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Aha radio explained: streaming audio hits the road

First came a radio in your dashboard, and then came ? well, that was about it, bar a possible USB slot or a fancy iPod dock. Radio, however, no longer means just Classic FM and a crackly MW stations with the arrival of Aha by Harman?s web-based text-to-speech concierge service.

Announced at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona as part of Ford?s AppLink alongside Spotify, Aha by Harman effectively makes web content as easy to use as a good old-fashioned radio.

Not surprisingly, it all starts with an app. Aha is available for iOS and Android tablets and smartphones, though the emphasis is definitely on the latter.

"While Aha works on tablets, we find that most drivers do not expect to use or bring their tablets into the car. For that reason, we?ve focused on building smartphone apps for iOS and Android," Robert Acker, VP of connectivity for Harman and GM of Aha?s business, explained to TechRadar.

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Aha explained: streaming audio hits the road

Internet radio has been how drivers in the USA have been entertained on the road for yonks, but Aha isn?t just about supplying drivers with linear radio stations. "Aha aims to bring a wealth of web-based content into vehicles in a radio-like format," says Acker.

"This of course includes internet radio and on-demand music services, plus much more. In all, Aha offers 30,000 stations of audio to choose from spanning music, news, podcasts, audiobooks, social media news feeds, location-based services and more. By making web-based content as easy to use as radio, we can expand beyond music services and do much more."

Aha explained: streaming audio hits the road

In terms of pure linear radio stations offered by Aha, that 30,000 figure doesn?t include the CBS and Slacker stations broadcast in the USA, but it does add all the radio stations in the UK.

It also creates spoken word content tailored to the driver. "We use text-to-speech (TTS) recognition for Facebook and Twitter updates read aloud, and other location-based stations," says Acker.

Aha explained: streaming audio hits the road

Aha even includes the self-explanatory Hungry and Coffee local search options. "In the future you may see us use TTS for email and texts, but that feature isn?t live today," says Acker. Nor is there any integration of Siri/voice control yet, but we may see that in future.

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Whether a new connected car app such as Aha achieves greatness has much to do with where and how it?s available, and here Harman is making progress. In terms of being a built-in feature from the get-go, the full Aha experience is presently available only in Porsche vehicles in the UK, though it will soon be available on the Ford Sync AppLink ? and more manufacturers? platforms will follow, we?re told.

Aha explained: streaming audio hits the road

Harman promises that by the end of 2013 Aha will be integrated into vehicles by more than 10 car makers, which in total represent more than 50 per cent of all cars sold in the USA/Canada and up to 30 per cent in Europe, including Acura, Chrysler, Ford, Honda, Porsche and Subaru.

However, Aha is also a retrofit option. "In addition to working with top car makers to install Aha at the factory, the top three aftermarket manufacturers Alpine, Kenwood and Pioneer also manufacture head units that drivers can have installed in existing vehicles," says Acker. Getting the Griffin iTrip accessory is another way to get Aha in the car for a pittance.

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Source: http://www.newsphone.org/aha-radio-explained-streaming-audio-hits-the-road/

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The Volkswagen Golf has been named the European Car of the Year for 2013, beating out a wide array of alternatives from around the world.

The seventh-generation VW hatchback soundly beat out its closest competitors in balloting by 58 automotive journalists from 22 European countries. The Golf scored 414 votes compared to 202 for the Subaru BRZ sports car, which took second place, and the 189 votes tallied by the Volvo V40.

?People are looking for commitment and trust,? said Martin Winterkorn, chairman of the Volkswagen AG Board of Management, during an award presentation the night before the formal opening of the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. ?They are looking for substance and value more than ever before.?

COTY jurors gave a number of reasons for their choice, pointing to the fit and finish of the new Golf, the number of different body styles and powertrains, and the new models significant improvement in fuel economy.

?It was a massive win,? said Steve Cropley, one of the judges, and editor of Britain?s Autocar magazine.

The Detroit Bureau: The Bugatti Veneno: 222 mph, 0 to 60 in 2.8 seconds -- at $4m

This marks the second time the Golf has won the European honor, previously taking home the trophy in 1992. It is only the second car to win the Car of the Year honor twice.

The latest version of the Golf was introduced late last year and VW is unveiling several new versions during this week?s Geneva show, including a diesel-powered wagon it claims will get better than 70 miles to the gallon.

The Detroit Bureau: New cars, plenty of kudos, cadillac sales take a sharp upswing

The European Car of the Year award is one of the most prestigious in Europe and carries weight in many other parts of the world, including the United States, where Volkswagen has significantly increased its presence over the last several years.

