Pets: Jake, Mox, Ron - Bel Air, MD Patch

From the?Humane Society of Harford County:
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Dog of the Week: Jake
Age: 2 years
Color: Black, White & Tan
Breed: Pit Bull Terrier Mix
Gender: Male
Adoption Fee: $160
Hi there! I'm Jake, and if you saw me when I first arrived at the shelter in July as a stray, I don?t think you?d recognize me now.? I had a very bad skin infection and was missing hair and I was so sad, but the kind folks here have been taking good care of me, and I look and feel so much better! When you see me now you will note a look of some St Bernard in me. Everyone is impressed that despite my bad situation, my happy-go-lucky attitude and good heart are shining through. They are all hoping some wonderful family will recognize what I have to offer and the happy ending will be complete. I am easy on a leash and will sit/lay down on command. I am truly a diamond in the rough (and less and less rough each day- so check me out soon!)

Cat of the Week: Mox
Age: 3 years
Color: Black, Brown & White
Breed: Domestic Shorthair Mix
Gender: Male
Adoption Fee: $47.50 (reduced from $95)
My name?s Mox and I?m perched here and ready to leap into your heart!? I'm a very sweet boy who is looking for my forever home. I'm laid back and love to be petted. You can usually find me on this cat tree hanging out with my feline buddies in the Free Roam Room.? Why not come in and meet me? Maybe I can be your new BFFF (Best Furry Friend Forever).? P.S. I am a member of the Lonely Hearts Club because I?ve been here since July 2^nd, and my adoption fee is half off!

Small Critter of the Week: Ron
Age: 7 months
Color: Black
Breed: Rabbit
Gender: Male
Adoption Fee: $50
Are you looking for a sweet, good-natured pal for company and affection? Why don?t you adopt me, a nice, calm rabbit who?ll provide lots of fun and love? Hi, I?m Ron, and I was given up to the shelter because my owner was allergic to me. I?m only 7 months old and I?ve got the softest black fur! I am patiently waiting for a new home, so if you think you might love a rabbit, come see me!

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Developer Experience Product Manager - Windows Phone (811028) Job (Redmond, WA, US)

Job Category: Operations
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 811028-93704
Division: Windows Phone Division

The Windows Phone Store is the fastest growing mobile app store in the world with over 100,000 apps and games in just the first 20 months since its launch, with 100s of new apps being added every day from developers and publishers around the world. The Windows Phone Store team is looking for an individual to lead to lead the evolution of our developer experiences. This is a great opportunity for someone with a passion for the mobile app ecosystem, experience managing mobile advertising or an online service and strong product management skills.

Key Responsibilities:

- Drive Windows Phone Store mobile advertising business planning and execution including: create cross-functional v-team to develop business requirements; collaborate on specifications with engineering teams; create value proposition/core content to articulate benefits; land capabilities with developers, partners & field organization; monitor and report advertising performance and developer return; become subject matter expert on 3rd party solutions to inform plans; and create feedback mechanisms
- Lead Windows Phone Store Dev Center and developer experience with accountability to establish business requirements, key metrics and priorities for the portal, as well as lead product management functions including: develop value proposition/core content, land capabilities with developers and field, establish developer feedback mechanism to influence future plans, develop a partnership with Windows to drive alignment of Windows Dev Center with Windows Phone Dev Center as appropriate, and establish regular reporting of results
- Manage Windows Phone Store PC-based experience including product management functions to drive alignment on core features with the phone-based experience and identify opportunities unique to the PC
- Act as business lead for regular servicing releases to prioritize business needs/requirements; collaborate with engineering on execution/test details where needed (example local testing); and manage communications to marketing, field and partner organizations
- Manage detail geographic expansion planning and execution, including adding new countries, implementing and communicating country-specific requirements and collaboration with other Microsoft business groups to ensure alignment of experiences
- Act as subject matter expert and lead on global app and game rating systems to influence a single Microsoft approach to ratings and to act as a single point of contact with ratings bodies (e.g. PEGI, ESRB, CTIA)

As a qualified candidate you will need to be able to demonstrate:

- Experience in mobile advertising product planning or management with an understanding of business models, popular tools and business intelligence
- Deep understanding of a developer ecosystem and passion for working with developers
- Proven ability to filter and prioritize diverse needs to create competitive business requirements
- Strong partnering and collaboration skills across multiple business and engineering teams to build shared plan and manage execution
- Ability to develop creative solutions to quickly adapt plans in a changing environment
- Strong written and verbal communications skills with the ability to clearly write and deliver field and public facing communications to drive action

Professional Qualifications:

- 5-7+ years? experience in product management, business management, operation of an online business/service, product planning, or program management
- Mobile or online advertising product management experience is preferred
- Experience working with a developer ecosystem is preferred
- Experience launching new of major updates to products or online services in international markets is preferred
- A strong background in business, business management, business process optimization, project management, or the business operations of a consumer facing online service is preferred
- MBA preferred

The position is based in Redmond which is mandatory due to the close day to day interaction with multiple teams based in Redmond.

