Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments

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Amendments to the video privacy law inspired by Robert Bork?s nomination proceedings are ready for the president?s signature.

Long before anyone clicked a ?like? or ?share? button, Senator Patrick Leahy noted,

It really isn?t anybody?s business what books or what videos somebody gets. It doesn?t make any difference if somebody is up for confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice or they are running the local grocery store. It is not your business. It is not my business. It is not anybody else?s business, whether they want to watch Disney or they want to watch something of an entirely different nature. It really is not our business.

It?s easy to understand where Senator Leahy is coming from here.? It?s just that, in 1988, did anyone anticipate the number of users who might wish to volunteer this information?

Senator Leahy was speaking in support of?what became the?Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) PL 100-618 (codified at 18 USCA 2710).? Congress passed the VPPA shortly after a DC paper published Robert Bork?s video rental history during his Supreme Court nomination.? The Act now prohibits a??video tape service provider? from disclosing this kind of? ?personally identifiable information.?

Decades later, video streaming services like Netflix fear that enabling social sharing tools on their sites might subject them to civil and criminal liability under the VPPA. ?See for example, Netflix General Counsel David Hyman speaking before Congress from January of this year:

Unfortunately, we have elected not to offer our Facebook application in the United States because of ambiguities in the Video Privacy Protection Act. Under this law, it is unclear whether consumers can give ongoing consent to allow Netflix to share the movies and TV shows they?ve instantly watched through our service.

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In fact, the Northern District of California recently ruled that the application of the VPPA to online streaming is consistent with a ?plain reading? of the statute.? See In re Hulu Privacy Litigation, 2012 WL 3282960. That hardly settles the issue.? For an alternative view,? see Ian Ballon?s comments from his treatise at ECOMMINTLAW 26.13[10].? The Senate nevertheless recently amended the VPPA and sent the bill to the president for his signature.

Nevertheless, HR 6671 would permit consumers to provide on-going consent over the Internet to the sharing of their viewing history. You may access a Westlaw version of the text and related legislative history here: 2011 CONG US HR 6671.

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Legislative History

For references to Bork in the legislative history of the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988, locate for BORK at PL 100-618 LH.

?Sentator Leahy?s comments above can be found at the Video and Library Privacy Protection Act of 1988, Joint Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the House Comm. on the Judiciary and the Subcomm. on Technology and the Law of the Senate Comm. on the Judiciary?(August 3, 1988)

Confirmation Transcripts

For transcripts of the Robert Bork?s confirmation hearings, try the following search on Westlaw Classic in the SCT-CONFIRM database:

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Ian Ballon?s Treatise, E-Commerce and Internet Law

Ian Ballon?s comments reference above were as follows:

This analysis, however, ignores that the relevant term is not materials but ?similar ? materials? which should be construed in the context of the term that preceded it?video cassette tapes. As noted above, the example provided in the legislative history is ?similar audio visual materials, such as laser discs, open-reel movies, and CDI technologies.?[FN662] The court?s conclusion that this reference to tangible media evidences a broader ?intent to cover new technologies? seems to be a stretch.

Ian C. Ballon, E-Commerce and Internet Law, ECOMMINTLAW 26.13[10]

Congressional Testimony

Congressional Testimony can be found on Westlaw and WesltawNext at Congressional Testimony (CONGTMY) and U.S. Political Transcripts (USPOLTRANS).? For example, in U.S. Poltical Transcripts, try simply:

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Senator Al Franken?s statements are interesting.? He cites several examples for why protecting a viewing history might be important including this:

This came up in one famous case where a local police department thought that the 1979 movie, the ?Tin Drum? was obscene. Now mind you, this was a movie about what happened in Nazi Germany just before World War II. It won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. But the police department went out and seized a list of everyone who had the movie and then drove around confiscating every copy. And in that case the ACLU chapter in the Ranking Member?s state of Oklahoma used the Video Privacy Protection Act to stop that.

Sen. Al Franken Holds a Hearing on Protecting Video Viewer Privacy, Panel 1, 2012 WL 309108

For the case Sen. Franken refers to, see Camfield v. City of Oklahoma City, 248 F.3d 1214, 1217 (10th Cir. 2001)

Source: http://westreferenceattorneys.com/2012/12/video-privacy-protection-act-amendments/

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How excess holiday eating disturbs your 'food clock'

Dec. 21, 2012 ? If the sinful excess of holiday eating sends your system into butter-slathered, brandy-soaked overload, you are not alone: People who are jet-lagged, people who work graveyard shifts and plain-old late-night snackers know just how you feel.

All these activities upset the body's "food clock," a collection of interacting genes and molecules known technically as the food-entrainable oscillator, which keeps the human body on a metabolic even keel. A new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is helping to reveal how this clock works on a molecular level.

Published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the UCSF team has shown that a protein called PKC? is critical in resetting the food clock if our eating habits change.

The study showed that normal laboratory mice given food only during their regular sleeping hours will adjust their food clock over time and begin to wake up from their slumber, and run around in anticipation of their new mealtime. But mice lacking the PKC? gene are not able to respond to changes in their meal time -- instead sleeping right through it.

The work has implications for understanding the molecular basis of diabetes, obesity and other metabolic syndromes because a desynchronized food clock may serve as part of the pathology underlying these disorders, said Louis Ptacek, MD, the John C. Coleman Distinguished Professor of Neurology at UCSF and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

It may also help explain why night owls are more likely to be obese than morning larks, Ptacek said.

