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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Colombia's Santos recovering from successful cancer surgery
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos' surgery for non-aggressive prostate cancer was successful and the 61-year-old is recovering in the hospital, his medical team said on Wednesday.
Midway through his four-year term, Santos surprised the Andean nation on Monday by announcing that doctors had discovered a cancerous growth. He said the disease had been caught in time and there was minimal risk.
"The surgery took place without problems whatsoever ... recovery is taking place now," Santos' urologist Felipe Gomez told reporters outside the Fundacion Santa Fe hospital in northern Bogota where the operation took place.
Gomez made the comments roughly five hours after Santos checked into the hospital.
"The time has come. Here I am going in. I'm optimistic. God willing, everything will be fine," Santos told reporters before the surgery.
Doctors said the tumor was extracted under local anesthesia and that it had not spread. They are expected to give another update on Santos' recovery later on Wednesday.
"What we saw during the procedure is in line with the studies that were carried out before the surgery. The president is now in his room in full possession of his faculties," said Adolfo Llinas, the hospital's medical director.
Santos' treatment will not require chemotherapy, Gomez has said, and the president will likely spend two to three days in the hospital, while a complete recovery will likely take up to three weeks.
He is not allowed to travel during his recovery, but will be able to carry out his official duties.
GOOD PROGNOSIS
The Harvard-educated economist, who took office two years ago, said earlier this week that he had a 97-percent chance of beating the disease.
Santos, a conservative whose policies have fueled economic growth in the country, is about to start peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), whose Marxist-inspired insurgency killed tens of thousands in half a century.
A peace deal would help secure Santos a place in history and allow him to build on the economic and security advances that began under former President Alvaro Uribe a decade ago.
Colombia, a nation of about 46 million, has attracted record foreign direct investment over the last few years as a U.S.-backed military offensive against drug traffickers and FARC rebels improved business confidence.
"Thanks to the (Patron Saint) of Miracles for the operation's result. Today more than ever we need the President," Vice President Angelino Garzon, who battled his own illness earlier this year, said via Twitter.
Santos joined several other Latin American leaders who have battled cancer in recent years.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who seeks re-election on Sunday, has undergone three operations for tumors since mid-2011.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was successfully treated for a throat tumor earlier this year and his successor, President Vilma Rousseff, was treated for lymphoma cancer in 2009.
(Editing by Jackie Frank, Stacey Joyce and Vicki Allen)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/colombias-santos-checks-hospital-cancer-surgery-121442760.html
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Airbnb Buys A Local Reviews Site - Business Insider
The team behind Fondu, an app which resembled Yelp and focused on "bite-sized local reviews," has joined Airbnb.
After making a splash at TechCrunch Disrupt, the company raised $575,000 and then?pivoted its product last May.
But now it looks like they'll be working on Airbnb projects. The Fondu service?will shut down on November 1. That's a typical part of so-called "acquire-hire" deals where a larger company pays off a startup's investors and hires the team, but doesn't take on the products they were working on.
It's not a bad exit for 24-year-old cofounder and CEO, Gauri Manglik. The amount wasn't disclosed, but it's safe to assume Manglik's team got a decent chunk of stock. And with Airbnb raising a fresh new round at a rumored $2 billion to $3 billion valuation, there are worse places the young team could have landed.
"With their product?s roots in layering discovery and community for trusted recommendations, there is a natural synergy between Fondu and Airbnb," an Airbnb spokesperson tells AllThingsD. "We believe this will make for a better host and guest experience for our growing community.?
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'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Has a Writer: Danny Strong
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Syrian media lash out at Palestinian Hamas group
BEIRUT (AP) ? Syria's state-run media have criticized the leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas ? once a staunch ally of the Damascus regime ? for turning his back on President Bashar Assad.
Syrian TV in a late Monday broadcast described Hamas' leader Khaled Mashaal as "ungrateful and traitorous."
Mashaal used to be based in Damascus but now spends most of his time in Qatar, which backs Syrian rebels battling Assad's troops.
Relations between Assad's regime and Hamas have been disintegrating over since Syria's uprising erupted over 18 months ago. Hamas at first took a neutral stance, but then in February, the group praised Syrians for "moving toward democracy and reform."
