Thursday, October 25, 2012

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If once you meet with these above mentioned conditions, there is no delay in approval of your required money. That?s all you have to fulfill a simple application form available on the website of the loan. In application form you have to fill your authentic details in right way and then, submit it online. Your amount is sanctioned directly into your active bank account within 24 hours of applying.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Engadget Mobile Podcast 155 - 10.21.2012

Since we missed you so much last week we have prepared an Engadget Mobile Podcast MAXX Edition for you to feast your hungry ears upon: dial it in and be prepared to have your wildest mobile news fantasies unfold before you.

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00:02:12 - Samsung Galaxy Note II review
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Craig Venter's plan to email vaccines around the world

Debora MacKenzie, Brussels correspondent

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Craig Venter, the ?ber-DNA jockey who quietly sequenced the human genome using his own DNA, then made "synthetic life" by outfitting a gutted bacterium with homemade genes, says his next trick will be emailing biological molecules, using 3D biological printers. The move that could revolutionise healthcare - and biological warfare.

Venter discussed the idea at last week's Wired Health Conference in New York - although it was somewhat overshadowed by his audacious plan to sequence Martian DNA and beam the results back to Earth. Long before that sci-fi can be realised, though, bio-printers could more plausibly be used to shuttle vaccines around our planet.


This makes lots of sense. If you can email troops the 3D instructions for printing a replacement gun part , then you can email macromolecules - as long as you have a printer that can deposit a repertoire of nucleotides, sugars and/or amino acids where they belong, and link them up chemically.

You'll need a lot of different toner cartridges to recreate the full range of biological widgets, of course. But you may not need that many for modern vaccines, made not of dead germs but of their key molecules. In fact, for DNA vaccines - which often work well in experiments but have never been commercialised, because of safety concerns - you could do it now with a machine that synthesises DNA to an emailed sequence. Proteins wouldn't be much harder. As long as you also had the vials of sterile saline plus immunity-boosting additives to mix with the DNA or protein, and make it a vaccine.

This has game-changing implications for public health, and for biodefence. The bottleneck in fighting infectious disease, once you invent the vaccine, is getting it to people - if not, 15 kids an hour would not still be dying of measles. The blue-sky US military research organisation DARPA has long been funding efforts to make vaccines in days, rather than months.

Venter's bio-printer, in theory, could both make and distribute a macromolecular vaccine fast. If everyone, or maybe every local clinic, had a bio-printer, a mass email of the vaccine specs should take care of a novel pandemic, or bioterror attack - or maybe even measles - in minutes. Simply print, and inject.

What could go wrong? Well, I can see the mass emailing ending up dumped in a fair number of spam filters. How do we guarantee quality control? Worse, the vaccine specs could themselves become the bioweapon. The bottleneck in biological warfare is getting the germ into the victim. Brew up a false bio-alarm, then intercept and tinker with the vaccine email, and your victims will inject it themselves. And antivirus software takes on a whole new meaning when you can spam-email Ebola or the 1918 flu.

OK, I don't really want to pour cold water - this would be way cool if it works. If we can get the quality control right, and prevent tampering. And the prank emailing of deadly viruses. And resign ourselves to the fact that once this is available, heroin and its ilk will become as impossible to ban as spam.

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WrestleMania 29 tickets on sale Saturday, Nov. 10

Tickets for WrestleMania 29 go on sale Saturday, Nov. 10, at 10 a.m. ET!

The most spectacular event in live entertainment, WrestleMania29, takes over MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on April 7, 2013. Tickets for The Show of Shows go on sale Saturday, Nov. 10, at 10 a.m. ET!

Don?t miss out on your chance to witness history in the making when WrestleMania returns home to the New York/New Jersey area. Tickets will be available at?Ticketmaster.com and at all Ticketmaster outlets, or you can charge by phone by calling 800-745-3000.

Ahead of the big day, WWE will hold a Kickoff Party Nov. 9 at Bryant Park in Manhattan, New York. Attendees will not only get a head-start on The Road to WrestleMania, but also the opportunity to meet Mark Henry, Alicia Fox and Aksana, as well as WWE Legend Mick Foley and WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels!

WrestleMania is the one day of the year that all Superstars and Divas ? as well as the entire WWE Universe ? have circled on their calendars. The Rock has already promised to ?electrify like never before" at WrestleMania 29. What will be in store for The Great One on April 7? And which Superstars will be holding the prized WWE and World Heavyweight Championships come WrestleMania 29?

The one thing that is for certain is WWE?s Superstars and Divas will pull out all the stops for the biggest event in sports-entertainment history. Don?t miss out on WrestleMania?s hotly anticipated homecoming!

