India?s forex reserves down $502m

Mumbai: India?s foreign exchange (forex) reserves went down by $502 million (Dh1.83 billion) to $293.97 billion for the week ended September 21, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data show.

The reserves had risen by $2.43 billion to $294.47 billion for the week ended September 14 2012, and subsequently grown by $1.58 billion to $292 billion for the previous week.

Foreign currency assets (FCA), the biggest component of the forex reserves in the week under review grew $48 million to $261.03 billion according to the weekly statistical supplement released by the RBI.

The FCA had risen by $2.33 billion to $261.51 billion last week.

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The RBI in a statement said that FCA in US dollar terms included the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US currencies held in reserve, such as the pound sterling, euro and yen.

However, the value of gold reserves remained stagnant at $26.23 billion. Both the special drawing rights (SDRs) and reserves with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) declined in the week under review.

The SDRs increased by $11.2 million to $4.46 billion during the week ended September 21, 2012, while India?s reserves with the IMF grew by $5.6 million to $2.24 billion.

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A newly published report?from an Australian research group compares?the outcomes of two sets of patients treated for intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer with a single schedule of either external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) alone or EBRT?+ a?high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDRB) boost.

Khor et al. report on data from a series of 334 patients with definitive internmediate- or high-risk prostate cancer, all of whom were treated (between 2001 and 2006) with?EBRT?+ an?HDRB boost. The prescribed dose of EBRT was 46 Gy in 23 fractions, with an HDRB boost of 19.5 Gy in 3 fractions. The data from this?cohort of patients was then compared to a matched pair set of contemporaneously treated?men (also all diagnosed with intermediate- or high-risk prostate cancer)?who?were?treated with?EBRT alone (to 74 Gy in 37 fractions).

It should be noted immediately that the form of?EBRT used to treat these men (in both cohorts of men) was three-dimensional conformal EBRTradiation therapy or 3D-CRT?(as opposed to the clearly superior IMRT or IGRT forms of EBRT). No one was getting the type of fiducial gold markers now used to improve the accuracy of delivery of radiation therapy either. It should also be noted that this was not a prospective, randomized or controlled clinical trial. we should be careful about over-interpreting the outcomes data.

Here are the basic study findings:

• The study encompassed 688 men with intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer.
  • 344 prospectively enrolled men were treated with 3D-CRT + HDRB.
  • 344 matched patients were treated with 3D-CRT alone.
  • 41 percent of the patients in each cohort had high-risk disease.
• Average (median) follow-up for signs of biochemical or other forms of failure was 60.5 months.
• The 5-year freedom from biochemical failure was
  • 70.9 percent for men treated with 3D-CRT + HDRB
  • 79.8 percent?for men treated with 3D-CRT alone
  • The hazard ratio (HR)?was?0.59 and was statistically significant.
• There was?no alteration in efficacy of 3D-CRT + HDRB when planned androgen deprivation therapy was also administered.
• There was?a strong trend toward reduced efficacy of 3D-HRT + HDRB compared to?3D-CRTR alone?in high-risk cases.
• Rates of grade 3 urethral stricture were
  • 11.8 percent among men treated with 3D-CRT + HDRB
  • 0.3 percent among men treated with 3D-CRT alone
• There were no observable?differences in clinical outcomes.

The authors conclude that men treated with 3D-CRT + HDRB showed higher freedom from biochemical progression than those treated with 3D-CRT alone (particularly in the intermediate-risk patients). However, they also point out that this improvement in biochemical progression had to be balanced against?the increased risk of urethral toxicity.

In the ?modern? world of highly targetable IMRT and IGRT, it appears increasingly questionable whether HDRB is really a necessary or useful method of treatment when combined with EBRT. This study suggests that at best the value of HDRB may be limited to intermediate-risk patients ? and even then it comes with a considerable risk for urethral toxicity.

