People Are Calling For This Apple Executive's Head - Business Insider

Who's to blame for Apple's disappointing Maps experience?

Fingers are pointing at Apple iOS software Vice President, Scott Forstall, and some say he should be fired over the mess.

Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt asks, "Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem?"

Forstall eloquently introduced Apple Maps to the world at its conference a few weeks ago. There was no mention of the service having any limitations.

Former Apple executive and venture capitalist Jean-Louis Grassee writes of the deception:

"[Forstall's] demo was flawless, 2D and 3D maps, turn-by-turn navigation, spectacular flyovers? but not a word from the stage about the app's limitations, no self-deprecating wink, no admission that iOS Maps is an infant that needs to learn to crawl before walking, running, and ultimately lapping the frontrunner, Google Maps. Instead, we're told that Apple's Maps may be 'the most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever.'"

Maps isn't Forstall's first let down either. Last year he unveiled Siri on the iPhone 4S, another Apple embarrassment. But at least Siri was clearly label "beta."

Other reports say Forstall has issues internally at Apple too. Last year Bloomberg Businessweek reported that he doesn't get along well with other Apple executives; designer Jony Ive and Bob Mansfiled avoid meeting with Forstall unless Apple's president Tim Cook is there.

"He routinely takes credit for collaborative successes and defelcts blame for mistakes," Bloomberg wrote of Forstall.

But then Forstall has done a lot for Apple. He's been at the company for nearly two decades and joined the company when NeXT was acquired in 1997. He was one of the original architects of the Mac OS X operating system and has headed up iPhone and iPad software since 2006. In that same Bloomberg article he was dubbed "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" under Steve Jobs. He's long been considered Apple's "CEO-in-Waiting."

Is it fair to blame Forstall for everything and are Apple Maps really that big a deal? Probably not. But some Apple fans are really upset.

A reader wrote to Elmer-DeWitt, "There's no excuse [for Apple Maps]. Quality control on Apple Maps had to have been terrible to not get this right. Bluntly, Scott Forstall should be fired over this mess."

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Evidence tossed at start of papal butler's trial

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? The pope's once-trusted butler went on trial Saturday for allegedly stealing papal documents and passing them off to a journalist in the worst security breach of the Vatican's recent history ? a case that embarrassed the Vatican and may shed further light on the discreet, internal workings of the papal household.

In its first hearing in the case, the three-judge Vatican tribunal threw out some evidence gathered during the investigation of butler Paolo Gabriele, who is charged with aggravated theft. It also decided to separate Gabriele's trial from that of his co-defendant, a computer expert charged with aiding and abetting the crime.

Gabriele is accused of taking the pope's correspondences, photocopying the documents and handing them to Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, whose book "His Holiness: The secret papers of Pope Benedict XVI," was published to great fanfare in May.

Prosecutors have said Gabriele confessed to taking the documents because he wanted to expose the "evil and corruption" in the church. They quoted him as saying during an interrogation that he felt inspired by the Holy Spirit to inform the pope about the church's problems and that a "shock, even a media one, would have been healthy to bring the church back on the right track."

Nuzzi on Saturday wished Gabriele well, tweeting "Good Luck, courageous Paoletto, we're with you." He referred to Gabriele by the diminutive nickname used by the pope and other members of the papal household.

The trial inside the intimate, austere courtroom was the highest-profile case to come before the Vatican judiciary since the 1929 founding of the Vatican city state, the world's smallest sovereign state. Media from around the world converged on St. Peter's Square to cover the case, which has attracted attention not so much because of the content of the documents but because they were stolen from the pope's desk and leaked, allegedly by one of Benedict's closest assistants.

On Saturday, the court said the pope's personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, had been called as a witness, testimony that is sure to attract attention given that Gaenswein rarely speaks in public much less about the details of the tight-knit papal family of which Gabriele formed part.

Other witnesses include one of the four consecrated women who take care of the pope's apartment, a monsignor in the Vatican secretary of state, the No. 2 Swiss Guard commander and the head of the Vatican police force.

Judge Giuseppe Dalla Torre set the next hearing for Tuesday, when Gabriele will be questioned. He said he thought the whole trial could be wrapped up in four more hearings.

Gabriele faces up to four years in prison if he is convicted. He has already asked to be pardoned by the pope, something most Vatican watchers say is a given.

Gabriele, 46, appeared calm but tense during the 2 hour, 15 minute hearing, frequently crossing his hands or clasping them in his lap. He wore a light gray suit and tie.

He sat alone on a bench on one side of the courtroom, following the proceedings impassively. During a break in the hearing, he chatted with his attorney, Cristiana Arru, and greeted journalists with a nod and a smile as he entered and exited.

Arru raised a series of objections at the start of the hearing, only some of which were accepted by the court. One concerned two jailhouse conversations Gabriele had with the head of the Vatican police force without his lawyers present. The judges declared both inadmissible. The content isn't public.

