Sunday, June 30, 2013

You Can Sell Your Commercial Property Quickly And Easily

Working with commercial real estate is a difficult chore, and this collection of tips will give you ideas on how to get started. Reading this article will help you become successful with your real estate dealings.

Once you have narrowed your choices down to two major contenders, you should expand your decision to include the big picture. Regardless of which way you choose, coming up with the capital is a common factor, so often times it will be be worth digging a little bit deeper to get the larger property in order to maximize your long-term profits. In effect, this is similar to an economy of scale, or also like purchasing more of an item to save money.

When choosing a broker, ask about their experience specifically in the commercial real estate market. For better results they should specialize in the specific area that you want to buy or sell in. Allow the broker to acknowledge your wish for an exclusive agreement between the two of you.

TIP! Make sure that the broker you decide to work with has experience in the commercial market. Look for brokers who specialize in the type of commercial property that you?re purchasing or selling.

You should always request the credentials of any and all inspectors working with your real estate transaction. This is true when working with pest or insect removal, since many people who are non-accredited work in these fields. By hiring an experienced professional, you?re less likely to run into problems after you buy the property.

If you plan on renting out your commercial properties, find simply and solidly constructed buildings. These are the most likely to quickly invite tenants into the space, because they know it is well-cared for. Tenants will also have to deal with maintenance issues less often, which means they have more time go about their business.

If you rent or lease the commercial properties you own, keep them occupied as much as possible. You are legally responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of unoccupied spaces. If you have multiple properties open, figure out why, and try to correct the issue that could be causing a loss of tenants.

TIP! If your property deal requires inspections (as it should), look at the inspector?s credentials. Many people in certain fields are not accredited, including pest and insect removal services.

When you are looking at a commercial property, be sure to look at the neighborhood, too. In general, it?s better to locate a business in a richer area because rich customers obviously have more discretionary income. If your business services will do better in a poor neighborhood, buy property there!

When you are negotiating to rent a commercial property, try to have the lease modified so there are few events that are considered to be defaulting on the lease. The tenant will then be less likely to violate these terms. You don?t want tenants defaulting on your leases.

Advertise the commercial property to both locals and non-locals. Many people think that investors who don?t live in their city will have no interest in their property, but this is untrue. Private investors will purchase properties outside of their area if the prices are low enough.

TIP! If you are planning to rent your commercial properties once you purchase them, opt for solidly constructed buildings that are simple in their design. Tenants will be attracted to these spots because they are maintained well.

Start drafting letters of intent by focusing on the more central issues. Once you have agreement on those, broaden the negotiations to include any smaller issues that remain. This will make negotiations less tense and make gaining agreement on the smaller issues easier to complete.

You will need to know what you are looking for in a commercial property prior to beginning your search. Features like square footage or restrooms should be predetermined to make the process easier.

TIP! When advertising your available commercial property, do so locally, but also regionally and even nationally. Most individuals make the error of thinking that only the people in their area are the ones interested in purchasing their property.

You may have to make some repairs or improvements to your property before you can move in. These changes could simply be cosmetic ones as simple as a new coat of paint or moving the furniture around. Other changes may be more significant, such as moving walls or installing new doors. If you?re leasing or renting, you can ask the landlord to make these changes at no cost to yourself.

Commercial real estate agents come in different types. You have a full service broker who works on behalf of both the tenant and landlord, then you have brokers who only work with tenants. If you intend to rent rather than buy, retaining the services of the latter type of broker may benefit you, as tenant-only brokers know what works when representing tenants.

Talk to a good tax adviser before buying anything. They?ll be able to estimate how much tax you?ll pay for the property you wish to buy, as well as how much income tax you?ll pay on your returns. Try to find a location that does not have high taxes, you can consult with an adviser for more information.

TIP! Go on a tour of all potential properties. It?s a good idea to hire a building contractor to come with you and do on-the-spot inspections of properties you are considering.

Hopefully this article has given you a more confident perspective on how you can better handle your commercial real estate endeavors. Remember to apply these tips and work on improving your skills linked to property hunting and negotiating.

Source: http://www.maynaseric.com/you-can-sell-your-commercial-property-quickly-and-easily-2

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Rogers To Receive Sony Xperia SP

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Rogers will be adding another device to its Android line-up very soon. The new incomer is the Sony Xperia SP officially announced by Sony in March and as the name indicates packs some similarities with the former flagship Xperia S.

