:52 left in the half, the Wolverines were up 15-10.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/michigan-makes-case-no-1-74-60-win-010630136--spt.html
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Purported Relativity Paradox Resolved
Science is alive and well in at least the Physics community. Whilst I won't even pretend to understand General Relativity, the questioning of it and discussion about those questions is the true essence of science.
Sigh. General Relativity was not even at question here. Perhaps commenting on Slashdot should require a minimum amount of knowing what one is talking about. AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA. Sigh.
At any rate, electrical engineers tend to view parts of Special Relativity in isolation. That makes them easier to handle and "visualize" in some respects, but much harder to deal with interactions. Minkovsky vectors and tensors are what theoretical physicists use instead, grouping several codependent field parts i
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Houstory, Heirloom register Garner | Dynamic
Ferndale, Wash. (PRWEB) January 23, 2013
The Register Heirloom has been described in the latest issue of Antique Trader magazine.
Into the article. Houstory founder Mike Hiestand response to questions from antiques and popular and highly respected publication collectibles
Into We are so honored and excited to be in the magazine, says Dan Hiestand, marketing director Houstory. This is a great time for our growing company. We feel that we have much to offer the antiques and collectibles market.
Into Antique Trader publishes Antoinette Rahn said Heirloom registry is a valuable tool for collectors of antiques, antique and family historians, when they are used.
Into ?A lot of collectors are attracted to an item to the memories and experiences that surround it, is what helps define his character, says Rahn Whether it?s grandma?s silver cutlery, call dad assembly fishing, or the belief in a just a few. a small antique shop on their honeymoon, each piece brings a piece of someone?s life with it. Heirloom Registry allows people to preserve, reflect and celebrate nostalgic today and in the coming years. solidifies nostalgia and its importance in a person?s life . ?
To be profiled by Antique Trader has another advantage for founder Mike Hiestand.
In my wifes cheesecake recipe came from legendary Antique Trader. The cut back in 1980, where his parents were regular subscribers. Ive told my in-laws on all the things we do new media (blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Pint Rest, YouTube), but it does not make much sense to them. Now that they were in the Antique Trader finally true!
Into Who Antique Trader Magazine
Antique Trader, a magazine published 26 times a year in Iola, Wisconsin, has served the antiques and collectibles community since 1957. Antique Trader magazine has a circulation of over 50,000 readers and more than 3,000 daily unique visitors to its website, which serves over 1 million page views each year. His blog has been regarded as one of the most widely read in antiques and collectibles. http://www.antiquetrader.com/
Who Houstory: stories of Home
The things they care about the stories they are home, keepsakes and family heirlooms. But if it says and just as importantly sharing these stories, who will? Houstory? has developed two products Register and Heirloom book home magazine Story Archive genealogists and historians to help families protect and share these priceless stories. Leave a gift to future generations by adding texture and color to your family tree now. http://www.houstory.com
The register heirloom
When you record the history of a family heirloom, antique or collectible Heirloom registry, history travels with it. Where he goes. Forever. In just 10-15 minutes, family history and backgrounds stored safely. Its cheap and simple: Mark / label your product with a high quality registry Heirloom glue, brass or aluminum plate and share stories about your articles in words and pictures to http://www.heirloomregistry.com. Once registered, these stories will be available for future owners, regardless of where the product goes.
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Beyond room service: Order up a fighter
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Hotel guests need not head out with an unknown entity for adventure when they book a room. Properties around the globe are tempting travelers with one-of-a-kind experiences on the grounds or directly through the hotel.?
Whether you fancy a Muay Thai lesson with a fighter in Bangkok or an exclusive cooking class in Costa Rica, if you choose well, your hotel can arrange a day you'll remember long after check-out.
?Hotels are just now recognizing that they have resources that other travel-related industries have been tapping for years,? said?Ted Mandigo, director of hotel consulting firm?TR Mandigo & Company. The?company has tracked the travel habits of U.S. consumers for more than?20 years. ?Hotels have been passive providers, nicely fitting into the travel industry, but not aggressively promoting their resources,? he said.
Now that properties see the light, they're getting on the bandwagon with an array of offerings.?
For wannabe fighters, or anyone drawn to the idea of punching and kicking a champion Muay Thai fighter, guests at the Peninsula Bangkok can go a few rounds with a real live kickboxer at an outdoor makeshift ring overlooking the Chao Phraya, commemorated with photo, certificate and boxing shorts.
