Managing The Cloud

There's been a lot of hype about the cloud lately. But, like so many other things, hype is often based in truth. From increased productivity to better safeguarding of data, the cloud is everything businesses need to streamline operations and step into a lighter, more efficient future.

Of course, the cloud in its current manifestation is still a work in progress, and there are a few caveats to consider along the way. To make the most of all that it has to offer, businesses will benefit from developing understanding of how the cloud works. (Check out this cloud computing guide by Xero before jumping in head first. Here, too, are a few pros and cons to consider.

Pros

• Seamless Backups
If you're like most people, you plan on backing up your data far more than you actually do. Well, forget the forgetting with cloud-backup services, which take several approaches to automation.

One such approach is that of sites like Mozy and Carbonite. For these sites, users choose the files they want backed up at a regularly scheduled time, so they can just set it and forget it. While effective and secure, the one downside with services like these is in restoring documents, which can be an involved process.

More seamless are cloud-sync services like Google Drive and Dropbox, which add folders or a drive right to your hard drive. This makes it easy for users to drop in files for immediate syncing into the cloud. If you also edit Google Documents, Spreadsheets and other projects online, using Google Drive means you'll find them waiting for you in your online dashboard. What's more, with Google Drive you can easily search through web apps even from your desktop, both by file name and by any phrases that might be in the document's text.

No matter which backup route you take, the cloud approach makes the whole process less labor intensive, and, in the case of Google Drive, makes actually working in the cloud that much simpler.

• Work Collaboratively and Remotely
Of course, some of the best things about working in the cloud are the collaborative features. Whether it's working with colleagues on one document at the same time or sharing work without having to send files back and forth, cloud-based programs enable sharing right from a project, rather than having users toggle back and forth between a third party email client. What's more, cloud-based services work on a wide range of mobile devices, from laptops to tablets and smartphones, meaning workers worldwide can access the same data and dashboards without a hitch.

Overall, the shift to cloud-based apps is a big cost-saver for small businesses, who no longer have to buy updates and can now gain access to cutting edge software formerly only available to companies with IT departments.

• Integrated Data and a Centralized Workspace
While cloud computing has been around in various forms for many years, you can thank the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon for forcing it into the mainstream. With workers insisting that they operate on the platform of their choice, cloud services are one of the only ways businesses can control how they work. Cloud computing services centralize data into well-organized dashboards that can be updated in one fell swoop rather than individually. And because everyone is working on the same files at the same time, the same data integration problems don't occur as when multiple versions of redundant files aren't swapped back and forth. This decreases bottlenecks, as there's no need to update new project versions with edits.

Cons

• Needs Better Support for Offline Working
While some cloud computing services are better than others, most still rely entirely on an internet connection in order to operate. And when that connection goes down, good luck getting anything done. However many cloud computing services are developing hybrid offline-online versions, so this shouldn't be a problem for much longer.

• SlowBackup
The problem with backing up big files online is that they take up a lot of bandwidth and can slow down your internet connection. This can be resolved by scheduling backups for times when traffic will be low, or by sticking with the automatic web sync services.

• Dependent on an External?Party
The one question that really remains in regards to cloud computing services is that of trust. Can companies hold your data hostage if you don't pay? How much will it cost should you decide to switch services? And what if the company isn't doing their due diligence and a giant hack wipes them out?

These are all understandable concerns. But in the long run, keeping up in today's fast-paced business world means staying as productive as possible and keeping costs down. For that, there's just no beating the cloud.

Authors Bio:
Rob Toledo is a Seattleite who matches the usual stereotypes. Loves coffee, the rain, and prefers dogs to cats. When not rambling about marketing and web design, he can be found in the mountains either climbing or hiking.

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'Barrier of bodies' trapped Brazil fire victims

SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) ? A fast-moving fire roared through a crowded, windowless nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, filling the air in seconds with flames and a thick, toxic smoke that killed more than 230 panicked partygoers, many of whom were caught in a stampede to escape.

Inspectors believe the blaze began when a band's small pyrotechnics show ignited foam sound insulating material on the ceiling, releasing a putrid haze that caused scores of university students to choke to death. Most victims died from smoke inhalation rather than burns in what appeared to be the world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade.

Survivors and the police inspector Marcelo Arigony said security guards briefly tried to block people from exiting the club. Brazilian bars routinely make patrons pay their entire tab at the end of the night before they are allowed to leave.

But Arigony said the guards didn't appear to block fleeing patrons for long. "It was chaotic and it doesn't seem to have been done in bad faith because several security guards also died," he told The Associated Press.

Later, firefighters responding to the blaze initially had trouble getting inside the Kiss nightclub because "there was a barrier of bodies blocking the entrance," Guido Pedroso Melo, commander of the city's fire department, told the O Globo newspaper.

Authorities said band members who were on the stage when the fire broke out later talked with police and confirmed they used pyrotechnics during their show.

Police inspector Sandro Meinerz, who coordinated the investigation at the nightclub, said one band member died after escaping because he returned inside the burning building to save his accordion. The other band members escaped alive because they were the first to notice the fire.

"It was terrible inside ? it was like one of those films of the Holocaust, bodies piled atop one another," said Meinerz. "We had to use trucks to remove them. It took about six hours to take the bodies away."

Television images from Santa Maria, a university city of about 260,000 people, showed black smoke billowing out of the Kiss nightclub as shirtless young men who attended the university party joined firefighters using axes and sledgehammers to pound at the hot-pink exterior walls, trying to reach those trapped inside.

Bodies of the dead and injured were strewn in the street and panicked screams filled the air as medics tried to help. There was little to be done; officials said most of those who died were suffocated by smoke within minutes.

Within hours a community gym was a horror scene, with body after body lined up on the floor, partially covered with black plastic as family members identified kin.

Outside the gym police held up personal objects ? a black purse, a blue high-heeled shoe ? as people seeking information on loved ones crowded around, hoping not to recognize anything being shown them.

Teenagers sprinted from the scene after the fire began, desperately seeking help. Others carried injured and burned friends away in their arms. Many of the victims were under 20 years old, including some minors. About half of those killed were men, about half women.

The party was organized by students from several academic departments from the Federal University of Santa Maria. Such organized university parties are common throughout Brazil.

"There was so much smoke and fire, it was complete panic, and it took a long time for people to get out, there were so many dead," survivor Luana Santos Silva told the Globo TV network.