"Understanding the molecular mechanism of how eating at the "wrong" time of the day desynchronizes the clocks in our body can facilitate the development of better treatments for disorders associated with night-eating syndrome, shift work and jet lag," he added.

Resetting the Food Clock

Look behind the face of a mechanical clock and you will see a dizzying array of cogs, flywheels, reciprocating counterbalances and other moving parts. Biological clocks are equally complex, composed of multiple interacting genes that turn on or off in an orchestrated way to keep time during the day.

In most organisms, biological clockworks are governed by a master clock, referred to as the "circadian oscillator," which keeps track of time and coordinates our biological processes with the rhythm of a 24-hour cycle of day and night.

Life forms as diverse as humans, mice and mustard greens all possess such master clocks. And in the last decade or so, scientists have uncovered many of their inner workings, uncovering many of the genes whose cycles are tied to the clock and discovering how in mammals it is controlled by a tiny spot in the brain known as the "superchiasmatic nucleus."

Scientists also know that in addition to the master clock, our bodies have other clocks operating in parallel throughout the day. One of these is the food clock, which is not tied to one specific spot in the brain but rather multiple sites throughout the body.

The food clock is there to help our bodies make the most of our nutritional intake. It controls genes that help in everything from the absorption of nutrients in our digestive tract to their dispersal through the bloodstream, and it is designed to anticipate our eating patterns. Even before we eat a meal, our bodies begin to turn on some of these genes and turn off others, preparing for the burst of sustenance -- which is why we feel the pangs of hunger just as the lunch hour arrives.

Scientist have known that the food clock can be reset over time if an organism changes its eating patterns, eating to excess or at odd times, since the timing of the food clock is pegged to feeding during the prime foraging and hunting hours in the day. But until now, very little was known about how the food clock works on a genetic level.

What Ptacek and his colleagues discovered is the molecular basis for this phenomenon: the PKC? protein binds to another molecule called BMAL and stabilizes it, which shifts the clock in time.

The article, "PKC? participates in food entrainment by regulating BMAL1" is authored by Luoying Zhang, Diya Abrahama, Shu-Ting Lin, Henrik Oster, Gregor Eichele, Ying-Hui Fu, and Louis J. Pt?cek and appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In addition to UCSF, authors on the study are affiliated with the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in G?ttingen, Germany.

This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health via grants #GM079180 and #708 HL059596, the Sandler Neurogenetics Fund, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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1. L. Zhang, D. Abraham, S.-T. Lin, H. Oster, G. Eichele, Y.-H. Fu, L. J. Ptacek. PKC? participates in food entrainment by regulating BMAL1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012; 109 (50): 20679 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218699110

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Egyptian judges review ballot on divisive constitution

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian judges were investigating opposition accusations of voting irregularities on Monday before declaring the result of a referendum set to show that a contentious new constitution has been approved.

President Mohamed Mursi sees the basic law, drawn up mostly by Islamists, as a vital step in Egypt's transition to democracy almost two years after the fall of military-backed strongman Hosni Mubarak.

The opposition, a loose alliance of liberals, moderate Muslims and Christians, says the document is too Islamist, ignores the rights of minorities and represents a recipe for more trouble in the Arab world's most populous nation.

Critics have also said the vote, conducted over two stages in a process that ended on Saturday, was marred by a litany of irregularities, and have demanded a full inquiry.

"The committee is currently compiling results from the first and second phase and votes from Egyptians abroad, and is investigating complaints," Judge Mahmoud Abu Shousha, a member of the committee, told Reuters.

He said no time had been set for an announcement of the final outcome, but it appeared unlikely to be on Monday.

A tally by the Muslim Brotherhood, which lifted Mursi into the presidency, indicated a 64 percent "yes" vote, although only a third of the 51 million eligible Egyptians took part. An opposition count was similar, but they said the ballot had been marred by abuses in both rounds.

By forcing the pace on the constitution, Mursi risks squandering the opportunity to build consensus for the austerity measures desperately needed to kickstart an ailing economy.

Highlighting investor concerns, Standard and Poor's cut Egypt's long-term credit rating on Monday and said another cut was possible if political turbulence worsened.

The low turnout also prompted some independent newspapers to question how much support the charter really had, with opponents saying Mursi had lost the vote in much of the capital.

"The referendum battle has ended, and the war over the constitution's legitimacy has begun," the newspaper Al-Shorouk wrote in a headline, while a headline in Al-Masry Al-Youm read: "Constitution of the minority".

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

If the "yes" vote is confirmed, a parliamentary election will follow in about two months, setting the stage for Islamists and their opponents to renew their battle.

Under the new constitution, legislative powers that have been temporarily held by Mursi move to the Islamist-dominated upper house of parliament until a new lower house is elected.

The make-up of the Supreme Constitutional Court, which Islamists say is filled with Mubarak-era appointees bent on throwing up legal challenges to Mursi's rule, will also change as its membership is cut to 11 from 18.

Those expected to leave include Tahani al-Gebali, who has described Mursi as an "illegitimate president".

The head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, Saad al-Katatni, wrote on Facebook that the group's members were "extending our hands to all political parties and all national forces", adding: "We will all start a new page".