At The Wauwinet in Nantucket, Mass., guests can try their hand at hauling in lobster traps aboard The Wauwinet Lady. The hotel chef will later prepare a lobster feast with their catch. Those who would prefer to limit their catch to waves can learn from the resident professional surfer at Anantara Dhigu Resort & Spa in the Maldives, with beginner lessons that include everything a surfer newbie may need. ?
Not?that into the hang ten scene? Those aspiring to dance with the stars can learn the tango without leaving the hotel at Tango Lodge Palermo Soho in Buenos Aires. The six-days-a-week classes always include an English speaker.
These activities tap into the need to?experience something "new and different" that Peter C. Yesawich, vice chairman of MMGY Global (a marketing communications company specializing in the travel, leisure and entertainment industries) says has ?become increasingly important for consumers when selecting hotel or resort accommodations ? particularly true for younger (millennial) travelers. It's access to experiences that would otherwise be 'inaccessible' that appear to be growing in their allure."
Andrea Duvall, an avid traveler from Louisville, Ky., took advantage of?just such an exclusive-to-hotel-guests option: a cooking class at Los Altos de Eros, a small hotel in Costa Rica.?
?It?s a remote hotel on top of a hotel,? she said. ?The class was an easy option rather than arranging transfers to offsite activities, and a great way to learn to prepare local food yourself.??
Duvall said?she and her husband?seek out uniquely local experiences and this fit the bill.?
?The experience we had felt very intimate,? she said. ?We were literally in the kitchen of the property ? it felt like an authentic experience?versus?a big cooking school off-site.?
While offering experiences are??savvy selling points for hotels trying to distinguish themselves,??some can be??terrific perks,? according to Pauline Frommer, nationally-syndicated host of "The Travel Show" with Clear Channel Media. She offers a word of caution: "Sometimes hotel tours and additional activities are not the best value because they've been simply thrown together in an attempt to get more money."
?Independently-arranged activities can be more interesting because they'll draw the kind of thinking traveler who researches his options in advance ... and the variety of travelers will be greater,??Frommer said.??Remember, a lot of the travel experience consists of interacting with other travelers, so getting out of your hotel can be a good idea.?
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Emotional stress reduces effectiveness of prostate cancer therapies ...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. ? Jan. 25, 2013 ? Not surprisingly, a cancer diagnosis creates stress. And patients with prostate cancer show higher levels of anxiety compared to other cancer patients.
A new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center indicates that stress is not just an emotional side effect of the diagnosis; it also can reduce the effectiveness of prostate cancer drugs and accelerate the development of prostate cancer.
The findings are published in the February issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
The Wake Forest Baptist team, headed by George Kulik, D.V.M., Ph.D., associate professor of cancer biology, tested the effects of behavioral stress in two different mouse models of prostate cancer.
One model used mice that were implanted with human prostate cancer cells and treated with a drug that is currently in clinical trial for prostate cancer treatment. When the mice were kept calm and free of stress, the drug destroyed prostate cancer cells and inhibited tumor growth. However, when the mice were stressed, the cancer cells didn't die and the drug did not inhibit tumor growth.
In the second model, mice genetically modified to develop prostate cancer were used. When these mice were repeatedly stressed, the size of prostate tumors increased. When the mice were treated with bicalutamide, a drug currently used to treat prostate cancer, their prostate tumors decreased in size. However, if mice were subjected to repeated stress, the prostate tumors didn't respond as well to the drug.
After analyzing the data, the Wake Forest Baptist researchers identified the cell signaling pathway by which epinephrine, a hormone also known as adrenaline, sets off the cellular chain reaction that controls cell death. Considering that prostate cancer diagnosis increases stress and anxiety levels, stress-induced activation of the signaling pathway that turns off the cell death process may lead to a vicious cycle of stress and cancer progression, Kulik said.
Yet in both models in which the mice were given beta-blocker, stress did not promote prostate tumor growth. Beta-blocker is a drug that inhibits the activation of anti-death signaling by epinephrine.
"Providing beta-blockers to prostate cancer patients who had increased epinephrine levels could improve the effectiveness of anti-cancer therapies," Kulik said. "Our findings could be used to indentify prostate cancer patients who will benefit from stress reduction or from pharmacological inhibition of stress-inducing signaling."
The researchers now plan to test the same signaling mechanism that was identified in mice to determine if it also works in the same way in human prostates, Kulik said.
"We are at the very beginning of understanding complex stress-cancer interactions with multifaceted responses to stress that affect cancer cells, tumor microenvironment, and the organism overall," he said. "We hope that components of this signaling pathway could be used as biomarkers to predict whether and how a given tumor will respond to stress and anti-stress therapies."
