Friday, September 28, 2012

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Hurricane Irene polluted Catskills watershed

ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) ? The water quality of lakes and coastal systems will be altered if hurricanes intensify in a warming world, according to a Yale study in Geophysical Research Letters.

Bryan Yoon, the study's co-author and a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, found that last summer during Hurricane Irene -- the worst storm in the New York area in 200 years -- record amounts of dissolved organic matter darkened Catskill waters and affected the Ashokan Reservoir that supplies New York City with drinking water.

"This is the biggest rain event ever sampled for the region," said Yoon, who conducted the study with Pete Raymond, professor of ecosystem ecology at Yale.

As a primary source of drinking water for New York City, the Catskill Mountains is designated as forest preserve, and roughly 62 percent of the watershed studied is protected by New York State. Over a two-day period in late August 2011, Irene dropped over 11 inches of rain -- 17 percent of the average annual rainfall -- on Esopus Creek that feeds the Ashokan.

Yoon found that the volume of water discharged by the creek increased 330-fold, and the creek exported an unprecedented amount of dissolved organic matter to the Ashokan, equivalent to 43 percent of its average annual export. Yoon likened the increase in dissolved organic matter to a person being fed 40 percent of his annual food in a few days.

Although not discussed as often as other water quality topics such as turbidity, dissolved organic matter plays a critical role in the aquatic environment and for the provision of clean drinking water. In moderate quantities, dissolved organic matter also provides food and nutrients for microbial communities.

In excessive amounts, however, dissolved organic matter could lead to numerous environmental problems, Yoon's study found. Dissolved organic matter binds with metal pollutants and transports them; interferes with ultraviolet processes that reduce pathogens in water; affects aquatic metabolism; and leads to the formation of carcinogenic disinfection byproducts, such as trihalomethanes during chlorination.

"All of those problems become more serious as larger quantities of dissolved organic matter are transported to lakes and coastal systems," he said. "Hurricane Irene was a prime example that there is no limit to the amount of dissolved organic matter that can be exported by extreme rain events. Surprisingly, concentrations of dissolved organic matter didn't get diluted."

Raymond said that frequent hurricanes will flush more organic matter out of the ground and into lakes, reservoirs and coastal waters, potentially altering their biogeochemical cycles.

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Google Goes to Great Depths for Watery Maps

Having already mapped Antarctica and the North Pole, Google has added panoramic images of coral reefs on Google Street View. Google gathered the materials through the Catlin Seaview Survey, a project designed to study the health of coral reefs. Scientists with the Catlin Group, based in Bermuda, used a trio of wide-angle lenses snapping 24-megapixel photos from each lens.


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Clinton reassures Egypt's Mursi on U.S. assistance

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reassured Egypt's new Islamist president on Monday that the United States would forge ahead with plans to expand economic assistance despite anti-American protests that cast new shadows over U.S. engagement with the region.

Clinton met Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in New York, where both are attending this week's U.N. General Assembly meeting, and reinforced the Obama administration's continued commitment to provide both military and economic aid for Cairo, a senior State Department official said.

"What he heard from the secretary is that she is committed to following through on what she has said we will do," the official said following the 45-minute meeting.

U.S. officials said earlier this month they were close to a deal with Egypt's new government for $1 billion in debt relief to help Cairo shore up its ailing economy in the aftermath of its pro-democracy uprising, which ousted autocratic President Hosni Mubarak.

The aid package had languished during Egypt's 18 months of political turmoil and progress appeared to reflect a cautious easing of U.S. suspicions about Mursi, who was elected in June.

Egypt was among the countries swept by violent anti-American protests over an anti-Islam video made in California, and some U.S. lawmakers have raised questions about the future of U.S. assistance to the region, particularly given sharp budget constraints at home.

The senior official said Clinton, who has personally lobbied lawmakers to keep U.S. aid to Egypt and other Arab countries on track, believed these concerns had been laid to rest.

"Of course we understand that there may be (of Congress) who have questioned (the aid), but there is strong bipartisan support for Egypt being a democratic success because it's in our national security interest that that occur," the official said.

The United States was a close ally of Egypt under Mubarak and gives $1.3 billion in military aid a year to Egypt plus other assistance

NO OBAMA MEETING PLANNED

Mursi will use his New York trip to appear at former President Bill Clinton's annual philanthropic summit but has no plans to meet U.S. President Barack Obama, who is forgoing individual meetings with world leaders during his own brief stop at the United Nations on Tuesday.

