Wednesday, January 2, 2013

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NEW DELHI: An Indian man shouts slogans during a protest to mourn the death of the gang-rape victim yesterday. ? AP

NEW DELHI: Indian police arrested a man yesterday as he tried to plant a crude bomb near the home of one of the suspects in the New Delhi gang-rape case as a backlash against widespread sex crimes gathered steam. As protests against harassment and violence against women continued, a chart-topping Indian rapper known for his sexually explicit lyrics also became embroiled in a growing campaign against sexism and misogyny in Indian society.

Yo Yo Honey Singh, whose hits include ?My home my village?, saw his New Year?s Eve concert in New Delhi cancelled following an online campaign which highlighted lyrics allegedly inciting abuse of women. His 2007 track ?Prostitute? refers to him having violent sex with a woman after he forces her to ?dance naked? and includes the line: ?You will scream and run but where can you go? I will take your life?.

The furore over the rap star comes as the country comes to terms with the December 16 gang-rape in which a 23- year-old medical student was repeatedly assaulted and violated with an iron bar while being driven around in a bus for 40 minutes. She died from internal injuries in a Singapore hospital at the weekend and her ashes were immersed Tuesday in the holy Ganges river by her family near their native village in northern Uttar Pradesh state.

The unnamed girl, whose parents had sold land to fund her studies, had been out to the cinema with her boyfriend when she was lured onto the bus by a gang of reportedly drunk joyriders. Sexual violence and gang-rapes are commonplace in India, but the case has brought simmering anger ? particularly among young urban women ? to the boil and led to protests in the capital and calls for the death penalty for rapists. Police said they had arrested a 37-year-old man yesterday in the narrow by-lanes of a slum in southwest Delhi after he allegedly tried to plant a crude bomb near the house of one of six suspects detained by police for the Delhi rape. The low-grade device was filled with explosives usually used in firecrackers, a police official told AFP.

Protests in India, which continued on Monday and on New Year?s Eve, have also spilled to other parts of the world with people taking to the streets in Hong Kong, Islamabad, London and Kathmandu. Yesterday, about 30 women?s rights activists protested outside the Indian consulate in Hong Kong, urging authorities to enact tougher laws to punish sex crimes.

The government, which has faced a wave of anger, has set up a panel headed by a former chief justice to recommend changes to the criminal law dealing with sexual crimes. The panel, which was set up last week, had already received more than 17,000 suggestions until Monday, The Indian Express newspaper reported. Also yesterday, the Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the six suspects for the gang-rape risked the death penalty if found guilty and the case against them appeared very strong. ?We have a solid case with very good evidence? a magistrate has recorded the victim?s dying declaration and we have a prime witness, the girl?s friend, who has identified the rapists,? Shinde told The Economic Times newspaper.

The victim?s boyfriend, whom friends said she intended to marry, tried to prevent the rape and is likely to give crucial evidence during what is expected to be a fast-tracked trial. ? AFP

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Source: http://news.kuwaittimes.net/2013/01/01/bomb-planted-near-rape-suspects-home/

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Legimi Wants To Be The 'Spotify For Ebooks' With A Business Model ...

Legimi is definitely a startup I?ll be watching closely in 2013. Put simply, it aims to be the ?Spotify for ebooks,? in which for a monthly subscription, users get access to a potentially infinite library of reading material, all accessible via the cloud. But more than that, this Polish startup, whether it succeeds or not, epitomises the collision of old media business models with new technology and new consumer habits.

After years of being told that one day consumers will access all of their media from the cloud, anytime and anywhere, thanks to the likes of Spotify, Deezer and Rdio (music), or Netflix, Lovefilm and Hulu (film and television), that day has finally arrived.?The subscription, cloud-based model, combined with new consumption devices ? tablets, smartphones, and Internet-connected TVs and set-top boxes ? and near-ubiquitous broadband, has ushered in an era where consumers no longer feel the need or desire to own the media they consume.?So, why not apply that same consumption model to ebooks?

Well, as it turns out, there are a number of companies who already are, but in many ways it?s still very early days. Niche offerings, such as Safari Books Online, which specialises in professional and developer-related content, have been around for a while, where a subscription model is viewed by publishers as less-risky because the audience is already somewhat ring-fenced, and content becomes outdated quickly. More mass-market is Amazon?s Kindle Owners? Lending Library, but this is still very limited and can hardly make the claim to be anything close to a ?Spotify for ebooks.? Then there?s the much-hyped and Founders Fund-backed Oyster, which is yet to launch but plans to offer an all-you-can-eat subscription model with an emphasis on mainstream content.

