Monday, August 5, 2013

Negotiator Israel to Release 26 Palestinian Prisoners August 13

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Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat says Israel will free the first of four groups of long-held Palestinian prisoners next week, part of the deal to resume the peace talks for the first time in three ... ...

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Twitter updates its rules for users, after uproar over rape, bomb threats

A tweeted bomb threat received by Time magazine Europe Editor Catherine Mayer. A member of Parliament also received a rape threat by way of Twitter.

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Twitter has updated its rules for users and is adding more staff to police abusive tweets, after an uproar and arrests in the U.K. over rape and bomb threats, and a day before a scheduled boycott of the service.

Twitter U.K. sent a tweet this morning pointing users to a blog post that announces the rules and staffing changes and reiterates that a "report abuse" button will be added to mobile and Web versions of the site. And Twitter U.K. General Manager Tony Wang later confirmed that the changes were being made worldwide.

"I personally apologize to the women who have experienced abuse on Twitter and for what they have gone through," Wang wrote in a series of follow-up tweets. "The abuse they've received is simply not acceptable. It's not acceptable in the real world, and it's not acceptable on Twitter...There is more we can and will be doing to protect our users against abuse. That is our commitment."

The new rules include an Abuse and Spam section that addresses targeted abuse:

Targeted Abuse: You may not engage in targeted abuse or harassment. Some of the factors that we take into account when determining what conduct is considered to be targeted abuse or harassment are:

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  • ? if the sole purpose of your account is to send abusive messages to others;
  • ? if the reported behavior is one-sided or includes threats.

The blog post also mentions additional measures that Twitter UK, specifically, is taking. The UK branch will work with the UK Safer Internet Center to "expand user resources on digital citizenship and staying safe online" and will also "use the Twitter platform -- including Promoted Tweets and a Promoted Trend" to publicize the center and its resources.

The moves follow outcry in Britain over abuse on the site. Earlier this month freelance journalist and feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez was subjected to a blizzard of abusive tweets, including rape threats, after she and others successfully lobbied to have novelist Jane Austen feautured on a U.K. banknote.

Criado-Perez and others called on Twitter to simplify the reporting of abuse and to take more responsibility for content on its site, and Scotland Yard arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with abusive tweets.

Others caught in the crossfire included Member of Parliament Stella Creasy, who also received a tweeted rape threat, and several female journalists, including Time magazine Europe Editor Catherine Mayer, who received tweeted bomb threats. Those threats came even after the Scotland Yard arrest.

The situation led to a volley of commentary by members of the British press, including a call from Times of London columnist Caitlin Moran to boycott Twitter on August 4, International Friendship Day, for a #trolliday.

Britain's Labor Party had also criticized Twitter's initial response to the abusive tweets against Criado-Perez, with Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper writing to the company, "social media platforms also have a responsibility for the platform they give users. And in particular they have a responsibility not to tolerate this kind of abuse, rape threats, and potentially criminal behavior...The response by Twitter has clearly been inadequate and fails not only Caroline, but many more women and girls who have faced similar abuse."

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Mental health and spiritual power

A Christian Science perspective: Why love is particularly needed in the treatment of mental illness.

By Margaret Rogers / August 5, 2013

The good news in this week's cover story is that there's some progress in destigmatizing mental illness as someone's fault. It's also encouraging to see that mental health care that emphasizes the dignity of each individual has a positive effect beyond what medication can do. Considering the whole person rather than simply focusing on treating the disease, having a nonjudgmental attitude, and giving people as much freedom as possible to make their own decisions are expressions of love that evoke good response in any type of health care.

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It's useful to probe a bit deeper into why love is particularly needed in the treatment of mental illness. No matter how disturbed people's ability to reason may be, they relate to love on a different level from reason. Even in the middle of tragedy, people are grateful when a stranger hugs them. Love calms and comforts naturally.

Still, when no amount of human love is adequate to deal with serious mental disorder, there's a stronger love to call on. Spiritually considered, love is the very core of existence, the intelligence and power that causes everything to be. We can define Love as the universal Mind, the reality many call God. Divine Love is independent of the brain. It expresses itself constantly throughout creation. Everyone's true identity is in fact the expression of infinite Love.

