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Monday, April 29, 2013
Adults lack stem cells for making new eggs
Apr. 29, 2013 ? Mammalian females ovulate periodically over their reproductive lifetimes, placing significant demands on their ovaries for egg production. Whether mammals generate new eggs in adulthood using stem cells has been a source of scientific controversy. If true, these "germ-line stem cells" might allow novel treatments for infertility and other diseases. However, new research from Carnegie's Lei Lei and Allan Spradling demonstrates that adult mice do not use stem cells to produce new eggs.
Their work is published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of April 29.
Before birth, mouse and human ovaries contain an abundant supply of germ cells, some of which will develop into the eggs that will ultimately be released from follicles during ovulation. Around the time of birth these germ cells have formed a large reserve of primordial follicles -- each containing a single immature egg. Evidence of new follicle production is absent after birth, so it has long been believed that the supply of follicles is fixed at birth and eventually runs out, leading to menopause.
During the last decade, some researchers have claimed that primordial follicles in adult mouse ovaries turn over and that females use adult germ-line stem cells to constantly resupply the follicle pool and sustain ovulation. These claims were based on subjective observations of ovarian tissue and on the behavior of extremely rare ovarian cells following extensive growth in tissue culture, a procedure that is capable of "reprogramming" cells.
Lei and Spradling used a technique that allows individual cells and their progeny within a living animal to be followed over time by marking the cells with a new gene. This general approach, known as lineage-tracing, has been a mainstay of classical developmental biology research and has greatly clarified knowledge of tissue stem cells during the last decade.
Their research showed that primordial follicles are highly stable, and that germ-line stem cell activity cannot be detected, even in response to the death of half the existing follicles. The research placed a stringent upper limit on the stem cell activity that could exist in the mouse ovary and escape detection--one stem cell division every two weeks, which is an insignificant level.
What about the rare stem-like cells generated in cultures of ovarian cells? According to Spradling, these cells "likely arise by dedifferentiation in culture," and "the same safety and reliability concerns would apply as to any laboratory-generated cell type that lacks a normal counterpart" in the body.
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- Lei Lei and Allan C. Spradling. Female mice lack adult germ-line stem cells but sustain oogenesis using stable primordial follicles. PNAS, April 29, 2013 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1306189110
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Offline Google Drive now automatically saves files, lets you create and edit drawings
Well, it looks as if the Drive news just keep pouring in. Shortly after outing a couple of new features that make the service a little more friendly with collaborators, Google's rather quietly taken to its own social network to announce some offline tidbits. Starting today, users of Mountain View's cloud-based storage goods can easily create and edit any drawings without the need for an internet connection. What's more, Docs, Sheets and Slides will now be automatically available offline -- something that should come in very handy while you're, say, 20,000 feet up in the air with no Gogo in sight. Fret not if you don't see these changes the next time you log in, as Google says "it may take a few days" before the rollout is carried out.
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Wall Street dips after data; Amazon drags
LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - Arsenal will keep with tradition and form a guard of honour for new Premier League champions Manchester United when the sides meet at The Emirates on Sunday. "That is part of the tradition of English football and I want that, of course, to be respected," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told a news conference on Friday. "I'm French, I work in England and the English tradition should be respected. When you work somewhere abroad you have to respect the culture of the country," he added. ...
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HeartMath LLC: Managing Marriage Stress Starts With Self
By Deborah Rozman
While having a long, happy marriage is one of the predictors of longevity and a source of great meaning and fulfillment in our lives, getting married often registers as one of the most stressful major events we can experience. Sustaining happiness over the bumpy road of decades together is no easy task, either. The potential stressors in a long-term romantic relationship are myriad: wondering if this is the right person, financial insecurity, wedding planning, jealousy, differing styles of managing money, sex and intimacy issues, infidelity, parenting, in-laws, overloaded schedules, health crises...
All too often, it's easy to react to marital stress in counterproductive ways like denial, avoidance, suppression, compromising, venting, and living like roommates instead of partners.
According to several recent studies, a stressful marriage can create more health problems for someone than if they had never married at all. Another suggests that a stressful marriage can be "as bad for the heart as a regular smoking habit."
To keep your marriage or long-term relationship low-stress, strong and happy, it's critical to learn to manage your attitudes and emotions and lead with your heart -- from that intelligent, self-secure place inside where wisdom, intuition and understanding reside.
Stress indicates something's out of balance. Your No. 1 responsibility is to take care of yourself. To address the relationship issues you face with clarity, you need to get back in balance to adequately access your mental and intuitive faculties. In the moment of stress, learning to reset and go to ease can make all the difference between a happy marriage and misery, or even divorce. It's about getting your heart and brain aligned so your intuition can speak, something we've taught thousands to do, including many certified marriage and family therapists. Here are some tips for a stress-reduced marriage or relationship from HeartMath:
- Developing a healthy, mature relationship with yourself and learning to self-manage your reactions is the No. 1 way we've found to manage the stress of a relationship. When we can handle ourselves well, then we are more able to have an effective relationship with another person.
- Healthy communication is key. You can learn to resolve conflict without doing damage to the relationship -- or each other. Develop the capacity to be genuine and heart-vulnerable. Listen without judgment.
- Spend more alone time together. Many couples get so busy that they lead separate lives and understandably feel disconnected. Schedule regular dates and show your spouse they're a priority.
- Learn HeartMath's Quick Coherence technique to get you into heart-brain coherence quickly when you feel conflict rising.
- Read HeartMath's article on improving relationships and download HeartMath's Improving Relationships ebooklet for more helpful guidance.
- Put away the electronic devices that keep your attention off of your spouse. One that can actually bring you closer together is HeartMath's emWave?2, our award-winning stress-busting tool. Using this feedback device to get into heart coherence, you and your spouse can transform volatile fights into meaningful discussions that bring insight and resolution to your issues.
The most beneficial thing therapists who prescribe the emWave2 to their marriage counseling clients have discovered is for each of the parties to use the emWave2 device to get into heart coherence before they start talking with each other. The John Gottman Institute, which specializes in teaching MFTs and others to use best practices in relationship therapy, often recommend using the emWave2 as it helps make it easier to speak to and understand one's partner when one is calm and centered.
