Sunday, August 4, 2013

Canadian Olympians march for tolerance at Vancouver Pride Parade

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A large rainbow flag is carried down Robson Street during the Vancouver Pride Parade in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday August 4, 2013. A record crowd of approximately 500,000 people was expected to attend the event.

Photograph by: Darryl Dyck , THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER - Two Olympians representing Canada's Olympic Team marched in Vancouver's Pride Parade today.

Canadian Olympic officials say it was an effort to spread a message of tolerance, acceptance and diversity in light of Russia's anti-gay laws and the upcoming 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi.

Alpine skier and 2010 Olympian Mike Janyk and two-time Olympian snowboarder Mercedes Nicoll joined Pride participants as they marched through Vancouver's downtown and the West End.

Canadian Olympic Committee president Marcel Aubut says the coming together of COC and Pride is a reminder that sport is open to everyone, regardless of race, religion, creed or sexual orientation.

Anti-gay laws in Russia have provoked strong protest from Canada's gay community, and anti-Russian sentiment was visible throughout Sunday's Parade.

At least one marcher wore a T-shirt and hoisted a sign featuring a photoshopped image of Russian President Vladimir Putin wearing blue eye shadow and blush.

This is the first time the COC has participated in Pride festivals across the country ? Olympians have already marched in Toronto and will also be present in the upcoming Pride celebrations in Ottawa, Calgary and Montreal.

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TransCanada moves forward with oil pipeline, but it's not Keystone XL

TransCanada, a Canadian energy company said Thursday it was moving forward with plans to build a?2,740-mile pipeline that would transit between 500,000 and 850,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) from western to eastern Canada.?Oil arriving through the Energy East Pipeline would feed refineries in Quebec and New Brunswick that at present get 86 per cent of their crude supply from the international market at much higher prices than they would pay for crude from Alberta.

By Robert M. Cutler,?Guest blogger / August 2, 2013

TransCanada CEO Russ Girling announces the company is moving forward with the 1.1 million-barrel-per day Energy East Pipeline project at a news conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Thursday.

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The Canadian energy company TransCanada Corp announced today,?Thursday, its decision to move forward with the Energy East Pipeline, a 2,740-mile project that would transit between 500,000 and 850,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) from western to eastern Canada. Some longer-term estimates see the possibility of eventually ramping volumes up to 1.1 million bpd.

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Oil arriving through the Energy East Pipeline would feed refineries in Quebec and New Brunswick that at present get 86 per cent of their crude supply from the international market at much higher prices than they would pay for crude from Alberta. Conversion of the existing Canadian Mainline natural gas pipeline for carriage of crude oil would account for slightly over two-thirds the projected length. The remainder would be new construction. Cost estimates range up to $12 billion, excluding the transfer value of the Canadian Mainline.?(Related article:?Canada Threatens U.S. with Oil Trains if Keystone XL Not Built)

The announcement follows by three weeks the signature by Alberta province of a memorandum of understanding to pay up to $5 billion in tolls for transportation of its crude oil to eastern Canada, if a pipeline is built. The proposal still requires regulatory approval, but the conditions in favor of this have been lining themselves up for some time.

The company anticipates beginning the regulatory process next year, with first oil flowing to Montreal and the Quebec City region by 2017, and to Saint John, New Brunswick, by 2018. TransCanada and IrvingOil have formed a joint venture, to construct, own, and operate a new deep water marine terminal at Canaport in Saint John.?

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    Saturday, August 3, 2013

    FBI Reportedly Absolves Itself for not Preventing Boston Terror Strike

    The FBI reportedly has determined that it could have done much to foil the April bombing of the Boston Marathon, the New York Times reported on Thursday.

    That apparent determination was reached following multiple internal assessments of how the FBI responded to a 2011 appeal by a Russian intelligence agency to probe whether accused bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, now deceased, had become sympathetic to militant Islamist thinking while living in the United States.

    Several lawmakers have said the FBI should have done a better job following up on the Russian tip about the elder Tsarnaev brother and monitoring him after 2012 travel back to the United States after a sojourn in Russia. His younger brother, Dzhokhar, is the chief surviving suspect in the April 15 attack, which resulted in three deaths and hundreds of injuries.

    The FBI agents who looked into Tsarnaev following the 2011 tip said there were federal legal limits to the type of probing they could do, such as wiretapping.

    The experience of treating the many people injured in the Boston attack has led the city's six chief trauma hospitals to modify some of the ways they respond to large-scale incidents, the Boston Globe reported on Tuesday. ?Lessons learned will be made available to other hospitals throughout the United States.

    One of the central findings in attack response was the difficulty in timely identification of patients.