In his talks with Clinton, Mursi outlined his government's plans to enact economic reforms as part of a broader push to win a $4.8 billion loan package from the International Monetary Fund, which the United States supports, the official said.

"The Egyptians have a lot of tough road in front of them to take the budget reforms that will be necessary and to do it in a way that helps them to move their democratic process forward," the official said.

Clinton and Mursi also discussed security issues including a rising militant threat in the Sinai Peninsula, a region critical to relations with neighboring Israel.

The U.S. official said Clinton and Mursi also touched on the issue of Iran but indicated the United States would be slow to support Mursi's proposal that Iran, Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia form a new group to try to find a solution to the violence in Syria.

"The Egyptians themselves would say that it's a new initiative and no one is sure whether it is going to head toward an end point or not," the official said. "We always have concerns when Iran is engaged."

Obama's rival in the U.S. presidential race, Republican Mitt Romney, called for a tougher line with Egypt after protesters scaled the Cairo compound wall and tore down the U.S. flag in one of series of protests that also saw the U.S. consulate attacked in the Libyan city of Benghazi, killing the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

Obama created doubts this month when he told a Spanish-language television network that the United States considered the new Islamist government neither an ally nor an enemy.

The U.S. official said Clinton's meeting with the Egyptian leader was relaxed and warm and waved away suggestions that the president's "ally" comment reflected broader uncertainty in the relationship.

"We've moved past that," the official said.

(Reporting By Andrew Quinn; Editing by Bill Trott)

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Primate study adds to evidence of BPA harming human reproduction

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

A Washington State University researcher has found new evidence that the plastic additive BPA can disrupt women's reproductive systems, causing chromosome damage, miscarriages and birth defects.

Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, WSU geneticist Patricia Hunt and colleagues at WSU and the University of California, Davis, report seeing reproductive abnormalities in rhesus monkeys with BPA levels similar to those of humans. By using an animal with the most human-like reproductive system, the research bolsters earlier work by Hunt and others documenting widespread reproductive effects in rodents.

"The concern is exposure to this chemical that we're all exposed to could increase the risk of miscarriages and the risk of babies born with birth defects like Down Syndrome," says Hunt. "The really stunning thing about the effect is we're dosing grandma, it's crossing the placenta and hitting her developing fetus, and if that fetus is a female, it's changing the likelihood that that female is going to ovulate normal eggs. It's a three-for-one hit."

The research also adds to the number of organs affected by BPA, or bisphenol A, which is found in plastic bottles, the linings of aluminum cans and heat-activated cash register receipts. This May, Hunt was part of another paper in PNASreporting that the additive altered mammary development in the primate, increasing the risk of cancer.

Hunt's colleagues at UC, Davis exposed different groups of gestating monkeys to single daily doses of BPA and low-level continuous doses and looked at how they affected the reproductive systems of female fetuses. She saw that in the earliest stage of the adult's egg development, the egg cell failed to divide properly. Earlier mouse studies showed similar disturbances translated into genetic defects in the mature egg.

A fertilized egg with the wrong number of chromosomes will almost always fail to come to term, leading to a spontaneous abortion or progeny with birth defects.

In monkeys exposed continuously, Hunt saw further complications in the third trimester as fetal eggs were not packaged appropriately in follicles, structures in which they develop. Eggs need to be packaged properly to grow, develop and mature.

"That's not good," says Hunt, "because it looks to us like you're just throwing away a huge number of the eggs that a female would have. It raises concerns about whether or not she's going to have a really short reproductive lifespan."

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Learn More About IGNOU Procedure for Admissions

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? ?? IGNOU conducts various admission tests to enroll qualified students for further researches at this Open University. Students can take the advantage of distance education by completing the whole MBA, MCA, BCA and MCOM/ MA courses from home.However, before starting courses at this Open University, a student needs to clear entrance tests for ensuring the trouble free studies under the full guidance and supervision of IGNOU authority. You will have to be acquainted with several admission procedures for the completion of various short and long term condensed courses to get degrees and certificates.

Admission procedures depend on the course and academic session. For MBA students, IGNOU has set up a fruitful admission test to evaluate the quality of students. For appearing at the entrance test at MBA level, students must fill up barcode registration forms properly. Online admission forms are available in the official site of IGNOU. You can download forms for fill-up. You need to give your personal details as per requirements. The printed copies of admission forms must be kept intact for future reference. You will have to paste two thumb nail size photographs of yours. You need to duly sign on the particular area in the forms. If it is an online registration form, you need to submit on the spot within the given time. For a registration fees clearance, you need to get the demand draft for paying your exam fees.