When I was an advisor to The Dr. Phil Show, they would send people to us for training. They asked HeartMath to work with a couple they had on their show who were on the brink of divorce. I taught them Quick Coherence and other HeartMath techniques and provided each one with an emWave2 to first get in sync within themselves, and then with each other during communications. With some coaching, they totally transformed themselves and their marriage with these tools.
Knowing that you have tools available and skills you and your spouse can learn to handle whatever comes along in your relationship and lives should give you confidence that you can have a long-term, happy marriage. Other than that, all you need is love!
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For more on stress, click here.
Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., is president and CEO of HeartMath LLC, located in Boulder Creek, Calif. HeartMath provides scientifically-validated and market-validated tools and technologies that activate the intelligence and power of the heart to dramatically reduce stress while empowering health, performance and behavioral change in individuals and organizations. HeartMath's award winning emWave? technologies monitor and provide real time feedback on heart rhythm (HRV) coherence levels, an important indicator of mental and emotional state. HeartMath also offers training and certification programs for organizations, health professionals and coaches, and a self-paced online personal development program called HeartMastery for individuals.
Dr. Rozman has been a psychologist in research and practice, entrepreneur and business executive for over 30 years. She was founding executive director of the Institute of HeartMath, and now serves on the Institute's Scientific Advisory Board and Global Coherence Initiative Steering Committee. She is co-author with HeartMath founder Doc Childre of the Transforming series of books (New Harbinger Publications): Transforming Anger, Transforming Stress, Transforming Anxiety and Transforming Depression. She is a key spokesperson on heart intelligence and the role of the heart in stress management, performance and wellness.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
White House backs Reid?s sequester plan
With deep federal spending cuts known as the sequester beginning to affect air travel and forcing some public-sector layoffs, the White House on Wednesday seemed to offer public support for Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's proposal to temporarily pay down the sequester without generating new tax revenue.
White House officials previously stated the president would not support any measure to replace the sequester that did not include some new tax revenue?what they called a "balanced" approach to deficit reduction.
Reid's plan suggests using some of the $650 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operation fund for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to pay down the sequester for about five months on the presumption the U.S. will not spend all the funds allocated given that the Iraq War has ended and U.S. combat troops are on track to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
"We believe that Sen. Reid's proposal is a good one," White House press secretary Jay Carney said at Wednesday's press briefing. It would "temporarily delay the sequester and all the negative effects that we're talking about down to air travelers, families, seniors, as well as the job loss and the drag on our economy in order to allow for the discussions that the president has made in trying to find common ground with Republicans to bear fruit."
When asked to explain the White House's seeming about-turn on tax revenue, Carney repeated that the White House is supportive of Reid's plan in order to "allow time" for congressional leaders and the White House to find "common ground."
Republicans dismissed Reid's plan as?at best?a budget gimmick.
"So, whether OCO is the mother of all gimmicks, or just a glaring one?everybody other than the majority leader evidently agrees on one thing: It?s the height of fiscal irresponsibility," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor on Wednesday.
McConnell later cast Reid's plan as a significant and potentially positive development: "There?s now bipartisan agreement that tax hikes won?t be a replacement to the sequester," he said.
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Motherlode Blog: Study Links Autism With Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy
A cautiously worded study based on data collected in Sweden has found that ?in utero exposure to both selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (S.S.R.I.?s) and nonselective monoamine reuptake inhibitors (tricyclic antidepressants) was associated with an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders, particularly without intellectual disability.?
The Swedish medical birth register (which contains data on current drug use reported by mothers early in their pregnancies), along with a system of publicly funded screenings for autism spectrum disorders and extensive national and regional registers of various health issues, make a detailed, population-based case-control study possible ? one that controls for other variables like family income, parent educational level, maternal and paternal age and even maternal region of birth (all factors the authors note have been previously associated with autism).
This is the second study in two years to associate antidepressant use during pregnancy with an increased incidence of autism in exposed children. An earlier, smaller study in California also found a modest increase in risk. The Sweden-based study could not (and did not) exclude the possibility that it was the severe depression, rather than the use of antidepressants, that created the association, but the smaller California study (which considered only S.S.R.I.?s) found ?no increase in risk? for mothers with a history of mental health treatment in the absence of prenatal exposure to S.S.R.I.?s.
The authors of the current study took a very cautious approach to their findings:
The results of the present study as well as the U.S. study present a major dilemma in relation to clinical advice to pregnant women with depression. If antidepressants increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder, it would be reasonable to warn women about this possibility. However, if the association actually reflects the risk of autism spectrum disorder related to the nongenetic effects of severe depression during pregnancy, treatment may reduce the risk. Informed decisions would also need to consider weighing the wider risks of untreated depression with the other adverse outcomes related to antidepressant use. With the current evidence, if the potential risk of autism were a consideration in the decision-making process, it may be reasonable to think about, wherever appropriate, nondrug approaches such as psychological treatments. However, their timely availability to pregnant women will need to be enhanced.
Others working in the field are more inclined to draw a line between the prenatal drug exposure and the increased risk of autism. ?It really shouldn?t come as that much of a surprise given that numerous animal studies have shown that exposure during development leads to changes in the brain and changes in behavior ? often that mimic autism,? said Dr. Adam C. Urato, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Tufts University School of Medicine and chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, Mass. (Dr. Urato obviously didn?t speak in links, but you can find the animal studies he refers to here and here.)
?And why should it surprise us that medications that can change brain chemistry and function might alter the development of the brain and behavior?? Dr. Urato argues that the risks of antidepressant use during pregnancy outweigh what he sees as the limited benefits.
One conclusion that is simple to draw is that it?s extraordinarily difficult for a pregnant woman with clinical depression to find some definitive answer about what?s best for her in her situation. I?ve spoken to other researchers in the past who have described for me how difficult it is to put together a study that separates the risks of depression itself in pregnancy from the risks, if any, of the drugs used to treat it. As the researchers in Sweden note, it?s unlikely that conclusive evidence on this issue will ever be available.
If you?ve been pregnant with clinical depression, where did you go to find the information and advice you needed?
