Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Daily Crunch: Mobile World

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Gold Coast mayor tilts at state politics

Gold Coast Mayor Ron Clarke has confirmed he'll make a tilt at state politics, two days after his 75th birthday.

The Olympian announced on Sunday he will contest, as an independent, the marginal seat of Broadwater, in the Gold Coast's north, at the March 24 state poll.

He said his resignation as mayor will take effect on Monday when the Queensland Electoral Commission accepts his nomination and the Gold Coast City Council comes under caretaker mode.

Broadwater is held by Labor's Peta-Kaye Croft with a margin of only two per cent.

On Saturday, The Liberal National Party (LNP) confirmed it disendorsed its Broadwater candidate, solicitor Cameron Caldwell, for attending a swingers club four years ago.

Mr Caldwell was the second Broadwater candidate to be dumped by the LNP in recent months, after original choice Richard Towson was caught drink-driving.

Mr Clarke told AAP he was unhappy with both major parties.

"I never even considered running as a candidate for either major parity because I would be required to toe the party line," he said.

"The Gold Coast has burning issues that none of the major parties are addressing such as water prices.

"They keep going up and up. It's hurting pensioners but none of the (state) politicians want to take any action."

He said he would also campaign for more investment in infrastructure ahead of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and for the state to pay for a council-funded police helicopter.

"I'm concerned the government wants to move some of the events to Brisbane to justify investing in Brisbane rather than the Gold Coast," he said.

He is the second Queensland mayor to enter the state election, following former Brisbane lord mayor Campbell Newman who joined the contest a year ago in an attempt to become the state's next premier.

Mr Newman welcomed Mr Clarke's nomination but warned voters against supporting independents.

"It's a democracy. If he (Mr Clarke) wishes to do that (nominate), that's fine," Mr Newman said.

"But we believe that the only people who will get this state back on track is to vote for the LNP.

"If people vote for minor parties and independents, what are they going to get? More taxes, a lot of trouble."

Mr Newman on Sunday would not speculate on his party's chances of winning Broadwater, given recent controversy surrounding the LNP's candidates.

"I'll leave that to the political pundits. I'm not a political commentator," he said.

"I'll just say we've got a great candidate in Verity Barton.

"She's lived there for the past nine years and she's going to fight very hard for people."

Mr Clarke has been the Gold Coast's mayor for eight years.

The former distance runner won a bronze medal in the Tokyo 1964 Olympics.

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Pakistan begins demolition of bin Laden's compound

FILE - In this May 5, 2011 file photo, local residents and media are seen outside the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Local residents say Pakistan has started to demolish the compound in the northwest city of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by U.S. commandos. Two residents say the government brought in three mechanized backhoes Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, and began destroying the tall outer walls of the compound after sunset. They set up floodlights to carry out the work. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmed, File)

FILE - In this May 5, 2011 file photo, local residents and media are seen outside the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Local residents say Pakistan has started to demolish the compound in the northwest city of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by U.S. commandos. Two residents say the government brought in three mechanized backhoes Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, and began destroying the tall outer walls of the compound after sunset. They set up floodlights to carry out the work. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmed, File)

FILE - In this this May 3, 2011, file photo, media and local residents gather outside the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed, in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Local residents say Pakistan has started to demolish the compound in the northwest city of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by U.S. commandos. Two residents say the government brought in three mechanized backhoes Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, and began destroying the tall outer walls of the compound after sunset. They set up floodlights to carry out the work. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

FILE - In this May 3, 2011 file photo, local residents gather outside a house, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Local residents say Pakistan has started to demolish the compound in the northwest city of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by U.S. commandos. Two residents say the government brought in three mechanized backhoes Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, and began destroying the tall outer walls of the compound after sunset. They set up floodlights to carry out the work. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash,File)

FILE - In this June 15, 2011 photo, a local resident walks near a house, seen at center,, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2, 2011. Local residents say Pakistan has started to demolish the compound in the northwest city of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by U.S. commandos. Two residents say the government brought in three mechanized backhoes Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, and began destroying the tall outer walls of the compound after sunset. They set up floodlights to carry out the work. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmed)

FILE - In this May 5, 2011 file photo, Pakistani men walk through a path in a field next to the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Local residents say Pakistan has started to demolish the compound in the northwest city of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by U.S. commandos last May. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) ? Under powerful floodlights and surrounded by rings of soldiers and police, heavy machines began Saturday night to demolish the three-story compound in northwestern Pakistan where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by U.S. commandos last May.