Arru also sought access to the report of a commission of cardinals appointed by the pope to investigate the leaks alongside Vatican magistrates. The court denied the request.

The attorney for co-defendant Claudio Sciarpelletti successfully petitioned to have his client's trial separated from that of Gabriele. Sciarpelletti wasn't in the court Saturday and his trial date wasn't set.

Neither Gabriele's wife nor any of his three children attended the hearing. Space for the public was limited; eight of the 18 seats were taken up by the journalists who followed the proceedings and then briefed the rest of the Vatican press corps afterward.

The courtroom itself was spare, with wood paneling along the walls, a gilded crest of the Holy See in the ceiling, a photograph of Benedict over the prosecutor's chair and a crucifix over the chair of the presiding judge. It's located in a four-story palazzo tucked behind St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican gardens.

Security was relaxed, with the guards at the tribunal entrance mostly concerned that none of the press or public brought in any recording devices: They even checked pens to make sure they couldn't record, and sequestered cell phones into safe boxes. No television or still cameras were allowed, except for Vatican media which filmed the first moments at the start of the hearing.

Given the content of the leaks and the Vatican's penchant for secrecy, the fact that the trial was open to the public and media might seem unusual. In fact, such trials in the Vatican's civil and penal tribunal are routinely public. They just don't happen very often or attract much attention. The Vatican's ecclesial courts on the other hand, which handle marriage annulments, clerical sex abuse cases and other matters of church law, remain firmly off-limits to outsiders.

In some ways, the willingness of the Vatican to proceed with the trial at all is an indication of its efforts to show new transparency in its inner workings. Benedict could have pardoned Gabriele as soon as he was arrested or charged, precluding any trial from getting off the ground. Instead he allowed the trial to go ahead, evidence of the "courage" the Vatican is showing to be more transparent, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi has said.

He called such transparency unprecedented for the Vatican and likened it to the Holy See's recent decision to submit its financial institutions to outside scrutiny by the Council of Europe's Moneyval committee.

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HTC?s upcoming One X+ flagship phone pictured in leaked photos

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new drug for advanced colon cancer developed by Bayer AG, a month ahead of the agency's expected action date for a decision. The drug, to be sold under the brand name Stivarga, was approved to treat colon cancer that has progressed after prior treatment or that has spread to other parts of the body, the agency said. "Someone has clearly lit a fire under the FDA," Sanford Bernstein analyst Geoffrey Porges said of the speedy approval. ...

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Identification of microbes in healthy lungs sheds light on cystic fibrosis

ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2012) ? Healthy people's lungs are home to a diverse community of microbes that differs markedly from the bacteria found in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. That's the result of new research from Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, which has wide implications for treatment of cystic fibrosis and other lung diseases.

"The lung is not a sterile organ," said David Cornfield, MD, an author of the new study, published Sept. 26 in Science Translational Medicine. Although decades of received scientific wisdom said healthy lungs lacked resident microbes, scientists had begun questioning that notion. "This research confirmed a long-held suspicion that a forest of microbes exists in both healthy and diseased lungs," said Cornfield, a pulmonologist at Packard Children's and a professor of pediatrics in pulmonary medicine at the School of Medicine. "More surprising, our data presents a suggestion that the lung flora provides microbial homeostasis that might function to preserve health."

Healthy lungs' microbes have been overlooked in part because past research has focused heavily on lung diseases, Cornfield said. Another flaw in prior studies was a bias toward looking for micro-organisms that could be grown in labs. Many of the types of microbes that the Stanford researchers found in healthy lungs have never been cultured in a laboratory.

In contrast, a large body of research had previously shown chronic microbial colonization in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease characterized by serious, progressive lung problems and death from respiratory failure. For instance, CF patients are vulnerable to chronic infection with the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can cause pneumonia.

The new study used sputum samples from 16 CF patients and nine healthy control patients. The scientists also analyzed lung tissue samples from seven patients' explanted lungs, the organs removed when the patients received lung transplants. (Three lung-transplant recipients had CF; four had other lung diseases.) The researchers extracted DNA from the sputum and tissue, and selectively copied genes coding for the 16S ribosomal gene sequences, which are found only in bacteria. The resulting genetic material was measured to determine which phyla, or families, of bacteria it came from and the relative contributions of each bacterial phylum to the total bacterial population in the lungs.

Several differences emerged between CF patients and healthy people's communities of lung bacteria. In general, healthy individuals had more diversity among their lung bacteria. Different bacterial phyla predominated in the two groups: members of the Bacteroidetes and Fusobacteria phyla were much more prominent in healthy individuals, whereas CF patients had a larger percentage of Actinobacteria. Also, healthy people had a larger proportion of bacteria that had never been grown in a lab.