These insights can't be confirmed by conventional scientific methodology. One grasps them in a different way from human reason. But knowledge of them is practical in healing oneself and others, and this knowledge can be gained through the study and practice of spiritual teaching. When Jesus said, "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30) and "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do" (John 5:19), this can be understood to mean each of us is inseparable from the perfect Mind, the loving Father and Mother of all. This relationship gives the ability to act reasonably and lovingly, an ability that can't be lost.

As a Christian Science practitioner who treats people through prayer, I've found that these spiritual truths have strengthened my conviction that healing, not just managing, mental disorders is possible. Labeling a disease and grading its curability can make people feel like victims of something beyond their control. But the knowledge that divine Love creates us perfectly and loves us unfailingly puts a rock of assurance under efforts to heal disease. It has helped me and many colleagues over the years to put down fear and blame for the afflicted and their families and to persist in bringing out the health that's God-ordained.

The mental health care system needs help. Good care should be the norm, not the exception. When Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21), could he have been pointing to the ability to heal ourselves and others spiritually that is always accessible? Referring to that statement, Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, wrote: "Know, then, that you possess sovereign power to think and act rightly, and that nothing can dispossess you of this heritage and trespass on Love" ("Pulpit and Press," p. 3).

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8:00 PM: WEWS-TV has the story of Benjamin Cox, a nine-year-old boy born with cerebral palsy who was able to walk the last 1.5 miles of the Cleveland Triathlon with his parents on Sunday. Cox's family has been competing in the Triathlon to help raise money for United Cerebral Palsy of Cleveland.

7:45 PM: Texas Longhorns football coach Mack Brown said about rebuilding his team: "I like fixing things. I don't like messing things up .... But I think we got it fixed."

7:30 PM: A man & woman in Florence, South Carolina were arrested after they were spotted having sex outside in the yard of a home that neither one lived at.

7:15 PM: ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale tweets on reports of Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel selling autographs: "I personally feel NCAA should alter their rules & allow players to profit off of their fame."

7:00 PM: Western Kentucky running back Leon Allen was arrested on disorderly conduct charges early Sunday morning. Allen was the fifth Hilltoppers player to be arrested this off-season.

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6:00 PM: Georgia Tech basketball player Chris Bolden was arrest on DUI charges in Gwinnett County early Saturday morning.

5:45 PM: ESPN's Outside The Lines reports the NCAA is investigating whether Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel was paid a five-figure fee for signing autographs in January while attending last season's BCS title game.

5:30 PM: Chris Herren, a former basketball player & drug addict who was the subject of the ESPN documentary Unguarded, tweeted last Thursday: "TODAY I am truly blessed an grateful to wake up 5yrs sober..I Thank GOD , MY FAMILY,and MY FRIENDS for believing in me ONE DAY AT A TIME !!"

5:15 PM: The Cleveland Browns share video of Ryan Encinas, a five-year-old cancer survivor who scored a 50-yard touchdown run at the end of Saturday's Family Night practice.

5:00 PM: It was 30 years ago today that New York Yankees player Dave Winfield threw a ball at a seagull & killed it at Exhibition Stadium during a game against the Toronto Blue Jays.

4:45 PM: The New York Jets have waived receiver Jordan White, who is scheduled to undergo sports hernia surgery on Tuesday.

4:30 PM: Robert Valentine, an uncle of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, was killed in a moped accident in Bristol, Connecticut early Saturday morning.

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Maximize savings during the New Mexico Tax Free Holiday

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August is here which means back-to-school season has officially begun.

Most families spend upwards of $500 per child on school necessities according to Huntington Bank?s Annual Backpack Index. ??

Starting today, families can save and extra 6-7% off of selected school items. These include school supplies like paper and pencils, clothing, software, and computers under $1000.

Certain department stores are even offering additional coupons to New Mexico residents for shopping at their businesses this weekend. Starting Friday, 3 p.m. to close and Saturday 9 am ? 1 pm, JC Penney offers $10 off purchases of $25 or more on select apparel, shoes and accessories, and $10 haircuts for kids inside JC Penney salons. Kohl?s is offering coupons for an additional $10 off of every $50 spent.

Most stores will hold longer hours in order to accommodate the large crowds of shoppers that are expected to be out, and they recommend shoppers get to the stores early. Sale items tend to sell out quickly due to the holiday.