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Smartphone 4Q sales rise 36 pct led by Samsung
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Smartphone shipments rose 36 percent worldwide in the fourth quarter as the sleek devices supplanted personal computers and other gadgets on holiday shopping lists, according to a report released Friday.
The findings from the research firm International Data Corp. are the latest sign of the technology upheaval being wrought by the growing popularity of smartphones that can perform a wide variety of tasks, including surfing the Web and taking high-quality photos.
Companies whose fortunes are tied to the PC industry have been particularly hard hit by the shift to smartphones and tablet computers.
While some smartphone models were in short supply during the holiday season, fourth-quarter PC shipments fell by 6 percent from the previous year, according to another IDC report released earlier this month.
IDC estimates 219 million smartphones were shipped during the final three months of last year. That compares with nearly 161 million in the same 2011 period. Smartphones accounted for about 45 percent of all mobile phone shipments in the fourth quarter, the highest percentage recorded by IDC.
Samsung Electronics Co. retained its bragging rights as the smartphone leader, shipping nearly 64 million devices for a 29 percent share of the global market.
Apple Inc. ranked second with nearly 48 million iPhones shipped during the fourth quarter, translating into a market share of 22 percent.
For all of 2012, IDC estimated nearly 713 million smartphones were shipped worldwide, a 44 percent increase from the previous year. Meanwhile, annual PC shipments fell 3 percent from 2011, IDC said. It was the first annual decline since 2001.
Entering 2012, Apple held a slight edge over Samsung in the smartphone market. But Samsung sprinted past Apple during the year as it introduced an array of models, most of which run on Google Inc.'s free Android software. Samsung's top-selling line, the Galaxy, boasts larger display screens than the iPhone and other features.
Apple alleges Samsung's devices illegally ripped off the iPhone's innovations. After a high-profile trial in federal court, a jury in San Jose, Calif. sided with some of the patent infringement claims last August and decided Samsung should pay more than $1 billion in damages. Samsung has been trying to overturn the verdict.
Lower-priced smartphones from Samsung and other device makers also have hurt Apple, whose slowing iPhone growth has contributed to a $250 billion decline in its market value since its stock price peaked in late September.
IDC says Huawei Technologies Ltd.'s emphasis on less expensive handsets helped it become the third largest smartphone maker with a market share of 5 percent at the end of the fourth quarter.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/smartphone-4q-sales-rise-36-205118979.html
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Another Potential Suitor For RIM As Lenovo Ponders An Acquisition
Research In Motion is once again the target of a rumored acquisition. Lenovo’s CFO Wang Wai Ming said in an interview with Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that the Beijing company is eyeing the BlackBerry maker as a potential acquisition target or strategic alliance partner. The news comes less than a week after RIM CEO Thorsten Heins told German newspaper Die Welt that RIM is still undergoing a strategic review, with the possibility of licensing BB 10 to other manufacturers and selling its hardware production unit. And last August, Bloomberg reported that IBM “made an informal approach” to acquire RIM’s enterprise-services unit–the heart of BlackBerry’s business–amid intensifying rumors of an acquisition. “We are looking at all opportunities–RIM and many others,” Wong told Bloomberg. “We’ll have no hesitation if the right opportunity comes along that could benefit us and shareholders.” Wong added that Lenovo has already spoken to RIM and its bankers about various combinations and strategic ventures, though it is unclear when exactly Lenovo would put in a bid. RIM has been looking at its options since last year, when its market share took a beating from the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy. On Lenovo’s side, a shrinking PC market has kept it from growing after it bought IBM’s PC unit in 2005. RIM’s stock price fell to a low of $6.22 in September, but has since nearly tripled due to speculation over the results of a strategic review and buzz over RIM’s long-anticipated BB 10 phones, which will finally debut in less than a week. If the BB 10 takes off as RIM hopes, one option is to focus on licensing the OS to rivals like Samsung. Other rumored suitors for RIM over the past two years have included Amazon back in 2011, and Samsung, which repeatedly denied rumors of a deal last year. A takeover of RIM by a Chinese company would certainly raise security questions–especially for the company once described as a Canadian “crown jewel” by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. And back in July, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins said that the company has pulled back from expanding its China operations because of concerns over protecting its sensitive networks. The deal could also face regulatory hurdles in the U.S., where government investigations into spyware have already created massive hurdles for two other Chinese telecommunications manufacturers, Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp. But a deal focused onSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/TKOAKr-dZvs/
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Arrest made in young Philly doctor's killing
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? An arrest has been made in the slaying of a young doctor found bound and burned inside her downtown Philadelphia home.
