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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Estate Planning Is Important For Your Online Assets, Too

NY Times:

IT'S tough enough to write an ordinary will, deciding how to pass along worldly goods like your savings, your real estate and that treasured rocking chair from Aunt Martha in the living room.

But you may want to provide for your virtual goods, too. Who gets the photographs and the e-mail stored online, the contents of a Facebook account, or that digital sword won in an online game?

Read the whole story at NY Times

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Childhood ADHD Linked to Obesity in Adulthood

Identification and treatment issues surrounding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are challenging enough. Now research is shedding light on long-term outcomes for people with ADHD. A recent study in Pediatrics reports that men who had ADHD in childhood are twice as likely to be obese in middle age, even if they no longer exhibit symptoms of ADHD. ADHD is a mental disorder characterized by hyperactivity, impulsivity, inattention and inability to focus. It affects approximately 6.8 percent of U.S. children ages 3 to 17 in any given year, according to a recent report by the CDC. Medications used to treat ADHD, such as Ritalin (methylphenidate) or Adderall (dextroamphetamine and amphetamine), are stimulants that can suppress appetite, however, a couple recent retrospective studies have pointed to a possible increased risk for obesity among adults diagnosed with ADHD as children. The new 33-year prospective study started with 207 healthy middle-class white boys from New York City between 6 and 12 years old, who had been diagnosed with ADHD. When the cohort reached an average age of 18, another 178 healthy boys without ADHD were recruited for comparison. At the most recent follow-up when the participants were an average age of 41, a total of 222 men remained in the study. A troubling pattern emerged: A comparison of the men?s self-reported height and weight revealed that twice as many men with childhood ADHD were obese than those without childhood ADHD. The average body mass index (BMI) of the men with childhood ADHD was 30.1 and 41.4 percent were obese, whereas those without the condition as kids reported an average BMI of 27.6 and an obesity rate of 21.6 percent. The association held even after the researchers controlled for socioeconomic status, depression, anxiety and substance abuse disorders. The results have implications for parents currently raising kids with ADHD. ?Many parents are concerned that their children may not be gaining as much weight as they should because [ADHD] medications can decrease appetite in the short run, but these results would lead me to be much less worried about that now,? says corresponding author F. Xavier Castellanos of the Phyllis Green and Randolph Cowen Institute of Pediatric Neuroscience at NYU Langone Medical Center. ?It helps us to realize that over the long run, the potential risks of obesity, of overeating and of dysregulation, are a more prominent long-term concern.? The study is case-controlled, which means researchers identified participants (cases) with the condition and then matched them to a control population to compare outcomes and look for risk factor differences. Therefore, it cannot prove causation because it?s observational. Only a randomized, controlled trial could show that obesity is caused by ADHD, but it?s impossible to randomize participants to have ADHD, both because it?s unethical and because researchers do not know precisely what causes ADHD. Possible causes could include genetics, nutrition, environmental factors or brain injuries. These findings, however, are similar to results in other studies that have found links between ADHD and obesity. The previous studies, however, were retrospective (relying on participants? recall), did not focus exclusively on ADHD (included other conduct disorders) or compared only men with adult ADHD to men with remitted childhood ADHD, rather than to controls without ADHD. This prospective study is the most long-term and the first to focus exclusively on adult obesity rates in men with childhood ADHD compared to men without childhood ADHD. Its findings therefore contribute to the growing evidence base for an association between obesity and childhood ADHD.? An unclear mechanism A link between obesity and childhood ADHD could be explained by either a neurobiological or a psychological mechanism, the authors proposed. With the former, it is possible that something similar genetically underlies both ADHD and obesity; Castellanos and his colleagues note that dysfunction in the dopamine pathways of the brain have been found among both people who are obese and people with ADHD. As for the psychological mechanism, the impulsive behaviors and diminished inhibitions associated with ADHD ?may foster poor planning and difficulty in monitoring eating behaviors, leading to abnormal eating patterns and consequent obesity,? the team wrote. ?One of the aspects of ADHD is this tendency to focus on ?I want it now? and not waiting for something, not delaying gratification, so we think that may lead people to eat more than they physiologically might need,? Castellanos says. Eating just an extra 100 calories a day than the