Blood Money Movie Review | Entertainment | Know your city

Director: Vishal Mahadkar

Cast: Kunal Khemu, Amrita Puri

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Bollywood believes in formulas and the Bhatts just swear by them. So if it?s a film from the Bhatt camp, you can safely assume that they are presenting a tried and tested story.

Blood Money hardly has anything that you would not expect. Just 30 minutes into the film and you will be able to predict the end. The film sticks to the formula so much that it actually forgets that the audience is expecting something unexpected. The film just plays it very safe.

The story-line of Blood Money is Shah Rukh Khan?s Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman re-loaded and remixed. It?s the same story adapted (without permission we are sure) and presented in a different backdrop.

Kunal Khemu plays a wide-eyed Indian called Kunal Kadam who has landed in Cape Town (South Africa) for the first time to work for a diamond trading company. He soon manages to catch the eye of his boss with his selling skills. The boss tells him that that his willingness to succeed and the fire in his belly remind him of his early days when he was struggling to set up his business in Cape Town. Sounding similar to Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman? Well?

Apart from being predictable, the film moves at a very slow pace. Kunal slowly gets entangled into the web of his boss? business which includes a lot of underhand dealings. These dealings soon assume larger proportions when Kunal discovers that his boss strikes business with criminals and terrorists too. From that time on, it is just a matter of ?slow time? when Kunal would declare war on his boss. Obviously, he did and that?s the climax of the film.

Yes, of course there?s some personal drama in the film. But it is more like what you would see in a TV serial these days. Remember how Shah Rukh Khan ?almost? strayed with Amrita Singh and Juhi Chawla almost left him when she discovered it? Ditto with Kunal. His wife (played by Amrita Puri) discovers that he has cheated on her with Mia Udeya. The tension between Kunal and Amrita peaks when Kunal is going through his worst in office. Of course, everything gets better as Kunal begins to triumph again. We are not giving the entire storyline out because that is the only unexpected twist that the film is perhaps banking on.

Kunal tries very hard to do a decent job and manages it in the end. Amrita Puri didn?t have much to do ? she just had to be either very happy or very sad, which she barely managed. Mia Udeya only had a few anglicised dialogues in the film and she failed to deliver even that. But one thing that was expected of her ? get into a skimpy bikini with the camera lovingly caressing her shapely thighs ? she has carried off the bikini scene with ease.

Every film has some obvious flaws that you cannot miss even if you shut your eyes. In this film, it is Kunal?s ever changing hair-style. If he has, long locks in one shot, he has a short crop in another one. Obviously this film took a long time to shoot and Kunal kept on changing his hair-style through the shooting. One wonders how this escaped Vishal Mahadkar?s attention. The curious case of Kunal Khemu?s hair will definitely not miss you even if you try to miss it.

In the end, the film is a traditional fare for which you don?t need to twitch any of your brain muscles. It is just what it is supposed to be: a no-brainer Bollywood film that tells you a simple, straight-forward story. It?s not a good film but it?s not very bad either.

Watch it this weekend. It tells a story that you have already liked before.

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How Can Pinterest Make Money | United States Local Business to ...

Everybody?s been talking about Social Media, and how if you want to succeed as a business, then you need to create fresh content with a blog on your optimized website, build Facebook Fan Page with tons of ?likes?, have a respectably professional LinkedIn account, and then Twitter like a bird to build a following. Sound familiar?

Usher in Pinterest. I only stumbled upon it a couple of months ago, and initially dismissed it, but found out there are lots of folks, particularly ladies, ?pinning? to their hearts? delight there. When I started playing around with it, I was surprised to suddenly find two of my adult daughters ?following? me. My youngest daughter, Laura, chided me with, ?What are you doing on Pinterest? Pinterest is for girls.?

That got my attention, and started the wheels turning in my head. Then Stephen Peacock, an active web developer & fellow Inside919 member, blogged about it; so I joined. Can Pinterest make money for businesses? What kind of use statistics are we talking about?

How Can Pinterest Make Money ? The Stats Speak Loudly

According to SEOmoz blog post, Going Viral on Pinterest, ?It was during that month of January that Pinterest exploded from a casual social network to an absolute powerhouse of over 10 million users. By this point, it was driving more referral traffic than Google+, Youtube, and LinkedIn. For a social network remaining under the radar for the marketing industry, these are numbers that can?t be ignored.?

OK, so if the demographics mainly point to the female population, who of my clients should I be steering towards this Social Media platform? Well, duh, how about my MedSpa client who is all about helping mostly women maintain, or regain, their youthful attractive appearance with Botox, hot waxing & SmartLipo. It?s a perfect marriage of personal attractiveness, visible branding, education and local exposure.

But, how else can Pinterest make money? Has anyone heard of Etsy? Etsy is a social commerce website focused on handmade or vintage items as well as art and craft supplies. If you have an Etsy shop or sell products elsewhere, you can pin them to your board and tag them that they?re for sale just by putting the dollar amount somewhere in the description of the pin. Combining Pinterest with Etsy is a ?no brainer? to me of a winning combination.

Who else? How about Amazon Affiliate Marketing & Google Adsense? These two powerhouses cannot be ignored. In the interest of keeping this article manageable, check out the following post, Earning Money With Pinterest.

Lastly, we brush up against ?the dark side? with Spammers. Yes, I hate to say it, and strongly advise against the practice, but there are Spammers out there making a lot of money. For a good read on the topic in Yahoo news, One Guy Makes Over $ 1,000 a Day by Spamming People on Pinterest.

How Can Pinterest Make Money ? Summary

And the potential money making winners are:

• Businesses that primarily sell or service to the female population
• Online marketers that use services like Etsy to sell products
• Amazon Affiliate Marketers & those using Adsense
• Spammers (the dreaded, deserving of jailtime lot)

I?ve no doubt that Pinterest will continue to gain traction for users who enjoy creating collections of things to share with others. And, from the looks of it, businesses are drawing traffic to their sites from Pinterest users as well. For those in, or related to, web marketing consider this as another ?arrow? for your Social Media quiver, which is another avenue to generate sales.

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But what about a special place where pregnant women or new moms might go for a special treat? ? Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a company that catered just to expectant moms and mothers with newborns providing beautifully curated monthly gift boxes of high end items valued at much more than you pay for them? Well, guess what? There is an online source, a new site which just launched called PetiteBox and it fits that description like a perfect fitting glove.? Yes, finally there is a similar shopping resource for those of us with discriminating tastes to go to for a beautiful and memorable gift that keeps giving monthly for expectant moms, baby showers, and newborns -- or maybe even for you to indulge yourself if you're expecting or for you and your child to enjoy together if you already have an infant.

