Best Parenting Tweets: What Moms And Dads Said On Twitter This Week

It finally happened. After weeks of shopping and decorating and cooking and wrapping, Christmas came and went, leaving only a trail of new toys in its wake -- and parents on Twitter grappling with the aftermath. Kristen Chase summed up the phenomenon of doting nanas and papas gifting toys that kids like and parents hate, tweeting: "'Oh look, no 'off' button and it takes 400 watch batteries, PERFECT!' -All Grandparents everywhere." And Tanis Miller warned of the dangers of asking kids to name their favorite presents, explaining, "You'll taste the bitterness of defeat when you realize it wasn't a gift you bought." Oof.

Of course, with the kids home from school (surrounded by treats aplenty), moms and dads had much to say on Twitter about all aspects of parenting. From musings on the micro-management of art projects to how many gadgets are required to get through one flight, here are this week's most entertaining parenting tweets.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/29/best-parenting-tweets_n_2382623.html

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Two Republican senators and a congressman questioned the purchase of a Chinese company of the bankrupt battery manufacturer A123 System. Wanxiang Group Corp. won the auction conducted under the supervision of the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The Chinese company will buy some of A123?s assets for $256.6 million.

A123?s government business was bought by Navitas Systems. US Representative Bill Huizenga said that Wanxiang?s acquisition of A123 raised some concerns even if the defense operations were sold to another entity.

Johnson Controls was expected to buy A123?s automotive unit but Wanxiang interceded and provided bankruptcy financing. The Republicans were concerned about the $249 million grant that the US Department of Energy gave to A123 in order to increase its manufacturing capacity. Now the Chinese company owns the capacity.

Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and John Thune of South Dakota repeated their concerns they have raised before. Thune called President Barack Obama?s energy policy a win-win for China and lose-lose situation for the taxpayers.

Of the $249 million grant, $133 million was already forwarded to A123. The remaining balance would not be given to Wanxiang, even if it manages to clear the final obstacles in acquiring the batter company. The money was used on facilities and equipment to be used in the United States and the government expects those assets to remain in Michigan and anywhere else in the country.

According to Energy Department spokesman Bill Gibbons, the department worked through the bankruptcy process to make sure that the equipment and plants that were partially paid for by the Recovery Act would stay in Michigan and give American workers more job opportunities.

It has been reported that a court hearing to grant approval for the sale is set for Tuesday. The Committee for Foreign Investment in the US will also review the Wanxiang deal.

Source: http://www.paydayloansmag.com/republican-lawmakers-question-wanxiang-group-purchase-of-a123-systems/

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DNA study finds many genetic mutations are rare and recent

Human DNA contains myriad individual differences that influence a host of traits, be they eye color or the ability to digest milk. Now a study shows that most of those tiny genetic variations are rare ? and they arose in the very recent history of our species.

Joshua Akey, a geneticist at the University of Washington in Seattle, led a consortium of scientists who examined the DNA of 4,298 European Americans and 2,217 African Americans. Limiting their analysis to the parts of the genome that contain instructions for making proteins, the study authors found more than 1 million sites where the building blocks of DNA ? the nucleotides known by the letters A, C, G and T ? varied in at least one of the subjects.

Most of those individual variants were rare, with each one found in fewer than 0.5% of the people in the sample. In nearly half of the cases of mutations, each variant was detected in only one person, according to their report last month in the journal Nature.

This meant that the genetic changes must have cropped up very recently, because otherwise there would have been ample time for them to spread through generations of people and show up in many more of the study participants, the authors said.

The scientists were even able to estimate the age of variations based on how rare or common they were ? and found that about 73% of the mutations had occurred in the last 5,000 to 10,000 years.

The percentage of rare ? and therefore recent ? mutations was greater in European Americans than African Americans, the team reported. That fits with the history of Homo sapiens: The ancestors of Europeans went through explosive population growth when they left their homeland in Africa tens of thousands of years ago.

The scientists also tried to gauge the likelihood that these mutations would influence someone's risk for disease and other traits. If a gene region had exactly the same structure in humans, apes and other vertebrates, they reasoned, it must be important; any changes there would thus be more likely to harm. So would any mutation that would alter the properties of a protein.

These mutations were even more likely to be recent: Fully 86% of them arose within the last 5,000 to 10,000 years.

It's not really surprising that the more-likely-to-be-harmful mutations would be rare and recent, Akey said. Any mutation that was truly toxic would quickly be weeded out from a population, and even those that were merely damaging would reduce a person's chances of passing on their genes, so they would disappear eventually too.

The results give a sense of just how quickly the human population has expanded in the last 10,000 years ? and how that has affected our genetic makeup, said Shamil Sunyaev, a computational geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who wasn't involved in the study. Without that population explosion, there would have been fewer chances for mutations to occur and the proportion of recent mutations would not have been so high.

There is a practical lesson as well, Akey added. In recent years, medical researchers have been working hard to find patterns of common genetic mutations that are linked to common diseases. Maybe they need to focus more attention on the rare mutations instead, he said.