total burned can easily lead one to accumulate extra pounds. Appetite regulation is complex but usually balances out in healthy individuals?unless they eat when they?re not actually hungry. Some researchers are dubious about both the neurobiological and the psychological explanations. Lawrence Diller, a behavioral developmental pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of Remembering Ritalin and Running on Ritalin, says he finds the idea of dysregulation in adulthood unlikely for adults who no longer have symptoms of ADHD. ?The finding is real?no question about it?but the explanations are poor,? says Diller. ?If the ADHD is remitted, then why should the impulsivity and poor judgment still be there?? Of the 111 men with childhood ADHD in this study, 87 no longer had ADHD symptoms (remitted) and 24 still had ADHD (persistent). Those with remitted ADHD had relatively higher obesity rates than the persistent-ADHD men, though the small number of men with persistent ADHD makes it difficult to draw any substantial conclusions about this difference. Diller suggested that the long-term impact of ADHD medication may play a part. ?We know that stimulants very much affect the satiety thermostat in people who take them,? he says. ?There is the question of whether or not the long-term suppression of appetite somehow affects the brain so that when you?re no longer taking the drugs, it takes more [food] to make you feel full.? Diller pointed to research showing that long-term use of ADHD stimulants can lead to an inch or two of lower-than-predicted height in adults, although the adults in this new study showed no significant differences in height. ?That doesn?t mean you shouldn?t take the medicine, but in weighing the pros and cons, it?s one more thing for parents to think about in treatment,? Diller says. ?The idea that impulsivity and poor judgment may play a role is possible, but I think my idea of adjusting the satiety thermostat long-term is just as plausible as theirs.? A different possible mechanism, proposed by Juan Salinas, a lecturer specializing in the neuropharmacology of learning and memory at the University of Texas at Austin, resembles the neurobiological hypothesis, given that ADHD involves a dysfunctional release of dopamine in the brain. ?From more basic research into the neurobiology of reward, it?s suggestive that maybe somehow these people who do not have ADHD anymore may have an alteration in the dopamine pathways, and maybe some of the eating may be a way to self-medicate to increase dopamine release,? Salinas says. ?It?s not so much impulse control, but it?s a self-medicating idea.? The implications of the study, then, Salinas says, are that parents need to train their children with ADHD early to eat healthily, exercise and practice a healthy lifestyle. Another line of thought, proposed by Stephen Hinshaw, a psychology professor specializing in ADHD at the University of California at Berkeley and at San Francisco, extends the poor impulse control hypothesis. ?It?s plausible that there are biological underpinnings of both ADHD and obesity,? he says, ?but the more parsimonious explanation from other research is that ADHD portends problems in self-regulation over time.? In other words, adults who once had ADHD might later be able to sit in a chair and refrain from fidgeting, but emotional and physical regulation issues could linger in the form of less-than-ideal eating habits. 'Devastating? long-term consequences Hinshaw?s own work with ADHD in girls and other research into long-term outcomes support this idea that the challenges of self-regulation may not fade when the outwardly clinical symptoms of hyperactivity do. His 10-year study of 140 girls with ADHD found much higher rates of self-cutting, self-burning and suicide attempts in this group than were found in a control group. Additionally, he says, recent research has found high levels of unemployment and underemployment and poorer work productivity among adults who had childhood ADHD than among those who did not. The men with childhood ADHD in the new study also had significantly lower socioeconomic status than those in the control group, even though the groups had been matched initially for parental socioeconomic status and geography. ?ADHD still gets ridiculed in the press?saying it?s a made-up disease or that we just don?t tolerate fidgety kids?but it has really devastating long-term consequences, and we have to take it seriously,? Hinshaw says. Rising rates of ADHD diagnoses could be related to both improved health care access for more children and possible misdiagnoses due to the inadequate time spent on assessments in pediatricians? offices. ?We need to insist upon a much higher level of diagnosis and evaluation so that we?re really sure that it?s ADHD and not maltreatment or family conflict or normal-range behavior,? Hinshaw says. For those who really suffer from ADHD, this study provides more evidence of the challenges those children will face in adulthood. ?ADHD has staying power,? he says, ?regardless of whether the symptoms on the surface improve or not.?? Follow Scientific American on Twitter @SciAm and @SciamBlogs. Visit ScientificAmerican.com for the latest in science, health and technology news.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/childhood-adhd-linked-obesity-adulthood-090000730.html