Each blow helped eliminate a concrete reminder of the painful and embarrassing chapter in Pakistan's history that the al-Qaida chief's discovery and death in a town not far from the nation's capital represented.

Pakistan was outraged by the covert American raid in Abbottabad because it was not told about it beforehand ? a decision the U.S. explained was driven by concerns that someone in the government might tip off bin Laden.

The terror leader's death was cheered across the globe, but many Pakistanis were angry that the U.S. violated its territory and that its troops were powerless to stop American soldiers from attacking a compound located next to the country's equivalent of West Point, the elite U.S. military academy.

Just as U.S. Navy SEALs waited for the cover of darkness to descend on bin Laden's compound by helicopter from neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistani authorities held off on tearing it down Saturday until the sun had set, said local residents.

They brought in at least three machines equipped with powerful crane-like arms during the afternoon and also set up floodlights that allowed them to begin work at night, said the residents, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were afraid of being harassed by the government.

A large team of police set up an outer cordon around the compound to keep spectators and journalists away, said an Associated Press reporter who managed to get close enough to see the demolition work under way. A ring of army soldiers set up an inner cordon and warmed themselves against the winter chill by lighting a bonfire.

The bulldozers broke through tall outer boundary walls that ringed a courtyard where one of the U.S. helicopters crashed during the operation to kill bin Laden. They then began to tear down the compound itself.

A Pakistani intelligence official confirmed that the demolition was in progress but declined to say why the government chose to do it. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

The government did not give advance warning that it planned to tear down the compound.

Residents of the normally sleepy town of Abbottabad were divided on what the government should do with the compound in the aftermath of the raid. Some thought it should be destroyed, but others believed it should be turned into a tourist attraction to help the town earn money. There was always the danger, however, that it could also draw al-Qaida supporters.

American officials said they buried bin Laden's body at sea to avoid giving his followers a burial place that could become a makeshift shrine.

Many U.S. officials expressed disbelief that bin Laden could have lived in Abbottabad for around six years without the Pakistani government knowing. But the U.S. has not found any evidence that senior Pakistani officials knew of the al-Qaida chief's whereabouts.

The raid, which lasted around 40 minutes, was a serious blow to the already troubled U.S.-Pakistan relationship. Pakistan responded by kicking out more than 100 U.S. troops training Pakistanis in counterterrorism operations and reduced the level of intelligence cooperation.

Some members of Congress called on the U.S. to cut of the billions of dollars of military and civilian aid to Pakistan unless Islamabad explained bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad and boosted cooperation on the Afghan war. The aid has continued, although at a somewhat lower level.

Ties between the U.S. and Pakistan have also been strained by American drone strikes targeting Taliban and al-Qaida militants in the country's northwest tribal region near the Afghan border.

A suspected U.S. drone crashed Saturday in the North Waziristan tribal area, the main sanctuary for militants along the border, said Pakistani intelligence officials and local residents.

The unmanned aircraft went down near Mir Ali, one of the main towns in North Waziristan, said the intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

The drone caught fire after it hit the ground and was believed to have crashed because of technical problems, they said.

A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the classified drone program, denied reports that the drone was shot down.

Local resident Nasir Khan said he saw the burning debris from the roof of his home in the Machi Khel area. It was about 500 yards (meters) from his house.

Pakistani officials often criticize drone strikes as a violation of the country's sovereignty, but the government is widely believed to have supported the covert CIA-run program in the past. That cooperation has come under strain as the relationship with the U.S. has deteriorated.

The U.S. refuses to speak openly about the program, but officials have said privately that the strikes have killed senior Taliban and al-Qaida commanders.

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Abbot reported from Islamabad. Associated Press writers Rasool Dawar in Islamabad, Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Kimberly Dozier in Washington contributed to this report.