However, for those who want savings but would rather avoid crowds, the tax free incentive is also extended to online shopping.

JC Penney has two locations in Albuquerque, one Coronado Center and one at the Cottonwood Mall.

Kohl?s has three locations in Albuquerque, one at the Coronado Center, one located at 6800 Holly Ave NE, and one location on the Westside at 3715 Ellison Rd NW.

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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Obama administration overrules Apple import ban

FILE - In this May 27, 2011, file photo, a salesperson at a mobile phone shop displays an Apple iPhone 4 to a customer in New Delhi. U.S. President Obama?s trade representative on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, vetoed a ban on imports of the iPhone 4 and some variations of the iPad 2, reversing a ruling in favor of rival South Korean electronics company Samsung. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

FILE - In this May 27, 2011, file photo, a salesperson at a mobile phone shop displays an Apple iPhone 4 to a customer in New Delhi. U.S. President Obama?s trade representative on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, vetoed a ban on imports of the iPhone 4 and some variations of the iPad 2, reversing a ruling in favor of rival South Korean electronics company Samsung. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

President Obama's trade representative on Saturday vetoed a ban on imports of some Apple iPads and older iPhones, dealing a setback to rival South Korean electronics company Samsung.

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman overruled a June decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission, which had banned imports of the iPhone 4 and some variations of the iPad 2. The commission ruled that the Chinese-made Apple devices violated a patent held by Samsung and couldn't be imported. The ban never went into effect, though, because the Obama administration had 60 days to decide if it would uphold the commission.

Obama is against import bans on the basis of the type of patent at issue in the Samsung case. The White House has recommended that Congress limit the ITC's ability to impose import bans in these cases.

Samsung and Apple are in a global legal battle over smartphones. Apple argues Samsung's Android phones copy vital iPhone features. Samsung is fighting back with its own complaints.

In an email, Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said the company applauded the administration "for standing up for innovation."

Samsung said in a statement late Saturday night that it was disappointed in Froman's ruling, saying the ITC "correctly recognized that Samsung has been negotiating in good faith, and that Apple remains unwilling to take a license."

Froman wrote in a letter to the commission that he has concerns about patent holders getting too much leverage over competitors that use their technology under licenses.

Companies license patented technology to competitors so the devices can communicate as part of an industry standard for cellphones. Under the "standards-essential patent" legal theory prevailing in federal courts, holders of such patents are obligated to license them to all comers on "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" terms.

U.S. courts have ruled that such patents cannot be the basis for import bans. The International Trade Commission follows a different standard than the courts, but the Obama administration wants it to adhere to the same principles.

Froman wrote that he shares the Obama administration's concerns that the holders of standards-essential patents could get "undue leverage" over their competitors.

Last year, a federal court ruled that Samsung owed Apple $1 billion in damages for infringing on non-essential Apple patents. But the judge refused to impose an import ban on Samsung phones and later struck $450 million from the verdict, saying the jurors miscalculated. The case is set for a rematch in appeals court.

Samsung is the world's largest maker of smartphones. Analysts estimate it outsold Apple nearly 2 to 1 in the first three months of the year. However, Apple's smartphone business is more profitable

The iPhone 4 was launched in 2010 and is the oldest iPhone still sold by Apple. The ITC ruling applied only to the AT&T version of the phone. Apple is likely to retire the model.

Apple launched the iPad 2 in 2011. The ruling applies only to the version equipped with a cellular modem for AT&T's network.

The ruling also applies to older iPhones, though these are no longer sold by Apple.

Associated Press

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Florida's 2013 sales tax holiday now under way!

TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- For the fourth straight year, Floridians will get a sales tax holiday this summer but this one will include?computers?for the first time.

State lawmakers have approved a three-day back-to-school sales tax holiday during the first week of August. It will eliminate state and local taxes on computers, tablets and accessories like keyboards and monitors that cost $750 or less.

See Also: List of tax-exempt items?(PDF)

Shoppers will also get the tax break on many school supplies costing $15 or less, as well as clothes, backpacks and shoes costing $75 or less.

Rick McAllister of the Florida Retail Federation expects the addition of computers to the sales tax holiday will boost interest in this year's program.