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Math Trek: One of the most abstract fields in math finds application in the 'real' world

By Julie Rehmeyer

Web edition: May 20, 2013

Every pure mathematician has experienced that awkward moment when asked, ?So what?s your research good for?? There are standard responses: a proud ?Nothing!?; an explanation that mathematical research is an art form like, say, Olympic gymnastics (with a much smaller audience); or a stammered response that so much of pure math has ended up finding application that maybe, perhaps, someday, it will turn out to be useful.

That last possibility is now proving itself to be dramatically true in the case of category theory, perhaps the most abstract area in all of mathematics. Where math is an abstraction of the real world, category theory is an abstraction of mathematics: It describes the architectural structure of any mathematical field, independent of the specific kind of mathematical object being considered. Yet somehow, what is in a sense the purest of all pure math is now being used to describe areas throughout the sciences and beyond, in computer science, quantum physics, biology, music, linguistics and philosophy.

Samuel Eilenberg of Columbia University and Saunders Mac Lane of the University of Chicago developed category theory in the 1940s to build a bridge between abstract algebra (the generalization of high school algebra) and topology (the qualitative study of shapes, including those in very high dimensions). Very similar arguments repeatedly cropped up in the two fields in different contexts, so the mathematicians reasoned that some deeper structure must unite these situations.

They created an organizing framework that any field of mathematics could be put in. A ?category? is a collection of mathematical objects together with arrows connecting them. So, for example, the natural numbers are the objects of a category, and one particular arrow in that category would connect each number to its double. Eilenberg and Mac Lane could then analyze maps between entire categories, and maps between those maps. This allowed the connections between different fields of mathematics to be formulated precisely.

Mathematicians sardonically dubbed the field ?abstract nonsense.? Its extreme level of abstraction drains all the content out of the theory, since the objects can represent nearly anything. Draining the content, many expected, would also drain its power: What can anyone possibly say that will apply to essentially all mathematical objects?

Surprisingly, a lot. The recurrent arguments that had spurred the theory were ones that applied to all categories. Eilenberg and Mac Lane?s framework revealed an entire world of theorems that could be applied throughout mathematics.

Logicians started using category theory, viewing a deduction of one theorem from another as an arrow connecting the two. Then computer scientists carried category theory further still, viewing programs as maps connecting input of one category to output of another. A program that multiplies two numbers, for example, would go from the category of pairs of numbers (the numbers being multiplied) to the category of numbers (their product).

These connections turned out to be extraordinarily deep ? indeed, the theory of programming languages and the field of logic can be seen as essentially identical to category theory. Computer scientist Robert Harper of Carnegie Mellon University jokingly calls this ?computational trinitarianism,? imitating the Christian notion that God is a trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

?The central dogma of computational trinitarianism,? he wrote on his blog, ?holds that Logic, Languages, and Categories are but three manifestations of one divine notion of computation.? There is no preferred route to enlightenment: each aspect provides insights that comprise the experience of computation in our lives. Computational trinitarianism entails that any concept arising in one aspect should have meaning from the perspective of the other two.? Porting ideas between the fields has led to profound insights for all three.

Category theory?s spread has continued. Many results in quantum information theory turn out to follow directly from category theory. Category theory?s hierarchical structure has made it useful for modeling complex biological systems. Category theoretic models of language have outperformed conventional ones in distinguishing, for example, the meaning of ?saw? in sentences like ?I saw a man with a saw.? It?s even proving valuable in developing rigorous models of music theory.

David Spivak of MIT has perhaps the boldest vision for category theory?s potential. In a paper posted February 27 on arXiv.org, he argues that all scientific thought can be expressed in a structured way using category theory. Both ideas and the data supporting them can be encoded in the universal language of category theory, allowing scientists to present a database with their full work. Spivak even imagines a Facebook-like interface with people?s full thoughts and experiences presented in a category theoretic database that would connect people whose databases overlap.

?If people adopt the level of rigor of category theory,? he says, ?it will provide a precise language for science as a whole, and it will help individual scientists to clarify their thinking. My ultimate dream is that communication problems would only happen because someone is trying to lie.??

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/350567/title/One_of_the_most_abstract_fields_in_math_finds_application_in_the_real_world

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Vegan sloppy Joes and roasted potato and tomato salad

Make a tasty, veggie-friendly dinner with mushroom vegan sloppy Joes, and a roasted potato and tomato salad with crispy capers and dill.?

By France Morissette and Joshua Sprague,?Beyond the Peel / May 19, 2013

Use juicy mushrooms, onions, and garlic as a sloppy Joe substitute. Serve them up on a bun or a lettuce wrap, and top with your favorite veggies.

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Obama's Morehouse visit shines spotlight on HBCUs

ATLANTA (AP) ? When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he'll also be speaking to the broader community of historically black colleges and universities ? a proud corner of higher education that has struggled more than most during the last few years of economic distress.

The so-called HBCUs educate a hugely disproportionate share of low-income students, and both students and schools have been hit hard by a double punch. First, unemployment for blacks remains nearly double that of whites, making it harder for many students to keep up with tuition. Secondly, tougher credit standards have made it harder to secure a federal PLUS loan used by about one-third of HBCU students.

The result shows graduation rates have worsened at HBCUs, which were already facing scrutiny under a national push to improve outcomes in higher education, according to U.S. Education Department data analyzed by The Associated Press.

The AP found graduation rates declined at 57 of the 80 four-year HBCUs that have complete data between 2006 and 2011. While total HBCU enrollment increased about 3 percent overall, the aggregate graduation rate for HBCU students fell from 37.7 percent in 2006 to 33.7 percent in 2011, the AP found.

That means of the 47,139 students who entered HBCUs six years before, just 15,885 had completed their degree by 2011, though the figures do not include transfers or part-time students.

