Monday, July 29, 2013

iTunes Beta Adds iTunes Radio, Slide-To-Unlock Tweak And Screenshot Detection API Added To iOS 7

itunes-radio-itunesApple has released a new beta of iOS 7 today, which is the fourth in the series. There are only a couple of months to go at most before we see the final edition roll out, so it's not surprising that this update contains a variety of notable visual changes that smooth out some of iOS 7's rough spots. There's also a new iTunes beta of version 11.1, which brings iTunes Radio to the OS X desktop.

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Sunday, July 28, 2013

The Storm and The Flood

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These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.


-Romeo and Juliet

Deep into that darkness, peering, I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting...
Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dreamed to dream before.

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Got Gwap? Nene Leakes Faces Lawsuit Over Her $1.8 Milli Wedding

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Nene Leakes is at the center of some drama again. This time it?s over her pricy summer nuptials!

Via Baller Alert reports:

Nene Leakes owes big for her lavish second wedding to husband, Gregg Leakes. Celebrity wedding planner, Tiffany Cook of Dream Design Weddings, was hired by the Leakes family to coordinate Nene & Gregg?s wedding on June 22, 2013. The wedding is set to appear on a Bravo TV special in September.
Tiffany Cook claims that NeNe?s budget for the wedding was $1.8 million and was promised 15% of the entire wedding budget PLUS fees design and execution of the wedding PLUS travel expenses to the event. Cook claims she was due $270k (the 15%) PLUS another $889,900 (design fees) PLUS $1,750 (4 coach tickets from Florida to Georgia).

According to Cook, NeNe did fork over the initial down payment of $18,750 but she hasn?t seen a penny since so she?s suing for the remaining $1,142,900 balance PLUS damages.

Well damn, isn?t she making $800K a year filming for ?Real Housewives?? And why isn?t Bravo footing the bill ? wasn?t all this lavishness for the sake of reality TV?

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A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Growers turned to genetics in hopes of building a tougher orange tree. But what intervention would the public accept?
    


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Saturday, July 27, 2013

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North Korea Shows Military Might at Mass Rally

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The North Korean Military marked the anniversary Saturday of the end of the Korean War by showing what may be its first intercontinental missiles at a parade in Pyongyang. ...

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Factor In Food Cost When Deciding Whether to Fly or Drive

Factor In Food Cost When Deciding Whether to Fly or Drive

Trips to places about 200-400 miles away present an interesting dilemma; should you drive or fly? While most peoples' first instinct is to guesstimate the cost of gas vs. a plane ticket, factoring in food can make a big difference in your overall budget.

Trent from The Simple Dollar notes that many people forget that car trips can save you a ton of money on food, because you can bring a cooler to your final destination and avoid a few trips to the snack bar. Even during the drive itself, you can stop at cheaper diners, or pack some sandwiches yourself, avoiding airport markups. Your savings will vary with this tip depending on the length of your stay, but it's an easy thing to forget when you're arranging your itinerary.

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Mandela's health showing "sustained improvement": government

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela is showing "sustained improvement" in hospital although he remains in a critical condition, the government said on Monday.

The government statement said President Jacob Zuma had visited the 95-year-old Mandela in the Pretoria hospital where he has been for the last seven weeks receiving treatment for a recurring lung infection.

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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Oil Paintings by Sandy Scruggs featured at Art in City Hall in Lakeland

Sandy Scruggs is the City of Lakeland?s featured artist for the July-September Quarterly ?Art at City Hall? exhibit.?
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Sandy was first introduced to oil painting in 1979. Her first instructor was Jewel Armstrong, whom she spent 3 ? years learning the style and techniques of the old masters.??From there she attended various workshops and began focusing more on the works of the Impressionists and their?use of color.??Sandy was part of a local group of artists who went to France to study art history by touring Paris and the surrounding area, and with classroom instruction at the College of Art in Angers, France.

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Since 1999, Sandy has devoted much of her creative energy to instruction and encouraging others who share her love of art.??She enjoys capturing the beauty of nature in her landscapes and still-life's. Her true love is the challenge of painting animals.?Her works may currently be seen at Market Central and Fountain Art Gallery, of which she has been a member for 15 years in Memphis, TN. Visit her website at?www.sandyspaintings.com.

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Artists interested in being considered for future exhibits may contact Joy Cloud at 867-2717 or?jcloud@lakelandtn.org.

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Motorola's going to show everyone the new Moto X on August 1, in New York.

Motorola's going to show everyone the new Moto X on August 1, in New York. Or well, actually, it showed us the phone right there on the invite, on the left. May as well give up all pretense of these things being some big surprise. We'll tell you more about the phone from the event.

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Budget Carefully for Your Home Improvement ? Defiance Windows Offers Remodeling Tips

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Building a screened in porch on the back or front of ones house can provide an additional room for one to relax in. An individual or whole family can enjoy the view of the outdoors while staying free from mosquitoes and most other bugs. A screened in porch can be a worthwhile home improvement project.

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Desktop printing at the nano level

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A new low-cost, high-resolution tool is primed to revolutionize how nanotechnology is produced from the desktop, according to a new study.