But U.S. buyers will have to wait awhile for this version. Volkswagen has decided to shift production of the hatchback for North America to its plant in Puebla, Mexico, a move that should sharply reduce costs. That means the 2013 VW Golf won?t roll into American showrooms until sometime next year.

The Detroit Bureau: Kia gets edgy with new provo concept debuting at Geneva Motor Show

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PARIS (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's senior field commander in the Sahara, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, has probably been killed in Mali, the head of France's joint chiefs of staff said on Monday.

Edouard Guillaud's remarks are the first indication from the French government that Abou Zeid died in fighting in the rugged north of Mali.

Asked on Europe 1 radio whether he had been killed, Guillaud said: "It is probable, but only probable. We don't have any certainty for the moment, (but) it would be good news."

Guillaud said that Abou Zeid's death could not be confirmed because his body had not been recovered.

Chad's army, which is fighting alongside French forces in northern Mali, said last week that it killed Abou Zeid and another al Qaeda commander in the area, Mokhtar Belmokhtar.

Guillaud said he was "extremely cautious" about reports of Belmokhtar's death, noting that some militant websites had said the al Qaeda commander behind January's mass hostage-taking in Algeria was still alive.

Abou Zeid is regarded as one of AQIM's most ruthless operators, responsible for the kidnapping of more than 20 Western hostages since 2008. He is believed to have killed British hostage Edwin Dyer in 2009 and 78-year-old Frenchman Michel Germaneau in 2010.

While his killing would deal a serious blow to al Qaeda's leadership in the region, it also raises questions about the fate of seven French hostages thought to be held in northern Mali.

After a seven-week-old campaign, French, Chadian and Malian troops have pushed Qaeda-linked fighters, who had threatened to take over Mali, back to their mountain and desert hideouts.

Guillaud said French forces had found some 50 supply caches and around 10 workshops for making bombs that could be used well outside of the immediate region.

"On the ground we are finding literally an industrialization of terrorism," he said.

(Reporting by Leigh Thomas; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/french-military-chief-says-probable-al-qaeda-commander-080106463.html

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Editor's note: Jacob Mullins is a VC at Shasta Ventures. With the recent talk about the growing ?billion dollar club? in startups, I?ve been wondering what characteristics a $1 billion consumer tech company has. As a Series A investor who primarily focuses on consumer web and mobile companies, I examined the pool of consumer companies that have had exits over $100 million within the current era of consumer tech, which I consider to be post-recession 2008. I wanted to see what I could learn and ideally reverse-engineer common characteristics that would help me identify the next big winners when I see them today or in the future.

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Feb. 28, 2013 ? Beginning in 2004, a group of scientists from around the globe, including two University of Oklahoma faculty members, set out to map the genome of the sea lamprey. The secrets of how this jawless vertebrate separated from the jawed vertebrates early in the evolutionary process will give insight to the ancestry of vertebrate characters and may help investigators more fully understand neurodegenerative diseases in humans.

David McCauley, associate professor in the Biology Department in the OU College of Arts and Sciences, and Sandra W. Clifton, with the OU Center for Advanced Genome Technology, collaborated with scientists from Japan, Germany, the United States, Canada and Great Britain.

McCauley isolated and prepared the liver tissue from the single adult female sea lamprey, from which genomic DNA was isolated for sequencing. Clifton was involved in management of the sea lamprey sequencing project at the Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis until her retirement in 2010. The project then was taken over by Patrick Minx. Clifton participated in the discussions regarding the paper preparation, and she is a senior author on the paper. Sequencing was performed at the Genome Institute and the project was directed by Weiming Li at Michigan State University with funding provided by the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health.

"The sea lamprey is a primitive jawless vertebrate that diverged from other jawed vertebrates early in the vertebrate ancestry," writes McCauley. "Because of its early divergence from other living vertebrates, the sea lamprey genome can provide insights for understanding how vertebrate genomes have evolved, and the origins of vertebrate character traits. Several important findings arise from sequencing the sea lamprey genome: Vertebrates have undergone two 'whole-genome' rounds of duplication, resulting in multiple copies of many genes present in vertebrates. One outstanding question has been the timing of these duplications in vertebrate history. Results from this project suggest that two rounds of duplication predated the divergence of the ancestral lamprey from modern jawed vertebrates. This result is important for understanding how vertebrate genomes have evolved, and in particular, for understanding if the organization of the genome is common to all vertebrates.

"Most vertebrates contain an insulating layer of cells that surround nerve cells. Cells that wrap around a nerve fiber, or axon, are enriched in a protein known as myelin. The insulating properties of myelin allow signals to be conducted rapidly along the nerve fiber, and the loss of myelin results in numerous neurodegenerative diseases in humans."