To join the growing PetiteBox community all you do is register on the site. Then a lovely surprise box is sent to you filled with 4 to 7 of fine mommy and baby full-size (not sample) products each month or it can be gifted on your behalf to someone you know to enjoy. Quality products, valued at retail prices much more than your cost, are curated and designed specifically to match the recipient's stage of pregnancy (starting at week 17) or the baby's age (up to 12 months old).

At launch, the brands PetiteBox is working with include Angel Dear, Basq, Dr. Hauschka, Earth Friendly Baby, HABA, Happy Family, Lansinoh, Lotus Wei, MAM, MD Moms, Petites Frites, and Weleda. Others will be added in the months ahead.

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Much faster than a speeding bullet, planets and stars escape the Milky Way

ScienceDaily (Mar. 29, 2012) ? Idan Ginsburg, a graduate student in Dartmouth's Department of Physics and Astronomy, studies some of the fastest moving objects in the cosmos. When stars and their orbiting plants wander too close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, their encounter with the black hole's gravitational force can either capture them or eject them from the galaxy, like a slingshot, at millions of miles per hour.

Although their origin remains a mystery and although they are invisible, black holes found at galaxy centers make their presence known through the effects they have on their celestial surroundings. The Milky Way's black hole, a monster with a mass four million times that of the Sun, feeds on some of its neighbors and thrusts others out into the intergalactic void.

It's the expelled objects that "become hypervelocity planets and stars," say Ginsburg. "What we learn from these high-speed travelers has significance for our understanding of planetary formation and evolution near the central black hole."

Ginsburg, along with his doctoral adviser Professor Gary Wegner, and Harvard Professor Abraham Loeb are publishing a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. It describes how the team constructed computer simulations of these hypervelocity bodies as a means to understanding the dynamics involved. "The paper is a 'call to arms' for other astronomers to join the search," Ginsburg announces.

Born in Israel, Ginsburg came to the United States as a child and grew up as a Midwesterner. After high school in Lawrence, Kan., graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and studies at Harvard, Ginsburg came to Dartmouth almost five years ago.

For the origin of hypervelocity bodies, Ginsburg and his colleagues point to the close interaction of a binary star system -- two stars orbiting a common center -- with a massive black hole. The likely scenario is the black hole draws one of the pair into its gravitational well while simultaneously ejecting the other at 1.5 million miles per hour. More than 20 of these hypervelocity stars have been identified in the Milky Way.

"You can also have a lone hypervelocity planet, peeled away from its star and ejected from the black hole. The same mechanism that produces a hypervelocity star produces a hypervelocity planet," Ginsburg explains. "But because it is so small and traveling up to 30 million miles per hour, it cannot be seen. That doesn't mean they won't eventually be found, but currently it is beyond the limitations of our technology."

Ginsburg contends, however, that you could see a hypervelocity star ejected with planets still in tow. In this case, you might be able to see the planets as they cross in front of the star like an eclipse, appearing as a dip in its light curve. While the paper discusses the lone hypervelocity planets, it also draws attention to the planets rotating around the hypervelocity stars.

"That is something that we can detect now," Ginsburg says, "which I think makes it very interesting. ? As of yet nobody has looked for these planets transiting hypervelocity stars. We are telling people in this paper that you should look for these."

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Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That Access UDIDs Amid Privacy Concerns

Amid extra scrutiny from Congress around privacy issues, Apple has started rejecting apps that access UDIDs, or identification numbers that are unique to every iPhone and iPad, this week. Apple had already given developers a heads-up about the change more than six months ago when it said in some iOS documentation that it was going to deprecate UDIDs. But it looks like Apple is moving ahead of schedule with pressure from lawmakers and the media. It can take more than a year to deprecate features because developers need time to adjust and change their apps. A few weeks ago, some of the bigger mobile-social developers told me that Apple had reached out and warned them to move away from UDIDs. But this is the first time they've issued outright rejections. "Everyone's scrambling to get something into place," said Victor Rubba, chief executive of Fluik, a Canadian developer that makes games like Office Jerk and Plumber Crack. "We're trying to be proactive and we've already moved to an alternative scheme."

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Facebook, senator blast bosses for asking for passwords

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Employers and colleges that demand Facebook passwords or other access to social network profiles are doing more than violating the First Amendment, as advocates argue. They're also violating Facebook's terms of service.

Almost three weeks after Bob Sullivan of msnbc.com's Red Tape Chronicles first broke the story of government agencies and colleges demanding inappropriate access to Facebook accounts, both the social network and a U.S. senator are calling shenanigans on this violation of privacy, which is also a potential liability problem for the inquiring institutions.

On Friday,?Erin Egan, Facebook's chief privacy officer on policy, was direct?and referenced the possibility of legal action.

The practice of requesting Facebook passwords and other access to user profiles "undermines the privacy expectations and the security of both the user and the user's friends," Egan said in a statement on the social network's privacy page. "It also potentially exposes the employer who seeks this access to unanticipated legal liability."?

As an example, Egan?posited, "if an employer sees on Facebook that someone is a member of a protected group (e.g. over a certain age, etc.) that employer may open themselves up to claims of discrimination if they don't hire that person."

Egan went on to say,?it is now a "violation of Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities to share or solicit a Facebook password."

On Wednesday,?Sen. Richard Blumenthal D-Conn. told Politico?he's writing a bill that would outlaw the practice as well:

The senator cited longstanding federal prohibitions against administering polygraph tests to potential employees as a rationale for a new law.

Even for prospective employees who voluntarily surrendered account access to improve their chances of landing a job, Blumenthal said there remain concerns. "The coercive element of the request," he said, "really makes it less than voluntary."

ACLU attorney Catherine Crump had stronger words for the practice. "People are entitled to their private lives,"?she said in a statement. "You'd be appalled if your employer insisted on opening up your postal mail to see if there was anything of interest inside. It's equally out of bounds for an employer to go on a fishing expedition through a person's private social media account."

Here are some of the egregious examples of Facebook privacy violations,?first reported by Sullivan on March 6:

In Maryland, job seekers applying to the state's Department of Corrections have been asked during interviews to log into their accounts and let an interviewer watch while the potential employee clicks through wall posts, friends, photos and anything else that might be found behind the privacy wall.

Previously, applicants were asked to surrender their user name and password, but a complaint from the ACLU stopped that practice last year. While submitting to a Facebook review is voluntary, virtually all applicants agree to it out of a desire to score well in the interview, according Maryland ACLU legislative director Melissa Coretz Goemann.

