If you would work online at home, you wouldn?t only have time for other things that really matter, but also manage to boost your own income potential. The main advantages of online work from home jobs over standard work or jobs are quite clear. If you?re able to get a hold of the actual work from home work opportunity which fits you the best, you can be your own personal boss, and even earn cash at any time you want to.
Why Work On the web from your home?
Having a flexible schedule is not the only benefit of working online from home. Although it is indeed a pleasure to work at your own pace, many would still hesitate to leave their regular office job for a homebased job. It pays to know that to work online from home opens you up to many opportunities to increase your earnings. With a regular office job, you receive the same amount each payday. The only option you have to earn more is to work overtime or get a promotion.
Proven methods to Earn An Income from your Home
The world wide web has really made it very possible for companies and contractors to be able to search for one another, and create business or professional relationships without having face to face meeting. Online opportunities are readily available, therefore there is almost certainly work to do for everybody. It is possible to earn a living from home depending upon your expertise, and also the actual time that you are willing to commit. You may work on the web from home by doing any of these things:
Affiliate marketing. If you don?t currently have a product or service to provide, you could help out other companies to advertise theirs. Internet affiliate marketing is amongst the best ways to generate income from home. Here, you may pick out the products that you want to advertise, and then the vendor would actually provide you with your very own affiliate code or link which you would be able to use in order to direct traffic to the product?s web site. Many firms offer ready-made ad banners that you can publish on your very own site to be able to begin referring targeted visitors. It?s also possible to place the code in promotional emails to send to the individuals in your contact list. You make money when someone clicks the link.
Revenue sharing. You can also allow companies to post their ads on your website, and get a share of their revenues. You have the option to write product reviews, or post ads related to the articles you have on your website. Shops like Amazon, Ebay, and Chitika offer this type of work online from home scheme. They will usually share you a fixed percentage of the revenue generated through your website.
Google Adsense. If you do not have a website, you can create an account with free blogging platforms, and earn money from home by using Google Adsense. Google have a network of sellers it advertises products for. You can help Google in this venture, and receive a fraction of its earnings. With Google Adsense however, you do not have control over the types of products that will appear in site.
The Key to Earn A Living from your Home
The 3 methods to work on the web in your own home cited above will actually require you to write articles or blog posts each and every day to help boost your average earnings. The more articles that you have, the more solutions and products you can advertise, and also the more money you could generate. The fundamental key to generate income from home is about quality and consistency. You have to compose excellent content articles on a regular basis to be able to continue to keep all of the revenues coming.
For more information about how to earn money from home, check out the Work Online From Home article. I?m sure you?ll like it!
If you fly coach, you know the carry-on madness can turn civilized travelers into crazed overhead bin squatters in the quest to avoid checked bag fees, so one carrier is trying a different approach.
American Airlines is testing a new boarding procedure that awards passengers who don?t bring any carry-ons by allowing them to board right after its most elite fliers and ahead of others in economy class.
?We are continually looking at ways to provide customers with a better, more convenient travel experience that keeps them at ease throughout their journey with us,? said American Airlines spokeswoman Andrea Huguely, in a statement to NBC News.
?It?s important to note this is a limited test. Should we decide to modify our regular boarding process, we will be informing our people and our customers first.?
The experiment, which began several weeks ago, is taking place at four airports: Austin-Bergstrom International, Washington Dulles International, Baltimore Washington International and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International.
Huguely declined to say what kind of feedback the airline has received from passengers so far, noting only that ?data is still being analyzed.?
One flier who experienced the new procedure at Austin?s airport on Thursday gave it a big thumbs-up.
?Best boarding experience ever,? tweeted Lisa Carlucci Thomas, in an exchange with Airfarewatchdog.com.
In 2008, American became the first U.S. airline to charge a fee for the first checked bag. Other carriers soon followed, with the extra charges becoming a revenue bonanza for the industry.
U.S. airlines took in more than $2.6 billion in bag fees in the first three quarters of 2012, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
But at the same time, delays caused by passengers scrambling to find space for their carry-ons during the boarding process have been costly for carriers, said George Hobica, founder of Airfarewatchdog.com.
?A plane sitting on the ground ? not only is it not earning money but at some airports airlines pay for gate time by the minute so the longer you?re on the ground, the more you actually pay to the airport,? Hobica said.
?(Checked bag fees) may have had unintended consequences... this is perhaps why Southwest for all these years has given you two free checked bags.?
Many planes are not equipped to handle all the luggage passengers bring on board, Hobica added, and some airlines have even had to spend money to install larger overhead bins to accommodate travelers who are trying to avoid checked bag fees.
Then, there?s the psychological toll, with the struggle for overhead bins leading to altercations between passengers and a tense atmosphere on flights, Hobica pointed out.
Will early boarding be enough of an incentive for fliers to ditch their carry-ons? The jury is still out, Hobica said, reminding travelers that this is just an experiment.
As BlackBerry (BBRY) continues to fight?the bloody battle for No.3 in the global smartphone market, apps are becoming less of a problem for the company?s new platform. Sort of. BlackBerry announced on Thursday that the BlackBerry World app store is now home to more than 100,000 BlackBerry 10 apps. The news comes just seven weeks after the 70,000-app milestone was reached. BlackBerry listed a host of popular apps and games alongside the announcement, but a quick look around BlackBerry World shows that the company still has a ways to go ? many top apps are nowhere to be found and BlackBerry 10 seems to be running into the same problem BlackBerry?s PlayBook suffered from, where most of the available apps are just filler. Hopefully now that the 100,000 threshold has been reached, BlackBerry can focus on quality over quantity. The company?s full press release follows below.