McCauley adds that lampreys lack these "wrapped" neurons, suggesting the insulated neurons are specific to jawed vertebrates. "Somewhat surprisingly, the sea lamprey genome contains multiple proteins involved in the synthesis of myelin, including its basic protein. This important finding suggests the origin of myelin predated the divergence of lampreys from the lineage leading to jawed vertebrates, but the role of these proteins in lampreys is not known. Other important findings shed light on evolution of the vertebrate adaptive immune system, and the evolution of paired appendages, such as fins in fish and fore-limbs and hind-limbs in tetrapod vertebrates such as humans and animals."

The findings recently were published in the March issue of Nature Genetics.

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Jeramiah J Smith, Shigehiro Kuraku, Carson Holt, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Ning Jiang, Michael S Campbell, Mark D Yandell, Tereza Manousaki, Axel Meyer, Ona E Bloom, Jennifer R Morgan, Joseph D Buxbaum, Ravi Sachidanandam, Carrie Sims, Alexander S Garruss, Malcolm Cook, Robb Krumlauf, Leanne M Wiedemann, Stacia A Sower, Wayne A Decatur, Jeffrey A Hall, Chris T Amemiya, Nil R Saha, Katherine M Buckley, Jonathan P Rast, Sabyasachi Das, Masayuki Hirano, Nathanael McCurley, Peng Guo, Nicolas Rohner, Clifford J Tabin, Paul Piccinelli, Greg Elgar, Magali Ruffier, Bronwen L Aken, Stephen M J Searle, Matthieu Muffato, Miguel Pignatelli, Javier Herrero, Matthew Jones, C Titus Brown, Yu-Wen Chung-Davidson, Kaben G Nanlohy, Scot V Libants, Chu-Yin Yeh, David W McCauley, James A Langeland, Zeev Pancer, Bernd Fritzsch, Pieter J de Jong, Baoli Zhu, Lucinda L Fulton, Brenda Theising, Paul Flicek, Marianne E Bronner, Wesley C Warren, Sandra W Clifton, Richard K Wilson, Weiming Li. Sequencing of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) genome provides insights into vertebrate evolution. Nature Genetics, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/ng.2568

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Dance-music DJ trio Swedish House Mafia perform to 13,000 dancing fans at the Bell Centre in Montreal on Wednesday February 27, 2013.

Photograph by: Vincenzo D'Alto , The Gazette

MONTREAL - Here's what's new on the Gazette's arts blogs Thursday. To read the full posts, click on the related links attached to this story.

Words & Music: After catching Swedish House Mafia at the Bell Centre, T'Cha Dunlevy writes:

"The three-member DJ crew is one of the biggest things in commercial dance music, remixing everyone from Coldplay to the Black Eyed Peas, when not creating its own relentlessly thumping club tracks. But while the group's crossover hits have garnered mass appeal, it did its best imitation of underground during the show, turning the Bell Centre into one giant party."

The Cine Files: Reporting from the RIDM Docville series, Liz Ferguson writes about a Thursday-night film offering:

"Psychoanalyst and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek rejoins Sophie Fiennes to put cinema and society on the couch (and himself on Travis Bickle?s bed), in The Pervert?s Guide to Ideology. (Zizek and Fiennes also made The Pervert?s Guide to Cinema, in 2006.)"

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Psychogenic diseases, formerly known as 'hysterical' illnesses, can have many severe symptoms such as painful cramps or paralysis but without any physical explanation. However, new research from the University of Cambridge and UCL (University College London) suggests that individuals with psychogenic disease, that is to say physical illness that stems from emotional or mental stresses, do have brains that function differently. The research was published today, 25 February, in the journal Brain.

Psychogenic diseases may look very similar to illnesses caused by damage to nerves, the brain or the muscles, or similar to genetic diseases of the nervous system. However, unlike organic diseases, psychogenic diseases do not have any apparent physical cause, making them difficult to diagnose and even more difficult to treat.

"The processes leading to these disorders are poorly understood, complex and highly variable. As a result, treatments are also complex, often lengthy and in many cases there is poor recovery. In order to improve treatment of these disorders, it is important to first understand the underlying mechanism," said Dr James Rowe from the University of Cambridge.

The study looked at people with either psychogenic or organic dystonia, as well as healthy people with no dystonia. Both types of dystonia caused painful and disabling muscle contractions affecting the leg. The organic patient group had a gene mutation (the DYT1 gene) that caused their dystonia. The psychogenic patients had the symptoms of dystonia but did not have any physical explanation for the disease, even after extensive investigations.

The scientists performed PET brain scans on the volunteers at UCL, to measure the blood flow and brain activity of both of the groups, and healthy volunteers. The participants were scanned with three different foot positions: resting, moving their foot, and holding their leg in a dystonic position. The electrical activity of the leg muscles was measured at the same time to determine which muscles were engaged during the scans.

