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Monday, April 2, 2012
TechCrunch-Funding Circle, a Kickstarter for SMBs, Picks Up $16M From Index, Union Square Ventures
TechCrunch ? Some great news for small business owners, and perhaps a sign of more crowdsourced funding coming to the U.S. soon: the UK startup Funding Circle ? a Kickstarter for small businesses ? has just announced that it has raised a $16 million round of funding to further build up its business of enabling non-bank lending to small businesses. ~ The investment included participation from existing investor Index Ventures as well as new investor Union Square Ventures ? a sign of how Funding Circle may have its sights set on taking advantage of new crowdfunding laws to expand to the U.S. This Series B round takes the total raised by Funding Circle to $21 million. ~ Funding Circle has made some amazing strides since launching in the UK 18 months ago: it?s facilitated lending to 670 ...More small businesses in the UK, with funds totaling ?28 million ($45 million), representing annual growth of over 400 percent. More than 10,000 people have registered on the site to date; the company claims ?inflation-beating average yields of 8.4 percent? for investors. ~ Funding Circle says it lets businesses pick up to ?1 million ($1.6 million) per week through its site. ~ The startup is a sign of the times not only in its crowdsourced, P2P roots, but also in the fact that it is aimed at bypassing banks, the subject of so much? criticism for their practices over the last several years ? the thinking goes: why give them the benefit of making money off of lending when you can find others to do that instead? ~ And there is something decidedly more efficient-sounding about Funding Circle compared to banks: whereas it can take months to finalize a bank loan and get the money flowing, Funding Circle claims that a deal can be secured and funded through its site within days. ~ There is also a big opportunity there to take some business away from the banks:? Funding Circle notes that currently some 90 percent of small business lending in the UK still goes through the traditional bank channel. ~ The impetus behind F... ...Less
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
Indian Defence Ministry Bans Israeli Military Industries (Uzi Manufacturer) For 10 Years For Corruption
2 04 2012
[SEE:? Indian Defence Ministry Bans Israeli Military Industries For 10 Years For Corruption ]
NEW DELHI, March 6 (UPI) ? The Indian Defense Ministry has blacklisted six armaments companies following allegations of corruption among its major armaments suppliers.
The ban, which will list a decade, includes Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd., Israeli Military Industry and Germany?s Rheinmetall Air Defense. Two Indian and one Russian defense contractors are also included.
The unprecedented action resulted from a corruption investigation conducted by the Criminal Bureau of Investigation of the former Director General of Ordnance Factories Sudipta Ghosh, a statement from the ministry said Tuesday.
?Consequent to the filing of the charge sheet in the case related to illegal gratification against Sudipta Ghosh, former DGOF, the firms were recommended for blacklisting by CBI on basis of evidence collected against them,? Defense Ministry officials said.
The Indian firms named in the scandal are New Delhi?s T.S. Kisan and Co. and Ludhiana?s R.K. Machine Tool, while Russian firm Corporation Defense has also been targeted.
The companies have been banned from further business contracts with India?s Department of Defense Production Ordnance Factory Board for the next 10 years.
? 2012 United Press International, Inc.
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10 AirPlay-Ready iPad Apps That Make Apple TV Worth It
Then I tried AirPlay. Mirroring my iPad's display on the TV screen, I was suddenly able to not only stream any video I could find, but look at photos, browse the Web and view other apps on the big screen. If the Apple TV has a killer feature, this is it. Some of the device's biggest shortcomings - limited content, lack of a keyboard for text input, no Web browser - are instantly alleviated once you toggle that AirPlay switch.
While you can technically beam your entire iPad screen onto your TV using AirPlay, there are certain things that the feature is best suited for. For the most part, it's great for streaming video. When you're navigating the iPad's home screen, launching apps or trying to use apps that have fluid animations, there's a noticeable lag. It's really too bad. Google Earth, for example, would be cool on a TV.
What the feature is primarily intended for is watching video content, and it does that quite well. Even so, some apps offer a better experience than others.
1. YouTube
It might seem too obvious to mention, but YouTube's iPad app is an essential one for the Apple TV. The same is true of its tablet-optimized mobile Web app. There is a YouTube app that ships with the Apple TV, but searching the world's largest user-submitted video site from a tablet is a much better experience than typing letters in one-by-one using the Apple remote.
Despite its tendency toward shorter videos, YouTube is quickly becoming a mainstay in many living rooms, as viewers turn toward the service for everything from music videos and funny viral clips to longer-form videos that are slowly making their way onto YouTube as Google gets serious about premium content.