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Virginia Is Corrupt

Gov. Bob McDonnell speaks at the Opportunities in Motion Commonwealth of Virginia Governor's Transportation Conference in Vienna, VA. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell in 2012

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If you?re looking for indoor fun in 100-degree weather, go ahead and Google Virginia?s ethics laws for elected officials. First thing you?ll notice? The word ?lax? is used to modify the words ?Virginia Ethics Laws? so often in news accounts that you could not be faulted for believing ?Lax Virginia Ethics Laws? to be the official title of the statute.

The next thing you?ll notice? That seems to just be the way things are, here in the Old Dominion.

Embattled Gov. Bob McDonnell has probably just cratered a once-promising political career over $145,000 in undisclosed gifts?each worthy of its own episode of Real Housewives of Richmond?including a $6,500 Rolex, a New York shopping spree for his wife, limo rides, catering for his daughter?s wedding, and a ride in a Ferrari. Is it shocking that McDonnell and his wife?twisted themselves into pretzels to shill for the donor company?s weird tobacco-based nutritional supplements?

Under the ?Lax Virginia Ethics Law,? there is no cap on the amount of gifts an elected official can receive, so long as all gifts valued at more than $50 are disclosed annually. Moreover, any gifts to spouses and immediate family members are not counted as gifts to the official. So that when, for instance, Jonnie R. Williams Sr., the chief executive of the foundering nutritional supplements company Star Scientific, paid out $15,000 to cater the governor?s daughter?s wedding in 2011, that was considered a gift to the daughter?even though the governor signed the catering contract and the caterers refunded the overpayment to his wife.

McDonnell is now subject to tanking poll numbers, an FBI investigation, and a grand jury probe over the possibility that he did favors for Star Scientific in exchange for gifts and cash. Indeed nobody can have been happier than McDonnell when the commonwealth?s attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, pushed him out of the headlines midweek with ethics questions about his own relationship with Star Scientific and an unerringly Victorian zeal for criminalizing every act of consensual oral sex within state lines.

Cuccinelli was cleared Thursday following a three-month ethics probe by an independent investigator who found no ethics violations in his failure to disclose $5,100 in gifts from the CEO of Star Scientific. The attorney general had no conflict of interest when he purchased shares of Star Scientific and vacationed at the CEO?s various properties, all while his office defended a tax-assessment lawsuit filed by Star Scientific, the same Star Scientific in which he held more than $10,000 in stock. This, while occasionally failing to disclose gifts from Williams in his annual disclosure forms. Because a guy forgets.

As the independent inquiry determined, ?Although one cannot help but question whether repeated omissions of Williams are coincidence or a pattern reflecting intent to conceal, the disclosure of several other benefits and gifts from Williams in his original statements suggests that the attorney general was not attempting to conceal the relationship.? My friend Scott Pilutik memorably characterizes this legal conclusion as follows: ?Because Cuccinelli didn't always conceal the fact that he was creating an appearance of impropriety by accepting gifts, well, nothing to see here. If only everyone earned so much mileage out of all the times they choose not to break the law.?

(Actually, the best zinger in Thursday?s ethics report is not even the bit about how Cuccinelli did disclose some lavish gifts. It?s where the investigator explains that the attorney general took $6,000 in free food supplements from Star Scientific since, ?because of his engineering background, [Cuccinelli] became interested in the purported science surrounding the company?s Anatabloc product.? It?s heartening to hear that the same attorney general who doesn?t believe in the science behind climate change can be such a staunch believer in the science behind unregulated food supplements.

So there it is. No ethics violations by Cuccinelli. And that?s because of Virginia?s lax ethics laws. Actually, not just lax. Ephemeral. Actually, no. Virginia was ranked 47 out of 50 and awarded an F in a comprehensive study on corruption risk in a recent national State Integrity Investigation. So it?s not so much ethics laws as ethics suggestions.

Jessica Tillipman has been blogging hard about the Virginia disclosure rules for the FCPA blog, and she points out that the commonwealth?s F is well-earned:

?Per the State Integrity Investigation, [Virginia] is one of only nine states without a statewide ethics commission and one of four states without campaign finance limits. Moreover, according to the National Conference of State Legislators, Virginia is one of just ten states in the country that, as noted above, does not limit the value of personal gifts provided to elected officials.? ?

Tillipman told me that the fact that there is no cap on the amounts one can give as a gift in Virginia is ?almost unheard of.? She added that the gifts given to McDonnell, including the Rolex, the NFL tickets, and the lavish vacation loaners, would have been clearly impermissible under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. ?Why is it,? she wonders, ?that we permit people to accept gifts in Virginia that they couldn?t accept if they worked in India??

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Friday, July 19, 2013

Vin Diesel Teases Big Marvel News During 'Riddick' Panel

MTV News shares all the cool stuff we learned during the 'Kick-Ass 2' and 'Riddick' Comic-Con panels.
By Ryan J. Downey

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Israel plans settlements despite EU?s tougher line


Israel is pushing ahead with West Bank settlement construction plans despite the fact US secretary of state John Kerry is in the region in an effort to finalise a formula to get Israel and the Palestinians around the negotiating table.