"Particularly after this recession, I'm looking at an African-American unemployment rate of 16 percent, that's touching my students," said Walter Kimbrough, president of Dillard University in New Orleans, who has been critical in the past of some HBCUs. He believes recent criticism of their low graduation rates is unfair.

"They all know somebody who's lost their job, and if it's somebody who's helping them pay for their schooling, we may not see them next semester," he said.

Morehouse's 2011 graduation rate, however, was 55 percent, among the very highest of HBCUs.

The HBCU rates compare to a national average of about 58 percent, and 39 percent for blacks at all four-year institutions. However, while the most selective colleges have much higher graduation rates, their enrollments are also heavily tilted toward high-income students. One recent study found two-thirds of students at the 193 most selective colleges came from the top 25 percent of income, and just 15 percent from the bottom half.

At HBCUs, by contrast, about two-thirds of students receive Pell Grants, which are almost always awarded to families earning less than $40,000. Such students are not only more likely to need to start college with remedial work ? which makes for a longer path to graduation ? but they are much more vulnerable to financial problems that could drive them from school.

Only 83 institutions nationwide have as many at 60 percent of their students receiving Pell Grants, Kimbrough said. Fifty of them are HBCUs.

"It's simple economics," Kimbrough said. "If you get rid of poor kids, your graduation rates can go up."

The struggles of students have translated into trouble for HBCUs themselves. About 40 percent have seen enrollment declines, and 20 schools saw enrollment fall more than 10 percent between 2006 and 2011, according to AP's analysis.

Financial struggles pushed Morehouse student Remy Sylvan to tap into his entrepreneurial side to finance part of his education. As the economy worsened, business suffered at his family's restaurant in Seattle, and his parents were unable to pay as much of his tuition as before, he said.

So Sylvan, who is set to graduate with a marketing degree, began doing independent software technician and coding work to make ends meet.

"It hurt the family at first because of the economic struggle, but it helped because it actually gave me the spirit to do something myself," Sylvan said. "You just got to find other intuitive ways to make ends meet. And I think that's what America overall is going through right now."

Marybeth Gasman, a leading historian of HBCUs at the University of Pennsylvania, said HBCUs typically have small endowments so they can't offer students the aid they need during tough times.

"It's been difficult but I do think that HBCUs tend to be fairly resilient," she said. "They tend to be creative about how to do things they know how to do on a small budget."

Gasman said retention rates are rising for all students, including non-traditional ones.

"You can't hold them to the same standard to institutions that are not willing to take any of those risks," she said. "There are lots of things to be optimistic about. If you look at individual HBCUs, there are a lot of people doing really good things."

Obama spoke to graduates of historically black Hampton University in 2010. One of Obama's connections to Morehouse is its current president, John Silvanus Wilson, who previously served under the president as executive director of a program designed to help HBCUs. Wilson, himself a Morehouse graduate, took the helm at the school earlier this year.

Kimbrough said funding increases in Obama's first-term had been helpful, but the most important thing was heading off cuts to the Pell Grant program. Funding rose substantially in Obama's first term but has been flat recently.

"We'd just like to see a little more forcefulness to make sure our students are protected," he said.

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Pope is AP's education writer based in Ann Arbor, Mich. Associated Press writer Phillip Lucas in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-morehouse-visit-shines-spotlight-hbcus-190457588.html

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Madden 25 Anniversary Edition includes NFL Sunday Ticket, exclusive to Amazon

Virtual football enthusiasts excited for Madden 25 (it's technically Madden 2014 marking 25 years of the franchise) may want to head over to Amazon if they're serious about watching actual NFL games. The online retailer has an exclusive Anniversary Edition of the game up for pre-order, which comes bundled with a 17-week pass for both Madden Ultimate Team cards and NFL Sunday Ticket for computer and mobile. On top of getting all the 2013 regular season's out-of-market matches, DirecTV subscribers can snag a $10-a-month discount on the TV version (normally $225) for one year with a pro bono MAX upgrade. Joystiq notes that only 100,000 copies are up for grabs, split evenly between the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. All it takes to get in on the action starting August 27th is $100 -- $40 more than the standard edition, which can net you up to $400 in total savings on the services. Hit up the source link if you're ready to secure your copy.

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The Hidden Trap That is Killing The African Internet Entrepreneurs ...

Trap Low bandwidth and expensive access limit a lot what you can do with Internet in Africa. Therefore, if you want to build a successful web solution for African audience it should be lightweight using mostly text and a little bit of? images. It?s advised to avoid using voice or video.

Unfortunately, even if you are successful building this kind of lightweight website you?ll fail, because there is a hidden trap.

A text based Internet like in the western or eastern world would work very well, because of 99% literacy rate. People can read and write. In Africa, there is no such thing. In many countries the illiterates made the majority of the population. They don?t know how write and read. A text based website is of no use for them.

