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Bioethics boot camp for reporters and editors

Public release date: 30-Jan-2012
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Panelists include leading journalists, bioethicists, scholars and scientists

(Garrison, NY) Science Writers in New York (SWINY), The Hastings Center, and City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism present a unique, one-day workshop "Bioethics Boot Camp: Finding the Must-Read Angle for Science and Medical Stories."

The Boot Camp will be held on Friday, March 30, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, 219 West 40th Street, New York City.

A series of panel discussions and question-answer sessions will feature leading journalists, bioethicists, scholars and scientists exploring specific, sensitive issues, ranging from conflicts of interest and genetics to human life from beginning to end and emerging biotechnology. In the closing panel, editors from scientific, business, and consumer media will share their criteria and considerations for health or medical topics with a bioethical aspect.

Attendees and panelists are invited to mingle from 4:30 onward at a wine and cheese reception. Panelists and moderators include:

Journalists

Jeff Kluger, Senior Editor, TIME Magazine;
Emily Laber-Warren, Director of the Health & Science Reporting Program, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism;
Doug Levy, Executive Director, Communications and Public Affairs, Columbia University Medical Center;
Brendan Maher, Features Editor, Nature;
Robin Marantz Henig, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine;
Ivan Oransky, Executive Editor, Reuters Health;
Charles Ornstein, Senior Reporter, ProPublica;
Jennifer Rainey Marquez, Senior Editor, Parade Magazine;
Andrew Revkin, Former New York Times environmental reporter and founder, DotEarth blog; Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, Pace University;
Beth Schachter, Science Communications Consultant;
Nancy Stedman, Deputy Editor, Health, More Magazine;
Ron Winslow, Health Editor, The Wall Street Journal

Bioethicists

Daniel Callahan, Co-founder, Senior Research Scholar, President Emeritus, The Hastings Center;
Mary Crowley, Director of Public Affairs and Communications, The Hastings Center;
Susan Gilbert, Public Affairs Editor and Editor of Bioethics Forum, The Hastings Center;
Michael Gusmano, Research Scholar, The Hastings Center;
Josephine Johnston, Research Scholar, The Hastings Center;
Gregory E. Kaebnick, Research Scholar and Editorial Director, The Hastings Center; Editor, The Hastings Center Report;
Karen Maschke, Research Scholar, The Hastings Center; Editor, IRB Ethics & Human Research;
Thomas H. Murray, Senior Research Scholar, President, CEO, The Hastings Center;
Rosamond Rhodes, Bioethicist and Professor of Medical Education, Mount Sinai Medical Center

Additional panelists will be announced soon.

Who should attend?

Bioethics Bootcamp is designed for science and medical reporters and editors, other professional science writers, public information officers, journalism students, and concerned physicians and scientists. Special rates for students and members of SWINY or NASW. Each participant will receive the Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book for Journalists and Policymakers, a $35 value. Register Now: Participation Limited to 60 Journalists
How to Register

Register now and save! Members of SWINY and NASW who register by March 1 pay only $70; non-members pay $95. After March 1, registration fees increase to $90 for members and $115 for non-members. Walk-in registration is $115 for members and $135 for non-members.

Bioethics Boot Camp is funded by a grant from the National Association of Science Writers (NASW)

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Bioethics boot camp for reporters and editors Public release date: 30-Jan-2012
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Contact: Michael Turton
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The Hastings Center

Panelists include leading journalists, bioethicists, scholars and scientists

(Garrison, NY) Science Writers in New York (SWINY), The Hastings Center, and City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism present a unique, one-day workshop "Bioethics Boot Camp: Finding the Must-Read Angle for Science and Medical Stories."

The Boot Camp will be held on Friday, March 30, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, 219 West 40th Street, New York City.

A series of panel discussions and question-answer sessions will feature leading journalists, bioethicists, scholars and scientists exploring specific, sensitive issues, ranging from conflicts of interest and genetics to human life from beginning to end and emerging biotechnology. In the closing panel, editors from scientific, business, and consumer media will share their criteria and considerations for health or medical topics with a bioethical aspect.