Student-athletes in colleges around the country also are finding out they can no longer maintain privacy in Facebook communications because schools are requiring them to "friend" a coach or compliance officer, giving that person access to their ?friends-only? posts. Schools are also turning to social media monitoring companies with names like UDilligence and Varsity Monitor for software packages that automate the task. The programs offer a "reputation scoreboard" to coaches and send "threat level" warnings about individual athletes to compliance officers.

As well as likely violating the First Amendment, such practices also herald legal problems for the institutions, noted Bradley Shear, a Washington D.C.-lawyer who first brought these cases to the attention of Maryland polticians and the ACLU. As an example of liability, he told Sullivan:

"What if the University of Virginia had been monitoring accounts in the Yeardley Love case and missed signals that something was going to happen?? he said, referring to a notorious campus murder. ?What about the liability the school might have?"

Following scrutiny by the ACLU, Maryland state legislators proposed two separate bills aimed at banning social media access by schools and potential employers, Sullivan reported. At the time of the original story, a Facebook spokesperson wouldn't specifically address the state legislation except to say that many of these school and employer policies appear to violate the site's terms.

Though it was more than two weeks in coming, a?definitive?statement and action from Facebook against such privacy violations is in the social network's best interest, more so than the interests of its users. Allowing the practice ?to continue means more organizations will feel free to make password demands, making users feel increasingly less comfortable sharing their personal information via Facebook. Less sharing on Facebook means less personal info for targeted marketing, which is the social network's bread and butter.?

As Facebook continues to make us more comfortable with less and less privacy, this may be one of the few cases where everybody benefits from the social network's pro-sharing business model.?

Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah about privacy and then asks you to join her on?Twitter?and/or?Facebook. Also,?Google+. Because that's how she rolls.?

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Stocks bounce around on global economic worries

In a Feb 27, 2012 photo traders Christopher Cornette, left, and Gregory Rowe work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Wall Street futures rose early Friday March 23, 2012 as traders awaited the release of U.S. housing data. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

In a Feb 27, 2012 photo traders Christopher Cornette, left, and Gregory Rowe work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Wall Street futures rose early Friday March 23, 2012 as traders awaited the release of U.S. housing data. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks are bouncing between small gains and losses as investors weigh the prospects of a global economic slowdown even as several U.S. companies report strong earnings. New home sales fell last month.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 30 points to 13,075 at midday Friday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose three to 1,395 and the Nasdaq composite fell three points to 3,059.

The Commerce Department said new-home sales fell 1.6 percent last month. Sales have fallen nearly 7 percent since December. Stocks of homebuilders fell.

Nike, FedEx, Tiffany have all reported stellar earnings this week, but investors are worried that these companies rely on sales in Asia and Europe. Reports this week indicated a possible slowdown in those economies.

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Q&A: about building LEAN MUSCLE? | Health and Fitness Source

Question by lola_lentils: about building LEAN MUSCLE?
ok i first i am dealing with loose skin from significant weight loss. in my case the weight loss was over a year in a half, total 150lbs. I?m still not at desired weight, about 80lbs more to go. I have lose the majority of weight from walking first then was ?fit? enough to do elliptical. the whole time i was on a vegetarian diet then brought back seafood into my diet. I didnt make these choices lightly, everything was planned. while on the strict vegetarian diet i gave up meats but not carbs..many meals dependent on the beans, pasta n rice. when i introduced seafood back into the diet and had lost 80lbs i decided to go low carb. NOT omitting all carbs but the carbs from pasta, grains, and rice. I now get my carbs from fruit n vegetable only. I lose about 2-3 a week, sometimes less.

NOW i have significant loose skin. i hate it! my butt n legs have lost alot of fat and because i walk n do elliptical i see muscle definition in my calves and arms HOWEVER my arms ALSO (very weird looking) have significant loose skin. because surgery is not an option i have done research about how to get rid of this loose skin. one site tells me the loose skin is because while dieting i lost lean muscle?.and then another site says to rebuild lean muscle i need to do more cardio and less body building. thats a problem, 1. i dont eat alot of carbs needed to do cardio. 2. when i began low carb ?diet? i stopped doing cardio and began doing kettlebell.

what am i doing right? what am i doing wrong? how do i get rid of loose skin and how do i rebuild lean muscle if thats what i lost?

i can?t afford a trainer or a nutritionist, i?m depending on the kindness of strangers LOL thanks in advance for any help you can offer!!

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Answer by Sharpdude25
After significant weight loss it is normal to be left with loose skin. To counter this lose it would be advisable to replace the fat with lean muscle mass.

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Unhappy public not sure who to blame for high gas

In this Tuesday, March 20, 2012 photo, third generation lobsterman Craig Rogers fuels up his lobster boat at Mackeral Cove in Bailey Island, Maine. Rogers, of Harpswell, said high fuel prices are the biggest concern of lobstermen today.(AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)

In this Tuesday, March 20, 2012 photo, third generation lobsterman Craig Rogers fuels up his lobster boat at Mackeral Cove in Bailey Island, Maine. Rogers, of Harpswell, said high fuel prices are the biggest concern of lobstermen today.(AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)

Rosahn Buchanan fills her tank with gas at a station in Arcadia, Calif., Tuesday, March 20, 2012. From all corners of the country, Americans are poorer and angrier these days, thanks to the record fuel prices that have soared above $4 a gallon in some states and could top $5 by summer.(AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Prices for self-serve and mid-grade are well over $4.00 per gallon, and exceed $5.00 for premium at a Shell station in the Wilshire district of Los Angeles Wednesday, March 21, 2012. From all corners of the country, people report being poorer and angrier these days, thanks to the record-high price of fuel that has been gripping the nation. The steady rise in gas?prices, which now top $4 a gallon in several states, has become one of the hottest issues in the country just as the nation heads into both its peak driving season and a presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

David Bell gases-up at a station in Arcadia, Calif. Tuesday, March 20, 2012. From all corners of the country, Americans are poorer and angrier these days, thanks to the record fuel prices that have soared above $4 a gallon in some states and could top $5 by summer.(AP Photo/Nick Ut) AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Gasoline prices of more than $4 are seen at a gas station on the south end of The Strip, Tuesday, March 20, 2012, in Las Vegas. From all corners of the country, Americans are irritated these days by record-high fuel prices that have soared above $4 a gallon in some states and could top $5 by summer. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Families canceling vacations. Fishermen watching their profits burn up along with their boats' gasoline. Drivers buying only a few gallons of gas at a time because they can't afford to fill the tank.