Updated | April 23, 2013: In re-reading this post, I?ve realized I should have included exactly how ?modest? the increase in autism risk was (an increase that, again, wasn?t ?caused? by prenatal exposure to either form of antidepressant but rather associated with it). In this study, the increase was just 0.6 percent ? worthy of discussion, not decision (and certainly not condemnation). I?ve been surprised by the number of readers who, in the comments, took this cautiously observed association and blew it up into something rather larger. Happily, the entire study (unlike many) is freely available at the link above. You?ll find other, more extensive discussions of what these numbers do and don?t mean for individual women here and here.
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PFT: Haslam, Goodell meet over Pilot Flying J probe
ReutersHere?s a historical look at the way the Bills have systemically ignored QBs in the Draft (and we wonder why they are the way they are).
For the Dolphins, the 12th pick represents the least of the drama, as trade talks on multiple fronts are ongoing.
Retired Patriots mainstay Kevin Faulk has given newcomer Leon Washington permission to wear his No. 33 jersey.
Short-rope coach Rex Ryan might need the Jets to draft a QB to increase his own job security.
The Ravens have multiple options to find some help at LB.
While the Bengals are hopeful of an Andre Smith deal, he?s still unsigned, which puts RT on the needs list.
Tom Reed of the Cleveland Plain Dealer believes finding CB help is the top priority for the Browns.
The Steelers are taking a closer look at character issues during their pre-draft preparations.
Texans RB Arian Foster will have a role in the movie Draft Day, playing a draft prospect.
The Colts needs list is easy: Anything but QB.
Fan voting has chosen the Titans? 15th anniversary logo, which includes a sword and Roman numerals.
The Broncos are hoping for an early run on QBs, to push the guys they want down to them.
Sam Mellinger of the Kansas City Star is coming around to the idea of the Chiefs trading Branden Albert only to draft his replacement.
Before they can worry about a Commitment to Excellence, Raiders GM Reggie McKenzie wants his team to have a commitment to character.
Few teams have a more glaring need to fill than the Chargers all along the offensive line.
Cowboys VP Stephen Jones says it?s a 50-50 chance the team actually uses the 18th pick.
The Giants haven?t drafted a LB in the first round since 1984.
E.J. Manuel, who said the Eagles ?want me pretty bad? is being mentored by former Eagles QB Donovan McNabb.
The Redskins are comfortable with having the night off tonight, since they have their QB position taken care of.
The Bears might want to move down, but they can?t afford to go too low.
Tonight?s the kind of night that could save Lions GM Martin Mayhew?s job.
The Packers worked out RB Cedric Benson yesterday, but no deal appears imminent.
Vikings GM Rick Spielman said his picks are unlikely to be a ?surprise.?
All signs point to the Falcons drafting a CB, whenever they draft.
Panthers owner Jerry Richardson told city leaders he moved a mountain to accommodate the Democratic National Convention, during his plea for public money.
The Saints can doubtless find someone to help their league-worst defense at 15.
You can?t count the Bucs out tonight, though they don?t have a pick at the moment.
Cardinals GM Steve Keim is ready for his chance to sit in the big chair.
The Rams have solid players, they need playmakers, writes Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Everyone anticipates the 49ers making moves tonight and throughout the weekend, and that raises the stakes for GM Trent Baalke.
The Seahawks have made their moves, so they?re sitting back and watching tonight.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Tips for business success: outsourcing lead generation
For businesses to continue to develop and thrive, it is essential to maintain healthy contact with the target audience and search for new business opportunities; this can be achieved by lead generation.
78% of business to business companies state that generating new leads is a challenge. This could be due to the concentrated effort that must be used to maintain a regular contact campaign with potential customers. Some companies undertaking this responsibility themselves simply may not be able to dedicate the time or staff required solely for lead generation.
Therefore outsourcing to lead generation specialists may be ideal, as this means that there will be a dedicated team assigned to the task of reaching out to prospective clients and generating interest for your business.
Reasons to outsource
60% of businesses that responded to the Lead Generation and Nurturing Benchmarking Report 2012 by Market Sherpa outsource their lead generation. Therefore this could mean that if your business is not using outsourced lead generation services to contact potential customers, your competitors could be. Ultimately reaching your prospective customer before your competitor and establishing a contact is vital to form crucial business leads and gain an upper hand on market rivals.
Using a dedicated lead generation company means that there will be a team devoted solely to generating and nurturing targeted business leads for your company via a range of contact methods. If a company is trying to achieve this in-house without a committed team, staff could potentially become distracted or consumed with other parts of their role aside from lead generation.
This could potentially mean that developing contacts with potential clients could be neglected, therefore losing a lead. Outsourcing will also allow your company to focus on what they do best; producing the goods or services that you wish to sell to more of.
If your business does have a functioning in-house team, outsourcing to a specialised lead generation service can also become an extension of this to bring in additional opportunities and ensure that targets are being met.
?How to choose who to outsource to
Choosing who to outsource your lead generation to is an important decision to consider carefully. Aspects that you will want to look for in your chosen company will have to include a successful plea strategy to your target audience, as the demands of the modern customer have changed.
People also have a natural aversion to being sold to and a clich? sales approach could sully the reputation of your company among potential prospects, so your lead generation company will need to be innovative in their approach to contacting customers away from a hard sell.
Lead generation and telemarketing company Market Makers state that they adapt their attitude to mirror that of the customer when making contact, ?as naturally we are drawn to people who are similar to ourselves?. They claim that this innovative approach to lead generation can be successful in breaking down the initial barrier when first contacting the customer, which can then progress into an open conversation and from there hopefully a promising lead for your business.
Amy Fry writes for a large variety of topics and industries including education, business and health. She writes for a large variety of topics and industries including education, health, business and lead generation.
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Source: http://www.enterprisedojo.com/tips-for-business-success-outsourcing-lead-generation/
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Police: Man killed girlfriend, 3 others in Wash.
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (AP) ? A man fatally shot his live-in girlfriend at an apartment south of Seattle then killed three men, including a neighbor who told others to call 911 and retreated inside his unit before the gunman blasted open the door with a shotgun and opened fire, authorities said Monday.
The 27-year-old suspect was later shot and killed in a parking lot by responding officers.
"We believe this is a domestic-violence homicide," Federal Way Police Chief Brian Wilson said at a news conference.