"In the states where they have had the computers on there before, it has tremendous interest. It's a big-ticket item, up to $750 at 7 ? percent is a lot of money. So it's a nice savings, good incentive for families to take advantage of it."

McAllister said Georgia has included computers in its sales tax holiday and it proved so successful that some Floridians crossed the state line to take advantage.

Florida's sales tax holiday will run from August 2-4.

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Happy Birthday, Mr. President: Obama turns 52

President Barack Obama, second from right, leaves Andrews Air Force Base, Md., for a weekend in Camp David, Md., Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. The President turns 52 Sunday and will be spending his birthday at Camp David. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

President Barack Obama, second from right, leaves Andrews Air Force Base, Md., for a weekend in Camp David, Md., Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. The President turns 52 Sunday and will be spending his birthday at Camp David. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

(AP) ? Instead of "Hail to the Chief," President Barack Obama most likely heard strains of "Happy Birthday" this weekend.

Obama, who turned 52 on Sunday, spent part of the day at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.

The White House said little about how he celebrated.

The president played golf Saturday with friends from his days in Hawaii and Chicago. Some of them joined him at Camp David.

Obama said nothing upon his afternoon return to the White House.

His week ahead includes a trip Tuesday to Phoenix to discuss plans to help homeowners, an appearance on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno and visit Wednesday with troops at Camp Pendleton in California.

He also has a White House meeting Thursday with the prime minister of Greece.

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Bobby's Bama: Teams for Troops

NORTH ALABAMA (WAFF)- Justin Crisler is one of the biggest Bama fans ever, and he wanted troops serving overseas to be able to support the tide. But that venture has grown and now includes other schools. "I?presented that shirt on some social media sites that I run, and I had a lot of troops respond immediately and say that they would like to have a shirt that looked like that," said Crisler.

The non-profit organization was born and thanks to private donations, Crisler could supply those shirts to soldiers at no cost to them.

Now it's growing fast and Crisler is busy. "...find a way to fund new designs such as shirts for different schools."

He can't get over how fast this idea caught on. "The response has been overwhelming." But he is persistent in wanting to give any soldier a shirt from any school.

Whit Jordan, of the 375th engineering company, got his shirt. "Something like this, it helps boost the moral of the individual, the unit."? Jordan said just about everyone wants one. "It helps out. Those are the kind of things that help you get through the year long or 9 months or however long your deployment is."

Sophia Malone agrees. She serves the National Guard 128th Military Police Company. She said fans from other schools sent a shirt back signed, to say thank you. "Those are my guys and gals. I love them and they wrote everything on there. When you're over there and you get any little taste of home, you just...you get excited."

Some units send photos which Crisler proudly displays on his facebook pages.? One photo brought Crisler to tears.

And no matter which school, everyone is proud to wear their colors. It's a taste of home from people who care in Bobby's Bama.

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Judge blocks planned horse slaughter at 2 plants

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ? A federal judge on Friday temporarily halted plans by companies in New Mexico and Iowa to start slaughtering horses next week.

U.S. District Judge Christina Armijo issued a restraining order in a lawsuit brought by The Humane Society of the United States and other groups in case that has sparked an emotional national debate about how best to deal with the tens of thousands of unwanted and abandoned horses across the country.

Armijo issued a restraining order and scheduled another hearing for Monday in the lawsuit. The move stops what would have been the resumption of horse slaughters for the first time in seven years in the U.S.

The groups contend the Department of Agriculture failed to do the proper environmental studies before issuing permits that allowed companies in Iowa and New Mexico to open horse slaughterhouses. The companies had said they wanted to open as soon as Monday.

The horse meat would be exported for human consumption and for use as zoo and other animal food.

Valley Meat Co. of Roswell, N.M., has been at the fore of the fight, pushing for more than a year for permission to convert its cattle plant into a horse slaughterhouse.

The Department of Agriculture in June gave the company the go-ahead to begin slaughtering horses. USDA officials said they were legally obligated to issue the permits, even though the Obama administration opposes horse slaughter and is seeking to reinstate a congressional ban that was lifted in 2011.

Another permit was approved a few days later for Responsible Transportation in Sigourney, Iowa.

The move has divided horse rescue and animal welfare groups, ranchers, politicians and Indian tribes about what is the most humane way to deal with the country's horse overpopulation.