BlackBerry 10 Now Offers More Than 100,000 Applications to Customers
[More from BGR: A great visualization of Apple and Google?s smartphone market dominance]
Application catalog grows by more than 30,000 apps in seven weeks
More top brands building for BlackBerry 10 as platform launches in the U.S.
WATERLOO, ONTARIO?(Marketwire ? March 21, 2013) -?Developers continue to support BlackBerry? 10, bringing more than 30,000 new applications to the platform over the past seven weeks. BlackBerry? (NASDAQ:BBRY)(TSX:BB) today announced that?BlackBerry 10?customers now have access to more than 100,000 applications for the BlackBerry? Z10 smartphone on the BlackBerry? World? storefront.
Today, Amazon Kindle, OpenTable and The Wall Street Journal are available to BlackBerry 10 customers and in the coming weeks CNN, The Daily Show Headlines, eBay, eMusic, Maxim, MLB at Bat, MTV News, Pageonce, PGA, Rdio, Skype, Soundhound and Viber will be available for download or purchase.
BlackBerry 10 customers already have access to leading apps and games, including 8tracks, Angry Birds Star Wars, ATP World Tour Live, BBC Top Gear News, Bloomberg Anywhere, CBS Sports, Delta Air Lines, F1 2013 Timing App CP, Facebook, Foursquare, Jetpack Joyride, Keek, LinkedIn, Navita Translator, Need for Speed, NHL GameCenter, N.O.V.A. 3, The New York Times, PressReader, Slacker, Songza, Twitter, UFC, USA TODAY, Waze, WhatsApp, and Zara.
?The response to the BlackBerry 10 platform and applications has been outstanding. Customers are thrilled with the applications already available, and the catalog just keeps growing, now with more than 100,000 apps,? said Martyn Mallick, Vice President, Global Alliances at BlackBerry. ?Top brands and application providers are joining us every day and are seeing the benefits of being early supporters of the new platform. We constantly hear from developers that the BlackBerry 10 tools are easy to build with and that we provide opportunities for app differentiation that they do not see on other platforms.?
?It now appears that the already impressive levels of developer support for the BlackBerry 10 platform are accelerating into the launch window for the BlackBerry Z10. The prospect of a very robust app catalog can only bolster momentum for the product and the platform itself,? said John Jackson, Research Vice President, Mobile & Connected Platforms at IDC. ?The ability to attract and sustain developer support is like lifeblood for any mobile platform, and it?s not something that simply happens. This progress is a testament to BlackBerry?s early and innovative engagement with developers worldwide and the innovative architecture of the platform itself.?
BlackBerry 10 applications?take connecting to the next level with the ability to leverage social, gamification, and integration frameworks that other platforms are not able to offer. Customers can easily share applications with those in their social networks including BBM? (BlackBerry? Messenger), Facebook, and Twitter. Applications can incorporate gaming features such as leader boards, badges, rewards and more using the Scoreloop tools, and BlackBerry 10 applications can tie to core OS integration points to allow developers to create compelling experiences to keep people moving and flow with BlackBerry 10 experience features.
In addition to apps and games, BlackBerry World for BlackBerry 10 offers access to one of the most robust catalogs of music and video content for mobile users*, with partnerships across all major movie studios, all major music labels and television networks.
The BlackBerry Z10 (all touch) is the first smartphone powered by BlackBerry 10, the re-designed, re-engineered, and re-invented BlackBerry platform. The?BlackBerry Z10?will be available in the U.S. from March 22.
FILE - In this March 18, 2013 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate pressed ahead Wednesday on a huge, bipartisan spending bill aimed at keeping the government running through September and ruling out the chance of a government shutdown later this month. The developments in the Senate come as the House resumed debate on the budget for next year and beyond. Republicans are pushing a plan that promises sharp cuts to federal health care programs and domestic agency operating budgets as the price for balancing the budget in a decade. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - In this March 18, 2013 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate pressed ahead Wednesday on a huge, bipartisan spending bill aimed at keeping the government running through September and ruling out the chance of a government shutdown later this month. The developments in the Senate come as the House resumed debate on the budget for next year and beyond. Republicans are pushing a plan that promises sharp cuts to federal health care programs and domestic agency operating budgets as the price for balancing the budget in a decade. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate pressed ahead Wednesday on a huge, bipartisan spending bill aimed at keeping the government running through September and ruling out the chance of a government shutdown later this month. Blunt said he's been promised a vote on an amendment ? eagerly sought by the meatpacking and poultry industries ? that would offer them relief from food inspector furloughs that threaten to intermittently shutter plants. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Deputy Commerce Secretary for Resource Management Hari Sastry, left, looks over documents on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 19, 2013, during a break in his testimony in a joint hearing on sequestration held by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs, and the subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Senate approved legislation Wednesday to lock in $85 billion in widely decried spending cuts aimed at restraining soaring federal deficits ? and to avoid a government shutdown just a week away. President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats rejected a call to reopen White House tours scrapped because of the tightened spending.
Federal meat inspectors were spared furloughs, but more than 100 small and medium air traffic facilities were left exposed to possible closure as the two parties alternately clashed and cooperated over proposals to take the edge off across-the-board spending cuts that took effect on March 1.
Final House approval of the measure is likely as early as Thursday. Obama's signature is a certainty, meaning the cuts will remain in place at least through the end of the budget year on Sept. 30 ? even though he and lawmakers in both parties have criticized them as random rather than targeted. Obama argued strongly against them in campaign-style appearances, predicting painful consequences, before they began taking effect, and Republicans objected to impacts on Pentagon spending.
