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Apple reportedly won its patent-infringement case against Samsung in a decision that limits the U.S. import of certain products.
According to Bloomberg, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) in Washington today handed out an almost-final verdict in Cupertino's favor; the ban is still subject to review by President Barack Obama, who can overturn it on public policy grounds.
The news comes almost a year after Cupertino won more than $1 billion in a patent battle against Samsung.
A federal jury last year found two dozen Samsung devices infringed on patents already held by Apple, but aside from a hefty fine for Samsung, no other repercussions had been doled out. In fact, Judge Lucy Koh in December concluded that damages were enough for Apple, and a full ban of the products in question was not necessary.
But apparently $1.05 billion wasn't quite enough for the tech giant, and the company found itself back in court today, at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, for an injunction against Samsung.
The appeals court is not expected to rule on the case for several months, despite today's USITC announcement.
"Apple spent five years and $5 billion to develop a product and it was a revolutionary product," Apple lawyer William Lee told Bloomberg. "Samsung said, 'We can copy it easily.' They spent three months to bring the product to market."
But the South Korean company doesn't feel that it should take all the blame. A company lawyer told the court today that Apple needed to show "the difference between Samsung's infringement and Samsung's legitimate competition," Bloomberg reported.
The original ruling was based on a number of Apple design and utility patents with a variety of devices, including the Samsung Epic 4G, Capitivate, Galaxy S II, Indulge, Vibrant, and more.
This spring, a court ruling dropped more than $450 million in damages from the original $1.05 billion Apple won in August; the March 1 decision was based on the court's belief that some sales of the devices in question occurred before April 15, 2011 ? the date Apple sued Samsung.
Cupertino quickly requested that the judge reinstate more than $85 million in damages ? $40,494,356 for the Galaxy S II and $44,792,974 for the Infuse 4G.
What seems like a never-ending dispute between the two phone makers continued in May, when Apple revealed that it wanted to add the Galaxy S 4 to the list of 22 infringing Samsung devices. Cupertino kindly offered to drop one of the gadgets already on the list and swap in Samsung's newest flagship Android smartphone.
As the case continues, both sides have continued to update their lawsuits each time they release a new product. Last year, Apple added the Galaxy S III, while Samsung then took aim at the iPhone 5.
Neither Apple nor Samsung immediately responded to PCMag's request for comment.
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Ivanhoe Energy Inc. (TSX: IE; NASDAQ: IVAN) announced that it knows of no reason for the decrease in the Company's share price late in the trading session on August 8, 2013. There have been no material adverse developments or circumstances with respect to the Company's activities that would explain this sudden drop.
The Ivanhoe Energy executive management team is committed to the Company's success and remains optimistic that 2013 and 2014 will see significant progress in its priority areas.
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Here's what the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvard did. In 1934, he got himself a pen and paper and drew four cubes, like this.
Then he drew some more, like this.
And, then ? and this is where he got mischievous ? he drew one more set, like this.
He called this final version "Impossible Triangle of Opus 1 No. 293aa." I don't know what the "293aa" is about, but he was right about "impossible." An arrangement like this cannot take place in the physical universe as we know it.
You follow the bottom row along with your eyes, then add another row, but when the third row pops in, where are you?
Nowhere you have ever been before. At some step in the process you've been tricked, but it's very, very hard to say where the trick is, because what's happening is your brain wants to see all these boxes as units of a single triangle and while the parts simply won't gel, your brain insists on seeing them as a whole. It's YOU whose playing the trick, and you can't un-be you. So you are your own prisoner.
At first, this feels like a neurological trap, like a lie you can't not believe.
But when you think about for a bit, it's the opposite, it's a release. Twenty years later, the mathematician/physicist Roger Penrose (and his dad, psychologist Lionel Penrose) did it again. They hadn't seen Reutersvard's triangle. Theirs was drawn in perspective, which makes it even more challenging. Here's my version of their Penrose Triangle.
What's cool about this? I'm going to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow, who has written about these triangles in several places: We know that these drawings can't exist in the physical world. Even as we look at them, particularly when we look at them, we know they are impossible. And yet, we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.
These triangles prove it. We don't feel crazy when we look at them, we laugh. We sense we've just stolen something or seen something that can't be out there in the world, and yet, here it is! As John Barrow puts it:
The impossible is not necessarily something that lies outside our mental experience even if it falls outside our physical experience. We can create mental worlds which are quite different from the one we experience.
You find versions of "impossible triangles" in M.C. Escher's drawings, of course, but variants turn up in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland stories, in Jorge Luis Borges, in Breugel, in Magritte. We may be the only creatures on Earth that can break the rules this way. One of the most wonderful thing about the human mind, I think, is it can contradict itself, like this:
John D. Barrow has written about impossible triangles in his 1999 book Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits. He's also included some in his picture book Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science. He's a professor of mathematical sciences and director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University.