But the opposition National Salvation Front says the new basic law deepens a rift between the liberals and Islamists who combined to overthrow Mubarak, and will extend the turbulence that has taken a heavy toll on society and economy.

The opposition said they would continue to challenge the charter through protests and other democratic means.

"We do not consider this constitution legitimate," liberal politician Amr Hamzawy said on Sunday, arguing that it violated personal freedoms. "We will continue to attempt to bring down the constitution peacefully and democratically."

The run-up to the referendum was marred by protests, originally sparked when Mursi awarded himself broad powers on November 22. At least eight people were killed when rivals clashed in protests outside Mursi's official palace in Cairo. Violence also flared in the second city, Alexandria.

(Additional reporting by Shaimaa Fayed and Patrick Werr; Writing by Edmund Blair and Maria Golovnina; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egyptian-judges-review-ballot-contentious-constitution-104801606.html

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Image Dictionary Adds a Wikipedia Image Search to Chrome Menus

Chrome: If you frequently search for image files when you encounter new animals, foods, and other words you can save time by installing Image Dictionary, a Chrome extension that can automatically display Wikipedia images for a word using a mouse clicks.

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This is a somewhat handy app but many Wikipedia entries use multiple images and it would be nice to have a way to cycle through those. It's not for everyone but if you by nature curious this extension might be for you.

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PFT: Johnson sets single-season receiving mark

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The Patriots don?t appear to be peaking as they head toward the playoffs. But after a week in which they lost a great game, they?ll take a win in an ugly game.

That?s exactly what New England got on Sunday against the Jaguars, falling behind early but then coming back to win, as the Patriots managed to escape with a victory in a much tougher game than anyone expected the Jaguars to give them.

New England?s suspect secondary had a rough time against Jaguars quarterback Chad Henne in the early going, as Henne led two scoring drives and the Jaguars jumped out to a 10-0 lead. But eventually the Patriots? defense began to settle down, and in the second half the Jaguars couldn?t do much offensively.

The Patriots? offense didn?t make many big plays, but they did have five different sustained scoring drives, each of them covering at least nine plays and at least 52 yards. Short passes from Tom Brady and runs from Stevan Ridley were enough.

Still, the Patriots had a hard time putting the Jaguars away: With less than five minutes remaining and New England leading 23-16, the Jaguars had a huge opportunity to tie the game, with the ball inside the 1-yard line. But tight end Zach Potter false started to move the Jaguars back five yards, and on the next play Henne was sacked, and on the play after that Patrick Chung intercepted Henne, and that stopped that opportunity. Jacksonville would then get the ball back one more time and again threaten to send the game into overtime, but the Jaguars again fell short again as Henne was intercepted in the end zone on the last play of the game.

So the Patriots got the win they needed to improve to 11-4, on a day they played just well enough to beat the 2-13 Jaguars. They didn?t play well enough on Sunday to beat a playoff team.

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New pathways that drive metastatic prostate cancer identified

Dec. 21, 2012 ? Elevated levels of Cyclin D1b could function as a novel biomarker of lethal metastatic disease in prostate cancer patients, according to a pre-clinical study published ahead of print on December 21 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation by researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson.

The group, headed by Karen E. Knudsen, Ph.D., Professor and Hilary Koprowski Chair, Departments of Cancer Biology, Urology, and Radiation Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University and Deputy Director for Basic Science at the KCC, found that Cyclin D1b, a variant of the cell cycle regulator Cyclin D1a, functions independently of the cell cycle to promote metastasis in both early and late stage prostate cancer.

Rather, Cyclin D1b, but not Cyclin D1a, regulates a large gene network, the researchers found, which was shown to cooperate with androgen receptor (AR) signaling to fuel metastatic progression in multiple models of prostate cancer.

Studies have shown that Cyclin D1b expression is elevated in early stages of prostate cancer (in up to 30% of primary disease), and researchers have now demonstrated that this occurs more frequently in late stage castration-resistant prostate cancer: up to 80%.

Cyclin D1b expression is also highly correlated with that of the pro-metastatic gene SNAI2 (Slug), which the group identified as regulated by cooperative signaling between Cyclin D1b and AR.

"Numerous clinical and pre-clinical studies have effectively demonstrated that AR signaling is critical for progression to metastatic disease, but our knowledge of AR targets which can induce metastatic phenotypes is limited," said Dr. Knudsen. "Our data describe how cross talk between the cell cycle and AR can rewire the AR signaling axis to enhance the expression of genes which elicit metastasis in both early and castration resistant prostate cancer models."

"We found that Cyclin D1b can directly promote AR dependent expression of the gene SNAI2 (Slug), which dramatically increased metastatic events to soft tissues in animal models," she added.

Metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer represents the most lethal form of the disease, which arises when AR is reactivated despite continued hormone therapy.

Soft tissue metastasis to the liver and lung represents a particularly aggressive form of prostate cancer, whose presence predicts for decreased survival time in prostate cancer patients.

Currently, there is little knowledge as to how these metastatic events occur, and identification of pathways and biomarkers of this lethal event could greatly benefit prostate cancer patients.

Using various in vitro and in vivo models, researchers found that Slug enhances the ability of cells to colonize soft tissues, which resulted in a higher incidence of metastasis in the liver and lung.

