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Thursday, July 26, 2012
U.S. convinced Russia to stop sending arms ... - Morocco World News
By Muna Shikaki
Washington, July 26, 2012
The U.S. administration has managed to convince Russia to stop sending some arms shipments to the Syrian regime, including helicopters that were repaired and were in the process of being sent back to Damascus, an adviser for the campaign of President Barack Obama said.
Michelle Flournoy, who was the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy up until February, defended the Obama administration?s position of not arming the Syrian rebels at a foreign policy debate organized by the Brookings Institution.
?We have had some significant success in preventing Russia from resupplying and rearming the Syrian military. If we were to launch a major American weapons supply program to the opposition, we would lose a lot of leverage with Russia and it could basically open the floodgate for Russia to resupply the Syrian military in full and that would be pouring fuel on the flames on what is looking like an increasingly deadly conflict,? Flournoy said.
Her remarks came on the day Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrived in England, his first stop on a three-leg pre-election trip. Romney will visit Israel and Poland after attending the opening ceremony of the Olympics in London, scheduled on Thursday. His trip comes a day after he gave a major policy speech blasting Obama?s defense and foreign policies in front of a crowd attending the Veterans of the Foreign Wars annual convention.
?In dealings with other nations, he has given trust where it is not earned, insult where it is not deserved, and apology where it is not due,? Romney said in reference to Obama.
Romney?s trip is directing the attention of both campaigns on foreign policy, which is long considered a point of strength for Obama. Obama gets high marks for ordering the operation that killed Osama bin Laden and for winding down the war in Afghanistan and ending the war in Iraq.
Foreign policy has not played a large role this election cycle because the economy is the main priority for voters and because there is little stated difference between the two candidates on the main issues.
Romney?s campaign adviser Rich Williamson, a former ambassador and special envoy, participated in the foreign policy debate at Brookings with Flournoy, and said that a Romney administration would have identified and armed ?moderate? opposition elements in Syria. Williamson said that Romney rejected former Republican presidential candidate John McCain?s calls for safe havens and no fly zones in Syria, but insisted that the U.S. ?should not lead from behind.?
But perhaps the biggest foreign policy issue the Romney campaign is seeking to exploit is the perceived coldness between the Obama and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. An ill-fated attempt by Obama to convince Netanyahu to freeze settlement expansion earlier, in Obama?s term, lead to the perception ? among the more pro-Israeli American Jewish voters ? that Obama was not pro-Israel enough. Many of those voters reside in battleground states important for both candidates. Romney and his advisers have also criticized Obama for not visiting Israel as president.
?President Obama is fond of lecturing Israel?s leaders. He was even caught by a microphone deriding them. He has undermined their position, which was tough enough as it was
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney
Ads funded by a pro-Romney group, the Republican Jewish Coalition, titled ?My Buyers? Remorse? are set to air in key states. In one ad a voter says of Obama: ?He?s going to place Israel in a position where they?re in danger.?
?President Obama is fond of lecturing Israel?s leaders. He was even caught by a microphone deriding them. He has undermined their position, which was tough enough as it was. And even at the United Nations, to the enthusiastic applause of Israel?s enemies, he spoke as if our closest ally in the Middle East was the problem.? Romney said at the VFW.
Obama?s advisers were quick to point out that his administration vetoed the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations, increased military aid to Israel and gave Israel what is called the ?Iron Dome? defense shield capacity, which has greatly reduced the number of Israeli casualties from rocket attacks. ?There is a lot of playing politics with this issue? said Flournoy.
But aside from criticizing Obama, Romney?s speech and his foreign policy adviser?s remarks were short on details explaining how Romney?s policies would be different. Williams said Romney would be tougher on Iran and would threaten the use of force against Tehran, but the Obama administration also says the threat of force is ?always on the table.?
Following Romney?s remarks at the VFW, Vice President Joe Biden said that the Republican candidate ?reflexively criticizes the president?s policies without offering any alternatives.?
Source: Al Arabiya
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Wary Israel goes on alert as Olympics near
Updated?Jul 23, 2012 10:56 AM ET
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JERUSALEM (AP)
Israel's prime minister said Sunday that his country is on alert for plots to kill more of its citizens overseas, after speculation that last week's suicide bombing of a tour bus in Bulgaria was a rehearsal for a spectacular attack on Israel's Olympics team.
Israel blames Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah for last week's bombing at an airport in the Bulgarian resort town of Burgas, just a little more than a week before the opening of the London Games. Five Israelis and a bus driver were killed. Iran called the accusation ''baseless.''
