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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) ? More good news for Tennessee at the Little League World Series.

The team from Goodlettsville put on a clinic in clutch hitting and running the basepaths to overcome the prolific sluggers from Petaluma, Calif., in a 9-6 victory Sunday.

Jayson Brown broke a 5-5 tie with a two-out, two-run triple in the top of the sixth, and Brock Myers followed with a two-run homer.

The 12-year-old shortstop raced around the basepaths in the delight, arms outstretched as his happy teammates waited for him at the plate.

Brown, also 12, simply said afterward the big inning was "pretty awesome."

Panama's feeling good, too, after James Gonzalez hit two homers including a grand slam to help beat Canada 8-3.

The late games featured Texas against Indiana, followed by Japan and Taiwan.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tenn-panama-stay-unbeaten-little-league-ws-215342749--mlb.html

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CLE ELUM, Wash. ? The extreme fire conditions across the US west have exploded, with several burning across the region and about 70 homes destroyed in Washington state.

The blazes, fuelled by searing heat, dry weather and strong winds added up to misery for weary residents who already are fed up with one of the region's worst fire seasons in decades.

Not only are more of the nation's wildfires occurring in the West this year than last, but the fires have gotten bigger, said Jennifer Smith of the National Interagency Fire Centre in Boise, Idaho.

As of Wednesday, 42,933 wildfires had been reported in the country this season, burning 2.6 million hectares. The 10-year average for this period is 52,535 fires, but covering only 2 million hectares, she said.

In recent days, one firefighter died in Idaho after being struck by a falling tree. Another suffered minor burns and smoke inhalation after a blaze along the Nevada-Oregon border forced her to crawl into an emergency fire shelter.

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updated 5:10 p.m. ET Aug. 17, 2012

TORONTO (AP) - Ryan Dempster is going to have to wait a little longer to make another start in his native Canada.

The right-hander will miss his scheduled start for the Texas Rangers on Saturday at Toronto due to personal reasons.

Dempster, who is from British Columbia, was slated to make his first start in Canada since opening day for the Marlins at Montreal on April 2, 2002. He went 5-0 in eight career appearances in Montreal, but has never pitched in Toronto.

Recently demoted starter Roy Oswalt will take Dempster's place against the Blue Jays.

The Rangers placed Dempster on the restricted list Friday and recalled rookie outfielder Leonys Martin from Triple-A Round Rock. The AL West leaders didn't offer any further explanation for Dempster's absence and said he was expected to rejoin the team Monday.

Dempster has struggled since he was acquired in a trade with the Chicago Cubs on July 31. He is 1-1 with an 8.31 ERA in three starts for Texas.

He got a no-decision in his Texas debut when the Rangers beat the Los Angeles Angels 15-9, but was hit hard by the AL East-leading Yankees in an 8-2 loss on Monday. His only win with Texas came at Boston's Fenway Park, where he allowed three unearned runs in 6 2-3 innings of a 6-3 win on Aug. 7.

Martin has appeared in 15 games this season, batting .189 with no homers and five RBIs.

Oswalt was bumped from the rotation when the Rangers acquired Dempster. A three-time All-Star, Oswalt is 4-2 with a 6.53 ERA since signing with Texas in late May, appearing in relief three times after making six starts.

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Derek Jeter hit his 250th home run, Nick Swisher connected twice and the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 6-4 on a lightning-filled Friday night for their eighth win in 10 games.

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Masers, which are to microwave radiation what lasers are to light, have been more or less ignored for many years, but an almost accidental discovery by a British physicist has brought the maser back into the limelight; Mark Oxborrow's new model is 100 million times more powerful than any created before.

The term MASER?is actually an acronym, like LASER: Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (for laser, substitute "light" for "microwave"). Time, familiarity, and ease of pronunciation have made both into ordinary words, though in research documents they are both occasionally kept capitalized. Masers actually came first, but certain limitations prevented widespread use.

Unlike lasers, masers only operated at near-absolute-zero temperatures, and even then only in powerful magnetic fields. So it's not surprising that lasers, later to come but far simpler to operate, became the widely?used technology we know today.

Oxborrow, a British researcher on a shoestring budget, has just turned all things maser upside-down with a device that not only works at room temperature and without a magnetic field, but creates a microwave beam that is far, far more powerful than even its creators expected.

The secret, as it turned out, lay in a paper published in 2002 by Japanese chemists?Takeda, Takegoshi and?Terao. They suggested a whole new type of crystal; masers traditionally used ruby, but they theorized that something called?p-terphenyl, doped with pentacene, would also work.

The pentacene technique went untried until Oxborrow, a physicist at the UK's?National Physical Laboratory, decided to put together a test rig out of essentially spare parts. He bought a medical laser on eBay, borrowed some pentacene from his friends Jonathan Breeze and Neil Alford at Imperial College London, and baked up a crystal.

But even after constructing this jury-rigged device, Oxborrow was hesitant. He told Nature:

When you're?designing?experiments and you're very nervous about the outcome, sometimes one is almost too scared to try it. And for about 3 days before, I could have done it, but I didn't have the nerve to switch on that button to get to the moment of truth.