The eligibility criteria of facing admission tests at MBA and graduate levels are as follows. For instance, students must get 50 percent marks in the particular stream. If he belongs to creamy layer of schedule casts and schedule tribes, he will have to get 45 % marks in BA/BCOM/BBA. Widows, and physically challenged persons are fallen under special categories. They are given chances to choose the right subjects for studying at IGNOU. They also get financial benefits during online/offline registration process. Students must be 18 years of age and Indian citizens. Demand drafts or challans with application forms need to be submitted at the Regional Centre of IGNOU. Read information booklets and brochures to know in details about the commencement of admission tests, course fees, syllabi and other important facts in this regard.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Finding the statistical fingerprints of election thieves

ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? The art of swaying an election is as old as democracy itself. Strategies like ballot stuffing, redistricting, voter venue switching, and temporary traffic detours have skewed regional results, and sometimes determined the winner.

While some tactics get exposed the old fashioned way -- by angry voters or investigations -- others don't. But new research suggests some kinds of election fraud leave a trace in the voting data.

In a paper appearing September 24 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Stefan Thurner brought science to the problem.

"We got into this by chance, when a Russian colleague brought us the 2011 Russian Duma-election data and asked us to take a look," says Thurner. "From the first look we were all pretty shocked, and decided to take a second look."

Thurner, a Santa Fe Institute External Professor who heads the Section for Complex Systems at the Medical University of Vienna, and colleagues looked for two kinds of rigging: incremental fraud, where votes for one party are kept in the ballot box while those for the other candidates are tossed, and extreme fraud, which shows 100 percent voter turnout in a district, all voting for the same party.

The team examined data on number of eligible voters, valid votes, and votes for the winning candidate (or party) from a dozen recent elections around the world. By comparing the distributions of votes for the winning candidate against turnout numbers, they found that rigged elections show a different voting pattern than fair ones.

In fair elections, a nation's voting pattern tends to feature one cluster, showing a general trend of voter turnout and vote for the victorious party (though some nations' regional voter preferences can distort it). Rigged ones show a cluster, but with a smear of votes toward the upper right for incremental fraud. Extreme fraud has a second, smaller, completely separate cluster at the top right corner, signifying up to 100 percent turnout and votes for the winner.

Next, the team developed a model to detect how much forged or manipulated results affected the outcome, then ran through all possibilities of both fraud types playing 0 percent to 100 percent of a part in the election, and compared those to actual data to determine their prevalence.

Among the countries studied, data from recent elections in Russia and Uganda showed both the smear of incremental fraud and the second cluster of extreme fraud, with up to 64 percent of districts being affected in Russia's 2011 vote and 39 percent in 2012. Other countries' data showed little to no such trends.

"I think it could contribute to the benefit of democracy if for every nationwide election on this planet, the raw data is made available on say a United Nations or OECD database," says Thurner. "One could then think of a set of quality standards and checks for any election -- like the ones we presented -- or better ones."

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Cameron backs minister in row over "pleb" swipe at police

LONDON (Reuters) - David Cameron backed a senior minister accused of ranting at policemen in public and calling them "plebs", an old-fashioned insult laden with snobbery that has undermined his party's attempts to shake off its privileged image.

The tirade outside the prime minister's Downing Street office by Andrew Mitchell has embarrassed a Conservative party that is trailing in the polls and struggling to shore up its support at a time of recession, tax increases and spending cuts.

While reports that Mitchell called the officers "morons" were embarrassing, more damaging was the report that he used the word "pleb", a term that is rarely used by a middle or working class person but is soaked in upper class condescension.

The row played into the hands of Conservative critics who think Cameron's centre-right party is run by a rich, lofty group whose policies do little for the majority of voters feeling the pressure of its austerity policies.

Many senior Conservatives are millionaires, educated at Britain's top fee-paying schools and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Rivals mock them as out-of-touch "toffs", the sort of derogatory term that is politically toxic in class-obsessed Britain. A Conservative politician described Cameron and chancellor George Osborne as "arrogant posh boys" in April.

Cameron's spokesman said on Monday it was time to draw a line under the affair after Mitchell apologised again to police, even while denying using the words attributed to him.

"He has acknowledged that that behaviour was unacceptable and the apology has been accepted," the spokesman said. He would not be drawn on Mitchell's choice of words or whether he was accusing the police of not telling the truth.

