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IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Humana Inc. (NYS: HUM) , one of the country's leading health and well-being companies, announced today plans to open a RightSource® mail-order pharmacy call center and support operation in Irving in August, bringing more than 620 new jobs to the area over the next three years.

RightSource is Humana's pharmacy management company providing mail-order delivery to members' homes. The convenience of mail-order delivery and the lower cost of obtaining drugs by mail order pharmacy have created tremendous demand for RightSource's services. Humana RightSource - with similar operations in Arizona and Ohio - serves 1.5 million people and filled nearly 20 million scripts in 2012, making it one of the nation's largest mail order pharmacies.

Humana will build-out all three floors of the building, located at 2001 W. John Carpenter Freeway, to accommodate its office and work spaces, open meeting spaces, conference rooms, training and huddle rooms, storage areas and communications functions.

Positions to be hired will include pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, customer service representatives, and data entry clerks. For information about employment opportunities at the Irving facility, please visit

With its subsidiary companies Concentra and LifeSynch, and the addition of the employees being hired at the RightSource facility, Humana will have more than 2,500 employees in North Texas.

According to Chris Wallace, president and CEO of the Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber's economic development team and City staff have been working with Humana since early January to bring this new employment opportunity to Irving, which will continue to expand the medical industry in North Texas.

"The continuing growth of Humana's mail order pharmacy business shows us that we are improving our members' health care experience by making prescriptions more affordable," said William Fleming, Pharm.D., President of Humana Pharmacy Solutions. "The opening of this new front-end operations facility is a testament to our commitment to provide outstanding service to our customers and a credit to the quality of the Irving-area workforce and excellent business climate."

The location of LifeSynch, a wholly-owned behavioral health subsidiary of Humana in an adjoining office at 2101 W. John Carpenter Freeway, also influenced the decision, in addition to the business-friendly experience from the Irving Economic Development Partnership, Fleming said.

About Humana Pharmacy Solutions

Humana Pharmacy Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Humana Inc., manages traditional pharmacy benefits with member-focused strategies to yield savings in pharmacy and total health expense. Providing prescription coverage for both individuals and employer groups, Humana Pharmacy Solutions strives to give members access to the medicine they need while offering guidance on clinically proven, therapeutically equivalent drugs that bring better value to the member and the customer.

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Humana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Ky., is a leading health care company that offers a wide range of insurance products and health and wellness services that incorporate an integrated approach to lifelong well-being. By leveraging the strengths of its core businesses, Humana believes it can better explore opportunities for existing and emerging adjacencies in health care that can further enhance wellness opportunities for the millions of people across the nation with whom the company has relationships.

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Orange County deputy who cut wrists in police standoff in Kingston faced petit larceny charge in town of Ulster

KINGSTON, N.Y. -- An Orange County sheriff's deputy who slit his wrists during a nearly four-hour standoff with police Monday was accused in February of stealing merchandise from Walmart in the town of Ulster, according to authorities.

Shawn Ost, 43, of Kington was arrested on a petit larceny charge at about 2:27 p.m. on Feb. 18, police said.

According to Ulster town police, Ost removed merchandise from a shelf without paying for it , then made a fraudulent return, obtaining a gift card with a $478 value, police said.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office confirmed Tuesday that Ost was facing the petit larceny charge. The office said that Ost has worked as a deputy for nine years after coming from the Maybrook Police Department.

Ost's attorney, John Ingrassia, could not be reached Tuesday.

Kingston Police Detective Lt. Thierry Croizer said Monday the deputy had posted something on Facebook saying goodbye to family and friends and indicating he was going to harm himself. Others who had seen the post alerted police.

At about 2 p.m. Monday, police went to the deputy's residence at 35 Montrepose Ave., where they found Ost had barricaded himself in a bathroom, Croizer said. No one else was in the two-story house at the time, he said.

Police who had been speaking with Ost through the bathroom door for several hours found him lying on the floor with both wrists cut after losing contact with him for 40 to 45 minutes and forcing open the door, Croizer said.

At a press conference following the standoff, Croizer was asked if Ost, who had not been identified by police at the time, had a previous run-in with the law, and he said he believed that was the case.

Croizer on Tuesday said Ost remained in Kingston Hospital, but did not know his condition.

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Construction is slated to begin in February on a $450,000 expansion that will add four rooms to the east end of the school at 330 Lake Park Drive, which will serve as small meeting space and classrooms for special education groups, district officials said.

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The school was approved for more than $685,000 in federal grant money through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and the money was awarded under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

These are one-time funds that must be spent on special education, said Marcy Boyan, Addison School District 4 assistant superintendent for business.

"You don't want to turn your back on any kind of money, especially in this economy," Boyan said. "But you really can't use it for long-term items, as much as we would love to use it for teacher salaries. So it is ideal for a bricks and mortar project."

Lake Park serves 388 students, according to its Illinois School Report Card for this year, and about 80 are eligible for special education.

The expansion will cover about 2,300 square feet of special education rooms that can be used as small classrooms or for students to meet with professionals like physical therapists or speech pathologists, Boyan said.

Since construction is budgeted at $450,000, the remaining $215,000 in grants will fund professional development courses for teachers, supplies for students and pay at least one special education teacher's salary for a year.

Work must be finished by the end of June, under the terms of the grant, so construction will continue all the way through this school year.

Boyan said District 4 is grateful to receive the grant.

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The climax of the indoor men's track season has arrived.

The Big Ten indoor meet will begin tonight and continue through the weekend in Lincoln, Neb., and the Hawkeyes hope to make a statement as they enter competition as the defending conference outdoor champions.

"The Big Ten indoor championships is always a key meet for us to build toward outdoors," assistant coach Joey Woody said. "One of the biggest signs of us having a champion-level Big Ten outdoor team, as we did last year, is what we do at the indoor championships."

Woody said the Hawkeyes — especially All-Americans Erik Sowinski, Troy Doris, Jeff Thode, and Justin Austin — will have to step up and continue to provide explosive performances in order to stay in contention at the championships.

But the Hawkeyes will also need to make some changes in an area in which they haven't been dominant in the past. No Iowa thrower scored at last year's indoor championships; seniors Matt Banse and Ryan Lamparek plan to walk into the throwing circle and change that this weekend.

"We're going to have to really step up because in order to [win a Big Ten championship], you have to have scorers in every event," Banse said. "You can't have lapses anywhere."

Banse has had a breakthrough season, but fouled out last weekend at the Iowa Invitational. It was a reality check in a season that has seen him top both school records and his own expectations.

"It was a humbling experience. It showed I can still have bad meets even though in the weeks before, I was doing so well," he said. "It kind of brought me back down to ground level and gave me stuff to work on in practice this week."

With that experience behind him, he is confident he'll find the distances he needs this weekend.

"He came up to me right afterwards and said, 'I fouled out, but better this weekend than next weekend,' " coach Larry Wieczorek said. "He's been throwing well, and he said he's got a few things to work on in practice, but he reassured me he's going to be fine for the Big Ten championships."