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Why I never trust GPS maps completely (and you shouldn't either)

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On a trip to Oregon's?Willamette Valley in the spring of 2010, I was using the Google-powered?Maps app on an iPhone 3GS to hunt down wineries while my friend drove.?

That's farm country, and driving on dirt roads is pretty much expected. Nevertheless, it seemed odd when the app told us to turn onto a gated farm driveway.?

Then we saw the sign: "Sorry your GPS brought you here. To get to the winery you came for, turn around and go back?" It was polite, but you could sense that the farmer who posted it was somewhere on his tractor, smirking.

There's an old sailor's adage: Always carry at least two forms of navigation.

While that no longer means "pack a sextant," it does mean you should at least?have a back-up GPS app, a separate GPS device?or even a honest-to-gosh?dead-tree road atlas when you're in unknown territory.?Thanks to the well-publicized shortcomings of Apple's new Maps app???the first one that's?not powered by Google data???our blind reliance on GPS apps has become quite clear.

As a tech writer and navigationally challenged human who's reviewed GPS gadgetry for 10 years, I've learned that?any system can be as flawed as it is useful, and you should never trust it 100 percent.

Back in the early 2000s, before we were married, my wife lived for a couple of years in Washington, D.C. and I would head down there from New York on weekends.?When you're driving along in D.C., numbered roads veer into lettered roads, and?you have to make a lot of weird corrections?every few blocks, all the while risking driving straight into a fountain or a statue of a man on a horse. While D.C. residents take pride in the "National Treasure"-grade mysteries of getting around the nation's capital, outsiders like me fail to appreciate it. So when GPS became a thing, I was all over that.

My wife and I referred to the first GPS navigator as "the other woman," but in reality, this authoritative, British female voice was a relationship counselor: When road rage was high and we weren't listening to each other, we would both listen to her.

During that period, I tested a lot of GPS products for my weekly column on Time.com and for pieces in the New York Times and Money Magazine. I got to try out all of the major brands, and compare them side by side.?With GPS, even D.C. was, for the most part, much easier to get around in.?

But there was one map error that constantly perplexed us: When driving back from the Pentagon City Mall to Southeast D.C., we would always be told to take an exit that didn't exist. New construction, you may think, but there was no evidence that the exit ever existed. At least not where it told us it was.

The sudden surge of consumer GPS gadgets around 2001 and 2002 was caused by the U.S. government allowing civilian hardware to access the?1-meter GPS?accuracy that had previously only been available to military devices.?

But GPS only tells you where you are in latitude and longitude?? building?the visual maps that need to be placed under those pinpoints is a challenging multi-billion-dollar endeavor. Even Google???which stood on the shoulders of mapmakers such as TomTom-owned Tele Atlas and Nokia-owned Navteq when building its remarkable geographical database???can get it wrong every so often.

The world is constantly changing???roads and bridges spring up, while old ones are closed off. Cow pastures become shopping centers. Restaurants and bars open and go out of business. A broken clock may be right twice a day, but?a map of the world really never is.

In 2004 or 2005, TomTom was pitching me on its latest dash-mounted navigator. I had favored Garmin (which used Navteq's maps, which experience had suggested to me were more reliable than the Tele Atlas ones used by TomTom). Nevertheless, I was willing to give TomTom (and Tele Atlas) another try. When I set it up, however, I noticed a real problem: My home wasn't on the map.?

The best rationale was that my street was part of a new-ish apartment development, but excuses don't work when you can't even get home! The apartment complex in question has since been added to the Tele Atlas database???sure enough, it?appears on the new Tele Atlas-powered Apple Maps app.

But even my preferred Garmins gave me trouble. When I went to the wedding of one of my best friends, out in rural Vermont, the GPS system would get me within a mile of his house, but leave me out on a road in the middle of a field. Finding his house from there?required dead-reckoning, though the balloons on the mailbox didn't hurt.

Down in Texas, visiting my brother-in-law, even a simple search for Starbucks once turned into an existential nightmare (made worse by lack of caffeine). The "point of interest"???those geo-tagged yellow pages that are the least reliable part of the GPS map experience???plopped a Starbucks smack in the middle of a quiet residential street. We never did quite figure out where that phantom Starbucks really was, or if it existed at all.

Smartphones were thought to be the holy grail, because they could download fresher (and therefore???we naively assumed???more accurate) maps on the fly. Never again would a random construction project take you by surprise. So we cheered the arrival in 2009 of bona-fide turn-by-turn smartphone?navigation, particularly the free version that?Google offered on the Motorola Droid and subsequent phones running?Android 2.0.