While Israeli officials are tight-lipped about security procedures for their athletes, they are on high alert on the 40th anniversary of a Palestinian attack at the 1972 Olympics in Munich that killed 11 Israeli athletes and coaches.
''We are vigilant about the possibility that they (Iran and its agents) would attack elsewhere, but I can't give specific details,'' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CBS television's Face the Nation program on Sunday.
He pointedly kept mum when asked to comment on media reports that Israel feared the Bulgaria attack was a precursor to an assault on Israel's Olympic team.
''I'm not confirming any information that we have on the Olympics,'' he said. Concerning media reports to that effect, he added: ''I can't give you any substantiation.''
The heads of the Mossad and Shin Bet intelligence agencies briefed the Cabinet on attempts by Iran and Hezbollah to carry out attacks in more than 20 countries over the last two years, the prime minister's office said in a statement.
Protecting Israeli athletes at the Olympics has been a particular concern since Palestinian gunmen took 11 Israeli athletes and coaches hostage at the Munich games. They were later killed. The Israeli team will be kept away from the others in a secluded, heavily secured area, a senior Israeli intelligence official told The Associated Press.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak told reporters that intelligence agencies around the world were working with the British ''to minimize the chances that there will be any sort of incident during the Olympics.''
''(This vigilance) is first and primarily an outgrowth of things that happened in the past, things that we all remember at the Munich Olympics,'' Barak said Sunday. ''We must remain alert.''
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is traveling to Brussels Monday to meet his British counterpart and nine other European foreign ministers to request that they beef up security at their airports and at sites in their countries where Israelis and Jews frequent, according to a statement from Lieberman's office.
Defense Ministry policy planner Amos Gilad dismissed a report in The Sunday Times in the U.K. that Israel rushed spies to European capitals after the Bulgaria attack to look for an alleged Iranian terror squad dispatched to kill Israeli athletes.
''Intelligence doesn't work that way. You don't send dozens of agents to look for ghosts,'' Gilad told Army Radio.
A British security official said the threat level to Israeli athletes and officials had been high even before the Bulgaria attack. He said security arrangements were assessed again following the attack, but he would not say whether they had been changed. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.
Although penetrating formidable Olympic security would be no small challenge, Israeli counter-terrorism expert Boaz Ganor said the event remained one of the most attractive targets for terrorists because of its high profile. Potential Israeli targets include not just athletes, but Israeli tourists and fans as well, Ganor said.
''There are more groups that want to harm Israeli targets than others,'' he said.
Tens of thousands of police officers and security staff will be on hand to guard the games, including thousands of troops on standby. A no-fly zone will also be established over Olympic venues from July 14 to August 15.
Efraim Zinger, director of the Israeli Olympic Committee, told the AP in London that ''unfortunately we are part of a very distinguished list of countries'' whose teams are susceptible to attack.
''Our people work and continue to work very closely with local authorities,'' he said. ''We have the confidence the local authorities will do their utmost to protect all the Olympic athletes.''
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'EA Sports UFC' (ALL) Being Developed By 'Fight Night' Team
by Rainier on July 23, 2012 @ 11:21 a.m. PDT
The EA SPORTS UFC development team will be led by Team and Action Sports General Manager Dean Richards (Fight Night, NHL, SSX) and Creative Director Brian Hayes.
After leading gameplay design on Fight Night Round 4 and Fight Night Champion, Hayes is now the Creative Director for the Fighting Team at EA SPORTS and had this to say when asked about leading the development team for EA Sports? UFC:
?When we found out that EA and the UFC would be working together, the team was excited. Most of the team didn?t even know about it until the announcement at E3. We were all watching it together and when Andrew Wilson and Dana White took the stage, everybody starting cheering. It was great.?
?For me personally, the UFC is something that I grew up with. I remember watching the first UFC events when I was a teenager and it?s amazing to see how they have evolved and flourished. Ultimately, we?re huge fans, we think we have a great team and we are really excited to be taking on this new challenge. We look forward to bringing the UFC video game experience to new heights.?
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Exiting With Grace - MidLoveCrisis - A Blog About Love, Life, and ...
Chopped on the Food Network, is one of my favorite shows. ?Every week, four chefs from across the country compete for $10,000.? They open a basket to reveal three random items such as licorice, blueberries, and sardines, and then have thirty minutes to impress the judges with their ingenuity, creativity, and cooking skills. After every round, the judges decide which chef will not move onto the next round.
