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Featuring bravura set pieces, sly humor, and white-knuckle action, Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the most consummately entertaining adventure pictures of all time.

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Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French archeologist named Belloq (Paul Freeman), who then prepares to kill our hero. In the first of many serial-like escapes, Indy eludes Belloq by hopping into a convenient plane. So, then: is Indiana Jones afraid of anything? Yes, snakes. The next time we see Jones, he's a soft-spoken, bespectacled professor. He is then summoned from his ivy-covered environs by Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott) to find the long-lost Ark of the Covenant. The Nazis, it seems, are already searching for the Ark, which the mystical-minded Hitler hopes to use to make his stormtroopers invincible. But to find the Ark, Indy must first secure a medallion kept under the protection of Indy's old friend Abner Ravenwood, whose daughter, Marion (Karen Allen), evidently has a "history" with Jones. Whatever their personal differences, Indy and Marion become partners in one action-packed adventure after another, ranging from wandering the snake pits of the Well of Souls to surviving the pyrotechnic unearthing of the sacred Ark. A joint project of Hollywood prodigies George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, with a script co-written by Lawrence Kasdan and Philip Kaufman, among others, Raiders of the Lost Ark is not so much a movie as a 115-minute thrill ride. Costing 22 million dollars (nearly three times the original estimate), Raiders of the Lost Ark reaped 200 million dollars during its first run. It was followed by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1985) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), as well as a short-lived TV-series "prequel." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In Theaters: Sep 7, 2012 Limited

On DVD: Oct 21, 2003

Box Office:$3.1M

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Case: MICROSOFT CORPORATION V. MOTOROLA, INC, 12-35352

Case Origin:

Seattle District Court

Case Type:

Civil

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Date Filed:

09/28/2012

Immediate filing:

Yes

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Best Ever Result for Singapore at Commonwealth Veterans ...

SINGAPORE, Sep 29, 2012 ? SINGAPORE veterans have added two more bronzes to their growing medal collection on the third day of the 2012 Commonwealth Veterans Fencing Championships (CVFC).

With a total of four bronzes so far in the championships, this is the best result Singapore has ever seen. Previously, there were no medal winners for Singapore in the biannual event, which is currently in its 10th?year.

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Teng Nan See, 41, secured a bronze medal for Singapore in the women?s epee event when she was defeated by Abigail Nutt of Australia, 10-7 in the semi-finals.

Nan See, an ex-national number one fencer for Singapore, was pleased with the result.

?This was a very competitive competition with former champions and ex-Olympians with a lot of experience so I?m very glad to go so far in the competition to win another medal for Singapore,? she said.

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Singapore added its fourth medal for the team in the men?s sabre team event when the group, comprising of Dr Lau Chee Cheong, Dr Francis Kwong and Ng Aik Phong beat Australia 45-43 in an exciting third and fourth placing match.

57-year-old Dr Lau, who won a bronze medal in the individual?s sabre event yesterday, staged a stunning comeback for Singapore when the team was trailing Australia 35-40 whilst going into the final bout. Team Australia could not match Singapore?s anchor fencer?s speed of thought and quick footwork to concede the advantage.

?I would like to thank the strong support from team mates and friends which especially helped me in that final bout. It is always nice to win a medal but to do it from a losing position made it even more satisfying,? he commented.

Singapore?s team manager, Felix Tan, enthused: ?All the hard work put in the last few months of training and travelling for overseas competitions has certainly paid off for our fencers, with two medals won against very strong and experienced fencers. I am very pleased with the performances and effort shown by the entire team.?

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Tomorrow will be the final day of the championships, with two more gold medals on offer for the team events of Women?s Epee and Men?s Foil.

There will also be the Community Challenge event, where three corporate or community groups of four fencers will compete against each other. This is part of the CVFC organising committee?s community outreach project, which aims to encourage more adults to stay active and at the same time, learn the skill and art of fencing.

The Commonwealth Veterans Fencing Championships is competed by fencers who are over 40 years of age. The four-day championships, held in the Pasir Ris Sports and Recreation Cetnre, started on Thursday and ends tomorrow, 30^th September (Sunday) at 2pm.

Admission for the championships is free. For more information about the event and how to go to Pasir Ris Sports and Recreation Centre, please visit http://cvfc2012.sg.

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Source: http://voxsports.co/result-singapore-commonwealth-veterans-championships-2

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Minecraft creator blasts Windows 8

Markus Persson is definitely not amused

The creator of Minecraft has come out and attacked Microsoft over Windows 8, and the fact that it isn?t an open platform.

Markus Persson (aka Notch), the mastermind behind the cult hit world-building game Minecraft, was unamused by an email he received from the Redmond-based software giant.

He tweeted: ?Got an email from microsoft, wanting to help ?certify? minecraft for win 8. I told them to stop trying to ruin the pc as an open platform.?

He then followed that up with: ?I?d rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along. Maybe we can convince a few people not to switch to win 8 that way.?

Sounds like fighting talk, indeed.

And it got a predictably mixed reaction from the denizens of the internet, with some applauding, and some getting cross about the prospect of not being able to play Minecraft on Windows 8.

Later still, Persson tweeted: ?And oh WOW the internet is upset about my win8 statement!?

There are plenty of Minecraft fans out there ? indeed it has shifted over six million copies on the PC, and in excess of nine million across all platforms (it?s also out on the Xbox, iOS and Android).