The Xperia SP comes with Android Jelly?Bean?4.1.2 and should see an upgrade to Android 4.2. As the Xperia?S?the SP also features a transparent ?light bar? that not only acts as a?notifier, but as?a mood light, matching the bar?s color to the colors on screen.

Spec wise the Xperia SP is?a LTE-enabled device packing a 4.6-inch 720p display. On the inside is a 1.7GHz dual-core processor with Adreno 320 graphics backed up by 1GB RAM which would make it a last year top-notch device. To hold all your files and music?you?ll?find 8GB of internal storage plus a microSD card slot for up to 32GB expansion. The phone also features an 8MP back camera and a front-facing VGA module.

The phone will come to Rogers in?Black, but pricing?details are scarce. Nonetheless, you should expect this device to launch within a few weeks.?A device launch?is always?good news, but is it a good enough addition to?Rogers? line-up? Leave your thoughts on the comment section below.

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Apple iPhone 5S Rumors: Release Date Set For Mid-September? iPhone 6 To Launch Weeks Later?

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Obama in South Africa for next leg of Africa tour

CENTURION, South Africa (AP) ? President Barack Obama is in South Africa, embarking on the second leg of his three-country African journey. The visit comes at a poignant time, with former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela ailing in a Johannesburg hospital.

Obama is expected to meet with U.S. consulate staff in Johannesburg Friday. On Saturday he is to meet with South African President Jacob Zuma. The two men are then expected to hold a joint news conference.

Obama said Friday he wasn't certain whether he'd be able to see Mandela, who is gravely ill, during his visit.

Following his visit to South Africa, Obama is scheduled to go to Tanzania. He traveled to South Africa from Dakar, Senegal.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-south-africa-next-leg-africa-tour-181534727.html

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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Aaron Hernandez: Two additional men allegedly connected with murder in custody

Aaron?Hernandez: On Thursday and Friday police in Connecticut and Florida arrested two men they say are connected with the murder of Odin Lloyd. Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has been charged with Lloyd's murder.

By Tim McLaughlin and Richard Valdmanis,?Reuters / June 29, 2013

Pallbearers carry the casket of Odin LLoyd following a funeral ceremony at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Boston Saturday. Hundreds of relatives, friends and well-wishers wept together and hugged at the funeral for LLoyd, a semi-pro football player whose killing led to murder and weapons charges against former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez.

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Ernest Wallace, who is suspected of being an "accessory after the fact" in the killing of?Odin?Lloyd, 27, a semi-pro football player, turned himself in to police in Miramar, Florida, a local police official said.

Hernandez was charged with?Lloyd's murder and fired by the New England Patriots football team on Wednesday.

On Friday, Germany's Puma said it had canceled its two-year sponsorship deal with Hernandez. The world's third-largest sporting goods company had announced the agreement in April.

The Patriots said on Friday that the team's pro shop would allow people to exchange Hernandez jerseys for a new Patriot jersey of comparable value.

"We know that children love wearing their Patriots jerseys, but may not understand why parents don't want them wearing their Hernandez jerseys anymore," New England Patriots spokesman Stacey James said in a statement.

Prosecutors have said that Hernandez shot?Lloyd?execution-style after becoming upset with him days earlier at a Boston nightclub.?Lloyd's body was found June 17 near Hernandez's house in North Attleborough, about 40 miles (64 km) south of Boston.

Miramar Police Officer Gil Bueno said Wallace, who lives in the south Florida town, had turned himself in on an outstanding arrest warrant, and that Massachusetts would have to make arrangements to extradite him.

Massachusetts State Police spokesman Lieutenant Daniel Richard confirmed Wallace's arrest in Florida but declined to discuss any details.

Connecticut prosecutors said on Thursday that they had arrested another man, Carlos Ortiz, in connection with the case and charged him with being a fugitive from justice. He has been transferred to Massachusetts to face additional charges.

Hernandez's lawyer, Michael Fee, has entered a not guilty plea on his client's behalf and has called the prosecution's case circumstantial.

Hernandez was a rising football star who was signed to a $41 million contract as tight end for one of the National Football League's top teams.

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Chicago prepares for concealed weapons

CHICAGO (AP) ? This city, where violent street gangs shoot it out dozens of times a week despite some of the nation's toughest restrictions on guns, now faces a new challenge: Well-meaning citizens with the legal right to hit the streets with loaded firearms, whenever they want.

As Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn mulls whether to sign off on eliminating the country's last concealed carry ban, the question in Chicago is whether it will matter in the crime-weary city. Will a place that long had some of the nation's tightest restrictions on handguns be more at risk? Or will it be safer with a law that can only add to the number of guns already on the street?

Neighborhood leaders, anti-crime activists and police officials worry about additional mayhem in Chicago. But other residents, including some who live in Chicago's more violent areas, believe more guns will allow them to defend themselves better.

"We just had a weekend where something like 48 people were shot, seven died," said Otis McDonald, 79, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court tossing out Chicago's strict gun ban three years ago. "Now law abiding citizens like myself ... can carry them when they want to and not carry them when they don't want to, and the people out there who will do us harm won't know when we got them and when we don't."

At City Hall, where Chicago's anti-gun campaign has centered for years, the reaction to concealed carry legislation has been relatively quiet. The reasons seem to boil down to this: The city can do little about stopping the law because a federal appeals court ordered Illinois to end its public possession ban by this summer.

"We would prefer to have the (gun) bans we've always enacted... (but) it's the best we could do based upon the mandate we have," said Alderman Patrick O'Connor.

The bill sitting on Quinn's desk is a hard-fought compromise between conservative downstate lawmakers who opposed most gun restrictions and anti-gun lawmakers from Chicago and other urban areas. The legislation requires state police to issue a concealed-carry permit to any gun owner with a state-issued Firearm Owners Identification card, and who passes a background check, pays a $150 fee and undergoes 16 hours of training.

It's not as stringent as concealed carry laws in California, New York and a handful of others states, which give law enforcement authorities more power to deny permits. But it's more restrictive than earlier proposals by gun rights advocates, including one that would have superseded all local gun restrictions. For example, it won't wipe out Chicago and Cook County's ban on assault weapons.

Most significantly for gun control advocates, the legislation does prohibit guns in places like schools, buses, trains, bars and government buildings.

"If you think about all the prohibited places there are ... I don't think you will see an overwhelming number of people actually (carrying weapons) because it becomes such a headache," said state Sen. Kwame Raoul, a Chicago lawmaker and lead negotiator on the bill who represents President Barack Obama's former state senate district.

But other city officials aren't so assured. Superintendent Garry McCarthy calls a requirement that people go through only 16 hours of training before they are issued a concealed carry permit "woefully inadequate" because about the only thing people can learn in that time is how to "point and fire a weapon" and not when they can legally do so.

"Our officers receive six months of training in the police academy and then three months on the streets and at the end of the day we make mistakes frequently," he said.

Another concern by Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is the provision in the bill that calls for law enforcement and prosecutors to object to a governor-appointed panel if they suspect applicants are dangerous. In Cook County, where there are 358,000 registered gun owners, Dart said he's worried gang members and others who shouldn't have guns will slip through the cracks and be granted permits.

Quinn, a Chicago Democrat, has been quiet on his intentions with the legislation, his office saying he's "reviewing the bill carefully." But what he decides may be moot, given that the Legislature passed it by wide enough margins to override any veto.

Once the law is in place, Dart said he expects a flood of applications for permits, something that happened in November 2011 in Wisconsin, where within hours of becoming the 49th state to have a concealed carry law, tens of thousands of people downloaded applications. By the end of 2012, the state had issued nearly 110,000 permits.

During 2012, the first full year the law was in effect, Milwaukee's total for homicides and rapes remained virtually the same as the year before. As for robbery, the kind of crime that concealed carry supporters say would be reduced if more regular citizens had weapons, Milwaukee saw a 17.2 percent drop between 2011 and 2012. But police say so far this year the number of robberies has climbed by 19 percent.

Whether the law will have similar effects in Chicago is a matter of contention. Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Catholic priest and activist on the city's South Side, doesn't believe criminals will hesitate out of some concern their victims might be armed.

"You are going to see a lot more gun fights and you are going to see people using guns as their first line of defense when they are confronted. To think guns are suddenly going to be the answer to violence in the city or the state, it's absurd," Pfleger said.

But Richard Pearson, Illinois State Rifle Association executive director, predicts Chicago's crime rate will fall. He argues that both sides in the gun debate will be watching closely what transpires.

"What goes on in Chicago is a very big deal because of their history of resisting firearm use," Pearson said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-prepares-concealed-carry-gun-law-193704212.html

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Friday, June 28, 2013

Ford recalls 13,100 Explorer, Taurus and MKS models

DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. said Friday it is recalling more than 13,100 Ford Explorer, Taurus and Lincoln MKS models because the child safety locks on the rear doors may not work properly.