Wilson said investigators believe the shooter may also have been trying to kill witnesses, KOMO-TV reported.
Police encountered a chaotic situation in Federal Way on Sunday night when they responded to reports of gunshots.
The suspect confronted arriving officers with a shotgun in a stairwell then fled to the parking lot after officers fired at him, Wilson said.
He was killed on the ground while reaching for a handgun, Wilson said.
"This is one of the most dangerous ... calls for law enforcement to respond to," Wilson said of the active shooter situation.
A King County medical examiner's spokeswoman said Monday that the identities of the dead were not expected to be released until Tuesday afternoon.
Wilson said the victims included the suspect's 25-year-old girlfriend, and three men, including the 62-year-old neighbor. The other men were 24 and 46.
Police were still piecing together information but believe the suspect shot his girlfriend in their apartment, then killed the two younger men after he left the unit.
Wilson said the 62-year-old heard the commotion from another apartment, went outside to investigate and urged others to call authorities. The man returned to his residence before he was shot and killed, the chief said.
Police said the gunman used the shotgun to fire on the man's door to gain entry. It did not appear that the older man knew the shooter, police said.
Authorities received the first reports of suspicious circumstances about 9:35 p.m. Sunday.
"When officers arrived there were still shots being fired," said police spokeswoman Cathy Schrock.
Officers swarmed and searched the large apartment complex off Interstate 5 before saying they were confident there were no more casualties.
By dawn, a medical examiner's office truck had arrived to pick up bodies while crime scene investigators kept working. One officer was seen carrying books and a gun to what appeared to be an evidence van.
A total of eight officers fired their weapons, Schrock said. All have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard policy in such situations, as the investigation continues.
Wilson said the suspect, who had a valid concealed weapons permit, had no criminal history. However, he had been involved in two prior domestic violence calls in Federal Way and Seattle, Wilson said.
Both incidents were verbal in nature and no arrests were made, Wilson said.
Federal Way is about 20 miles south of Seattle.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-killed-girlfriend-3-others-wash-221100319.html
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SEC's Gallagher says agency looking into bogus AP tweet
SYDNEY, April 24 (Reuters) - Australia named the following squad for the Ashes test series against England in July and August. Squad: Michael Clarke (captain), Brad Haddin (vice captain), Ed Cowan, David Warner, Phillip Hughes, Shane Watson, Usman Khawaja, Chris Rogers, Matthew Wade, Nathan Lyon, James Faulkner, Peter Siddle, Ryan Harris, James Pattinson, Mitchell Starc, Jackson Bird (Compiled by Greg Stutchbury; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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Recruit.net Revamp Lets You Ping Friends About Their Jobs
Recruit.net just rebuilt its site and underlying engine, in the hopes of attracting new users. The job search site is an aggregator pulling listings from job databases and individual job listings on corporate sites. This is how it hopes to differentiate from larger competitors like Monster and JobStreet, which display listings that companies have specifically taken out on the job sites themselves. Recruit.net’s founder, Maneck Mohan, said the revamp was done in order to make the backend search quicker, and so that the site can keep users coming to it. He said Recruit.net attracts about 500 new sign-ups and spits out results for about a million job searches done per day. It has a database of a million registered users right now. With the revamp, the site is also launching a feature called Social Connections, which allows users to “discreetly” find contacts and friends of friends, up to second-degree connections, that work at specific companies. With the feature enabled, job searches will show relevant social connections underneath job ads, and you can message contacts about those jobs in order to find out more. It doesn’t compete with social networks like LinkedIn (which also relies on recruitment as a revenue pillar). Recruit.net uses both LinkedIn and Facebook APIs to “supplement” its social layer, and any contact with users found is done on their sites, said Mohan. LinkedIn has over 200 million members as of end-2012, and reported that over half of its revenue of $304 million in the fourth quarter last year came from the company’s Talent Solutions business. This includes the company’s recruitment business, as it tries to become the go-to place for job seekers. The new revamp showing popular companies with job openings Recruit.net was created in 2006 as a side project for Mohan, who was working as a recruiter at Morgan Stanley before setting up a recruitment consultancy business catering to IT professionals. He hired two developers four-and-a-half years ago for Recruit.net, and decided to tend to the project full-time about ten months ago.?Mohan and his current team of eight are based in Hong Kong. The site relies on sponsored listings for revenue, with pay-per-clicks at US$0.40 (S$0.50), and US$0.81 (S$1) for people to register and submit resumes to paying sites.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/iHpuScVmADA/
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Apple Still Dominates App Sales, But Google Is ... - Business Insider
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Google's app store revenues are growing much faster than those of Apple Inc, but Apple still dominates overall sales, market research data taken from the first three months of the year shows.The app stores collectively raked in $2.2 billion in the first three months of 2013, according to Canalys, a market researcher.
The firm says Apple's App Store generated $1.48 billion of revenue, accounting for 74 percent of $2.2 billion earnings that the app stores collectively made in the January-March period. Revenue generated from Google Play amounted to 18 percent.
Separate data from App Annie, an analytics firm, showed Google's app store revenues were 38.5 percent of Apple's, a big gain from a year ago when it was worth just a tenth of Apple's, as its free Android mobile operating system helped it win nearly 70 percent of the global mobile market.
Fuelled by roaring growth of Android mobile devices, largely manufactured by Samsung Electronics and up-and-coming rivals, Google Play revenues jumped 90 percent in the first quarter from the fourth quarter, according to App Annie.
Apple's app store revenues grew by a quarter in the same period, compounding worries for the firm, whose share price has fallen 11.8 percent so far in April on fears about weakening demand for its hardware staples, the iPhone and iPad.
"Although Google is catching up, Apple has such a head-start in revenues that, on present trends, we would not expect Google to overtake Apple until sometime in 2016," Adam Daum, chief analyst at Canalys, told Reuters in an email interview.
Apple's continued dominance in revenues, despite the popularity of Android-propelled devices, was largely due to its simpler payment system.
"In terms of downloads, Google Play has caught up to 90 percent of Apple's, and will close the gap soon, but this hasn't translated to revenues," said Oliver Lo, a Beijing-based Vice President at App Annie.
Lo said that a higher percentage of iPhone or iPad users, usually more affluent than the average smartphone user, had registered their credit cards on their Apple accounts, making it easier and more likely for them to purchase apps.