"Pleb" is derived from a Latin word denoting people outside the aristocratic class in ancient Rome, for example shopkeepers, skilled or unskilled workers and farmers.

"It is old-fashioned language, it is private language. In public it is pretty awful," Peter York, the author and social commentator, told Reuters. "You certainly wouldn't expect any politician to utter it in a remotely public place."

A leaked police report in the top selling Sun newspaper on Monday said Mitchell had lost his temper when police officers refused to open the main Downing Street gates to allow him to cycle through last Wednesday evening.

BADLY TIMED TIRADE

When they asked him to use a pedestrian gate, the report said Mitchell erupted: "Best you learn your fucking place. You don't run this fucking government. You're fucking plebs."

The timing could not have been worse, coming a day after two unarmed policewomen were killed in a gun and grenade attack in Manchester, northern England.

The Conservatives, who have run Britain in a coalition since 2010, are behind the opposition Labour Party before a 2015 election and the Mitchell row could cut further into their public support if it lingers, analysts said.

"They have been remarkably unsuccessful at killing this story," said John Curtice, politics professor at Strathclyde University in Scotland. "That's certainly a problem."

Mitchell, 56, was educated at the prestigious Rugby School, home of one of the most famous literary bullies, Flashman, in the 19th-century novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays" by Thomas Hughes, an Oxford graduate.

Labour leader Ed Miliband, who also went to Oxford, compared Cameron to Flashman last year for his behaviour in parliament.

Mitchell went on to Cambridge University and served in the British Army before joining the Lazard investment bank and working for a management consultancy. Cameron gave him the job of "chief whip", or party enforcer, earlier this month.

Mitchell said he "did not use the words that have been attributed to me", but repeatedly refused to confirm what he did say during an incident dubbed "Gate-gate" by wags on Twitter.

"It had been the end of a long and extremely frustrating day - not that that is any excuse at all for what happened," Mitchell told reporters in the rain outside his office near Downing Street. "I didn't show the police the amount of respect I should have done."

Labour and police groups called for an inquiry into the events at Downing Street.

Although still unconfirmed, the bad language has fed into a perceptions the Conservatives have not shed the "Nasty Party" tag that dogged them under Margaret Thatcher and John Major in the 1980s and 1990s. Cameron has attempted to soften their policies in areas like gay rights and support for the poor.

"There is this perception that ... they are posh, rich people who are out of touch with the lives of ordinary people," said Wyn Grant, politics professor at Warwick University.

"But if the government stands firm on this, it may simply just go away."

(Additional reporting by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Deputies: Attempted burglar found asleep on floor

(AP) ? Sheriff's deputies responding to a burglary call say they found a 20-year-old man asleep on the kitchen floor of a home in Oregon.

The Washington County sheriff's office says the homeowner discovered the sleeping stranger early Friday. Deputies arrived to find Cristian Villarreal-Castillo, who had in his pockets small electronic devices believed to be stolen from unlocked vehicles.

Deputies say many items in the home in the Rock Creek neighborhood of Hillsboro had been ransacked in an apparent attempt to find valuables. They believe Villarreal-Castillo entered the home through an unlocked door and was in the process of gathering items when he fell asleep.

He is charged with burglary, attempted theft, trespassing and criminal mischief. Investigators also linked him to a burglary that happened a few hours before his arrest.

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?Bowles recovers from pit road penalty to get 14th top-20 finish of the season?

(SPARTA, KENTUCKY) September 24, 2012 ? Jason Bowles and his MacDonald Motorsports team were in need of a strong finish, and that is exactly what they got Saturday afternoon in the Kentucky 300. With new partner Thrush & Son Complete Home Improvement and HI-Technologies on the No. 81, Bowles recovered from a pit road penalty to register a 16th place finish.

?The car was pretty good all day and we had a great shot at another top-15 finish,? said Bowles after the race. ?Everyone on the crew did a great job and the pit-stops were solid all day as well. I really want to thank the Thrush family for everything this weekend. They run a first class organization and their C.H.I.P. software product is an excellent tool for any home improvement company that wants to save time and money.?

After practicing 17th, Jason qualified the Thrush & Son/HI-Technologies No. 81 23rd on the grid for the race. The car showed speed right away, as Bowles advanced into the top-20 in the opening laps.

On the lap-30 competition caution, crew chief John Monsam made the call for two tires. A great pit-stop moved Bowles up to 14th position for the restart. After the green, Jason continued moving forward, advancing up into 12th spot.

