Second season of 'Buckwild' in West Virginia will not air on MTV.
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Photo: MTV
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As often as Dropbox has been courting serious cloud storage users with Dropbox for Teams, it doesn't feel that the name reflects the company's loftier ambitions -- so it's giving the service a rebranding. Now called Dropbox for Business, it's pitched more directly at the suit-and-tie set. There's more than just talk involved in the new strategy, though. The shift also sees Dropbox build in identity management from five providers so that Dropbox users don't have to sign into the service if they're already logged in elsewhere: they can hop on to the corporate Active Directory service, for example and have Dropbox ready for action soon after. We doubt that the new moves by themselves will sway IT managers, but they may help would-be users who've been on the fence.
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Via: TechCrunch
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/10/dropbox-for-teams-becomes-dropbox-for-business/
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Estrogen and progesterone receptors, and the gene HER2 these are the big three markers and/or targets in breast cancer. Evidence presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013 adds a fourth: androgen receptors.
"This is a continuing line of work with all evidence pointing toward the addition of the androgen receptor as potential target and useful marker in all of the major subtypes of breast cancer," says Jennifer Richer, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and co-director of the CU Cancer Center Tissue Processing and Procurement Core.
The finding of androgen receptors (AR) as a potential target in breast cancer is especially important in light of its prevalence in breast cancers that don't express other hormone receptor targets or have developed resistance to treatments that target estrogen dependence. Overall, approximately 77 percent of breast cancers are positive for AR, including 88 percent of cancers that are estrogen receptor positive, 59 percent of those that are HER2 positive, and 20-32 percent of triple negative breast cancers.
The study presented this week explores the ability of estrogen-positive (ER+) breast cancers to develop resistance to anti-estrogen drugs by potentially developing an alternative addiction to AR and hypothesizes that anti-androgen therapy, such as the drug enzalutamide (formerly MDV3100) as successful counters to breast cancers' evolution. First, Richer and colleagues used breast cancer tumor registries to discover that cancers with higher ratios of AR to ER protein had shorter time to relapse after anti-estrogen therapies. Cut off from their estrogen addition, these cancers may have turned to growth and survival via androgens instead.
The group then returned to the lab to explore the effects of anti-androgen therapies in cell lines and preclinical models.
"Remarkably, the anti-androgen drug enzalutamide had effects comparable to the anti-estrogen drug tamoxifen in breast cancer cells that expressed both ER and AR," Richer says. HER2 cell lines that were also AR+ showed promising responses as well.
"We are excited to move toward clinical trials of anti-androgen therapies in breast cancer," Richer says. "And this study shows that patients with a high AR/ER ratio who relapse while on estrogen targeting therapies might be good candidates for this kind of therapy."
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Public release date: 10-Apr-2013 Share ] Contact: Garth Sundem
garth.sundem@ucdenver.edu
805-559-2023
University of Colorado Denver
Estrogen and progesterone receptors, and the gene HER2 these are the big three markers and/or targets in breast cancer. Evidence presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013 adds a fourth: androgen receptors.
"This is a continuing line of work with all evidence pointing toward the addition of the androgen receptor as potential target and useful marker in all of the major subtypes of breast cancer," says Jennifer Richer, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and co-director of the CU Cancer Center Tissue Processing and Procurement Core.
The finding of androgen receptors (AR) as a potential target in breast cancer is especially important in light of its prevalence in breast cancers that don't express other hormone receptor targets or have developed resistance to treatments that target estrogen dependence. Overall, approximately 77 percent of breast cancers are positive for AR, including 88 percent of cancers that are estrogen receptor positive, 59 percent of those that are HER2 positive, and 20-32 percent of triple negative breast cancers.
The study presented this week explores the ability of estrogen-positive (ER+) breast cancers to develop resistance to anti-estrogen drugs by potentially developing an alternative addiction to AR and hypothesizes that anti-androgen therapy, such as the drug enzalutamide (formerly MDV3100) as successful counters to breast cancers' evolution. First, Richer and colleagues used breast cancer tumor registries to discover that cancers with higher ratios of AR to ER protein had shorter time to relapse after anti-estrogen therapies. Cut off from their estrogen addition, these cancers may have turned to growth and survival via androgens instead.
The group then returned to the lab to explore the effects of anti-androgen therapies in cell lines and preclinical models.
"Remarkably, the anti-androgen drug enzalutamide had effects comparable to the anti-estrogen drug tamoxifen in breast cancer cells that expressed both ER and AR," Richer says. HER2 cell lines that were also AR+ showed promising responses as well.
"We are excited to move toward clinical trials of anti-androgen therapies in breast cancer," Richer says. "And this study shows that patients with a high AR/ER ratio who relapse while on estrogen targeting therapies might be good candidates for this kind of therapy."
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This is a series of Q&As with new, young and up-and-coming science, health and environmental writers and reporters. They ? at least some of them ? have recently hatched in the Incubators (science writing programs at schools of journalism), have even more recently fledged (graduated), and are now making their mark as wonderful new voices explaining science to the public.
Today we introduce you to Dani Grodsky (Twitter).
Hello and welcome to The SA Incubator. To start off, where are you from?
How did you get into science and how did you get into writing? And how did these two trajectories fuse into becoming a science writer?
Well, I started off from a very young age with a deep passion for science. Ever since elementary school, where I popped balloons filled with confetti to simulate the range of germs when you sneeze or tested which liquid made a submerged gummy bear expand, I feel in love with the journey of discovery that science fosters.