Instead what occurred was one of those seemingly trivial?events that seems destined for scientific lore, like Newton's apple or Pythagoras' "Eureka!" moment: ?Oxborrow had gotten into an argument with Mrs. Oxborrow one night and, hoping to cool down, he went to the lab in a rotten and impetuous mood?and hit the button.

And in true "Eureka" fashion, the results were immediate and?mind-boggling: the device emitted a signal around 100 million times stronger than any maser had ever produced. Oxborrow reports that he swore a lot and talked to himself for a bit. The implications are quite serious: once refined and more carefully controlled (the experiment singed the crystal), this type of maser could be used in many fields as what is called a low-noise amplifier, especially for radio waves.

Here's Oxborrow himself showing off the solid-state maser device:

Radar, mobile phones, medical scanners ??all these things could benefit from powerful and precise amplification?? though it will be some time before the technology is stable enough to use. At the moment, it can only be used in a pulsed form, unlike the steady beam of a laser. But Oxborrow and the lab are hard at work changing this, and also think that they can multiply the power even further with a few modifications.

We won't be using handheld masers to cook our food any time soon, but this discovery does in fact fundamentally change a whole branch of emanation science. To produce and amplify beams of radiation far outside the range of visible light could be extremely transformative. Those who worked on the laser in the 1950s would be astonished at the multi-watt handheld lasers available today, as well as the varied uses to which we've put their once-academic amplified light systems. In a few years, we may be saying the same about maser-based devices.

Oxborrow's paper, Room-temperature solid-state maser, was published this week in the journal?Nature.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.

Source: http://www.futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com/technology/futureoftech/researcher-creates-most-powerful-maser-ever-spare-parts-949918

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FORTUNE -- Approximately 271 million shares of Facebook (FB) stock were "unlocked" yesterday, under a provision that had prevented certain investors from selling shares until 90 days after the company went public. And, as happens after most lockup expirations, Facebook took a tumble ? down 6.27% to finish trading at $19.87 per share. For context, the IPO price on May 18 had been $38 per share.

Fortune has learned that venture capital firms Accel Partners, Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners were among those that distributed shares to limited partners. The only one of those that had been previously reported was Accel, with CNBC saying that it had distributed a total of 50 million shares from various funds (which still represented less than half of its holdings).

We've also learned that several unlocked shareholders decided to retain their entire positions, including Andreessen Horowitz and Microsoft (MSFT). So did tiny shareholder Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, perhaps because it's hoping for a rally that helps salvage its underwater investment.

I heard some people yesterday suggest that Accel's distribution was a signal that Facebook stock would continue to sink. Don't count me among them. Proper portfolio management, particularly for an LP base that has been looking to lock in more of these distributions for several years.

But, that said, I'm not thrilled with the way Accel went about it. That also goes for Greylock (I don't have the Meritech details).

Here's what I mean: Both Accel and Greylock priced their shares at over $21 a piece, for the purpose of calculating carried interest (i.e., the profit VC firms receive from successful investments). Greylock's was a couple of cents higher because it used a 10-day trailing average -- $21.05 compared to $21.03 -- but both firms charged LPs significantly more than was actually available yesterday for Facebook shares on the open market.

Let's imagine that an LP received 100,000 shares of Facebook stock from Accel or Greylock. And let's also imagine that each fund has a premium carry of 25% (which I believe to be true, but have not been able to confirm). In that case, Accel or Greylock would receive the equivalent of $525,750 or $526,250, respectively, in carried interest (minus the cost basis). But had carry been marked at the market open price of $20.44 per share ? the price closer to which many LPs were forced to sell -- the carry only would have been $511,000 (again, minus the cost basis).

[UPDATE: If both the Accel and Greylock funds already had paid back 100% of their principle (which they likely have), then the distribution would have been a straight stock split of 75/25 minus a possible repayment of the cost basis. If the cost basis needed to be repaid and was calculated in shares, then that is where the slight pricing discrepancy could lie. The firms also get to use the higher price for calculating total fund returns, which get used in future fund marketing efforts.]

This is yet another example of why VC firms either should distribute cash to their LPs, or give LPs the option of cash or stock. Remember, many LPs don't have in-house equity trading desks. That means that they are effectively forced to liquidate shares immediately via a third-party broker, thus receiving less for their positions than "charged" by Accel or Greylock.

And the VC firms have to know that the shares will trade down upon lock-up expiration, because it happens almost every single time!?

If general partners insist on stock distributions, then they should use both a pre and post average for carry, in order to better balance out the volatility (apply the recalculation to a future distribution). It's still not perfect for those liquidating upon receipt, but it should be a bit more representative (and also would discourage a VC from flooding the market via a single distribution).

To be clear, limited partners of Accel and Greylock have made oodles of money off of Facebook. For example, Greylock bought in at a $500 million valuation. So my complaint is largely a rounding error on that massive multiple. And it also is true that some of the LPs may hold the shares and ultimately sell at a price far higher than the carry marks.

But when you've managed to hit a grand slam in Game 7 of the World Series, there's no reason to deny the fans a tip of your cap. The hit is what matters most, but the modicum of added respect is also remembered.