The study is "really the first to get at this in a fashion you'd like to see ? with large data sets and lots and lots of people," said Stanford University geneticist Michael Snyder, who wasn't involved in the study.

Snyder added that you can see such mutations accruing in recent studies that have shown, in families with autistic children, for example, that many affected children carry brand-new DNA changes that arose spontaneously in a parent.

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Prostate Cancer UK & UK Cycling Events Join Forces - Sportive Scene

Posted Monday 26th November 2012 -

Prostate Cancer UK has today (Monday 26th November) launched its partnership with national event organiser, UK Cycling Events, becoming its official charity partner for 2013. Prostate Cancer UK will benefit from the Wiggle Super Series 2013, which is organised by UK Cycling Events, and consists of 35 events around the UK. Cyclists taking part in these events will be encouraged to raise funds to help tackle the most common cancer in men.

With over 30,000 riders taking part in the Wiggle Super Series this year, and participant numbers expected to rise in 2013, the partnership is set to raise both awareness of the disease and funds for Prostate Cancer UK through sponsorship. Prostate Cancer UK is also aiming to recruit over 4000 cyclists to its existing army of supporters within the charity?s cycling team.

Mark Bishop, Director of Fundraising at Prostate Cancer UK, said: ?We are incredibly excited to be teaming up with the biggest cycling event organiser in the UK. The partnership will provide an opportunity to raise essential funds that will help us support more men with prostate cancer, provide vital information and find answers by funding research into causes and treatments.

?It is also a fantastic opportunity to engage with new supporters and raise awareness of the most common cancer in men, a disease which kills 10,000 every year in the UK. That?s one man every hour.?

Martin Barden, Director of UK Cycling Events, said: ?We are delighted to be supporting Prostate Cancer UK in 2013. This fantastic charity is highly relevant in cycling, and we hope riders will use our events and the challenge they provide to fundraise vital funds?.

The first event in the 2013 Wiggle Super Series is the Wiggle Southern Rough Ride on the 3rd of March.

For more information on how to get involved visit www.ukcyclingevents.co.uk

Source: http://www.sportivescene.co.uk/prostate-cancer-uk-uk-cycling-events-join-forces/

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Uzbek court overturns ruling to seize MTS assets

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) ? Russia's largest mobile telecommunications company said Friday that a court in Uzbekistan has reversed a September ruling to seize assets belonging to its subsidiary in the Central Asian nation but also slapped it with a fine.

MTS said in an emailed statement that an appeals court in the capital, Tashkent, imposed a $600 million penalty to compensate for alleged tax evasion and embezzlement at the Moscow-based company's subsidiary, Uzdunrobita.

Uzdunrobita, which operates under the brand name MTS Uzbekistan, had suspended operations in mid-July at the request of Uzbek authorities, denying service to around 9.5 million customers, around two-fifths of the entire population.

The high-profile case has threated to derail attempts by Uzbekistan to attract international investors to the ex-Soviet nation, which has seen multiple state-led seizures of private businesses.

MTS said the Tashkent City Court appeals board ordered Thursday that it pay the $600 million penalty over eight months.

"We are satisfied that MTS's position was heard during the judicial process and that the company's demands have in part been met," MTS chief executive Andrei Dubovskov said in the statement.

Tashkent Criminal Court's order in September to confiscate Uzdunrobita's assets came in conjunction with the sentencing of four company managers to 2 ? in jail for embezzlement.

MTS said the verdict against the Uzdunrobita managers remains in force.

MTS says it has invested around $1.1 billion into its Uzbek business since buying a 74 percent stake in Uzdunrobita in 2004. It acquired the remaining stake in successive years.

Uzdunrobita was formerly owned by Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov.

Karimova sold the company to MTS in 2004 at what market watchers said was an above-market price.

Former Uzdunrobita business partner, Sanjar Umarov, has claimed Karimova pushed him out of the company.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uzbek-court-overturns-ruling-seize-mts-assets-074002984--finance.html

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Stock index futures signal flat to higher open

PARIS (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a flat to higher open on Wall Street on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.15 percent, Dow Jones futures flat and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.29 percent at 1000 GMT.

World stocks were on course for their worst weekly performance since June on Friday as concerns over the U.S. fiscal cliff and the outlook for Europe hit sentiment.

Groupon will be in focus after the group's results again fell short of Wall Street's already-cautious expectations as the daily deal company failed to turn around a struggling European business, sending its shares to a record low.

Activist investor Carl Icahn said on Thursday he has considered a hostile takeover bid for Netflix but was uncertain he stood a chance of acquiring the Internet streaming service in which he holds a 10 percent stake.

Mexico's top cement maker Cemex said on Thursday that it was pleased with the way its U.S. business was evolving but acknowledged it is still far from fully recovering.

Energizer Holdings Inc said on Thursday that it would cut more than 10 percent of its workforce, or about 1,500 people.