Each chef comes to win $10,000. And they all have a different dream of what they will do with the money. ?So when a chef sees their plate on the chopping block, their pride takes a huge hit.? Heartbroken and with their ego wounded, the losing chef accepts their fate and addresses the panel of judges. They could choose to take their apron off and throw it across the room. They could toss food at the judges or curse them out.? Or they could turn to their competitors and wish them ill will.
But this simply doesn?t happen. They choose instead to exit gracefully, grateful for the opportunity to grow from the experience.? Their last words before they walk out of the room are normally one of two phrases, ?Thank you so much for this experience? or ?It was an honor to cook for you.? It is also common for them to turn to their competitors and say, ?Good luck.??
Ten thousand dollars may not be at stake in our own relationships, but when they don?t work out, our expectations are dashed and our pride and ego are deflated. And like those chefs on Chopped, we have the choice to badmouth or attack our ex or choose to exit gracefully.? ?
When I heard the news of Heidi and Seal?s break-up, I have to admit that I gasped a little. I definitely wasn?t expecting that one. For years, I watched them on Oprah and countless other talk shows. As they shared the story of how they met, hey seemed totally in love. So, when they announced their separation, it hurt a little bit. When I saw Seal being interviewed on Ellen, I was struck by the class that he exhibited when he talked about his marriage. ?He was a complete gentleman and spoke about his wife with reverence and admiration.
"You go into these things with the best intentions?You just grow apart after a while. You try and you work through it ... You do the best that you can ... The thing that I'm most proud about this great woman who I married, and I really do mean that from the bottom of my heart, is that together, she has given me four incredible gifts, four beautiful children, and she's still, in my opinion, the most wonderful woman in the world."
He also revealed that he and Heidi?s priority during their divorce was ?to remain civil and do this thing with dignity.?
When we enter a relationship, we rarely think about the end. We often assume that we will be together forever. But relationships have to endure so many challenges.? Whether it is because of timing or compatibility, sometimes we just are not able to make things work out the way we imagined they would.
Like Seal and the competitors on Chopped, you can choose to exit your dashed expectations with grace and class, or choose bitterness and revenge.? The choice is yours.
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Source: http://www.midlovecrisis.com/blog/2012/7/23/exiting-with-grace.html
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Teen Choice Awards 2012: Complete Winners List
Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and 'Hunger Games' clean up Sunday night.
By MTV News staff
Justin Bieber wins at the 2012 Teen Choice Awards
Photo: Getty Images
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1690174/teen-choice-awards-winners-list.jhtml
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Sunday, July 22, 2012
Google+Facebook+iPhone: Google Corporate IT Builds Before Buying
Bucking the corporate practice of buying instead of building internally, Google's corporate IT department will typically build management software itself, or adopt an open source software package, before investigating the feasibility of purchasing proprietary software.
"In the long run, it is cheaper to build and not buy," said Justin McWilliams, a software engineer in Google's corporate engineering department, which provisions and manages computers and other technology for Google employees. McWilliams shared some of the company's practices at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), being held this week in Portland, Oregon. "We typically don't default to buying a commercial offering. We think about building it from scratch first, or look to the open source world," he said.
Google uses a number of home-built or modified open source programs for IT management, including software for full disk encryption (FDE), remote computer management, compliance management, virtual private networks (VPN), video teleconferencing, and for single sign on (SSO).
Over the past few decades, IT departments at large organizations have learned to purchase commercial, off-the-shelf software to manage their infrastructure, typically because it is less expensive than writing and maintaining the software in-house. Due to a number of factors, however, this approach does not work well at Google, McWilliams explained.
Source: http://googlefacebookiphone.blogspot.com/2012/07/Google-Corporate-IT-Builds-Before-Buying.html
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Buying a Desktop PC? | Computers and Technology
What to look out for when out shopping for a desktop PCThere are numerous factors to consider before you choose the desktop PC that is right for you. Moreover, there is now a wide, almost mind boggling array of choices for the buyer. Hence, it will pay to make an informed decision.
The following are some of the key factors that are worth considering before you make your final decision:
Processor (CPU)
The choice of which processor you should have will be determined by how much power you need. Although most of the budget processors available today are efficient enough to handle simple office applications such as e-mail, a slightly higher expenditure on a faster processor would increase your PC?s life span by five years. Moreover, you will need a faster processor for memory-hogging applications such as photos and graphics.
Recommendation: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP
Memory (RAM)
Good RAM ensures that your PC will run at optimum performance. The minimum amount of RAM required is 256MB. Ideally, however, 512MB would be optimum. A bigger RAM will allow you to run multiple applications at the same time and power Windows XP. All the current systems use DDR memory, the most common one being PC3200.