Some Native American tribes, including the Navajo and Yakama nations, are among those who are pushing to let the companies open. They say the exploding horse populations on their reservations are trampling and overgrazing rangelands, decimating forage resources for cattle and causing widespread environmental damage.

The Navajo Nation, the nation's largest Indian reservation, estimates there are 75,000 horses on its land, many of which are dehydrated and starving after years of drought.

On the other side, actor Robert Redford, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, current Gov. Susana Martinez and Attorney General Gary King are among those who strongly oppose a return to domestic horse slaughter, citing the animals' iconic role as companion animals in the West.

"Horse slaughter has no place in our culture," Redford said in a statement last week in announcing formation of a foundation that has joined the fight. "It is cruel, inhumane, and perpetuates abuse and neglect of these beloved animals. We must oppose it with all of our might."

Supporters of domestic slaughter point to a June 2011 report from the federal Government Accountability Office that shows cases of horse abuse and abandonment on a steady rise since Congress effectively banned horse slaughter by cutting funding for USDA inspection programs in 2006.

They also cite USDA statistics compiled by the Equine Welfare Alliance that shows the number of U.S. horses sent to other countries for slaughter has nearly tripled since domestic horse slaughter ceased, with many of those being shipped thousands of miles to points south of the border to be slaughtered in unregulated and inhumane facilities.

They said it is better to slaughter the horses in regulated and humane domestic facilities than to let them starve or be shipped to Mexico.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/judge-blocks-planned-horse-slaughter-2-plants-222457900.html

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Favorite Tastes Change with Age, Rat Study Shows

Tastes change with age, at least in rats, new research suggests.

Younger rats prefer more sugar and umami flavor in foods and showed a stronger aversion to bitter foods compared with elderly rats, according to a study presented today (July 30) at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior.

"To our knowledge, this is the first report demonstrating a reduced aversion to bitter taste in aged rats," study co-author Chizuko Inui-Yamamoto, a researcher at Osaka University in Japan, said in a statement.

The sense of taste is mysterious and complicated, with researchers understanding relatively little about how it works. Recent studies have found that the belly can taste foods using special receptors and that humans actually have a sixth taste sense that detects fat.

Though most people notice their tastes evolve as they age, exactly why was a mystery.

To understand how taste preferences changed with age, Inui-Yamamoto and her colleagues analyzed the food consumption of rats in five age brackets, from youth to old age. They then measured the rats' intake of solutions that tasted sweet, salty, umami, sour or bitter.

Older rats were less keen on sweet and umami flavors and were less likely than younger rats to avoid bitter flavors.

The team offered aging rats high- and low-concentration solutions, which showed that older rats have lower taste sensitivity.

But when the team analyzed the nerves that send electrical signals from taste buds in the mouth to the brain, they found no differences in activity with age.

"We had expected that these changes were due to the peripheral taste system," Inui-Yamamoto said in a statement.

In follow-up work, the team hopes to investigate what causes this change in taste preference over time.

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Brandon Marsh nature reserve near Coventry is hosting summer holiday fun sessions for children.

During the whole summer break the centre in Brandon Lane is offering a fantastic range of entertaining holiday education activities for four - 11 year olds with special drop-in activities; family bat nights and a new Woodland Bushcraft course for older children.

Youngsters can get active outside every day of the school holidays: whether it?s hunting for bugs; building dens or making kites; dipping in our pond; creating natural art or playing wildlife games. Celebrate National Play Day on Wednesday by hunting for ladybirds.

Family Bat Nights takes place on August 9 and August 23 where families can come down to the reserve in the evening and explore the world of bats.

The holiday events all take place between 10:30am and 12:00pm and cost ?4.50 per child. Bat Nights run from 7.30pm to 9pm on August 9 and 7pm-8.30pm on August 23 and cost ?4 per person or ?15 for two adults and two children. You must book your place in advance for all events by calling 024 7630 2912.

Source: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/whats-on/find-things-to-do/look-summer-holiday-fun-sessions-5581756

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The Future of Ecommerce With Web 3.0 | SiliconANGLE

The internet continues to evolve and as such, new retail business strategies are constantly being developed that take advantage of internet technology. In the first two evolutionary phases of the internet, most retail strategies chased technology; however, as the internet has firmly established itself as an integral part of retail business marketing and sales success, a much more proactive approach is being taken by ecommerce business strategists.