Attendees and panelists are invited to mingle from 4:30 onward at a wine and cheese reception. Panelists and moderators include:

Journalists

Jeff Kluger, Senior Editor, TIME Magazine;
Emily Laber-Warren, Director of the Health & Science Reporting Program, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism;
Doug Levy, Executive Director, Communications and Public Affairs, Columbia University Medical Center;
Brendan Maher, Features Editor, Nature;
Robin Marantz Henig, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine;
Ivan Oransky, Executive Editor, Reuters Health;
Charles Ornstein, Senior Reporter, ProPublica;
Jennifer Rainey Marquez, Senior Editor, Parade Magazine;
Andrew Revkin, Former New York Times environmental reporter and founder, DotEarth blog; Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, Pace University;
Beth Schachter, Science Communications Consultant;
Nancy Stedman, Deputy Editor, Health, More Magazine;
Ron Winslow, Health Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Bioethicists

Daniel Callahan, Co-founder, Senior Research Scholar, President Emeritus, The Hastings Center;
Mary Crowley, Director of Public Affairs and Communications, The Hastings Center;
Susan Gilbert, Public Affairs Editor and Editor of Bioethics Forum, The Hastings Center;
Michael Gusmano, Research Scholar, The Hastings Center;
Josephine Johnston, Research Scholar, The Hastings Center;
Gregory E. Kaebnick, Research Scholar and Editorial Director, The Hastings Center; Editor, The Hastings Center Report;
Karen Maschke, Research Scholar, The Hastings Center; Editor, IRB Ethics & Human Research;
Thomas H. Murray, Senior Research Scholar, President, CEO, The Hastings Center;
Rosamond Rhodes, Bioethicist and Professor of Medical Education, Mount Sinai Medical Center
Additional panelists will be announced soon.
Who should attend?

Bioethics Bootcamp is designed for science and medical reporters and editors, other professional science writers, public information officers, journalism students, and concerned physicians and scientists. Special rates for students and members of SWINY or NASW. Each participant will receive the Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book for Journalists and Policymakers, a $35 value. Register Now: Participation Limited to 60 Journalists
How to Register

Register now and save! Members of SWINY and NASW who register by March 1 pay only $70; non-members pay $95. After March 1, registration fees increase to $90 for members and $115 for non-members. Walk-in registration is $115 for members and $135 for non-members.

Bioethics Boot Camp is funded by a grant from the National Association of Science Writers (NASW)

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FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2011, file photo, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, speaks to reporters as Republican Senators emerge from a closed-door negotiation on the payroll tax cut extension and other measures, at the Capitol in Washington. Aiming tax increases at millionaires and companies that ship jobs abroad may help frame the fairness theme of President Barack Obama?s re-election campaign, but it?s a plan that stands virtually no chance of passing Congress. "He?s got to know that none of those things he proposed really have much of a chance of going through both houses of Congress," said Hatch, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Aiming tax increases at millionaires and companies that ship jobs abroad may help frame the fairness theme of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, but it's a plan that stands virtually no chance of passing Congress.

Republicans have enough votes in the GOP-run House, and almost certainly in the Democratic-controlled Senate, to kill Obama's proposals. They say his ideas would discourage investment and job creation and further hurt an already ailing economy.

"He's got to know that none of those things he proposed really have much of a chance of going through both houses of Congress," said Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee.

"I don't think he's intending on passing any laws this year," said House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. "He's in a campaign. That was his re-election speech."

The GOP's dismissiveness hardly matters to Obama and his Democratic allies.

After last year's hyper-partisanship bogged down routine business like financing the government and paying its debts, few expect much to move through Congress before November's election anyway ? especially not tax hikes that Republicans solidly reject.

"Even if there is little prospect of getting Republicans to agree with these proposals, they're important reference points for the public in identifying Obama as someone who's on their side," said Democratic pollster Geoffrey Garin.

Obama offered his plans, with scant detail, in Tuesday's State of the Union address. He used the word "fair" seven times to describe tax increases aimed at groups the Occupy movement has branded as the "one percent" of Americans who are doing extremely well while the rest of society struggles.

The president proposed ending tax breaks for U.S. companies moving jobs or profits to foreign countries and creating a minimum tax on their overseas profits. He also suggested new tax breaks for businesses that move jobs back to the U.S., for domestic manufacturing and for companies that invest in towns that have suffered major job losses.

Getting most attention was his plan to tax incomes above $1 million annually at a rate of at least 30 percent. That's a sharp and convenient contrast with the 15 percent tax rate enjoyed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, who earned about $21 million each of the past two years.

The proposals quickly became fodder for the GOP presidential contenders. Romney said the next day on CNBC's "Kudlow Report" that Obama's plan was "designed to come at me if I'm the nominee," and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said during last Thursday's presidential debate, "His proposal on taxes would make the economy worse."

Democrats immediately made clear that there will be Senate votes this year on the subject.

New York Sen. Charles Schumer, part of the Senate Democratic leadership, said he was relishing a push on "some kind of Romney rule, I mean Buffett rule." Obama has embraced a Buffett rule, named for billionaire Warren Buffett, who has cited the inequity of laws that let him pay a lower tax rate than his secretary.

On Monday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said he would introduce legislation this week requiring anyone earning over $1 million to pay at least 30 percent of their income in federal income taxes. It would do so by requiring people earning over $1 million to multiply their income by 30 percent and pay at least that amount in taxes, or more if their computations showed their tax liability was greater. He said he has two Senate co-sponsors so far but none in the House.

