A quick heads up for you owners of the AT&T LG Optimus G -- there's a software update rolling out today. As reported in our Optimus G Fourms, you'll still be on Android 4.0.4 (build IMM76L), and you'll now have software version E97011c. Other than that, we can't quite tell you what's changed.
So the wait continues for some Jelly Bean love for the AT&T Optimus G, but some update is better than no update.
We've got the updated about screen after the break should you deem it worth a gander.
FILE - In this May 17, 2012 file photo, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Big business and major labor unions appeared ready Friday, March 29, 2013 to end a fight over a new low-skilled worker program that had threatened to upend negotiations on a sweeping immigration bill in the Senate providing a pathway to citizenship for 11 million immigrants already in the U.S. Schumer, who's been brokering talks between the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement that negotiators are "very close, closer than we have ever been, and we are very optimistic." He said there were still a few issues remaining. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
FILE - In this May 17, 2012 file photo, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Big business and major labor unions appeared ready Friday, March 29, 2013 to end a fight over a new low-skilled worker program that had threatened to upend negotiations on a sweeping immigration bill in the Senate providing a pathway to citizenship for 11 million immigrants already in the U.S. Schumer, who's been brokering talks between the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement that negotiators are "very close, closer than we have ever been, and we are very optimistic." He said there were still a few issues remaining. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Several southwest Michigan pastors along with immigrant families and members of the general public take part in a pray-in for immigration reform event outside of Representative Fred Upton's office in downtown Kalamazoo on Friday, March 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Matt Gade ) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
Several southwest Michigan pastors along with immigrant families and members of the general public take part in a pray-in for immigration reform event outside of Representative Fred Upton's office in downtown Kalamazoo on Friday, March 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Matt Gade ) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Big business and labor have struck a deal on a new low-skilled worker program, removing the biggest hurdle to completion of sweeping immigration legislation allowing 11 million illegal immigrants eventual U.S. citizenship, a person with knowledge of the talks said Saturday.
The agreement was reached in a phone call late Friday night with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, U.S. Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue, and Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, who's been mediating the dispute.
The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement, said the deal resolves disagreements over wages for the new workers and which industries would be included. Those disputes had led talks to break down a week ago, throwing into doubt whether Schumer and seven other senators crafting a comprehensive bipartisan immigration bill would be able to complete their work as planned.
The deal must still be signed off on by the other senators working with Schumer, including Republicans John McCain of Arizona and Marco Rubio of Florida, but that's expected to happen. With the agreement in place, the senators are expected to unveil their legislation the week of April 8. Their measure would secure the border, crack down on employers, improve legal immigration and create a 13-year pathway to citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants already here.
It's a major second-term priority of President Barack Obama's and would usher in the most dramatic changes to the nation's faltering immigration system in more than two decades.
The AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce, longtime antagonists over temporary worker programs, had been fighting over wages for tens of thousands of low-skilled workers who would be brought in under the new program to fill jobs in construction, hotels and resorts, nursing homes and restaurants, and other industries.
Under the agreement, a new "W'' visa program would go into effect beginning April 1, 2015, according to another official involved with the talks who also spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement.
In year one of the program, 20,000 workers would be allowed in; in year two, 35,000; in year three, 55,000; and in year four, 75,000. Ultimately the program would be capped at 200,000 workers a year, but the number of visas would fluctuate, depending on unemployment rates, job openings, employer demand and data collected by a new federal bureau pushed by the labor movement as an objective monitor of the market.
A "safety valve" would allow employers to exceed the cap if they can show need and pay premium wages, but any additional workers brought in would be subtracted from the following year's cap, the official said.
The workers could move from employer to employer and would be able to petition for permanent residency and ultimately seek U.S. citizenship. Neither is possible for temporary workers now.
The new program would fill needs employers say they have that are not currently met by U.S. immigration programs. Most industries don't have a good way to hire a steady supply of foreign workers because there's one temporary visa program for low-wage nonagricultural workers but it's capped at 66,000 visas per year and is only supposed to be used for seasonal or temporary jobs.
Business has sought temporary worker programs in a quest for a cheaper workforce, but labor has opposed the programs because of concerns over working conditions and the effect on jobs and wages for U.S. workers. The issue helped sink the last major attempt at immigration overhaul in 2007, which the AFL-CIO opposed partly because of temporary worker provisions, and the flare-up earlier this month sparked concerns that the same thing would happen this time around. Agreement between the two traditional foes is one of many indications that immigration reform has its best chance in decades in Congress this year.
After apparent miscommunications earlier this month between the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce on the wage issue, the deal resolves it in a way both sides are comfortable with, officials said.
Workers would earn actual wages paid to American workers or the prevailing wages for the industry they're working in, whichever is higher. The Labor Department would determine prevailing wage based on customary rates in specific localities, so that it would vary from city to city.
There also had been disagreement on how to handle the construction industry, which unions argue is different from other industries in the new program because it can be more seasonal in nature and includes a number of higher-skilled trades. The official said the resolution will cap at 15,000 a year the number of visas that can be sought by the construction industry.
Schumer called White House chief of staff Denis McDonough on Saturday to inform him of the deal, the person with knowledge of the talks said. The three principals in the talks ? Trumka, Donohue and Schumer ? agreed they should meet for dinner soon to celebrate, the person said.
Separately, the new immigration bill also is expected to offer many more visas for high-tech workers, new visas for agriculture workers, and provisions allowing some agriculture workers already in the U.S. a speedier path to citizenship than that provided to other illegal immigrants, in an effort to create a stable agricultural workforce.
