Minneapolis company 'devastated' by shootings

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Minneapolis company 'devastated' by shootings
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An informal memorial sits on a bench in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012 in tribute to UPS driver Keith Basinski, 50, who was among five victims killed in the shooting rampage that took place late Thursday afternoon at Accents Signage Systems, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minn. Police say Andrew Engeldinger, 36, was fired from the company that afternoon and responded by fatally shooting others there before he turned the gun on himself. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, David Joles) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT

An informal memorial sits on a bench in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012 in tribute to UPS driver Keith Basinski, 50, who was among five victims killed in the shooting rampage that took place late Thursday afternoon at Accents Signage Systems, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minn. Police say Andrew Engeldinger, 36, was fired from the company that afternoon and responded by fatally shooting others there before he turned the gun on himself. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, David Joles) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT

An informal memorial for shooting victims stands outside Accents Signage Systems, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minn., Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. Six people, including the suspected gunman, were shot to death Thursday afternoon at Accent Signage Systems. Police say Andrew Engeldinger, 36, was fired from the company that afternoon and responded by fatally shooting others there before he turned the gun on himself. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, ) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT

Father and son UPS employees Dan Miller, center, and Nathaniel Miller, left, walked around the Accents Signage Systems, Inc. building saying prayers and singing in Minneapolis, Minn. Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. Dan Miller found a heap of crime scene tape outside the building and carried it to place on the memorial site. Six people, including the suspected gunman, were shot to death Thursday afternoon at Accent Signage Systems.. Police say Andrew Engeldinger, 36, was fired from the company that afternoon and responded by fatally shooting others there before he turned the gun on himself. In the foreground sweeping away leaves is Joe Sedlachek, a neighbor to the business. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, ) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT

This July 2012 photo shows Andrew Engeldinger working at Accent Signage in Minneapolis. Police say the gunman who killed four people inside a Minneapolis sign company had been fired hours before the attack. Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan told a Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, news conference that the gunman in Thursday's attack was 36-year-old Engeldinger of Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Finance and Commerce, Bill Klotz) MANDATORY CREDIT

An informal memorial for shooting victims stand at the base of a flagpole, with the flag at half-staff, outside Accents Signage Systems, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minn. Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. Six people, including the suspected gunman, were shot to death Thursday afternoon at Accent Signage Systems. Police say Andrew Engeldinger, 36, was fired from the company that afternoon and responded by fatally shooting others there before he turned the gun on himself. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, ) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ? The company where a Minneapolis man fatally shot 5 people this week said Sunday they are "devastated," but will carry on in memory of their colleagues.

"This senseless act has devastated us, but it will not destroy us," Accent Signage Systems said in an emailed statement. "We fully intend to honor the memories of our colleagues and friends by continuing to grow the company they helped build through their hard work and dedication."

Andrew Engeldinger, 36, walked into the Minneapolis business on Thursday afternoon and fatally shot five people, including company founder Reuven Rahamim, three other Accent employees and a UPS driver who was making a delivery. Three people were injured, and two remained hospitalized as of Saturday.

Police found Engeldinger in the basement of the business, dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He had been fired earlier Thursday.

The company's statement did not give any details about Engeldinger or the incident itself.

"Out of respect for the police investigation, and with deep compassion for those who are mourning and still recovering, we will not be releasing additional information at this time," the statement said.

The company also thanked the city, its emergency response crews and the mayor, and asked that people "respect the privacy of all of the families affected by this tragedy."

Thursday's incident was Minnesota's deadliest workplace shooting. Police Chief Tim Dolan called it a "hellish scene."

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Violence stalks women workers in Afghanistan

KABUL (Reuters) - Muzhgan Masoomi's attacker stabbed her 14 times with a thick blade used to slaughter animals, tearing wide gashes in her flesh before leaving the government worker for dead on the outskirts of the Afghan capital.

With a severe limp and no control over her bladder - caused by the blade scraping her spinal cord - the 22-year-old can no longer work at the Ministry of Public Works, where she was a financial assistant before the assault.

Women who pursue careers in ultra-conservative Afghanistan often face opposition in a society where often they are ostracized - or worse, brutalized - for mixing with men other than husbands or relatives.

Despite commitments to better the rights of women 11 years into the NATO-led war, some say the authorities need to do more to prevent violence against women who work, particularly in government roles.

There are now fears that as the 2014 deadline looms for most foreign troops to leave, opportunities for women in the public sphere could shrink as confidence weakens in the face of continuing violence.

"I have no enemies, no links to gangs, and look what has happened to me. The situation for women in this country is getting worse day by day," Masoomi told Reuters in her brightly lit home, a few minutes' walk from where she was stabbed.

Shaking her long black ponytail, Masoomi said of her assailant: "He didn't like women working out of the house". He threatened her with menacing phone calls and text messages in the months leading up to the attack.

Her parents said the attacker, a relative who worked as a policeman, was now behind bars over the stabbing.

The security concerns of male government workers are taken more seriously than those of women, said Colonel Sayed Omar Saboor, deputy director for gender and human rights at the Interior Ministry.

"Women who work are much bigger targets than men and the government needs to acknowledge this," Saboor said.

How well female government workers are protected was called into question in July when a suicide bomber targeted and killed Hanifa Safi, regional head of women's affairs in eastern Laghman province.

Authorities ignored repeated requests for protection, her family said afterwards. Laghman officials declined to comment.

"She was so worried about her future. The only time someone in the police even addressed the issue of her security was once the Taliban had killed her," said her son, Mohammad Tabriz Safi, 30.

NO SUPPORT

Officially the government must provide security - usually two bodyguards - for ministers, members of parliament and tribal elders, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi.

But women not in those senior roles, such as Safi or Masoomi, are in dire need of protection simply because of their gender, Saboor said.