Recommendation: 512MB
Monitor
The type of monitor you buy depends upon what you will use it to do. Graphics and spreadsheet
applications require a bigger monitor, while e-mail can be done easily on a smaller one. Ideally a 17? CRT or 15? LCD would do the job.
Recommendation: 17? CRT or 15? LCD
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Today, most hard disk drives provide at least 40GB space, which is enough for most tasks. However, if you want to work with graphics, music or large databases, get a minimum of 60GB installed. An 80GB HDD would be ideal. 7200-rpm drives give optimum performance whereas 8MB of cache would really give a super-turbo performance.
Recommendation: 80GB with a 7200-rpm drive (or 8MB cache if you can afford it)
Optical drives
If you do not plan to view DVD movies, then a CD-RW drive should do the job. Each CD-RW drive has three speeds mentioned for it ? recordable speed, rewritable speed and read speed. The minimum your drive should have is 40x recordable speed, 12x rewritable speed and 40x read speed. There should be at least a 2MB buffer for CD-RW drives.
Recommendation: CD-RW drive (DVD drive if you plan to view DVDs) with 40x record speed, 12x rewritable speed and 40x read speed
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Source: http://www.mwstm.com/2012/07/19/Buying-a-Desktop-PC/
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US Central Command head meets Egyptian commander
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Skyhook Says Its New Location-Tracking Tech Won?t Drain Phone Batteries
Skyhook, a company that provides location positioning technology to devices and software, has launched a power-management solution for one of the most power-hungry category of apps: the ones that use constant background location tracking.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GearFactor/~3/RLTUbDxfGic/
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Independent telephone companies express concern about FCC ...
Iowa?s independent telephone companies have mounted a campaign to express concern about FCC changes they say will impact the cost of broadband internet service to rural areas of the state. The new rules change the way the independent companies are paid for the use of their lines.
Debra Lucht, the general manager of Minburn Communications in Minburn, says customers will see the changes on their bills. ?The residential customers are looking at 50 cents per month, per access line being added to their bill per year?and then businesses are looking at a dollar per access line over the next three years. And so, that?s just one of the charges we?re looking at affecting our end user customer,? Lucht says.
The FCC changes eliminate the access fees companies collect from other carriers that use their networks, and Lucht says that will impact the rates charged for internet usage. ?Our customers are accustomed to paying based on speed. And they pay a set amount per month for unlimited usage that ranges from 35 to 65 dollars for that usage, and it doesn?t matter how much they download, they pay that flat fee. As we move forward, because of the demands on that broadband, our companies may have to look at doing something similar to what the wireless companies are doing,? according to Lucht.
The wireless companies charge phone users based on the amount of data they use, that?s what could happen to rural broadband customers.
?You?re looking at a cap of like 60 dollars per month for eight gig. And if you go over that, it?s 10 dollars per gig,? Lucht explains. ?So if you refer that back to what our customer usage is, our customers if they had to pay based on that pricing structure, they would have to pay about a thousand dollars per month for that bandwidth that they are using for that same pricing structure.?
Don Jennings with Partner Communications in Gilman, says rural customers use the broadband for business, farming and entertainment, and that is why their usage is so high. Jennings says the independent telephone companies support improving the networks and advancing as broadband use changes.
But he says the current plan creates concerns. ?We feel like the changes that are being proposed are only part of what we have proposed and?in the short term we?ll probably survive it, but in the long term it?s going to decrease the amount of broadband that?s going to be deployed in the rural areas,? Jennings says.
Lucht, Jennings and other independent telephone companies are asking customers to speak out on the issue via the Iowa Linked Up website.
?If you would just go to that site, www.iowalinkedup.org, there?s information there that you can look through. There?s some suggested letter formats that you can write to your congressman. And there?s an ongoing blog where you can get more information on the current discussions going on,? Jennings says.
Jennings says the independent telephone companies have put a lot of money into extending the broadband access to rural areas and the changes raise questions about how they can continue to do that at a reasonable cost.