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) ? A suicide bomber attempted to force his way past the defenses of the city of Timbuktu on Saturday, detonating himself on its outskirts, while a landmine exploded in another part of northern Mali, killing a total of three, officials said.
The twin attacks come as French President Francois Hollande told French television that French forces had attained their objectives in Mali, a country which until January had lost its northern half to an al-Qaida cell and their allies. After the extremists began a southward push, Hollande unilaterally authorized a military intervention, quickly liberating the main cities in the north. Outside the heavily fortified cities like Timbuktu, however, the jihadists are still present, leading an increasingly brutal insurgency.
"The jihadist was driving a car loaded with explosives," said a military official based in Timbuktu, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. "He arrived on the road from Goundam at the Timbuktu checkpoint, and our elements opened fire. He blew himself up," killing himself and injuring at least one soldier, said the official.
Timbuktu resident Age Djitteye said he heard a loud explosion and heavy gunfire, starting at 10 p.m. on Saturday. By midnight on Sunday the shooting had receded, he said by telephone.
In a statement, the Ministry of Defense also confirmed that an army vehicle drove over a landmine during a patrol around 110 kilometers (70 miles) from the northern Malian town of Ansongo, killing two people on board.
For 10 months until this January, Timbuktu as well as much of the rest of northern Mali was ruled by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, as well as two other jihadist groups allied with the terror network.
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Callimachi contributed to this report from Dakar, Senegal.
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There is no property to set the back color of Datetime Picker, is there another way to set backcolor of it?
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#2 lar3ry ?
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Re: Can i set back color of Datetime Picker?
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yogesh7136, on 29 March 2013 - 10:19 PM, said:
There is no property to set the back color of Datetime Picker, is there another way to set backcolor of it?
It's a VERY weird thing... supposedly, you can use .CalendarMonthBackground or .CalendarTitleBackColor, but I can't get it to work. The properties are in the property list, they're in the docs too, but it doesn't seem to work at all.
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Yes, weird. It seems that MS in their wisdom haven't filled in these properties (excuse the silly pun! groan).
There is code here at SO to achieve this, but it is in C# and needs translation; but it requires creating a custom control that extends DateTimePicker.
const int WM_ERASEBKGND = 0x14; protected override void WndProc(ref System.Windows.Forms.Message m) { if(m.Msg == WM_ERASEBKGND) { Graphics g = Graphics.FromHdc(m.WParam); g.FillRectangle(new SolidBrush(_backColor), ClientRectangle); g.Dispose(); return; } base.WndProc(ref m); }
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Re: Can i set back color of Datetime Picker?
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Starting with Windows Vista and depending on the theme, setting this property might not change the appearance of the calendar. For example, if Windows is set to use the Aero theme, setting this property has no effect. This is because an updated version of the calendar is rendered with an appearance that is derived at run time from the current operating system theme. If you want to use this property and enable the earlier version of the calendar, you can disable visual styles for your application. Disabling visual styles might affect the appearance and behavior of other controls in your application. To disable visual styles in Visual Basic, open the Project Designer and uncheck the Enable XP visual styles check box. To disable visual styles in C#, open Program.cs and comment out Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Doesn't solve your problem but it explains why those properties seem to have no affect. Unless you want everything to have that old ugly Win 98 look and feel
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#5 lar3ry ?
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andrewsw, on 30 March 2013 - 02:36 AM, said:
There is code here at SO to achieve this, but it is in C# and needs translation; but it requires creating a custom control that extends DateTimePicker. Well, I have it translated (thanks to the folks at developerfusion.com...
Const WM_ERASEBKGND As Integer = &H14 Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message) If m.Msg = WM_ERASEBKGND Then Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromHdc(m.WParam) g.FillRectangle(New SolidBrush(Color.AliceBlue), ClientRectangle) g.Dispose() Return End If MyBase.WndProc(m) End Sub
This sets the BackColor of the form itself, so if anyone knows offhand, how to use this to extend another control, we have a workaround.
Mate choice is a key factor in the evolution of new animal species. The choice of a specific mate can decisively influence the evolutionary development of a species. In mice, the attractiveness of a potential mate is conveyed by scent cues and ultrasonic vocalizations. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Pl?n investigated whether house mice (Mus musculus) would mate with each other even if they were from two populations which had been separated from each other for a long time period. To do this, the researchers brought together mice from a German population and mice from a French population. Although to begin with all the mice mated with one another randomly, the hybrid offspring of French and German parents were distinctly more choosy: they showed a definite preference for mating with individuals from their father's original population. According to the researchers, this paternal imprinting accelerates the divergence of two house mouse populations and thus promotes speciation.
In allopatric speciation, individuals of a species become geographically isolated from each other by external factors such as mountains or estuaries. Over time, this geographic separation leads to the sub-populations undergoing various mutations, and thus diverging genetically. Animals from the two different sub-populations can no longer successfully reproduce, so two new species evolve.
To find out what role partner selection plays in such speciation processes, Diethard Tautz from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and his colleagues conducted a comprehensive study on house mice ? the classic model organisms of biology. "To investigate whether there are differences in the mating behaviour of the mice in the early stages of speciation, we caught wild house mice in southern France and western Germany. The two populations have been geographically separate for around 3,000 years, which equates to some 18,000 generations," says Diethard Tautz. Due to this geographical separation, the French and German mice were genetically different.
