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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) ? Mali army officials say Islamic extremist fighters have attacked Timbuktu in northern Mali.
Capt. Samba Coulibaly, spokesman for the Mali military in Timbuktu, said Sunday there is continuing gunfire between the army and jihadist fighters linked to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM. He said the Islamic radicals sneaked into the city's military camp.
Coulibaly said the fighting started Saturday night at about 10 p.m. when a jihadist suicide bomber blew himself up at a Malian military checkpoint at the western entrance to Timbuktu. He said one army soldier was slightly injured in the explosion.
He said that since the bomb attack, the jihadists have fired upon the Mali army from hidden positions and so far the French military in Timbuktu has not been involved in the fighting.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/islamic-extremists-attack-timbuktu-north-mali-122803432.html
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Human Resources (HR) is a field that I love. I chose to pursue a career path in HR because I found the function to be the intersection between being able to help people and growing a business, two things that I am passionate about.
If you?d like to ruin your reputation in HR, follow these easy steps:
Be old school.? The field has changed maybe more than any other business function over the last few decades.? You can ruin your reputation by embracing the ways of the old ?personnel department?, focusing on files and paperwork and forgetting about being an advocate for employees and management.
Act like a ?Hall Monitor?.? Put on your HR police badge and start roaming the halls looking for evil doers. Discipline people for coming in late, taking a lunch that went a little too long, and checking their Facebook page.? Two demerits for them!
Ignore the business.? Hey, you?re in HR ? you don?t need to know anything about how the business runs, the customers, the market, or other business functions like Finance and IT.? You just stay in your office processing payroll and filing your I-9s.
Be a corporate spy. ?Watch your employees like a hawk and report to management on every move they make.? Don?t ever try to coach an employee through an issue ? just go and tattle on them to their boss.This will go a long way in ensuring that you never have positive relationships with employees.
Plug your ears. ?Don?t listen to people.? Just toe the corporate line and show no empathy to employees.? They?re just employees ? it doesn?t matter what they have to say, right?
Keep your mouth shut.?You weren?t hired to advise management as to how to have effective relationships with people, motivate their workforce, and improve their performance.? Never speak up to senior leadership about what you think is right.
Stay in your office all day. Never socialize with employees.? Show no interest in their careers, development, or comfort in the office.
And the list goes on?what other advice do you have for HR professionals on how they can ruin their reputation?? I?m sure you have an HR horror story?let?s hear it!
Author:
Mike Spinale?is a corporate Human Resources leader at a healthcare information technology company located outside of Boston, Massachusetts and is an adjunct professor at Southern New Hampshire University. He has over eight years of experience in HR and management including career counseling, recruitment, staffing, employment branding, and talent management.? Mike has dedicated his HR career to modern views on the field ? HR is not about the personnel files ? it?s about bringing on the best talent, ensuring they?re in the right seat, and keeping them motivated and growing in their careers. In addition, Mike is the author of the?CareerSpin?blog where he offers advice and opinion on job search, personal & employment branding, recruiting, and HR. Mike is a certified Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Babson College. He is also a board member of the Metro-North Regional Employment Board, a board which sets workforce development policy for Boston?s Metro-North region, and an active member of the Society for Human Resource Management and the Northeast Human Resources Association.
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The sneezing, the itching, the watery eyes?oh my! Experts say the 2013 allergy season could start sooner and last longer in many parts of the country.
Dr. Kris Saririan of Certified Allergy & Asthma Consultants in Albany says a relatively mild winter, combined with a warm, wet spring, could create the perfect storm for those who suffer from seasonal allergies.
?We recommend that people get diagnosed and treated early to prevent the onset of symptoms. It is much more difficult to control the symptoms once the allergic reaction has begun,? said Dr. Saririan.
Symptoms of seasonal allergies include:
Dr. Saririan says it?s important for people to educate themselves about the symptoms associated with seasonal allergies. ?Unlike the common cold, which typically last 7-10 days, seasonal allergies can last several months.?
He also offered the below Healthy Tips for season allergy sufferers:
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? North Korea warned Seoul on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.
Analysts say a full-scale conflict is extremely unlikely, noting that the Korean Peninsula has remained in a technical state of war for 60 years. But the North's continued threats toward Seoul and Washington, including a vow to launch a nuclear strike, have raised worries that a misjudgment between the sides could lead to a clash.
North Korea's threats are seen as efforts to provoke the new government in Seoul, led by President Park Geun-hye, to change its policies toward Pyongyang, and to win diplomatic talks with Washington that could get it more aid. North Korea's moves are also seen as ways to build domestic unity as young leader Kim Jong Un strengthens his military credentials.
On Thursday, U.S. military officials revealed that two B-2 stealth bombers dropped dummy munitions on an uninhabited South Korean island as part of annual defense drills that Pyongyang sees as rehearsals for invasion. Hours later, Kim ordered his generals to put rockets on standby and threatened to strike American targets if provoked.