On lap 87, Bowles was making his way onto pit road as Taylor Malsam went spinning through the front stretch grass right behind him. The yellow came out, closing the pits 0.1 seconds before Jason crossed the commitment line, resulting in an End of the Longest Line penalty.

?The pit-road penalty was tough because I was already committed to pit-lane and couldn?t do anything,? explained Bowles. ?It put us a lap down and behind for the rest of the race. Luckily I have a great team behind me and we kept pushing for the remainder of the race to get a solid 16th, just what we needed right now.?

Bowles remains 14th in the driver standings following the race weekend and heading into Dover. The MacDonald Motorsports No. 81 sits 22nd in the owner standings with six races remaining on the season.

Next weekend, the MacDonald Motorsports team rolls north to Dover, Delaware for the second time this season. The One Main Financial 200 will go on the air live on ESPN2 at 3:00PM ET.

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

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What is the meaning of This thorny concept was at one time largely taken for granted, as municipalities absorbed landowners real property into projects that were described as for the public good. These projects could include, for example, eminent domain seizure to construct a public parking lot.

We now see municipalities with wildly different philosophies on eminent domain.

For example, some municipalities in Upstate New York have chosen to pass industry-friendly pro-fracking statements that imply the entirety of their population are eager to have their communities changed into ubiquitous out-door factories for the sake of hydro-fracking for natural gas. Some real property owners within the municipalities have protested the secrecy used to pass these statements; many of which are passed at the whim of the town board members and without public input.

Other municipalities that may reside next door to the pro-fracking town boards may pass bans and moratoriums while attempting to gather information on the fracking process that will relate to the effect on human beings and the environment in their communities. Some real property owners say this is an infringement on their right of use of and profiting off their property. The question of property rights and what exactly they include becomes a very important issue when deciding who can do what on their property. It should be noticed however that common sense should help to provide an answer once and for all, namely that to engage in behavior that has the potential of harming our natural environment should be reseached and studied completely before any action is taken.

People who own property and want to gain revenue thereof, should be able to do so, but all property has borders, and on the other side of that border is someone elses property, which could be effected by the changes and conditions produced by the property next to it.

A little discussed matter is whether the environment, in and of itself, has rights. The very mention of this perspective is sensitive. We have ideas that range from the environment as raw material for capitlistic profit to environment as sacred.

As a nation, we seem to have been unable to discuss this matter. Profit sounds great until you find a nuclear facility next door to your home. Without fail we hear that accidents can happen but they have been regulated for. This is a wildly interesting idea. The nature of accidents is that we don't know what they will be.

For example, the Assumption Parish, Louisiana sinkhole caught everyone by surprise, is ongoing, seriously dangerous, and not broadcast to the nation. The sinkhole accident is in the process of unfolding and as of now, nobody knows what it will do. I suspect this would be the time for the good legislators of Louisiana to start legislating.

We need a serious conversation about property rights. Instead, the topic is swept under the rug as corporations and government go about their business of profit and power.

The human beings, probably more closely related to environment than to corporations/government, need to think about their wishes.

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University looks to donors to help erase deficit, tuition

The national conversation surrounding the United States? 13 trillion dollar debt has turned the population into a swarm of economists with their own opinions about how to handle the budget.

But here at DePauw, those same problems with balancing the budget sheet also exist.

DePauw reported an unrestricted operating deficit of $4.8 million at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year. A number Brad Kelsheimer, vice-president of finance and administration, said is large in comparison to DePauw?s peer institutions.

DePauw has an operating budget around $85 million a year that is funded through a number of resources such as tuition, endowment draw and donations. A deficit means that at the end of the year, DePauw is reporting a loss of revenue spent and revenue earned.

A number of different factors play into the costs and revenue of the university. In ?08-?09, when the deficit reached its highest ever at $12.6 million, a national recession stunted market growth as well as made potential donors think twice about giving gifts. That raises costs which in the end raises the deficit.

Kelsheimer stressed that deficit is not a ?cash flow? problem and that DePauw is ?paying its bills.? He said that the problem is only alarming in that it is not sustainable year after year. The major concern of the deficit for Kelsheimer is that it means depreciation costs are not being met and the physical DePauw ? the academic equipment, the actual buildings, the campus ? is not being invested in.

?We?re not in this to make money,? Kelsheimer said. ?But there has to be a financial model that works.?