Without changes, the $85 billion in cuts for the current year will swell to nearly $1 trillion over a decade, enough to make at least a small dent in economy-threatening federal deficits but requiring program cuts that lawmakers in both parties say are unsustainable politically. As a result, negotiations are possible later in the year to replace the reductions with different savings.
The administration as well as Republicans picked and chose its spots in arguing for flexibility in this year's cuts.
"My hope is that gets done," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said earlier in the week of the effort to prevent layoffs among inspectors that could disrupt the nation's food supply chain. "If it does not, come mid-July we will furlough meat inspectors," he added, departing from the administration's general position that flexibility should ease all the cuts or none at all.
The final vote was 73-26, with 51 Democrats, 20 Republicans and two independents in favor and 25 Republicans and Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana opposed.
Political considerations were on ample display in both houses as lawmakers labored over measures relating to spending priorities, both for this year and a decade into the future.
Rep. Mark Mulvaney, R-S.C., said he had wanted the House to vote on Obama's own budget, but he noted the president hadn't yet released one. 'It's with great regret ... that I'm not able to offer" a presidential budget for a vote, he said. He added he had wanted to vote on a placeholder ? "34 pages full of question marks" ? but House rules prevented it.
Minority Democrats advanced a plan that calls for $1 trillion in higher taxes, $500 billion in spending cuts over a decade and a $200 billion economic stimulus package. Republicans voted it down, 253-165.
They are expected to approve their own very different blueprint on Thursday.
It calls for $4.6 trillion in spending cuts over a decade and no tax increases, a combination that projects to a balanced budget in 10 years' time. That spending plan would indeed be simply a blueprint, lacking any actual control over federal spending.
The issues were grittier in the Senate, where lawmakers grappled with the immediate impact of across-the-board cuts on individual programs.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., a deficit hawk, said he wanted to reopen the White House tours, shut down since earlier in the month. He said his proposal would take about $8 million from the National Heritage Partnership Program and apply it toward "opening up the tours at the White House, opening up Yellowstone National Park and the rest of the national parks."
White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters previously the decision the cancel the White House tours was made by the Secret Service because "it would be, in their view, impossible to staff those tours; that they would have to withdraw staff from those tours in order to avoid more furloughs and overtime pay cuts."
But in remarks on the Senate floor, Coburn said, "This is a Park Service issue, not a Secret Service issue."
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said the funds involved in Coburn's amendment would not go to the Secret Service, and as a result the tours "would not be affected." He also said the Heritage program, a public-private partnership, helps produce economic development and should not be cut.
The vote was 54-45 against the proposal. Montana Sen. Max Baucus, whose state borders on Yellowstone National Park, was the only Democrat to vote with Republicans.
The Park Service has announced some parks may open late to automobile traffic this spring because budget cuts have reduced funds available to clear roads of winter snow.
The overall legislation locks in the $85 billion in spending cuts through the end of the budget year, yet provides several departments and agencies with flexibility in coping with them. It extends flexibility to the Pentagon, the departments of Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Justice, State and Commerce and the Food and Drug Administration.
But bipartisanship has its limits, and in private negotiations Republicans rejected Democratic attempts to provide flexibility for the rest of the government.
That set off a scramble among lawmakers to round up support for changes on a case-by-case basis.
The provision to prevent furloughs for federal meat inspectors had the support of industry as well as from both sides of the political aisle and cleared without a vote. It was supported by Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, a Democrat seeking re-election next year, and Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, who quietly helped Democrats round up the votes they needed to clear the legislation over a procedural hurdle.
The effect was to transfer $55 million to the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service from other accounts within the department, including deferred maintenance.
"Without this funding, every meat, poultry, and egg processing facility in the country would be forced to shut down for up to two weeks," said Blunt. "That means high food prices and less work for the hardworking Americans who work in these facilities nationwide."
In contrast to Blunt, Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, opposed Democrats when they sought to overcome procedural hurdles earlier in the week.
In the days since, he repeatedly refused to let the bill advance unless he was given a chance to cancel about $50 million in cuts aimed at contract employees at more than 170 air traffic facilities around the country. In the end, his amendment was jettisoned without a vote.
Mar. 19, 2013 ? Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that mechanical forces can control the depolymerization of actin, a critical protein that provides the major force-bearing structure in the cytoskeletons of cells. The research suggests that forces applied both externally and internally may play a much larger role than previously believed in regulating a range of processes inside cells.
Using atomic force microscopy (AFM) force-clamp experiments, the research found that tensile force regulates the kinetics of actin dissociation by prolonging the lifetimes of bonds at low force range, and by shortening bond lifetimes beyond a force threshold. The research also identified a possible molecular basis for the bonds that form when mechanical forces create new interactions between subunits of actin.
Found in the cytoskeleton of nearly all cells, actin forms dynamic microfilaments that provide structure and sustain forces. A cell's ability to assemble and disassemble actin allows it to rapidly move or change shape in response to the environment.
The research was reported March 4 in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
"For the first time, we have shown that mechanical force can directly regulate how actin is assembled and disassembled," said Larry McIntire, chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University and corresponding author of the study. "Actin is fundamental to how cells accomplish most of their functions and processes. This research gives us a whole new way of thinking about how a cell can do things like rearrange its cytoskeleton in response to external forces."
The external forces affecting a cell could arise from such mechanical actions as blood flow, trauma to the body, or the loading of bones and other tissue as organisms move around.
"Forces are applied to cells all the time, and often they are directional, not uniformly applied in a certain direction," said McIntire. "The cell can rearrange its cytoskeleton to either accommodate the forces that are being applied, or apply its own forces to do something -- such as moving to go after food."
Because these forces regulate the polymerization and depolymerization of actin, they load the actin fibers in a specific direction, affecting the duration of bonds that may influence cellular growth in one direction, he said.