North Korea said in a statement Saturday that it would deal with South Korea according to "wartime regulations" and would retaliate against any provocations by the United States and South Korea without notice.
"Now that the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK have entered into an actual military action, the inter-Korean relations have naturally entered the state of war," said the statement, which was carried by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency, referring to the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Provocations "will not be limited to a local war, but develop into an all-out war, a nuclear war," the statement said.
Hours after the statement, Pyongyang threatened to shut down the jointly run Kaesong industrial park, expressing anger over media reports suggesting the complex remained open because it was a source of hard currency for the impoverished North.
"If the puppet group seeks to tarnish the image of the DPRK even a bit, while speaking of the zone whose operation has been barely maintained, we will shut down the zone without mercy," an identified spokesman for the North's office controlling Kaesong said in comments carried by KCNA.
South Korea's Unification Ministry responded by calling the North Korean threat "unhelpful" to the countries' already frayed relations and vowed to ensure the safety of hundreds of South Korean managers who cross the border to their jobs in Kaesong. It did not elaborate.
South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said the country's military remains mindful of the possibility that increasing North Korean drills near the border could lead to an actual provocation.
"The series of North Korean threats ? announcing all-out war, scrapping the cease-fire agreement and the non-aggression agreement between the South and the North, cutting the military hotline, entering into combat posture No. 1 and entering a 'state of war' ? are unacceptable and harm the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula," Kim said.
"We are maintaining full military readiness in order to protect our people's lives and security," he told reporters Saturday.
The two Koreas remain technically at war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. Naval skirmishes in the disputed waters off the Korean coast have led to bloody battles several times over the years.
But on the streets of Seoul on Saturday, South Koreans said they were not worried about an attack from North Korea.
"From other countries' point of view, it may seem like an extremely urgent situation," said Kang Tae-hwan, a private tutor. "But South Koreans don't seem to be that nervous because we've heard these threats from the North before."
The Kaesong industrial park, which is run with North Korean labor and South Korean know-how, has been operating normally, despite Pyongyang shutting down a communications channel typically used to coordinate travel by South Korean workers to and from the park just across the border in North Korea. The rivals are now coordinating the travel indirectly, through an office at Kaesong that has outside lines to South Korea.
North Korea has previously made such threats about Kaesong without acting on them, and recent weeks have seen a torrent of bellicose rhetoric from Pyongyang. North Korea is angry about the South Korea-U.S. military drills and new U.N. sanctions over its nuclear test last month.
Dozens of South Korean firms run factories in the border town of Kaesong. Using North Korea's cheap, efficient labor, the Kaesong complex produced $470 million worth of goods last year.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nkorea-says-state-war-skorea-014344604.html
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ? A single-page FBI memo relaying a vague and unconfirmed report of flying saucers found in New Mexico in 1950 has become the most popular file in the bureau's electronic reading room.
The memo, dated March 22, 1950, was sent by FBI Washington, D.C., field office chief Guy Hottel to then-Director J. Edgar Hoover.
According to the FBI, the document was first made public in the late 1970s and more recently has been available in the "Vault," an electronic reading room launched by the agency in 2011, where it has become the most popular item, viewed nearly 1 million times. The Vault contains around 6,700 public documents.
Vaguely written, the memo describes a story told by an unnamed third party who claims an Air Force investigator reported that three flying saucers were recovered in New Mexico, though the memo doesn't say exactly where in the state. The FBI indexed the report for its files but did not investigate further; the name of an "informant" reporting some of the information is blacked out in the memo.
The memo offers several bizarre details.
Inside each saucer, "each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture," according to the report. "Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots."
The saucers were found in New Mexico because the government had a high-powered radar set up in the area and it is believed the radar interfered with the controlling mechanism of the UFOs, according to the informant.
The FBI filed the typed page neatly away 63 years ago at its headquarters and "no further evaluation was attempted."
The memo does not appear to be related to the 1947 case in Roswell, N.M., when Air Force officials said they recovered a UFO, only later to recant and say it was a research balloon.
"For a few years after the Roswell incident, Director (J. Edgar) Hoover did order his agents ? at the request of the Air Force ? to verify any UFO sightings," the FBI said Thursday. "That practice ended in July 1950, four months after the Hottel memo. Suggesting that our Washington Field Office didn't think enough of that flying saucer story to look into it."
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'The Vault' memo, http://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy/Guy%20Hottel%20Part%201%20of%201/view
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-flying-saucers-nm-memo-bureaus-most-viewed-163151309.html
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A Truly Special Election in South Carolina
If only for entertainment, the most compelling contest this year is South Carolina?s special election, which could pit former Gov. Mark Sanford against the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert. If Sanford wins a runoff Tuesday against conservative activist Curtis Bostic?hardly a foregone conclusion?he would face Elizabeth Colbert-Busch on May 7.