Boeing Co reported it has bagged more than 1,000 net new orders so far this year, putting the U.S. planemaker on course to sell more aircraft than European rival Airbus for the first time since 2006.

Career Education Corp will close 23 campuses and cut 900 jobs amid losses and falling student enrollments that also threaten to affect its financial position.

TSMC , the world's biggest contract chip maker, said on Friday that sales in October rose 32.3 percent from a year earlier to a record high.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc said it is evaluating its future, confirming a report that the healthcare technology firm may sell itself, sending its shares up 7 percent.

Merrill Lynch, part of Bank of America Corp , on Thursday lost its bid to dismiss a federal regulator's lawsuit accusing it of misleading Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into buying billions of dollars of risky mortgage debt.

Nvidia forecast revenue below expectations due to a slowdown in tablet-processor shipments and a troubled PC market but shares of the graphics chipmaker rose on the announcement of a quarterly dividend.

Rare earth producer Molycorp Inc reported a third-quarter loss on Thursday, as lower rare earth prices and higher production costs outweighed a boost in output.

Chrysler Group LLC's minority owner is expected to lay out its argument on Monday in a legal dispute over the price Italian carmaker Fiat will pay for the first of several incremental stakes in the U.S. carmaker.

Russia's second-largest crude producer, LUKOIL , said on Friday it will study an offer from Exxon regarding Iraq's West Qurna-1 oilfield, which the U.S. major wants to leave, Interfax news agency reported.

President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress must urgently confront the country's looming year-end "fiscal cliff," a senior Federal Reserve policy-maker said on Thursday. "This could cause tremendous damage to the U.S. economy if it is not addressed in an appropriate way," St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard told reporters.

The International Monetary Fund on Thursday urged the United States to quickly reach an agreement on a permanent fix to avoid automatic tax hikes and spending cuts early next year, saying a stop-gap solution could be harmful to the global economy.

On the macro front, investors awaited the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's preliminary November consumer sentiment index, due at 1455 GMT, expected to show a reading of 83.0 compared with 82.6 in the final October report.

Investors will also keep an eye on wholesale inventories for September, due at 1500 GMT.

U.S. stocks fell on Thursday and could be in line for more weakness as worries about Washington's ability to find a timely solution to the "fiscal cliff" dominate investor thinking in coming weeks.

The Dow Jones industrial average <.dji> lost 121.41 points, or 0.94 percent, to end at 12,811.32. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.spx> fell 17.02 points, or 1.22 percent, to 1,377.51, ending at its lowest level since August 2. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.ixic> dropped 41.70 points, or 1.42 percent, to close at 2,895.58.

(Reporting by Blaise Robinson)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stock-index-futures-signal-flat-higher-open-101252143--finance.html

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sapreerisingbluemoon: Abundance:A Myth Or Real.

A call to blossom is true desire.The real work of life, getting to know who we are most deeply so that your desires come from the truth within and when? we act on desire, we act from self. Its called the "Wanting Mind".Free Will is choosing to act on them or not. Through it all and in the end. We are a center of pure consciousness and will. Freed of our story-line and ols script messages and ready tio choose. Getting to know myself by transforming myselfand knowing myself deeply.I choose to act on that desire or not.

Because only I will know what is truly best for me. An,you will know what's best for you.Here are two links on abundance you might want to check out on abundance website:http://www.ezinezrticles.com/self-improvement:abundance-prosperity.

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Google?s Nexus 10 is $100 less than the iPad and has some advantages

For one thing, as reviewer Larry Magid notes in Forbes, the Nexus 10 is lighter, a bit thinner and even has a higher resolution display than the iPad?s vaunted Retina display.

And at a starting price of $399 for the 16GB model, the Nexus 10 is priced $100 less than the equivalent iPad. (The older iPad 2 is also priced at $399).

Tablet apps? Google recently announced its Google Play online store now boasts over 700,000 apps, but it doesn't break out those specifically designed for tablets and most of them were written for smartphones. With over 275,000 apps written specifically for the iPad, Apple's tablet beats the Nexus handily.?

But as Magid correctly points out, the number of apps is only important if you can?t find the apps you want or need.?

While Apple?s been developing iOS longer than Google?s been working on Android, Magid says there?s an argument to be made the latest Jelly Bean version of Android (4.2) that drives the Nexus 10 is on par with iOS 6. ?

One clear edge that goes to the iPad, Google has yet to release a Nexus 10 with optional cellular connectivity (it?s Wi-Fi only), while Apple offers Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi with optional cellular models.?

Source: http://tabtimes.com/review/ittech-os-android/2012/11/02/google-nexus-10-100-less-ipad-and-has-some-advantages

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EKNL ? Mega successful conference leading towards MAJOR ...

EKNL?s first major medical conference is now in the books and we anticipate MAJOR contracts to be unleashed this week that will no doubt be monsters.