Police spokeswoman Officer Tanya Little said Thursday morning that a person is in custody. Authorities did not immediately release details on the charges being filed or the person's name.
The burning body of 35-year-old Melissa Ketunuti was found in her basement Monday afternoon, with her ankles and wrists bound. Police said the second-year infectious-diseases fellow and researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia had been strangled.
The police department says it will be releasing updated information on the case Thursday.
Investigators had been viewing surveillance video from security cameras near Ketunuti's home to see if she was being followed.
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Nokia 808 PureView: officially the last Symbian phone
So long, Symbian. Nestled away in the company's financial announcement this morning, Nokia confirmed that its pixel-punching 808 PureView phone will be the last release powered by the increasingly creaky Symbian OS. In no uncertain terms:
"The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came to market in mid-2012, was the last Symbian device from Nokia."
The company still managed to sell a total of 2.2 million Symbian devices during the last quarter, half the number of Windows Phone 8 devices shifted in the same period -- presumably thanks, in some way, to that as-yet unparalleled PureView camera sensor. We'll be pouring one out (and capturing it in 38 megapixels) if you need us.
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Organic ferroelectric molecule shows promise for memory chips, sensors
Jan. 24, 2013 ? At the heart of computing are tiny crystals that transmit and store digital information's ones and zeroes. Today these are hard and brittle materials. But cheap, flexible, nontoxic organic molecules may play a role in the future of hardware.
A team led by the University of Washington in Seattle and the Southeast University in China discovered a molecule that shows promise as an organic alternative to today's silicon-based semiconductors. The findings, published this week in the journal Science, display properties that make it well suited to a wide range of applications in memory, sensing and low-cost energy storage.
"This molecule is quite remarkable, with some of the key properties that are comparable with the most popular inorganic crystals," said co-corresponding author Jiangyu Li, a UW associate professor of mechanical engineering.
The carbon-based material could offer even cheaper ways to store digital information; provide a flexible, nontoxic material for medical sensors that would be implanted in the body; and create a less costly, lighter material to harvest energy from natural vibrations.
The new molecule is a ferroelectric, meaning it is positively charged on one side and negatively charged on the other, where the direction can be flipped by applying an electrical field. Synthetic ferroelectrics are now used in some displays, sensors and memory chips.
In the study the authors pitted their molecule against barium titanate, a long-known ferroelectric material that is a standard for performance. Barium titanate is a ceramic crystal and contains titanium; it has largely been replaced in industrial applications by better-performing but lead-containing alternatives.
The new molecule holds its own against the standard-bearer. It has a natural polarization, a measure of how strongly the molecules align to store information, of 23, compared to 26 for barium titanate. To Li's knowledge this is the best organic ferroelectric discovered to date.
A recent study in Nature announced an organic ferroelectric that works at room temperature. By contrast, this molecule retains its properties up to 153 degrees Celsius (307 degrees F), even higher than for barium titanate.
The new molecule also offers a full bag of electric tricks. Its dielectric constant -- a measure of how well it can store energy -- is more than 10 times higher than for other organic ferroelectrics. And it's also a good piezoelectric, meaning it's efficient at converting movement into electricity, which is useful in sensors.
The new molecule is made from bromine, a natural element isolated from sea salt, mixed with carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen (its full name is diisopropylammonium bromide). Researchers dissolved the elements in water and evaporated the liquid to grow the crystal. Because the molecule contains carbon, it is organic, and pivoting chemical bonds allow it to flex.
The molecule would not replace current inorganic materials, Li said, but it could be used in applications where cost, ease of manufacturing, weight, flexibility and toxicity are important.
Li is working on a number of projects relating to ferroelectricity. Last year he and his graduate student found the first evidence for ferroelectricity in soft animal tissue. He was co-author on a 2011 paper in Science that documents nanometer-scale switching in ferroelectric films, showing how such molecules could be used to store digital information.
"Ferroelectrics are pretty remarkable materials," Li said. "It allows you to manipulate mechanical energy, electrical energy, optics and electromagnetics, all in a single package."
He is working to further characterize this new molecule and explore its combined electric and mechanical properties. He also plans to continue the search for more organic ferroelectrics.