For instance, tensile forces applied to the actin produce catch bonds, in which the bond lifetime increases as the force increases. These catch bonds have been shown to exist in other proteins, but actin is the most important protein known to form the structures. Most bonds at the cellular level are slip bonds which, unlike catch bonds, dissociate more quickly with application of force.
The researchers used a specially-constructed AFM to conduct their experiments. The tip was coated with actin monomers, while a polystyrene surface below the AFM tip was coated with either monomeric or filamentous actin. To study the catch-slip bonds, the tip was driven close to the surface to allow bond formation, then retracted to pull on the bond. The tension was held stationary to measure the bond lifetime at a constant force.
The research team also used molecular dynamics simulations to predict the specific amino acids likely to be important in forming the catch bonds. Experiments using specialized reagents confirmed the molecular mechanism, a lysine-glutamic acid-salt bridge believed to be responsible for forming long-lived bonds between actin sub-units when force is applied to them.
"What we found was that when you apply force, the force induces additional interactions at the atomic scale," said Cheng Zhu, a Regents' professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and co-corresponding author of the paper. "When you apply force, you find that residues that had previously not been making contact are now interacting. These are force-induced interactions."
Proof that force application can play a role in the internal functions of cells demonstrates the growing importance of a relatively new field of research known as mechano-biology, which studies how mechanical activities affect living tissues.
"We know that the cell can sense the mechanical environment around it," said Zhu. "One of the cell's responses to the mechanical environment is to change shape and reorganize the actin cytoskeleton. Previously, it was thought that sensory molecules at the cell surface were required to convert the mechanical cues into biochemical signals before the actin cytoskeleton could be altered. The mechanism we describe can bypass the cellular signaling mechanisms because actin bears the force in the cell."
The work sets the stage for additional research into other biochemical reactions that may be produced by the application of force.
"It's becoming more and more clear that the ability of the cell to vary its mechanical environment, in addition to responding to what's going on outside it, is crucial to a lot of what goes on with the biochemistry in the cell functions," McIntire added. "If you can change the structure of the amino acids by pulling on them, and that force is applied to an enzymatic site, you can increase or decrease the enzymatic activity by changing the local structure of the amino acids."
The research was inspired by a 2005 paper from the Shu Chien lab at the University of California at San Diego, and was carried out by Georgia Tech graduate student Cho-yin Lee (now at the National Taiwan University Hospital) and research scientist Jizhong Lou (now at the Chinese Academy of Sciences), with intellectual input from Suzanne B. Eskin from Georgia Tech and Shoichiro Ono from Emory University. Kuo-kuang Wen and Melissa McKane from the laboratory of Peter A. Rubenstein at the University of Iowa provided actin mutants used in the research.
This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under grants HL18672, HL70537, HL091020, HL093723, AI077343, AI044902, AR48615 and DC8803, and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China grants 31070827, 31222022 and 81161120424. The conclusions are those of the principal investigators and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
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C.-y. Lee, J. Lou, K.-k. Wen, M. McKane, S. G. Eskin, S. Ono, S. Chien, P. A. Rubenstein, C. Zhu, L. V. McIntire. Actin depolymerization under force is governed by lysine 113:glutamic acid 195-mediated catch-slip bonds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218407110
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Map locates Khan al-Assal, Syria, where the government and rebels accused each other of attacking with chemical weapons
Map locates Khan al-Assal, Syria, where the government and rebels accused each other of attacking with chemical weapons
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says he fears a "stain on our national credibility" if the United States determines that Syria's Bashar Assad is using chemical weapons to remain in power but fails to intervene.
Michigan Republican Mike Rogers says there's a "high probability" a chemical agent was deployed Tuesday in northern Syria.
Rogers spoke a day after the Obama administration disputed the Assad regime's claim that rebels had used such weapons in Aleppo.
Rogers tells "CBS This Morning" the U.S. knows "there has been some forensic evidence that at least small quantities" of chemical weapons may have been used. Rogers also says the United States has "lost the faith" of the opposition forces, adding, "This is the time to act. Don't wait until we have 5,000 dead."
BEIJING (AP) ? China's leader Xi Jinping held his first meeting Tuesday with a foreign official since being appointed president, conferring with U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew as the two nations re-engaged following a months-long hiatus during the Chinese leadership transition.
Lew was expected to bring up issues including North Korea's nuclear program, Asian Pacific security and allegations of Chinese government-sponsored cyberspying during his two-day visit. Lew also is expected to meet Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
Li and Xi were formally appointed to their government positions during the past week.
Lew's visit underscores the importance of the China-U.S. relationship, and marks the highest-level interaction between the two sides since former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Pannetta's brief trip in late September.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry also plans to visit Beijing next month.
When it rains, it pours: Electronic Arts, currently grappling with game-breaking SimCity server issues as well as the surprise resignation of CEO John Riccitiello, might have to add ?millions of players at risk of being hacked? to its list of woes.
It seems EA?s Origin gaming service may place tens of millions of players (the service has around 40 million members total) at risk thanks to a design flaw that allows a hacker to execute malicious code on a targeted user?s system remotely. EA Origin is EA?s digital distribution platform as well as anti-piracy mechanism, operating as a sort of relay between players and EA?s game servers similar to Valve?s older, more popular Steam service. EA games like DICE?s Battlefield 3?or EA Maxis? SimCity require the EA Origin client to run, and it?s an exploitable flaw in that process on Windows PCs, whereby the Origin client employs web-like addresses to access games, that?s at issue.