However, the New York-based startup is remaining tight-lipped about which publishers are signed up, and it?s here where many commentators predict that any subscription-based ebook service will fall down at the last hurdle: They simply won?t be able to strike the content licensing deals required, with the number of publishers needed to make the all-you-can-eat proposition a reality. That?s because the new consumption model requires a new licensing model where publishers are given a share of subscription revenue based on the number of books accessed.

Or does it?

This is where we return to Poland. Legimi thinks it?s found a way to change the consumer offering without having to tear up the legal or commercial framework that already exists for ebooks on a pay-per-download basis.

?Our approach is different; we pay the whole price of an ebook once an end user exceeds its free sample (approximately 10 percent of the book),? Legimi co-founder and CEO Mikolaj Malaczynski tells me in an email. The premise being that most readers never make it past the free excerpt, but if they do, the company pays the full wholesale price to publishers. ?We have statistically calculated the average consumption for tablet users and smartphone users, which is lower than one book per month,? he says.

Or maybe another way of looking at it is that the business model relies on a tl;dr generation (my words, not Malaczynski?s) where multiple content and services are constantly vying for a user?s attention, and that this is especially true when content is consumed on an always-connected tablet or smartphone. Whether or not consumers are reading less long-form content or not, however, perhaps misses the point. As long as the number of books read past the free sample remains inline with the overall economics of a monthly subscription, then the model could work, or at least act as a bridge until such time when publishers are more willing to embrace the idea of a subscription model.

To that end, Legimi has already launched an MVP in the form of an iPad app in the startup?s native Poland, while an iPhone version should follow in January, with Android and Windows Phone also in the pipeline. I?m told that major publishers locally are playing ball, too, such as W.A.B., Insignis, Muza, and Buchmann, enabling Legimi to offer a range of popular international and domestic titles.

Moving forward, Malaczynski says that the priority is to keep expanding the available catalogue and to optimise the business model, presumably to find the sweet spot in terms of what to charge. But much more ambitiously, Legimi is planning to launch in two additional European markets next, likely Germany and the UK. It?s at this point when the licensing ?loop hole? and assumptions about consumption will really be tested.

?If you ask about the average consumption of one book per month, I am not sure if it?s a universal figure,? concedes Malaczynski. ?We will need to test it market by market, but we have an algorithm to verify it.?

On the upside, Malaczynski says that the rights infrastructure for publishing doesn?t differ too much between countries, meaning that Legimi can hopefully avoid spending ?years negotiating new agreements with publishers, which don?t really understand the subscription model.?

And that?s where we come full circle. In the end, a ?Spotify for ebooks? seems inevitable, as consumer habits find themselves ahead of the market once again. It?s probably more a case of when not if. Perhaps Legimi, or another startup willing to take its model and run with it, can help to make it happen sooner rather than later. Here?s to 2013.


Legimi.com is a Polish online eBookstore with books, magazines and blogs. Legimi also develops cloud reading mobile applications for iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and PC.

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Oyster is an iPhone app that gives members unlimited access to an ever-growing library of books. Read as much as you want for a single monthly price.

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Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/31/legimi-tl-dr/

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Deadline passes for 'fiscal cliff' (The Arizona Republic)

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Do You Need High Traffic?

Do You Need High Traffic?

1.What is the fastest way to get traffic?

The fastest way to get traffic is traffic that you pay for. Most internet marketers try to find ways how to get people to come to your site by using cheaper methods and it surely works as well but it takes much more time.

Many people have bad experiences in paid advertisement or any kind of traffic getting paid methods, because they aren't taught well and spend a lot money on a magazine or newspaper advertisement or advertisement on the internet that didn't bring enough subcribers in relationship with how much they spend for the advertisement.

If you run paid advertisement already for a long time than you could be able to get million of visitors and earn over $50,000 in 1week all from paid traffic if you know how :).How much money would you earn getting this many people to your website? I guess it sounds to good.

2. Some steps you have to consider before starting to make money on the internet:

The absolute most important asset in your list would be to build your list doesn't matter what you are doing online. If you are not building your list you are making a big mistake. If you are getting traffic and not making a list you are wasting your effort. Focus all attention to build a list.

3. Here is the foundation you need to get to the point of building your list

here are the tools

1. Domain

2. Hosting account

3. Bribe ( something you give your subcribers without paying any money)

4. Email management system (auto responder)

5. Opt-in page

6. Thank you page

You need those tools for building your list but non of this is going to matter if you don't have traffic. Without traffic these tools are worthless So first off all you need to generate traffic. For example, offline marketing, paid traffic, banners, email traffic etc....

4. Process

When your prospect enter your Opt-in page or also called landing page. When your prospect enters your world, they will go to your email management system and then they will go to a thank you page. Like this you are building your list.

This process is very powerful because if you do it like this you are building your list. If you are sending traffic like this you are building your foundation for your business.

