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Gay Relationships: Are We More Than Just Friends? - Part One

Dear Brian:

I have been out of the dating scene for 10 years after having been in a long-term relationship for that length and it has since ended. I find it difficult being back on the singles? market.

I currently find myself in a strange situation; I have met a guy through the Internet. On our ?first date?, I set the context of our encounter by saying that I thought from having left a long-term relationship that it was important for me to be friends and to be interdependent rather than codependent as was my previous experience.

So now seven weeks have passed, we?ve been on a number of dates, but haven?t kissed. I am waiting for him to make a move. I?m fearful and I don?t want to ruin anything if it is meant to be a friendship, although I would like more. How long is too long to know someone before ?stepping things up? and how do you decipher whether it?s a friendship or if there?s potential for a relationship?

'Back On The Scene Again'

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Dear 'Back On the Scene Again':

Yes, it can be quite a difficult challenge when transitioning back into the dating scene after having been in a long-term relationship for the length that you were involved in. Feeling rusty and out of practice, it can be overwhelming navigating through those waters again, particularly with the difficulties inherent in finding compatible matches. Not only this, you?re likely still going through a grieving process over the loss of your 10-year relationship even though you initiated the breakup.

So my first bit of advice to you is to relax and breathe! There?s no rush and it?s a process you have to go through. Becoming preoccupied with the dating challenges will only serve to frustrate you and create more angst and desperation that could sabotage your efforts to find healthy dating partners.

Being new to the scene again and wanting ?to do it right the first time around? is commendable and it sounds like you?ve done your homework by realizing the importance of pacing and taking things slow. There does need to be a balance with this, however, otherwise many men will perceive a lack of interest if the signals aren?t expressed that you?re interested.

This new guy you?re dating sounds like someone you?re intrigued with and would like to see developing into more than ?just friends.? While going slow is important, you want to beware of over-thinking it and communicating it too much to the guy you?re seeing.

My concern is that it?s possible your guy may have interpreted your statement on the first date of being friends and interdependent as a barrier you put up towards getting close. Try to be mindful of ways you may be projecting your past relationship mistakes onto new dating encounters.

It?s important in the early stages of dating that you make the contacts light and gradually build in more self-disclosure as you screen the person to determine their suitability; this way, your disclosures match the level of intimacy that?s developed in your progressive meetings with your new dating partner. It?s possible your statements may have come across as ?too heavy? and your guy may have interpreted what you said in such a way that now your relationship with him is defined as purely a friendship because that may be what he thought you were surmising.

After two months with no movement, that may be the case. But don?t fret, my friend! All is not lost!? It?s also very possible that he, too, shares your interest, but is waiting for you to make the first move because of what you said and he?s letting you be in control of the pacing since you expressed the need initially.

?( Part Two Tomorrow - "Becoming More Than Just Friends"?)

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? Dr. Brian Rzepczynski, The Gay Love Coach

The suggestions and feedback offered in this column are but one perspective of multiple approaches to dealing with problems or challenges. Information provided in articles and advice columns should not be used as a substitute for coaching or therapy when these services are needed. None of this information should be your only source when making important life decisions. This information should not be used for diagnosing or treating a particular problem, nor should it take the place of a consultation with a trained professional. It is your responsibility to consult a professional prior to making any life decisions.

Dr. Brian Rzepczynski, contributing author to GAYTWOGETHER, is one of the leading love coaches for the gay community. As a licensed dating and relationship coach, Dr. Brian Rzepczynski, DHS, MSW has over 18 years experience as a psychotherapist and life coach specializing in helping GLBT individuals and couples develop and maintain successful and fulfilling intimate relationships. He holds a doctorate degree in human sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality and a master?s degree in clinical social work from Western Michigan University. He also runs a successful private therapy practice, Personal Victory Counseling, Inc. http://thegaylovecoach.com

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Biologists take snapshot of fleeting protein process

May 30, 2013 ? Structural biologists from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have captured the first three-dimensional crystalline snapshot of a critical but fleeting process that takes place thousands of times per second in each human cell. The research appears online today in the journal Cell Reports and could prove useful in the study of cancer and other diseases.