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This February 25, 2013 photo taken in Washington, DC, shows the splash page for the Internet social media giant Facebook.
More than a year after their rocky debut, Facebook shares traded above their $38 initial public offering price in early trading Wednesday.
Why are the shares taking off?
1. Mobile Games Publishing, a program Facebook announced Monday that will help small and midsize developers distribute their games.
Though just a pilot program, Mobile Games illustrates steps Facebook is taking to generate revenue from areas outside advertising. Taking a cut of partners' gaming revenue, the company will deliver targeted ads, analytics tools and the ability to work with Facebook's gaming department.
In its blog announcing the news, Facebook said, "We are invested in the success of these games, and in exchange for a revenue share, we will be collaborating deeply with developers in our program by helping them attract high-quality long-term players for their games. We'll also be sharing analytics tools and the expertise we've gained from helping games grow on our platform for more than six years."
2. Earnings results weren't just better than expected but show Facebook executing in all the major areas about which Wall Street has been nervous. Revenue growth is accelerating, and the company is generating more money from its mobile users than expected. It also disclosed some impressive numbers on its ad campaigns' return-on-investment.
Perhaps most important, CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't hesitate to address widespread concerns.
(Read more: Facebook earnings beat; shares jump 20%)
And investors took note of the fact that Facebook's upside surprise stands in sharp contrast to Google's disappointing results, indicating that the former's social and mobile ads are gaining more traction.
3. Analysts have been speculating that Facebook will be added to the S&P 500 index within the next year, which would significantly broaden the company's investor base.
CNBC media and entertainment reporter Julia Boorstin contributed to this report.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1, 2013 An international research team led by University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) scientists discovered that by preventing cancer cells from entering a state of cellular sleep, cancer drugs are more effective, and there is a lower chance of cancer recurrence. The findings, which will be published in the August 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research and are available online, are the first to show that it is possible to therapeutically target cancer cells to keep them from entering a cellular state called quiescence, or "cell sleep." Quiescence can be a dangerous source of tumor recurrence because cancer drugs don't typically destroy quiescent cells.
"Successful cancer therapy often is hampered by tumor cell quiescence because these cells remain viable and are a reservoir for tumor progression," said Anette Duensing, M.D., assistant professor of pathology at UPCI. "By inhibiting a key regulator of quiescence, we are able to kill a larger fraction of cancer cells."
Dr. Duensing and her colleagues made the discovery while studying gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), which are uncommon tumors that begin in the walls of the gastrointestinal tract. According to the American Cancer Society, about 5,000 cases of GISTs occur each year in the United States with an estimated five-year survival rate of 45 percent in patients with advanced disease.
GISTs are caused by a single gene mutation, which means they can be successfully treated with the targeted therapy drug imatinib, known by the trade name Gleevec. Unlike traditional chemotherapy, which kills all rapidly dividing cells, targeted therapy stops cancer by interfering with specific molecules needed for tumor growth.
Unfortunately, GISTs rapidly develop resistance to the treatment and complete cancer remission using Gleevec is rare. A key regulator of the cancer cell sleep process is a protein complex called DREAM, which is named for the multiple proteins involved. Gleevec induces cell sleep using the DREAM complex, which means that the drug intrinsically limits its own effectiveness.
"When we disrupted the DREAM complex in the lab, we significantly increased cancer cell death using Gleevec," said Dr. Duensing. "This underscores the importance of the DREAM complex as a novel drug target worthy of preclinical and clinical investigations."
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The study is a collaboration with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium. Additional co-authors of this study include Sergei Boichuk, M.D., Ph.D., Joshua A. Parry, B.S., Kathleen R. Makielski, M.S., Julianne L. Baron, B.S., James P. Zewe, B.S., Keith R. Mehalek, M.S., and Danushka S. Seneviratne, B.S., all of UPCI's Cancer Virology Program; James A. DeCaprio, M.D., and Larisa Litovchick, Ph.D., both of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Patrick Schffski, M.D., M.P.H., Maria Debiec-Rychter, M.D., Ph.D., and Agnieszka Wozniak, Ph.D., all of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium; and Nina Korzeniewski, Ph.D., of the University of Heidelberg School of Medicine in Germany.
This research was supported by Research Scholar Grant RSG-08-092-01-CCG from the American Cancer Society, the GIST Cancer Research Fund, The Life Raft Group and a number of private donations.
About UPCI
As the only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center in western Pennsylvania, UPCI is a recognized leader in providing innovative cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment; bio-medical research; compassionate patient care and support; and community-based outreach services. UPCI, a partner with UPMC CancerCenter, investigators are world-renowned for their work in clinical and basic cancer research.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1, 2013 An international research team led by University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) scientists discovered that by preventing cancer cells from entering a state of cellular sleep, cancer drugs are more effective, and there is a lower chance of cancer recurrence. The findings, which will be published in the August 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research and are available online, are the first to show that it is possible to therapeutically target cancer cells to keep them from entering a cellular state called quiescence, or "cell sleep." Quiescence can be a dangerous source of tumor recurrence because cancer drugs don't typically destroy quiescent cells.