Persson isn?t the first person to get twitchy about Microsoft?s stance on Windows 8 gaming, as earlier this year Valve famously fired off a barrage of criticism at the OS ? labelling it a ?catastrophe? for PC gaming, no less.

And the company is now looking at its options with Linux, pushing forward with a version of Steam for Linux.

Source: http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2012/09/30/minecraft-creator-blasts-windows-8/

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Robot police drones could put disabled cops back on the beat

PARIS, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Clubs and players lashed out after the French government unveiled its 2013 budget on Friday, saying new tax plans would have a "disastrous effect" on domestic soccer. Tax hikes include a "temporary" 75 percent levy on annual earnings in excess of one million euros ($1.29 million) and a new rate of 45 percent on incomes above 150,000 euros. The existing rate is 40 percent on earnings above 69,505 euros. The government said the new "temporary" levy would be in operation until the country's debts were cleared. ...

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/robot-police-drones-could-put-disabled-cops-back-042902220.html

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Intraplate quakes signal tectonic breakup

April temblors part of massive ongoing energy release near Indonesia

Web edition : Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Two giant earthquakes in the eastern Indian Ocean have shown geologists that breaking up is easy to do ? for tectonic plates, that is.

The pair of quakes hit on April 11, startling seismologists with their size (magnitudes 8.6 and 8.2) and location (hundreds of kilometers from the active zone that spawned the deadly 2004 magnitude 9.1 earthquake and tsunami). Now, three studies reveal that the April quakes were an indication that one great slab of Earth?s crust is slowly fracturing into two.

The work, reported online September 26 in Nature, confirms that seismic risk remains high in the area.

?You?d be nuts to think it was all over in offshore Sumatra,? says Kerry Sieh, a seismologist at the Earth Observatory of Singapore who was not involved in the new research.

The bigger April quake leapt straight into the record books. It was the largest earthquake ever recorded in the middle of a tectonic plate, rather than at a plate?s edges where most quakes happen. It was also the largest earthquake recorded along a strike-slip fault, in which two chunks of Earth?s crust slide past each other horizontally, like along California?s San Andreas. And it was the most complex strike-slip rupture ever seen, breaking along at least four separate faults interlaced like a geological lattice.?

Add together the 2004 killer Sumatra quake, two nearby great quakes in 2005 and 2007, and these April Indian Ocean quakes, says Sieh, and ?you get the greatest release of seismic energy anywhere on Earth in the past half-century.?.

Blame it on the massive Indo-Australian crustal plate, which stretches from the Himalayas in the north to well below Australia in the south. You can think of the plate like a motorcycle with a sidecar, says Matthias Delescluse, a marine geophysicist at the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure in Paris. The motorcycle ? the part of the plate carrying Australia ? is driving quickly northeast beneath Indonesia. But the sidecar ? the part carrying India ? is slamming into a geological wall of the Himalayas. The motorbike and sidecar are thus shearing apart. Millions of years from now, the Indo-Australian plate will split into an Indian and an Australian plate.

April?s quakes reminded scientists that this is happening, maybe even faster than once thought. The 2004 quake, to the east, sped up the rate of earthquakes across the region and probably hastened the April quakes, Delescluse and his colleagues report in Nature. They calculated how the monster 2004 and 2005 quakes changed stress patterns in the Earth?s crust, and found that releasing stress on the faults diving under Sumatra to the northeast actually raised stress in the strike-slip faults to the southwest, in the Indian Ocean.

In a second Nature paper, seismic records illuminate the complex way the seafloor ruptured in April.

The first April 11 quake unzipped four perpendicular faults one after another in less than two minutes, the scientists found. Each fault ruptured with the equivalent energy of at least a magnitude 8.0 quake in that event. Two hours later, the magnitude 8.2 aftershock struck just south of the main rupture.? ?This was a gee-whiz event for us,? says team member Thorne Lay, a seismologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

But the story wasn?t over once the two quakes were done. They continued to resonate around the globe, triggering big aftershocks as far away as Mexico, a third study finds.

Fred Pollitz, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., became interested in the quakes when his colleagues? pagers kept going off for days afterward with alerts of other big quakes. ?That struck me as rather suspicious,? Pollitz says. So he and his colleagues went through catalogs of global earthquakes, looking for changes in patterns of seismicity.

They found that the number of quakes of magnitude 5.5 or greater, located more than 1,500 kilometers from the April 11 quakes, went up nearly fivefold for six days afterward. The biggest such quake was a magnitude 7 in Baja California, about 22 hours afterward.

Most giant quakes don?t trigger temblors so far away ? or if they do, the triggered quakes are well below magnitude 5. The difference, Pollitz says, lay in the strike-slip nature of the April 11 quakes. This type of fault geometry allows the stress of a crustal movement to propagate much farther across the planet?s surface, compared with deep-diving plates that transmit their energy into the bowels of the Earth. The quick rupture also allowed seismic wave energy to travel out in pulses that ?we believe shook up the faults more efficiently,? Pollitz says.

Though the strike-slip geometry may have triggered other quakes, it also meant that only a few people died in the April 11 events. Horizontal ground movements don?t push the ocean water around in ways that generate a deadly tsunami, like the one that killed a quarter of a million people in 2004.