But Sediqqi said it would be "very difficult" for the police to provide security and guards for everyone who works in government. There are about 74,000 women out of 363,000 state employees.

Muzhgan has only recently gathered enough strength to talk about her ordeal, which happened in late March.

With a degree in accounting and some English, Masoomi was a valuable asset to her ministry, where she worked on a UN-funded Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme, bringing former Taliban fighters from the battlefield back into jobs.

But she said not a single person from her ministry came to help her, or gave encouragement after the attack.

"They didn't even come to see me. Financially, morally, I got nothing," she said, adding that members of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) took her to the hospital.

If she does not soon go abroad for surgery, she may never be able to work again. The ministry's deputy, Ahmad Farhad Waheed, said it had asked ISAF to look after her treatment, but the force said it was not down to them.

Afghan women have won back basic rights in education, voting and employment since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001, but there is concern such freedoms will not be protected and may even be traded away as Kabul seeks a peace deal with the group.

"If a political solution between the Taliban and the government is reached, there is no doubt that women will need to be better protected," said Maria Bashir, the chief prosecutor for Herat province bordering Iran.

The only female prosecutor general in the country, Bashir has been threatened repeatedly and come under attack twice, when her house was set alight and another one firebombed.

Eight bodyguards escort Bashir to work each day, and six live in her house. All are paid for by the international community, she said.

(Reporting by Amie Ferris-Rotman, additional reporting by Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi; Editing by Rob Taylor and Robert Birsel)

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Bo decision allows China to focus on succession

FILE - In this March 9, 2012 file photo, Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai reacts during a plenary session of the National People's Congress held in Beijing, China. China's tumultuous, bizarre year in politics appears headed for a home stretch, with leading members of the ruling Communist Party convening to finalize a list of new leaders and decide the fate of a disgraced colleague. Disgraced Politburo member Bo has been the focal point of much of the tumult, which has featured a murder, corruption, two high-profile trials and a deadly car crash, all of which exposed bare-knuckled infighting among a leadership that prefers secrecy. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

FILE - In this March 9, 2012 file photo, Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai reacts during a plenary session of the National People's Congress held in Beijing, China. China's tumultuous, bizarre year in politics appears headed for a home stretch, with leading members of the ruling Communist Party convening to finalize a list of new leaders and decide the fate of a disgraced colleague. Disgraced Politburo member Bo has been the focal point of much of the tumult, which has featured a murder, corruption, two high-profile trials and a deadly car crash, all of which exposed bare-knuckled infighting among a leadership that prefers secrecy. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

FILE - In this May 4, 2012 file photo, Chinese President Hu Jintao, front, and Vice President Xi Jinping, back, arrive at a conference to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of Chinese Communist Youth League at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. The scandal surrounding disgraced politician Bo Xilai had loomed over the party for a half-year, triggering infighting and complicating preparations for the fall leadership congress at which President Hu Jintao will step down as party boss in favor of Vice President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)

FILE - In this March 11, 2012 file photo, then-Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai puts on his glasses during a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Disgraced Chinese politician Bo was expelled from the ruling Communist Party on Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, and will face corruption and other criminal charges, the latest step in a scandal that has overshadowed a political transition now set to take place in early November. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping addresses the opening ceremony of the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit and Forum on China-ASEAN Free Trade Area in Nanning, capital of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Xie Huanchi) NO SALES

BEIJING (AP) ? With disgraced politician Bo Xilai expelled from the party, his career effectively ended with a slew of criminal charges that are certain to result in convictions, China's ruling communists can finally focus on the crucial task of ensuring a smooth transition to a new generation of leaders.

On Friday, the party's decision-making Politburo finally took long-awaited action on the scandal that had loomed over Chinese politics for more than half a year, leveling criminal charges against Bo that range from corruption to sexual affairs to abetting the cover-up of a murder by his wife. At the same time, the 25-member Politburo also made the long overdue announcement of the opening of the party congress, now scheduled for Nov. 8, when President Hu Jintao will step down as party boss and Vice President Xi Jinping will succeed him.

The twin pronouncements are connected: Getting Bo out of the way was seen as crucial to healing rifts in the party and allowing Xi and a new leadership to come to power without the overhang of a messy scandal.

"Having settled this contentious issue, the party leadership is in a position to start the party congress with a facade of unity and also harmony," said Willy Lam, a political analyst at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Friday's announcement also came on the eve of National Day, which commemorates Mao Zedong's Oct. 1, 1949, declaration of victory in the country's civil war and the dawn of the People's Republic of China. Despite China's explosive economic growth and breakneck modernization since then, the events surrounding Bo's fall from grace show Mao's party remains very much the opaque and powerful force in Chinese political life.

"Again, this is politics overriding legal and judicial principles," Lam said, noting that the decision came from the Politburo convening behind closed doors instead of judges in an open court.

"The elite politics are still done" in secrecy, Lam said.

One of China's most ambitious and best-known politicians, Bo was brought down after a trusted aide disclosed that Bo's wife had murdered a British businessman. Bo was dismissed as party chief of the vibrant inland megacity of Chongqing; his wife, Gu Kailai, was given a suspended death sentence after confessing to the murder; and the aide, Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun, received a 15-year prison term for initially covering up the murder and other misdeeds.

The charges against Bo, however, go much further, spanning more than a decade and including allegations that he took bribes, abused his power and had improper relationships with several women. Given the party's control of the courts, the indictment ensures the flamboyant 63-year-old's political career is finished.

The criminal proceedings against Bo are likely to start soon, with steps being taken to remove him from the National People's Congress, China's top legislature. Delegates to that body have immunity from arrest and prosecution.