2. Netflix
Again, this is an obvious choice, but it shouldn't be excluded from this list. Like YouTube, Netflix is already included on the Apple TV, but the user interface is quite different on the iPad. Most importantly, one can navigate the app by touching and typing rather than tediously pointing a remote at the screen. Netflix subscribers who own an Apple TV and an iPad will probably spend quite a bit of time with this app.
3. Boxee
In addition to its own Apple TV-style set-top box, Boxee offers an iPad app that includes some of the platform's best features.
Like the Boxee media player UI, its iPad app pulls in videos that are shared by your friends on Facebook and Twitter, much like Flipboard does for written content. Another one of Boxee's most useful features is its "Watch Later" queue, which you can populate using its browser bookmarklet, Instapaper-style. If you come across a great TED talk, music video or mini-documentary during the course of your day and don't have time to watch it, just click the button.
The Boxee app also allows you to stream videos that are stored locally on your computer using its Media Manager. If you have a lot of video files, this feature helps make up for the Apple TV's lack of external storage.
4. ShowYou
ShowYou is another app that curates video content via your social connections, and it does a really great job of it. The UI is a little nicer than Boxee's and it takes better advantage of the screen's real estate by providing a massive array of recently shared videos on a grid, which you can navigate by swiping left or down.
ShowYou pulls off the social curation quite well, but this isn't all the app does. It also sports YouTube integration, lets you follow other ShowYou users, and offers curated categories of content like Art & Design, Comedy and Music. All told, there is a ton of video content packed into this one little app and it works exceptionally well on the TV screen.
5. PBS
While networks and cable channels struggle with how to offer content to tablet users without upsetting the existing order, PBS is a bit more liberal. Its iPad app features full episodes of many programs, including Frontline, Nova and News Hour. Conspicuously absent is the wildly popular Downton Abbey, which is normally available to stream online while the season is airing.
PBS doesn't make videos available indefinitely and the selection is somewhat limited, but they do a better job than most networks of offering content to tablet users without requiring a cable subscription to view it.
6. Al Jazeera (English)
As far as iPad apps go, Al Jazeera's is pretty bare bones. It doesn't have a slick, fluid UI that will blow you away, but rather its value is in the content it offers. In the United States, Al Jazeera English is not carried by most cable operators, even though the network has received praise from sources as unlikely as Donald Rumsfeld for its coverage of recent turmoil in the Middle East.
This app solves that problem, at least for iPad and Apple TV owners. The first tab is a live stream of whatever is being broadcast on Al Jazeera English at the moment. The other three tabs are just parts of the channel's websites framed into the app, and unfortunately not all of the video content found there is in a tablet-ready HTML5 format. Still, the live stream alone makes this app worth watching.
7. TED
TED's is another well-designed, video-heavy iPad app that works well on the TV screen. Since some TED talks are on the longer side, they're even more appropriate for the "lean back" viewing experience.
The app itself is great. The content never expires and it can be navigated by recency, theme, tags or even adjectives like "courageous," "funny" or "jaw-dropping." You can also save your favorite talks locally so they don't need to be streamed.
8. Guardian Eyewitness
Video is the only thing for which the TV screen is well-suited. The Guardian's popular Eyewitness app is simply a slideshow of full-screen, beautiful news photographs from around the world.
In terms of functionality, you could hardly get more simplistic, but these images comprise some of the best recent examples of photojournalism and they deserve to admired on a big screen.
9 + 10. Rdio and MOG
Then there's music. More and more, people are using their Internet-connected TV as a sort of modern, household jukebox. Apps like Pandora are standard on many smart TVs these days, and streaming services like Spotify and MOG have been quick to develop their own apps for various Internet TV platforms.
Which app you go for will obviously depend on which service you're subscribed to. As far as user experience goes, Rdio and MOG both win for having developed form factor-appropriate apps for the iPad, rather than scaling up their iPhone apps. We wish we could say the same for Spotify, which is apparently still working on that particular feature.
Of course, if you already subscribe to Spotify, go ahead and use their app to stream music from your TV. It works just fine and a bad UI isn't exactly a deal-killer for an app whose sole purpose is to deliver sounds rather than pictures.
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Blacks have trouble clearing cervical cancer virus
CHICAGO -- Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease.
Doctors have long thought that less access to screening and follow-up health care were the reasons black women are 40 percent more likely to develop cervical cancer and twice as likely to die from it. The new study involving young college women suggests there might be a biological explanation for the racial disparity, too.
If further study confirms this novel finding, it would make the HPV vaccine even more important for black women, said Worta McCaskill-Stevens, a prevention specialist at the National Cancer Institute. The vaccine is recommended for all girls starting at age 11.
The study was presented Sunday at an American Association for Cancer Research conference in Chicago.
