Elemental Abilities: What your character can do...

This thread is about the elemental abilities of the people from each Kingdom. Each of the kingdoms qualify for a different element (shown in the intro), and there are many different kinds of things that the characters can do with their element abilities.

Here are the elements of each of the kingdoms:

The Kingdom of Kish: Earth
The Kingdom of Oran: Fire
The Kingdom of Noria: Water
The Kingdom of Era: Air
The Kingdom of Kera: Shadows/Darkness
The Kingdom of Ori: Time
The Kingdom of Min: Soul

Now, with each of these elements, the people of the kingdoms can control and bend their elements, but they can also do many other different things. Here is a list to get the idea of what your character will be able to do.

The Kingdom of Kish
Skipping, since I'm the only one who plays a character from here

The Kingdom of Oran
The people of the Kingdom of Oran can control and bend fire, even make it appear out of nothing. There's not that much to say with what you can do with this, since it's easy to come up with things to do with fire. You can make animals out of fire and control them, blow fire out of your mouth, make yourself light up on fire, and much of other stuff.

The Kingdom of Noria
This is kind of like Oran, but it's just the opposite. Of course, the people of Noria can control and bend water, but they can also do a little more than just that. Since ice is made out of water, they can control ice, and freeze the water they control in many different forms. Another strange thing that they can do, is control people's movements by controlling their blood, since blood has water in it. But that is very, very, hard, and most people don't know how to do it.

The Kingdom of Era
The people in the kingdom of Era can (similar to Noria and Oran) control and bend Air. They can drift on it, and even make themselves float into the air. They can also do stuff like make blades with gusts of air. (put a Norian and an Eran together and you get a hurricane =D Lol joking)

The Kingdom of Kera
The element of this kingdom is quite different than the other elements. Yeah, the people of this kingdom can control and bend it, but they usually don't do just that. They usually do things such as go into shadows so they can move around from shadow to shadow, and do stuff like go into the shadow of someone else, and then jump out behind them out of their shadow. They can also make things come out of the shadows, and they can also make shadows strangle people. It's a strange, but powerful element to control.

The Kingdom of Ori
The people from this kingdom can't really control and bend time. If they do, it's only for a couple of seconds since this element is hard to control. They can't stop time for a long time or go back in time, but instead they can only stop time for about 10 seconds, but they can't kill anyone in the ten seconds, but they can seriously injure and such. Besides that, the people of this kingdom can make others see illusions, and this ability is only dangerous because it can kill someone by making them fall into the clutches of insanity. This element is kind of confusing, so if you want to know more about it, just ask me about it ^^

The Kingdom of Min
Now, the last kingdom, Min, can control the element soul. No, this does not mean they can extract the soul of others, randomly killing them all of a sudden -.- But instead, they can do things such as switch their soul into the body of someone else, taking control over the body while the original soul is useless in their own body and able to do nothing. However, when they do this, the body of the one who transferred there soul goes limp, and is vulnerable. Another thing about it is that if the body they are currently taking over is hurt, the original body of themselves are hurt too. They can't do this forever though, and it will only last for a couple of minutes. Other things that the people of this kingdom can do is things such as take energy from others if they can be able to touch their forehead.

If you have any other questions, or want to know more, please post on here saying so and I'll answer your questions.

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Apple begins investigation into iPhone 4S battery life (Digital Trends)

According to a report from The?Guardian, Apple engineers have started contacting vocal iPhone 4S owners that have been complaining about the rapidly draining iPhone 4S battery. During the initial iPhone 4S presentation earlier this month, Apple mentioned that standby time for the iPhone 4S battery was rated at about 200 hours or a bit over eight days. This is a large drop from the 300 hour standby time of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, likely due to the upgrades to the internal hardware within the iPhone 4S. One iPhone 4S user reported that standby mode was eating up approximately ten percent of the battery power each hour and eventually draining the battery by the end of the workday.

While Apple engineers haven?t specifically identified the problem yet, many iPhone 4S users have collectively pointed to location services as the main culprit for the drain on the battery. Specifically, the ?Setting Time Zone? function within iOS 5 that corrects the Time Zone as a user travels to different areas of the world is constantly attempting to check the current Time Zone. iPhone 4S owners who identified this problem see the purple, location arrow icon beside the toggle setting within the menu. This means that the Time Zone has been checked within the last 24 hours. Users that have turned off the Time Zone feature, as well as many other location functions of the phone, have reported vastly improved battery life on the iPhone 4S as well as other iPhones that have upgraded to iOS 5.

The ?Setting Time Zone? function can be located within Settings, moving into ?Location Services?, scrolling down to ?System Services? and sliding the toggle on ?Setting Time Zone?. Apple engineers will likely adjust settings within the next iOS 5 update to modify how often location-based apps are?automatically?updated to allow for greater battery life for all iPhone 4S users.

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Samsung Q3 profit down (Reuters)

SEOUL (Reuters) ? Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top technology firm by revenue, reported a 13 percent fall in quarterly profit, as the stellar performance of its handset business was overshadowed by a slump in its mainstay chip division.

Samsung, the world's second-biggest handset maker after Nokia, said its handset division saw operating profit more than double from a year earlier to a record high of 2.52 trillion won ($2.3 billion) in the third quarter, thanks to strong sales of its flagship Galaxy smartphones powered by Google's Android software.

Samsung's bread-and-butter chip business saw its profit more than halve to 1.59 trillion won from a year earlier, but it held up well as its relatively high exposure to lucrative mobile chips helped the firm offset a sharp plunge in prices of commodity computer memory chips.