The researchers found that the brain function of individuals with the psychogenic illness was not normal. The changes were, however, very different from the brains of individuals with the organic (genetic) disease.

Dr Anette Schrag, from UCL, said: "Finding abnormalities of brain function that are very different from those in the organic form of dystonia opens up a way for researchers to learn how psychological factors can, by changing brain function, lead to physical problems."

Dr Rowe added: "What struck me was just how very different the abnormal brain function was in patients with the genetic and the psychogenic dystonia. Even more striking was that the differences were there all the time, whether the patients were resting or trying to move."

Additionally, the researchers found that one part of the brain previously thought to indicate psychogenic disease is unreliable: abnormal activity of the prefrontal cortex was thought to be the hallmark of psychogenic diseases. In this study, the scientists showed that this abnormality is not unique to psychogenic disease, since activity was also present in the patients with the genetic cause of dystonia when they tried to move their foot.

Dr Arpan Mehta, from the University of Cambridge, said: "It is interesting that, despite the differences, both types of patient had one thing in common - a problem at the front of the brain. This area controls attention to our movements and although the abnormality is not unique to psychogenic dystonia, it is part of the problem."

This type of illness is very common. Dr Schrag said: "One in six patients that see a neurologist has a psychogenic illness. They are as ill as someone with organic disease, but with a different cause and different treatment needs. Understanding these disorders, diagnosing them early and finding the right treatment are all clearly very important. We are hopeful that these results might help doctors and patients understand the mechanism leading to this disorder, and guide better treatments."

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unlike in earlier rounds of budget brinkmanship, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans both seem content to fight out their latest showdown on the current terrain, let across-the-board spending cuts take effect on March 1 and allow them to stay in place for weeks if not much longer.

This time, there is no market-rattling threat of a government default to force the two sides to compromise, no federal shutdown on the short-term horizon and no year-end deadline for preventing a tax increase for every working American.

The rhetoric is reminiscent, for sure.

"So far at least, the ideas that the Republicans have proposed ask nothing of the wealthiest Americans or the biggest corporations," Obama said this week as he campaigned to pin the blame for any negative effects on his political opponents. "So the burden is all on the first responders, or seniors or middle class families," he said in comments similar in tone to his re-election campaign.

Republicans, standing on political ground of their own choosing, responded sharply to the president's fresh demand for higher taxes.

"Spending is the problem, spending must be the focus," said House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, while Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky declared, "There won't be any easy off-ramps on this one. The days of 11th hour negotiations are over."

A crisis atmosphere could yet develop this spring, when hundreds of thousands or even millions of threatened government furloughs begin to take effect and the spending cuts begin to bite. Already, Republicans are considering legislation to give the administration greater flexibility in making the cuts, a step that could minimize the impact on the public. It's a step the White House says it opposes, although the depth of that conviction has yet to be tested.

At heart, the present standoff is yet another indication of the political resistance to a compromise curbing the growth of Medicare, Medicaid and possibly Social Security, a step that both Obama and Republicans say is essential to restoring the nation's fiscal health. It is the last major remaining challenge in divided government's struggle, now in its third year, to reduce deficits by $4 trillion or more over a decade.

Counting the across-the-board cuts now beginning to command the nation's attention ? at a 10-year cost of $1.2 trillion ? the president and Congress have racked up more than $3.6 trillion in savings. Much came from spending, although legislation that Republicans let pass at year's end raised taxes on the wealthy to generate an estimated $600 billion for the Treasury over a decade.

The so-called sequester now approaching was never supposed to happen. It was designed as an unpalatable fallback, to take effect only in case a congressional super-committee failed to come up with $1 trillion or more in savings from benefit programs.

Now, more than a year later, Republicans are fond of saying that the idea itself originated at the White House.

That skips lightly over the fact that their own votes helped enact it into law.

Also that they decided a month ago that it marked the moment of most leverage in their struggle to maneuver Obama and Democrats into curtailing benefit programs. To accomplish that objective, they already have raised the debt limit without winning any cuts in exchange, a step they once vowed not to take. And within two weeks, they are likely to launch legislation making sure the government operates without interruption when current funding authority runs out for most agencies on March 27.

Republicans aren't the only ones partial to verbal sleights of hand.

In a letter to lawmakers earlier this month, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sounded a series of alarms. The spending cuts "could compromise" the health of more than 373,000 mentally ill or emotionally disturbed individuals, "could slow efforts to improve" health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives, she wrote, and admissions to inpatient addiction facilities "could be reduced."

Could or could not. Soon or later. Nothing pinned down.

The administration hopes to win over the public and bring Republican lawmakers to heel, and it dispatched Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to the White House briefing room on Friday.