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Source: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/17/facebook-stock/

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By Kim Irwin August 16, 2012 Category: Health Sciences, Research

Treating metastatic melanoma by combining immunotherapy with a drug that inhibits the cancer-spreading activity of a common gene mutation significantly increased survival times in an animal model, according to a study by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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In the study, animals that received a combination of the recently approved BRAF inhibitor Zelboraf and an engineered T-cell immunotherapy had better tumor responses and lived more than twice as long as those getting the BRAF inhibitor or immunotherapy alone. The findings provide strong support for testing the combination therapy in human clinical trials, which Jonsson Cancer Center researchers hope to launch within two years.

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About 50 percent of patients with metastatic melanoma ? some 4,000 people a year ? have the BRAF mutation and can be treated with Zelboraf. More than 50 percent of them respond well to the drug, but the responses usually last only a few months. With immunotherapy, fewer patients respond, but the responses are more durable.

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By pairing these therapies in a one?two punch, researchers hope to maintain the high response rates associated with Zelboraf and combine them with the longer disease-free progression times seen with immunotherapy, said the study's first author, Dr. Richard Koya, a Jonsson Cancer Center scientist and an assistant professor of surgical oncology at UCLA.

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"The idea was to target two different aspects of anti-cancer biology, hitting the tumor cells themselves with the BRAF inhibitor and adding in T cells educated to induce a specific anti-tumor immune response," Koya said. "The results we saw in this study were very promising."

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The findings of the two-year study were published Aug. 15 in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer Research.

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The researchers also found that the BRAF inhibitor helped boost the power of the immunotherapy, creating a greater combination effect, said senior study author Dr. Antoni Ribas, a Jonsson Cancer Center scientist and UCLA professor of hematology?oncology.

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"We found that both treatments were more effective when administered together, and we were surprised to see that a drug that should only be targeting the BRAF-mutant cancer cells was also having a beneficial effect on the T cells," Ribas said.

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In the immunotherapy technique, called adoptive T-cell transfer (ACT), lymphocytes are genetically engineered to express a receptor that recognizes melanoma cells, creating an army of immune cells that attack the cancer. The lymphocytes are modified genetically to become specific to the melanoma cells and are injected into the body.

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The study was done using a model based on unique cell lines developed at UCLA. Previously, no implantable BRAF mutation?driven melanoma model that was able to grow progressively in mice with fully competent immune systems was available.

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It is vital to develop new drugs to treat metastatic melanoma, as few options are available for patients, the researchers said. Zelboraf works well, but most patients eventually relapse.

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"This is a patient population that we are not able to cure," Koya said. "With what we have now, we are just prolonging their lives. We need to have more options, and we hope this combination therapy proves to be an effective alternative."

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About 70,000 new cases of melanoma are diagnosed each year in the United States. Of those, 8,000 people will die of the disease.

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"In conclusion, combined therapy with the BRAF-specific inhibitor Zelboraf and T cell receptor engineered adoptive cell transfer resulted in superior anti-tumor effects," the study states. "Although the absolute number of T cells infiltrating the tumor was not increased by Zelboraf, the combination increased the functionality of antigen-specific T lymphocytes. Therefore, our studies support the clinical testing of combinations of BRAF targeted therapy and immunotherapy for patients with advanced melanoma."

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The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (P50 CA086306 and P01 CA 132681), the Seaver Institute, the Louise Belley and Richard Schnarr Fund, the Wesley Coyle Memorial Fund, the Garcia-Corsini Family Fund, the Fred L. Hartley Family Foundation, the Ruby Family Foundation, the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation, the Caltech?UCLA Joint Center for Translational Medicine, the UCLA Tumor Biology Program, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award, a Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Competitive Edge Fellowship.

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UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has more than 240 researchers and clinicians engaged in disease research, prevention, detection, control, treatment and education. One of the nation's largest comprehensive cancer centers, the Jonsson Center is dedicated to promoting research and translating basic science into leading-edge clinical studies. In July 2012, the Jonsson Cancer Center was named among the top 10 cancer centers nationwide by U.S. News & World Report, a ranking it has held for 12 of the last 13 years.

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Source: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/braf-inhibitor-plus-immunotherapy-237560.aspx

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This still image taken from a YouTube video posted by Jake Gillum shows Seattle police arresting a suspect in the theft of Gillum's bike. Gillum's bike was stolen in Portland, Ore., while he was on a date and he was determined to get it back. The quest seemed hopeless, but a week of poring over online postings for his 2009 carbon fiber Fuji paid off when he spotted the road bike offered for sale in Seattle. That sparked an elaborate interstate sting operation last weekend in which Gillum not only got his bicycle back but used it to chase down the suspect before police arrested him. (AP Photo/Jake Gillum)

SEATTLE (AP) ? Jake Gillum loves his bike. So when it got stolen in Portland, Ore., while he was on a date, he was determined to get it back.

The quest seemed hopeless, but a week of poring over online postings for his 2009 carbon fiber Fuji paid off when he spotted the road bike offered for sale in Seattle. That sparked an elaborate interstate sting operation last weekend in which Gillum not only got his bicycle back but used it to chase down the suspect before police arrested him.

Gillum documented it all on YouTube under the username Simon Jackson.

"This is why you don't steal from bicyclists!" Gillum shouts as he trails the suspect while recording with his phone. "Because we care about our rides! Because I will go 160 miles to get my $2,500 bike back! You are going to jail!"

