FIFA Chooses Host Cities for Football World Cup

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FIFA president Sepp Blatter

FIFA on Saturday announced its choices of 11 Russian cities to host the soccer World Cup in 2018, sidelining bids from Yaroslavl and Krasnodar.

Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Sochi, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Saransk, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd and Kaliningrad will stage the tournament.

Matches in Moscow will take place at two stadiums.

The announcements came as part of a ceremony at a Channel One studio, attended by FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko. The channel broadcast the event live, offering video linkups with each of the winning cities, except Moscow.

The decision means that the chosen cities will have to provide top-quality stadiums, hotels and transportation services, which will drive billions of dollars of investment.

?It's the first time the World Cup is to take place in Eastern Europe,? Blatter said in opening remarks.

FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke said the size of the city was not a criterion for selection but that the legacy the tournament would leave was considered important.

This past summer, Yaroslavl became the largest city where an opposition candidate won mayoral elections ? a slap in the face for the ruling United Russia party, which normally tightly controls the political scene in the country.

Blatter opened the envelopes with the names of the first two winning cities. As St. Petersburg was announced cameras showed fireworks immediately shooting into the night sky. Yekaterinburg was second.

The show's host, Andrei Malakhov, then paused the announcements to show footage of his meeting with ?the man who made all this possible,? President Vladimir Putin, which took place at Putin's suburban residence of Novo-Ogaryovo at 7 p.m. that day.

Putin sounded casual when he greeted Malakhov, saying, ?You are here about soccer.?

The president said the championship would be a good reason for the country's youth to take an interest in sports and would help pull some of them away from alcohol and cigarettes.

He also said the preparations would give a powerful impetus to the economy and create new jobs.

Putin said Russia insisted on having 11 host cities but that the final decision rested with FIFA. Contrary to news reports that said Putin would have the final say over which cities were selected, Putin said he was unaware of the choices.

The government will aim to place some auxiliary sports facilities, such as training bases, in the cities that FIFA excluded, he said. The government will also subsidize fares for residents of those cities to travel to matches, he said.

FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke and Alexei Sorokin, chief of the local organizing committee, came on stage next to announce the cities of Sochi and Kazan.

Brazilian player Roberto Carlos was the next to open envelopes. Two twin brothers, who acted in Russia's promotional film for the World Cup bid, stood by to pull out the paper strips with city names: Nizhny Novgorod, Samara and Rostov-on-Don.

The Russian national soccer team's new coach Fabio Capello and the two boys next announced Kaliningrad, Volgograd and Saransk ? the smallest of all the host cities, with a population of 300,000.

Fielding a question, Mutko unveiled, perhaps inadvertently, that the remaining winning city was Moscow.

Nevertheless, Blatter returned to the stage, accompanied by Mutko, to open an envelope with Moscow's name inside.

Governors of most regions were present for the video linkups with Channel One, except for the governors of St. Petersburg and Krasnodar, the region that includes Sochi.

Russia beat England and joint bids from Spain-Portugal and Belgium-Netherlands in December 2010 for the right to hold the tournament.

Source: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/468978.html

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Media Business and the Future of Journalism (JEM499): Interpreting ...

The main thrust of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) was to limit Web site operators collecting personal information from children without the express permission of their parents.?? The FTC (Federal Trade Commission), which oversees COPPA compliance, recently started considering expanding COPPA coverage and reach by broadening definitions of "personal information," "knowingly collecting," and website "operator."? While COPPA explicitly gives the FTC the ability to define, or re-define, those terms, the proposed expansions are substantial, and would significantly expand both the activities covered and the online sites and services covered.? While a number of children's and privacy advocacy groups fully support efforts to protect children's privacy, a number of industry groups have legitimate concerns that some of the proposed expansions could have significant unintended effects for all Internet users.? The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), for example, indicated in formal comments to the FTC that enforcement of the expanded definitions (as formally proposed) could "restrict children?s access to online resources by undermining the prevailing business model" and "pose technical challenges to the effective functioning of the online ecosystem."
? So what are the issues, and what's really at stake?

"Operators" - or who does COPPA apply to??
The statutory language of COPPA defined operators essentially as commercial website operators who collect personal information from users and where the website is either directed towards kids, or are general interest sites that knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.? The current proposals would ad to that group third-party services such as social media plug-ins, ad networks, online gaming, and mobile apps.? In proposing the expansion, the FTC provided this rationale -

"The Commission now believes that the most effective way to implement the intent of Congress is to hold both the child-directed site or service and the information-collecting site or service responsible as covered co-operators... (A)n operator of a child-directed site or service that chooses to integrate into its site or service other services that collect personal information from its visitors should be considered a covered operator... Although the child-directed site or service does not own, control, or have access to the information collected, the personal information is collected on its behalf."

While the intent may be to assure that sites don't avoid protecting kids' privacy by farming data collection to a third party, it's difficult to frame regulatory language that would differentiate websites take use third parties to collect personal information, and/or benefit from collected user information, from websites with no interest in, or use for, user data yet link to services and sites that do. The proposed expansion would also make third party operators who collect user information liable for COPPA compliance if any affiliated or networked website is directed towards children, regardless of whether the "third party operator" has any interest in, or intent to, collect user information from children. If the implementing language is too broad, it could have the effect of making every website or online service provider legally liable for the content focus and user data collection practices of every website or online service they are linked to, or interact with. Given the nature of the internet, holding publishers liable for the COPPA compliance of affiliated services or linked sites and services would likely create a logistical nightmare of previewing and vetting of content, focus, and any user data collection practices. In their formal comments on the proposed changes, the Interactive Advertising Board (IAB) claimed that "pose technical challenges to the effective functioning of the online ecosystem." Particularly for website operators or online publishers who aren't commercial and have no interest in, or use for, user data.