"I think the tendency toward decreased diversity can be metaphorically viewed as the same phenomenon that might happen in a rainforest," Cornfield said. "When the ecosystem of a rainforest is disturbed and one organism predominates, it undermines a carefully constructed balance and causes disturbances in overall ecosystem. I think it's reasonable to assume something similar could happen in the lung microbiome, where pathogenic bacteria may out-compete organisms that may play a salutary, health-affirming role."

The results open many questions for future research. No one has ever tested the idea that certain microbes benefit lung health, for instance. "We may need to consider strategies that allow favorable microbes to exist while eradicating disease-causing species," Cornfield said. "That paradigm, if it's true, would really turn the care of patients with pneumonia and other lower-airway diseases on its head." Future research might test whether CF or pneumonia patients could benefit from doses of probiotic bacteria to their lungs, he said.

In addition, no one is sure how the antibiotics often given to CF patients change the microbes in their lungs.

"The marked differences in composition and diversity of microbial communities from adults with cystic fibrosis and normal controls are intriguing," said Thomas Ferkol, MD, director of allergy, immunology and pulmonary medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "The question that remains to be answered is whether these differences are directly related to the underlying lung disease or simply a consequence of frequent antibiotic use, which has been shown to change microbiota of the upper airways." Ferkol was not involved in the research.

More questions arise from the fact that bacterial profiles varied within the group of CF patients. CF patients differ widely in their disease progression, even when they have the same disease-causing gene mutations. It is possible that patients' lung function may be linked to the bacteria present in their lungs. The research team now plans to study whether individual patients' bacterial profiles can be used to predict their clinical condition.

Cornfield collaborated with first author Paul Blainey, PhD, previously a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford and now a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Carlos Milla, MD, an associate professor of pediatrics in pulmonary medicine at Stanford and a pulmonologist at Packard Children's; and senior author Stephen Quake, PhD, professor of bioengineering and of applied physics at Stanford and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Spain debt rises on aid to banks, regions, finance cost

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's debt levels are set to rise next year, piling pressure on the government to apply for aid as it pours funds in to cash-strapped regions, an ailing banking system and rising refinancing costs, its budget showed on Saturday.

Spain's debt as a ratio of gross domestic product will reach 90.5 percent by end 2013, according to the document presented to parliament for approval, almost three times that registered before the property bubble burst in 2008.

The budget aims to make savings of around 13 billion euros ($16.7 billion) next year, largely by deepening already unpopular cuts in public sector wages, education, health and social services, fuelling anti-austerity protests.

"This is an austerity budget, but will serve to help us get over this long economic crisis and once again show that Spain is a trustworthy partner within Europe," Treasury Minister Cristobal Montoro told journalists after delivering the budget.

Spain is at the center of the euro zone debt crisis as nervous investors demand ever higher premiums to hold Spanish debt on concerns the government cannot control its finances in the midst of a deepening recession.

Calls by wealthy northeastern region Catalonia for independence and the rising number of demonstrations on the streets of major cities have stoked doubts Spain can fix its problems without help.

Thousands of protesters gathered on Saturday in Madrid's Neptune plaza, between the Prado Museum and Parliament, for a third time this week to vent anger at politicians they accuse of pillaging the welfare state to bail out badly-run banks.

"This has to change. We have to show them we are not an anti-system minority but represent Spain's discontent and we are many. You only have to see the unemployment rate to see that," said state school teacher, Montse, 44, who was at the march with her unemployed husband and 11-year-old daughter.

Unemployment in Spain is more than double the European Union average, with half of all working-age under-26s unable to find jobs and shattered businesses laying off employees they cannot afford to pay.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has delayed any plea for aid, which would kick-start a European Central Bank plan to buy debt and ease financing costs, though this week has passed reforms and the budget plan in what many see is an effort to pre-empt the likely terms of a bailout.

Rajoy, who said he is considering the conditions behind any aid request, is widely expected to wait until after regional elections in Galicia and the Basque Country before taking any decision.

RISING BORROWING NEEDS

The budget details spending cuts of 3.1 percent in health, 14.4 percent in education and 6.3 percent in unemployment benefits, as the recession, which began in the first quarter, drags on.

Spain will also slash state funding to commerce, tourism and small, and medium-sized companies by 18.8 percent and infrastructure by 13.5 percent.

The government will increase its reliance on international markets for funding next year, with gross debt issuance requirements of 207.2 billion euros, after budgeting in 2012 for gross issuance of 186.1 billion euros.

The cost of financing its debt, as benchmark 10-year bond yields rise to near unsustainable levels of above 6 percent, is expected to increase to 38.6 billion euros, or 3.6 percent of GDP, in 2013, the budget showed.

The Treasury must pay debt redemptions of 159.2 billion euros in 2013, up slightly from 153.2 billion euros in 2012.

The increase in the debt-to-GDP ratio was due the economic crisis and the effect of state instruments on public accounts, the Treasury said in the document.