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

The Value Of Link Popularity In Business

The initial place that a potential customer goes to look for a product or service on the internet is a search engine. The higher you are listed in a search engine the much better the potential of your site being found. If the potential clients do not find you within their search, most likely they?re not going to visit your site and as a result you won?t have an chance at generating a sale with that prospect.

Exactly what has this all got to do with link popularity? Well, link popularity refers to the ranking assigned to your website through the search engines. It decides the ranking or positioning your page gets when keywords are entered into a search engine by a possible consumer when searching for an item or service. The higher the position the more likely a prospect will find and click onto your site.

There are some things you should be aware of and guard against in your quest for link popularity. These can be summed up in two words: Quantity and Quality

You will not accomplish link popularity simply by linking up with a lot of other websites. In fact, it may work against you. There are web sites that are known as ?link farms? that contains line after line of indiscriminate links. Search engines like Google will discriminate against your website if you are associated with a link farm, so steer clear of them!

The fastest way to get your foot in the door is to find a listing on some well-known directories. You can do this yourself or even with the aid of software. There are several superb software products on the market and when you consider the cost versus the time, you can decide which training course is best for you.

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Sunday, February 19, 2012

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

By looking carefully, Japanese scientist discovers the secrets of termite balls

This article is the fourth (see the first,? second and third articles here)??in a miniseries of six articles (yes, I added one) that will be posted over six days about civilization, fungus, and alcohol. The first four articles are already determined, but just how this series finishes up will be chosen by the comments and ideas of readers.

Several years ago my friend Kenji Matsuura discovered termites have balls. It took careful inspection, but they were there. Now, along with his student, he has published a new study revealing more of the story of said balls.

I should explain. What Kenji discovered were tiny, hard, round, egg-shaped fungal structures inside termite nests. The fungi were there, he revealed, to steal rotting food from the termites. They did so by mimicking the eggs of the termites (which involved producing hardened sclerotia composed of fungal hyphae)1. They were the exact width and even firmness of termite eggs, just, in other words, like mother makes. They also produced a chemical the termites use to recognize the eggs, lysozyme. This subterfuge is elegant and, although only recently discovered, it turns out, common. It occurs, for example, in termite species in United States such as Reticulitermes virginicus. Kenji traveled to the U.S. to discover termite balls here, on our behalves, which is to say that we have become a country that cannot find its own, well, I digress?

New Discovery?These balls were named by Kenji because of their physical resemblance to, say, soccer balls or basketballs. Kenji has come to see these egg-shaped fungal structures as a great mystery in need of explanation and so has dedicated much of the last ten years to their study. He may well be involved in every study of termite balls ever published. Now, Kenji, in a paper led by his student Toshi Yashiro?like Kenji a very clever young scientist (though a terrible driver)?reports on new details of the relationship between the termites and these fungal cheats.

[Image 1: Termite eggs (long, translucent shapes) and their mimics, termite balls in a species of Reticulitermes termites. Photo: Current Biology. Volume 19, January 2009, Pages 30-36.]

Yashiro, Matsurra and one of Matsurra?s postdocs, Tanaka, studied termite balls all over Japan as well as in the United States. They lifted termites carefully and looked all through their nests. They became, as they searched, experts in this quarry. They then came back to the lab and compared the versions of the genes of the termite balls (all species of the fungus genus Fibularhizoctonia) in different termite nests. What they might have expected to find is different fungus species in each termite species, at least if specific adaptations were required to deal with the unique chemistry of different termites. Instead, what they found, put simply, was different termite species had different termite ball species and individual nests often had more than one species of termite ball dependent upon them.

Termites are Easy?It seems as though many different fungi can trick many different termite species, using lysozyme (Matsuura can paint the lysozyme on glass beads and the termites will care for them too). That, along with a vague resemblance to an egg is enough. The termites are easy. It is a small wonder more species don?t trick them. They remind me of humans.

Once in the termite nest, the fungi have it made. The termites take care of them as if they were their own real eggs. They clean them (see movie here). They move them to the best spots. They are other the best hosts in the world or the worst parents. In some nests, more of the ?eggs? being cared for in the nest are termite balls than are actual eggs. Based in part on Yashiro?s new work, these fungi appear to be able to get nest to nest and even reproduce on their own outside nests, but they like the free ride they can get inside a nest. Its cheap and easy living when the world outside is rough.