"Knowingly collecting," or what evidence of intent or purpose is required?
The FTC is also proposing to expand the standard of intent by shifting from applying to operators who knowingly collect kids' personal information, to apply when operators might have "reason to know" that personal information is being collected from or content is directed towards children under the age of 13.
In regulatory and legal circles, reason-to-know is widely acknowledged as a broader, looser standard than actual knowledge of actions or behaviors. The FTC, as noted in the quote above, sees their mandated purpose as protecting children's privacy by requiring parental consent to collect personal information from kids, even if it is not knowingly and intentionally collected. The reason-to-know standard would extend COPPA to at least some incidental collection of covered user data, but not the absolute coverage that many advocacy groups have called for. They would prefer to see that privacy coverage and requirements for parental consent for data collection from kids be universal, to assure that no personal information is ever collected from children under thirteen without explicit parental consent.
Implementing a vaguer and looser standard can be problematic - "knowingly" is a clear and precise standard, even if can be difficult to provide. "Reason-to-know" is not precise, but has been interpreted in other settings as existing when an individual could reasonably expect something is probable - in this setting, would not be surprised if a third party operator collected personal user information or directed content or services to kids. Still, there's a lot of imprecision and uncertainty left - for example, should a blogger targeting seniors that links to an online social gaming app be e know what user information the app collects, or whether children under 13 are playing that social game app?
And if combined with an expansion if the definition of operators to second and third parties, the costs of compliance are spread to those who are only peripherally involved with children or collection of user data.

"Personal information," or just how personal does information need to be?
To a very large extend, the Internet, mobile, and social media systems run on user data, because sending and receiving information requires some kind of address. Data transfers online need IP addresses; mobile communications require unique identifiers for devices or users; and social media need to know where to send whatever stuff we share with friends and followers. The original statutory language of COPPA used older offline definitions widely used in privacy contexts - names, street addresses, social security numbers, phone numbers; and added email addresses as a nod to the Online context. But in an ever-evolving online ecosystem, these aren't our only addresses, or unique identifiers. If the concern about collecting personal information is that whatever other information or behaviors that are being collected can be directly linked to a specific individual, then the FTC really does need to look at what it defines as personal information.
Last year, the FTC proposed expanding the definition of "personal information" to include any "unique identifier" that could be used to link a child's activities on multiple sites. The proposal identified a few examples of unique identifiers - IP addresses, device serial numbers, tracking cookies. The online world is replete with unique identifiers; as are the worlds of mobile devices, wireless services, mobile phones, and social media. As I said earlier, they all need addresses - and addresses that aren't relatively unique identifiers aren't that useful. Are the FTC's examples appropriate?
In one sense, clearly not. As the IAB pointed out, the problem with the listed identifiers is that they aren't necessarily user-specific - what they are are primarily device identifiers. If there are, or may be, multiple users, that can decouple these unique identifiers from an unique person. (We've gone through this with IP addresses, which were initially permanently assigned to a device. When the number of devices exploded, and Internet Service Providers noted they weren't always on, they switched to dynamic IP addressing, where the unique address is assigned when the device is actively connected, but tossed back into the ISP's pool of IP addresses when the device was disconnected, to be assigned to another device when it actively connects. To uniquely link an IP address with a specific computer, you now need both the dynamic IP address and the time). The proposed new unique identifiers permit the delivery of content and advertising to a device, not to an identified individual," the IAB argues.
In addition, device identifiers are largely automatically generated and provided with online activities without user input or direct authorization. This creates a variety of potential issues - are dynamic IP addresses new unique identifiers that require user or parental validation of permission to use? would COPPA be invoked if several distinct online services share a common password/login (linking across sites)? Would Internet-connected devices need to be child-proofed in the absence of parental consent to collecting device identifiers? How might this impact "TV Everywhere" implementation, which needs unique identifiers not only as device address, but for validation of eligibility to receive specific content? How might that affect the potential distribution of children's programming, or educational content or games? There's a real conflict between the need for tracking use and validating eligibility through the use of unique identifiers and tracking user behaviors and the primary funding mechanisms for websites and online services (advertising and subscriptions). Defining unique identifiers poorly or inappropriately would create significant compliance costs that could only be avoided by prohibiting children's access and use. In such a case, the IAB expressed concern that it could "restrict children?s access to online resources by undermining the prevailing business model."
A closer look at the FTC's proposals and supporting arguments suggests that their real concern was the potential use of behavioral advertising techniques on children under 13. The FTC did include a specific proposal for a ban on using behavioral targeting techniques on young children without their parents' permission. But the courts can be reluctant to apply content-related bans without specific evidence of harm. That could explain the FTC's choice of specific unique identifiers and emphasis on linking behaviors and information across sites - their list mirrors what is needed for behavioral advertising to occur. Thus, the FTC may have felt that expanding the definition of "personal information" in that specific direction could be a backdoor means to limit behavioral advertising to kids. The problem here is that these same elements are also at the heart of a great many other online services and activities, so this expansion would have unintended (I hope) negative consequences in many other areas. Particularly if the expansion of "personal information" to include a range of other "unique identifiers" and the idea of "persistent identifiers" defined as identifiers shared across sites or services, gets carried through to other privacy regulation.
Including device registration numbers as "personal information" could really impact the rapidly expanding growth of mobile services, as apps and services would need to find other means to identify and validate devices and uses. The whole foundation of social media and interconnected sites and services is similarly built on the availability of "persistent identifiers."

A Step Too Far?
The FTC clearly has the authority to consider redefining these key aspects of COPPA, and strong arguments can be made that it needs to, considering how the online world has changed in the last decade. (Not to mention the pressures being applied by a variety of advocacy and industry groups).? The most immediate need is for the FTC to seriously consider expanding the definition of "personal identifiers." ?The original statutory examples are mostly borrowed from regulatory language applying to analogue and physical concerns. ?The language, for the most part, is far too narrow to reflect data or information that can identify individuals in an online world filled with myriad "unique identifiers" that could easily be used to link individuals with the information they provide and the actions they take online. But you can't ban or limit the use of all unique identifiers without crippling the Internet, or an increasing number of media devices and services - or banning their use by the people who's privacy you're trying to protect. Redefining "personal information" needs to be approached with a surgeon's scalpel rather than a blunderbuss, as any change is likely to have widespread and profound implications.
? In any consideration of expanding the kinds of identifiers to be included in a definition of "personal information" the FTC (and regulators generally) shouldn't pick them because they might achieve a specific policy goal. Even if they do, they'll also impact any other uses that rely on or utilize that specific type of identifier. Regulators need to consider the other implications and effects of proposed regulatory changes before redefining things - otherwise someone's likely to wonder why it didn't do what it was supposed to, and/or how to fix the mess it's created somewhere else.