The joint first authors of the new paper are Yuanming Liu, a UW postdoctoral researcher in mechanical engineering, and Da-Wei Fu, a doctoral student working with co-corresponding author Ren-Gen Xiong at Southeast University. Other co-authors are Hong-Ling Cai, Qiong Ye, Wen Zhang and Yi Zhang at Southeast University; Xue-Yuan Chen at the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Gianluca Giovannetti and Massimo Capone at the Italian National Simulation Centre.
The research was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, China's National Natural Science Foundation and the European Research Council.
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Top EU banks told to write "living will"
LONDON (Reuters) - Top banks in the European Union must present so-called "living wills" by the year-end spelling out how they would survive a crisis without taxpayer aid.
The requirement will affect 39 named banks, 15 of whom have started drafting recovery plans, or living wills, under guidance of the global Financial Stability Board (FSB), the European Banking Authority said on Wednesday.
"The plans shall be submitted to the respective competent authorities and discussed within colleges of supervisors."
Living wills, which can run to several thousand pages, set out how a bank would top up funding and capital levels that become depleted. They show how key parts of the business could be hived off or closed down quickly so core services, such as payment systems, are maintained.
The documents are written by banks for regulators who decide if they are workable or if internal restructuring at the bank is needed.
The EU has proposed a law to manage cross-border banks in trouble that includes a requirement for lenders to draw up living wills.
The EBA has put pressure on banks to draft the will by the end of the year in case of a delay in approving the law.
The FSB, a regulatory task force for the Group of 20 (G20) leading economies, has already set out a framework that includes extra capital requirements, closer supervision and cross-border recovery and resolution plans for the world's 28 most systemically important banks.
Regulators hope that forcing banks to draw up living wills will tackle the "too big to fail" problem of lenders being able to borrow cheaply because markets believe they would always be rescued by government if in trouble because they were too complex to be wound up easily.
(Editing by Dan Lalor)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/top-eu-banks-told-write-living-135905313--finance.html
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Apple Earnings Preview: It's All About The iPhone ... - Yahoo! Finance
Provided by Business Insider's Jay Yarow
Apple's (AAPL) earnings are coming today after the market closes.
We will have the results as soon as they hit at this page, so tune in. In the meanwhile, here's what to expect.
After a sustained 30% drop in Apple's stock since September, this earnings report is the most anticipated we can remember. There are a lot of questions surrounding Apple right now. (As The Daily Ticker's Aaron Task and Henry Blodget discuss in the accompanying video)
In particular, investors want to get a true read on the state of the iPhone business. There have been multiple reports that Apple cut iPhone orders for this quarter. The severity of those cuts, and the reasons for them, vary from place to place, but it seems confirmed the cuts happened.
This led analysts to start slashing their March quarter iPhone estimate and their full-year revenue and EPS outlook. As they've cut back their estimates, Apple's stock has crashed.
And yet, despite paring back their March quarter expectations, many analysts have been bumping their iPhone estimates for the December quarter.
Which makes this earnings report, as anticipated as it is, somewhat anticlimactic. Everyone is already focused on the March quarter. And Apple's guidance game makes it very hard to figure out what's really happening this quarter. Multiple analysts have called for Apple to deliver classic low-ball guidance.
Unlike in the past, if Apple delivers super low guidance, the market could react negatively as the low guidance would confirm its fears that the iPhone business is in trouble.
So, if you're an Apple bull, here's what you want tonight: A strong iPhone beat and guidance that isn't ridiculously low. On the earnings call, you're hoping Tim Cook comments on the reports coming from the supply chain and puts the rumors to bed.
If you get just an iPhone beat, or just good guidance, we're not sure you're going to be happy.
Before we wrap this up, there is one thing to note: This quarter is 13 weeks long. Last year's quarter was 14 weeks long. Therefore, year over year comparisons aren't going to be perfect.
Further, last year Apple sold the iPhone 4S only in the holiday quarter. This year, the new iPhone, the iPhone 5 was out for a week before the quarter started. And it was also released in China for part of the quarter. So, comparisons between this quarter and the next are going to be messy.
Here, via Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, is what the buy-side is expecting from Apple:
- March quarter revenue: $46.9 billion
- March quarter EPS: $12.10
- March quarter gross margin: 41.5%
Again, we'll have the numbers as soon as they hit right here, so tune in.
Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/apple-earnings-preview-iphone-guidance-151911442.html
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Five fake political types on Twitter we wish were real
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As we saw during the presidential campaign when Mitt Romney's official Twitter account gained more than?100,000 followers in the span of a few days, the accusation?of fake followers can cast a shadow on a politician's social media street cred, if not his career. But a satirical?Twitter account portraying a fake version of a real politician, however?vexing to the impersonated person, can be a whole lot of fun to everyone else. ?