For iPhone users, GPS navigation was a double-edged sword, because without Apple providing a free homegrown navigator,?people who wanted live turn-by-turn instructions had to pay up in the App Store, sometimes up to?$100. The bulk of iPhone owners stuck with the native Maps?app, powered by Google, and even though it was only at its best?when you had a navigator riding shotgun, who could read out instructions,?its accuracy became the gold standard.

Cue all hell breaking loose when Apple swapped it out with their own approach, powered by the Tele Atlas map?database instead of Google's. The problems there are compounded: It's not just that some of the map data is screwy, it's that the points of interest that are pegged to the map can be way off.?

To make it worse, Apple oversold the 3-D multitouch map?manipulation. While?it looks insanely great when fully operational, it looks downright screwy when rendered wrong or used in an unsupported area (like most of the world). Apple bit off more than it can chew and, as CEO Tim Cook's apology indicates, the company is choking.

The other day, my family was packed into the minivan, heading from Seattle to a friend's house across Lake Washington. Our car's navigator was trying to take us over the 520 toll bridge, but Apple's Maps app was saying to go over I-90, which is free. We steered in that direction, and were glad we did: Turns out, the 520 bridge was closed all weekend.

It's at this point that a sane person just throws up his hands. If the free Apple upgrade works some of the time, and my car navi works some of the time, and I've also got the Garmin app and?Google maps via the browser, the real answer is the sailor's law: Reliance on one navigation tool is stupid, so always have a back-up.

Wilson Rothman is the Technology & Science?editor at NBC News Digital. Catch up with him on Twitter at @wjrothman, and join our conversation on Facebook.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/why-i-never-trust-gps-maps-completely-you-shouldnt-either-6143202

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Movie review: 'Looper' a smart trip to the future | The Salt Lake Tribune

This film image released by Sony Pictures shows Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a scene from the action thriller "Looper." (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Entertainment)

Review ? Sharp script and solid acting propel thriller.

Rian Johnson?s stunning science-fiction thriller "Looper" is a movie that works because it takes time travel seriously.

Some filmmakers don?t, which is how we get movies like "Men in Black 3." But Johnson thinks through the implications and ramifications of time travel, realizing that time is not linear but a never-ending series of back-and-forth elliptical progressions and regressions, each affecting and altering the next. Fans of the classic British series "Doctor Who," which also is serious about time travel even when it?s whimsical in other areas, have been given a shorthand for this: "Timey-wimey."

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An assassin is confronted with his future, and his past, in this smart and thrilling sci-fi drama.

Where ? Theaters everywhere.

When ? Opens Friday, Sept. 28.

Rating ? R for strong violence, language, some sexuality/nudity and drug content.

Running time ? 118 minutes.

"Looper" begins with a fascinating premise: In the future, about 2070 or so, time travel will be invented ? but it will be outlawed, and only crime syndicates will be able to use it. Also, "CSI"-style technology will advance to where it?s impossible to dispose of a body, so crime lords will take care of matters by sending unwanted people 30 years into the past, where assassins ? called "loopers" ? will wait to kill the person and burn the evidence.

In Kansas, 2044, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a "looper" and gets paid handsomely for his work. Silver ingots are strapped to his victims just before they are sent back to him. Joe saves his money, except for what he uses to buy the era?s current designer drug and entertain his stripper girlfriend (Piper Perabo).

Joe knows he won?t live forever, because at some point the bosses in the future will "close the loop" by sending his older self back to be killed. His best friend, played by Paul Dano, becomes a case study in why it?s not smart to "let your loop run" ? allowing your future self to live ? as Johnson reveals in an early sequence that?s cleverly shocking.

But when Joe does meets his older self (played by Bruce Willis), something interesting happens. Actually, two interesting things happen. Johnson shows us the aftermath of one outcome ? which leads to another outcome 30 years later. Without getting all timey-wimey, just know that there?s a multileveled chase as young Joe tries to find old Joe, while old Joe embarks on a desperate mission of his own.

Oh, and there?s a farm woman (Emily Blunt) with a little boy (Pierce Gagnon) caught up in it all.

Gordon-Levitt and Willis pair up nicely, even though they scarcely look alike. Some prosthetic makeup work on Gordon-Levitt helps bridge the gap, as does his humorous re-creation of Willis? trademark mannerisms. In a scene opposite a crime boss, deftly played by Jeff Daniels, Gordon-Levitt gets the Willis squint down cold. The transition isn?t perfect, but the exciting action lets you forgive and forget quickly.

