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Hiring Mobile Apps Developer - Business Insider

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Business Insider is seeking an experienced mobile applications developer to join the BI tech team and the fast-paced, exciting world of software development at a digital media startup.

The successful candidate will help maintain and extend our just-released new iPhone app and forthcoming new iPad and Android apps, as well as create new mobile-first apps. The position demands a self-motivated professional with strong IOS development experience. Android experience is not necessary but is a major plus. The ideal candidate should have big ideas about mobile news, a startup mindset, and the skills to implement our collective ideas.

Applicants should have a self-starting work-hard-play-hard startup mindset. We don't let bureaucracy get in our way, and we don't have a lot of meetings, but we do play a lot of ping-pong. A candidate who could strongly represent the tech team and give perennial champ Jay Yarow a challenge at the ping pong table would also be a plus.

Requirements:

  • Experience building and releasing IOS applications
  • Experience implementing mobile apps that call RESTful web APIs
  • Experience building mobile user-focused interfaces
  • Android development knowledge a plus
  • Strong communication skills
  • Based in New York ? you will need to be able to work out of our office on Park Avenue South.
  • Some telecommuting is fine
  • Three+ years of experience preferred

We offer a competitive salary and good benefits.?Please email a cover letter, resume, and a short code sample to?pax@businessinsider.com. Thanks in advance.
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'Looper': The Reviews Are In!

Critics are raving about Joseph Gordon-Levitt's transformative performance in Rian Johnson's new time travel thriller.
By Josh Wigler


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Photo: TriStar Pictures

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Tourists among 19 killed in fiery Nepal plane crash

Nineteen people have died in a plane crash in Nepal. They were on their way to climb Mount Everest. The plane crashed into a field shortly after take-off from the capital Kathmandu. It was bound for Lukla, the starting point for a trek through the Himalayan mountains to the base camp of Mount Everest. ITV's Paul Davies reports.

By NBC News wire services

KATMANDU, Nepal -- A plane carrying trekkers to the Everest region crashed and caught fire just after takeoff Friday in Nepal's capital, killing 19 people.

The victims included British, Chinese and Nepali passengers, authorities said.

The pilot of the domestic Sita Air flight reported trouble two minutes after takeoff, and Katmandu airport official Ratish Chandra Suman said the pilot appeared to have been trying to turn back.?

The crash site is only 547 yards from the airport, and the wrecked plane was pointing toward the airport area.

Reuters said it was a twin-engine, propeller-driven Dornier aircraft.

Investigators were trying to determine the cause of the crash and identify the bodies. Suman said he could not confirm if the plane was already on fire before it crashed.

Villagers forced back by flames
Cellphone video shot by locals showed the front section of the plane was on fire when it first hit the ground and it appeared the pilot had attempted to land the plane on open ground beside a river.

The fire quickly spread to the rear, but the tail was still in one piece at the scene near the Manohara River on the southwest edge of Katmandu.

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Villagers were unable to approach the plane because of the fire and it took some time for firefighters to reach the area and bring the fire under control.

A plane carrying 19 people crashed shortly after taking off in Katmandu, Nepal, catching fire and killing all on board. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

Nepal officials: 6 survive, 15 killed as plane hits mountain in Himalayas

Soldiers and police shifted through the crash wreckage looking for bodies and documents to help identify the victims.

Seven passengers were British and five were Chinese; the other four passengers and the three crew members were from Nepal, authorities said.

Large numbers of local people and security forces gathered at the crash site. The charred bodies were taken by vans to the hospital morgue.

Gateway to Everest
The weather in Katmandu and surrounding areas was clear on Friday morning, and it was one of the first flights to take off from Katmandu's Tribhuwan International Airport. Other flights reported no problems, and the airport operated normally.

The plane was heading for Lukla, the gateway to Mount Everest. Thousands of Westerners make treks in the region around the world's highest peak each year. Autumn is considered the best time to trek the foothills of the Himalayan peaks.