For the last three summers of high school I had the opportunity to do research at some of the country?s top universities (Cooper Union, Rockefeller University and NYU) in organic chemistry, cellular biology and visual perception. Around the same time, I also began tutoring students in a variety of math and science subjects. It was amazing to take part in building their connection to science and I was inspired to continue providing others, on a broader scale, with the opportunity to learn about the fascinating scientific ideas and innovations that are always evolving.
Once I came to Brown, I had the luck of taking a course at the beginning of my freshman year in which we read the works of contemporary authors who would subsequently do a live reading and Q&A with us. Throughout the semester, it struck me how writing empowers the author to instill a feeling or idea while at the same time organically allowing the reader to discover how he or she relates to the topic. It dawned on me that science writing would be the perfect outlet for me to spread my own passion and bridge the public with the scientific world.
Are you currently doing any form of science writing for a job or internship?
What do you see as the significance of the science communicators? role in society?
For a topic so crucially important, science can not and should not exist in a bubble for only those willing and able to derive meaning from esoteric descriptions. This is where the science communicator comes in- not only recounting such descriptions in more accessible terms to enable and promote understanding but, more importantly, leading members of the public to discover for themselves the significance, intrigue and ubiquitous impact of science.
How do you see the current and future science media ecosystem, how it differs from the past, and what role will new, young science communicators like yourself play in building it and making it the best it can be?
Today, story telling is being taken to new heights with the use of accompanying technology. As impactful as the written word can be in transmitting ideas, it will always be limited to the one dimensional surface ? captivating in so far as it can be dissected and processed. The use of multimedia and ceaselessly advancing technology adds a dimension that can more fully stimulate the senses and create a form of learning that reflects that of true experience.
What are your plans for the future?
One thing I am certain about is my continued pursuit as a science communicator. Ideally, this will take shape in the form of covering topics of the mind. I enter Brown with the strong conviction to study cognitive neuroscience and my fascination with how the brain shapes the totality of our perceptions and actions has remained unfading. More specifically, in my writing I want to further explore cognition as it relates to motivation, decision making and the emerging area of behavioral economics. Overall, I am excited to continue my pursuit of using reporting and story telling to incite discussion along with new or stronger connections to science.
Thank You!
Thanks to you as well! This has truly been great.
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Previously in this series:
Kristina Ashley Bjoran
Emily Eggleston
Erin Podolak
Rachel Nuwer
Hannah Krakauer
Rose Eveleth
Nadia Drake
Kelly Izlar
Jack Scanlan
Francie Diep
Maggie Pingolt
Jessica Gross
Abby McBride
Natalie Wolchover
Jordan Gaines
Audrey Quinn
Douglas Main
Smitha Mundasad
Mary Beth Griggs
Shara Yurkiewicz
Casey Rentz
Akshat Rathi
Kathleen Raven
Penny Sarchet
Amy Shira Teitel
Victoria Charlton
Noby Leong and Tristan O?Brien
Taylor Kubota
Benjamin Plackett
Laura Geggel
Daisy Yuhas
Miriam Kramer
Ashley Taylor
Kate Yandell
Justine Hausheer
Aatish Bhatia
Ashley Tucker
Jessica Men
Kelly Oakes
Lauren Fuge
Catherine Owsik
Marissa Fessenden
Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato
Kelly Poe
Kate Shaw
Meghan Rosen
Jon Tennant
Ashley Braun
Suzi Gage
Michael Grisafe
Jonathan Chang
Alison Schumacher
Alyssa Botelho
Hillary Craddock
Susan Matthews
Lacey Avery
Ilana Yurkiewicz
Kate Prengaman
Nicholas St. Fleur
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However just because you have declared bankruptcy, it doesn?t mean you?ll be ineligible to buy a home for the rest of your life. ?After a couple of years, you can again qualify. ?From?Tamara Schuster, a broker from Illinois,
FHA is available 2 years after Chapter 7 discharge ?( Bankruptcy) EXCEPT that if there is a foreclosure, the rule is 3 years after the foreclosure is complete ? meaning generally 3 years from the date of transfer of the deed to the next owner (could be a buyer or the bank if they hold the property).? So people with a foreclosure face a longer wait even if their credit has been reestablished.
If you are looking for a home, be completely truthful with your lender so they can tell you definitely whether you are qualified now or if you need to wait a few more months or another year.
Source: http://shakandjill.com/2013/02/you-can-buy-after-bankruptcy.html
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Heat Map: Toronto Neighbourhoods by House Price Appreciation, 2011 to 2012
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Central Toronto Houses Hot
Seven of our top ten neighbourhoods are in central Toronto (west of DVP and east of Dufferin). In one half of the tale of two cities (the other being the gossamer that is Toronto's condoland), strong demand from urban families, coupled with a finite number of houses in central Toronto, means higher prices.
And in neighbourhoods offering detached houses or top schools, the appreciation is significant. The neighbourhoods on this list have appreciated 21% to 27%, well above the citywide appreciation rate of approximately 6%.
Almost one in four properties in Toronto sold for "over the asking price" in 2012 - a striking number as this is an indirect way to assess multiple offer activity. Half of the neighbourhoods on our list rated above the city average with 37-52% of properties selling "over asking."