As the son of a founding father of communist China, Bo grew up with a broad web of contacts within the party, government and military. Unlike most of the other members of the stiff and remote senior leadership, the telegenic Bo also was popular with the public, using a crackdown on organized crime in Chongqing to court publicity.

That also made him a polarizing figure among the party elite. In recent months, as speculation swirled about Bo's fate and the debate among top leaders dragged on, it is likely that his allies argued for the administrative equivalent of a slap on the wrist, while the top leadership represented by Hu, Vice President Xi and Premier Wen Jiabao saw Bo as a threat that needed to be eliminated.

The decision to level such a harsh punishment is a sign that the top leaders won out, once again, said Jeremy Paltiel, an expert on Chinese politics at Canada's Carleton University.

"My guess is that Hu and Wen wanted to crush Bo, not just smother him," Paltiel said. "They got their wish, even at the cost of a month's delay in the congress."

The state-run Global Times said in an editorial Saturday that it is in the people's fundamental interest for the party congress to convene smoothly and that the decisions about Bo provide certainty.

"It is conducive to the current situation and also to the accumulation of political certainty," the editorial read.

Bo is the first Politburo member to be purged and handed over to prosecutors since Hu ousted Shanghai party secretary Chen Liangyu in 2006 for corruption. Bo's case, however, was more politically divisive and delicate than Chen's, or any other recent case in which senior officials have been charged with corruption.

Ultimately, the decision on Bo was part of the overall horse-trading relating to the succession, said Steve Tsang, director of the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham in Britain.

"It probably means that as a result they negotiated something else that is better for the leadership succession," Tsang said.

Bo's removal is seen as strengthening Xi's position, leaving him the undisputed leader of the party's "princelings," as the offspring of high-ranking communist elders are known, and eliminating a challenger who had threatened party unity. He may face some opposition from Bo's supporters among party hard-liners, but Friday's announcement shows his influence was waning fast.

Friday's closed-door Politburo meeting also likely finalized other arrangements for the congress, including the much-contested lineup for the new leadership as well as for a commission that oversees the party's control of the military. Those decisions will be presented to the 204-member Central Committee ? a cross-section of the nation's political elite ? on Nov. 1 before being discussed a week later at the congress, which is a largely ceremonial event, approving decisions made earlier by the party's inner circle.

In trying to use the Bo case to rally the rank-and-file, the Politburo said Friday that bringing down such a high-level leader was proof of the party's determination to tackle the corruption that has damaged public confidence.

"Investigations must be thorough, firm and make no appeasement, no matter who is involved and how powerful they are, so no corrupt member will escape the punishment of party discipline and the nation's law," it said.

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Associated Press writer Didi Tang contributed to this report.

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Greece's 2013 budget to deepens cuts, sustain recession

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will unveil a draft budget for 2013 on Monday which will cut deeper into public spending to impress international lenders but also prolong the economic pain of the Greek people.

Athens is keen to see its bailout funding resume as its next 31.5 billion euro tranche has been pushed back while inspectors from the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund decide if its current program of cuts is on track.

Greeks are bracing for more pain to bring the country's public finances closer to a primary surplus - where all spending other than debt interest is covered by taxes - a milestone on the road to coming to grips with its debt mountain.

Greek police clashed with hooded rioters as tens of thousands took to the streets of Athens on this week in the country's biggest anti-austerity protest in more than a year.

Greece becomes the latest euro zone member to tighten their budget further, with Spain and France this week also seeking to prove they can make the cuts needed to keep lenders and markets onside.

Next year's budget will include more cuts in public sector pay, pensions and welfare benefits as part of an 11.5 billion euro austerity package of savings that will be spread out over the next two years.

"It's going to be a tough budget, projecting a sixth year of recession," a senior government official told Reuters. "It will focus on further savings, incorporating measures agreed by the political leaders."

"This budget will be another step to get the country closer to financial independence, reducing the state's operating costs," the official said.

After weeks of haggling over budget cuts, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's allies in the coalition government have struck a deal on the composition of the package of savings and are ironing out the final details.

Athens needs to seal the deal soon so it can push the austerity package through parliament before an October meeting of euro zone finance ministers.

Another government official who declined to be named told Reuters next year's draft budget will embody a substantial chunk of some 7.5 billion euros of spending cuts that are part of the austerity package.

Struggling to shrink its budget hole to 7.3 percent of national output this year from 9.1 percent in 2011, Greece will likely miss the target as a percentage of GDP as its economy slumped by a deeper-than-projected 7 percent.

The EU Commission had forecast an economic contraction of 4.7 percent in 2012 but belt-tightening took a bigger toll on economic activity, suppressing domestic demand and driving the jobless rate to a record 24.4 percent.

As a result, this year's primary deficit - which excludes debt servicing costs - will also exceed a targeted 1.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The finance ministry expects the primary deficit at 1.5 percent of national output.

"The new budget will be challenging. The government will need to generate a primary surplus for the first time in many years," said Eurobank economist Platon Monokroussos.

"Based on my estimates, Greece needs a primary surplus of at least 1.5 percent of GDP to stabilise and start a gradual reduction of its public debt-to-GDP ratio," he said.

(Writing by George Georgiopoulos; Editing by Toby Chopra)

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Tips for downloading the right antivirus software

A recent study by the Anti-Phishing Working group found that many companies do not have adequate website security.

"Victims are not taking measures to secure their sites from attack, and they remain lax in monitoring against and mitigating attacks," said ICANN's Dave Piscitello.

According to the report, more than 80 percent of security breaches to company websites are discovered by third parties rather than IT workers at the organizations themselves. A quarter of respondents admitted to not knowing how long phishing pages remained active on their websites.