From a distance, it seems clear, the termites are being had, but measuring who is winning and who is losing is complex. When Matsuura compared the fitness of termite eggs in nests with termite balls to those without, the termite eggs actually do as well when the termite balls are present. But there must be a cost to workers of tending so many extra ?eggs.? Maybe there is also a benefit. Maybe this Trojan ball had a silver lining. Perhaps compounds produced by the fungus work as an antibiotic and, in doing so, help the young termites to stay pathogen free. The termites may benefit from being duped, but the benefit seems incidental, not a reason to let the fungus in, but perhaps the reason stronger defenses against the fungus never evolved.

Matsuura has big ideas for what is next. He would like to try to take advantage of the termite?s graciousness (or lack of guile) to kill them. As Matsuura put it in a recent paper, ?Dummy eggs filled with pesticides could be introduced into the royal centre of a colony, destroying the entire colony with only a small amount of pesticide.? The truth is, Matsuura doesn?t really want to kill termites. He really likes them, but other people do and those people like to fund research or build wooden houses.

In and of itself, this story is fascinating, a rich detail of the natural world that would be inconceivable had evolution not already conceived it. But, in the context of the story of humans and alcohol this story seems like something a little more.

If the termites were to tell their own story, much as we tell our own story when we write about alcohol, what would they say? They might describe the day they brought in the termite balls into their nests as a noble and useful one, a day in which they figured out how to harness fungi in order to control pathogens, much in the way in the last article I described the benefits of alcohol. But it seems clear enough the termites are being tricked.

What if yeast, that fungus that makes our beer, wine, bread and more, is tricking us? What if, in looking to the yeast, we are able to convince ourselves of its benefits, but from the yeasts perspective, we are just another dumb termite? After in, don?t we bring it in out the wild, make sure it is safe and fed and help it from one food source to the next, always sure to keep it neither too hot or too cold. What if that is the story of alcohol, fungus and civilization, a story in which we feel good about ourselves but are not really in control?

[Image 2: Drawing of a termite of a species of Nasutitermes. The soldiers of these termites have long "nose-cannons" out of which they expel turpentine-like compounds in defense. They also have the biggest balls. Image from Imms, A. D. (1931) Social behaviour in insects. Methuen.]

The Other Ball Drops?Recently, Matsuura and Yashiro made one more discovery. In studying a tropical termite of the genus Nasutitermes they found giant termite balls. These giant termite balls were totally unrelated to? normal termite balls. They had evolved independently to take advantage of the termites predictable weakness.

[Image 3: Nasutitermes, photo by Alex Wild]

The giant termite balls are, as their name suggests, larger than the normal termite balls, probably because the eggs of Nasutitermes species are larger than those of Reticulitermes termites and so the fungus must follow suit. These larger balls beg the question. They beg the question of what our predictable weakness is, if we have one. In the context of the beer, wine and wine made by our yeast, the answer that seems most obvious is that our predictable weakness is we like to drink. Maybe yeast first prospered by sneaking into our societies in the guise of a Trojan beer. That we wanted to get drunk and kill pathogens meant we let down our guard and now, for as long as our weakness remains alcohol, they are in.

[Image 4: Termite balls, photo by Alex Wild]

Tomorrow, I will return to this possibility, in light of the kingdoms of the ants, ?kingdoms whose relationship with fungi seems even more like ours.

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Table of evolutionary contents: Here you can skip ahead or backward to the other chapters in the story of the other species in our daily lives, whether they bethe cow,?the chicken,?the hamster, bacteria (on Lady Gaga,?on feet,?in bathrooms,as influenced by antimicrobial wipes,?as probiotics,?in the appendix),?pigeons and urban gardens, house sparrows (to be published next week, stay tuned),?predators,diseases,?dust mites,?basement dwellers,?lice,?field mice,?viruses,??yeast, the fungus that produces?penicillin,?bedbugs,?houseflies, or something?more.