From all corners of the country, Americans are irritated these days by record-high fuel prices that have soared above $4 a gallon in some states and could top $5 by summer. And the cost is becoming a political issue just as the presidential campaign kicks into high gear.

Some blame President Barack Obama. Some just cite "the government," while others believe it's the work of big, greedy oil companies. No matter who is responsible, almost everyone seems to want the government to do something, even if people aren't sure what, exactly, it should or can do.

A Gallup poll this month found 85 percent of U.S. adults believe the president and Congress "should take immediate actions to try to control the rising price of gas." An Associated Press-GfK poll last month showed 71 percent believe gas prices are a "very" or "extremely" important matter.

Chris Kaufman, who spends $120 a week on gas to travel the 60 miles between his two jobs, at the University of South Dakota in Sioux Falls and at a hotel in Vermillion, S.D., blames the price spike on threats from Iran to cut off oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

"I think the candidates running for president need to take a good hard look at that and determine what their foreign policy is going to be for countries that threaten to do that," he said. "It's going to affect every single citizen in the United States."

Still, he believes the president has little control over gas prices, adding that it is commodities traders who really dictate prices.

Trucker Cory Nissen of Ruther Glen, Va., agrees.

"The president is nothing but a fall guy," Nissen said as he took a break from his rig at a stop in Wilton, N.Y., earlier this week.

Nissen, who is paid by the mile, said he has seen his paychecks shrink because his employer has cut back delivery runs in reaction to the rising cost of fuel. "It needs to change and change quick," he said. "I got bills I got to pay, and half the time I can't pay them."

On the presidential campaign trail, Mitt Romney called on Obama last weekend to fire his energy secretary, interior secretary and Environmental Protection Agency administrator, dubbing them "the gas-hike trio." Fellow Republican Newt Gingrich promised to roll the price of gas back to $2.50 a gallon if he is elected.

Obama mocked Gingrich's promise, saying, "They start acting like they've got a magic wand and will give you cheap gas forever if you elect us."

Amy Lis of Buffalo, N.Y., and her boyfriend canceled their vacation to Florida this spring in favor of a three-hour drive to Cleveland for an overnight stay and a visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Even that trip will cost more than $100 in gas.

"It's more than our hotel," she said as she filled up her boyfriend's Ford Ranger pickup.

In truth, there is not a lot the president and Congress can do in the short term to push down gasoline prices. They are tied to oil prices, which have climbed in recent months, pushed by increased consumption from developing nations in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East and by concerns about supply disruptions in Iran and elsewhere.

Mike Siroub, who has operated a Union Oil station in the Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia for 25 years, said customers who used to fill up their tanks now put in just $10 or $20 at a time, telling him that that's all they can afford and that they are driving less or using more fuel-efficient cars.

He himself has joined them.

"I used to have a car with a big V-8 engine," he said. "I traded it for a four-cylinder Toyota Camry."

Among the things the government can do to bring relief to drivers is reduce gasoline taxes or push to get more fuel-efficient cars on the road. The first new fuel standards since 1990 are just now going into effect, and the U.S. auto fleet is more efficient than ever.

People are still feeling the pain.

"When I go out to change the prices, they honk their horns and yell at me," said Siroub whose station's cheapest grade of gas, regular unleaded, was selling for $4.44 a gallon earlier this week. "The other day one person even gave me the finger."

In New York City, some cab drivers say the high cost of gas is prompting them to race through the streets of Manhattan even more recklessly than usual to pick up more passengers during a shift.

"When the gas is up, the money you make is going down," said Less Sylla, who paid $4.17 a gallon earlier this week. "You see a lot of drivers, they're driving, boom-boom-boom, because the lease is too high and it's working on their minds. So that's why they go like that, and it causes a lot of accidents."

Sylla, who said he will vote for Obama, blames greedy oil companies.

In Anchorage, Alaska, general contractor W.M. Lewis said he has had to raises his prices to keep his half-dozen trucks running. "It affects your bottom-line pricing," he said as he put $90.13 worth of gas, at $4.25 a gallon, into one of those trucks.

Milton Walker Jr., whose Louisiana tour company takes vacationers on boat rides through the alligator-infested swamps, said he raised prices last year because of the increased cost of fuel and will do it again if gas hits $5 a gallon. He blames the Federal Reserve, saying it hasn't kept inflation in check.

"I don't think it matters who's president," he said.

Shrimpers in Louisiana and lobstermen in Maine complain that high fuel prices are cutting into their profits. Craig Rogers, who burns through 50 gallons of gas a day tending his lobster traps along Maine's rocky coast, blames commodities traders, though he questions whether politicians are doing enough. He said politicians are too well off to really grasp what ordinary people are going through.

"They can say they feel for us, they can say they understand us, but when you have that kind of money, there's no way you can truly understand what we're feeling," he said.

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Associated Press Writers Jim Drinkard in Washington; Cain Burdeau in Louisiana; Chris Carola in Albany, N.Y.; Carolyn Thompson in Buffalo, N.Y.; Jonathan Fahey and Christopher Hawley in New York; Dirk Lammers in Sioux Falls, S.D.; Clarke Canfield in Portland, Maine; Rachel D'Oro in Anchorage, Alaska; and Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, N.M., contributed to this story.

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Why Illinois primary could finally give Mitt Romney momentum

Mitt Romney has been trying to fend off a Rick Santorum charge throughout March. But the Illinois primary Tuesday is a clear 'home game' for Romney.

When Mitt Romney was fighting ? and losing ? "away games" in Southern primaries this month, Illinois always loomed like a breakwall to Rick Santorum's momentum. Tuesday, a big win here could go some way toward doing just that ? putting Mr. Romney firmly back on the front foot.?

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In many ways, Illinois plays to Romney's strengths: It is?more politically practical than orthodox, more urban and suburban than rural.?But changes in the state make it perhaps less a slam dunk for the front-runner than it might have been in the past, and that has given Mr. Santorum a sliver of hope.?

Still, polls show a widening lead for Romney. A Public Policy Poll taken over the weekend showed Romney leading Santorum, 45 to 30 percent. A Chicago Tribune/WGN poll taken 10 days before showed only a 4 point gap.

Clearly, this is nearer home turf for the moderate Romney. The fervor that has inspired conservative Republican voters throughout the South is largely lacking here, say experts. Instead, Illinois Republicans are motivated more by a desire for results than with party purity, says?former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar. ?

?Illinois politics are not driven by ideology, it?s more pragmatic," says Mr. Edgar, a Republican.

This is primarily a matter of the state's demographics. Polls suggest that the voting dynamics in Illinois are roughly the same as they have been elsewhere. Urban voters favor Romney; rural voters favor Santorum. The difference here is that the math favors Romney.