The instruments include the power deficit bond programme, FADE, the service provider fund for regional governments, Spain's part in aid granted to Ireland, Greece and Portugal and the recapitalization loan for the country's banks, it said.

Brussels on Thursday said the budget was a large step in the right direction. But many economists expressed doubt Spain's conservatives would be able to raise the cash the budget demanded as pension and debt-servicing costs rise.

"My general view is that this is an optimistic budget, in the sense that predictions for the contraction in 2013 are very optimistic," said Xavier Vives, economist at business school IESE, adding he expected the plans to be revised as with every other budget over the last four years.

The budget is based on the assumption GDP will shrink by 0.5 percent in 2013 year-on-year, though most economists expect a deeper slump.

DEFICIT JUMP

Spain will meet its 2012 public deficit target as dictated by European guidelines, Montoro said, but the shortfall will jump by more than one percentage point if aid to its struggling banks were taken in to account.

The Spanish deficit this year would be 6.3 percent of GDP, not including these payments to its banks, he said, but would rise to 9.4 percent of GDP last year and 7.4 percent of GDP this year if the aid was considered.

"Everything within the deficit derived from financial operations aren't included ... they're considered one-offs," Montoro said.

Spain has asked for up to 100 billion euros for its crisis-hit banks, though the debate among Spain's European partners rages over whether that money would go directly to its lenders or first via public coffers.

On Friday, an independent report showed Spanish banks will need up to 59.3 billion euros in extra capital to ride out the economic downturn.

The budget details on Saturday showed Spain's debt ratio included 30 billion euros of the planned 100-billion-euro aid request for the country's banks.

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(Additional reporting Carlos Ruano, Nigel Davies and Paul Day; Writing by Paul Day; Editing by James Jukwey and Sophie Hares)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/spain-sees-2012-deficit-target-jump-bank-aid-133205263--business.html

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Calif. creates state-run private retirement plan

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ? California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Friday that would create the nation's first state-run retirement savings program for private-sector workers, over the objection of critics who said it creates a new liability for taxpayers.

The bill would establish the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program for more than 6 million lower-income, private-sector workers whose employers do not offer retirement plans.

The program directs employers to withhold 3 percent of their workers' pay unless the employee opts out of the savings program every two years. It would be administered by a seven-member board chaired by the state treasurer.

State Sen. Kevin De Leon, D-Los Angeles, introduced the bill earlier this year in response to what he called the "looming retirement tsunami" as millions of lower-wage workers face financial hardship in their retirement years. He said the program would act as a supplement to Social Security by offering private-sector workers a portable savings plan with a guaranteed return.

He said the program is not a pension but rather acts as a savings account.

State Sen. Mimi Walters, R-Lake Forest, called SB1234 the "worst bill to make its way out of the legislature this year" because it would allow the state's main pension system to invest the money.

Walters noted that the California Public Employees' Retirement System is running a shortfall and that the savings program will be controlled by a group of "career politicians."

"SB1234 looks like nothing more than a cynical effort to prop up the floundering public employee pension debt with new funds from private investors," Walters wrote in a blog ahead of the bill signing.

Many cities and counties already pool their contributions along with the state in the public pension system, but taxpayers are on the hook to cover benefits if investment projections fall short.

It's too soon to say what would happen if CalPERS managed the new retirement program, said pension fund's spokesman, Brad Pacheco. CalPERS could create a separate account for private-sector workers, although it's more likely to pool investments with public employees.

CalPERS' fund posted an annual return of just 1 percent last year, missing its own long-term annual target of 7.5 percent. It currently has an estimated long-term unfunded liability of $100 billion.

Democratic lawmakers said the program gives workers more savings options, particularly women working low-paying jobs. Supporters say it will not cost the state money because it will be backed by underwriters.

The bill would not be implemented unless the savings program is projected to be self-sustaining and exempt from federal rules that cover private-sector defined benefit plans. Such plans have to meet minimum standards under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

The bill also requires the board to submit an annual audit. It is opposed by businesses, insurance companies and financial services firms.

Republican lawmakers who opposed the bill when it was moving through the Legislature said low-income workers might be better off financially if they put after-tax earnings into a Roth IRA, which would allow them to take their contributions tax-free in retirement.

They also said there were too many unanswered questions about the program. GOP lawmakers said if the underwriter fails to meet investment targets, taxpayers and employers could be held responsible for covering losses and administrative overhead.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/calif-creates-state-run-private-retirement-plan-232409988--finance.html

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Yep, The TSA Is Definitely Stealing iPads [Tsa]

An ABC investigation has found what you might have suspected all along; if you leave your iPad with airport security, a TSA agent might just keep it for himself. More »

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David Katz, M.D.: A Matter of Minutes

There has been a steady and resonant drumbeat of news lately, rapping out the profound health benefits of even modest physical activity. I think we can, and should, all pick our preferred drummer, and find a way to march to it.