Or for the big picture of how Rob thinks these stories come together to make us who and who we are, check out The Wild Life of Our Bodies. Rob Dunn is a writer and evolutionary biologist in the Department of Biology at North Carolina State University. Find him on twitter at robrdunn. Find him in person somewhere in Europe with his family while they are all on sabbatical.

1-Matsuura K., Tanaka C. and Nishida T. 2000. Symbiosis of a termite and a sclerotium-forming fungus: sclerotia mimic termite eggs. Ecol. Res. 15: 405-414

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Friday, February 17, 2012

Natural Home Remedies Just For Arm Arthritis ... - Health and Fitness

Joint disease is the most frequent illnesses which plague numbers all across the world. Joint disease signifies inflammatory reaction in predisposed joints coupled with agony along with inability to relocate this bone that happens to be for this infected predisposed joints.

Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms occurs when your personal body?s immune system symptoms your individual debris, considering the crooks to be overseas our bodies. Joint pains plus a critical lower in your choice of movements are caused by any such diseases.

Hand arthritis inflammatory reaction is just about the most usual people in this arthritis loved ones. Nutritional discrepancies had been refined on the subject of because amongst the foremost grounds for arthritis. For that reason, natural treatments just for arm arthritis inflammatory reaction include things like fixing a good nutritional stability in your body. Nevertheless most important step for taking, and before provestra bearing in mind any sort of medical solution, is to try to try to show your personal arm plentiful rest.

The issue of more than enough varieties of efa?s inside you is definitely a reason for a variety of arthritis. Rr Six, which has inflammatory qualities along with omega 3, which has anti-inflammatory qualities, need to be present in our bodies in a rate of 4:Only one just for best possible operation in the overall body. Various known medical corporations gravely express that many peoples? truth is definitely not the rate, considering the general simply being 11 to at least just for rr Six to omega 3. For any additional extraordinary scenarios, this shape goes up to 20:Only one.

Ice cold water junk some seafood like fish are the best regarded source of omega 3 motor oils that will the majority of us need more in, specifically DHA. The program will prevent inflammatory reaction by enhancing the sum of healthy some seafood like fish you eat, when you select your personal varieties some seafood like fish carefully.

There will be sadly , a limit at this point but. Authorities advice is at present don?t try to eat much more than Three portions of these some seafood like fish each week. This is on account of realistic concerns through disease along with toxic compounds in this oceans ( space ) toxic compounds that will accumulation speedier in your quite varieties some seafood like fish you want to be consuming more in.

Having fish oil pills thus remains an excellent different option to be certain an every day dose in omega 3. Due to the fact high-quality brandnames filter the detrimental body toxins. Just be sure vigrx plus reviews you pick out a brand making it a simple fact that the direction they technique this motor oils, and that they accomplish competently filter most of chemical substances alloys.

You will need to take into account needless to say to talk a health care professional it does any sort of shifts with your eating routine, extremely for all those using blood-thinning treatments.

As well as evening out this figures in efa?s inside you, you ought to furthermore make a good varieties of dietary fiber suitable proper dieting. To do this, whatever you will need it all to enhance the intake of food items rich in fiber, which includes light brown regarding, fruit, vegetables and fruits, nut products, to locate along with marijuana seeds.

If you suffer because of joint, aggravation across the joint area, inability to totally relocate a joint, joint pain and only inflammation or added tenderness across the joint region ( space ) then you might be enduring arthritis.

Once performing a a line trials from a doctor, you can definitely find which water seems to have amassed all-around a joint perhaps predisposed joints became ?tender?, it?s always some sort of evidence which you have amongst the frequent varieties arthritis. Frequently evaluate the numerous actions you can choose to use easiness these signs and symptoms given that any sort of lag time will simply intensify the problem and then make it difficult to take care of eventually.

Stab Holmford is an expert throughout nutrition and health. This guy amorously emphasizes in your remarkable perks that is acquired because of good vitamin supplements.

Head over to the website these days on Rr A few Advantages where you may semenax discover how to say to which is the best category of omega3 for taking, to discover on this optimistic effects omega 3 along with omega3 may have some in your well being.

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

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