The recent surge of cloud computing, which makes more sensitive data available on the web, means choosing the correct security programs is as imperative as ever. Here are some key factors companies should consider:

Identify security threats
There are six types of common cyber threats, according to Technology Snip: malware, spyware, Trojans, viruses and worms. They all use different strategies to target different types of data, so it is important for companies to identify what information is most valuable and vulnerable to an attack.

Companies should then determine the level of data protection that would be adequate. If it feels everything in its server is sensitive information (a bank, for instance, would want to protect all of its data), then it may need to use a more powerful antivirus system. There are also programs aimed at specific problems. A Trojan Horse, according to the news source, tries to steal specific information, so companies worried about data protection can download programs designed to fight that threat.

Cloud-based programs
AnchoFree CEO David Gorodyansky blogged for Inc.com about how the cloud is affecting cyber security. He said companies need to consider what applications are available online from anywhere, and whether employees are using personal devices - which tend to be less protected - to access those programs. Gorodynansky cautioned companies against making programs with highly important data accessible outside the office.

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A Quick Guide to Buy a Used Cell Phone

A cell phone is the most popular telecommunication device. These days, nine out of ten people have their own cell phone. Sometimes, a person has more than one cell phone. To have a cell phone even become some kind of basic needs these days. The main function of these cell phones is as telecommunication devices which allow you to call or send a massage text to everyone no matter where you are. Some cell phones even have more astonishing features such as camera, voice recorder, video call and even an internet connection. Even cell phone at cheap harga handphone can offer these great features. But these days, almost all cell phones are already adapting these technologies. People could take picture of their activity, send it to others or even post it to some social networks over the internet, as easy as that. That?s why many people have become more and more addicted to their cell phones. It gives them an unlimited access to every single thing around them.

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Off-color remark lands ice cream maker in hot water

By Ben Popken, NBC News contributor

The CEO of a 100-year old Montana ice cream maker has offered to resign after he?made what was perceived to be a racist remark on the company's Facebook wall.

The brouhaha began when a self-identified Muslim customer?asked on the Facebook page if the Wilcoxson Ice Cream contained pork in the gelatin used to make it.

?We don't deliver outside of Montana, certainly not Pakistan,? CEO Matt Shaeffer wrote back.

The customer replied that?the comment was ?rude? for assuming he lived in Pakistan. Underneath the customer's name on Facebook it says that he lives in Sheridan, Wyo.,?an area to which the wholesale ice cream maker does deliver.

Shaeffer told NBC News he is sorry for what happened.??It was never intended to offend,? he said.

?I was wrong,? said Shaeffer, whose company, in addition to local customers, has supplied ice cream to?Yellowstone National Park since the 1920's.? ?I should have just answered the question.... I don't want to be the one who took down a 100-year old company because I made a stupid comment. If necessary, I will resign.?

The whole dust-up appears to be?a case of mistaken assumptions and late-night Facebooking gone horribly wrong, Shaeffer believes.

A?screenshot of the Facebook conversation was posted on popular link-sharing website Reddit and soon made the rounds on news websites, blogs, and forums. Users flooded the company's Yelp page with one-star reviews and angry comments, driving down its Yelp rating. The company's Facebook page is down now too, taken offline by Shaeffer because of nasty remarks and coarse language in the comments.

The internet outrage centers on the belief that Shaeffer intentionally made a racist joke. But he?told NBC News that?before responding, he clicked on the user's Facebook profile and saw under the ?Map? box a recent ping showing a location in Pakistan.

That feature usually indicates the geographic location of recent updates made by the Facebook user. Responding to the comment at 10 p.m. after a long day of work,?Shaeffer said he mistakenly assumed the customer was from Pakistan.

By 4:30 a.m. the next morning, the company's Facebook page had already filled with hundreds of ?derogatory? and ?nasty? messages. Now after several days of bouncing around the Internet, the rage bandwagon hasn't shown any signs of stopping.

?It's a mistake to view this as an online-only problem,? said James Alexander, founder and CEO of Vizibility, a New York-based online reputation management startup. He said this?has the potential to ?jump out of Facebook to become a full-blown crisis.?

Alexander told NBC News he questioned Wilcoxson's choice to take down the Facebook wall. He noted that Facebook has several tools for managing comments on your company Facebook page, like manually deleting inappropriate comments, changing settings to filter out comments with foul language or hate messages, or even even turning off comments and posting a message saying you're disabling comments until the conversation cools off.

He? recommended that the company post a full statement online to apologize, explain itself, and make things right. But the key thing is to communicate.

?To withdraw from a conversation that's about you really requires some hard-thinking,? said Alexander. Just because you take down the Facebook wall, ?doesn't mean there isn't a hashtag? about your company on Twitter.

Lost in the mix is the answer to the original question. Wilcoxson's ice cream contains only Kosher gelatin, which doesn't use any pork products.

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Bank of America testing QR Code scanning mobile payment system in North Carolina

Mobile payment is still a bit of a wild west at the moment, and seemingly every technological and financial institution has a dog in this fight. Bank of America's not going to just sit idly by and watch it all unfold. The US's second largest bank has flirted with NFC in the past and is currently doing trials with QR scanning in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it's based. At present, five sellers in the area are taking part in the pilot program, with bank employees given access to the technology. The three-month trial is the result of a partnership with mobile payment company Paydiant, is compatible with Android handsets and iPhones, no NFC needed, naturally.

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QE3 may spark a Currency War as Traders anticipate more CB ...

Posted by FXCC Forex Trading Broker on 27 September 2012.

In an article featured by the Financial Times dated September 26, 2012, writer Alice Ross raised the possibility that the Fed?s new round of quantitative easing dubbed as QE3 may spark a currency war. Other countries, particularly Japan and Brazil have openly criticized the QE3 claiming that it is an intentional ploy by the Fed to keep the U.S. Dollar low against other currencies. A low dollar has the net effect of cutting down the export earnings of countries selling goods to the U.S. as well as making imports by U.S. traders from these countries more expensive. While a low dollar may be good to the U.S. economy, it can wreak havoc to the economies of its trading partners.