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Japan court rules Apple did not infringe two Samsung patents

Japan court rules Apple did not infringe two Samsung patents

In the latest scuffle between Apple and Samsung, a Tokyo court has ruled that the iPhone 4 and 4S do not infringe on two of Sammy's patents. According to The Asahi Shimbun, a decision on September 14th found Apple had not violated a patent related to app downloads, as Samsung's method is different. A dispute regarding flight / airplane mode also went in Cupertino's favor on October 11th, because the technology in question was regarded by the court as incremental. Only one case against Apple remains undecided in Japan -- for a patent on using "homescreen space" -- but, as usual, don't expect that to be the last chapter in the neverending story.

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Banks responding slowly to mortgage demand

By Dan Wilchins and Rick Rothacker, Reuters

Big U.S. banks are hiring mortgage bankers to meet a surge in demand for home loans and refinancings, but they are still struggling to process applications, which could undermine the Federal Reserve's attempts to stimulate the economy.?

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Banks are hiring to meet increased demand in the home loan business.

Since the Fed announced its plan in September to buy up to $40 billion of mortgages a month, consumer mortgage rates have fallen more slowly and by less than they would have done in more normal times.?

On average, 30-year home loan rates are down just 0.18 of a percentage point this week from Sept. 13, when the Fed announced its latest stimulus program. Some analysts estimate that in more normal markets, rates would have fallen by roughly 0.31 of a percentage point or more. That could save a home buyer thousands of dollars over the lifetime of a mortgage.

The dysfunction in the mortgage market, which has yet to fully recover after its battering in the U.S. housing bust and subsequent financial crisis, means most benefits from the Fed's new stimulus plan may be accruing to banks instead of consumers.

Banks still committed to the home loan business are hiring to meet increased demand, but fewer banks are committed to the business after the 2007-2009 mortgage crisis pulverized some of the biggest lenders in the United States and wounded many others.

Capacity constraints work in the banks' favor. Profit margins for home lending are more than double their usual level, JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon told investors last Friday. The major U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co, Wells Fargo & Co and Citigroup Inc, all said mortgage operations boosted third-quarter profits.

Lenders making mortgages say they do not want to hire too many staffers only to lay them off when volume declines. The Mortgage Bankers Association estimates that banks will make $1.47 trillion of home loans this year for home purchases and refinancings, but then just $1.04 trillion in 2013, a decline of nearly a third.

"We are trying to ... not over hire," Andy Cecere, chief financial officer at U.S. Bancorp, said in an interview on Wednesday.

Top U.S. mortgage lender Wells Fargo added about 2,000 people in the third quarter as volume surged. Chief Financial Officer Tim Sloan said in an interview the bank is responding to the impact of the Fed's plan. Chase has increased its number of loan officers by 23 percent over the last year, and expects to keep hiring aggressively, said Kevin Watters, head of mortgage originations at JP Morgan Chase.

But mortgage applications are also jumping, rising nearly 17 percent in the week ended Sept. 28. With demand that strong and no staffers to handle extra business, banks have little reason to cut rates much. In a speech on Monday, New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley acknowledged that difficulty, noting the Fed's efforts to stimulate the economy in recent years would have had a bigger economic impact if consumer mortgage rates were falling more.

Bank staffing issues are a headache for mortgage applicants already struggling with tough appraisals and wary lenders. Many borrowers tell Kafka-esque stories of bureaucracy, where what used to be a 30- to 60-day process has stretched to 90 days or more.

Profit bonanza
The mortgage business has grown much more concentrated. The top two mortgage lenders made 14 percent of mortgage loans in 2000, 29 percent of mortgages in 2006, and 44 percent in the first half of 2012, according to Inside Mortgage Finance data.?

Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase are the top two lenders now, and their predecessor companies were the top in 2000.

In 2006, Countrywide Financial Corp ? now owned by Bank of America Corp ??and Wells were the top. Bank of America last year stopped buying loans from other banks after suffering billions of dollars of losses from its exposure to home loans, which has cut its volume in half and limited smaller banks' capacity to lend.

Bankers are unsure how long the refinancing bonanza will last.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Dimon told investors the mortgage boom will continue "next quarter, maybe for a couple of quarters after that but it won't last for that much longer."

Citigroup Chief Financial Officer John Gerspach told investors on Monday that figuring out how long the refinancing boom will last is "one of the big questions facing a lot of institutions at this point in time."

Smaller banks are struggling with the same questions.

Matt Williams, president of Gothenburg State Bank in Gothenburg, Neb., and incoming chairman of the American Bankers Association, said his bank was not adding staff even though its 28 employees were "stressed to the max right now."

Williams said his bank, with $125 million in assets, expects rates eventually will go up, cutting demand for refinancing.

