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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Former New York Times Publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Dies at 86 ...

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger in 1992, the year he turned the Times publisher position over to his son. He died Saturday at age 86. (Image source: New York Times)

NEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) ? Former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger has died at age 86.

The newspaper reported that his family said Sulzberger died Saturday at his home in Southampton, N.Y., after a long illness. He had retired in 1992 after three decades at the paper?s helm and was succeeded by his son, Arthur Jr.

Sulzberger?s family has controlled the newspaper since his grandfather Arthur Ochs acquired it in 1896.

The company has struggled in recent years but during Sulzberger?s tenure it reached new levels of influence and profit.

The newspaper won 31 Pulitzer prizes, published the Pentagon Papers and won a libel case victory in New York Times vs. Sullivan that established important First Amendment protections for the press.

In a note to New York Times employees obtained by the Poynter Institute, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said ?Punch,? as his father was known, ?always believed that by closely adhering to our Company?s most fundamental precepts we would greatly enhance our ability to produce outstanding journalism.?

?Punch will be sorely missed by his family and his many friends, but we can take some comfort in the fact that his legacy and his abiding belief in the value of quality news and information will always be with us,? Sulzberger wrote.

Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/former-new-york-times-publisher-arthur-o-sulzberger-dies-at-86/

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Devils' Barch blasts owners in long Twitter rant

Frustrated by the ongoing lockout, New Jersey Devils forward Krys Barch voiced his displeasure with NHL owners in a series of tweets Saturday night.

I sit here from Gand Bend, Ontario putting a pen to my heart and writing on paper what bleeds out. My name is Krys Barch. I have played.....
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

..... approx 5 1/2 years in the NHL and have worked for every second of it. I Haven't been a 1st round pick, bonus baby........
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

....... or a son of a hall of famer. I have made it through sweating, bleeding, cut Achilles, broken hands, concussions......
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

........ broken orbital bones, 8 teeth knocked out, etc, etc, etc. I sit in front of a fire, 8 OV deep and starting a bottle of Porte.......
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

...... that will assist in the translations of my emotions to words! No different than a truck driver, farmer or line worker..........
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

........ I have a shot and a beer. Not to deal with the days ahead but to ease the nerves from what my body has endured the days before....
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

I sit here with both my boys sleeping and my wife due with our 3rd. My thoughts racing on what I can conquer tomorrow to get our family.....
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

..... ahead. Some times wondering if I should have existed when a word and a gunsolidified and solved all problems. I feel the Wild West..
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

.... would more simplified than the world we live in now whet an employer who makes billions of dollars and a league with record revenues...
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

.... can tell me that I can't do the things that my heart tells my me to do! All what my heart tells me to do far surpasses what my ....
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

..... body has endured. As I write this I dive deeper and deeper into my bottle of Porte giving wider views to the depths of my heart.....
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

.... As my pen warms from the fire, Neil Young and a fall Canadian night, I wonder how this work stoppage effects the owners?
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

I wonder if the owners of Boston, New York,Washington, etc, etc,have endured any of the injuries that I or any other player in the .....
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

.... NHL have endured. Still they probably sit their smoking the same brand of cigar, sipping the same cognac, and going on vacation .....
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

..... To one of five houses they own.... While we sit here knowing they want to take 20% of our paychecks. One half to 3/4 of my peers
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

.... Will have to work for the next 50 years of their lives. Congratulations to the lucky select few that I have played with who have made..
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

... Salaries that they can choose to do whatever they want when they are done.But I have played most who do not!
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

If the NHL wants to teams in the south or struggling markets than the players along with the financially well to do teams need to start....
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

.... Working together. Or they need to start to move teams to the North where they will make money. The system allows the owners to......
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

....... continually take money from the players contract after contract where eventually over 40 some years the owners will have 80%.....
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

..... Of revenue. The only way to stop the work stoppages long into the future is fix the root cause of the problems. The lockout.......
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

..... Is a procedure to take from the players to pay for the NHL mistakes. Let not allow the NHL to make any mor mistakes....
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