"Come to the table and start talking" to find a way to avert the cuts, the former GOP lawmaker urged members of his own Republican Party.

Peppered with skeptical questions, LaHood directed reporters to his department's website, with a listing of more than 300 air traffic facilities where overnight shifts could be eliminated or perhaps closed entirely.

Asked if his office was receiving unhappy calls from the public, he got to the political point.

"My phones will ring from members of Congress (asking) 'why is my control tower being closed?'" he said.

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EDITOR'S NOTE ? David Espo is AP's chief congressional correspondent.

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By Neil J. Rubenking, Max Eddy

Kaspersky Labs has made a name for themselves not only for supplying consumer-grade antivirus and security software, but for breaking huge security stories like Red October and Stuxnet. With Kaspersky Mobile Security ($14.99, free "lite" version), the company brings a full-featured security suite to Android that provides all-around protection in an unobtrusive package with a strong pedigree.

The first time you fire up Kaspersky Mobile Security, the app walks you through a brief set-up interrupted only by an enormous (and unsurprising) EULA. The app will confirm that it was legitimately purchased, walk you through the creation of a Kaspersky account to access the online features, and prompt you to create a 4-16 digit numeric passcode.

This is an unfortunate necessity, but you'll need some way of proving that you're the authorized user of the device. Otherwise a thief could simply deactivate Kaspersky's host of features. Unfortunately, most users will probably create a very short passcode, which could be easily compromised. I highly recommend using a code you'll remember, but one that is fairly long. In my tests, I used a password manager to store and generate a 12-digit passcode.

Don't worry if you forget your passcode. You can generate a recovery passcode from Kaspersky's anti-theft webportal.

The app's interface is straightforward, with large buttons that open at a tap to reveal controls. These include Anti-Virus, Privacy Protection, Anti-Theft, Call&SMS Filter, Web Protection, and Additional, which functions as a settings menu. Each of the buttons displays whether or not that aspect of the app is running, giving users a quick overview of their protection.

Readers should note that while I installed Mobile Security just fine on the Samsung Galaxy S III, the Samsung Galaxy Note II, and the Nexus 7

, Kaspersky sells a (pricier, at $19.95) "Tablet Edition." According to the developers, the tablet edition is designed to take full advantage of the increased screen real estate with improved graphics, and does not have the SMS or phone filtering options. Because you can install the app as many times as you like, I would not recommend buying the Tablet Edition; instead secure all your Android devices with the plain ol' Mobile Security version.

Malware Protection and Performance
The greatest sin of security software is that it sometimes forces users to choose between performance and protection. On a mobile platform, that's not really an option since these devices tend to be used for short bursts but need to perform well each time.

When it came to boot times, my Samsung Galaxy S III?took an average of 30.73 seconds to boot up with Kaspersky Mobile Security installed. That's only 2.17 seconds longer than normal; minimal interference.

Scans are another story, but even here Kaspersky manages to keep interruptions to a minimum. With a scan running in the background, I did experience some subtle slowdown with applications on the Galaxy S III. These were far more noticeable when running Minecraft?Pocket Edition. Thankfully, a full scan of the phone took only about twenty minutes, meaning at its most disruptive Kaspersky managed to keep the interruptions to a minimum. The app will also allow you to select memory, SD card, or specific folder scans, putting fine-grain scan control in your hands.

In the version I reviewed, I noticed some issues with the notification center. Occasionally, it would not advance as the scan moved forward?a minor, but irritating issue. Distressingly, tapping the notification would actually pull the app's scan progress window to the front, making it difficult to return to what I was doing. Kaspersky has told me that this issue will be addressed in a future update, scheduled for March 18, 2013.

Scheduled malware scans, the bane of the late 1990s computer user, are turned off by default in Kaspersky Mobile Security. Presumably this is to minimize the impact on the user, requiring users to start scans at their convenience or set up their own schedule in the Anti-Virus settings menu. (The app does, however, perform an automatic Anti-Virus definitions update the first time you start up.) In addition to known malware, the app also scans for dangerous adware, auto-dialers, and other intrusive features that might expose your personal information.

Impressively, the app automatically scans and audits every downloaded app by default through its "Kaspersky Security Cloud Network," further minimizing the chances of infection. This is a fairly unobtrusive process which you'd likely only notice if the app caught something it didn't like or if you were paying very close attention to your notifications. Kaspersky does not, however, scan every single file you download. Email attachment and files obtained from file-hosting services will go unobserved by Kaspersky until you perform you next scan.

The suite also provides some protection against malicious websites, but only in the default Android browser. While it was irritating to have to use the default browser instead of Chrome or something speedier, I didn't observe any increase in website loading time while using Kaspersky.