In an interview Thursday, the 28-year-old added: "Best feeling in the world, seeing that guy get locked in the police car."

The success of the sting heartened bicyclists around the world as the video spread. Such stings are far from unheard of ? there have been at least four in Seattle alone recently, two involving the same suspect ? but they don't typically wind up on video that goes viral.

In May, Dave O'Hern got one of his two stolen bikes back when its new owner took it to a repair shop that recognized a crack in the frame. The new owner, University of Washington law student Noel Merfeld, helped O'Hern set up a sting to catch the guy Merfeld bought it from. Police showed up and arrested a man who had been arrested in a similar bust two months earlier.

Also in Seattle, Matt Goyer retrieved his stolen bicycle last month after seeing it on Craigslist. The seller let him take it for a test spin ? and Goyer never looked back.

"People have a right to reclaim their stolen property. It belongs to them," said Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb. "Obviously, the first and best method to do that is through the police."

Gillum's ordeal began Aug. 3 in Portland when he realized his bike was missing and filed a police report. He has no car and uses it to travel to odd jobs and yard work around town, as well as for exercise. Over the next week, he checked online obsessively and on Aug. 9 saw it advertised in Seattle.

"I flipped out ? just started jumping in the air and yelling," Gillum said. "Immediately I thought, 'I have to go up there and get it, no matter what.'"

He talked it over with friends, as well as his dad, who gave him some sage advice: Don't be an idiot. Don't beat up the guy.

A plot began to take shape.

Gillum and two friends, Chris Williams and Williams' younger brother, Shannon Hardie, created the online persona Simon Jackson with a fake email account. They also used a cellphone app to call the seller and make it appear they were calling from Seattle. When the seller sent photos of the bike, Gillum became even more certain it was his.

The trio drove north and met the seller outside a grocery store. The others called police as Gillum started chatting with the seller, later identified as Craig Eric Ackerman, also of Portland.

Gillum said that about 40 minutes later, police still hadn't arrived and the seller seemed to be getting nervous, so Gillum agreed to buy it and said he needed to walk inside a nearby bank. A teller told him she would call security, and Gillum walked back outside and began filming.

"Here's the deal. I live in Portland, and you stole my bicycle," Gillum says.

"All right," the nervous seller replies. "I don't know what you want me to say."

"I would like you to apologize."

"For what?"

"For stealing my bicycle."

The seller insisted he lives in Seattle and bought the bicycle off Craigslist, though he acknowledged knowing it was stolen. When Gillum says police are on the way, Ackerman runs away, so Gillum hops on his newly recovered bike, starts chasing and repeats: "He cannot get away from me!"

Police arrived and arrested Ackerman for investigation of possessing and trafficking in stolen property. He has not been charged, and his lawyer, Holli Giffin, declined to comment because of the pending investigation, except to say, "We have a lot of concerns about the way things have been portrayed."

Whitcomb, the police spokesman, cautioned people against using stings without being absolutely sure they're right, which can be difficult using a picture on an Internet message board.

"Personal injury is not worth your bike," he said.

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(Reuters) - California is turning into a battleground for technology that allows auto insurers to track their customers' driving behavior and offer them lower premiums, but that privacy advocates reject as an excessive intrusion with serious consequences.

Insurance companies are increasingly installing small boxes in clients' cars that monitor everything from how much customers drive to their average speeds to where they drive.

Auto insurer Progressive Corp, which leads the market for so-called usage-based insurance, estimates that about 70 percent of the people who sign up for the program drive well enough to get a discount.

But privacy advocates say the lower premiums are not worth the tradeoffs, because the data could be used for unexpected purposes like penalizing drivers who visit unsafe neighborhoods. That argument holds sway with the California Department of Insurance, which is opposed to expanding the technology.

"While there are occasional discussions with certain insurers and vendors, the Department has no imminent plans to initiate usage-based rating factors," said Pat McConahay, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Insurance, in an email.

The state's opposition is a problem for insurers. Nearly 10 percent of the cars on the road in the United States are in California, and nearly 13 percent of all auto insurance policies are written there (more than twice the next-largest state), making it a crucial market for the highly fragmented industry.

"We've been trying for quite some time now to get some movement," said Richard Hutchinson, general manager of the usage-based insurance program at Progressive, in a recent interview. "It may in fact require the legislature."

REVEALING FAST-FOOD BREAKS?

In California, changing insurance rules is complicated. California voters approved a law known as Prop 103 in 1989, setting strict rules for how auto insurance could be priced. At the time, few imagined a day when insurers could plug a small box into their cars and track how, when and where they drive.

As it stands, the only metric the state allows to be tracked is miles driven -- admittedly a crucial component of any usage-based program, but not the only factor for most of them. Most programs consider distances driven, stop and start speeds, time of day driven, and host of other variables.

The state insurance commissioner has at least two concerns about the technology: privacy issues, and fears that insurance companies will penalize drivers for factors outside of their control, such as charging more for a person whose occupation forces them to drive at night.

Lawmakers could overrule the commissioner, but it would be difficult. To change Prop 103, the legislature would have to show any bill furthered the original aims of the proposition, and then pass that bill with a two-thirds majority, an all-but-hopeless task in the fractious California Assembly and Senate.