... Let the league and the players to come together to fix the mistakes that have been made and make sure non are made in the future....
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

...... Lets get a deal where the owners, players, and fans benefit from. We're we can be sitting around in beautiful Canadian fall's......
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

....... around a fire playing and watching the game we love. Here's to the truth and our next conversation. As always speaking from my.....
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

...... Heart! Goodnight! Like me or hate me I speak what comes from my heart!
? Krys Barch (@krysbarch) September 30, 2012

Source: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl-lockout/2012/09/30/krys_barch_twitter_rant_nhl_lockout/?utm_source=Home%20Lineup%20RSS-Images&utm_medium=feed&utm_content=Devils'%20Barch%20blasts%20owners%20in%20long%20Twitter%20rant

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Bots Drive 16% of U.S. Web Traffic [INFOGRAPHIC]

Along with trolls and Rickrolls, bots are the scourge of the Internet.

Automated clicks on ads and other web content drive down value, diminish investments and hurt integrity. And the bot problem only seems to be getting worse as technology advances. This summer, for example, a Long Island startup gained widespread attention after claiming that 80% of the clicks it paid for in Facebook ads came from bots and not humans.

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But just how bad is the bot epidemic -- and how can bots be beat?

The online advertising company Solve Media recently ran some analytics on the issue, and came up with a number of interesting results, which are presented in the following infographic.

[More from Mashable: Our iPhones Are Depleting the Earth?s Resources [INFOGRAPHIC]]

Among Solve's more interesting findings is that, while the United States may have the most bots in terms of sheer numbers, it actually has a lower rate of non-consumer traffic than some other countries. Some 16 percent of U.S. traffic is bot-based, according to Solve, but in Singapore that number is an astonishing 56 percent. In Taiwan, it's 54 percent, and 43 percent in the Philippines.

That can mean a potential major loss of money for advertisers. Online display advertising will reach $15.3 billion this year, according to some estimates, so all that bot traffic means an overall potential spending waste by advertisers that reaches into the hundreds of millions of dollars at a minimum.

So what can you, online advertiser, do to defeat the bots? Looking for cost-per-engagement advertising opportunities, partnering with publishers who actively fight bot traffic and implementing tracking technology are three good ways to get started. For more, check out the full infographic below.

What are the best anti-bot measures you know of? Let us know in the comments.

This story originally published on Mashable here.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bots-drive-16-u-traffic-infographic-232837395.html

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Iraq floats plan to get Syrian opponents talking

UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has proposed a two-stage plan to bring both sides of the Syrian conflict together to discuss a political transition.

Zebari said in an interview that he made the proposal at a ministerial meeting Friday of 20 countries mainly opposed to the government of President Bashar Assad of Syria.

The first stage would be to bring together the countries that endorsed a blueprint leading to a political transition that was adopted in Geneva on June 30 to now focus on implementing that blueprint, he said.

Zebari said the second stage would be to invite representatives of the government and the opposition to a conference in a neutral place.

He said that international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi would have to carry the plan forward.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-floats-plan-syrian-opponents-talking-221722898.html

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Penn Immunologists Find a Molecule That Puts the ... - Health.am

? Immunology ? Sep 28, 2012

We couldn?t live without our immune systems, always tuned to detect and eradicate invading pathogens and particles. But sometimes the immune response goes overboard, triggering autoimmune diseases like lupus, asthma or inflammatory bowel disease.

A new study led by University of Pennsylvania researchers has now identified a crucial signaling molecule involved in counterbalancing the immune system attack.

?The immune response is like driving a car,? said Christopher Hunter, professor and chair in the Department of Pathobiology in Penn?s School of Veterinary Medicine. ?You hit the accelerator and develop this response that?s required to protect you from a pathogen, but, unless you have a brake to guide the response, then you?ll just careen off the road and die because you can?t control the speed of the response.?