EKNL?met with key groups at the 13th annual Medical Conference in London, ON this weekend and the event has been xtremely successful. EKNL?s FDA approved FREMS technology to treat Neuopathy, was definitely a show stopper.

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Dr. Ziemer, Director and Dr. Snow of Neurometrix, a NASDAQ Listed company (NURO) provided an exclusive hands on demonstration of their testing unit NC-Stat DPN devices which are now in over 100 Walmart stores. We expect these units to be in many more Walmart stores and even other retail outlets. The referrals for FREMS patients from these test devices will be HUGE and add significant $$ to EKNL?s bottom line.

We are on HIGH news watch for Major Contracts this week as indicated by EKNL

NCI will be providing demonstrations to a number of parties who have expressed serious interest in FREMS and are attending to finalize purchasing arrangements.

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EKNL is primed for a MAJOR breakout run and we got an early indication on Friday with EKNL reaching a new all time high price of $0.775. With major contracts on the way, share buy back, and uplisting to higher board like NASDAQ ? our near term target on EKNL of $2 per share is close at hand and investors scooping super valued shares here stand to make MONSTER gains!

EKNL?s Technical indicators are showing ?super bullish? with barchart.com showing a ?Strong? Buy opinion and no doubt we will be breaking record after record this week when the sales contracts start flying out of the company.

EKNL recent market shattering updates give HUGE valuation and potential to the company?

?BUT, IT?IS?WHAT?S STILL TO?BE?UNLEASHED?BY?EKNL THAT?WILL?NOT?ONLY?BE?MIND ?BLOWING? IT?WILL?PROPEL?EKNL?PRICES??SKY HIGH? AND?INTO?RECORD?TERRITORY

With an active float of only 5.5 Million shares and insiders not selling a single share, share inventory continues to dry up super quick making EKNL prices to move fast and furious towards higher levels.

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Gene that's usually bad news loses its punch if you live to your 90s

ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2012) ? A gene linked to the risk of developing Alzheimer's, heart disease and diabetes becomes less important to quality of life once people hit their 90s, a Mayo Clinic study shows. At that point, good friends and a positive attitude have a bigger impact, the researchers say.

The findings are published this month in the Journal of American Medical Directors Association.

Researchers used the National Institutes of Health-supported Rochester Epidemiology Project, a database of patient records in Olmsted County, Minn., to find people ages 90 to 99 living on their own or in long-term care. The 121 participants completed an interview, a physical exam and a quality-of-life questionnaire. Participants were divided into groups based on their cognitive function, to sort out the effects of age and disease on well-being, and blood samples were taken for genotyping.

Researchers discovered that those who carried the gene in question, known as ApoE4, were no worse off than others in the study.

"We found if people had good physical, intellectual, and emotional well-being, more social connectedness, and if they perceived themselves to have better coping skills, they felt they had better quality of life," says co-author Maria Lapid, M.D., a Mayo Clinic psychiatrist.

"The study shows that the ApoE4 genotype doesn't determine what your quality of life will be, and that, regardless of your gender, environmental factors play a significant role in your physical, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being," she says. "You can have good quality of life regardless of this gene."

The median age of those studied was 93; 87 percent were women. Those reporting poorer quality of life tended to be men, for reasons that are unclear, and people who experienced pain.

The Alzheimer's Association, National Institute on Aging, and Robert H. and Clarice Smith and Abigail Van Buren Alzheimer's Disease Research Program of the Mayo Foundation funded the study.

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Japan Newspaper: Radiation levels rising every month since decontamination in Fukushima district ? Gov?t won?t help or even respond ? ?Are they forcing us to tolerate high radiation??

Title: One year on, Fukushima still fights uphill battle to decontaminate farming district
Source: Mainichi Japan
Date: Oct. 18, 2012
h/t Fukushima Diary

[...] The residents of the Onami district are frustrated with the government?s inaction, with one of them saying, ?Are they forcing us to tolerate high radiation doses??

[...] because the district is not in a government-designated evacuation zone, there is no government support for local residents.

[...] The Fukushima Municipal Government believes that the high radiation doses have gathered in street gutters as a result of ?soil re-deposition? in which radioactive substances were pushed down by rains and winds.

The Fukushima Municipal Government asked the Ministry of the Environment to conduct the second round of decontamination in spring this year, but there has been no reply so far. An official of the Fukushima Municipal Government said, ?Because it is so costly, they may be waiting for the radiation levels to go down naturally without conducting decontamination.?

First example given by Mainichi

A 68-year-old woman in the district has been measuring radiation levels [...] her home was decontaminated in April this year, the level of radiation was 226 microsieverts per month, but it rose to 238 microsieverts in June, 246 microsieverts in July and 251 microsieverts in August.

Second example given by Mainichi

The radiation dose neighborhood association chief Toshihiko Kurihara, 71, measured in a street gutter near his house dropped to the 2-microsievert-per-hour level after the first round of decontamination in March this year from the 9-microsievert-per-hour level registered before the decontamination. However, the radiation level there stood at 10.36 microsieverts per hour in August. ?It starts rising in a matter of time after decontamination,? he said with a sigh.