Inner Burbs Rise
A handy catch-all, the ?urban family? actual encompasses several profiles. The New Urban (Nuburban?) family wants to ditch the commute, but not the detached house, larger lot and green lawns. This family sacrifices space, which they prize, and could buy more of in the outer suburbs, to gain time. These preferences are driving up prices in some inner burb (Etobicoke, North York, East York) neighbourhoods - see Islington Village, Parkwoods and Victoria Park Village on our list.
Luxury Redefined
The Established Urban family drives demand in upper-end neighbourhoods like Allenby, Caribou Park, Rathnelly and Casa Loma on our list. They value the pedigree of the neighbourhood, larger houses and local schools, rather than their urban features per se, but do appreciate excellent subway access and top quality main streets.
Long-standing luxury neighbourhoods - Forest Hill, Bridle Path and Teddington Park - start on higher ground so it's rare to see them on "best appreciation" lists - so while Forest Hill makes our list, it's important to note that a handful of super luxury sales can skew the average.
Urban Beauties
Core Urban families value the "urban" in urban living - diversity, access to bike lanes and public transit and walkable main streets. These preferences lead them to lead boldly in less economically established areas in very downtown locations, unfazed by the prospect of shared walls - think Dufferin Grove and Trinity Bellwoods on our list. These consumer preferences are at the core of Toronto?s urban revitalization trend of the past 10 years and counting, a period which may one day be seen as seminal in our city's history.
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1. Allenby (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Allenby
Avg. Price 2012: $1,074,630
Avg. Price 2011: $846,534
Multiple Offer Activity: 52%
Housing Breakdown: 100% Detached
Walkability: 72/100
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2. Caribou Park (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Caribou Park
Avg. Price 2012: $942,877
Avg. Price 2011: $745,408
Multiple Offer Activity: 17%
Housing Breakdown: 74% Detached, 26% Condos
Walkability: 63/100
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3. Islington Village (West) See Current Houses for Sale in Islington Village
Avg. Price 2012: $611,917
Avg. Price 2011: $490,361
Multiple Offer Activity: 9%
Housing Breakdown: 50% Condos, 43% Detached, 3% Condo Townhouse, 3% Row/Townhouse, 1% Other
Walkability: 38/100
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4. Dufferin Grove (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Dufferin Grove
Avg. Price 2011: $703,408
Multiple Offer Activity: 54%
Housing Breakdown: 48% Semi-Detached, 28% Detached, 12% Row/Townhouse, 10% Condo Townhouse, 2% Condos
Walkability: 92/100
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5. Forest Hill (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Forest Hill
Avg. Price 2011: $1,054,733
Multiple Offer Activity: 17%
Housing Breakdown: 56% Detached Houses, 27% Condos, 12% Co-Op, 3% Semi-Detached, 2% Row/Townhouse
Walkability: 63/100
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6. Rathnelly (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Rathnelly
Avg. Price 2011: $710,149
Multiple Offer Activity: 18%
Housing Breakdown: 57% Condos, 39% Semi-Detached, 5% Detached
Walkability: 83/100
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7. Trinity Bellwoods (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Trinity Bellwoods
Avg. Price 2011: $656,268
Multiple Offer Activity: 41%
Housing Breakdown: 40% Row/Townhouse, 32% Semi-Detached, 17% Detached, 6% Condo Townhouse, 5% Condos
Walkability: 90/100
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8. Casa Loma (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Casa Loma
Avg. Price 2011: $968,437
Multiple Offer Activity: 37%
Housing Breakdown: 50% Detached, 23% Row/Townhouse, 17% Condo Townhouse, 10% Semi-Detached
Walkability: 80/100
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9. Parkwoods (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Parkwoods
Avg. Price 2011: $454,074
Multiple Offer Activity: 39%
Housing Breakdown: 46% Detached, 33% Semi-Detached, 19% Condos, 1% Condo Townhouse, 1% Other
Walkability: 67/100
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10. Victoria Park Village (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Victoria Park Village
Avg. Price 2012: $428,406
Avg. Price 2011: $355,028
Multiple Offer Activity: 19%
Housing Breakdown: 38% Detached, 37% Condos, 13% Semi-Detached, 9% Condo Townhouse,? 3% Row/Townhouse, 1% Other
Walkability: 65/100
Popularity Points:?Full Neighbourhood Profile for Victoria Park Village
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SAN QUENTIN, California (Reuters) - One by one, the entrepreneurs, clad in crisp blue jeans and armed with PowerPoint presentations, stood before a roomful of investors and tech bloggers to explain their dreams of changing the world.
For these exuberant times in Silicon Valley, the scene was familiar; the setting, less so.
With the young and ambitious flocking again to northern California to launch Internet companies, there were signs one recent morning that startup mania has taken hold even behind the faded granite walls of California's most notorious prison.
"Live stream has gone mainstream. Mobile video usage went up and is expected to increase by 28 percent over the next five years," said Eddie Griffin, who was pitching a music streaming concept called "At the Club" and happens to be finishing a third stint for drug possession at San Quentin State Prison, near San Francisco, after spending the last 15 years behind bars.
Griffin was one of seven San Quentin inmates who presented startup proposals on "Demo Day" as part of the Last Mile program, an entrepreneurship course modeled on startup incubators that take in batches of young companies and provide them courses, informal advice and the seed investments to grow.
According to business news website Xconomy, incubator programs - which it tracks - have tripled in number for each of the past three years, proliferating from Sao Paulo to Stockholm at a pace that has fueled talk in tech circles of an "incubator bubble".