Still, the seismic risk around Sumatra remains high, because other parts of the plate diving beneath Indonesia have not broken for some time. And the fact that big earthquakes can pop off where they?re not expected, like along strike-slip faults in the east Indian Ocean, suggests to researchers that other surprises lie in store.

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Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/345387/title/Intraplate_quakes_signal_tectonic_breakup

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Building the customer experience in business-to-business ...

Senior director, industry strategy and insight at Oracle Corp. Suneth brings more than 10 years of experience in strategy consulting and software industries. At the Insight team, he has engaged with a variety of customers in high tech, consumer goods, manufacturing and automotive industries. In addition, he coordinates global Insight efforts to develop thought leadership materials and Insight tools designed to help companies enable their CRM and customer experience strategies.

In an era of rapid commoditisation and increasing competition, companies are focusing on delivering a superior customer experience to differentiate themselves and enhance customer loyalty. Those who are successful have been rewarded with customers? willingness to pay a price premium, to recommend the brand, and to consider offered brand extensions, which in turn create opportunities for generating higher revenues.

Customer experience is the sum of observations, perceptions, thoughts, and feelings arising from interactions with a provider of goods or services. It is not limited to a single transaction, but driven by the sales and service lifecycle of the product and service ? before, during and after the transaction. Furthermore, it is comprised of both rational and emotional elements and shaped by interactions across all channels and customer touch points.

This article seeks to understand business-to-business (B2B) transactions, explore how they differ from business-to-customer (B2C) transactions, and analyse critical success factors in delivering a superior customer experience.

Business-to-business transactions

A customer?s expectations when buying consumer goods is very different from the complex purchasing cycle of a business product or service. The complexity of the B2B relationship requires a more intimate prospecting effort, sales process, and service delivery. Consolidation among the business customers in B2B environments has only further added to this complexity through customers? increased bargaining power.

The complexity of B2B relationships renders many customer experience principles that are more commonly associated with B2C scenarios less relevant. Customer contact interactions in B2B relationships will typically be more frequent, occur across more touch points, and may typically involve many individuals from various functions and departments in the buying decision. A B2B customer?s needs are generally understood by a series of interactions over a longer period of time, and develop through strong relationships between a company and its customer. The success of B2B relationships will depend how well your company can understand needs and deliver to multiple decision makers.

Let?s explore several of the key differences between B2B and B2C relationships which directly impact customer experience:

Customer: B2C transactions generally have one or two key decision makers. B2B transactions often engage multiple stakeholders, often with different opinions and agendas, within the same customer.

Sales cycle: a B2C sale is typically swift ? sometimes impulsive ? while other sales require hours or even months for a consumer to research a product or service and complete the purchase. A B2B sale is typically a much longer sales cycle, requiring weeks, months or even years to complete a transaction.

Product: B2C sales are typically a standard product offering, while B2B tends to be a more customised product or service offering.

Role of emotion: B2C sales frequently involve emotion on the part of the consumer; a B2B sale is generally driven by an economic business decision often structured around a standard procurement process.

Service delivery: Service levels in B2C environments can be very specific and measured. They are not tailored to an individual customer, but rather to a group of customers exhibiting common characteristics. Service offerings for B2B customers usually involve a strong emphasis on service levels which are monitored and measured by key performance indicators. These service levels can be tailored to an individual customer or to a class of customers (eg. channels).

Critical success factors for delivering a superior B2B customer experience

As with any customer experience strategy, the seller has to define the desired customer experience, design a customer experience strategy, and execute the strategy. Defining the experience involves identifying customer values and needs by customer segments. Design involves defining the customer experience plan and standards for each customer segment, and executing ensures delivering the customer experience strategy to standard across all customer touch points, and continuously optimising it.

There are several key focus areas to deliver a superior B2B customer experience:

360-degree view of customer: obtaining a holistic, accurate and real time (or near real time) view of the customer across your enterprise is the single most important element in delivering a superior customer experience. Access to customer master data spanning sales, marketing, service and accounting (eg. credit lines and history) provides a complete view of customer interactions across all touch points. This holistic view is also valuable when segmenting customers and targeting future offerings.

Customer data management and opportunity management process: coordinating many resources and stakeholders internally and externally is key to execution of the B2B sales process. The longer and more complex sales cycles require the collaboration of many members across multiple departments, requiring effective and secure customer data management and access. To improve collaboration, companies can take advantage of social CRM capabilities which enable effective collaboration among team members to generate leads, identify references and develop targeted sales campaigns. Customer data will include account, contact, and transaction (eg. sales and service history) information as well as customer documentation (eg. past contracts). An opportunity management process which is designed around key opportunity milestones facilitates reporting and forecasting. It also avoids excessive administrative burden, which is necessary to effectively pursue a sales opportunity and increase close rate.

Service excellence: increasingly, companies have confronted product commoditisation with superior service. Service organisations need to be able to effectively obtain the necessary data to open a case, route it to the right personnel to resolve the issue, and conduct surveys to gauge customer satisfaction. Collection and reporting of key service metrics not only helps measure service performance, but also used to ensure that customer-specific, contractually obligated service parameters are met. In addition to differentiating from competition, companies excelling at service have also been able to generate more revenue from added services functions and cross-selling products.