Given the inability to manage AR signaling in metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer, Slug driven pathways could be leveraged to dramatically limit the incidence of soft tissue metastasis and improve patient morbidity and mortality, researchers believe.

"Identification of AR driven pathways which mediate metastatic progression represents a significant leap forward in our attempts to effectively manage prostate cancer progression," said Dr. Knudsen. "Cyclin D1b and Slug can likely be used as biomarkers to identify patients with an increased risk of metastasis, and will eventually provide us with novel "druggable" targets downstream of AR and Slug which can be exploited to dramatically reduce the incidence of these lethal metastatic tumors."

This study was completed as a result of an inter-institutional team effort, including the contributions of the lead author and graduate student Michael A. Augello of the Department of Cancer Biology at Thomas Jefferson University, as well as key collaborators: Dr. Felix Feng (University of Michigan), Dr. Alessandro Fatatis (Drexel University), Dr. Tapio Visakorpi (University of Tampere), Dr. Donald McDonnell (Duke University), Dr. C. Burd (University of Ohio), Dr. D E. Frigo (University of Houston) and Dr. Ruth Birbe of Thomas Jefferson University.

This work was supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute: R01 CA159945-05, R01 CA099996-09, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and Department of Defense (PC094596)

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Power of Outsourcing highlighted at Dubai Business Women ...

The Network Majlis was held at the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and was attended by leading businesswomen and other prominent women personalities in the UAE.

Assaf, a trained NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) practitioner who regularly conducts workshops and seminars on the NLP communication model and team building, provided a comprehensive overview on outsourcing, highlighting its benefits and challenges.

Al Hanoof Assaf said, "Outsourcing is certainly gaining momentum in the UAE as the economy and different areas of specialisation develop rapidly. Companies here are increasingly realising the many advantages of outsourcing their non-core activity to specialised service providers. This Network Majlis session hosted by Dubai Business Women Council gave me an excellent opportunity to share my knowledge with several dynamic businesswomen of the UAE, many of whom have already leveraged the power of outsourcing for their business ventures."

Raja Al Gurg, President, Dubai Business Women Council, said, "It was definitely a highly insightful and informative presentation on outsourcing conducted by Al Hanoof Assaf, who perfectly demonstrated her expertise and strengths as an accomplished training consultant. She highlighted several aspects about outsourcing which many of us were not aware of, and I believe those points would have significantly benefited the businesswomen who attended this Network Majlis session as they look to maximise operating efficiencies and reduce costs in their respective companies."

Assaf, who holds a bachelors degree in International Business Management from the European University of Brussels, has several years of experience in marketing, customer relations, training and business development.

An integral part of her current role at Corporate Business Services is supporting entrepreneurs and SME's (small to medium enterprises) by facilitating and closing gaps of support means acquired from the government as well as the private sector.

Founded in 2002, DBWC motivates women to be productive members of the society, while encouraging role models to rise up from the ranks and inspire other women around the world, especially in the Arab region, to discover their true potential.

DBWC organises the high-profile monthly event 'Network Majlis' to provide information about the latest knowledge, skills and best practices for women entrepreneurs and leaders.

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NRA plans media push after Newtown massacre

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One week after a school shooting that shocked Americans - with many of the 27 victims buried and time allowed for prayers and investigation - the National Rifle Association will dive in to the fierce national debate about gun control.

The largest U.S. gun rights lobby plans a well-coordinated public entrance to the conversation on how to prevent such tragedies, starting with a rare news conference on Friday at a hotel across the street from the White House.

NRA Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre and President David Keene will then appear on separate Sunday television talk shows for their first interviews since gunman Adam Lanza killed his mother, 20 young children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut, last Friday.

Inside and outside the NRA, an organization with powerful ties to politicians in Washington, expectations are the group will offer condolences and condemn the killings but offer little in the way of compromise over gun laws.

The group kept largely quiet in the first days after the Connecticut shooting, citing "common decency" and the need to allow time for mourning, prayer and a full investigation of the facts. It broke its silence on Tuesday to say it wanted to contribute meaningfully to prevent another massacre and announced its plans for the Friday news conference.

"They will talk about how terrible the violence is, about helping the victims, about violence in society," said Robert Spitzer, a professor at the State University of New York at Cortland and author of "The Politics of Gun Control."

Spitzer said he did not expect the NRA media blitz to lay out specific plans because so many within the organization consider the right to own guns absolute.

"If they did, it would contradict the path they have been following for about the last 35 years," he said. "Much of their membership would declare war on their leaders."

One NRA board member, Houston lawyer Charles Cotton, said the NRA should not say much until it hears more from gun-control supporters like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

"You can't say specifically what you want to do before you sit around a table and talk about it," Cotton told Reuters.

NRA board member Bob Barr, a former Georgia congressman, said he was skeptical any new law would make a difference.

"None of the laws that the gun control folks want to put into place would have prevented this shooting. I think that's where we all start from," he said. Even proposed bans on guns known as assault weapons would not cover all semi-automatic rifles, he said.

America's unique gun culture means there are hundreds of millions of firearms in the United States for hunting, self-defense and leisure, as well as illicit uses. No one knows how many guns there are because there is no national registry.

About 11,100 Americans died in gun-related killings during 2011, not including suicides, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

There were 19,766 suicides by firearms in 2011, the CDC said.