Mortgage demand was rising even before the Fed announced its latest plan to buy home loans, but that announcement immediately lowered bank funding costs. The effect on bank revenues will take longer to show up, because it takes months to process and close mortgage applications.

For consumers, capacity constraints among mortgage lenders mean rates are not falling as much as they theoretically could.

The average 30-year consumer mortgage rate was 3.37 percent, Freddie Mac said on Thursday ? about 1.13 percentage points higher than rates investors in mortgage bonds would accept, as measured by the "secondary rate" for mortgages guaranteed by Fannie Mae.

In the second half of 2011, the gap between consumer mortgage rates and the secondary rate averaged closer to about 0.9 percentage point, suggesting lenders could cut rates another 0.23 point. However, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae boosted fees for guarantees by 0.1 of a percentage point in August, meaning the difference may be only about 0.13 of a percentage point.

Additional reporting by David Henry and Michelle Conlin in New York and Emily Stephenson in San Diego.

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Too Much, Too Soon! Mandy Moore Already Getting Botox And ...

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By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

Mandy Moore is still two years away from 30, but a plastic surgeon claims the young star is already getting face-changing surgery that has affected her natural all-American girl looks.

When the 28-year-old stepped out at Rachel Zoe's launch party for Major Must Haves with Jockey on Wednesday, her distorted facial structure made her barely recognizable from the beautiful romantic lead in A Walk To Remember.

PHOTOS: Mandy Moore is Almost Unrecognizable From Younger Self

"It is very possible that she's had some work done. I suspect she may have undergone Botox injections to her forehead, causing her eyebrows to change shape and flatten," celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn, who has not treated the actress and singer, told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview.

"It also appears she may have undergone a chin implant, making her jaw look more square. Overall, these changes make Mandy look a lot more masculine."

PHOTOS: 10 Stars With Suspiciously Frozen Foreheads

The startling changes in her face aren't the only difference with the 5' 10" Chasing Liberty star, who has lost an awful lot of weight since she was a promoter for healthy curves earlier in her career.

For more scoop on celebrity plastic surgery, visit Dr. Youn's blog at CelebCosmeticSurgery.com, and pick up his eye-opening memoir, In Stitches, which is available on Amazon.com.

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Tiger News : Technology diminishes face-to-face communication ...

Home > Opinion > Technology diminishes face-to-face communication, value of relationships

Ellie Fehlig, Photographer, Web Editor
October 19, 2012
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The 1980?s.
A time when popular culture was consumed by Madonna, Nike sneakers and ?Back to the Future.?
In 2012, teens are more interested in country music, Sperry?s and ?The Dark Knight Rises.?
For the most part, teenagers act the same way they did 30 years ago. We come home past our curfews, get in countless arguments with our parents and just want to have fun.
However, could we say that teenage romance is the same in both generations?
Probably not, and for one reason: technology.
I know, we?ve all heard it before, ?When I was your age, no one had cell phones.?
Well, although we hate to admit it, that annoying adult who constantly reminds us how times have changed is right.
Back then, young people had to talk to each other in person. They didn?t have Facebook, Twitter, email or texting.
If a guy wanted to ask a girl out, he had to ask her while looking at her face.
There was no computer screen to hide behind if he was rejected.
And how weird would it be meeting someone at a party and not being able to Facebook stalk them afterward?
Pretty weird, if you ask me.
Nowadays, people don?t go out with someone they haven?t texted at least a few times before. But we can?t truly get to know someone by only texting them.
Sure, texting might be less nerve-wracking, and it may give us more time to think about what to say next, but it means more when we take time out of our day to hang out with each other.
When we?re physically with someone, they know we are only focusing on them.
When we are texting them, it?s hard for the other person to tell what we are actually doing at that moment.
We could be on another date, and the other person wouldn?t even know it.
Call me old-fashioned, but there are some situations that require more than just a ?send? button.
The bottom line is, instead of Facebook-stalking or texting people, try talking to them face-to-face because genuine communication will be much more rewarding.

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Friday, October 19, 2012

Elevated indoor carbon dioxide impairs decision-making performance

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Overturning decades of conventional wisdom, researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found that moderately high indoor concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) can significantly impair people's decision-making performance. The results were unexpected and may have particular implications for schools and other spaces with high occupant density.

"In our field we have always had a dogma that CO2 itself, at the levels we find in buildings, is just not important and doesn't have any direct impacts on people," said Berkeley Lab scientist William Fisk, a co-author of the study, which was published in Environmental Health Perspectives online last month. "So these results, which were quite unambiguous, were surprising." The study was conducted with researchers from State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University.