The fire spread so fast inside the packed club that firefighters and ambulances could do little to stop it, Silva said.

Another survivor, Michele Pereira, told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that she was near the stage when members of the band lit some sort of flare that started the conflagration.

"The band that was onstage began to use flares and, suddenly, they stopped the show and pointed them upward," she said. "At that point, the ceiling caught fire. It was really weak, but in a matter of seconds it spread."

Guitarist Rodrigo Martins told Radio Gaucha that the band, Gurizada Fandangueira, started playing at 2:15 a.m. "and we had played around five songs when I looked up and noticed the roof was burning."

"It might have happened because of the Sputnik, the machine we use to create a luminous effect with sparks. It's harmless, we never had any trouble with it," he said. "When the fire started, a guard passed us a fire extinguisher, the singer tried to use it but it wasn't working."

He confirmed that accordion player Danilo Jacques, 28, died, while the five other members made it out safely.

Police Maj. Cleberson Braida Bastianello said by telephone that the toll had risen to 233 with the death of a hospitalized victim. He said earlier that the death toll was likely made worse because the nightclub appeared to have just one exit through which patrons could exit.

Officials earlier counted 232 bodies that had been brought for identification to a gymnasium in Santa Maria, which is located at the southern tip of Brazil, near the borders with Argentina and Uruguay.

Federal Health Minister Alexandre Padhilha told a news conference that most of the 117 people treated in hospitals had been poisoned by gases they breathed during the fire. Only a few suffered serious burns, he said.

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff arrived to visit the injured after cutting short her trip to a Latin American-European summit in Chile.

"It is a tragedy for all of us," Rousseff said.

Most of the dead apparently were asphyxiated, according to Dr. Paulo Afonso Beltrame, a professor at the medical school of the Federal University of Santa Maria who went to the city's Caridade Hospital to help victims.

Beltrame said he was told the club had been filled far beyond its capacity.

Survivors, police and firefighters gave the same account of a band member setting the ceiling's soundproofing ablaze, he said.

"Large amounts of toxic smoke quickly filled the room, and I would say that at least 90 percent of the victims died of asphyxiation," Beltrame told the AP.

"The toxic smoke made people lose their sense of direction so they were unable to find their way to the exit. At least 50 bodies were found inside a bathroom. Apparently they confused the bathroom door with the exit door."

In the hospital, the doctor "saw desperate friends and relatives walking and running down the corridors looking for information," he said, calling it "one of the saddest scenes I have ever witnessed."

Rodrigo Moura, identified by the newspaper Diario de Santa Maria as a security guard at the club, said it was at its maximum capacity of between 1,000 and 2,000, and partygoers were pushing and shoving to escape.

Santa Maria Mayor Cezar Schirmer declared a 30-day mourning period, and Tarso Genro, the governor of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, said officials were investigating the cause of the disaster.

The blaze was the deadliest in Brazil since at least 1961, when a fire that swept through a circus killed 503 people in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro.

Sunday's fire also appeared to be the worst at a nightclub since December 2000, when a welding accident reportedly set off a fire at a club in Luoyang, China, killing 309.

In 2004, at least 194 people died in a fire at an overcrowded nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Seven members of a band were sentenced to prison for starting the flames.

A blaze at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, Russia, killed 152 people in December 2009 after an indoor fireworks display ignited a plastic ceiling decorated with branches.

Similar circumstances led to a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people in the United States. Pyrotechnics used as a stage prop by the 1980s rock band Great White set ablaze cheap soundproofing foam on the walls and ceiling of a Rhode Island music venue.

The band performing in Santa Maria, Gurizada Fandangueira, plays a driving mixture of local Brazilian country music styles. Guitarist Martin told Radio Gaucha the musicians are already seeing hostile messages.

"People on the social networks are saying we have to pay for what happened," he said. "I'm afraid there could be retaliation".

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Sibaja reported from Brasilia. Associated Press writers Stan Lehman and Bradley Brooks contributed to this report from Sao Paulo.

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Fax to Email (w/Outlook) not opening for some user - Elastix Forums ...

Having a weird problem.

Have a few users who are unable to open faxes sent to them via Elastix. This is via the option in Extensions to Enable fax and provide an email address.

Two users at the same office running on the same ISP and same mail server, and only one can open faxes. The other one gets a message saying that the PDF is corrupt and can't open the file (both users receive the file via email through an email group).

Users are running Outlook. Recently did a PC rebuild on the computer not able to open the faxes and installed Office 2010 (with all patches). Some faxes work on that PC, but not all of them.

Troubleshooting steps (in no particular order):
a) Skipped creation of PDF and emailed TIFF file instead - also arrives corrupted
b) The fax, when downloaded from the spool folder on the Elastix server and then emailed to the same user will open correctly
c) Moved users to a different email server

One thing I'm wondering about is whether there's an issue with the email template being used or perhaps a conflict in the mime encoding, but I don't have enough experience with this to troubleshoot further.

Does anyone have any thoughts/suggestions?

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Anonymous hijacks federal website to avenge activist's death

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WASHINGTON???The hacker-activist group Anonymous says it hijacked the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission to avenge the death of Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who committed suicide. The FBI is investigating.

The website of the commission, an independent agency of the judicial branch (http://www.ussc.gov), was taken over early Saturday and replaced with a message warning that when Swartz killed himself two weeks ago "a line was crossed."

The hackers say they've infiltrated several government computer systems and copied secret information that they now threaten to make public.

Family and friends of Swartz, who helped create Reddit and RSS, say he killed himself after he was hounded by federal prosecutors. Officials say he helped post millions of court documents for free online, and that he illegally downloaded millions of academic articles from an online clearinghouse.

The FBI's Richard McFeely, executive assistant director of the agency's?Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, said in a statement that "we were aware as soon as it happened and are handling it as a criminal investigation. We are always concerned when someone illegally accesses another person's or government agency's network."

Hours after the hijacking, pages on the USSC.gov website were available only sporadically.

This report was updated by NBC News.

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Patent lawsuit victories are turning heads at Pittsburgh universities ...