An Israeli planning committee yesterday approved the construction of 741 West Bank homes for Jewish settlers, most in the ultra-Orthodox community of Modi?in Elit.

The move came a day after the decision by the European Union banning European funding for Israeli enterprises in occupied territory.

It remains to be seen if the new settlement plans, which require the approval of defence minister Moshe Ya?alon, will affect Mr Kerry?s efforts to break the diplomatic deadlock. After two meetings in the Jordanian capital Amman with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, Mr Kerry sounded optimistic that a breakthrough was close.

?We have been able to narrow these gaps very significantly. And so we continue to get closer and I continue to remain hopeful that the sides can soon be able to come and sit at the same table.?


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Mr Abbas was due to convene senior officials today to brief them on the American package to renew the talks, which broke down in 2010 in a dispute over Israeli settlement building.

Israel warned that the EU decree excluding all Israeli bodies operating in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights from agreements signed with Israel will encourage Palestinian intransigence. Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu yesterday talked by phone to a number of European leaders in an effort to persuade them to delay implementation of the decree, which is due to go into effect tomorrow.

However, Israeli officials conceded the chances were slim of changing the European decision.


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Israeli economists estimated that the new decree could cost Israel hundreds of millions of euro and there was a danger that the same policy will be adopted by individual EU member states.

An Israeli official accused the EU of taking a unilateral, pro-Palestinian position, meaning Europe could no longer be considered an honest broker with a role to play in peace efforts.

Some right-wing Knesset members advocated an aggressive Israeli response, such as blocking EU-funded development projects for Palestinians or restricting the movement of European diplomats in the West Bank. They also proposed cancelling all planned gestures to the Palestinians, such as a prisoner release.

Justice minister Tzipi Livni termed the EU move a ?resounding wake-up call? for Israel. ?It is regrettable that we?ve reached this situation, but I hope that now all those who thought that it was possible to continue the impasse and who said that our situation has never been better, will realise that we must act and begin negotiations.?

A Palestinian source said the next stage was to ensure the EU enforces its directives and creates obstacles to the settlement enterprise.

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Android Backups Could Expose Wi-Fi Passwords to NSA

Google's "back up my data feature" for Android may be a convenient and easy way to back up files, but it also may put network security at risk by exposing the passwords of encrypted Wi-Fi networks.

On his personal blog, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) staff technologist Micah Lee pointed out that the backup feature syncs all the network passwords your Android devices remember to Google's cloud storage.

"Because Android is so popular, it's likely that Google has plaintext Wi-Fi passwords for the majority of password-protected Wi-Fi networks in the world," Lee wrote.

As an Android device owner adds Wi-Fi network passwords over the course of using the device, every new password is saved on the device. But because Android devices aren't equipped to encrypt passwords, the devices must be saving and transmitting those passwords in plaintext.

"With your home Wi-Fi password, an attacker can sniff Wi-Fi traffic outside your house (without connecting to your network) and then decrypt it all, passively eavesdropping on your private network," Lee wrote.

"If the attacker wants to do more active attacks, they can connect to your Wi-Fi network and mount a man-in-the-middle attack to eavesdrop on and modify any unencrypted Internet traffic," Lee added. "If you download a file, they can serve you a malicious version instead."

In a statement to tech blog Ars Technica, Google said that Android backup data was "encrypted in transit, accessible only when the user has an authenticated connection to Google and stored at Google data centers, which have strong protections against digital and physical attacks."

[The 5 Best Android Security Apps]

The Google representative did not specify whether the data was encrypted on Google's servers, but added that disabling backup on an Android device would cause all backups to be erased.

Lee noted that since Google at least partly cooperates with NSA data-mining operations, it's possible that the spy agency could get hold of Wi-Fi passwords.

The Android backup feature is turned on by default on stock Android devices, which includes the Nexus line of smartphones and tablets. It can be switched on or off under Backup & Reset in the stock Android Settings menu.

(Manufacturers that tweak their Android builds, such as Samsung or HTC, have their own policies.)

Backup is part of the main Android application program interface, or API, meaning it can be accessed by other apps in order to transmit data to the cloud in case the device were to become compromised.

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Mobile Malware: The Smartphone Security Quiz

With cybercriminals now targeting mobile devices, securing smart phones is more important than ever. Test your knowledge of how safe your mobile devices are.

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Opponents of Dell buyout say don't delay vote

By Greg Roumeliotis and Ross Kerber

(Reuters) - Opposition to Michael Dell's bid to take his computer company private grew on Wednesday, and billionaire Carl Icahn argued Dell Inc had no right to delay a shareholder vote, even if the deal looked more likely to fail.

Holders of nearly 30 percent of Dell stock oppose the $24.4 billion offer by founder Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake, which is now scheduled for a vote in Austin, Texas on Thursday morning. That includes shareholders who say they will vote against the buyout or have been reported to oppose it.

Dell may decide to delay the July 18 vote to gain time to win support for the deal, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, asking not to be identified because the deliberations are confidential.

In an open letter to shareholders on Wednesday, billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who has amassed an 8.7 percent stake in Dell, said Dell's special board committee must allow a final vote to be completed on July 18 as scheduled. He once again urged shareholders to oppose the buyout.