There is an additional group of people who are literate or semi-literate but don?t like to write or read. Like Steve Jobs said it ?People don?t read anymore?, and when it comes to Africa the situation is even worse. My estimate is that these 2 groups of illiterates and people who don?t read would amount to 70% of Africa population.

That?s the trap. To reach a profitable audience in Africa you need to use voice and video. Voice and video are the only certain ways to reach people in Africa. But, because of low bandwidth and expensive Internet access, you can?t use them. On the other hand if you build a text based solution, your audience is very limited (to city hipsters, African diaspora).

There is no audience for online business in Africa. The very people who will make you millionaire are not online.

Many African Internet entrepreneurs discover this sad truth only after spending lots of money and time building their online solutions.

There are numerous possible solutions to that trap, and it?s possible to work around them. Additionally, we have to keep in mind that even a widespread, free, and unlimited access to Internet is not a solution, because it won?t solve the illiteracy.

There is big market for literacy neutral platforms where people can communicate with each other using online images, icons, illustrations and voices, contrary to text-based social networks like Facebook or Twitter.

Entrepreneurs who will take on this challenge and execute it well will be rewarded with a highly scalable profitable business. As an example, my grandfather would listen to a voice commercial, and call me to go to the market to check out the product. It won?t happen with a text ad or a display copy!

European culture is based on the written word, while African culture is more oral and visual. African entrepreneurs who will avoid importing blindly European model to Africa, but leverage their unique knowledge of the African market will be rewarded with much more profitable business. Investing in voice and image enabled search are one of the several ways to go.

Source: http://www.siliconafrica.com/the-trap-that-kill-african-internet-entrepreneurs/

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Colorado sheriffs sue over new gun restrictions

DENVER (AP) ? Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional.

The lawsuit involves sheriffs from 54 of Colorado's 64 counties, most representing rural, gun-friendly areas of the state.

The sheriffs say the new state laws violate Second Amendment protections that guarantee the right to keep and bear arms. Opponents are criticizing the lawsuit as political maneuvering.

The filing targets Colorado laws that limit the size of ammunition magazines and expand background checks. The regulations passed the Legislature this spring and are set to take effect July 1.

It isn't yet clear whether the sheriffs' challenge will delay or jeopardize the laws. The filing, however, guarantees the renewal of a fierce debate over gun control.

Colorado lawmakers passed the restrictions in reaction to the shooting rampage at a suburban Denver movie theater last summer, where 12 people were killed and dozens more were wounded, and the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

The gun control debate was one of the most emotionally charged of the legislative session, with lengthy debates and national attention. President Barack Obama added to the attention on the Colorado Statehouse, as his administration unsuccessfully pushed Congress to enact similar gun controls.

Sheriffs' attorneys are considering whether to ask the court for a preliminary injunction, which would block the Colorado laws while the lawsuit moves forward.

The law enforcement community is divided on the issue. In contrast to the sheriffs, the Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police, which includes urban departments, supports the laws. The chiefs said the measures were "common-sense approaches" to protect the public "while not taking guns from law-abiding citizens in any way."

Unlike sheriffs, police chiefs are not elected.

Democrats maintain the public is on their side, and say legislators carefully crafted the proposals that were signed.

"These laws were not constructed haphazardly," said Democratic Sen. Mary Hodge, the sponsor of the magazine limit. "They were constructed to protect us from massacres like the ones we suffered in Aurora and Newtown."

Relatives of victims of the Colorado shooting criticized the sheriffs for filing the lawsuit and accused them of playing politics.

"As a parent who lost my son Alex at the Aurora theater shooting, I ask these people to put themselves in my place," Tom Sullivan said in a statement. "I do not understand why these politicians are picking guns over people."

Weld County Sheriff John Cooke said he and his colleagues were "not the ones playing politics with this."

"We believe that the Legislature were the ones who were playing politics," he said.

Gun control opponents say the language in the regulations is unclear and doesn't provide safeguards to prevent people from inadvertently breaking the laws.

Ammunition magazines, for example, are easily converted to larger sizes, which the bill bans. Gun rights advocates also say the law expanding background checks doesn't provide enough exemptions for temporary transfers and that people conducting private transactions will have a difficult time getting appropriate checks.

Lawmakers allowed several exemptions in the background check legislation, including transfers between immediate family members, shooting events and temporary transfers of up to 72 hours.

State officials, including Attorney General John Suthers, have worked to defend the intent of the laws. Suthers, a Republican responsible for defending the law against the legal challenge, issued a statement Friday giving guidance to law enforcement on how the magazine limit should be enforced.

He said magazine features "must be judged objectively" and that magazines that hold 15 rounds or fewer can't be defined as "large capacity" simply because it can be modified to include more.

