Sunday, August 4, 2013

Pre-caffeine tech: Moto-X, hungry bears!

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Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.

The Moto X, Google's customizable smartphone, and the first smartphone to be assembled in the United States, is here.

But the sex jokes from the Moto-X ad campaign have been removed.?

On Aug. 6, Facebook will explain what's going in in your News Feed ... finally!

Twitter's Web search just got a whole lot fancier! Here's how.

Meanwhile, flying cars: Waiting in the wings or poised for takeoff?

This guy got questioned by the cops because of his Google history.?

Zynga, maker of "Words with Friends" is taking "Bang with Friends" to court. Guess why!

The 10 dumbest ATM pINs are even dumber than you'd think.

In?closing:?Here's a bear stealing an entire dumpster for a late night snack.?

Compiled by Helen A.S. Popkin, who invites you to join her on?Twitter?and/or?Facebook.

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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Stocks end slightly higher after tepid jobs report

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the end of the trading day on August 1, 2013 in New York City.

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the end of the trading day on August 1, 2013 in New York City.

Stocks closed modestly higher in thin volume on Friday despite a tepid jobs report. While the data was disappointing, it still showed job growth and may also make the Federal Reserve a bit more hesitant about curtailing its stimulus policies in September.

The U.S. economy created just 162,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in July after a downwardly revised 188,000 in June. The unemployment rate fell to 7.4 percent.

The quality of the jobs being created is also an issue. Burt White of LPL Financial pointed out, "Over the last four months we've created 4.2 part-time jobs for every one full-time job. That trend is not going in a good direction."

After spending the session clawing back morning losses, the Dow Jones Industrial Average?finished 30 points higher at 15,658.36. The?S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended with slight gains, while both the S&P and Dow set new closing highs.

The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, fell to 12.1.

Among S&P sectors, consumer discretionary and materials stocks led the gainers. Energy fell after disappointing earnings from oil giant Chevron.

"I think the market grinds higher," Bob Doll, chief equity strategist at Nuveen Asset Management, said. "We're not going to go up another 18 percent as we have since the first of the year in my opinion. But I think the market ends higher than where it is today."

The jobs data may push back the timing, or at least scale, of a potential Fed tapering of its bond-buying program.

St. Louis Fed president James Bullard said in a speech Friday that the central bank "needs to see more data" before it makes a decision about slowing the pace of its $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program.

(Read more: So-so summer: Job growth disappoints; rate drops)

Some economists, meanwhile, see just a small reduction in bond purchases next month.

"I think they'll only do $15 billion because the evidence will be still somewhat ambiguous," BNY Mellon economist Richard Hoey told CNBC of the potential cutback in bond purchases. "I don't think they'll do $25 billion. That's too strong a measure."

In other data, U.S. consumer spending increased 0.5 percent in June, lifted by automobile purchases and higher gasoline prices. Personal incomes rose 0.3 percent. June factory orders, meanwhile, rose 1.5 percent after an upwardly revised 3 percent in May.

(Read more: Escape velocity hopes give way to law of gravity)

Cable stocks rose on reports that Cox Communications and Charter Communications held merger talks. Cablevision was up sharply as well.

Viacom, meanwhile, reported a 14 percent rise in revenue helped by strong advertising and CBS affiliate fees at its cable networks. The media giant also doubled its stock buyback program to $20 billion.

LinkedIn shares surged following better-than-expected earnings and after a number of brokers hiked their price targets on the social networking firm.

AIG stock rose after the company posted strong earnings and said it would return capital to shareholders.

But oil giant?Chevron posted a 26 percent decline in net income?due to lower oil prices and maintenance work at its U.S. refineries.

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Friday, August 2, 2013

We each live in our own little world -- smellwise

[unable to retrieve full-text content]There are some smells we all find revolting. But toward a handful of odors, different people display different sensitivities. A pair of studies identifies the genetic differences that underpin the differences in smell sensitivity. The researchers tested 200 people for their sensitivity to 10 different chemical compounds. They then searched through the subjects' genomes for areas of the DNA that differed between people who could smell a given compound and those who could not.