The recall affects 2013 models, and the malfunction could mean the child safety locks would turn off automatically, allowing the doors to be opened from the inside.

No accidents or injuries have been reported due to the malfunction, Ford said.

The affected vehicles were built at the automaker's Chicago Assembly Plant between November 29, 2012 and December 12, 2012. Most of the recalled vehicles are located in North America.

Ford said dealers will test and replace the rear child safety locks for no cost if necessary.

(Reporting By Joseph Lichterman; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)

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Britain plans world's first go-ahead for '3-parent' IVF babies

By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is planning to become the first country in the world to offer controversial "three-parent" fertility treatments to families who want to avoid passing on incurable diseases to their children.

The methods, currently only at the research stage in laboratories in Britain and the United States, would for the first time involve implanting genetically modified embryos into women, and raise serious ethical questions.

The techniques involve intervening in the fertilisation process to remove faulty mitochondrial DNA, which can cause inherited conditions such as fatal heart problems, liver failure, brain disorders, blindness and muscular dystrophy.

They are designed to help families with mitochondrial diseases - incurable conditions passed down the maternal line that affect around one in 6,500 children worldwide. Mitochondria act as tiny energy-generating batteries inside cells,

The controversial potential treatment is known as three-parent in vitro fertilisation (IVF) because the offspring would have genes from a mother, a father and from a female donor.

After a national public consultation showed Britons broadly favour the idea, the government's chief physician said on Friday it should be allowed to go ahead under strict regulation.

"Scientists have developed ground-breaking new procedures which could stop these diseases being passed on, bringing hope to many families seeking to prevent their children inheriting them," Sally Davies, chief medical officer, told reporters.

"It's only right that we look to introduce this life-saving treatment as soon as we can."

Davies said the government's health department is drafting regulations to cover the new treatments, and plans to publish them later this year. The move would make Britain the first country in the world to give patients to option of using so-called mitochondrial DNA transfer to avoid passing the diseases on to their children.

DNA SWAP

Scientists are researching several three-parent IVF techniques.

One being developed at Britain's Newcastle University, known as pronuclear transfer, swaps DNA between two fertilised human eggs. Another, called maternal spindle transfer, swaps material between the mother's egg and a donor egg before fertilisation.

A British medical ethics panel which reviewed the potential treatments for mitochondrial diseases decided last year they were ethical and should go ahead as long as research shows they are likely to be safe and effective.

Because Britain is in the vanguard of this research, ethical concerns, political decisions and scientific advances here are closely watched around the world - particularly in the United States where scientists are also working on DNA swap techniques.

Some pro-life campaigners have criticised the scientific research, saying that creating embryonic children in a lab abuses them by subjecting them to unnatural processes.

Critics also worry that modifying embryos to avoid disease could be the first step towards the creation of "designer babies", whose genetic makeup could be modified as embryos to ensure certain traits such as height or hair colour.

Asked whether she was "comfortable" with taking such a major step along the way to allowing human genetic modification, Davies said she had debated and considered the ethical implications with many experts over many years and had come to the conclusion the techniques should be allowed.

Any final decision on putting the regulations in place to allow the new treatments to be offered will be subject to a vote in parliament, but Davies said she hoped the first patients may be able to get the new treatments within the next two years.

(Reporting by Kate Kelland; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

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Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 750HD


Building on a foundation that's almost identical to the Editors' Choice Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 710HD, the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 750HD adds one key feature: 3D with full support for video sources like Blu-ray players and FiOS. That easily makes it worth the higher price, especially when you consider that $99 of the difference covers the cost of the one pair of 3D glasses it comes with. It also makes the 750HD Editors' Choice for an inexpensive 3D projector for home use.

Like the 710HD, despite the home cinema in the name, the 750HD is actually meant as a home entertainment, rather than home theater, projector. The giveaway is the 3,000-lumen brightness rating. Home theater projectors, like the Editors' Choice Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 5020UBe, are meant for theater-dark lighting. With the typical size screen for home theaters, however, 3,000 lumens would be far too bright for comfortable viewing in the dark.

Home entertainment projectors have a different role. They're meant to supplement or substitute for a TV in a family room or living room. In that situation, you need a far brighter image to stand up to the ambient light. It also helps for a home entertainment projector to be small and light enough so if you don't install it permanently, you can store it easily when you're not using it or can carry it easily to another room or, for that matter, a friend's house. The 6-pound 750HD fits that requirement too.