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In May, 15 people were killed when their plane crashed into a hill in northwest Nepal.

Autumn is the peak tourism season in Nepal, which has eight of the world's 14 highest mountains, including Mount Everest. At least 11 people were killed in an avalanche in northwest Nepal on Sunday.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

Dec. 4: Nepal's top politicians hold their Cabinet meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the danger global warming poses on glaciers ahead of next week's climate change talks in Copenhagen. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.

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Folding Jointed Bike Lock Introduces More Places For It To Fail [Bicycles]

Abus has been making its unique bike locks that fold away like a carpenter's ruler for years now. But it claims the latest iteration—the Bordo 6000 Ecolution—can be broken down and fully recycled when you no longer need to secure your bike. More »


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Animals suspected in spread of new virus

LONDON (AP) ? Britain's Health Protection Agency has published an early genetic sequence of the new respiratory virus related to SARS that shows it is most closely linked to bat viruses, and scientists say camels, sheep or goats might end up being implicated too.

So far, officials have only identified two confirmed cases and say the virus isn't as infectious as SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which killed hundreds of people, mostly in Asia, in a 2003 global outbreak.

In Geneva, World Health Organization spokesman Glenn Thomas told reporters Friday that so far the signs are that the virus is "not easily transmitted from person to person" ? but analyses are ongoing. The agency said it's too early to tell how big a threat the new virus will be since it is unknown how exactly it spreads and whether it will evolve into a more dangerous form.

Global health officials suspect two victims from the Middle East may have caught it from animals.

"It's a logical possibility to consider any animals present in the region in large numbers," said Ralph Baric, a coronavirus expert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Biologists now need to go into the area and take samples from any animals they can get their hands on, including camels and goats," he said. Baric said it was crucial to find out how widespread the virus is in animals and what kind of contact might be risky for people.

Baric suggested bats might be spreading the virus directly to humans since the two confirmed infections happened months apart. "If there was an established transmission pattern from other animals, we probably would have seen a lot more cases," he said.

WHO said it is considering the possibility the new coronavirus sickened humans after direct contact with animals. The agency is now working with experts in the Middle East to figure out how the two confirmed cases got infected but could not share details until the investigation was finished.

One patient was a Saudi Arabian man who died several months ago while the other is a Qatari national who traveled to Saudi Arabia before falling ill and is currently in critical but stable condition in a London hospital.

Earlier this week, WHO issued a global alert asking doctors to be on guard for any potential cases of the new respiratory virus, which also causes kidney failure.

Saudi officials have already warned that next month's annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage, which brings millions to Saudi Arabia from all around the world, could allow the virus to spread. As a precautionary measure, they are advising pilgrims to keep their hands clean and wear masks in crowded places.

Experts said knowing where a virus comes from provides clues on how to stop it.

"This means we could prevent the fire before it starts instead of rushing towards it with fire trucks and water hoses afterwards," said Michael Osterholm, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Minnesota.

Osterholm said it was possible bats had simply passed on the virus from other animals and that there could be a complicated transmission chain that ultimately ended in humans.

Viruses reproduce as they infect animals and people, giving them more chances to evolve into a deadlier version.

"We don't know enough about coronaviruses to predict which mutations might make them more lethal or transmissible," Osterholm said. "But you don't want to tempt genetic fate with microbes because you're bound to lose most times."

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Michael Casey in Dubai and Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/animals-suspected-spread-virus-073256244.html

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Italian business greets prospect of 2nd Monti term

MILAN (AP) ? Italian business and church leaders on Friday warmed to the prospect that Premier Mario Monti might stay on for a second term, while politicians insisted the post must return to a political leader.

The head of the Confindustria business lobby Giorgio Squinzi said the primary concern was having a "solid, trustworthy government with credible people and that has a political base." He said Friday that a second Monti mandate "is one of the possibilities."