For the time being, PC Magazine relies on third-party testing to gauge the quality of malware protection. In this area, Kaspersky Mobile Security performs among the best, taking an A ranking from AV-Test (March 2012, previous version). In their tests, AV-Comparatives found (Sept 2012, previous version) that Kaspersky performed in the top tier of apps at discovering malware, but only detected a fraction of adware. However, I did notice that Kaspersky generated a false-positive result on a non-malicious pentesting app. While it was easily dismissed, there was no way to white-list the app and it prolonged every scan I performed.

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FILE - This Jan. 15, 2012 file photo shows actors Josh Brolin, left, and Diane Lane at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles. Lane and Brolin are divorcing after eight years of marriage. A representative for the couple confirmed the split Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Brolin and Lane were married in 2004, the second marriage for both. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Diane Lane and Josh Brolin are divorcing after eight years of marriage.

A representative for the couple confirmed the split Thursday. Brolin and Lane were married in 2004 in the second marriage for both.

They don't have any children together.

Lane was previously married to Christopher Lambert. They divorced in 1994 and have a 19-year-old daughter. Brolin was previously married to Alice Adair. They also divorced in 1994 and have two children: an 18-year-old daughter and a 24-year-old son.

The separation was first reported by Us Weekly.

Lane received an Oscar nomination for her performance in the 2002 film "Unfaithful" and co-stars in the upcoming Superman film "Man of Steel."

Brolin was Oscar-nominated for his performance in 2008's "Milk" and starred in the recently released "Gangster Squad."

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ANTIGONISH ? Unionized faculty at Nova Scotia?s St. Francis Xavier University have voted in favour of a tentative agreement that will bring students back to the classroom Monday following a three-week strike.

Union president Peter McInnis said about 330 ballots were cast and members voted 96 per cent in favour of the contract offer from administration.

The deal includes an eight per cent salary increase over four years and improvements to job security and health benefits for part-time contract workers and full-time employees, said McInnis.

?It?s pretty much what we had requested,? McInnis said in a telephone interview. ?The university finally came around to our way of thinking.?

?(Faculty) will... go back Monday morning with new focus in trying to get the university to pay added attention to the academic mission. That?s what we?ve been saying all along.?

The strike at the school in Antigonish began Jan. 28 after 400 faculty and supporters went eight months without a contract.

The strike drew mounting criticism of both sides from student groups worried about lost classroom time.

The school year will be extended by one week to ensure the university?s 4,200 students can complete their academic requirements.

The university did not immediately return a request for comment Saturday.

Meanwhile, the union representing support workers at the university will vote Wednesday on the administration?s latest offer.

But Joan Jessome of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union has said that she expects its 135 union members will reject the deal.

If the offer is turned down, the conciliator will file a report with the province.

The workers would then be in a legal strike position on March 8.

Source: http://www.capebretonpost.com/News/Local/2013-02-17/article-3178932/Faculty-at-St.-Francis-Xavier-University-vote-in-favour-of-new-agreement/1

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This guest post is from Psychotherapist Bobbi Emel who specializes in helping you face life?s significant challenges and regain your resiliency. Download her free ebook, ?Bounce Back! 5 keys to survive and thrive through life?s ups and downs.? You can find her blog at http://www.TheBounceBlog.com.

Some reader stories are guest posts containing information or general advice; others are examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success or failure. These posts feature folks with all levels of financial maturity and income. Want to submit your own reader story? Here?s how.

I bet you?ve had some financial losses in the last five years or so. It seems like we all have, unfortunately. If you?re newly into a financial crisis such as seeing your retirement savings take a major loss, losing your house to foreclosure, or getting laid off your job, you may recognize some of these emotional experiences:

Sadness
Anger
Guilt/self-reproach
Anxiety
Loneliness
Shock
Yearning

You may have also experienced any of these thinking patterns or behaviors:

Disbelief
Confusion
Preoccupation or rumination
Sleep and/or appetite disturbances
Absentmindedness
Social withdrawal
Crying
Restlessness

If you see yourself in some or all of these feelings, thoughts and behaviors, I have news for you: You might be grieving. We?re accustomed to thinking of grief as something that occurs only after a loved one dies. But the problem with this is that we might discount our feelings and not recognize them as grief when we lose something other than a loved one.

Complications of financial grief

You might find it difficult to express your feelings of grief about your financial situation. What is it about this type of grief that is different than the emotions we feel when we lose someone we love?

There are some complications:

Embarrassment: It?s one thing to tell someone that your mother died, but a completely different thing to share that you lost your money in a Ponzi scheme or any other issue related to a recession.

Loss of identity: You used to be Software Engineer Who Owns A House And Has Enough In the Bank To Put My Kids Through College and now you are Unemployed Dad Who Lost My House Due To Foreclosure And Had To Move The Family In With My Folks.