Take, for example, the popular?@MexicanMitt ("I am the Juan percent"), a?parody Twitter account that "poked fun at Romney?s on-again, off-again relationship with Mexican ancestry."?
Though later reinstated, @MexicanMitt was?briefly bounced from the micro-blogging platform last August,?the same night Romney delivered his speech at the Republican National Convention, and Twitter launched?#RomneyRyan2012, the first national trending topic purchased by a?political?campaign. Coincidence? Though it kicked up a bit of a scandal,?Twitter wouldn't comment to NBC News or other news outlets at the time.?
Meanwhile, real?Vice?President Joe Biden took to his verified?Twitter account, when those pranksters at?the Onion recently?hosted an?"Ask Me Anything" meet-up on Reddit?with a parody version of America's vice president. The?fake?"Diamond" Joe Biden?offered answers on "my Trans Am, things you can make into a pipe, Barack, or where we can hook up later" among other things.?The real veep?one-upped the faker,?tweeting:?
Q for @reddit AMA with my @TheOnion pal: A Trans-Am? Ever look under the hood of a Corvette? #imavetteguy ?VP
If?only?all?politicians?were?this fun!?But?since?most aren't, here's?five?fake?Twitter?political?accounts?we wish?were?totally?real:
Joe?Biden?@VeepJoeBiden
OK, I know we just said that real Vice President Joe?Biden has proved himself awesome on Twitter ... but dude, unverified?@VeepJoeBiden has the impression?down cold!
Dr. Jill Biden @JillBidenVeep
Just because you've received your doctorate of education doesn't mean you're off the Twitter satire hook ... not if you're married to the vice president, who plays the perfect foil to your false persona.
Paul Ryan Gosling @PaulRyanGosling
Two great memes that taste great together! This?satirical?Twitter account ?mashes the "Hey Girl" Tumblr fun dedicated to?actor Ryan Gosling with the?oft-riffed-upon?P90 X bravado of former?vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan to create comedy gold. ?(We deleted an expletive after the?ellipses?from that final tweet, the one about John Edwards. Use your imagination ... if you're at least 18!)
Sr. WH Official @SrWHOfficial
Fun with?anonymity! ?This so-called senior White House official bravely tweets even the worst puns from inside an imaginary White House, if he or she thinks it'll get you'll buy his or her book. ?(Mostly though, the tweets are pretty good.)
Miguel?Bloombito?@Elbloombito
For those living in the path of Sandy last October, one of the few amusing moments came when New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared on TV to provide updates on the super?storm, repeating?his message in memorably mangled Spanish.??
The Twitter satire account was inevitable, yet months after Sandy, it's still quite active ... and hilarious. Here, El Bloombito comments on the Beyonce?lip-sync?controversy, ("Are are these that synchi?go lip? Forgive me, I need to my ear that removero footboard"), and adds his thoughts?on the Roe v. Wade anniversary ... offensively, of course. This is satire, after all.?
Helen A.S. Popkin?goes?blah?blah?blah?about?the?Internet.?Tell?her?to?get?a?real?job?on?Twitter?and/or?Facebook. Also,?Google+.
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Japan reports record $78.3B trade deficit in 2012
TOKYO (AP) ? Japan's trade deficit in 2012 rose to a record 6.93 trillion yen ($78.3 billion), as fuel imports surged and a bitter territorial dispute with China hammered its exports.
The provisional figures reported by the Finance Ministry on Thursday showed the trade deficit narrowed, however, in December, to 641.5 billion yen ($7.25 billion) from the 954.8 billion yen shortfall in November. That's despite a 5.8 percent drop in exports for the month.
Recovering overseas demand has coincided with a recent decline in the yen's value against the U.S. dollar and even bigger drops against other major currencies driven by expectations that stimulus spending and monetary easing championed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who took office a month ago, will help drive a turnaround in Japan's moribund economy.
But the weak yen policy has rankled some of Japan's trading partners, raising worries that it might precipitate a destabilizing round of "competitive" devaluations. It also raises the relative costs of imports of consumer goods and commodities that resource-scarce Japan relies on to power its industries.
Energy imports surged 34 percent last year, to 24.08 trillion yen ($3.3 trillion). Rising costs for fuel and other commodities have pushed costs for Japanese manufacturers sharply higher after Japan's nuclear plants were taken offline following Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant accident following the earthquake and tsunami disasters in March 2011.