The biological "freeze-frame" shows the initial step in the formation of actin, a sturdy strand-like filament that is vital for humans. Actin filaments help cells maintain their shape. The filaments, which are called F-actin, also play key roles in muscle contraction, cell division and other critical processes.

"One of the major distinctions between cancerous cells and healthy cells is their shape," said study co-author Jianpeng Ma, professor of bioengineering at Rice and the Lodwick T. Bolin Professor of Biochemistry at BCM. "There is a correlation between healthy shape and well-regulated cell growth, and cancer cells are often ugly and ill-shaped compared to healthy cells."

F-actin was discovered in 1887, but despite the more than 18,000 actin-related studies in scientific literature, biologists have struggled to unlock some of its secrets. For example, F-actin is a polymer made of many smaller proteins called monomers. These building blocks, which are called G-actin, self-assemble end to end to form F-actin. But the self-assembly process is so efficient that scientists have been unable to see what happens when the first two or three monomers come together to form the nucleus of a filament. The F-actin filaments inside cells are constantly being built, torn apart and rebuilt.

"Nucleation is critical for this continual building and rebuilding," said BCM biochemist and study co-author Qinghua Wang. "For healthy cells, nucleation is the starting place for robust shape. For unhealthy cells, like cancer, nucleation processes may play a crucial role in unregulated growth. That's one reason we want to better understand nucleation."

In 2008, Ma and Wang asked Xiaorui Chen, a graduate student in BCM's Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics program, to undertake the task of using x-ray crystallography to determine the structure of the actin nucleus. Her initial attempts failed, but the team finally hit upon the winning idea of creating two mutant versions of G-actin that could nucleate but not polymerize.

Native G-actin binds with one neighbor on top and one on bottom, and this top-bottom, end-to-end binding pattern is the key to forming long F-actin polymers. To foster nucleation without polymerization, Chen created two mutant versions of G-actin. One mutant could bind normally on top but not on bottom, and the other could bind normally on bottom but not on top.

"This dual-mutant strategy was the key," said Chen, who is now a postdoctoral researcher at BCM. "After that, we had to overcome problems related to forming and growing the crystal samples needed for crystallography."

Chen used a two-stage process to prepare the crystals. She first used high levels of super-saturation to spur initial crystal formation and then used a process called seeding to transfer the newly formed crystals to another medium where they could grow large enough for examination.

Once the crystals were prepared, they were analyzed with x-ray diffraction, which revealed the atomic arrangement of each atom in the nucleated, dual-mutant pair.

"We believe this dual-mutant arrangement reveals the most critical contacts involved in nucleation," Ma said. "For the first time, we are able to see how actin nucleation begins."

Additional co-authors include Fengyun Ni of both Rice and BCM, Xia Tian of BCM and Elena Kondrashkina of Northwestern University. The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Gillson-Longenbaugh Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Welch Foundation, the Department of Energy and the Michigan Economic Development Corp.

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'Low sodium diet' key to old age for stars: New observations challenge current stellar theories

May 29, 2013 ? Astronomers expect that stars like the Sun will blow off much of their atmospheres into space near the ends of their lives. But new observations of a huge star cluster made using ESO's Very Large Telescope have shown -- against all expectations -- that a majority of the stars studied simply did not get to this stage in their lives at all. The international team found that the amount of sodium in the stars was a very strong predictor of how they ended their lives.

The way in which stars evolve and end their lives was for many years considered to be well understood. Detailed computer models predicted that stars of a similar mass to the Sun would have a period towards the ends of their lives -- called the asymptotic giant branch, or AGB [1] -- when they undergo a final burst of nuclear burning and puff off a lot of their mass in the form of gas and dust.

This expelled material [2] goes on to form the next generations of stars and this cycle of mass loss and rebirth is vital to explain the evolving chemistry of the Universe. This process is also what provides the material required for the formation of planets -- and indeed even the ingredients for organic life.