Maybe your situation isn?t that drastic, but you get the idea. You identify with your work and your social status, among other things, and so you might be unsure of who you are right now.

Feelings of betrayal: Dealing with a loss is difficult enough without the added emotional fallout from feeling betrayed by banks, mortgage lenders, the government, Bernie Madoff and Wall Street in general.

Now you are not only dealing with grief, but anger and resentment as well. In addition, the anger and resentment may be at a spouse, friend or relative who gave you bad financial advice.

Denying the magnitude of the loss: It?s easy to think, ?I shouldn?t be feeling this bad. It?s not like someone has died.? You devalue your own feelings because it?s ?not as bad? as something else.

The thought that financial crisis = personal failure: ?If I was a better money manager, this wouldn?t have happened. I?m such a jerk.?

?Why did I listen to that broker? I knew better. This is all my fault.?

?I must be a real loser to have thought I could refinance my house with an adjustable rate mortgage.?

This type of thinking is very easy to fall into, but certainly not helpful or true.

Lack of social ritual for this kind of grief: We have many rituals for the death of a person: funerals, memorials, sitting shiva, wakes, etc. These customs help us with closure and adjusting to the world without our loved one. But there are no rituals around the loss of finances and the dreams that went with them. We are left feeling unfinished and lost. So, it really is pretty complicated, isn?t it?

Surviving and thriving after financial loss

Surviving . . .

1. Acceptance

Accept the fact that this loss has really happened to you. If you find yourself thinking, ?Once the stock market comes back, everything will be fine? or ?Even though this new job pays half of what I made at my old job, we can still live the same way we did before,? you are in denial. It?s time to intentionally assess your situation and accept its reality.

Honor your own grief about what you have lost. This really is a loss ? be careful not to minimize it.

Don?t resist. This does not mean to give up. But it does mean to acknowledge both your emotions about your financial loss rather than fight against them. Going with the river current is much easier than fighting to swim against the current.

2. Build and use your support system

Find people you trust: friends, family, spiritual leaders. Gather your support team around you just as you would if you had lost a loved one.

Talk. You don?t have to talk about the specifics of the loss, just your feelings about it. This is an important way for you to process your grief and not get stuck in it.

Take your power back. By talking about your feelings related to the financial loss, you take the power away from the ?deep, dark secret? and shine the light of day on it.

3. Get a different perspective

Remember that you have made it through past challenges. When you?re faced with a loss, it can seem like the worst thing that has ever happened to you. And it might be. But remember that you have experienced many difficulties in your life and you have made your way through them.

Stay in the moment. Rather than ruminating about past events or fretting about the future, try to stay with what is happening right now. Life is happening in front of your eyes, not in the past or some time up ahead.

And thriving . . .

4. See what you can learn.

There?s a lesson in everything. Maybe you did make some poor financial decisions. Learn from your mistakes. Maybe your value system was overly focused on material things. Learn the joys of simpler living.

Maybe your kids didn?t really understand what it meant to pull together as a family until now. Help them learn this lesson during these tough times.

5. Find the gifts.

The sand that irritates the oyster eventually makes a pearl. The economic loss you are experiencing now may be the very thing you need to learn to thrive into new opportunities opening before you.

One woman I spoke to who had lost her job was doing surprisingly well emotionally. When I asked her how she maintained her good attitude, she said, ?I decided to expand rather than contract.? She took action to learn new skills, enjoy new experiences, and take a different path in life. Perhaps you are being given an opportunity to expand your life as well.

There are gifts to be found everywhere, even in the darkest of times. My late partner had breast cancer and when it was discovered, it was already at Stage IV. We could not think of a more terrible thing to happen. But, after using some of the ?surviving? tools above, we began to see the gifts pouring in.

We learned that we were much stronger than we thought, we learned how many caring friends we had, my partner ? who had always struggled with her self-image ? found out how many people truly loved her, and we found peace through renewed spirituality.

Getting your bounce back after financial loss may not mean getting your money or assets replaced, but it does mean learning to survive ? and thrive ? in the most difficult times.

Will you take this as an opportunity or a defeat?

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Source: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2013/02/17/bouncing-back-from-financial-grief-and-loss/

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SARAJEVO/BELGRADE (Reuters) - Mirsad Tokaca calls it the "crowning achievement" of 10 years of painstaking research - thousands of grey pages bearing the names of 95,940 victims of the Bosnian war, where they died and when.

Published last month, war crimes researchers say The Bosnian Book of the Dead represents the most comprehensive statistical analysis yet of the bloodshed in Bosnia after federal Yugoslavia fell apart at the close of the 20th century.