The looming national championships are another change athletes will have to avoid as they try to keep their focus on the Big Ten meet. Thode has yet to qualify for the NCAA indoors, and although he'll compete in an ideal field for a qualifying time this weekend, he'll have to measure his efforts as he increases his event load for the sake of the team.

"I'm running every race but the 3 kilometer; I'm pretty much repeating the volume I put up last year," he said. "I'll try to go for first in the mile and just stay competitive, depending on where we are place-wise with the rest of the races."

Thode didn't qualify for nationals last year until his final opportunity at a last-chance meet, and he's preparing himself for that possibility with just two meets remaining.

"Honestly, we're just going to play it like last year," he said. "Wait until the last meet of the year — the last-chance meet — and hope."

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    Not sure how these questions relate to that conversation. Were they supposed to be funny?  Are you a really good writer (or any other occupation) who needs a job? You're on Medicare. My probability is she doesn't have health insurance at all. BTW, the fall should be covered under worker's comp.  And they would find a way to weasel out of it. (I've done worker's comp case management.)

    Dude, I'm an old, apple bellied white gal who has knee problems, not to mention other health problems, going on 3.75 years with no health care. I don't have to ask anyone about whether pole dancing is a job I should apply for. I have been known to crack obvious jokes that even walking Mile High's notorious Colfax Ave isn't an option, just because humor while your supposed retirement home is being foreclosed, is largely gallows variety.

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    Simply by pushing for repeal of the 2nd Amendment, one is broadening the range of policy options for reducing gun-violence.

    Focusing on the NRA doesn't go far or deep enough, imho, the real 800-lb gorilla is the 2nd Amendment, and that's what we should target. (Attacking the NRA is fine, but they're well used to this, and well set up to defend themselves. The political weapon they always use is the 2nd Amendment. If you go after the Second Amendment directly, it deprives them of the ground they stand on. It is like using kryptonite -- it destroys the NRA but also opens up reasonable gun regulations in the process.)

    The US right-wing has been using the "Overton Window" strategy for years (since at least the 1980s -- Reagan was a practitioner) -- and now including Wayne LaPierre's nonsensical "arm the teachers" response. They have been somewhat successful in their goal so far: to deliberately shift the entire agenda to the right (rather than focusing on compromise and 'realistic' policies).

    For anyone not familiar with the 'Overton Window' concept, it's good to know that Joseph Overton was a VP at the right-wing, anti-government Mackinac Center. And his ideas were featured on (*shudder*) Glenn Beck's TV and radio shows. (Brace yourself if you click here, for the four videos with Beck about the Overton Window:  Beck also wrote an awful fiction book called The Overton Window.)

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      Even Heinlein is pretty wacky.

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      That's what's so great about Sci-Fi... damn little black and white...

      The "Government is bad" theme is about as pervasive as a theme can be... and that one is pure conservative.

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Good morning!  Welcome to the DKos Sangha weekly open thread.

This is an open thread for members of the DKos Sangha and others who are interested in discussions concerning how we integrate our progressive political activism into our spiritual practice.  If you have observations about the political discourse of the week, or about practice, or about anything else related to walking a spiritual path through the political world, if you wish to share, or if you seek support, or if you simply want to say hello, please do; this space is for you.

If you would like to host a weekly open thread, please let me know.

If you care nothing for spiritual practice and only wish to denigrate and disparage, please do so elsewhere, and respect that this is a community diary for the DKos Sangha.

Recently, I met with my teacher; and one of the things that she talked about was noticing when there is a "doer", even in one's practice, and just letting the heart open to what is arising.

This morning for our sangha here, I wanted to see if I could find anything from Papaji related to political activism.  H.W.L. Poonja, better known as Papaji here in the US, is widely regarded as one of the most important and most influential advaita teachers of the 20th century.  The first thing I came across in my search was on point not only for our topic here of spiritual practice and political engagement, but also ties into what my teacher was sharing with me about "doing".  Here are some excerpts ..

Impediments are created by the ego. "I have to do this." "I must not do that." This idea that you are doing something is the impediment. If you act without feeling that you are the doer, there will be no impediments. The supreme power is working through you. It will guide you as the circumstances arise.

The world is moving towards disaster. We are moving towards the destruction of the human race itself. Atom bombs and chemical weapons are taking us there. This is not the way to go. Let us try instead broadcasting compassion and love towards all human beings and to all other beings. Let us try this. Here in satsang we are making a trial. We are spreading the message of peace and love ... This fire will spread. One day you will see its results ... You will speak to your people, to your friends, and they will find out what is happening. You will see a tremendous change. I am very sure about it. These times are now coming.

We have to learn the lessons that previous destructions have taught us. We have still not forgotten Hiroshima in Japan. People are still suffering there. We can't forget.

We must learn the lesson and spread the message of love ... The flame of love is very powerful. Once it is ignited, it will start a conflagration that cannot be stopped, even by chemical weapons.

Simply meditate alone. You can do it anywhere, even in your own apartment. You will see the results. Keep quiet, send the message of peace, "Let there be peace," all over the world. "Let all beings live happily in peace."   [source]

Each of us has our own unique path which continually unfolds in its own unique way, day by day, moment by moment.  And for each of us, our spiritual practice is unique to us, unfolding as it relates to our own karmic momentum; and similarly, how we engage with the world, how we engage politically, how we work for social, economic, and environmental justice, is unique to us as well.

What Papaji is saying here though is very helpful no matter where we are on our path and in our engagement with the world.  The degree to which we free ourselves from egoic conditioning, to that degree we are better able to be of benefit to others.  Our engagement with the world is part of our practice; we notice when there is a "doer", when "I" must do this, and when "I" don't want to do that.  And in that noticing is the opportunity, the invitation, to open the heart.

Each of us will engage politically in our own way, according to how our path unfolds.  But our actions are of the most benefit when, in our engagement, we let go of the "I" that does anything, and simply be compassion, love, acceptance.

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Meredith Kercher killer Amanda Knox 'faces prison in America' if Italy tries to extradite her

The 26-year-old would be unlikely to be given bail were the Italians to make a request to the US authorities, a law expert claims

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Amanda Knox could be held in a jail near her home if Italy tries to extradite her, it has been claimed.

The 26-year-old American faces being detained at Seattle federal prison during any legal wrangle between the two countries.

The claim comes after a court in Florence upheld the original 2009 convictions of Knox and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for murdering British student Meredith Kercher, 21, in Perugia in 2007.

Knox was sentenced to 28 and a half years in prison.

Sollecito, an Italian, was handed a 25 year jail term.

Prof Julian Ku, a teacher of transnational law at New York’s Hofstra University, told the Sun on Sunday that Knox "would be treated as any other extradition detainee".

He added: "They typically don't give bail."

In an interview on US TV following the verdict in her retrial, Knox said: "This has hit me like a train.

"I did not expect this to happen."


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French Open: Marcel Siem avoids lake celebration after landing trophy in Paris triumph

MARCEL Siem vowed to hit the drink – but not not jump in it – yesterday after winning the French Open.