Sources? -? FTC Proposes New Curbs On Collecting Data From Children,? OnlineMediaDaily
IAB: Proposed Children's Privacy Rules Undermine Business Model,? OnlineMediaDaily
FTC,? Proposed Rules Changes for Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule
FTC's COPPA website

Source: http://jem499.blogspot.com/2012/09/interpreting-coppa-and-childrens.html

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Iranian news agency picks up Onion article as fact

CHICAGO (AP) ? A joke by the satirical newspaper The Onion appears to have gotten lost in translation.

An Iranian news agency picked up ? as fact ? a story from the paper about a supposed survey showing an overwhelming majority of rural white Americans would rather vote for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than President Barack Obama. But it was made up, like everything in the just-for-laughs newspaper, which is headquartered in Chicago.

The English-language service of Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency republished the story Friday, several days after it appeared in The Onion.

The Iranian version copied the original word-for-word, even including a made-up quote from a fictional West Virginia resident who says he'd rather go to a baseball game with Ahmadinejad because "he takes national defense seriously, and he'd never let some gay protesters tell him how to run his country like Obama does."

Homosexual acts are punishable by death in Iran, and Ahmadinejad famously said during a 2007 appearance at Columbia University that "in Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country."

The Iranian version of the article leaves out only The Onion's description of Ahmadinejad as "a man who has repeatedly denied the Holocaust and has had numerous political prisoners executed."

The article was featured prominently on the Fars website alongside its usual fare of stories about advances in Iranian military technology, condemnation of Israel and Iran's nuclear program. The story appeared to have been taken down by about mid-day, Chicago time.

Calls to Fars representatives were not answered Friday.

The Onion reveled in the fact that it had been taken seriously.

Onion editor Will Tracy put out a tongue-in-cheek statement that referred to Fars as "a subsidiary of The Onion" that has acted as the paper's Middle Eastern bureau since it was founded in the mid-1980s by Onion publisher T. Herman Zweibel.

"The Onion freely shares content with Fars and commends the journalists at Iran's Finest News Source on their superb reportage," Tracy said in jest.

It's not the first time a foreign news outlet has been duped by The Onion. In 2002, the Beijing Evening News, one of the Chinese capital's biggest newspapers, picked up a story from The Onion that claimed members of Congress were threatening to leave Washington unless the building underwent a makeover that included more bathrooms and a retractable dome.

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Investing & Trading Rules, Aphorisms & Books (Fall 2012) | The Big ...

Back in 2011, I pulled together a full run of Trading Rules & Aphorisms.

It turned out to be a worthwhile exercise, and so I began updating this semi annually. This is a list of my favorite traders, analysts, economists and investors views? on what to do ? and what not to do ? when it comes to markets.

This is the latest?updated version of my:

Trading & Investing Rules, Aphorisms & Books

? Livermores Seven Trading Lessons

? Bob Farrell?s 10 Rules for Investing

? James Montier?s Seven Immutable Laws of Investing

? Richard Rhodes? 12 Trading Rules

? John Murphy?s Ten Laws of Technical Trading

? Six Rules of Michael Steinhardt

??David Merkel: The Eight Rules of My Investing

? Art Huprich?s Market Truisms and Axioms

? DENNIS GARTMAN?S NOT-SO-SIMPLE RULES OF TRADING

? Lessons from Merrill Lynch

? Louis Ehrenkrantz? 7 Golden Rules for Investing

? Rosie?s Rules to Remember

? In Defense of the ?Old Always? (Montier)

? Lessons Learned from 37 Years of Futures Trading

? Richard Russell?s The Power of Compounding

? The golden rules of investing (India)

? 25 Common Sense Money Tips

?

If you have any suggestions for any good lists of rules I may have missed, please link to them in comments. If they are worthy, they will get added tot he list.

After this run, I plan on updating this list 2x per year . . .

?

My own trading rules and favorite Trading Books are after the jump

My (Ritholtz) own rules

? 10 Errors and Checklist for Investors

? Lessons the Guys Who Wrote Dow 36,000 Should Have Learned

? Rules for Shorting

? 15 Inviolable Rules for Dealing with Wall Street

? 10 Psychological, Valuation, Adapative Investing Rules

? The Zen of Trading

?

Then go to these books ? they cover trading and markets generally:

? Stock Market Wizards : Interviews with America?s Top Stock Traders by Jack D. Schwager

Schwager interviewed market legends at the height of their success. What makes the book so worthwhile are the consistent themes that evolve from currency traders, mutual fund managers, commodities traders, hedge fund managers. Regardless of what is being traded, there are related motifs that run throughout.

What results is not a ?How to trade? book; instead, it is a book about ?How to think about trading.?

? The Investor?s Anthology: Original Ideas from the Industry?s Greatest Minds by Charles D. Ellis

Instead of interviewing famed investors, Ellis gathered their best writings into one collection. He ends up with a series of short chapters by luminaries of days gone by. There is something worthwhile on just about every page. This is another favorite worth rereading every few years.

? Bull: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004, What drove the Breakneck Market ? and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles by Maggie Mahar

The best book about the 1982-2000 market, bar none. There are a surprising number of lessons buried in these pages that will reward the careful reader. I found it both fascinating and informative.

? How I Trade and Invest in Stocks and Bonds by Richard Wycoff

Quite simply, this is one of my favorite books on the markets and investing. The fact that it is from 1923 is totally irrelevant.

Another good book is When to Sell by Justin Mamis. Published in 1970s, it is filled with good observations about developing a sell strategy.