Basics and Setup

The connections for image sources on the 750HD's back panel are more typical for a data projector than a home entertainment projector, with only one HDMI port plus the usual VGA, composite video, and S-Video ports. The VGA port also supports component video, which will let you connect to a second HD video source if you have an appropriate adaptor cable. In addition, there's a USB A port, which will let you read files directly from a USB memory key, and a USB B port for direct USB display and for controlling your computer's mouse with the projector's remote.

Setup is standard, with a 1.2x manual zoom offering some flexibility in how far you can put the projector from the screen for a given size image. Simply plug in the appropriate cables, adjust the zoom, and focus.

Brightness, Image Quality, and Rainbows

As I've already suggested, the 750HD is bright enough to throw an appropriately large image even with the typical ambient light in a family room. However, the maximum image size for comfortable viewing will depend on how the bright the room is. I found the projector suitable for the 90-inch diagonal image I used in most of my testing even with the lights on, and even with daylight streaming through the windows. For smaller image sizes or lower light levels, you can adjust the projector brightness by switching to Eco mode or choosing one of the preset modes with lower brightness.

Switching between 2D and 3D can be a problem for projectors, because the 3D glasses cut out a substantial portion of the light going to each eye. I was able to use the same 90-inch image size for both modes, however, by picking the brightest 3D preset for 3D and lower brightness presets for 2D.

For 2D image quality, the 750HD is roughly a match for the 710HD, which translates to being better quality overall than many TVs offer, but not in the same league as a good-quality 1080p home entertainment projector.

The 750HD did a good job with skin tones and with shadow detail (details based on shading in dark areas), although it lost a little detail in scenes that are hard to handle well. Also on the plus side, I didn't see any motion artifacts or posterization (shading changing suddenly where it should change gradually), even in scenes that tend to cause that problem.

I saw some moderately obvious noise with DVDs, but that's not surprising for a sub-$1000 projector. Noise was far less obvious with Blu-Ray discs and with a FiOS connection. It also helps a lot that, as a three-chip LCD projector, the 750HD is guaranteed to be free of rainbow artifacts.

Image quality for 3D is another strong point. I didn't see any crosstalk, and saw only a hint of 3D-related motion artifacts.

Audio and Other Issues
The built-in audio system in the 750HD, with a 2-watt mono speaker, is good enough to be usable, with acceptably high quality and adequate volume for a small room. However, that assumes little to no ambient noise. If you want stereo, or more volume, you'll need an external sound system. And since there's no audio-out port on the projector, you'll have to bypass the projector entirely, rather than control the sound through the projector menus.

One last important feature is a long lamp life, at 4,000 hours in Normal mode or 5,000 hours in Eco mode. That's long enough to run the projector more than 3.5 hours per day every day for three years in the brightest mode or four years in Eco mode. Also helping to keep the cost of ownership down is the replacement lamp cost of only $200.

Keep in mind that you have to add the cost of additional 3D glasses at $99 each if you get them from Epson, although Epson points out that less expensive alternatives are available from other manufacturers. In any case, you'll almost certainly need more than the one pair that comes with the projector.

No 720p projector can match an otherwise equivalent 1080p projector for sharp resolution, but if don't want to spend the money for 1080p, a good-quality 720p projector comes in at a close second. Among 720p models, if you're not interested in 3D, you can save money by getting the 2D Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 710HD. You can also save by choosing a 3D DLP-based model instead. But if you want good image quality in both 2D and 3D, and you also want to avoid any possibility of rainbow artifacts, the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 750HD is the obvious choice. That makes it the clear pick for Editors' Choice as well.

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Texas abortion bill falls after challenge

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? Despite barely beating a midnight deadline, hundreds of jeering protesters helped stop Texas lawmakers from passing one of the toughest abortion measures in the country.

As the protesters raised the noise to deafening levels in the Texas Senate chamber late Tuesday, Republicans scrambled to gather their colleagues at the podium for a stroke-of-midnight vote on some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the country.

"Get them out!," Sen. Donna Campbell shouted to a security guard, pointing to the thundering crowd in the gallery overhead that had already been screaming for more than 10 minutes.

"Time is running out," Campbell pleaded. "I want them out of here!"

It didn't work. The noise never stopped and despite barely beating the midnight end-of-session deadline with a vote to pass the bill, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said the chaos in the chamber prevented him from formally signing it before the deadline passed, effectively killing it.