"Successful cancer therapy often is hampered by tumor cell quiescence because these cells remain viable and are a reservoir for tumor progression," said Anette Duensing, M.D., assistant professor of pathology at UPCI. "By inhibiting a key regulator of quiescence, we are able to kill a larger fraction of cancer cells."
Dr. Duensing and her colleagues made the discovery while studying gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), which are uncommon tumors that begin in the walls of the gastrointestinal tract. According to the American Cancer Society, about 5,000 cases of GISTs occur each year in the United States with an estimated five-year survival rate of 45 percent in patients with advanced disease.
GISTs are caused by a single gene mutation, which means they can be successfully treated with the targeted therapy drug imatinib, known by the trade name Gleevec. Unlike traditional chemotherapy, which kills all rapidly dividing cells, targeted therapy stops cancer by interfering with specific molecules needed for tumor growth.
Unfortunately, GISTs rapidly develop resistance to the treatment and complete cancer remission using Gleevec is rare. A key regulator of the cancer cell sleep process is a protein complex called DREAM, which is named for the multiple proteins involved. Gleevec induces cell sleep using the DREAM complex, which means that the drug intrinsically limits its own effectiveness.
"When we disrupted the DREAM complex in the lab, we significantly increased cancer cell death using Gleevec," said Dr. Duensing. "This underscores the importance of the DREAM complex as a novel drug target worthy of preclinical and clinical investigations."
###
The study is a collaboration with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium. Additional co-authors of this study include Sergei Boichuk, M.D., Ph.D., Joshua A. Parry, B.S., Kathleen R. Makielski, M.S., Julianne L. Baron, B.S., James P. Zewe, B.S., Keith R. Mehalek, M.S., and Danushka S. Seneviratne, B.S., all of UPCI's Cancer Virology Program; James A. DeCaprio, M.D., and Larisa Litovchick, Ph.D., both of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Patrick Schffski, M.D., M.P.H., Maria Debiec-Rychter, M.D., Ph.D., and Agnieszka Wozniak, Ph.D., all of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium; and Nina Korzeniewski, Ph.D., of the University of Heidelberg School of Medicine in Germany.
This research was supported by Research Scholar Grant RSG-08-092-01-CCG from the American Cancer Society, the GIST Cancer Research Fund, The Life Raft Group and a number of private donations.
About UPCI
As the only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center in western Pennsylvania, UPCI is a recognized leader in providing innovative cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment; bio-medical research; compassionate patient care and support; and community-based outreach services. UPCI, a partner with UPMC CancerCenter, investigators are world-renowned for their work in clinical and basic cancer research.
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This should not be how a grateful nation says thank you.
Buried deep within the detail of the City of Toronto?s 2013 interim report on homelessness is a single startling fact.
Around 16% of those living rough on the streets of Canada?s biggest city said they had served in the Canadian military.
That?s right. Almost one in five self-identify as military veterans yet they make their home on the sidewalk or under a bridge.
This is something that should shock all Canadians.
Nobody is forced to serve in our all-volunteer navy, army and air force. People choose to don our military uniform and prepare to defend Canada from her enemies at home and abroad at considerable personal sacrifice.
Be it in the skies over Libya or the mountains of Afghanistan, in recent years more and more military personnel have gone into harm?s way for Canada and freedom.
Then there are those who also stand and serve without leaving the country but are essential none the less.
The findings of the Toronto survey roughly align with a study released two weeks ago by Western University in London, Ont.
It found that Canadian Forces veterans, who at one time served and protected their country, are now facing one of the toughest battles of their lives ? homelessness.
A national study by assistant nursing professor Susan Ray and nursing professor Cheryl Forchuk, the first of its kind on Canada?s homeless veterans, identified this new trend of homeless ex-military personnel.
Prior research on the subject, which has primarily originated in the United States, presents the scenario of homeless veterans having seen overseas deployment, witnessing trauma, having Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and not being able to adjust when they get home.
Research with Canadian homeless veterans shows a whole different number of causes ? the primary one being alcohol abuse ? but it is a growing problem all the same.
?For a lot of them it was from drinking, which started in the military, escalated over time and 10 years later you would see the alcoholism, and through that they would lose their job, their relationships, their housing,? Prof. Ray says.
Perhaps the single biggest challenge for vets is making the successful transition from military to civilian life and that remains a large factor in the veterans? homelessness.
A spokesman for Julian Fantino, the Minister of Veterans Affairs, told the Toronto Sun that in 2012 Ottawa launched a national pilot project reaching out to former servicemen and women who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
?Canadian veterans are entitled to thousands of dollars worth of benefits and services that are not available to the general public, which makes even one case of a homeless veteran deeply unfortunate and unnecessary,? he said.