As far back as 10 years ago, privacy advocates sounded alarms about the misuse of automotive tracking data. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which focuses on digital privacy issues, has aggressively opposed any changes to California law that would allow driver tracking.

"There is real danger that this information would not only be used to ascertain the political or associational affiliations of drivers, but also to charge more if you drive and park in neighborhoods with high vehicle theft and crime rates," the group said in a 2009 statement.

Insurers could also "link your health insurance rates with location data that reveals your lunchtime trips to McDonald's," the group added.

PROGRAMS IN DEMAND

These may be legitimate concerns, but many Americans seem to have either ignored or discounted the risks. At least eight of the country's top 10 auto insurers have some sort of program either in full rollout or in trials.

Many customers end up with lower premiums-- most insurers promise savings of up to 30 percent. And drivers may be willing to settle for even less. A recent Deloitte survey found 52 percent of insured consumers would accept a discount of 20 percent or less to install the necessary hardware.

A spokesman for Ron Calderon, the chairman of the state Senate's insurance committee, said his office was not aware of any planned legislation to allow usage-based insurance in California, though he backs the idea.

One industry source said insurers and their representatives are talking to the insurance department and that officials there are "open to listening to input from the industry," but that any actual progress is quite a way off.

(Editing by Dan Wilchins, Mary Milliken and Leslie Gevirtz)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/insight-auto-insurers-driver-tracking-hits-wall-california-110236784--finance.html

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Having a blog is many things. It is good. It is fun. It is a constant reminder of all of the things you were so excited to do, but never quite got around to. My blog, unfortunately, serves to remind me that I completely and truly suck at new years resolutions. Honestly, I?wake?up on the first of?January?and I think 'I'm going to do SO many things this year, it will be SO much more productive than last year' and I write down my plans and then I forget about them. But this year? This year I put them on the internet. And as it is now past halfway through the year, I thought it might be time to revisit the bad boys to see what I've gotten done.

1. Learn to speak French
I really cannot stress how badly I failed at this resolution. I even went to France and didn't succeed in speaking French. Once I addressed a waiter with 'Bonjour' in what must have been a convincing accent, because it caused him to go off and speak at me at top speed in what my mind could only compute as nonsense, only to end with a disgusted 'oh, you're?English' when he noted my panicked stare. That experience may have put me off for life.

2. Take a creative writing class
I didn't do this. I did, however, take a 'writing for glossy magazines' class, and complete the beautiful mess Blog Love e-course, so I'll give myself half points for that. The fact I haven't gotten around to properly using my new skills is beyond the point, as my resolution was not 'take a class and then use what you've learnt.'

3. Do something for charity
Last week I donated 2 bags of books, DVD's and clothes to Cancer Research instead of sticking them on eBay. That made me feel good.

4. Learn to write in shorthand
Have you ever tried this? I did the research and was lost once I hit the stage of choosing which method of shorthand I wanted to learn. Why is there more than one method? Which is the best one? Why doesn't anyone on the internet know the answer? Needless to say, I failed.

5. Get some more writing published/work towards my dream job
I can honestly say that the amount of work I have put into this this year has drained me, aged me, and left me a little bit cynical. But I did get some writing published.. in a cat magazine, naturally.

6. Not give up on my blog
I'm still here! Are you proud? I am.

7. Start saving money
... Fail.

8. Keep smiling
Even though there are a lot of things in life that could make me unhappy, I've been channelling the positive this year and have been a smiler for 90% of the year so far, approximately. This blog has actually helped an enormous amount, so thank you so much for all of your support and for writing your blogs, I love reading yours as much as I love writing mine.

So there it is.. and 4.5 out of 8 isn't half bad. This has turned out better than I expected.

Have you achieved many of your new years goals?

Source: http://www.charlotteswebblog.co.uk/2012/08/revisiting-my-resolutions.html

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ScienceDaily (Aug. 16, 2012) ? The growth of high topography on the Tibetan Plateau in Sichuan, China, began much earlier than previously thought, according to an international team of geologists who looked at mountain ranges along the eastern edge of the plateau.

The Indian tectonic plate began its collision with Asia between 55 and 50 million years ago, but "significant topographic relief existed adjacent to the Sichuan Basin prior to the Indo-Asian collision," the researchers report online in Nature Geoscience.

"Most researchers have thought that high topography in eastern Tibet developed during the past 10 to 15 million years, as deep crust beneath the central Tibetan Plateau flowed to the plateau margin, thickening Earth's crust in this area and causing surface uplift," said Eric Kirby, associate professor of geoscience at Penn State. "Our study suggests that high topography began to develop as early as 30 million years ago, and perhaps was present even earlier."

Kirby, working with Erchie Wang of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing; Kevin Furlong, professor of geosciences at Penn State; and colleagues from Waikato University, New Zealand and Arizona State University, looked at samples taken from the hanging wall of the Yingxiu-Beichuan fault, the primary fault responsible for the 2008, Wenchuan earthquake. The researchers used a variety of methods including the decay rate of uranium and thorium to helium in the minerals apatite and zircon and fission track dating, an analysis of tracks or trails left by decaying uranium in minerals again in apatite and zircon.