The Pl?n-based researchers created a semi-natural environment for their investigations ? a sort of "Playboy Mansion" for mice. The research enclosure was several square meters in size and was divided up using wooden walls, "nests" made out of plastic cylinders, and plastic tubes. It also featured an escape tube with several entrances, which led into a cage system nearby. "We constructed the enclosure in such a way that all animals had unimpeded access to all areas, but thanks to the structural divisions were also able to create their own territories or retreat into nests," explains Tautz. "The escape tube was a control element. If the mice retreated to it only very seldom ? as was the case in our experiment ? then we could be sure there was no overpopulation in the central enclosure."
In this central enclosure, the French and German mice had both time and space to mate with each other and reproduce. "At first, all the mice mated with each other quite randomly. But with the first-generation offspring, a surprising pattern emerged," says Tautz. When the first-generation hybrid offspring of mixed French and German parentage mated, they showed a specific preference for pure-bred mates whose "nationality" was that of their father only. "There must be some kind of paternal influence that prompts the hybrid mice to choose a mate from a specific population, namely that of their father," concludes the biologist, based on the results of his study. "This imprinting must be learned, however, meaning that the animals must grow up in the presence of their fathers. This was not the case for the original mice, which were kept in cages for a time after being caught."
"We know that mice use ultrasonic vocalizations to communicate with each other and that particularly in the case of male mice these vocalizations can reveal signals of individuality and kinship. We believe that, like birdsong, the vocalizations of the males have a learned component and a genetic component," says Tautz. Therefore, French and German mice really could "speak" different languages, partly learned from their fathers, partly inherited from them. Individual mice thus have a mating preference for mice that speak the same language as they do.
The French and German mouse populations had evidently been geographically separated long enough for preliminary signs of species differentiation to be apparent as regards mating preferences. In addition, another aspect of mating behavior also sped up the speciation process.
Although mice have multiple mates, the researchers found evidence of partner fidelity and inbreeding. The tendency to mate with relatives fosters the creation of genetically uniform groups. When both occur together, this accelerates the speciation process.
In a next step, Diethard Tautz wants to find out whether the vocalizations of the mice play the decisive role in paternal imprinting, or if scent cues are also involved. Furthermore, the biologist wants to identify the genes that are involved in mate selection.
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Inka Montero, Meike Tesche and Diethard Tautz: "Paternal imprinting of mating preferences between natural populations of house mice (Mus musculus domesticus)", Molecular Ecology (2013), doi: 10.111/mec.122271;
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During embryonic development, animals generate many different types of cells, each with a distinct function and identity.
"Although the identities of these cells remain stable under normal conditions, some cells can be persuaded to take on new identities, through reprogramming," says Ben Stanger, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Researchers have been able to reprogram cells experimentally, but few have shown that cells can change their identities under normal physiological conditions in the body, particularly in mammals.
In the cover article of this month's issue of Genes and Development, Stanger, PhD candidate Kilangsungla Yanger, Yiwei Zong, PhD, and their colleagues, did just that in the liver of a mouse. Stanger is also an investigator in the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.
The adult liver contains two major cell types ? hepatocytes and biliary cells ? that differ dramatically in appearance and function. Hepatocytes are the main cell type in the liver, where they synthesize proteins and other macromolecules, and detoxify toxic substances. Biliary cells, on the other hand, line the bile ducts, which carry bile from the liver to the small intestine to help digest fats.
Using a sensitive method to tag and track how cells develop and differentiate, the researchers found that conditional expression of an activated Notch1 gene converted hepatocytes into biliary cells. Notch is an important receptor for relaying signals to tell cells how to develop.
What's more, after the researchers injured liver cells with a variety of toxins to stimulate wound healing, they found that over two to three weeks hepatocytes activated a biliary cell program on their own, acquiring the shape and function of biliary cells. These changes were dependent on the activation of endogenous Notch signaling.
"This is direct evidence that cells can be converted from one mature cell type to another in a live animal, as part of a normal response to injury," says Stanger. "We think that augmenting pre-existing cell reprogramming relationships may be another way to engineer cells for the treatment of diseases in which there are not enough bile ducts, such as cholestasis."
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New Delhi: India has no bankruptcy law to speak of and therefore lenders and Government departments resort to underhand tactics to recover their dues from large companies which go bankrupt.
The latest case where this has happened is Kingfisher Airlines. Eager to get their dues, airport operators and tax departments are twisting the knife into Kingfisher but there is a catch: instead of the airline, these people have ended up upsetting aircraft lessors. Aircraft lessors, or companies which lease out aircraft globally to airlines for a fee, have been suffering interminably in taking back their aircraft leased to Kingfisher.
In fact, AAI went as far as barring lessors from taking possession of aircraft parked across airports. AFP
Lessors are bitter with Indian authorities because even though Kingfisher stopped operations in October 2012 and has not operated a single flight since then, Indian airport operator Airports Authority of India (AAI), service tax and other Government departments have not helped lessors repossess planes.
In fact, AAI went as far as barring lessors from taking possession of aircraft parked across airports such as Delhi and Mumbai, saying it was owed Rs 290 crore by Kingfisher and these aircraft were collateral against payment of dues by the airline. The tax authorities are also reluctant to let lessors repossess aircraft since this leaves them with precious little collateral to recover dues.
Aghast at this turn of events, some lessors have begun to either refuse leasing more aircraft to other Indian airlines or have raised the lease rentals exorbitantly.