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By David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

The jury is still out on a solution to the national education system crisis, but the verdict is delivered with a heavy hand and a stacked deck in the formulaic "Won?t Back Down." Simplifying complex school-reform hurdles into tidy inspirational clich?s while demonizing both teachers? unions and bureaucracy-entrenched education boards, the movie addresses timely issues but eschews shading in favor of blunt black and white. It?s old-school Lifetime fodder dressed up in Hollywood trappings.

In the broadest terms, Daniel Barnz?s film, co-written with Brin Hill, is a dramatized counterpart to Davis Guggenheim?s 2010 documentary "Waiting for Superman,? which pointed to charter schools as the only way out of the public-education quagmire. That film was partly financed by Walden Media, the backers of this Fox release, suggesting that the problem of underperforming inner-city classrooms is a pet cause for the company.

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In Barnz and Hill?s by-the-numbers screenplay -- which trumpets that vaguest of catch-all legitimization banners, ?Inspired by actual events? -- the catalyst for much-needed change at Adams Elementary School in Pittsburgh is crusading Everymom Jamie Fitzpatrick (Maggie Gyllenhaal). Her dyslexic daughter Malia (Emily Alyn Lind) is stuck in a class with a teacher (Nancy Bach) who is a monster of job-secure complacency, and a principal (Bill Nunn) too mired in unionized paralysis to help.

A single mother working two jobs and unable to afford tuition at better alternatives, Jamie bones up on the ?fail-safe? maneuver, the film?s equivalent of the parent trigger law. That controversial legislation -- on the books in some form in a handful of states and under consideration in many others -- allows concerned parents and teachers to intervene in floundering public schools. In the film?s example, it primarily means getting past restrictive union controls and a do-nothing education board.

The absurd idea that the parents of an entire student body are too apathetic to worry about their kids? education until Jamie comes along like some rocker-chick Erin Brockovich is just one of the film?s condescendingly movie-ish conceits. Played with grating one-note pluckiness by Gyllenhaal, Jamie overcompensates for her lack of a college education by self-consciously sprinkling her conversations with words like ?trepidatious.? Yet, darned if this scrappy dynamo doesn?t get the whole community galvanized.

Even more objectionable is the depiction of the burned-out staff at Adams. They mill around in the break room bitching about teachers like Malia?s, saying, ?The only thing the district does well is protect its mistakes.? But the general lack of motivation is palpable, and even Nona Alberts (Viola Davis), a committed educator like her mother before her, has lost faith in her profession.

The only exception at Adams appears to be Teach For America do-gooder and soulful hunk Michael Perry (Oscar Isaac), who leads his class in line-dancing numbers, accompanying them on ukulele as they sing about ?Goin? to College.? Naturally, this makes Jamie swoon.

A perfunctory romance blooms, but Michael vacillates in his support for Jamie?s cause. Preferring to focus his commitment on his class only, he is reluctant to stray from union-sanctioned guidelines. Jamie?s sole consistent ally is Nona, who risks alienating the entire teaching staff, including her feisty pal Breena (Rosie Perez). While she?s worn down by the challenges of a broken system, not to mention the end of her marriage and the learning difficulties of her own son (Dante Brown), Nona reluctantly gets with the empowerment program.

However, this is another one of those movies where a tenacious white person leads the charge to save inner-city kids, achieving a miracle transformation through sheer force of will. While Nona is the insider with the education experience, she?s second fiddle throughout the fight, getting much of her dignity not from the script but from Davis, who could do this role in her sleep.

In order to provide a gossamer-thin semblance of balance, Barnz and Hill plant one jaded idealist apiece in the teachers? union and the education board. That essentially leaves Holly Hunter and Marianne Jean-Baptiste playing variations on the same role, both of them primed for redemption as they rediscover their buried convictions. Elsewhere, the opposition is reduced -- most notably by Ned Eisenberg?s belligerently uncompromising union chief -- to a force of obstinate blindness as to what?s good for the kids, and for the majority of disillusioned teachers.