Product management: customers often have detailed requirements and product specifications, which can result in highly customised products specific to a customer, an application, or an industry. Two products which might look identical might have very different requirements (eg. grade of raw material or authorised suppliers) in order to comply with customer specifications. Hence, the need to manage such customer requirements is crucial to winning and maintaining a B2B customer?s business.

Employee training and empowerment: to deliver a superior experience, a company has to not only create the right organisation structure to service its customers, but also foster an atmosphere which emphasises the customer experience throughout the organisation. Due to the multiple touch points a customer will have across a supplier, sellers need to create consistency in communications and interactions. While decision trees and basic guidelines can help direct personnel responding to inquiries in a B2C setting, B2B environments often require the use of discretion to respond to customer situations. Hence, training personnel and providing the right level of guidelines to act optimally under such unique circumstances while ensuring a positive customer experience is vital.

A significant portion of a company?s total revenue can be generated through B2B transactions and often a single customer. The loss of such customers can have serious consequences on a company. The combination of rapid commoditisation, consolidation of customer base, strong reliance on large customers and resulting intense competition only emphasise the need to create a very positive customer experience for business customers.

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Take 360-degree tours of the Great Barrier Reef

Catlin Seaview Survey

See dozens of wonders from coral reefs and other exotic seascapes, courtesy of the Catlin Seaview Survey.

By Alan Boyle

Thousands of images from Australia's Great Barrier Reef and other coral locales are being stitched together into an eye-popping array of 360-degree panoramas for Google Maps' Street View feature?? but this million-dollar-plus project isn't just about pretty pictures. It's about sharing the wonders and the woes of the world's coral reefs with people around the globe.

"This will allow the 99.9 percent of the population who have never been diving to go on a virtual dive for the first time," said Richard Vevers, project director for the Catlin Seaview Survey.

In partnership with Google, the Seaview Survey has been mounting a series of expeditions to capture high-resolution imagery of the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reef locales. It's sponsored by Catlin Group Ltd., a global insurance group. The project went through a preview phase back in February, and since then, it has continued to ramp up. Even before the official unveiling, the Seaview Survey has gained more than 1.4 million fans on Google+.

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"Now we are actually in full expedition mode," Vevers said. To celebrate Wednesday's official kickoff, the survey is staging its first public real-time dive at the Great Barrier Reef via a Google+ Hangout at 1:30 p.m. ET. It'll be the middle of the night in Australia, but it'll be getting toward midday at the Blue Ocean Film Festival in Monterey, Calif., where Vever and other Seaview Survey organizers are hanging out this week.

Here are some of the 360-degree, Street View-style goodies that are already available via Google Maps:

A video from Google Maps introduces the 360-degree coral reef panoramas.

Vevers and his colleagues aim to take 50,000 shallow-reef pictures, using a specially designed SVII camera. When all those images are stitched together into a continuous skein, the 360-degree panoramas will let users navigate their own way through one long virtual Google Maps dive. There'll also be a deep-reef survey, conducted using picture-snapping robots.

Scientists plan to analyze the photos using image-recognition software to get a quick read on coral reef health.?That's a crucial issue for the decades ahead. Half of the ocean's coral communities have been lost over the past 40 years, said the survey's chief scientist, Ove Hoegh-Guldburg of the University of Queensland's Global Change Institute. The decline is due to a variety of causes, ranging from coastal water quality to overfishing to ocean warming and acidification, he said.

"The evidence of these changes is there, but people outside the scientific community don't understand the significance of those changes," Hoegh-Guldburg told me. "If we're going to tackle these global issues, we need everyone on the planet to understand what we are in danger of losing, and what we can do to stop the decline."

He said the Seaview Survey's biggest benefit will be to give people a greater appreciation of the world's coral reefs, whether they're Australian business executives or Russian grandmothers.

Sharing the seas' wonders
The Seaview Survey aims to conduct regular expeditions that can be shared via Hangouts and other live events. All the scientific data will be made public via an online Global Reef Record database, Hoegh-Guldburg said. He's also looking into ways to enlist volunteers to analyze coral reef pictures, an idea that's taken from the citizen-science playbooks for Zooniverse and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

The survey is due to focus on the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea is due to run until the end of December, and then it'll move on to other locations around the globe, including Hawaii, the Philippines and Bermuda. Hoegh-Guldburg said the survey's tools and techniques are designed to be adapted easily for a wide range of coral reef settings ? including countries that haven't been able to assess their own coral reefs.

"Many of these countries know that their reefs are in trouble, but they don't know how much they're losing, or where they're losing the most," Hoegh-Guldburg said. "This can help them prioritize. If you don't prioritize, it's very hard to get traction."

The way he sees it, the Catlin Seaview Survey is coming just in time.

"Everybody is waking up to the realization that this is a critical decade," Hoegh-Guldburg said. "We're making decisions that could haunt us for hundreds of years if we don't get them right. It's now or never."?

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Biologist discovers mammal with salamander-like regenerative abilities

ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) ? A small African mammal with an unusual ability to regrow damaged tissues could inspire new research in regenerative medicine, a University of Florida study finds.

For years biologists have studied salamanders for their ability to regrow lost limbs. But amphibian biology is very different than human biology, so lessons learned in laboratories from salamanders are difficult to translate into medical therapies for humans. New research in the Sept. 27 issue of the journal Nature describes a mammal that can regrow new body tissues following an injury. The African spiny mouse could become a new model for research in regenerative medicine.

