Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Judge rules against SEC in Stanford claims case

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/judge-rules-against-sec-stanford-claims-case-160220463--sector.html

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Romney breaks from vacation for July Fourth parade

by Associated Press

WCNC.com

Posted on July 4, 2012 at 8:06 AM

WOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) -- Mitt Romney is taking a break from vacationing at his lakeside estate to march in the local Independence Day parade - and to see and be seen by the news media as well as potential voters.

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Romney and his family will parade through the center of this New England hamlet on Wednesday morning, their only official public appearance during a weeklong family break from the campaign trail.

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It won't be the first time Romney has been spotted around Wolfeboro since he arrived last weekend. His whole family - now numbering 30 in all - has gathered at their lakeside estate for the annual family vacation. And even though the family patriarch is now running against President Barack Obama, they stuck to many of their normal routines: attending church, grabbing ice cream in town and boating on the lake.

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Still, the vacation hasn't been all fun and games for the likely Republican presidential nominee. Romney huddled Tuesday with his top advisers, including his campaign manager and the aide overseeing his vice presidential search. His top strategist was in town shooting video for new TV ads.

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Officially, the campaign says the week's focus is the family time and a welcome chance to relax before the campaign push leading up to the August GOP convention. But unofficially, the bit of down time is a chance for the contemplative Romney to consider how the campaign is going and adjust strategy as necessary in a contest that polls show is close.

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Underscoring the stakes, Obama canceled his own annual summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard. He did, however, spend the weekend at Camp David and planned to return to Washington for the July Fourth holiday.

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Behind the scenes in Wolfeboro, Romney is all but certain to be at work just as much as he is at play - and probably focused on the biggest decision he will make between now and when he accepts the GOP's presidential nomination in late August. His self-imposed deadline for picking a running mate "before the convention" is looming large and the search for a No. 2 is well under way.

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His campaign is staying mum on whether that was a topic of conversation early Tuesday when he and his wife, Ann, spent at least 45 minutes talking with campaign manager Matt Rhoades, senior adviser Beth Myers and top strategist Stuart Stevens on the deck that overlooks the lawn behind his lakefront home. Romney's five sons - particularly his eldest son, Tagg - also serve as informal political advisers, and all have been on hand all week, virtually ensuring that the campaign and the running mate search were discussed.

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And there's more to the political side of Romney's vacation than just the highly anticipated vice presidential pick.

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While the candidate and his family haven't encouraged media coverage of their ice cream outings and sports event, they also haven't shied away from it.

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That's meant that Americans who are largely unfamiliar with the former Massachusetts governor see glossy images of the large Romney clan playing on and around sun-splashed Lake Winnipesaukee - and the usually buttoned-up patriarch clearly at ease. He's been seen and photographed riding on a jet ski, playing volleyball, relaxing on the beach and eating an ice cream cone at Bailey's Bubble while surrounded by more than a dozen of his 18 grandchildren.

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The vacation has painted a family portrait of the Romneys that's led at least one pundit to compare them to the Kennedy clan, the American political dynasty that gathered during summers in Hyannis Port, Mass. Their athletic, photogenic family helped label President John F. Kennedy's era as "Camelot." The vacation images have also given Romney, who's fought a perception that he can't connect with ordinary voters, a chance to show an authentic lighter side.

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"You all have your life jackets?" Romney asked the handful of grandchildren who crowded onto his boat Monday night after the trip to the picturesque town's ice cream store. His usually coifed hair windblown and his face tanned, Romney hopped behind the wheel of the boat and piloted it away from the dock himself.

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His vacation ends Sunday when he's scheduled to head to New York for fundraising events - and resume his campaign schedule fulltime.