The paper outlining the exploit, titled ?EA Origin Insecurity (When Local Bugs Go Remote.. Again),? was actually published in late February, so it?s likely making waves now because of all this other EA-related chatter ? it didn?t just happen yesterday, in other words ? but it is worth being aware of what?s at stake, since EA hasn?t addressed the problem, and there may be steps you can take to safeguard yourself until they do.
The research team?responsible for outing the exploit operates under the company name [Re]Vuln Ltd.?and consists of two people: one a former security researcher for Research in Motion, the other describing himself as an ?independent security researcher.?
How does the exploit work??According to the researchers, if you?re launching an EA Origin game from a website or desktop shortcut, a hacker could abuse the ?Origin URI handling mechanism,? meaning Origin links styled by the URI handler as ?origin://? plus game, game ID, command parameters and an attacker?s payload. The exploit still requires hackers suss your game ID, but if they do, they could easily slip attack code in ? say a remote DLL file ? through the URI handler, then use that code to crack open your system.
Assuming the exploit checks out ? [Re]Vuln?offers a video of the hack?as evidence and, according to the BBC, just demonstrated the attack?at the Black Hat Europe conference?? the researchers advise using a URL-blocker like?URLProtocolView to impede Origin?s URI handler. While this means you wouldn?t be able to run EA Origin games from shortcuts or Internet sites with custom command parameters, the researchers say you can still launch games securely from within the Origin game client itself.
The researchers discovered a similar flaw in Valve?s Steam client last October: URLs beginning ?steam://? that allow hackers to slip in malicious code. The bigger question, then, is why EA didn?t act last year to address this. Also: why Valve hasn?t yet addressed the issue with its apparently still-vulnerable Steam client.
Mar. 19, 2013 ? EPFL scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties -- graphene and molybdenite -- into a flash memory prototype that is very promising in terms of performance, size, flexibility and energy consumption.
After the molybdenite chip, we now have molybdenite flash memory, a significant step forward in the use of this new material in electronics applications. The news is even more impressive because scientists from EPFL's Laboratory of Nanometer Electronics and Structures (LANES) came up with a truly original idea: they combined the advantages of this semiconducting material with those of another amazing material -- graphene. The results of their research have recently been published in the journal ACS Nano.
Two years ago, the LANES team revealed the promising electronic properties of molybdenite (MoS2), a mineral that is very abundant in nature. Several months later, they demonstrated the possibility of building an efficient molybdenite chip. Today, they've gone further still by using it to develop a flash memory prototype -- that is, a cell that can not only store data but also maintain it in the absence of electricity. This is the kind of memory used in digital devices such as cameras, phones, laptop computers, printers, and USB keys.
An ideal "energy band"
"For our memory model, we combined the unique electronic properties of MoS2 with graphene's amazing conductivity," explains Andras Kis, author of the study and director of LANES.
Molybdenite and graphene have many things in common. Both are expected to surpass the physical limitations of our current silicon chips and electronic transistors. Their two-dimensional chemical structure -- the fact that they're made up of a layer only a single atom thick -- gives them huge potential for miniaturization and mechanical flexibility.
Although graphene is a better conductor, molybdenite has advantageous semi-conducting properties. MoS2 has an ideal "energy band" in its electronic structure that graphene does not. This allows it to switch very easily from an "on" to an "off" state, and thus to use less electricity. Used together, the two materials can thus combine their unique advantages.
Like a sandwich
The transistor prototype developed by LANES was designed using "field effect" geometry, a bit like a sandwich. In the middle, instead of silicon, a thin layer of MoS2 channels electrons. Underneath, the electrodes transmitting electricity to the MoS2 layer are made out of graphene. And on top, the scientists also included an element made up of several layers of graphene; this captures electric charge and thus stores memory.
"Combining these two materials enabled us to make great progress in miniaturization, and also using these transistors we can make flexible nanoelectronic devices," explains Kis. The prototype stores a bit of memory, just a like a traditional cell. But according to the scientist, because molybdenite is thinner than silicon and thus more sensitive to charge, it offers great potential for more efficient data storage.
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Branimir Radisavljevic, Michael B. Whitwick, Andras Kis. Correction to Integrated Circuits and Logic Operations Based on Single-Layer MoS2. ACS Nano, 2013; : 130306152835005 DOI: 10.1021/nn400553g
Dominik Lembke, Andras Kis. Correction to Breakdown of High-Performance Monolayer MoS2Transistors. ACS Nano, 2013; : 130306155146006 DOI: 10.1021/nn400554k
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Daily life has finally calmed down since we've got back from the our trip. I've caught up with work--and gotten back into my regular routine of cooking, baking and working out. I even have my tax documents ready for my accountant.
I never thought I'd be so content to get back to a predictable weekly routine. A weekday without emergency phone calls, texts, or emails is a success. On many weekends, we purposely don't make many plans, so we can relax. I cherish an afternoon of baking on Saturday, a time when I don't feel rushed or the need to meet a deadline. In the kitchen, it's just me, myself, and my imagination.
Weekends are also a great time to hangout with M. I'm playing in the kitchen while M is in his office nearby. He tells me about interesting articles he's found on the Internet. Occasionally, I hear him explode in laughter, and I insist on being let in on the joke. These moments seem mundane but are the building blocks of a later comfortable, companionable silence.
This Orange Chocolate Cake represents the very quality of these moments. It's not a fancy cake, nor are the ingredients exotic. With all the ingredients stirred into a simple bundt pan and baked in the oven, the result invokes relaxing moments, especially when shared with loved ones.
yield: 9-inch cake adapted from Dorie Greenspan
Ingredients 2 cups (10 ounces) all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt 2 cups (14 ounces) granulated sugar 3 tablespoons fresh orange zest (about 2 large navel oranges) 5 tablespoons (2-1/2 ounces) unsalted butter, softened 1 cup unsweetened coconut milk (stir well before measuring) 1/4 cup orange juice, from the zested oranges 4 large eggs, room temperature 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1 tablespoon bourbon or dark rum 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped into chunks Chocolate Ganache Glaze, recipe to follow Orange zest/peel strips for garnish (optional)
Directions 1. Adjust oven racks to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9- to 10- inch Bundt pan. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl, set aside.