"The African spiny mouse appears to regenerate ear tissue in much the way that a salamander regrows a limb that has been lost to a predator," said Ashley W. Seifert, a postdoctoral researcher in UF's biology department. "Skin, hair follicles, cartilage -- it all comes back."

That's not the case in other mammals, he said. Usually scar tissue forms to fill the gap created by a wound.

The spiny mouse also regrows tissue on its main body when injured but not as completely as it does in its ears. "On their backs, they regrow hair follicles and skin, but the muscle beneath the skin doesn't regenerate," Seifert said.

Seifert was studying scar-free healing in amphibians when a colleague told him that a small rodent he had observed in Africa seemed capable of autotomy, a defense mechanism whereby the animal self-amputates a body part to escape a predator.

"Autotomy in skinks, geckos and some salamanders is well known," Seifert said. "But it is very rare in mammals, and so far we've only seen it in a few rodents that can jettison their tail."

Seifert's colleague said that the African spiny mouse appeared to have tear-away skin that allowed it to slip a predator's grasp. The notion was interesting enough to send Seifert packing to the Mpala Research Centre near Nairobi, Kenya.

In Nairobi, Seifert was able to document the first known case of skin autotomy in a mammal. But it was how the animals' injuries appeared to be healing that really got his attention.

Seifert used a 4mm biopsy punch, about the size of a large BB, to puncture holes in the ears of the mice to see if the animal showed regenerative capabilities.

"The results were astonishing," he said. "The various tissues in the ear grew back through formation of blastema-like structures -- the same sort of biological process that a salamander uses to regenerate a severed limb."

Ken Muneoka, a Tulane University professor of cell and molecular biology who was not involved with the study, agrees that Seifert's findings are important.

"It could represent a new model system for skin wound healing and tissue regeneration in humans," he said.

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Starlets pumped to help Weitzman fight cancer

This product image released by Stuart Weitzman shows an oxford shoe co-designed by actress Chloe Grace Moretz for a special Stuart Weitzman collection to help raise money for ovarian cancer research. (AP Photo/Stuart Weitzman)

This product image released by Stuart Weitzman shows an oxford shoe co-designed by actress Chloe Grace Moretz for a special Stuart Weitzman collection to help raise money for ovarian cancer research. (AP Photo/Stuart Weitzman)

This product image released by Stuart Weitzman shows a goose-bump calfskin pump co-designed by actress Nikki Reed for a special Stuart Weitzman collection to help raise money for ovarian cancer research. (AP Photo/Stuart Weitzman)

This product image released by Stuart Weitzman shows a gold metallic cap-toe black multi-strap ankle boot co-designed by actress-model Brooklyn Decker for a special Stuart Weitzman collection to help raise money for ovarian cancer research. (AP Photo/Stuart Weitzman)

This product image released by Stuart Weitzman shows a black pony-hair stiletto pump with burgundy satin piping co-designed by actress AnnaSofia Robb for a special Stuart Weitzman collection to help raise money for ovarian cancer research. (AP Photo/Stuart Weitzman)

NEW YORK (AP) ? When you are a hot young starlet in Hollywood, you often get what you want. For Nikki Reed, that meant goose-bump calfskin, and for Chloe Grace Moretz, it was a menswear-inspired design. They are two of the celebrities to work with footwear designer Stuart Weitzman to craft shoes to their specs to help raise money for ovarian cancer research.

Weitzman has a long history of working with stars, and he finds many of them to be "frustrated fashion designers."

"It doesn't surprise me when they make requests or have ideas. They have a desire to create what they wear and what they look like," said Weitzman. "It would be surprising to me if they didn't want to have more input and try design."

The Young Hollywood Cares collection was co-designed this year by Moretz, Reed, Brooklyn Decker, Julianne Hough and AnnaSophia Robb.

Weitzman recalled Moretz's inspiration: "She told me as a kid, she would wear her father's wingtips and oxfords. ... And she wanted to make a shoe like her dad's that was sexy, high and wearable."

Other styles include Decker's gold metallic cap-toe black multistrap ankle boots, and Robb's black pony-hair stiletto pumps with burgundy satin piping.

This is the second round of collaborations, following last year's successful fundraising effort of $80,000, which was done without much promotion or publicity, Weitzman said.

"I want to be more visible," he said. "I have learned it's hard to ask people for money and it's harder to get them to give it, but if you have fun and make some noise, you can rattle it. You'll buy something, even if it costs a little more, but why not for a good cause?"

Proceeds from the collection benefit research at the Folkman Institute/Vascular Biology Program at Boston's Children's Hospital.

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This is the preparation material for an English conversation lesson about customer service.? Customer service is providing a service to customers before, during and after a purchase.? It is designed to increase the level of customer satisfaction ? that is, the feeling that a product or service has met the customer?s needs and expectation. Many stores have a special desk or area where people can complain if they are not happy about a service.? Good customer service is when a company offers solutions to help a customer get over their bad experience.??

VIDEO?

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In this video, which talks about the best and worst companies for providing good customer service, the reporter and the customers who were interviewed use a number of expressions and idioms. Can you work out what they mean from the context??

• Champs and chomps
• Getting high marks for customer service
• I can count on it
• The number 1 customer
• The bottom of the barrel
• To be everything to everybody
• ?To be caught in a maze?

VOCABULARY?