Developers who once waited for trends are now creating internet technologies instead. The enormous customer base created by social media has been realized and now the next evolutionary phase of internet, Web 3.0, is just on the horizon and is already creating exciting new internet retail strategies and technologies that will push ecommerce to great new levels.

Ecommerce and the Web: The Beginning

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Since its first arrival, retail business has been seeking out every opportunity to capitalize on the power and potential of the internet. In its earliest form, the internet was no more than a means to bring static photo and pages of readable text to those who surfed the web. While this was little more than an on-line catalog per se, it was the first step in reaching out to curious new web browsers with a hit and miss chance of capturing a new customer along the way. Ecommerce was born in what was later labeled Web 1.0 or the ?readable? web.

The internet was quick to evolve and it was not long before the technology to interact via World Wide Web arrived. Social networking hit the scene and completely re-wrote the book on how people looked at and used the internet. No longer just a large library of static informational pages of text and photos, the internet was now dynamic and quickly became a part of people?s everyday lives. Web 2.0 brought us the ?writable? internet and with more and more people engaging with the social media trend, marketing technology took advantage of great opportunity such as targeted advertising technologies that monitored the web search requests.

This brought users relevant and even localized product advertisement. Ecommerce was truly developing, but still had not really come into its own as, from a marketing perspective, it was still chasing technology, but that is going to change all too soon.

Web 3.0: The Future

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Today, internet marketers are no longer waiting to adapt to the next great breakthrough the internet offers them, instead they are taking a proactive approach in creating the next internet evolution, Web 3.0, the Transcendent Web!

From an ecommerce perspective, the aim of Web 3.0 is to capitalize on the expansive social web network. Through new and enhanced methods of interpreting internet user?s habits, it?s possible to learn more of the specifics interests of the shopper (inside and outside of their current behavior,) and bring them a very personalized ecommerce shopping experience. Unlike today?s targeted advertising which may, for example, detect that a user performed an internet search for wedding dresses, which in turn results in advertisement after advertisement of non-specific wedding dresses.

In a Web 3.0 scenario targeted advertisements may result in non-traditional wedding dresses for plus size, middle aged women, better fitting the profile of an individual and making these advertisements far more useful and likely for a sales conversion. Another example might be searching for a movie to watch.

Where the last generation of movie advertisement might bring listings of local cinemas, a Web 3.0 era search might result in horror movies only playing after 10 pm at two specific cinemas, all based on historical information that has been captured and analyzed through the collection social networking and internet browsing data.

Even sentence structure and behavioral data patterns of an individual that can be compared to others and yield insight.

For this revolution in functionality to take place, the web in general will need to grow more accustomed to non-conventional data streams and the sharing of data across multiple applications. Most services attempt to collect information in a bubble, offering some value in return for the exchange of data, yet they are entirely dependent on user submissions and often reliant on if the user has to log into a service before visiting them.

Web 3.0: Predictions

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Where I?d like to see 3.0 go is an internet that can come to terms with the value that shared data brings, without harming their sense of privacy. This is idealistic, as privacy is surely important, and the value and security must be proven before the pitchforks will be put down. Does the convenience of an entire home page (not landing page) of clothing tailored for me outweigh the loss I suffer for them know my gender and build?

Am I losing something if it takes me half the time to find a movie showing, but that movie theatre knows I only see late screenings? The public will have to decide the answer to this question, but the brave marketers who get there first have so much to gain.

Realistically, the first steps will be about realizing the lines of communication we already have in place. The Semantic Web, a collaborative, international movement, will have a large role to play in building Web 3.0. Lead by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C,) the idea is to better structure the internet at large. Standardization is a large part of that, but one less invasive way of understanding your consumers is to better know where they?ve been.

Visitors to a brand have to come from somewhere, and it?s not that current marketers don?t know where they come from, there?s just no easy way for your system to know, realistically, tell that site apart from the web at large. If standardized language can let brands know, seamlessly, what kinds of site they came from (male clothing store, vintage record seller, home improvement outlet,) the process of serving them topical content can become more feasible, without worrying about customer profiles and logins.