POLITICAL PRESSURE

The NRA uses political pressure against individual lawmakers in Congress and in state legislatures to press for loosening restrictions on gun sales and ownership while promoting hunting and gun sports.

Gun-control proponents have been pushing for tighter gun controls since the Newtown, Connecticut, school massacre, the fourth mass shooting in the United States this year.

President Barack Obama has vowed to present a detailed plan in January. On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden held the first meeting of an interagency effort among Cabinet members and law enforcement officials.

"The president is absolutely committed to keeping the promise that he will act," said Biden, who authored a crime bill in 1994 that included a ban on some semiautomatic rifles that has since expired. "We have to take action," he said.

Democrats in Congress who favor gun control have called for quick votes on measures to ban assault weapons or high-capacity magazines, hoping that the slaying of the 6- and 7-year olds in Newtown might be enough to win over more lawmakers.

Lanza used a Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle, police said.

The NRA's power is partly due to its large and active membership, which reportedly has been growing rapidly since the Newtown shootings. NRA officials did not immediately comment, but Fox News, citing a source within the organization, said the group has been adding 8,000 new members a day.

FLOODING LAWMAKERS WITH CALLS

The NRA is frequently described as having 4 million members, although nonprofit groups are not required to disclose their membership or how they define the term.

At key moments, such as before votes in Congress, many of those members flood lawmakers' offices with calls - a tactic few organizations can pull off, and one that the NRA's opponents want to imitate.

Mark Glaze, director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group co-led by Bloomberg, said his group orchestrated tens of thousands of calls that jammed White House phones on Wednesday.

"It's the kind of thing that makes a difference in public policy. It's the kind of thing the NRA does very well," Glaze said. "And that's the kind of movement that we have to build if we're going to make any kind of difference."

There is a vast difference in resources of the organizations lining up in the gun debate.

During 2011, the NRA spent $3.1 million on lobbying lawmakers and federal agencies, while all gun-control groups combined spent $280,000 - a ratio of 11-to-one - according to records the groups filed with Congress.

Some of the NRA's money goes to Washington lobbying and law firms not usually associated with gun rights. SNR Denton, for instance, represents not only the NRA but major insurance, food and pharmaceutical companies. Lobbyists there did not return calls.

On another measure, that of spending on political campaigns, gun-control organizations have been more competitive. Independence USA PAC, a vehicle for Bloomberg's personal fortune on issues including gun control, spent $8.2 million on the 2012 election, compared to the NRA's $18.9 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Violence, named for President Ronald Reagan's press secretary James Brady who was injured in a 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan, spent $5,816 on the election, much lower than the $1.7 million it spent on the 2000 election, according to the center.

(Additional reporting by Edith Honan and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Howard Goller, Claudia Parsons and Philip Barbara)

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Aerobic Cardio Fitness: Cardiovascular Training With ... - botadorilao

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Customer-service call lasts 10 hours

Zappos.com

By Martha C. White

When a customer-service rep goes above and beyond to try to solve your problem, that's welcome. When they spend 10-and-a-half hours on the phone giving you advice about relocating to Las Vegas, that's Zappos.com.

Unlike many other online retailers (including parent company Amazon.com), Zappos plasters its site with its toll-free customer service number, which is staffed 24/7. When a Midwestern college student called the site's Nevada headquarters two weeks ago to buy a pair of Uggs boots, the transaction turned into a chat marathon about the city, where the student was considering moving. The rep was able to take some breaks during the call; the customer agreed to hold the line.

Zappos spokesman Jeff Lewis said providing good customer service is a top priority. "We feel that allowing our team members the ability to stay on the phone with a customer for as long as they need is a crucial means of fulfilling this value," he said via email.

By assuring management that it wouldn?t interfere with Zappos? free-spirited corporate culture when it acquired the shoe retailer in 2009, Amazon?benefits from the customer-service elements that make Zappos customers so loyal.

?Amazon has purposely allowed that culture to continue to proliferate,? said Bryan Pearson, president of LoyaltyOne, a loyalty marketing and strategy company. ?I?m sure they?re bringing some of the key lessons from the Zappos experience into Amazon."

Jordy Leiser, CEO of Stella Service, a customer service measurement and ratings business, said this is the case. In a study conducted a few months ago, Zappos tied with L.L. Bean for the best customer service on Twitter. Leiser said that when Amazon saw how much customers liked being able to solve customer service issues over the microblogging site, it started offering customer support via tweet, too. Zappos had been using Twitter to field customer queries since 2008.

"They are starting to integrate and rub off on each other," he said.?

Amazon didn't have poor customer service beforehand, according to Stella's research; it just wasn't the focus of the shopper experience.?"In online, it's about fulfillment and a smooth shopping experience," Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst with Forrester Research, said via email.?

In this regard, Amazon delivers, Leiser said. "They please customers with their shipping and logistics experience," Leiser said. Earlier this year, Amazon took over some of Zappos' back-end inventory-management processes, letting Zappos benefit from one of its strong spots.

And both Amazon and Zappos ranked highly in Stella's survey of phone service responsiveness, with mystery shoppers able to reach live agents in about a minute, on average.

"Each of them has the things that are most important to their customer base. For Zappos, it?s all about the phone customer service," Leiser said. Apparently that service even includes a lengthy discussion about moving advice.?