"Can you imagine a political election contest where one side could push off the election to wait for a better day to hold the election - a date when it is hoped they might do better in the vote than they would have done on the originally scheduled election date?" he wrote.

The stock ended down 1.1 percent on Wednesday at $12.88, its lowest level since July 5.

Michael Dell and Silver Lake have so far resisted calls, including from Dell's special committee, to raise their $13.65 per share offer.

Two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday the bidders would stick to their offer even if the vote was postponed. The sources asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Vanguard Group Inc, the largest U.S. mutual fund manager and holder of a 3.7 percent stake in Dell, and State Street Corp , which has a 3.5 percent stake, were set to vote against the buyout. Vanguard and State Street declined to comment.

Vanguard and State Street run index funds that typically follow the lead of shareholder advisory firms. Their decision to defy all the three major advisory firms that have recommended the Dell buyout would add to the uncertainty over the vote outcome.

Other key minority shareholders, including BlackRock Inc , T. Rowe Price Group Inc , Highfields Capital Management, Pzena Investment Management and Yacktman Asset Management, have already come out against the buyout or have declined to comment on reports that they are against it.

Under so-called majority-of-the-minority voting provisions, a majority of Dell shareholders, excluding Michael Dell's roughly 16 percent stake in the company, have to vote for the buyout in order for it go through.

This means shareholders, other than Michael Dell, who collectively own almost 43 percent of the Round Rock, Texas-based company need to vote for the buyout for it to go through.

Accounting for the stakes of Icahn and his partner Southeastern Asset Management Inc, the total against the buyout approaches 30 percent of Dell's shareholder base.

To be sure, some shareholders supportive of the deal are holding their ground, including Invesco Ltd's PowerShares line of exchange traded funds, which held a roughly 1 percent stake of Dell according to recent filings.

Asked how they would vote, Invesco spokeswoman Kristin Sadlon said in an e-mail that the funds will vote in accordance with recommendations by Glass Lewis & Co. Like other proxy advisors, Glass Lewis has recommended shareholders vote in favor of the acquisition.

Dell's special board committee will likely decide by Thursday morning whether or not to delay the vote, based on the number of votes that have been cast to block the buyout. Dell's board has set up the special committee to independently assess the best option for shareholders, without influence from Michael Dell, who is the company's chairman and chief executive officer.

Icahn has argued since March that Dell's founder is trying to steal the company away from shareholders almost 30 years after he founded it with just $1,000.

Icahn and Southeastern announced their latest alternative offer for Dell last week. It calls for a buyback of up to 1.1 billion shares at $14 apiece and a Dell warrant offered for every four shares held.

Each warrant would entitle the holder to buy one Dell share for $20 each within the next seven years.

Icahn estimates the value of his latest offer at $15.50 to $18 per share although Dell's special committee dispute this.

In order for his proposal to be put forward for consideration by Dell shareholders, he must first succeed in having Michael Dell's offer voted down and then win enough shareholder support to replace the members of Dell's board with his own nominees.

(Reporting by Nicola Leske, Jessica Toonkel and Greg Roumeliotis in New York and Ross Kerber in Boston; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Richard Chang)

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

China blocks UK drug company exec from leaving the country

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A flag (L) bearing the logo of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) flutters next to a Chinese national flag outside a GlaxoSmithKline office building in Shanghai July 12, 2013.

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline revealed more bad news Wednesday, disclosing that Beijing officials have barred its head of finance for China from leaving the country amid accusations of a $490 million bribery scandal.

GSK's China finance director Steve Nechelput's foreign travel has been restricted since late June, according the British drug company, which pointed out he is still working and allowed to travel within China.

"It is important to stress that at no time has he been questioned or arrested?nor is he one of the individuals in detention," said a GSK spokesman of the British national Nechelput.

That's small comfort to GSK, which has seen four of its Chinese executives detained because of the alleged bribery scandal, which comes on the heels of the company firing its head of research in development in China over a published article that misrepresented data.

After GSK fired its R&D boss, the company said in June that it had investigated allegations made by an anonymous tipster that GSK employees engaged in bribery and corruption to influence doctors in China to prescribe drugs for years. The company said a four-month probe found no evidence of wrongdoing.

But within weeks, Chinese police accused Glaxo of funneling almost $490 million to 700 travel agencies and other businesses over the years to dole out bribes to officials and doctors in the country.

(Read more: GSK fires China R&D boss)

GSK has said it is "deeply concerned and disappointed by these serious allegations," calling them "shameful," and insisting the company has "zero tolerance for any behavior of this nature."

The company in 2010 had revealed that both the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission had spoken to GSK as part of a probe into the pharmaceutical business in countries including China.

On Tuesday, Chinese state television aired an interview with GSK's vice president and manager for operations of its China investment company, Liang Hong, who is one of the four execs detained.

Liang in that interview admitted paying bribes to government officials at agencies responsible for approving drug sales and setting prices.

Although that, and GSK's humbled response to the allegations, suggest Chinese authorities may well have strong evidence against the company, observers of China argue that the GSK crackdown may indicate more concern about foreign competition than foreign corruption.