Last Mile founder Chris Redlitz, a local venture capitalist, says his goal was never to seek out a genuine investment opportunity inside a prison but to educate inmates about tech entrepreneurship and bridge the knowledge gap between Silicon Valley's wired elite and the rest of the region's population.
Inmates, after all, are not allowed to run businesses. They do not have access to cellphones ? much less Apple Inc's latest iPhone developer toolkits ? and they use computers only under close supervision.
A LOT TO LEARN
After his presentation in San Quentin's chapel, which received a rousing reception from an audience that included prison warden Kevin R. Chappell, Griffin told a reporter it was unlikely he would launch his startup idea immediately after being released this summer.
"I still have a lot to learn," said the soft-spoken Detroit native. "I've never used a cellphone. Technology is kind of foreign in this environment."
But to hear the inmates use jargon such as "lean startup" and "minimum viable product" speaks to an unmistakable truth about the Bay Area zeitgeist, where startups, for better or worse, have come to embody upward mobility, ambition, and hustle.
"If they were doing this in the '80s there may have been a different theme or model," said Wade Roush, Xconomy's chief correspondent. "But in this day and age, becoming an entrepreneur or starting a business is a form of self-actuation."
Situated on prime waterfront land, San Quentin is perhaps California's most storied prison and home to the state's only death row. But it has also kept a longstanding progressive reputation, boasting a rare college degree-granting program and vibrant arts courses.
The Last Mile accepted 10 inmates out of 50 applicants for its latest batch. The program, which graduated its first class of inmates last year, meets twice a week to discuss startups and lasts six months, although the most recent class took seven months due to a prison lockdown last year.
Some Last Mile participants, under official supervision, have also joined the online question-and-answer site Quora to respond to questions about prison life or describe what it felt like to commit murder.
The latest batch of startup ideas included a fitness app that would motivate drug addicts to exercise, a cardiovascular health organization, a social network for sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder, a food waste recycling program, and an e-commerce site for artists in prison.
DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
Because the likelihood is not great that these companies will become funded and succeed, Redlitz said he was also working to place the inmates in jobs at tech companies after their release.
Rocketspace, a startup co-working space in downtown San Francisco, has agreed to host an internship. Rally.org, a crowd-funding site that counts Redlitz among its investors, said it hoped to begin a program to seek micro-investments from the public for the inmates' ideas.
Sitting in the Demo Day audience was John Collison, the 22-year-old co-founder of online payments startup Stripe, who noted some stark differences between the inmates' proposals and the fashionable startups du jour in Silicon Valley.
"What's frustrating is that all these companies in the Valley, they're ideas for the 1 or 10 percent," Collison said. "You have startups like Uber or Taskrabbit, that's like, ?Oh, here's something to help you find a driver or find someone to clean your house.' Are they solving real problems?"
The San Quentin inmates "were talking about urban obesity, or PTSD", Collison said. "It's a completely different perspective. We actually really need that."
(Reporting by Gerry Shih; Editing by Dale Hudson)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/inmates-high-tech-startup-mania-hits-san-quentin-140717846--sector.html
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) ? Jimmie Johnson went two years without a title and suddenly became an afterthought at the Daytona 500.
All the attention went to Danica Patrick and a handful of other drivers.
Not that it mattered Sunday, because look who pulled into Victory Lane.
Five-time is back. Not that he ever went away.
Johnson won his second Daytona 500 on Sunday, a year after he completed just one lap in the race and three months after falling short in his bid for a sixth Sprint Cup title. That so-called drought had made him something of a no-name during Speedweeks.
"In my mind, I didn't feel like I was under the radar," he said. "I felt like we were working hard to put the best product on the track. I guess I was quiet in the overall spectrum of things from the media side. I think people in the garage, people knew we were sitting on a lot of speed and had a very good race car."
But in winning the biggest race of the year, the No. 48 team wasn't sending a message to the competitors.
"I don't think we went anywhere; anybody in the garage area, they're wise to all that," Johnson said.
Johnson's win came on the same day that Patrick, who became the first woman in history to start a Sprint Cup race from the pole, again made history as the first woman to lead laps in the Daytona 500.
She ran inside the top 10 almost the entire race, kept pace with the field and never panicked on the track.
Her only mistakes were on pit road, where she got beat on the race back to the track, and on the final lap, when she was running third but got snookered by the veterans and faded to eighth. That's going to stick with Patrick for some time.
"I would imagine pretty much anyone would be kicking themselves about what they coulda, shoulda have done to give themselves an opportunity to win," she said. "I think that's what I was feeling today, was uncertainty as to how I was going to accomplish that."
There were several multicar crashes, but no one was hurt and none of them approached the magnitude of the wreck that injured more than two dozen fans in the grandstand at the end of the second-tier Nationwide Series race on the same track a day earlier. Daytona International Speedway workers were up until 2 a.m repairing the fence that was damaged in the accident, and track officials offered Sunday morning to move any fans who felt uneasy sitting close to the track.
Several drivers said the accident and concern for the fans stuck with them overnight and into Sunday morning, and Johnson was quick to send his thoughts from Victory Lane.
"I just want to give a big shout-out to all the fans, and I also want to send my thoughts and prayers out to everybody that was injured in the grandstands," Johnson said.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., whose father was killed in this race 12 years ago, was involved in Saturday's accident but refocused and finished second to Johnson, his Hendrick Motorsports teammate.