Such proposals, along with any efforts to deny tax breaks to U.S. companies that outsource jobs and profits, would never get the 60 votes they would need to prevail in the Senate this year, let alone win approval from the GOP-run House.

"If the president has proposals that will help create jobs, we'll take a look," said Michael Steel, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. "But tax hikes on small businesses will make it even harder for them to invest and grow."

Republicans say boosting taxes on millionaires would hurt many of the people who run small businesses and create jobs, a claim Democrats call exaggerated. The GOP and business groups also marshal their own fairness argument, calling it unjust and impractical to raise taxes on companies that set up operations overseas.

"They locate their facilities to be close to the customer," said Dorothy Coleman, vice president for tax policy for the National Association of Manufacturers. "That's a big concern for us, targeting multinational companies as if there is something wrong with doing business overseas."

Democrats challenge that argument as well, saying many pharmaceutical and high technology companies that set up shop abroad are drawn by lower labor costs and taxes and still sell the bulk of their products in the U.S.

Those disputes underscore a political climate so difficult that neither the House nor Senate seem likely to even try advancing pre-election legislation that each party calls their top tax priority: overhauling and simplifying the tax code.

Even so, Obama's tax proposals can also be read as an opening gambit in what looms as a titanic partisan struggle to be waged after the November elections, perhaps in a lame duck session of Congress in December.

Next January, broad tax cuts will expire that were enacted under President George W. Bush in 2001 and 2003 and were temporarily renewed by Obama and Congress in 2010. At the same time, $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts will kick in unless lawmakers vote otherwise.

Congress will also need to renew the government's authority to borrow money. And action will be needed on a package of expiring smaller tax cuts, mostly for businesses, and on preventing the alternative minimum tax, originally aimed at the wealthy, from trapping middle- and upper-middle-income families as well.

Associated Press

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PARIS (Reuters) ? President Nicolas Sarkozy used a primetime television interview on Sunday to flesh out a flurry of measures to boost employment and competitiveness which he hopes to rush through France's parliament before a presidential election in April.

Sarkozy, who is running far behind Socialist challenger Francois Hollande in opinion polls for the election, said he would raise the VAT rate to 21.2 percent from 19.6 percent from October to fund a reduction in social charges on companies.

The move, which Sarkozy first alluded to in a New Year's speech, is aimed at narrowing a competitiveness gap with Germany that is weighing on French growth, but it risks angering voters.

Among other measures, Sarkozy said he would set up an industrial investment bank in February with a billion euros in capital that will lend to small and medium-sized businesses struggling to obtain financing in today's climate.

He also said companies with more than 250 employees would be obliged to take on interns to the level of 5 percent of total staff, as a way of helping reduce chronic youth unemployment.

Sarkozy said he had a duty as president to hold off announcing his re-election bid until as late as possible.

Yet his interview, broadcast live across eight TV channels, seemed timed to respond to a series of TV appearances and speeches last week by Hollande, who is campaigning at full throttle for the two-round election on April 22 and May 6.

"We have to protect employment, we have to defend it, value it," said Sarkozy, who has thrown his focus onto growth and jobs since it became clear late last year that his deficit-cutting efforts could not save France from a credit rating downgrade.

"I am convinced this decision will save jobs and that it's the only credible way to stop outsourcing," he said of his so-called "Social VAT" plan to ease firms' social contributions.

Sarkozy, who turned 57 on Saturday, said a financial transaction tax he is planning for August would set a tax of 0.1 percent on transactions in French securities.

He gave no detail on the tax, which France wants to be adopted across the European Union, but a government source later said it would target shares, not bonds, and could raise a billion euros annually.

Separately, Sarkozy announced a rise in taxes on individuals' financial income such as interest and dividends.

UPS AND DOWNS

Sarkozy has worked hard in recent months to present a more austere and presidential demeanor following criticism of his informal and sometimes brash manner, and he stuck to a highly technical discourse on Sunday. He referred frequently to Germany as an economic model that France should be copying.

Setting the stage for what aides say will be an "honest" campaign that admits past mistakes yet seeks to show he is the safest pair of hands to steer France out of economic gloom, Sarkozy sounded a note of humility about his years in office.

"I accept the criticism," he said, adding that there had been "ups and downs" and things he regretted.

Opinion polls show Sarkozy could lose a runoff against Hollande by 10 percentage points, and some in his UMP party believe he is suffering from his decision to leave launching his campaign until close to a March 16 deadline.

Hollande put in an able performance last week in a TV debate against Alain Juppe, Sarkozy's foreign minister and one of the most talented politicians in his team, and he also unveiled a weighty and fiscally responsible economic plan.