Monti hinted Thursday he could stay on for a second term under the right circumstances. Italy is heading to elections next spring, and experts say the failure of any party to win a clear majority could clear the way for another Monti mandate.

Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, speaking from the Paris Auto Show, said a continuation of Monti's administration "would be a step forward for the country," lending credibility and removing uncertainty.

Avvenire, the influential newspaper of the Italian Catholic bishops' conference, called Monti's declaration "a useful step, another service to the country" and a "strong signal to the parties in a moment of maximum loss of credibility in the political system."

Monsignor Mariano Crociata, secretary-general of the Italian Episcopal Conference, said "we favor any solution that could bring an adequate and speedy resolution to the crisis."

Monti is a devout Roman Catholic and has met with Pope Benedict XVI on numerous occasions since taking office.

Monti was tapped last November to head a government of experts to steer the country from financial disaster. His government has passed a raft of reforms aimed at cutting spending and waste and increasing competitiveness of the economy by weakening professional castes and streamlining bureaucracy. His nonpartisan standing has made it possible to get Italy's divisive politicians to back the measures.

He also has burnished Italy's image abroad, and has won the trust of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Barack Obama.

Monti has made it clear he will not run for office as it would only weaken his ability to push through reforms, and would only accept a second term only if asked by the parties after elections. In that case, the government is likely to be comprised of politicians in Cabinet posts, instead of experts in the current technical government.

Most politicians, including former Premier Silvio Berlusconi and the head of the Democratic Party Pierluigi Bersani, have remained firm that when the technical government's mandate expires in the spring, politics will take over.

The situation that favors a second Monti government would be the failure of any party to win a clear majority, "which is not unlikely," said James Walston, professor of political science at the American University of Rome.

A poll published this weekend in Corriere della Sera showed that about half of Italians ? disenchanted with persistent political scandals ? were undecided and planned not to vote.

If the major three parties split the vote and were forced by the election outcome to form a grand coalition, "that is a scenario that favors a second Monti term," said Roberto D'Alimonte, a political science professor at Rome's LUISS University.

The outcome will be influenced by a new electoral law that is being held up by disagreements over what percentage of a bonus the top-vote winner will get in an effort to solidify a majority in Parliament.

D'Alimonte also suggested that the markets could also force Italy's hand, if borrowing costs on Italy's enormous debt pile grow ? particularly in the period after elections when a government is formed.

"The markets vote, too, not just Italian voters," D'Alimonte said. "This is a time of mixed sovereignty.'

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/italian-business-greets-prospect-2nd-monti-term-161531863--finance.html

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Team Pacquiao drops lawsuit against WBC champion Floyd Mayweather ? Boxing News

Filipino fight sensation Manny Pacquiao has withdrawn his lawsuit against Floyd Mayweather Jr. Pacquiao won the case last week with the judge ordering Mayweather to pay Pacquiao millions for defamation.

However, it seems like the distance between Pacquiao and Mayweather has been bridged. Now, both fighters are coming closer than ever. Unexpectedly, Manny Pacquiao has actually settled the scene with Mayweather.

Floyd Mayweather Sr. and Floyd Mayweather Jr. acknowledged through The Times, ?(we) wish to make it clear that they never intended to claim that Manny Pacquiao has used or is using any performance-enhancing drugs.?

?Nor are they aware of any evidence Manny Pacquiao has used performance-enhancing drugs. Manny Pacquiao is a great champion and no one should construe any of our prior remarks as claiming that Manny Pacquiao has used performance-enhancing drugs.?

Moreover, Mayweather?s lawyer revealed that they have settled down the case with Pacquiao.

As of now, Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are at peace. They both are probably working hard to get the super-fight going for next year, for which fans have been waiting for almost two years.

Pacquiao is currently scheduled to face Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico on December 8 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. It will be Pacquiao?s fourth fight against Marquez. He has won the second and third fight against the Mexican, while the first fight ended up in a draw.