December was the sixth straight month of deficits. Exports have suffered from plunging demand in crisis-stricken Europe and troubles with China after a flare-up over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea prompted anti-Japanese protests last fall.
The annual trade deficit was a 170 percent increase from the deficit of 2.56 trillion yen recorded in 2011. As an export powerhouse, Japan ran trade surpluses until the 2011 disasters and the global crisis combined to push it into deficits.
Abe has focused his stimulus program on boosting manufacturing competitiveness while spurring domestic demand through a sharp increase in government spending on public works. Ample capital circulating due to monetary easing in most major economies has helped drive a rally in the stock market, but making real structural changes in the economy after two decades of stagnation will take time.
The tensions with Beijing remain a potential pitfall for the recovery, despite Japan's efforts to shift more of its trade and offshore manufacturing into Southeast Asia and India.
Japan's exports to China sank 10.8 percent last year, to 11.5 trillion yen ($130 billion) while imports rose 2.7 percent to 15.03 trillion yen ($170 billion), leaving a deficit of 3.52 trillion yen ($39.8 billion).
Exports to the European Union likewise fell, by nearly 15 percent, leaving a deficit of 139.7 billion yen ($1.6 billion).
But trade with North America, mainly the U.S., rebounded, with exports climbing 12 percent and imports about 2 percent, for a surplus of 4.9 trillion yen ($55.4 billion).
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Files show attempts to protect molester priests
Retired Cardinal Roger Mahony and other top Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles officials maneuvered behind the scenes to shield molester priests, provide damage control for the church and keep parishioners in the dark, according to church personnel files.
Notes inked by Mahony demonstrate he was disturbed about abuse and sent problem priests for treatment, but there also were lengthy delays or oversights in some cases. Mahony received psychological reports on some priests that mentioned the possibility of many other victims, for example, but there is no indication that he or other church leaders investigated further.
The confidential records filed in a lawsuit against the archdiocese disclose how the church handled abuse allegations for decades and also reveal dissent from a top Mahony aide who criticized his superiors for covering up allegations of abuse rather than protecting children.
Notes inked by Mahony demonstrate he was disturbed about abuse and sent problem priests for treatment, but there also were lengthy delays or oversights in some cases. Mahony received psychological reports on some priests that mentioned the possibility of many other victims, for example, but there is no indication that he or other church leaders investigated further.
"This is all intolerable and unacceptable to me," Mahony wrote in 1991 on a file of the Rev. Lynn Caffoe, a priest suspected of locking boys in his room, videotaping their crotches and running up a $100 phone sex bill while with a boy. Caffoe was sent for therapy and removed from ministry, but Mahony didn't move to defrock him until 2004, a decade after the archdiocese lost track of him.
"He is a fugitive from justice," Mahony wrote to the Vatican's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who is now Pope Benedict XVI. "A check of the Social Security index discloses no report of his demise, so presumably he is alive somewhere."
Caffoe died in 2009, six years after a newspaper reporter found him working at a homeless mission two blocks from a Salinas elementary school.
Mahony was out of town but issued a statement Monday apologizing for his mistakes and saying he had been "naive" about the lasting impacts of abuse. He has since met with 90 abuse victims privately and keeps an index card with each victim's name in his private chapel, where he prays for them daily, he said. The card also includes the name of the molesting priest "lest I forget that real priests created this appalling harm."
"It remains my daily and fervent prayer that God's grace will flood the heart and soul of each victim, and that their life journey continues forward with ever greater healing," Mahony wrote. "I am sorry."
The apology stands in contrast to letters Mahony was writing to accused priests more than two decades ago.
In 1987, he wrote to the Rev. Michael Wempe ? who would ultimately admit to abusing 13 boys ? while the priest was undergoing in-patient therapy at a New Mexico treatment center.
"Each of you there at Jemez Springs is very much in my prayers and I call you to mind each day during my celebration of the Eucharist," Mahony wrote to the priest, adding that he supported him in the experience.
The church's sex abuse policy was evolving and Mahony inherited some of the worst cases from his predecessor when he took over in 1985, J. Michael Hennigan, an archdiocese attorney, said in a separate series of emails. Priests were sent out of state for psychological treatment because they revealed more when their therapists were not required to report child abuse to law enforcement, as they were in California, he said.
At the time, clergy were not mandated sex abuse reporters and the church let the victims' families decide whether to contact police, he added.