Newell-Simon Hall, an office building at Carnegie Mellon University, was built with the proceeds of the sale of Lycos, an early search engine that was developed at CMU in the 1990s. Andrew Russell | Tribune-Review

By Debra Erdley

Published: Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 12:01?a.m.
Updated 9 hours ago

Universities are finding there may be gold in the patents their researchers produce, but the mother lode is in lawsuits to protect those patents.

The eye-popping $1.17 billion a jury awarded Carnegie Mellon University one day after Christmas and the $85.8 million a judge awarded the University of Pittsburgh last spring are turning heads in academia.

?After the CMU award, I?m sure there are a lot of university deans who want their tech transfer offices to get a little more aggressive? protecting patents, said Chris Barry, a certified public accountant and forensic accountant who tracks patent cases for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Officials at Pitt and CMU declined to discuss their court cases, citing ongoing litigation.

In the Pitt case, a federal judge ruled that Varian Medical Systems, a California medical device maker, infringed on Pitt patents for a respiratory device. A jury in the CMU case found a Bermuda-based chip manufacturer, Marvell Technology Group LTD, appropriated CMU research for a computer chip used in high-speed drives.

It?s unclear how much either school could collect if they prevail in appeals.

Dr. Allen Black, a physician-turned patent lawyer who teaches biotechnology patent law at Pitt, said that could vary depending on legal costs and what the universities pay their researchers.

The Bayh-Dole Act, a 1980 federal law designed to funnel the fruits of federally funded research to the marketplace, stipulated that money from licensing and royalties should flow to the researcher and the university to encourage innovation and fund research.

Although the Pitt and CMU awards are being challenged, their impact is evident.

?Universities have increasingly looked to exploit the financial potential of their patent portfolios. Part of this stems from university administrators? hopes of generating new revenues. ... Part of this also stems from the desire to emulate high-profile cases, such as the CMU case, in which universities have hit a ?home run? by receiving significant damage awards or licensing income,? said Peter Lee, a professor who teaches patent law at the University of California at Berkeley.

A recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers found those who sue to protect patents win about two-thirds of the time.

University patent lawsuits accounted for only 18 of the 1,751 cases that made their way through the courts between 1995 and 2011, the accounting firm found.

Michael Shamos, a lawyer and computer science professor at CMU who testifies as an expert in patent infringement cases, said part of the growth in patent litigation stems from the economic downturn.

?There is a saying in the patent field that it is recession-proof. When times are good, companies have no trouble spending a lot of money for patents. Whenever times go bad, companies start scrounging around for money, so if they own a lot of patents, they start litigating,? Shamos said.

Combined, the two schools pulled in more than $1 billion in government and corporate research grants last year.

Pitt has 490 patents in a portfolio that dates to 1996. CMU has had 457 patents issued to it since 2002.

?It?s a huge step to go from an issued patent to actual money. Most patents that are granted never produce anything,? Shamos said.

Indeed, university earnings on patents from research often are paltry compared with research spending.

Last year, CMU?s best by far in a decade, the university technology transfer office pulled in $19.9 million in income from licensing. A significant chunk of that came from the sale of Carnegie Learning, a spinoff company in which CMU held a stake.

When Lycos, an early search engine developed at CMU, went public in the late 1990s, the proceeds were sufficient to underwrite the $20 million construction of the building that houses computer science department offices and facilities.

But Lee said many research schools barely break even on patent and licensing revenue and some lose money trying to capitalize on research.

Jonathan Parks, a patent lawyer with Pietrogallo, Gordon, Alfano, Bosick & Raspunti in Pittsburgh, wrote the patent for which CMU won its case. He declined to discuss it, but said it?s important for universities to take their patents seriously.

?Universities spend a lot of money innovating and it is important that they protect it. Patents are the only legal monopoly the U.S. government grants,? Parks said.

Debra Erdley is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-320-7996 or derdley@tribweb.com.

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Hostess union hires investment bank

NEW YORK (AP) ? The pension fund for one of Hostess Brands' unions has hired an investment bank to represent workers and pensioners as the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread sells off its brands.

In a statement posted Sunday on its website, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, which represents around 6,000 Hostess bakers, said Gordian Group LLC will represent the fund.

Gordian, a New York investment banking firm that specializes in distressed cases, has represented unionized workers at American Airlines, which is undergoing restructuring in bankruptcy. It's also an adviser in the ongoing liquidation of disgraced investor Bernard Madoff's firm.

Earlier this month, Irving, Texas-based Hostess selected Flowers Foods Inc. to buy its six bread brands, including Wonder Bread, along with 20 bakeries and 38 depots, for $390 million.

Flowers Foods, based in Thomasville, Ga., was selected as the stalking horse bidder for the bread brands. That means higher competing bids can still be made and the final deal must be approved in bankruptcy court.

Hostess is expected to find buyers for its dessert cakes, which include its iconic Twinkies and Ding Dongs, along with the Drake's Cakes and Dolly Madison brands, in the coming weeks.

Gordian President Peter Kaufman said his company will try to ensure that potential buyers hire former Hostess workers and honor Hostess' pension obligations.

"Given the sale process that is under way, we believe the bakers working with a buyer create the opportunity to increase value and are pivotal to the success of the business," Kaufman said in a statement. "Buyers should know that the Bakers are very interested in having direct discussions with them."

The Bakery and Confectionery Union and Industry International Pension Fund pays out $42 million in benefits per month to 52,000 pensioners, according to its website.

Hostess filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2012 after years of management turmoil and turnover. A bankruptcy judge approved its plan to liquidate its assets in November after it failed to reach a new contract agreement with the bakers' union.

Associated Press

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Aaron's Law ? The Reality-Based Community

This is a long post that sketches a system in which we can have about the right amount of digital goods at the right price, and pay the people who make them properly.? IP engineers, lawyers, and economists, have at it: time to stop rearranging deck chairs and steer the ship.?? The central underappreciated insight in my view is that the digital content technology system cannot be fixed by torturing dead-tree rules to fit it: technology rights must be technologically administered.