Samsung was the sole profitable firm among major global DRAM chip makers in the third quarter, analysts said. Second-ranked computer memory chip maker Hynix Semiconductor and Japan's Elpida Memory swung to deep losses as prices of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips used in PCs tumbled about 50 percent in the third quarter.

Samsung's display business posted losses for a third consecutive quarter, as weak demand for TVs and PCs failed to offset strong sales of smartphones.

The world's top maker of memory chips and No.2 maker of mobile phones reported a 4.25 trillion won operating profit for the July-September quarter, in line with its earlier estimate of 4.2 trillion won.

That was down from 4.9 trillion won a year ago but up from 3.8 trillion won the preceding quarter.

Samsung trails Nokia in mobile phones, competes with Sony Corp and LG Electronics Inc in TVs, and Toshiba, Hynix in chips and LG Display in displays.

Its shares were up 0.76 percent as of 0013 GMT, trailing the broader market's 1.79 percent rise.

Shares in Samsung, also the world's top TV maker, have dropped 3 percent so far this year, outperforming a 6 percent fall in the KOSPI.

($1 = 1115.250 Korean Won)

(Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Miyoung Kim and Jonathan Hopfner)

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It was almost like Kate Middleton was born to be a princess. The Duchess of Cambridge pulled off her first solo royal engagement in London on Wednesday without a hitch, and impressed everyone in attendance.

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Faster-than-light test runs again

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Scientists who announced that sub-atomic particles might be able to travel faster than light are to repeat their experiment in a different way.

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Black Keys 'Lonely Boy' Video: Meet The Dancing Machine

Actor/musician/security guard Derrick T. Tuggle's smooth moves earned him a starring role in the Keys' new clip.
By James Montgomery

Derek T. Tuggle in The Black Key's "Lonely Boy" music video
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Forget about that "Evolution of Dance" guy or the "Double Dream Feet" dude. The real Internet dancing sensation may very well be Derrick T. Tuggle, the 48-year-old actor/musician/part-time security guard currently setting the Web ablaze with his smooth moves in the Black Keys' "Lonely Boy" video.

For the uninitiated, the clip stars Tuggle — and only Tuggle — as a herky-jerky dance machine who grooves to the Keys' new single while standing outside a motel room. Over the course of three-plus minutes, as the sleeves of his dress shirt become increasingly unrolled, he cycles through a series of rather amazing moves (and even mimics a few of the lyrics) before triumphantly thrusting his fist skyward as the song comes to a close. It is a decidedly odd, strangely compelling performance, and because of it, the "Lonely Boy" video — the first clip from the Keys' El Camino album — has racked up nearly 400,000 views in less than 24 hours. It's also made a rather unwitting star of Tuggle, even though (up until right now), no one knew his name.

But what's even more amazing is the fact that his star-making turn almost didn't happen at all, as Tuggle told MTV News on Thursday (October 27).

"I was cast as an extra, and there were maybe six or seven other people who were supposedly going to be in the video. ... I was the first one to perform in the video. It was a motel shot where the guys from the Black Keys come and give me the keys to their motel room," he said. "The director just sort of noticed me dancing and asked me, 'Can you perform?' I said, 'I can dance, anybody can dance,' so I took some moves from everybody: John Travolta from 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction,' the Carlton Banks dance from 'The Fresh Prince' and a little bit of Michael Jackson, so it was a smorgasbord of everybody in there.

"It was just a spur-of-the-moment thing," Tuggle added. "My acting teacher Mark McPherson, he has us do this thing before we start class called 'Song and Dance,' where he'll have us sing one of our favorite songs, and then while we're singing it, he'll have us do a crazy dance, or a sexy dance, and I guess it spawned from that."

The end result is most definitely crazy — not to mention rather incredible, considering Tuggle nailed the routine in a single take ("As an actor, you have to know your lines, you have to be ready, so I was," he explained). And though he's had music-video experience in the past (he's done background work in clips for the Dave Matthews Band, Lenny Kravitz and Lloyd), he's never experienced anything quite like the reaction to "Lonely Boy," and he's hoping it will translate to more roles in the future.

"I'm elated, and I'm still in shock, to be honest. I've been out [in Los Angeles] for 10 years, pursuing acting and music, so hopefully this will lead to more work," he said. "Honestly, I just went down there to do my part and see what would happen. Who knew I would take over the whole thing?"

What did you think of Tuggle's moves? Let us know in the comments!

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Does CARB???s Cap-and-Trade Program Go Too Far? (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | California politicians are determined to put the Golden State on the map for emissions trading and decreased greenhouse gas emissions. The ambitious cap-and-trade program is supposed to make it possible -- at a cost too high for California consumers?

California's Cap and Trade Program

Brainchild of the California Air Resources Board, cap and trade's first phase goes into effect Jan. 1, 2013. Energy-generating businesses that produce in excess of 25,000 metric tons of any "carbon dioxide equivalent" must purchase carbon credits to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. Trading of these credits is possible, as is bidding for allowances. So what could possibly go wrong?

Will Industry flee or stay?

Since California is the first state to embark on a go-green program of this magnitude, it is anyone's guess if businesses will sink or swim. If the cost of carbon credits -- or the bother of emissions trading -- sends companies out of state, California politicians are sure to take note that cap and trade failed.

On the other hand, if businesses weather the increased costs and either do not pass them on to consumers -- or only do so at greatly reduced prices -- there is a chance that the Golden State's ambitious emissions trading program becomes a resounding success. In this case, the gamble that the state will spearhead go-green technologies and innovations is sure to pay off.

Should California play Canary in the Coal Mine?