In recent weeks, Chinese officials have announced a series of probes into foreign makers of baby formula, pharmaceuticals and food packaging. On Wednesday, China said it was launching a six-month long crackdown on the pharmaceutical sector, targeting unauthorized drug manufacturers as well as illegal Internet drug sales and fake traditional Chinese medicines.

"We must resolutely punish illegal acts, expose illegal enterprises, recall problematic products," Wu Zhen, deputy commissioner for China's state Food and Drug Administration, said in a statement.

(Watch: Is China playing by the rules?)

"It's too concerted," said Daniel Gour?, vice president of the Lexington Institute, a public policy research organization, about the probes, which have rocked foreign companies in those sectors.

"They definitely want to bolster the domestic side," said Gour?, a national security analyst who also sees the Chinese actions as an effort to divert attention away from still-unresolved scandals by their domestic manufacturers in some of the same sectors, included a notorious tainted baby formula debacle, even as foreign companies rack up big gains in those areas.

"I think the Chinese are being smart, saying 'If you've got a stain on you, then throw mud on someone else,'" said Gour?.

"This is not a coincidence?it can't be," agreed author Gordon Chang, a longtime critic of China who believes the country is headed for financial meltdown because of heavy debt and dramatically slower growth. "This is actually systematic. ... I believe this is all part of a concerted plan of going after foreign companies."

"I think that what China is doing is trying to basically limit the business of foreign companies," he said.

However, a commentary in the Communist party's People's Daily newspaper said: "A crackdown on commercial bribery by multinationals is deeply significant to safeguarding the order of the market economy and protecting an environment of fair competition," Reuters reported Wednesday.

?By CNBC's Dan Mangan. Follow him on Twitter @_DanMangan

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DOD expects to save $2.4B by reforming military health care

The Pentagon expects to save $2.4 billion over the next six years by reforming military health care.

Staff Washington Business Journal

Under a new Defense Health Agency that will begin operation Oct. 1, the Pentagon expects to save $2.4 billion over the next six years, according to Nextgov.

The Defense Department will do this by consolidating functions previously performed by the three services and the Tricare Management Activity. DHA, with a staff of 1,039 and headed by Air Force Lt. Gen. Douglas Robb , will achieve these savings by providing common shared services for the TRICARE Health Plan, information technology, medical logistics and facilities management.

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Study: African nations should give citizens a direct cut of their mineral wealth

Sometimes the most efficient solution to poverty alleviation is the simplest: give poor people more money to spend.

By Tom Murphy,?Guest blogger / July 18, 2013

A worker shows gold found through gold panning at the Wad Bushara gold mine near Abu Delelq in Gadarif State, Wad Bushara, Sudan, April 27, 2013.

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Natural resources could be the next great development financing tool.

It is quite simple. Take the money that a government makes from the sale of oil, gold, copper, etc. and give citizens a cut.

Giving direct cash will help out the people that need it most and it could spur on development as people will then spend the money on local businesses and services. Additionally, it will reduce corruption and let the average citizen hold his or her government accountable for how money is spent.

That is the basic case made by Todd Moss of the Center for Global Development with his oil-to-cash initiative. A new working paper from World Bank economists?Shanta Devarajan and Marcelo Giugale takes the idea and applies it to resource-rich African nations. They come up with some theoretical ways that countries can design schemes that will turn natural resources from a curse to a blessing.

It matters now because more African countries are discovering major reserves that will significantly alter their national trajectories.?The researchers suggest that governments can follow the example of Alaska and the Canadian province of Alberta who developed schemes that distribute a fixed proportion of resource revenues to all citizens, adopting what the researchers call direct dividend payments (DDPs).

Giving a modest amount of natural resource revenues to citizens can contribute significantly to the elimination of poverty in some countries.

?A transfer of about 10 percent of oil revenues in Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon,?distributed universally, would be sufficient to close the poverty gap in these countries,? write Mr. Devarajan and Mr. Giugale. ?For larger countries such as Mozambique and Nigeria, the transfer would cover about half the poverty gap.?

Governments were initially resistant to DDPs for three reasons:

  1. Too hard and costly to identify citizens;
  2. No incentives for present leaders to give up resource revenues;
  3. Cash-strapped governments cannot afford to give away valuable revenue that pays for public services.

Devarajan and Giugale admit that all were problems year ago, but changes in countries and technological advances wipe away the three concerns. Identifying citizens is easier than ever. India, home to 1.2 billion people, is a third of the way done with its identification card scheme. If India can do it, so can smaller countries. The second concern is less of an issue due to increased democratization. With more countries having elections, candidates can campaign on the idea of initiating a DDP scheme.

Finally, the implementation of DDPs may actually make governments better. With less money, governments will have to eliminate wasteful spending and programs and may even increase public scrutiny for government spending. DDPs recognize the limitations of governments in accomplishing what they set out to do.

In an ideal world, where governments perfectly reflect the preferences of citizens and face no constraints in providing public goods, there is no need for DDPs or, indeed, for any type of cash transfer. The government will choose the correct mix of public investment and consumption, and implement it costlessly.