Adjectives describing personality characteristics?

For good service?	For bad service
Eloquent Succinct Responsive Coherent Articulate Sensitive A good listener	Bored Rude Uninterested Nervous Obnoxious Antagonistic

Customer service verbs:?

Guarantee (quality) Provide (a refund) Handle (an issue) Offer (compensation) Ensure (standards) Resolve (the problem) Deal with (complaints) Accept (an apology) Make (mistakes) Request (a refund) Demand (an explanation) Insist (on seeing the manager)

Phrasal Verbs:?

Put off	After the service I received last weekend, I have been put off ever shopping there again!
Ramp up	They really need to ramp up customer service if they want to continue to get customers.
Complain about	I am going to complain about the service I received at the hotel.
Deal with	The new company has been dealing with complaints ever since they started.
Depend on	You can depend on them to provide quality service.

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CONVERSATION QUESTIONS?

• Have you ever received bad service in a restaurant? What happened?
• Have you ever received bad service in a bank, post office or government department? How did you deal with it?
• How would you describe the quality of customer service in your country?
• Do you think it is a waste of time to make a complaint about service?
• Which types of businesses do you think have the worst customer service?
• What do you think are the best qualities for someone providing customer service?
• What are the worst qualities?
• What makes you annoyed when you are receiving a service?
• How do you feel about automated call systems where you speak to a machine rather than a person?
• How often do you make complaints about customer service?
• Have you ever had to deal with a customer complaint? What happened?
• What is the best way of resolving a customer complaint about service?
• Do you think people who work in customer service need to receive special training?
• What do you think it would be like working in a department that deals with complaints? Could you do a job like this?
• Is there an organisation in your country that deals with consumer rights?
• Which businesses in your country are known for good service?
• Which businesses are known for bad service?
• How can companies ensure they provide good service?
• What is the level of customer service like in banks/ in fast food restaurants/ from phone companies/ from utilities/ from transport companies/ from airlines in your country?
• How does customer service in your country compare to other countries you have been to?
• Is the level of service in your country generally getting better or worse?
• Have you ever written a complaint letter? What for? What was the result?
• Have you ever demanded to speak to a manager or supervisor?
• Have you ever made a telephone complaint?
• What do you think is the most effective way of making a complaint?
• What do you do if you receive bad service in a restaurant?
• Has social networking made businesses more aware of the importance of good customer service? How??

USEFUL LANGUAGE ? COMPLAINING?

Making the complaint

• I?m ringing to complain about?
• I?m sorry, but I?m not satisfied with?
• Unfortunately, there?s a problem with?
• I am very dissatisfied with the service I received?

Insisting

• It really isn?t good enough
• I?d like to know why?
• I?d like an explanation for??

Threatening

• If you don?t replace the product, I?ll complain to the manager
• If you can?t deliver on time, we?ll have to contact other suppliers?

Useful Language ? Dealing with Complaints?

Showing understanding

• I?m sorry to hard that
• Yes, I see what you mean
• I apologise for?
• I understand your upset about

Getting the facts

• Could you give me some details, please?
• ?What happened exactly?
• What seems to be the problem??

Making Excuses

• It?s not our policy to replace items
• It?s not our fault that it hasn?t arrive
• I?m afraid that?s not quite right
• I?m sorry, there?s nothing I can do?

Promising action

• Ok, I?ll look into it right away
• I?ll check the details and get back to you

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China carrier a show of force as Japan tension festers

TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) - China sent its first aircraft carrier into formal service on Tuesday amid a tense maritime dispute with Japan in a show of force that could worry its neighbors.

China's Ministry of Defense said the newly named Liaoning aircraft carrier would "raise the overall operational strength of the Chinese navy" and help Beijing to "effectively protect national sovereignty, security and development interests".

In fact, the aircraft carrier, refitted from a ship bought from Ukraine, will have a limited role, mostly for training and testing ahead of the possible launch of China's first domestically built carriers after 2015, analysts say.

China cast the formal handing over of the carrier to its navy -- attended by President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao -- as a triumphant show of national strength at a time of tensions with Japan over islands claimed by both sides.

"The smooth commissioning of the first aircraft carrier has important and profound meaning for modernizing our navy and for enhancing national defensive power and the country's overall strength," Xinhua news agency cited Wen as saying at the commissioning ceremony in the northern port of Dalian.

Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated sharply this month after Japan bought the East China Sea islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, from their private owner, sparking anti-Japan protests across China.

"China will never tolerate any bilateral actions by Japan that harm Chinese territorial sovereignty," Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun told his Japanese counterpart on Tuesday as the two met in a bid to ease tensions.

"Japan must banish illusions, undertake searching reflection and use concrete actions to amend its errors, returning to the consensus and understandings reached between our two countries' leaders."

In a sign of the tensions, China has postponed a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the resumption of diplomatic ties with Japan. But an official at the Japan-China Economic Association said Toyota Motor Corp Chairman Fujio Cho and Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of Japanese business lobby Keidanren, and other representatives of Japan-China friendship groups would attend an event on Thursday in Beijing.

The risks of military confrontation are scant, but political tensions between Asia's two biggest economies could fester and worries persist about an unintended incident at sea.

"If blood is shed, people would become irrational," Koichi Kato, an opposition lawmaker who heads the Japan-China Friendship Association and will travel to Beijing, told Reuters.