Google, on the other hand, relies on more varied payment methods including Google Wallet, credit card purchases and carrier billing.
Spending on games in Japan and South Korea, Android's top markets, helped Google Play's earnings, a trend that is seen continuing this year.
"There's plenty of room for growth in Japan which will add new users as the smartphone penetration rates are only about 30 percent," said Rim Ho-won, an analyst at CIMB Securities in Seoul.
He added that South Korea, which boasts one of the highest smartphone penetration rates in the world at 80 percent, would also see robust growth on the back of its mobile game-craze.
Games account for 90-95 percent of revenues from Japan and South Korea, which are the most heavily game-skewed markets.
App market operators such as Google and Apple generally take 30 percent of the revenues, and the remainder goes to the app developers.
(Editing by Jeremy Laurence)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-still-dominates-app-sales-but-google-is-coming-on-fast-2013-4
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
CSN: Phillies rally late to top Cardinals
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Ben Revere had an audience of reporters in stitches as he recounted his personal low point in Sunday night?s game.
Revere had come to the plate with one out, the bases loaded and the game tied in the bottom of the sixth inning. It was his chance to do some damage, to give the Phillies a lead. He grounded into a deflating inning-ending double play.
?I was really ticked,? Revere said. ?I thought that sucker was up the middle but it just stuck there and the shortstop grabbed it.?
Revere was still upset when he came back to the dugout after the next half inning so he retreated to the clubhouse and remembered some advice his mother had given him: When things aren?t going well, find a quiet place, ?your happy place,? Revere said, and re-focus.
?I gave myself a time out,? he said. ?I came to my happy place and it helped me.?
Two innings after grounding into that double play, Revere lined a pitch up the middle to break a tie and help propel the Phillies to a 7-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals (see Instant Replay).
The Phillies, still spinning their wheels 19 games into the season, are 8-11.
Clutch hits haven?t been easy to come by for this Phillies team, but they were plentiful in the late innings of this game.
The Phils fell behind, 3-2, in the top of the seventh when a two-base error by Chase Utley led to an unearned run.
Number-eight hitter Erik Kratz started a string of big hits late in the game when he opened the bottom of the seventh with a single off Cardinals starter Jake Westbrook. Pinch-hitter Laynce Nix then had a terrific, 10-pitch at-bat against reliever Fernando Salas that culminated with Nix driving a game-tying double to left-center. Kratz, not the fleetest runner on the roster, scored in a mad first-to-home dash.
The hits kept coming in the eighth ?- six of them to be exact.
It all started with Michael Young?s infield hit off reliever Mitchell Boggs? glove. The hit improved Young?s hitting streak to 12 games. The next batter, Domonic Brown, singled, and Revere followed with his tie-breaking hit. One pitch later, Kratz pounded a fastball deep into the night for a three-run homer as the Phillies won going away.
The bottom of the order really keyed the Phillies? comeback. Young, hitting fifth, had an important infield hit. Brown, hitting sixth, had a couple of walks and an important hit in the eighth. Revere, hitting seventh, had the tie-breaking hit. Kratz, hitting eighth, had two huge hits in the seventh and eighth. And pinch-hitters Nix and Kevin Frandsen came through in the nine-hole.
?It was a good team win,? Revere said.
Manager Charlie Manuel hoped a win like this, where the Phils overcame an error and turned it on late, would get his team moving in the right direction.
?We have to put all phases of our game together and let it run like a machine,? he said. ?We?re not there yet. Hopefully tonight will get us started.?
Starting pitcher Kyle Kendrick struggled to keep his pitch count down, but he still managed to give his club six innings on a night when he didn?t have his best stuff. Kendrick stranded runners at second and third in the second and did some nifty escape work in the fourth and sixth innings. He got big outs with runners in scoring position in both innings.
?He hung in there and did a really good job,? Manuel said.
?On nights you don?t have your good stuff you have to battle and keep your team in the game,? Kendrick said. ?I was able to keep the damage at a minimum. It was a nice win for us.?
The eighth-inning rally sent the crowd of 35,115 home happy. Earlier in the game, the fans were a little upset. Maybe it was an early base-running blunder by Utley or a ball falling in front of Brown in left field. Some fans thought Brown should have made the play and they let him hear about it. When Brown did make a catch later that inning, he earned some mockapplause.
By the end of the night, the applause was real. The Phillies got some clutch hits and everyone left happy.
Source: http://www.csnphilly.com/phillies/clutch-hits-propel-phillies-late-win-over-cardinals
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Monday, April 22, 2013
MDs warn teens: Don't take the cinnamon challenge
This undated photo provided by Frederick Reed shows Dejah Reed, an Ypsilanti, Mich., teen who was hospitalized for a collapsed lung after trying the cinnamon challenge. A new report from doctors to be published Monday, April 22, 2013, advises against taking the challenge that involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. The fad depicted in wildly popular YouTube videos has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers. (AP Photo/Frederick Reed)
This undated photo provided by Frederick Reed shows Dejah Reed, an Ypsilanti, Mich., teen who was hospitalized for a collapsed lung after trying the cinnamon challenge. A new report from doctors to be published Monday, April 22, 2013, advises against taking the challenge that involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. The fad depicted in wildly popular YouTube videos has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers. (AP Photo/Frederick Reed)
CHICAGO (AP) ? Don't take the cinnamon challenge. That's the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers.
The fad involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. But the spice is caustic, and trying to gulp it down can cause choking, throat irritation, breathing trouble and even collapsed lungs, the report said.
Published online Monday in Pediatrics, the report said at least 30 teens nationwide needed medical attention after taking the challenge last year.
The number of poison control center calls about teens doing the prank "has increased dramatically," from 51 in 2011 to 222 last year, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
"People with asthma or other respiratory conditions are at greater risk of having this result in shortness of breath and trouble breathing," according to an alert posted on the association's website.
Thousands of YouTube videos depict kids attempting the challenge, resulting in an "orange burst of dragon breath" spewing out of their mouths and sometimes hysterical laughter from friends watching the stunt, said report co-author Dr. Steven E. Lipshultz, a pediatrics professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Cinnamon is made from tree bark and contains cellulose fibers that don't easily break down. Animal research suggests that when cinnamon gets into the lungs, it can cause scarring, Lipshultz said.