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    Jailed Vietnam blogger ends hunger strike after five weeks

    HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese dissident jailed for criticizing the country's rulers has ended a hunger strike after five weeks when judicial authorities agreed to accept his complaint about poor treatment, his son said on Saturday.

    Nguyen Van Hai, better known as Dieu Cay, resumed eating on July 27 after the Supreme People's Procuracy, the prosecutor's office, agreed to look into his claim of abusive treatment.

    The hunger strike has focused attention on Vietnam's harsh treatment of activists and bloggers, who face intimidation and long prison terms for what authorities call abuses of their constitutional right to free speech.

    Hai, 61, refused food and water for 35 days in what was his second hunger strike over the prison's failure to forward his petitions. He was jailed for 12 years for "anti-state propaganda" last September.

    "It's not about my father. His hunger strike was for all prisoners of conscience," said Nguyen Tri Dung, his 27-year-old son, who said he saw Hai for just seven minutes on Friday.

    Communist Vietnam has taken a tough line on dissent, with arrests and convictions on the rise in the past three years. Bloggers are increasingly targeted as the number of web users soars to a third of the one-party state's 90 million population.

    The United States wants closer trade and military ties with its former enemy as it seeks to strengthen allegiances in Asia and temper China's influence, but Vietnam's crackdown on critics is proving to be a major stumbling block.

    Two weeks ago, U.S. President Barack Obama pressed visiting counterpart Truong Tan Sang on human rights but chose his words carefully, mentioning both "progress" and "challenges that remain". Sang said the two "have differences on the issue".

    Vietnam's state-controlled media ran video footage and photographs this week of Hai receiving medical care in an apparent effort to counter human rights groups concerned about his treatment. In several cases, media referred to the hunger strike as a "rumor" and reported Hai had been eating.

    Dung last week told Reuters his father appeared gaunt, pale and dazed during his previous visit to the prison in Nghe An province on July 22, when he saw him for five minutes.

    (Reporting by Martin Petty; Editing by Jeremy Laurence and Ron Popeski)

    (This story corrects name in second para: Dieu Cay instead of Dieu Ca)

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jailed-vietnam-blogger-ends-hunger-strike-five-weeks-082139060.html

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    Friday, August 2, 2013

    When Washington Forgot How to Negotiate

    When members of Congress return from summer recess next month, they will have less than a month to act before the farm bill expires?and face long odds that they can clear the partisan hurdles set up between the Democratic Senate, the Republican House, and final passage.

    On the debt ceiling, the sequester, immigration reform, and fixing the tax code, Democrats and Republicans have tried and failed to come up with comprehensive solutions to the country's problems. But the farm bill stands out as a case study of Washington's descent into an almost unbridgeable partisan divide precisely because the type of grand bargain President Obama and some Republican leaders now seek has been achieved so many times before?and now achieving one seems so far out of reach.

    The two sides are fighting over portions of the bill that allocate billions to food-stamp programs. The bill the Senate has already passed reduces $4 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a deep cut that has Democrats upset. The House has signaled it will take up the two halves of the bill?farm aid and food assistance?separately.

    That shreds a bipartisan legislative coalition that has existed since the 1973 version of the farm bill, when food-stamp funding was added to the bill to attract urban Democratic votes to a bill that had, until then, mainly benefited rural communities. The stalemate is the latest sign that Washington has either forgotten how, or is no longer willing, to negotiate to build bipartisan coalitions.

    It wasn't always this way. Even as Republicans made inroads in rural districts once held by Democrats while Democrats came to rely more on urban and suburban states, the coalition between backers of farm subsidies and food stamps held. Those who negotiated earlier farm bills took as a given that both pieces were necessary to build the bipartisan coalition that would ensure passage. The 2008 farm bill enjoyed such widespread support that 99 House Republicans and 35 Senate Republicans voted with most Democrats to override George W. Bush's veto.

    The farm bill has always led to contentious debate. Back in 2002, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa,?and then-Rep. Larry Combest, R-Texas,?led conference-committee negotiations over loan-rate structures and energy title and conservation provisions that Harkin backed, and on payment limitations and target price structures that Combest supported. The negotiations took weeks. The conference committee met first on the House side of the Capitol, then on the Senate side. When a deal seemed close, the conference committee met in Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office, just off the Senate floor, to hammer out the final compromises. Daschle was intimately involved with the conferees.

    Those involved in the negotiations said the two sides built up from a foundation they could both support. When Harkin realized he was outnumbered in opposing a so-called Freedom to Farm provision, which had been included in a previous iteration of the farm bill, he dropped his opposition in exchange for the loan-rate structure he backed. The final bill included what's now called the Conservation Stewardship Program, another Harkin-backed last-minute addition that came out of the conference committee.