We should think about this in the larger context of infrastructure investment. In the last century and before, this country was able to channel enormous resources and courage to build stuff? that shaped the quality of life? for the better and that also paid off in enormous economic gains.? I?m thinking of railroads, (less fondly of highways), museums, universities,? water systems, the electric grid?
Not all of that infrastructure was physical: we also invested in all the knowledge in the libraries of those universities and the know-how in the heads of all the people who attended them, weights and measures standards so any 10-32 machine screw will fit the hole tapped with any 10-32 tap, all the music, books and movies, and more.? ?More? especially included a legal system that worked well enough to get those books written and songs played, at least as long as they had to be packaged in something that could be locked up in a room.
Almost all of it is worn-out, obsolete, undermaintained, and failing in so many ways.? The roads are potholed and congested, the electric grid doesn?t connect to where we need to collect energy and too stupid to do what it should, the universities are turning away people who want to learn (my main spring course roster is 20% waitlist and no, a bigger room won?t solve the problem)?? But the most important of these failures, triggered by our ability to encode information as bits instead of ink, is the collapse of the information distribution system, and Aaron Swartz is an appropriate symbol of almost everything that?s wrong with it.? Today I got an overdue notice from the library for a paper book. What?s next, a horsedrawn carriage ride to return it: why, in 2013, should I have to get a book back on a physical shelf for someone else to be reading it??!! Why should someone in East Gulch, with its one-day-a-week, one-room library if it has one, not be able to read it at all? Why should musicians not be able to collect a nickel for their work without selling seats for a live performance?
Now is the time to build an information infrastructure of laws and conventions that will create more value and take fewer? casualties.? First, not just a hat tip, but a sweeping bow to Lawrence Lessig [link fixed 20/I/13], Terry Fisher, Neil Netanel, and the other thinkers who have been exploring this territory over the last decades.
First, the general principles:
(1)? Honesty:? When people decide to use information, they have the right to know what that use really cost (not what it cost to make the first copy, interesting though that might be).? When people generate information, they have the right to know what value their work created or is likely to create.
(2) Privacy: People have a right to use information privately, especially with regard to government.
(3) Efficiency: Independent choices by actors in a free market, correctly informed by prices about costs and benefits (including external costs and benefits) , will almost always beat administrative or authoritarian choices.
(4) Justice: Creators have the right to be paid for their work in amounts commensurate with the value they create.? Consumers have the duty to pay for the costs their choices impose on others. Everyone has the right to free speech as broadly understood under the First Amendment.
(5) We?re all in this together: information is the collective patrimony of society. Taxes paid reflect collective benefits but not necessarily exactly the benefits received by each person.
(6) The criteria for a digital medium property regime is that it be better than what exists, and good enough. It will have irremediable flaws and deficiencies.
Short version and implications: Creators (if they wish) need to be paid proportionally to the use made of their work; consumers of digital content need to have access to digital content at marginal cost, which is in almost every case zero beyond the consumer?s time and wear and tear on her hard drive.? The big fact about consuming digital content is that doing so leaves no less for everyone else; the corollary of this fact is that charging any more than nothing to consumers is wasteful.
Here is a sketch of? the only regime known to me that respects these principles.? Nothing in it exceeds demonstrated capacities of existing technology. Note that it can coexist with conventional copyright for authors who prefer the latter.
A. Beginning in 20xx, there shall be appropriated from general funds to the copyright office the sum of $00? per year for administrative costs and implementation of the program described herein.? Beginning in 20yy,? there shall be appropriated from general funds to the copyright office the sum of $000? annually to be disbursed as ?use-scaled? royalties as provided in the following titles.
B. Any legal person wishing to receive use-scaled royalties for creative work in digital form as author shall place with the copyright office a fair copy of the text, image, recording, etc. and identification sufficient to direct annual royalty payments.? The copyright office shall retain copies and distribute royalties for 00 years after a work is first registered, and inform registrants of attempts to register works already in the system.
C. Any device with access to the internet shall be equipped with software distributed and certified by the copyright office that will, whenever a file is opened:
a. ?Hashcode? or otherwise extract sufficient information to identify the work contained .
b. Transmit the code created under C.a ,? but not who or what opened the file, to the copyright office.? One such transmission of code is a use of that work.
c. Transmission of the file containing a work between devices or persons shall not be a use.
D. The copyright office shall accumulate annually a count of uses for each registered work.? Annual royalties shall be distributed in proportion to the fraction of uses recorded for? each work, divided by the total of uses for all registered works.? Total royalties may be separated into such separate funds for different media [for example, video/movie royalties may result in different per-use payments than music or text] as Congress may from time to time determine.
The copyright office may use statistical sampling techniques to determine the allocation of royalties where appropriate, balancing precision and accuracy of result against administrative cost.
E. The copyright office shall not trace the origin of, nor keep any record of, the individual or device that opened a file thus identified, nor cooperate with any law enforcement or security agency with regard to its records of use.
F. The copyright office shall perform the legal, computer science, and related research required to implement the actions described herein internally and/or by contract as the Register of Copyright may determine.
G. Any person may copy, distribute, read/listen to/watch/mashup/etc., any work registered for use-based royalties without limit of time or place.
H. No provision herein shall replace or nullify any rights granted authors and their assigns under existing copyright law, except that a work in which copyright is claimed shall not be admissible for registration for use-based royalties. Rightful owners of existing copyright who register their works for use-based royalties transfer their rights to the public domain as per G above.
I. Rights to use-based royalties are transferable? among legal persons with notice to the copyright office.

Posted: Saturday, January 19th, 2013 at 5:58 pm
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Amazon makes MP3 catalog available to iPhone users

SEATTLE (AP) ? Amazon says iPhone and iPod Touch users will be able to buy music from its digital store for the first time beginning Thursday.

Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that its MP3 library has 22 million songs available.

Steve Boom, vice president of Amazon Music, says that since the launch of the Cloud Player app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, customers have been asking for the ability to buy music from Amazon directly from their devices.

The Apple device users can browse Amazon's MP3 store for music using Apple's Safari Web browser. Music users buy gets saved to their Amazon Cloud Player libraries and can be downloaded or played instantly from Apple devices or other gadgets such as the Kindle Fire.

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Online:

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Video: Extremists continue extreme support for guns

From fake dead girlfriends to Nigerian princes, the Internet loves a hoax

In a world where, on any given day, someone is forwarding that email that says Bill Gates will share his Microsoft fortune with you, is it really that hard to believe Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o had no clue that dead "girlfriend" Lennay Kekua ? whom he allegedly knew only from the Internet ? didn't really exist?