Dewhurst denounced the protesters as an "unruly mob." Democrats who urged them on called the outburst democracy in action.

In either point of view, a raucous crowd of chanting, singing, shouting demonstrators effectively took over the Texas Capitol and blocked a bill that abortion rights groups warned would close most abortion clinics in the state.

"They were asking for their voices to be heard," said Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth, who spent nearly 11 hours trying to filibuster the bill before the outburst. "The results speak for themselves."

The final outcome took several hours to sort out.

Initially, Republicans insisted the vote started before the midnight deadline and passed the bill that Democrats spent the day trying to kill. But after official computer records and printouts of the voting record showed the vote took place Wednesday, and then were changed to read Tuesday, senators retreated into a private meeting to reach a conclusion.

At 3 a.m., Dewhurst emerged from the meeting still insisting the 19-10 vote was in time, but said, "with all the ruckus and noise going on, I couldn't sign the bill" and declared it dead.

He denounced the more than 400 protesters who staged what they called "a people's filibuster" from 11:45 p.m. to well past midnight. He denied mishandling the debate.

"I didn't lose control (of the chamber). We had an unruly mob," Dewhurst said. He even hinted that Gov. Rick Perry may immediately call another 30-day special session, adding: "It's over. It's been fun. But see you soon."

Many of the protesters had flocked to the normally quiet Capitol to support Davis, who gained national attention and a mention from President Barack Obama's campaign Twitter account. Her Twitter following went from 1,200 in the morning to more than 20,000 by Tuesday night.

"My back hurts. I don't have a lot of words left," Davis said when it was over and she was showered with cheers by activists who stayed at the Capitol to see her. "It shows the determination and spirit of Texas women."

Davis' mission was cut short but her effort ultimately helped Democrats earn a rare victory in a Legislature dominated by Republicans for more than a decade.

"It's a bad bill," said Sen. Kirk Watson of Austin, leader of the Senate Democrats.

The bill would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and force many clinics that perform the procedure to upgrade their facilities and be classified as ambulatory surgical centers. Also, doctors would be required to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles ? a tall order in rural communities.

If signed into law, the measures would have closed almost every abortion clinic in Texas, a state 773 miles wide and 790 miles long with 26 million people. A woman living along the Mexico border or in West Texas would have to drive hundreds of miles to obtain an abortion if the law passed. The law's provision that abortions be performed at surgical centers means only five of Texas' 42 abortion clinics are currently designated to remain in operation.

Republicans and anti-abortion groups insisted their goal was to improve women's health care, but also acknowledged wanting clinics to close.

"If this passes, abortion would be virtually banned in the state of Texas, and many women could be forced to resort to dangerous and unsafe measures," said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund and daughter of the late former Texas governor Ann Richards.

The showdown came after Davis had slogged her way through about 11 hours of speaking while Senate Republicans ? and several House members ? watched and listened for any slipup that would allow them to end the filibuster and call a vote.

Democrats chose Davis, of Fort Worth, to lead the effort because of her background as a woman who had her first child as a teenager and went on to graduate from Harvard Law School.

Rules stipulated she remain standing, not lean on her desk or take any breaks ? even for meals or to use the bathroom. But she also was required to stay on topic, and Republicans pointed out a mistake and later protested again when another lawmaker helped her with a back brace.

Under the rules, lawmakers can vote to end a filibuster after three sustained points of order. As tension mounted over Davis' speech and the dwindling clock, Campbell, a first-term lawmaker from New Braunfels, made the call on the third violation, sparking nearly two hours of debate on how to handle it.

After much back and forth and senators shouting over each other, the Republican majority forced a vote to end the filibuster minutes before midnight, sparking the raucous response from protesters.

Senate security and several Department of Public Safety state troopers tried to quiet the crowd but were simply outnumbered and had no hope of stopping the outburst.

Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, blamed the confusion surrounding the final vote on the demonstrators and Democratic senators who urged them on.

"Had that not happened, everyone would have known," what was happening, Patrick said.

Standing next to him was Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, a Democrat.

"This is democracy," Hinojosa said. "They have a right to speak."

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Can home-culture images impair second-language skills?

June 26, 2013 ? A newly transferred associate from the Shanghai office nails his presentation to Mr. Smith from Chicago but stumbles in his pitch to Mr. Chen from San Francisco. A visiting professor from Taiwan lectures fluently about a slide of a Grecian urn, but falters and struggles to recall the word "translucent" when discussing a Ming vase. What is it about seeing a Chinese face or even a Chinese vase that can disrupt a Chinese immigrant's fluency in English?