Among the more noteworthy news items was a Lancet paper some weeks ago indicating that physical inactivity now ranks as one of the top causes of premature death globally. We have long known it made the short list here in the U.S., but a marquee role in worldwide mortality was an eye-opening revelation.

We also had recent research telling us that sitting too much was killing us, and just getting up and off our backsides routinely could serve as an antidote. More specifically, an article in the British Medical Journal indicated that reducing daily time on our tushes to less than three hours could add two years, on average, to our life expectancies.

Now comes the news that just 20 minutes of daily physical activity is enough to be the difference between the onset of diabetes or dodging that bullet in at-risk children.

The study, reported in JAMA, randomly assigned over 200 overweight or obese grade school students to 20 or 40 minutes of supervised aerobic activity five days a week, or to a control group in which habitual activity (or lack thereof) was maintained, for a period of 13 weeks. The primary study outcome was insulin sensitivity, a potent marker of Type 2 diabetes risk; and secondary measures included fitness, and fatness.

Both doses of physical activity significantly improved insulin sensitivity, suggesting diabetes prevention over time. The 40-minute dose exerted a greater effect, but 20 minutes a day was clearly enough to matter.

The higher dose of activity was more effective than the lower at reducing weight and body fat, but both were significantly better than control. And in the case of fitness, measured formally with peak oxygen consumption, both doses were comparably effective, and both much better than control, i.e., doing just about nothing.

So while more exercise is better, some -- and a rather small "sum," at that -- can do a remarkable amount of good. If we know -- and it seems we do -- that fitting 20 minutes of activity in during every school day can be enough to prevent diabetes in a large and growing percentage of our kids, it's hard to believe we would fail to act on that knowledge.

That much more so when we consider that a daily dose of exercise is likely to enhance academic performance, rather than interfere with it. "Sound mind, sound body" should sound familiar, because it's the kind of sensible advice our grandparents gave us. Science now points in the same direction, it just took longer to get there.

Getting to 20 minutes a day is not a big hill to climb. My colleagues and I can provide a boost up with a program called ABC for Fitness, freely available to all courtesy of my nonprofit, Turn the Tide Foundation. Designed for just this purpose -- to give all kids enough daily physical activity to immunize them against serious chronic diseases -- ABC for Fitness reconciles the square peg of physical education to the round hole of the modern schoolday by breaking physical activity up into brief bursts throughout the day, doled out right in the classroom. By teaching during the bursts, teaching time can actually be increased.

We studied the program in over 1,000 children, half receiving ABC for Fitness, the other half a standard curriculum. The daily activity bursts were associated with improved fitness, decreased behavioral problems, preserved academic performance, reduced medication use for asthma, and a 33 percent reduction in overall prescriptions for ADHD. Recess is a far better remedy for the rambunctiousness of young children than Ritalin!

We have reason to think benefits are similar for adults. We know, for instance, from the Diabetes Prevention Program that modest improvements in weight, activity, and diet can prevent diabetes almost two times in three among high-risk adults.

We know as well from the largest available database on sustained weight loss, the National Weight Control Registry, that even modest daily activity appears to be a nearly universal element in successfully maintaining weight over the long term. Doing so, in turn, insulates against all of the major chronic diseases for which obesity is a risk factor, including, but not limited to: heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes.

With that in mind, my colleagues and I have a free program to offer adults, to help fit some or all of those minutes in each day: ABE for Fitness.

I find myself tempted to propose a pledge we all take: the 20 minute pledge. There are 1,440 minutes in every day. Of that total, 20 minutes represents less than 1.4 percent. If a day were a dollar, for a penny and half of it you could pay to keep diabetes away from you, and your children. Not with an absolute guarantee, but with something much closer to it than comes with almost any other investment I can think of.

So the question is this: If a day WERE a dollar, would you be willing to spend a penny and a half of it on drastically reducing your family's risk of ever dealing with diabetes? If yes, you are presumably ready to take the 20 minute pledge. In whatever ways you like best, or work best in your schedule, you pledge to get at least 20 minutes of moderate activity in at least five days a week, and make sure your kids do the same.

I really see only one fundamental problem with all of us owning this simple solution. It's the common problem of preaching to the choir. Those who routinely visit the Healthy Living pages here are probably far less likely than the public at large to need this goad. So if you can, pay it forward.

Better still, we might commit in the might of our multitudes -- as loving parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles -- to insisting that every school in the country offer every young child the minimal, healthful dose of physical activity. We know how valuable it is, and we know it can be done while promoting rather than hindering academic achievement. And it can be done at no cost. Why should we accept any excuses? If we turned this knowledge into the power of routine action, we would be protecting children from chronic disease, while cultivating a healthy habit to last a lifetime and confer benefit across the lifespan.