Most Hamas leaders have since left Syria to settle in Egypt, where their allies in the Muslim Brotherhood are in power.
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A sticky problem: Mergers and consumers - The Term Sheet - CNN
By Becky Quick, contributor
FORTUNE -- When CVS and Caremark announced plans to merge in 2006, the CEOs of the two companies showed up on Squawk Box to tout the benefits of the deal. We pushed back on whether Caremark shareholders were really getting a fair price. We asked if regulators might cry foul about the combination. Tom Ryan, who was then the chairman and CEO of CVS, insisted that everyone was getting a great deal. "At the end of the day we think it's good for consumers and for health care," he said.
Six years later I have my doubts. Let me start by saying I am no expert on the health care industry. But I am a consumer with prescription benefits provided by CVS Caremark (CVS). And until a few years ago my local Walgreens (WAG) filled all my prescription medications. Then CVS Caremark sent me a letter warning that if I didn't switch my long-term prescriptions to my local CVS pharmacy or the CVS Caremark mail service, I'd have to start paying more for those medications. And not a little more -- in some cases the price could double if I stuck with Walgreens. CVS says it is expanding customer choice by offering the cheaper medications through CVS stores, instead of only by mail. Fine, but it doesn't feel like healthy competition to me.
MORE: CVS Caremark - No. 18 on the Fortune 500
Fast-forward to a recent headline that caught my eye: The Justice Department moved to block 3M's (MMM) planned purchase of Avery Dennison's office products business. 3M makes Post-it Notes and Scotch tape; Avery Dennison (AVY) makes labels, dividers, and sticky notes. Apparently Justice was worried that the tie-up would cut into competition in the all-important sticky-notes business.
Really? The contrast is a bit stunning. We'll make sure you don't pay too much for Post-its. But as for prescription medications -- well, you're on your own.
Those in the regulatory world tell me it's much easier to make a case to block a deal or set conditions when the two companies are in the same industry, because overlap and monopolization become a straight numbers game. What's trickier is something like CVS Caremark, a vertically integrated deal between two companies in different industries. Down the road Caremark might choose to favor CVS over other pharmacies, but it's hard to prove in advance that it will stifle competition. I can empathize with the regulators -- I didn't ask the right questions of CVS and Caremark either.
Now there's another potential deal on the horizon: American Airlines (AAMRQ) and U.S. Airways (LCC). It would only be the latest in a series of airline mergers in recent years. But less competition in the airline industry could mean routes will be cut and consumers will have less choice, as I've noticed with flights out of Newark Liberty International Airport since United (UAL) and Continental merged. This summer our family planned a trip to Utah. No problem, I thought -- I'd flown direct from Newark on Continental lots of times. But since the merger, there are no more direct flights, on United or any carrier out of Newark. And come the new year, United is scrapping the midday flights from Newark to Omaha, a flight I frequently take for work. And while it may sound like no big deal to stop in Chicago or Houston on your way to somewhere else, consider that one stopover not only adds hours to your travel time but also doubles the odds you'll be caught in bad weather delays or cancellations.
MORE:?Defense mega-merger might get derailed by politics
The argument for airlines' merging is that the industry -- other than low-cost carriers like Southwest (LUV) and JetBlue (JBLU) -- doesn't make any money domestically. And I'm not arguing that airlines shouldn't be allowed to cut unprofitable routes or to raise prices. But you also shouldn't be allowed to buy out your competitors to keep them from expanding into the routes that you don't want to serve directly anymore.
That's why I'm hoping the regulators will start to watch more closely and think about you and me when it comes to these big "no-brainer" mega-mergers. Consolidation is natural in business, but smart dealmaking should always make sense for both the shareholder and the consumer. Until then, I guess I'll see you at my local CVS.
This story is from the October 8, 2012 issue of?Fortune.
Source: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/10/02/mergers-consumers/
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Why Communicating Your ASP? Home Staging Certification is ...
Is the ASP? or ASPM? logo included on your business card? Featured on your website? ?Have you included information about your ASP? or ASPM? Certification at your Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter accounts? Do you provide all prospective clients brief information about your ASP? or ASPM? Certification and how that matters to them?