The research to characterize this immune system ?brake? was led by Hunter and Aisling O?Hara Hall, a doctoral candidate in the Immunology Graduate Group. Additional Penn collaborators included scientists from the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute?s Department of Biology and the Perelman School of Medicine?s Department of Medicine. Researchers from Merck Research Laboratories, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Harvard Medical School and Janssen Research and Development also contributed to the work, which was published in the journal Immunity.

"Healthy people have these cells - you have them, I have them - that are called Tregs,? or regulatory T cells, Hunter said. ?If you don?t have them you develop spontaneous inflammation and disease.?

Different forms of regulatory T cells operate as the brakes on various kinds of inflammation, but, until now, scientists hadn?t been certain of how these Tregs became specialized to do their particular jobs.

Hall, Hunter and colleagues decided to follow up on a molecule called IL-27. Scientists used to think IL-27 played a role in causing inflammation, but, in 2005, a team of Penn researchers, including Hunter, found the opposite; it was actually involved in suppressing inflammation. Thus, when mice that lack IL-27 are challenged with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, they develop overwhelming inflammation.

?We never worked out how it did that, but it was a paradigm change at the time,? Hunter said.

In the new study, the researchers delved deeper into IL-27?s role. They found that exposing regulatory T cells to IL-27 promoted their ability to suppress a particular type of inflammation. The Penn-led team also demonstrated that they could rescue infected IL-27-deficient mice by giving them a transfusion of regulatory T cells. This finding suggests that IL-27 is required to produce the Treg cells that normally keep inflammatory responses in check during infection.

?Very surprisingly, we were able to show that the Tregs could ameliorate the pathology in this system,? Hall said. ?We don?t think this is the only mechanism by which IL-27 limits immune pathology, but it sheds light on one mechanism by which it could be functioning.?

Further experiments showed that Tregs express a different suite of genes in the presence of IL-27 as compared to another molecule that has been implicated in this process, interferon gamma, or IFN-?. The researchers? findings indicate that the two molecules have division of labor when it comes to suppressing inflammation: IL-27 seems to be important in helping control inflammation at the site of inflammation, whereas IFN-? appears more significant in the peripheral tissues.

?At the site of inflammation, where you?re getting your pathology, that?s where IL- 27 is important,? Hall said.

With a new understanding of how IL-27 may cause a class of Tregs to become specialized inflammation fighters, researchers have a new target for ameliorating the unwanted inflammation associated with all kinds of autoimmune conditions.

?Now we have a molecular signature that may be relevant in inflammatory bowel disease, in multiple sclerosis, in colitis and Crohn?s disease, in rheumatoid arthritis, in lupus,? Hunter said.

Next on tap, the team plans to study IL-27 in the context of asthma, lupus and arthritis.

In addition to Hall and Hunter, the authors included Beena John, Claudia Gonza?lez Lombana, Gretchen Harms Pritchard, Jonathan S. Silver, Jason S. Stumhofer, Tajie H. Harris, Elia D. Tait Wojno, Sagie Wagage and Philip Scott of Penn Vet?s Department of Pathobiology; Daniel P. Beiting, David S. Roos and Sara Cheery of the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute Department of Biology; Steven Reiner, formerly of the Penn Department of Medicine; Cristina M. Tato and Daniel Cua of Merck Research Laboratories; Yasmine Belkaid, Guillaume Oldenhove, Nicolas Bouladoux and John Grainger of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease; Laurence A. Turka of Harvard Medical School; and M. Merle Elloso of Janssen Research and Development.

The study was supported by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Institutes of Health.

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Facebook Messenger 2.0 for iPhone brings new design to conversations, swipe left for friends list

Facebook debuted the new look of its dedicated Messenger app on Android last week and and just as promised, now it's available on the iPhone as well. Facebook Messenger 2.0 brings a new SMS-style bubble layout to conversations, a swipe left gesture to reveal one's friends list and the ability to push the friends you message most to the top of the list. As mentioned along with the Android update this is a part of a new release schedule cycle that should see updates arriving every 4 - 8 weeks. That means you can mark your calendar for the next refresh if this is your social network of choice, but for now just grab the latest version from iTunes.
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NDA Submission Update for Ponatinib for Chronic Myeloid - MPR

ARIAD Pharmaceuticals announced it has completed the rolling submission of the New Drug Application (NDA) for ponatinib to the FDA, seeking marketing approval in patients with resistant or intolerant chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and Philadelphia-chromosome positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL).