On nine scales of decision-making performance, test subjects showed significant reductions on six of the scales at CO2 levels of 1,000 parts per million (ppm) and large reductions on seven of the scales at 2,500 ppm. The most dramatic declines in performance, in which subjects were rated as "dysfunctional," were for taking initiative and thinking strategically. "Previous studies have looked at 10,000 ppm, 20,000 ppm; that's the level at which scientists thought effects started," said Berkeley Lab scientist Mark Mendell, also a co-author of the study. "That's why these findings are so startling."

While the results need to be replicated in a larger study, they point to possible economic consequences of pursuing energy efficient buildings without regard to occupants. "As there's a drive for increasing energy efficiency, there's a push for making buildings tighter and less expensive to run," said Mendell. "There's some risk that, in that process, adverse effects on occupants will be ignored. One way to make sure occupants get the attention they deserve is to point out adverse economic impacts of poor indoor air quality. If people can't think or perform as well, that could obviously have adverse economic impacts."

The primary source of indoor CO2 is humans. While typical outdoor concentrations are around 380 ppm, indoor concentrations can go up to several thousand ppm. Higher indoor CO2 concentrations relative to outdoors are due to low rates of ventilation, which are often driven by the need to reduce energy consumption. In the real world, CO2 concentrations in office buildings normally don't exceed 1,000 ppm, except in meeting rooms, when groups of people gather for extended periods of time.

In classrooms, concentrations frequently exceed 1,000 ppm and occasionally exceed 3,000 ppm. CO2 at these levels has been assumed to indicate poor ventilation, with increased exposure to other indoor pollutants of potential concern, but the CO2 itself at these levels has not been a source of concern. Federal guidelines set a maximum occupational exposure limit at 5,000 ppm as a time-weighted average for an eight-hour workday.

Fisk decided to test the conventional wisdom on indoor CO2 after coming across two small Hungarian studies reporting that exposures between 2,000 and 5,000 ppm may have adverse impacts on some human activities.

Fisk, Mendell, and their colleagues, including Usha Satish at SUNY Upstate Medical University, assessed CO2 exposure at three concentrations: 600, 1,000 and 2,500 ppm. They recruited 24 participants, mostly college students, who were studied in groups of four in a small office-like chamber for 2.5 hours for each of the three conditions. Ultrapure CO2 was injected into the air supply and mixing was ensured, while all other factors, such as temperature, humidity, and ventilation rate, were kept constant. The sessions for each person took place on a single day, with one-hour breaks between sessions.

Although the sample size was small, the results were unmistakable. "The stronger the effect you have, the fewer subjects you need to see it," Fisk said. "Our effect was so big, even with a small number of people, it was a very clear effect."

Another novel aspect of this study was the test used to assess decision-making performance, the Strategic Management Simulation (SMS) test, developed by SUNY. In most studies of how indoor air quality affects people, test subjects are given simple tasks to perform, such as adding a column of numbers or proofreading text. "It's hard to know how those indicators translate in the real world," said Fisk. "The SMS measures a higher level of cognitive performance, so I wanted to get that into our field of research."

The SMS has been used most commonly to assess effects on cognitive function, such as by drugs, pharmaceuticals or brain injury, and as a training tool for executives. The test gives scenarios?for example, you're the manager of an organization when a crisis hits, what do you do??and scores participants in nine areas. "It looks at a number of dimensions, such as how proactive you are, how focused you are, or how you search for and use information," said Fisk. "The test has been validated through other means, and they've shown that for executives it is predictive of future income and job level."

Data from elementary school classrooms has found CO2 concentrations frequently near or above the levels in the Berkeley Lab study. Although their study tested only decision making and not learning, Fisk and Mendell say it is possible that students could be disadvantaged in poorly ventilated classrooms, or in rooms in which a large number of people are gathered to take a test. "We cannot rule out impacts on learning," their report says.

The next step for the Berkeley Lab researchers is to reproduce and expand upon their findings. "Our first goal is to replicate this study because it's so important and would have such large implications," said Fisk. "We need a larger sample and additional tests of human work performance. We also want to include an expert who can assess what's going on physiologically."

Until then, they say it's too early to make any recommendations for office workers or building managers. "Assuming it's replicated, it has implications for the standards we set for minimum ventilation rates for buildings," Fisk said. "People who are employers who want to get the most of their workforce would want to pay attention to this."

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New in Theaters for Oct. 19 | Triangle Arts and Entertainment

Two major releases hit the Triangle for the weekend of Oct. 19. One is a sequel, the other a sort of sequel.