These days, most potential clients will do some research as they consider hiring you. The easiest way to do that today is by going online and search for your name through a search engine. I suggest you review all your marketing and other materials and of course online platforms where you have a presence to make sure every visitor, every time, sees that you have made a commitment to your profession by earning the Accredited Staging Professional? Certification.
Just the other day I heard from an Accredited Staging Professional? who has made it a point to always discuss her ASP? Certification in every step of her marketing, relationship building and Staging process.
The reason, she said, is that sellers want to know that the person they hire is a professional and will do a great job for them. She mentioned that having earned the ASP? Certification has further given her credibility in her community, not only with consumers but especially with REALTORS? and other real estate industry professionals.
From the early days when I created the concept of Home Staging that?s truly been the focus of my efforts. From day one it?s been a priority to create not only the Accredited Staging Professional? Courses but also a certification that is recognized throughout the industry and of course by home sellers.
I specifically founded the International Association of Home Staging Professionals?, IAHSP?, for that very reason. Not only will your membership in IAHSP? help you to grow your business; the message it sends to those who come in contact with you and your business will know that you are a professional committed to serving your clients in the utmost ethical way.
Holding the ASP? or ASPM? Certification shows that you
- are a dedicated professional who has studied and learned the proven and powerful techniques of Staging? homes with two primary goals: sell faster and for a higher price.
- have successfully attended and graduated from the ASP? course and have passed a required thorough examination on preparing homes for sale to earn the Accredited Home Staging Professional? Designation.
- are committed to the principles and practices of marketing properties that are Staged
- are held to professional ethical standards as they follow the IAHSP? Home Staging Code of Ethics.
Earning the ASP? Certification was an excellent way to build credibility within your marketplace and to build an excellent platform for future business success. Make sure to communicate that you did, and what your ASP? Certification means to those you work with and serve.
Always working for you,
Barb
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Ohio ground game: Three yards and a cloud of dust
LEWIS CENTER, Ohio?For all the fascination with high-tech campaign apps and social networking strategies, the volunteer armies for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney go into battle equipped with the oldest political weapon of them all?the clipboard. The voter contact lists may be based on sophisticated algorithms, but the streetwalkers and the door-knockers of politics still depend on time-honored techniques like broad smiles, practiced pitches and infinite patience.
Wearing a bright red Romney T-shirt and carrying dog treats to win over barking pets, Sharyn Sytsma stands on Natalie Chubb?s front porch and says, ?My name is Sharyn?and I?m a volunteer for the Ohio Republican Party.? We are on Big Sur Drive (the Ohio Big Sur without oceans or mountains) in this affluent Columbus suburb where houses go for more than $300,000. This is a Republican neighborhood and within seconds Sytsma?whose only prior political volunteer work was as a college student for Richard Nixon in 1968?is racing back to the trunk of her car to get a Romney-Ryan lawn sign for Chubb.
With the cooperation of the Romney and Obama campaigns, I am accompanying dedicated canvassers on their appointed rounds. This is the non-glamorous side of campaign 2012,? the political equivalent of legendary Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes? strategy of "three yards and a cloud of dust." My footsore goal is partly to get a sense of the ground game that could make a difference in a close election. But I am also trying to piggyback on the Romney and Obama lists to spot the most elusive prey in 2012 politics?the truly undecided voter.
It is a sunny Saturday afternoon in the Columbus area with just a few fallen leaves dotting the sidewalks as a harbinger of autumn. I first caught up with Sytsma, a business manager, in a bustling strip mall that housed the Romney headquarters filled with more than three dozen volunteers serving the southern portion of Delaware County. (In 2008, John McCain carried Delaware County with 59 percent of the vote.)
Within a few minutes, Sytsma finds what I?m looking for. Phil Horstman, a middle-aged industrial engineer who voted for McCain in 2008, tells the smiling Sytsma, ?I really don?t like Barack Obama, but I don?t like the direction that the Republicans are going in either.? At my prompting, Horstman explains that Romney & Company are ?too pro-business.? He continues: ?They exclude a lot of folks. Most people don?t own a business.? Horstman also tellingly brings up Romney?s "47 percent" comment to illustrate the GOP nominee?s ability ?to put his foot in his mouth.?