But when Australian stellar theory expert Simon Campbell of the Monash University Centre for Astrophysics, Melbourne, scoured old papers he found tantalising suggestions that some stars may somehow not follow the rules and might skip the AGB phase entirely. He takes up the story:

"For a stellar modelling scientist this suggestion was crazy! All stars go through the AGB phase according to our models. I double-checked all the old studies but found that this had not been properly investigated. I decided to investigate myself, despite having little observational experience."

Campbell and his team used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to very carefully study the light coming from stars in the globular star cluster NGC 6752 in the southern constellation of Pavo (The Peacock). This vast ball of ancient stars contains both a first generation of stars and a second that formed somewhat later [3]. The two generations can be distinguished by the amount of sodium they contain -- something that the very high-quality VLT data can be used to measure.

"FLAMES, the multi-object high-resolution spectrograph on the VLT, was the only instrument that could allow us to get really high-quality data for 130 stars at a time. And it allowed us to observe a large part of the globular cluster in one go," adds Campbell.

The results were a surprise -- all of the AGB stars in the study were first generation stars with low levels of sodium and none of the higher-sodium second generation stars had become AGB stars at all. As many as 70% of the stars were not undergoing the final nuclear burning and mass-loss phase [4] [5].

"It seems stars need to have a low-sodium "diet" to reach the AGB phase in their old age. This observation is important for several reasons. These stars are the brightest stars in globular clusters -- so there will be 70% fewer of the brightest stars than theory predicts. It also means our computer models of stars are incomplete and must be fixed!" concludes Campbell.

The team expects that similar results will be found for other star clusters and further observations are planned.

Notes:

[1] AGB stars get their odd name because of their position on the Hertzsprung Russell diagram, a plot of the brightnesses of stars against their colours.

[2] For a short period of time this ejected material is lit up by the strong ultraviolet radiation from the star and creates a planetary nebula.

[3] Although the stars in a globular cluster all formed at about the same time, it is now well established that these systems are not as simple as they once thought to be. They usually contain two or more populations of stars with different amounts of light chemical elements such as carbon, nitrogen and -- crucially for this new study -- sodium.

[4] It is thought that stars which skip the AGB phase will evolve directly into helium white dwarf stars and gradually cool down over many billions of years.

[5] It is not thought that the sodium itself is the cause of the different behaviour, but must be strongly linked to the underlying cause -- which remains mysterious.

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APNewsBreak: Ore. Muslim sues FBI, claims torture

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? An American Muslim who says he was beaten with batons by prison interrogators while held in solitary confinement overseas for more than three months has sued the FBI and State Department, claiming the torture was done at their behest.

The lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Oregon seeks $30 million and several injunctions against the U.S. government concerning its treatment of citizens overseas.

Yonas Fikre said he was held for 106 days in the United Arab Emirates after refusing to cooperate with Portland, Ore.,-based FBI agents in an interview in Sudan. The State Department has confirmed previously that Fikre was held in Abu Dhabi "on unspecified charges," but said he was visited by State Department officials and showed no signs of mistreatment.

Fikre said the FBI agents named in the suit wanted him to become an informant at Portland's largest mosque, Masjid As-Saber, and were angered when he refused. He said interrogators in Abu Dhabi later used information Fikre had given to the FBI agents in his interrogation.

Fikre said he told his interrogators that many of their questions were the same ones he had been asked during his FBI interview.

"(Fikre) thus inquired whether his confinement and mistreatment was at the request of the FBI," according to the lawsuit. "On each such occasion, the interrogators responded by beating plaintiff severely."

Two other Oregon Muslims who worship at the mosque have also alleged they were held overseas and were asked to become informants by Portland-based FBI agents. Both men have returned to Oregon.

The mosque has come under scrutiny before. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali American convicted of plotting to set off a bomb in downtown Portland in 2010, occasionally worshipped there. A decade ago, seven Muslims with ties to the mosque were arrested following a failed effort to enter Afghanistan and fight U.S. forces.