MARCEL Siem vowed to hit the drink – but not not jump in it – yesterday after winning the French Open.

Last year’s winner, Thomas Levet, came a cropper when he infamously jumped in the lake to celebrate.

The Frenchman emerged from the water with a broken leg and a bruised ego.

Pony-tailed German Siem majors in on-course gestures – no one does more fist-pumps – but he sensibly opted to stay on dry land.

He said: “I’m just going to have some nice French champagne.”

Eight years after his only previous Euro Tour victory, the 31-year-old won by a stroke from Italian Francesco Molinari at Le Golf National, near Paris.

Siem, whose performance earned him a place in The Open, took continental Europe’s oldest golf title with a superb 67 for eight-under 276.

He began the week 120th in the rankings but blasted into the top 60 in one leap and picked up a cheque for £420,000.

David Drysdale finished top Scot on 282 after a 70 – two clear of Marc Warren and four better than Scott Jamieson, both of whom shot 71s.

Siem said: “I’ve had so many tournaments I kind of destroyed this year and I am so happy I got it done. It’s all about winning in the end and I’m in The Open, which is unbelievable.”

Molinari, who lost a play-off to Miguel Angel Jimenez on the course two years ago, threatened to pull off an astonishing win after double-bogeying the opening hole.

He was eight behind at that point then grabbed nine birdies and set the target with a best-of-the-week 64.

Siem was joint leader at the time and responded by splashing out of sand to seven feet at the long 14th, then hitting a glorious iron to four feet on the dangerous next.

There were still three tough holes to come but he parred the first two and, after driving into a bunker on the last, got the bogey he knew was probably going to be good enough.

French hope Raphael Jacquelin could have forced sudden death by holing his second to the 18th but a par four left him third on his own on six under.

One stroke further back were English trio Ian Poulter, David Lynn and joint overnight leader David Howell.

While Howell could never make amends for bogeying two of the first three holes, Poulter had a share of the lead for a while but bogeyed the last two for a 69.

Molinari’s second place lifts him into an automatic qualifying position for the Ryder Cup with seven weeks of the race to go.

The 10th and final spot has changed over the past three weeks. Nicolas Colsaerts was replaced by Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano then it was Rafa Cabrera-Bello and now it is Molinari, a member of Colin Montgomerie’s winning side two years ago.

Molinari said: “It was just a crazy day really. Two years ago when I was second I double-bogeyed the first on the last day. All of a sudden everything was going in.”

Justin Rose came in ninth and Graeme McDowell was in a tie for 17th, while world No.3 Lee Westwood climbed 18 places to 40th with a closing 70.

That came a day after it looked as if he might pull out with knee and groin trouble after slipping as he walked to the first tee.

But after his last round before The Open the Englishman said: “The leg is fine – it wasn’t a problem today."


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Accused of ratting out his fellow players on Friday, Rodriguez fired back on Saturday with an explosive interview between his lawyer and The New York Times.

Rodriguez's newest attorney, Joseph Tacopina, accused the Yankees of intentionally mishandling past injuries in an attempt to embarrass Rodriguez, accused Major League Baseball of making Rodriguez a scapegoat, and accused both parties of conspiring to void Rodriguez's hefty contract. ...

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Solano College SBDC offers franchising workshop

By From page B6 | June 16, 2014

FAIRFIELD — A June 25 workshop will help participants select a business or franchise opportunity.

The workshop, Franchising Business Opportunities, is sponsored by the Solano College Small Business Development Center. It will be from noon to 2 p.m. at 360 Campus Lane, Suite 102 in Fairfield. Roger Studebaker, the Small Business Development Center business adviser, is the instructor.

Go to http://solanosbdc.org/node/19836 to register.

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A blood drive hosted by NorthBay Healthcare and BloodSource is coming to the area.

The blood drive is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday in the Solano Town Center parking lot, adjacent to NorthBay Medical Center, just off Pennsylvania Avenue in Fairfield.

Organizers request that donors eat and drink prior to donating blood and bring a picture identification. For more information, call Julie Rottmayer at 303-4016.

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Arsenal hero Theo Walcott avoids FA rap after Tottenham gesture

THEO WALCOTT is set to escape punishment for his gesture to Tottenham fans.

theo walcott PROVOCATIVE: Walcott is not in trouble after sending a cheeky message to Spurs fans at the Emirates [ACTION IMAGES/JOHN SIBLEY]

And Arsenal and England team-mate Jack Wilshere said Walcott making a 2-0 sign to rival fans has earned him legendary status.

Walcott taunted Spurs supporters after they threw coins and bottles at him when he was carried off on a stretcher with a knee injury in the closing stages of the 2-0 FA Cup win at the Emirates.

But the FA are likely to just warn the winger of his future conduct, taking into account the 24-year-old had been provoked and that he made the gesture with a big smile on his face.

Wilshere was banned last month for giving a one-fingered salute to Manchester City fans during the second half of the Gunners’ 6-3 league defeat at the Etihad.

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“The Arsenal fans will love that. They love Theo already and this is only going to help him”

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“He’s a bit smarter than me, I suppose,” said Wilshere.

“He’ll be an Arsenal legend now.

“That’s football – I think they were giving him a bit of stick.

“They were giving it to him and he’s given a little bit back. I think people have got to look at it as banter.

“The Arsenal fans will love that. They love Theo already and this is only going to help him.”

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The FA are also waiting for referee Mark Clattenburg’s report following incidents involving Spurs players Mousa Dembele and Nabil Bentaleb.

Dembele appeared to push his head into Wilshere’s face in the first half and Bentaleb was accused of stamping on Arsenal’s Nacho Monreal after the break – although it remains unclear whether the young midfielder actually caught the Spaniard.

Clattenburg took no action in both cases, and the FA will wait to see if he reveals he had a clear view of the incidents.

Wilshere said he had no problem with Belgium star Dembele.

“He’s a good player and he’s strong as well,” he said.

“I was trying to get tight to him and he was trying do the same to me. It happens – we shook hands afterwards.”


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Fiber-optics network to cover all of Lebanon by year-end: Sehnaoui

Minister Sehnaoui speaks during a press conference in Beirut, Thursday, July 25, 2013. (The Daily Star/Mohammad Azakir)

BEIRUT: Telecom Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui said Thursday that more than half of Lebanon’s telephone substations were linked to a long-awaited fiber-optics network, and vowed to extend coverage to the remaining areas within the next six months. “After two years of work, the fiber optics network is ready in 170 telephone areas, and we sent a letter to [state-run telephone land line operator] OGERO to detail their financial and technical requirements to expand it to the remaining areas, which do not yet have DSL,” he said.

The minister said that around six months were needed before some 500,000 households in 541 towns covered by 118 stations would benefit from the expansion of the network.

“The project is a part of balanced development ... and no Lebanese will be without fast Internet by the end of the year,” Sehnaoui said.

Average Internet speed in Lebanon stands currently at 2.62 Mbps.