If you want some book ideas for Technicals, have a go at these:

? Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets by John J. Murphy.
? Technical Analysis from A to Z by Steven B. Achelis;
? Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns by Thomas N. Bulkowski;
? Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques by Steve Nison;

Don?t think you need a full reference library; any pair of these books should do.

Last, there are a full run of books here:

? Reading Is Fundamental

? More Reading Ideas

Source: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/09/trading-rules-aphorisms-2h2012/

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Apple's Cook apologizes for Maps flaws, recommends rivals

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook apologized Friday to customers frustrated with glaring errors in its new Maps service, and, in an unusual move for the consumer giant, directed them to rival services instead, such as Google Inc's Maps.

The rare apology follows Apple's launch of its own mapping service earlier this month, when it began selling the iPhone 5 and rolled out iOS 6, the highly anticipated update to its mobile software platform.

Users complained that the new Maps service - based on Dutch navigation equipment and digital map maker TomTom NV's's data - contained geographical errors and gaps in information, and that it lacked features that made Google Maps so popular, including public transit directions, comprehensive traffic data or street view pictures.

"We are extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers and we are doing everything we can to make Maps better," Cook said in a letter to customers released on its website, adding that the company "fell short" of its commitment to deliver "the best experience possible to our customers."

Unusually, he suggested that customers download rival mapping services available in Apple's App Store, while the company improves the product.

"While we're improving Maps, you can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app," he said in the letter.

"It is a bit unusual but at the same time, Tim is keeping Apple's commitment to provide the best user experience for customers," Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu said. "A key reason for Apple's success is keeping customers happy so we think this is a good move."

"People forget that Google Maps started out inferior to Mapquest and Yahoo Maps," he added.

Apple is typically loathe to tout rival services and the contrite apology by Cook is an indication of how Apple is changing under the chief executive who took over last year from co-founder Steve Jobs just before his death.

Shares of Apple were down 1.8 percent in late morning trading at $669.22.

NEW APPLE

The last time Apple faced such widespread criticism was in 2010, when users complained of signal reception issues on the then-new iPhone 4 model.

A defiant Jobs at the time rejected any suggestion the iPhone 4's design was flawed, but offered consumers free phone cases at a rare, 90-minute press conference called to address those complaints.

While Apple fixed the issue, Jobs had apologized to users only after he was specifically asked if he was sorry. He also said the issue was shared by all the major manufacturers, naming rivals Research in Motion, Samsung Electronics and HTC Corp specifically.

Cook's suggestion that Apple users download other map apps, particularly Google Maps, represents an about-turn for Apple, which had introduced its service as a direct challenge to the popular service offered by ally-turned-rival Google.

Apple Maps replaced the Google Maps app, which is no longer available on iOS 6. Users now have to access Google Maps through the browser.

Cook said that more that more than 100 million iOS devices are using the new Apple Maps and that the more people use Maps, the better it will get. He also offered some hints on why the company decided to remove Google Maps.

Apple launched the Google-powered Maps "initially with the first version of iOS" and the company created a home-grown version of the service as it wanted to provide more features, Cook said.

"As time progressed, we wanted to provide our customers with even better Maps including features such as turn-by-turn directions, voice integration, Flyover and vector-based maps," he said in the letter.

Google provides turn-by-turn navigation on Android-based devices but the popular feature was not available for Apple devices.

Google and Apple were close partners with the original iPhone in 2007 and its inclusion of YouTube and Google Maps. But ties between the two companies have been strained by the rise of Google's Android mobile operating system, now the world's leading platform for smartphones.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said earlier this week that it has not submitted a new Google Maps app to Apple, but added the search giant talks to the Cupertino-based company "every day."

(Editing by Bernadette Baum)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/apples-cook-sorry-maps-errors-suggests-rival-services-131606395--finance.html

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Sabathia strikes out 10 as Yankees top Twins

By DAVE CAMPBELL

AP Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 3:16 a.m. ET Sept. 27, 2012

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - This hasn't been the smoothest of seasons for C.C. Sabathia. He's still coming through when it counts for the New York Yankees.

Sabathia struck out 10 batters over eight innings and New York beat the Minnesota Twins 8-2 on Wednesday to remain 1 1/2 games ahead of Baltimore in the AL East.

The Orioles beat Toronto 12-2 on Wednesday night. The Yankees visit the Blue Jays for four games starting Thursday. Baltimore, after an off day, plays Boston at home this weekend. Sabathia will pitch again next week when the Yankees host the Red Sox.

"This is what he can do. He can string a bunch of good ones together. And if there's a time, now's the time," manager Joe Girardi said.

Sabathia (14-6) threw 89 of his 118 pitches for strikes, including three straight to Twins All-Star Joe Mauer for the second of his three strikeouts in the fourth inning. Mauer, who began the day three points in the batting race behind Detroit's Triple Crown chaser Miguel Cabrera with a .326 average, went 0 for 4.

"That's the best I've seen him, and I've been watching him for a long time," Mauer said. "When I was up there he was both sides of the plate: fastball, slider, sinker. He threw me everything, and everything was working."

Sabathia spent two stints on the disabled list this summer, for a strained left groin and an inflamed left elbow. This was his first win in six starts, and he credited impeccable command of his fastball to set up his other pitches.

"We're in a race. We know it's going to be tough. So you want to go out and do well every time out," Sabathia said, adding: "Hopefully, I can go out and pitch well again the next time. I'll take what I can out of this one and be ready to go five days from now."

Robinson Cano hit a two-run double and Curtis Granderson added a two-run triple during a six-run third inning against Brian Duensing (4-11), and Sabathia took care of the rest. The burly lefty gave up six hits, two runs and one walk.

Sabathia improved to 10-0 with a 1.96 ERA in his last 11 appearances against the Twins, including the 2009 and 2010 postseason. He threw eight scoreless innings in his last start against Oakland, striking out 11, but didn't get the victory because the Yankees won in the 10th. Matt Carson and Pedro Florimon had RBI singles, but that was about the only solid contact Sabathia allowed.