Named in Fikre's suit are Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of State John Kerry, FBI Director Robert Mueller, FBI Terrorism Screening Center director Timothy Healy and the two Portland-based agents, David Noordeloos and Jason Dundas.

Fikre, a Sudanese man of Eritrean descent, came to Portland in 2006 and worked for a cellphone company for a period. In 2009, he decided to open an electronics retail business in Sudan. His wife remained in Portland.

In April 2010, a man claiming to be a U.S. embassy official in Sudan asked Fikre to come to "a luncheon the following day in order to discuss how Americans might stay safe during a period of political turmoil in Sudan," according to the suit.

Instead, Fikre said he went through embassy security and was met by the FBI agents, Dundas and Noordeloos, in a small room. Fikre said he was denied representation by an attorney. He believed he was not permitted to leave, though he didn't actually try to stand and leave.

The suit includes a text copy of a letter that Fikre claims was sent to him by Noordeloos.

"While we hope to get your side of issues we keep hearing about, the choice is yours to make. The time to help yourself is now." The letter, as represented by Fikre, is signed "Dave Noordeloos."

Fikre believed he was being followed by Sudanese secret police, and acquaintances told him they had been questioned about his activities. He left Sudan in June 2010 and arrived in the United Arab Emirates in September 2010, where he obtained a residency permit.

Less than a year later, in June 2011, men "invaded" his house in Abu Dhabi, blindfolded him and took him to a windowless cell.

He was questioned for hours every day in English, only able to see the shoes and pants of his captors. The questions focused on who had a "jihad mentality" at the mosque, what its imam discussed in public and private and how the mosque conducted fundraising.

Attorney Tom Nelson, who filed the suit Thursday, said he learned of Fikre's detention in late June 2011 and contacted the offices of U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, who passed on his concerns to the State Department.

In late July 2011, two months into his detention, Fikre said he was visited by a member of the State Department. Before the meeting, Fikre said he was instructed not to talk about his treatment to the visiting consular official, "lest he be beaten still more severely."

Despite efforts to alert the visiting State Department official ? Fikre said he used facial expressions, but they were either misunderstood or ignored ? Fikre said he remained imprisoned for another month.

His release came on Sept. 4, 2011. He had been placed on the U.S. no-fly list, and could not return to Oregon, so went instead to Sweden.

He gave a news conference on April 18, 2012, about his detention. On May 1, 2012, he was indicted in federal court in California for "conspiracy to structure" 2010 monetary transfers from his family to him in the United Arab Emirates ? money transfers the government says were set up to avoid U.S. reporting requirements.

Fikre believes the indictment was a response to his decision to go public.

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Contact reporter Nigel Duara at https://twitter.com/nigelduara

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Mobile Ad Exchange MoPub Says It Reached A $100M Revenue Run Rate In May

MoPub, a startup that helps mobile app publishers run advertising from multiple sources (such as ad networks, direct sales and cross-promotion), says that it reached a $100 million revenue run rate this month. MoPub is now conducting 2 billion ad auctions each day and reaching more than 550 million unique devices each month, the company says. The MoPub exchange launched 18 months ago, and CEO Jim Payne said that the company hit an "inflection point" in the past four to six months, with "astonishing" growth since the end of last year ? revenue is up 3x compared to the fourth quarter of 2012, he said.

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Sister Dearest

Identical twin brothers Isaac and Owen Wonner from Petersburg, OH, gather before taking part in in a look-alike contest during the final day of the 32nd annual Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio August 5, 2007.

There is a darker side to sibling love that even those with happy relationships with their siblings intuit

Photo by Jason Reed/Reuters

With the publication of Frank Bruni?s most emailed, much admired ode to sibling love, we seem to have found ourselves in another warm American moment that excludes or reproaches many people. When it?s great, there is nothing more transcendently close or comforting than one?s relationship with one?s siblings, but what Bruni didn?t get into is that it can also be a volatile and dangerous form of love.