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Paths of photons are random -- but coordinated

Dec. 20, 2012 ? Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have demonstrated that photons (light particles) emitted from light sources embedded in a complex and disordered structure are able to mutually coordinate their paths through the medium. This is a consequence of the photons' wave properties, which give rise to the interaction between different possible routes. The results are published in the scientific journal, Physical Review Letters.

The real world is complex and messy. The research field of photonics, which explores and exploits light, is no exception, and in, for example, biological systems the statistical disorder is unavoidable.

Drunken people and photons

"We work with nanophotonic structures in order to control the emission and propagation of photons. We have discovered in the meantime, that inevitable inaccuracies in the structures lead to random scattering. As a consequence, the transport of photons follow a random path -- like a drunken man staggering through the city's labyrinthine streets after an evening in the pub," explains David Garc?a, postdoc in Quantum Photonics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen.

If we continue with this analogy, then it is not certain that just because one drunken man comes home safely, then a whole crowd of drunken people spreading out from the pub will also find their way through the city's winding streets. There is no relationship between the different random travellers.

But there is when you are talking about photons. They can 'sense' each other and coordinate their travel through a material, according to new research.

"We have inserted a very small light source in a nanophotonic structure, which contains disorder in the form of a random collection of light diffusing holes. The light source is a so-called quantum dot, which is a specially designed nanoscopic light source that can emit photons. The photons are scattered in all directions and are thrown back and forth. But photons are not just light particles, they are also waves, and waves interact with each other. This creates a link between the photons and we can now demonstrate in our experiments that the photons' path through the material is not independent from the other photons," explains David Garc?a.

Spectroscopy of complex materials

By analysing the path of the photons through the medium valuable insight is potentially gained about microscopic complex structures.

"The method could be a new way to measure the spatial properties of complex disordered materials, like biological tissue, and since the light sources are very small, you will be able to place them without destroying the material and you have the potential for very high spatial resolution," explains David Garc?a.

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Red Hat Acquires ManageIQ To Beef Up Hybrid Cloud Capabilities

Red Hat today acquired ManageIQ for its IT management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ManageIQ is in the data center automation and virtualization business. Data center automation is essentially retrofitting a data center so it can have a degree of elasticity and integrate with public clouds. This means developing methods for managing virtualized servers with infrastructures that spread out over thousands of servers.

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U.S. government report faults Bahrain 2011 labor crackdown

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bahrain appears to have violated commitments it made to the United States to protect workers' rights in its response to a March 2011 general strike at the time of the Arab Spring, the U.S. Labor Department said in a report on Thursday.

"It is our duty to ensure that trading partners meet their commitments to labor standards in free trade agreements," U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said in a statement.

The report stopped short of recommending legal action under the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement, which went into force in 2006. Instead, it called for consultations between the two countries on labor rights concerns.

"We are hopeful that through engagement with our trading partner we will find a solution that is good for workers both in the United States and Bahrain," Solis said.

Bahrain, a small island country in the Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia, is home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.

"In the widespread dismissals after the March 2011 general strike, trade unionists and leaders were targeted for firing and, at times, criminal prosecution for their role in the strike, and Shia workers and political critics of the government faced discrimination," the Labor Department said.

"The report notes that the reinstatement process for these dismissed workers has raised additional concerns of violations of freedom of association and political and sectarian-based discrimination against Shia workers, which reflect the larger context of a deteriorating labor rights environment in Bahrain."

The largest U.S. labor organization, the AFL-CIO, complained nearly 18 months ago that the Bahrain government's brutal crackdown violated commitments they had made to protect workers' rights under the free trade pact.

A Bahraini government-commissioned panel found in November 2011 that the country's security forces used excessive force to suppress pro-democracy protests, that included torturing detainees to get confessions.

Cathy Feingold, international director at the AFL-CIO, said the Labor Department's delay in issuing the report has been costly for Bahraini workers and for the credibility of U.S. commitment to workers rights in all its free trade pacts.

For the proposed consultations with Bahrain to be meaningful, they need to have high-level participation from the U.S. State Department and Trade Representative's office as well as the Labor Department, Feingold said.

Representatives Sander Levin and Jim McDermott, high-ranking Democrats on the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, welcomed the call for consultations.

"Our trade agreements can and must serve to improve living standards and working conditions worldwide," Levin said.

"This is the right thing to do," McDermott said.

(Reporting By Doug Palmer; Editing by Sandra Maler, Mohammad Zargham and Jackie Frank)

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The NBA has filed for 4 trademarks ( sucks to be on New Orleans)

The NBA has filed for 4 trademarks ( sucks to be on New Orleans)

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The NBA has filed trademarks for the New Orleans Pelicans, amongst four other potential nicknames on behalf of the New Orleans Hornets NBA Limited Partnership.

The Rougarou, Mosquitos, Swamp Dogs and Bullsharks are the other nicknames that have been filed for trademark.

A swamp dog is a Cajun nickname for an alligator, while Rougarou refers to a beast from Louisiana folklore.

New Orleans will likely adopt a red, blue and gold color scheme.

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How to edit Inbox order on your iPhone and iPad

If you've got several emails set up on your iPhone or iPad, you'll most likely want the ones you check most towards the top of your Inbox list. As of iOS 6 this is now possible. If you want your work email listed before your personal email, you can change the order in just a few taps.