Research on how cultural knowledge operates in the mind increasingly focuses on the dynamics through which our cultural frames are evoked by particular situations. One dynamic is "frame-switching" -- the shifts in judgment that bicultural individuals make as they move between settings governed by different cultural norms. A new immigrant may speak Chinese at home, for example, but will speak English and adopt Western mannerisms when in school.

As new research from Columbia Business School Professor Michael Morris and Postdoctoral Research Scholar Shu Zhang shows, the automaticity of frame-switching means that it sometimes interferes with -- rather than helps -- our performance. Specifically, it can disrupt performance in a second language.

A team of researchers under Morris's lead ran a series of experiments in the Columbia Business School Behavioral Research Laboratory to explore this disruption in more detail. In the first experiment, which simulated a conference call, they found that Chinese immigrants speak English less fluently when speaking to a Chinese versus a Caucasian face. The second found the same effect from exposure to images of Chinese culture such as a Buddha statue or the Great Wall, versus of American culture, such as the Statue of Liberty or Mount Rushmore.

To test that primes cause Chinese-language concepts to interfere with English-language processing, several experiments used naming tasks. Chinese immigrants exposed to visual icons of Chinese culture became more likely to name pictured objects with literal translations from Chinese (e.g. labeling pistachios as "happy nuts" or a bulldozer as an "earth moving machine"). Another experiment found that Chinese cultural priming evoked resulted in faster recognition of these literal translations, indicating heightened cognitive accessibility.

The results were published this month in PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study builds on Morris's decade of research on the cognitive dynamics that enable people to operate effectively in multiple cultures. Cultural knowledge can be thought of as lenses for interpreting events and scripts for guiding actions. "Our cultural lenses and scripts activate automatically in response to cultural cues in the setting -- sights, sounds, and even aromas that are highly associated with a given cultural tradition," he says. "But in culturally complex or mixed settings, this cultural chameleon-like response doesn't always serve us well."

In related projects, Morris has identified priming effects on social behaviors that differ between East Asian and Western cultures, such as modesty versus self-enhancement in taking credit for projects. Priming that induces East Asian immigrants to speak less fluently and behave less "Western" can hinder their promotion. Knowing how cultural cues in a setting affect people is important for firms seeking to develop their managerial talent.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/PYl8YRBv6Bo/130626143108.htm

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Twitter wants to make a 'DVR mode' for live TV events, offer delayed Twitter streams

Social media is very much about keeping up with what's happening right now -- but not everybody consumes live media simultaneously. What happens when you watch a time-shifted sporting event four hours late, but still want to see what your peers had to say in the heat of the moment? Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has an idea: social media DVR. Speaking at a moderated panel at at the Center for Technology Innovation, Costolo envisioned a system that would allow users to jump back in time and look at a snapshot of the social network at a specific moment.

"It would be nice to see things like a graphic of spikes in the conversation," he said. "And be able to scroll back to that time and see what happened at that particular moment." The CEO continued to suggest that such a feature could be designed around planned events, describing it as "Twitter in a DVR mode." Although it was suggested that these features are in testing, Costolo stopped short of saying if they were actually something users could expect to see soon. Naturally, we reached out to the company for further comment, but haven't heard back just yet. Still, it's at least clear that the company hasn't abandoned its television-based ambitions.

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Fujitsu ARROWS A 202F launching on SoftBank this week, Snapdragon 600 and 3,000mAh battery in tow (video)

Fujitsu ARROWS A 202F launching on SoftBank this week, Snapdragon 600 and 3,000mAh battery in tow video

Fast smartphones are great and all, but they're useless once the battery goes flat. Fujitsu aims to solve that with the ARROWS A 202F. Launching with SoftBank in Japan later this week, the phone features a 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdraon 600, 2GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage that can be expanded via microSD, a 5-inch 1080p display and a generous 3,000mAh battery in a package that's less than 10mm thick. Fujitsu's "Human Centric Engine" is said to further increase battery life, to the tune of two days worth of juice, but details of how that works are light. Chances are slim the ARROWS will make it to US shores, though the recently announced HTC Butterfly s, with an even larger 3,200mAh battery, just might.

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Palestinians protest Israeli closure of theater

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Palestinians are protesting Israel's closing of their national theater in Jerusalem during a planned children's festival.