Johnson, who worked with Gordon-Levitt in his high-school noir debut "Brick," creates in "Looper" a fascinating look at the future, alternately gritty and shiny, and without trafficking in too many "Blade Runner" references. Johnson?s script is sharp and full of surprises, and his direction builds on the optimistic tone that is inherent in the best time-travel stories: the idea that there are always second chances to fix past mistakes.

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Soil samples to be taken in Hoffa body claim

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2012, file photo, people photograph a driveway in Roseville, Mich. that a tipster said could be the final resting place of missing Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. Authorities plan to take soil samples from under the driveway. Hoffa?s mysterious disappearance, assumed death and myriad searches for his body have been the stuff of urban legends for more than three decades. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2012, file photo, people photograph a driveway in Roseville, Mich. that a tipster said could be the final resting place of missing Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. Authorities plan to take soil samples from under the driveway. Hoffa?s mysterious disappearance, assumed death and myriad searches for his body have been the stuff of urban legends for more than three decades. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

ROSEVILLE, Mich. (AP) ? State investigators will take soil samples from outside a home in suburban Detroit as police continue looking into a man's claim that a body he says he saw buried in a backyard 35 years ago might have been that of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa.

The samples are set to be removed Friday morning from beneath the driveway of a home in Roseville and eventually tested for human decomposition.

Hoffa was last seen July 30, 1975, outside a restaurant in Oakland County, more than 30 miles to the west.

The results could put the rest the latest turn in the search for Hoffa's remains.

Previous tips led police to excavate soil in 2006 at a horse farm more than 100 miles north of Detroit, rip up floorboards at a Detroit home in 2004, and search beneath a backyard pool north of the city in 2003.

There were even rumors that Hoffa's remains were ground up and tossed into a Florida swamp, entombed beneath Giants Stadium in New Jersey or obliterated in a mob-owned fat-rendering plant.

One local theory was that the body was beneath the foundation of a downtown Detroit hockey stadium, said 57-year-old Cindi Frank, who snapped photos Thursday of the Roseville driveway.

The daughter of a unionized driver and salesman for a Detroit bakery, Frank remembers conversations about Hoffa while he was alive and rumors about his fate.

"It was a family thing. Every time we'd go somewhere we'd say, 'Hey, I wonder if Jimmy Hoffa is buried there?'" Frank said. "It's just been one of those unsolved mysteries that's gone on for 30-something years. If he show up in Roseville ..."

Results of the soil samples taken Friday are not expected before next week.

News of the search has brought attention to the mostly working- and middle-class suburb from the curious and naysayers. Slowly moving vehicles have clogged the residential street as camera-wielding neighbors snapped photos for keepsakes.

"I believe it's him. My sister said it is, and she's a psychic," said Mike Smith after ambling up to the home Thursday and shying a bit from the yellow police tape stretched across the driveway.

Feisty and iron-willed in contract talks, Hoffa was an acquaintance of mobsters and adversary to federal officials. He spent time in prison for jury tampering.

The day he disappeared, Hoffa was supposed to meet with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit mafia captain. He was declared legally dead in 1982.

At the request of police, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality used ground-penetrating radar last week on the Roseville driveway. An anomaly, or shift, in the soil was detected.

Police Chief James Berlin told The Associated Press on Thursday that his office is "not claiming it's Jimmy Hoffa" beneath the slab but that they are "investigating a body that may be at the location."

Roseville was one of several inner-ring communities that grew quickly as unionized auto factory workers left the city in search of nicer homes and bigger yards.

"Maybe the most inconspicuous spot might be the place to stash a body or something," said 52-year-old Andrew Kacir, who lives across from the taped off driveway.

Recently retired Detroit FBI chief Andrew Arena is among the doubters.

"You've got to check it out, but this doesn't sound right," he told the AP. "The working theories that have developed over the years, this really doesn't fit any of those. If this was the mob and they killed somebody, I just don't see them burying the body basically at the intersection of a residential neighborhood with this guy standing there."

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In Virginia, Romney blames Obama for potential defense cuts

SPRINGFIELD, Virginia (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, lagging behind in polls, squared off against rival President Barack Obama on Thursday over potential defense cuts that could kick in early next year.

Speaking in the suburbs of Washington which are home to thousands of defense jobs, Romney blamed Obama for the proposed $1.2 trillion that is set to be cut from Pentagon spending as part of a deal Obama made with Congress in the summer of 2011.

Known as "sequestration," the mandatory cuts in defense and other areas were agreed on by the White House and Republicans in Congress last year in a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.

"It's a strange proposal in the first place, it's even stranger that it's being put in place," Romney told a crowd at the American Legion in Springfield.

The obligatory cuts are due to begin in January if the two parties in Congress cannot agree on budget savings.

"How in the world as commander-in-chief you can stand by as we shrink our military commitment financially is something I don't understand, and I will reverse it," Romney said.