The spokesman urged anyone who is aware of a vet living on the streets to contact 1-866-522-2122 (English) or 1-866-522-2022 (French) so that emergency funding and a certified case manager can be assigned.
Which shows that the federal minister is aware of the problem, however waiting for those in need to ask for help may not be the best way forward.
Too many of the homeless live on the margins of society and remain unaware of how close help can be.
Plenty speak about the difficulty in adjusting to an unstructured civilian life and the lack of supports at all levels they received BEFORE moving from military to civilian life.
No matter the reason or the causes, the fact that increasing numbers of our former military personnel face a life of homeless desperation should shame us all.
Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/07/31/canada-we-should-be-ashamed-for-turning-our-back-on-veterans
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The BBC has topped a list of the 10 best websites for science news.
The BBC News science and environment page beat off tough competition such as New Scientist and National Geographic in the list compiled by the website RealClearScience.
The BBC's journalists were commended for an "ability to communicate complex topics to a global audience".
Nature News came just behind the BBC in the top 10 and Wired's science coverage was listed at number three.
RealClearScience also said the BBC's science team had "extraordinary journalistic instinct".
On Nature News, which came at number two in the list, the site said "the reliability and readability of the information found here proves that Nature takes its commitment to journalism every bit as seriously as it does its commitment to groundbreaking research".
Wired's science coverage took third place, with the magazine being praised for being "at the forefront of all things science and technology". Its reporters Brandon Keim and Nadia Drake were also described as "top-notch".
The other science news sites commended by RealClearScience, in descending order, were: Ars Technica, New Scientist, Popular Science, Live Science, National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine and io9.
US National Public Radio's science section, the relatively new magazine Nautilus and Slate received honourable mentions.
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A Hong Kong couple have been displaced after an exploding Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone burst into flames, burning their house to a crisp.
The man, identified in the original Xianguo.com report only as Mr. Du, claims that his phone, battery, and charger were all legitimate Samsung products, but that's now difficult to confirm since his home and everything in it were destroyed.
According to the translated report, Du sat on the living room sofa playing the game "Love Machine" on his charging GS4 when it suddenly exploded. In the heat of the moment, he threw the device onto the couch, which caught fire. The flames then spread to the curtains and the rest of the house, "out of control," Xianguo said.
Du, his wife, and his dogs managed to escape the house unscathed; neighbors were temporarily evacuated as firefighters fought the flames. Almost all of the couple's furniture and appliances burned to ash, the news site said, adding that their Mercedes parked outside was also damaged.
Whether or not the true cause of an entire house fire was a singular 5-inch smartphone remains to be seen, though a fire department investigation initially resulted in a report of "no suspicious circumstances."
Samsung did not immediately respond to PCMag's request for comment, but told Xianguo that it will "carry out detailed investigations and tests to determine the cause of the incident."
Last year, a Galaxy S III owner in Dublin was driving in his car when the device caught fire.
Cell phone safety is increasingly becoming an issue in Asia, where two cases of iPhone shock occurred within a week of each other this month.
On July 11, a 23-year-old flight attendant with China Southern Airlines was allegedly electrocuted when she took a call on her Apple device while it was charging. She was reportedly using the original charger when she was killed.
A week later, a Beijing website reported that a man using a counterfeit or third-party charger to juice his iPhone 4 was intensely shocked and rushed to the hospital. While doctors managed to revive 30-year-old Wu Jiantong, he later slipped into a coma, and remains in the Intensive Care Unit.
In response, Apple last week posted a guide to the Chinese version of its website, urging users to use only official chargers for their iOS gadgets. The company promised that all of its products are "subject to stringent safety and reliability testing, and designed to meet government safety standards around the world."
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Establishment GOP members are wary of taking that stand, because they worry that a government shutdown could be used by the Democrats to win control of the House in 2014, just as the government shutdown of 1995 crippled the GIP in 1996.
Some of the establishment GOP reacted like this:
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to the Washington Examiner: ?The strategy that has been laid out is a good way for Republicans to lose the House.?
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) to Public Radio International: ??I think it's the dumbest idea I've ever heard. Some of these guys need to understand that if you shut down the federal government, you better have a specific reason to do it that's achievable.?
Former National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) to Fox News: ?(Defunding would be the) political equivalent of throwing a temper tantrum. It is the sort of thing that could create a backlash that could cost the Republicans the majority in the House ? and could materially undercut the ability of the Republicans in the Senate to capture the majority in 2014.?
The establishment view was echoed by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) McCain, Blunt, Burr and Coburn were in Congress in 1995 when the budget stalemate between former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and President Clinton shut down the government for 28 days.
But those in favor of defunding were a powerhouse group, including Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and Justin Amash (R-Mich.), among more than 60 supporters in the House and 12 in the Senate.
Rubio said on the Senate floor, ?If this issue isn't important enough for us to draw a line in the sand on, what issue is??