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Explosive Blizzard Lighting (Auction ID: 108917, End Time : Jul. 22 ...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Bitly Announces $15M In New Funding Led by Khosla Ventures, Defends Controversial Redesign
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Friday, July 6, 2012
Long-timers, newbies find meaning in Elgin parade
Article updated: 7/4/2012 9:04 PM
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The crowd stands and applauds as the American Flag passes Wednesday at the Elgin Fourth of July parade. ?John Starks | Staff Photographer |
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Dan Morgan, a senior at Burlington Central High School, stretches Wednesday before the start of The Great Western Freedom 4 road race at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve in St. Charles. He said his goal was only to have fun. ?John Starks | Staff Photographer |
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Base drummer Alex Miller can hardly see the crowd around his drum Wednesday at the South Elgin Fourth of July parade. He plays with the South Elgin High School marching band. ?John Starks | Staff Photographer |
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The South Elgin marching band performs Wednesday at Elgin Fourth of July parade. ?John Starks | Staff Photographer |
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Runners begin The Great Western Freedom 4 road race at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve in St. Charles Wednesday morning. ?John Starks | Staff Photographer |
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The South Elgin High School cheerleaders march over the Fox River bridge Wednesday at the South Elgin Fourth of July parade. ?John Starks | Staff Photographer |
Bryan McMhan has never missed Elgin's Fourth of July parade in the more than two decades he's lived there. This year, he learned something new, thanks to an American Legion Post 57 float carrying Lao veterans who fought with the U.S. Army in Vietnam. ?I think it's excellent. I don't think anybody knew about it ? at least I didn't.?
Others were first-time spectators, like Alvaro and Maribel Rodriguez of Elgin. The Mexican natives said they have always been aware of the significance of the Fourth of July, and decided it was time to take part in the festivities. ?Our two daughters were born here, and this country has given us freedom,? Alvaro Rodriguez said.
Ten-year-old Ezekiel Hare, of Elgin, knew exactly why he was at the parade ? to get loads of candy. He and his brothers and cousins, ranging in age from 5 to 11, were at the ready with plastic bags, eager to scoop up candy tossed along Douglas Avenue. Besides the candy, Ezekiel said his favorite part was meeting Captain Jack Sparrow from the movie ?Pirates of the Caribbean.?
Just down the road from Elgin, organizers hope the inaugural Northwest Fourth-Fest, a joint effort between Elgin, Hanover Park, Hanover Township and Hoffman Estates, could draw as many as 20,000 people in its first year.
Despite a lack of foliage, the festival, which runs through July 8 outside the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, has plenty of tents for patrons to get out of the sun. There's also a Cool Zone inside the arena, complete with air conditioning, free water and restrooms.
Hoffman Estates Mayor Bill McLeod said he was impressed by the expansive spread of carnival rides, entertainment, food vendors and activities.
?I think this is the wave of the future,? McLeod said of the combo festival. ?Towns always manage to work together in an emergency, so it's nice to be able to work together on something fun.?
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Reporters on the Job: On the hunt for disappeared Chinese knockoffs
Staff writer Peter Ford questions a Chinese stallholder about why knockoffs went missing from a market in Beijing, when a man barrels up to him to aggressively video his interview.
Intrigued by reports from my sons that the Silk Street Market, an Aladdin?s cave of cheap counterfeit clothing that they frequent, had suddenly been stripped of everything bearing a false brand name, I went to have a look at the place last week.
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Sure enough the stalls were almost bare, staffed by sales girls who did not want to talk about why they had nothing but unknown Chinese brands to offer.
On closer inspection, some of the shirts turned out to have Chinese labels hastily and inexpertly sewn over existing (fake) Ralph Lauren labels, which remained legible. I was questioning a stallholder about this when a man barreled up to me holding a camera phone in front of him and stuck it in my face as he video-recorded my interview.
He refused to identify himself, other than as ?a passerby,? and continued to hold the camera close to my face. The stallholder said she did not know who he was, he ignored my requests to stop interfering, and eventually I ignored him.
Ending my interview, I made my way to the top floor, where I had arranged to meet the market?s general manager, Hu Wenli. The walls of her office corridor were covered with photos of local and foreign celebrities (including George Bush Sr.) in the company of ? none else but the man who had just been harassing me.
He turned out to be Zhang Yongping, the owner and president of the company that has owned the Silk Street Market since it was moved off the streets and into its current premises seven years ago. He insisted on being interviewed himself (though he spent two hours simply evading my questions), but did not once apologize for his behavior downstairs.
He said he had suspected that I was an undercover investigator attending a meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that was taking place in Beijing at the time (see accompanying article) and had been curious to hear what I was talking about.
I left the market none the wiser about why the normal counterfeit goods had disappeared, (although I thought the WIPO conference probably had something to do with it) and spent a couple of days puzzling about what I was going to write.
And then, on Sunday, one of my sons went on a reconnaissance trip to the Silk Market, and found that everything had miraculously returned to normal. On Monday I went down there to see for myself, and sure enough, it offered the same cornucopia of counterfeits as it had always done.