Source: http://enenews.com/mainichi-radiation-levels-rising-every-month-since-decontamination-in-fukushima-district-govt-wont-help-or-even-respond-are-they-forcing-us-to-tolerate-high-radiation

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Schieffer ends final debate with advice: go vote

Moderator Bob Schieffer, center, watches as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, left and President Barack Obama wave to members of the audience during the third presidential debate at Lynn University, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Moderator Bob Schieffer, center, watches as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, left and President Barack Obama wave to members of the audience during the third presidential debate at Lynn University, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Bob Schieffer took a light hand Monday as moderator of the final presidential debate, ending with advice from his mother: "Go vote. It makes you feel big and strong."

Schieffer generally kept his questions to President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney direct, touching on the Middle East, China, the war in Afghanistan and the threat of a nuclear Iran in a debate scheduled to focus on international issues.

At one point he told the two men, "Let me get back to foreign policy" when the subject veered into a squabble on education reform, cutting Romney off as he tried to prolong the topic.

It was the third presidential debate, with PBS' Jim Lehrer and CNN's Candy Crowley moderating the first two. ABC's Martha Raddatz was in control of the debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan. With social media allowing millions of viewers an instant opportunity to be critics, the role of moderator was heavily scrutinized.

Schieffer, the "Face the Nation" host who was moderating his third presidential debate, gave the two men wide latitude to carry the conversation, even when they tried to talk over one another.

How that played out in the public depended on the taste of the viewer, as seen by two messages that popped up back-to-back on Twitter: "Little known fact. Moderator Bob Schieffer left the room 18 minutes ago," one wag wrote.

But it was followed quickly by another person who thought Schieffer "did a pretty good job of asking mostly decent questions and then getting out of the way. Debate's not about him."

Schieffer's competitor, NBC's "Meet the Press" host David Gregory, tweeted a "tip of the cap" to Schieffer. "Very well done," he said.

Schieffer asked the two men, "What is America's role in the world?" and asked Romney what he felt about the drone strikes that have been the hallmark of Obama's fight against terrorists. He asked whether each candidate would consider an attack on Israel to be an attack on the United States.

When Schieffer asked what each candidate would do if he got a phone call saying Israel was on its way to attack Iran, Romney batted it down as too hypothetical, and Obama didn't address it. Similarly, neither man bit on another hypothetical question of what he would do if Afghanistan forces proved unable to handle the country's security at the time the United States was looking to leave in 2014.

Schieffer segued from another Romney talk about education into the debate's wrap-up statements with a line that quickly drew social media attention: "I think we all love teachers."

Schieffer did have one gaffe, referring to the former al-Qaida head as "Obama's bin Laden."

In a sign of his evenhandedness, Schieffer escaped widespread social media criticism suggesting he was leaning any way politically. Earlier Monday, the conservative Media Research Center warned it would be watching him closely, noting it had documented several times when Schieffer supposedly leaned left.

But after the debate, MRC founder Brent Bozell said: "Schieffer managed to moderate this debate without revealing his own positions. Well done."

Associated Press

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Give an artist the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, and he makes magic with the S Pen

The artist is Gérémy Arène. His tools are the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 with the S Pen, and the Sketchbook Mobile app. The result is amazing. 

I tried to say it before when we first saw the Galaxy Note 10.1. These are more than Android phones or tablets. The S Pen and Wacom digitizer makes them a real appliance. Gérémy says it better in this 10-minute video than I ever could.

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Syrian rebels seize border crossing with Turkey

In this image taken from video obtained Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Free Syrian Army soldiers seize Ain al-Arous town in Raqqa, Syria, on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

In this image taken from video obtained Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Free Syrian Army soldiers seize Ain al-Arous town in Raqqa, Syria, on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, left, meets with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. The portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad is seen top center.(AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

In this image taken from video obtained Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Free Syrian Army soldiers sit at a check point in Ain al-Arous town in Raqqa, Syria on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

In this image taken from video obtained Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Free Syrian Army soldiers sit at a check point in Ain al-Arous town in Raqqa, Syria, on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, center left, meets with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem, center right, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. The portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad is seen top center.(AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) ? Syrian rebels seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey on Wednesday, ripping down the Syrian flag as the rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Assad expand their control of the country's north.

Assad, meanwhile, told Iran's visiting foreign minister that the fight against his government "targets resistance as a whole, not only Syria," an apparent reference to countries and groups opposed to Israel's existence. The "axis of resistance" includes Syria and Iran, along with the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group in Lebanon and the Palestinian militant Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The Iranian visitor, Ali Akbar Salehi, arrived in Syria after a visit to Cairo as part of an Egyptian-sponsored Syria peace initiative grouping Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt ? all supporters of the rebels ? with Iran.