That sounds simple enough, but it may not be so easy. Prior research from?Devarajan shows that increased scrutiny can slow down the ability of the government to invest natural resource revenues into services. Other research shows that governments may react by providing people with the services they want in order to avoid further scrutiny. In such a case, DDPs would ensure that governments are more responsive to the needs of citizens in order to keep people happy.

This careful balance means that DDPs will work well in countries already benefiting from natural resources, where the transfers would increase level of government scrutiny and the political system where the ruling party has to respond to citizen needs.

It will also work better in smaller countries where taking a small cut from revenues will go a long way. However, large countries should not be dismissed, say the authors. The transfers can move people living in poverty above or closer to the poverty line. Picking up on DDPs will improve transparency in governments, something that the authors say is a good thing.

They are not a substitute for continuing and enhanced efforts at developing the institutional capacity of governments. On the contrary, they complement those efforts, because they trigger additional demands for public accountability.

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Risk of Human-to-Human Spread of Deadly New Bird Flu Virus Higher Than Previously Thought

Mounting evidence suggests lethal H7N9 bird flu poses ?worrisome? threat


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Before this year the H7N9 bird flu virus linked to 133 human infections and 43 deaths was never seen in people. All the available evidence suggests that an effective biological barrier apparently kept a pandemic at bay?humans only contracted the novel virus via direct contact with poultry or environments such as live bird markets rather than by human-to-human transmission. New analysis from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), however, suggests that the virus is closer to becoming a disease transmitted among humans than previously thought.

A large study comparing the genomes of the five reported human H7N9 strains with 37 H7N9 viruses isolated from more than 10,000 poultry market, farm and slaughterhouse samples from across China suggests that the virus would only need small mutations in its protein structure in order to become easily transmissible among humans. Moreover, testing in ferrets?widely considered to the best proxy for humans in flu testing?finds that one lethal strain of the virus that killed the first H7N9 victim in China is transmissible via respiratory droplet, meaning that it could conceivably be spread by coughing and sneezing. The new results are published in Science today. ?Our findings indicate nothing to reduce the concern that these viruses can transmit between humans,? says study author Hualan Chen of the CAAS.

The new findings are ?worrisome,? says Charles Chiu, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, San Francisco. ?For this particular virus, for H7N9, whether or not there is human-to-human transmission is a critical question.?

Since April the number of H7N9 cases has abruptly dropped, but public health officials are concerned that, like other avian influenza viruses that have seasonal infection patterns, H7N9 could mount a resurgence in the fall. With more cases of H7N9 there would be more opportunities for the virus to mutate among humans and, consequently, make the necessary amino acid changes to create human-to-human transmissible H7N9. The H7N9 viruses isolated from birds and humans are already closely genetically related. In the Science analysis researchers found the viruses can bind to human airway receptors, but they maintain the ability to bind to avian airway receptors, too. In order for the virus to be transmissible among humans, it must further mutate to lose its ability to bind to avian airway receptors?a genetic re-sorting the authors say might be possible with only a few amino acid changes.

The Science paper?s results diverge somewhat from earlier research. A study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control published in Nature last week also considered H7N9 transmission in ferrets and found that although ferrets housed together transmit the flu, when the animals were physically separated but shared the same air via a net between their cages, the healthy ferrets only rarely contracted the virus. In that work CDC researchers looked at respiratory droplet transmission in two different strains of H7N9 and found that in a strain originating in Anhui Province, China, only two out of six ferrets contracted the virus whereas in a strain from Shanghai, only one out of three ferrets contracted the virus. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)

In the new study researchers also looked at multiple H7N9 strains and found the virus was similarly transmitted via direct contact. But in contrast to the authors of the Nature reports, they found that all three ferrets exposed to the Anhui H7N9 strain contracted the virus when exposed via respiratory droplets. The Science study authors ran the experiment twice and received the same results.

The significance of the conflicting airborne infection figures from the two studies is unclear because both studies looked at very small numbers of ferrets. Some of the discrepancy could have stemmed from differences in the lab environments. Alternatively, the virus may have changed slightly as the samples grew in the labs. What these studies, along with other existing research, make clear is that H7N9 can indeed spread via airborne transmission, but that this mode of transmission is not very effective compared with direct contact, says Richard Webby, an influenza expert at Saint Jude Children?s Research Hospital in Memphis. The new Science report ?adds a whole lot of data to the growing list of evidence that this virus is something we need to be worried about,? he says.

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Call Six VMA Nominations 'An Amazing Thing'

'When we started making music videos, it's always the goal is to get a VMA nomination,' Macklemore tells MTV News.
By Gil Kaufman, with reporting by Robert Markman

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19 years ago with the Jacksonville Suns.

5:45 PM: Jon Cooper of Saturday Down South reports that when asked who the rudest fans in the SEC were, Missouri QB James Franklin responded: "Missouri. My own fans."

5:30 PM: Green Hope (North Carolina) High School girls' soccer coach Bobby Peterson was arrested on child pornography charges on Saturday. Green Hope won the Class 4A state title in May, and Peterson has had a 125-15-1 record with the team since 2008.