The Fed?s intention behind the QE3 is to inject more capital to the banking system by buying their long term debt instruments like mortgages. Fed is projecting that with more capital on hand, banks will start lending money to businesses which in turn will give the economy the big push it needs. Unfortunately, QE3 has a negative effect of weakening the dollar which actually started sliding down against other currencies even before the third round of quantitative easing was put in place two weeks ago.

Already, the BOJ increased its own bond buying program to bring down the value of the Japanese Yen against the U.S. currency in response to the QE3. Traders are speculating that a large scale BOJ intervention may be in the works according to the same Financial Times article, especially after its bond buying efforts failed to weaken the yen. Other countries which have expressly intervened to depend their respective currencies in the past are also likely to follow as they start to realize the crippling effect of a weak dollar to their own economy. This may ultimately lead to an unprecedented currency war according to some analysts.

The possibility of central bank intervention in the currency market is what the majority of traders fear most. Learning lessons from the past when Central Banks intervened in the open to defend their currencies, these traders have in fact started to draw away from currencies whose central banks are more likely to step in and intervene. They are setting their sights on currencies whose central banks are not known to intervene in the currency market like Mexico.

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Meanwhile, in the European front, Spain?s cost of borrowing has risen sharply, fueling speculations that Spain may finally avail of the ECB rescue plan. However, the stringent belt tightening measures being required from them by the ECB have already fired up separatist sentiments within the country, especially in the Catalonia region and among Basque separatists. The situation has placed the Spanish financial authorities in a queer ?damned if you do, damned if you don?t? kind of a ticklish situation.

The U.S. dollar, on the other hand, has remained resilient amid all these conflicting developments. Apparently comfortable at the current levels of the U.S. currency, the Fed is concentrating more in reigniting the local economy and less concerned with the likelihood of a currency war which the QE3 detractors have prophesied.

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ERS blog ? Cloud Computing Standards

Necessity is the mother of invention ? Plato

Gartner?s ?Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2012? predicts that cloud computing will reach a plateau of productivity in 2-5 years? time. The key enabling technologies for this are fast wide area networks, powerful expensive server computers and high performance virtualization for commodity hardware. However, a lack of standardization to guide development, deployment and integration efforts around technical challenges like interoperability, portability and reusability,? and business concerns like security/compliance, regulation/jurisdiction and vendor lock-in? are cited as major barriers for wider adoption and success.

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) cloud computing standards roadmap report published in 2011 well documents the fact that broad standards are already available in support of certain functions and requirements for cloud computing. While most of these standards were developed in support of pre-cloud computing technologies, such as those designed for web services and the Internet, they also support the functions and requirements of cloud computing. Other standards are now being developed in specific support of cloud computing functions and requirements, such as virtualization.

The NIST report further goes to state that from a standardization point, the cloud interfaces presented to cloud users can be broken down into two major categories, with interoperability determined separately for each category.

The interface that is presented to (or by) the contents of the cloud encompasses the primary function of the cloud service. This is distinct from the interface that is used to manage the use of the cloud service.

Now, if we have to understand this in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud offering parlance, the NIST report elucidates that the functional interface is a virtualized Central Processing Unit (CPU), memory and input/output (I/O) space typically used by an operating system (and the stack of software running in that operating system [OS] instance).

The cloud user utilizes the management interface to control their use of the cloud service by starting, stopping, and manipulating virtual machine images and associated resources. It should be clear from this that the functional interface for an IaaS cloud is very much tied to the architecture of the CPU being virtualized. This is not a cloud-specific interface, and no effort is being put into a de jure standard for this interface since de facto CPU architectures are the norm.

The self-service IaaS management interface, however, is a candidate for interoperability standardization.

From a functional viewpoint Platform as a Service, PaaS is a set of libraries and components to which the application is written mostly to take advantage of existing application platforms standards such as those found in J2EE or DOTNET.

SaaS application leverages the standards designed for web services and the internet.

Apart from interoperability, there is a lot of focus on cloud portability as the means to prevent being locked into any particular cloud or service provider. Portability is generally the ability to move applications and data from one computing environment to another. Standards are fundamental to achieve portability.

Security ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and information systems forms the 3rd aspect where a standardized approach is warranted to alleviate the high priority concerns and perceived risks related to cloud computing.

Forrester predicts IaaS will become more standardized by 2015, which is somewhat in line with Gartner?s hype cycle prediction. There?s a lot of effort taking place which is worth looking at.

DMTF?s (Distributed Management Task Force, Inc.) Virtualization Management (VMAN) Virtualization Profiles have achieved ANSI adoption. As DTMF defines it, the VMAN standard is comprised of two components: the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) specification, which provides a standard format for packaging and describing virtual machines and applications for deployment across virtualization platforms, and the Virtualization Profiles, which standardize many aspects of the operational management of a virtualized environment. Together, these components deliver broadly supported interoperability and portability standards to virtual computing environments for deploying pre-configured solutions across heterogeneous computing networks.⁴

Next in line from the DMTF stable is CIMI (Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface). Version one has been released, and the specification standardizes interactions between cloud environments to achieve interoperable cloud infrastructure management between service providers and their consumers and developers. CIMI is developed as a self-service interface for infrastructure clouds which allows users to dynamically provision configure and administer their cloud usage.⁴

Coming to Data portability, SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) is behind CDMI which defines the functional interface that applications will use to create, retrieve, update and delete data elements from the cloud. As part of this interface the client will be able to discover the capabilities of the cloud storage offering and use this interface to manage containers and the data that is placed in them. In addition, metadata can be set on containers and their contained data elements through this interface.⁵

Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure Framework (SOCCI), made available by the Open Group, is for enterprises that wish to provide infrastructure as a service in the cloud and SOA. It outlines the concepts and architectural building blocks necessary for infrastructures to support SOA and cloud initiatives.