Given the disingenuous way in which this lumbering movie pushes obvious buttons and manipulates the audience?s emotional investment while conveniently skimming the issues, it?s a mystery how some of these names got roped in.

Following her breakout work in "The Help," this is a particularly unhappy use of Davis? considerable talents. Hunter also is too smart an actor to be stuck playing the transparent construct of a compromised Norma Rae. Lance Reddick (The Wire) is given an entirely thankless role as Nona?s businesslike departing husband, while Ving Rhames is on hand literally to deliver a speech as principal of the exemplary Rosa Parks Elementary School during a lottery draw for new students.

That scene is one of many such preachy interludes in a dumbed-down agenda film that veers shamelessly between didacticism and soap.

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ER patients not ready for home can receive care in these units instead of being admitted as inpatients.

(HealthDay)?Wider use of hospital observation units could save the U.S. health care system billions of dollars a year, a new study indicates.

An observation unit is a space near or within the emergency department that provides an alternative to inpatient admission. The unit cares for patients, usually for a 24-hour period, who have been discharged from the emergency department but need further observation and aren't ready to safely leave the hospital.

Only about one-third of U.S. hospitals have observation units.

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, analyzed national survey data and published research to determine the average cost saving per observation unit and the number of hospitals that would benefit from having such a unit.

They concluded that the average amount saved per patient could be $1,572 per visit when using an observation unit instead of inpatient admission. A hospital would save $4.6 million a year by avoiding 3,600 inpatient admissions. The U.S. health care system would save $3.1 billion a year by avoiding 2.4 million inpatient admissions.

"Wider use of observation units may play a significant role in saving cost for the health care system and future policies that are focused on doing so should include support for observation units as an alternative to short-stay inpatient admission," lead researcher Dr. Christopher Baugh, a physician in Brigham and Women's emergency department, said in a hospital news release.

Hospitals that would benefit from having an observation unit include all those with more than 50,000 emergency department visits a year, and many hospitals with 20,000 to 50,000 emergency department visits a year.

The study appears online and in the October print issue of the journal Health Affairs.

More information: The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has more about health care costs.

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Benefits Of Hiring A Plumber | Home Improvement Contractors

Home repairs are often quite stressful for owners to balance and manage on a regular basis. Various parts of the home are much more complicated than others to keep maintain while attempting to complete the efforts on an individual basis in an attempt to save money. Consumers that are contending with this issue should learn the appeal of hiring a plumber to ensure their issues are successfully resolved.

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How higher education may be easing the global recession

A new OECD report on education in the world's top economies highlights the importance of higher education, which includes vocational schooling, during an economic downturn.

By Whitney Eulich,?Staff writer / September 27, 2012

The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development recently released its Education at a Glance 2012 report, which examines education in OECD and G20 countries (where the data was available). Here are the five most educated countries in the world.

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The key to understanding this year?s report is the 2009 - 2010 global recession: ?No group or country ? no matter how well-educated ? is totally immune from the effects of a worldwide economic downturn,? begins the Education at a Glance 2012 report, which notes that young people have borne the largest burden. Nearly 16 percent of people between the ages of 15 and 29 in OECD countries in 2010 were neither employed nor in some kind of education or training program.

The OECD research highlights the importance of higher education, which includes vocational schooling, during an economic downturn. People with more education were found to be able to keep or change jobs more easily; unemployment rates for those with higher education remained low during the economic crisis; and the earning gap between people with higher vs. lower levels of education grew wider during the recession.

Access to higher education is not equitable for all students, however, and creating opportunities for everyone is a challenge that all countries face, notes the report. For example, young people with at least one parent who has completed a higher education degree in OECD countries have nearly double the chances of attaining higher education opportunities, the report notes.

Another barrier is that students and families have taken on an increasingly large portion of education costs in OECD countries, which the report notes can lead to situations where individuals are burdened with debt that could prevent them from pursuing further education. ?These barriers may impede countries? own goals of increasing educational attainment in their populations,? the report notes.