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi warned Iran on Tuesday that its support for the Syrian regime was hurting chances of better relations between Iran and Egypt. The promise of greater rapprochement with Egypt is part of a package of incentives and efforts by Morsi to lure Iran, Syria's staunchest regional ally, away from Damascus and find an end to the bloodshed.

After meeting with Assad on Wednesday, the Iranian foreign minister pledged his country's "unwavering support" to Syria to end the fighting, according to the Syrian state news agency SANA. Although 18 months of bloodshed prompted international sanctions that have isolated Assad's government, the regime still has the support of Russia, Iran and China.

Assad, in turn, said "the success of any initiative is the truthful intention to help Syria," SANA said. It quoted Assad as saying that the "current battle targets resistance as a whole not only Syria." Syria is Iran's key ally in the Arab world, and a collapse of the Assad regime would be a major blow to attempts by Shiite-run Iran to expand its influence in the region.

In Washington, the Obama administration identified 117 Iranian aircraft it said are ferrying weapons to the Syrian regime. The planes operated by Iran Air, Mahan Air and Yas Air are delivering weapons and Iranian forces under the cover of "humanitarian" shipments, the Treasury Department said.

The airlines are already subject to U.S. sanctions: Americans cannot do business with them and any assets they have in the U.S. are frozen. But the U.S. is now listing planes individually, partly to pressure Iraq to crack down on Iranian weapons shipments to Syria via Iraqi airspace.

Baghdad insists it will not allow its airspace for arms shipments from Iran to Syria. Earlier this month, the Iraqi government said Iran had assured it that the flights to Syria were delivering only humanitarian aid, and called on the United States to prove otherwise.

The conflict in Syria began with peaceful protests that were attacked by government security forces and has since evolved into a civil war. Activists say at least 23,000 people have been killed. Rebel factions have also been accused of summary executions and other abuses.

In recent weeks, Syria's military has stepped up air attacks on rebel-held areas, but has failed to drive opposition fighters out of territories they have seized, particularly in Syria's north, near the border with Turkey.

Wednesday's capture of a border crossing with Turkey was a strategic boost for the rebels, allowing them to ferry supplies into the country as the fighters try to tip the balance in the civil war.

Syria's rebels have captured several other crossings into Turkey, as well as one on the border with Iraq. The seizure on Wednesday is believed to be the first time they have overrun a frontier post in the northern province of Raqqa, which could help in the fight for control of Aleppo, Syria's largest city, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) away.

"I am a free Syrian!" Zisha Bargash shouted, throwing his hands in the air as he watched the takeover from the Turkish side. "This is the beginning of the end Assad. Game over."

Bargash was among a dozen people ? some jubilant, some wounded ? who managed to crawl under a barbed wire barrier between the countries. Some replaced the national flag with a rebel banner, sparking loud cheers and applause.

Turkish officials cordoned off the area on the Turkish side of the border, and police prevented a crowd of people from trying to storm the area and cross into Syria.

Rebel fighter Sheikh Ahmed said rebels would push back against any Syrian army attempts to retake the crossing. "We're staying here no matter what," Ahmed said, speaking on the Syrian side of the border. "We are free."

Although the rebels appeared firmly in control of the crossing, scattered gunfire was heard on the Syrian side and a government flag was flying in the distance, suggesting government forces were not far away.

The takeover of the Tal Abyad crossing came after a day of fierce clashes as rebels and regime forces fought for its control.

Civilians fleeing the violence reported that several people were killed in the fighting around Tal Abyad, the private Turkish news agency Dogan reported. Several others were wounded in the battles and were taken to Turkey for treatment, the report said without giving specific numbers.

The conflict in Syria has sent refugees pouring into neighboring countries. Some 83,000 refugees have found shelter in 12 camps along the Turkish border with Syria.

In other developments, two bombs exploded Wednesday in a Damascus suburb, causing civilian casualties, according to SANA. The first blast went off near a secondary school in the Damascus suburb of Qudsayya, followed by a second explosion about 200 meters (yards) away, SANA said. The agency said school students were not among those hurt but had no further details.

Syrian opposition groups said at least 75 Syrian civilians were killed in fighting on Wednesday, with heavy casualties reported in and around Damascus and in Aleppo, Syria's largest city. There has been a spike in casualties since the Assad regime stepped up airstrikes over the summer, with Syrian activists saying nearly 5,000 people were killed in August, the highest monthly total since the crisis began in March 2011. Activists' reports of casualties cannot independently be confirmed.

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Associated Press writer Albert Aji in Damascus contributed to this report.

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Preemies' brains reap long-term benefits from Kangaroo Mother Care

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) ? Kangaroo Mother Care -- a technique in which a breastfed premature infant remains in skin-to-skin contact with the parent's chest rather than being placed in an incubator -- has lasting positive impact on brain development, revealed Universit? Laval researchers in the October issue of Acta Paediatrica. Very premature infants who benefited from this technique had better brain functioning in adolescence -- comparable to that of adolescents born at term -- than did premature infants placed in incubators.