5:15 PM: Alabama defensive back Ha Ha Clinton-Dix tweeted on Tuesday: "This is crazy George Zimmerman just hit the lotto for 37 million." However the original story was posted on The Onion satirical news site.

5:00 PM: The police officer assigned to escort South Carolina football player Jadeveon Clowney at Tuesday's SEC media days said about his job: "I'm 'security' for him. If he can't handle it, who am I?"

4:45 PM: Boston Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz is hosting a "Buchholz Bowl" on Thursday night, a charity bowling event organized to help children dealing with cancer.

4:30 PM: New Brooklyn Nets player Paul Pierce has been sharing photos on his Instagram account paying tribute to his time with the Boston Celtics.

4:15 PM: From The Onion: "Prince Fielder Dominates Home Run-Eating Contest". Second place: Pablo Sandoval

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Woods looking for 1 key shot to turn his fortunes

Tiger Woods of the US plays a shot on the 7th fairway during a practice round for the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield, Scotland, Tuesday July 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Tiger Woods of the US plays a shot on the 7th fairway during a practice round for the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield, Scotland, Tuesday July 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Tiger Woods of the US reacts after playing a shot on the 3rd green during a practice round for the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield, Scotland, Tuesday July 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Tiger Woods of the US walks to the 4th fairway during a practice round for the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield, Scotland, Tuesday July 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Tiger Woods of the US plays a shot during a practice round for the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield, Scotland, Tuesday July 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland talks during a press conference ahead of the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield, Scotland, Tuesday July 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

(AP) ? British Open champions at Muirfield are more likely to be found on a ballot for the Hall of Fame than the bottom of a betting sheet. It has never been known as a haven for long shots, which would seem to bode well for someone like Tiger Woods.

Even so, Woods struggled to find the right definition of an "outsider" when asked Tuesday about the trend of high-caliber winners at Muirfield. Because if an "outsider" is someone who had never won a major, then all bets are off.

"You probably can't say that given the fact that over the past, what, five years or so ... that we've had first-time winners at virtually every single major," Woods said. "The fields are so deep now and the margin between the first player and the last player in the field is not that big anymore. It's very small."

Eighteen players have won the last 20 majors, the most diverse collection of major champions in some 25 years. Fourteen of them had never won a major.

Perhaps it was more than just a coincidence when Woods dated this trend to the last five years.

Because that's when he stopped winning them.

"There's certainly a connection between so many different winners and Tiger not winning one," Graeme McDowell said. "Because we all know when he gets in the mood, he likes to win a few. I think in the period when Tiger kind of went missing for a couple of years there, it gave a lot of players a chance to step up to the plate and show how healthy the game of golf is, get their confidence up and win the big ones and really get a bit of belief in themselves.

"But I think Tiger has been responsible for raising the bar," he said. "I think he certainly has set the standard for how good guys can be."

Times sure have changed since the British Open last came to this links course along the Firth of Forth. In 2002, the question was whether Woods was going to win all four majors in a single year. Eleven years later, not a major goes by without him being asked when he's going to win one ? any of them ? again.

The drought is at 16 majors, stretched over five years, since Woods hobbled and winced his way to a playoff win at Torrey Pines in the 2008 U.S. Open for his 14th career major, leaving him four short of the standard set by Jack Nicklaus.

Woods gets defensive when asked about his confidence. Surely it would seem to have been easier when he was winning them with regularity. All he can do is point to his four PGA Tour wins this year, his No. 1 ranking fully restored, the way his named his bandied about as a favorite at every Grand Slam event.

But there are no answers for why he can win just about anywhere except in the majors.

"I think it's just a shot here and there," he said. "It's making a key up-and-down here, or getting a good bounce, capitalizing on an opportunity here and there."

He pointed to the par-5 15th hole at Augusta National in the second round of the Masters this year, when he was poised to take the lead until his wedge struck the flag and caromed back off the green and into the water. It led to a bogey, which became a triple-bogey 8 when it was discovered he took an illegal drop. He never seriously challenged the rest of the week.

"It's not much," Woods said. "It could happen on the first day. It could happen on the last day. But it's turning that tide and getting the momentum at the right time or capitalizing on an opportunity. That's what you have to do to win major championships."

One thing that no longer concerns him, at least going into the opening round Thursday, is his health.

Woods revealed during the U.S. Open that he had a left elbow injury that was aggravated by hitting out of the thick rough at Merion. Doctors told him it was an elbow strain and recommended rest, forcing him to miss his title defense at Congressional and likely another start at The Greenbrier.

He has not competed since the U.S. Open, and while he says "everything is good to go," he has played only nine holes each day.

"It's one of the good things of taking the time off to let it heal and get the treatment and therapy on it," he said. "The main reason was that coming over here the ground is going to be hard, obviously. And I'm going to need that elbow to be good. And just in case the rough was ... well, reports were it was going to be high and it was going to be lush. I needed to have this thing set and healed."

It's not that reports were exaggerated.

Ernie Els, the defending British Open champion and the last Open winner at Muirfield, returned to the course last month after winning in Germany.