The state has 30 days to respond to the lawsuit.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/colorado-sheriffs-sue-over-gun-restrictions-224948873.html

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Saturday, May 18, 2013

The IRS targeted tea party groups. Did liberal groups get better treatment?

Today marks the one-week anniversary of the Internal Revenue Service's disclosure that it improperly scrutinized certain conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. As an inspector general report on the practice found, groups with phrases like "tea party," "patriots" and "9/12 project" were targeted for the "Be On the Look Out" or "BOLO" list, and often ended up waiting two years for notice on their status.

Somewhat lost in the furor over the disclosure is that very few liberal organizations appear to have been approved either. There is no evidence that groups with words like "progressive" or "Democratic" were targeted. But the numbers do suggest that the universe of nonprofit political organizations is small, and that liberal groups were not approved in droves while conservative ones were subject to endless bureaucratic rigmarole.

The IRS publishes a master database of all tax-exempt organizations, so it's possible to see how many groups with these words in their names were approved each month. As the Washington Post demonstrated on Wednesday, there was not a single organization with "tea party" in the name approved in 2011. In 2012, 26 groups were approved.

According to the IRS database, there were 1,017 "social welfare organizations" approved for tax-exempt status in 2012. In IRS-speak, that's a 501c(4) organization of classification type 3. Donations to such groups are not tax-deductable, and they are often not required to disclose donors.

Of those, 28 have the words "tea party" or "patriots" in their name. Only seven have the word "progress": Louisiana Progress Action Fund Inc., Progress Missouri, Progress Texas, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada Action Fund, Progressive USA, Progressives United Inc., Progressnow. There are no matches for "liberal" or "Democrat." The complete list is at the end of this post.

Limiting the search to social welfare organizations is not the only way to compare liberal and conservative organizations. The Washington Post found that there were 30 groups with "progressive" in their name approved in 2012 by filtering all IRS records by the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, which classifies nonprofits into sectors like "civil rights, social action, advocacy" and "community improvement, capacity building," among many others. This is arguably a more comprehensive approach than limiting the data to 501(c)4(3) organizations, but it also is more likely to include groups that are not explicitly politically oriented.

Even by this more permissive metric, progressive organizations did not appear to receive special treatment compared to conservative ones, judging only by the numbers of organizations that were approved. That does not absolve the IRS from clearly inappropriate behavior. Nor does it suggest that the other side of the aisle had a massive advantage due to the violation.

"Social Welfare Organizations" approved for tax-exempt status in 2012

1400 Block Association

361st Fighter Group

3rd Military District Sons of Veterans Reserve

4 Corners Liberty Restoration Group

912 Project Fort Worth Inc.

912 Project of the Lehigh Valley Inc.

A Circle of Friends

A Patch of Lakeshore Quilters

Adair-Casey Conservation Club

Addison Education Association Mea Nea

Aichi Kenjin Kai of Sacramento

Alcoholics Anonymous Women in Recovery

Alderwood Heights Lot Owners Association

Aleutian Rod & Gun Club

Aliana Community Council Inc.

All 4 Fun Agility Club

Allegheny Highlands Region of the Sports Car Club of America Inc.

Allentown Area Swing Dance Society

Alliance for Self-Governance

Alma Chapter 42 Department of Arkansas Disabled American Veteran

Alturas Lions Club

Alvadore Franklin Lions Club

Amateur Ballroom Dance Inc.

American Freedom and Enterprise Foundation Inc.

American GI Forum-Jerry Garcia Womens Chapter

American Greatness

American Jobs Alliance Inc.

American Legion Auxiliary Hesson- Snider Unit 120

American Life Sciences Innovation Council

American Patriots Against Government Excess

American Solutions for Winning the Future Inc.

Amici Di Naro Club S Calogero Inc.

Amsterdam Detachment No. 392 of the Marine Corps League Inc.

Anchorage Woods Association Inc.

Anderson Sharp Kent Auxiliary of Post No. 8042

Anderson Volunteer Firefighters

Andover Area Chamber of Commerce

Annac Ti Batac of Southern California

Antelope Valley Fair Association

Anxiety Solutions Associates

Appalachian Chapter 105 Ledford H. Stanfield

Aquashicola Volunteer Fire Co. Fireman's Relief Association

Arenzville Community Club

Arm Volunteer Fire Department Inc.

Ashland Garden Club

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Between the shopping malls, is there space in Dubai for dissent?

Luxury housing built on palm-shaped islands, airports with Fifth Avenue glitz, an artificial ski resort in the desert: This is the easy-going image that the United Arab Emirates projects to the world. But Dubai resident Ahmed Mansoor sees things much differently.

?The UAE has become a full-fledged police state,? Mr. Mansoor says. ?That kind of benevolent state isn?t here anymore.?

