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Sunday 20 November 2011
Saturday 19 November 2011
A Moment of Beauty
Remember hope? So 2008. Still, if the song I want to recommend doesn?t do it for you, it can?t be done, you?re done for. We?re all done for. And maybe we are, maybe it?s too late. But if you have any really good memories (and I know you must), this song might help. It?s a shot of infectious lyrical dopamine to the withered pleasure center in the brain. I?m talking about Lucinda Williams? cut on the just released Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams album, an eclectic collection of previously unrecorded Hank Williams songs, performed by artists like Bob Dylan, Norah Jones, Jack White, Merle Haggard, and Sheryl Crow, to name a few.
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Catch Up On A Day Or Week Of Missed News With Riversip Tech Reader
You go on vacation, spend a day with the kids, buckle down on a project, and suddenly you're hopelessly behind on tech news. You could scan back through the pages of your favorite sites, but you'd have little way of knowing which stories were most important. Luckily, Israeli developer Briox has developed a data fusion technology that can surface the most relevant content from a firehose of sources. To show off the technology, it's released the free Riversip Tech Reader iOS app, which lets users view the latest news, or just the biggest stories from that day or week. Briox hopes Riversip will attract more enterprise customers from health, finance and other verticals to?pay for help managing information overload.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/bRUZsJkfJWg/
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Friday 18 November 2011
Rattlesnakes used for cancer research
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Four Western diamondback rattlesnakes from Albuquerque's zoo are helping with the first clinical trials of venom as a cancer treatment in humans.
Officials say the snakes have been sent to the Kentucky Reptile Zoo, one of four premier venom laboratories in the United States. The snakes' venom will be extracted and sent to France, where the clinical studies are under way.
Snake venom contains hundreds of proteins that affect the human body in various ways.
The proteins can be devastating when combined. In isolation, these proteins can be used to treat health issues from strokes and heart attacks to Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
Scientists at the Kentucky zoo are extracting the rattlesnakes' venom using a non-harmful method that allows the snakes to bite and excrete the venom naturally.
Source: http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/health/rattlesnakes-used-for-cancer-research
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Thursday 17 November 2011
Dissident Chinese artist pays to fight tax bill
BEIJING?? Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said he deposited a $1.3 million guarantee into a government bank account Tuesday out of concern for his associates after tax officials threatened to turn their investigation into his company over to police.
The move represents a concession by Ai in a dispute that arose this week between the dissident and Chinese tax authorities who say Ai's Beijing Fake Cultural Development Ltd. owes 15 million yuan ($2.4 million) in back taxes and fines, and enables him and the company to challenge the tax bill.
Ai, an internationally acclaimed conceptual artist, was taken away by police to a secret location for nearly three months earlier this year during a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent.
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He disputes the government's tax-evasion allegations and says he does not even own the company involved, but added that under China's authoritarian government none of that matters.
"It's very simple," Ai said in a phone interview. "Those in power have the right to do anything and their power faces no restrictions."
The company wants to fight the tax bill but had to put down a guarantee of 8.5 million yuan ($1.3 million) to do so.
Tax bureau's demands illegal?
Beijing tax bureau officials told Ai's wife Lu Qing, the company's legal representative, that they wanted the bond paid into one of the tax bureau's bank accounts and that if the company missed the Wednesday deadline to do so, the case would be sent to police, Ai said. "They were of course issuing a threat to us, but the threat is real."
Supporters have sent Ai nearly 8.7 million yuan ($1.4 million), but Ai and his company's lawyers said transferring the money into the tax bureau's accounts could be seen as admitting guilt and that if they win the case it would be difficult to get the money back. Instead, Ai was planning to be the guarantor and offer a bank certificate of deposit as collateral.
Ai said he gave in to the tax bureau's demand out of concern for the safety of his associates.
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"If you don't do it this way, they might send you to the public security, then the public security organ can use some other procedure, under the charge of refusing to pay taxes, to do what, I don't know," Ai said. "Of course, this would have been very unsafe for a lot of people."
His company's lawyers say the tax bureau's demand is illegal. Repeated phone calls to the Beijing Local Taxation Bureau's propaganda department rang unanswered Tuesday.
Ai said that if the case were to go to the police it was possible that they would detain his wife, because she is the firm's legal representative, and the company's manager and accountant, who he says have been unreachable in the months since his release. He said police could also go after him even though he's not the owner of the company, just a designer.
Ai said the company has 60 days to seek a review of the case.
The artist was the most high-profile target of a sweeping crackdown on activists that started in February in a bid to prevent protests similar to those in the Middle East and North Africa. Dozens of bloggers, writers, rights lawyers and other activists were detained, arrested or questioned. Many have since been released but continue to face restrictions on whom they can see and talk to.
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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45301362/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/
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Wednesday 16 November 2011
Anna Kournikova won't return to 'Biggest Loser'
Anna Kournikova will not be returning for next season of NBC's "The Biggest Loser," The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Kournikova was hired by NBC to host and act as trainer on season 12 of the reality weight loss series, following Jillian Michael's exit. It seemed like a great idea at the time: she's attractive, camera friendly and a major athlete. But staffers say they clashed with her, and some of the contestants found her a bit brash. Whereas Michaels was soothing, encouraging and even uplifting, Kournikova did not sympathize with her overweight contestants, often telling them about her own tough upbringing when they complained about training being hard.