Certain strains of HPV, the human papillomavirus, cause cervical cancer, but brief infections are very common in young women. They usually go away on their own within a year or so and only pose a cancer risk when they last long-term.
Researchers at the University of South Carolina in Columbia studied 326 white and 113 black students taking part in a wider federal health study. All were given Pap tests - lab exams of cells scraped from the cervix - and HPV tests every six months throughout their years in school.
Although the groups were similar in how many new HPV infections were detected and risk factors such as how many sex partners they had, doctors saw striking differences in how long their infections lasted.
At any checkup, blacks were 1.5 times more likely to test positive for infection with one of the HPV strains that raise cancer risk, said study leader Kim Creek.
"The African-American women weren't clearing the virus as fast. They were actually holding onto it about six months longer," for 18 months versus 12 months for whites, he said.
Ten percent of blacks had abnormal Pap tests versus 6 percent of whites.
Two years after initial infections were found, 56 percent of black women were still infected but only 24 percent of whites remained infected.
The government's National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities sponsored the study. Creek is a paid speaker for Merck & Co., one of the makers of HPV vaccines.
The results are "provocative" and need validation in a study that looks beyond this one region, said McCaskill-Stevens of the cancer institute.
"We have known there are genetic differences between the races," and it's possible that a gene from certain ancestries such as African might play a role in the ability to clear an HPV infection, she said.
Cervical cancer has declined dramatically in the United States because of Pap tests, which are recommended every three years for women 21 to 65. Starting at age 30, women can also have an HPV test every five years; they're not recommended before then because brief infections are so common, they would give too many false alarms.
About 12,000 new cases and 4,200 deaths from cervical cancer occur each year in the United States, mostly in women who have never been screened or not in the past five years.
Paps cost $15 to $60; HPV tests run $50 to $100.
Doctors don't know how the vaccine will affect HPV test results or how long the vaccine lasts, so women should still be screened for cervical cancer if they are within the recommended screening ages.
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Online:
Cervical screening advice: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/uspscerv.htm
CDC on HPV tests: http://www.cdc.gov/hpv/Screening.html
Cancer conference: http://www.aacr.org
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Would it be possible to terraform mars by planting a forest on the surface and supply it with soil and fresh water? The atmosphere isn't much different from ours, is it? AND Mars is supposed to have had a wider atmosphere in the past. Are solar winds and l
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Would it be possible to terraform mars by planting a forest on the surface and supply it with soil and fresh water? The atmosphere isn't much different from ours, is it? AND Mars is supposed to have had a wider atmosphere in the past. Are solar winds and lack of magnetosphere the reason for Mars's deplenished atmosphere? Is it possible in time and with great energy to create a planetary magnetic field?
Conditions on the surface of Mars would not support any terran life, and certainly nothing like trees, which even on Earth are restricted to climates that are relatively warm and wet. The atmosphere on Mars is very different from that on Earth. Our atmosphere is made primarily of nitrogen and oxygen, while the atmosphere on Mars is almost pure carbon dioxide. Also, the atmosphere of Mars is very thin, with less than 1% the pressure we have on Earth. Temperatures are so low on the surface that liquid water is unusual and doesn't persist for long. And because the martian atmosphere is largely transparent to ultraviolet light, the surface is bathed in levels of solar ultraviolet that would be lethal to trees and to most terran organisms. The reasons that Mars has such a thin atmosphere and inhospitable surface are primarily its greater distance from the Sun and its smaller mass compared to Earth. The small mass (low surface gravity) has allowed the atmosphere to gradually be lost to space. Magnetic fields are only a minor issue. No one has any idea how we could create a magnetic field, nor can I think of any reason we would want to.
David Morrison
Astrobiology Senior Scientist
March 28, 2012
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Phelps, Lochte qualify for finals at Indianapolis
Michael Phelps competes in the 100-meter butterfly at the Indianapolis Grand Prix swimming meet in Indianapolis, Thursday, March 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Michael Phelps competes in the 100-meter butterfly at the Indianapolis Grand Prix swimming meet in Indianapolis, Thursday, March 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte have both qualified for Friday night's finals at the Indianapolis Grand Prix.
They just won't be swimming against one another.
Phelps posted the second-fastest time in the 400 IM prelims, finishing in 4 minutes, 21.31 seconds with a far better swim than Thursday's two events. Tyler Clary had the best qualifying time, 4:19.02.
One day after failing to make the finals in two events, Lochte reached the finals in the 200 freestyle and the 200 backstroke. He was sixth fastest in the free at 1:50.17 and fourth in the back at 2:00.33.
Missy Franklin advanced to the finals in two events -- the 200 free and 200 back. The finals heat in the 200 free also will include Katie Hoff, Dana Vollmer and Allison Schmitt.
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