Conventional wisdom suggests Sanford would start as a front-runner in a Republican district that gave Mitt Romney 58 percent of the vote. But scandal-plagued candidates are uniquely vulnerable, even in the most favorable districts. Even though he may win a runoff against an underfunded Republican, Sanford?s approval ratings are weak and he remains vulnerable against a credible Democrat.
It?s an open question whether Colbert-Busch fits that bill. One Democratic automated poll showed the race deadlocked, but privately Democrats are taking a wait-and-see approach. And Democratic strategists are keeping a close eye on the contest, knowing that an upset in South Carolina could perpetuate the narrative of ongoing GOP woes.
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ALASKA REPUBLICAN DOESN?T QUITE APOLOGIZE FOR ?WETBACKS? COMMENT. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, issued a statement Thursday saying he ??meant no disrespect? when he referred to Mexican farmworkers as ?wetbacks? on Tuesday, but did not go so far as to apologize, The Anchorage Daily News reports. In a Tuesday interview with an Alaska radio station, Young said, ?My father had a ranch; we used to have 50 to 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes.? House Speaker John Boehner called on Young to apologize immediately, and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus condemned the comment strongly. Read more
NORTH KOREA ORDERS MISSILES READY TO STRIKE U.S. Kim Jong-un has reportedly ordered the North Korean military to prepare its missiles to strike the U.S. and South Korea, The New York Times reports. Tensions have been rising in the region, and the U.S. this week took the unusual step of running a practice bombing run with stealth bombers over South Korea, the apparent provocation for this latest escalation. China has called for calm, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov predicted the chest-thumping ?will descend into the spiral of a vicious cycle.? Read more
OBAMA CALLS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT IN FLORIDA. President Obama pressed his infrastructure agenda in a speech at the Port of Miami today, calling for a $10 billion national infrastructure bank, subsidies for state and municipal bonds, and tax breaks for foreign investors in U.S. infrastructure, NBC News reports. ?There?s work to be done,? Obama said. ?There are workers who are ready to do it. Let?s prove to the world there?s no better place to do business than right here in the United States of America, and let?s get started rebuilding America.? Read more
TURNING TO EXECUTIVE ACTION ON GUN CONTROL. President Obama has been advocating for a legislative solution to gun-control, beseeching lawmakers even this Thursday to remember the deaths of the children and teachers killed in Connecticut last December. But as legislation stalls and the momentum for more stringent measures peters out, Obama is turning more and more to executive power to move gun control forward, The Hill reports. He has already bolstered the nation's background system, pushed for government-funded research on the causes of gun control, and launched a million-dollar ad campaign promoting safe gun ownership. Read more
FBI ARRESTS SENIOR SAC CAPITAL MANAGER. The ongoing federal crackdown on insider trading at Connecticut hedge fund SAC Capital continued today with the early-morning arrest of a portfolio manager, The New York Times reports. Michael Steinberg is the most senior employee of the fund to be arrested to date, and a longtime confidante of the fund?s billionaire founder, Steve Cohen, who is reported to be the ultimate target of the years-long investigation. The hedge fund recently reached a $602 million civil settlement for insider trading with the Securities and Exchange Commission, but a federal judge indicated Thursday he might reject it because it allows SAC to avoid admitting wrongdoing. Read more
CRAFT BEER BOOM DESCENDS ON WASHINGTON, PUSHING FOR TAX BREAKS. Craft beer brewers converged this week for the industry?s first conference, The New York Times reports. And with it came much glad-handing with Congressional staffers as brewery workers pushed for tax cuts they say will enable them to brew more beer and hire more workers. ?For every 31 gallons that we brew, $7 goes to Uncle Sam,? said Jeff Hancock, a cofounder of DC Brau, one of five craft breweries to open in the D.C. area in the past two years. Read more
CENSUS TO BE CONDUCTED ONLINE. The 2020 census will be done on the Internet, The Washington Post reports. The Census Bureau's monthly American Community Survey went online in January, and already more than half its responses have come on the Web. Officials expect far more people will be online by 2020, which will drive down costs. The savings could be huge, according to Frank Vitrano, associate director for the 2020 census. ?It reduces the cost of printing, the cost of postage and the cost of data capture off paper forms. And we see it as more convenient for the public," he said. Read more
NPR TO END ?TALK OF THE NATION.? The long-running afternoon talk show will be ending in June, The New York Times reports, to be replaced by a ?magazine-style? program produced by a Boston member station. But fear not fans of Talk of the Nation: Science Friday: that program will continue to air on NPR. Read more
"I was not surprised to see myself front and center on the promotional material for this climate-change movie, and quite frankly, I'm proud of it,? ?Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who rejects the overwhelming scientific consensus about global warming, on being featured in the film "Greedy Lying Bastards." (The Hill)