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Syria: Humanitarian aid cannot enter Qusair until fighting over

This photo taken by mobile phone on June 2, 2013 shows Syrian army tanks making their way to the Dabaa military airfield, north of the Syrian city of Qusayr. Syrian regime troops repulsed a rebel assault on a village loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in central Homs province, killing at least 28 of the attackers, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. AFP PHOTO/STR

DAMASCUS: With reports of up to 1,500 wounded citizens trapped in Qusair, Syria insisted Sunday that the Red Cross would not be allowed access to the strategic town until fighting was over.

Also Sunday, a car bombing on the outskirts of Damascus killed at least nine members of the Syrian security forces, activists said.

As the battle for Qusair continues, international aid groups called over the weekend for the evacuation of civilians trapped in the town, where regime forces launched an assault two weeks ago.

But Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon by telephone Sunday that the Red Cross would not be allowed to enter until the assault is over.

“Syrian authorities will allow the Red Cross in cooperation with the Syrian Red Crescent access to the area immediately after the end of military operations,” SANA quoted him as saying.

Regime aircraft carried out Sunday a wave of air raids against the northern part of Qusair, in the province of Homs, and the outskirts of the strategic town, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

“Warplanes carried out multiple raids against the northern part of the city and the area between Dabaa and Qusair,” it said, adding there were no immediate details on injuries or deaths.

The Observatory said the regime has continued to bolster its forces in Qusair, key to the regime and the rebels alike as it links Damascus to the coast, and is near the Lebanese border, providing a key rebel conduit for weapons and fighters.

Ban and international aid organizations expressed concern Saturday about civilians trapped in the town in central Homs province, and between 1,000-1,500 injured residents still in Qusair.

“We understand there may also be as many as 1,500 wounded people in urgent need of immediate evacuation for emergency medical treatment, and that the general situation in Qusair is desperate,” said a joint statement by U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos and U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay.

They were “extremely alarmed” by reports that civilian neighborhoods were under fire, they added.

“We urge the parties to agree to an immediate cease-fire to allow humanitarian agencies to evacuate the wounded and provide life-saving treatment and supplies.”

In Geneva over the weekend, the International Committee of the Red Cross also expressed alarm.

“Civilians and the wounded are at risk of paying an even heavier price as the fighting continues,” said Robert Mardini, head of Middle East operations.

He called for restraint on all sides, adding that the ICRC had already requested access to the town.

But Moallem voiced “surprise” at the concern over Qusair, SANA reported, “given that no one expressed this concern when terrorists took control of the city and the surrounding area.”

Security Council diplomats said Russia, which along with China has shielded Assad diplomatically at the United Nations, blocked a council declaration of alarm on Saturday over the 2-week-old siege of Qusair.

The draft statement urged forces loyal to Assad and rebels trying to oust him “to do their utmost to avoid civilian casualties and for the Syrian government to exercise its responsibility to protect civilians.”

It appealed to Assad’s government “to allow immediate, full and unimpeded access to impartial humanitarian actors, including U.N. agencies, to reach civilians trapped in Qusair.”

The opposition Syrian National Coalition said Friday that rebel reinforcements from around the country had reached the town and paid tribute to the fighters.

Late on Friday, influential Muslim preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi urged Sunnis to follow suit and join the uprising.

“Iran is pushing forward arms and men [to back the Syrian regime], so why do we stand idle?” he said at a rally.

Qaradawi, a controversial figure, has millions of supporters, mostly from the Muslim Brotherhood.

Sunday’s car bomb, which struck an area in the east of the capital, appeared to have been carried out by the extremist Nusra Front, which is allied with Al-Qaeda, according to the Observatory, although there was no immediate confirmation.

“At least nine regime forces were killed in the explosion of a car bomb near a police station in the Jubar Turn to page 10From page 1neighborhood,” Observatory director Rami Abdel-Rahman told AFP.Syrian state news agency SANA reported “10 citizens were wounded when a car driven by a terrorist exploded in Jubar,” but gave no information on deaths in the attack. It said five were seriously wounded.

Also Sunday, the Observatory said at least 28 rebels were killed on Saturday night in an attempt to seize control of an Alawite village in Homs province.

Rahman told AFP the rebels, who control Rastan and much of Houla, the towns on either side of the village of Kfarnan, launched an assault Saturday, while six soldiers were killed in a rebel assault on a checkpoint nearby.

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State thinks online giant owes them millions of back taxes

Online retailer may owe the state of Texas four years of back sales taxes for purchases from Lone Star residents, due to a fulfillment center the company owns in Irving, Texas.

Following recent developments in New York, which recently passed a controversial sales tax that Amazon feels unfairly targeted by – some state officials nicknamed it the “Amazon Tax” – the Texas Comptroller’s office decided to open an investigation into Amazon’s Irving fulfillment facility, after being contacted by a reporter from the Dallas Morning News with questions regarding the company’s tax payments.

Amazon says that state officials are fully aware of the facility and its operations, and that it does not have to pay sales taxes because it operates the fulfillment center under Amazon subsidiary “, Inc.”

“We remain in compliance with all Texas laws governing sales tax collection,” said Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith. Texas law doesn’t require subsidiaries to collect sales tax.

Complicating matters are the fulfillment center’s records filed with the state, which in 2006 and 2007 listed “” as the owner instead of its “kydc” subsidiary. Such a mistake, if it was one, would force the company to be liable for millions in back sales taxes over the past four years, which the Comptroller’s office fully intends to collect. The current sales tax rate in Texas is 6.25%.

Currently, internet retailers are only entitled to collect sales tax from customers residing in a state that the company has a significant presence in. While out-of-state customers are still obligated to pay “use tax” for out of state purchases, actual consumption is untracked and, consequently, most consumers choose not to pay it. Both United States federal and state governments have made it clear that they intend to change this system: several states, like New York, are gunning for ways to enforce use taxes, and the IRS last week made it clear that it wants to tax transactions through user-to-user sites like eBay and Craigslist.

Nonetheless, the Texas Comptroller’s Office says it will continue its investigation, and does not know when it will complete.

“We continue to interact with and cooperate with local and state Texas tax officials at many levels,” said Smith. “The state of Texas is fully aware of’s subsidiaries’ Texas operations.”

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By CuiBono on 5/15/2008 11:45:20 AM , Rating: 1
Ohh, the state of brainwashed!!! I mean all of you! Looked at your thought processing - you start with preconceptions put in there by your dear Government Inc. and continue on to lose yourself in the woods you don't understand (you think, of course, you do - what the hell am I talking about!) Hell, I'm always AMAZED how you think you know it all! The taxes you pay your dear Government Inc. are not going to pay for the things your Government Inc. owes you, but goes directly and indirectly to the sonavabitches that are enslaving you with the system of debt that they masterminded. If you haven't heard of - taxes you pay on your work for someone ARE ILLEGAL!!! (no discussion - learn the history before opening mouth) Your money is YOURS!!! Wanna stay where you financially are? -Then give away all you've earned to your beloved, magnificient Government Inc. They'll make you fight illegal wars, force you pay through your nose for fuel, eat some engineered food and blah, blah, blah... God would know what I'm talking about if he'd exist. ha! (How to keep regular folk from growing wealthy? - Create a system of taxation that takes away more and more from you!) Enjoy it! - I sure don't.

