It'll only be available in Canada to start, but the August 9 launch date is right around the corner. There's no mention of pricing yet.
Reviewers criticized the PlayBook for not having the ability to connect to cellular data networks. U.S. carriers scrapped plans to launch a 3G/4G PlayBook last year.
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LONDON (AP) ? With a massive budget, the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team has a treasure trove of information on its opponents. There are scouting reports, game films, statistical breakdowns ? anything and everything a coach or player needs to prepare for any upcoming game.
So, with the Americans getting ready for their second preliminary-round game, forward Kevin Love was asked what he knew about Tunisia.
"Not much," he said.
He and his U.S. teammates are about to find out.
Coming off a less-than-stellar, but still impressive 27-point win over France in its tournament opener, the U.S. team will play Tunisia on Tuesday night in what has the potential to be a blowout of epic proportions. The U.S. and Tunisia have only met once previously with the Americans romping to a 92-57 win at the 2010 world championships in Istanbul after leading by only six points at halftime.
During Monday's practice, the U.S. team got familiar with Tunisia's offensive sets and will be briefed on the African champion's personnel before taking the court. What the Americans will learn is that Tunisian team is tall with seven players on its roster over 6-foot-8.
Other than that, there may be no worries.
And although the game will likely turn into nothing more than a prolonged dunk contest for the Americans, U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski won't let his team relax ? or lower its gold standard.
"It's about our performance," he said. "We should beat Tunisia, but we want to play well against Tunisia. When you play games in your pool and you're a significant favorite, you don't want to just win, you want to maintain and build good habits. We don't want to overlook anybody because then we overlook ourselves. And in short period of time you can fall into a bad habit that will have its impact on a game where you're not a significant favorite."
Among the many positives to come out of the win over France was the re-emergence of Love.
After struggling during most of the pre-Olympic exhibition tour, Love gave the U.S. a spark off the bench, scoring 14 points on 5-of-8 shooting. A member of the 2010 world title team, Love hadn't figured out his role on this squad but is beginning to understand he can have a major impact.
"I don't know if I've finally gotten into a rhythm," he said. "I've just had an opportunity. I got a chance and throughout my whole career I have worked as hard as I can to stay ready and I think I did that here. I think early on I couldn't really find myself in the offense ? or defense for that matter. But I think now hopefully yesterday was a good omen for me going forward."
At 6-10, Love can give the U.S. inside muscle or outside firepower. He won the NBA's 3-point shooting contest at the All-Star game this year.
"We need him to be the guy he was last night, coming off the bench and getting rebounds and making outside shots," LeBron James said. "He's another big body we can use."
If there was one day to go sight-seeing, to check out Big Ben and Buckingham Palace or pick up an Olympic souvenir, Monday was it.
But with their sights set on a gold medal, this group of Americans wanted to work on a few things.
"We need to get better," James said before practice at East London University. "We know we don't have time to waste an opportunity to get better. This is a long, but short tournament. We've got to take every practice, every film session, every game and try to improve. We're not going to let our guard down no matter who we're playing against.
"We can't waste a minute going backwards. We have high goals."
Tunisia, which lost to Nigeria in its first Olympic game, doesn't figure to be anything more than a punching bag for the Americans to bludgeon. The U.S. might be able to name its score against a Tunisian squad ranked No. 32 in the world and without any NBA players on its roster. It could be more of the same on Thursday against Nigeria.
However, Krzyzewski believes the opponent is inconsequential. It's about the U.S. playing up to its potential ? and then some. There's a standard to be met, an expectation that comes with being the best. Krzyzewski likened it to an actor on Broadway.
"You have a performance to give, you know," said Krzyzewski, who would never demean any team. "Are you doing it on a Wednesday matinee, a Saturday night? It's not who you're playing. You should never judge how you're going to perform or potentially who you're going to play against. You are the person performing, your team is performing. You never want to get into the habit of just getting by, because eventually you don't get by."
After Sunday's game, French forward Nicolas Batum called the U.S. beatable and rattled off Brazil, Argentina and Spain as teams which could upset the U.S.
Kobe Bryant wasn't aware of the comments, but he agreed with them.
"He's right," Bryant. "Everybody does have a shot to beat us, absolutely."
And he meant it.
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60-Second Science |
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Evelyn Lamb, math PhD, responds to poli-sci prof Andrew Hacker's argument that most students do not need an algebra class. Steve Mirsky reports.
August 1, 2012?|
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?I disagree that algebra doesn?t do anything for our lives.?
Evelyn Lamb, math PhD and Scientific American writer, on the WNYC radio program the Takeaway. She?s responding to political science professor Andrew Hacker. In the New York Times he suggests that, although all students should attain what he calls quantitative literacy, most do not need the rigors of an algebra class.
But ?it?s in all sorts of fields, not just STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math). But, also, real estate agents use algebra and geometry every day. Anyone in finance. Budgeting in your own home. Understanding loan terms and mortgages. All of these are applications of algebra.?