A VERY PERSONAL IPO: SELLING SHARES IN YOUR LIFE FOR $1 EACH. Sure, we all accept life advice from trusted friends, relatives, and mentors. But what if those figures -- and a few complete strangers -- could weigh in on your life like stockholders weigh in on a company? Wired took a deep dive into the unusually public life of Mike Merrill, a 30-year-old customer-service representative who decided to sell shares in his life on the open market. Figuring that investors would have a financial incentive to make the best decisions for him, he sold 929 of 100,000 shares at $1 each in his initial public offering and promised a return on any profits he made outside of his day job in Portland, Ore. His stockholders decide exactly what he does with his life: They vote on a specialized website on everything from what his next project should be, to who he can date, to whether he can get a vasectomy. Read more
NORTH KOREA, GAY MARRIAGE ? AND JOE BIDEN ON EASTER. With recent saber-rattling from Kim Jong-un, late-night hosts brought back everyone?s favorite joke construction: the ones involving former basketball star and almost-diplomat Dennis Rodman. Both Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno mentioned the former NBA all-star in their monologue jokes. The preeminent national news of the Supreme Court hearing arguments on the constitutionality of marriage laws took center stage on the Comedy Central shows. Stephen Colbert lingered on the topic, while The Daily Show?s Jon Stewart used his first third of the show to discuss the legality of same-sex marriage. Watch it here
TO HOLD SENATE MAJORITY, DEMS TARGET MOST CONSERVATIVE STATES. When Ashley Judd announced she wasn?t running for the Senate, Republicans greeted the news with glee, sending out a list of 10 other Democratic recruits uninterested in running against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. But privately, leading Democratic officials were also cheering. Most viewed the liberal actress?s decision as good news for their chances in Kentucky, allowing a more-moderate candidate, such as Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, to run instead. The efforts to woo a moderate Democrat to defeat McConnell are part of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee?s plans to compete in the most inhospitable territory for Democrats: open seats in Georgia, South Dakota, West Virginia, and possibly, evenin Kentucky against the powerful and well-funded Senate minority leader. Facing a challenging political landscape in 2014, the party is close to landing credible candidates in all of those states. But will it work? Read more
OBAMA ON SPANISH TV, SENATORS TALK IMMIGRATION. Rep. Don Young?s slur against Latinos is sure to be a topic on the Sunday talk shows, and the timing couldn?t be better. Two members of the Senate?s ?Gang of Eight? working on immigration reform will be on NBC?s Meet the Press and another will be on CNN?s State of the Union.Univision's Al Punto will feature President Obama in a pre-recorded interview, also addressing his immigration-reform efforts. Read more
NBC?s Meet the Presshosts Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.
CBS?s Face the Nationhosts Cardinal Timothy Dolan and other religious leaders.
ABC?s This Week hosts Dolan, Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker, and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.
Fox News Sunday hosts retired Navy Capt. Mark Kelly and Cardinal Donald Wuerl.
CNN?s State of the Union hosts Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.
Univision?s Al Punto features Obama.
C-SPAN?s Newsmakers features AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
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You don't have to be a fan of info-graphics in social-justice docs to be troubled by one showing that the price of processed food has decreased in almost exact proportion to the rise in cost of fresh fruits and vegetables.
"A Place at the Table" presents a shameful truth that should leave viewers dismayed and angry: This nation has more than enough food for all its people, yet millions of them are hungry.
One thing is clear from "A Place at the Table": You cannot answer the question "Why are people hungry?," without also asking "Why are people poor?"
It specifically addresses our country's hunger crisis. But it also speaks to larger hungers. Hungers for independence, a dignified life, a better chance for ones children-in short, the American dream. See it and weep.
As rich as we are as a nation - still - many of our citizens are, at best, malnourished. One in six says they regularly don't have enough to eat.
It deserves to be seen, along with "Food, Inc.," "King Corn" and other muckraking food docs of recent years.
It doesn't offer much in terms of optimism, but provides an eye-opening glimpse into a frequently overlooked social issue.
Jacboson and Silverbush know how to make this potentially unpleasant news palatable and inspiring.
A documentary about the shocking extent of hunger in America, affecting 1 in 4 children.
Provides plenty of moving case studies...[but] it's most useful for its prismatic look at the problem of American hunger, examining the problem's recent history, its root causes...and its inextricability from other national crises...
Hunger in America, seen through the eyes of its victims, with an emphasis on children. Sobering documentary addresses a shameful problem.
As moving as the real lives are, for a film clearly intending to be a call for action, hunger cries out for more journalism and not just depressing stories and statistics.
A Place at the Table makes a strong case that hunger for one is a problem for all.
Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush explore the surprisingly difficult obstacles to ending a situation where about 1 child out of 4 faces insecurity over where to get a meal.
A Place at the Table may bring to light a hunger epidemic the entire United States faces, but it also casts an even darker shadow on an already tainted world.
Powerful docu explores the problem of hunger in America.