Some 64 percent of Illinois residents live in or around Chicago. In the 2008 primary, those five Chicago-area counties accounted for 57 percent of the Republican vote.?

Another indication of Romney's advantage: only 36 percent of Illinois Republicans identify themselves as evangelical Christians,?according to the Public Policy Polling survey. By contrast, exit polling in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries?showed that 80 percent of voters were evangelicals.

While Santorum holds a 10 point lead over Romney among Illinois evangelicals, their numbers don't appear to be big enough to turn the tables on Romney.?

?In Illinois, as much as Michigan and Ohio, the party is conservative but not Southern conservative,? says Larry Sabato, director of the center for Politics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.??The environment is better for a Romney win.??

Santorum must try to overcome the gap by siphoning votes from Romney in the Chicago area and hoping for huge voter turnout in conservative "downstate" areas. He's attempting to do that by aggressively courting the Christian vote.?

?I know you don?t get a chance to outvote your friends up in the Chicagoland area very often, but this is a primary and turnout is everything,? Santorum told a crowd in downstate Effingham Saturday.

The get-out-the-vote story is also true for Romney in the Chicago-area counties. But complicating matters is that Chicago's suburban counties are no longer as reliably Republican as they once were, with transplanted city dwellers and Hispanics increasingly moving in. With?more independent and Democratic voters in Chicago's collar?counties, the suburban Republican core that makes up Romney's base is slowly ebbing.

Turnout in the Chicago area is ?the big unknown,? Edgar says.

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Sources: SF sheriff told to quit or face charges

San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi appears at the Superior Court for the start of his trial on domestic abuse charges in San Francisco, California in February.

By msnbc.com staff and news services

SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, who was sentenced on Monday in a highly publicized domestic abuse case, will not resign, his lawyers said Tuesday, The Associated Press reported.

The announcement came in the face of a reported?ultimatum from the city's mayor demanding that the newly elected sheriff step down immediately or face an official misconduct charge and possibly forced removal from office.

A longtime progressive politician in the city, Mirkarimi agreed to?a plea deal in the case involving a New Year's Eve dispute with his wife that left her arm bruised. Under the deal, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor "false imprisonment" charge, which allowed him to continue carrying a gun. Mirkarimi had signaled that he would remain in his post, to which he was elected in November.?

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But the ultimatum reportedly issued by Mayor Ed Lee made it clear that the sheriff is?facing a serious political challenge following the?abuse case.

"I'm not aware of any plans for the sheriff to resign," the sheriff's attorney Lidia Stiglich told the AP.?"I'm disappointed it's proceeding in this fashion. I think it should be left to the voters."

The sheriff met with Lee after his sentencing Monday. During that discussion, Lee gave him 24 hours to resign or face an ethics charge that could result in his removal from office, Stiglich confirmed.

Lee has declined to comment on the matter but said he would make an announcement later Tuesday.

Mirkarimi, 50,?was sentenced to three years' probation, 52 weeks of domestic violence intervention classes, 100 hours of community service and a small fine for one misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment in a New Year's Eve incident that left his wife, Eliana Lopez, with a bruise on her arm.

Using administrative procedures to oust Mirkarimi is not a slam dunk, said Joe Eskenazi, political reporter for SF Weekly.

Under the City Charter, he noted, official misconduct is defined as "any wrongful behavior by a public officer in relation to the duties of his or her office..."

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Even though Mirkarimi has admitted guilt to wrongdoing, it's hard to see it as job-related, in his view.

If city attorneys?nonetheless find a way to charge him with official misconduct, it will be a vote by the Board of Supervisors that would make the final determination.?Nine of the 11 supervisors would have to vote?in favor of his ouster for it to go through.

Even some of the sheriff's erstwhile allies hoped that he will now resign to avoid more damage, said?Eskenasi. Though he had a reputation for being?an effective member of the Board of?Supervisors, where he served for seven years prior to his 2011 election as sheriff, the domestic abuse case has made Mirkarimi toxic, he said.?

"Even people who like him would prefer to see him out and out soon," Eskenazi said. "Even people who are his ideological allies. There?s not a lot of support out there among the people you would want to have."

If he manages to remain in office as sheriff, Mirkarimi could also face a recall by San Francisco voters this summer.

As the city turns against the once promising political figure, Mirkarimi's wife is advocating for him.

"Eliana Lopez is not afraid of Ross, Eliana Lopez supports Ross," said Paula Canny, attorney for Lopez, speaking to the Chronicle. "She absolutely wants Ross to remain in office."

The Associated Press and msnbc.com's Kari Huus contributed to this report.

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How To Win With An Intimidating Boss: Be Self-Empowered

Some bosses are quite skilled at "psyching" an employee into doubting the value of his or her contribution to the organization.

?An example of this is the president of a company who recently tried to "show up" his sales director by taking over a sales meeting in an effort to prove to everyone present that he, the president of the company, could do a better job.

?There are bosses who will publically insult an employee in a leadership position to achieve the same result.

?One obvious motivation behind doing this is to discourage the employee from asking for or expecting a raise in pay.

?This tactic can also be used to subtly manipulate an employee into accepting a cut in pay or into submitting to additional work-demands without additional compensation.

?A more personal motivation comes down to sheer, dysfunctional egotism rooted in an unconscious inferiority complex.? It may feed the boss's insecure craving for a sense of power, superiority and worth to make you feel fearfully dependent upon his or her discretion.

?The point is that moment you become caught up in proving yourself you stop really being yourself and begin over-extending and disrespecting yourself.

?Employees who complain that their bosses are just too hard to please are often just falling for the ruse their boss is using to manipulate them into giving more and accepting less, including giving that boss more power over them than is really necessary or in their best interest.

?When you feel afraid or even mildly anxious about your boss's evaluation of your contribution, you give up your power to determine your own destiny.

?Remember that no one hires you unless YOU make that happen.

?The reality is that the only one who really has to believe in what you have to offer is YOU.

?You will always reap what you sow.? Your results in life depend upon what YOU say, think, feel and do, not upon what another says, thinks or does.

?This does not mean that the interests and opinions of others do not matter.? It means that your concept of yourself is a critical cause of how well you do and of how others see and relate with you.

?When you worry about pleasing your boss you are distracted from making a REAL contribution, which not only lowers the real value of your work; it also makes your work unfulfilling.

?You weren't hired to please your boss, even if your boss seems to try very hard to make you think that you were.

?You were hired to do your best work in line with the aims of the organization.