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Fertility therapy not associated with long-term cardiovascular disease

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Women who gave birth following fertility treatment had no long-term increased risk of death or major cardiovascular events compared to women who gave birth without fertility therapy, according to new research.

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Ellen DeGeneres To Host 2014 Oscars

Comedian will emcee the Academy Awards for the second time.
By Amy Wilkinson

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1711715/ellen-degeneres-oscars-2014-host.jhtml

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Ranking Central Florida's top offensive, defensive linemen

Life in football's trenches is far from glamorous.

You won't find players with eye-popping times in the 40-yard dash here or ones with the ability to break tackles and make acrobatic catches.

No, this is real big-boy football.

With that in mind, we look at the top high-school offensive and defensive linemen in Central Florida based on their production, potential and value to their team.

Offensive line

5. King Belin

Orlando University won its first district title last year, thanks in large part to an offensive line led by Belin. Many of the Cougars' linemen, including the 6-foot-2, 260-pound senior, return. "He was the nastiest offensive lineman we played last year," Lyman coach Jeff Gierke said.

4. Brock Merritt

The 6-5, 300-pound tackle proved to be a great run-blocker in Lyman's option offense last year. After dropping 25 pounds, his quickness and agility should improve. UMass, Buffalo and Southern Miss have extended offers.

3. Chris Miller

First Academy rushed for nearly 4,000 yards last year behind a big, physical offensive line led by Miller (6-4, 305). He dropped basketball two years ago and has blossomed into a technically sound and versatile lineman who can play guard and tackle.

2. Gage Bostwick

Lake Brantley's three-year starter at guard is undersized at 6-2, 255 pounds, but his aggressive nature and strength rank highly. "He's the strongest kid in our school," Lake Brantley assistant Skip Clayton said. "He's a good enough athlete to play any spot on the line, including tight end, and he's as good as any lineman we've had in a while."

1. Martez Ivey

The 6-6, 270-pound junior has skyrocketed up the national recruiting rankings, recently appearing as ESPN's No. 6 prospect for the Class of 2015. After helping lead the Blue Darters to a state championship in December, offers have poured in from top programs, including Florida, Alabama and Oklahoma.

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Defensive Line

5. Tyree Owens

The 6-4, 230-pound senior defensive end has played football for only two years. Owens collected 76 tackles, 22 tackles for loss and six sacks last year for Oviedo. He committed to West Virginia on Monday.

4. Trent Harris

One of the state's best pass rushers, Harris attracted 19 offers before committing to Miami on Monday. The 6-2, 240-pound defensive end recorded 48 tackles, 11 for loss, with nine sacks for Winter Park last year.

3. Traevon Sharp

Evans will have several new faces this year, and the team will lean on Sharp, a fierce and unrelenting three-year starter at defensive end. Top college programs, including Florida State and Louisville, covet the 6-5, 230-pound senior, but he will need to improve his grades before National Signing Day in February.

2. Isaiah Buehler

Buehler (6-3, 225) leads a defensive line at Apopka that should be among the best in the state. The physical, intelligent senior had more than 50 tackles and six sacks last year for the state champs. A shoulder injury has slowed his recruitment, but FIU and FAU, among others, have extended offers.

1. Adam Torres

The area's top interior lineman committed to Florida State on Monday. The senior tackle's play was key for Lake Mary last year as the Rams allowed 722 total rushing yards and shut out five opponents. With many of last year's defensive starters gone, Lake Mary will rely on Torres even more in 2013.

crking@tribune.com

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

iPhone 6 Release Date Imminent as iOS 7 Beta 5 to be Available on August 12

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Source: www.ibtimes.com --- Wednesday, July 31, 2013
iPhone 6 release date may be sooner than later as the beta versions of iOS 7 is almost over. ...

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Where Criminal Meets Civil Law | Simple Justice

Eric Turkewitz at New York Personal Injury Law Blog lays out in a post he calls ?To Tell the Truth: Which Doctor?s Signature is the Real One???some evidence that whatever is happening on the defense side of?personal injury medical examinations, it smells just as bad as any fraud being perpetrated by a scammer under indictment.