Currently, Pacquiao is fully focused on defeating Marquez in a dominating manner, in order to prove his mettle against him. It should be noted here that Pacquiao has defeated Marquez via unanimous decision and split decision, but has never been able to completely outbox him to a knockout. This time, the Filipino is hoping to take things a little more seriously. He wants to knockout Marquez so that he is in a better position to deal with Mayweather for their next year fight.

Mayweather is supposed to fight this year in December as well, but there is nothing sure yet. Probably, he will not fight and wait for the super-fight against Pacquiao, as he has lost enough muscle mass in jail during his three-month stay recently.

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Dynamics of DNA packaging helps regulate formation of heart

ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2012) ? A new regulator for heart formation has been discovered by studying how embryonic stem cells adjust the packaging of their DNA. This approach to finding genetic regulators, the scientists say, may have the power to provide insight into the development of any tissue in the body -- liver, brain, blood and so on.

A stem cell has the potential to become any type of cell. Once the choice is made, the cell and other stem cells committed to the same fate divide to form organ tissue.

A University of Washington-led research team was particularly interested in how stem cells turn into heart muscle cells to further research on repairing damaged hearts through tissue regeneration. The leaders of the project were Dr. Charles Murry, a cardiac pathologist and stem cell biologist; Dr. Randall Moon, who studies the control of embryonic development, and Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos, who explores the operating systems of the human genome.

The paper's lead author is Dr. Sharon Paige, a UW MD-PhD student who completed her Ph.D. in Dr. Murry's lab.

The results are published in the Sept. 28 edition of Cell.

Paige, an aspiring pediatric cardiologist, said, "By identifying regulators of cardiac development, this work has the potential to lead to a better understanding of the causes of congenital heart disease, thereby paving the way for therapeutic advances."

Previously UW researchers had examined the signals that prod cells to grow into various kinds of heart tissue. In this case, the researchers entered a relatively unexplored area. They decided to look at the genetic controls behind the transformation of stem cells into heart tissue.

Because stem cells keep their DNA code under wraps until needed, the scientists examined how this packaging is altered over time to permit reading of portions of the code and thereby produce changes in the cell.

DNA is wound up into a structure called chromatin. "DNA can be packaged as tightly closed, neutral or activated," Murry explained. The tightly closed state, he said, is analogous to setting the brakes on a car.

Like a child who clams up when asked, "What will you be when you grow up?" stem cells are protective of the genes that will determine their future cell type, or what scientists call their cell fate.

"We found that stem cells take great care to avoid turning on cell-fate regulating genes at the wrong time," Murry said. "These genes have their brakes on until they are needed." When the time is right, he said, "the brakes come off and the gas goes on."

He explained that the situation is different for genes that regulate cell functions, in contrast to those that regulate cell fate. Genes that control, for example, the production of proteins that allow the cell to contract or to generate electrical signals do not have such a complex braking system. Those genes can be more readily activated.

The researchers pointed out that it was already known that the patterns stem cells follow to modify their DNA packaging distinguished them from progenitor cells -- cells prepared to begin a lineage of a particular type of cell -- and also from cells that already had a working identity, such as blood or muscle cells.

However , the dynamics of the DNA packaging modifications -- how the packaging is programmed to change over time -- and how these dynamics influence which genes are "exposed" and activated to create, for example, heart muscle cells, was poorly understood.

The UW-led research team learned that, as human embryonic stem cells become heart cells, this differentiation is accompanied by distinctive dynamic alterations in DNA packaging. This tell-tale pattern enabled the scientists to distinguish the key regulators of heart development from other genes. The researchers referred to the carefully timed pattern of changes in the DNA wrapping as a "temporal chromatin signature."

Just as a bank robber leaves incriminating evidence in a handwritten note to the teller, the temporal chromatin signature gave the scientists the clues they needed to hunt down new genes that might be responsible for heart formation.