There is a darker side to sibling love?especially for those very close in age?that even those with happy relationships with their siblings intuit. ?Of course you love your sister,? we tell our children, reassuringly. Though sometimes they don?t, or sometimes the rage or competition or desperation burns so brightly that they can?t precisely access that love. We like to tame the harrowing struggles between siblings with phrases like ?sibling rivalry? which reduce them to a harmless childhood phase one passes through, even though we know from casual observation this is not true. (There are, in fact, a spate of new books out recently, or coming out, that, each in their own way, explore the darker side of sibling love: Lucinda Rosenfeld?s The Pretty One, Curtis Sittenfeld?s Sisterland, and Lauren Sandler?s forthcoming celebration of only children, One and Only.)

Like Bruni, I am lucky enough to come from a big brood. I am very close to two of my sisters, and don?t know what I would do without them.

But when I had a baby on my own, in challenging circumstances, one of my other sisters did not want to meet him. Our relationship had been extremely strained since before I was pregnant, but I thought she might want to see her nephew, in the ritual way one sees a new baby. She lived, at the time, in the duplex upstairs from us, but she did not come down to hold him. She did not send a onesie with airplanes on it or a bear. She and her husband and daughter did not come to the party I had in my garden to welcome him to the world. She, in fact, did not meet or look at him for five months. That?s how much she hated or resented me.

In the last weeks of my pregnancy, several friends offered to drive me to the hospital or watch my daughter if there was an emergency because they knew that I was alone, and my sister, who lived upstairs and had a car, was not on friendly enough terms to drive me to the hospital. Very late at night, I considered the possibility that those people who you would call in the middle of the night to drive you to the hospital or to watch your other child if something went wrong are in fact your family. ?

When we got home from the hospital my 6-year-old daughter would ask every day why her aunt had not come to meet our baby. My first instinct was to lie, to protect the idea of family love winning out, to smooth over, to make things normal for her, but there was no way to do this for five months. In the end, I think she learned that your siblings, or at least sisters, may or may not show up for you when you need them.

Of course I was struck in particular by Frank Bruni?s line about his siblings: ?For each of us, a new home, a new relationship or a newborn was never quite real until the rest of us had been ushered in to the front row.? But of course, even if your sister does not show up the newborn will still crush up his face and cry when he is hungry; he will still find a way to be real. And even though we tend in America to get pretty oppressed by traditional ideas or fantasies about these things, you can still make or find a family for him.

Rather than delve too deeply into my own depressing relationship with my sister, which went radically downhill in terms of sisterly love and support in the two years after the baby was born, I?ll trot out as Exhibit A Virginia Woolf and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell. They were astonishingly, sort of beautifully close, and adored each other. In fact, when Vanessa got engaged Virginia wrote this in a whimsical letter: ?We the undersigned three Apes and a Wombat wish to make known to you our great grief and joy at the news that you intend to marry.We have wooed you and sung many songs of winter and summer and autumn in the hope that thus enchanted you would condescend one day to marry us. But as we no longer expect this honor we entreat that you keep us still for your lovers ??

Later, when Vanessa had a baby, both Virginia and Vanessa?s husband, Clive felt like they weren?t getting enough of Vanessa?s attention. In the difficult period that followed Virginia began a sort of affair, with Clive that was incredibly painful for Vanessa.

The two sisters salvaged their relationship, and were closely attached to the end, though the episode remained, huge and looming, beneath the surface. (One way they managed, which is arguably a good way to manage siblings, was that they were English, so they just didn?t talk much about it.) The thing one learns from these two high strung women is that the intensity or intimacy or possessiveness of the sibling relationship is amazing, well, until it?s not. The familiarity, the closeness, the seduction of a shared childhood carries within it a lot of dangerous things; the wonderful elements of siblings co-exist with the very awful ones, they are entwined, inseparable. And whether it works like Frank Bruni?s clan, or doesn?t, there is no point in an overly rosy or hallmarkish view.