For Tokaca, 58, it's the ultimate answer to political leaders across the countries carved from Yugoslavia who still dispute the crimes committed, the numbers killed and who bore the blame when their joint state collapsed.

"You can't deny the crime if you determine the exact number of victims," the former journalist and businessman told Reuters. "Nobody has done anything like this. It's unique."

Rights activists say an accurate picture of what went on in the Bosnian, Croatian and Kosovan wars of the 1990s is vital to the slow process of reconciliation in the Balkans, a region still scarred but seeking to join the European mainstream.

The European Union's external borders will reach Bosnia in July, when neighboring Croatia becomes the bloc's 28th member.

But the book, whose title recalls the funerary texts that ancient Egyptians believed guided the deceased in the afterlife, almost never came about.

For years, a state commission tasked with gathering data on war crimes was starved of funding by Bosnia's central government, an uneasy alliance of the Serb, Croat and Muslim former warring sides.

With thousands of files at risk of falling into disrepair, Tokaca, a former member of the commission, established the Identification and Documentation Centre and launched the book project in 2003 with the help of foreign donors.

SHUNNED BY THE STATE

He took on the records, but was shunned by the state when he asked for funding to continue the research, "probably because they couldn't dictate what it would look like," he said.

Amid a row with donors over how the money was being spent, the book was finally published with the help of the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre, run by Serbian rights campaigner Natasa Kandic.

"The (Bosnian) state was never interested in taking on that huge documentation," Kandic told Reuters in Belgrade. "If it wasn't for Tokaca, I believe the files would have fallen apart."

The book's four hardback volumes list almost 100,000 dead, civilian and military, in alphabetical order, their ethnicity, and when and where they died. It provides a chilling picture of the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

Roughly half the dead were civilians, while 82 percent of those were Bosnian Muslims (known as Bosniaks). Some 10,000 women were killed, again the majority Bosniaks. Of 24,000 Serb dead, 20,000 were soldiers.

The facts do not alter the narrative of the war as accepted in the West.

But it is another part of a campaign by the likes of Kandic and Tokaca to reconcile Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks around a common view of what went on when Bosnian Serb forces, with the backing of Belgrade, seized and "ethnically cleansed" swathes of Bosnia after it voted to secede from Yugoslavia.

They laid siege to the once multi-ethnic capital Sarajevo for 43 months, killing, according to the book, 14,000 people. Croatia, too, helped foment the fighting on behalf of the Bosnian Croats.

Kandic said a similar project was underway in Kosovo and another planned in Croatia, with the aim of creating a complete registry of the dead from Yugoslavia's collapse.

"It will be a first in the history of the Balkans and the world, and we will know what our legacy is," Kandic said. "Names close down the room for manipulation of numbers, for minimizing other victims and inflating one's own."

CONFLICTING NARRATIVES

Tokaca's research had already halved the estimated number of Bosnian war dead from an earlier figure of 200,000, stirring controversy in a country still hamstrung by ethnic division and conflicting narratives of the conflict.

Besides the book's 95,940 dead, another 5,100 are named but the circumstances of their deaths have yet to be established.

Tokaca, a Bosniak, said he believed the book would serve as a model for other conflict regions such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya or Syria, which is in the grips of an increasingly sectarian conflict often compared to Bosnia in its complexity and big-power inertia.

Without an accurate picture of the human toll, Tokaca believes reconciliation is impossible.

"You can't preach against war and explain to people what war is without demonstrating the price of war in terms of human lives alone," he said.

(Writing by Matt Robinson; editing by Michael Holden)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/years-toil-book-names-bosnian-war-dead-124953746.html

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OMAHA, Neb., Feb 13 (Reuters) - Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman on Wednesday named a former state senator as successor to ex-Lieutenant Governor Rick Sheehy, who resigned abruptly after a newspaper investigation raised questions about thousands of phone calls he made to women.
Sheehy had served as lieutenant governor under Heineman starting in 2005 and had been seen as a leading candidate to succeed him as governor in the 2014 election.
The governor chose as his replacement Lavon Heidemann, 54, who was elected to the University of Nebraska board of regents in November and had served in the state Senate from 2005 to 2013. A farmer from Elk Creek, Nebraska, Heidemann said he would not run for governor in 2014.
Sheehy, 53, resigned on Feb. 2 after the Omaha World-Herald reported that he had made about 2,000 late-night calls to four women, other than his wife, on his state-issued cellphone over four years.
Heineman had selected Sheehy as lieutenant governor in 2005 after he assumed the governorship when Governor Mike Johanns was appointed U.S. agriculture secretary.
Heineman and Sheehy were elected to their first full term in 2006 and re-elected to a second term in 2010. Heineman will leave office in 2015. (Editing by David Bailey and Eric Beech)

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