The defunding crowd is supported by talk show host Mark Levin, who said Burr was a ?jerk? and a ?buffoon? for going weak-kneed, conservative site RedState, which encouraged its readers to pressure Burr, Blunt and other establishment GOP members to champion defunding, and the conservative advocacy group Heritage Action, which said it would target GOP members who won?t support defunding.
The two GOP leaders in Congress, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have not committed to a decision. McConnell is being challenged by a Tea Party candidate in the GOP primary, and thus is being pushed toward a more conservative position. The conservative Club for Growth wants McConnell to filibuster any government-funding bill that would fund ObamaCare, and threatened to support McConnell?s Tea Party opponent if he does not filibuster.
Club for Growth President Chris Chocola said the defunding opportunity was a ?moment of leverage . . . It's the stated position of essentially every Republican that they want to defund ObamaCare ? so this is about them simply doing what they say they're for. It's important that McConnell understand it's a matter of accountability.?
Republican strategist Ford O'Connell saw McConnell?s plight in a different shade, saying, ?Conservatives are going to have to swallow a bitter pill. We've seen this play before ? the government gets shut down and the GOP is seen as the villain. That's not good with 2014 on the horizon. Just imagine you're Mitch McConnell. You're really going to have to walk a tightrope on this.?
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By Faith Hung and Michael Gold
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's top financial regulator and its defense minister have stepped down, the premier said on Monday, as part of a reshuffle that analysts say is aimed at boosting President Ma Ying-jeou's increasingly poor popularity ratings.
Ma's economic and China policies have triggered widespread criticism while Taiwan's less-than-stellar economic performance and stagnant wage growth have also been a drag on his ratings which have hovered around the 20-percent mark for months.
Chen Yuh-chang, outgoing chief of the Financial Supervisory Commission, is widely seen as close to Ma but had been criticized by industry executives for being too conservative on allowing Taiwan's financial services firms to expand into China.
Defense Minister Kao Hua-chu resigned amid a public outcry over the death of a soldier after punishment for minor violations of military conduct.
But one analyst said the resignations, confirmed during a news conference given by the premier, Jiang Yi-huah, were not expected to help Ma's standing.
"It's too late for the president to save his ratings," said a chief investment officer of a local asset management house.
"His poor ratings will not improve just because two top government officials were replaced," said the officer, who declined to be identified.
William Tseng, a deputy finance minister, will become the top financial regulator, while deputy defense minister Andrew Yang takes over as defense minister.
Five other government officials were replaced in the reshuffle, said the premier.
Lin Cheng-yi, a research fellow in national security at the Academia Sinica think-tank, said the outcry over the death of the soldier had unexpectedly blown up into a major controversy.
"President Ma maintained a mindset much like the Defense Ministry: at the outset, no one ever thought this would be a huge issue," Lin said.
"Now, however, it's turned into a major challenge for the establishment."
(Editing by Robert Birsel)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/taiwan-names-fin-regulator-defense-minister-reshuffle-080217040.html
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Q: How old does your panel think a child should be to have a Facebook page? My 11-year-old son is asking for an account because some of his friends have one, but I'm not sure.
A: Facebook clearly states in its rules that you have to be age 13 to create an account, the Help for Families panel says.
However, the site does not police this rule, and all a child needs to do to create an account is to have a valid email address and fill in a fake birth date. Many children under age 13 have accounts and there are Facebook accounts registered to pets.
Panelist Bill Vogler feels very strongly that letting a child this age have a Facebook account is a big mistake. He notes that if you let an underage child create an account, first you are condoning lying.
"I won't even lie about a child's age at a movie," Vogler says. "I don't want to send a message white lies are OK."
He also feels Facebook can be harmful for children.
"Facebook is a huge problem for many kids," he says. "It is a minefield for bullying and inappropriate communication among kids. If you do decide to do it, there is a huge responsibility for parents to monitor it."
One of the risks of forbidding a child to have a Facebook account is that they might create one behind your back and then you will have no control over it, the panel says.
"You need to know your own child's maturity level," Freedman says. "Not everyone is at the same place. It may not be appropriate even for children who are old enough."
Never give any child free rein on Facebook controls, says Denise Continenza. You need to educate yourself on Facebook.
"Kids are so sophisticated," Continenza says. "Let him do it within limits. Use it an educational lesson. Have a long discussion with him."
Keep talking to him about values, Freedman agrees.
"Access will be there, so there needs to be a parental role," she says. "There are sexual predators on Facebook. You need to teach kids how to use Facebook like you taught them to cross the street by holding their hand."
Make sure you have access to his page and approve all friend requests, says panelist Pam Wallace.
She adds that parents also must be aware the way young people communicate is changing.
"They text or Facebook each other," she says. "That's the way culture is going."
Children who are not plugged in miss out on another level of communication among their peers, agrees Freedman.
Wallace also suggest you do a family page in your name to which your son can contribute and which you monitor.