Can a state with high unemployment and foreclosure numbers afford to become the proverbial canary in the coal mine? CARB is clear in stating it has no clue how cap and trade will affect industry or the consumer in the long run; in fact, it predicts the possibility of "unintended economic or environmental consequences." Should a corporate mass industry exodus occur environmentalists should get ready for a new moniker: job killers.

Then again, if businesses play ball and the overall fossil-fuel cost for the consumer -- and secondary businesses not directly affected by cap and trade -- is kept reasonably steady, green technology may just be the next dot com boom (hopefully without the bust). If this sounds like a whole lot of 'ifs' to you, you are not alone.

California conservatives and refiners have already made it clear that they are not in favor of cap and trade. How they will react -- apart from saber rattling -- determines the program's success or failure.

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Steve Jobs and Apple skewered on New York stage (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? In a sold-out theater in downtown Manhattan, two miles from the square where anti-Wall Street demonstrators daily use iPhones, iPads and other devices to mobilize their forces, a performance artist named Mike Daisey is mounting a subversive attack on Apple Inc.

Sitting at a stainless steel table set with nothing but a glass of water, the actor slyly describes his geeky devotion to the perfectionist designs and operating systems of the House of Macintosh and its progenitor, Steve Jobs.

Before long, however, Daisey is recounting a trip he took to China to investigate the heavily guarded massive factories where screens and other parts for countless Apple, Dell, Nokia, Samsung and other manufacturers' products are made.

He meets underage workers, some as young as 12, who describe 12-hour, 14-hour and even 34-hour shifts and their dormitory "cubes" stocked sardine-can style with 13 beds. He shows his iPhone to workers with crippled hands, and describes an "epidemic of suicides" that prompted Foxconn International Holdings, which he says manufactures more than 50 percent of the world's electronic device parts, to install nets around its massive factories in China. (It's "Foxconn's version of corporate responsibility," he says.)

The show, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," oscillates between Daisey's China experiences, including his misadventures posing as a prospective purchaser of both bootleg iPhones and Chinese companies, and his gradual disillusionment with his onetime hero, Jobs.

"I started to think," Daisey says, "and that's dangerous for any religion."

KNIFING THE BABY

He depicts Jobs, whom he never met, as an obsessive who divided his employees into either geniuses or bozos, who hooked the public on beautiful devices that he declared obsolete with each new product iteration ("the master of the forced upgrade," an "enemy of nostalgia" who was "never afraid to knife the baby") and who put business ahead of ethics.

"He knew these things," Daisey said of Jobs and the China supply chain, "and he decided not to act."

Daisey is framed onstage by a rectangular structure that flashes intermittently with LED-like illuminations to indicate chaos or order. When the stage lights are brightest, however, the frame is empty, opening on a bare view of brick wall and window - a metaphor, perhaps, for the void Daisey sees at the center of the consumer economy or for marketing creating an insatiable craving for new technology. "Steve Jobs," Daisey marvels, was "so good at making us need things we didn't know we needed."

The show opened in New York last week, days after Jobs's death following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Daisey says Jobs had heard about earlier versions of the show from audience members and occasionally responded with the email: "Mike doesn't appreciate the complexity of the situation."

Recalling his own years basking in the nighttime glow of a MacBook, inhaling the burned PVC incense of a new device being fired up and coddling iPod parts in their perfect packaging, Daisey asks: "Do we just see what we want to see?"

DEAR MR COOK

Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman, said the company is committed to "driving the highest standards of social responsibility throughout our supply chains," has on-site auditors at Foxconn and other suppliers, and requires suppliers to commit to a published code of conduct as a condition of doing business.

Apple posts five years' worth of audits verifying compliance on its website and has gone beyond monitoring labor conditions to areas such as breaking up indentured servitude rings, Dowling said.

Daisey, meanwhile, has no illusions that people will give up on electronic devices but as the audience files out of the show, whispering about whether to restart their cellphones, ushers distribute a single page suggesting "concrete steps" for what to do next.

It suggests e-mailing Apple CEO Tim Cook (Daisey gives his address) with a "firm, polite, resolute" plea to hire independent outside auditors to verify factory conditions.

It urges consumers to "think different" about the need to upgrade with the introduction of each new "amazing" Apple device. "If we weighed the human cost of each piece of technology we would become more stringent in our purchasing," Daisey writes

Evoking one of the show's wittiest scenes, in which the actor despairs about mind-numbing communications tools such as Microsoft's PowerPoint that lets people in the same room avoid talking to each other, the monologist ends his handout with a cry to spread the word about Chinese labor conditions.

"Talking about it, thinking about it when making purchasing decisions and understanding it is not just symbolic. In a world of silence, speaking itself is action," Daisey writes

(Reporting by Jed Horowitz; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

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US lawmakers seek tougher stance on China trade

WASHINGTON (AP) ? U.S. House lawmakers are urging the administration to apply more pressure on what they call China's "predatory" trading practices, but show division on whether to pass legislation punishing China for manipulating its currency.

Members of the House committee that deals with trade presented a long list of grievances they say contribute to China's massive trade advantage, including its undervalued currency.

But committee chairman Dave Camp, a Republican, said currency should not be considered alone when there are so many other problems. The top Democrat on the panel, Sander Levin, says the House should take up legislation, passed by the Senate two weeks ago, that would threaten China with higher tariffs if it continues to undervalue its currency as a way of keeping its exports cheaper.

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285 Indian girls shed 'unwanted' names (AP)

MUMBAI, India ? More than 200 Indian girls whose names mean "unwanted" in Hindi have chosen new names for a fresh start in life.