    "You build from a base of mutual interest and build upon that mutual interest to reach accommodation, not by saying you can't get what you want and I can't get what I want," Harkin said in an interview, recalling his legislative strategy. "I had dance partners. Sometimes they liked to polka and I liked to waltz. They liked to tango and I liked to line dance."

    "Everybody was going to have a part" of the bill, Combest recalled. "You've got the parameters that are established and you end up somewhere in the center."

    The farm bill, Daschle added, was classic legislative construction: The bill was crafted to give members in each state the buy-in they needed to vote for the final product. "If their state has no stake in the bill, the only way you get them is by getting them invested in the bill," Daschle said. "You've got to figure out a way to make this relevant to them."

    That buy-in-based, ground-up approach to legislating has become almost extinct in the capital today. Most congressional observers and former legislators in both parties point to the conservative contingent of junior Republicans, who wield huge amounts of influence over House GOP leadership and who are more interested in cutting the size of government than they are in cutting deals.

    "The problem in the House is a Republican majority committed to oppose anything associated with the president," said Thomas Mann, the Brookings Institution scholar who cowrote a recent book explaining Washington's dysfunction. "Our governing problems are primarily a consequence of the radicalization?ideologically and procedurally?of one of our two major parties."

    But the White House deserves some measure of blame, too. While President Obama has been frustrated by his inability to sell Republicans on elements of his agenda that borrow heavily from earlier Republican ideas?health care, the stimulus package, and cap-and-trade legislation, to name a few?some Democrats are critical of his approach. Capitol Hill Democrats fault the White House for failing to negotiate with Republicans from a stronger position; by beginning with old Republican ideas, those Democrats believe, Obama gives away too many of his own bargaining chips before the real bargaining even begins.

    "A good lawyer compromises on the courthouse steps. In other words, you compromise just before you walk into the courthouse. It seems like Obama is willing to compromise at the get-go," Harkin said.

    Obama also has a habit of confessing a certain measure's shortcomings, almost right out of the gate. He will frequently acknowledge that a compromise he has offered doesn't contain all the elements he wanted, while urging incremental progress nonetheless. "So while this compromise didn't contain everything I wanted or everything that these families wanted, it did represent progress," he said of a bill to strengthen background-check requirements on April 17. "The bill introduced in the Senate doesn't include everything I want," Obama wrote in a Miami Herald op-ed on May 7. "It doesn't contain everything I want," he said five days earlier, meeting the press alongside Mexican President Enrique Pe?a Nieto.

    Obama's pessimism started even when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress: "It may not have everything I want," he said when introducing credit card reform legislation at an event in New Mexico, back in May 2009. The president, it seems, is so determined to win over Republicans that he denigrates his own legislation.

    Negotiating big deals, Daschle said, "shouldn't be lose-lose, it should be win-win. And finding ways to frame a deal as win-win is leadership."

    It's also something Washington has simply forgotten how to do.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/washington-forgot-negotiate-060214839.html

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    Can You Guess the Movies That These Lego Models Are Recreating?

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    Nearly one in three recent vets has considered suicide: Survey

    Nearly one in three post-9/11 veterans ? 30 percent ? has considered suicide. Forty-five percent of those who served Iraq and Afghanistan know a veteran who has thought about taking his or her own life. And 37 percent know a veteran who has committed suicide.

    Those grim statistics are among the results of a new survey released Wednesday conducted by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA.) The study, which IAVA does annually, also found deep unhappiness at how lawmakers in Washington treats those who put their lives on the line in combat.

    How?s President Barack Obama doing? By a lopsided 66-25 percent margin, respondents disagreed or strongly disagreed with the notion that he listens enough to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Thirteen percent professed no opinion.

    Asked to rate Obama?s performance on improving the lives of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, 44 percent of respondents said poor, 31 percent said fair, 20 percent said good and 5 percent said excellent.

    That?s not nearly as bad as Congress, though: Fully 80 percent disagreed or strongly disagreed with the notion that lawmakers listen enough against just 9 percent who agreed or strongly agreed. Eleven percent weren't sure.

    How about improving the lives of veterans? Fifty-five percent said Congress has done a poor job, 36 said a fair job, nine percent a good job, and one percent said an excellent job.

    Of the 4,104 respondents, 36 percent said they were Republican, 19 percent said Democrat, 30 percent said independent, 10 percent declined to answer, and five percent declared themselves libertarians. Sixty percent served in Iraq, 16 percent in Afghanistan, and 23 percent in both.

    The Veterans Administration fared a bit better than politicians: 50 percent said the VA doesn?t listen enough, against 30 percent who said it does. Twenty percent offered no opinion.