On the open source side, OpenStack, the initiative with the largest vendor community, is creating a lot of de facto standards for operating systems that will be deployed on the cloud.

Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) published by Open Grid Forum, is a RESTful boundary protocol and API that acts as a service front-end to a provider?s internal management framework. OCCI describes APIs that enable cloud providers to expose their services. It allows the deployment, monitoring and management of virtual workloads (like virtual machines), but is applicable to any interaction with a virtual cloud resource through defined http(s) header fields and extensions. ⁶ OCCI endpoints can function either as service providers or service consumers, or both. Further, the OCCI working group and the OpenStack team are working together to deliver an OCCI implementation in OpenStack.

The nonspecific web and internet technology standards enabling the cloud are TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, SSL, TLS XML, JSON, DNS, etc.

Another point worth mentioning here is SDN (Software Defined Networking), and understanding how it shall impact cloud computing. The SDN approach makes virtual networking with elastic resource allocation which is an engineering realization of network reaction to application requirement.

SDN separates the control plane from the data plane in network switches and routers. Under SDN, the control plane is implemented in software in servers separate from the network equipment, and the data plane is implemented in commodity network equipment. The Open Networking Foundation has specified the OpenFlow protocol standard as an implementation of SDN.

Now , what we get combining all these is shared pool of configurable computing resources, e.g., networks, servers and storage, that can be rapidly provisioned , orchestrated and released in a standardized way.

The industry is already warming up to this prospect, which is evident from the early steps taken in this direction. Notable is CISCO?s ONE (Open Network Environment) that brings together CISCO, OpenStack and OpenFlow.

A few questions still remain to be answered. How do industry behemoths VMware and Microsoft plan to integrate standardization in their next product plan? What role could TSPs/carriers play in shaping standardization for cloud computing?

References

1. Hype Cycle ? http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2124315
2. NIST ? http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/index.cfm#
3. Forrester ? http://blogs.forrester.com/james_staten/11-12-02-when_will_we_have_iaas_cloud_standards_not_till_2015
4. DMTF ? http://dmtf.org/
5. CDMI ? http://www.snia.org/cdmi
6. SOCCI ? http://www.opengroup.org/soa/source-book/socci/intro.htm
7. CISCO ? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/14/cisco_one_sdn_openflow_openstack/

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'Anarchy' actor dies in fall, is suspect in death

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By Associated Press

Johnny Lewis, an actor who played Kip "Half Sack" Epps on the cable TV show "Sons of Anarchy," has fallen to his death after apparently beating to death his elderly landlady at a hillside home, authorities said.

The Los Angeles County coroner's office on Thursday identified the bodies as those of Lewis, 28, and Catherine Davis, 81.

Coroner's Watch Cmdr. Larry Deitz said he could not identify Lewis as being the actor. But the name and date of birth match, and both victims lived at the same address.

The causes of their deaths were unknown pending autopsies.

Neighbors called police Wednesday morning to report a woman screaming and three men fighting.

Officers went to a home in the Los Feliz area near Hollywood and found the body of a woman in the driveway, Sgt. Frank Preciado told the Los Angeles Times. Investigators believe she was struck or beaten.

The body of the suspected killer, who may have rented a room from the woman, was found about six feet from a wall, Preciado said.

The man climbed a wall and fought with a housepainter at a neighboring home, returned to the woman's home and climbed the wall again to fight with the painter and the owner of the second house, Preciado said.

The man apparently fell while trying to scale the wall again, Preciado said.

The men who fought with him were treated at the scene for minor injuries, he said.

Jonathan Kendrick Lewis had a career spanning more than a decade, mainly in small roles. He played Ricky in the 2007 movie "AVPR: Aliens vs Predator ? Requiem" and was Dennis 'Chili' Childress for two seasons on TV's "The O.C." He played Epps on FX's "Sons of Anarchy" in 2008 and 2009 episodes.

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Obama still feeling the heat on foreign affairs as he turns to domestic politics (Washington Bureau)

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LG releases official Optimus Vu: II specs, confirms VoLTE

LG has finally spilled the beans on the official specs of their weird interesting 5-inch 4:3 smartphone, the Optimus Vu: II. This is the latest model of the Vu available in the domestic market -- which for LG is Korea -- and some of the specs are bumped up a bit from what we know as the original Optimus Vu and LG Intuition here in the states, such as the battery, RAM and processor:

• 2150mAh removable battery, up from 2080mAh
• 2GB RAM, up from 1GB
• External SDcard slot added
• Snapdragon S4 Plus 1.5Ghz dual-core processor, up from Snapdragon S3
• 5-inch 768x1024 IPS display
• LTE connectivity, including VoLTE
• Bluetooth 4.0
• Rubberdium Pen 2.0

As is the case on the first Vu, LG is including a stylus dubbed "Rubberdium Pen 2.0" that offers a finer point for more precise input -- and from our translation of the Korean press release, it seems as though the pen can be stored inside the device like the Samsung Galaxy Note. LG is also touting the ability of the Optimus Vu: II to use VoLTE (Voice Over LTE). Although here in the states we're probably going to be waiting for a while for VoLTE, LG is getting it ready for their local market. VoLTE provides higher voice quality potential, and supports simultaneous voice and data.