A central Indian district held a renaming ceremony Saturday that it hopes will give the girls new dignity and help fight widespread gender discrimination that gives India a skewed gender ratio, with far more boys than girls.

The 285 girls ? wearing their best outfits with barrettes, braids and bows in their hair ? lined up to receive certificates with their new names along with small flower bouquets from Satara district officials in Maharashtra state.

In shedding names like "Nakusa" or "Nakushi," which mean "unwanted" in Hindi, some girls chose to name themselves after Bollywood stars such as "Aishwarya" or Hindu goddesses like "Savitri." Some just wanted traditional names with happier meanings, such as "Vaishali," or "prosperous, beautiful and good."

"Now in school, my classmates and friends will be calling me this new name, and that makes me very happy," said a 15-year-old girl who had been named Nakusa by a grandfather disappointed by her birth. She chose the new name "Ashmita," which means "very tough" or "rock hard" in Hindi.

The plight of girls in India came to a focus after this year's census showed the nation's sex ratio had dropped over the past decade from 927 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of 6 to 914.

Maharashtra state's ratio is well below that, with just 883 girls for every 1,000 boys ? down from 913 a decade ago. In the district of Satara, it is even lower, at 881.

Such ratios are the result of abortions of female fetuses, or just sheer neglect leading to a higher death rate among girls. The problem is so serious in India that hospitals are legally banned from revealing the gender of an unborn fetus in order to prevent sex-selective abortions, though evidence suggests the information gets out.

Part of the reason Indians favor sons is the enormous expense of marrying off girls. Families often go into debt arranging marriages and paying for elaborate dowries. A boy, on the other hand, will one day bring home a bride and dowry. Hindu custom also dictates that only sons can light their parents' funeral pyres.

Over the years, and again now, efforts have been made to fight the discrimination.

"Nakusa is a very negative name as far as female discrimination is concerned," said Satara district health officer Dr. Bhagwan Pawar, who came up with the idea for the renaming ceremony.

Other incentives, announced by federal or state governments every few years, include free meals and free education to encourage people to take care of their girls, and even cash bonuses for families with girls who graduate from high school.

Activists say the name "unwanted," which is widely given to girls across India, gives them the feeling they are worthless and a burden.

"When the child thinks about it, you know, 'My mom, my dad, and all my relatives and society call me unwanted,' she will feel very bad and depressed," said Sudha Kankaria of the organization Save the Girl Child. But giving these girls new names is only the beginning, she said.

"We have to take care of the girls, their education and even financial and social security, or again the cycle is going to repeat," she said.

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Gadhafi's death helps clear way for oil exports (AP)

NEW YORK ? The death of Moammar Gadhafi removes a threat to the stability of global oil markets.

It will still be several months before Libya can export as much oil as it did before it descended into civil war earlier this year. But the killing of Gadhafi reduces the chance that violence will get in the way as Libya cranks up production again.

And as Libyan crude returns, it could lower the price of oil on the international markets and gasoline at American pumps.

The type of crude produced by Libya, known as light, sweet crude, is rare. It is especially valuable because it is easier for refineries to convert into diesel and gasoline. Many refineries can't switch easily to processing other varieties of crude.

Before the civil war, Libya produced only 2 percent of the world's oil. But even small interruptions in oil production can have a big effect on the price because the balance between supply and demand is delicate.

When fears arise that supplies might fall short, traders get nervous, and prices can go up fast.

The price of oil jumped 35 percent between Feb. 15, when protests started in Benghazi, and April 29, when oil hit almost $114 per barrel, the highest since 2008. Gasoline prices in the U.S. hit a three-year high of $3.98 on May 5.

High prices, plus the prospect that Libyan crude would disappear from the market for a long time, led a group of oil-importing nations to announce the release 60 million barrels of oil from emergency stocks. That included 30 million from the United States.

The price of oil came down because traders figured Libyan oil would return after Gadhafi was ultimately overthrown ? but also because of concerns that a worldwide economic slowdown would reduce demand for oil.

By Wednesday, oil had returned to its price before Libya's uprising began. It fell 81 cents Thursday to $85.30 a barrel in New York trading. The average price of a gallon of gas in the U.S. was unchanged at $3.47.

The oil market's reaction to Gadhafi's death was muted because efforts to revive the Libyan oil industry have been under way for months under the Libyan transitional government.

"It was a foregone conclusion that Gadhafi was finished," said Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS CERA, an energy research firm, and author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the oil industry.

Before the war, Libya, which sits on the biggest oil reserves in Africa, produced about 1.6 million barrels of oil per day. Production collapsed during the war. It now produces about 390,000 barrels a day, a Libyan official said earlier this month.

Analysts predict the country can produce 600,000 barrels per day by the end of the year and 1.6 million by the second half of next year. By then, oil, depending on where it is traded, could fall $10 to $25 per barrel, says Michael Lynch, president of Strategic Energy & Economic Research.

But getting back to regular oil production could prove difficult for Libya. Its government is still in its infancy. It has no parliament, no constitution and few remaining national institutions.

And infighting could spark a second uprising similar to the insurgency in Iraq, Barclays Capital analyst Helima Croft says.

"Certainly, having Gadhafi no longer on the scene takes away one source of instability. We just think the bigger problem might be the `game of thrones' between various factions within the rebel ranks," Croft said.

One major issue is figuring out how to divide oil revenue among more than 100 tribes in the country, says Frank Verrastro, director of the energy and national security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

International companies will also have to be reassured that a new government won't try to drastically change contracts that have already been signed. And they want to be assured that their oil-field engineers will be safe.