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Family Education Series - AHRC New York City

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WORKSHOP: Choosing a Camp for Your Loved One with a Developmental Disability

DESCRIPTION:

Choosing the right camp for your loved one with a developmental disability is the first step in making sure your camper is a happy one. This panel presentation will help parents and caregivers of children and adults with developmental disabilities choose a camp that is right for them. Panelists will discuss:
- How do you know when your child is ready for camp?
- Is day camp a better choice or overnight camp?
- How do I go about finding a camp?
- How will I know if a camp can meet my child?s special needs?
- How do I prepare my child to go away to camp?
- What happens if my child becomes homesick?
- How affordable is a camp experience?
- How can I go home now and get ready for camp?

Light refreshments will be served

TIME: February 27, 2013, 6:00pm to 8:00pm

LOCATION:

AHRC New York City Headquarters

83 Maiden Lane, penthouse floor
New York, NY 10038

Presentors:

Mary Anne Kileen, Director, Camping and Recreation, AHRC New York City

and

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Obama demands quick action to raise debt limit

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama demanded that lawmakers raise America's $16.4 trillion federal debt limit quickly, warning that benefits that the elderly and military veterans rely on will be affected if they don't and warning Republicans against insisting on cuts to government spending in exchange for not "crashing the economy."

Obama said he was willing to negotiate with Republican leaders about reining in deficit spending but insisted that those talks be separate from decisions to raise the federal debt ceiling and avert a possible first-ever national default.

"We are not a deadbeat nation," he declared at a news conference Monday, less than a week away from taking the oath of office for a second term.

In addition to noting possible effects on older Americans and veterans, Obama recited a litany of possible consequences if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling, including sending the economy back into recession.

"We might not be able to pay our troops, or honor our contracts with small business owners," he said. "Food inspectors, air traffic controllers, specialists who track down loose nuclear materials wouldn't get their paychecks. Investors around the world will ask if the United States of America is in fact a safe bet. Markets could go haywire, interest rates would spike for anybody who borrows money."

Obama warned that Republicans who want to dramatically cut spending in return for raising U.S. borrowing limits "will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the economy."

Obama's remarks were in line with a newly toughened stance he has shown toward Congress a week before he is sworn in for a second term. The re-elected president has run his last race - U.S. presidents can serve no more than two terms - and has appeared willing to spend the political capital he believes he accrued after winning handily in November and seeing Democrats improve their numbers in Congress.

Obama made his remarks as a new Congress was settling in for its own new term. The new Congress is expected to be as deeply divided as the last, though Republicans face a smaller majority in the House and Democrats will enjoy a bigger majority in the Senate.

In Obama's first term, Democrats on the left accused him of giving ground too easily to Republicans on the debt ceiling issue during a huge partisan fight in the summer of 2011. That battle resulted in an unprecedented downgrade of the U.S. credit rating and left in place the contentious federal income tax cuts established during the George W. Bush administration.

Obama spoke at the 21st and final news conference of his first term, just days after he signed legislation that narrowly averted a "fiscal cliff" of automatic spending cuts and across-the-board tax increases as the Bush tax cuts expired on Jan. 1. A last-minute deal preserved the tax cuts for families earning less than $400,000 per year and delayed the spending cuts.

Obama said he would consider future spending cuts to reduce the deficit, but only if they are done independently from a vote to raise the federal debt limit.

"The full faith and credit of the United States of America is not a bargaining chip," he said. "And they better decide quickly because time is running short."

In a blunt rebuttal to Republicans who say they will not agree to any more tax increases, the president said both taxes and spending must be on the table.

Within minutes, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said the president and his allies in Congress need to get serious about spending, and the debt-limit debate is the perfect time for it.

"I do know that the most important issue confronting the future of our country is our deficit and debt," McConnell said. "So we are hoping for a new seriousness on the part of the president with regard to the single biggest issue confronting the country, and we look forward to working with him to do something about this huge, huge problem."

The most powerful Republican in Congress, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, said in a statement, "The American people do not support raising the debt ceiling without reducing government spending at the same time. ... The House will do its job and pass responsible legislation that controls spending, meets our nation's obligations and keeps the government running, and we will insist that the Democratic majority in Washington do the same."

Underscoring the urgency, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in a letter to Boehner that the government will exhaust its borrowing limit as soon as mid-February, earlier than expected. The Treasury has been using bookkeeping maneuvers to keep from surpassing the debt ceiling, but Geithner said those measures will be exhausted by mid-February to early March.

Lawmakers face three distinct deadlines before April 1. The debt limit must be raised to prevent a default, a series of across-the-board spending cuts is to kick in on March 1 and funding for most government programs will run out on March 27.

Obama virtually dared Republicans to let the government shut down rather than renew funding beyond the March deadline. "It will hurt the economy," he said emphatically.

Jabbing at Republicans, he quoted Boehner's remarks of two years ago that allowing a default on U.S. obligations - the practical effect of failing to raise the debt limit - would be a disaster.

Until the partisan fight over the debt ceiling broke out in 2011, the limit on borrowing had been increased by Congress as a matter of course.

But with a surge in Republicans aligned with the anti-tax Tea Party movement elected to the House of Representatives in 2010, the opposition party has sought to use the power over the debt to enforce its desires for smaller government and spending cuts.

Conservative Republicans in House rebelled during the fiscal cliff talks, and were blamed for scuttling a so-called grand bargain that would have included both tax hikes for wealthy earners, a Democratic priority, and spending cuts to costly entitlement programs, a Republican goal. The House Republicans revolted over increasing taxes for anyone, including the wealthy, following conservative dogma of the past two decades.

Obama said he is still "open to making modest adjustments to programs like Medicare to protect them for future generations," referring to the federal health care program for the elderly. He said he also wants to close tax loopholes.

Combined with other bills he signed earlier in the term, he said he and Congress have reduced deficits by about $2.5 trillion over a decade, somewhat less than the $4 trillion he said is necessary to get them down to a manageable size.

Failure to raise the debt limit would put the United States into a first-ever default, a step that Obama warned could "blow up the economy."

Congressional Democrats have recently urged the president to lift the debt limit unilaterally. He said - as he has before - that he won't do it, that Congress had voted for the spending that resulted in federal borrowing, and should now agree to pay the bill.