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Micron loses 91 cents per diluted share, twice analysts prediction

NAND and DRAM makers are among the hardest hit in the technology sector with the slowing global economy. These manufacturers were already hurting due to an oversupply that had driven prices down across the market at times leading to sales price being more than the cost of production.

The largest DRAM and NAND maker in the U.S., Micron, announced this week that it had posted its eighth consecutive quarterly loss. The memory company posted a net loss of $706 million amounting to 91 cents per diluted share.

Analysts expected a loss, but according to a poll by Bloomberg, the average loss was expected to be in the area of 45 cents per share. Micron posted roughly twice the loss expected by many analysts. Micron pointed out that the loss included a $369 million write-down of memory chip products.

The company reports that sales of its memory products fell 4% from the previous quarter due to significant decreased in market selling prices. Average selling prices for Micron DRAM fell 34% while average prices for its NAND product fell 24%.

Micron CEO Steve Appleton talked about the global oversupply of NAND and DRAM in a conference call according to CNET News saying, "Most of the (memory chip) companies have announced (production cuts) in the neighborhood of 20 percent, 30 percent." Appleton says that how fast the production comes back online will depend on demand in the first half of 2009.

As hard hit as the NAND and DRAM manufacturers are, the builders of equipment that is used to produce NAND and DRAM may be worse off in 2009 than the actual makers of the product. CNET News reports that some of these equipment makers expect to see no business at all in certain sectors in 2009.

It is probably safe to assume that Micron will be forced to make further cutbacks moving into 2009. The company cut 15% of its workforce in October. Oddly, a few days after Micron cut its workforce; it spent $400 million to buy a stake in a DRAM fab.

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By etherreal on 12/25/2008 2:07:31 AM , Rating: 2
It was the absolute right decision to make. Micron is in the prime position to start buying up capacity cheap. When the market turns around, Micron will be one of the major players (still). The same cannot be said for Qimonda, Nanya, and many others.

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By spluurfg on 12/26/2008 5:57:12 AM , Rating: 2
All depends on who learned their lessons from 01 and held a lot of cash on their balance sheets. Those who did will do well, and those who didn't will suffer.

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By etherreal on 12/26/2008 10:52:38 PM , Rating: 2
According to the earnings reports, Micron still has over $1 Billion in cash and short term investments...I would put them in the "survival" category.

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Aftermath of an auto accident caught by a Google Street View camera car  (Source: Google)
After receiving complaints regarding certain offensive images, Google has removed some of their Street View photos.

Although Google’s Street View service began with a great deal of publicity, complaints regarding certain offensive images have forced the organization to remove some photos.
Dozens of images have already been taken out of the UK Street View collection. It is thought the pictures removed contained revealing images of homes, a man entering a London sex shop, people being arrested and a man being sick.

One Google spokesperson explained that anyone who asks could have their images removed.

As for those photos that already have been deleted, Google’s Laura Scott said, "We've got millions of images, so the percentage removed was very small...We want this to be a useful tool, and it's people's right to have their image removed."

"The fact there are now gaps [in Street View] shows how responsive we are," Scott added.

Street View is now available in a total of nine countries. It first began in the U.S. in May 2007 and since has spread to Japan, Australia, New Zealand, France, Spain and Italy. On Thursday, it was additionally launched in the Netherlands.

Imagery available through the service is taken along streets by customized camera cars. Camera cars in the UK, for example, have enabled their version to consist of 22,369 miles of UK streets and to include street scenes in 25 UK cities, from Aberdeen to Southampton. Some people, have managed to find themselves somewhere in the imagery containing these miles of streets.

People have also managed to find ways to view the removed offensive photos by moving up or down a notch on the street. A black image with the message "This image is no longer available" has replaced each offensive photo, but apparently this does not provide blockage at all different angles.

Dr. Ian Brown, a privacy expert at the Oxford Internet Institute, was not surprised that there were some offensive photos: "This is exactly what you would expect from a service that relies on individuals to help Google not make mistakes."

"They [Google] should have thought more carefully about how they designed the service to avoid exactly this sort of thing," Brown added.

Dr. Brown also said that Google could have taken images twice, on different days. This way, any offending images could have been easily replaced and could have also protected privacy better.

Google assures it has gone to great lengths to ensure privacy. Its face recognition technology, for example, blurs all faces and registration plates captured by the camera cars. Last year, the Information Commissioner’s office ruled that this blurring was sufficient in ensuring that privacy was upheld.

Google also says Street View only displays imagery that is already visible from public thoroughfares.

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By afkrotch on 3/23/2009 8:42:00 PM , Rating: 2
The problem is that he isn't thinking. Privacy is like anything else, we need it and there should be some expectation of privacy in certain areas, but in the street, you should not be able to object to your image being taken. Public is *public* and it's the responsibility of the individual to behave within society's rules when in public.

How about the times when the Google van decides to drive up a private driveway or community and starts snapping pictures.

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Most Private Roads/Driveways in my area are not clearly marked, when I started my job working for the local Council Roading Company I had to learn where all these were and there was a surprising amount of unmarked Private Roads that we do not care for. It is easy to see how the google drivers can be mistaken.

If you have any complaint that the google van has taken pictures from private property they are more than happy to remove the images

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Is Apple's Snow Leopard as attack proof as the company believes? Probably not, but it does add some significant protections. Security companies, though, are coming out with criticism against Apple's efforts, in what seems a mix of sour grapes and legitimate points.  (Source: Simple Thoughts -- Computer Security Blog)
Are security firms' Snow Leopard gripes legitimate or just sour grapes? The answer may be be that they are a bit of both..

Just as attacks against Macs were beginning in earnest, and security software makers were ready to step into this new market and begin selling customers security suites, Apple dropped a bomb on the security software vendors -- OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" comes with built-in malware detection for a few Mac-specific viruses.

Apple, which has long lambasted Windows PCs as dangerously insecure in its advertisements, brags that its new OS offers unmatched protection against malware and cyber-attacks.  It points to hardware-based execution control for heap memory, stronger checksums for preventing memory corruption attacks, and built in antivirus protection -- dubbed XProtect -- as strong improvements in its OS design.

Now security companies are responding to Apple's boasts via blogs and emails that range from skeptical to scathing.

Symantec was among the most critical, stating, "It is not a full-featured antivirus solution and does not have the ability to remove malware from the system.  File Quarantine is also signature-based only. Malware signatures are only as good as the definitions, requiring Apple to provide regular, timely updates."

The company points out that OS X's Software Update is not fully automatic and that it does not inform users what signatures have been downloaded, to indicate the current level of protection.  They also criticize that Apple's firewall is turned off by default and lacks the configurability of most third-party solutions.  Also they point out that the OS provides little to no protection against unauthorized access of sensitive information on disc or for information being transmitted over networks.  Finally, they say that Apple's reliance on site lists for its anti-phishing efforts make its blocking close to useless as the attacking sites typically change on a daily basis.

Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security, also criticized the new software. "It feels like they are just trying to put a tic mark in the anti-malware compliance box for the enterprise customers they are still trying to woo.  So far, it looks like a pretty 'featureless feature.' Compared to other third party options, the functionality is pretty low. It's a lot like getting a warranty on your car that only covers floor mats, " he remarks.

Sophos researcher Paul O Baccas takes a more measured approach, stating that Apple's XProtect may be somewhat useful for certain programs -- Entourage, Safari, Mail, Firefox, Thunderbird -- which call LSQuarantine, an XProtect utility that detects malware.  However, for Skype, Adium, BitTorrent and Apple's Finder -- USB drives, shared network volumes, etc. -- there is no protection, he conversely points out.  He elaborates, "They haven't really integrated an antivirus program.  They've added something which can block some malware under some conditions."

He does say that the changes are better than nothing, however.  Apple meanwhile, refused to directly respond or comment on the criticism from security software vendors.

Security vendors will be facing a double-whammy when Microsoft officially releases its more full-featured security solution for Windows XP, Vista, and the new Windows 7.  Microsoft is set to drop this free security suite, dubbed Microsoft Security Essentials, before the end of the year.

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By Martel on 9/1/2009 10:53:00 AM , Rating: 3
After all these years, it's beyond insanity to continue the Windows vs. Mac security nonsense. Neither system is inherently secure and it's quite likely that neither will ever be inherently secure.

On the other hand - in the space-time continuum in which we all live - there is only one side to this issue.

MacOSX systems are secure in the real world; but that's only because they aren't under attack and that could easily change tomorrow; or 5 years from now. Windows systems are typically not secure in the real world TODAY because there are more attack vectors than any organization could reliably count...and any currently updated defense against those attacks can never be perfect even when it's actually in use, which is the case on only about one-quarter to one-third of Windows systems.

The real question with which all Windows users should be concerned has nothing to do with Macs, since there's no problem there - at the moment. That real question is: when will everyone who uses a Windows system be smacked in the face enough times by hackers and those working to defeat the hacks that they will run high quality, currently updated anti-virus software, ALL THE TIME AND ON EVERY SYSTEM?

At the very least, when will they stop pretending that their personal computers don't always need such security, even if their office systems do? And when will ALL businesses become unfailingly serious about enforcing system security measures on all of their systems?

Oh yeah, one more thing. Fanboys. Listen up. Leave the tech discussions to people with some intelligence, knowledge and common sense. Go write some love-letterish emails to Sarah Failin or John Boner instead; and bear in mind that although it's permissible to express your opinion, not all opinions are created equal. Most of them are worthless, and you become an object of scorn when expressing one of those. (I say that as if it were possible for such people to either feel or comprehend the resulting shame...but it's always worth a shot.)

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Company still tight on details

GPU giant NVIDIA is betting the future of the company on its GF100 graphics chips using the new Fermi architecture. The new chips started mass production last month, and are expected to be used in new video cards that will be launched around the end of February.

There still aren't a lot of specific details about the video cards that will use the new chips, but the company has just released information about the names of the first cards to use GF100 chips.

The GeForce GTX 480 will be the high end video card using the highest clocked speeds, while the GeForce GTX 470 will be a more affordable card with lower core and memory timings. Several defective CUDA cores are likely to be disabled in the GTX 470, which is going to be a big production problem for NVIDIA due to the large die size of the GF100.

NVIDIA seems to be almost entirely skipping the 300-series, with only the GeForce 310 occupying the space. That card is an OEM-only rebadge of the GeForce 210, a low-end DirectX 10.1 part.

Hopefully, this means that all cards in the 400-series will be DirectX 11 capable.

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Let's keep our name in the News!
By Lunyone on 2/2/2010 10:23:13 PM , Rating: 2
Now that they have a name for the the new GPU's. Next week will be the dimensions of the card. The week after will be power requirements. The week after that will be recommended PSU's for running the cards. The week after that...... You get the idea. So maybe in March sometime they will have "limited" availability of said GPU's (end of March maybe). Sorry to sound skeptical, but that is how I see it. They will delay everyones (nVidia fanboys mainly) purchases as long as possible, because otherwise AMD would have more sales (not that I blame them for trying).

By bunty on 2/3/2010 7:32:54 AM , Rating: 2
what you ment to say is that NVIDIA is delaying the product to help the people get a good Graphic card and not a die shrinked previous gen's graphic card??

Then yeah it sure did.

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Project will try to drill down 6 km at the crust's thinnest location in the Pacific Ocean

It sounds like a plot of a science fiction movie.  But to Damon Teagle, a geochemistry professor at the UK's University of Southampton and "The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program" (IODP) co-leader, the ambitious effort to be the first humans to drill to the Earth's mantle is dead serious.

I. The Race to the Mantle

While many have long held that such an effort is infeasible given current technology and the expense involved, Professor Teagle and company hatched a bold scheme to venture out in one of three locations in the Pacific Ocean and use deep-sea drilling equipment to tunnel 6 km (3.7 miles) down, eventually hitting the mantle.

On land the Earth's crust is up to 60 km thick, making drilling to the mantle unlikely to succeed with today's technology.  But Professor Teagle is convinced that by using deep sea drilling at one of these locations (ocean ridges) where the crust is the thinnest, the mantle can be reached and sampled for "only" about $1B USD.

The effort will require 10 km-long (6.2 miles) drill pipes to drill through the ultra-hard rocks that are though to surround the mantle.

Croatian meteorologist Andrija Mohorovicic first discovered the Earth’s mantle-crust boundary.  The mantle is a 2,900 km layer of the Earth's onion-like composition.  Composed mostly of silicon dioxide (the same material that sand or semiconductors are made of), temperatures at the crust border range from 500 to 900 °C (932 to 1,652 °F).  The mantle, at its molten inner surface touches the Earth's molten nickel-iron core, where temperatures reach 4,000 °C (7,230 °F).

Professor Teagle calls the project "the most challenging endeavor in the history of Earth science", comparing it to the Apollo Program.  He says the project will serve to "inspire" future generations of scientists and will leave a "legacy of fundamental scientific knowledge" -- namely, giving a never-before-glimpsed look at representative mantle chemistry, temperatures, and pressure.  According to Professor Teagle, this would be a big step forward as we currently only have a "reasonable" of the Mantle's composition and behavior.

drill bit
The hardest challenge will be digging through the hard rocks closest to the mantle.
[Image Source: CNN]

He comments in a CNN interview, "[The mantle] is the engine that drives how our planet works and why we have earthquakes and volcanoes and continents. We have the textbook cartoons but detailed knowledge is lacking."

