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Monday, December 5, 2011
Report: Google Treading Into Amazon?s E-Commerce Waters
Never content to rest on its search-engine dominance alone, Google is reportedly moving into yet another industry giant?s space. This time, it?s Amazon that may have to look over its shoulder.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google plans to challenge the throne of the e-commerce legend, which has itself branched out into manufacturing products. Google is reportedly in talks with major retailers and shippers about developing a new service that would let consumers shop for clothes, electronics and other consumer goods online and get their order within a day.
Google?s move is a direct assault against one of Amazon?s competitive advantages: Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime is a membership program that gives Amazon customers unlimited fast shipping, such as free two-day shipping and one-day shipping for $3.99 per item. The annual fee is $79.
What Would Amazon Do?
?The fact that Google is getting in on the retail and shipping business is an indicator that it?s a service people are willing to pay for but it?s also something that they expect,? said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. ?Offering to deliver goods within a day keeps Google in the ballpark as a direct competitor with Amazon, but it also brings up the subject of what is Amazon doing next to stay ahead of the game.?
King makes a valid point. In the early days of e-commerce, Amazon differentiated itself by offering lower prices than bookstores. Amazon later aggregated similar products from various sellers and allowed consumers to choose from various price options. Amazon also gained market advantages with one-click shopping, which allows customers to make online purchases with a single click.
?As more retailers got on the bandwagon, you saw Amazon making some interesting moves in order to stay ahead of the pack. First they offered Super Saver free shipping and then later the offered?
Source: http://dailygizmonews.com/2011/12/03/report-google-treading-into-amazons-e-commerce-waters-20/
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
'Jersey Shore' star Pauly D teams up with 50 Cent (AP)
NEW YORK ? He's talked about it, but now Pauly D is officially a member of 50 Cent's music group.
The "Jersey Shore" star officially signed to the rapper's G-Note label Thursday. The label focuses on dance and pop music ? a good fit for Pauly D, since he's known as a DJ as well as a reality star.
He's been working in music since he was 16 and parlayed his success on the MTV hit series into becoming an in-demand DJ. Pauly D even joined Britney Spears for a few dates on her recent "Femme Fatal" tour as an opening act.
A few months ago Pauly D confirmed that he and the rapper were working together.
50 Cent said Pauly D was a "great addition to G-Note and G-Unit family" and called him smart and creative.
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Alicia Quarles is the AP's global entertainment editor. Follow her at http://www.twitter.com/aliciaquarles
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Russian independent election watchdog found guilty (AP)
MOSCOW ? A court on Friday found Russia's only independent election watchdog guilty of violations, casting doubt on its ability to monitor Sunday's parliamentary election as voters complain of record violations by the Kremlin party.
The Kremlin is determined to see the dominant United Russia maintain its majority in parliament. President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin both made final appeals for the party on Friday, warning that a parliament made up of diverse political camps would be incapable of making decisions.
The respected independent watchdog Golos, which compiles complaints of election law violations across the country and posts them on online, has recorded more than 4,700 complaints, most involving United Russia.
The court agreed with prosecutors that the Golos website violates a law forbidding the publication of public opinion research within five days of an election. Golos was fined 30,000 rubles (just under $1,000).
"They are afraid that Golos will tell the truth. They are concerned that they cannot control us," Golos deputy director Grigory Melkonyants said. "They might silence Golos, but they will not silence those people who witness these violations every day."
He insisted that the group would be able to continue its operations, saying that Russians have a constitutional right to report violations. Golos said it plans to send out 3,000 activists to observe Sunday's election.
Golos' lawyer Ramil Akhmetgaliev was less optimistic. "There could be a case to close down the organization," he said. "It depends on how they want to use the law."
The group has come under growing pressure since Sunday, when Putin accused Western governments of trying to influence the election through their funding of unnamed Russian non-governmental organizations. Golos, whose name means "vote," is supported by grants from the United States and Europe.
Kremlin-controlled NTV television showed a half-hour program on Friday evening that attacked Golos directly. The program included shots of suitcases full of U.S. dollars and claimed that Golos was openly supporting opposition parties and trying to discredit the elections.
United Russia dominates Russia's political life and has received overwhelmingly favorable coverage during the campaign, mostly from Kremlin-controlled national television. But the party is increasingly disliked, seen as representing a corrupt bureaucracy and often called "the party of crooks and thieves."
Putin leads the party and he needs it to do well in the parliamentary election to pave the way for his return to the presidency in a vote now three months away.
On Friday, the final day of campaigning, Putin warned that parliament would be unable to work effectively if members "are punching one another, fighting, pulling one another's hair, as occurs in certain neighboring countries," a clear reference to Ukraine's fractious politics.
"If someone wants to see a show, then they should go to the circus, the cinema or the theater," Putin said during a televised visit to a shipbuilding plant.
Medvedev, in a formal televised address, also warned about the dangers of a parliament "torn by irreconcilable conflicts, incapable of making a decision."
The independent Levada Center released a poll last week that predicted United Russia would receive 53 percent of the vote. While still a majority, this would deprive the party of the two-thirds majority that has allowed it to amend the constitution.