Source: http://www.wcnc.com/news/politics/Romney-breaks-from-vacation-for-July-Fourth-parade-161327265.html

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Photo tips for a sparkling Fourth of July

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Heading out with the family for July 4th fireworks celebrations is a time-honored tradition. And, if you're like me, you enjoy capturing those memories in pictures. But photographing fireworks with no camera shake and proper exposure is difficult, unless you know these simple tricks:

1. Use a tripod
When you take picture of fireworks, the camera needs to hold the shutter open long enough to ?see? the fireworks. The longer the shutter is open, the more susceptible your photo is to motion blur. So use a tripod to make sure there?s no movement. For open areas, use a stand-alone model with telescoping legs like the Dolica AX620B100 Proline($38.40). A more mobile option is the Joby GorillaPod($12.30), which can wrap around trees and poles or stand up on the ground.

2. Use the ?fireworks? scene mode
Most point-and-shoot cameras have a button or dial with ?SCN? or ?Scene? on it. Otherwise you?ll find it under the ?menu? button. When you put your camera in scene mode, a list of the available modes will pop up on screen. Select the one that looks like a spray of fireworks and/or says "fireworks."

Most cameras sold today have a "fireworks" mode. Some models I recommend include the GE Smart J1470S (an affordable 14MP camera with a 7x lens, $105.29), Nikon Coolpix AW100 (an extremely rugged 16MP camera, $289.95) and the Canon PowerShot S100 (a 12MP camera with a superfast f/2 lens for great low light photography, $363.95).

You can find all of my recommended cameras in our Digital Camera Buying Guide.

3. If your camera doesn?t have a ?fireworks? scene mode, put it in ?landscape? mode

Your camera automatically tries to find an object on which to focus. And when presented with a black featureless sky, the camera doesn?t know what to do. By putting your camera in ?landscape? mode, you?ll be presetting the focus to infinity and narrowing the lens opening, which keeps both near and far objects?in focus.

4. Turn off the flash
Turning your flash off will let the camera?know that it?only has available light to take a picture. This is important?because the camera will then keep the shutter open long enough to capture the fireworks. The flash button is usually a separate button on the back of the camera. On some cameras, you can?t turn off the flash unless you put it in a scene mode or program mode (P).

5. Turn down the ISO
High ISO will crank up the sensitivity of the camera so it can see details in the dark. However, the fireworks themselves are quite bright. So, to avoid overexposure and reduce film noise, take your camera out of Auto ISO and change the setting to ISO 100 or even lower. The ISO setting is usually found under the main menu. You may have to put your camera in program mode to change this setting.

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Pharma giant GSK to pay $3B in largest ever healthcare fraud case

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No More Call Centers: Needle Grabs $10.5M To Turn Your Fans Into Customer Service Reps

Screen shot 2012-07-02 at 6.17.27 PMThanks to increasingly powerful mobile and web technologies, people can work from practically anywhere. One eCommerce startup, the Utah-based Needle, sees a big opportunity for this mobile, remote, and telecommuting workforce to change the way businesses connect with their customers and influence the way consumers make purchasing decisions. Rather than relying on customer service reps stuffed into rows of cubicles in call centers to offer canned answers to customer questions, Needle offers a social eCommerce platform that connects online shoppers to experts and brand evangelists -- people that actually use the product. In April, as a way of demonstrating the "work anywhere" model -- and that Needle practices what they preach -- the team swapped out its traditional office for a decked-out Airstream motorhome. While this alternative approach may sound gimmicky, it seems that investors are intrigued, as the company announced today that it has closed a $10.5 million round of series B financing.

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The Colorado wildfires: Is this what global warming looks like?

Opinion Brief

posted on July 3, 2012, at 3:15 PM

The Waldo Canyon wildfire in Colorado burns as it moves into subdivisions and destroys homes on June 26: Some Americans are drawing a direct line from global warming to this massive fire. Photo: AP Photo/Gaylon Wampler SEE ALL 59 PHOTOS

Best Opinion: ?Wash. Post, Daily Beast, Guardian...

"Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho," says Seth Borenstein for?The Associated Press. These are the kinds of extreme weather conditions that have assailed swathes of the country in recent weeks, from the raging wildfires in Colorado to a devastating East Coast thunderstorm ? the derecho ? that killed 20 people and left millions without power. The deadly weather is hardly a surprise to scientists who have long predicted that climate change would lead to precisely these types of disruptions, even if they can't definitively link the man-made phenomenon to individual weather events. "This is what global warming looks like," Jonathan Overpeck, a scientist at the University of Arizona, tells Borenstein. Can we really blame the recent flurry of extreme weather on global warming?