Kelsheimer said that while the deficit is high compared to similar universities, DePauw does have a significant advantage in that has a ?strong balance sheet? ?? meaning it has the potential donors and resources to cover the deficit.

The university has been able to cut controllable costs, but raising revenue, as opposed to spending less and less, is the intended plan.

That means donations and that is where Jason Petrovich and the advancement office come in. Petrovich was recently named interim vice president of advancement ? to go along with an executive director of development title ? after former VP Marcia Latta announced she would be leaving her position at the end of the calendar year for family reasons. Petrovich has taken more responsibility in running the university?s massive comprehensive campaign. The campaign, currently in the quiet phase, will be charged with raising money through donors to fund the capital projects on campus as well as collect assets to erase the university?s budget deficit.

Petrovich explained that the single biggest part of campaign is to raise money for student scholarships. The idea is the university can focus funds in other areas as it handles less of the actual cost of supporting students. The money covered by the campaign can also go into the endowment. A healthy endowment means a strong percentage can be pulled from year to year and less of a financial burden is placed on students. Kelsheimer said DePauw?s current endowment is $485 million and that we are currently pulling 5.5 percent of it yearly.

Petrovich expects to see ?sustained growth? in DePauw?s annual giving program. Last year, the annual giving program, which consists of the annual fund, the tiger club and the faculty and staff campaign, collected $5.4 million.

Kelsheimer is confident in the administration?s financial plan the university?s ?loyal? donors. He said if DePauw can continue to increase revenue sources, the administration?s current financial model has the university operating with a budget surplus by 2017.

?It?s only a reason for concern if we didn?t have a plan to get out of it,? Kelsheimer said.

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Source: http://www.thedepauw.com/news/university-looks-to-donors-to-help-erase-deficit-tuition-1.2907964

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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Romney releasing 2011 tax return, paid IRS 14.1 percent

Mitt Romney arrives in Las Vegas, Nevada September 21, 2012. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

Looking to blunt relentless Democratic attacks, Mitt Romney on Friday released his 2011 tax return, a summary of his effective tax rates for the past two decades and, for good measure, two doctors' notes attesting to the good physical health of the candidate and his running mate, Paul Ryan.

The tax return was released at 3 p.m. Eastern time on the website www.mittromney.com/disclosure. Ahead of the release, the former Massachusetts governor's campaign released a blog post summarizing the document.

Releasing information on a Friday afternoon is traditionally a way to reduce the amount of media exposure.

The move fulfills a promise Romney made earlier in the 2012 presidential campaign. But it was unlikely to quiet Democratic criticisms that Romney has failed to live up to a standard set by his father, former Michigan Governor George Romney, who released 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president in 1968.

The Romneys paid $1,935,708 in taxes on $13,696,951 of mostly investment income for an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent. (The Obamas paid an effective tax rate of 20.5 percent in 2011, a lower rate than the president's secretary, according to the White House.) ?

Romney, who is thought to have a personal fortune in the neighborhood of $250 million, gave $4,020,772 to charity, 30 percent of their income. (The Obamas gave 21.8 percent of their income to charities).

The blog post, written by the manager of Romney's blind trust since 2003, R. Bradford Malt, said the Romneys had filed their 2011 tax return with the IRS Friday morning. It also indicated that the Romneys' tax preparer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, would provide a letter summarizing the tax rates that the Romneys paid from 1990 to 2009.

The Romneys paid an average annual effective federal tax rate of 20.2 percent, with the lowest rate coming in at 13.66 percent. Over that same stretch of time, they gave an average of 13.45 percent of their adjusted gross income to charity.

And Romney paid a far lower rate than the top 35 percent tax rate levied on the largest salaries because most of his income came from investments, which are taxed at far lower rates.

"During the 20-year period covered by the PWC letter, Gov. and Mrs. Romney paid 100 percent of the taxes that they owed," the blog post read.

Democrats led by the Obama campaign have repeatedly hit Romney over his refusal to disclose his tax returns?a fight that has helped to keep Romney's vast wealth in the media spotlight at a time when the president is trying to paint him as an out-of-touch millionaire bent on helping the wealthy.

Romney paid a price?literally?for saying that he paid at least 13 percent in federal income taxes over the past decade. He and his wife did not take the full deductions to which they were entitled for their charitable giving.

"The Romneys' generous charitable donations in 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year," Malt wrote. "The Romneys thus limited their deduction of charitable contributions to conform to the Governor's statement in August, based upon the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13% in income taxes in each of the last 10 years."