"Be aware if you go this route, it is very easy to lose control even when you're being careful," Vogler says.
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OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) ? Baltimore Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta dislocated his hip in practice Saturday and will be sidelined indefinitely with what coach John Harbaugh called "a serious injury."
Pitta was carted off the field after colliding with safety James Ihedigbo in the back of the end zone vying for a pass from Joe Flacco. The receiver lay prone for several minutes before the cart arrived.
The Ravens begin defense of their Super Bowl title on Sept. 5 in Denver. Pitta will at least miss that game, Harbaugh said, but the severity of the injury could keep the tight end out for much longer than that.
The Ravens re-tweeted a story by ESPN in which a league source said Pitta would miss the entire season.
Baltimore general manager Ozzie Newsome did not immediately answer a text message from The Associated Press seeking information on Pitta's status.
After practice, a somber Harbaugh said, "Dennis has a dislocated hip. We'll have to take a look at that and see exactly what it is. It's a serious injury. He is going to be out for a while. He will not be in the Denver game and we'll just have to play it from there to see how long it goes."
Late Saturday night, a Ravens official said the club had no update from doctors or Pitta. He said the team website regularly re-tweets stories and updates from various news agencies.
Pitta was preparing for his fourth season with Baltimore. The 6-foot-4, 245-pounder caught 61 passes for 669 yards and seven touchdowns last season.
In the playoffs, Pitta had 14 catches for 163 yards and three scores.
With Pitta gone, the Ravens are without their two of their most productive receivers last year. Pitta's 61 catches were tied for second with Ray Rice behind Anquan Boldin, who was traded to San Francisco during the offseason.
"Obviously, he was a very, very productive guy for us," Ravens offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell said of Pitta. "He made a lot of big plays last year. We'll see what happens. But somebody is going to have to step up. We do have some capable guys all across the flanks. We do have some weapons. We're just going to have to have some guys make some plays for us."
In his first three NFL seasons, Pitta has 102 receptions for 1,075 yards and 10 touchdowns over 43 regular-season games.
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President Obama urged Americans to pause today, the 60th anniversary of the war's armistice, and "listen closely and hear their story of a generation."
By Darlene Superville,?Associated Press / July 27, 2013
EnlargePresident Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans to take time from their "hurried lives" to listen to the heroic stories of Korean War veterans who returned to a country weary of war and deserved a better homecoming.
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"Unlike the Second World War, Korea did not galvanize our country. These veterans did not return to parades," Obama said in a speech at the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Mall, making the 60th anniversary of the war's armistice.
"Unlike Vietnam, Korea did not tear at our country. These veterans did not return to protests. For many Americans tired of war, there was it seemed a desire to forget, to move on," Obama said.
They "deserve better," the president said, adding that on this anniversary, "perhaps the highest tribute we can offer our veterans of Korea is to do what should have been done the day you came home."
Obama appealed to Americans to pause "in our hurried lives" and let these veterans "carry us back to the days of their youth and let us be awed by their shining deeds. Listen closely and hear their story of a generation."
The 1950-1953 war involved North Korean and Chinese troops against U.S.-led United Nations and South Korean forces. It ended on July 27, 1953 ? 60 years ago Saturday ? with the signing of an armistice.
But a formal peace treaty was never signed, leaving the Korean Peninsula in a technical state of war and divided at the 38th parallel between its communist north and democratic south.
At least 2.5 million people were killed in the fighting.
Obama told veteran in the crowd that it's "perhaps taken longer to see clearly and full the true legacy of your service."
"Here today, we can say with confidence, that war was no tie, Korea was a victory," with 50 million South Koreans living in freedom and "a vibrant democracy" in stark contrast to dire conditions in the North.
"That is a victory and that is your legacy," Obama said.
In a proclamation declaring Saturday as National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, Obama said the anniversary marks the end of the war and the beginning of a long and prosperous peace.
In the six decades since the end of hostilities, Obama said, South Korea has become a close U.S. ally and one of the world's largest economies.