From his apartment on the dusty outskirts of the city, Mansoor spends most days monitoring alleged human rights abuses in the country and says a growing number of violations can be attributed to a relentless government campaign to suppress political dissent.

More than 100 perceived dissidents have been arrested in the UAE since 2011 in an apparent campaign to prevent any hint of the Arab Spring unrest from spilling over into the country. The Gulf state is trying to preserve its reputation as one of the most stable places in the Middle East, but analysts caution that the heavy-handedness could backfire on the government.

?Now you have nearly 100 political prisoners, you have allegations of torture and so forth and there is a risk that while that may put off some of the political activism it will make other people angry and perhaps create new opposition,? says Jane Kinninmont, a senior research fellow at London-based think tank Chatham House.

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A coalition of international rights groups in March said there was credible evidence detainees had been subjected to torture and that they could have been arrested simply for expressing their political views. A number of prisoners are reportedly being held incommunicado at secret locations.

Mansoor, who documents his findings online and has become one of the government?s most vocal critics, was the first person taken into custody after signing a petition at the height of the Arab Spring calling for greater democratic reform in the country. He was later convicted of anti-state crimes and sentenced to three years in jail, but was quickly pardoned by the president. The most recent arrest, on Saturday, was of online activist Waleed al-Shehhi, whose whereabouts are still unknown.

?In reality, none of these individuals who are arrested pose a threat to national security,? says Mansoor, ?Asking for political reform isn?t a security threat.?

OFFICIALS WARY OF BROTHERHOOD

But Emirati authorities have argued the situation is much more complicated.

?We are aware that there are groups plotting to overthrow Gulf governments,? Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim announced last year, referring primarily to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The UAE has become increasingly wary of the group since its rise to power in post-revolution Egypt, with Mr. Tamim recently suggesting its ultimate aim is to impose Islamist rule across all Gulf States.

Authorities have said they have evidence the Brotherhood had intended to use the UAE?s home-grown Islamist organization, al-Islah, as a conduit to infiltrate the country. Al-Islah believes strict Islamic ideology should guide society and in the past has been critical of the Emirates? religious tolerance and relatively liberal ways.

Dozens of the group?s members who had championed political reform online have since been arrested and are among 94 people charged with attempting to orchestrate a coup with the help of ?foreign entities? in the largest trial the county has ever seen. The defendants deny the allegations and say they have been denied due process; some claim they were physically abused in custody. Court proceedings are set to resume on May 20.

The government did not respond to repeated interview requests for this report, and officials are tight-lipped about the arrest of activists and the ongoing trial.

ARRESTS AROUND THE GULF

Similar crackdowns on political dissent are unfolding across the region.

In an apparent bid to fortify their sovereignty, all six Gulf Arab monarchies ? Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman ? have launched their own offensives against domestic opposition.

A Kuwaiti opposition leader earlier last month was sentenced to five years in jail for comments deemed offensive to the emir, one in a string of related cases.

A Qatari poet is serving a 15-year prison term for penning seemingly seditious verses.

Each nation in the bloc of American allies has also issued or drafted new laws that curtail free speech in the name of state security. Much of the legislation has been revised to include controls on online comments.

While there is no accurate measure of public opinion in the UAE, it is widely agreed that most citizens approve of the way the government is handling its internal issues.

ACTIVIST TAKES LONG VIEW

Back in his study, Mansoor looks to the future and concedes that substantial reform does not appear to be on the horizon.

?I think it is a long way ahead of us,? he says, ?it?s not that we are at the end of this period. I think we are still at the beginning of the curve and things could go worse.?

But, he says, despite continued death threats, intimidation by authorities, and minimal support from his compatriots, he will continue to expose what he calls injustices holding his country back and push for change.

?I don?t have any intention to stop and I seriously think the work I am doing is patriotic work and I am driven by that,? he says. ?It?s very difficult terrain that I?m going through, but it?s noble and I think people will realize that maybe at a later stage.?

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According to the way things are these days, online marketing is a tried and true strategy to use in marketing. Good profits have been made for many years with internet marketing. As the internet has grown, more and more information on this style of marketing has become available. Beginners and experts alike always benefit from new tips on affiliate marketing every now and again.

When comparing affiliate programs you need to know how they track commissions. You might lose commission if orders you directed to the company are made by mail or on the phone.

Trying to promote highly popular products online will not produce good results in your affiliate program. Although you should always market high-quality products, keep in mind that high quality does not automatically mean great popularity. If you go for something really popular, be prepared for fierce competition. Generating profit can be difficult.

This is a process that is vulnerable to abuse, which you and the affiliates your work with must avoid. This can be annoying to readers. It may even spread viruses, or break your customer tracking chains.

TIP! Research affiliates that produce products or provide services you need to sell. Register with these affiliates before beginning your affiliate marketing venture.