    But 80 percent say the VA and the Department of Defense are not providing the care veterans need for mental health problems.

    Half of respondents said people close to them encouraged them to seek mental health care ? but 19 percent of them opted not to.

    Why? Forty-three percent of those who did not seek such care said it was because it might negatively affect their career, a 22 percent increase from 2012, according to IAVA. Thirty-three percent said they worried they would be perceived differently by their peers.

    At a time when Congress has been debating ways to combat sexual assault in the military, women veterans gave the VA mixed reviews.

    Sixty-two percent of female vets had a neutral or negative opinion of the agency?s care for women. At the same time, 64 percent said the VA provided a safe and comfortable environment, 61 percent said the VA provided them with female practitioners, 57 percent said it provided doctors who specialize in treating women, 48 percent cited specialized facilities, and 52 percent said the VA has given them information related to women?s health care.

    Asked for resources for struggling veterans, IAVA sent Yahoo News the following:

    "IAVA works closely with the Veteran Crisis Line to ensure that every service member, veteran, family member and provider knows that there is free and confidential help available 24 hours a day through phone, text and online. Veterans, or those concerned about veterans, can call 800-273-8255 and press 1 to be directly connected to qualified responders."

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/-nearly-one-in-three-new-vets-has-considered-suicide--survey-220350542.html

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    Thursday, August 1, 2013

    Rihanna comes out on top in T-shirt suit

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    A High Court has decided in favor of Rihanna to ban Topshop from selling T-shirts with Rihanna's image on them. In this file photo, Rihanna attends as...

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    A High Court has decided in favor of Rihanna to ban Topshop from selling T-shirts with Rihanna's image on them. In this file photo, Rihanna attends as the Rihanna for River Island collection is launched at the Oxford Street River Island store on March 4, 2013 in London, England.

    Pop star Rihanna has won a legal battle in London against fashion giant Topshop over the sale of a T-shirt bearing the R&B singer's image.

    Topshop began selling an image of the singer on a T-shirt in 2012, with the approval of the photographer who took the image, but not with the permission of Rihanna herself.

    Rihanna sued Topshop's parent company, Arcadia, for $5 million, and the U.K. High Court found in her favor on Wednesday morning, although damages have not yet been settled.

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    Rihanna's lawyers argued that Topshop had misled customers into thinking that Rihanna had endorsed the use of her image on the T-shirt, leading to consumer confusion and damaging Rihanna's reputation.

    Simon Clark, head of intellectual property at Berwin Leighton Paisner, said that that was exactly what had led Justice Birss to find in favor of Rihanna.

    (Read more: Geek chic: Google revamps Topshop runway)

    "In finding that a substantial proportion of Rihanna fans will have mistakenly bought the Topshop T-shirt thinking that she had endorsed it, the judge appears to have been influenced by two key factors," Clark said.

    "Firstly, the image showed Rihanna wearing the same clothes that she wore in the video for her 'We Found Love' single. Secondly, the fact that it was Topshop, which has a reputation for associating fashion with celebrities, meant that there was more likely to be confusion than if the T-shirt had been sold in a different type of outlet."

    Indeed, Birss said that Topshop's use of Rihanna's image "amounts to sales lost to her [Rihanna's] merchandising business. It also represents a loss of control over her reputation in the fashion sphere."

    (Read more: Topshop sells stake ? A new reason for US retailers to worry)

    Topshop said it was surprised by Birss's decision, and would seek permission to appeal. Topshop's lawyers had argued that the Barbados-born star was attempting to assert image rights, which are unrecognized under U.K. law, in contrast to U.S. law.

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    Victim expected to testify in Cleveland kidnapper's sentencing hearing

    Michelle Knight, one of the three women Ariel Castro has admitted to kidnapping and holding captive in his home for almost a decade, is expected to make a statement in person Thursday at Castro's sentencing hearing, a source tells ABC News.

    Castro, as part of a bargain to avoid the death penalty, pleaded guilty last Friday to kidnapping, raping and beating Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus. The plea deal stipulates that Castro will be sentenced to a minimum of life in prison without parole, plus 1,000 years.

    In Thursday's hearing, Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Michael Russo asked Castro if he had anything to say. Castro, who was handcuffed and shackled, said he would like to apologize to his victims, but that he would wait until later in the hearing.

    It remained unclear whether Berry and DeJesus would present written or video-recorded statements.

    The three women, for the most part, have maintained a low profile since their rescue May 6, when Berry escaped from Castro's home with her 6-year-old daughter and called for police.