Administrator Majed Mani of the Hakawati Theater complained that officials from Israel's Ministry of Public Security ordered the theater closed for eight days, canceling the festival, set to feature puppet shows and plays.

Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said Tuesday that organizers took funds from the Palestinian Authority, which has self-rule over Palestinians in the West Bank.

Israel claims Jerusalem as its capital, including the eastern section of the city seized in the 1967 Mideast war. It doesn't allow the Palestinian Authority to fund activities there.

Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/palestinians-protest-israeli-closure-theater-152721354.html

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Gene mutation may have effect on benefit of aspirin use for colorectal cancer

June 25, 2013 ? In 2 large studies, the association between aspirin use and risk of colorectal cancer was affected by mutation of the gene BRAF, with regular aspirin use associated with a lower risk of BRAF-wild-type colorectal cancer but not with risk of BRAF-mutated cancer, findings that suggest that BRAF-mutant colon tumor cells may be less sensitive to the effect of aspirin, according to a study in the June 26 issue of JAMA.

Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that aspirin use reduces the risk of colorectal cancer, according to background information in the article. Experimental evidence has suggested that BRAF-mutant colonic cells might be less sensitive to the antitumor effects of aspirin than BRAF-wild-type (the typical form of a gene as it occurs in nature) neoplastic cells.

Reiko Nishihara, Ph.D., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, and colleagues examined the association of aspirin use with the risk of colorectal cancer according to BRAF mutation status. The researchers collected biennial questionnaire data on aspirin use and followed up participants in the Nurses' Health Study (from 1980) and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (from 1986) until July 2006 for cancer incidence and until January 2012 for cancer mortality.

Among 127,865 individuals, 1,226 incident rectal and colon cancers were identified with available molecular data. The researchers found that regular aspirin use was associated with a significantly lower risk (27 percent) of BRAF-wild-type cancer. Regular aspirin use was not associated with a lower risk of BRAF-mutated cancer. "The association of aspirin use with colorectal cancer risk differed significantly according to BRAF mutation status."

The authors also observed a lower risk of BRAF-wild-type cancer with increasing aspirin tablets per week; however, there was not a significant trend in risk reduction for BRAF-mutated cancer. "The association of aspirin tablets per week with cancer risk differed significantly by BRAF mutation status. Compared with individuals who reported no aspirin use, a significantly lower risk of BRAF-wild-type cancer was observed among individuals who used 6 to 14 tablets of aspirin per week and among those who used more than 14 tablets of aspirin per week."

In addition, longer duration of aspirin use was associated with significant risk reduction for BRAF-wild-type cancer, whereas duration of aspirin use was not significantly associated with BRAF-mutated cancer risk.

"There was no statistically significant interaction between post-diagnosis aspirin use and BRAF mutation status in colorectal cancer-specific or overall survival analysis. This suggests that the potential protective effect of aspirin may differ by BRAF status in the early phase of tumor evolution before clinical detection but not during later phases of tumor progression," the authors write.

"The identification of specific cancer-subtypes that are prevented by aspirin is important for several reasons. First, it enhances our understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of colorectal neoplasia and the mechanisms through which aspirin may exert its antineoplastic effects. Second, development of clinical, genetic, or molecular predictors of specific subtypes of colorectal cancer might lead to the development of more tailored screening or chemo-preventive strategies. Nevertheless, given the modest absolute risk difference, further investigations are necessary to evaluate clinical implications of our findings. Lastly, our data provide additional support for a causal association between aspirin use and risk reduction for a specific subtype of colorectal cancers. Accumulating evidence supports preventive effect of aspirin against colorectal cancer."

Editorial: Differential Effects of Aspirin Before and After Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer

In an accompanying editorial, Boris Pasche, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, (and JAMA contributing editor), comments on the findings of this study.

"Nishihara el al derived their report from the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, which include a large number of female and male health professionals. This population is predominantly white: 98 percent of the participants in the Nurses' Health Study and 95 percent of participants in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study are of a non-Hispanic white ethnic background. However, black individuals have the highest incidence of colorectal cancer in the United States and represent the ethnic group for whom colorectal cancer prevention may have the greatest benefit. Therefore, it will be important to determine whether the findings reported by Nishihara et al are confirmed in black individuals."

"In summary, these results identify biomarkers of response to aspirin administered either preventively or therapeutically and are likely to help tailor the use of aspirin in the prevention and treatment of colorectal cancer."

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/W6jQRekd7fU/130625161853.htm

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