Of course, this isn?t to discount the unbridled potential of social profiles. Through the integration of social profiles, the Semantic Web, the technology that will allow the storing of vast amounts of data and the use of artificial intelligence to interpret and filter data, Web 3.0 will be the next great revelation to ecommerce. Web 3.0 is still very much in its infancy stage but it is coming so get prepared!

About The Author


Hassan Bawab is the Founder and CEO of Magic Logix, an interactive digital marketing agency in Dallas, TX. Magic Logix combines dynamic website development, professional website design, SEO and integrated online marketing to drive new leads with high conversion. He is committed to high standards in every aspect of his business and actively leads his team of professional developers, designers, and online marketers. Key to their success is Hassan?s emphasis on clear, open communication among employees and with clients. Hassan believes that the best CEO is also the best listener.

Source: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/08/02/the-future-of-ecommerce-with-web-3-0/

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Electric Power - Regional - Roundup: Energy efficiency, rural electrification, bill collection, sector growth

The Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) and Korea Energy Management (Kemco) inked a memorandum of agreement governing a joint project to be carried out in Bolivia...

This news article is one of hundreds published daily by Business News Americas about the commodities, markets, movements, companies, projects, economics and politics integral to the development of Latin America. Including news and insight from South America, Central America and the Caribbean, BNamericas includes Electric Power insight and forecasts for business opportunities in Regional. The business development service focuses on major projects, active companies, such as UTE, Electro Oriente, Kallpa, EnerSur, SN Power Per?, Egasa, IIC, Corpoelec; and business and sales contacts, providing networking opportunities with leading executives throughout Latin America. Contact us today! Phone:+56 (2) 2941-0300

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Baseball: ThunderBolts put on hit show, defeat River City Rascals 12-1

Updated: August 2, 2013 11:04PM

Afternoon showers Friday spoiled batting practice for the Windy City ThunderBolts, and a big flash of lightning added a 30-minute delay midway through the fifth inning in their game against the River City Rascals.

In the home dugout, though, it was all sunshine.

Windy City starter Brian Oliver went five innings, giving up just two hits and a walk, as the ThunderBolts downed the Rascals 12-1 at Standard Bank Stadium in Crestwood. It was just the second time Windy City scored double-digit runs this season en route to its largest margin of victory on the year.

The T-Bolts recorded 14 hits in the victory.

?It?s been a battle. We?ve been struggling to score runs,? said Oliver, who was lifted after the delay. ?But we?re getting guys healthy, and you never know what can happen when those guys start swinging the bats well.?

Oliver (4-5), a 225-pound righty, has won three of his past four starts. He gave up his lone run in the third inning when River City?s Eric Williams scored on a groundout by Johnny Morales. Oliver then retired the next seven batters.

?It was about the fastball and command,? Oliver said. ?They?re an aggressive team. I was trying to stay out of the middle of the plate.?

The ThunderBolts (29-37) scored their first four runs on just two infield hits for a 4-0 lead. Their bats exploded after the delay for three runs in the fifth and three more in the sixth, highlighted by consecutive RBI doubles by Ryan Soares (3-for-4, 2 RBI) and Chad Cregar (2-for-4, 3 RBI).

Cregar added a two-run homer in the eighth inning, a blast over the right-field wall that also scored Soares. The shot marked Cregar?s second home run in two games and his third of the season.

?(Cregar) is one of the most-feared hitters in the league,? Oliver said. ?Having him struggle, then get hurt, to get him back in the order ... just his presence is huge. He?s just a game-changing player in this league.?

Evan Button, Mike Torres and Andrew Brauer added multihit games for Windy City, which improved to 20-19 at home this season. The team hasn?t had a losing season at Standard Bank Stadium since a 21-26 finish in 2006.

Windy City?s Matt Solbach pitched three innings in relief, striking out two.

Source: http://southtownstar.suntimes.com/sports/21689787-419/baseball-thunderbolts-put-on-hit-show-defeat-river-city-rascals-12-1.html

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'Stand Your Ground' law hearings

By Tom Brown

MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida lawmakers will hold hearings this fall on the state's "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law, which has become a lightning rod for criticism following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.