All this is a matter of mere minutes a day, minutes that can be the difference between diabetes and staying healthy. That is clearly a difference that matters. We all have the same invitation, even if each of us chooses to march to the beat of a different drummer: to make a small investment of our daily time for a big return in health, for our children and ourselves alike.

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Pretty in Pink Country Pets Contest

The month of October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.? Help Eagle Hardware raise awareness and you could win FREE product for your pet!? Dress your pet up in pink during October, take a picture of your pet, and send it to us using the contact form below.? This will enter you to win a FREE bag of pet food, your choice!? Winner will be notified in early November via email.

We also would like to share with you a list of local resources where you can get a mammogram done for free or at a low cost.? The doctor?s visit alone is stressful enough, so let?s eliminate some of the research stress.?Make October the time to be more aware of Breast Cancer and get yourself and? your loved ones examined.

Please visit Susan G. Komen North Texas or Susan G. Komen Dallas for local Breast Cancer resources, donation opportunities, events and more.

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Body of missing Northwestern student found in harbor

By BJ Lutz, NBCChicago.com

The body of a Northwestern University student missing since early Saturday morning was recovered Thursday evening from Lake Michigan's Wilmette Harbor.

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The body of Northwestern University student Harsha Maddula, who was missing since early Saturday morning, was recovered Thursday evening from Wilmette Harbor.

Harsha Maddula, 18,?vanished after leaving a party near his campus residence hall?early Saturday morning.

While there's been no official confirmation of identity, university spokesman Alan Cubbage said Maddula's identification and cell phone were found on the body that was pulled from the water near the bridge on Sheridan Road shortly before 7 p.m.

Cubbage said there does not appear to be any foul play involved.

Read the original story on NBCChicago.com

"On behalf of Northwestern University, I extend our deepest sympathies to Harsha's family and to his many friends at Northwestern. Our hearts and thoughts are with them," said University President Morton Schapiro. "The loss of one member of the Northwestern community deeply affects us all."

The discovery ends days of searching by hundreds of volunteers, including family, friends, students and community members.

Maddula's family members on Wednesday?put up a $25,000 reward for information?as the search expanded to the waters of Lake Michigan near his residence hall. Authorities said the last "ping" from his cell phone hit a tower near the water.

Rafi Letzter / Daily Northwestern

Students at Northwestern University hold a candelight vigil for fellow student Harsha Maddula who went missing early Saturday morning and was found dead Thursday night.

"It is believed that the cell phone that was found on the body, that the amount of time it took for the various signals to go on northward, that is consistent with someone walking," said Cubbage.

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Dive teams searching the water on Wednesday turned up nothing, but Maddula's family said earlier in the day that their spirits were lifted by word from relatives in India who'd contacted psychics.

"All my family and friends from India, from everywhere, they see me on TV and they say, 'He's still alive. Don't worry,'" his father, Prasad Maddula, told reporters.

"Why the body was found today and not yesterday during the extensive search that occurred, I don't know the answer," said Cubbage.

A Facebook page dedicated to updates on the search?for Maddula was apparently taken offline Thursday evening.

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'Looper': The Secrets Behind The Weapons

'I said, '... Drag it through the dirt. Stop being so precious about it,' prop master James Kroning told his crew while designing 'blunderbluss' gun.
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Infographic: Stephen Starr's Wine & Spirits Bill | Foobooz Philadelphia

Posted by Foobooz on September 27th, 2012

We?ve procured Pennsylvania Liquor Board sales information from 2011 and over the next few days we?ll be mining some of that data. Here?s how Stephen Starr?s empire breaks down. In 2011 the Starr organization bought more than $4.6 million in wine and spirits from the state of Pennsylvania. A little, surprising, Parc was the largest purchaser and accounted for 17% of the bill.

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Looking For RP Partners

Hey everybody!

My name is Jay and I am currently looking do some 1x1 roleplays! I am new to this site, but not to roleplaying.

In terms of genre, I am looking do something involving romance. It could be fantasy-romance, realistic-romance, science fiction-romance, whatever-romance, but romance is a must. I would prefer that you take a role of the male, as I feel more confident that I can make a good female character work if you play her male counterpart. I am not looking for anything NC17; if it happens, simply mentioning it in one or two sentences and moving on is fine. I am open to negotiation on plot lines; I have one idea in mind (listed below) that's a bit cliche, but I figure it's a starting point.

An RP in which enemies become lovers, and have to face the odds of everyone against them. The enemies have to have a long history together, maybe they were once friends but had a falling out? This will take place in the main character?s junior year of high school. Like I mentioned above, I would be playing the girl in this case. There is lots of wiggle room here. Should you be interested in this, we can work on the finer details together.