Chris Dickerson also hit a two-run homer for the Yankees, who lost to the Twins on Tuesday night and played without third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who has a bruised left foot. Derek Jeter's 19-game hitting streak ended with an 0-for-4 afternoon, but he walked and scored in the third.

The Yankees enjoyed a tension-free afternoon while winning for the 12th time in their last 16 games. Even the bad plays turned out all right.

Granderson was picked off first base in the second inning, but he scored on a wild pitch in the third.

Eric Chavez, thinking there were two outs instead of one in the fifth inning, casually fielded a grounder at third and stepped on the base for the force as he jogged toward the dugout before stopping and realizing his mistake. Sabathia shouted assurance to Chavez, whose embarrassed "oops" expression was frozen on the jumbo video screen above left-center field to the crowd's amusement.

"I'm glad they were entertained," Chavez said, smiling.

But after a passed ball by Chris Stewart put runners at second and third and threatened to exploit Chavez's blunder, Sabathia calmly retired Denard Span on a groundout to first to keep the lead at 6-1. If Chavez had tried to turn the double play, he might've only got one out anyway, Girardi said, which would've led to a run on the passed ball.

"Sometimes things work out right," Girardi said.

After a leadoff double by Raul Ibanez in the sixth, Dickerson circled the bases with his drive off Anthony Swarzak, who was the second long reliever called on by the Twins.

Starter Samuel Deduno struck out two without a hit or a run despite two walks. After the second one, though, Twins manager Ron Gardenhire and assistant athletic trainer Dave Pruemer came to the mound for a long talk with the right-hander with two outs in the second inning. The diagnosis was irritation in his left eye, and Deduno was removed for Duensing.

He put seven straight runners on, including two walks, before finishing the inning. Duensing, who started a postseason game against the Yankees in 2009 and 2010, let his ERA rise from 4.68 to 5.15.

"I feel like we're playing our best ball now, and this is the perfect time to be doing that," said Nick Swisher, who had an RBI single.

NOTES: RH Ivan Nova (12-7, 4.94 ERA) pitches for the Yankees on Thursday against RH Brandon Morrow (8-7, 3.28 ERA) of the Blue Jays. The Twins are off on Thursday before hosting Detroit this weekend. They'll send LH Scott Diamond (12-8, 3.64 ERA) to the mound on Friday, opposite RH Max Scherzer (16-7, 3.82 ERA) of the Tigers. ... The Yankees have homered in each of their last 12 games against the Twins, totaling 25 in that span. ... The Yankees notched their 90th win for the 15th time in the last 17 seasons. ... Swisher made a nifty scoop and throw to get Ben Revere out on a slow roller in the first inning. He's been playing 1B with Mark Teixeira rehabilitating his strained right calf. "I'm just trying to keep it warm until my boy Tex gets back," Swisher said. Girardi left open the possibility of Teixeira returning to the team this weekend in Toronto.

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - C.C. Sabathia struck out 10 batters over eight innings for New York to help the Yankees stretch their AL East lead to two games over Baltimore by beating the Minnesota Twins 8-2 on Wednesday.

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Huge Sumatran quakes in April a step in tectonic plate breakup

Planet Earth may be 4.5 billion years old, but that doesn't mean she can't serve up a shattering surprise now and again.

Such was the case on April 11 of this year when two massive earthquakes erupted beneath the Indian Ocean, far from the usual danger zones. Now scientists say the seafloor ruptures are part of a long suspected, yet never before observed, event: the slow-motion splitting of a vast tectonic plate.

The first of the quakes, a magnitude 8.7, was 20 times more powerful than California's long anticipated "big one" and tore a complex network of faults deep in the ocean floor. The violence also triggered unusually large aftershocks thousands of miles away, including four off North America's western coast.

"It was jaw-dropping," said Thorn Lay, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz. "It was like nothing we'd ever seen."

At first, Lay wondered whether the computer code he used to analyze earthquakes was wrong. Eventually, he and other scientists realized that they had documented the break-up of the Indo-Australian plate into two pieces, an epic process that began roughly 50 million years ago and will continue for tens of millions more. Lay and other scientists reported their findings online Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Most great earthquakes occur along plate borders, where one plate dives beneath the adjoining plate and sinks deep into Earth's mantle, a process called subduction. The April 11 quakes, however, occurred in the middle of the plate and involved a number strike-slip faults, meaning the ground on one side of the fault moves horizontally past ground on the other side.

Scientists say the 8.7 main shock broke four faults. The quake lasted 2 minutes and 40 seconds ? most last just seconds ? and was followed by a second 8.2 main shock two hours later.

Unlike the magnitude 9.1 temblor that struck in the same region on Dec. 26, 2004, and created a deadly tsunami, the April 11 quake did not cause similar destruction. That's because horizontally moving strike-slip faults do not induce the massive, vertical displacement of water that thrust faults do on the borders of plates.

The type of interplate faults involved in the Sumatran quakes are the result of monumental forces, some of which drove the continent of India into Asia millions of years ago and lifted the Himalayan Mountains. As the Indo-Australian plate continues to slide northwest, the western portion of the plate, where India is, has been grinding against and underneath Asia. But the eastern portion of the plate, which contains Australia, keeps on moving without the same obstruction. That difference creates squeezing pressure in the area where the quakes occurred.

The study authors say that over time, as more quakes occur and new ruptures appear, the cracks will eventually coalesce into a single fissure.

"This is part of the messy business of breaking up a plate," said University of Utah seismologist Keith Koper, senior author of one of the studies. "Most likely it will take thousands of similar large quakes for that to happen."

The quake was also notable for triggering powerful aftershocks thousands of miles away. While major quakes have been known to trigger aftershocks at great distance, they are usually less than 5.5 in magnitude. The April earthquake triggered 11 aftershocks that measured 5.5 or greater in the six days that followed the main shock, including one as big as magnitude 7. Remote shocks were felt 6,000 to 12,000 miles from the main quake.