Still, Verrastro says, initial reports on the condition of Libyan infrastructure have been promising.

Already, major oil companies are working with the transitional government. Last week, an Italian company called Eni reopened the pipeline that runs natural gas from Libya to Italy for the first time in eight months.

In September, it resumed production at a Libyan oil field, and it is back to its full capacity of 70,000 barrels a day. And Eni and Libya's state-run National Oil Corp. aim to restart gas production in November from a platform 70 miles off the Libyan coast.

The Spanish oil company Repsol, however, isn't producing oil from its fields in the southwestern desert of Libya, where fighting was more intense. After Gadhafi's death, the company would not predict when production would resume. Repsol won't send its employees back to the fields until the company determines it is safe, says company spokesman Kristian Rix.

Hess Corp., which has a minority stake in one of Libya's oil fields, said it hasn't decided when to send employees back to the country. "Until we're certain that things have settled down there, we can't say when we'll get back to business," spokesman Jon Pepper says.

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AP Business Writers Tarek El-Tablawy in Kabul, Alan Clendenning in Madrid, Afghanistan and Adam Schreck in Dubai contributed to this story.

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Jonathan Fahey can be reached at http://twitter.com/JonathanFahey. Chris Kahn can be reached at http://twitter.com/ChrisKahnAP.

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China?s Pang Da, Youngman offer to takeover Saab, Swedish Automobile turns down offer

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China?s Zhejiang Youngman Lotus Automobile Co and Pang Da Automobile Trade Co, two companies that have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to take a 53.9 percent stake in Swedish Automobile, have offered to takeover Saab completely.
Swedish Automobile said that the two Chinese companies have made an offer to directly purchase shares in Saab. The company declined the offer and asked Youngman and Pang Da to confirm that they want to fulfill the original agreement.
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Communications Director | NAMAC

Hiring Organization:?

National Center for Media Engagement

Submission Deadline:?

11/01/2011

POSITION SUMMARY:?

The Communications Director oversees, executes and continuously evaluates NCME?s branding, messaging and?strategic communications planning. She/he directs NCME content across all distribution vehicles (including the?NCME website) and serves as lead writer and editor for all NCME content.? In addition, the individual directs the?work of other key personnel who utilize a variety of media, methods and communication tools to position NCME?as the trusted resource for community engagement for public media. Reports to the Executive Director.?

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES?

1. Communications:?

a. Executes, evaluates and updates an annual strategic communications plan for NCME consistent with?organizational mission and goals. ?

b. Sets priorities for strategic communications on weekly, monthly and annual basis that maximize NCME?s?positioning and take advantage of the unique characteristics of various delivery channels. ?

c. Develops talking points and other strategic messaging and aligns content across all NCME?communications? vehicles.?

d. Actively researches, analyzes and proposes new communications approaches and platforms to benefit the?organization.?

e. Directs the efforts of the NCME Communications and Social Media Manager, story collectors and other?staff to ensure timely execution.?

2. Content:?

a. Oversees NCME content across a variety of communication vehicles, including the website, Peer Network,?email newsletters, social media and others.?

b. Ensures consistency in messaging across vehicles; establishes and maintains editorial standards for NCME; ?and ensures continuity of voice, style and quality. ?

c. Ensures content meets NCME standards and is current, timely and relevant.? ?

d. Leads writing efforts and ensures effective and timely completion of stories and articles for publication to?the website and other content vehicles.?

e. Edits copy contributed by other staff;?

f. Writes/edits engagement tools/resources and ensures continuity across NCME assets.?

f. Revises current NCME content and drafts new content to communicate the value and benefit of?community engagement and how to do it effectively.?

g. Responsible and accountable for completing trend reports as assigned.?

h. Ensures NCME communications appropriately promote national public media initiatives in a timely?manner.?

3. Leadership ?

a. Directs/leads NCME?s strategic communications planning.?

b. Manages the work of the NCME Communications and Social Media Manager, story collectors and other?staff as it relates to meeting communication objectives.?

c. Oversees and/or supports key partner relationships.

d. Facilitates Peer Network Webinars, calls and other professional development vehicles as appropriate. e. Collaborates with Executive Director and Deputy Director on organizational leadership, management, anddirection. ?

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:?

1. Ability to execute, evaluate and update a strategic communications plan.?

2. Ability to write quickly and persuasively at a high level for a variety of communication vehicles.?

3. Ability to translate abstract community engagement thinking, principles and stories into actionable tools?and resources for a public media context.?

4. Ability to set priorities and timelines and execute and deliver regular communication vehicles such as?newsletters, social media, web content and webinars on a timely basis.?

5. Ability to direct the activities of a small cadre of writers/communicators.?

6. Ability to travel on rare occasions.?

QUALIFICATIONS:?

1. A bachelor?s degree and a minimum of eight years experience.? Degree and/or experience in marketing,?journalism, communications or related field.?

2. Demonstrated ability to oversee strategic communications employing a range of content across a variety?of communication vehicles.?

3. Extensive and successful experience writing and editing for a variety of audiences in long and short form?under tight deadlines. Very high-level English language grammar and editing skills.?

4. Demonstrated success and versatility writing and editing for a variety of media platforms, new as well as?traditional.?

5. Superior communication skills: written, oral and interpersonal.?

6. Ability to work independently and as part of a cohesive team.?

7. Ability to remain calm and productive while adjusting to a fluid work environment; ability and resilience?for juggling multiple priorities and multiple projects underway simultaneously. ?

8. Commitment to respectful, open colleague communications.?

9. Commitment to diversity in the workplace and online environments; recognizes diversity as an?organizational asset.?

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS?