?As long as that remains your primary focus and intention you are acting in real integrity, which ultimately brings true honor to yourself.

?Beyond this, self-confidence is one of the pillars that uphold competence.? You have to feel secure about yourself to do your best work, to make the best decisions, to access your highest level of creativity and problem-solving ability.

?Some bosses will go to great lengths to keep you guessing about their actual view of you as a sort of test to see how strong and capable you really are.

?If you maintain your commitment to giving your best work without worrying about what your boss is up to, you may actually impress your boss with the strength of your character and be perceived as dependable instead of as dependent.

?As you practice feeling, thinking and acting authentically self-assured, you radiate a quality of personal power that inspires others to feel secure about you, demonstrate your highest ability and prove your true worth to the organization.

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Copyright & the newspaper article | The Legal Genealogist

Next in an occasional series on copyright ? the newspaper article

Reader Aija Rahman has a collection of newspaper articles she?s put together. She wants to compile them into book form for her family and has copyright questions:

I?m researching my son-in-law?s great-great grandfather, Captain John Barneson, who was quite famous in the early 1900s. I have found over 800 newspaper articles about him and would like to compile the articles for my grandchildren and any other relatives who are interested. Can I legally copy the articles into a book form, such as through lulu.com ? Are there copyright issues with reprinting the actual newspaper articles? The time span is 1890 to about 1941. ? I do have other articles regarding Captain Barneson?s descendants, and those are all from the 1941 to 2011 time period. I would like to include some of them in anything I publish as well, so would appreciate knowing the copyright implications for that time period. There are also copies of ships logs from 1864 to 1900 from Australian sources (mariners.records.nsw.gov.au) and Australian newspapers of the period. Any idea about copyright issues from Australia?

Before we tackle these questions, I need to do my disclaimer bit again. Always remember that I?m commenting generally on the law here and not giving legal advice, and you may want to consult your own attorney, yadda yadda.

American newspapers

Now? before I begin? if you haven?t made his acquaintance before, I want to introduce you to Peter B. Hirtle. He?s an archivist and digital information expert at Cornell University. And he?s put a ton of information about all the possible time frames for materials either being under copyright or passing into the public domain together in chart form that you can find here. Great resource!!

The following explains in (I hope) plain English the time frames graphically shown on Hirtle?s wonderful chart for Aija?s newspaper article collection.

Fair game: in the public domain

There are undoubtedly bunches of these articles that are totally fair game because they?re already in the public domain. By definition, according to the U.S. Copyright Office, ?A work of authorship is in the ?public domain? if it is no longer under copyright protection or if it failed to meet the requirements for copyright protection. Works in the public domain may be used freely without the permission of the former copyright owner.?

The articles you can use without worrying include:

???????Articles published before 1923. This is the easy case. Any news article published in the United States before 1923 is in the public domain and you can reprint or republish it in any form you?d like without any copyright concerns at all.

???????Articles published between 1923 and 1977 without a copyright notice. For this time frame, if there wasn?t a copyright notice in the newspaper, it?s in the public domain. But you need to make sure there really wasn?t a notice. That means looking carefully at copies of the entire newspaper for at least a few dates at regular intervals during the period from which you want to use articles to see whether there is a copyright notice anywhere in the newspaper.

Caution: check before using

???????Articles published from 1923 through 1963 with a copyright notice but where the copyright was not renewed. An original copyright during this time frame lasted for 28 years. Longer protection ? up to 67 more years ? was available if the copyright was renewed by filing a renewal in the U.S. Copyright Office. So if there?s no renewal, then all of these articles are fair game ? copyright protection would have expired at the latest in 1991. But before you can be sure you can use these safely, you have to be sure the copyright wasn?t renewed. For help on doing that, see the How to check copyright status section below.

???????Articles published between 1978 and 1 March 1989 without a copyright notice and not registered within five years of publication. These are fair game but only if both of these requirements are met. Even if there wasn?t a copyright notice, the newspaper might still have been registered with the copyright office within five years. Because of this five-year option, while it?s possible that these articles were fair game when published, it?s also possible that they?ll be copyright-protected well into the future. So before you can be sure you can use these safely, you have to be sure the copyright wasn?t registered in that five-year window. For help on doing that, see the How to check copyright status section below.

Only use with permission unless fair use

If an article does have copyright protection, then there are really only two ways that the law allows you to use it. The first is with the permission of the copyright owner. The second is if your use falls into the category of permitted uses called ?fair use.? We?ll get into fair use at some point in this occasional series on copyright, but relying on the fair use doctrine is always a crap shoot.

Sure, you can do a risk-benefit analysis and decide that the publisher of a newspaper isn?t going to come after you for using a half-dozen articles from the 1980s. Some people firmly believe in the old saying that ?it?s easier to get forgiveness than permission.? If you go that route, you?re on your own. Me, I think getting permission, especially for a small non-commercial family publication, is easier, and there?s no question that it?s safer by far.

Here are the key time periods where you need permission unless you?re confident that your use will be considered a fair use:

???????Articles published 1923 through 1963, with notice and with copyright renewal. For these, the total term for copyright protection ? due to a number of amendments in the copyright law ? is 95 years from the date of publication. An article published on 1 January 1924 in a newspaper published with a copyright notice and where the copyright was renewed would still be covered by copyright protection until 2019.

???????Articles published 1978 to 1 March 1989, without notice but with registration. If a newspaper didn?t put a copyright notice in the paper but registered for copyright protection within five years, it still has copyright protection. Most articles published in newspapers were written as works for hire (meaning written by an employee of the newspaper). The copyright term for these published articles is 95 years from publication. We?re talking many many years before any of these are public domain ? 2073 at the earliest.

???????Articles published 1 March 1989 to present. These are all covered by copyright for 95 years after publication. Again, we?re talking many years before these are public domain ? and some won?t go into the public domain until the 22nd century!

How to check copyright status

As noted above, there are a few categories where you need to check something beyond just the copy of the newspaper you?re working from to be sure whether it?s safe to use. With some, you need to find out if the copyright was registered; with others you need to find out if it was renewed.

So how do you find out what a newspaper?s copyright status is? There?s a circular available from the U.S. Copyright Office that explains it, called ?How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work.? The process is tedious, but it?s not hard. First off, check any available online databases. There?s a wonderful collection of sources for these databases here at the University of Pennsylvania Library?s Online Books Page. I can?t recommend it ? and the UPenn site ? enough.

If you can?t find what you need online, then you?ll have to find a library that has the Copyright Office?s Catalog of Copyright Entries for the years you want to check, but entering ?Catalog of Copyright Entries? at a search term at Worldcat.org turns up a lot of options. And there?s help available for this kind of search online at the UPenn site as well.