You can listen to the full interview with Lamb and a previous one with Hacker at thetakeaway.org. An article by Lamb about the need for algebra is at www.scientificamerican.com.
Lamb also noted that another mathematical discipline comes in handy when she sews: ?There is topology?the number of holes in your garment matters, or else you can?t put on your pants.?
?Steve Mirsky
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? The real estate listing reads like a Wild West exhibit: An old gold mine, a geyser, and a supposed hideout of famed outlaws.
It's all in a middle-of-nowhere ghost town for sale three hours southeast of Salt Lake City. Listing price? $3.9 million.
Woodside once bustled with about 300 residents in the early 1900s when it was a water stop for steam engines. Now the town sits empty ? of people, that is. Two free-range llamas come with the deal.
There's a geyser, too, but it no longer shoots high after being jammed by vandals. Once, the cold-water spout shot up 75 feet and was a popular tourist attraction known as the Roadside Geyser. No entry fee required.
Even though the town has seen better days, real estate agent Mike Metzger said the property is full of potential for someone with an entrepreneurial, Wild West spirit.
"You can be the sheriff, the judge and executioner of your own town," he joked this week. "You can be mayor. You can be whatever you wanted. It would be amazing."
A service station also still stands on the property with a Post Office inside.
"You can be your own postmaster, too," Metzger chuckled. He's been involved in the proposed sale for a couple of weeks.
Woodside sits along Route 6 in Emery County, surrounded by the Book Cliffs ? desert mountains given their name because of the area topography that looks like book shelves. The town itself is flat, surrounded by brush and bisected by the Price River.
It's also a place with a legendary past.
Historians believe Butch Cassidy and his gang once used the remote canyon country of the San Rafael Swell near Woodside as a hideout.
"And nobody's ever found it ? at least that they're admitting," Metzger said.
The town's owner, Roy Pogue, 63, is selling it, in part, because he can't take care of the land anymore and said his wife "likes people and we didn't have neighbors out there."
Pogue bought the property in 1990 from a doctor in Provo. He planned to farm and ranch on the land with the water rights that come with it. Instead, he found himself more often helping travelers whose vehicles broke down, so he refurbished the old service station and opened it for business. Because of its proximity to the tourist hub of Moab, about 80 miles south, he had plenty of people stopping by.
"Just being at that little station, for the years that I had it opened ... there's no country in the whole world I never met people from," Pogue said.
There were also treasure seekers.
The first resident of Woodside is believed to have been Henry H. Hutchinson, a prospector who arrived in 1881 and, local legend has it, found a Spanish gold mine near the town. Pogue said over the years visitors would come with treasure maps and books trying to find the old mine.
"Nobody ever knew where it was," he said.
Western ghost towns are the stuff of American folklore, and it's not uncommon lately to see one up for sale.
In remote, southern Wyoming, Buford ? population 1 ? was sold at auction this year for $900,000. The place was advertised as the smallest town in America.
But the sales don't always attract a buyer willing to invest in a forgotten hamlet.
The 5-acre town of Pray in southwestern Montana was put up for sale but bidding ended last month after offers fell short of the initial $1.4 million asking price.
Metzger hopes Woodside, 706 acres in all, will fetch a buyer.
"The potential gain," he noted, is to own a "piece of historical Americana that I don't think is available anywhere else ? to own your own Wild West town."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wild-west-town-sale-utah-3-9-million-191758823.html
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If you run a retail or hospitality business, you know the value of happy customers singing?your praises to their friends.In this eBook, Cat Matson explains how you can increase customers and utilise word of mouth business by allowing customers to check-in to your business on Foursquare and Facebook.
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Let your customers start spreading the word and set up your business on Facebook and Foursquare. Download this eBook to learn more from Cat about how to get the good message across in the social-media age.
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Who would have thought that our noses and Microsoft Windows' infamous blue screen of death could have something in common? But that's the case being made by a new research report appearing online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org). Specifically, scientists now know exactly why we sneeze, what sneezing should accomplish, and what happens when sneezing does not work properly. Much like a temperamental computer, our noses require a "reboot" when overwhelmed, and this biological reboot is triggered by the pressure force of a sneeze. When a sneeze works properly, it resets the environment within nasal passages so "bad" particles breathed in through the nose can be trapped. The sneeze is accomplished by biochemical signals that regulate the beating of cilia (microscopic hairs) on the cells that line our nasal cavities.
"While sinusitis rarely leads to death, it has a tremendous impact on quality of life, with the majority of symptoms coming from poor clearance of mucus," said Noam A. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. "By understanding the process by which patients with sinusitis do not clear mucus from their nose and sinuses, we can try to develop new strategies to compensate for their poor mucus clearance and improve their quality of life."