Dr. Stephen Pont, a spokesman for the American Academy of Pediatrics and an Austin, Texas pediatrician, said the report is "a call to arms to parents and doctors to be aware of things like the cinnamon challenge" and to pay attention to what their kids are viewing online.
An Ypsilanti, Mich., teen who was hospitalized for a collapsed lung after trying the cinnamon challenge heartily supports the new advice and started her own website ? http://nocinnamonchallenge.com ? telling teens to "just say no" to the fad.
Dejah Reed, 16, said she took the challenge four times ? the final time was in February last year with a friend who didn't want to try it alone.
"I was laughing very hard and I coughed it out and I inhaled it into my lungs," she said. "I couldn't breathe."
Her father, Fred Reed, said he arrived home soon after to find Dejah "a pale bluish color. It was very terrifying. I threw her over my shoulder" and drove to a nearby emergency room.
Dejah was hospitalized for four days and went home with an inhaler and said she still has to use it when she gets short of breath from running or talking too fast. Her dad said she'd never had asthma or breathing problems before.
Dejah said she'd read about the challenge on Facebook and other social networking sites and "thought it would be cool" to try.
Now she knows "it's not cool and it's dangerous."
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Lessons from Smallpox Guide Polio Endgame
The world is closer than ever to eradicating polio. With only 223 wild poliovirus cases in five countries in 2012, the paralytic disease has been knocked down to just a handful of small reservoirs. Recognizing this historic opportunity to achieve eradication, we have enthusiastically joined more than 400 scientists from 80 countries to sign the Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication.
Through the declaration, we are endorsing a clear path?not just an aspiration?to bring an end to polio: the new Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan. This plan, developed by polio partners, donors and other stakeholders under the auspices of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), is a comprehensive strategy to reach and sustain eradication. Scientists signing the declaration are uniting behind GPEI?s plan, urging its full funding and implementation.
What gives us confidence that this plan will work? For both of us, the proof is personal: we served more than three decades ago on the team that eradicated smallpox, the only other human disease to be wiped from the planet. We see in the polio endgame plan the same hallmarks of success that guided smallpox eradication to completion.
The first ingredient for success is a relentless focus on pulling out the roots of the disease, no matter how challenging the circumstances. The smallpox effort required rooting out the disease amid major floods, famines and civil war. In recent years, similar focus has enabled huge obstacles to be surmounted for polio. Notably, India has now gone two years without a new wild polio case, despite a large population, inconsistent infrastructure and hard-to-reach migrant groups.
Over the next few years, the GPEI strategic plan calls for focusing polio efforts on the three countries where the disease remains endemic: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.1 All three countries have already launched emergency action plans on polio, and have made remarkable progress toward stopping transmission.
The second ingredient for success is creative problem-solving. For smallpox, the value of creative and flexible approaches was demonstrated in Nigeria in 1966, when the country faced a smallpox vaccine shortage just as the disease broke out in an isolated village in Ogoga province. An unconventional plan to vaccinate only those at highest risk of contagion proved pivotal. Vaccinators identified these individuals by working with community members and tracking the daily routines of villagers, such as visits to markets. This catalyzed a revolutionary ?surveillance and containment? strategy that is now used to fight other infectious diseases.
The polio program itself has spawned spectacular innovations. As with smallpox, vaccination is the main tool against polio, and reaching underserved and migrant children who are perpetually missed during vaccination campaigns is one of the program?s biggest operational challenges. In response, new tools like GIS mapping technology have been employed, and polio vaccinators carry GPS-equipped cellphones that quickly identify missed areas. Critically important genomic meta-data is mapped to each new outbreak, creating an innovative ?marriage? of epidemiology and genetic detective work.
A third ingredient for success is learning from setbacks. We are encouraged that the polio effort is taking a page from smallpox by continually reviewing where past approaches have been insufficient. GPEI?s plan outlines new approaches to ensure vaccination campaigns are not interrupted by political instability and insecurity. The plan also includes a careful timeline for withdrawing versions of the polio vaccine that, in very rare cases, can lead to paralysis ? a critical final step toward achieving eradication.
Perhaps the most important way in which polio eradication builds on smallpox is by following up after a country eliminates the disease by building systems for other national health priorities. When the smallpox campaign entered its final stages, those of us involved were keenly aware of our responsibility to contribute to the fight against other diseases. In the same way, the plan for polio eradication looks beyond polio. The future holds promise for the transfers of resources for delivering polio vaccines ? including health workers, surveillance systems and community relationships ? directly to other health priorities.
Polio eradication has never been closer. Now, the global community must meet its collective responsibility to ensure implementation of the plan, including fully funding it upfront and promoting shared accountability. By working together, we will soon relegate polio ? alongside smallpox ? to the history books.
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1 Although in 2012 there were wild poliovirus cases in five countries, the disease is endemic in only three countries. Endemic countries are defined as those that have never stopped indigenous wild poliovirus transmission.
Images: top: Independent Monitoring Board report, October 2012; bottom: World Health Organization.