    In July, the women released a YouTube video to thank the community for its support, and Berry surprised a crowd last weekend when she walked onstage during a Cleveland concert and was greeted by cheering fans. She later returned to the stage at the invitation of rapper Nelly.

    Knight wrote a note to the Cleveland police that the department posted on its Facebook page Wednesday.

    "You don't know how much I appreciate all your time & work collecting cards and gifts from people for me and the other girls," Knight's handwritten note stated. "I am overwhelmed by the amount of thoughts, love + prayers expressed by complete strangers ... Life is tough. But I'm tougher. Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly."

    The sentencing hearing opened Thursday with testimony by Cleveland police officer Barb Johnson. Johnson was one of the first officers on the scene May 6.

    Johnson said that in the ambulance after they were rescued, the three victims told of repeated beatings by Castro and described how they helped Berry give birth at Castro's house.

    Detective Andy Harasimchuk of the Cleveland Police Department Sex Crimes Unit told the court that all three women told him they were repeatedly sexually assaulted during the entire time they were held.

    Castro, a former school bus driver, kidnapped the women from the streets of Cleveland's west side, then imprisoned them for a decade, court records state. During their captivity, he raped and beat the women, chained them in his basement, and allowed them outside only a few times, the records show.

    DNA analysis also shows that Castro fathered Berry's daughter, and prosecutors say he impregnated Knight and then beat her to force a miscarriage. It was that act that resulted in the aggravated murder charge and a possible death penalty.

    After last Friday's plea bargain hearing, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty described Castro as a manipulator without remorse who would not leave prison ?except nailed in a box or in an ash can.? Castro pleaded guilty to 937 charges, including aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cleveland-kidnapper-faces-sentence-001821758.html

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    Tuesday, July 30, 2013

    Bipolar Disorder May Vary Depending on Weight ... - Health.com

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    MONDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) ? Bipolar disorder develops differently in obese people and among those who binge eat, a new study finds.

    Up to 4 percent of Americans have bipolar disorder, a serious mental illness that causes extreme mood swings. Just less than 10 percent of people with bipolar disorder are binge eaters, which the authors of the new study said is a higher rate than in the general population.

    This study found that bipolar patients who binge eat are more likely to have other mental health problems, such as suicidal thoughts, psychosis, anxiety disorders and substance abuse.

    Obese bipolar patients who do not binge eat are more likely to have serious physical conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.

    More women than men with bipolar disorder were binge eaters or obese, according to the study, which was published online recently in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

    ?The illness is more complicated, and then by definition how you would conceptualize how best to individualize treatment is more complicated,? study co-author Dr. Mark Frye, a psychiatrist and chairman of the psychiatry/psychology department at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said in a Mayo news release.

    ?It really underscores the importance of trying to stabilize mood, because we know when people are symptomatic of their bipolar illness their binge frequency is likely to increase,? Frye said. ?We want to work with treatments that can be helpful but not have weight gain as a significant side effect.?

    The investigators plan further research to determine whether there is a genetic link between binge eating and bipolar disease.

    ?Patients with bipolar disorder and binge eating disorder appear to represent a more severely ill population of bipolar patients,? study co-author Dr. Susan McElroy, chief research officer at the Lindner Center of HOPE, in Cincinnati, said in the news release.

    ?Identification of this subgroup of patients will help determine the underlying causes of bipolar disorder and lead to more effective and personalized treatments,? McElroy said.

    More information

    The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health has more about bipolar disorder.

    Source: http://news.health.com/2013/07/29/bipolar-disorder-may-vary-depending-on-weight-eating-disorders/

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    Sunday, July 28, 2013

    Need help updating your Nexus 4 to Android 4.3?

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    Friday, July 26, 2013

    Kaspersky reports increase in Apple phishing attempts this year

    Kaspersky reports increase in Apple phishing attempts this year

    So far this year, Apple customers have been exposed to an increased number of phishing attempts according to a study done by Kaspersky Labs. The study shows a greatly increased number of phishing emails purporting to come from Apple in the first five months of this year when compared to the number of Apple-related phishing attempts detected in 2011. More specifically, Kaspersky seems to be looking at the number of attempts to access phishing sites that have been blocked by their products.

    Phishing scams send legitimate (or sometimes not so legitimate) looking emails that appear to come from companies that a person may have a real account with, such as Apple. While the contents of the emails vary, they often provide a link to click asking you to confirm your account, reset your password, or provide some other sensitive information. The biggest reported spike in phishing attempts so far took place last December. The day after iTunes stores launched in 56 new countries, including India, Turkey, Russia and South Africa, Kaspersky saw an all-time high of 900,000 phishing attempts directing users to fake Apple sites.