Still others have even begun asking for more advance rentals than ever before. Earlier, there were suggestions in some quarters that India?s tax authorities could introduce additional charges to lessors in order to reclaim some of the taxes owed by Kingfisher. This could be a double whammy for lessors, who are already? accumulating monthly losses because they cannot commit on re-renting the aircraft to another customer. All in all, this is a potentially dangerous scenario for airlines which largely depend on a lease and buyback programme to operate aircraft fleet worldwide, as also in India.
World over, signatories to something called the Cape Town Convention (India is a signatory too) are bound to release aircraft to lessors. This means Indian authorities have been blatantly violating the Cape Town Convention in letting rogues like AAI and other departments to hold back aircraft which are the property of lessors.
Earlier this week, the Government earned itself some saving grace when aviation regulator DGCA allowed 17 Kingfisher aircraft to be deregistered, which means they can now be repossessed by the lessors. But this decision is still too little, too late and there could be other interested parties ? like the service tax department which is owed huge sums by Kingfisher ? which may eventually not permit the aircraft to be repossessed by lessors.
Civil Aviation Secretary K N Shrivastava had confirmed on Tuesday that 17 Kingfisher aircraft had been deregistered after consultations with all stakeholders but 12 others were not. ?These 12 aircraft are part financed by Kingfisher itself and are shown on the airline?s books as assets. The service tax department has attached these aircraft??we need to settle this issue after talks with all concerned parties?.
He had also said that on six other aircraft of Kingfisher, there were no claims by lessors. To a question on how AAI will now recover its dues from Kingfisher, Shrivastava said ?AAI cannot use these aircraft as an interim tool to get their dues. It will have to find other ways of recovery. We are signatories to the Cape Town Convention and cannot hold back aircraft?.
Aviation consultancy CAPA?s Kapil Kaul said it?s good that 17 aircraft were deregistered but ?it doesn?t explain the rationale behind the delay. Why did it take 7-8 months to deregister these aircraft?? Kaul said, CAPA expects total compliance to the Cape Town Convention and there must be a clearly written CAR (Civil Aviation Requirement or rules which govern aviation in India) which allows for quick and decisive action on deregistration of aircraft as and when required. The Ministry of Civil Aviation has said it is in the process of framing this CAR but has not given any timeline.
In a report this morning, CAPA notes that lessors which have exposure to Kingfisher Airlines include International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), German Bank DVB, AWAS, BOC Aviation, Dubai Aerospace, Kf Turbo Leasing, TP Leasing (Cayman) and Turbo 72-500 Leasing. It says ILFC has managed to remove just one A321 aircraft after a Delhi High Court decision on March 15 in its favour. But ILFC still has five A320 aircraft parked at airports in India.
CAPA has quoted ILFC CEO Henri Courpron as saying ?One of the hostages has been freed; we are worried about the others?..while the (other) aircraft have been de-registered, de-registration is only one of the steps you need to get the airplanes out of the country. There are other authorities in the country, like airports and tax authorities, who have an axe to grind against Kingfisher and we are being held hostage to this process.?
But DVB Bank may have something to cheer about if its aircraft are included in the 17 which were deregistered by DGCA on Tuesday. The Delhi HC is scheduled to hear DVB Bank?s lawsuit against the DGCA on April 8. Frustrated at Indian authorities? attempts to prevent it from repossessing its own aircraft, DVB Bank had warned in February that India could be ?shut out? of the global aircraft financing market if carriers such as Kingfisher failed to return aircraft they were unable to finance and the government fails to provide the conditions for suppliers to repatriate their assets.
DVB has around $450 million of direct and indirect financing to Air India, IndiGo and Jet Airways.? After Kingfisher?s defaults, some lessors decided to discontinue financing to the Indian aviation market.
Microsoft Corp. today announced that the company has talked 10 K?12 school districts and higher-education institutions into adopting Windows 8 for more than 540,000 students and faculty to prepare students for futures in college and careers. Microsoft's expanding community of Windows 8 education adopters now includes Apollo Group,?Atlanta?Public Schools,?Barry University,?Fargo?Public Schools, Fresno Unified School District,?Jackson-Madison County School System,?Pace University, San Antonio Independent School District,?Thomas College?and Tuckahoe Common School District.
"Microsoft recognizes that in order to be prepared for future success in today's competitive global economy, students must have technology skills employers demand, plus relevant, 21st century skills, such as critical thinking, communication and collaborations abilities, problem-solving, and greater awareness of the global community," said?Margo Day, Vice President of U.S. Education, Microsoft. "Windows 8 is helping schools modernize learning by supporting new education standards, online assessments and the move to digital learning by providing a powerful platform where content can be easily consumed and created, and a connection to the cloud where collaboration opportunities can be reimagined."
In addition to improving learning experiences that are needed in the work place, Windows 8 provides students with a beautiful, modern way to consume content, and allows them the freedom to create, collaborate, produce and share across a range of devices, with flexibility for pen, mouse and keyboard inputs. It also saves schools time and money, reducing IT and ongoing maintenance costs and providing enterprise-ready security, reliability and management fundamentals.
"We chose Windows 8 because we need much more than a consumption-only device for online assessments to help prepare students for success," said?Chuck Jones, Chief of Technology at?Jackson-Madison County School System. "On another operating system, the IT and app management of 1,200 separate devices for teachers would have been too overwhelming."
To help school leaders and educators better understand how technology can be used in the classroom, Microsoft is conducting 700 Windows in the Classroom seminars across the country before the end of the school year. Those wanting to sign up for a session and to learn more about how technology can be incorporated into existing curriculum and how 1:1 device programs can help expand learning outside the traditional classroom walls should visit?http://mie.ncce.org/wic.? Schools can also register for the Partners in Learning Network (http://www.pil-network.com) to access a global network of educators sharing best practices, free software tools and tutorials, and lesson plans. Specific Windows 8 training materials can be found at?http://www.pil-network.com/pd/course/wic.