An explosive investigative documentary about the injustices emanating from agricultural capitalism, how it's more about who gets to define what food is, and exactly who hugely profits from it.
...joined by an eclectic array of advocates and advisors to hit home the fact that, daily, millions of Americans go hungry.
Fine but conventional documentary on the problem of hunger in contemporary America.
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Mar. 29, 2013 ? When blessed with a resource in overwhelming abundance it's generally a good idea to make valuable use of that resource. Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant organic material on Earth. For thousands of years it has been used as animal feed, and for the past two centuries has been a staple of the paper industry. This abundant resource, however, could also supply the sugars needed to produce advanced biofuels that can supplement or replace fossil fuels, providing several key technical challenges are met.
One of these challenges is finding ways to more cost-effectively extract those sugars. Major steps towards achieving this breakthrough are being taken by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI).
"Through the tools of synthetic biology, we have engineered healthy plants whose lignocellulosic biomass can more easily be broken down into simple sugars for biofuels," says Dominique Loque, who directs the cell wall engineering program for JBEI's Feedstocks Division. "Working with the model plant, Arabidopsis, as a demonstration tool, we have genetically manipulated secondary cell walls to reduce the production of lignin while increasing the yield of fuel sugars."
JBEI is a scientific partnership led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) whose mission is to advance the development of next generation biofuels that can provide the nation with clean, green and renewable transportation energy that will create jobs and boost the economy. Loque and his research group have focused on reducing the natural recalcitrance of plant cell walls to give up their sugars. Unlike the simple starch-based sugars in corn and other grains, the complex polysaccharide sugars in plant cell walls are locked within a robust aromatic polymer called lignin. Setting these sugars free from their lignin cage has required the use of expensive and environmentally harsh chemicals at high temperatures, a process that helps drive production costs of advance biofuels prohibitively high.
"By embedding polysaccharide polymers and reducing their extractability and accessibility to hydrolytic enzymes, lignin is the major contributor to cell wall recalcitrance," Loque says. "Unfortunately, most efforts to reduce lignin content during plant development have resulted in severe biomass yield reduction and a loss of integrity in vessels, a key tissue responsible for water and nutrient distribution from roots to the above-ground organs."
Lignin has also long posed problems for pulping and animal feed. To overcome the lignin problem, Loque and his colleagues rewired the regulation of lignin biosynthesis and created an artificial positive feedback loop (APFL) to enhance secondary cell wall biosynthesis in specific tissue. The idea was to reduce cell wall recalcitrance and boost polysaccharide content without impacting plant development.
"When we applied our APFL to Arabidopsis plants engineered so that lignin biosynthesis is disconnected from the fiber secondary cell wall regulatory network, we maintained the integrity of the vessels and were able to produce healthy plants with reduced lignin and enhanced polysaccharide deposition in the cell walls," Loque says. "After various pretreatments, these engineered plants exhibited improved sugar releases from enzymatic hydrolysis as compared to wild type plants. In other words we accumulated the good stuff -- polysaccharides -- without spoiling it with lignin."
Loque and his colleagues believe that the APFL strategy they used to enhance polysaccharide deposition in the fibers of their Arabidopsis plants could be rapidly implemented into other vascular plant species as well. This could increase cell wall content to the benefit of the pulping industry and forage production as well as for bioenergy applications. It could also be used to increase the strength of cereal straws, reducing crop lodging and seed losses. Since regulatory networks and other components of secondary cell wall biosynthesis have been highly conserved by evolution, the researchers feel their lignin rewiring strategy should also be readily transferrable to other plant species. They are currently developing new and even better versions of these strategies.
"We now know that we can significantly re-engineer plant cell walls as long as we maintain the integrity of vessels and other key tissues," Loque says.
A paper describing this research in detail has been published in Plant Biotechnology Journal. The paper is titled "Engineering secondary cell wall deposition in plants." Loque is the corresponding author. Co-authors are Fan Yang, Prajakta Mitra, Ling Zhang, Lina Prak, Yves Verhertbruggen, Jin-Sun Kim, Lan Sun, Kejian Zheng, Kexuan Tang, Manfred Auer and Henrik Scheller.
This research was supported by the DOE Office of Science.
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Let's trivialize a legacy of cruelty and denigration, in a country where indigenous people suffered from centuries of human rights abuse! And let's make the carnage of Vietnam look like a paintball game!
[A] genial, entertaining, clich?-ridden showbiz story from Australia.
"The Sapphires" illustrates how the same old story - in this case, the one about a 1960s girl group and its struggles - can be freshened up through the novelties of place and characterization.
A very conventional story of a '60s Australian girl group gains extra power from its context and setting in this fact-based story set to the beat of Motown soul.
The performers improve it, or save it, depending on your viewpoint.
"The Sapphires" is a bit like a puppy you're trying to house break. It may have its bad cinematic moments but it's just so darn appealing that you have to love it.