ARIAD provided the FDA with remaining chemistry, manufacturing, and controls (CMC) data. The Company has requested accelerated approval and a priority review of the ponatinib application by the FDA.

Ponatinib is an investigational BCR-ABL inhibitor that also selectively inhibits certain other tyrosine kinases in preclinical studies, including FLT3, RET, KIT, and the members of the FGFR and PDGFR families of kinases. The primary target for ponatinib is BCR-ABL, an abnormal tyrosine kinase that is expressed in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and Philadelphia-chromosome positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL). Ponatinib targets not only native BCR-ABL but also its isoforms that carry mutations that confer resistance to treatment with existing tyrosine kinase inhibitors, including the T315I mutation for which no effective therapy currently exists.
For more information call (877) 621-2302 or visit www.ariad.com.
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Cleaning and Handling of Glass Display Cabinets

Buying glass cabinets is one thing and looking after the cabinets is another. You need to do both the tasks perfectly and should leave no stone unturned in connection to the cleaning and handling of the glass itself. It can become a bane for you to carry out the cleaning process of display cabinets in a serene manner. To overcome the odds, you must have knowledge about the essential elements and factors in connection to the cleaning of the glass display cabinets. If you are to find a way out, then make sure you give thorough read to this page. Following are the important and essential tips in connection to the cleaning process of the glass.

First step is the regular cleaning. You cannot just wait for the harmful aspects to show, and start the cleaning process then. This type of attitude is not on. You have to make the glass cabinets undergo a regular cleaning process, which can lay the foundation of you getting the clean and best looking glass cabinets. Everyday cleaning is important because the glass cabinets can become dirty and sticky in a quick span of time.

Lint-Free Napkin or Cloth

To carry out the cleaning process with 100% efficiency, a lint free cloth can be ideal. You must clean the glass cabinets with such a cloth to provide smear free results. It is important for you to keep this cleaning tip in mind when going to clean the display cabinets. Along with the lint free cloth, certain cleaning products are there for the taking as well.

If you are to remove smudges from the glass, then you should polish it with a newspaper. You must apply such type of polishing after the normal cleaning process has been done.

It can be tough to clean the wooden frames of the glass cabinets. Along with wooden frames, metal frames are also available. It is important for you to select the cleaning product that can work best with both wooden and metal frame of the cabinet. Wood and glass cleaners can be a good option but if you are looking for a complete package in connection to a cleaning product, then you must go with any of the available multipurpose cleaner that can do the trick for you.

If you are to leave no room for error, then you must clean the glass cabinets at every angle. It is important for you to check for any visible marks present on the glass cabinet. You must check from all the angles, and if possible, from different heights as well. It can entitle you to get spotless cleaning. Glass display cabinets can help in displaying the items appropriately with little difficulty. To get the job done and extract the desired results, you have to keep the glass cabinets clean. To carry out the cleaning process, you must refer to the above-mentioned guidelines.
Source: http://vinci-quality.com/2012/09/cleaning-and-handling-of-glass-display-cabinets/
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Digital Innovations: What's Happening In Social Media Marketing ...