II. No Guarantees

The project will make use of a pre-existing Japanese deep-sea drilling vessel named Chikyu.  A hulking, lumbering ship Chikyu can carry up to 10 km of drilling pipes and set a scientific deep sea drilling world-record of 2.2 km in early testing.  The hole drilled by the IODP drills will be a mere 30 cm in diameter -- or roughly one foot wide.

Chikyu at sea
The Chikyu, at sea [Image Source: CNN]

Professor Teagle gives some perspective on how much a feat this is, commenting, "It will be the equivalent of dangling a steel string the width of a human hair in the deep end of a swimming pool and inserting it into a thimble 1/10 mm wide on the bottom, and then drilling a few meters into the foundations."

The drill bits will need to be replaced every 50 to 60 hours, and additionally special bits may need to be swapped to drill through ultra-hard near-mantle crust layer.  That means the project could take more than a year to complete, unless better drill bits can be produced.

Chikyu pipes
The Chikyu can carry up to 10 km worth of pipes. [Image Source: CNN]

The IODP is not the first effort to drill down to the mantle.  The first major attempt dates back to 1966 when a team of U.S. researchers drilled off the coast of the eastern Pacific's Guadalupe Island.  The project, dubbed "Project Mohole" in honor or Professor "Mo" Mohorovicic, reached only a few meters before it was abandoned.

A land-based project by the Russians in the 1980s in the Kola Peninsula drilled down 12 km into the Earth's crust, earning a record for deepest borehole that still stands.  Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) in 2011 drilled a longer borehole (12+ km) in Easter Russia, however the hole was drilled on an angle.

Thus to summarize how close man has came to drilling to the mantle yet, the best answer is "not very close".

The ocean-based effort clearly provides an easier route that is within historic borehole depths (12 km).  However, the difficulties of drilling at sea and of penetrating the hard inner crust make success uncertain, even as Professor Teagle's team forges ahead.

Source: CNN

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RE: Seems like a...
By paydirt on 10/3/2012 3:50:38 PM , Rating: 3
I'm not a scientist... I just worry that somehow the mantle crust is "keeping the mantle in". If we create a hole in the mantle, what are the implications?

RE: Seems like a...
By JasonMick (blog) on 10/3/2012 3:55:47 PM , Rating: 5
I'm not a scientist... I just worry that somehow the mantle crust is "keeping the mantle in". If we create a hole in the mantle, what are the implications?
What if we discover there's secretly dinosaurs and tribes of people living down there?

RE: Seems like a...
By hellokeith on 10/3/2012 11:31:02 PM , Rating: 2
What if we discover there's secretly dinosaurs and tribes of people living down there?

There was in fact an old (1970) Doctor Who episode on this very matter, but it turned out much worse than a dinosaur utopia.

RE: Seems like a...
By Flunk on 10/3/2012 11:42:47 PM , Rating: 4
He's referring to "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne, that's a little bit older than the 70's.

RE: Seems like a...
By drycrust3 on 10/4/12, Rating: -1
RE: Seems like a...
By EvoTheory on 10/5/2012 12:00:48 AM , Rating: 2
One of the beliefs in quantum physics is the idea of parallel universes, so even though the centre of the earth is solid, it may be that Hell does co-exist with it there.

That's not at all how that works. The Multiverse theory would be a near infinite number of paralell universes existing together in the multiverse. There would not be parts of one universe sticking into another based upon this theory. Referencing quantum physics in the theory you suggested was pretty bad.

With all that said, I will be ecstatic if we find something beyond mantle in the lower mantle.

RE: Seems like a...
By othercents on 10/3/2012 3:56:14 PM , Rating: 3
I don't know... Volcano?

RE: Seems like a...
By Solandri on 10/3/2012 5:43:02 PM , Rating: 5
The crust is just mantle that's been exposed to air/space and allowed to cool. Yes poking a hole down to the liquid mantle could allow a bit of the mantle to escape like a volcano. But if it should somehow get out of control, it will cool and block itself up just like with the rest of the crust.

In terms of risk, you should worry more about tapping into reservoirs of material which does not solidify upon contact with the air.

RE: Seems like a...
By Totally on 10/3/2012 4:03:28 PM , Rating: 2
An 'I accidentally' meme waiting to happen.

RE: Seems like a...
By HoosierEngineer5 on 10/3/2012 4:09:22 PM , Rating: 5
Maybe the ocean will start draining out, like a stopper pulled out of a tub.

Could be the solution to ocean level rise.

RE: Seems like a...
By ShaolinSoccer on 10/4/2012 7:39:36 AM , Rating: 2
Or maybe ALL the ocean's water will drain then we turn into something like Mars.

RE: Seems like a...
By FITCamaro on 10/3/2012 4:18:19 PM , Rating: 5
Please tell me you're joking.

RE: Seems like a...
By Samus on 10/4/2012 12:12:17 AM , Rating: 3
Well, maybe the Mayan's were right after all...we're all going to die in a hellish volcanic inferno!

RE: Seems like a...
By CZroe on 10/4/2012 2:41:53 PM , Rating: 2
Just another of many temporarily active underwater volcanoes. Duh. I wonder if we can harness the steam for power generation.

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No Profit for you! Profits come with content sales not hardware at Amazon.

A lot of technology products and gadgets are sold at breakeven and at times even at a slight loss in order to make money off accessories or services the go along with the products. This is the case with the new Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Paperwhite devices.
"We sell the hardware at our cost, so it is break-even on the hardware," chief executive Jeff Bezos told the BBC.

Bezos notes that Amazon's plan for making money off digital content rather than the devices themselves has worked so far. Bezos says that the user tends to consume more digital media once they own a Kindle or a Fire tablet.
"What we find is that when people buy a Kindle they read four times as much as they did before they bought the Kindle."
"But they don't stop buying paper books. Kindle owners read four times as much, but they continue to buy both types of books."
Along with these new gadgets, Amazon has also recently announced the roll out its book lending platform in Europe. Users of Kindle devices in the UK, Germany, and France can now access the Kindle Owners Leaning Library.
This library allows users to borrow up to one book per month from a selection of titles, some of them very popular titles, at no cost. At launch, the UK service will feature over 200,000 digital books.

Amazon is launching the Fire HD tablet and the Paperwhite eReader in Europe on October 25.

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RE: Profits? Heh!
By andrewaggb on 10/12/2012 11:44:56 AM , Rating: 3
yeah its a dangerous game. But if they price them competitive with the ipad they will lose to the ipad and they know it.

And they're probably worried that if apple gains total market share, then apple will systematically take over ebooks, music, movies, maps (cough), search, etc, all in their own time.

Microsoft more or less did it with a fairly open platform that allowed some competition, just imagine what apple will be able to do. Scary stuff. I'm both fascinated and frightened by Apple, MS, Google. Generally google seems less bad, but since people and their information are googles product... I'm not convinced that ultimately there is much difference.

RE: Profits? Heh!
By inperfectdarkness on 10/13/2012 4:46:42 AM , Rating: 5
Google is the totalitarian regime waiting in the wings for the fascist dictatorship of Apple to be deposed.