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One of the most popular activities that take place on the internet is the use of email, which 92 percent of online adult users do every day. The Pew Internet and American Life Project came up with this statistic showing email use being second only to search. Therefore, it shouldn?t be a surprise that Rochester web development companies focus on providing email hosting along with other important marketing services used for generating success on the web. Identifying quality email hosting services is achieved by understanding what elements should be involved. For example, quality email hosting should involve the tools needed to filter spam and viruses.

It?s important to find Rochester web design companies that offer solutions to filter spam and viruses from email. This information is obtained by asking questions or researching Rochester web development companies online. Rochester web development companies offering email hosting solutions should also offer plenty of customizable configurations and the ability to handle multiple accounts. Custom domain names are also commonly used, especially by internet marketers and online business owners. Most people don?t realize the first email was sent in 1971 on a system known as ARPANET. ARPANET is considered the forerunner of our modern internet today.

During Bill Clinton?s presidency, Bill Clinton sent two emails. One email was considered a test email while the other email was sent to John Glenn, who was aboard the space shuttle at that time. Today, email is an important element for communications and advertisements. People should do their research on Rochester web development companies because not all of them offer quality email hosting programs. Your particular need for email hosting will dictate what type of plan to choose. Some plans are designed to handle a significant amount of email and accounts, while other plans are used for smaller business owners that need only a bare minimum of services.

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Rapoo TV claims to make 'any HDTV smart,' is compatible with iOS and Android

Less than 24 hours after announcing the H9080 wireless headphones, Rapoo's let it be known that its CES 2013 repertoire also includes a little something for the living room (or bedroom, depending on where you prefer to enjoy your downtime). With its Rapoo TV, the company's touting the ability to turn any HDTV into one with intelligent features -- essentially, though, it is a wireless receiver that allows iOS and Android devices to connect to it, allowing them to mirror mostly any content on the bigger screen. Of course, there might be some better options for iOS users (and Android soon, we imagine) in the market already, but the company's still hoping some folks may have room for yet another set-top-like unit in their home. The company says the Rapoo TV will be available sometime in Q1 of this year, however there's no word on pricing just yet.

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R U eating healthy 2day?

Jan. 9, 2013 ? According to the Nielsen consumer research group, teens receive an average of 3,417 text messages per month (that's 114 texts per day!). Couple this with CDC's report that high school students' consumption of fruit and vegetables is, on average, 1.2 times per day (much lower than the recommended 5 a day) and it makes sense to start using text messages to inform teens about health. In a new study released in the January/February 2013 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, it was found that, in order to inform and motivate teens, text messages should address the reality of today's adolescent lifestyles.

The findings from this study were based on a one-year testing period involving 177 teens. During this year, researchers at the University of Arizona explored teens' preferences for message content, format, style (or message ''voice''), origin, and frequency and mode of message delivery. From the pilot test of their healthy lifestyle text messages, the researchers found that teens liked an active voice that referenced teens and recommended specific, achievable behaviors sent from nutrition professionals.

According to study's lead author, Melanie Hingle, PhD, MPH, RD, University of Arizona, "The current consensus is that intervention programs targeting adolescents combat obesity with limited, short-lived success. The majority of traditional approaches employed to date have relied on expert-led fitness and nutrition education programs delivered within the school setting. New approaches are needed to effectively engage teens in age appropriate, teen-centric, relevant activities that can be sustained beyond traditional health promotion settings. The ubiquity of mobile phone use among adolescents offers an engaging, youth-friendly avenue through which to promote healthy behaviors."

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Checks fly, banker goes to jail - Business Management Daily

The former president of Pinehurst Bank in St. Paul will serve 42 months in federal prison following convictions on five counts of misapplying bank funds in a 2010 check-kiting scheme. The resulting losses forced the bank to close in May 2010.

The bank president and a co-?conspirator kited checks between Pinehurst and another bank until officials at the other bank discovered the scheme. The bank refused to honor the $1.85 million in bad checks. The bank president attempted to cover his tracks by fabricating five loans totaling $1.9 million to five fictitious people. An internal Pinehurst audit uncovered the fraudulent loans in January 2010.

That?s when the bank fired its president, but it was forced to recognize the loans as a loss. With the loss on the books, the bank was insufficiently capitalized and regulators closed it.

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If buying real estate is making your head spin, you should take time to do some serious research. If that?s the case, the article below is a great fit for you. In this article, we will present easy to understand guidelines.

If you want to buy a new home, measure it wisely. Make sure the listed square footage is in compliance with public records. The two records should have a discrepancy of no more than 100 square feet; if there?s a larger discrepancy, re-consider your purchase or find more information on the potential reasons.

TIP! Get yourself a home warranty. When you buy a new house, whether from a previous owner or the builder, ask for the warranty.

When house hunting, you should take into account what may happen in your future. If you are planning on having kids, make sure that you purchase a home that has a good school nearby.

When you have kids, or are planning to start a family in the future, make sure you buy a home that can accommodate everyone. Your new home should be equipped for safety; consider this wisely if your home has a swimming pool or steep stairs. It may be safer to purchase a home that children formerly lived in. Most parents childproof their homes, so these homes are probably already safe for your children.

Establish and prioritize a set of goals for the negotiation process. Put your expectations out there. Establish your priorities and let those be your guide in negotiations. Knowing you won?t win on everything, be sure to take a firm stand on the most important issues so you can be flexible on some lesser ones.

TIP! Understand how the length of your loan will affect what you pay. Knowing everything you can about monthly mortgage payments and total cost of the loan will minimize all of your confusion.

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Job growth cools slightly, recovery grinds on

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pace of hiring by U.S. employers eased slightly in December, pointing to a lackluster pace of economic growth that was unable to make further inroads in the country's still high unemployment rate.

Payrolls outside the farming sector grew 155,000 last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. That was in line with analysts' expectations and slightly below the revised gain of 161,000 reported for November.

The report reinforces expectations of 2 percent economic growth this year, unlikely to quickly bring down the unemployment rate or make the U.S. Federal Reserve rethink its easy-money policies anytime soon despite growing unease by some policymakers over a bond-buying program.

"The U.S. economy is just muddling through," said Tom di Galoma, managing director at Navigate Advisors in Stamford, Connecticut.

The jobless rate held steady at 7.8 percent in December, down nearly a percentage point from a year earlier but still well above the average rate over the last 60 years of about 6 percent.

The Labor Department raised its estimate for the unemployment rate in November by a tenth of a point to 7.8 percent, citing a slight change in the labor market's seasonal swings.