Digital Innovations
I?m moderating a panel at Digital East on Tuesday about digital innovations and social media. So, I thought I would take a look at some of the innovations that I?ve seen and try to predict some of the things that we?re likely to see in the future.
First of all, I?m sitting here recording post with Siri on my iPad, which I just think it?s awesome. I no longer have to type in my blog posts. That lead me to think about a world that?s more audio-based, than text-based ? where many of our daily tasks are completed using software such as Siri to record our thoughts and transmit them in digital space. We?ve already seen a world where social media is more visual, is it possible that the future will be audio?
Maybe consumers in the future will speak to their devices to search and purchase products online. And, what would that be like? Would it expend from virtual space to real spaces? Would this allow us to shop without ever leaving our car? For instance, would everything be drive-through, allowing us to speak our needs into a digital device, swipe our phone to pay for the item, then pull around to have purchases loaded into our car?
It?s an interesting thought, but what will that mean for retailers who rely on their brick and mortar stores to entice unplanned purchases and the social element inherent in a brick and mortar shopping experience? And, what will this mean for prior digital innovations, such as newcomer Shopkick and the QR codes used ubiquitously in stores?
Digital Innovation: where we came from
Sometimes the best way to understand where we?re going is to take a look back at where we stand. In the not-too-distant past the Internet was just for scientists and for the military. But, beginning in the 1990s you saw the emergence of the World Wide Web. The ease of web development, emergence of easy-to-use browsers, like GOOGLE (Happy 14th Birthday) and cheap internet provides such as AOL, spread usage of the internet to ever-increasing groups of users.
Then, of course, we had a number of businesses jumping into the Internet especially in the form of e-commerce, forming what all know as the infamous dot-coms. The dot-coms failed miserably by the end of the 1990s and early 2000s mainly because their business models were very flawed.
Most dot-coms did not developed an effective way of commercializing their business model. Others failed to provide value for consumers over existing offerings. An exception is Amazon.com, which not only thrived during the dot-com failure, it eventually drove out its brick-and-mortar competition.
Digital Innovation: where we are now
We see the same kind of thing happening today on social networks. Facebook, which quickly swept much of the known world ? gaining nearly 1 Billion users ? was introduced to the market just a few short months ago. Despite significant buzz in the financial markets, Facebook lost a lot of its luster since then and even the major private stockholders who bought Facebook before it went public are dumping much of that stock.
Several problems underpin Facebook?s problem and are inherent in digital innovations. First, the technology that enables these digital innovations creates an environment where other businesses can create competing products. So, just as many dot-coms failed because too many businesses were chasing the few dollars being spent online, social networks are all chasing the same users with too few differences that create REAL value for consumers.
Social networks are also TOO open. Where once you had friends sharing interesting posts, you now have businesses who know little about sharing in social media drowning out the voices of your friends. Recently, Twitter has almost become useless unless you seriously restrict your network, with the message to noise ratio creating negative user experiences. Many users quit Facebook with the same frustration.
And, like the dot-com digital innovation, most social networks struggle to find a means to monetize their platforms and the use of paid promotions only decreases the user experience further.
Just like Amazon before it, Google appears to have developed the magic elixir of success. Today, nearly 70% of worldwide search occurs on Google.
Google?s success comes because they never lost sight of creating user value, Google?s efforts to monetize their platform are successful without declining user experience. Google?s success comes through giving away significant value to users ? free searches for consumers and free tools for businesses.
What this means for you
Digital innovations occur at an increasingly fast pace. Your business models must look to the future of these digital innovations rather than past digital platforms.
You also have to learn from the mistakes of those who came before. Creating customer value creates long-term success.
And, we can help. Hausman and Associates is a full service firm operating at the intersection of marketing and social media. We have over 25 years of experience guiding firms through the innovation process and optimizing their strategies for changing times. Let us provide a proposal to make your marketing SIZZLE.
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Friday, September 28, 2012

Android Embraces, iPhone 5 Passes on Near-Field Communication Data Sharing

Conspicuously absent on the iPhone 5, near-field communication (NFC) enables smart phones to share purchasing and security data with a tap--a feature that has surged on the Android platform

By Larry Greenemeier

NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC): As phone-makers, retailers and credit card companies work out the feasibility of NFC as a gateway to facilitating commerce, others want smart phones that can function like the badges that many people swipe en route to their offices every morning. Image: Courtesy of audioundwerbung, via iStockphoto.com