"These methods allow us to investigate the thermal regime from about 250 degrees Celsius (482 degrees Fahrenheit) to about 60 degrees (140 degrees Fahrenheit)," said Kirby. "The results show that the rocks cooled relatively slowly during the early and mid-Cenozoic -- from 30 to 50 million years ago -- an indication that topography in the region was undergoing erosion."

The results also suggest that gradual cooling during this time was followed by two episodes of rapid erosion, one beginning 30 to 25 million years ago and one beginning 15 to 10 million years ago that continues today.

"These results challenge the idea that the topographic relief along the margin of the plateau developed entirely in the Late Miocene, 5 to 10 million years ago," said Kirby. "The period of rapid erosion between 25 to 30 million years ago could only be sustained if the mountains were not only present, but actively growing, at this time."

The researchers also note that this implies that fault systems responsible for the 2008 earthquake were also probably active early in the history of the growth of the Tibetan Plateau.

"We are still a long way from completely understanding when and how high topography in Asia developed in response to India-Asia collision," notes Kirby. "However, these results lend support to the idea that much of what we see today in the mountains of China may have developed earlier than we previously thought."

The Chinese National Key Projects Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Science Foundation funded this research.

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FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2011 file photo, a Monarch butterfly perches on a branch in the Sierra Chincua Sanctuary in the mountains of Mexico's Michoacan state. The Monarch butterflies arrive in central Mexico usually around the first week of November, after their yearly migration from Canada and begin their return around March. (AP Photo/ Marco Ugarte, File)

MEXICO CITY (AP) ? Illegal logging has practically been eliminated in the western Mexico wintering grounds of the monarch butterfly, according to a research report released Wednesday, and Mexican officials now hope to use the successful program of anti-logging patrols and payments to rural residents to solve other forestry conflicts throughout the country.

The government, environmental groups and private donors have spent millions of dollars to get residents of forest communities in the butterfly reserve to plant trees and start ecotourism businesses to benefit from widespread fascination with the monarchs' yearly multi-generational migration through Canada, the United States and Mexico. They hope a similar solution can work for areas where illegal logging has caused armed conflicts and killings.

"This has been a successful program," said Environment Secretary Juan Elvira Quesada. "We want to keep expanding it."

It is the first time that logging has not been found in detectable amounts since the mountaintop forests west of Mexico City were declared a nature reserve in 2000, according to a study of aerial photographs of mountain reserve.

"The battle is not yet won," said Omar Vidal of the environmental group WWF Mexico, saying that policing efforts in the pine and fir forests must be continued. He said small-scale logging may still be going on, and that more efforts are needed to offer economic alternatives to the communal farmers who live in the reserve and formerly made money from logging.

Logging was once considered the main threat to the reserve. At its peak in 2005, logging devastated as many as 1,140 acres (461 hectares) annually in the reserve, which covers 193,000 acres (56,259-hectares).

Around the same time, armed police were assigned to patrol the reserve and shut down illegal logging operations. Elvira Quesada recalled directing one of the first mass police raids against loggers in 2003, when saw mills and trucks loaded with logs were still a common sight. "There were hamlets that hung out signs saying 'no environment department official allowed.'"

Simultaneously, donor groups started nurseries in the local towns to grow seedlings for reforestation efforts and helped build tourism facilities, to give communal farmers alternative sources of income. Some are paid to be part-time guards and report the presence of loggers.

Lincoln Brower, an expert on monarch butterflies and emeritus zoology professor at the University of Florida said "it appears that the Mexican government has greatly improved their stand against massive illegal logging, for which I congratulate them heartily."

Brower cautioned in an email that "predatory individual tree removal (by individuals and small groups of loggers) is largely undetectable" by studying aerial and satellite images. He said he had seen forest degradation during visits to the reserve in 2010 and 2012, and said "until the government establishes a system of close and continuous year-round, on-the-ground monitoring and official guarding, this ongoing and progressive degradation will continue."

Vidal said climate change now appears to be affecting the forests that shelter the butterflies after their annual migration from the United States and Canada. The study shows that bark beetles, drought and a parasitic plant infestation of mistletoe, a vine that strangles trees, caused a combined loss of almost 52 acres (21 hectares) of pine and fir forest.

Changing climate patterns have alternately caused droughts, which stress the trees and make them more vulnerable to bark beetles, and also heavy rain and wind storms such as those in 2010 that caused forest loss due to mudslides. Brower criticized government efforts to remove fallen trees from those storms, saying it was better to let them lie where they had fallen.

The number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico dropped 28 percent this year, according to a report released in March, a decline some experts attribute to drought in parts of the United States and Canada where the butterflies breed and begin their long migration south.

The numbers of butterflies spending the winter in Mexico have varied wildly in recent years. Concern rose two years ago, when their numbers dropped by 75 percent in the wintering grounds, the lowest level since comparable record-keeping began in 1993. The number nearly doubled last year from that record low point.

The migration is an inherited trait; no butterfly lives to make the round-trip. The millions of orange-and-black butterflies cluster so densely on tree boughs in the reserve that researchers count them by the number of acres they cover.