COUNTRIES INCLUDED IN THE STUDY:

OECD countries:
Australia; Austria; Belgium; Canada; Chile; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Japan; Korea; Luxembourg; Mexico; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; United Kingdom; United States

Non-OECD G20 major economies:
Argentina; Brazil; China; India; Indonesia; Russian Federation; Saudi Arabia; South Africa

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Report: public research universities in peril

They're the pride and backbone of American higher education, doing essential research and educating en masse the next generations of scientists and engineers. But a new report argues the mission of the country's 101 major public research universities is imperiled by budget cuts amounting to one-fifth of their state funding over the past decade.

State support for public research universities fell 20 percent between 2002 and 2010, after accounting for inflation and increased enrollment of about 320,000 students nationally, according to the report published Tuesday by the National Science Board. The organization provides independent advice to the federal government and oversees the National Science Foundation.

Ten states saw support fall 30 percent or more and in two ? Colorado and Rhode Island ? the drop was nearly 50 percent. Only seven states increased support.

The study is the latest in a series of alarm bells warning that public research universities ? which perform the majority of academic science and engineering research funded by the federal government, and educate a disproportionate share of scientists in training ? have been weakened by years of eroding state support. Many are losing their best faculty to private institutions, and tuition increases in response to the budget cuts threaten the historically affordable access students have enjoyed.

Among the report's findings: While public research universities still managed to increase instructional spending 10 percent between 1999 and 2009, to about $10,000 per student, private universities increased such spending 25 percent over the that period, and now spend more than twice as much per student on teaching as their public counterparts.

Meanwhile, the salary gap between public and private research universities is also widening, raising the specter of a two-tier system in which most of the very best faculty migrate to private institutions and work with a comparatively small number of students.

Public research universities ? particularly top-tier flagship institutions like the universities of Michigan, Virginia, Texas and California ? are in some ways stuck between worlds. They compete for students and faculty and conduct research on a national and even global scale. But they remain under substantial political control of the states, and dependent on them for funding.

That funding has fallen precipitously, from 38 percent of their budgets two decades ago to about 23 percent now, with the number now below 10 percent at several top institutions. As those percentages fall further, some experts believe public institutions could begin essentially privatizing themselves, giving up what little state funding remains ? and the public obligations it carries ? in exchange for autonomy.

Funding for public research universities varies widely among states, from a low of $3,482 in Vermont in 2010 to $16,986 in Wyoming, which had the second-largest increase over the decade, behind only New York. Roughly a dozen states increased funding in absolute terms but in about half those states, including Arkansas, Connecticut and Missouri, enrollment growth meant there was still less money per student.

The public should understand what could be lost if public research universities wither away, said NSB member Ray Bowen, president emeritus of Texas A&M University: not only the prospect of future discoveries in medicine and technology, but key drivers of economic development. The report found the institutions produced 436 new start-ups in 2010 alone.

"You go to Austin, Texas (home of the University of Texas), that city is a vibrant economic environment because of that university, because of the bright people it produces and the faculty research that takes place," Bowen said. "Same with Texas A&M."

No state has seen more contentious battles over the place of public research universities than Texas, where a board of regents appointed by Gov. Rick Perry has pushed for a focus on teaching, accountability and lower costs and expressed skepticism over the full value to taxpayers of the kind of research UT does. The university and its alumni have fought back, insisting there's a place for an elite research university in a state system.

Public universities have acknowledged their obligations to improve efficiency, while emphasizing basic research may not always pay off immediately or in strict economic terms. A recent similar report by the National Research Council said revitalizing public research universities requires action from a range of players ? more funding from Washington, more autonomy from states if they won't maintain funding levels, and more productivity from universities themselves.

"Universities have to adjust," Bowen said. "Those that have not already started have perhaps made a mistake. There's no question they have to become more efficient."