"NOT CUTTING EDGE"

For the Chinese navy, the addition of carriers has been a priority as it builds a force capable of deploying far from the Chinese mainland.

China this month warned the United States, with President Barack Obama's "pivot" to Asia, not to get involved in separate territorial disputes in the South China Sea between China and U.S. allies such as the Philippines.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in turn urged China and its Southeast Asian neighbors to resolve disputes "without coercion, without intimidation, without threats and certainly without the use of force".

Narushige Michishita, a security expert at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, said he thought the timing of the launch was unrelated to the islands dispute.

Rather, experts said it might be associated with China's efforts to build up patriotic unity ahead of a Communist Party congress that will install a new generation of top leaders as early as next month.

"China is taking another step to boost its strategic naval capability," Michishita said. "If they come to have an operational aircraft carrier, for the time being we are not super-concerned about the direct implications for the military balance between the U.S. and Japan on the one hand, and China on the other. This is still not cutting edge."

The East China Sea tensions with Japan were complicated on Tuesday by the entry of Taiwan, the self-ruled island that Beijing calls an illegitimate breakaway, which also lays claim to the islands.

Japanese Coast Guard vessels fired water cannon to turn away about 40 Taiwan fishing boats and 12 Taiwan Coast Guard vessels. Six Chinese patrol ships were also near the islands but four left, leaving two nearby but not in waters Japan considers its own.

Japan protested to Taiwan, a day after lodging a complaint with China over what it called a similar intrusion by Chinese vessels.

Taiwan has friendly ties with Japan, but the two sides have long squabbled over fishing rights in the area. China and Taiwan both argue they have inherited China's historic sovereignty over the islands.

The flare-up in tension comes at a time when both China and Japan confront domestic political pressures. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's government faces an election in months, adding pressure on him not to look weak on China. China's Communist Party is preoccupied with the leadership turnover, with President Hu Jintao due to step down.

(Additional reporting by Linda Sieg in Tokyo and Sui-Lee Wee, Ben Blanchard and Chris Buckley in Beijing; Editing by Nick Macfie and Jeremy Laurence)

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How to Opt Out of Facebook's Newest Attempts to Track Everything You Do, Even Offline [Facebook]

Facebook has started working with a data mining service to pair together your email address and other information stored on Facebook with advertising products to see what (and if) you're clicking on ads. Privacy advocates aren't too fond of this, but thankfully can you keep it from happening.

We've known that Facebook is already tracking your every move online, but the data Facebook is using now isn't just about browser cookies. Facebook is pairing what you buy offline with what you see online.

The Data Facebook is Collecting (and What They're Using it For)

According to the Financial Times, Facebook is now working with the data collection company Datalogix. Facebook's reasoning is that they need a system to provide marketers with more concrete data, and Datalogix has data from about 70 million households drawn from loyalty cards and similar programs.

On its end, Facebook matches the email addresses in Datalogix's systems, and compares that to an email address on Facebook. This effectively makes it so they can track if you see an ad on Facebook and then purchase it in a store.

Your data is automatically included in the advertising studies without your consent, and because of that, privacy groups are concerned. Talking with CNET, Jeff Chester, executive director of The Center for Digital Democracy expresses his concern:

I believe the FTC should be investigating all this as part of its review under the consent decree... Ad exchanges allow them to take this data and apply it in real-time and sell it to the highest bidder including Facebook. They are using reams of additional data, including from online, to target Facebook users

For its part, Facebook released this statement to The Verge:

We are working with Datalogix to help advertisers understand how well their Facebook ads are working. We also do this through our partnerships with companies like Nielsen and comScore and through our own advertising tool. We know that people share a lot of information on Facebook, and we have taken great care to make sure that we measure the effectiveness of Facebook ads without compromising the commitments we have made on privacy. We don't sell people's personal information, and individual user data is not shared between Facebook, Datalogix or advertisers.

Regardless of whether your personal data is making it across the tubes, you might want to keep your offline activity separate from your online activity. Thankfully, it's easy to opt out of Datalogix's collection.

How to Opt-Out from the Datalogix Collection

To opt-out of everything (including the Facebook comparison data) Datalogix is collecting, head to their Privacy page, scroll down to the "Choice" heading, click the last "click here" link in the paragraph, and fill in your information. This will opt you out of any and all data collection done by Datalogix.

You can also easily to opt out of Datalogix's cookie-based tracking by clicking this link. Like any cookie based advertising, you will have to opt-out on every computer and browser you use.

Keep Your Online and Offline Data Separate

As we mentioned, the way this data collection works is that it compares your online data with offline shopping habits. So, the easiest solution to keep it from happening? Don't use the same phone number or email address on your Facebook account as you do when you sign up for loyalty or discount cards.

Stores rarely (if ever) follow up on making sure your loyalty card data is correct, so not using your real information isn't an issue. Otherwise, you can almost always use Jenny's number (867-5309) to get club discounts instead of handing over any personal information.

As for your online data, be sure to follow our guide to blocking Facebook cookies from distributing data to third party sites. Photo by Lisa Brewster.

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The Royal couple Princess Hajah Hafizah Sururul Bolkiah and her groom Pengiran Haji Muhammad Ruzaini (L) prays at the end of the sitting-in-state on royal dais ceremony at Istana Nurul Iman in Brunei's capital Bandar Seri Begawan.