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Jonny Gomes' Bat Pays Tribute To 3 Killed In Boston Marathon Bombing, Slain MIT Campus Police Officer (PHOTO)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: Members of law enforcement react during pre-game ceremonies in honor of the Marathon bombing victims before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
A Boston Red Sox cap decorates a makeshift memorial April 20, 2013 on Boylston Street, near the scene of Boston Marathon explosions as people get back to the normal life the morning after after the capture of the second of two suspects wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings. Thousands of heavily armed police staged an intense manhunt Friday for a Chechen teenager suspected in the Boston marathon bombings with his brother, who was killed in a shootout. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, defied the massive force after his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan was shot and suffered critical injuries from explosives believed to have been strapped to his body. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
Police and National Guard soldiers stand outside Fenway Park before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals in Boston, Saturday, April 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
A vendor stands sells souvenirs outside Fenway Park before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals in Boston, Saturday, April 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
Fans pass through security before entering Fenway Park for a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals in Boston, Saturday, April 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
A vendor stands sells souvenirs outside Fenway Park before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals in Boston, Saturday, April 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
Fans pass through security before entering Fenway Park for a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals in Boston, Saturday, April 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: David Ortiz #34 of the Boston Red Sox takes batting practice before a game the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
Adam Comeau, 17, hold a U.S. flag as he waits in line to enter Fenway Park before the start of a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the Boston Red Sox, the first game held in the city following the Boston Marathon explosions, Saturday, April 20, 2013, in Boston. Police captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, late Friday, after a wild car chase and gun battle earlier in the day left his older brother dead. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: Members of law enforcement react during pre-game ceremonies in honor of the Marathon bombing victims before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: A man holds an American flag during pre-game ceremonies in honor of the Marathon bombing victims before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: A woman sheds a tear during pre-game ceremonies in honor of the Marathon bombing victims before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: A ribbon is displayed as a symbol of the Marathon bombing victims before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: Members of law enforcement react during pre-game ceremonies in honor of the Marathon bombing victims before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: A woman sheds a tear during pre-game ceremonies in honor of the Marathon bombing victims before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: The Kansas City Royals stand on the third base could line during the National Anthem during pre-game ceremonies in honor of the Marathon bombing victims before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: Members of the Boston Red Sox throw beneath a Boston Strong, in honor of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, before a game the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: The Kansas City Royals stand on the third base could line during the National Anthem during pre-game ceremonies in honor of the Marathon bombing victims before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: David Ortiz #34 of the Boston Red Sox poses with a Boston Strong sign, which honors the Marathon bombing victims, before a game the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: David Ortiz #34 of the Boston Red Sox speaks during a pre-game ceremony in honor of the bombings of Marathon Monday before a game at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: David Ortiz #34 of the Boston Red Sox and Will Middlebrooks #16 of the Boston Red Sox shake hands Matt Paterson, who aided victims, and Steven Byrne, who was among the injured, during a pre-game ceremony in honor of the bombings of Marathon Monday before a game at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: The Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals stand along the base paths during a pre-game ceremony in honor of the bombings of Marathon Monday before a game at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: David Ortiz #34 of the Boston Red Sox speaks during a pre-game ceremony in honor of the bombings of Marathon Monday before a game at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: The Red Sox applaud members of law enforcement during pre-game ceremonies in honor of the Marathon bombing victims before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: The Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals stand along the base paths during a pre-game ceremony in honor of the bombings of Marathon Monday before a game at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 20: The Red Sox applaud members of law enforcement during pre-game ceremonies in honor of the Marathon bombing victims before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
Fans, accompanied by the stadium organist, sing the national anthem before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals in Boston, Saturday, April 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
A fan cheers during a tribute to first responders to the Boston Marathon bombing before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals in Boston, Saturday, April 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
Scenes from the Boston Marathon bombings is displayed on an outfield screen before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals in Boston, Saturday, April 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
Police officers stand near statues of fromer Boston Red Sox greats, from left, Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky and Dom DiMaggio during a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the Boston Red Sox, the first game held in the city following the Boston Marathon explosions, Saturday, April 20, 2013, in Boston. Police captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, late Friday, after a wild car chase and gun battle earlier in the day left his older brother dead. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
Police officers stand near statues of fromer Boston Red Sox greats, from left, Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky and Dom DiMaggio during a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the Boston Red Sox, the first game held in the city following the Boston Marathon explosions, Saturday, April 20, 2013, in Boston. Police captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, late Friday, after a wild car chase and gun battle earlier in the day left his older brother dead. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Boston Returns To Fenway Park
Police officers stand near statues of former Boston Red Sox greats, from left, Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky and Dom DiMaggio during a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the Boston Red Sox, the first game held in the city following the Boston Marathon explosions, Saturday, April 20, 2013, in Boston. Police captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, late Friday, after a wild car chase and gun battle earlier in the day left his older brother dead. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
The End of Government As We Know It
A year ago, I wrote about the decline of American institutions through the eyes of Johnny Whitmire, an unemployed construction worker, who lost his home due to systematic failures of his bank and employers as well as city, state and federal governments. ?You can?t trust anybody or anything anymore,? Whitmire said, standing outside the $40,000 home he ceded to his mortgage company.
In a new book, ?The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath,? author Nicco Mele argues that such cynicism is not only warranted, it?s the inevitable result of social and political changes wrought by what he calls ?radical connectivity.?
That is, our ability to send vast amounts of data instantly, constantly and globally -- breathtaking new tools that ?empower the individual at the expense of existing institutions and ancient social structures.? These include government, businesses, entertainment, military, schools, media, religion and other big?institutions designed to protect and sustain people like Whitmire.
?Our institutions have in fact failed us,? writes Mele, a Harvard Kennedy School faculty member and technology expert who worked for both?Howard Dean and Barack Obama.
(RELATED: "In Nothinig We Trust")
In a must-read for political and policy junkies as well as futurists, Mele argues that the Democratic and Republican parties must urgently embrace the bottom-up ethos of radical connectivity -- or perish. He also says arguments over the size of government are outdated, because the real question is how we redefine governing for the digital age.
?When big government gets too powerful, we risk authoritarianism and an erosion of individual autonomy. Whittle it away, though, and you get something else -- chaos,? Mele writes. ?Should present trends go unchecked, it is easy to imagine a nightmare scenario of social breakdown facilitated by radical connectivity.?
Sound extreme? Consider, as does Mele, the harsh lessons of history. After describing the fall of seemingly immutable European monarchies at the turn of the 20th century, Mele writes:
??We?re at the beginning of a similar epochal change in human history. Scan the headlines every morning ? through your Facebook and Twitter feeds ? and you can feel history shifting under your feet. Every day I find more and more evidence that we are in the twilight of our own age, and that we can?t quite grasp it, even if we sense something is terribly amiss. This transformation transcends any one realm of life ? it?s all-encompassing, even if, as we?ve seen, it proceeds unevenly and paradoxically. Our twentieth-century institutions, which seem as foundational or ahistorical as hereditary monarchy, are on the cusp of collapse ? or, if not outright collapse, of irrelevancy and anachronism.?