Frankly, given the amount of work here with this many articles, I?d probably opt for taking an easier way: in your shoes, I?d write to the current publishers of the newspapers from which you collected the articles where you?re not sure. I?d explain exactly what I?m doing, the number of articles (broken down by year and month) that I wanted to include and ask (a) if they?re still under copyright protection and, if so, (b) whether I could have permission to include them in this privately-published collection for my family. That covers your bases either way.

Australian newspapers

Not surprisingly, copyright law in Australia is similar to United States law ? there?s a treaty on free trade between the two countries that affected copyright protections. But the law is only similar, not identical. Under Australian law, as explained by the Australian Copyright Council (a non-governmental group that advises writers, photographers and others), any newspaper published before 1 January 1955 is out of copyright, since the copyright protection in effect at that time ran only for 50 years from the date of publication. A new law in effect in 2005 because of the treaty extends the protection to 70 years but that didn?t affect publication where the copyright had already expired.

So for any article before 1955, it?s public domain. For anything after that, ask permission.

Australian government records

Here?s the big difference between the United States and Australia. In the United States, materials produced by the government can?t be copyrighted. In Australia, they can be and are copyright-protected. The specific ship manifests you?re dealing with are old records, but it isn?t clear under Australian law that the digital copies wouldn?t be considered copyright-protected. More importantly, the agency that now holds the records ? the State Records Authority of New South Wales ? wants you to ask for permission for anything beyond personal research or study, and says so on its website. Looks like it?s easy to get permission and free for non-commercial purposes, so that should be the least of your worries.

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NIH researchers highlight progress, path forward for developing TB vaccines

Public release date: 20-Mar-2012
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Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan
padmanabhannm@niaid.nih.gov
301-402-1663
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

In the past decade, scientists have made significant progress building the critical knowledge and infrastructure needed to identify and develop novel tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidates and move the most promising ones into human clinical trials. The results of those trials, coupled with advances from other TB studies, have paved the way for the next 10 years of research on TB vaccines, a critical component of TB control efforts, note scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Their editorial, co-authored by NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., and Christine Sizemore, Ph.D., appears in the journal Tuberculosis to coincide with the publication of Tuberculosis Vaccines: A Strategic Blueprint for the Next Decade.

The new Blueprint on TB vaccines updates the original one, which was published in 2000 as the result of an NIH-sponsored workshop.

Since that time, TB researchers have assembled a significant pipeline of vaccine candidates and assessed them in clinical trials. However, to transform the field and help make licensure of new vaccines a reality, the editorial co-authors stress, scientists must investigate remaining fundamental questions, including the following:

• Why does infection with the TB bacterium cause active disease in some people but not others?
• Why does the current licensed TB vaccine, Bacille Calmette-Gurin, protect children more effectively than adults?
• What immune responses must effective vaccines elicit to successfully protect against TB?

NIAID, part of the team that helped to develop both iterations of the Blueprint, supports scientists working worldwide to contribute important data to these and other areas of inquiry. The authors also note that along with basic and clinical trial data, recent innovations in systems biology, genomics and bioinformatics, animal modeling, and immunologic and molecular tools will play important roles in developing safe and effective TB vaccines. The authors emphasize that close coordination among biomedical researchers, product developers, funders and TB health care programs worldwide will be essential to eventually develop and deliver new vaccines as part of the global fight against TB.

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ARTICLE:
C Sizemore and AS Fauci. Transforming biomedical research to develop effective TB vaccines: The next ten years. Tuberculosis 92(S1):S2-S3 (2012).

WHO:
NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., and Christine Sizemore, Ph.D., chief of the Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases Section in NIAID's Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, are available to discuss their editorial.

CONTACT:
To schedule interviews, please contact Nalini Padmanabhan, (301) 402-1663, padmanabhannm@niaid.nih.gov.

For more information about the original Blueprint published in 2000, see the NIAID news release announcing its publication. For more information about NIAID's TB research, visit the NIAID Tuberculosis Web portal.

NIAID conducts and supports researchat NIH, throughout the United States, and worldwideto study the causes of infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and to develop better means of preventing, diagnosing and treating these illnesses. News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID Web site at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov/.

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Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan
padmanabhannm@niaid.nih.gov
301-402-1663
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

In the past decade, scientists have made significant progress building the critical knowledge and infrastructure needed to identify and develop novel tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidates and move the most promising ones into human clinical trials. The results of those trials, coupled with advances from other TB studies, have paved the way for the next 10 years of research on TB vaccines, a critical component of TB control efforts, note scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Their editorial, co-authored by NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., and Christine Sizemore, Ph.D., appears in the journal Tuberculosis to coincide with the publication of Tuberculosis Vaccines: A Strategic Blueprint for the Next Decade.

The new Blueprint on TB vaccines updates the original one, which was published in 2000 as the result of an NIH-sponsored workshop.

Since that time, TB researchers have assembled a significant pipeline of vaccine candidates and assessed them in clinical trials. However, to transform the field and help make licensure of new vaccines a reality, the editorial co-authors stress, scientists must investigate remaining fundamental questions, including the following:

• Why does infection with the TB bacterium cause active disease in some people but not others?
• Why does the current licensed TB vaccine, Bacille Calmette-Gurin, protect children more effectively than adults?
• What immune responses must effective vaccines elicit to successfully protect against TB?

NIAID, part of the team that helped to develop both iterations of the Blueprint, supports scientists working worldwide to contribute important data to these and other areas of inquiry. The authors also note that along with basic and clinical trial data, recent innovations in systems biology, genomics and bioinformatics, animal modeling, and immunologic and molecular tools will play important roles in developing safe and effective TB vaccines. The authors emphasize that close coordination among biomedical researchers, product developers, funders and TB health care programs worldwide will be essential to eventually develop and deliver new vaccines as part of the global fight against TB.

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ARTICLE:
C Sizemore and AS Fauci. Transforming biomedical research to develop effective TB vaccines: The next ten years. Tuberculosis 92(S1):S2-S3 (2012).

WHO:
NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., and Christine Sizemore, Ph.D., chief of the Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases Section in NIAID's Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, are available to discuss their editorial.

CONTACT:
To schedule interviews, please contact Nalini Padmanabhan, (301) 402-1663, padmanabhannm@niaid.nih.gov.

For more information about the original Blueprint published in 2000, see the NIAID news release announcing its publication. For more information about NIAID's TB research, visit the NIAID Tuberculosis Web portal.