In general, what I am looking for is someone who will be able to:

-Literate, meaning you must, for the most part, have proper spelling and grammar. I know that people make mistakes because I do, too. However, I would like it if you took some time to proofread before posting.
-Post once a week, at minimum
-Be committed and dedicated. Please don't leave me hanging after only a few posts.

Hope that you are interested, and will contact me soon. I can't respond to PMs just yet, so just drop me a line here and we'll talk.

~Jay

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Spain's Pain is Mexico's Gain ? Investing Daily

Spanish banking group Banco Santander (NYSE: SAN) yesterday pulled off a major coup on a day when most of the world?s stock markets were down, successfully completing the initial public offering (IPO) of 24.9 percent of its Mexican unit, Santander Mexico (Mexico City: SANMEX, NYSE: BSMX).

Listing shares in both Mexico City and New York, the bank raised about USD4.3 billion, making the IPO one of the largest this year in the global markets and the single biggest listing of a Mexican company in history.

The listing of a minority stake in its Mexican operations was essentially an act of desperation on the part of Banco Santander, since Mexico has long been its cash cow. Despite accounting for only 2 percent of the bank?s total assets, Mexico usually generates about 10 percent of the bank?s profits. And while earnings on the banks? Spanish operations have been plunging, falling by more than a third so far this year, earnings in Mexico have risen by about 14 percent over the same period.

So what was Emilio Botin, Chairman of Banco Santander?s Board, and Alfredo Saenz Abad, the chief executive officer, thinking?

They had to raise cash?and quick.

Banco Santander has been under pressure from regulators for more than a year to raise its capital adequacy measures. As the European debt crisis drags on and the Spanish economy remains in a recession, Banco Santander has stubbornly insisted on maintaining its dividend and has generally resisted selling additional shares of the parent bank.

However, with new international banking regulations coming down the pike in the form of Basel III, which mandate higher capital levels, the pain in Spain will only get worse. Banco Santander?s managers came to the conclusion that they had little choice but to begin the spinout of some of the company?s most profitable units. The bank plans to list its units in Poland, Argentina and the United Kingdom to fill in the holes in its balance sheet; it has already implemented a similar dual listing of its Brazilian operation.

While it?s unfortunate that Banco Santander has found itself in this position, it?s also very good for Mexico.

The spin out is a tacit acknowledgement of Mexico?s economic status as an up-and-comer. Over the past two decades the country has successfully navigated a debt crisis of its own, redenominated most of its debt into pesos, licked inflation and ushered in an era of impressive economic growth. The night-and-day improvement in Mexico?s macro economy has allowed microeconomic ventures such as Santander Mexico to become hugely profitable enterprises.

Banco Santander?s latest filings show that net income at its Mexican unit jumped by just over 18 percent in the first half of this year, reaching USD720 million. That impressive growth rate should continue over the coming years, with Santander Mexico planning to spend about USD120 million to expand from its current 1,200 branches to about 1,400 over the next three years.

Assuming the US doesn?t stumble into another recession (the US remains Mexico?s single largest trading partner), Santander Mexico might exceed its current growth rate. Mexican bank credit is expected to post double-digit growth rates over the next several years, a boost for banking stocks tied to this developing market.

Given those rosy prospects, it?s little surprise that the US-listed American Depository Receipts of Santander Mexico have performed well. Over the past two days, they?ve gained better than 6 percent while the S&P 500 has move up only 0.4 percent.

I?m extremely bullish on Mexico and I like Santander Mexico?s prospects. However, investors should remain leery for now about sinking any money into the stock.

Given that Banco Santander IPO?d less than a quarter of its stake in Santander Mexico, it?s likely the parent group would sell off more of its Mexican stake if it needed capital. That would be a highly dilutive move.

There?s a strong precedent for Spanish companies to treat their Latin American subsidiaries like piggybanks during the euro crisis. Electricity ute Iberdrola is just one example of a Spanish company sending money home to deal with its domestic woes. I wouldn?t expect Banco Santander to resist such a step. And with Santander Mexico?s princely valuation, a new share issuance would seriously impact share price.

I?ll closely monitor Santander Mexico and hold off on buying the stock for now. In the meantime, take yesterday?s news as yet another solid sign that Mexico is rapidly maturing and becoming an increasingly attractive investment destination.

Source: http://www.investingdaily.com/15717/spains-pain-is-mexicos-gain

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Texas seeks to learn lessons from West Nile virus "disaster"

DALLAS (Reuters) - When Dr. Robert Haley spotted a dead blue jay lying in his neighbor's driveway early this summer he became suspicious. When he saw another blue jay dead in the birdbath at his Dallas home the next morning, he knew it was a bad omen of disease.

What he could not predict at the time was that the bird corpses heralded one of the worst U.S. outbreaks of West Nile virus on record, with nearly 40 percent of cases in Texas alone.

"It's unusual to see dead birds lying in the open," said Haley, chief of epidemiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. "Typically, birds die in some out-of-sight place or they are carried off by animals if they die out in the open."