Source: LG Newsroom Korea

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Toshiba Satellite Laptops Review - Laptop Computer Review

Wednesday 26 september 2012 3 26 /09 /Sep /2012 11:49

TOSHIBA laptops? meet the family user's infinite demand? from lower price ,fashionable appearance, high-end profession and multimedia video entertainment. TOSHIBA hope that through this series of perfect fusion mobile computing technology and the multimedia technology, they can provide the user with the new multimedia mobile computing platform and a fully enjoyable personalized living and working space for busy, fashionable modern people.

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Experts call our netbooks best-in-class for good reason. Though compact and lighweight at less than , they offer a full-size keyboard?, Toshiba Satellite L500 AC adapter and touchpad so you never feel hemmed in - even in tight places. Plus, they come with a choice of finishes in a range of various colors.

What could make this go-anywhere companion PC even better than it already is? Try a rainbow of catchy colors to suit any style and taste. Our all-new EasyGrip Finish is smooth to the touch and ensures this netbook is always well in hand.

Life does not just happen when one is standing still, Toshiba notebooks are ready wherever and whenever you are. They offer up to an eight-hour battery life rating so you ignore those power outlets and Toshiba Satellite M640 AC adapter. Also available with 3G connectivity (select models) so you can download, post, browse and communicate faster, a Webcam and microphone for chatting live, and USB Sleep & Charge to power your smartphone and other portables, even with the PC switched off.

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Though compact and lightweight at less than three pounds, they offer a full-size keyboard and touchpad so you can never feel trapped - even in tight places. Plus, they come with Toshiba Satellite U505 AC adapter and a choice of finishes in a range of various colors.

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NB520D series is the world first netbook equipped with the renowned Harmon Kardon speakers. The booming stereo speakers on this notebook lend an added dimension to music, movies and gaming. Hear the explosions, the footsteps , Toshiba Satellite L500 AC adapter and the dialogues in a clearer and and more immersive sound! And it comes equipped with a Dolby Advanced Audio Support too.

If you prefer a bigger screen to watch your movies, Toshiba NB550D series would be a suitable netbook for you. It comes with HDMI port which allow you to enjoy full HD video on a larger screen with your family and friends and Toshiba Satellite M640 AC adapter.

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Keep the battery away from heat or fire, if you detect the issuance of an extraordinary odor or leakage of alkaline solution or other electrolytic substance, please dispose used batteries in accordance with the regulations that apply to the disposal of Toshiba Satellite U505 AC adapter.

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Source: http://notebookpc-review.over-blog.com/article-toshiba-satellite-laptops-review-110572430.html

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Mr. Sexy Back tries to bring Myspace back

FILE -- In a May 7, 2012 file photo Justin Timberlake arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, in New York. Myspace is trying to stage yet another comeback with the help of investor Justin Timberlake. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

FILE -- In a May 7, 2012 file photo Justin Timberlake arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, in New York. Myspace is trying to stage yet another comeback with the help of investor Justin Timberlake. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

NEW YORK (AP) ? "Who am I to say I want you back? When you were never mine to give away."

Those are the opening lines of a song that accompanies a "New Myspace" promotional video. The once-mighty social network is trying to stage yet another comeback with the help of Justin Timberlake. The new site, for which people can request an invitation, looks a bit like an entertainment-focused version of Pinterest, with a dash of Twitter and Facebook thrown in.

But Myspace has tried redesigns before, to no avail. Will it work this time?

"If you break my heart a second time, I might never be the same," continues the song, "Heartbeat," by the group JJAMZ.

From the sound if it, Myspace wants to win the hearts and minds of tech-savvy hipsters. Founded in 2003 and initially a fast-rising star, Myspace attracted mostly teenagers and twentysomethings, offering them a place to express themselves online. It peaked in 2008 with some 76 million U.S. visitors in October. The site lost its footing as the fun of customizing profile pages began to bore its users and the site's heavy use of banner advertisements slowed the speed at which pages loaded. At the same time, people were already migrating to Facebook, which counted users 35 and older among its fastest-growing demographic.

The company's new promotional video offers a 2-minute and 18-second peek into a slick, image-heavy site. The site's much cleaner look is a stark contrast to the old Myspace, which users often derided as messy and cluttered. Posted this week, the video promises that Myspace will start "totally from scratch," as if trying to shed its former self. It doesn't say when the new site will launch, only that it's "not ready quite yet."

The new Myspace will let users connect to the site with their Twitter or Facebook accounts, a sign that it won't be competing with those sites as a social networking service. Rather, Myspace will continue with its entertainment focus, as a place to play and discover music, add photos, videos and playlists and connect with artists.

Timberlake, who's featured prominently in the video, will likely play a big part of the MySpace revamp. The former 'N Sync pop star, with a group of other investors, bought MySpace last summer from News Corp. for $35 million, mostly in stock. That was quite a difference from the $580 million that News Corp. paid for the company in 2005, when it was still an Internet darling.

MySpace, of course, isn't Timberlake's first foray into social networking. He played Napster co-founder Sean Parker, a party animal and early Facebook adviser, in Aaron Sorkin's "The Social Network" in 2010.

In August this year, research firm comScore put Myspace's monthly unique visitors at 28 million, making it the 43rd most visited Web property in the U.S. It's behind the likes of not just Google, Facebook and Twitter but startups such as Tumblr, along with the reviews site Yelp and WebMD.

"The new design certainly looks beautiful and it could certainly spur a lot of initial interest," said Clark Fredericksen, spokesman for research firm eMarketer, which used to put out ad revenue estimates for MySpace but no longer does. "But there are going to be significant challenges for any company looking to enter the digital music space. You have a lot of entrenched players who are really successful."

Those players include Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, not to mention Apple Inc.'s iTunes.

There's also the mobile question. It's unclear from the video what plans the new MySpace has for mobile devices such as Android smartphones, iPhones and tablet computers. Fredricksen points out that cloud-based music ? streamed over an Internet connection ? is shifting toward the mobile platform primarily. We are all on the go with our music. MySpace is entering a crowded market here, too.