Most economists expect the U.S. economy will be held back by tax hikes this year as well as by weak spending by households and businesses, which are still trying to reduce their debt burdens.

Friday's data nonetheless gave signals of some momentum in the labor market's recovery from the 2007-09 recession.

Gains in employment were distributed broadly throughout the economy, from manufacturing and construction to health care.

Also, many economists had expected December's payroll gains to be padded by one-time factors like the recovery from a mammoth storm that hit the East Coast in late October.

The government had said last month the storm had no substantial impact on the November data, and many economists expected the government on Friday to recant by revising downward its estimate for payroll gains in November. Instead, the government revised November payrolls upward by 15,000.

Average hourly earnings rose 0.3 percent last month, slightly more than analysts had expected, while the length of the average workweek was unchanged.

"This shows the economy is chugging along, with payroll gains at about the average it has been over the past year," Tom Porcelli, an economist at RBC Capital Markets in New York.

Analysts appeared divided over whether the number points to the Fed scaling back its plans to buy bonds, perhaps as soon as the second half of this year.

Porcelli said December's unspectacular payroll gains should reinforce expectations the Fed will continue with the program. However, Craig Dismuke, a strategist at Vining Sparks in Memphis, Tennessee, said the current pace of job creation will raise pressure on the Fed to stop bond purchases after the middle of the year.

The Fed has kept interest rates near zero since 2008, and in September promised open-ended bond purchases to support lending further. On Thursday, however, minutes from the Fed's December policy review pointed to rising concerns over how the asset purchases will affect financial markets.

U.S. S&P stock index futures added to gains after the data, while U.S. Treasuries prices erased most of their losses.

AUSTERITY'S BITE

Despite the signs of some momentum in hiring, a wave of government spending cuts due to begin around March loom over the economy.

Many economic forecasts assume the cuts - which would hit the military, education and other areas - will ultimately be pushed into next year as part of a deal sought by lawmakers to reduce gradually the government's debt burden.

Initially, the cuts were planned to have begun this month as part of a $600 billion austerity package that also included tax hikes.

Hiring in December may have been slowed by uncertainty over the timing of the austerity.

"Companies were very worried about the fiscal cliff, so it's a good number that they were still hiring," said Yelena Shulyatyeva, an economist at BNP Paribas in New York.

Congress this week passed legislation to avoid most of the tax hikes and postpone the spending cuts.

Even with the last-minute deal to avoid much of the "fiscal cliff," most workers will see their take-home pay reduced this month as a two-year cut in payroll taxes expires.

Austerity already held back the U.S. economy in 2012. In December, government payrolls shrank by 13,000.

That leaves the Fed's efforts to lower borrowing costs as the main program for stimulating the economy.

(Reporting by Jason Lange; Additional reporting by Chris Reese, Julie Haviv, Richard Leong and Gabriel Debenedetti in New York; Editing by Neil Stempleman)

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GTJ Health Series: Starting a New Fitness Routine ? Gather the Jews

The contents of this article are for informational purposes only. ?The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. ?Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

With my last column I outlined successful strategies for achieving New Year?s resolutions. This week I will focus on a common resolution ? starting a new fitness routine.

Fitness: An Introduction

We all know exercise is good for us. ?Exercise helps us reduce our risk for diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, and heart attack. ?However, you may not know that exercise has many other important functions. ?The endorphins released during exercise help improve mood and can control depression and anxiety symptoms. ?For those of us who are looking to lose weight or tone up this holiday season, exercise is the driving force as it helps burn calories and defines muscle. ?Here are some tips to get started!

A Roadmap to Success

1. Determine your Goals: There are many reasons people begin a fitness routine. ?Many work out to lose weight, while others do so to tone, gain muscle, or improve self-confidence. ?Before beginning your new fitness routine, consider what your goals are and write them down.
2. Consult your Physician: Even if it hasn?t been that long, schedule an appointment and have your doctor assess whether you?re healthy enough for exercise and if you have any limitations. ?By knowing your limitations you can better tailor your fitness routine to achieve your goals while avoiding harm to yourself.
3. Get Equipped/Enlist a Professional: Each fitness activity has its own equipment and skill requirements. ?Before you begin a new fitness routine, make sure you have the right equipment. ?If you are beginning a running routine, get fitted for running shoes (I recommend Fleet Feet). ?If you are starting to do yoga, having the right yoga mat can make all the difference. ?While not necessary for some activities, a fitness professional can be a great way to get you started with a new fitness routine. ?If you are starting weight training regimen, a personal trainer can guide you into the appropriate exercises for your goals and the correct form and technique to minimize injury.
4. Make it a Date: Grab a significant other or friend and schedule workout dates with them. ?While it might be easy to hit the snooze button if you?re going on a solo run, if you have to meet a friend, you?re suddenly accountable to someone other than yourself and thus more likely to complete the activity.
5. Know Yourself: Choose activities that you enjoy and that fit who you are. ?If you love competition ? join a sports league. ?If you love solitude-take up jogging.
6. Variety: Try to mix in different types of activities as well as days off to give your body a rest.
7. Start and Go Slow: As you start a new exercising routine, take it slow and advance incrementally.
8. Record your Progress: By setting goals and keeping track of your exercise, you are more likely to achieve your goals. ? A review of several large studies in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that using a pedometer and setting a specific goal for number of steps taken per day increased physical activity by 27 percent and helped those people lose more weight and get lower blood pressure compared to those who did not use a pedometer or set a goal. ?To achieve your fitness goals, write them down, record your progress, and celebrate your accomplishments!

Which Type of Exercise is For You

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Alex Berger, a new GTJ contributing columnist, is a native of the Washington DC Metropolitan Area. ?He graduated in 2008 from the University of North Carolina and is currently in his last year of a combined MD/MPH program. He is excited to be back in the DC area and to share tips on nutrition, health, and fitness. He can be reached at?Alexander_Berger@med.unc.edu.

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Thousands line route of Pasadena's Rose Parade

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) ? Thousands of people in Southern California are lining the route of the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena.

The die-hards staked out their spots early Monday with folding chairs, hammocks and portable barbeque grills. They brought in the new year by throwing marshmallows, shaving cream and tortillas, and then hunkered down to stay warm in sleeping bags.

The parade features floats covered with flowers and plant material and marching bands from across the country. It will be broadcasts around the world.