Alex Cross
Tyler Perry takes the reins from Morgan Freeman in this reboot of the franchise based on James Patterson?s best selling novels. This time the popular detective is up against an assassin, played by Matthew Fox. Perry is no Freeman, and ?Alex Cross? is no ?Kiss the Girls? or ?Along Came a Spider.?

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View the trailer.

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The creative team behind ?Paranormal Activity 3? returns for another go-round with the popular franchise, featuring all new hijinks. If you liked the first three, then this one should be right up your alley.

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UFO Hovers For Hours Above Family Home In Scotland (VIDEO)

A family in Scotland was amazed to see a glowing unidentified flying object hovering in the sky in the middle of the night above their rural home -- and it stayed there for hours.

Morag Ritchie first noticed the odd, flickering and rotating lights when she woke up around 2 a.m. early Saturday.

"I saw what I thought was a bright star," Ritchie told BBC Scotland. "However, it was a sequence of flashing lights. There was also a darting light coming from the side. There was no sound, either."

Ritchie woke her family up and they all watched as a continuous moving stream of lights blinked in and out and around the strange object that reportedly remained in this location for several hours near their Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire home.

"I just woke up all of a sudden and looked out of the window to see all these twinkling lights -- they looked like they were moving," Ritchie said, according to Yahoo News U.K.

As the unusual object just hung there silently, sometimes revealing as many as five individual lights turning on and off around its perimeter, the family captured its movements on video.

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"My husband is a fisherman and he's spent many hours looking up at the night sky, so he was quite skeptical when I told him, but even he admitted it was strange," said Ritchie.

The video reveals, and Ritchie reported that, "occasionally, something shot off to the side. I kept going back to my bed but I was so unsettled that I continued waking up," according to STV Local.

The sighting lasted several hours, and by daylight, the mystery object was gone.

STV Local also reported that a Civil Aviation Authority spokesman, Richard Taylor, said, "We have no way of knowing what aircrafts were around that area at that time.

"There was a lot of activity with the northern lights -- the natural phenomenon -- wouldn't that be a more feasible explanation than an aircraft or UFO? If it was an aircraft, it would have been military," said Taylor.

Check out more UFO videos from around the world:

  • UFO over Moscow -- May 2, 2012

    This is a slideshow of many videos taken by people around the world who happened to be at the right place and at the right time with a video camera to record unusual lights or objects in the sky -- sometimes at night, other times during the day. Statistically, 95% of UFO sightings are easily explained. How many of these videos do you think represent the 5% of UFOs that can't be explained?

  • Cincinnati, Ohio -- Sept. 28, 2012

    Three brightly lit objects over a Cincinnati high school. UFOs or, as some claim: skydivers?

  • UFO over a Russian city -- June 19, 2012

  • A triangle-shaped UFO over Sydney, Australia -- May 2, 2012

  • Triangular light formation over Tennessee -- April 29, 2012

  • UFOs in triangular pattern over England -- April 26, 2012

  • Diamond-shaped UFO over Pasadena, Calif. -- 2009

  • UFOs over St. Petersburg, Russia -- April 9, 2012

  • UFO video over Las Vegas -- March 21, 2012

  • UFO over Fresno, Calif. -- March 1, 2012

  • UFO over Fresno, Calif. -- February 2011

  • Donut-shaped UFO, Ural Mountains, Russia -- January 2012

  • Triangle pattern of lights over Michigan -- Jan. 9, 2012

  • UFO zips behind a contrail (Location not given) -- Jan. 6, 2012

  • Unusual aerial objects over Campinas, Brazil -- Jan. 3, 2012

  • Odd object falls from sky over Japan -- January 2012

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Ill. Amtrak train set to hit 110 mph in test run

FILE - In this March 22, 2011 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin are joined by state and local officials as they announce the next phase of high-speed rail construction during a news conference at an Amtrak maintenance building in Chicago. On Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, Quinn, Durbin and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will take part in a test run of the high speed Amtrak line between Joliet and Normal, Ill., at 110 mph. The 30-mph increase from the route?s current top speed is a morale booster for advocates of high-speed rail who have watched conservatives in Congress put the brakes on spending for fast train projects. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

FILE - In this March 22, 2011 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin are joined by state and local officials as they announce the next phase of high-speed rail construction during a news conference at an Amtrak maintenance building in Chicago. On Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, Quinn, Durbin and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will take part in a test run of the high speed Amtrak line between Joliet and Normal, Ill., at 110 mph. The 30-mph increase from the route?s current top speed is a morale booster for advocates of high-speed rail who have watched conservatives in Congress put the brakes on spending for fast train projects. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

(AP) ? In a modest milestone for President Barack Obama's high-speed rail vision, test runs will start zooming along a small section of the Amtrak line between Chicago and St. Louis at 110 mph on Friday.