    These phishing emails will usually have a falsified "from" address, such as services@apple.com. People should be careful to not rely on the from address of an email, as they can be easily spoofed. A more reliable source to look at are the raw headers of the email to see the servers that the email has gone through, and where it originated from.

    People should also be cautious of the links in these emails. The URL will usually contain Apple in it somewhere to try and trick people into thinking they're on Apple's site, but if you look closely these scam URLs won't have apple.com as the root of the address. It's also a safe bet that if you're clicking on a legitimate link from Apple, you will see a green lock icon up in the address bar of your browser, indicating that the site you are on is using a trusted SSL certificate to encrypt your traffic. Clicking on the icon provides additional information confirming the identity of the site. Phishing sites often employ no SSL, or sometimes they will offer a certificate that is marked as untrusted or unverified.

    Finally, unless you were expecting to get an email from Apple, if you recently submitted a request to reset your password for instance, you should probably avoid clicking on the link all-together. Instead, navigate to Apple's site in your browser manually. You can manage your Apple ID at appleid.apple.com. If Apple needs you to add anything to your account or reset any information, you should be able to do it from that site just fine, without needing to click that link in your email. Among other account management features, My Apple ID is also where you can enable two-step verification. Having two-step verification enabled on your account will help make sure that even if you do get tricked by a phishing attack, the scammers won't be able to log in to your account unless they're also in possession of one of your trusted devices, which would be unlikely.

    After the recent security threat to Apple's Developer Portal, a number of people have taken to various outlets to report phishing emails they have received. An increase in phishing attempts as a result of the Developer Portal incident is certainly possible, or it could just be that people are more aware of these scams as a result of the threat. Either way, phishing scams aren't going away any time soon and users should remain vigilant in their awareness of such scams even when there have not been any recent threats.

        


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    Does fracking lead to earthquakes?

    There is mounting evidence that fracking can cause seismic temblors thousands of miles from the site, King writes. The fracking is not the culprit but rather the disposal of the brine used to do it.

    By Llewellyn King,?Guest blogger / July 24, 2013

    A brine injection well owned is seen in Youngstown, Ohio. Fracking water is disposed of in ?injection wells? where tens of thousands of gallons of waste water, chemicals and other impurities that have been picked up are forced into the ground and abandoned.

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    The Arab oil embargo, imposed on the United States 40 years ago this fall, brought the instant chaos of gas lines, dire predictions and a new concentration of political minds on the Middle East. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) became a household word -- and a pejorative one at that. The economy shuddered.?

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    Although directed against the West for supporting Israel, the embargo unleashed general global frustration with the way U.S. and European oil companies had negotiated contracts and with the modest returns the oil-producing countries were getting for their asset.

    With the largest proven reserves, Saudi Arabia became, in some ways, the most important country on Earth. A small, desert monarchy ? more like medieval than modern monarchies -- was both courted and reviled.

    Even when the embargo was lifted in March 1974, the crisis continued throughout the decade ? and new chaos gripped the world with the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Inflation ravaged the world; in 1974, 24 heads of state lost their jobs due to the inflation.?(Oilprice.com Premium:?Get the same inside information as the CEOs of Exxon, Chevron and BP - as fast as they get it, often before they get it)

    In 1975, Congress converted the Atomic Energy Commission into the Energy Research and Development Administration; later, President Jimmy Carter upped the government role with the creation of the Department of Energy. Congress also, in 1978, passed a rather crazy piece of legislation, long repealed, called the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act, which posited that natural gas was in such short supply and so precious that it could not be used for much of anything except fertilizer and industrial processes ? no electricity generation, ornamental flames or pilot lights.

    Heroics in Congress did little to fix the situation. But plodding, technological innovation, much of it in government research programs, did. Drilling improved and took a giant step forward with the perfection of horizontal drilling. Also the old oilfield practice of geological fracturing (fracking) improved substantially, opening a bonanza of new oil and gas and changing the face of oil and gas production by putting shale deposits into big-time play.

    The world energy picture is turned upside down now. The impossible in 1973 ? energy self-sufficiency for the United States -- is in sight.

    But all could be lost.

    There is mounting evidence that fracking can cause seismic temblors thousands of miles from the site. The fracking is not the culprit but rather the disposal of the brine used to do it. (Oilprice.com Premium:?Find out first about the latest technology and technology investments being made by energy industry insiders)

    The key ingredient in fracking besides water is sand, which wedges itself between the shale rocks and allows the gas or oil to come out. But sand -- or silicate as the drillers like to call it ? doesn't suspend in water, so chemicals are added. This makes the water useless for other functions and it is disposed of in ?injection wells? where tens of thousands of gallons of waste water, chemicals and other impurities that have been picked up are forced into the ground and abandoned. There are thousands and thousands of these waste-water dump wells across the United States.