The announcement on Friday by Will Weatherford, the speaker of Florida's House of Representatives, marked the biggest concession yet by the state's Republican leaders to protesters' demands for a top-to-bottom review of the law, which allows people in fear of serious injury to use deadly force to defend themselves rather than retreat.

Since Zimmerman's acquittal on July 13, Martin's grieving parents, backed by African-American civic leaders, celebrities, students and political figures, including President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, have all said the Stand Your Ground law needs to be re-examined.

Weatherford, in an opinion column published in the Tampa Tribune, said he had asked Representative Matt Gaetz, a fellow Republican who chairs the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee, to lead the hearings. Weatherford did not set a date for the hearings or say how long they would last.

"Across Florida, representatives are receiving calls, letters, visits and emails from constituents with diverse opinions on 'Stand Your Ground,'" Weatherford said. "Passions are high, but every person has the right to express their views on this matter of great importance."

"It's a critical step," said Phillip Agnew, who heads a group of young demonstrators calling themselves the Dream Defenders who have staged a nearly month-long sit-in outside Governor Rick Scott's office in a bid to change the law. "We're excited about having an open debate," he told Reuters.

Advocates of the law, the first of its kind in the country and now copied in more than 20 other states, say violent crime has fallen since it was enacted.

But critics see the self-defense law as emblematic of racial bias and unequal justice in America, since some studies have shown that defense claims made under the law are far more likely to be successful when the victim is black.

Two of the six jurors in the Zimmerman case have said the Stand Your Ground law left them with no option but to acquit him.

"Our evaluation of its (the law's) effectiveness should be guided by objective information, not by political expediency," Weatherford wrote.

"Does the law keep the innocent safer? Is it being applied fairly? Are there ways we can make this law clearer and more understandable?" he asked.

Most U.S. voters support the "Stand Your Ground" laws, although the question of whether to retreat or use deadly force in self defense divides Americans along gender, racial and political lines, a national Quinnipiac University poll found on Friday.

The poll found that a strong majority of white voters and men support the laws, while black voters generally oppose them and women are almost evenly divided.

(Reporting by Tom Brown; additional reporting by Bill Cotterell editing by Jackie Frank)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/florida-lawmakers-agree-hearings-stand-ground-law-010149022.html

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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Mexican bid to smuggle phone into prison in coffin

MEXICO CITY (AP) ? Mexico City prison authorities say they have quashed an attempt to smuggle a prohibited cell phone into a city prison in the coffin of an inmate's mother.

Prisoners in the city have the right to have the casket of a deceased parent or child brought into the prison yard so they can bid farewell to their relative.

But city correctional spokesman Emilio Castelazo said Friday that before the coffin was allowed into the Santa Marta Acatitla prison, guards searched the casket and found the cell phone inside.

Castelazo said a criminal complaint has been filed. Several relatives were with the coffin at the time.

Cell phones are banned because inmates frequently use them to coordinate criminal activities outside prison or make extortion calls.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mexican-bid-smuggle-phone-prison-coffin-165046182.html

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Nobel Prize Economists Criticize Software Patents, Claims They Inhibit InnovationPatent wars are pretty common these days in the tech world, where companies are suing each other over infringement of certain pieces of hardware technology, while others are suing over software features. Granted some of these cases do get out of hand and drag on for too long, but given that some companies spend years developing their technology only to have it ?stolen?, we can see why they are so determined to fight till the end to make sure they are compensated for it.

However on the other side of the coin, there are some who believe that patents could actually hold back innovation, and recently two Nobel Prize-winning economists have stepped forward and claimed that software patents are actually inhibiting innovation.

One of the economists, Gary Becker, acknowledges that while patents help provide developers the peace of mind knowing that what they develop will be ?protected? legally, he also believes that in the grander scheme of things, the abolishing of patents will help free up more developers who might otherwise be afraid that they could end up in court and pay huge legal fees in damages.

Economist Eric Maskin has expressed that he believes that patents are harmful, and that a company or an individual with a particular patent, can actually block or slow down the progress by putting up high licensing fees. Of course one could make an argument for either side, but these are some pretty valid points, with President Obama even going as far as to launch executive actions to combat patent trolls. What do you guys think?

Source: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/08/nobel-prize-economists-criticize-software-patents-claims-they-inhibit-innovation/

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