The 30-mph increase from the route's current top speed is a morale booster for advocates of high-speed rail in America who have watched conservatives in Congress put the brakes on spending for fast train projects they view as expensive boondoggles. But some rail experts question whether the route will become profitable, pose serious competition to air and automobile travel, or ever reach speeds comparable to the bullet trains blasting across Europe and Asia at 150 mph and faster.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn are scheduled to be on board when an Amtrak train hits 110 mph for the first time in Illinois. But it will only maintain that speed for a short time, somewhere along the 15 miles between Dwight and Pontiac, before braking back to more normal speeds.

"The important thing is it's a step in the right direction, but the question becomes what do we gain by doing this?" said David Burns, a rail consultant in suburban Chicago who drew up one of the first studies for high-speed service on the route more than three decades ago.

Advocates say Midwest routes from Chicago hold the most immediate promise for high-speed rail expansion outside Amtrak's existing, much faster Acela trains between Boston and Washington, D.C. They say it will give a growing Midwest population an alternative to traveling by plane or car, promote economic development along the route and create manufacturing jobs.

In first announcing his plans in 2009, Obama said a mature high-speed rail network would also reduce demand for foreign oil and eliminate more than 6 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year ? equivalent to removing 1 million cars from the roads. He set aside $8 billion in stimulus funds, directing the first round of money to speeding up existing lines, like the one across Illinois and calling it a down payment on an ambitious plan to change the way Americans travel.

Even the short-term goals have run into trouble. Governors in Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida turned down hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus funds, arguing not enough people would ride the trains and that states would be hit with too much of a financial burden for future operations.

Things could get worse for high-speed plans and for Amtrak if Mitt Romney wins the presidency next month. Romney and Republicans are calling for an end to $1.5 billion in yearly federal subsidies to money-losing Amtrak.

Nonetheless, proponents were cheered by Friday's test ride and believe projects already in progress have opened the door to future development.

"Given the fact that the program was a big zero at day one of the Obama administration and how hard one of the two parties has fought to keep that number at zero, I think we should be ecstatic about the progress," said Richard Harnish, director of the Midwest High Speed Rail Association.

Amtrak ridership hit a record 30 million passengers nationwide last year. On the Chicago-to-St. Louis route, passenger numbers increased 11 percent over the last fiscal year to more than 619,000 riders ? some of them pulled in by high gas prices, others by the convenience of being able to get work done while en route.

"Driving is just wasting my time," said Isaac Gaff, a 37-year-old music and arts director at a church who uses train time to plow through email on his laptop. He was waiting to get on the Amtrak line Thursday in Chicago to head home to Normal, in central Illinois.

Other riders say it's cheaper than flying, there's more space, and there are virtually none of the security headaches like those at airports.

"It's not as much of a hassle, that's for sure," said Julia Markun, an 18-year-old college freshman getting on the same train.

But as the infrastructure is currently laid out, there is virtually no chance trains will go much faster than 110 mph, primarily because trains on Midwestern routes have to share the lines with the freight companies that own the tracks.

Work to upgrade the track began in 2010 and has included the installation of new premium rail and concrete ties as well as the realignment of curves to support higher speeds. Safer gates and new signals were installed at some highway crossings.

Transportation officials expect that after another three years of upgrades, the $1.5 billion in improvements can shave about an hour off the 284-mile journey between Chicago and St. Louis, which now takes about 5 ? hours. Future plans aim to shrink the time to under four hours.

But to begin to seriously compete with the one-hour plane journey, travel time would have to go down to three hours, some experts say, leveling the playing field when factoring in the extra time to clear airport security.

By car, the trip can be done in about five hours. But to pry more people away from the door-to-door convenience of car travel you must have frequent trains, at least one an hour, said Burns, the rail consultant. Amtrak currently has six runs a day on the route.

A new generation of bi-level passenger cars for Amtrak's Midwest and California corridors is slated to be built at an Illinois plant operated by the U.S. subsidiary of Nippon-Sharyo, the company that makes Japan's bullet trains. And an entirely new fleet of locomotives could also be on the way, replacing designs that have been based on freight locomotives for decades.

Associated Press

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Google announces seller support in India, now allows developers to monetize their apps

Google announces seller support in India, lets developers monetize their apps

All Wall Street expectations aside, Google appears to be doing relatively well for itself. And while Android may not be the company's largest source of income, it is undoubtedly a primed possession to have around -- with that, it's only natural for the Mountain View-based outfit to extend a hand to the abundant amount of folks developing for its open-sourced platform. On this particular occasion, it's devs in India who are on the receiving end of a grand gesture, with Google announcing it's now allowing them to cash in on their applications by adding in-app purchases / subscriptions to ones that are currently free, or simply by selling new, paid app creations on the Play store. Google says the valuable move was driven by India now being the fourth-largest market for app downloads, and that this is a great way to "help developers capitalize on this tremendous growth."