Secret links could be a tool worthy of consideration. Certain techniques can help you weave affiliate links throughout your text without making the links obvious. Use these to keep the article aesthetically pleasing, but let the readers know and don?t attempt to trick them into clicks. Be sure that potential customers do not feel duped by content that is irrelevant.

Create links to a few carefully selected products only. You will see money roll in when you know how to put your links in the right places.

There are notable differences in affiliate websites. Many sites are not well designed, so they are hard to navigate. Although not ideal, a proactive site owner won?t let a poor affiliate site to prevent him from earning money. Not only is this helpful, but it also builds trust and encourages purchases.

Try to use several affiliate programs that have the same target audience. If you use multiple affiliate companies, you?ll have a greater variety of ads to choose from.

TIP! Many affiliates receive tasks to accomplish via emails, but then ultimately lose time constantly checking and re-checking these emails. To save time and to increase productivity, you should pull the points out of these emails and paste them into your Notepad or Word document.

By hashing out who you are trying to market to, you will be able to tailor your message better to your prospective affiliates. This allows you to drive traffic and connect with your target market through a sense of shared understanding.

Placing deadlines on products is a great marketing tip to implement. If customers see that a product only has a little time left to sell, they may impulse buy that product. You can increase sales greatly this way.

Be up front with readers about your affiliations. Being up front about it makes viewers more likely to accept your use of affiliate advertising to earn money to produce more content.

People do generally unsubscribe eventually, so you need to keep replacing your customers. If you are attempting to attract new customers, be certain that you send them your best emails as a way to catch their interest.

TIP! In order to be successful at affiliate marketing and make good money, you have to use paid advertising, and one solution is Google Ads. You?ll increase your web traffic and potential buyers by attracting them with a keyword.

Try writing an ad out on paper, then scan it into the computer as an image file. Upload the image to your website. If your website seems more personal and less robotic, sales can see a dramatic increase. Hire a freelancer to compose the advertisement if your longhand is illegible.

Try using pop-under ads as opposed to pop-up advertising. Many popular browsers block pop-up ads, so viewers will never get the chance to even see them. Pop-under ads have been shown to get a more positive response from potential customers than pop-ups.

Only recommend products you truly trust and like. The products that you recommend to others are a reflection of the type of person you are and the business that you run. By promoting only the best and most useful items, you?ll instill a sense of trust in your customers. The best way to build repeat clients is to promote quality products with fair prices.

Always be upfront about the fact that you are in the affiliate marketing business. Disclose everything up front and describe the purpose of your site. When you are truthful with your customers about affiliates they will be more apt to visit.

TIP! Affiliate marketing is one of the most popular and effective ways to get results from your online business. Typically, affiliate programs account for greater traffic increases than more traditional methods such as link exchanges and banners.

To be an affiliate promotion success, you should keep up with the latest trends in the industry. Always keep yourself updated with all the programs your affiliates are offering. New and improved techniques are constantly being introduced into the world of web marketing, resulting in increased effectiveness and the ability to better entice potential customers.

When you are using internet marketing, it is important that you can vouch your product. write reviews of how the product helped you. You should also consider visiting other forums and writing about how a particular product has benefited you. Ensure you include a link with every post in order to avoid missed opportunities.

You want an affiliate program that has the highest sales conversion ratio. A conversion ratio of 1% is often a good standard to aim for.

TIP! To improve your affiliate marketing revenue, find out your market?s demographics. Make an effort to provide for your readers? needs.

Just because you see a particular program that offers 100% commission, you should not assume it is a scam. Our instinct is to assume that it must not be legitimate, but taking a closer look at the fine print may surprise you. Often, companies pay you 100% on the sale upfront, but will have subscription profits as their own motivation. The right 100% commission offer can make you a lot of money, so don?t just pass on them without investigating.

Consider joining an affiliate network. Networks help webmasters find high quality affiliate advertisers. A good web site owner will only mix with networks with a good reputation. This will help you win. Safeguard the professional reputation of your business by only using bona fide networks.

You can make a lot of money with internet marketing. In order to take advantage of web marketing and start bringing in profits, you will have to learn the strategies involved.

Don?t rely on one affiliate marketing company for 80% of your revenue. Spread your affiliate product line a bit wider. A spread out group of affiliates will prevent you from experiencing big losses when you cut out one that is unprofitable. If you have the time, add more affiliate partners to increase your income, but avoid spreading yourself too thin.

TIP! Content for your affiliate marketing efforts should be centered around a positive use of language. Do not even use phrases with a negative slant in wording.

Interested in building a business from your home earning full-time income? Regardless what income level you?re comfortable with, the most important factor to make that come true is to change your mindset. Orrin Woodward, renowned personal development expert is one of the foremost authority in creating strong foundations to build stronger, sustainable, and repeatable profitable enterprise from home. He is also a co-founder of the LIFE business.

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