    Now comes a study, conducted by England's Durham University and published in the journal Science, which confirms that seismic activity, and possibly major earthquakes, can be triggered by injection wells, banned in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe. Sadly, many drillers have reacted with denial. The industry should throw a lot of science at the problem quickly, before a major event is blamed on fracking and the brave new world of abundance is shut down.

    The nuclear industry, always sure of its safety, responded to the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 by vastly improving that safety regime and establishing new national and international institutions devoted solely to best practices and enhanced safety. After the Japanese experience at Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear world again tightened its standards and expectations.
    But it has never totally regained public confidence, and that is important.

    If fracking could, as the Durham study suggests, lead to a major earthquake, that event would be as catastrophic for shale oil and gas recovery as Three Mile Island was for nuclear power. And if the public comes to believe that earthquakes are triggered by fracking, then the hope of energy independence will be doomed and the 1970s could be replayed.
    Source:?https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/What-Shale-Oil-and-Gas-Can-Learn-from-Nuclear.html

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    Thursday, July 25, 2013

    BASF Q2 profit dips amid patchy global economy

    (AP) ? Chemicals and oil company BASF SE warned Thursday that it will find it more difficult to achieve its full-year profit target as it reported a 4.2 percent fall in second-quarter earnings due to weaker demand in an uneven global economy.

    Following the warning, BASF shares fell 4 percent to 67.09 euros in morning trading in Frankfurt.

    Net profit fell 4.2 percent to 1.16 billion euros ($1.53 billion) even as revenues rose 2.9 percent to 18.35 billion euros.

    The company, based in Ludwigshafen, Germany, said it saw thinner profit margins on some products in its basic chemicals division such as caprolactam, the raw material for a widely used form of nylon that goes into everything from lingerie to tires.

    It also said its business in more extensively processed chemical products saw "intense competition in some product lines." That division also saw euro earnings reduced by a weaker yen, while its year-earlier earnings were boosted by insurance payments for damage suffered from Japan's earthquake and tsunami disaster.

    CEO Kurt Bock said the economic environment "remains volatile" with the European economy waning and China "no longer running at full power" at a time when the U.S. expansion was only moderate. The company was "clearly feeling these effects," he said.

    Bock said the company still expected to increase sales and earnings this year but that achieving that target "is significantly more challenging today" than expected at the beginning of the year.

    BASF lowered its estimate for global economic growth this year to 2.0 percent from 2.4 percent and for industrial production to 2.7 percent from 3.4 percent.

    The company makes raw materials for a huge range of products including pharmaceuticals, plastics, textiles, paint, auto parts, and construction materials. It also produces farm chemicals and oil and gas.

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    Wednesday, July 24, 2013

    Friday, July 12, 2013 | GreenStar Enterprise

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    Tuesday, July 23, 2013

    Body acceptance and self-esteem in men - Health, Fitness, and Sports

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    PostPosted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 1:23 pm?? ?Post subject: Body acceptance and self-esteem in men Reply with quote

    I'm starting to be more and more aware of this as an issue. I had a boyfriend who had always struggled with his weight but got bigger over time. His body acceptance was zero and it interfered with his sexual appetite (and consequently ended the relationship.) Looking back and seeing it for what it is, this makes me sad. I'm not saying that being obese is good for health, but that everyone, male or female, should like their body.

    I see men are under a lot of pressure to have a certain body now more than they did 15 years ago. It's good if men want to work out to be healthy, but I see some unhealthy attitudes and practices developing. The way their self-esteem is affected upsets the way they go about relationships too.

    Thinking of the kind of men I'm attracted to: I like all sorts of body types. I like skinny rockstars and 'bears' just as much (although I'm not a gay man, I can see what gay men see in bears.) I also like athletic people like runners and cyclists. I even like a geeky computer guys with a 24 BMI and little man boobies (this is probably because I would probably look like this if I was a guy and was back down to my normal weight) Laughing

    Men are so insecure and try to bravado it away with 'bro' culture and if they're fat, laughing it off and being 'comedic' fat guys. It's much more acceptable to call a man a 'fat bastard' than it is to say a woman is fat. Their are tonnes of body acceptance blogs and sites for women but not for men. There's this idea that a woman can be hot if she's big, because she can be a BBW and have curves, but big men are just gross unless they have an unhealthily low body fat % and turn all the bulk into muscle.

    This affects women, as well because women have relationships with these insecure guys. Also, I see body acceptance as a societal thing that men and women need to do together or not at all.