A rousing soundtrack helps to compensate for some of the historical embellishments in this Australian crowd-pleaser.
'Sapphires' got heart and soul
It might not possess the exuberant innocent fun of 'That Thing You Do!' or the overall brilliance of 'The Commitments' but 'The Sapphires' shines enough in its own right. (Complete Content Details for Parents also available)
If you love the music of Motown and enjoy a feel good success flick, then "The Sapphires" fits the bill.
Delirious surprises crowd out the clich?s in this thoroughly disarming movie.
Mauboy has one hell of a voice, and the Sapphires' vocal performances speak to the endless power of great soul songs.
Irresistibly feel good, sound good movie, wears hearts and social relevance on its sparkly sleeve. . .Fun and racial tolerance amidst war [with] sterling aborigine talent.
The most affable, innocuous outing ever set in a war zone.
With O'Dowd in the lead, and a hit-soundtrack-ready selection of tunes from the Stax and Motown catalogs and more, The Sapphires is popcorn entertainment, with some earned laughs and a genuine heart.
It helps that the leading actors are so skillful and appealing, beginning with Chris O'Dowd as a roguish Irishman who becomes the girls' manager...
You've seen this type of tale many times before...but the inspired-by-a-true-story Aboriginal slant adds interest, the actresses create unique characters and Chris O'Dowd really shines.
This familiar but supremely well-told and produced tale of the unlikely rise of an Aboriginal female pop group in the Vietnam War-era is feel-good entertainment at its best. Performances, solid script and great music all hit the high notes.
It sidesteps the usual cliches. Fame and fortune matter less than the human connections that are fostered and repaired on this unlikely journey.
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This Madrid hotel sign covers the top two domains!
I registered my first domain in the 1990s. Now I own over 100 of them.
Any time I?m playing with an idea for a business or a book I register whatever relevant domains I can find. That?s not so easy to do since all of the one word domains are gone and probably all of the two-word domains, in English anyway.
According to Business Insider, the 10 most expensive domain names sold to the end of December 2012 are:
| Domain | Sold For | Year Sold | |
| 1 | Sex.com | ?$13 million | ?2010 |
| 2 | Hotels.com | ?$11 million | ?2001 |
| 3 | Fund.com | ?$10 million | ?2008 |
| 4 | Porn.com | ?$9.5 million | ?2007 |
| 5 | Business.com | ?$7.5 million | ?1999 |
| 5a | Diamond.com | ?$7.5 million | ?2006 |
| 6 | Slots.com | ?$5.5 million | ?2010 |
| 7 | Toys.com | ?$5.1 million | ?2009 |
| 8 | Clothes.com | ?$4.9 million | ?2008 |
| 9 | Candy.com | ?$3 million | ?2009 |
| 9a | Vodka.com | ?$3 million | ?2006 |
| 10 | Shopping.de | ?$2.9 million | ?2008 |
Makes the puny $250 I sold one for look pretty pathetic! (Mind you, I gave him a deal because I liked his business and he wasn?t making much money yet. Call me a softie!)
This is what got me going on this post. The name I want for my new book is registered by someone who is just using it as a junk advertising page. I wondered how much they might be willing to sell it for, so I used a tool called?Valuate.com. According to them, it isn?t worth anything, but I doubt that the owner will agree. We?ll see.
There are several tools that help you generate ideas for domain names and discover if they are available.
One of the most interesting ones I?ve found lately is?domainhole.com. It has a bunch of different tools to help you brainstorm ideas as well as checking to see what?s available. It even has one that will generate 5 ? 10 letter domain names that sound like real words but aren?t. So if you don?t have a brand name yet, maybe you?ll find something good in there!
Source: http://frankonlinemarketing.com/domains/
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This is an interesting debate. My friend Randy makes good points, but I?ve seen social beat SEO for our brand time and again. I?m interested to see what others think about SEO versus social ? I think you need a healthy dose of both, but perhaps not!
Anyone who has any type of online business needs to carefully consider the way they do online marketing.
Many businesses choose to use?search engine optimization?(SEO) to drive traffic to their website, while other businesses choose to mainly use social media to drive traffic. Social media includes Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.
When a person types a query into a search engine (Google, Bing, Safari, etc.) and clicks Search they get a list of websites as their results that contain the query they typed in. Most users visit websites that are shown at the top of the list or on the first page. The reason a website makes it to the top of the list is because they? have very good SEO strategies.??SEO?is a technique that helps the search engines find and rank websites. Using proper SEO techniques greatly helps a business get traffic from the search engines.
There are businesses that claim that social media drives more traffic to their website than SEO. With online retail, for example, social media may change the way people shop. This is because friends can easily recommend places that people should shop through social media, such as Facebook.
For this reason, we have decided to check to see if social media is the best avenue for businesses to take to drive traffic to their website, or should they continue using or start using SEO strategies for much-needed traffic.
To read the rest of debate on social and SEO, click the link below.