2. Combine sugar and orange zest in the bowl of a stand mixer, rub the zest into the sugar with your fingers until combined and resemble wet sand.
3. Melt butter in small saucepan over medium-low heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until butter is nutty brown, 5 to 8 minutes. Off heat, slowly stir in coconut milk. Set aside.
4. In the bowl, with orange sugar, of a stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment, add eggs and beat at medium high speed until pale, thick and almost double in volume, about 3 minutes. Add vanilla and bourbon, beat to combine. Reduce speed to low and add dry mixture in 3 additions, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
5. Slowly pour in warm coconut milk mixture and beat until barely combine. Finish the mixing of batter with rubber spatula to make sure all ingredients are fully incorporated. Pour batter into prepared pan and smooth with small off-set spatula.
6. Bake until golden brown and wooden skewer inserted into center of cake comes out clean, about 55-65 minutes. Cool on wire rack for 15 minutes before unfolding onto rack and cool to room temperature.
Chocolate Ganache Glaze
Ingredients 5 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped 1/3 cup heavy cream 1/2 tablespoon corn syrup 1/2 tablespoon unsalted butter
Directions 1. !n a small saucepan, bring the cream to a boil. In a heatproof bowl, combine chopped chocolate, corn syrup and butter. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and let stand until melted, about 5 minutes. Whisk until smooth. Let the ganache glaze cool until thick but still pourable, about 5 minutes.
2. Pour the glaze over the cooled cake.Let the cake stand until the glaze is set, at least 30 minutes, before serving.
Recipe Notes
1. I like to use coconut milk instead of milk. The subtle coconut flavor gives a subtle surprise, plus a richness to the cake. By all means use whole milk if you have that readily available.
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Difficulty in recognizing faces in autism linked to performance in a group of neuronsPublic release date: 18-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Karen Mallet km463@georgetown.edu Georgetown University Medical Center
WASHINGTON Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have discovered a brain anomaly that explains why some people diagnosed with autism cannot easily recognize faces a deficit linked to the impairments in social interactions considered to be the hallmark of the disorder.
They also say that the novel neuroimaging analysis technique they developed to arrive at this finding is likely to help link behavioral deficits to differences at the neural level in a range of neurological disorders.
The final manuscript published March 15 in the online journal NeuroImage: Clinical, the scientists say that in the brains of many individuals with autism, neurons in the brain area that processes faces (the fusiform face area, or FFA) are too broadly "tuned" to finely discriminate between facial features of different people. They made this discovery using a form of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that scans output from the blueberry-sized FFA, located behind the right ear.
"When your brain is processing faces, you want neurons to respond selectively so that each is picking up a different aspect of individual faces. The neurons need to be finely tuned to understand what is dissimilar from one face to another," says the study's senior investigator, Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD., an associate professor of neuroscience at GUMC.
"What we found in our 15 adult participants with autism is that in those with more severe behavioral deficits, the neurons are more broadly tuned, so that one face looks more like another, as compared with the fine tuning seen in the FFA of typical adults," he says.
"And we found evidence that reduced selectivity in FFA neurons corresponded to greater behavioral deficits in everyday face recognition in our participants. This makes sense. If your neurons cannot tell different faces apart, it makes it more difficult to tell who is talking to you or understand the facial expressions that are conveyed, which limits social interaction."
Riesenhuber adds that there is huge variation in the ability of individuals diagnosed with autism to discriminate faces, and that some autistic people have no problem with facial recognition.
"But for those that do have this challenge, it can have substantial ramifications some researchers believe deficits in face processing are at the root of social dysfunction in autism," he says.
The neural basis for face processing
Neuroscientists have used traditional fMRI studies in the past to probe the neural bases of behavioral differences in people with autism, but these studies have produced conflicting results, says Riesenhuber. "The fundamental problem with traditional fMRI techniques is that they can tell which parts of the brain become active during face processing, but they are poor at directly measuring neuronal selectivity," he says, "and it is this neuronal selectivity that predicts face processing performance, as shown in our previous studies."
To test their hypothesis that differences in neuronal selectivity in the FFA are foundational to differences in face processing abilities in autism, Riesenhuber and the study's lead author, neuroscientist Xiong Jiang, PhD, developed a novel brain imaging analysis technique, termed local regional heterogeneity, to estimate neuronal selectivity.
"Local regional heterogeneity, or Hcorr, as we called it, is based on the idea that neurons that have similar selectivities will on average show similar responses, whereas neurons that like different stimuli will respond differently," says Jiang. "This means that individuals with face processing deficits should show more homogeneous activity in their FFA than individuals with more typical face recognition abilities."
They tested the method in 15 adults with autism and 15 adults without the disorder. The autistic participants also underwent a standard assessment of social/behavioral functioning.
The researchers found that in each autistic participant, behavioral ability to tell faces apart was tightly linked to levels of tuning specificity in the right FFA as estimated with Hcorr. This finding was confirmed by another advanced imaging technique, fMRI rapid adaptation, shown by the group in previous work to be a good estimator of neuronal selectivity.
"Compared to the more well-established fMRI-rapid adaptation technique, Hcorr has several significant advantages," says Jiang. "Hcorr is more sensitive and can estimate neuronal selectivity as well as fMRI rapid adaptation, but with much shorter scans, and Hcorr can even estimate neuronal selectivity using data from resting state scans, thus making the technique suitable even for individuals that cannot perform complicated tasks in the scanner, such as low-functioning autistic adults, or young children."