For example: you wake up one morning and say to yourself that you want to make an extra $5000. Lets say the list that you have build is a very responsive list and so you run another offer and get this to all the people on your list that are interested exactly what you have to promote. Do you get the idea?

Lets say you have build your list for years and years since you started your online industry and your list is huge, you are going to build yourself an empire.

Source: http://www.streetarticles.com/internet-marketing/do-you-need-high-traffic

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Space travel may be harmful to the brain, study suggests; Prolonged cosmic radiation exposure could hasten Alzheimer's

Dec. 31, 2012 ? As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, a new study out today in the journal PLOS ONE shows that cosmic radiation -- which would bombard astronauts on deep space missions to places like Mars -- could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

"Galactic cosmic radiation poses a significant threat to future astronauts," said M. Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy and the senior author of the study. "The possibility that radiation exposure in space may give rise to health problems such as cancer has long been recognized. However, this study shows for the first time that exposure to radiation levels equivalent to a mission to Mars could produce cognitive problems and speed up changes in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer's disease."

While space is full of radiation, the earth's magnetic field generally protects the planet and people in low earth orbit from these particles. However, once astronauts leave orbit, they are exposed to constant shower of various radioactive particles. With appropriate warning, astronauts can be shielded from dangerous radiation associated with solar flares. But there are also other forms of cosmic radiation that, for all intents and purposes, cannot be effectively blocked.

Because this radiation exists in low levels, the longer an astronaut is in deep space, the greater the exposure. This is a concern for NASA as the agency is planning manned missions to a distant asteroid in 2021 and to Mars in 2035. The round trip to the red planet, in particular, could take as long as three years.

For over 25 years, NASA has been funding research to determine the potential health risks of space travel in an effort to both develop countermeasures and determine whether or not the risks warranted sending men and women on extended missions in deep space.

Since that time, several studies have demonstrated the potential cancer, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal impact of galactic cosmic radiation. The study out today for the first time examines the potential impact of space radiation on neurodegeneration, in particular, the biological processes in the brain that contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease. O'Banion -- whose research focuses on how radiation affects the central nervous system -- and his team have been working with NASA for over eight years.

The researchers studied the impact of a particular form of radiation called high-mass, high-charged (HZE) particles. These particles -- which are propelled through space at very high speeds by the force of exploding stars -- come in many different forms. For this study the researcher chose iron particles. Unlikely hydrogen protons, which are produced by solar flares, the mass of HZE particles like iron, combined with their speed, enable them to penetrate solid objects such as the wall and protective shielding of a spacecraft.

"Because iron particles pack a bigger wallop it is extremely difficult from an engineering perspective to effectively shield against them," said O'Banion. "One would have to essentially wrap a spacecraft in a six-foot block of lead or concrete."

A portion of the research was conducted at the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. NASA located its research operation at Brookhaven to take advantage of the Lab's particle accelerators which -- by colliding matter together at very high speeds -- can reproduce the radioactive particles found in space.

The researchers specifically wanted to examine whether or not radiation exposure had the potential to accelerate the biological and cognitive indicators of Alzheimer's disease, particularly in individuals who may be predisposed to developing the disease. To accomplish this they chose study the impact on animal models of Alzheimer's disease. These particular models have been extensively studied and scientists understand the precise timeframe in which the disease progresses over time.

At Brookhaven, the animals were exposed to various doses of radiation, including levels comparable to what astronauts would be experience during a mission to Mars. Back in Rochester, a team of researchers -- including URMC graduate student Jonathan Cherry, who was first author on the paper -- evaluated the cognitive and biological impact of the exposure. The mice underwent a series of experiments during which they had to recall objects or specific locations. The researchers observed that mice exposed to radiation were far more likely to fail these tasks -- suggesting neurological impairment -- earlier than these symptoms would typically appear.

The brains of the mice also showed signs of vascular alterations and a greater than normal accumulation of beta amyloid, the protein "plaque" that accumulates in the brain and is one of the hallmarks of the disease.

"These findings clearly suggest that exposure to radiation in space has the potential to accelerate the development of Alzheimer's disease," said O'Banion. "This is yet another factor that NASA, which is clearly concerned about the health risks to its astronauts, will need to take into account as it plans future missions."

Additional co-authors include Jacqueline Williams, Ph.D. and John Olschowka, Ph.D. with URMC and Bin Liu, Ph.D., Jeffrey Frost, and Cynthia Lemere, Ph.D. with Harvard Medical School. The study was funded by NASA.

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  1. Jonathan D. Cherry, Bin Liu, Jeffrey L. Frost, Cynthia A. Lemere, Jacqueline P. Williams, John A. Olschowka, M. Kerry O?Banion. Galactic Cosmic Radiation Leads to Cognitive Impairment and Increased A? Plaque Accumulation in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer?s Disease. PLoS ONE, 2012; 7 (12): e53275 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053275

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