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The map rift with Google may not be Apple's biggest misstep with the iPhone 5. Instead, it might be the company's decision to exclude near-field communication (NFC). Most major smart phone?makers?including Samsung, Nokia and HTC?are backing the technology for its ability to turn their devices into mobile wallets, with which users can make purchases and digitally store boarding passes and coupons. As phone-makers, retailers and credit card companies work out the feasibility of NFC as a gateway to facilitating commerce, others see the technology as opening doors?literally.
NFC-enabled smart phones can function like the badges that many people swipe en route to their offices every morning. A key difference between NFC and the radio-frequency chips embedded in employee ID badges is NFC's two-way communication capability, making it a more versatile tool for security.
Two companies are testing how NFC might improve employee access to their facilities: Good Technology, which sells mobile data security software, and Netflix, the subscription-based entertainment content provider. The California-based companies recently wrapped up several-week-long pilot programs to see whether it makes sense to replace employee building-access photo badges and key fobs with NFC-enabled smart phones. A small sample of employees received Samsung GALAXY S III handsets loaded with an app that automatically confirmed their identities at NFC-enabled security checkpoints.
NFC uses electromagnetic radio fields to allow two devices to exchange data in either direction when passed within four or five centimeters of one another. Radio-frequency identification (RFID), by comparison, works from several meters away, but information moves only unidirectionally?for example from an E-ZPass tag on a windshield to a tollbooth reader.
Although much larger and heavier than photo badges, the GALAXY phones used at Good Technology and Netflix ostensibly would provide increased security because they can be PIN-protected?if the device were lost or stolen, the average person without hacking skills would not be able to access information stored on it.
"Having an authentication credential on a phone is more secure than a badge or another physical access token because the only security I have on that is my picture," says Michael Mahan, Good Technology's senior vice president of special markets. "If I lose my badge, someone else could fairly easily pick it up and use it to get past security."
As part of the test project, Mahan also equipped his own office with an NFC-enabled lock to control access when he was traveling. In addition to allowing Mahan to grant office access to specific employees remotely, he could also pull data from the NFC system that showed who had used his office, and when.
At both companies most of the employees liked the prospect of simply waving a smart phone over an NFC reader so much, they said they would be willing to load the app on their personal handsets if they could not get shiny new GALAXY phones from their employers. More than 106 million NFC-enabled Google Android phones shipped in 2011, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. NFC support can in some cases be added to a smart phone by installing an NFC-compatible SIM card or microSD card.
Although both Good and Netflix plan to extend NFC testing to additional employees, some concerns remain, including whether adding the NFC app to someone's personal smart phone would prematurely drain the battery if the app is left on for an extended period of time. NFC is designed to use only a small amount of energy, but a smart phone with a dead battery would defeat the purpose of using the device as a security badge?or anything else.
Apple has not left its customers out in the cold when it comes to short-range communications that might someday be used for purchases or security. Instead of NFC, the company has (since the debut of its iPhone 4S in 2011) endorsed Bluetooth 4.0, which includes a low-energy version of the wireless radio technology that is a bit slower than NFC but has a much greater range (about 50 meters). The new iOS 6 mobile operating system features a new app?Passbook?designed to use Bluetooth LE (low energy) for data exchange. As with NFC, the key challenge now is getting retailers and other businesses to develop apps as well as buy readers and other equipment that can take advantage of the technology.
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China Issues Measures on Income Tax for Enterprise Relocation ...

Sept. 28 ? China?s State Administration of Taxation (?SAT?) released the ?Administrative Measures on Income Tax for the Policy-Based Relocation of Enterprises (Announcement [2012] No.40, hereinafter referred to as ?Measures?)? on August 10, aiming to regulate the administration of levying income tax on enterprises undergoing policy-based relocation. Key provisions of the Measures can be found below.

For the purpose of the Measures, the policy-related relocation of enterprises refers to the relocation of all or part of an enterprise initiated by the government based on the needs of social public interest, such as relocation due to the needs of national defense, diplomacy?or social welfare housing projects.