"It was like this," Els said, tapping the dark green cooler on the 13th tee. "And there was a bit of rain that day, so it was very green. The rough was thick. You could just hack it out. And then I get here two weeks later, and it's this."

He looked across a course that was a blend of yellow, wispy grass framing the fairways that were turning brown by the day. Most players prefer a brown links course because it's running fast. Els didn't buy that, not at Muirfield.

"A little more luck involved," he said.

Muirfield doesn't have the severity of humps and hollows in the fairway. It looks like links golf, not a trip to the moon. But the drier the condition, the faster the ball runs along the ground, and the harder it is to control where it stops.

Maybe that's what Woods needs ? a little luck.

"I've had a pretty good year so far ? won four times," Woods said, again on the defensive. "Even though I haven't won a major championship in five years, I've been there in a bunch of them where I've had chances. I just need to keep putting myself there, and eventually I'll get some."

Since returning from the crisis in his personal life that led to divorce, Woods has had five finishes in the top four at the 12 majors he has played. But he still hasn't seriously contended. The closest he has been to the winning score was three shots, at the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.

McDowell won that U.S. Open. Adam Scott won the Masters this year. Justin Rose won the U.S. Open. The closest anyone has been to dominance in the majors was Rory McIlroy, who won two of them by eight shots, though his game is now in a slump.

That used to be Woods.

"You could never get 18 players win 20 majors when there's a guy winning 14 majors in 12 years," Geoff Ogilvy said. "There was definitely a period when he was winning them all and there were less people who thought they could."

And now?

"There are more players who think they can win," Ogilvy said. "And every time one of those players wins one, it gives confidence to others that they can."

Associated Press

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KESREF Supply Chain Manager and Research Scientist (Sugar Technology) Jobs in Kisumu Kenya

The Kenya Sugar Research Foundation (KESREF) is a state corporation in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries with its headquarters at Kibos, off Kisumu-Miwani Road.?

KESREF is mandated to develop and disseminate appropriate technologies for enhanced productivity, value addition and competitiveness of the Kenya sugar sub-sector.?

The Foundation wishes to recruit qualified and experienced individuals to the following vacant positions:
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1. Supply Chain Manager

Job Grade RF 3?

Ref: SCM/REC/01/13
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The incumbent reports to the Director and the position exists at Kibos Headquarters.
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Duties and responsibilities

  • Plan, organize and coordinate supply chain management activities;?
  • set performance targets;?
  • ensure compliance with established procurement policies and procedures;
  • maintain an up-to-date database of prequalified suppliers and identify new and alternative sources;?
  • develop and review the supply chain manual;?
  • assign duties and responsibilities to Departmental personnel;?
  • advise management on the tendering procedures;?
  • develop and implement annual procurement plan;?
  • compile quarterly and annual reports;
  • ensure timely provision of goods and services to the end users;
  • and mentor staff in the Department;?
  • secretary to the tender and disposal committees;?
  • monitor contract management by user Departments;
  • advise other Departments and staff on all matters to do with procurement of goods and services in line with Government procedures.

Job Requirements
?

For appointment to this grade a candidate must have the following:-

  • Diploma in Purchasing and Supplies Management or its equivalent from a recognized Institution;
  • Bachelor degree in Supply Chain Management or its equivalent from a recognized institution;
  • Fifteen (15) years relevant experience, three (3) of which must have been in senior management level in a recognized institution;
  • Demonstrated outstanding professional competence in Supply Chain Management;
  • Be a registered member of Kenya Institute of Supplies Management;
  • Be of integrity with good interpersonal and communication skills;
  • Have computer application skills;

2. Research Scientist (Sugar Technology)

Job Grade RF 5
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Ref: RSST /02/2013
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The incumbent reports to the Director and the position exists at Kibos Headquarters.
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Job Description
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The Research Scientist will be expected to?

  • initiate and implement research projects;
  • design, establish and manage trials and surveys;?
  • Collect, compile and analyse data from experiments and surveys;?
  • compile and generate scientific reports;?
  • supervise and manage officers and resources below this cadre;?
  • plan intervention measures;?
  • prepare scientific and technical reports;?
  • offer training and advisory services, prepare and communicate research findings;?
  • development and validate diagnostic tools / technologies;

Job Requirements
?

For appointment to this grade a candidate must have the following:-

  • Masters Degree qualifications plus three (3) years demonstrable research experience;
  • Demonstrated ability and shown merit in work performance and results;
  • Possess good communication and interpersonal skills;
  • Good analytical and leadership skills;
  • Be result oriented team player; and
  • Computer application skills

Interested candidates for any of the above positions who meet the requirements may send their applications with the reference number clearly stated on the envelop and letter of application and detailed curriculum vitae containing current as well as expected remunerations, names and addresses of three referees and day time telephone contact, with copies of relevant certificates and testimonials to:
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The Director
Kenya Sugar Research Foundation
P. O. Box 44-40100
Kisumu
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E-mail: director@kesref.org
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So as to reach him not later than 4.00 pm on 26th July,2013
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KESREF is an equal opportunity employer.
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Please note that canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.?

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Source: http://kenyanjobs.blogspot.com/2013/07/kesref-supply-chain-manager-and.html

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