Now my sister is living happily ever after with her corporate lawyer husband in a world that is fortunately very different from my own; we are freed from the thwarted expectations of shared history. You can fight forever over a game that was played decades earlier, or a half remembered argument in a bedroom with elephant wallpaper in a house that was sold long ago, or you can walk away. ?

Part of the problem may be that the thing you suspect as a child?that there is not enough love to go around?is true. Attention is finite. The scramble is forever. The secretly suspected truth that you are not equally admired or adored or attractive, that there will be insoluble inequities, that one will have a more interesting career, and one will be happier in love, and one will have better adventures, and one will be more creative, and one will be more charming, and one will have more shoes is all true. The myth parents foist, with good intentions, on children?that the resources and embrace of the world will be equal?will not be borne out by life. You knew it when you were 4. The yellow lollipop is not the same as the red one.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/roiphe/2013/05/frank_bruni_s_new_york_times_column_on_sibling_love_misses_the_dark_side.html

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Feds in NY: Costa Rica money biz a hub for crooks

NEW YORK (AP) ? When an undercover agent posing as a new client sought to register at the currency transfer firm Liberty Reserve as "Joe Bogus" from "123 Fake Main Street" in "Completely Made Up City," no one at the company based in Costa Rica objected.

The same client recording digital currency transactions as "ATM skimming work" and "for the cocaine"? Still no problem.

In fact, federal prosecutors in Manhattan say anonymity and criminality were what Liberty Reserve was all about.

"The only liberty that Liberty Reserve gave many of its users was the freedom to commit crimes, as it became a popular hub for fraudsters, hackers, and traffickers," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Tuesday in announcing charges against seven people in a $6 billion scheme that he billed as possibly the largest money-laundering scheme even seen in the United States.

"The coin of the realm ... was anonymity ? multiple layers of anonymity," he added. "As alleged, Liberty Reserve was deliberately structured and operated in a way to help other criminals remain anonymous, untraceable and untouchable."

U.S. officials said the enterprise was staggering in scope: Over roughly seven years, Liberty Reserve processed 55 million illicit transactions worldwide for 1 million users, including 200,000 in the U.S. The network charged a 1 percent fee on transactions through "exchangers" ? middlemen who converted actual currency into virtual funds and then back into cash.

In the indictment, prosecutors called Liberty Reserve "one of the principal means by which cyber criminals around the world distribute, store and launder proceeds of their illegal activity ... including credit card fraud, identity theft, investment fraud, computer hacking, child pornography and narcotics trafficking."

Alleged founder Arthur Budovsky ? an American who renounced his U.S. citizenship after deciding to set up in Costa Rica ? and another defendant, identified as Azzeddine el Amine, were arrested Friday at a Madrid airport while trying to return to Costa Rica, according to a Spanish court official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because court policy forbids him from speaking on the record. They were ordered jailed while they await a hearing on extradition to the U.S.

Two other men were arrested last week in New York City, including Liberty Reserve co-founder Vladimir Kats. There was no public record of their arraignment on Friday night, and there was no immediate response to phone messages left Tuesday with their attorneys.

Of the remaining defendants, one was in custody in Costa Rica and two were at large there.

Budovsky, 39, and Kats, 41, have previous convictions on state charges related to an unlicensed money-transmitting business, according to court papers. After that case, the pair decided to move their operation to Costa Rica, the papers said.

In an online chat captured by law enforcement, Kats admitted Liberty Reserve was illegal and noted that authorities in the United States knew it was "a money-laundering operation that hackers use."

Liberty Reserve appears to have played an important role in laundering proceeds from the recent theft of some $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks, according to documents made public by U.S. authorities earlier this month. In that scheme, thieves stole debit card information and then used it to drain cash from thousands of ATMs around the world in a matter of hours.