Team Obama showed no sign of letting up in its attacks, with Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter saying in a statement that Romney paid a lower tax rate than some middle-class families "because of a set of complex loopholes and tax shelters only available to those at the top."

Cutter charged that the 2011 return "continues to mask Romney's true wealth and income from Bain Capital, leaving the American people in the dark about critical details about his finances.

"Why does Mitt Romney not just release the full returns, instead of the bare summary he has provided of the last 20 years,?so voters can make their own judgments about Mitt Romney's finances?" Cutter asked.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-release-2011-tax-return-paid-irs-14-181125301--election.html

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'Promised Land' Trailer: Matt Damon And John Krasinki Face Off

Gus Van Sant has tackled some touchy subjects in the past, from school shootings to gay rights, but his new movie "Promised Land" is sure to ruffle even more feathers. Corporate America, be warned. The first theatrical trailer for "Promised Land" has hit the web and it shows that the movie should be able to [...]

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/09/21/promised-land-trailer-matt-damon-john-krasinki/

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Internet and Technology | Computers and Technology | * Written by Martin | Friday, 21 September 2012 05:08 | Word Count: 412

In today?s market conditions, a smart business is one that can reduce costs, cut down risks, make the most of existing investments, and most of all, put information to its best use. But it is not half as easy as it may sound, because not all businesses are equipped with the necessary tools and technology to manage resources, especially data, in an efficient manner. Data management is now a prerequisite for a successful and compliant business. Although you may have invested in data warehousing or data compression solutions, you may still not be able to make the best use of data because your data may be scattered in multiple databases, which makes it harder to retrieve the information you want at the required time. Only a comprehensive data management solution can address this ongoing challenge. There are many competent data management solutions in the market today. IBM Optim is one of the leading solutions that your business can benefit from.

With its comprehensive, unique and advanced data management capabilities, IBM Optim can add great value to your business. It can help you deliver better results and can dramatically increase your revenues by:

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You should remember that the mere existence of data is not sufficient to ensure the success of your business. Data should be accessible and available in the right form, at the right time, to enable you to make the right decisions. This means that your data cannot be fragmented and spread-out in different applications or databases. Therefore, integrated data management is crucial to your business, and that is what IBM Optim has to offer. With its unique capabilities IBM?s robust data management solution can help you gain complete control over your data, simplify administration of large databases, and can significantly cut down support costs.

The business environment today provides great opportunity to all those businesses that can use the power of information to respond to market needs with speed and agility. And IBM Optim data management allows you to achieve this with better efficiency, and superior information quality.

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Friday, September 21, 2012

Steve Bing donates $30 million to Motion Picture & Television Fund

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Circle Pad Pro for 3DS XL spotted at TGS, we go hands-on (video)

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Nintendo is starting to make a habit of quietly releasing products at trade-shows they don't attend. Kyoto's premiere gaming outfit still isn't present on the TGS show floor, but Capcom has once again seen fit to trot out the firm's latest kit: The Circle Pad Pro for 3DS XL. Just like last year's model, this beefy cradle puts the already large 3DS XL outside the realm of pocket-ability, trading the handheld's slim profile for a luxuriously thick grip. Indeed, the fatty accessory makes the console quite comfortable to hold, adding a smooth, slightly contoured back, larger shoulder buttons and, of course, that all important starboard analog pad.

The new Circle Pad's bulk is slightly more forgivable for the size of its host device. Yes, the attachment makes the XL a bit more unwieldily, but its supersized form already made it a non-contender for most pants pockets. Sadly, the accessory still sports its predecessor's greatest fault: it blocks the 3DS' cartridge slot. Gamers will have to get used to undocking their console, or else make a habit of buying more downloadable titles. Mum's still the word on pricing and availability, but the accessory was shown with a copy of Monster Hunter 4, which is due out in March of next year. We wouldn't be surprised to see it show up in early spring. Hungry for more? Check out our gallery below for an eyeful, or peek past the break for quick video overview.

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Caught on Tape! Paris Hilton Blasts Gay Men

You'd think that Paris Hilton would know by now that she needs to watch what she says -- especially if she is out in public. The Hilton heiress was recently recorded making a number of blatantly derogatory comments against gay men while she was taking a cab ride in Manhattan for New York Fashion Week.