West Nile is transmitted from sick birds to humans and other mammals by mosquitoes and was first detected in the United States 13 years ago, in New York City. Texas declared a state of emergency last month after seeing the worst toll from West Nile this year, which has reached 3,545 total cases and 147 deaths nationwide, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Other states with large outbreaks include Mississippi, Michigan, South Dakota, Louisiana, Oklahoma and California.

"From the beginning, I thought it could be a bad year," said Haley, who spent 10 years working for the CDC and now lives in the epicenter of the outbreak. "But it turned out to be much worse than anyone imagined. It was a public health disaster."

Experts hope the outbreak has peaked as cooler weather sets in and widespread pesticide spraying takes effect. Now is the time to learn the lessons for the future.

GOOD WEATHER FOR BUGS

Five counties within the Dallas-Fort Worth area - the fourth largest metropolitan area in the country - recorded 28 of the 63 deaths and 869 of the 1,429 cases reported to the Texas Department of State Health Services by Tuesday. Dallas County alone has recorded 16 deaths and 371 cases, according to county authorities.

CDC and state officials believe a year's worth of record high temperatures and intermittent rainfall this past spring contributed to the severity of the epidemic by affecting bird and mosquito populations. Following a record hot summer and drought conditions in 2011, Dallas-Fort Worth had a warm winter with fewer than normal freezes followed by bouts of rain in the spring, officials said.

"One of the things we are closely looking at is the effect of weather on this year's outbreak," said Lyle Petersen, director of the CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases. "West Nile outbreaks tend to be difficult to predict. Why it occurred in Dallas more than other areas is a matter of speculation at this point, and it's something that we're going to be looking at very carefully."

In addition, health officials in the region have witnessed an especially large number of neuroinvasive cases, the more severe form of the disease that often leads to meningitis and encephalitis.

Haley estimates that about 25,000 people likely were infected with West Nile in Dallas County this summer. Of those, about 80 percent showed no symptoms at all, while many of the remaining residents came down with West Nile Fever, a mild form of the disease that is largely under-reported and only sporadically tested. State figures show only that Dallas County recorded 168 West Nile fever cases and 154 neuroinvasive cases.

HOPES FOR A RESPITE

Haley and others say the worst should be over in terms of new infections, but more cases are expected to be reported due to the lag time between infection, testing for the virus and reporting to state agencies and the CDC. The death toll is also likely to rise as it can take weeks to months for patients to deteriorate.

In the meantime, Dallas residents are still coming to terms with the ravages of the outbreak, which dwarfs the four deaths seen in the region in 2006.

With no vaccine to prevent West Nile in humans, the only defense is prevention - wearing insecticide outdoors and pesticide spraying by ground and air.

Dr. Don Read, a surgeon in Dallas, who was infected by neuroinvasive West Nile in 2005 while walking in his Dallas neighborhood and now runs a support group for survivors, said people tend to think they are invincible. "I didn't think I would get it until I did. It only takes one mosquito bite."

Read, who was infected at age 63, spent almost five weeks in the intensive care unit. He now wears braces on his legs due to polio-like paralysis, but considers himself lucky to be alive.

The sound of a plane buzzing overhead spreading insecticide in the suburban community of Southlake was a welcome sound to Ann Dachniwsky, 47, who spent much of the summer so fatigued from neuroinvasive West Nile that her only activity was "going from the bed to the couch back to the bed."

At the height of her illness, her husband and three children took turns waking her up every few hours to force her to drink.

"My balance and sight were affected so I could barely work or see. I was flat on my back for weeks," she said. "I was a healthy, active person. I'm getting better but I can barely manage one activity without needing to lay down afterwards."

Dachniwsky's family had pleaded with the Southlake City Council to allow aerial spraying of pesticide for the first time since an encephalitis outbreak nearly 50 years ago. Dallas and nearby Denton counties conducted aerial spraying missions in August. Southlake, which is partially in Denton and Tarrant counties, was sprayed. Officials in Tarrant County, home of Fort Worth, chose to spray only by ground.

As the outbreak has slowed, Dallas County health officials continue to be criticized both for not moving fast enough to start spraying and also for going too far in the breadth of the aerial spraying program once it started.

"We had a protocol in place and we followed it," said Zach Thompson, director of the Dallas County Department of Health and Human Services. "We started with public education, followed by localized ground spraying, then enhanced ground spraying and finally aerial spraying."

As research and analysis of the outbreak continue, Thompson said officials will work diligently to avoid a repeat of history.

"We were surprised by the magnitude of the outbreak this year but we feel that our response was appropriate," Thompson said. "Hindsight is 20/20."

(Editing by Michele Gershberg and Claudia Parsons)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/texas-seeks-learn-lessons-west-nile-virus-disaster-191759865.html

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