There was an added benefit: Who should I bump into as I walked down a corridor lined with stalls selling fake luxury watches but Mr. Zhang and his general manager Ms. Hu. They looked surprised to see me, and Ms. Hu looked a little shamefaced, as well she might have done considering that it was now obvious that she and her boss had spent Wednesday morning being more than economical with the truth. But Zhang was just as adept at not answering my questions as he had been a few days earlier.
He walked away from my questions. Too late, I thought of taking out my iPhone and filming him walking among all the counterfeits he had told me did not exist any more in his market. Then, perhaps, we would have been even.
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My Android Apps Makes App Management Easier
New to the Google Play Store, My Android Apps?makes app management on your Android devices so much easier. ?As you can see above, you can now manage each device’s apps?separately?including the ability to update and uninstall ?apps all via your web browser. ?Not only that, if you lose your device and have to replace it, [...]
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Amniotic fluid yields alternatives to embryonic stem cells
ScienceDaily (July 3, 2012) ? Stem cells found in amniotic fluid can be transformed into a more versatile state similar to embryonic stem cells, according to a study published July 3 in the journal Molecular Therapy. Scientists from Imperial College London and the UCL Institute of Child Health succeeded in reprogramming amniotic fluid cells without having to introduce extra genes. The findings raise the possibility that stem cells derived from donated amniotic fluid could be stored in banks and used for therapies and in research, providing a viable alternative to the limited embryonic stem cells currently available.
Amniotic fluid surrounds and nourishes the fetus in the womb. It can be extracted through the mother's abdomen using a needle in a process called amniocentesis, which is sometimes used to test for genetic diseases. The fluid contains stem cells that come from the fetus. These cells have a more limited capacity to develop into different cell types than stem cells in the embryo.
The researchers used stem cells from amniotic fluid donated by mothers undergoing amniocentesis for other purposes during the first trimester of pregnancy. The cells were grown on a gelatinous protein mixture in the lab and reprogrammed into a more primitive state by adding a drug called valproic acid to the culture medium. An extensive set of tests found that these reprogrammed cells have characteristics very similar to embryonic stem cells, which are capable of developing into any cell type in the body -- a property known as pluripotency.
Even after growing in culture for some time, the reprogrammed cells were able to develop into functioning cells of many different types, including liver, bone and nerve cells. They also maintained their pluripotency even after being frozen and rethawed.
The results suggest that stem cells derived from amniotic fluid could be used in treatments for a wide range of diseases. Donated cells could be stored in banks and used in treatments, as well as in disease research and drug screening. A previous study estimated that cells from 150 donors would provide a match for 38% of the population.
Alternatives to embryonic stem cells are keenly sought because of ethical concerns and limited availability of donor embryos. Previous research has shown that it is possible to make adult cells become pluripotent by introducing extra genes into the cells, often using viruses. However, the efficiency of the reprogramming is very low and there is a risk of problems such as tumours caused by disrupting the DNA. The new study is the first to induce pluripotency in human cells without using foreign genetic material. The pluripotent cells derived from amniotic fluid also showed some traits associated with embryonic stem cells that have not been found in induced pluripotent stem cells from other sources.
Amniocentesis is associated with a small risk of causing a miscarriage, estimated to be about one in 100.
Dr Pascale Guillot, from the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial, said: "Amniotic fluid stem cells are intermediate between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells. They have some potential to develop into different cell types but they are not pluripotent. We've shown that they can revert to being pluripotent just by adding a chemical reagent that modifies the configuration of the DNA so that genes that are expressed in the embryo get switched back on.
"These cells have a wide range of potential applications in treatments and in research. We are particularly interested in exploring their use in genetic diseases diagnosed early in life or other diseases such as cerebral palsy."
Dr Paolo De Coppi, from the UCL Institute of Child Health, who jointly led the study with Dr Guillot, said: "This study confirms that amniotic fluid is a good source of stem cells. The advantages of generating pluripotent cells without any genetic manipulation make them more likely to be used for therapy.
"At GOSH we have focused on building organs and tissues for the repair of congenital malformations, which are usually diagnosed during pregnancy. Finding the way of generating pluripotent cells from the fluid that surround the fetus in the womb move us one step further in the this direction."
The study was funded by the Genesis Research Trust, the Henry Smith Charity and Action Medical Research.
The children's charity Action Medical Research are funding the researchers to explore the therapeutic benefits of transplanting donated placental stem cells from healthy babies to babies with brittle bone disease.