Over the transom this week sails medical reports allegedly signed under oath by one Joseph Tuvia, M.D., who?s been doing medical-legal reviews of radiology films since about 1996. He was reviewing, back then, a thousand films a year, and was doing 95% of it for the defense.

As you might guess from the title of this post, the questions today revolve again around potential perjury, not from the witness stand but by signing medical-legal reports under penalty of perjury. Or, perhaps, by having others sign his name.

This goes to one of the bedrock assumptions that underlie law, that a signature made ?under penalty of perjury? actually means something. Judges buy into it. Lawyers buy into it. The law buys into it. Once a signed document shows up in court, we all fawn over it as if it?s real. If it?s not, then the fabric of litigation begins to unravel. More to the point, then it can constitute the crime of perjury. You know crimes, those things that are against the law, worthy of prosecution and in many instances, prison?

Is there an exemption from crime by doctors? Is there a special dispensation for doctors when they?re being paid by insurance companies to opine that the guy hit by a Mack truck with two severed legs barely suffered a sprain?

Eric puts together four reports from Dr. Tuvia.? Does anything look awry here?

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Tuvia2

Tuvia3

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As Eric puts it:

But who, in this case, is actually signing under penalty of perjury? Do any?of those signatures belong to Dr. Tuvia? Do they belong to someone on the support staff? Do they belong to a broker funneling business to the medical practice on behalf of the insurance company?

Is anyone changing the report after it?s dictated? Would Dr. Tuvia even know?

Is anyone laughing about this?

If these were mortgages and some bank lost twelve bucks, chances are particularly good that some prosecutor somewhere would be preparing his press release to announce an indictment. So are they investigating the fact that these reports, executed under penalty of perjury, are being used by courts to determine whether people who claim damages have been injured or are fakers? Somebody is a faker here, but it?s not the injured party.

People in the personal injury defense biz would likely slough this off, saying that physicians are very busy, very important people, whose time is far too valuable to sign their own name to reports whose validity is accepted because they are made under penalty of perjury.? Seriously? The half-second it takes to sign is more than these very important docs can handle?

But far, far more importantly, if they can be bothered to sign their own reports, do they read them? Do they even write them? They don?t get paid extra for making sure the report they dictated (or pulled out of their library of possible reports concluding that the party is healthy as a horse) is right on the money. After all, they can only give five minutes, tops, to the actual examination. What do you expect of these poor guys?

To see four reports with four obviously different signatures, all in the name of one physician, is to put the lie to physical examination, and by extension, to the merit of the defense denying people who were injured just compensation.? And if that?s the case, then it?s every bit the scam as if it was some hustler on the street.

As Eric properly notes, if there is pervasive fraud on the med exam side of personal injury defense, then it fundamentally undermines the integrity of the legal system and demands some very serious investigations and some very serious remedies.? That this involves docs having others sign their names to reports of unknown accuracy or origin ?under penalty of perjury? is ripe for prosecution.

Will the District Attorneys ever investigate? Will the Attorney General? Will the U.S. Attorney? ?How about the Insurance Frauds Bureau at the Department of Financial Services where Benjamin M. Lawsky is the Superintendent?? Or is it only individuals that get investigated while insurance companies get a free pass?

Yeah, I keep dreaming about this stuff, hoping someone in the media will wake up when they realize the scope of the issue, that someone will realize how many tens of millions or hundreds of millions are at stake, hoping that one day we will see a little more integrity in the system. ?Hoping that someone, somewhere, will pick up this drum and start banging on it.

Hello? Is this thing on? Is anyone out there listening? Does anyone give a damn?

This is our legal system, for better or worse, and if what these signatures suggest is happening is indeed happening, we better all give a damn because if it?s not cleaned up now, it will still be dirty when it?s your turn to need it.

Source: http://blog.simplejustice.us/2013/08/01/where-criminal-meets-civil-law/

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