Earlier research showed that infants born prior to the 33rd week of pregnancy experienced more cognitive and behavioral problems during childhood and adolescence. Universit? Laval researchers Cyril Schneider and R?jean Tessier, of the Department of Rehabilitation in the Faculty of Medicine and of the School of Psychology, respectively, and their Colombian colleagues Nathalie Charpak (Kangaroo Foundation) and Juan Ruiz-Pel?ez (Universidad Javeriana) wanted to determine if Kangaroo Mother Care could prevent these problems. To that end they compared, at age 15, 18 premature infants kept in incubators, 21 premature infants held in Kangaroo contact for an average of 29 days, and 9 term infants.

To assess participants' brain functions, the researchers used transcranial magnetic stimulation. With this non-invasive and painless technique they could activate brain cells in targeted areas, namely the primary motor cortex that controls muscles. By measuring muscle responses to the stimulation, they were able to assess brain functions such as the level of brain excitability and inhibition, cell synchronization, neural conduction speed, and coordination between the two cerebral hemispheres.

The data collected by the researchers indicate that all brain functions of the adolescent Kangaroo group were comparable to those of the term infant group. On the other hand, premature infants placed in incubators significantly deviated from the other two groups 15 years after their birth.

"Thanks to Kangaroo Mother Care, infants benefited from nervous system stimulation -- the sound of the parent's heart and the warmth of their body -- during a critical period for the development of neural connections between the cerebral hemispheres. This promoted immediate and future brain development," suggests neurophysiologist Cyril Schneider.

Psychology researcher R?jean Tessier notes that "infants in incubators also receive a lot of stimulation, but often the stimulation is too intense and stressful for the brain capacity of the very premature. The Kangaroo Mother Care reproduces the natural conditions of the intrauterine environment in which the infants would have developed had they not been born premature. These beneficial effects on the brain are in evidence at least until adolescence and perhaps beyond."

The two researchers, who are also associated with the Centre de recherche du CHU de Qu?bec, will have the opportunity to shed more light on this subject. The Government of Canada, through its Grand Challenges Canada program, Saving Brains, just awarded their research team a $1 million grant to measure the neurological, cognitive, and psychosocial benefits of Kangaroo Mother Care in a group of 400 young adults, aged 18 to 20, who were born premature.

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The Universe in a French Restaurant by Charles Mudede - Seattle ...

September 18, 2012

Food & Drink

by?Charles Mudede

Matthew Toles

A VIEW OF THE CITY From Hamed Elnazir and Pascale Brochier.

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Hamed Elnazir and Pascale Brochier.

Twenty years ago, Hamed Elnazir was in the north of one of the poorest countries in the world, Sudan, coordinating food drops from United Nations planes. Today, he is the chef/owner of a charming French restaurant in the tranquil, leafy, and perfectly middle-class neighborhood of Mount Baker. In the morning, he walks his big dog and reads the papers; in the evening, he prepares dishes that are basically Gallic, but occasionally brightened by North African spices. Hamed speaks three languages?Arabic, French, and English?and holds the opinion that French is much harder than English (his wife agrees: "It's so difficult to speak proper French"). Educated in Alexandria (he holds a degree in communications), Hamed has the face of a scholar, a man whose life has been spent extracting bits of meaning from ancient, dead, and dusty texts. He and his wife, Pascale Brochier, opened A La Bonne Franquette last summer.

Pascale is French. Hamed first met her 20 years ago in Kenya. She was the friend of a friend. He was still employed by the UN, this time doing airlift logistics for Somalia, and she was employed by a major bank in Nairobi ("The British whites called it 'Naa-rob-me,'" says Hamed with a smile). They married in 1996. For a moment, they lived in Lagos, a city that did not leave a favorable impression on them ("Those three years were hard, even for Pascale, and she loves Africa," says Hamed). For a moment, they lived in New York, during which time Hamed attended cooking school. For a moment, they lived in the UK?it was cold and rainy. At this moment, they live in Seattle.

What brought them to this isolated corner of the United States? "The universe did," says Pascale. "It was a bank," explains Hamed. The financial papers and journals call the universe of banks and corporations the global economy: a system of interconnected commercial circuits through which flows money and, to a lesser degree, people. "We had no plans to come here. It just happened that way," says Hamed. He and Pascale are not citizens of a country, but inhabitants of a borderless, post-national world market.

Hamed's in-laws live in France, his mother lives in Sudan, one of his sisters lives in Virginia, and another lives in Cairo. As he stands talking to me (arms crossed, apron white and spotless), the feeling I get from his voice is of the joy an American tourist must feel when, after being lost in a strange and dangerously poor African or Arab city, they meet a man who not only speaks English but also knows the ropes well enough to calmly guide them out of the nightmare and back to their hotel, back to safety. Before I can ask Hamed to recommend a dish, he has to attend to the kitchen, which has become busy. I turn to his wife and ask for a recommendation. "You are an African. You like meat. Order the lamb shank. That will satisfy you." It's true: I love meat, and I'm an African. I order the lamb shank.