Representatives for Specific Media, which owns Myspace, did not return messages for comment Wednesday. Timberlake's publicist also did not return an email for comment. With only the slick demo and the poppy, bittersweet lyrics of the JJAMZ song to offer details about the "New Myspace", these lines stand out:

"Maybe I'm ashamed to want you back. Maybe I'm afraid, you'll never stay."

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Online: https://new.myspace.com/play

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Google reportedly didn't expect Apple to ditch their maps so soon, still months away from releasing new app

Apple has a year left on their most recent Google Maps agreement, apparently, and didn't expect Apple to remove them from iOS 6 and launch a new app anywhere near this soon. Meaning, Google was caught flat-footed and won't be ready to ship a standalone Google Maps app for the App Store for several more months. This according to a quartet of stories published today.

Kevin Krolicki of Reuters scored a quote from Google Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt:

"We think it would have been better if they had kept [our maps]. But what do I know?" Schmidt told a small group of reporters in Tokyo. "What were we going to do, force them not to change their mind? It's their call."

Schmidt also said Android was kicking the iPhone's butt, yet doesn't enjoy the same kind of media attention obsessively lavished on Apple. So there.

Bloomberg also got a quote from Schmidt at the same Tokyo Nexus event:

?We haven?t done anything yet with Google Maps,? Schmidt told reporters in Tokyo today. Apple would ?have to approve it. It?s their choice,? Schmidt said, declining to say if the Mountain View, California-based company submitted an application to Apple for sale through its App Store.

Chris Ziegler of The Verge, meanwhile, says Google was caught off-guard by Apple's timing:

Apple's decision to ship its own mapping system in the iPhone 5 and iOS 6 was made over a year before the company's agreement to use Google Maps expired, according to two independent sources familiar with the matter. The decision, made sometime before Apple's WWDC event in June, sent Google scrambling to develop an iOS Google Maps app ? an app which both sources say is still incomplete and currently not scheduled to ship for several months.

And Nick Wingfield and Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times says making the standalone Google Maps app will be complicated, firstly because they already have a Google Earth app and will need to figure out if they're going to consolidate it into maps, but also...

Google?s contract with Apple to keep the maps app on the iPhone had more time remaining, and Google did not know that Apple had changed its mind until Apple said publicly in June that it would replace the app with its new maps app, according to two people briefed on the decision.

Though, frankly, if Google only figured out Apple was rolling their own mapping solution when it was announced at WWDC, they're clearly reading the wrong blogs... The moment Apple bought its first mapping company, PlaceBase back in July of 2009 alarm bells should have been going off for Google -- giant, neon alarm bells -- and they should have immediately begun a skunkworks project to have a standalone iOS app ready and waiting for just such a turn of events. Seriously, it's like watching someone wind up a punch with cartoon-like exaggeration and not even preparing to counterpunch until knuckle starts denting jaw.

In any case, iOS 6 users will have to keep offering corrections to Apple's database, and those desperate to get Google Maps back onto their iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads will likely be stuck using maps.google.com for the next few months still, and that's unfortunate.

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Today's health headlines -- Sept. 25, 2012 | Seattle/LocalHealthGuide

By Stephanie Stapleton

Today?s early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about a new study that details accelerating health care spending.

NPR: Romney Medicaid Remarks Raise Eyebrows

It?s not so much what Mitt Romney said about whether the government should guarantee people health care in his interview on CBS?s ?60 Minutes? Sunday that has health care policy types buzzing. It?s how that compares to what he has said before (Rovner, 9/25).

The Wall Street Journal?s Washington Wire: Romney Rebuke On Emergency Care Draws Rebuke

Mitt Romney?s comments in a CBS ?60 Minutes? interview Sunday that emergency rooms provide care to people who don?t have insurance drew a rebuke from a group representing emergency-room doctors and a jab from the Obama campaign. But the question and answer weren?t so clear (Radnofsky, 9/24).

The Associated Press: Double-Digit Premium Hikes Seen In 7 of 10 Top Medicare Drug Plans

Seniors enrolled in seven of the 10 most popular Medicare prescription drug plans will be hit with double-digit premium hikes next year if they don?t shop for a better deal, says a private firm that analyzes the highly competitive market. The report Monday by Avalere Health is a reality check on the Obama?s administration?s upbeat pronouncements. Back in August, officials had announced that the average premium for basic prescription drug coverage will stay the same in 2013, at $30 a month (9/25).

The Washington Post: Health Insurance Costs Accelerate

U.S. spending on health insurance grew at an accelerated rate in 2011, breaking a two-year trend of smaller cost increases. The culprit, a new study suggests, is not Americans seeking more treatment but rather rapid growth in the price of medical care. Spending for private health insurance surged by 4.6 percent in 2011, according to a report from the Health Care Cost Institute. That growth rate is faster than the rest of the economy and higher than the previous year, which had 3.8 percent growth (Kliff, 9/25).

Politico: Medicare Advantage Bonuses Boost Plan Quality

The Obama administration will announce later this week that the quality of private Medicare plans is on the rise, thanks to an $8 billion demonstration project that pays them bonuses for good performance. And Republicans say that same project is covering up cuts to the popular program under the federal health care law (Norman, 9/25).

USA Today: Prescription-Drug Use Drops Among Young People

Prescription-drug abuse in the USA declined last year to the lowest rate since 2002 amid federal and state crackdowns on drug-seeking patients and over-prescribing doctors (Leger, 9/25).

This article was reprinted from?kaiserhealthnews.org?with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Source: http://mylocalhealthguide.com/2012/09/25/todays-health-headlines-sept-25-2012/

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