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

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When a patient encounter hits too close to home

?Sometimes, how you feel at the end of an interview can be clinically revealing,? my preceptor says. ?How does this patient make you feel??

***

?Mr. M?? I ask gently, knocking on the hospital room door. ?May I come in??

?Hello? Hello??

I enter at what I think is an invitation to me, but see that 79-year-old Mr. M is speaking into the phone instead.

?I?m sorry, I can come back?? I start to say. Then I overhear what he is saying.

?If you don?t come get me, I?m gonna sneak outta here,? he says into the phone. ?I?m gonna sneak outta this place.?

Later I learn that he has been having that conversation all day. I also learn there is never anyone on the other end of the line.

I ask him where he wants to go, and why. What seems to be the problem?

He thinks the doctors don?t pay attention to him and that the nurses are out to get him. He thinks the food is poisonous and that he has no illness. He keeps trying to tell his son, but his son won?t listen. Why are they keeping him here?

I want to reassure him, and there are things I can say with confidence. No; the hospital food might not taste great, but it is not poisonous. You are here because of your kidneys; they haven?t been doing so well since your surgery.

?And the doctors have been stealing from me.?

I desperately want to reassure him that they are not. I want to tell him that the hospital staff here is compassionate and caring. That you can trust them. That they are here to help.

But I can?t quite get the words out.

***

?How does this patient make you feel??

I feel sadness. I feel pity. I feel helplessness.

I am thinking back to thirteen years ago.

***

?It?s Wilma,? my 83-year-old grandmother says. ?She is stealing from me!?

My father sighs. ?No one is stealing from you, Ma,? he says for what must be the third time that week. The year is 1999. My grandmother is in the early stages of the Alzheimer?s disease. Meanwhile, our family likes Wilma, her new live-in nurse. The combination of those two facts made for an easy answer: No, Wilma cannot be stealing from you.

I am ten years old, somewhere in the background of all this, listening quietly and saying nothing. I hear my grandmother growing frustrated that my father does not believe her. I hear my father growing frustrated that my grandmother can?t get this idea out of her mind. Slight variations of the same conversation happen over and over.

?You must have misplaced your necklace. Did you check the bedroom drawers??

It was only years later, when my grandmother was in the late stages of Alzheimer?s disease and thus no longer able to communicate with us, that we learned that she was right and we were wrong. It had been easy to doubt my aging grandmother. It was much more difficult to argue with my grandmother?s valuables stashed away in Wilma?s purse.

My grandmother?s cries, and our persistent failure to take them seriously, upset me to this day.

***

The world of psychiatry has a name for the phenomenon of a patient reminding a caregiver of someone else. It?s called countertransference, and it refers to a caregiver unconsciously projecting past emotions onto a current patient. It can be a response to transference, which involves a patient unconsciously projecting emotions onto a caregiver.

The idea of a physician entering a patient?s room with any emotional partiality might seem unsettling. Physicians are supposed to be objective and just. But a physician, too, is a human being: one with past experiences, feelings, and preferences. Is it so hard to imagine that something accumulated from the narrative this is a doctor?s life might affect a patient interaction, even subtly? I think of the family physician who told me how emotionally taxing it was to care for young children every day during the years she and her own husband were struggling with infertility. I think of the oncologist who felt a personal stab of pain upon encountering each breast cancer patient who reminded him of the mother he lost to the illness. Both were excellent physicians, and neither of their admissions struck me as unreasonable.

Still, having patients remind them of others is not something I?ve seen caregivers proclaim with pride. I think the reason is the realization that if countertransference exists, there is also the possibility of it taking worse forms than sadness or pity. When that patient reminded me of my grandmother, my reaction motivated me to spend more time with him and to take his concerns seriously. But what if, for example, I become annoyed with a patient? Or distrusting? Or abrupt?

I see countertransference less as something to be proud or ashamed of, but rather as a reality that must be grappled with ? whatever the consequences. When we participate in phenomena unconsciously, the least we can do is attempt to bring our thought processes to the surface: to reflect on our patient interactions honestly, and to try to discern why certain encounters invoke the reactions they do. Only then can the situation be addressed for the benefit of the patient.

?How does this patient make you feel??

As long as I have an answer to that question, I hope I may continue to explore why.

(Certain details of this story have been modified slightly to protect the privacy of the patient.)

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Giants put?whipping on 49ers

NY rips off 26 straight in rematch of NFC Championship to win 26-3

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Victor Cruz?of the?Giants dances after making a six-yard TD catch in the second quarter against the 49ers Sunday in San Francisco.