Elvira Quesada said officials are trying the same approach in the Michoacan town of Cheran, where a conflict between illegal loggers and local residents has resulted in about a dozen deaths in recent months. Residents of Cheran put up roadblocks and demanded the army be sent in to protect them from logging gangs.

It is also being tried in the Chimalapas region on the border between the southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, where Indian communities are fighting over land and forest resources.

The measures could be used in "land conflicts, environmental and law enforcement disputes, where the key to the solution is preserving natural resources," Elvira Quesada said.

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ScienceDaily (Aug. 14, 2012) ? Technion researchers have built pancreatic tissue with insulin-secreting cells, surrounded by a three-dimensional network of blood vessels. The engineered tissue could pave the way for improved tissue transplants to treat diabetes.

The tissue created by Professor Shulamit Levenberg of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and her colleagues has some significant advantages over traditional transplant material that has been harvested from healthy pancreatic tissue.

The insulin-producing cells survive longer in the engineered tissue, and produce more insulin and other essential hormones, Levenberg and colleagues said. When they transplanted the tissue into diabetic mice, the cells began functioning well enough to lower blood sugar levels in the mice.

Transplantation of islets, the pancreatic tissue that contains hormone-producing cells, is one therapy considered for people with type 1 diabetes, who produce little or no insulin because their islets are destroyed by their own immune systems. But as with many tissue and organ transplants, donors are scarce, and there is a strong possibility that the transplantation will fail.

The well-developed blood vessel network built into the engineered tissue is key to its success, the researchers concluded. The blood vessels encourage cell-to-cell communication, by secreting growth hormones and other molecules, that significantly improve the odds that transplanted tissue will survive and function normally.

The findings confirm that the blood vessel network "provides key survival signals to pancreatic, hormone-producing cells even in the absence of blood flow," Levenberg and colleagues concluded in their study published in the journal PLoS One.

One reason transplants fail, Levenberg said, "is that the islets are usually transplanted without any accompanying blood vessels." Until the islets begin to connect with a person's own vascular system, they are vulnerable to starvation.

The 3-D system developed by the Technion researchers tackled this challenge by bringing together several different cell types to form a new transplantable tissue. Using a porous plastic material as the scaffold for the new tissue, the scientists seeded the scaffold with mouse islets, tiny blood vessel cells taken from human umbilical veins, and human foreskin cells that encouraged the blood vessels to develop a tube-like structure.

"The advantages provided by this type of environment are really profound," said Xunrong Luo, an islet transplantation specialist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She noted that the number of islets used to lower blood sugar levels in the mice was nearly half the number used in a typical islet transplant.

Islets grown in these rich, multicellular environments lived three times as long on average as islets grown by themselves, Levenberg and colleagues found.

The technology "is still far from tests in humans," Levenberg said, but she noted that she and her colleagues are beginning to test the 3-D tissue scaffolds using human instead of mouse islets.

According to Northwestern's Luo, the 3-D model demonstrated in the study "will have important and rapid clinical implications" if the same results can be replicated with human cells. "This model system also provides a good platform to study the details and mechanisms that underlie successful transplantation."

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The Plutus Awards, awards for the best of personal finance, are back for year three. You can vote for your favorite personal finance blogs, and if you?re in the personal finance blogosphere you can vote for your favorite credit cards, checking accounts, and more.

As a member of the Awards Panel I?m helping choose finalists and eventually the winners for the Plutus Awards which will be handed out at the Financial Bloggers? Conference in early September.

While I would love your vote I encourage you to take a few minutes and vote for your favorite personal finance blogs. Not sure what to read? To get you started here are some of my favorite personal finance blogs.

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About Kelly

Kelly Whalen is the founder of The Centsible Life, a blog where motherhood and money meet. Her goal is to help readers live well on less. Kelly is a mom to 4, and loves that she can stay at home with her kids, and still pursue her passions for writing, personal finance, and social media. You can often find her on twitter and Facebook talking money and motherhood.

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FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2011 file photo, a Motorola Mobility Xoom tablet is shown at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. On Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, Google announced it is cutting about 4,000 jobs at its Motorola Mobility cellphone business and will close or consolidate about one-third of its 90 locations. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Google Inc. is making its largest round of layoffs ever as it announced plans to cut about 4,000 jobs at Motorola Mobility just three months after buying the struggling cellphone pioneer.

The move isn't surprising given years of plummeting sales at Motorola, but it signals that Google doesn't intend to drag Motorola along as a money-losing venture.

After the announcement, Google's stock rose $18.01, or 2.8 percent, to close Monday at $660.01.

The reductions represent about 20 percent of Motorola Mobility's 20,000 employees and 7 percent of Google's overall work force. Google says two-third of the job cuts will take place outside of the U.S.

Google, which has been growing for more than a decade, doesn't have a history of mass layoffs. In previous rounds of layoffs, Google at most had cut a few hundred workers.

Motorola, however, cut thousands of jobs in recent years as its cellphone division saw sales plummet. Although it pioneered the U.S. cellphone industry in the 1980s, it hasn't produced a mass-market hit since it introduced the Razr cellphone in 2004. Once the second-largest phone maker in the world, Motorola no longer ranks in the top 5.

Motorola now makes phones that run on Google's Android operating software, but rivals such as Samsung Electronics Co. have been more successful at it.