"Me personally, I was just really waiting to get the news on how everybody was, how all the fans were overnight, just hoping that things were going to improve," Earnhardt said, adding that he "wasn't really ready to proceed until you had some confirmation that things were looking more positive."
The race itself, the debut for NASCAR's new Gen-6 car, was quite similar to all the other Cup races during Speedweeks in that the cars seemed to line up in a single-file parade along the top groove of the track. It made the 55th running of the Daytona 500 relatively uneventful.
When the race was on the line, Johnson took off.
The driver known as "Five-time" raced past defending NASCAR champion Brad Keselowski on the final restart and pulled out to a sizeable lead that nobody challenged over the final six laps.
Johnson and Keselowski went down to the wire last season in their race for the Sprint Cup title, with Johnson faltering in the final two races as Keselowski won his first Cup championship.
Although it was a bit of an upset that stuck with Johnson into the offseason, it gave him no extra motivation when he found himself racing with Keselowski late Sunday for the Daytona 500.
"As far as racing with Brad out there, you really lose sight of who is in what car," Johnson said. "It's just somebody between you and the trophy. It could have been anybody."
Once Johnson cleared Keselowski on the last restart he had a breakaway lead with Greg Biffle and Patrick behind him. But as the field closed in on the checkered flag, Earnhardt finally made his move, just too late and too far behind to get close enough to the lead.
Earnhardt wound up second for the third time in the last four years. But with all the crashes the Hendrick cars have endured in restrictor-plate races ? teammate Kasey Kahne was in the first accident Sunday ? team owner Rick Hendrick was just fine with the finish.
"We have a hard time finishing these races. Boy, to run 1-2, man, what a day," Hendrick said. Jeff Gordon, who was a contender early, faded late to 20th.
And Johnson considered himself lucky to be the one holding the trophy at the end.
"Man, it's like playing the lottery; everybody's got a ticket," he said. "I've struck out a lot at these tracks, left with torn-up race cars. Today we had a clean day."
Mark Martin was third in a Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota. Keselowski, who overcame two accidents earlier in the race, wound up fourth in Penske Racing's new Ford. Ryan Newman was fifth in a Chevy for Stewart-Haas Racing and was followed by Roush-Fenway Racing's Greg Biffle, who was second on the last lap but was shuffled back with Patrick to finish sixth.
Regan Smith was seventh for Phoenix Racing, while Patrick, Michael McDowell and JJ Yeley rounded out the top 10.
Patrick was clearly disappointed with her finish. When the race was on the line, she was schooled by Earnhardt, who made his last move and blocked any chance she had.
Still, Patrick became the first woman in history to lead laps in the 500 when she passed Michael Waltrip on a restart on Lap 90. She stayed on the point for two laps, then was shuffled back to third. She ended up leading five laps, another groundbreaking moment for Patrick, who as a rookie in 2005 became the first woman to lead the Indianapolis 500 and now is the 13th driver to lead laps in both the Daytona 500 and the Indy 500.
"Dale did a nice job and showed what happens when you plan it out, you drop back and get that momentum. You are able to go to the front," Patrick said. "I think he taught me something. I'm sure I'll watch the race and there will be other scenarios I see that can teach me, too."
Earnhardt was impressed, nonetheless.
"She's going to make a lot of history all year long. It's going to be a lot of fun to watch her progress," he said. "Every time I've seen her in a pretty hectic situation, she always really remained calm. She's got a great level head. She's a racer. She knows what's coming. She's smart about her decisions. She knew what to do today as far as track position and not taking risks. I enjoy racing with her."
Johnson, one of three heavyweight drivers who took their young daughters to meet Patrick ? "the girl in the bright green car" ? after she won the pole in qualifications, tipped his cap, too.
"I didn't think about it being Danica in the car," Johnson said. "It was just another car on the track that was fast. That's a credit to her and the job she's doing."
The field was weakened by an early nine-car accident that knocked out race favorite Kevin Harvick and sentimental favorite Tony Stewart.
Harvick had won two support races coming into the 500 to cement himself as the driver to beat, but the accident sent him home with a 42nd place finish.
Stewart, meanwhile, dropped to 0-for-15 in one of the few races the three-time NASCAR champion has never won.
"If I didn't tell you I was heartbroken and disappointed, I'd be lying to you," Stewart said.
That accident also took former winner Jamie McMurray, his Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Juan Pablo Montoya, and Kasey Kahne out of contention.
The next accident ? involving nine cars ? came 105 laps later and brought a thankful end to Speedweeks for Carl Edwards. He was caught in his fifth accident since testing last month, and this wreck collected six other Ford drivers.
The field suddenly had six Toyota drivers at the front as Joe Gibbs Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing drivers took control of the race. But JGR's day blew up ? literally ? when the team was running 1-2-3 with Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch setting the pace.
Kenseth, who led a race-high 86 laps, went to pit road first with an engine problem, and Busch was right behind him with a blown engine. Busch was already in street clothes watching as Hamlin led the field.
"It's a little devastating when you are running 1-2-3 like that," Busch said.
Hamlin's shot disappeared when he found himself in the wrong lane on the final restart. He tried to hook up with Keselowski to get them back to Johnson, but blamed former teammate Joey Logano for ruining the momentum of the bottom lane.