In an attempt at one-upmanship, Sarkozy said France's public deficit for 2011 could come in as low as 5.4 or 5.3 percent of gross domestic product, well below a target of 5.7 percent.

Yet illustrating the economic challenge ahead, the source said that the government will soon revise down its 1.0 percent forecast for 2012 growth.

Both Hollande and Sarkozy are seizing on the euro zone crisis and what many fear is a descent into recession in France as their key focus for the 2012 election.

While Hollande blames France's woes on more than a decade of conservative leadership, Sarkozy is playing on his experience next to a man who has never been a government minister.

An Ifop poll published on Sunday showed, however, that many see Hollande as the best candidate to tackle debt reduction and unemployment, which is running at a more than 12-year high.

The poll found 46 percent of respondents trusted Hollande most to fight unemployment, versus 22 percent for Sarkozy, and 34 percent chose Hollande as the best to handle the public debt, versus 32 percent for Sarkozy.

Underlining a belief that Hollande could defeat Sarkozy, Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party said on Saturday that the German Chancellor plans to actively back Sarkozy in his campaign by making joint appearances with him.

(Editing by Alison Williams)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120129/ts_nm/us_france_sarkozy_deficit

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COMMENTARY | President Barack Obama is making a proposal that would withhold federal money from colleges and universities that are unable to control rising tuition costs, according to ABC News. As a political/business consultant, I cannot stand with the president on this issue as the penalty for the problem would cause a worse problem for students. While the goal of keeping tuition costs down is strong, the end will not justify the means.

President Obama's proposal would target colleges and universities that are forced to raise the price of tuition each year. As someone who has worked with colleges and universities in different capacities in the past, I can tell you this is easier said than done. At times, there are too many issues that cause keeping tuition at a straight rate for more than a few years at a time.

Let's imagine President Obama's proposal becomes practice and you are the president of a major university that has increased tuition each year for the last few years. Your football and basketball teams have not had good years, so enrollment has taken a slight hit.

You know you cannot cut any funding for the sports program or the alumni will trim their donations as they always do for universities that cut sports funding. Next, you have a handful of professors who have reached tenure so they are required to be paid at the next tier. If you do not cut funding, President Obama and his administration will be breathing down your neck.

When you add on the idea of more professors reaching tenure each year, the rising energy costs and the increasing costs of upkeep, where does President Obama expect the institutions to come up with the cuts? In the economic downturn, many families find they have to push off having their children go to college so enrollment is hit hard in some areas. Many alumni find they are not able to contribute what they could before.

Instead of making it harder for colleges and universities, President Obama should be coming up with plans to help them. Instead of threatening to take money from them, maybe the president should work on plans to give breaks to institutions that are having the issues. Threats of withholding money are the easy way out, and they will eventually hurt the students in the end.

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SEOUL, South Korea ? Samsung Electronics Co.'s quarterly profit rose 17 percent from a year earlier on the strength of sales in smartphones and flat panels.

Samsung said Friday in a regulatory filing that its net profit reached 4 trillion won ($3.5 billion) in the three months that ended in December. The company earned 3.4 trillion won a year earlier.

The Suwon, South Korea-based company said its operating profit jumped 75.8 percent to 5.3 trillion won in the same quarter. The figure was closely in line with the company's estimate last month of a 73 percent rise.

Samsung, the world's biggest manufacturer of memory chips and liquid crystal displays, said demand for semiconductors in mobile products and servers remained solid despite weaknesses in personal computers.

The company also said it was able to consolidate its profit in smartphones and flat television sales, noting its efforts to expand electronics parts businesses to secure future growth potential.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120127/ap_on_bi_ge/as_skorea_earns_samsung

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NEW YORK ? US Airways Group Inc. expects ticket prices and passenger demand will continue their upward climb this year, overshadowing stubbornly higher fuel prices.

It's just the continuation of a "transformation" to a more stable industry where fare sales are less common, tickets are more expensive and rapid addition of flights is rare, says CEO Doug Parker.

Investors applauded the comments Wednesday and brushed off a decline in the company's fourth-quarter earnings. The earnings still topped Wall Street expectations and its stock jumped more than 20 percent in afternoon trading.

The airline also confirmed that it hired advisers to study a possible combination with American Airlines. Though Parker, a long proponent of industry consolidation, said it will likely be some time before any decision is made on a potential tie-up.

American's parent AMR Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection in November. In bankruptcy, AMR could shed billions in debt, reduce its costs and still afford new planes ? a combination that has drawn plenty of attention. Rival carrier Delta and a private equity firm are also reportedly studying a bid.

A big fuel bill lowered US Airways' earnings by 35 percent in the final three months of 2011.