But predicting voting behavior based on front-porch banter remains a tricky business. Horstman has scant affection for Obama (?too anti-business?) and will not be watching Wednesday night?s opening-gun debate because he has to work. But Horstman gave a hint of where his final voting sentiments are apt to end up when he says, ?I hope Romney does real well in the debate.?
Jay Smith, a 62-year-old Columbus commercial real estate broker, is Sytsma?s political doppelganger. The veteran Democratic volunteer?his sister Gayle Smith is a top White House foreign policy adviser?is the Obama leader in German Village, a hip neighborhood of 19th-century brick homes near downtown. Instructing a small group of new Obama canvassers on Saturday morning, the white-haired Smith tells them, ?Remember you?re representing the president of the United States. Overwhelm people with kindness.?
On Saturday morning, we have gone down a few steps on the economic ladder from German Village to knock on doors in the adjoining Merion Village. This is a largely Democratic transitional neighborhood on its way back up, where homes on small lots without historical pedigree cost about $100,000. When Smith finds Democratic voters like a woman in her late 50s with a faded ?Love Hurts? tattoo and a marginal job baby-sitting, he urges them to take advantage of Ohio?s early-voting rules.
But as we walk along Southwood Avenue, Smith?s canvass sheets direct him to Kevin Scholl, a wavering 2008 Obama voter. Scholl, a firefighter wearing shorts and a white T-shirt, explains that he is not making up his mind until he watches Wednesday night?s debate. Smith, ever the salesman, stresses that Obama needs another four years to get the job done; he also pauses in his hucksterism to admire the vintage jukebox in Scholl?s living room.
In response to my questioning, Scholl is vague about precisely what he is looking for in the debates. But he knows what bothers him?the bailouts. ?The bailout thing was a mystery to me,? he says. ?Not the auto bailout, but the Wall Street bailout.? Still, in a reminder that all politics is local, the major source of Scholl?s ire is Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich and his efforts to curtail the collective bargaining rights of public-sector unions like the firefighters.
It is folly to draw any big-picture Ohio conclusions from my Saturday front-porch politicking in the Columbus area. But walking the beat with Sytsma and Smith did underscore a reality about ground-level campaigning for both Republicans and Democrats: Fewer than 20 percent of all voters are home and willing to chat with a stranger on their doorstep on a Saturday.
So the next time you hear a campaign operative for either Obama or Romney brag about the number of ?door knocks? by volunteers, remember that the real hidden number is ?door answers.?
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/the-ohio-ground-game--what-moves-the-undecided-voter-.html
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Polar bear scientist reprimanded for improper release of government documents
An Interior Department official said emails released by Charles Monnett were cited by a federal appeals court in decisions to vacate approval by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management of an oil and gas company's Arctic exploration plan.?
This is an undated file photo of a polar bear taken in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge.
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EnlargeAn Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned?polar?bears?helped galvanize the global warming movement has been reprimanded for improper release of government documents.
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An Interior Department official said emails released by Charles Monnett were cited by a federal appeals court in decisions to vacate approval by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management of an oil and gas company's Arctic exploration plan.
The official, Walter Cruickshank, deputy director of BOEM, said in a memo that an inspector general's investigation contained findings that Monnett had improperly disclosed internal government documents, which he said were later used against the agency in court. He also said the investigation made other findings in regards to Monnett's conduct, but he wasn't taking action on those. He would not specify those findings.
Cruickshank called Monnett's "misconduct very serious," and said any future misconduct may lead to more severe discipline, including removal from federal service.
Monnett was briefly suspended last year during an inspector general's investigation into a?polar?bear?research contract he managed. The inspector general's report, which was released Friday, said its investigation was set off by a complaint from an unidentified Interior Department employee who alleged that Monnett wrongfully released government records and that he and another scientist, Jeffrey Gleason, intentionally omitted or used false data in an article they wrote on?polar?bears. During that investigation, authorities also looked into the procurement issue.
Jeff Ruch, executive director of the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which has been involved in the matter on Monnett's behalf, said Friday that the issue of the document release did not even come up in investigators' questioning of Monnett.
He called the outcome "completely unexpected," and said Monnett is confused by it.