?Something is terribly amiss? -- a summation that especially resonates after a week of momentous events that both challenged and exposed ill-equipped institutions of government: The Boston City Marathon; ricin-laced letters sent to Washington; the explosion of a lightly regulated fertilized plant in Texas; and the demise of gun safety legislation drafted in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. The quick identification of the Boston suspects was a victory for old-school police work, both helped and hindered by social media, smart phones, security cameras and other assets of a digitally woven world.
Polls consistently show our faith in institutions in steep decline. In particular, trust in Washington is at near-record lows because the current model is a ?vending machine government,? a phrase Mele borrows from technologist Tim O?Reilly to describe public frustration.? Politicians make promises, we pay taxes, and our participation is limited to ?shaking the vending machine.?
Instead, Mele writes, government should be considered a ?platform? upon which individuals, organizations, and companies can build services and offerings that suit the times ? flexible, transparent and accountable.
?Essentially, government as a platform presume that government should provide an underlying infrastructure and then let us build on top of that infrastructure in a wide variety of ways,? Mele writes. ?It does not necessarily mean smaller government ? but it does mean the end of Big Government, with many smaller units of government.?
It also means new a new ethic of leadership. Mele would convene a constitutional convention (Thomas Jefferson imagined one every generation) to struggle with the questions of radical connectivity. ?The reality of history has had precious few examples of democracy,? Mele said. ?We?re a rarefied category ? one that could use some more experimentation if it is to survive the digital age.?
After devoting chapters to specific institutions ? media, political parties, the entertainment industry, government, the military and big business ? Mele offers some broad solutions. They include demanding more thoughtful, inspirational leadership.
He praises President Obama?s 2008 campaign for harnessing the power of the individual and radical connectivity to build a bottom-up movement. ?Unfortunately, this impressive fusion of top-down leadership and distributed individual action across the network seemed to wilt once Obama actually came to occupy the? White House,? he wrote.
?The reason for that is clear: The institutions of Washington, D.C. ? namely the executive branch and the Democratic National Committee ? are not nearly as flexible and malleable as political campaigns are.?
That assessment made me think of Whitmire who told me a year ago that he had voted for Obama in 2008 but had grown disappointed. ?It?s not all his fault. He?s got a lot aligned against him,? Whitmire said at the time. ?The system is set up for our leaders to fail."
Coincidentally, while I was writing this book review, Whitmire emailed me to say his mortgage company, out of the blue, ?gave me my house back and released the lien off it for some reason ? after everything they put me through.?
Whitmire is not sure why. Mortgage company paperwork mentions a federal loan forgiveness program, he said, but Whitmire suspects he got special treatment because of media attention.
He is grateful. But he is skeptical, too: His credit is still a mess, he is still unemployed and "our government still doesn't much work. Hopefully, there?s other people in my situation who got their houses back after the government and banks did them wrong,? he said in a telephone interview from his new-old home. ??But, somehow, these days, you?ve just got to doubt it.? Sadly, I doubt it.?
As Mele might say: Until we end big, there will be no end of doubt.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/end-government-know-210002737--politics.html
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Outsourcing: What can a Business Outsource | Best Web Hosting ...
Outsourcing has become a popular choice among many business owners worldwide and it is because of the great advantages outsourcing can offer a business.
From cutting down on operational costs and having access to greater knowledge, to streamlining businesses processes and increasing internal business productivity, outsourcing has proved to be an effecting tool for many companies and businesses.
The list of what tasks and jobs can be outsourced, is long, but below is a list of the most commonly outsourced tasks and jobs. You will find that most of these services are specialized services, requiring expertise and professional understanding in a certain, specialized field.
Information Technology (IT) Services
The outsourcing of Information Technology (IT) services has become very popular and it because of the great advantages outsourcing in this field can offer a business or company.
Having IT personal on staff can be quite expensive and, by outsourcing, it can cut costs. It also has the added benefit of having not only one or two IT employees at your disposal, but the knowledge of an entire company. Keeping up with advancing technologies are also more effective and less expensive when outsourcing.
Graphic Design
Very few companies have a Graphic Designer on staff simply because it is not an employee they have a use for on a daily basis. Having the option to outsource graphic design services, businesses have access to a lot of talented designers at competitive prices. Another added bonus is the fact that a company can look through the portfolio of a freelancer or company and decide which styles best suits them and their companies.
What also makes outsourcing in this field so popular is the fact that a company has the choice of sticking with a tried and tested graphic designer, or looking for someone with fresher and more effective design skills. This is great for when you are looking to give your business or company a ?visual? makeover.
Copy Writing/Blog Writer
Having a Copy Writer or Blog Writer on staff to do tasks that come around once or twice a month, will be more expensive than outsourcing the task to a professional or to a company. There are quite a lot of freelance writers out there, and a company can choose a professional that best suits their style and needs. This gives the company more freedom in terms of content by allowing it to play around with content styles.
Outsourcing these types of tasks can be quite tricky, but asking for samples and ?testing? the writer, will help you decide if he or she is the right person for the job.
Accounting
Not all business owners are equipped to deal with the business?s accounting and other financial needs. Outsourcing this task to another company can help to save time as well as cut down on costs. It also enables the business to have contact with a group of professionals in a field that he/she might not completely understand.
Web Developers
Web Developers and Web Development Companies are the type of professionals that specialize in the design and implementation of websites for example. A business needs only one website and website design, so outsourcing this once-off deal is much more cost effective.
Marketing
Many smaller businesses cannot afford to have marketing team on staff twenty-four-seven and thus opt to outsource marketing and marketing related tasks. It is an effective way of getting a foot in a market and industry the business owner might not fully understand. Outsourcing to professionals in this field will allow a business to have a full marketing plan without having to use its own human resources.
Outsourcing the above services does not necessarily involve using another company or business, but freelance individuals as well.
Many services, including Graphic Design, Web Development, Copy Writing and Editing, as well as Programming and Coding, are many times outsourced to freelance professionals.
Great places to find Freelancers include institutions such as LinkedIn and Elance, to name but two examples.
Always remember to do your research before outsourcing any services to a company or professional. A portfolio of samples of work can be shown by many companies and freelancers in specialized fields such as Graphic Design and Writing services.
| Author Bio: Linda McMahon is an illustrator and writer at backofficepro. Her favorite blogs subjects are outsource and Graphic Design.? She loves sharing her knowledge with others. |
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