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SAN FRANCISCO - Antrel Rolle and the New York Giants studied Alex Smith so much they practically knew what was coming.

On one play in the third quarter, even running back Ahmad Bradshaw screamed from the sideline: "Trail. He's watching you." Rolle responded, pretended he was playing the ball and sliced in front of Kyle Williams on a short hook.

"He threw the ball right to me," Rolle said.

After a slow start this season, New York's defense saved its best for the 49ers yet again.

Rolle intercepted two passes by Smith, Prince Amukamara picked off another and the Giants shut down San Francisco in a 26-3 victory Sunday in a rematch of last season's NFC championship game.

"I think this is our most complete game all year long," Rolle said.

After outscoring the Bills and Jets by a combined 79-3 the last two weeks, the 49ers (4-2) met their match again. No overtime needed this time, and not much of Eli Manning, either.

Manning threw for 193 yards and one touchdown, Bradshaw ran for 116 yards and a score and New York (4-2) rode that dominant defense and four field goals by Lawrence Tynes to hand outspoken 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh the most lopsided loss of his tenure.

The 49ers had not allowed a 100-yard rusher in previous 22 home games. The last time one was Tennessee's Chris Johnson, who ran for 135 yards on Nov. 8, 2009

What a San Francisco treat.

"We were just waiting for them to play like we know they can play," Manning said of New York's defense. "They played outstanding. They played really well, flying around."

The Giants grinded out a 20-17 overtime win at rain-soaked Candlestick Park on Jan. 22, capitalizing on two fumbles punts by Williams en route to another Super Bowl title over the Patriots. All week, some San Francisco players talked about "unfinished business," and Harbaugh added to the hype when he fired back a strongly worded statement criticizing Giants offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride, who had said All-Pro defensive end Justin Smith often "gets away with murder" holding linemen.

For all the hoopla, the rematch was never close.

Amukamara's interception in the second quarter started a surge of New York offense. Smith, who wore tape around his sprained middle finger that he said wasn't an issue, lofted the pass too high and allowed Amukamara to leap underneath the ball before tight end Delanie Walker even had a chance at the Giants 33.

At one point in the first half, Manning completed eight consecutive passes for 142 yards and had the usually stout San Francisco defense out of sorts. Domenik Hixon tip-toed the sideline to catch passes of 39 and 16 yards on consecutive third downs, and Victor Cruz followed with a 6-yard touchdown reception and his usual salsa dance in the end zone for a 7-3 lead.

"The statement made," Cruz said, "is that we're here to stay."

Tynes kicked a 34-yard field goal for a 10-3 lead and Tarell Brown blocked a 40-yard attempt by Tynes, which led to David Akers' miss wide left from 52 yards as the half expired.

Akers, who tied the NFL record with a 63-yard field goal in a Week 1 win at Green Bay, also hooked a 43-yarder wide right on San Francisco's first drive. He made a 42-yarder from the same right hash mark. The All-Pro kicker is 11 of 16 this season.

"It wasn't a great day for any of us," Harbaugh said.

Once the break was over, the Giants sent San Francisco spiraling down and out in a New York minute.

David Wilson returned the second-half kickoff 66 yards to set up Bradshaw's 1-yard TD run. That quieted the Candlestick crowd - except for the Giants fans that sprinkled the stands blue on a sun-splashed day along the bay.

On San Francisco's next two possessions, Rolle intercepted Smith's passes. The first came on an overthrown pass intended for former Giant Mario Manningham that Rolle returned 20 yards to the San Francisco 12. On the second, he stepped in front of a pass to Williams and ran 22 yards to the San Francisco 5.

"I could tell, at times, we had him a little rattled," Rolle said.

"It's tough to speak about any other facet," Smith said. "We made it tough on the defense."

The only downside for New York is it settled for field goals both times. Then again, not many points were needed.

The Giants sacked Smith six times and had him under constant pressure, made worse when left tackle Joe Staley left with a concussion in the third quarter. Smith finished 19 of 30 for 200 yards, and the 49ers were held to 80 yards rushing.

"The nice thing was the pounding away of the pencil on the defensive line," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. "I think the defensive line finally decided they were going to come out and play today and they did."

The 49ers were coming off a 45-3 home romp against Buffalo, racking up a franchise-record 621 yards and becoming the first team in NFL history with 300 yards passing and 300 yards rushing in the same game. This time, they were smashed.

"Coaches always let us know that we're not the kings of the NFL, the Giants are," 49ers cornerback Carlos Rogers said. "They won a title last year and they're still that team to beat until somebody wins the Super Bowl."

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