PEER, in a news release, said the email disclosure had nothing to do with?polar?bear?research but that it embarrassed the agency.
"We think he's owed an apology, but we're not going to hold our breath until he gets one," Ruch said.
Federal investigators had said that Monnett helped a?polar?bear?researcher prepare a proposal even though he was the government official who determined whether the proposal met minimum qualifications. PEER has said that Monnett's handling of the study was proper and that Monnett, instead, was being targeted for a 2006 article on drowned?polar?bears.
The article was based on observations that Monnett and Gleason made in 2004 while conducting an aerial survey of bowhead whales. They saw four dead?polar?bears?floating in the water after a storm.
In the article, they said they were reporting, to the best of their knowledge, the first observations of the?bearsfloating dead and presumed drowned while apparently swimming long distances. They wrote that whilepolar?bears?are considered strong swimmers, long-distance swims may exact a greater metabolic toll than standing or walking on ice in better weather.
They said their findings suggested that drowning-related deaths of?polar?bears?may increase in the future "if the observed trend of regression of pack ice and/or longer open water periods continues."
The article and related presentations helped to make the?polar?bear?a symbol for the global warming movement.
According to the inspector general's report, investigators found that Monnett and Gleason used an incomplete database as their primary source of information to write the article, made conflicting statements to investigators regarding the writing and editing process and understated data in the manuscript. However, they found that the article had "little or no impact" on a federal decision to extend special protections to?polar?bearsunder the Endangered Species Act, according to the report.
A BOEM spokeswoman, Theresa Eisenman, said the findings in the report do not support a conclusion that the scientists involved engaged in "scientific misconduct."
Monnett's reprimand could be removed from his record in two years or less.
Ruch said Monnett has been told he will return to scientific work.
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Unexploded bombs lurk off US coast
Disposed World War II explosives and munitions in the Gulf of Mexico pose a threat to offshore oil drilling, according to Texas oceanographers.
In this April 2010 file photo, an oil rig is seen in the Gulf of Mexico near the Chandeleur Islands, off the Southeastern tip of Louisiana. As technological advances allow oil companies to push deeper into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, forgotten hazards pose a threat.
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EnlargeMillions of pounds of unexploded bombs dumped in the?Gulf of Mexico?by the U.S. government after World War Two pose a significant risk to offshore drilling, according to?Texas?oceanographers.
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It is no secret that the?United States, along with other governments, dumped munitions and chemical weapons in oceans from 1946 until the practice was banned in the 1970s by U.S. law and international treaty, said?William Bryant, a?Texas?A&M University professor of oceanography.
As technological advances allow oil companies to push deeper into the waters of the?Gulf of Mexico, these forgotten hazards pose a threat as the industry picks up the pace of drilling after?BP?Plc's deadly Macondo well blowout in 2010 that lead to the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
Unexploded ordnance has been found in the offshore zone known as?Mississippi?Canyon where the Macondo well was drilled.
The?Bureau of Ocean Energy Management?(BOEM) will auction 38 million acres of oil and gas leases in the central gulf in March.
The?U.S. government?designated disposal areas for unexploded ordnance, known as UXO, off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as in the?Gulf of Mexico. But nearly 70 years after the areas were created, no one knows exactly how much was dumped, or where the weapons are, or whether they present a danger to humans or marine life.
"These bombs are a threat today and no one knows how to deal with the situation," said Bryant. "If chemical agents are leaking from some of them, that's a real problem. If many of them are still capable of exploding, that's another big problem."
Disposal zones were designated from?Florida?to?Texas, said Bryant, who will discuss his research findings at the International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions conference that begins Monday in?San Juan,?Puerto Rico.
While the practice of dumping bombs and chemical weapons, including mustard and nerve gas, in the ocean ended 40 years ago some effects are just beginning to be seen, saidTerrance Long, founder of the underwater munitions conference.
"You can find munitions in basically every ocean around the world, every major sea, lake and river," Long said. "They are a threat to human health and the?environment."
The oil industry is no stranger to leftovers from the World War Two.
Last year,?BP?shut its key Forties crude pipeline in the North Sea for five days while it removed a 13-foot (4-metre) un exploded German mine found resting cozily next to the pipeline that transports up to 40 percent of the UK's oil production.
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