Hamlin offered a backhanded apology to Keselowski on Twitter, posting that he couldn't get close enough because "your genius teammate was too busy messing up the inside line 1 move at a time."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/johnson-back-top-2nd-daytona-500-victory-083542502--spt.html
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Firearms companies ranging from gun shops to machinists are joining forces to oppose new gun control laws. Some are threatening to move away from states that crack down on guns, others are refusing to sell gear to police that can't be sold to citizens.
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Vowing to close what they're calling "the police loophole," at least 50 US companies, ranging from gun machinists to gun shops, are now saying publicly they'll refuse to sell weapons and gear to police in places where governments have banned the use of the same gear by civilians.
Quality Arms, located in Rigby, Idaho, writes on its website that it "will not supply any firearm or product manufactured by us or any other company, nor will we warranty, repair, alter or modify a firearm owned by any state, county or municipality that infringes on the right of its citizens to bear arms under the 2nd Amendment."
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The move comes as Congress and some state houses are considering new gun controls in the wake of the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The most direct target of the "police loophole" movement seems to be New York State, which put into law a raft of new gun control regulations, including limiting the size of magazines, last month.
"Based on the recent legislation in New York, we are prohibited from selling rifles and receivers to residents of New York [so] we have chosen to extend that prohibition to all governmental agencies associated with or located within New York," York Arms of Buxton, Maine, writes on its website.
So far, none of the major gun manufacturers have joined the list, and it's an open question whether the smaller companies are bluffing or would even have occasion to sell directly to governments in New York State, for example.
"Unless S&W, Springfield Armory, Ruger, Remington, etc. get on board, these boycotts are practically useless," writes an anonymous poster on the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog.
Meanwhile, the push for more gun control continues across the country, led by President Obama.
On Friday, Obama's political advocacy group, Organizing for Action, held over 100 events across the country, including letter-writing parties, rallies with police chiefs and mayors, and candlelight vigils, to push for Obama's federal gun control plan, which includes beefing up background checks and banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
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I don't know about you, but my biggest takeaway from divorce is cynicism. Before I got married and then divorced, I believed in all of the "happily-ever-after" fairy tales. I believed in the nonsense that rom-coms push down our throats about soulmates and forever and love at first sight.
It's not that I don't believe in love anymore; it's more that I believe that love -- like people -- is flawed. No matter who we are or who we are with, our relationship will always come with ups and downs. Love is not a guarantee for happiness, and in many cases, marriage is no longer a forever thing.
Knowing what I know and having experienced love, marriage and divorce firsthand, I find it very frustrating when people who have never been married insist that romance -- the way it is portrayed in the movies -- is not only possible, but probable. So I'm writing this article for all of those who insist on perpetuating the rom-com fairy tales -- not in an attempt to ruin your views on relationships and marriage, but to give you a glimpse into the reality I've experienced first hand.
Here are the myths that are perpetuated time and time again:
Myth: When it's right, your relationship will be easy.
You know when you watch those movies where the couple realizes that it's just so easy with their new love, so they decide to get married? In truth, easy is actually not a very good sign for your relationship. When I hear couples pre-marriage talking about how they never fight, it always makes me cringe a bit inside. If there is literally no fighting in your relationship -- ever, over anything -- then that means one of two things: first, there is either no passion, or second, that neither of you care enough to actually get in a huff about anything. Either way, it's not going to turn out well.
The healthiest relationships are the ones where a couple has learned how to fight and communicate effectively, and the majority of the time, that happens through experience. Every couple will fight. It's inevitable when you combine two different people, with two different goals, ideas and feelings into one life. It's how you make it through the fight that makes your marriage more (or less) successful.
And let's be honest, there is definitely something to be said for make-up sex.
Myth: Marriage is forever.
Statistically speaking, your marriage has no better chance of being successful than anyone else's. Statistics differ on this point, but the overall message is clear: close to half of all marriages in the U.S. end in divorce. Of course, it is possible to tip the odds in your favor. For a marriage to be successful today, it takes more than saying "I do". It requires saying "I do" every single day, for the rest of your life. What do I mean by that? I mean that each person must actively make the marriage a priority. Effort needs to be made by both parties every day to make sure that the couple is happy and that the union is healthy.
I also think that the institution of marriage will evolve over the coming years, as societal perceptions of marriage, and modern-day life, changes. Many people have suggested that marriage should change from a lifetime contract to a short-term contract (i.e. seven years, 18 years, etc.).
I haven't decided how I feel about this proposal but I am definitely leaning towards agreeing that it would be a positive change for society and for the institution of marriage. If the new breed of marriages were available, I do still believe that some people would stay married for life, but the major difference would be that couples would have to actively make the decision to stay together. They would have to continually make their partner and marriage a priority, because they were no longer "stuck" in the relationship.
Myth: Getting a divorce means that the marriage failed.
The traditional belief is that if your marriage ended, it was a failed marriage, but I don't agree with that viewpoint.
Let's look at my marriage and divorce, for instance. I was with my ex for a total of nine years, three years of which we were married. While our marriage did end in divorce, I don't consider it to be a failure in any sense. While we were married, we were happy -- not simply content, like many other marrieds out there. We were actually happy. We would choose to spend time together instead of anyone else, even our best friends. We had fun every day and had a million memorable experiences. It just worked. Unfortunately for both of us, we got a divorce because I didn't work. I needed to leave to find myself so at the end of the day, it wasn't that the marriage (or my ex) wasn't good or successful, I just wasn't ready for marriage.