A week ago, it was only Esther George, the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President, as the lone dissenter at the Open Market Committee's March meeting. For the second time in a row she voted against the continuation of the Fed's $85 billion monthly bond purchasing policy, citing concerns that such "aggressive stimulus could heighten the risk of inflation and financial instability."
Since then, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York William Dudley has also touched upon this theme of "tapering" the bond buys, as have the non-voting presidents from Dallas and Philadelphia in recent speeches.
Maybe this trio sees something or wants to send a message.
"I'm not criticizing the Fed for the position they've taken and the policy implementation they have taken," says Peter Kenny, managing director at Knight Capital Group, in the attached video. "But the bottom line is because of quantitative easing, and because the dollar is the world's reserve currency, it does have an impact."
While monthly headline inflation data continues to come in below the Fed's 2% target, Kenny and many other market watchers see it showing up elsewhere "in everything we assume is a part of our daily life."
Those items include the classic data carve-outs of food and fuel, as well as in commodities, and even in things like farm land - despite ongoing drought conditions.
By his math, the cost of Q-E,at least as it pertains to crude oil, is pushing up the price by about 50%, instead of the $65 a barrel level where he thinks current supply and demand metrics imply that it really should be. But since the Fed is actively (and justifiably) putting more dollars into the economy, he says that has resulted in "more dollars chasing that fuel," which of course leads to higher prices.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke may not say so, but Kenny argues that "the stock market is another case in point" of ongoing intervention.
Related: Bernanke Absolves Fed, Says Nothing Is Out of Line With Record High Stocks
"The soft bid we see in equity markets and that we run into every time there's sell-off, that soft bid is the direct result of quantitative easing," he says, acknowledging that some of the recent move higher is also the result of money coming out of bonds and into stocks, as well as cheap valuations.
But whether it's food, fuel, farmland or even shares of Ford (F) that are being impacted, the open-ended question remains; can Bernanke shrink the balance sheet, halt the stimulus, and normalize interest rates without crashing the ship?
When asked if he is confident that Bernanke will succeed at pulling off this monetary miracle on the back nine, Kenny tellingly answers, "I'm very hopeful."
Pediatric researchers, investigating the biology of brain tumors in children, are finding that crucial differences in how the same gene is mutated may call for different treatments. A new study offers glimpses into how scientists will be using the ongoing flood of gene-sequencing data to customize treatments based on very specific mutations in a child's tumor.
"By better understanding the basic biology of these tumors, such as how particular mutations in the same gene may respond differently to targeted drugs, we are moving closer to personalized medicine for children with cancer," said the study's first author, Angela J. Sievert, M.D., M.P.H., an oncologist in the Cancer Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Sievert, working with co-first author Shih-Shan Lang, M.D., in the translational laboratory of neurosurgeon Phillip Storm, M.D., and Adam Resnick, Ph.D., published a study ahead of print today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study, performed in cell cultures and animals, focused on a type of astrocytoma, the most common type of brain tumor in children. When surgeons can fully remove an astrocytoma (also called a low-grade glioma), a child can be cured. However, many astrocytomas are too widespread or in too delicate a site to be safely removed. Others may recur. So pediatric oncologists have been seeking better options---ideally, a drug that can selectively and definitively kill the tumor with low toxicity to healthy tissue.
The current study focuses on mutations in the BRAF gene, one of the most commonly mutated genes in human cancers. Because the same gene is also mutated in certain adult cancers, such as melanoma, the pediatric researchers were able to make use of recently developed drugs, BRAF inhibitors, which were already being tested with some success against melanoma in adults.
The current study provides another example of the complexity of cancer: in the same gene, different mutations behave differently. Sievert and her colleagues at Children's Hospital were among several research groups who reported almost simultaneously in 2008 and 2009 that mutations in the BRAF gene were highly prevalent in astrocytomas in children. "These were landmark discoveries, because they suggested that if we could block the action of that mutation, we could develop a new, more effective treatment for these tumors," said Sievert.
However, follow-up studies in animal models were initially disappointing. BRAF inhibitors that were effective in BRAF-driven adult melanomas made brain tumors worse?via an effect called paradoxical activation.
Further investigation revealed how tumor behavior depended on which type of BRAF mutation was involved. The first-generation drug that was effective in adult melanoma acted against point mutations in BRAF called V600E alterations. However, in most astrocytomas the mutation in the BRAF gene was different; it produced a fusion gene, designated KIAA1549-BRAF. When used against the fusion gene, the first-generation drug activated a cancer-driving biological pathway, the MAPK signaling cascade, and accelerated tumor growth.
By examining the molecular mechanisms behind drug resistance and working with the pharmaceutical industry, the current study's investigators identified a new, experimental second-generation BRAF inhibitor that disrupted the cancer-promoting signals from the fusion gene, and did not cause the paradoxical activation in the cell cultures and animal models.
This preclinical work result lays a foundation for multicenter clinical trials to test the mutation-specific targeting of tumors by this class of drugs in children with astrocytomas, said Sievert. As this effort progresses, it will benefit from CHOP's commitment to resources and collaborations that support data-intense research efforts.