Fred Pollitz, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., and lead author of one of the studies, said the quake was extremely effective in transmitting seismic wave radiation around the world. Though the magnitude of the Sumatran quake is No. 10 on the list of historic quakes, Pollitz said no other quake has triggered so many strong aftershocks so far away.

"It's the most powerful earthquake ever in terms of capability of putting stress on other fault zones around the world," he said.

Pollitz said the quake is likely to teach seismologists about the physics of earthquakes, particularly those along strike-slip faults. That knowledge, he said, would certainly apply to the San Andreas fault, which is also a strike-slip fault.

Lay said that the quake was most surprising in that it was completely unanticipated by seismologists and that he did not expect to event to repeat itself any time soon.

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Backpack-toting birds help researchers reveal migratory divide, conservation hotspots

ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? By outfitting two British Columbia subspecies of Swainson's thrushes with penny-sized, state-of-the-art geolocators, University of British Columbia researchers have been able to map their wildly divergent migration routes and pinpoint conservation hotspots.

"Birds of a feather do not necessarily flock together," says Kira Delmore, a PhD student with UBC's Department of Zoology and lead author of the paper. "Our teams of thrushes took dramatically different routes to get to their wintering grounds, either south along the west coast to Central America, or southeast to Alabama and across the Gulf of Mexico to Columbia."

The study, to be published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, is the first to collect a complete year's worth of data from individual birds to document such a migratory divide.

"This detailed level of migration and stopover data helps us pinpoint vital feeding and rest habitats that the birds rely on at key points during their long journey -- just before crossing the Gulf of Mexico, for example," Delmore adds.

The researchers say the study also raises the possibility that migratory behavior may play a role in speciation, the process by which one species evolves into two.

"Given that migratory behavior is under genetic influence in many species of birds, these results raise the question of what hybrids between these two subspecies would do," says Darren Irwin, associate professor of Zoology at UBC and co-author of the paper. "One possibility is that hybrids would take an intermediate route, leading to more difficulties during migration. If so, the migratory differences might be preventing the two forms from blending into one."

Background

About Swainson's thrushes

Swainson's thrushes, with olive-brown feathers, lighter mottled undersides, and distinct light eye-rings, are typically 16 to 20 centimetres (seven inches) in length with a wingspan of 30 centimetres (one foot). They are not endangered.

Research methodology

UBC researchers caught 40 thrushes in June 2010 -- 20 each of a subspecies from Pacific Spirit Park near UBC in Vancouver and another from locations near Kamloops, B.C. The birds were lured into six-metre-wide mist nets with mating calls.

The geolocators used weigh 0.9 gram and with attachment materials they weight approximately four per cent of the body weight of a thrush.

Researchers then attached the newly invented geolocation devices, which record sunrise and sunset times, on the birds with special harnesses before releasing them. To collect the data, Delmore undertook the process in reverse a year later.

This research was funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Environment Canada, and the Wilson Ornithological Society.

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How To Measure for a President

It?s hard to say what the Founding Fathers would think of the modern presidency. But there?s no doubt they?d be horrified by the modern presidential campaign. In their day, no man worthy of the presidency would ever stoop to campaigning for it. George Washington was asked to serve. Decades later his successors were also expected to sit by the phone. "The Presidency is not an office to be either solicited or declined," wrote Rep. William Lowndes of South Carolina in 1821. Rutherford B. Hayes wanted to be so free of the taint of self-interest he didn?t even vote for himself in the election of 1876. As late as 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called campaigning "a great interruption to the rational consideration of public questions.?

Mitt Romney, right, and running mate Paul Ryan speak to a crowd at Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Va.,?in August. What are the best ways to size up our presidential candidates?

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Not so today. Mitt Romney has been running for president for six years. Barack Obama has arguably never stopped since he took the oath of office. Today campaigning isn?t an ?interruption? but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner it?s expected you?ll be a successful president. In 1992, after Bill Clinton beat George Bush, Dan Quayle said, "If he governs as well as he campaigned, the country will be all right." Republicans had argued Clinton's character faults disqualified him from office. Quayle was articulating the common modern view?ratified by voters?that being a gifted campaigner was the more important quality. When Barack Obama was asked about his lack of executive experience in 2008, he pointed to his successful campaign as proof he could manage the presidency. Bill Clinton testified on his behalf: ?If you have any doubt about Senator Obama's ability to be the chief executive,"?Clinton said at one of Obama?s vast rallies in October 2008, "just look at all of you. ... He has executed this campaign.?

There are similarities between the campaign and the presidency. Both tasks require a candidate to perform well under pressure, communicate effectively, and build a team that trusts you and can function with little sleep and lots of stress. Obama political adviser David Axelrod says the crucible of the campaign uncovers the hidden personal qualities that you can?t list on a r?sum?. "It's an MRI for the soul," he says.

But if good campaigners made good presidents, we'd have a constant string of successes. Most sitting presidents, almost by definition, have been skilled on the campaign trail. Yet the talents do not necessarily convey. Lyndon Johnson crushed Barry Goldwater in 1964 in part because of his attention to the minutia of the contest. He carried a laminated card in his pocket of the key polls in each battleground state, but Vietnam was beyond his ability to micromanage. Nixon and his men brought modern public relations techniques to the presidency in 1968. As president, he trampled on the office. In 1974, Jimmy Carter was such a political unknown that no one on the game show What's My Line recognized him. Two years later he was president. Wise men considered Carter?s meteoric rise proof that he was a political genius. Maybe he was. But he was also one of our least effective presidents.

Campaigns reward fighters. Governing requires cooperation, compromise, and negotiation. Campaigns focus on one opponent, but a president, even if he wants to go on the attack, never has just one jaw to swing at. President Obama must attack the Republican Congress?John Boehner one day, Paul Ryan the next. It was easier to slug John McCain again and again.

Presidential campaigns are fantastical places. Here, on the campaign stump, the United States can be ruthless with China diplomatically?but not beholden to Beijing as creditors. Entitlements are always safe?even as the deficit is drastically cut. Candidates build an electoral coalition by papering over differences and offending no one. Then, as president, they are forced to make choices which almost always offend some wing of the coalition they built.