Here's how:

1. Launch the Mail app on your iPhone or iPad.

2. Tap the Edit button in the upper right hand corner.
3. You will now see little move icons appear next to your mailboxes.

4. Hold down on the move icon next to the Inbox you'd like to change the position of. Now drag it up or down in the list.

5. Once you've finished reordering all your Inboxes, just tap the Done button in the upper right hand corner.

6. That's all there is to it. Your Inboxes will remain in the order you've put them in from now on.

Additional resources:

• How to use the VIP Inbox on your iPhone and iPad
• How to insert a photo or video directly into an email on your iPhone and iPad
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' added to US film registry

WASHINGTON (AP) ? "Breakfast at Tiffany's," ''Dirty Harry" and "A League of Their Own" will be preserved for their enduring significance in American culture by the Library of Congress, along with "A Christmas Story" and some pioneering sports movies.

They are among 25 selections the library is inducting Wednesday into the National Film Registry. Congress created the program in 1989 to preserve films for their cultural or historical significance. The latest additions bring the registry to 600 films that include Hollywood features, documentaries, independent films and early experimental flicks.

The newest movie chosen for preservation is 1999's "The Matrix," noted for its state-of-the-art special effects and computer-generated animation with a style that drew on Hong Kong action films and Japanese anime to change science fiction filmmaking, curators noted.

The oldest film being preserved, "The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight," dates back 115 years to 1897. Film curators said the boxing movie helped establish the film industry as a successful business, drawing on the sport's popularity and controversy to generate $750,000 in income. Boxing was illegal in many states at the time but had been made legal in Nevada, which hosted the fight. The film, with a running time of about 100 minutes, became the longest movie ever produced at the time, showing the full course of the fight.

Another pioneering sports film, "They Call It Pro Football" from 1967, was chosen for how it changed the way football was portrayed on screen. Before then, football films were mostly highlight reels. National Football League commissioner Pete Rozelle decided the success of the NFL depended on its television image, to capture the struggle of football and not just the end result on the scoreboard.

The Librarian of Congress makes the selections each year after conferring with members of the National Film Preservation Board and receiving public nominations. To be considered, the films must be at least 10 years old.

"These films are not selected as the 'best' American films of all time, but rather as works of enduring importance to American culture," said Librarian of Congress James Billington in announcing the selections. "They reflect who we are as a people and as a nation."

They also include some unforgettable characters.

Audrey Hepburn landed the lead in 1961's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" even though writer Truman Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe for the part. Film critics and the audience decided Capote was wrong and hailed Hepburn's portrayal.

"A League of Their Own" from 1992 received many public nominations for the film registry over the years. With a cast that included Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell, it told the story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Numerous public nominations also were received for "Born Yesterday" from 1950 and "A Christmas Story" from 1983. Both were chosen this year. Other Hollywood features on the list include "Anatomy of a Murder" from 1959 and "3:10 to Yuma" from 1957.

Each title named to the registry will be preserved in the library's Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation, built partially in a bunker in Culpeper, Va., or through collaborations with other archives or studios.

Documentaries chosen this year include "The Times of Harvey Milk," made in 1984 about San Francisco's first openly gay elected official who was assassinated in 1978, and "Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia" from 1990 about the struggle to rebuild after Pol Pot's rule.

This year's selections include some firsts in film history. The 1914 film "Uncle Tom's Cabin," based on the anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, had been adapted earlier for movies with white actors in the lead roles. But this version was the first feature-length U.S. film to star a black actor when Sam Lucas was chosen for the part.

The library will also preserve the first "Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests" from 1922. The two-color film features leading actresses posing and miming for the camera to demonstrate the new color film. Before then, to show film in color, black and white images either had to be hand-painted or colored with a stenciling process. Inventors, including scientists at Kodak, began experimenting with ways to create true color film.

The Kodachrome test shown at Paragon Studios in New Jersey was the first publicly demonstrated color film that would attract interest from the American film industry. Later Technicolor would become the industry standard.

"Most every major Hollywood film from 1922 through the end of the silent era would have either a Kodachrome color sequence in it or Technicolor color sequence as a way of attracting audience interest," said Pat Loughney, chief of the library's audio visual preservation campus. "It's a technical, historical achievement, but it's important to the progress of inventive work that made motion pictures successful."

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High iPad mini demand sees Apple increase 7in display orders

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Apple is believed to have more than doubled orders for its iPad mini?s display after demand for the 7in tablet was higher than expected, and is aiming to sell 100 million iPads in total in 2013.

NPD DisplaySearch analyst David Hsieh?reports?that Apple had originally planned to sell six million of its iPad minis in 2012. Now, Apple has ordered more than 12 million iPad mini displays to meet the demand in the fourth quarter of the year, according to DisplaySearch?s quarterly shipment forecast report.

The iPad mini became available to pre-order at the end of October, but struggled from short supplies days later, causing a two-week backorder even before the tablet hit the shelves on 2 November.?Shipping times for the mini have been improving this month, as?reported production issues?from panel suppliers have begun to ease.

?The iPad mini immediately faced supply shortages for its 7.85in XGA display, supplied by AUO and LG Display,? writes Hsieh.

He explains that iPad panels cause longer production times and lower yield rates because they ?are known to be hard to make, not only because of the high resolution and low power consumption requirements, but also because the wide viewing angle and colour saturation specifications require additional photomask steps in the manufacturing process.?