Yes. Welcome to the age of extreme weather: "Still don't believe in climate change?" says Eugene Robinson at The Washington Post. "Then you're either deep in denial or delirious from the heat." It's no longer possible to "dismiss climate change as a figment of scientists' imagination, or even a crypto-socialist one-worldish plot to take away our God-given SUVs." In addition to the menacing weather, data shows that "nine of the warmest 10 years on record have occurred since 2000." Climate change deniers insist on blaming the extreme heat on the whims of Mother Nature, but "there comes a point where anomalies can start looking like a trend."
"Feeling the heat"

But Republicans are still in denial: "Please don't sweat" the fact that there were 2,132 record-high temperatures in different places across the country in June, says Bill McKibben at The Daily Beast. "Remember, climate change is a hoax," at least according to leading members of the Republican Party, including its presumptive nominee for president, Mitt Romney. But "for a hoax, it's got excellent production values," as if someone had turned on a? giant special-effects machine to dump torrents of rain on Florida, turn the Midwest into a Dust Bowl, and crank up the heat in Colorado. "And then came the fire stunts!" This is truly an "epic disaster flick," and "we're not even close to the finale."
"Bill McKibben on the global warming hoax"

Actually, it's probably a combination of factors: Weather is comprised of so many variables that it's impossible to establish a direct causality between climate change and individual events, Michael Oppenheimer, a scientist at Princeton, tells Britain's The Guardian. The best way to think about how global warming affects weather is the "loading the dice" analogy, which says that rising temperatures will increase the chances of a weather phenomenon becoming extreme and more widespread. "The events are individual data points in a broader pattern, akin to pixels on a computer screen. You can't say much from any one pixel, but a picture emerges when you step back and look at the pattern."
"Is it now possible to blame extreme weather on global warming?"

Still, it's time to take action: "It's not just about the polar bears anymore," says The Los Angeles Times in an editorial. Recent weather events and new data have brought "the reality of climate change from the polar ice caps to our backyard." At this point, the greatest element of uncertainty no longer comes from what climate change will do to the weather, but "what humans will do ? or not do ? to combat global warming." The latest developments call for policies to reduce carbon emissions and plan for environmental disasters in the future.
"Global warming in our backyard"

Source: http://theweek.com/article/index/230163/the-colorado-wildfires-is-this-what-global-warming-looks-like

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Miss. abortion clinic owner: 'business as usual'

Abortion opponents Ron Nederhoed, center, and Ashley Sigrest, left, argue with Jackson Women's Health Organization's administrator Shannon Brewer, right, over the opponent's trespassing onto the property of Mississippi's only abortion clinic in Jackson, Miss., Monday, July 2, 2012, after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Sunday, that blocked enforcement of a law that could regulate it out of business. The law would require any physician doing abortions at the clinic to be an OB-GYN with privileges to admit patients to a local hospital. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Abortion opponents Ron Nederhoed, center, and Ashley Sigrest, left, argue with Jackson Women's Health Organization's administrator Shannon Brewer, right, over the opponent's trespassing onto the property of Mississippi's only abortion clinic in Jackson, Miss., Monday, July 2, 2012, after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Sunday, that blocked enforcement of a law that could regulate it out of business. The law would require any physician doing abortions at the clinic to be an OB-GYN with privileges to admit patients to a local hospital. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Jackson Women's Health Organization owner Diane Derzis, walks past abortion opponents protesting outside Mississippi's only abortion clinic in Jackson, Miss., Monday, July 2, 2012. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Sunday, that blocked enforcement of a law that could regulate it out of business. The law would require any physician doing abortions at the clinic to be an OB-GYN with privileges to admit patients to a local hospital. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Jackson Women's Health Organization owner Diane Derzis, tells reporters that is is "business as usual," for Mississippi's only abortion clinic in Jackson, Miss., Monday, July 2, 2012, after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Sunday, that blocked enforcement of a law that could regulate it out of business. The law would require any physician doing abortions at the clinic to be an OB-GYN with privileges to admit patients to a local hospital. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