Motorola split into two in early 2011. Google snapped up Motorola Mobility, the half that makes cellphones and cable set-top boxes, for $12.4 billion. Motorola Solutions, which makes police scanners and other professional products, remains a separate company.

The Motorola deal is Google's largest acquisition ever and plunges it into the business of consumer products. It puts Google in a position of competing with the same companies it considers partners.

Google has pledged to keep the Motorola hardware business separate from its Android software division and promised to treat Motorola like an outside company. It turned to AsusTek Computer Inc. rather than its own division to make a Google-branded tablet computer called Nexus 7.

Google's chief goal in buying Motorola was to use its large patent portfolio to bolster its legal defenses.

Apple has been suing Samsung, Motorola and other makers of Android smartphones, saying they copied the iPhone. By acquiring Motorola's patents and transferring them to Android phone makers such as HTC Corp., Google can bolster their legal defenses and set them up to counter-sue Apple.

Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt wrote in a morning report, before Google's announcement, that he believes Google is limiting its ambitions for Motorola Mobility, a strategy he believes to be good for investors. Devitt expects Google to curtail Motorola to producing just a few smartphone designs per year and perhaps some tablets as well.

Before the acquisition, Motorola had been trying to turn itself around by focusing on smartphones, which have higher profit margins than regular cellphones. In the first quarter, Motorola sold 5.1 million smartphones and 3.7 million "dumb" phones. The cuts announced Monday will shift the company toward smartphones even further.

The migration toward smartphones has slowed Motorola's decline, but it has still lost money in 14 out of the past 16 quarters.

Google said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the latest cuts are intended to make the business profitable. But the company warned that investors should expect revenue to fluctuate over the next few quarters, and sales will drop before the cost savings take effect.

Severance payments will cost Google about $275 million, which will largely be charged in the current quarter. The company also expects to book an unspecified amount in restructuring charges, mostly in the quarter.

Google also said it will close or consolidate about one-third of its 90 locations.

Motorola announced in June that it would move its headquarters from the Chicago suburb of Libertyville to downtown Chicago.

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A webcam observes bears looking for a meal, "Jaws" arrives on Blu-ray, and more top picks.

By Staff / August 10, 2012

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Jaws, the sly summer shark-attack thriller that launched the modern blockbuster in 1975, arrives on Blu-ray and DVD Aug. 14. The rerelease of this modern classic coincides with multiple sightings of great whites off the coast of Massachusetts where "Jaws" was filmed ? which gives the home theater experience that little extra zing of realism.

Before Downton, the Forsytes

For fans of the inimitable "Masterpiece Theatre" classic The Forsyte Saga, now the updated version that ran in two separate miniseries in 2003-04 is coming out in a five-disc box set Aug. 14. This is one of the top-rated stories ever on PBS, ranking No. 2 in a poll that spans 35 years of programming. The series stars Damian Lewis as the scion of the Forsyte family as it crosses three generations, leaving behind Victorian England and moving into the modern age.

Bear-watching from a safe distance

Like your Internet animals a little bigger than cats? The website ?Explore, which has video, live cams, and photos from all over the world, has set up a live feed showing brown bears at the Brooks River in Katmai National Park in Alaska, where more than a hundred bears feed on salmon each year. Check it out at http://bit.ly/bearscam.

A fab collection

It's hard to imagine a collection of Beatles' songs unworthy of our attention, but whatever motivated EMI to assemble 15 of their rockingest tracks into a new iTunes package called Tomorrow Never Knows ? they did good! Familiar songs "Revolution" and "Back in the USSR" are included, as well as underrated gems such as "Hey Bulldog," and the centerpiece, Revolver's "Tomorrow Never Knows." One can debate the necessity of yet another Fab Four compilation, but $7.99 is pretty cheap for some of the greatest pop music ever made.

Untold stories

Reporters know all too well that there are plenty of great anecdotes that don't make the final cut because they didn't fit the scope of a story. The weekly Internet podcast Blank on Blank revives these lost stories. It petitions journalists to send in old tapes of interviews with famous people, then edits them into short stories, such as Caroll Spinney telling how he came up with Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch from "Sesame Street." Available on iTunes or at blankonblank.org.

Farm girl

You can take the girl out of the farm, but in the case of Wisconsin teen D.J. Schwenk, you won't want to once you get to know the feisty, funny, and ultimately heroic protagonist of the Dairy Queen trilogy, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Stuck all summer laboring on the family dairy farm on Friday nights, D.J. finally decides it's time to put all her hard work to good use ? as a linebacker on the boys' football team! Murdock's charming coming-of-age series consists of three titles: "Dairy Queen," "Off Season," and "Front and Center."

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Rep. Paul Ryan says he will only release two years of his tax returns ? the same amount Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has agreed to release.

Romney's running mate says voters are concerned about the economy, not tax returns. He says the focus on the candidates' tax returns is a distraction from President Barack Obama's record.

Ryan tells CBS' "60 Minutes" that he and Romney will focus on what it takes to turn the country around.

Romney has been criticized for refusing to turn over more tax returns. Romney has released one year so far and vowed to release this year's returns when they are ready.

A Romney adviser says Ryan gave the campaign "several" years of tax returns when he was being vetted, but wouldn't specify how many.

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