The former Massachusetts governor was speaking only a few miles from the Pentagon in Virginia, a swing state in the November 6 election.

He said that the defense cuts would cost Virginia 136,000 jobs if they go through, and he blasted Obama for what he said was an "unthinkable" cut to America's military strength.

With 40 days until the election and early voting already underway in some key states, Romney took shots at Obama over second-quarter gross domestic product numbers that were revised downward Thursday morning.

The Republican compared Russia's economic growth to that of the United States, which experienced 1.3 percent growth in the second quarter, and said it was evidence that the economy is a national security issue.

"1.3 percent versus Russia at 4 percent. China at 7 to 8 percent," Romney said. "We're at 1.3 percent. This is unacceptable. It is not working," he said.

(Editing By Alistair Bell and Claudia Parsons)

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Benefits of Cataract Procedures - Health & Fitness Article Directory

If you are experiencing vision issues or suffer from cataracts then eyesight surgery could be your best option. Cataract surgical procedures are now quite normal and very safe with good success rates reported across numerous countries. With the cataract operation price, you might be in a position to claim on the health insurance coverage, but you would need to make some questions about that with your individual supplier.

If you have been experiencing poor vision, loss of coloring or focus and standard eye sight issues then the benefits of cataract surgery are immense. Each of our eyesight is a large factor in our own lifestyle and quality of life so protecting your current sight and looking after your eye wellbeing is critical. Your operations are very quick and simple these days and the rewards so huge, it really is one thing to seriously think about after speaking with your doctor.

Cataract Introduction

Cataracts are best described as clouding of the eyesight, with signs or symptoms like confused vision, dreary colour and at its worst type of cases, loss of sight. The natural lens of the eyesight can breakdown and the surgery is designed to restore normal sight. For some people, it will start off with some slightly confused vision by way of example, but the rate at which the particular cataract develops and becomes more and more of a issue for you vary from person to person. Generally it will affect people over the age of 55 decades but some individuals may produce them years earlier.

Benefits of cataract surgical treatment

There are so many benefits of cataract surgery, along with your quality of life can be greatly improved with this basic procedure. You will be able to see much better, read less complicated, and no longer need cups. Even if you still need some eyesight wear after, it will be significantly less and you will be much less dependent within glasses.

In case you play plenty of sport, drive a lot as well as do a great deal of reading you then might need to modify your lenses after the surgical treatment. You will get considerably clearer vision after cataract surgical treatment and you will obtain a sharper vision. Colours can be brighter yet again and you should find it easier to focus. You might not be so afflicted with sun glare when you were in the past and are less agitated by dry out eyes as well as eye pressure. Being able to drive or participate in sport using less reliance upon glasses is a large benefit and customarily having better eyesight.

The ins and outs

Firstly you should consult with a medical expert to ensure that the particular surgery is necessary, and that the eye is in any other case healthy. You will want to consider in case there are selections for where to contain the surgery. The process is treated while day surgical treatment and only requires half an hour, however, you need to feel like you grasp where you choose the procedure and the doctor performing the surgical treatment. Once you are all booked within, the procedure is very quick and you?ll be out on the same day.

Recovery time

This treatment is so simple and fast that most folks are back to normal to see much better by the end of that day. In some cases individuals might experience some moderate side effects and may not drive for 24 hours nevertheless mostly it is just a precaution. Using cataract surgery getting one of the most commonly carried out surgical treatment in the UK you can be certain that it is secure. Complications less complicated less likely than by using other treatments and modern medical advances mean that such a surgery continues getting faster, safer and cheaper.

Considering up the rewards, it is easy to observe that this simple procedure can greatly enhance your quality of life. Simple day surgery is available and the result is clearer vision, much less dependence on cups and less eye irritation. Your cataract function may be the most sensible thing you ever perform for your health and withcataract operations today being carried out with much achievement, the risks are lower. The initial step, now you know about all of the rewards would be to speak to your doctor and find out if cataract surgical treatment can work for you personally and find out about cataract operation price.

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Star Ocean released a VR-MMO. However, players mysterious begin to vanish from our world, their souls trapped inside their player characters within the game. Faced with the very real possibility of death within the world they love, what will they do?

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Bear in mind these are still works in progress, but here's what I got so far. Its unfinished still, but you'd be surprised how much work this was. I was up from about 12 till 5 AM gathering information for this map, and its still not done lol And how I see it, better to have an unfinished map than no map at all. Also bear in mind its based off of someone elses map for Elicoor II which in turn is based off of the real areas in Star Ocean III on Elicoor II, I just added climate things so we'd know what the weather was like in different places, as well as still trying to find better ways to describe places.

Elicoor II (Note: the left side is all Airyglyph except for Arias itself, and Arias+all of the right side is Aquaria, except for the spot hinting at Greeton.)