Via bowden2bowden blog ? social vs. seo?and the winner is?
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Like many of you, Chief Social Strategist and Founder of B Squared Media, Brooke Ballard, has seen a fundamental shift in business due to social media. How do businesses take advantage of this? Where do they start? Is social media for everyone? In-the-trenches social media experience helps B Squared Media answer these questions for companies seeking to formulate successful social strategies. Using tactics developed in her yearlong honors thesis study, Brooke helps bright and innovative entities develop social strategies around content curation. Good content boosts trust and loyalty among customers. By focusing on "what is" (psychographics: values, interests, beliefs and attitudes) and letting go of "what might be" (demographics) brands can secure a closer connection to consumers and their buying habits. Simply put: Think conversation, Not campaign.
Source: http://www.internetbillboards.net/2013/03/social-drives-far-less-traffic-than-seo/
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BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian rebels pushed into a strategic neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo after days of heavy clashes, seizing control of at least part of the hilltop district and killing a pro-government Sunni Muslim cleric captured in the fighting, activists and state media said Saturday.
While there were conflicting reports about the scale of the rebel advance into the Sheik Maqsoud neighborhood, the gains marked the biggest shift in the front lines in the embattled city of Aleppo in months. The city, Syria's largest and a former commercial hub, has been a key battleground in the country's civil war since rebels launched an offensive on it in July, seizing several districts before the fighting largely settled into a bloody stalemate.
The Aleppo Media Center opposition group and Aleppo-based activist Mohammed Saeed said rebels seized full control of Sheik Maqsoud late Friday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, however, said rebels took only the eastern part of the neighborhood, and reported heavy fighting there Saturday.
Sheik Maqsoud, which is predominantly inhabited by minority Kurds, is located on a hill on the northern edge of the city, making it a strategic location overlooking Aleppo.
The Observatory said rebels captured a pro-government Sunni Muslim cleric in the fighting, killed him and then paraded his body around the neighborhood.
State-run Al-Ikhbariya TV identified the cleric as Hassan Seifeddine. It said he was beheaded and his head was placed on the minaret of Al-Hassan Mosque where he used to lead the prayers.
The SANA state news said Seifeddine's body was "mutilated" after the "assassination."
The reports of the mutilation of the cleric's body could not be independently confirmed.
The killing of Seifeddine comes nearly 10 days after a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in the heart of the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing top Sunni preacher Sheik Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti as he was giving a sermon. The March 21 blast killed 48 others and wounded dozens.
Al-Buti, like Seifeddine, was a strong supporter of the Assad regime, which is dominated by members of the president's minority Alawite sect, an off-shoot of Shiite Islam. The opposition is made up of mostly Sunnis, who are the majority among Syrians.
Extremists have been playing a bigger role among the rebel groups. They include the Islamic Jabhat al-Nusra, a powerful offshoot of al-Qaida in Iraq, which has claimed responsibility for most of the deadliest suicide bombings against regime and military facilities and, as a result, has gained popularity among some rebels.
A photograph recently posted online by activists showed the turbaned Seifeddine, who was in his late 50s, with a white beard. "A wanted agent," read a banner posted over the picture. Another referred to him as wanted by the rebels and read: "An agent of Syria's ruling gang and wanted by the Free Syrian Army."
Aleppo-based Sunni cleric Abdul-Qadir Shehabi told state-run TV that Seifeddine's son was kidnapped months ago. Shehabi also lashed out at the rebels, saying they "mutilated" Seifeddine's body.
"Is this the freedom that they talk about? This is the freedom of Satan," Shehabi said, referring to rebels who say they are fighting Assad's regime because it is authoritarian.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Observatory, said Seifeddine's name had been put on an opposition "death list."
"He was the imam of a mosque. He was not armed when he was killed," Abdul-Rahman said. "We cannot close our eyes when the opposition violates human rights."
Elsewhere in Syria, activists reported violence in areas the southern province of Daraa, the suburbs of Damascus and the northern regions of Idlib and Raqqa. The Observatory said the heaviest clashes were in Raqqa and Sheik Maqsoud.
Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Observatory, said the Sheik Maqsoud fighting killed 14 pro-government gunmen, seven rebels, 10 civilians and Seifeddine.
In Damascus, residents said power was cut on Saturday in some neighborhoods. Al-Ikhbariya TV quoted Minister of Electricity Imad Khamis as saying the network suffered a technical problem and it will be fixed in the next 24 hours.
Damascus has witnessed repeated cuts in the past months.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-rebels-enter-strategic-aleppo-neighborhood-115808294.html
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This week's round-up of Good Reads includes helping dogs who come home from war zones, the dilemma behind telling Malala Yousafzai's story, why more mothers aren't choosing marriage, and a quest to bring back the wooly mammoth.