College student Brandy Grueter (GROO'-ter) spent the night on the sidewalk with her younger brother and saved spots for about 20 friends and family. She says she slept 20 minutes but would rally enough energy once the parade started.

The pre-dawn line at a Starbuck's stretched around the block.

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New-car sales to grow 6.6 percent to 15.3 million in 2013: Polk

(Reuters) - New-vehicle sales are expected to top 15 million this year, helped by growth in the large pickup truck sector and an improving economy, according to market research firm Polk.

New car and truck registrations, which closely track sales, are expected to rise 6.6 percent in 2013 to 15.3 million vehicles, Polk said. Sales are expected to finish 2012 at about 14.5 million vehicles.

Polk expects registrations to rise to 15.8 million vehicles in 2014, and 16.2 million in 2016, to settle at 16 million in 2016. Industry sales last topped 16 million in 2007.

"The auto sector is likely to continue to be one of the key sectors that leads the U.S. economic recovery," Anthony Pratt, director of forecasting for the Americas at Polk, said in a statement. "However, we don't expect to realize pre-recession levels in the 17 million vehicles range for many years."

The forecast underscores the industry's relative strength amid robust demand through the end of 2012, with December sales expected to finish with an annual selling rate of 15.2 million vehicles when automakers report results on Thursday.

Polk said new vehicle introductions in the U.S. market will rise dramatically in 2013 to a planned 43, up nearly 50 percent from 2012. In addition, 60 vehicle redesigns are expected in 2013.

Polk expects growth in the full-size pickup truck segment in 2013 and into the 2014 model year as General Motors Co , Toyota Motor Corp and Ford Motor Co are set to introduce redesigned vehicles in the next 18 to 24 months. Polk also expects the midsize sedan market to continue to grow and lead the industry.

(Reporting by Ben Klayman in Detroit; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

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Space travel may be harmful to the brain, study suggests; Prolonged cosmic radiation exposure could hasten Alzheimer's

Dec. 31, 2012 ? As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, a new study out today in the journal PLOS ONE shows that cosmic radiation -- which would bombard astronauts on deep space missions to places like Mars -- could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

"Galactic cosmic radiation poses a significant threat to future astronauts," said M. Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy and the senior author of the study. "The possibility that radiation exposure in space may give rise to health problems such as cancer has long been recognized. However, this study shows for the first time that exposure to radiation levels equivalent to a mission to Mars could produce cognitive problems and speed up changes in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer's disease."

While space is full of radiation, the earth's magnetic field generally protects the planet and people in low earth orbit from these particles. However, once astronauts leave orbit, they are exposed to constant shower of various radioactive particles. With appropriate warning, astronauts can be shielded from dangerous radiation associated with solar flares. But there are also other forms of cosmic radiation that, for all intents and purposes, cannot be effectively blocked.

Because this radiation exists in low levels, the longer an astronaut is in deep space, the greater the exposure. This is a concern for NASA as the agency is planning manned missions to a distant asteroid in 2021 and to Mars in 2035. The round trip to the red planet, in particular, could take as long as three years.

For over 25 years, NASA has been funding research to determine the potential health risks of space travel in an effort to both develop countermeasures and determine whether or not the risks warranted sending men and women on extended missions in deep space.

Since that time, several studies have demonstrated the potential cancer, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal impact of galactic cosmic radiation. The study out today for the first time examines the potential impact of space radiation on neurodegeneration, in particular, the biological processes in the brain that contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease. O'Banion -- whose research focuses on how radiation affects the central nervous system -- and his team have been working with NASA for over eight years.

The researchers studied the impact of a particular form of radiation called high-mass, high-charged (HZE) particles. These particles -- which are propelled through space at very high speeds by the force of exploding stars -- come in many different forms. For this study the researcher chose iron particles. Unlikely hydrogen protons, which are produced by solar flares, the mass of HZE particles like iron, combined with their speed, enable them to penetrate solid objects such as the wall and protective shielding of a spacecraft.

"Because iron particles pack a bigger wallop it is extremely difficult from an engineering perspective to effectively shield against them," said O'Banion. "One would have to essentially wrap a spacecraft in a six-foot block of lead or concrete."

A portion of the research was conducted at the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. NASA located its research operation at Brookhaven to take advantage of the Lab's particle accelerators which -- by colliding matter together at very high speeds -- can reproduce the radioactive particles found in space.

The researchers specifically wanted to examine whether or not radiation exposure had the potential to accelerate the biological and cognitive indicators of Alzheimer's disease, particularly in individuals who may be predisposed to developing the disease. To accomplish this they chose study the impact on animal models of Alzheimer's disease. These particular models have been extensively studied and scientists understand the precise timeframe in which the disease progresses over time.

At Brookhaven, the animals were exposed to various doses of radiation, including levels comparable to what astronauts would be experience during a mission to Mars. Back in Rochester, a team of researchers -- including URMC graduate student Jonathan Cherry, who was first author on the paper -- evaluated the cognitive and biological impact of the exposure. The mice underwent a series of experiments during which they had to recall objects or specific locations. The researchers observed that mice exposed to radiation were far more likely to fail these tasks -- suggesting neurological impairment -- earlier than these symptoms would typically appear.

The brains of the mice also showed signs of vascular alterations and a greater than normal accumulation of beta amyloid, the protein "plaque" that accumulates in the brain and is one of the hallmarks of the disease.

"These findings clearly suggest that exposure to radiation in space has the potential to accelerate the development of Alzheimer's disease," said O'Banion. "This is yet another factor that NASA, which is clearly concerned about the health risks to its astronauts, will need to take into account as it plans future missions."

Additional co-authors include Jacqueline Williams, Ph.D. and John Olschowka, Ph.D. with URMC and Bin Liu, Ph.D., Jeffrey Frost, and Cynthia Lemere, Ph.D. with Harvard Medical School. The study was funded by NASA.

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Journal Reference:

1. Jonathan D. Cherry, Bin Liu, Jeffrey L. Frost, Cynthia A. Lemere, Jacqueline P. Williams, John A. Olschowka, M. Kerry O?Banion. Galactic Cosmic Radiation Leads to Cognitive Impairment and Increased A? Plaque Accumulation in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer?s Disease. PLoS ONE, 2012; 7 (12): e53275 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053275

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