He said the partnership remains "a bedrock of stability" throughout the Pacific region, and he gave credit to the U.S. service members who fought all those years ago and to the men and women currently stationed there.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
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Pope Francis blows a kiss from his popemobile as he arrives for the Stations of the Cross event on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 26, 2013. Also known as the Via Crucis and Via Dolorosa, the Stations of the Cross are built around reflections on Jesus' last steps leading up to his crucifixion and death. Francis started off the day, his fifth in Rio, by hearing confessions from a half-dozen young pilgrims in a park and met privately with juvenile detainees. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Pope Francis blows a kiss from his popemobile as he arrives for the Stations of the Cross event on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 26, 2013. Also known as the Via Crucis and Via Dolorosa, the Stations of the Cross are built around reflections on Jesus' last steps leading up to his crucifixion and death. Francis started off the day, his fifth in Rio, by hearing confessions from a half-dozen young pilgrims in a park and met privately with juvenile detainees. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Anti-government protesters demonstrate just outside the media center for journalists covering events related to World Youth Day, on the Copacabana beachfront, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 26, 2013. The demonstration numbering a few hundred protesters took place after Pope Francis presided over the WYD event, Stations of the Cross. The sign held by a protester refers to Rio de Janeiro State Gov. Sergio Cabral and Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)
Pope Francis speaks during the Stations of the Cross event on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 26, 2013. Also known as the Via Crucis and Via Dolorosa, the Stations of the Cross are built around reflections on Jesus' last steps leading up to his crucifixion and death. Francis started off the day, his fifth in Rio, by hearing confessions from a half-dozen young pilgrims in a park and met privately with juvenile detainees. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Pope Francis waves from his popemobile as he arrives for the Stations of the Cross event on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 26, 2013. Also known as the Via Crucis and Via Dolorosa, the Stations of the Cross are built around reflections on Jesus' last steps leading up to his crucifixion and death. Francis started off the day, his fifth in Rio, by hearing confessions from a half-dozen young pilgrims in a park and met privately with juvenile detainees.. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
A woman watches a Stations of the Cross performance, on the Copacabana beachfront in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 26, 2013. Pope Francis presided over one of the most solemn rites of the Catholic Church on Friday, a procession re-enacting Christ's crucifixion, that received a Broadway-like treatment; staging a wildly theatrical telling of the Stations of the Cross, complete with huge stage sets, complex lighting, a full orchestra and a cast of hundreds acting out a modern version of the biblical story. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? In the thick of his historic visit to Brazil this week, Pope Francis urged young Catholics to make a "mess" in their dioceses and break out of their spiritual cages.
Francis' exhortation during a special meeting with Argentine faithful on Thursday, won him acclaim as a renegade leader of the world's biggest church. But it also left many of his followers with their own interpretations of the pontiff's words about the need to shake up the church.
Some said they thought Francis wanted them to object more forcefully when taught ideas that clash with church doctrine. Others said it meant hitting the streets and pushing for social change.
"If in my biology class they speak about abortion, I should raise my hand and say I don't believe in that," said Maria Alejandrina de Dicindio, a 54-year-old Argentine catechism teacher who had traveled to Rio to see her pope, a fellow Argentine. "The youth should open their mouths when it's their turn."
For Mexican pilgrim Gilberto Amado Hernandez, the pope's message meant he should start showing the world Jesus Christ's message of love.
"It's difficult to meet young people who want to get close to Christ," Amado said. "We have to show them that faith is something beautiful."
Francis himself didn't specify what to do, but he has displayed his own mold-breaking ways throughout this week's visit to Rio de Janeiro and rural Sao Paulo state, his first overseas trip as pope.
The first pontiff from the Americas worried security officials by riding through massive crowds atop an open-sided popemobile rather than the fully enclosed, bulletproof vehicle his last two predecessors used. He's also ventured straight up to well-wishers to kiss babies and bless children and met privately Friday with juvenile offenders.
While speaking to his fellow Argentines Thursday, Francis said Catholics should make a concerted effort to get outside their own worlds.
"I want to see the church get closer to the people," he told them. "I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures, because these need to get out."
His final message: "Don't forget: make trouble."
In his own way, he lived those words as the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, before being selected as pope in March.
Then known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future pope largely abandoned the kinds of luxuries favored by other high-ranking church officials. He rented out the archbishop's luxurious suburban mansion, living instead in a spartan room in a downtown church office building. He also rode subways and buses around town rather than keep a chauffeur.
Francis' visit to a Rio slum on Thursday wasn't his first such venture. He made regular unescorted trips to dangerous slums as archbishop and saw to it that every major "misery village" in Buenos Aires had a chapel and a priest to spread the Lord's word.
He also encouraged young people and the laity to take on leadership roles in parishes that were previously held by priests, so that church members would have much more say in what happens in their communities. Though the Catholic Church openly supported Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship, Francis later approved sainthood investigations for priests who were killed by the military government.
Yet biographer Sergio Rubin said Francis the archbishop also had a very keen sense of politics and took care to act prudently, choosing his battles and avoiding challenging superiors in ways that would backfire.
He wasn't so gleeful and devoted to the crowd, seemingly mindful that he didn't yet have the power to make a big splash in the church, according to an Argentine Catholic official who asked not to be identified because he wasn't authorized to talk publicly about church politics.
Instead, Francis molded the church in Argentina in quieter ways by recruiting and promoting a new generation of outgoing priests in his own model, and not only fellow Jesuits used to living among lay people.
His replacement as archbishop, Mario Poli, had impressed Bergoglio by earning a degree in social work from the public University of Buenos Aires. In a book of dialogues with a friendly rabbi, Francis said, "This is a much better situation, because in the (university) you become acquainted with real life, the different points of view there are about it, the different scientific aspects, cosmopolitanism. . It's a way of having your feet well planted in the earth."