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Blog Archive ? Batangas Resorts Also Have Wellness Centers

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Nothing rejuvenates a lot better than a new rejuvenating remain at one of those health spas or a wellness vacation resort, particularly for a person who consumes many his / her evening trapped in an incredibly stressful day by day schedule. This sort of life style would no doubt result in the barrage involving different kinds of pain, aches and pains as well as health conditions that are associated with anxiety. For this reason wellbeing spas are getting a growing number of well-known because moment passes by. The idea will serve as one of the shops that folks possess they can use to forget about that steam.

Plan your own health and fitness getaway through discovering the right fitness resorts using a Wellness Center as well as there are several kinds of hotels to pick from plus it consists of seashore resorts and tiny beach bungalows from the accommodations. These kind of elements are generally most significant if you select a physical fitness hotels and perhaps they are areas, benefit and also services. The majority like for area and present area for you to travelling choices. You?d have noticed distinct getaway holiday seasons, but this fitness getaway will be relatively specific and also right here, you will get physical fitness along with a healthy body along with brain leisure. The following, you will get most amenities that are related to physical fitness also it commences coming from meals and also stop together with physical fitness health spas.

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Good day, bad day: September 19, 2012

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According to a recent study, people who live in cities are less likely than people who live in rural areas to develop Alzheimer's. Photo: ThinkStock/Image Source

GOOD DAY FOR:

Profiting off of global warming
As the Arctic ice caps continue to melt at an alarming rate, countries start competing to mine the resources believed to be locked up in the newly-visible land.?[Gawker]

Striking something better than gold
Russia declassifies the existence of one of the richest diamond fields in existence, a Siberian cache that may hold up to $1 quadrillion in diamonds. [Tecca]

Big-city living
A new study finds that rural residents are twice as likely as city-dwellers to get Alzheimer's. [Huffington Post]


BAD DAY FOR:

Big-city living
A college student strolling through New York is knocked unconscious by a futon mattress thrown from 30 stories up. [Gothamist]

RUIs
A Kentucky man is charged with riding under the influence... while traveling by horse. [Death & Taxes]

Failed cover-ups
A nuclear submarine commander fakes his own death to end an affair with his pregnant mistress, who quickly realizes that his emailed death notification is not legitimate. [Newser]

For more winners and losers see: Good day, bad day: September 18, 2012

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iPad Presentation App for Market Research

Market research and business intelligence stalwarts like Forrester Research, Gartner, and SAS provide companies of different sizes across an array of industries with valuable, actionable insights to boost efficiency, productivity and ultimately, the bottom line.

Static white papers, brochures, case studies and data sets don?t cut it anymore, especially in this day and age. The tablet revolution has reached a fever pitch in the enterprise. Therefore, it?s imperative, now more than ever, for market research and business intelligence firms to optimize their information delivery process to the tablet form.

Heed the following tips with respect to developing an iPad presentation app for use in disseminating market research and business intelligence:

1) Many of your customers are already using iPads

Apple touts that 94% of Fortune 500 companies have either rolled out the iPad or have begun testing iPads within their organization. While this statistic shouldn?t be regarded as infallible ? it certainly holds some merit. Independent sources, such as ZDnet columnist Eric Lai similarly argue that iPad enterprise usage isn?t overhyped ? its properly hyped. Lai corroborates this assertion by pointing to massive rollouts by organizations such as Korea Telecom (32,000 iPads), SAP AG (17,000 ipads) and United Airlines (11,000 iPads). The numbers don?t lie ? enterprises big and small are adopting the iPad en masse as a business tool. Reach your clients and engage them more effectively by retooling your collateral and optimizing it for tablet distribution.

2) utilize the iPads interactive and engaging form factor

The iPad was designed to facilitate interactivity and engagement in such a way that desktop computers, laptops and especially static, printed material cannot. Simply digitizing your research and sales collateral, therefore, isn?t enough. Consider developing an iPad presentation app that leverages the iPads inherent interactivity. Copy, images, video insights, and dynamic, engaging charts, graphs and tables can bring the data that forms the cornerstone of your market research to life.

3) Instant + Efficient Distribution

The iPad is world?s most versatile content delivery system. Combined with a centralized content management system, white papers, groundbreaking reports, and the latest and greatest business intelligent insights can be pushed to reps and clients alike, effortlessly and instantly. Such a system can be admin controlled, ensuring that apps and remote updates can only be seen or shared by approved parties. The app will soon become a marketing channel in and of itself, obviating the need for paper collateral. Ensure that your organization stays ahead of the game by considering an enterprise iPad deployment in the market research and business intelligence space.

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me too, i've been wanting to do a survival rp for while. I just hope we can keep it going.

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