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Guinea to see $2.4 billion of its debt cancelled

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) ? More than $2.4 billion of Guinea's foreign debt is being cancelled in a major boost for the deeply impoverished West African nation whose mineral riches were looted over decades of corrupt dictatorship, government officials said Wednesday.

Two-thirds of Guinea's total foreign debt is being eliminated because it has qualified for the IMF and World Bank program for heavily indebted poor countries, according to a government statement.

"This will allow Guinea to free up substantial resources," said Ansoumane Camara, an economist and consultant in Conakry who said the money could be redirected toward improving health and educational programs.

Guinea's finances were left in ruins after nearly a quarter-century of rule by Lansana Conte, who pillaged state coffers to make his family fabulously wealthy before his death in 2008, according to economists.

In 2010, the country held its first democratic election but the political reforms have not translated into immediate improvements for the lives of most Guineans, who remain deeply impoverished. About 75 percent of the country's 10 million people live below the poverty line, according to the United Nations.

Fatou Bonte Bangoura, who sells smoked fish at a port in Guinea's capital, said Wednesday's announcement would mean little for Guineans who are struggling to support their families.

"Our children need to eat, they need to be taken care of, they need to go to school," she lamented. Guinea's debt elimination won't result in individual families receiving money. "It doesn't feed me," she says.

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Tumor cell growth does not follow a master plan

ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? Scientists at Charit? -- Universit?tsmedizin Berlin could explain a yet unknown regulatory network that controls the growth of tumor cells. Understanding such networks is an important task in molecular tumor biology in order to decode the relationships between the determinants defining which molecules are produced and in what quantities, in both normal and tumor cells.

The study is published in the journal Molecular Systems Biology.

The growth of a tumor and its reaction to specifically targeted therapy is dictated by changes in its genetic material (mutations) encoding special signal molecules. These molecules activate the genetic program of tumor cells via branched signaling pathways and influence all processes needed for cell division, the mobility of cells and metastasis. Significant steering elements of these tumor-specific programs are called transcription factors. These are molecules that selectively control the transcription of the cell's genetic information (DNA) into messenger RNA and enable production of proteins . Altogether a complex network of mutually regulating transcription factors is activated.

Whereas the signal network in human tumors has already been characterized very well, it is hardly understood how transcription factors cooperate and regulate each other. In order to explain this transcription factor network, the scientists used a systems biology approach. A complex experimental data set -- in which the transcription factors in tumor cells were systematically disrupted -- was analyzed with the help of mathematical modeling. As a result, interactions within the network could be reconstructed and the network controlling tumor growth clarified.

"Contrary to a current assumption, the results show that no superordinate transcription factor exists that controls the activity of other factors as a master regulator," explains Prof. Reinhold Sch?fer, head of the Laboratory for Molecular Tumor Pathology and deputy director of the Charit? Comprehensive Cancer Center. Instead, two hierarchical groups of interacting factors exist. Each of them activates gene sets needed for growth and cancer-specific properties of the cells. The results indicate that new therapeutic approaches against tumors must target multiple rather than singular factors and consider the network structures.

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Obesity promotes prostate cancer by altering gene regulation

ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men and early treatment is usually very successful. However, like other cancers, obesity increases the risk of aggressive prostate disease. New research, published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine, finds that the fat surrounding the prostate of overweight or obese men with prostate cancer provides a favorable environment to promote cancer growth.

Fat is a generally underrated organ. Not only is it an energy store but it secretes a wide range of growth factors, cytokines and hormones, including leptin and adiponectin, and is a major player in the immune system, which protects the body from infection and disease. But too much fat can cause these systems to go haywire and can increase risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

An international team led by Prof Gema Fr?hbeck and Dr Ricardo Ribeiro analyzed fat, from around the prostate, taken from patients undergoing surgery for prostate disease. Samples were included from men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), prostate cancer (PC), and from men where their cancer was no longer confined to the prostate. The men were also classified as being either lean (BMI<25) or overweight /obese (BMI>25).

Regardless of type of prostate disease the overweight men had different levels of gene activity in the fat surrounding their prostates compared to the lean men. This included genes which encode proteins involved in immunity and inflammation (such as LEP, which encodes the protein leptin), and cell growth and proliferation (including ANGPT1 which encodes angiopoietin 1), fat metabolism and programmed cell death.

Additionally the activity of more genes was altered between hyperplasia and prostate cancer, and between cancer and non-confined cancer, suggesting a gradual increase in dysregulation during cancer progression.

Prof Fr?hbeck explained, "Both LEP and ANGPT1 encode proteins which are thought to have roles beyond adipose tissue itself, especially because prostate cancer cells have receptors for leptin, and angiopoietin 1. Taken together with the abnormal activity levels of other genes they will ultimately foster fat mass growth, reduce immune surveillance, and promote the formation of new blood vessels, so producing a favorable environment for prostate cancer progression."