1.? Demonstrated deep understanding of and commitment to public media mission.?

2.? Successful experience working in community engagement or outreach or marketing.?

3.? Versatility in writing for multiple platforms and audiences.?

4.? Demonstrated experience overseeing communications and/or content vehicles.?

5.? Experience overseeing website content creation is a plus.?

6.? Experience and proficiency with InDesign, Quark, Dreamweaver or Contribute is a plus.?

7.? Master?s degree in a relevant field is a plus.?

SALARY: The minimum for this position is in the mid-$50,000, with actual pay dependent upon experience and?qualifications.? UW-Extension offers a comprehensive benefits package.?

HOW TO APPLY: ? All of the following must be received for your application to be complete.? NCME welcomes?electronic submission of applications.? For best consideration, respond by October 28, 2011. Please include:?

1. A completed UW-Extension application form, confidentiality request and applicant survey. (you may?request a MS Word formatted copy to be sent via e-mail by Betsy.)?

2. A detailed resume.?

3. A narrative (up to two pages) detailing HOW your experience relates to this position. Please carefully?detail your experience as it compares to the job duties, qualifications, functions and desirable functions?for this position at this organization (NCME).?

4. A list of five professional references with contact information including e-mail.?

5. At least three writing samples that showcase your versatility and writing skills; URLs or web samples are?acceptable.? At least one sample should be exclusively your own work; indicate your role for each sample. 6. Recruitment source where you learned about this position; Contact name and address (if possible) to?fulfill our FCC license requirement.?

The successful applicant will be required to provide documentation of credentials. Prior to appointment to this?position, a criminal records review will be conducted. UWEX complies with the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act with?regard to nondiscrimination on the basis of arrest and/or conviction record.?

DIRECT INQUIRIES AND COMPLETED APPLICATIONS TO:

Betsy Nelson, ?

Broadcasting and Media Innovations?

821 University Avenue, ?

Madison, WI? 53706, 608-262-5221, betsy.nelson@vilas.uwex.edu

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Steve Jobs Regretted Not Having Earlier Cancer Surgery (The Atlantic Wire)

Steve Jobs waited nine months to get surgery for the pancreatic cancer that eventually killed him, saying it was too invasive, a decision he later told his biographer he regretted. That biographer,?Walter Isaacson, makes the revelation in a 60 Minutes interview due to air on Sunday, CBS News reported today.?He says Jobs's family pleaded with him to get the potentially lifesaving surgery earlier, but Jobs sought alternative cures first. From the CBS News teaser:

"I've asked [Jobs why he didn't get an operation then] and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened ... I didn't want to be violated in that way,'" Isaacson recalls. So he waited nine months, while his wife and others urged him to do it, before getting the operation, reveals Isaacson. Asked by Kroft how such an intelligent man could make such a seemingly stupid decision, Isaacson replies, "I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking ... we talked about this a lot," he tells Kroft. "He wanted to talk about it, how he regretted it. ... I think he felt he should have been operated on sooner."

In a detail that will reinforce Jobs's well-known desire to control information both about himself and his company, Isaacson says Jobs kept the severity of his condition from his employees after telling them of his surgery, and that he was "receiving cancer treatments in secret even though he was telling everyone he was cured."

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Romney pans Cain?s 9-9-9 plan before CNN debate, calls it a tax increase on most of the middle class (The Ticket)

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NBA talks run long again, even after Stern leaves (AP)

NEW YORK ? NBA owners and players are continuing another lengthy bargaining session despite the departure of Commissioner David Stern.

Stern left after talks surpassed the seven-hour mark Wednesday to attend an owners' planning committee meeting at another hotel. It's unclear whether he plans to return later Wednesday night.

The two sides are hoping to make progress toward ending the 111-day lockout.

Talks originally weren't planned Wednesday because owners had previously scheduled meetings, but the labor relations committee returned about 10 a.m. to resume talks with the players' executive committee, just eight hours after the sides wrapped up a marathon 16-hour session Tuesday night.

They have met for about 24 hours in a 32-hour span with federal mediator George Cohen.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

NEW YORK (AP) ? NBA owners postponed their planning committee meeting Wednesday afternoon so they could continue a second straight day of talks with players.

It has turned into another marathon day.

After a 16-hour session with a federal mediator that lasted until after 2 a.m. Wednesday morning, the sides resumed negotiations aimed at ending the lockout about 10 a.m., meeting for more than seven hours.

That marked 23 hours of negotiations in a 31-hour span, easily a record for these talks.

No bargaining had been expected Wednesday or Thursday because the owners had board meetings scheduled. But the labor relations committee instead returned for further discussions with the players' association executive committee.

The owners' planning committee was scheduled to discuss revenue sharing with all the owners, but NBA spokesman Mike Bass said that meeting was pushed back to the evening to allow more time for negotiations.

Commissioner David Stern has said owners will have an expanded revenue sharing package among teams once the collective bargaining agreement with the players has been completed.

Stern had wanted to bring a deal to his owners this week, otherwise he warned more games might be canceled. Already the first two weeks of the season ? exactly 100 games ? have been lost.

The sides have been divided mostly by two issues, the division of revenues and the structure of the salary cap system.

Players believe owners' attempts to make the luxury tax more punitive and limit the use of spending exceptions will effectively create a hard salary cap, which they say they will refuse to accept. Also, each side has formally proposed receiving 53 percent of basketball-related income after players were guaranteed 57 percent under the previous collective bargaining agreement.