In at least one case, a priest victimized the children of illegal immigrants and threatened to have them deported if they told, the files show.
The files are attached to a motion seeking punitive damages in a case involving a Mexican priest sent to Los Angeles in 1987 after he was brutally beaten in his parish south of Mexico City.
When parents complained the Rev. Nicholas Aguilar Rivera molested in LA, church officials told the priest but waited two days to call police ? allowing him to flee to Mexico, court papers allege. At least 26 children told police they were abused during his 10 months in Los Angeles. The now-defrocked priest is believed to be in Mexico and remains a fugitive.
The personnel files of 13 other clerics were attached to the motion to show a cover-up pattern, said attorney Anthony De Marco, who represents the 35-year-old plaintiff. In one instance, a memo to Mahony discusses sending a cleric to a therapist who also is an attorney so any incriminating evidence is protected from authorities by lawyer-client privilege. In another instance, archdiocese officials paid a secret salary to a priest exiled to the Philippines after he and six other clerics were accused of having sex with a teen and impregnating her.
The exhibits offer a glimpse at some 30,000 pages to be made public as part of a record-setting $660 million settlement. The archdiocese agreed to give the files to more than 500 victims of priest abuse in 2007, but a lawyer for about 30 of the priests fought to keep records sealed. A judge recently ordered the church to release them without blacking out the names of church higher-ups after The Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times intervened.
They echo similar releases from other dioceses nationwide that have shown how church leaders for decades shuffled problem priests from parish to parish, covered up reports of abuse and didn't contact law enforcement. Top church officials in Missouri and Pennsylvania were criminally convicted last year for their roles in covering up abuse, more than a decade after the clergy sex abuse scandal began to unfold in Boston.
Mahony, who retired in 2011 after 26 years at the helm of the 4.3-million person archdiocese, has been particularly hounded by the case of the Rev. Michael Baker, who was sentenced to prison in 2007 for molestation ? two decades after the priest confessed his abuse to Mahony.
Mahony noted the "extremely grave and serious situation" when he sent Baker for psychological treatment after the priest told him in 1986 that he had molested two brothers over seven years.
Baker returned to ministry the next year with a doctor's recommendation that he be defrocked immediately if he spent any time with minors. Despite several documented instances of being alone with boys, the priest wasn't removed from ministry until 2000. Around the same time, the church learned he was conducting baptisms without permission.
Church officials discussed announcing Baker's abuse in churches where he had worked, but Mahony rejected the idea.
"We could open up another firestorm ? and it takes us years to recover from those," Mahony wrote in an Oct. 6, 2000, memo. "Is there no alternative to public announcements at all the Masses in 15 parishes??? Wow ? that really scares the daylights out of me!!"
The aide, Msgr. Richard Loomis, noted his dismay over the matter when he retired in 2001 as vicar for clergy, the top church official who handled priestly discipline. In a memo to his successor, Loomis said Baker's attorney disclosed the priest had at least 10 other victims.
"We've stepped back 20 years and are being driven by the need to cover-up and to keep the presbyteriate & public happily ignorant rather than the need to protect children," Loomis wrote.
"The only other option is to sit and wait until another victim comes forward. Then someone else will end up owning the archdiocese of Los Angeles. The liability issues involved aside, I think that course of complete (in)action would be immoral and unethical."
Mahony preferred targeted warnings at schools and youth groups rather than a warning read at Masses, Hennigan said. Parish announcements were made two years later.
Baker, who was paroled in 2011, is alleged to have molested 20 children in his 26-year career. He could not be reached for comment.
The files also show Mahony corresponded with abusive priests while they underwent treatment out of state and worked to keep them out of California to avoid criminal and civil trouble.
One case involved the Msgr. Peter Garcia, a molester whom Mahony's predecessor sent for treatment in New Mexico. Mahony kept Garcia there after a lawyer warned in 1986 that the archdiocese could face "severe civil liability" if he returned and reoffended. Garcia had admitted raping an 11-year-old boy and later told a psychologist he molested 15 to 17 young boys.
"If Monsignor Garcia were to reappear here within the archdiocese, we might very well have some type of legal action filed in both the criminal and civil sectors," Mahony wrote to the director of Garcia's New Mexico treatment program.
Mahony then sent Garcia to another treatment center, but Garcia returned to LA in 1988 after being removed from ministry. He then contacted a victim's mother and asked to spend time with her younger son, according to a letter in the file.
Mahony moved to defrock him in 1989, and Garcia died a decade later.?
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