Golos said this week that about a third of the complaints it has received come from voters who say they are being pressured to vote for United Russia, mostly by their bosses at work or their professors at universities. Fears that the vote count will be rigged also were running high.
Lilia Shevtsova, a political scientist at the Carnegie Moscow Center, said most Russians are under no illusions that the election will be fair.
"Everybody understands in Russia that this election is without any kind of choice," she said. "More than 55 percent of Russians consider that the forthcoming elections will be fraudulent and will be manipulated."
Six other Kremlin-approved parties have been allowed to field candidates, while the most vocal opposition groups have been barred.
The Levada poll indicates that the Communist Party may benefit from the protest vote, with its share of the vote predicted to rise to 20 percent from less than 12 percent in 2007. The poll also shows an uptick for the two other parties in parliament: the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party and Just Russia, a party established with Kremlin support to lure votes from the Communists.
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Associated Press writers Mansur Mirovalev, Sofia Javed and Romain Goguelin contributed to this report.
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TwiliXDragon - Member for 1 years
Like said somewhere else. May I please have darkness, would love to have a good dark character, again. So please?
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Hey! :D
May I reserve Earth, pwease? ^^
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can I reserve water?
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It must be true what people say,
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@Kelsi: Yes, she is. The human I reserved will be her daughter
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Thank you, Twili! ^^
I'll start working on my character, but it might be tomorrow before it's submitted.[:
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I'm sorry, but I have to say something, you come up with some really awesome roleplaying ideas. XD
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Lol, thanks Beta ^^ And that's fine Yoshi :)
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And you do! :D
Is that one role play of your's that I joined ever going to start? :o I was excited about it! With my smexy male character and all.. xD
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As soon as we get an Ashton. Imagine That! is going to ask one of her friends.
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I would like to reserve the Demon of Blaspheme
That is if is a Guy.
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Whoo, finally got Sin?ad submitted, the coding in the app decided it wanted to be mean with me so I had to work with it for an extra fifteen minutes after I tried to submit her orignally. - -;; Coding does not like me.
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Dipping with the Stars
Most systems in the body have a rhythm, a daily cycle. Interrupting that rhythm can have detrimental consequences. Shifting sleep cycles can alter mental status and increase errors that result in accidents. Other more subtle changes in rhythm can also kill you through less obvious mechanisms.
How can we demonstrate the dip? Continuous ambulatory blood pressure monitoring provides the answer. Patients wear an automatic Bp cuff that inflates every few minutes throughout the day and night. This important clinical tool shows the overall level of Bp control as well as its pattern.
Restoring the dip is really pretty easy. The patient takes at least one Bp medication at bedtime. Recent work from Spain shows that long-term restoration of normal circadian Bp patterns is beneficial in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).
CKD patients often have hypertension that requires multiple medications to control; almost half of the patients in the study required 3 or more drugs for high blood pressure. The researchers first performed ambulatory monitoring in CKD patients, then randomly assigned them to take all of their Bp medications in the morning, or to take at least one drug at night. Approximately two-thirds of patients assigned to each group did not dip at night before the study began. Continuous ambulatory Bp monitoring was performed at least annually on every one of the 661 patients included in the final analysis. A number of events were analyzed over 5 years, including death from all causes and a variety of heart and vascular disease issues, including heart attack and stroke.
Giving at least one drug at bedtime restored the dip; 71% of the morning medication patients did not dip at study?s end, while bedtime dosing dropped nondippers to 41%. Bedtime dosing also produced more patients with controlled 24-hr Bp levels (56.5 vs. 45.2%). So bedtime dosing reduces overnight Bp for many years. Does it do anything to risk? Yes ? bedtime dosing patients suffered all outcome events at 31% of the rate of patients taking all medications in the morning. The rate of major cardiovascular disease events, including heart attacks and strokes, dropped to 28% of the Morning group. In other words, something as simple as moving at least one Bp med to bedtime could reduce the risk of death and cardiovascular disease by more than two-thirds in CKD patients.
Of course, this study only examined 661 patients. They all had some degree of CKD, and the results may not apply to the vast majority of patients with high blood pressure. DO NOT change your own medications around without talking to your doctor, but DO talk to your doctor about bedtime dosing. It could save your life.
The real question, of course, is why dipping is so important. For that matter, why does Bp dip at night? Of course, science has yet to figure out why sleep happens!
We can try to figure out what makes Bp dip overnight. When Bp drops below a certain level, the sympathetic nervous system (an involuntary part of the brain and nerves that regulates basic body functions) increases activity to the heart and blood vessels to increase Bp and keep circulation going to vital organs. This phenomenon is called the baroreflex. During sleep the threshold Bp at which this activation occurs shifts down. In other words, Bp can drop lower and stay there longer without activating the baroreflex. While inactivity of muscles during sleep may contribute to this phenomenon, at least one study suggests that dipping is a more deliberate physiological process.
We may not yet know why, but people are clearly meant to sleep at night for their health and welfare, including heart health.
References:
Hermida, Ayala, Mojon, and Fernandez: Bedtime dosing of antihypertensive medications reduces cardiovascular risk in CKD. J American Society of Nephrol 22:2313-21, 2011. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2011040361
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