Today, my ex and I are still each other's biggest supporters; we are there for each other no matter what and I think that will always be the case. I look back on my marriage and now, on our friendship, and I don't see any element of failure in how things played out. We both still care about each other and I think that we'll both be happier in the long run because of the decisions that we made.
Myth: Being married is the be-all and end-all of life.
I do admit that I loved being married and that I would like to get married again. That being said, I also know that I would never choose an unhappy marriage over a happy single life, because I know that being happy is what matters most to me. Today, more and more people are making the same choice. Of course, it doesn't mean that they wouldn't prefer to be in a happy, stable marriage but they understand that if it doesn't happen, they can still live a full, happy life filled with love and meaning.
That is a healthy state of mind and one that will actually make you more interesting to potential marriage partners. It's a state of mind that we should all aspire to achieve because only then can we really appreciate the ups and downs of married life, and hopefully, make our marriages last forever.
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The Academy Awards is nicknamed "prom for Hollywood," but it isn't just the biggest night of the year for Hollywood star-watching ? it's also one of the biggest live TV events of the year, which means an ad goldmine for ABC (owned by Disney).
Perhaps the most apt nickname for the Oscars is "the Super Bowl for women," because it's one of the most important events of the year for advertisers ? arguably the best occasion to reach a captive audience of women. ABC, which broadcasts the event, said it saw the highest demand for Oscar ads in over a decade.
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The average 30-second spot sold for between $1.65 million and $1.8 million, the highest prices since 2008, when ads averaged $1.7 million. That means this year ABC will bring in about $85 million in ad revenue, more than it has in over a decade.
Why are live events more valuable? In a word: Twitter. Chatter on Twitter and Facebook is driving more people to be part of the conversation and watch in real time, which means they're watching ads.
And this year ABC is looking to grow the social conversation with a new interactive app and Facebook ballot, which allows movie fans to watch and comment on the show with their friends.
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Plus, there's hope that new host Seth Macfarlane will draw younger and more male viewers, to balance out the traditionally female audience. Hyundi and JC Penney, which were the biggest ad buyers in last year's telecast are both returning. And we'll see two tech rivals duke it out: Apple and rival Samsung have both bought slots.
So how does ABC's $85 million take compare? Rival CBS has more big one-off events. In addition to the Grammys, where 30-second spots run as much as $900,000, it also has the Country Music Awards. And this year, it was CBS' turn in the Super Bowl rotation between CBS, Fox and NBC, and Super Bowl spots were the most expensive they've ever been ? as much as $3.8 million.
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Fox has the biggest regular live show, "American Idol," and NBC has Sunday Night Football, where ads run north of half a million dollars. With the rise of DVR usage, the networks ?ad advertisers ? are willing to pay more and more to capture viewers' attention for rare real-time viewing.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/oscars-are-big-night-advertisers-1C8499586
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Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour leaves a Health and Homeland Security Committee meeting titled "Protecting Our Nation: States and Cybersecurity" during the National Governors Association 2013 Winter Meeting in Washington on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013. Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore is at left. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour leaves a Health and Homeland Security Committee meeting titled "Protecting Our Nation: States and Cybersecurity" during the National Governors Association 2013 Winter Meeting in Washington on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013. Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore is at left. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, photo, provided by CBS News, Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland speaks on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. O'Malley joined with with Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia to call for Congress to prevent impending defense cuts that would hit their states hard. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)
FILE ? In this Feb. 19, 2013 file photo President Barack Obama pauses while talking about sequestration in the Eisenhower Executive Office building on the White House complex in Washington. Lawmakers and the president on the brink of yet another compromise-or-else deadline Friday, March 1, 2013. (AP ?Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The White House and Republicans kept up the unrelenting mudslinging Sunday over who's to blame for roundly condemned budget cuts set to take effect at week's end, with the administration detailing the potential fallout in each state and governors worrying about the mess.
But as leaders rushed past each other to decry the potentially devastating and seemingly inevitable cuts, they also criticized their counterparts for their roles in introducing, implementing and obstructing the $85 billion budget mechanism that could affect everything from commercial flights to classrooms to meat inspections. The GOP's leading line of criticism hinged on blaming Obama's aides for introducing the budget trigger in the first place, while the administration's allies were determined to illustrate the consequences of the cuts as the product of Republican stubbornness.
Former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour, aware the political outcome may be predicated on who is to blame, half-jokingly said Sunday, "Well, if it was a bad idea, it was the president's idea."
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said there was little hope to dodge the cuts "unless the Republicans are willing to compromise and do a balanced approach."
No so fast, Republicans interjected.
"I think the American people are tired of the blame game," said Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.
Yet just a moment before, she was blaming Obama for putting the country on the brink of massive spending cuts that were initially designed to be so unacceptable that Congress would strike a grand bargain to avoid them.
Obama nodded to the squabble during his weekly radio and Internet address.
"Unfortunately, it appears that Republicans in Congress have decided that instead of compromising ? instead of asking anything of the wealthiest Americans ? they would rather let these cuts fall squarely on the middle class," Obama said Saturday, in his last weekly address before the deadline.
"We just need Republicans in Washington to come around," Obama added. "Because we need their help to finish the job of reducing our deficit in a smart way that doesn't hurt our economy or our people."