The direction of brain tumor research over the past several years reflects some of those data-driven advances, says Adam C. Resnick, Ph.D., the senior author of the current paper and principal investigator of the astrocytoma research team in the Division of Neurosurgery at Children's Hospital. "For years, astrocytomas have been lumped together based on similar appearance to pathologists studying their structure, cell shape and other factors," said Resnick. "But our current discoveries show that the genetic and molecular structure of tumors provides more specific information in guiding oncologists toward customized treatments."
Earlier this year, Children's Hospital announced its collaboration with the gene-sequencing organization BGI-Shenzhen in performing next-generation sequencing of pediatric brain tumors at the Joint Genome Center, BGI@CHOP. The center's sophisticated, high-throughput sequencing technology will greatly speed the discovery of specific gene alterations involved in childhood brain cancers.
This genomic discovery program dovetails with the work of the Childhood Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium, a multi-institutional collaboration recently launched by CHOP, with support from the Children's Brain Tissue Foundation. Because even large research centers may not hold enough tumor tissue specimens to power certain research, the consortium pools samples from a group of institutions, providing an important scientific resource for cooperative studies.
"The better we understand the mutational landscape of tumors, the closer we'll be to defining therapies tailored to a patient's specific subtype of cancer," added Resnick.
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Mar. 27, 2013 ? An international team of scientists led by the University of Leicester has found new evidence that links faster 'biological' ageing to the risk of developing several age-related diseases -- including heart disease, multiple sclerosis and various cancers.
The study involved scientists in 14 centres across 8 countries, working as part of the ENGAGE Consortium (list of research teams is give below). The research is published online today (27th March) in the journal Nature Genetics.
The project studied a feature of chromosomes called telomeres. Telomeres sit on the end of our chromosomes -- the strands of DNA stored in the nucleus of cells. The telomeres shorten each time a cell divides to make new cells, until they reach a critical short length and the cells enter an inactive state and then die. Therefore telomeres shorten as an individual gets older. But, individuals are born with different telomere lengths and the rate at which they subsequently shorten can also vary. The speed with which telomeres wear down is a measure of 'biological ageing'.
Professor Nilesh Samani, British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology at the University of Leicester and Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, who led the project said: "Although heart disease and cancers are more common as one gets older, not everyone gets them -- and some people get them at an earlier age. It has been suspected that the occurrence of these diseases may in part be related to some people "biologically" ageing more quickly than others."
The research team measured telomere lengths in over 48,000 individuals and looked at their DNA and identified seven genetic variants that were associated with telomere length. They then asked the question whether these genetic variants also affected risk of various diseases. As DNA cannot be changed by lifestyle or environmental factors, an association of these genetic variants which affect telomere length with a disease also would suggest a causal link between telomere length and that disease.
The scientists found that the variants were indeed linked to risk of several types of cancers including colorectal cancer as well as diseases like multiple sclerosis and celiac disease. Most interestingly, the authors found that in aggregate the seven variants also associated with risk of coronary artery disease which can lead to heart attacks.
Professor Samani added: "These are really exciting findings. We had previous evidence that shorter telomere lengths are associated with increased risk of coronary artery disease but were not sure whether this association was causal or not. This research strongly suggests that biological ageing plays an important role in causing coronary artery disease, the commonest cause of death in the world. This provides a novel way of looking at the disease and at least partly explains why some patients develop it early and others don't develop it at all even if they carry other risk factors."
Dr Veryan Codd, Senior Research Associate at the University of Leicester who co-ordinated the study and carried out the majority of the telomere length measurements said: "The findings open of the possibility that manipulating telomere length could have health benefits. While there is a long way to go before any clinical application, there are data in experimental models where lengthening telomere length has been shown to retard and in some situations reverse age-related changes in several organs."
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The event was graced by the presence of various keynote speakers and delegates who have made a mark transforming the HR map of the region.
Day 2 was initiated with the presentation of Ms. Clare Woodcraft, Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Foundation, wherein she focused on the challenges and opportunities encountered by GCC nationals in the private sector.
Dr. Othaman Al Khoori, VP HR and Administrator, Abu Dhabi Airport Company, focused on the various strategies that can help in achieving success in the Emiratization policies that have been implemented in the organizations.
Mr. Abdulhussain Tejani, on the second day focused on the significance of integration in HR workplace and addressed the issue of creating a new direction towards building new culture in an organization.
Dr. Ahmed Tahlak elaborated his views on the strategies to achieve and compete for international positions in a globally competitive economy.
He emphasized on the need to develop the eminence of young leadership training programs and the reasons that are hindering the nationals from breaking the monopoly of some countries in international position leadership.
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FILE - In this March 23, 2010 file photo, Marcelas Owens of Seattle, left, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., right, and others, look on as President Barack Obama signs the health care bill in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Medical claims costs _ the biggest driver of health insurance premiums _ will jump an average 32 percent for individual policies under President Barack Obama?s overhaul, according to a study by the nation?s leading group of financial risk analysts. Recently released to its members, the report from the Society of Actuaries could turn into a big headache for the Obama administration at a time when many parts of the country remain skeptical about the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - In this March 23, 2010 file photo, Marcelas Owens of Seattle, left, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., right, and others, look on as President Barack Obama signs the health care bill in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Medical claims costs _ the biggest driver of health insurance premiums _ will jump an average 32 percent for individual policies under President Barack Obama?s overhaul, according to a study by the nation?s leading group of financial risk analysts. Recently released to its members, the report from the Society of Actuaries could turn into a big headache for the Obama administration at a time when many parts of the country remain skeptical about the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under President Barack Obama's overhaul, the nation's leading group of financial risk analysts has estimated.