"We found a bunch of them," Murry said. Their system revealed the top candidate to be the homebox gene MEIS2. This gene seemed an unlikely choice because it had no previous record of participating in heart formation. However, when this gene was removed from a new generation of zebra fish, the developing fish embryos had heart tube formation defects and other heart abnormalities.

Murry and other members of the research team think patterns in DNA unwrapping could be broadly applicable to discovering the genes that regulate other aspects of tissue and organ formation beyond only the heart. Such a research approach might help reveal the major developmental decisions that occur inside of cells as an embryo forms and grows. These revelations could provide information useful to spurring stem cells to form specific tissues for organ repair later in life.

Acknowledging the limitations of a lab system in mimicking what happens inside living cells in the early stages of organ formation in humans, Murry said, "The use of the temporal chromatin signature to discover regulatory genes could give us new insights into human development and new tools to control cell fate."

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Firefox OS Will Have ?Niche? 1% Of Smartphones In 2013, As Android Corners Low-Cost Segment

firefox osGoogle's Android smartphone OS is facing a lot of challengers in the low-cost smartphone segment, from Huawei, ZTE, Samsung and Nokia at the vendor end to Mozilla coming from its position in browser software. But for the short term it appears that there is little for Android to worry about from any single contender. Research out today from Strategy Analytics notes that one of these, Firefox OS, Mozilla's mobile effort, will only sit on 1% of all global smartphone shipments in 2013, versus 67% for Android, and it could take up to two years for it to turn that around.

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Top of the First Antarctic Explorers' Packing List: Lots and Lots of Cocaine [Medicine]

Headed out to explore the frigid Arctic? Better pack some blow. Scottish author Gavin Francis details the medical supplies early 20th century expeditions took on their treks to the South Pole, and they read more like the inventory list of a heavily stocked drug den than a voyage to the coldest place on the planet. More »


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Jetpack Joyride now available on Google Play

Android Central

After a brief exclusive period on the Amazon Appstore, Jetpack Joyride is now available for all on Google Play. You can get a full look at the game over at our review, but the tl;dr version goes a little something like this: use one-touch controls to lift a disgruntled office drone into the air with his minigun jetpack, dodge security systems, collect coins, buy cool new gadgets. Rince, repeat.

Jetpack Joyride is a classic, and it sure has taken its sweet time finding its way to Android. Who's interested in giving it a shot? Does the gameplay feel dated at all, or has it still retained its charm from a year ago? Are in-app purchases a major turn-off, regardless of gameplay quality?



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Construction approved for Ithaca community complex | The Ithacan

Ithaca Estates Realty, a local rental company, has received final approval from the Town of Ithaca Planning Board to begin construction of a community shopping complex building project near the Ithaca College Circle Apartments this fall.

Evan Monkemeyer, real estate broker and community builder for Ithaca Estates Realty LLC, said the complex will house a fitness center, a bank and an Ithaca Bakery restaurant.

Monkemeyer said that he hopes a restaurant will rent one of the retail property and can use the over eighty outdoor dining spaces he has planned.

The project had been set to break ground in the summer of 2011, but it will now most likely start construction in early October. The complex should be ready to open by next fall, as long as they are able to obtain a building permit.

The project has been considered since around 2005, Monkemeyer said. The complex, which is set to hold both residential and commercial spaces, will be located on the corner of East King Road and 96B. There are also plans for a paved walkway that goes from the back of the building to the Circle Apartments.

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Shawn Steiner/The IthacanCollege Crossings, a community complex on East King Road and 96B, will include six commercial spaces and two four-or-five-person apartments.

Monkemeyer said financial reasons and difficulty obtaining bank loans forced him to postpone the project, which he estimates will cost him close to $2 million. The original design for the project was estimated to cost more, but Monkemeyer said he decided to contract it himself to cut costs. Monkemeyer said he doesn?t have projections about project gains yet.