When voters evaluate a candidate?s character, they tend to be Manichean: Candidates are only one thing or its opposite. A candidate is either a leader or a ponderous professor, a man of the people or an elitist, the real deal or a phony. One-dimensional characterizations makes for easy political attacks and self-satisfaction among those who simply want to affirm their existing ideologies. It is the laziness underpinning much talk radio, but it misses the essential paradox of the presidency: presidents move between both ends of a spectrum.

The cheap political critique of Mitt Romney is that he flip-flops. His opponents point this out as if that?s all you need to know to disqualify him. But malleability is a necessary quality in a president. (Constancy has a nice romantic ring to it, but does anyone want a leader who sets a course and then refuses to change it no matter what?) It?s more fruitful to examine the specific cases where Romney showed flexibility, compare them with cases when President Obama changed his position, and then decide which candidate acted out of a lack of conviction and which was simply light on his feet.

President Obama shares a beer with Jennifer Klanac, left, and Suzanne Woods at Ziggy's Pub and Restaurant in Amherst, Ohio, in July during an unannounced visit while on a bus tour.

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You can test presidential candidates by measuring them against the current occupant. Or you can hold them up against an idealized version and see how they do. It?s probably fairest to match their promises with their skills. Mitt Romney promises to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with an alternative. For those who hate Obamacare, that?s all they need to hear. But simply asking ?How?? puts us in a better position to evaluate his theoretical presidency. He?ll need a majority in Congress if he wants to follow through on this promise. The Democrats might still control the Senate. That means Romney will need considerable skill working with the other party to get what he wants. What experience in his background gives us confidence that he'll have the tools for the job he assigns himself? He?ll also be facing the ?fiscal cliff??an immediate bewildering thicket of tax cuts and spending reductions. How will he manage that and take on repealing health care? Isn?t one of these more important than the other? That raises questions about his priorities and how he sets them. Is he a pragmatist? Or is he an ideologue? Does he have the perseverance to handle both jobs? Would any president?

Maybe there is a better way to evaluate our presidential candidates, and come to more reliable conclusions about which ones are likely to have the skills actually required for the job.

Al Gore once suggested that running for president was like a job interview. But suppose the current presidential campaign were an extended job interview, conducted by the American people. Candidates are so guarded, the hiring committee would have little to go on. He speaks a great deal but says so little. All I really know is that he loves this company and thinks its best days are ahead of it. He thinks the head office in D.C. is out of touch with customers. Great teeth. No applicant would ever get a job giving the vague answers our candidates do.

The usual proposed remedy for the sorry state of our presidential campaigns is more focus on the issues. That?s important in order to learn what a candidate believes, to see if he can set priorities, and to judge whether he has the candor to say it out loud. But it?s not enough for a president merely to have a position. He has to have the skill necessary to follow through on his promises and translate his position into policy.

Another idea for improving campaigns is to focus more on the character of candidates, which may get us closer to understanding how they would operate in the Oval Office. That?s also a promising notion, but the way we end up judging candidates? characters is pretty silly?by looking for press conference gaffes, dissecting the meals they ate when they were a young married couple, or assessing the way they play basketball.

So here?s a thought: What if we approached presidential campaigns the way a large corporation approaches its search for a new chief executive? The purpose of the campaign would be to test for the skills and attributes actually required for the job. Companies such as McDonald's and Target do this even at the junior levels. Applicants are asked questions like ?Tell us about a conflict at work you helped resolve? and ?What?s the biggest obstacle you overcame?? The qualities employers are seeking are the same ones voters should be looking for in presidential candidates: initiative, experience, creativity, and problem solving.

Alas, when candidates are asked questions that might shed some light on these abilities, they run or dodge. They're trained not to answer hypothetical questions and to tell only heroic tales about their past.

Richard Nixon gives his trademark "victory" sign while in Philadelphia during his campaign in July 1968. Nixon brought modern public relations techniques to the White House but trampled on the office of the presidency.

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Well, nuts. That doesn?t mean we can?t try to ask these questions anyway. This series will look at the qualities a president actually needs to do the job as a way to better test for them during a presidential campaign. It?s hard to say which attributes are most necessary for a president, if for no other reason than we don?t know what he will face. It?s also hard to put your finger on how to measure certain qualities that will be revealed only under the pressure of a presidency. There is no training for the Oval Office. Still, we?ve got to do something with all of these television hours, rallies, and conversations with the neighbors, so consider four qualities to guide the way we evaluate candidates for the job:

Political skill: Campaigns give us a good idea of a candidate?s priorities, but can they read the political landscape they?ll face when they get to office? Are they honest enough to win voters? trust but ruthless enough cut a deal with their enemies when necessary? Are they comfortable with the schmoozing, backslapping, and ego-massaging that comes with the job?

Management ability: Is the candidate focused enough to follow an overarching vision, but nimble enough to tweak that vision when real-world events intervene? Can they admit mistakes and learn from them? Can they sift through complex ideas? Can they recognize baloney when it comes from their staff or supporters? Do they know how to hire a good team?

Persuasiveness: Do they know how to deliver a good speech? Do they know when to stay quiet? Do they know how to read public opinion? Is it possible for a president to short circuit Congress by taking an issue directly to the people?

Temperament: Has the candidate ever faced a true crisis? Do they have the equanimity to handle the erratic and unpredictable pressures of the office? How are they with uncertainty?

You?ll notice a word that is missing here: leadership. We can all agree that a president should be a leader, but what does that mean? Gen. George Patton or Mahatma Gandhi??It depends on the circumstance. The word leadership in presidential politics only distracts or obscures. What a president's critics really mean when they say he "isn't leading" is that he hasn't announced that he is supporting their plan. Challengers vow to show leadership, but that amounts to little more than saying they?ll magically pass the vast programs they?re promising. They don?t want anyone to ask the ?how? question. They want you to assume that a leader can get anything done.