That's likely to increase premiums for at least some Americans buying individual plans.
The report by the Society of Actuaries could turn into a big headache for the Obama administration at a time when many parts of the country remain skeptical about the Affordable Care Act.
While some states will see medical claims costs per person decline, the report concluded the overwhelming majority will see double-digit increases in their individual health insurance markets, where people purchase coverage directly from insurers.
The disparities are striking. By 2017, the estimated increase would be 62 percent for California, about 80 percent for Ohio, more than 20 percent for Florida and 67 percent for Maryland. Much of the reason for the higher claims costs is that sicker people are expected to join the pool, the report said.
The report did not make similar estimates for employer plans, the mainstay for workers and their families. That's because the primary impact of Obama's law is on people who don't have coverage through their jobs.
The administration questions the design of the study, saying it focused only on one piece of the puzzle and ignored cost relief strategies in the law such as tax credits to help people afford premiums and special payments to insurers who attract an outsize share of the sick. The study also doesn't take into account the potential price-cutting effect of competition in new state insurance markets that will go live on Oct. 1, administration officials said.
At a White House briefing on Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said some of what passes for health insurance today is so skimpy it can't be compared to the comprehensive coverage available under the law. "Some of these folks have very high catastrophic plans that don't pay for anything unless you get hit by a bus," she said. "They're really mortgage protection, not health insurance."
A prominent national expert, recently retired Medicare chief actuary Rick Foster, said the report does "a credible job" of estimating potential enrollment and costs under the law, "without trying to tilt the answers in any particular direction."
"Having said that," Foster added, "actuaries tend to be financially conservative, so the various assumptions might be more inclined to consider what might go wrong than to anticipate that everything will work beautifully." Actuaries use statistics and economic theory to make long-range cost projections for insurance and pension programs sponsored by businesses and government. The society is headquartered near Chicago.
Kristi Bohn, an actuary who worked on the study, acknowledged it did not attempt to estimate the effect of subsidies, insurer competition and other factors that could mitigate cost increases. She said the goal was to look at the underlying cost of medical care.
"Claims cost is the most important driver of health care premiums," she said.
"We don't see ourselves as a political organization," Bohn added. "We are trying to figure out what the situation at hand is."
On the plus side, the report found the law will cover more than 32 million currently uninsured Americans when fully phased in. And some states ? including New York and Massachusetts ? will see double-digit declines in costs for claims in the individual market.
Uncertainty over costs has been a major issue since the law passed three years ago, and remains so just months before a big push to cover the uninsured gets rolling Oct. 1. Middle-class households will be able to purchase subsidized private insurance in new marketplaces, while low-income people will be steered to Medicaid and other safety net programs. States are free to accept or reject a Medicaid expansion also offered under the law.
Obama has promised that the new law will bring costs down. That seems a stretch now. While the nation has been enjoying a lull in health care inflation the past few years, even some former administration advisers say a new round of cost-curbing legislation will be needed.
Bohn said the study overall presents a mixed picture.
Millions of now-uninsured people will be covered as the market for directly purchased insurance more than doubles with the help of government subsidies. The study found that market will grow to more than 25 million people. But costs will rise because spending on sicker people and other high-cost groups will overwhelm an influx of younger, healthier people into the program.
Some of the higher-cost cases will come from existing state high-risk insurance pools. Those people will now be able to get coverage in the individual insurance market, since insurance companies will no longer be able to turn them down. Other people will end up buying their own plans because their employers cancel coverage. While some of these individuals might save money for themselves, they will end up raising costs for others.
Part the reason for the wide disparities in the study is that states have different populations and insurance rules. In the relatively small number of states where insurers were already restricted from charging higher rates to older, sicker people, the cost impact is less.
"States are starting from different starting points, and they are all getting closer to one another," said Bohn.
The study also did not model the likely patchwork results from some states accepting the law's Medicaid expansion while others reject it. It presented estimates for two hypothetical scenarios in which all states either accept or reject the expansion.
Larry Levitt, an insurance expert with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, reviewed the report and said the actuaries need to answer more questions.
"I'd generally characterize it as providing useful background information, but I don't think it's complete enough to be treated as a projection," Levitt said. The conclusion that employers with sicker workers would drop coverage is "speculative," he said.
Another caveat: The Society of Actuaries contracted Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, to do the number-crunching that drives the report. United also owns the nation's largest health insurance company. Bohn said the study reflects the professional conclusions of the society, not Optum or its parent company.
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AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace contributed to this report.