As part of the Liberty Reserve investigation, authorities raided 14 locations in Panama, Switzerland, the U.S., Sweden and Costa Rica. In Costa Rica, investigators recovered five luxury cars, including three Rolls-Royces. Bharara said authorities also seized Liberty's computer servers in Costa Rica and Switzerland.

The businesses that were raided in Costa Rica on Friday as part of the investigation into Liberty Reserve are dedicated to Web hosting services, website development and Internet business consulting.

In Costa Rica, all online businesses are legal and there aren't any laws regulating them, so the country has been attracting entrepreneurs setting up Internet-based companies that do everything from e-commerce to gambling banned in other countries.

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Associated Press writers Raphael Satter in London, Alan Clendenning and Jorge Sainz in Madrid, and Javier Cordoba in San Jose, Costa Rica, also contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/feds-ny-costa-rica-money-biz-hub-crooks-062238947.html

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Samsung Galaxy Exhibit available today on T-Mobile for $19.99 down

T-Mobile this morning announced that the Samsung Galaxy Exhibit is now available online and in select stores. The decidedly entry-level device runs $19 down with 24 monthly payments of $9, or $235 outright. For your trouble you get Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, a 5-megapixel camera, a 4-inch WVGA display, and a mere 1,500 mAh battery.

If you're looking for your first smartphone, chances are you'll get steered toward this. which essentially is a Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini. Just know you're starting at the low end, and work your way up from there.

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Tim Cook on Android market share: winning has never been about having the most

Tim Cook on Android market share winning has never been about having the most

Apple's head honcho Tim Cook is chatting up Android's growth explosion, and it turns out he's not flustered. "Do I look at that? Of course, I don't have my head stuck in the sand," said Cook." But for us, winning has never been about having the most." Instead, he stands by the old Apple line of quality versus quantity. "Arguably, we make the best PC, but we don't make the most," he added. "We made the best music player, and we wound up making the most -- but we didn't initially."

Rather than focus on install base, Cupertino's chief turned to usage stats to illustrate their supremacy, noting that their slates are the most popular for browsing the web. "You can look at tablet web market share in North America," Cook said. "Almost every study I see has the iPad in the 80s (percentage)." Before even broaching the subject of Google's mobile OS, Cook cited NetApp figures that show 59 percent of worldwide web traffic from smartphones and tablets comes from iOS devices. We're sure the folks in Mountain View are content with quantity, though we'd hazard a guess they enjoy quality as well.

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INFOGRAPHIC: The Mobile Advertising ... - Business Insider

We are in the post-PC era, and soon billions of consumers will be carrying around Internet-connected mobile devices for up to 16 hours a day.?Mobile audiences have exploded as a result.

So, mobile advertising should be a bonanza, right? Not exactly. It has been a bit slow off the ground, and its growth trajectory is not clear cut. Part of the reason is that the mobile ad ecosystem is not as strictly delineated as the desktop ecosystem.?In mobile advertising, the rules of the road change with different combinations of device, wireless operator, and operating system.

In a recent report from?BI?Intelligence?on, we?explain the complexities and fractures of the ecosystem. We specifically examine the central and dynamic roles played by mobile ad networks, demand side platforms, mobile ad exchanges, real-time bidding, agencies, brands, and new companies hoping to upend the traditional banner ad.

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Take look at this infographic from our report:
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Mobile lacks the technical consensus that enables ad targeting, delivery, and measurement to work fairly seamlessly across the desktop world.?As the mobile ad industry matures it will likely become more streamlined and simple, but for now there are innumerable actors interacting with one another and attempting to find a niche.

Here's an overview of some of the major players in the ecosystem:

To access BI Intelligence's full report on The Mobile Advertising Ecosystem, sign up for a free trial subscription here.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/infographic-the-mobile-advertising-ecosystem-explained-2013-55

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Skagit River bridge collapse: Not the only one waiting to happen (+video)

The collapse of the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River is a reminder that thousands of bridges in the US are?in serious need of repair or replacement. President Obama proposed a "Fix it First" program, but the budget sequester may have squelched that.