The shake-up message is also one he's applying as pope to the Vatican's staid and dysfunctional bureaucracy. Francis has made clear that big change is on the way, naming commissions of inquiry to investigate the scandals at the Vatican bank and propose an overarching reform of the entire central governance of the Catholic Church.
The pontiff has dived into the crowds that have greeted him at the Vatican and in Brazil.
During two raucous rides down Copacabana beach, he's waved, smiled and stopped repeatedly to accept gifts thrown at him from the crowd. At one point, Francis gave away his own white skullcap and put on another one tossed in from the street.
For Argentine student Ana Paula Garrote, Francis was showing Catholics they needed to live that type of spirit.
"For me, the pope wanted to say that we should go out into the streets, not stay in the parishes, and not be ashamed of talking about God," Garrote said.
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Michael Warren reported from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Associated Press writer Marco Sibaja contributed to this report from Rio de Janeiro.
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The driver of the high-speed train that derailed July 25 at a sharp curve in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, killing at least 80 passengers and?injuring 130 more, told controllers he took the curve at around 190 kilometers per hour, despite an 80 kph speed limit. He survived the crash and is now under investigation by local authorities. Even if the driver turns out to have been responsible for speeding, rail passengers might wonder what else had to fail in the safety system to allow one man?s error to harm so many people.
The crash is the first fatal accident of a high-speed train in Spain, which launched its high-speed network in 1992 and now serves around 100,000 passengers a day. Authorities have not yet assigned it a cause, but it may turn out to be an anomaly. "The most common [reasons for a derailment are] problems with the track or rail and equipment," says mechanical engineer George Bibel at the University of North Dakota, author of Train Wreck: The Forensic of Rail Disasters. Whereas train accidents from Connecticut to France have made news lately, derailments are a declining threat, at least in the U.S., where they dropped about 90 percent from 1976 to 2011.
The decline has resulted in part from improved monitoring of aging infrastructure such as rails, wheels and bearings, Bibel says. Spanish media reported that the tracks on which this train was running were not designed for the fastest class of high-speed trains. The implication is that the tracks may somehow have contributed to the accident. Lower-grade tracks do vibrate more and wear down faster. And using the same tracks for multiple types of trains, such as high-speed, longer local passenger trains, or even freight, may also promote uneven metal fatigue. Changing temperatures or wet tracks can combine with worn-down train wheels or uneven loading of a train to promote a derailment. Yet things as basic as regular inspections of hot spots with an infrared sensor or of metal fatigue with an ultrasound sensor can alert rail operators to aging infrastructure.
Higher-tech control systems are also emerging. Both the U.S. and Europe are adopting semi-automated braking systems designed to take over from speeding drivers. The track at the accident site, which was very close to the station, used older-generation signaling technology called ASFA, which alerts the driver to upcoming speed restrictions but cannot override his or her control. The Madrid-Barcelona high-speed train line, in contrast, uses the Level 2 European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS), which can override the driver. The train drivers union announced that the tragedy "could have been avoided" if ERTMS had been installed on that stretch of track. Even if that is true, Spain already has one of the highest? ERTMS deployments in Europe. In the U.S., rail authorities have warned that they are unlikely to complete a legislated upgrade to similar technology in time for the 2015 deadline.
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In a report published Friday, Bank of America analyst Glen Campbell upgraded the rating on Rogers Communications (NYSE: RCI) from Neutral to Buy, but lowered the price target from $48.00 to $44.25.
In the report, Bank of America noted, ?We are upgrading RCI to Buy after 1) a steep share price decline (-10% since the June 26 story about a likely Verizon entry to Canada and 21% since its April peak) 2) rate hikes by all three incumbent wireless operators (signaling improved market discipline, discussed in our July 23 note); and 3) our valuations under different competitive scenarios. If Verizon pursues a broad and aggressive entry, we see Rogers as uniquely positioned to strike a Verizon network-sharing or roaming deal (worth perhaps $4/share, a potential value hedge). 2Q13 results were in line. We do expect above-consensus-EBITDA in 2013/14 (on reduced handset subsidy expense).?
Rogers Communications closed on Thursday at $40.33.
(c) 2013 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
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Yes, Sony is, in fact, working on a film version of its long-running simulation racing video game series Gran Turismo. A Sony Computer Entertainment UK rep told our sister site Joystiq that said film is "being made," but provided no other information.
Yesterday, reports surfaced of the film being tied to Mike de Luca and Dana Brunetti (of The Social Network and 50 Shades of Grey production fame), with support from a trio of Sony Pictures execs. Of course, none of this sounds too far-fetched given the presence of Sony Pictures president Michael Lynton at the PlayStation E3 press conference. He promised Sony Pictures' support to the PlayStation 4 in the form of original programming, and a movie based on a massive PlayStation franchise sounds like a good start. For now, however, few details are confirmed beyond the project's existence.
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