    I think women (or men) should never:

    1. Call a man a 'fat bastard'.
    2. Sing the 'who ate all the pies' song at a man (this is a popular British song used to make fun of fat people, it's nearly always sung at men.)
    3. Make fun of ectomorph men who take their top off and reveal a skinny chest and arms.
    4. Make fun of endomorph men who don't have the societally required muscle definition to take their top off.
    5. Refer to thin men as 'Skeletor' or a 'bag of bones'.

    And I'm sure there are a few others. Who's with me?
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    PostPosted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:56 pm?? ?Post subject: Re: Body acceptance and self-esteem in men Reply with quote

    puddingmouse wrote:
    I'm starting to be more and more aware of this as an issue. I had a boyfriend who had always struggled with his weight but got bigger over time. His body acceptance was zero and it interfered with his sexual appetite (and consequently ended the relationship.) Looking back and seeing it for what it is, this makes me sad. I'm not saying that being obese is good for health, but that everyone, male or female, should like their body.

    I see men are under a lot of pressure to have a certain body now more than they did 15 years ago. It's good if men want to work out to be healthy, but I see some unhealthy attitudes and practices developing. The way their self-esteem is affected upsets the way they go about relationships too.

    To me there seems to be a trend in media, movies, TV, to feature more muscular men than in the nineties. The "ideal" man seems to have grown in muscle mass.

    The trend amongst the general public seems to be that people are getting fatter. The number of people having the normal body type (that most everyone had before) men generally had doing manual labour seems to me to be rapidly declining. This pressure you speak of may reflect that, and when most everyone had the normal body type there would be no need for such pressure.

    What seems to be strongly trending where I live is the fitness culture amongst most between 16 and 30, or somewhere there about. A seriously large number of girls now hit the gym and it wasn't like that 5 or 10 years ago. Number of gyms have doubled in 2 years and what a 20 year old girl considers a desirable body is way off what it was 10 years ago. This has nothing to do with being overweight but about being "tight", or what they call it... This could be a worrying trend if a normal slim teenage girls feels she doesn't have the muscle tone that is becoming the norm or trend.

    puddingmouse wrote:
    of the kind of men I'm attracted to: I like all sorts of body types. I like skinny rockstars and 'bears' just as much (although I'm not a gay man, I can see what gay men see in bears.) I also like athletic people like runners and cyclists. I even like a geeky computer guys with a 24 BMI and little man boobies (this is probably because I would probably look like this if I was a guy and was back down to my normal weight)

    A BMI of 23-24 seems to be what is generally considered desirable for men, with a BMI on the lower end being desirable for women, like 19-21.

    The picture of the geek is more like being way heavier than 24, like obese, or on the low to end of the scale.

    puddingmouse wrote:
    Men are so insecure and try to bravado it away with 'bro' culture and if they're fat, laughing it off and being 'comedic' fat guys. It's much more acceptable to call a man a 'fat bastard' than it is to say a woman is fat. Their are tonnes of body acceptance blogs and sites for women but not for men. There's this idea that a woman can be hot if she's big, because she can be a BBW and have curves, but big men are just gross unless they have an unhealthily low body fat % and turn all the bulk into muscle.

    This affects women, as well because women have relationships with these insecure guys. Also, I see body acceptance as a societal thing that men and women need to do together or not at all.


    Depending on where you live, but being fat isn't something few are. In the US 64% were overweight, obese or pre-obese, 10 years ago. Likely significantly higher now and about a third being obese now. Most of western Europe isn't that far behind. With every second or so guy being a bit overweight it can't possibly have the same stigma attached to it as being an aspie, being gay, deaf, etc.

    People get the weirdest ideas. This advocacy of being big could be dangerous to some degree. Even losing a little could have positive effect on health. Everyone knows being obese negatively effects health, and advocating the likes of obesity, smoking, drugs, alcohol, speeding, etc., probably shouldn't be done. This may be stretching what you were meaning, and I'm sorry about that, but after watching a few programmes about BBWs, acceptance and such, it did seem a strange culture. Either way society's pressure should not be making people feel bad and get depressed because they don't conform and have trouble shedding their weight. One is what one is and you have to be happy about that and accept yourself.

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    Eh, I feel there should be moderation for accepting the body completely. There is a very unhealthy culture of accepting unhealthy lifestyles etc, "thin privilege" and all that.

    I had health and self-esteem issues in the past, I am at least proud of my 100lbs weight loss. My sense of being now feels pretty good. It is a shame that there are people that accept their unhealthy bodies as fate and that everyone else is wrong, I wouldn't be surprised this type of inflamed attitude is killing people.

    Balance, moderation and promoting general good health is key. From experiences, Take full self-confidence within yourself but also take responsibility of health.


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