With the sides unable to make any real headway in recent weeks on those two divisive issues, they welcomed the presence of mediator George Cohen, who also spent 16 days trying to resolve the NFL's labor dispute in February and March.

Their first day with him produced a bargaining session that was more than twice as long as any previous one since owners locked out players when the old collective bargaining agreement expired June 30.

Neither side commented on Tuesday's talks at Cohen's request.

Although the fact that talks didn't break off was good news, one person with knowledge of the process said not to presume there was any serious progress. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because of Cohen's request.

Without a deal this week, Stern might have to decide when a next round of cancellations would be necessary. The season was supposed to begin Nov. 1, but all games through Nov. 14 have been scrapped, costing players about $170 million in salaries.

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How safe is your hospital? Website lets you check

Medicare has begun publishing patient safety ratings for thousands of hospitals as the first step toward paying less to institutions with high rates of surgical complications, infections, mishaps and potentially avoidable deaths.

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The new data, available on Medicare?s Hospital Compare website, evaluate hospitals on how often their patients suffer complications such as a collapsed lung, a blood clot after surgery or an accidental cut or tear during treatment. The measures also include specific death rates for patients who had breathing problems after surgery, had an operation to repair a weakness in the abdominal aorta or had a treatable complication after an operation.

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In addition, Hospital Compare is evaluating rates of some specific medical errors, such as giving patients the wrong type of blood, leaving surgical implements in patients? bodies during surgery and falls that occur during their stay.

The evaluations are part of Medicare?s broad move from paying hospitals a set amount for each procedure. That change was directed by last year?s health care law, which set up new ?value-based purchasing program? that will begin in October 2012. Over time, hospitals with the lowest quality?as judged by a variety of metrics, not just the new patient safety measures?will be at risk to lose up to 2 percent of their regular Medicare reimbursements under the health law.

The new data on patient safety moves Medicare further along toward its ultimate goal, which is to base payments on the actual medical outcomes for patients. To rate hospitals, Medicare is comparing them to the national rates for medical complications and hospital acquired conditions. For instance, on average, 2.1 out of every 1,000 patients discharged suffered an accidental cut and tear from medical treatment. Out of 100 patients, 4.4 on average died after surgery to repair a weakness in their abdominal aorta.

By looking at how a hospital compares to the national average on this and other complication statistics, Medicare has come up with overall evaluations of how good hospitals are at avoiding complications and hospital-acquired conditions. Medicare is aiming to incorporate the new patient safety data into payments in the second year of the program.

Making this information public has been long favored by patient safety advocates. ?This is pulling the curtain back on preventable health care harm to older Americans,? said Rosemary Gibson, co-author of ?The Treatment Trap? and editor of a series of articles on overtreatment in the Archives of Internal Medicine. ?These are really good things to know. We are really getting into the meat of what can happen to patients in hospitals.?

How to check your hospital

1. To find find out how hospitals in your area compare to the national average, go to the website http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/, type in the city and state, click on the hospital name and then select the ?Patient Safety Measures? tab at the left. Hospital Compare also gives patients the option of choosing several hospitals at once. The new data covers the period between October 2008 and June 2010.

But the latest data is intensifying objections from the hospital industry and some academic researchers that Medicare is using dubious and unfair measurements in ways that will hurt some hospitals, particularly those with sicker patients. The data is based on billing claims that hospitals submit to the government, not clinical medical records. One concern held by hospitals and researchers is that hospitals categorize the same things differently when billing Medicare, skewing comparisons.

?Medicare claims data is the thing a lot of people judge from, but it?s a large database and frankly I?ve always wondered if apples and oranges are being mixed,? said Dr. Gerald Healy, a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a Massachusetts nonprofit, and past president of the American College of Surgeons.

Hospital officials said their initial review of the new data has exacerbated their concerns that Medicare?s calculations do not fully take into account the fact that some hospitals do more surgeries or treat sicker patients.

?We believe the data is fairly seriously flawed in the way it?s calculated,? said Nancy Foster, a vice president at the American Hospital Association. ?When inaccurate data is out there, it both misleads the public and generates a lot of activity that is unproductive in the hospital.?

Atul Grover, head of advocacy for the Association of American Medical Colleges that represents teaching hospitals, said some of Medicare?s measures also make teaching hospitals look worse. ?If you?re not appropriately risk-adjusting on this, you?re already selecting a patient population that?s more likely to die,? he said. ?That?s why they come to us, because other people are reluctant to operate on those complex cases.?

Officials at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which designed many of the measures, referred questions to Medicare. Officials there were not immediately available to discuss the new measures. Dr. Patrick Romano, a professor at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine who helped the government design the measures, said the measures do take the sickness levels of patients into account, although not as thoroughly as Hospital Compare?s existing evaluations of readmissions and hospital-wide mortality rates.

Still, he said the measures were a good addition to the overall view of how well hospitals are doing. ?We?re trying to understand a large animal like an elephant or a whale,? he said. ?To do that, we take pictures from a variety of perspectives, with different cameras and different techniques.?

Hospital Compare was originally designed to be a helpful consumer tool, but to date it has not been widely used by patients choosing hospitals. Experts caution about drawing dire conclusions from the raw rates of hospitals, as some of the measures are complex and differences not statistically significant. For some of the measures, Hospital Compare categorizes most hospitals simply as ?average,? ?above? or ?below? the national norm, which experts say is a better way for consumers to know whether a hospital is an outlier.