I also order a glass of C?tes du Rh?ne. Halfway into the glass, a large plate arrives with a chunk of meat in a pond of sauce that's banked by grilled vegetables?carrots, potatoes, peas. The meat is perfectly cooked, but the sauce surprises me a little. French restaurants usually serve this dish in a rich, thick, and dark brown sauce. In this case, the sauce is light brown and more spicy than rich. The surprise is not at all bad, and the wine provides each bite with a deep finish. Next to me is the city of Seattle?its buildings, hills, homes dramatically viewed from the window beside the bar. The sun has just set on Beacon Hill, and skyscrapers to the north are reflecting its remaining and beautifully polluted light. The disk of the Space Needle is flying low. The traffic on I-90 is flowing easily. A sparkling stream of silver planes falls from the sky. New people are arriving every minute. Seattle is growing.

"How did you find this place?" I ask Pascale, who is refilling my wine glass. "It was the universe. I'm not kidding," she says. "The universe led us to this place. You know, we live down the road from here. And the number of our house is close to the number of this place, which used to be an office space or something like that. Well, often the mailman got confused and put the mail for this place at our home, and instead of returning the mail to the post office, Hamed would take the dog for a walk and drop it off at the correct number. Well, one day, while dropping the mail, he saw the owner showing the space to people, and he thought, it's a perfect location for a restaurant he wanted to open. The rest is history. But you can see it all has to do with numbers, and the universe is all about numbers. We are here because of the universe."

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Islamists attack Egypt's Sinai security headquarters

By Reuters

ISMAILIA, Egypt????Islamist militants attacked Egypt's security headquarters in northern Sinai with machineguns and mortar bombs on Sunday and fought troops elsewhere in the desert region, killing one soldier and wounding seven, security officials said.

Troops and police had swept into a village?south of Sheikh Zuwaid town, near the border with Israel, at dawn and arrested ten suspected militant leaders. They took them to the security HQ in the region's main town of al-Arish, an army spokesman said.

"In return and out of vengeance, a group of Takfiri (Islamists) began firing indiscriminately at the North Sinai HQ at 8 a.m.," the spokesman said in a televised statement.

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The militants climbed on to the roofs of buildings across from the HQ and fired rocket-propelled grenades, a security source said. Machinegun battles were fought in the streets around the building, according to witnesses.

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In Sheikh Zuwaid,?east of al-Arish, troops with about 30 armored personnel carriers backed by helicopters fought with militants.

One soldier was killed and seven soldiers suffered gun wounds in the fighting around Sheikh Zuwaid, the army spokesman said, and a woman and child were wounded in crossfire.

Egyptian forces last month began their biggest security crackdown in decades in Sinai after militants killed 16 border guards on August 5 in the deadliest attack there since Egypt's 1973 war with Israel.

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The government sent in hundreds of troops backed by tanks, armored vehicles and helicopters in a joint operation with police to raid militant hideouts, arrest suspects and seize weapons.

Disorder has spread in Sinai since former President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising last year, with Islamist militants stepping up attacks on security forces and the Israeli border. Egypt's new president, Mohamed Mursi, has vowed to restore order.

But efforts to impose central authority in the lawless desert region are complicated by the indigenous Bedouin population's ingrained hostility to the government in Cairo.

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State Dept. issues warnings in Sudan, Tunisia

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The State Department on Saturday ordered the departure of all family members and non-essential U.S. government personnel from posts in Sudan and Tunisia and is issuing travel warnings to American citizens in the two countries due to security concerns over anti-American violence.

"Given the security situation in Tunis and Khartoum, the State Department has ordered the departure of all family members and non-emergency personnel from both posts, and issued parallel travel warnings to American citizens," said Victoria Nuland, a department spokeswoman.

The department's travel warning said while Sudan's government has taken steps to limit the activities of terrorist groups, some remain there and have threatened to attack Western interests. The terrorist threat level remains critical throughout Sudan, the department said.

The State Department said the airport in Tunis was open and it encouraged all U.S. citizens to depart by commercial air. It said Americans in Tunisia should use extreme caution and avoid demonstrations.

The warnings follow a wave of protest and violence over an anti-Muslim film that has swept across the Middle East and elsewhere in recent days. An obscure, amateurish movie called "Innocence of Muslims" that depicts Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a pedophile sparked the outrage.

Friday's demonstrations spread to more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia. While most were peaceful, marches in several places exploded into violence.

In Sudan, crowds torched part of the German Embassy and tried to storm the American Embassy. Protesters climbed the walls into the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, torching cars in the parking lot, trashing the entrance building and setting fire to a gym and a neighboring American school.

The State Department travel warning came as President Barack Obama paid tribute to the four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, who were killed in an armed attack on the U.S. Consulate in the eastern Libyan city on Benghazi this week. He also denounced the anti-U.S. mob protests that followed.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/state-dept-issues-warnings-sudan-tunisia-214116844.html

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