Story: Meet the season 12 'Biggest Loser' hopefulsA source on the show actually called Kournikova "a nightmare." She would definitely not have been mistaken for a life coach.
Story: Kournikova makes debut as 'Loser' trainer
Kournikova and her reps did admit to THR that she is leaving the show after one season, and the tennis star issued this statement to us: "I enjoyed my time on the 'Biggest Loser' ranch. Although I will not be returning as a full time trainer on season 13, I will always be a part of 'The Biggest Loser'family and my commitment to bettering lives through health and fitness will continue."
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Copyright 2011 The Hollywood Reporter
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Tuesday 15 November 2011
Video: Roundtable: Room for another candidate in GOP race?
October 30: Plouffe, roundtable
Nearly a year away from the 2012 election, we?ll talk to the president?s 2008 campaign manager, now White House Senior Adviser, David Plouffe. Then author of the definitive new biography on the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson; Author of the new book ?The Time of Our Lives,? NBC News Special Correspondent, Tom Brokaw; Former Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm; and Republican strategist, Mike Murphy.
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Friday 4 November 2011
Italy's Berlusconi calls emergency cabinet meeting (Reuters)
ROME (Reuters) ? Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday to accelerate budget reforms in an attempt to calm market turmoil that threatens to tip Italy's economy into full-blown crisis.
Berlusconi is under growing pressure to step down and hand power to an emergency government of national unity. He held four hours of meetings with senior officials and ministers in the morning ahead of the cabinet meeting at 1900 GMT.
The cabinet will consider various legislative options to fast-track reforms, including a decree and amendments to budget legislation already in the Senate, Infrastructure Minister Altero Matteoli told Reuters.
Berlusconi wants something concrete to show when he goes to the G20 meeting of economic powers in France on Thursday. Italian bonds have been targeted on financial markets as the euro zone financial crisis spreads out from Greece.
Yields on 10-year Italian BTP bonds fell slightly on Wednesday from the highs reached on Tuesday but were still at more than 6.2 percent, even with support from the European Central Bank's bond-buying operation.
Greece's surprise decision to call a referendum on austerity measures demanded by the European Union has worsened fears about the stability of other heavily indebted economies like Italy, the euro zone's third largest economy.
As market turbulence spread, threatening a wider euro zone meltdown, the scandal-plagued Berlusconi has come under fire from all sides over his handling of the crisis and his failure to pass decisive reforms.
PRESIDENT STEPS IN
President Giorgio Napolitano, in a highly unusual statement late on Tuesday, called on Berlusconi to pass long-promised measures without delay. Napolitano indicated he was looking at how much support there was for reform outside the ranks of the center-right government.
Napolitano cannot dismiss Berlusconi as long as he has a majority. But if divisions in the coalition deepen and provoke a parliamentary crisis in which the government lose a confidence vote, he would have the power to name a new administration.
"That was a warning," said Anna Chimenti, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Foggia. "Until there is a crisis, Napolitano is like a referee who blows the whistle when rules are not respected. He's blowing the whistle now."
Andrea Ronchi, a PDL deputy who had lunch with Berlusconi on Wednesday, told reporters the 75-year-old prime minister had shown no signs of wanting to stand down.
But there have been growing signs of dissent on his own back benches. Roberto Antonione, a member of Berlusconi's original Forza Italia party, became the latest deputy to quit the ruling PDL and call on the premier to go.
Berlusconi has promised European Union partners reforms such as easier rules on redundancies, including for civil servants, and an increase in the pension age, but the measures would not take effect for months.
Officials are trying to pack new measures, including cuts to some tax breaks and more labor market liberalization, into the budget bill currently in the Senate to enable the government to present an approved package of legislation as soon as possible.
Other potential measures, including a wealth tax and a possible amnesty on tax evasion, have caused deep disagreement between ministers including Berlusconi and Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti.
A series of austerity packages passed during the summer aimed to bring Italy's budget into balance by 2013, but the government has been widely criticized for the slow and erratic way it has gone about agreeing and implementing the reforms.
The scandals involving Berlusconi, who faces trial on a variety of charges ranging from tax fraud to having sex with an under-aged prostitute, have also raised questions about his focus on the complicated reform process.
TOO BIG TO BAIL OUT
Italy is too big to bail out if its borrowing costs get out of control. It has sluggish growth, a divided and ineffective government and a public debt equivalent to 120 percent of gross domestic product -- a toxic combination that poses a growing threat to the survival of the euro.
Italy's top financial officials met to discuss the impact of the crisis on the banking sector.
The meeting of the Financial Stability Safeguard Committee included Tremonti, Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco, Treasury head Vittorio Grilli and the heads of insurance regulator ISVAP and markets watchdog Consob.
The risk premium paid on Italian 10-year bonds compared with their safer German equivalent was at 439 basis points, a slightly narrower spread than the 455 points on Tuesday.
If bond yields stay at their current levels, Italy faces having to pay billions of euros more in interest payments over coming years.
Underlining the problems facing the government, a purchasing managers indicator on Wednesday hit a 28-month low as Italian manufacturing output fell sharply, highlighting a growing risk of recession in coming months.
(Additional reporting by Paolo Biondi, Catherine Hornby, Francesca Piscioneri and Giuseppe Fonte; editing by Barry Moody and Robert Woodward)
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