Independent accounting

Enterprises shall conduct separate taxation administration and accounting for relocation income, relocation expenses, the taxation treatment of relocated assets, and the administrative affairs regarding the collection of income tax on relocation income, according to the requirements of the Measures.

For enterprises failing to conduct the separate taxation administration and accounting, the income tax treatment thereof shall be carried out by regarding such relocation as non-policy-related relocation (e.g. self-initiated relocation or commercial relocation) and the provisions of the Measures shall not apply.

Taxation treatment for the relocation of assets

Where an asset involved in the relocation of an enterprise may continue to be used immediately after simple installation or without installation, the depreciation or amortization for the net value thereof shall continue to be calculated based on the remaining years of depreciation or amortization of the asset as prescribed by the Enterprise Income Tax Law and its implementing regulations after the asset is put into use again.

Where an asset involved in the relocation of an enterprise can only be re-used after an overhaul, the net value thereof and the expenses incurred during the overhaul process shall be regarded as a taxable cost of the asset. The depreciation or amortization of the asset shall be calculated based on the remaining useful life of the asset after the asset is put into service again.

For the land expropriated during the relocation process which adopts the land substitution method, the taxable cost of the land received from the substitution?shall be?the net value of the land expropriated and all fees and expenses incurred before the substituting land is put into use. Such costs shall be amortized over the years prescribed by the Enterprise Income Tax Law and its implementing regulations after the substituting land is put into use.

Moreover, the expenses incurred by the enterprise from the procurement of assets shall not be deducted from the relocation income.

Taxable income

The relocation income and relocation expenses of enterprises incurred during the relocation period may not be included in the taxable income of the current period and can be settled on a consolidated basis in the year in which the relocation is completed. The Measures provide a maximum of five years for the relocation, and enterprises meeting the following conditions shall be regarded as having completed the relocation:

The relocation planning has?been basically?completed; and

The production and operation income of the current year accounts for more than 50 percent of the production and operation income of the year before the relocation.

The Measures are scheduled to take effect on October 1, 2012, with the ?Notice of the State Administration of Taxation on Relevant Issues concerning the Enterprise Income Tax on Income from Policy-Related Relocation or Disposal (guoshuihan[2009] No.118)? simultaneously repealed.

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Legal Mambo ? Healthy Tipping Point

by Caitlin on September 26, 2012

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?Twas a good day!? I feel like I ran all over the place, but I managed to keep all the balls in the air and a smile on my face.? Even organized a dinner party for our out-of-town guests!

But first? I had a ton of work to do at the Holistic Wellness Center.? It?s exciting ? the Husband is officially so busy with patients that he can?t run the business aspect of everything as well as take appointments.? So I?m putting on my office manager hat and getting more involved with the clinic.? My big task of the day?? Reviewing the very, very lengthy and complicated lease for our new office space!? (Don?t worry ? we had a lawyer look it over, too.)? My fingers are crossed that everything will work out with the lease because we love the new office.? It?s so beautiful and in such a prime location.? I can?t wait to do a tour for everyone if we move in.

If I had to read a 38-page document dripping in legalspeak, I figured I should do it at a Mexican restaurant with salsa and chips within arm?s reach.? Yum.

Henry said he was going to help, but he opted to just take a nap in his carseat under a blankie.?

And then we had a long meeting with the new landlord.? Henry woke up for the excitement and made lots of good points with his babbling and drooling.?

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Dinner party time!

So, Kristien?s grandparents and aunt are in town.? We invited his sister over for dinner, too.? It was a full house ? seven adults, one sleeping baby, and two yipping pups.? Had to pull over the computer chairs so everyone had a place to sit!

I made:

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Crock-pot veggies:? Potatoes, onions, carrots (cooked with balsamic dressing on high for five hours)

Chicken sausage

Cast iron tofu?

Greens massaged with olive oil and salt

Garlic bread with squeezable herbs on top

Whew.? What an afternoon. Can I crawl into bed now?!

Source: http://www.healthytippingpoint.com/2012/09/legal-mambo.html
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