While abortion opponents pray, left, Jackson Women's Health Organization owner Diane Derzis poses at the gate of Mississippi's only abortion clinic in Jackson, Miss., Monday, July 2, 2012, after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Sunday, that blocked enforcement of a law that could regulate it out of business. The law would require any physician doing abortions at the clinic to be an OB-GYN with privileges to admit patients to a local hospital. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Abortion opponents pray outside Mississippi's only abortion clinic in Jackson, Miss., Monday, July 2, 2012, after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Sunday, that blocked enforcement of a law that could regulate it out of business. On the Bible is a plastic 12-week old fetus. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

(AP) ? Mississippi's only abortion clinic was open Monday after a federal judge temporarily blocked a law from being enforced that the clinic says could regulate it out of business.

The owner of Jackson Women's Health Organization said it was "business as usual" and the clinic's two physicians will continue to see patients and do abortions unless a court orders them to stop.

"Mississippi is still part of this country and still does have to abide by the Constitution," Diane Derzis told reporters inside the clinic as several abortion opponents prayed and sang hymns outside.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Jordan issued a temporary restraining order Sunday to stop Mississippi from enforcing a law requiring any physician doing abortions at the clinic to be an OB-GYN with privileges to admit patients to a local hospital. The order came the same day the law was to take effect.

Because of the judge's order, the state Health Department canceled an inspection it originally planned to do Monday to see if the clinic is complying with the new law, a department spokeswoman said.

The two physicians who do abortions at the clinic have applied for hospital privileges but haven't been granted them. Derzis said she doesn't expect them to be given the access, partly because she believes hospitals don't want abortion protesters outside on their sidewalks.

The clinic filed a federal lawsuit June 27, challenging the law's constitutionality under Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established a nationwide right to abortion. The lawsuit also says the admitting privileges requirement is not medically necessary.

Derzis said that since she took over the clinic in 2010, no patient has been taken from there directly to a hospital. She said a local physician who doesn't do abortions at the clinic has been available to meet patients at a hospital, if necessary.

Republican Gov. Phil Bryant has said he believes the new law will protect women's health. He has also said he wants Mississippi to be "abortion-free."

Jordan will hear arguments July 11 about issuing an injunction to extend his block of the law.

Derzis said the clinic was busier than usual last week because some patients thought they wouldn't be able to get an abortion in Mississippi if the new law were in effect starting this week. She said the patients were "absolutely aware" of the law.

"They were insistent that they been seen," she said.

Neither of the physicians who do abortions at the clinic was working Monday, but Derzis said that was normal for the first day of the business week. Clinic employees were taking calls from prospective patients.

With temperatures above 90 degrees, some abortion opponents carried large umbrellas for shade as they stood Monday outside the clinic in the Fondren neighborhood. Among them were members of the groups Pro-Life Mississippi and Personhood Mississippi.

Some carried signs with slogans such as "Let us help you love your baby" and "It's easy to be pro 'choice' when you're not the one being killed."

One of the abortion opponents was Melissa Steen, 25, who lives in the Jackson suburb of Pearl.

Steen she had an abortion at the clinic in August 2007, when she was in an abusive relationship. She said her boyfriend threatened to hurt her unless she ended the pregnancy. Now, Steen said, she goes to the clinic often to try to persuade women not to have abortions.

"It's something that I live with, but I regret it," Steen said. "Sometimes at night, I will go outside and sit in my driveway and look at the stars and cry."

The abortion opponents prayed and sang "We Shall Overcome" and hymns such as "Amazing Grace" and "It Is Well With My Soul." They could be seen and heard through the tinted windows as Derzis talked to reporters.

"This is life in America for a woman seeking an abortion now," Derzis said inside the clinic's waiting area. "It's not just Jackson, Miss. These here may be a little crazier than some other places. But this is the reality of a patient having an abortion in this country today, is she is going to most likely cross a picket line. She is going to be screamed at, harassed."

Associated Press

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