The Tempe, Ariz., company reported net income of $18 million, or 11 cents per share, in the fourth quarter. That compares with $28 million, or 17 cents per share, a year earlier. Excluding charges, it earned 13 cents per share. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected earnings of 2 cents per share and typically exclude one-time items from their estimates.

Revenue climbed 9 percent to $3.16 billion. The money the airline made to fly a passenger one mile in the fourth-quarter rose 10 percent to a record 15.2 cents, as it raised fares to offset a $232 million increase in fuel costs. Ticket prices rose much faster than demand did. Traffic in the fourth quarter, which includes the critical holiday season, rose 1.7 percent. US Airways expects passenger demand to remain strong. Analysts had expected revenue of $3.15 billion.

US Airways said demand was strong from both leisure and business travelers.

"We simply do not see any evidence of macroeconomic weakness in our business," President Scott Kirby said in a conference call.

Its shares rose $1.43, or 22.3 percent, to $7.84 in afternoon trading.

For all of 2011, US Airways earned $71 million, or 44 cents per share, sharply lower than the $502 million, or $2.61 per share, it made in 2010. US Airways said if fuel had stayed the same as in 2010, it would have saved $1.2 billion.

Delta Air Lines Inc. said Wednesday its net income soared to $425 million in the fourth-quarter, as it raised ticket prices and reduced flying to keep costs low. Southwest Airlines Co. reported higher net income last week. It overcame a steep run-up in fuel prices by raising fares and flying fuller planes in the fourth quarter.

Both airlines saw gains from their bets on the price of fuel. Airlines can lock in the price of fuel through elaborate contracts, called hedges. They can pay off when fuel prices are climbing, protecting them from huge losses. US Airways doesn't currently hedge against fuel costs.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earnings/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120125/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_us_airways

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SAN FRANCISCO ? Netflix regained 600,000 U.S. customers in the fourth quarter as the video subscription service began to recover from a revolt against a big price increase.

Figures released Wednesday show Netflix Inc. ended December with 24.4 million subscribers in the U.S. That was up from 23.8 million at the end of September.

The subscriber uptick is a positive sign for Netflix after several months of upheaval that battered its stock. Netflix lost 800,000 subscribers last summer after raising its U.S. prices by as much as 60 percent.

The fallout contributed to a 14 percent decrease in Netflix's fourth-quarter earnings.

Netflix made $40.7 million, or 73 cents per share, in the final three months of last year. That compares with income of $47.1 million, or 87 cents per share, a year earlier.

Investors had been bracing for a bigger drop-off. The company's performance easily exceeded the average earnings estimate of 54 cents per share among analysts surveyed by FactSet.

Fourth-quarter revenue climbed 47 percent from the previous year to $876 million ? $19 million above analyst projections.

Netflix's stock soared $11.63, or more than 12 percent, to $106.67 in extended trading. During the regular session, it increased $2.37, up 2.6 percent.

The stock still has a long way to go to return to its peak of nearly $305, which was reached in July, around the same time that Netflix announced the price increase that outraged customers.

But the fourth-quarter results should help bolster confidence in Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who had been lambasted for miscalculating how subscribers would react to the higher prices.

Hastings had promised Netflix would work to lure back customers, and the fourth-quarter gains were even better than he had forecast.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120125/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_netflix

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NEW YORK ? Facebook will start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline, making photos, links and personal musings from the past much easier to find.

Timeline is essentially a scrapbook of your whole life on Facebook, compared with a snapshot of you today found on Facebook's traditional profile page. Once activated, Timeline replaces the current profile.

Although some people have already voluntarily switched to Timeline, Facebook hadn't made that mandatory. Beginning Tuesday, Facebook is telling some users that they have seven days to clean up their profiles before Timeline gets automatically activated. Facebook is rolling out the requirement to others over the next few weeks.

At some point, even those who haven't logged on to Facebook in a while will be automatically switched.

Timeline doesn't expose anything that wasn't available for sharing in the past. Many of those older posts had always been available. People could get to them by continually hitting "Older Posts," although most wouldn't have bothered. Timeline allows people to jump to the older material more quickly.

Timeline also doesn't necessarily reflect the fact that your circle of friends has likely expanded in recent years. A party photo you posted in 2008 to a small group of friends would be more visible to relatives, bosses and others you may have added as friends since then.

You'll have a week to curate the Timeline by moving stuff around, hiding photos or featuring them more prominently on your page.

Some things to consider:

? You can change privacy settings on individual items to control who has access. You might want to narrow embarrassing photos to your closest friends or delete some posts completely, or at least hide them so only you can see them.

? You can change the date on a post. For example, if you took a few months to post photos from a trip to Portugal, you can move them to appear with other posts from the time you took that trip. You can also add where you were, retroactively using a location feature that Facebook hadn't offered until recently.