Dr Ribeiro continued, "In an increasingly obese population, understanding how fat, especially the fat surrounding the prostate, can influence the growth and severity of prostate cancer may provide an opportunity for implementing personalized lifestyle and therapeutic strategies."

This article is part of the thematic series Metabolism, Diet and Disease from BMC Biology and BMC Medicine.

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Green Blog: From Methane to Plastic to Methane, Without Waste

Imagine that you could go online and rent something in your neighbor?s garage rather than buy something new that you will need to use only a few times a year. Or that you could use microwave technology to transform timber residue or other waste biomass into a valuable industrial material like graphite.

Those were just two of the 50-plus entries in this year?s Postcode Lottery Green Challenge, an annual competition that awards the world?s largest prize for sustainable entrepreneurship. This year?s $630,000 check went to Molly Morse, chief executive of Mango Materials, a California-based startup that makes a biodegradable plastic from methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Dr. Morse, who recently earned her doctorate in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, says her company uses a closed loop process to produce some of the most affordable bio-based and biodegradable plastics available.

The process starts at a waste treatment plant where methane is captured and fed to bacteria that produce a biopolymer called poly-hydroxybutryate, whose properties are similar to polypropylene. This is then sold in the form of powder or pellets to plastic companies that can use it to make a wide range of products, from children?s toys to electronic casing to shampoo bottles to packaging materials.

At the end of a product?s life, it can be returned to a waste treatment plant where it will decompose and produce more methane to start the cycle all over again.

?If you had a credit-card-sized piece of this plastic and you flushed it down the toilet, it would be gone in 10 to 14 days,? Dr. Morse said. ?Obviously, this material wouldn?t be suitable for underground pipes or anything like that. But a beach toy, which has a good chance of ending up floating out at sea, or plastic coverings used to shield crops ? this plastic is durable enough for that without posing the environmental risks of persisting in the environment for decades.?

Currently, Mango Materials is only producing research-grade materials, but it hopes to have trial samples ready in about a year by plowing the prize money into further research.

Dr. Morse said the bioplastics market is growing fast and is expected to be worth over $5 billlion by 2018. ?We intend to make mango materials part of the plastics revolution,? she said.

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NHL, union have contact, but no talks scheduled

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman listens as he meets with reporters after a meeting with team owners, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 in New York. The current collective bargaining agreement between the league and the players expires Saturday at midnight. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman listens as he meets with reporters after a meeting with team owners, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 in New York. The current collective bargaining agreement between the league and the players expires Saturday at midnight. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Pittsburgh Penguins hockey player Sidney Crosby speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. With a lockout looking increasingly certain, the NHL players' union meets Thursday followed by an owners' meeting at league headquarters with Commissioner Gary Bettman. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NHL hockey players watch as NHL Players Association executive director Donald Fehr speaks at a news conference in New York, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. With a lockout looking increasingly certain, the NHL players' union meets Thursday followed by an owners' meeting at league headquarters with Commissioner Gary Bettman. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NHL Players Association executive director Donald Fehr, left, is joined by Boston Bruins' Zdeno Chara, center, and Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney Crosby as he speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Fehr says a lockout can be avoided and that's up to the league. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NHL Players Association executive director Donald Fehr, right, is joined by hockey players as he speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Fehr says a lockout can be avoided and that's up to the league. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NEW YORK (AP) ? The NHL entered the final full day of its collective bargaining agreement with no sign of the owners and players coming together to hammer out a new deal.

Brief conversations late Thursday and Friday between leaders on the two sides failed to spur more formal talks ? in fact, the idea of restarting negotiations didn't even come up. The collective bargaining agreement that ended the season-long lockout in 2005 expires at midnight EDT on Saturday, and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has said a lockout would kick in immediately if there is no deal in place.

"It's their decision," said defenseman Mike Weaver, the Florida Panthers' player representative. "When that padlock comes out, it's pretty much Bettman's decision on there."

The lockout would mark the NHL's fourth work stoppage since 1992.

On Thursday night, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly spoke to players' association special counsel Steve Fehr, the brother of union executive director Donald Fehr. The discussions mostly dealt with answering questions each side have about current proposals.

Bettman has said the season won't start without a new deal. Preseason games are scheduled to start on Sept. 23, and the regular season is to begin on Oct. 11.

"We have been clear that the collective bargaining agreement, upon its expiration, needs to have a successful agreement for us to move forward," Bettman said Thursday. "The league is not in a position, not willing to move forward with another season under the status quo."

On Friday, the Quebec labor relations board turned down a request from the players' association for a temporary injunction against a potential lockout in Quebec.