NIAID conducts and supports researchat NIH, throughout the United States, and worldwideto study the causes of infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and to develop better means of preventing, diagnosing and treating these illnesses. News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID Web site at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov/.

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Can you invest stock in a corporations even if you dont have a ...

im an average 18 year old guy. can i buy stocks from a corporations? if so, can i buy stocks from companies like apple, etc.? and can i buy stocks from stock indices like s&p 500, dow, nasdaq? if no, why is it the market value of stocks of these indices decrease/increase if an average person like me cant buy stocks from it? i know i have so many questions but your informative answers would be a big help. thank you?

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Yes you can buy stock in companies that are publicly traded su ch as Apple, Google, etc.As for buying stock in an index, technically no, but you can buy shares of mutual funds/exchange traded funds that mirror the indexes.For example, the S&P 500 index is a tracking mechanism set up to show you how the 500 stocks in the index are doing.You cannot buy stock in the index, however you can buy SPY, which is an exchange-traded fund that consists of the 500 stocks in the S&P 500 weighted to account for the different market capitalizations ? this is just like buying a share in the index.

In order ot buy individual stocks (stocks in one company), you must open a brokerage account (most brokers want a minimum of $500 to open an account).using the money placed in the account, you can then place na order ? for example, if you opened an account with $1,000, you could then place an order for up to $1,000 in Apple stock, which would get you 1 share, since Apple is trading at a bit over $500 (leaving you around $490 in your account).The broker will charge a commission (about $7 for a discount broker).

Yes you can buy stock in companies. The catch is that the better the company is doing, the more money one share of thier stock is. This means Apple, for instance probably has drastically high amounts they sell thier stock for. Do research and try to find a smaller company you think will become a trend like frozen yogurt or skinny jeans.

Go to the channel on your TV to watch the stock market and pick your own. Go here to do research on them -> http://finance.yahoo.com/ Look at a chart of the stock here -> http://www.stockcharts.com/freecharts/ . Earnings report dates are here-> http://www.earningswhispers.com/. . The market is high now and might pull back, not a good time to buy, I?d wait until a major crash. Sign up for a TD-Ameritrade account or another like Scottrade or E-trade. TD-Am. is #1. service. You need to watch charts and the market. Here are a few to watch -> rig, hal, rmbs, ivan, cell, amat, ntp, adsk, intc, tqnt, mu, pten,dish,dell ,gne, c ,msft, atpg, qcom, idti, sndk, rimm, nvda, f, mcd, bmy, adm

Do not buy without looking at a chart. Sometimes earnings report numbers are bad and cause a stock to fall in price, or if are good earnings numbers, will cause the stock to in price. DON?T GET STUCK IN THE MARKET. IF YOU BUY TOO SOON, YOU WILL BE STUCK.

Yes to all of them. Except the indices. You don?t buy stocks in stock indices, although you could by an ETF which is a securitised index. But usually you buy index options or futures.

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Leftist opposition wins big in Slovakia election

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) ? A leftist opposition led by one of the few leading politicians in Slovakia to escape voter anger over a major corruption scandal has been propelled back to power in an early parliamentary election, according to almost complete results on Sunday.

Smer-Social Democracy of former Prime Minister Robert Fico is a clear winner with 44.8 percent of the vote, or 84 seats in the 150-seat Parliament, with the votes from 5,842 of the 5,956 polling stations counted by the Statistics Office early Sunday.

The result allows Fico to govern alone, which has not happened to anyone since the country was created as an independent state following the split of Czechoslovakia in 1993.

Fico, who is considered a populist leader, is pledging to maintain a welfare state, increase corporate tax and hike income tax for the highest earners.

"We succeeded with what we offered as an alternative," Fico said early Sunday. "We've achieved a result that is a pleasant surprise for us, to be honest."

The outgoing center-right, four-party coalition combines for just 50 seats as it faced voter anger over a major corruption scandal. The new Ordinary People party that campaigned on an anti-corruption ticket won 16 seats.

The ultranationalist Slovak National Party, known for derogatory comments about ethnic Hungarians, Roma and political opponents, ended below the 5-percent threshold needed to win parliamentary representation.

Turnout was surprisingly high at 58.98 percent after analysts predicted a record low turnout, as voters were expected to register their anger over allegations that a private financial group bribed government and opposition politicians in 2005-06 to win lucrative privatization deals.

The "Gorilla" files ? posted online by an anonymous source in December and said to be based on wiretaps ? have rocked Slovak politics. One former economy minister is said to have received the equivalent of euro10 million ($13 million) for his assistance.

Outgoing Prime Minister Iveta Radicova's Slovak Democratic and Christian Union was hard hit by the allegations. Radicova's party was in power in 2005-06 and the then-prime minister, Mikulas Dzurinda, is now the foreign minister and party chairman. The party won 5.9 percent of the vote, despite overseeing an economic boom driven by solid growth, strong exports and the implementation of much-needed pension reforms. It won 15.4 percent at the 2010 ballot.

"It's clear," Dzurinda said. "Gorilla is to blame."

Disappointed by her government's collapse, Radicova is quitting politics and plans to lecture at Britain's Oxford University. She was the first female prime minister in Slovakia.

Fico, whose party was in power in 2006-10, has been implicated in the corruption allegations, but he says he is innocent because he couldn't have influenced any decisions since he was part of the opposition.

Fico was a vocal opponent of the U.S.-led war in Iraq and withdrew Slovak troops. He also said he would not allow any part of the Obama administration's revamped U.S. missile shield planned for Europe to be based in Slovakia.

Known for foul-mouthed tirades against journalists, Fico's election promises included a plan to build a new national soccer stadium and not to increase the pension age for women because they "don't deserve it." He is also against further privatization of state assets and opposes austerity measures, such as a value-added tax increase, that would help keep the public finances healthy.

Analysts warned that Fico may not be ready to take the necessary steps to lower a high unemployment rate of more than 13 percent and reduce the deficit to 3 percent by 2013 as required after EU nations agreed on a deal to stop overspending in the 17 countries that use the euro.

Fico pledged Sunday he was ready to meet the country's obligations: "We realize how important it is to have healthy public finances."

Fico, who led Slovakia to the euro zone in 2009, said his government will support European measures to stop the debt crisis and save the euro.

In October, Slovakia dramatically rejected Europe's expanded bailout fund ? and the government fell in a confidence vote, triggering this weekend's elections. The small nation of 5.4 million people was accused of undermining the entire eurozone with its brinkmanship. Parliament eventually approved the expanded EU fund after Fico's party voted "yes" in exchange for early elections.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/leftist-opposition-wins-big-slovakia-election-033345979.html

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