Dr Caroline Johnston, Research Evaluation Manager with children's charity Action Medical Research said: "These new findings could be a step forward for treatments of a wide range of diseases that affect babies and children. We are proud of our history of funding medical breakthroughs and of our support for these researchers in their move towards life changing therapies."
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An Independence Day Message from Google: Celebrate Freedom (VIDEO)
The internet has dodged many perils during the past year ? SOPA, ACTA, and CISPA, just to name a few.
The world wide web has changed the world as we know it. ?It?s made the world a smaller place, led to amazing discoveries, and even sparked revolution.
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US says sorry, Pakistan opens Afghan supply lines
FILE - In this June 12, 2012 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the State Department in Washington. The Obama administration says Pakistan is reopening supply lines into Afghanistan after the U.S. issued an apology for the November killing of 24 Pakistani troops in a NATO airstrike. Clinton says she told Pakistan?s foreign minister in a telephone conversation that the U.S. is ?sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military.? She says both sides acknowledged mistakes that resulted in deaths. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
FILE - In this June 12, 2012 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the State Department in Washington. The Obama administration says Pakistan is reopening supply lines into Afghanistan after the U.S. issued an apology for the November killing of 24 Pakistani troops in a NATO airstrike. Clinton says she told Pakistan?s foreign minister in a telephone conversation that the U.S. is ?sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military.? She says both sides acknowledged mistakes that resulted in deaths. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
Oil tankers, which were used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, are parked, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, July 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
Pakistani mechanics yield the body of an oil tanker, which was used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, parked with other tankers in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, July 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
Shows the recently opened supplied routes from Pakistan to Afghanistan
A Pakistani mechanic works on an oil tanker, which was used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, while parked with other tankers in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 3, 2012. The Obama administration said Tuesday that Pakistan was reopening its supply lines into Afghanistan, after the U.S. belatedly issued an apology for the November killing of 24 Pakistani troops in a NATO airstrike. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Ending a bitter seven-month standoff, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized to Pakistan on Thursday for the killing of 24 Pakistani troops last fall and won in return the reopening of critical NATO supply lines into Afghanistan. The agreement could save the U.S. hundreds of millions of dollars in war costs.
Resolution of the dispute also bandages a relationship with Pakistan that will be crucial in stabilizing the region. The ties have been torn in the past year and a half by everything from a CIA contractor who killed two Pakistanis to the unilateral U.S. raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound.
But the accord carries risks for both governments ? threatening to make Pakistan's already fragile civilian leadership look weak and subservient to the United States while offering fodder to Republicans, including presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who contend that President Barack Obama says "sorry" too easily.
The first trucks carrying NATO goods should move across the border on Wednesday, U.S. officials said. It could take days to ramp up supplies to pre-attack levels, but around two dozen impatient truck drivers celebrated the news in a parking lot in the southern city of Karachi by singing, dancing and drumming on empty fuel cans.
"We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military," Clinton said, recounting a telephone conversation she had with Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar concerning the deaths that led Pakistan to close the supply routes. "I offered our sincere condolences to the families of the Pakistani soldiers who lost their lives. Foreign Minister Khar and I acknowledged the mistakes that resulted in the loss of Pakistani military lives."
"I am pleased that Foreign Minister Khar has informed me that the ground supply lines into Afghanistan are opening," Clinton added in her statement.
It marked the first time any U.S. official formally apologized for the deaths, a step hotly debated within the Obama administration and one demanded by Pakistan before it would reopen the supply routes. Pakistani lawmakers also wanted Washington to halt all air strikes in the country and stop shipping weapons and ammunition to Afghanistan through Pakistani airspace, demands the U.S. has ignored. Negotiations stumbled at one point over transit fees Pakistan sought to charge.
The November incident was the deadliest among the allies in the decade-long fight against al-Qaida and other extremist groups along the Afghan-Pakistani frontier.
An American investigation found that Pakistani forces fired first and U.S. soldiers responded in self-defense. It blamed bad maps, poor coordination and Islamabad's failure to provide the locations of its borders for the failure to determine if Pakistani forces were in the area. Pakistan argued that its troops shot at militants who were nowhere near coalition soldiers, and accused the U.S. of launching a deliberate attack.
The breakdown of the U.S.-Pakistani partnership arrived at an awful time, only weeks after Clinton and CIA Director David Petraeus went to Islamabad to patch up the relationship and secure a Pakistani commitment to snuff out support given by its intelligence services to the Taliban ? support that Washington sees as a threat to the Afghan war effort.