"The study suggests that, just as in typical adults, the FFA remains the key region responsible for face processing and that changes in neuronal selectivity in this area are foundational to the variability in face processing abilities found in autism. Our study identifies a clear target for intervention," says Riesenhuber. Indeed, after the study was completed, the researchers successfully attempted to improve facial recognition skills in an autistic participant. They showed the participant pairs of faces that were very dissimilar at first, but became increasingly similar, and found that FFA tuning improved along with behavioral ability to tell the faces apart. "This suggests high-level brain areas may still be somewhat plastic in adulthood," says Riesenhuber.
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The study was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH076281), a grant from the National Science Foundation (0449743), National Institutes of Health grants (IDDRC P30HD40677 and GCRC M01-RR13297).
About Georgetown University Medical Center
Georgetown University Medical Center is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through MedStar Health). GUMC's mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis -- or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing & Health Studies, both nationally ranked; Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute; and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization (BGRO), which accounts for the majority of externally funded research at GUMC including a Clinical Translation and Science Award from the National Institutes of Health.
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Difficulty in recognizing faces in autism linked to performance in a group of neuronsPublic release date: 18-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Karen Mallet km463@georgetown.edu Georgetown University Medical Center
WASHINGTON Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have discovered a brain anomaly that explains why some people diagnosed with autism cannot easily recognize faces a deficit linked to the impairments in social interactions considered to be the hallmark of the disorder.
They also say that the novel neuroimaging analysis technique they developed to arrive at this finding is likely to help link behavioral deficits to differences at the neural level in a range of neurological disorders.
The final manuscript published March 15 in the online journal NeuroImage: Clinical, the scientists say that in the brains of many individuals with autism, neurons in the brain area that processes faces (the fusiform face area, or FFA) are too broadly "tuned" to finely discriminate between facial features of different people. They made this discovery using a form of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that scans output from the blueberry-sized FFA, located behind the right ear.
"When your brain is processing faces, you want neurons to respond selectively so that each is picking up a different aspect of individual faces. The neurons need to be finely tuned to understand what is dissimilar from one face to another," says the study's senior investigator, Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD., an associate professor of neuroscience at GUMC.
"What we found in our 15 adult participants with autism is that in those with more severe behavioral deficits, the neurons are more broadly tuned, so that one face looks more like another, as compared with the fine tuning seen in the FFA of typical adults," he says.
"And we found evidence that reduced selectivity in FFA neurons corresponded to greater behavioral deficits in everyday face recognition in our participants. This makes sense. If your neurons cannot tell different faces apart, it makes it more difficult to tell who is talking to you or understand the facial expressions that are conveyed, which limits social interaction."
Riesenhuber adds that there is huge variation in the ability of individuals diagnosed with autism to discriminate faces, and that some autistic people have no problem with facial recognition.
"But for those that do have this challenge, it can have substantial ramifications some researchers believe deficits in face processing are at the root of social dysfunction in autism," he says.
The neural basis for face processing
Neuroscientists have used traditional fMRI studies in the past to probe the neural bases of behavioral differences in people with autism, but these studies have produced conflicting results, says Riesenhuber. "The fundamental problem with traditional fMRI techniques is that they can tell which parts of the brain become active during face processing, but they are poor at directly measuring neuronal selectivity," he says, "and it is this neuronal selectivity that predicts face processing performance, as shown in our previous studies."
To test their hypothesis that differences in neuronal selectivity in the FFA are foundational to differences in face processing abilities in autism, Riesenhuber and the study's lead author, neuroscientist Xiong Jiang, PhD, developed a novel brain imaging analysis technique, termed local regional heterogeneity, to estimate neuronal selectivity.
"Local regional heterogeneity, or Hcorr, as we called it, is based on the idea that neurons that have similar selectivities will on average show similar responses, whereas neurons that like different stimuli will respond differently," says Jiang. "This means that individuals with face processing deficits should show more homogeneous activity in their FFA than individuals with more typical face recognition abilities."
They tested the method in 15 adults with autism and 15 adults without the disorder. The autistic participants also underwent a standard assessment of social/behavioral functioning.
The researchers found that in each autistic participant, behavioral ability to tell faces apart was tightly linked to levels of tuning specificity in the right FFA as estimated with Hcorr. This finding was confirmed by another advanced imaging technique, fMRI rapid adaptation, shown by the group in previous work to be a good estimator of neuronal selectivity.
"Compared to the more well-established fMRI-rapid adaptation technique, Hcorr has several significant advantages," says Jiang. "Hcorr is more sensitive and can estimate neuronal selectivity as well as fMRI rapid adaptation, but with much shorter scans, and Hcorr can even estimate neuronal selectivity using data from resting state scans, thus making the technique suitable even for individuals that cannot perform complicated tasks in the scanner, such as low-functioning autistic adults, or young children."
"The study suggests that, just as in typical adults, the FFA remains the key region responsible for face processing and that changes in neuronal selectivity in this area are foundational to the variability in face processing abilities found in autism. Our study identifies a clear target for intervention," says Riesenhuber. Indeed, after the study was completed, the researchers successfully attempted to improve facial recognition skills in an autistic participant. They showed the participant pairs of faces that were very dissimilar at first, but became increasingly similar, and found that FFA tuning improved along with behavioral ability to tell the faces apart. "This suggests high-level brain areas may still be somewhat plastic in adulthood," says Riesenhuber.
###
The study was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH076281), a grant from the National Science Foundation (0449743), National Institutes of Health grants (IDDRC P30HD40677 and GCRC M01-RR13297).