In the original College Crossings design, Monkemeyer said, the building was supposed to be a commercial building with offices on top and businesses on the bottom. However, in the current design, the building, which will be more than 19,000 square feet, will have six commercial spaces on the main floor and a space for two four-or-five-person apartments. This makes it a mixed-use commercial and residential building.

Sue Ritter, director of planning for the Town of Ithaca, said the project seems to be on track.

?What?s required is getting site plan approval and special permits from the planning board to be able to have this mixed-use building,? Ritter said. ?The next step really is for them to come to the town with a building permit.?

One feature of the project that the Town of Ithaca planning board liked was the plan to add a paved walkway from the back side of the location to the college, Monkemeyer said. He also said the walkway will? begin at the College Crossings parking
lot and will? to the Circle Apartments, which will make it easier for students to commute to downtown.

?It?ll give you pedestrian access from East King Road, in the Town of Ithaca, all the way to downtown,? Monkemeyer said. ?It will be blacktop and smooth, so you can bicycle, skateboard or jog.?

Junior Ian Vitkus, a resident of the Circle Apartments, said he thinks the project has potential to be useful to the college community.

?It could be a place to get stuff that?s actually close to campus that you don?t have to drive to,? Vitkus said. ?Underclassmen don?t have to rely on the buses.?

Monkemeyer said he hopes the project will benefit the South Hill community. He said he hopes to turn it into a more popular destination.

?For the size of the project, I think it?s going to be Collegetown for South Hill,? Monkemeyer said. ?It?s not going to be College Avenue or Dryden Road, not with six story high-rises. This is going to be a suburban look, a suburban feel, and it?s going to be a landmark building.?

Source: http://theithacan.org/25321

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Home Staging - about Home Improvement

Posted on September 26, 2012

Having a sound and profitable investment in real estate means to utilize all the necessary resources to add more value to your property. Even if you have mastered the mechanics of advertising and promoting your home, if you have not done the right preparation to improve its condition and quality, then you are bound to a failing venture. Home staging is one important component you need to deal with and seriously consider if you want to have a productive home selling adventure.

Why do you need home staging?

You have most probably cleaned your house, check the details for repairs and fixtures and even done the necessary home renovation for more value booster. However, you might wonder if all your efforts are enough to ensure that your property will be bought as soon as possible. Amidst the tough competition in the vast real estate market, your chances are not that much. This is where home staging comes in, with all the guarantee and assurance it has to offer to potential and effective home selling.

Staging your house means not just cleaning the surroundings and repairing what has to be fixed. It does more in enhancing your property and creating the right mood for higher chances of selling. Home staging improves the quality of your house through style, ambience, and overall impact on potential home buyers. The ultimate goal of home staging is to make buyers realize that this is exactly the property they are looking for and they must have it as soon as they possibly can.

How much does it cost?

Most home owners opted for do-it-yourself alternatives for staging their homes, which is in one point a good way of making use of their creative juices and passion for home improvement. However, home staging is an art that needs intensive training and substantial background to perfect. Therefore, it is still advisable to seek help from professional home stagers who knows exactly what to do and are experts in their field. Prices depend mainly on the location of the property and the demand for home staging professionals in your locale. In fact, some real estate agents are themselves capable of home staging to make sure that the house they are helping to sell will be successfully marketed and sold in no time at all.

What to do in staging your house?

Here are some of the examples of the things that are usually done during the process of staging your house in preparation for selling.

  • Arranging your furniture and using accents to emphasize their value and effects is very important. You may use accessories such as drape window coverings with ribbons, bookshelves and fireplace mantels and even large bowls to decorate on top of your center table to add more color and attraction.
  • Staging your backyard is also possible by means of accentuating your decks and patios with flowers and potted plants. You may also add patio and picnic tables for more exciting effects.

Home staging offers more than just the possibility of selling your house effectively and quickly. It adds contentment and satisfaction knowing that you are investing on something worthwhile and with promising results.