The Obama administration, in an election year, expressed regret for the deaths but dug in its heels over the word "sorry," fearful it might open the president to criticism from Republicans already critical of Pakistan's links with militants fighting in Afghanistan.
It is also unclear what the apology will mean for the U.S. call for Pakistan to crack down on the militant Haqqani network, which is believed to use Pakistan as a rear base for attacks on American troops in Afghanistan.
Having titled his campaign book, "No Apology," Romney accuses Obama of having gone "around the world and apologized for America." The accusation refers to Obama's trip to Cairo early in his presidency, when he sought to repair U.S. relations with the Muslim world. Clinton's remarks made no reference to an "apology," though she did use the word "sorry."
Obama made no comments about Pakistan on Tuesday, leaving Clinton's statement as the only official U.S. explanation of the agreement. It was released just as Pakistani civilian and military leaders were meeting to discuss whether to reopen the routes, and there was no confirmation from Islamabad of a decision for more than two hours.
"The main thing is that a superpower has acknowledged our principled stance, and they have shown flexibility," said Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, speaking in Urdu. "It was not the issue of money. It was the issue of our sovereignty," he said, adding that American authorities assured Pakistan there would be no repeat of the incident.
The prime minister's office said the government reopened the supply lines in and out of Afghanistan to help its northern neighbor's "transformation process" more than a decade after bin Laden used the country to launch the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the U.S. responded by helping overthrow the Taliban.
It stressed that reopening the supply lines would help the U.S. pull out of Afghanistan sooner, saying the transition was in "Pakistan's interest." The statement sought to head off the inevitable political backlash in a country where anti-American sentiment is rife and the United States is often blamed for internal problems.
Still, Pakistan's more conservative political groups rejected the decision. Amirul Azim, a top leader of Pakistan's radical Jamaat-e-Islami party, said, "The main thing is that we should not reopen the NATO supply route, and we should isolate ourselves from this so-called war against terrorism."
And the fallout could hurt Pakistan's civilian government, which was re-established four years ago after a history of military coups. It has struggled to assert itself against the powerful Pakistani army and hardline Islamist religious leaders and politicians, who will likely point to the several parliamentary demands the U.S. ignored, including the call for an "unconditional apology" for the attack. Washington mentioned mistakes on both sides.
Clinton said Pakistan wouldn't charge any new transit fee and the reopening would help the U.S. draw down its forces in Afghanistan "at a much lower cost."
The U.S. government has never paid transit fees directly. Pakistan charges companies $250 per truck for transit, and the U.S. accounts for those fees in its contracts with those companies, so it pays indirectly. During negotiations Pakistan had asked for a flat fee of up to $5,000, but Washington offered extensive road construction projects to sweeten the deal.
With the supply lines closed, the U.S. has been forced to use more costly transportation routes through Russia and Central Asia. Panetta had estimated the cost at an extra $100 million a month, warning that it could get more expensive as the U.S. started to withdraw equipment in advance of the 2014 troop drawdown in Afghanistan.
Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said that once the backlog of materiel clears the re-opened supply routes, "we expect to be able to save between $70 million and $100 million per month."
The $100 million a month estimate would mean the lengthy standoff cost U.S. taxpayers some $700 million, and denied Pakistan's revenue-starved government millions of dollars in transit fees.
The total could be more.
The Pentagon asked Congress last week for approval to transfer $2.1 billion from other funds to cover costs largely resulting from the closure of the Pakistan supply routes.
Three separate transfers totaling $1.7 billion covered increased fuel and transportation costs for the Army resulting from the closed routes. A fourth transfer of about $370 million was for the Air Force, which had to increase the transportation of supplies by air in part to compensate for the shutdown of the ground routes through Pakistan. The budget request did not specify how much of the $370 million was related to the Pakistan problems and how much was just additional support for the war.
Much of those added costs already have been incurred, but the Pentagon plans to do a review of the transfers to see whether any of the money can be saved, although no major changes are expected.
Panetta said Tuesday he welcomed Pakistan's decision.
"We remain committed to improving our partnership with Pakistan and to working closely together as our two nations confront common security challenges in the region," he said.
According to a senior defense official, the agreement also could cost the U.S. as much as $1.1 billion. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the details were not final, said the Pentagon intends to submit $1.1 billion in approved requests for reimbursement of money the Pakistan government has spent on counterterrorism operations that were incurred largely along the border.
The requests for aid are approved by the defense secretary and then Congress is notified. Lawmakers can vote to reject them.
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Rebecca Santana reported from Islamabad. Associated Press writers Lolita C. Baldor in Washington and Sebastian Abbot in Islamabad contributed to this report.
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