?In 2013, it is likely that Apple will adjust its production portfolio to meet the strong demand for the iPad mini,? Hsieh continues. ?We believe that Apple is targeting total iPad shipments of 100 million in 2013, half accounted for by the iPad mini, and 40 million new iPad and 10 million iPad 2, as production continues at least until the middle of 2013.?

Hsieh notes that Apple could dominate around 60 percent of the tablet market share in 2013, with the total tablet PCs shipping next year expected to reach more than 170 million units.

?If the iPad mini volume is anything near 50 million units, Apple will need to find other panel suppliers in addition to AUO and LG Display,? writes Hsieh, suggesting that the third supplier could be Century in China, Innolux in Taiwan, or Panasonic LCD in Japan.?

Source: http://www.macworld.com.au/news/high-ipad-mini-demand-sees-apple-increase-7in-display-orders-82979/

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Suspicious Suspect Arrested Near Union Elementary & Lindenwood University

Posted on: 3:06 pm, December 18, 2012, by Joe Millitzer, updated on: 04:05pm, December 18, 2012

BELLEVILLE, IL (KTVI) ? A lock-down was issued for Union Elementary and Lindenwood University?s campus in Belleville Tuesday afternoon after a report of a suspicious person was called in to police.? A person has been taken into police custody.

The report stated that police were looking for a white male teen wearing all black and carrying what appeared to be a rifle, handgun, and a knife.? Other witnesses say he was carrying a high powered rifle. They also say the weapon could also be a paintball gun that looks like a rifle.

Law enforcement officials were looking in the area behind the railroad tracks of Union School and Lindenwood University for the suspect.

Witness at the scene said they saw a man near Union Elementary.? At 2:30pm, observers chased the man down and police arrested him. Police say the scene is secure. No shots were fired and no injuries have been reported.

The scene in front of the elementary school is very emotional.? Parents are waiting to pick up their children from school.

Lindenwood University students have been text messaged that everything is clear.? Night classes will continue as scheduled.

More details will be added as this story develops.

Source: http://fox2now.com/2012/12/18/suspicious-suspect-arrested-at-lindenwood-university-union-elementary/

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Mostashari, Clancy & Kaku to Keynote NCPDP 2013 Annual ...

?- ?NCPDP announced the keynote speakers for its 2013 Annual Technology & Business Conference today, revealing a dynamic lineup of industry leaders, Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), who will keynote the conference, May 5 ? 9, 2013 at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Michio Kaku, an internationally-renown futurist, physicist and best-selling author, will keynote day one of the conference.

The ?Create, Collaborate and Celebrate? theme of the 2013 conference will explore member-driven innovations, successes and new developments that are unfolding as the pharmacy industry continues to lead the charge for patient safety and standards-based, interoperable healthcare solutions. The Annual Conference keynote speakers will provide attendees with a front row seat to the future of healthcare and the internal and external forces that are shaping this historic transformation:

• Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM serves as National Coordinator for Health Information Technology within the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Mostashari joined ONC in July 2009.
• Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services? Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, launched the first annual report to Congress on healthcare quality and healthcare disparities associated with patients? ethnicity, race, gender, education and income. Dr. Clancy, a general internist and health services researcher, also holds an academic appointment at the George Washington University School of Medicine and serves on multiple editorial boards. For more, visit http://www.ahrq.gov/
• Dr. Michio Kaku is widely known for his ability to use scientific research to predict trends that will impact business, finance and commerce. Co-founder of string theory, Dr. Kaku aims to pick up where Einstein left off, and complete Einstein?s ?theory of everything? capturing and summarizing all of the physical laws of the universe. Dr. Kaku is also an accomplished international author with several best-sellers. Official website: http://mkaku.org/.

Register for NCPDP?s 2013 Annual Technology & Business Conference ?by March 4, 2013 to receive the discounted rate: http://www.ncpdp.org/meetings_ac_register.aspx.

For real-time updates before and during the conference, follow us at http://twitter.com/ncpdp or join the discussion using NCPDP?s 2013 Annual Technology and Business Conference hashtag: #NCPDP13.

Download high resolution photos of the keynote speakers at http://bit.ly/T4tE4s

About NCPDP
Founded in 1977, NCPDP is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited, Standards Development Organization with over 1,600 members representing virtually every sector of the pharmacy services industry. Our diverse membership provides leadership and healthcare business solutions through education and standards, created using the consensus building process. NCPDP has been named in federal legislation, including HIPAA, MMA, and HITECH. NCPDP members have created standards such as the Telecommunication Standard and Batch Standard, the SCRIPT Standard for e-Prescribing, the Manufacturers Rebate Standard and more to improve communication within the pharmacy industry. Our data products include dataQ^?, a robust database of information on more than 76,000 pharmacies, and HCIdea^?, a database of continually updated information on more than 2.3 million prescribers. NCPDP?s RxReconn^? is a legislative tracking product for real-time monitoring of pharmacy-related state and national legislative and regulatory activity. For more information about NCPDP Standards, Data Services, Products, Educational Programs and Work Group meetings, go online at www.ncpdp.org or call (480) 477-1000.

Source: http://azventurecapital.com/arizona-health-companies/mostashari-clancy-kaku-keynote-ncpdp-2013-annual-conference/

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