Brunei - Glittering jewels and the echoes of a 17-gun salute marked the climax of wedding celebrations for the daughter of one of the world's wealthiest men, the Sultan of Brunei.

Princess Hajah Hafizah Sururul Bolkiah, 32, and Pengiran Haji Muhammad Ruzaini, 29, were presented to the royal court in a lavish traditional ceremony at the sultan's 1,700-room palace on Sunday.

Although the couple were legally wed on Thursday after signing the marriage contract, Sunday's event marks the height of more than a week of festivities in the tiny oil-rich Muslim sultanate on Borneo island.

The bride, dressed in a crystal-beaded beige and silver gown, was ushered into the throne room by sixteen royal guards carrying ceremonial spears and shields.

She was seated at the head of the hall in front of 3,000 guests, including Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Philippines President Benigno Aquino and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Visibly nervous, the groom, wearing beige and gold brocade to complement his wife's ensemble, was escorted to the bridal dias where the sultan took Ruzaini's hand and placed it on the bride's forehead - a symbolic blessing and gesture of affection in Malay culture.

The monarch also bestowed the groom with the royal title ?Yang Amat Mulia Pengiran Anak?, which roughly translates as ?Son of His Highness? and is reserved only for the upper tiers of Brunei's aristocracy.

Two pots of crystal flowers, with eggs tied on to the stalks, were placed next to the bride and groom on the dias to represent the hope of a fertile marriage.

The brief 20-minute ceremony concluded with the state religious leader reading a prayer for the newlyweds asking for God's blessing of the union.

As the smiling couple were ushered out of the room by the bride's younger brother Prince Abdul Mateen, they took turns to kiss the hands of the royal family, including the monarch and Queen Saleha.

A state banquet will be held in the evening, where Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and other foreign dignitaries are expected to attend.

Queen Elizabeth II also sent a message to the Brunei royal family - which has ruled the sultanate for 600 years - congratulating the newlyweds and wishing them ?a happy wedding day and many blessed years together?.

The pomp and pageantry of the royal wedding is a rare source of excitement in Brunei, which is known for its slow pace of life and lack of nightlife - alcohol is largely banned under Islamic practice.

It is the first time one of the sultan's children - five sons and seven daughters from three marriages - has married since 2007.

Hafizah, who has a degree in business administration, is the fifth child of the sultan and Queen Saleha and works as an officer at the finance ministry. Ruzaini is a civil servant in the prime minister's office.

The sultanate, which dates back to the 15th century, is a Malay Muslim absolute monarchy which gained full independence from Britain in 1984.

Situated on a sliver of Borneo island, with Malaysia and Indonesia occupying the rest, it is a major producer of oil and liquefied natural gas.

The energy wealth has brought Brunei's citizens, who number fewer than 400,000, one of the highest per capita incomes in Asia. - Sapa-AFP

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170-year-old spuds help research

21 September 2012 Last updated at 09:04 ET

Hertfordshire scientists have studied 170-year-old potatoes to learn lessons from the 19th Century Irish famine.

Potato blight in Ireland in the 1840s caused a food shortage which saw more than one million people die.

Rothamsted Research in Harpenden used DNA techniques on samples stored by 19th Century scientists.

The research showed how the disease survived between cropping seasons. It will also help test for plant diseases in the future.

Potato blight is caused by the microorganism, Phytophthora infestans, which destroys the leaves of potato crops.

Professor Bruce Fitt, who led the research, said there had been a further outbreak of the disease about 30 years after the original famine, which sparked a debate about whether it was the same pathogen strain from the 1840s.

DNA samples

"In a given season it is spread by airborne spores but it also survives between seasons on tubers [the part of the potato plant that is eaten]," he said.

"However, there was no evidence of how the pathogen survived between the 1840s and the 1870s.

"They didn't have the tools to investigate that but we can now use modern techniques to answer questions they couldn't have dreamt of in the 19th Century."

Scientists at Rothamsted extracted DNA from potato samples dating back as far as the 1840s, that had been dried, ground and stored in glass bottles by Victorian scientists, and analysed it for the presence of the blight pathogen.

"We wanted to see if it was the same strain and it was," he said.

"It had survived between the 1840s and the 1870s between seasons on these potato tubers."

Professor Fitt, now at the University of Hertfordshire, said the findings would help deal with a disease that had been "as bad this year as it was in the 1840s".

He said the research, published in Plant Pathology, helped them better understand the spread of potato blight and proved the DNA technique would be useful for testing seed potatoes.

He said it could also be developed to test for other diseases which affect food production.

"[Blight] is still causing millions of pounds worth of damage despite the use of fungicides, particularly when you get a wet year like this one," he said.

"It was the foresight of two 19th Century plant scientists to archive potato samples that has enabled us to better understand late potato blight and the implications for today's food security."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-19671809#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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HBT: Baker returns for Reds tonight vs. Dodgers

Good news: Ken Rosenthal reports that Dusty Baker, who has spent the last two days in the hospital due to an irregular heartbeat, is expected to manage the Reds tonight.

The final determination should be made later today, but it sounds like he?ll be leaving Chicago and should be back in Cincinnati tonight for the Reds-Dodgers tilt. ?Between his return and the Reds clinching last night, I would expect mucho applause.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/21/dusty-baker-to-be-back-with-the-reds-tonight/related/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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