Rather than testing for leadership, we should recognize that leadership is actually the sum of these four attributes?and probably a few more. These attributes, unlike the vaporous leadership mantle, are more measurable qualities. We shouldn?t let politicians get away with asserting they have this magical ability when we can bore down a little deeper to see whether they have these necessary and underlying traits.

I am not claiming that by looking at things this way we can produce a mathematical formula for candidates. There is no Myers-Briggs test for successful presidents. But unlike the mindless speculation over who will get the nod to be a candidate?s running mate, at least thinking about these is not completely useless. In the end, searching for the answers should help bring the candidates into somewhat clearer focus.

And I hope you?ll pitch in to help me. Name your own attributes and email us at slatepolitics@gmail.com. Make your case for skills that are important and why you think so. I know you?ll also feel free to critique the reasoning in these articles, and I?ll write a follow-up article reframing my thinking based on the best input.

The end goal is not, nor should it be, a bleached contest drained of all drama. Different people will reach different conclusions about how much experience or management ability a particular candidate has, and one attribute may overshadow all the rest given the particular demands of the moment. The goal is to help us better think about the qualities these presidential candidates may actually need once in office. On Election Day, voters must take a leap. But maybe this exercise can help them see a little more clearly where we might land.

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The Most Useful Advice On Cosmetic Surgery


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40 is the new 30? Thirty has also been said to be the same as twenty used to be, and on it goes. The results that can be achieved with cosmetic surgery are absolutely amazing. If you?re at all interested in cosmetic surgery, continue reading this article to learn about cosmetic procedures and discover some great tips.

Although doing plenty of research and advanced preparation is a good thing with cosmetic surgery, you shouldn?t set your heart on exactly what you want done before you speak with a doctor. A qualified professional can provide you with several different options, some you might have never considered. Work with your doctor, and take advantage of expert advice before you decide what you want to have done.

Remember, you will be paying quite a bit for the surgery and you may miss some work as well. You should have money set aside earmarked for any expenses that you occur post procedure. This should reduce stress during your recovery and help you focus on your health.

The decision to undergo any cosmetic surgery procedure should only be made after extensive research. You need to know all relevant information ahead of time, including the risks, complications, and recovery time involved. It is important that you make an informed decision when, considering any sort of procedure.

As with any surgery, there are risks that go along with cosmetic procedures. Make sure you discuss risks with your surgeon so you are aware of what is involved. You should not forget the possible negative consequences of a cosmetic surgery.

Botox is a rather simple procedure, but make sure you go to a licensed cosmetic surgeon. There are people who even have this procedure done at salons. This may save you some money, but can be dangerous to your health and even your life.

Choose only a surgeon who is board-certified by the ASPS so that you know he or she is qualified. Also, make sure he has performed the procedure many times and ask him to show you proof.

If you are on a tight budget, learn about any discounts online. There are more and more websites, for instance Groupon, that offer discounts, especially on eye and lip procedures. Before buying, though, read the coupon from top to bottom. Be sure your procedure is covered by the discount and that you qualify. Oftentimes the discount is for a first-time visitor only, or there is some other restriction.

If you are worried about cost, look for a online discount. An increasing number of websites, such as Groupon, offer discounts, particularly on lip and eye procedures. Read the details on the coupon in full before you buy it. Make sure you are eligible for the coupon. Oftentimes the discount is for a first-time visitor only, or there is some other restriction.

While cosmetic surgery has been around for years, it was never as popular as it is currently. This increase in popularity makes it quite simple to find surgeons, but it is hard to know which ones are reputable. But, with some information, such as what you?ve been provided with in this article, the whole surgery can go just the way you want it to.

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Internet Article Marketing Demands New Abilities Of Authors ...

Internet article marketing is an exciting new aspect of economic opportunity. At a time when old activities such as car manufacturing and book publishing are beginning to resemble the cumbersome shapes of prehistoric animals many people are turning to the Internet for survival ideas. What they find is complex technology that looks promising if it can be implemented effectively.

English has been a dominant language on the World Wide Web so writers in English have had many advantages when compared with writers who use other languages. However, they have been slow to respond and in many cases have persisted in old attitudes. Rather than embracing concepts such as internet article marketing they have adopted condescending attitudes and talked in superior tones about the fascinating smell of real books.

Instead of seizing new opportunities authors have stood back, expecting technicians, mathematicians and scientists to be quicker on the uptake. In some cases they have even insisted on writing whole books in pencil rather than learning how to use keyboards. The notion of metaphor, imagery, rhythm and such rhetorical devices being inimical to writing on keyboards is indefensible when it is considered that literature has been recorded in print for centuries anyway.

It may be gradually dawning on authors that the future of writing is article marketing on the Internet and that the future is bright. Old industries such as the print media and book publishing are experiencing difficulties due to the fact that readers are turning to screens to read both articles and e books.

Electronic readers are making it possible to read lengthy books on screens. Books can also be written with the aid of technology that can facilitate the process materially. For example, metaphor can be sustained effectively with search and find tools. Self publishing is a practical and economic possibility.

With traditional markets for writing products fading out writers might cast about for new lines and discover internet article marketing. There seems to be an insatiable demand for original content from owners of websites. If such articles can be produced economically a new world for writers could open up. However there are issues that need o be solved before a writer can expect to receive a reasonable emolument for his expertise.

In fact the need for quality relevant content seems to be growing rapidly. Well written articles can attract visitors and customers as the scent of flowers lure bees. As people realize that the future of writing is on the Internet many have taken to publishing their own websites. Once these are up serious writing is necessary in order to keep them alive and many owners lack both the skills and the time to create sufficient articles for themselves. An obvious option is to purchase the necessary texts.

Although it may be clear that websites need content precisely what the qualities of what such copy are remain quite obscure. There are ethical issues that are still being resolved in courts and a great amount of unqualified opinion presented as fact. Such issues have important consequences for the Internet as a social phenomenon, and for the state of the academic and intellectual worlds in the future. Internet article marketing will play quite a significant part in that future.

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White House said to plan executive order on cybersecurity

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