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Auto Sales Barreling Ahead, But Trucks & SUVs Lag

The U.S. economy is giving mixed signals these days. Stocks are up, as are home sales, but hiring -- though not on the decline -- is often described as anemic.

And yet, the U.S. auto market is charging full-steam ahead. In fact, J.D. Power predicts that the industry will see 12% growth this year, with 11.8 million vehicles sold at retail and another 2.7 million sold to fleet operators, for total sales of 14.5 million.

Power bases those predictions on current sales data, which shows that U.S. consumers are likely to purchase?952,200 new vehicles this month. That's 12% higher than September of last year, and maintains the 12% pace of growth we've seen earlier this year.

Winners, losers

Power says that most segments of the auto market are on track to see big gains in 2012. The biggest of the bunch will likely be?sub-compacts, compacts, and midsize vehicles, which could see sales growth of 25% (or more) above 2011.?

The losers? Midsize utilities and large SUVs.

Our take

J.D. Power's predictions are in keeping with trends we've seen throughout 2012 in the new and used auto markets, most of which are a result of high gas prices. (Today's national average: $3.81.)

In short, current shoppers are looking for fuel-efficient rides. That's why the average fuel economy of new cars sold is on its way up again?and why used vehicles -- especially gas-sippers like the Toyota Prius -- are retaining their values so well.?

The strength of the 2012 auto market is also a reflection of the challenges seen in 2011. Japanese automakers in particular struggled with natural disasters like the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that struck in March of last year, which was followed a few months later by torrential flooding,?crippling production in Thailand. That caused new-vehicle shortages, which in turn caused prices to stay high, deterring some customers.

But 2012 doesn't just look good by comparison to 2011: it looks good no matter what metric you use. In fact, LMC Automotive (formerly J.D. Power Automotive Forecasting)?predicts that this year's growth spurt will continue in 2013, with total sales of 15 million vehicles, 12.3 million of which will be sold to retail shoppers like us.

If you've got other thoughts about the growth of the auto sector -- or why that growth may/may not continue -- drop us a line, or leave a note in the comments below.

Source: http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1079393_auto-sales-barreling-ahead-but-trucks-suvs-lag

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Slave rebellion is widespread in ants

ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) ? Enslaved worker ants kill the offspring of their parasites and thereby improve the chances of survival for their neighboring relatives.

Ants that are held as slaves in nests of other ant species damage their oppressors through acts of sabotage. Ant researcher Professor Dr. Susanne Foitzik of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany first observed this "slave rebellion" phenomenon in 2009. According to the latest findings, however, this behavior now appears to be a widespread characteristic that is not limited to isolated occurrences. In fact, in three different populations in the U.S. states of West Virginia, New York, and Ohio, enslaved Temnothorax longispinosus workers have been observed to neglect and kill the offspring of their Protomognathus americanus slavemakers rather than care for them. As a result, an average of only 45 percent of the parasite's offspring survived. This presumably reduces the strength of the parasites in the area and thereby increases the chances of survival for the neighboring colonies populated by the slave ants' relatives.

More than half of all animal species live in parasitic relationships, i.e. they exploit their so-called hosts. From the perspective of evolutionary history, the American slave-making ant Protomognathus americanus is an old social parasite that is entirely dependent on other ant species for its survival. Slave workers have to care for the brood in parasite nests, bring food to their masters and feed them, and even defend the nest.

These ants become slaves when workers from the slave-making ant colony attack the nests of the host species Temnothorax longispinosus, kill the adult ants, and steal the brood. Back in the masters' nest, which can be located in hollow acorns, nutshells, or twigs, the brood care behavior of the emerging slave workers is exploited to the advantage of the slavemaker species. As Susanne Foitzik and her work group have shown, the enslaved worker ants feed and clean the larvae, thereby raising the offspring of their social parasite -- but only up to a certain point.