? For major events in your life, you can click on a star to feature them more prominently. You can hide the posts you'd rather not showcase.

? Besides your traditional profile photo ? your headshot ? you can add what Facebook calls a cover photo. It's the image that will splash across the top and can be a dog, a hobby or anything else that reflects who you are. Keep in mind the dimensions are more like a movie screen than a traditional photo, so a close-up portrait of your face won't work well, but one of you lying horizontally will. But you don't even have to be in it.

? You can add things before you joined Facebook, back to when you were born. Life events can include when you broke your arm and whom you were with then, or when you spoke your first word or got a tattoo. You can add photos from childhood or high school as well.

? If you feel overwhelmed with so many posts to go through, start with your older ones. Those are the ones you'd need to be most careful about because you had reason to believe only a few friends would see them.

? Click on Activity Log to see all of your posts at a glance and make changes to them one by one. Open Facebook in a new browser tab first, though. That way, you can have one tab for the log and the other for the main Timeline.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120124/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_facebook_timeline

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People watch the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. Rescuers on Sunday resumed searching the above-water section of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise liner, but choppy seas kept divers from exploring the submerged part, where officials have said there could be bodies. Civil protection officials said that until the waves slack off, divers would not swim into the submerged part of the vessel just off the port of Giglio, a tiny Island off the Tuscan coast. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

A ferry boat, right, sails past the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. Rescuers on Sunday resumed searching the above-water section of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise liner, but choppy seas kept divers from exploring the submerged part, where officials have said there could be bodies. Civil protection officials said that until the waves slack off, divers would not swim into the submerged part of the vessel just off the port of Giglio, a tiny Island off the Tuscan coast. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

Tourists stop and have a look at the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. Rescuers on Sunday resumed searching the above-water section of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise liner, but choppy seas kept divers from exploring the submerged part, where officials have said there could be bodies. Civil protection officials said that until the waves slack off, divers would not swim into the submerged part of the vessel just off the port of Giglio, a tiny Island off the Tuscan coast. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

A fisherman adjusts a net as the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia is seen in background, off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. Rescuers on Sunday resumed searching the above-water section of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise liner, but choppy seas kept divers from exploring the submerged part, where officials have said there could be bodies. Civil protection officials said that until the waves slack off, divers would not swim into the submerged part of the vessel just off the port of Giglio, a tiny Island off the Tuscan coast. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

John Heil, son of Barbara and Gerald Heil of White Bear Lake, Minn. both missing in the cruise ship Costa Concordia accident, talks on a cellphone in the port of Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012 Italy, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. Rescuers on Sunday resumed searching the above-water section of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise liner, but choppy seas kept divers from exploring the submerged part, where officials have said there could be bodies. Civil protection officials said that until the waves slack off, divers would not swim into the submerged part of the vessel just off the port of Giglio, a tiny Island off the Tuscan coast. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

GIGLIO, Italy (AP) ? Unregistered passengers might have been aboard the stricken cruise liner that capsized off this Tuscan island, a top rescue official said Sunday, raising the possibility that the number of missing might be higher than the 20 previously announced.

Divers, meanwhile, pulled out a woman's body from the capsized Costa Concordia on Sunday, raising to 13 the number of people dead in the Jan. 13 accident.

Civil protection official Francesca Maffini told reporters the victim was wearing a life vest and was found in the rear of a submerged portion of a ship by a team of fire department divers. The unidentified body was being removed from the ship.

Earlier, Italian authorities raised the possibility that the real number of the missing was unknown because some unregistered passengers might have been aboard.

"There could have been X persons who we don't know about who were inside, who were clandestine" passengers aboard the ship, Franco Gabrielli, the national civil protection official in charge of the rescue effort, told reporters at a briefing on the island of Giglio, where the ship, with 4,200 people aboard rammed a reef and sliced open its hull on Jan. 13 before turning over on its side.

Gabrielli said that relatives of a Hungarian woman have told Italian authorities that she had telephoned them from aboard the ship and that they haven't heard from her since the accident. He said it was possible that a woman's body pulled from the wreckage by divers on Saturday might be that of the unregistered passenger.

But in addition to the body recovered on Sunday, the body found on Saturday and those of three men found a few days earlier, have yet to be identified, because the corpses were badly decomposed after so much time in the water.

Gabrielli said they have identified the other eight bodies: four French, an Italian, a Hungarian, a German and a Spanish national.

Until Sunday, authorities had said that 20 people are still missing.