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Topics in Applied Linguistic Monday 07.00 -09.00 Ulfah Nur Farida 2201410054
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There are various definitions of applied linguistics based on some linguists. The followings are some of them: a. According to Corder (1973): The application of linguistic knowledge to some object ? or applied linguistics, as its name implies ? is an activity. It is not a theoretical study. It makes use of the findings of theoretical studies. The applied linguist is a consumer or user, not a producer of theories. b. According to Cook (2003): Applied Linguistic is a study which the task is to mediate between linguistics and language use. c. According to Spolsky (2005): Applied Linguistics is a cover term for a sizeable group of semi-autonomous disciplines, each dividing its parentage and allegiances between the formal study of language and other relevant fields, and each working to develop its own methodologies and principles. d. According to Schmitt & Celce Murcia (2002) AppliedLinguistics? is using what we know about (a) language, (b) how it is learned, and (c) how it is used, in order to achieve some purpose or solve some problem in the real world? (Schmitt & Celce-Murcia, 2002, p. 1). e. According to Dawn Knight (2009) Applied linguistics is a discipline which explores the relations between theory and practice in language with particular reference to issues of language use. It embraces contexts in which people use and learn languages and is a platform for systematically addressing problems involving the use of language and communication in real-world situations. Applied linguistics draws on a range of disciplines, including linguistics. In consequence, applied linguistics has applications in several areas of language study, including language learning and teaching, the psychology of language processing, discourse analysis, stylistics, corpus analysis, literacy studies and language planning and policies. Dawn Knight.2009. What is Applied Linguistic. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/16212220/What-is-Applied-Linguistics f. According to G. Richard Tucker The term ?applied linguistics? refers to a broad range of activities which involve solving some language-related problem or addressing some language-related concern. G. Richard Tucker.(n.d).Applied Linguistic.Retrieved from http://lsadc.org/info/ling-fields-applied.cfm g. According to Susan Hunston (2009) One answer to this question is that it is the study of language in order to address real-world concerns. Another is that it is the study of language, and language-related topics, in specified situations. The real-world concerns include language learning and teaching but also other issues such as professional communication, literacies, translation practices, language and legal or health issues, and many more. Applied linguistics is practically-oriented, but it is also theory-driven and interdisciplinary. Models of how languages are learned and stored, for example, are ?applied linguistics?, as are descriptions of individual language varieties that prioritize actual and contextualized language use. Susan Hunston.2009.What is Applied Lingustic? Retrieved fromhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/16212220/What-is-Applied-Linguistics From the definitions above, I can conclude that applied linguistic is a study of language that is used to solve many problems related to language in many cases.
The Scope of Applied Linguistics
a. According to Mouton de Gruyter, the scope of applied linguistics includes: Language Acquisition (L1 and L2), Psycho/Neuro ? linguistics, Language Teaching, Sociolinguistics, Humor Studies, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis/Rhetorics, Text/Processing/Translation, Computational Linguistics ? Machine Translation, Corpus Linguistics, Language Control/Dialectology.
b. According to the International Association of Applied Linguistics, the scope of applied linguistics includes: Adult Language Learning, Child Language, Communication in the Professions, Contrastive Linguistics and Error Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Educational Technology and Language Learning, Foreign Language Teaching Methodology and Teacher Education, Forensic Linguistics, Immersion Education, Interpreting and Translating, Language and Ecology, Language and Education in Multilingual Settings, Language and Gender, Language and the Media, Language Contact and Language Change, Language for Special Purposes, Language Planning, Learner Autonomy in Language Learning, Lexicography and Lexicology, Literacy, Mother Tongue Education, Psycholinguistics, Rhetoric and Stylistics, Second Language Acquisition, Sign Language.
References: Davies, A. 2007. An Introduction to Applied Linguistics. From Practice to Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Seidlhofer, B. 2003. Controversies in Applied Linguistics. United Kingdom: OXFORD University Press. Schmitt, N. & Celce-Murcia, M. (2002) An overview of applied linguistics. In N. Schmitt (ed.), An introduction to applied linguistics (pp. 1?16). London: Arnold. Dawn Knight.2009. What is Applied Linguistic. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/16212220/What-is-Applied-Linguistics G. Richard Tucker.(n.d). Applied Linguistic.Retrieved from http://lsadc.org/info/ling-fields-applied.cfm Susan Hunston. 2009. What is Applied Lingustic? Retrieved fromhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/16212220/What-is-Applied-Linguistics
Mobile phone spy software has been settling in the trends nowadays, particularly because its use has been realized and discovered by many. This realization is a result of the excessive communication opportunities that cell phones have brought about. And recently, with the advent of smart phones there has been even more reasons why limitations on a mobile phone communication need to be defined. But since these limitations are particularly difficult to be set, it was necessary to bring along something that could be used to monitor the communication activities of a mobile phone. And like its name, the mobile spy software serves the very purpose.
MobiEspion.com is one of the spy software that comes with the offering of consistency as well as a package deal. Its general features include those of spying on text messages (time, date, contact, and content, inclusive), calls (time, date, contacts inclusive), pictures and videos (sent, received or captured) and?internet usage history (web browsing, emailing). The mobile spy does not even spare social-networking activities of the target person. What websites are being used for social networking, what friends are in the contact list and what wall posts are being updated. All these updates are transferred to the account of the person who purchased the software. At the time of purchase a private account is set up. This account remains safe and secure, and is basically the vital link to the data that has been spied on. The view on the account is viewer-friendly. It comes with an additional feature of a geographical tracker. This means that the target cell phone?s user cannot visit any place without an update being sent off to the user about the exact location. This is particularly important for moms who are concerned about what company their children are keeping. If the geographical tracking shows localities of ice-cream parlors, and skating zones, it could point to relief, but if their whereabouts indicate abandoned garages and factory backyards, the reaction would certainly be otherwise. But it is not only about the reaction contained in this, what is more important is that action can be taken against the detrimental elements in the society such as drug dealing, or getting involved in pre-marital sex.
Thus, the account of the purchaser becomes an essential tool in not only discovering the target person, but also helping in uplifting the morals of the society. Often mobile phones reveal information that could have never been accessed through direct confrontation or force. This points to the fact that even criminal investigations could be helped using this cell phone spy software technology. A spy software in the suspect?s mobile phone would be a much better alternative to detectives sneaking about him. The mobile phone will reveal the communication points of the suspect, the money-earning strategies, the entertainment spots, as well as family background and current relationships. Thus nothing remains out of the watch once you get hold of the mobile phone of the person.
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