By Brad Knickerbocker,?Staff writer / May 27, 2013

Workers walk past the collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge in Mount Vernon, Wash. A truck carrying an oversize load struck the four-lane bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River.

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The bridge that collapsed into the Skagit River north of Seattle will get a short-term patch within weeks, officials say, keeping this busy portion of the I-5 interstate open while the crunched original is replaced.

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HTC says Samsung is constraining its component supply as a ?competitive weapon?

HTC Samsung Component Supply

HTC?s latest flagship Android phone, the HTC One, has been a big success for the struggling smartphone vendor. The company confirmed recently that it had sold approximately 5 million units into?sales?channels as of last week, and if it hadn?t been for component shortages, HTC likely would have sold even more handsets. Regarding component shortages, it?s not always a production issue that causes problems in HTC?s supply chain and an interesting tidbit emerged earlier this week as?HTC president for the North Asian region,?Jack Tong, spoke to members of the press in Taiwan.

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Just two short years ago, HTC was a leading smartphone vendor. Samsung has since grown to dominate the industry alongside Apple, and the company seemingly isn?t afraid to step on a few toes in order to ensure that it stays on top.

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As HTC?s Jack Tong recounted his company?s troubles following the launch of the HTC Desire, he slipped in a pretty huge accusation. Tong said that the Desire initially launched with an AMOLED display supplied by Samsung. After the phone started gaining momentum and sales picked up, the executive says Samsung suddenly couldn?t supply it with panels anymore.

?We found that key component supply can be used as a competitive weapon,? Tong told reporters, according to Focus Taiwan.?HTC ended up having to redesign the Desire and relaunch it without the Samsung-built AMOLED displays.

This article was originally published on BGR.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/htc-says-samsung-constraining-component-supply-competitive-weapon-162510808.html

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IUPUI's latest NSF CAREER Award winner explores how brains form from single cells

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Researcher becomes third NSF CAREER Award winner in Department of Computer and Information Science

(INDIANAPOLIS) An assistant professor of computer science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) has earned the prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research to identify the patterns by which neurons develop and connect to form a brain.

Gavriil Tsechpenakis, Ph.D., becomes the fifth faculty member in the School of Science at IUPUI currently working under an NSF CAREER Award. He is the third researcher in the Department of Computer and Information Science to receive the distinction, the highest honor given by the NSF in support of faculty members early in their careers who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of the two areas.

Tsechpenakis, who specializes in biomedical vision and computer imaging, will use the $600,000 award across five years to continue work he started years ago, first as part of a National Institutes of Health study of in-vivo, protein-to-protein interaction networks and later as part of an NSF-funded pilot study of brain structure at the single-cell level. Essentially, he now will study how neural circuits develop in fruit fly larvae to build a synaptic map of the very early stages of brain formation.

"The object of this process is to create an image-based computational model of how synaptic connectivity is established in vivo during brain development," he said. "We are able to see how dendrites (signal transmitters branching out from neurons) are formed and study the dynamics of how these circuits are working."

The brain remains the most complex and least understood organ in the human body, consisting of billions of individual neurons. Tsechpenakis will examine neuron function at the single-cell level as well as the behavior of the connections between those individual cells.

The research will analyze these developments for up to four consecutive days, which will allow the changes to be observed as the organism develops and as it reacts to any environmental changes. The research also will explore how the brain compensates when synapses are lost or destroyed, perhaps during a significant trauma or injury.

"We hope to understand how the brain works at a very low level," he added. "Instead of studying the responses of the brain, we are examining what causes these responses."

Answering long-standing questions in these areas could help advance greatly the field of neuroscience and could lead to advancements in human brain treatments in the areas of aging, disease, drug treatment and injury recovery.

The NSF requires that CAREER Awards, in part, be distributed for outreach programs designed to create research opportunities for students. Tsechpenakis said he hopes the funding will help create internships for high school students, allow for student travel to academic conferences and support graduate student and post-doctoral research in the department.

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