The search had been halted for several hours early Sunday, after instrument readings indicated that the Concordia has shifted a bit on its precarious perch on a seabed just outside Giglio's port. A few meters (yards) away, the sea bottom drops off suddenly, by some 20-30 meters (65-100 feet), and if the Concordia should abruptly roll off its ledge, rescuers could be trapped inside.

When instrument data indicated the vessel had stabilized again, rescuers went back in, but only explored the above-water section and evacuation staging areas where survivors have indicated that people who did not make it into lifeboats during the chaotic evacuation could have remained.

Passengers were dining at a gala supper when the Concordia sailed close to Giglio and struck the reef, which is indicated on maritime and even tourist maps.

There are also fears that the Concordia's double-bottom fuel tanks could rupture in case of sudden shifting, spilling 2,200 metric tons (almost 500,000 million gallons) of heavy fuel into pristine sea around Giglio, which is part of a seven-island archipelago in some of the Mediterranean's most pristine waters and a prized fishing area.

But Gabrielli said pollutants found near the ship have been detergents and other substances, including chlorine, apparently from the wreck of the ship, which carried some 3,200 passengers and a crew of 1,000. Any fuel traces found were "compatible with what you find in a port," he said.

Ferries and cargo ships regularly call at Giglio's port.

Sophisticated oil-removal equipment has been standing by, waiting for the search-and-rescue operations to conclude before workers can start extracting the fuel in the tanks.

The Italian captain, Francesco Schettino, is under house arrest as prosecutors investigate him for suspected manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the ship while many were still aboard.

Operator Costa Crociere, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Carnival Cruise Lines, has said that Capt. Schettino had deviated without permission from the vessel's route in an apparent maneuver to sail close to the island and impress passengers.

Schettino, despite audiotapes of his defying Coast Guard orders to scramble back aboard, has denied he abandoned ship while hundreds of passengers were desperately trying to get off the capsizing vessel. He has said he coordinated the rescue from aboard a lifeboat and then from the shore.

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D'Emilio reported from Rome.

Associated Press

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(HealthDay News) -- Maintaining strong and healthy muscles is particularly important for seniors, who tend to lose muscle as they age.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers these muscle-strengthening suggestions:

Engage in vigorous gardening, such as by shoveling or digging.
Lift weights, or work out with a resistance band.
Practice yoga.
Opt for exercises that naturally use your body weight for resistance, such as by performing sit ups and push ups.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/seniors/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20120121/hl_hsn/healthtipstrengthenyourmuscles

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rotterjodie98 · Jan. 17, 2012

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By STEVE DOUGLAS

updated 10:42 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2012

LONDON - Danny Gabbidon headed in Shaun Wright-Phillips' corner kick in the 73rd minute, and Queens Park Rangers beat the third-tier MK Dons 1-0 in a replay Tuesday night to reach a fourth-round matchup against London rival Chelsea in the FA Cup.

Bolton also reached the last 32 of soccer's oldest knockout competition, defeating fourth-tier Macclesfield 2-0 on goals by Kevin Davies in the first minute and Martin Petrov in the 26th. Bolton will play Swansea next in another all-Premier League match on Jan. 28.

Second-tier League Championship teams Leicester and Millwall also progressed from replays on Tuesday.

Leicester routed Nottingham Forest 4-0 behind a Jermaine Beckford hat trick and will play fourth-tier team Swindon. Millwall will host fellow League Championship team Southampton after defeating Dagenham & Redbridge 5-0 as Darius Henderson scored three goals.

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? Espanyol scored three times from the 85th minute on to rally for a 3-2 win over third-division Mirandes in the first leg of their Copa del Rey quarterfinal.

Alain Arroyo scored a 27th-minute opener for Mirandes and Pablo Infante scored his competition-high fifth goal in the 77th at Cornella-El Prat stadium.

Vladimir Weiss started the hosts' comeback in the 85th, Rui Fonte tied it two minutes later and Espanyol captain Joan Verdu took advantage of a defensive error to score the winner with a left-footed shot in the 90th.

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David Beckham has re-signed with the Los Angeles Galaxy, agreeing to a new two-year contract with the Major League Soccer club.

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TEHRAN, Iran ? An earthquake of moderate strength caused damage and injured 100 people in the city of Neyshabour in the northeast part of Iran Thursday afternoon, Iran's state TV reported.

The TV report said 17 of the injured were hospitalized and the others were treated for minor injuries and released.

As the quake rumbled through the area, many residents of the city fled their homes into the streets. Rescue teams were still at work in the area late Thursday.

The magnitude 5.5 quake shattered windows and affected communications for a short time.

It also destroyed walls of homes in some rural areas, the report said.

Residents of several cities and towns 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the epicenter reported feeling the quake.

The quake jolted the city of 220,000 in about 550 miles (900 kilometers) northeast of the capital Tehran at 16:05 local time (13:35 GMT).

Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes, experiencing at least one slight quake a day on average.

In 2003, some 26,000 people were killed by a magnitude 6.6 quake that flattened the historic southeastern city of Bam.

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One of the more interesting things to come out of Samsung's CES 2012 press conference was a quick glimpse at this Android app which would connect to one of their smart washing machines and notify you when your load was done. Details were skimpy, but I got the impression that you would be able to a bunch of other tasks on the washing machine remotely with the app.

The running theme for big electronics manufacturers like Samsung has been tying up all of their various businesses into one another, and though there are some really obvious synergies between, say, TVs and tablets, utilities like this washing machine Android app are much more unexpected and interesting. LG's thinking very much the same thing; during their press conference, LG showed a fridge which could shunt your grocery list to your phone.

My big worry is that these manufacturers will close themselves off so that unless you're an all-LG house or an all-Samsung house, you won't be able to enjoy a fully-connected home. A washing machine is a big purchase, so if you buy it for this Android utility, then you're more or less locked-in to buying Samsung phones for the indefinite future, right?

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/HJMyCZNeaSo/story01.htm

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Source: www.donanimhaber.com --- Monday, January 09, 2012
Lenovo'nun ta??nabilir cihaz segmentindeki iddial? ?r?nlerinin yan?nda ak?ll? TV konseptini bir ?st noktaya ta??d??? yeni modeli de fuarda olduk?a ses getirece?e benziyor. Firman?n yeni ak?ll? TV modelinin ad? LeTV/IdeaTV.55 in? boyutunda olan LeTV i?in dev bir tablet tan?mlamas? yapabiliriz. Tabii dokunmatik ?zelli?i olmayan. LeTV IPS ekrana sahip bir HDTV. ??erisinde ise 1.5GHz saat h?z?nda ?al??an ?ift ?ekirdekli Snapdragon S3 APQ8060 yongada sistemine yer veriyor. ...

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rotterjodie98 · Jan. 4, 2012

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By STEVE DOUGLAS

updated 6:13 p.m. ET Jan. 4, 2012

LONDON - Manchester United lost its second straight Premier League game, a 3-0 defeat to Newcastle on Wednesday night that left Manchester City with a three-point lead.

The most unusual occurrence of the night was in Liverpool, where Everton's Tim Howard became just the fourth goalkeeper to score in the Premier League, putting in a wind-blown clearance from about 100 yards during Everton's 2-1 loss to Bolton.

Playing his 250th club match in England, Howard gave Everton a 63rd-minute lead at Goodison Park. His right-footed kick from about 5 yards inside his own penalty area bounced about 30 yards from the Bolton goal and was blown by the wind over leaping Bolton keeper Adam Bogdan, who was standing by his 6-yard box. Howard hardly reacted.

Bolton rallied on goals by David Ngog in the 67th and Gary Cahill in the 78th.

The only other goalkeepers to score in the Premier League are Peter Schmeichel, American Brad Friedel and Paul Robinson.

Friedel scored for Blackburn following a corner kick at Charlton in the 90th minute on Feb. 21, 2004, but Claus Jensen scored seconds later to give Charlton a 3-2 win. Schmeichel's goal also was in a losing effort, for Aston Villa in a 3-2 defeat at Everton on Oct. 20, 2001. Robinson scored in a 3-1 home win over Watford on March 17.

The game marked the return to Everton of American midfielder Landon Donovan.

Following its 3-2 defeat at home to Blackburn on Saturday, United stumbled again as Newcastle got goals from Demba Ba in the 33rd and Yohan Cabaye in the 47th. Phil Jones headed the ball for an own goal in the 90th.

City (15-2-3) hosts United (14-3-3) on Sunday in the third round of the FA Cup.

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? Lionel Messi and Cesc Fabregas scored two goals each, Xavi Hernandez had three assists and Barcelona beat Osasuna 4-0 in the first leg of the fifth round of the Copa del Rey.

Messi, recovering from the flu, entered in the 59th minute and raised his season total to 31 goals when he scored on a header off Fabregas' cross in the 73rd and a 17-yard left-footed shot in the 90th. Just nine of Messi's 211 goals for Barcelona have been on headers.

Fabregas, who has 13 goals in his first season with Barcelona, scored in the 14th and 18th minutes.

Barcelona has outscored opponents 99-16 this season, including 37-1 in winning eight games in a row.

The second legs are next week. Barcelona could advance to a quarterfinal against defending champion Real Madrid, which beat Malaga 3-2 on Tuesday.

In Wednesday's other game, Real Sociedad defeated Mallorca 2-0.

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??Manchester United lost its second straight Premier League game, a 3-0 defeat to Newcastle on Wednesday night that left Manchester City with a three-point lead.

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