To make this discovery, Cohen and colleagues used cells from the noses of mice which were grown in incubators and measured how these cells cleared mucus. They examined how the cells responded to a simulated sneeze (puff of air) by analyzing the cells' biochemical responses. Some of the experiments were replicated in human sinus and nasal tissue removed from patients with and without sinusitis. They found that cells from patients with sinusitis do not respond to sneezes in the same manner as cells obtained from patients who do not have sinusitis. The researchers speculate that sinusitis patients sneeze more frequently because their sneezes fail to reset the nasal environment properly or are less efficient at doing so. Further understanding of why sinusitis patients have this difficulty could aid in the development of more effective medications or treatments.
"I'm confident that modern biochemical studies of ciliary beating frequency will help us find new treatments for chronic sinusitis," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal, "I'm far less confident in our abilities to resolve messy computer crashes. We now know why we sneeze. Computer crashes are likely to be a mystery forever."
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Ke-Qing Zhao, Andrew T. Cowan, Robert J. Lee, Natalia Goldstein, Karla Droguett, Bei Chen, Chunquan Zheng, Manuel Villalon, James N. Palmer, James L. Kreindler, and Noam A. Cohen. Molecular modulation of airway epithelial ciliary response to sneezing. FASEB J. doi:10.1096/fj.11-202184; http://www.fasebj.org/content/26/8/3178.abstract
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Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Who would have thought that our noses and Microsoft Windows' infamous blue screen of death could have something in common? But that's the case being made by a new research report appearing online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org). Specifically, scientists now know exactly why we sneeze, what sneezing should accomplish, and what happens when sneezing does not work properly. Much like a temperamental computer, our noses require a "reboot" when overwhelmed, and this biological reboot is triggered by the pressure force of a sneeze. When a sneeze works properly, it resets the environment within nasal passages so "bad" particles breathed in through the nose can be trapped. The sneeze is accomplished by biochemical signals that regulate the beating of cilia (microscopic hairs) on the cells that line our nasal cavities.
"While sinusitis rarely leads to death, it has a tremendous impact on quality of life, with the majority of symptoms coming from poor clearance of mucus," said Noam A. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. "By understanding the process by which patients with sinusitis do not clear mucus from their nose and sinuses, we can try to develop new strategies to compensate for their poor mucus clearance and improve their quality of life."
To make this discovery, Cohen and colleagues used cells from the noses of mice which were grown in incubators and measured how these cells cleared mucus. They examined how the cells responded to a simulated sneeze (puff of air) by analyzing the cells' biochemical responses. Some of the experiments were replicated in human sinus and nasal tissue removed from patients with and without sinusitis. They found that cells from patients with sinusitis do not respond to sneezes in the same manner as cells obtained from patients who do not have sinusitis. The researchers speculate that sinusitis patients sneeze more frequently because their sneezes fail to reset the nasal environment properly or are less efficient at doing so. Further understanding of why sinusitis patients have this difficulty could aid in the development of more effective medications or treatments.
"I'm confident that modern biochemical studies of ciliary beating frequency will help us find new treatments for chronic sinusitis," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal, "I'm far less confident in our abilities to resolve messy computer crashes. We now know why we sneeze. Computer crashes are likely to be a mystery forever."
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Receive monthly highlights from The FASEB Journal by e-mail. Sign up at http://www.faseb.org/fjupdate.aspx. The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) is published by the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and is among the most cited biology journal worldwide according to the Institute for Scientific Information. In 2010, the journal was recognized by the Special Libraries Association as one of the top 100 most influential biomedical journals of the past century. FASEB is composed of 26 societies with more than 100,000 members, making it the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in the United States. Celebrating 100 Years of Advancing the Life Sciences in 2012, FASEB is rededicating its efforts to advance health and well-being by promoting progress and education in biological and biomedical sciences through service to our member societies and collaborative advocacy.
Ke-Qing Zhao, Andrew T. Cowan, Robert J. Lee, Natalia Goldstein, Karla Droguett, Bei Chen, Chunquan Zheng, Manuel Villalon, James N. Palmer, James L. Kreindler, and Noam A. Cohen. Molecular modulation of airway epithelial ciliary response to sneezing. FASEB J. doi:10.1096/fj.11-202184; http://www.fasebj.org/content/26/8/3178.abstract
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Ministry of Finance 31-July, 2012
Due Date of E-Filing of Income Tax Returns for Assessment Year 2012-13 Extended up to 31st August, 2012
? ?On consideration of the reports of disturbance of general life caused due to failure of power and further in consideration of the fact that the e-filing of returns for a specified category of individuals and HUF has been made mandatory, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), in exercise of powers conferred under section 119 of the Income Tax Act, 1961, has extended the ?due date? of filing of returns of income for the Assessment Year 2012-13 to 31st August 2012. This has been done in respect of assesses who are liable to file such returns by 31st July 2012 as per provisions of section 139 of Income Tax Act, 1961 .
Formal Order by CBDT
F.No.225/163/2012/ITA.II
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Direct Taxes
New Delhi, the 31st?July 2012.?
Order under Section 119 of the Income Tax Act. 1961?
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