Medicare last week announced 18 more measures it is considering for inclusion in the value-based purchasing program. Many of these measures look at how hospitals handle stroke patients and what steps they take to protect patients from blood clots. Others are intended to address two bacterial infections that can spread through hospitals: Clostridium difficile and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

? 2011 This information was reprinted with permission from KHN. Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy research and communication organization not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44909622/ns/health-health_care/

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Researchers do precise gene therapy without a needle

ScienceDaily (Oct. 16, 2011) ? For the first time, researchers have found a way to inject a precise dose of a gene therapy agent directly into a single living cell without a needle.

The technique uses electricity to "shoot" bits of therapeutic biomolecules through a tiny channel and into a cell in a fraction of a second.

L. James Lee and his colleagues at Ohio State University describe the technique in the online edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, where they report successfully inserting specific doses of an anti-cancer gene into individual leukemia cells to kill them.

They have dubbed the method "nanochannel electroporation," or NEP.

"NEP allows us to investigate how drugs and other biomolecules affect cell biology and genetic pathways at a level not achievable by any existing techniques," said Lee, who is the Helen C. Kurtz Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and director of the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Affordable Nanoengineering of Polymeric Biomedical Devices at Ohio State.

There have long been ways to insert random amounts of biomaterial into bulk quantities of cells for gene therapy. And fine needles can inject specific amounts of material into large cells. But most human cells are too small for even the smallest needles to be of any use.

NEP gets around the problem by suspending a cell inside an electronic device with a reservoir of therapeutic agent nearby. Electrical pulses push the agent out of the reservoir and through a nanometer- (billionth of a meter) scale channel in the device, through the cell wall, and into the cell. Researchers control the dose by adjusting the number of pulses and the width of the channel.

In Nature Nanotechnology, they explain how they constructed prototype devices using polymer stamps. They used individual strands of DNA as templates for the nanometer-sized channels.

Lee invented the technique for uncoiling strands of DNA and forming them into precise patterns so that they could work as wires in biologically based electronics and medical devices. But for this study, gold-coated DNA strands were stretched between two reservoirs and then etched away, in order to leave behind a nano-channel of precise dimensions connecting the reservoirs within the polymeric device.

Electrodes in the channels turn the device into a tiny circuit, and electrical pulses of a few hundred volts travel from the reservoir with the therapeutic agent through the nano-channel and into a second reservoir with the cell. This creates a strong electric field at the outlet of the nano-channel, which interacts with the cell's natural electric charge to force open a hole in the cell membrane -- one large enough to deliver the agent, but small enough not to kill the cell.

In tests, they were able to insert agents into cells in as little as a few milliseconds, or thousandths of a second.

First, they tagged bits of synthetic DNA with fluorescent molecules, and used NEP to insert them into human immune cells. After a single 5-millisecond pulse, they began see spots of fluorescence scattered within the cells. They tested different pulse lengths up to 60 milliseconds -- which filled the cells with fluorescence.

To test whether NEP could deliver active therapeutic agents, they inserted bits of therapeutic RNA into leukemia cells. Pulses as short as 5 milliseconds delivered enough RNA to kill some of the cells. Longer pulses -- approaching 10 milliseconds -- killed almost all of them. They also inserted some harmless RNA into other leukemia cells for comparison, and those cells lived.

At the moment, the process is best suited for laboratory research, Lee said, because it only works on one cell or several cells at a time. But he and his team are working on ways to inject many cells simultaneously. They are currently developing a mechanical cell-loading system that would inject up to 100,000 cells at once, which would potentially make clinical diagnostics and treatments possible.

"We hope that NEP could eventually become a tool for early cancer detection and treatment -- for instance, inserting precise amounts of genes or proteins into stem cells or immune cells to guide their differentiation and changes -- without the safety concerns caused by overdosing, and then placing the cells back in the body for cell-based therapy," Lee added.

He sees potential applications for diagnosing and treating leukemia, lung cancer, and other tumors. He's working with researchers at Ohio State's Comprehensive Cancer Center to explore those possibilities.

Coathors on the paper include Pouyan Boukany, Andrew Morss, Wei-ching Liao, Brian Henslee, Xulang Zhang, Bo Yu, Xinmei Wang, Yun Wu, HyunChul Jung, Lei Li, Keliang Gao, Xin Hu, Xi Zhao, O. Hemminger, Wu Lu, and Gregory P. Lafyatis, all of Ohio State.

This work was funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Hack an Ikea Bag Organizer into a Bedside Lamp for $5 [Ikea Hacks]

If you need a wall-mounted bedside lamp you can easily hack one together using an Ikea $1.99 Rationell Variera plastic bag dispenser by adding a cheap lamp socket and a piece of translucent plastic from a binder.

Maker blog CoreSince1984 gives detailed instructions and photos, but all that is necessary is to cut a hole in the bottom of the bag dispenser to feed the lamp socket through. After that is done just attach the dispenser to the wall, insert the plastic (an A4 or 8.5" x 11" piece should fit perfectly) to diffuse the light, and plug it in.

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Gamecube-free Wii refresh heads to North America, competes with more versatile predecessor

Usually when a hardware refresh axes a major feature, it gets a comparable price drop. Not for Nintendo's waggle star, however -- the gamecube-free Wii refresh we've seen advertised for Europe is heading to North America for the same price as its backwards-compatible kin. $150 will get you a black console designed to lay on its side and streamlined to play only Wii software, a Super Mario Galaxy soundtrack and a copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. All well and good, except that Nintendo's press release (which you'll find after the break) also promises that the existing Wii bundle will stick around, packing Mario Kart Wii, a Wii Wheel, backwards compatibility for Gamecube games and the very same $150 price tag as the downgraded redesign. Mark your Christmas wishlists carefully folks, this one's a doozy.

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