In all honesty, since the departure of Gates, MS is more like a transparent, conservative democracy--offering utility and service without unwanted intrusiveness.

but that's just my take...

RE: Profits? Heh!
By theapparition on 10/15/2012 9:45:07 AM , Rating: 2
A little melodramatic, don't you think?

Google doesn't care what you do, just as long as they know what you are doing.

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Appeals are undoubtedly in the works

Apple has been involved in a legal battle with a company called VirnetX over alleged patent infringement involving FaceTime video calling features. VirnetX is the same company that won $200 million in a settlement from Microsoft in 2010.

U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas heard the case. This district court is commonly used for patent infringement suits in the tech world, and in this case, VirnetX alleged that FaceTime was violating four of its patents relating to private networks. The case specifically targeted the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad along with Mac computers.

The patents at the core of the case have to do with the use of a domain-name service to set up virtual private networks allowing website owners to interact with customers securely. VirnetX was seeking $708 million in damages.
The company was awarded damages in the amount of $368.2 million.

“For years Apple refused to pay fair value for the VirnetX patents,” Doug Cawley, a lawyer with McKool Smith in Dallas who represents VirnetX, said in closing arguments. “Apple says they don’t infringe. But Apple developers testified that they didn’t pay any attention to anyone’s patents when developing their system.”

“Apple does not owe money to VirnetX,” Danny Williams, a lawyer with Williams, Morgan & Amerson in Houston who represents Apple, told the jury. “VirnetX is not entitled to money for things they did not invent. The VirnetX technology, if used, is a small part of very large, complex products.”

VirnetX and Apple have another case pending before the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington. VirnetX also has claims pending against Cisco Systems, Avaya Inc. and Siemens Enterprise Communications that will begin in March.

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RE: Fun with words
By Motoman on 11/7/2012 3:51:14 PM , Rating: 5
The invention, in this case, was the electronic device connector itself.

Maybe the first one had 20 pins. Or just one. Whatever...doesn't matter.

If the first device had one pin, and then someone else comes along and makes a connector with 3 pins instead of one, they didn't actually "invent" anything. They made a modification to something that already existed.

When Goodyear creates a new tire with a new tread pattern, they don't run around going "look, we invented the tire!" or even "we invented a new tire!" They didn't invent anything at that point - they manufactured a tire with a new tread pattern. That's it.

An invention has to be new and novel. A tire with a different tread pattern isn't really new and novel. Neither is a connector with 30 pins instead of...what all the other bajillion types of electronic connectors have.

RE: Fun with words
By RufusM on 11/7/2012 5:02:57 PM , Rating: 1
I disagree. IMO an invention can be an improvement or change on an existing design. In the case I made, yes connectors existed before but not this connector with its specific inputs and outputs.

Like I said, this gets to the heart on the definition of invention. If a new tire was developed that could recharge a battery from road friction I would classify that as an invention. Tires existed before, but this is a new type of tire.

RE: Fun with words
By boobo on 11/7/2012 8:05:50 PM , Rating: 2
The tire that recharges the battery is an invention because it provides -innovative- functionality to the previous invention (tire).

A new connector can be as different as you want. It can have 300 triangular pins, instead of what may have been only two rectangular pins in the older model and it would not count as an invention because the change does not provide any -innovative- new functionality.

Now, if the new connector allowed transfer speeds 1000x faster than any previous connector... then! you have an invention.

Patents were not created so that companies would keep making differently shaped, incompatible connectors every week. They were created so that companies would keep making products with ever increasing performance and functionality. (and software patents... I really don't know what they were created for)

RE: Fun with words
By maugrimtr on 11/8/2012 10:29:38 AM , Rating: 2
A new tire thread is an invention by your own definition. If the thread improves performance, reliability, or durability to some degree then it is innovative. In which case, the inventor now has a novel product that imbues their business with a competitive advantage. Presumably this would be a patentable invention so the tire analogy is a poor one. Tires can vary by thread design, composition, size and width based on any number of external variables like vehicle weight, targeted road conditions, vehicle usage, etc.

RE: Fun with words
By AnemicCrayon on 11/9/2012 5:10:02 AM , Rating: 2
verb (used without object)
1. to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
to introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time: to innovate a computer operating system.
Archaic . to alter.

verb (used with object)
to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.

There is a very real difference in the two terms, invent suggests a totally new idea brought to life while innovating suggests altering a an existing invention to improve upon.

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Microsoft wants 20,000 extra green cards per year too

Microsoft is willing to pay the U.S. government for additional H-1B worker visas, saying there aren't enough skilled Americans to fill its available job openings.
More specifically, it suggested that the government raise $500 million a year by tacking on an extra $10,000 fee for each newly created H-1B visa or $15,000 for each new green card. This money can then be used to offer better education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) for Americans. Microsoft noted that not enough Americans are skilled in these areas to keep up with demand.

In addition to raising the number of visas offered, Microsoft wants the government to give 20,000 extra green cards per year.

H-1B visas allow foreign workers to come to the U.S. temporarily to work in their field. They can renew their visas every three years. Green cards, on the other hand, allow foreign workers to live in the country permanently. Currently, the government offers 65,000 visas a year, but in the past has seen numbers as high as 195,000.

Microsoft is one of the largest sponsors when it comes to H-1B visas. Ten percent of its 57,400 U.S. workforce are H-1B visa holders. From 2010 to 2011, it applied for about 850 visas annually for new employees on their very first H-1B visa. In 2011, Microsoft sponsored over 4,700 H-1B workers for green cards.

Many worry, however, that Microsoft is just looking for cheap labor. An issue is that Microsoft and other corporations don't need to prove that there aren't skilled Americans to fill these jobs. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) even warned that there are "inadequate safeguards" that protect skilled Americans from being booted out of jobs for cheaper foreign workers.

"The biggest myth people have is that a company like Microsoft somehow looks to foreign workers as an easy supply to displace American workers," said Karen Jones, Microsoft's deputy general counsel for human resources. "We simply cannot find qualified Americans to fill these jobs."

An analysis of Microsoft's green card applications shows that 25 percent were entry-level workers and 61 percent were a step up as software engineers or marketing managers. Most hold technical jobs, but most also make fewer than six figures while many graduates usually demand over $100,000 annual salaries.

Source: The Seattle Times

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RE: Seems legit..
By V-Money on 11/27/2012 12:24:33 PM , Rating: 2
Wow really, I never would have thought to look into ways around it...

So yeah, I was able to Clep out of English and start directly in to Chemistry and Calculus by taking the tests (as opposed to intro to chem and precalc) but that doesn't change the fact that when you spend 6 years studying and operating nuclear reactors which includes chemistry, physics, and math that taking these courses gets a little old. I am good at these subjects but I in no way like them (in fact I hate all three of them with just about every fiber of my being, especially math).

Funny enough there was no way around bio, I had to start with intro to bio. I tried arguing since I took anatomy w/lab during the summer and was top of the class with over 100% that I was obviously capable of handling the class. They wouldn't budge. I actually do enjoy Bio though so it wasn't as bad.

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