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As the 2014 withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan draws closer, a lot of attention has been paid to how to care for the soldiers coming home, many of whom have done multiple tours. Attention is also being paid, as Jessie Knadler points out in The Daily Beast, to the animals they bring home with them.
Some dogs rescued from war zones appear to be coming home with their new masters exhibiting signs of post-traumatic stress disorder ? even when their owners aren?t ?? as they adjust to not having to navigate land mines or sudden fights.
What?s the method to ease such a transition?
?All we could give her was time, love, freedom, and lots of exercise and discipline,? writes Ms. Knadler of Solha, the dog her Army Reservist husband brought home with him from Kandahar. ?Is that how to treat canine PTSD? I don?t know. But Solha is a different, calmer dog today than she was a year ago. And she?ll never have to fight another dog again.?
By the time a 15-year-old schoolgirl named Malala Yousafzai was shot point-blank by the Taliban six months ago in Pakistan, her activism and story had captured interest around the world. She exemplified a rare courage, spunk, and determination that made her a powerful symbol of the fight for female education amid extremism.
It was the media that handed this young girl the soapbox ? and possibly made her a target, worries Syed Irfan Ashraf, who first put Malala on camera when she was just 11 years old.
Disclosing the guilt he felt for doing so, he told Marie Brenner of Vanity Fair, ?No one was paying attention to what was happening in Mingora. We took a very brave 11-year-old and created her to get the attention of the world. We made her a commodity.?
Good news: Over the past two decades, teen birthrates have fallen. The other news? By the time American women turn 30, about two-thirds have had their first child ? usually outside of marriage, according to a recent report highlighted in The Atlantic Monthly.
Take note of ?usually outside of marriage,? writes Derek Thompson, asking, ?Why so few marriages?? The answer, he writes, is best seen through the lens of three factors:
?(1) The changing meaning of marriage in America; (2) declining wages for low-skill men; and (3) the declining costs of being a single person.?
It used to be that the marriage contract was entered into in the US with specific roles in mind. The wife would stay home and take care of the kids, and the husband would go to work and put food on the table. That model has been upended.
?Think of marriage like any other contract or investment. It?s most likely to happen when the gains are big. So we should expect marriages among low-income Americans to decline if women perceive declining gains from hitching themselves to the men around them.?
Right now scientists in South Korea are combing the frozen remains of woolly mammoths looking for the scientific version of a needle in a haystack: a live cell. Any live cell. If they find one, they?ll try to use it to bring the mammoth back from centuries of extinction. (Don?t worry, they?ve got a Plan B.)
Roll your eyes if you must, but, writes Carl Zimmer in National Geographic, the idea of bringing vanished species back to life has percolated in popular culture and in science labs at least since ?Jurassic Park,? and that technology is close ? really close.
Indeed, advances in manipulating stem cells, in recovering ancient DNA, and in reconstructing lost genomes has pushed science closer to reviving that which was once thought to be lost for good. Remember Dolly, the first sheep to be cloned in 1996? Amateur. Scientists now offer up the hopeful example of Celia the bucardo (an extinct type of mountain goat).
?Celia?s clone is the closest that anyone has gotten to true de-
extinction. Since witnessing those fleeting minutes of the clone?s life, [Alberto] Fern?ndez-Arias, now the head of the government of Aragon?s Hunting, Fishing and Wetlands department, has been waiting for the moment when science would finally catch up, and humans might gain the ability to bring back an animal they had driven extinct.?
The question now is, Should it be done?
? ?The history of putting species back after they?ve gone extinct in the wild is fraught with difficulty,? says conservation biologist Stuart Pimm of Duke University. A huge effort went into restoring the Arabian oryx to the wild, for example. But after the animals were returned to a refuge in central Oman in 1982, almost all were wiped out by poachers. ?We had the animals, and we put them back, and the world wasn?t ready,? says Pimm. ?Having the species solves only a tiny, tiny part of the problem.? ?
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Imagine you?re? clicking through the internet, stopped dead in your tracks when you come across hundreds of blogs and articles filled with comment after comment about a disturbing ad with your company?s branding all over it. An ad that you?ve never seen before, that you knew nothing about.
Sounds impossible, doesn?t it? Well just this week it happened to Ford. Employees out of JWT?s affiliate offices in India, whom Ford had contracted to do some of their ad work, created several unauthorized ads entirely on their own initiative. The same individuals uploaded the work to Ads of the World, to show off their work. They even went so far as to submit the mockups to India?s top ad awards program.
This brings up a major concern that a lot of companies have when working with an outside agency. How do you ensure the agency you are working with avoids serious mistakes that can severely impact your image? Open and frequent communication is key.
The following are ways to ensure your standards are being met when working with an outside agency:
Instead of thinking of your agency as an outside vendor, treat them as a partner, stay in the loop and you?ll likely avoid any major fiascos like Ford did this week.
You can read more about Ford?s advertising crisis here: Ford?s PR team worked all weekend on ad crisis.
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