But the board also ruled Friday that more hearings are needed to make a final decision on a request by 16 members of the Montreal Canadiens and the players' association to declare a lockout illegal in the province.

No date was set for further hearings.

With the ruling, Canadiens players will be locked out with their colleagues if a work stoppage goes ahead on schedule.

Daly was happy with the decision.

"We are pleased but not surprised with the Quebec labor board's ruling tonight that any lockout of players will be effective on a league-wide basis, including in Quebec, and we are extremely appreciative of the expeditious and decisive manner in which the matter was handled," he said in a statement. "We are hopeful that this ruling will cause the players' association to cease pursuing these needless distractions and instead focus all of its efforts and energies on making progress at the bargaining table."

The union also saw the decision as a positive development.

"We are pleased with the ruling that the commission released tonight." players' association general counsel Don Zavelo said in a statement. "While the commission denied the players' request for emergency relief, it also rejected the NHL's request to dismiss the case. The ruling acknowledges that the players have raised issues about the legality of the NHL's planned lockout that require a full hearing on the merits.

"We remain confident that the lockout is prohibited by the Quebec labor code and look forward to presenting our case to the commission in the near future. Should the NHL carry out its threat to lock out the players in Quebec, it will do so at its own risk."

A similar request was filed late Thursday with the Alberta labor relations board. NHLPA director of operations Alexandra Dagg said the aim was to prevent players from the Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames from being locked out.

The NHLPA argued that because it isn't certified as a union with the province, its members can't locked out under Quebec labor law. In Alberta, the union will argue that proper procedure wasn't followed, including using a mediator.

On Thursday, players turned out in force in midtown Manhattan, while the league's board of governors met nearby in another hotel.

The last labor stoppage caused the cancellation of the entire 2004-05 season, a lockout that ended only when players accepted a salary cap and a 24 percent rollback of salaries.

"If we're not going to start camp on time, it's disappointing, for sure," Panthers forward Stephen Weiss said Friday. "We're all training all summer to be ready to play, and if we don't get that opportunity, it's disappointing. But I'm optimistic that we'll get a deal done sooner than later.

"There's smart enough people involved in this thing that I don't think it'll take too long. We just have to make sure whatever deal they do agree on, it makes sense for both sides and it will be lasting."

Following lockouts last year by basketball and football owners, Bettman says hockey management is determined to come away with economic gains, even if it forces another work stoppage.

"Two other leagues ? the NBA and the NFL ? their players have recognized that in these economic times there is a need to retrench," Bettman said after a two-hour owners meeting Thursday.

Damage from another lockout will occur almost immediately, and there is no telling how jilted fans and sponsors will react to another shutdown, especially if it lasts through the fall and into the winter.

Management's latest offer has a short shelf life. Once the lockout begins, Bettman says the economic damage would cause owners to offer players a less beneficial deal.

Players currently receive 57 percent of hockey-related revenue, and the owners want to bring that number down as far as perhaps 47 percent ? which is an increase from their original offer of 43 percent.

"The fact is, we believe that 57 percent of HRR is too much," Bettman said.

The union offered a deal based on actual dollars, seeking a guarantee of the $1.8 billion players received last season. Annual industry revenue has grown from $2.1 billion to $3.3 billion under the expiring deal.

Players are concerned management hasn't addressed the league's financial problems by re-examining the teams' revenue-sharing formula. Having made several big concessions to reach a deal in 2005, the union doesn't think it should have to make more this time after record financial growth.

The current contract was agreed to in 2005, and Bob Goodenow resigned as union head two weeks later. After stints by Ted Saskin and Paul Kelly, the union in 2010 turned to Fehr, who led baseball players through three work stoppages in the 1980s and '90s.

Buffalo Sabres goalie Ryan Miller said Fehr is doing a far better job communicating with members than leadership did in the last lockout. The 30 league owners are prohibited by NHL bylaws from publicly commenting about negotiations.

"I doubt that all the owners are as well informed as all the players," Miller said. "I don't know if that's going to get me in trouble or not. I just feel like it's kind of whatever they are told by Gary. I guess it's a little bit like politics. ... You have this whole thing where I'm sure they feel like a lot of what we're saying is spin."

Players struck in April 1992, causing 30 games to be postponed.

This would be the third lockout under Bettman. The 1994-95 lockout ended after 103 days and the cancellation of 468 games. The most recent lockout was finally settled in July 2005 ? 301 days into the work stoppage and a month after the league would usually have awarded the Stanley Cup.

"The players very much want to reach an agreement, provided that it is one which is fair and which is equitable and treats them appropriately," Donald Fehr said.

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AP Sports Writer Tim Reynolds in Coral Springs, Fla., contributed to this report.

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