"Probably at first the slaves cannot tell that the larvae belong to another species," explains Foitzik. As a result, 95 percent of the brood survives the larval stage. But the situation changes as soon as the larvae pupate. "The pupae, which already look like ants, bear chemical cues on their cuticles that can apparently be detected. We have been able to show that a high fraction of the slavemaker pupae are killed by slave workers." The pupae are either neglected or actively killed by being attacked and torn apart. Several slaves at once may assault a pupa, which is unable to move or defend itself during the pupal stage and is also not protected by a cocoon.

In parasite nests in West Virginia, only 27 percent of the pupae survived, and in the New York colonies, only 49 percent. In Ohio, the survival chances of the American slave-making ant was a bit higher at 58 percent, but this figure is still well below the survival rate of 85 percent for host pupae in their own free-living nests. "The enslaved workers do not directly benefit from the killings because they do not reproduce," explains Susanne Foitzik. But, through the killing of slavemaker offspring, their neighboring relatives -- which might very well be the sisters of the worker slaves -- indirectly benefit as their chances of survival are increased. Slavemaker colonies damaged by slave rebellions grow slower and smaller slave-making colonies conduct fewer and less destructive slave raids.

The large differences in the death rates in colonies from different regions fits to predictions derived from the geographic mosaic theory of co-evolution. This theory claims that populations differ because they are subjected to different local selection pressures and because they possess different attack or defense traits originated through mutations, which in turn means that evolution can go in different directions in different geographic areas. While the host ants in New York are very aggressive and often successfully thwart slave raid attempts, the hosts in West Virginia profit more from the slave rebellion behavior because, as genetic analyses have shown, the neighboring colonies are more often close relatives to the rebelling slaves.

This study on the evolution of slave rebellion has been financed since October 2011 by the project "The evolution of resistance and virulence in structured populations" funded by the German Research Foundation.

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  1. Tobias Pamminger, Annette Leing?rtner, Alexandra Achenbach, Isabelle Kleeberg, Pleuni S. Pennings, Susanne Foitzik. Geographic distribution of the anti-parasite trait 'slave rebellion'. Evolutionary Ecology, 2012; DOI: 10.1007/s10682-012-9584-0

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Modern fitness supplements cover a wide variety of nutritional needs. Many of these products provide dual support for both athletic performance and holistic health. Creatine, fish oil, whey protein, and branched chain amino acids are just a few of the many beneficial fitness supplements on the market. These natural products do just as much for an individual's bench press as they do for their brain, which makes them an excellent choice for consistent use.

Whey Protein

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BCAAs contribute to rapid protein synthesis, which makes them an excellent post-workout choice for bodybuilders. The BCAA glutamine is also an important precursor of the important neurotransmitter GABA. Adequate GABA levels are associated with reduced stress, mood stabilization and an increased ability to focus. BCAA supplementation also contributes to reduced muscle wasting. Those of advanced age are particularly susceptible to muscle loss. The advantages of BCAA supplementation make it highly viable for regular use.

Creatine

Few other supplements provide the number of benefits that creatine does. Creatine is naturally present in muscle cells and is created in the liver. Supplementing with creatine has been shown to boost force output, decrease recovery times and even improve endurance. Creatine's secondary benefits include a significant methylation of the body and improved intelligence. Heightened methylation relieves much of the stress put on the liver by bodily needs, which makes creatine use an excellent choice for long-term health.

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Consistent supplementation with a fish oil product allots a whole host of health and fitness benefits. Fish oil is vital due to its high omega-3, DHEA and EPA content. DHEA is necessary for the formation of testosterone, omega-3 fatty acids are necessary for tissue creation and EPA reduces inflammation. Regular fish oil use reduces one's chances of cardiovascular disease, decreases general inflammation and even improves complexion.

Of course, there are many other helpful and healthy fitness supplements, but these are a few of the most popular and most beneficial.

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