About Georgetown University Medical Center
Georgetown University Medical Center is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through MedStar Health). GUMC's mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis -- or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing & Health Studies, both nationally ranked; Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute; and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization (BGRO), which accounts for the majority of externally funded research at GUMC including a Clinical Translation and Science Award from the National Institutes of Health.
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In the early hours of the morning in Europe, the Eurozone and the IMF announced a $10 billion bailout for Eurozone member Cyprus, whose economy is tied closely to Greece's, and who was in a similarly dire state. The details are here.
A key angle here is the Russian angle.
You may remember that along the way during the crisis, Cyprus has sought aid from Russia, which was unusual. Well the reason for that is that (Island of) Cyprus is a place where Russians are believed to do a lot of money laundering, which involves parking cash in Cypriot banks.
What's stunning about Saturday's bailout is that depositors with over 100K euros in a Cypriot bank will see a 10 percent tax instantly before banks reopen on Tuesday.
That will infuriate domestic savers, and it will mean that a lot of Russian oligarchs/mobsters/money launderers/etc. will take big hits.
This is by design. As C4 economics editor Faisal Islam notes:
Sony Kapoor of the think tank ReDefine Europe has this grim take:
The pseudonymous @pawelmorski has more in a brilliant post titled Cyprus: A Brutal Lesson in RealPolitik, which concludes that ultimately it's not that bad for Russians. It's basically a one-off 10 percent tax on the money-laundering business, and that actually there's also a smaller tax on account holders with less than 100K EUR, which means it's not just rich Russians taking the burden.
And the Russians? The reason small depositors have been hit is that the losses inflicted would be much bigger if a) only large deposits b) only non-EU deposits were haircut. The data on Cyprus deposits is here (MUMs = Monetary Union Members). I would guess the thinking is that 10 percent is seen as a cost of doing business when it comes to money laundering, but 30 percent would probably finish Cypriot banking for good. If the infliction of losses on small depositors has a purpose, it?s probably to reassure the Russians that they are not being discriminated against. Yes, I may have thrown up a little in my mouth typing that. *
So: senior bondholders and Russians helped at the cost of smaller locals. There?s more logic here than there appears at first glance ? the primary aim of this programme is to hold the European banking sector together whilst having a vaguely realistic programme, not placing another huge bill on the core/Germany not ending the viability of Cyprus as an offshore banking sector. My own judgement is that inflicting costs on depositors in principle is an extremely important one, but that not sparing the small depositor is worse than a cruel piece of realpolitik ? it is in fact a mistake.
Paul "DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid" Miller is a veritable renaissance man: he's a conceptual artist, writer and musician. After playing a special set here at Expand and chatting with us on stage, he took a trip backstage and discussed turning data into music, remixing The Metropolitan Museum of Art's archives, 3D-printing instruments, eating roasted tarantulas with James Cameron and more. For the full interview, leap past the break for the video.
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One of five finalists in our first-annual Insert Coin: New Challengers competition, the Snapzoom is an adapter that lets you connect a smartphone to a telescope or a pair of binoculars for some long-range snapshots. We gave you a brief look at the product earlier in our contest, but we went hands-on with the Snapzoom ahead of Engadget Expand -- with the San Francisco Bay serving as our test subject, no less.
The Snapzoom isn't the only product of its kind, but it stands out for being universal. Though we tested the adapter with an iPhone 5, it will work with virtually every smartphone, thanks to adjustable clamps. Connecting the handset (in its case) to a set of binoculars was seamless: we just attached the device via the self-centering clamps and tightened it into place. It's easy to get excited when the setup brings you up close and personal with Alcatraz, but Snapzoom basically assumes you have some stunning imagery to shoot. We'll have to wait and see how our elite panel of Insert Coin judges thinks this contestant stacks up. In the meantime, check out the video demo past the break.
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Legal complaints filed by employees against their employers have risen dramatically over the past decade. Managers can do their part to prevent legal disputes by knowing the basics of employment law.
How well do you know the law? Take this quick quiz:
1. What are the most popular types of job discrimination complaints (in order) filed by employees?
?? ?a.? Age, race, disability
?? ?b.? Retaliation, race, sex
?? ?c.? Sex, race, retaliation
2. If an hourly employee works overtime hours that weren?t approved by his or her manager, federal law says the organization:
??? a.? Can dock the employee?s full pay for those unapproved work hours
?? ?b.? Can dock only half his or her pay
?? ?c.? Cannot dock the employee?s pay
3. At what age are workers protected by the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)?
?? ?a.? 40
?? ?b.? 50
?? ?c.? 55
4. True or False? To be eligible for job-protected leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), employees must specifically request ?FMLA leave? to their managers or employers.
?? ?a.? True
?? ?b.? False
5. Which of these interview questions would not raise legal concerns under disability discrimination law?
?? ?a.? ?Have you had a major illness??
?? ?b.? ?Have you ever filed for workers? compensation benefits??
?? ?c.? ?How well can you handle stress??? ?
6. Federal law says terminated em??ployees must be paid their final paychecks:
?? ?a.? Within 72 hours of the ter??mi?nation
?? ?b.? By the next regular payday, but within 14 days
?? ?c.? No federal law exists, but some states do set such laws
7. True or False? Federal disability law says it?s illegal to discriminate against overweight people in the hiring, firing and other job issues.
?? ?a.? True
?? ?b.? False
8. Federal law sets limits on the number of hours and types of tasks you can assign young workers. At what age, under federal law, can employees perform any job and with no hours limits?
?? ?a.? 17 years old
?? ?b.? 18 years old
?? ?c.? 19 years old
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