With Friday's deadline nearing, few in the nation's capital were optimistic that a realistic alternative could be found and all sought to cast the political process itself as the culprit. If Congress does not step in, a top-to-bottom series of cuts will be spread across domestic and defense agencies in a way that would fundamentally change how government serves its people.
Obama senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told reporters the GOP is "so focused on not giving the president another win" that they will cost thousands of jobs. To back up their point, the White House released state-by-state tallies for how many dollars and jobs the budget cuts would mean to each state.
"The Republicans are making a policy choice that these cuts are better than eliminating loopholes," Pfeiffer said.
And, yes, those cuts will hurt. They would slash from domestic and defense spending alike, leading to furloughs for hundreds of thousands of government workers and contractors.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said the cuts would harm the readiness of U.S. fighting forces. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said travelers could see delayed flights. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said 70,000 fewer children from low-income families would have access to Head Start programs. And furloughed meat inspectors could leave plants idled.
In Virginia, for instance, 90,000 Defense Department civilian employees could be furloughed, including nurses at Army hospitals, said Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. He also said ship-repair contractors could lay off 300 of their 450 employees.
"There is no reason that this has to happen. We just need to find a balanced approach," Kaine said.
White House officials also pointed to Ohio as another state that would be hit hard: $25.1 million in education spending and another $22 million for students with disabilities. Some 2,500 children from low-income families would also be removed from Head Start programs.
Officials said their analysis showed Kentucky would lose $93,000 in federal funding for a domestic abuse program, meaning 400 fewer victims being served in Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's home state. Georgia, meanwhile, would face a $286,000 budget cut to its children's health programs, meaning almost 4,200 fewer children would receive vaccinations against measles and whooping cough.
White House officials said Nevada would face military furloughs totaling $12.1 million in reduced pay, a $424,000 cut to pay for meals for seniors and an almost $2 million reduction for clean air and water programs.
The White House was ready with state-by-state reports designed to get hold-out lawmakers to compromise or face unhappy constituents.
The White House compiled the numbers from federal agencies and its own budget office. The numbers reflect the impact of the cuts this year. Unless Congress acts by Friday, $85 billion in cuts are set to take effect from March to September.
As to whether states could move money around to cover shortfalls, the White House said that depends on state budget structures and the specific programs. The White House did not have a list of which states or programs might have flexibility.
Republican leaders were not impressed by the reports for the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
"The White House needs to spend less time explaining to the press how bad the sequester will be and more time actually working to stop it," said Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio.
Some governors said the impasse was just the latest crisis in Washington that is keeping businesses from hiring and undermining the ability of state leaders to develop their own spending plans.
"It's senseless and it doesn't need to happen," said Gov. Martin O'Malley, D-Md., during the annual meeting of the National Governors Association this weekend.
"And it's a damn shame, because we've actually had the fastest rate of jobs recovery of any state in our region. And this really threatens to hurt a lot of families in our state and kind of flat-line our job growth for the next several months," O'Malley said.
Obama did not mention the budget cuts in remarks before his dinner with the governors Sunday evening at the White House; he is expected to address the issue in a speech Monday morning to the same group. But time is running out and hope is waning.
Suggestions intended to instill a spirit of compromise included a presidential summit at Camp David and even a field trip to watch "Lincoln."
Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy said it is past time for both sides to sit down to help dodge cuts that will hurt all states' budgets.
"Come to the table, everyone. Everybody. Let's work this thing out. Let's be adults," said Malloy, a Democrat.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called the defense cuts "unconscionable" and urged Obama to call lawmakers to the White House or the presidential retreat of Camp David for a last-minute budget summit.
"I won't put all the blame all on the president of the United States. But the president leads. The president should be calling us over somewhere ? Camp David, the White House, somewhere ? and us sitting down and trying to avert these cuts," McCain said.
LaHood, who served as a Republican representing Illinois in the U.S. House, urged his colleagues to watch Steven Spielberg's film about President Abraham Lincoln's political skills.
"Everybody around here ought to go take a look at the 'Lincoln' movie, where they did very hard things by working together, talking together and compromising," said LaHood. "That's what's needed here."
LaHood and Duncan were the only representatives from the administration to appear on Sunday shows. The White House did not book any of its senior aides.
Barbour, Malloy and McCain appeared on CNN's "State of the Union." McCaskill was interviewed on "Fox News Sunday." Ayotte, Duncan and Kaine spoke with CBS' "Face the Nation." LaHood appeared on both CNN and NBC.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Friday a small number of its computers, including some in its Mac software business unit, were infected with malware, but there was no evidence of customer data being affected and it is continuing its investigation.
The world's largest software company said the security intrusion was "similar" to recent ones reported by Apple Inc and Facebook Inc.
The incident, reported on one of the company's public blogs happened "recently", but Microsoft said it chose not to make any statement publicly while it gathered information about the attack.
"This type of cyberattack is no surprise to Microsoft and other companies that must grapple with determined and persistent adversaries," said Matt Thomlinson, general manager of Trustworthy Computing Security at Microsoft, in the company's blog post.
Over the past week or so, both Apple and Facebook said computers used by employees were attacked after visiting a software developer website infected with malicious software.
The attacks come at a time of broader concern about computer security.
Newspaper websites, including those of The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, have been infiltrated recently. Earlier this month U.S. President Barack Obama issued an executive order seeking better protection of the country's critical infrastructure from cyber attacks.
(Reporting By Bill Rigby; Editing by Gary Hill and Andrew Hay)
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