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South Africa's Malema to face corruption hearing

POLOKWANE, South Africa (Reuters) - ANC rebel Julius Malema, South African President Jacob Zuma's most prominent critic and an advocate of mining nationalization, appears in court on Wednesday on corruption charges that his supporters say are politically motivated.

Police said they would close roads for the hearing on Wednesday around the courthouse in Polokwane, the provincial capital of Malema's native Limpopo, 350 km (220 miles) north of Johannesburg, for one of the biggest trials since the end of apartheid in 1994.

"No lawlessness will be tolerated and those who break the law will be arrested immediately," police said in a statement issued before Malema's supporters began a night vigil on Tuesday.

An arrest warrant was issued last week for the former ANC Youth League leader, with local media saying he was facing charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering in the awarding of government contracts in Limpopo.

The hearing on Wednesday is expected to last only a few minutes with prosecutors reading out the charges against him. The court is then likely to release him on bail.

Hundreds of Malema's young supporters sang songs during the raucous vigil at Nirvana Civic Centre in Polokwane including one entitled: "It's time to fire Zuma".

They said Malema is being persecuted for calling into question Zuma's leadership before an ANC vote in December where Zuma is seeking re-election as president of the party that dominates South African politics.

"The laying of these charges demonstrates that the bid for President Zuma's new term as ANC leader has entered a new phase," Klaas Mabumda, spokesman for the Limpopo ANC Youth League which still backs Malema, told Reuters.

Malema was expelled by the ruling African National Congress in April for causing rifts in the party, but has kept up his anti-Zuma tirades, saying the polygamist president should be removed since he pays more attention to his personal life than to running Africa's biggest economy.

His supporters see him as an eventual leader of the ANC but at 31 he is too young to replace Zuma at the head of the party that has governed South Africa for nearly two decades.

The Youth League's new leaders, who still back Malema, dismissed the charges as a politically motivated gambit to silence Zuma's most vocal critic.

"State institutions must never be used to settle political scores because that will plunge the country into a banana republic and confirms our view that we are becoming a police state," they said in a statement.

The ANC establishment has condemned Malema as an opportunist but has remained mostly silent on the court case.

ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTER

Malema stormed back from the political wilderness in August, blaming Zuma's administration for the police killing of 34 strikers at a platinum mine - the deadliest security incident since the end of white-minority rule.

One of South Africa's best political speakers and known by his nickname "Juju', Malema rose from poverty with populist calls to seize white-owned farmland and for a government takeover of crucial sectors of Africa's largest economy.

Calling himself an "economic freedom fighter", he has revived a call for nationalization of the mines, an option shunned so far by the government because it would bankrupt the country. However, the debate unnerves investors as the industry accounts for 6 percent of national economic output.

With a penchant for expensive cars, Swiss watches and champagne parties, Malema has been under investigation by the police's elite Hawks detective division for alleged corruption relating to government contracts in Limpopo.

Malema has also been given a bill for nearly $2 million for unpaid taxes, the South African Revenue Service said at the weekend. (Editing by Giles Elgood and David Stamp)

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Copywriting Tips For A Fruitful Online Career | Writing and Speaking ...

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It may sound unbelievable that some people opted to quit their jobs and just focused on doing online business such as writing copies for the web and SEO writing. Truth is, the endeavor can be quite fulfilling. If you have a love for words, you should not let the opportunity pass without giving it a try. In the following, there are some copywriting tips to help equip you in writing for the web.

First, you must learn to write on a personal level. This is the main difference between web writing and print media writing. The former puts a premium at establishing rapport with the readers while the latter just aims to deliver information.

If you are selling something, it is important to make the readers feel that you are indeed talking to them. Hence, when you write a copy online, you use the pronoun ?you? many times. This is to engage the readers on a one-on-one conversation. Formal and technical language won?t get you this.

Second, you must learn how to keep everything short and simple?from your sentences, to your paragraphs, to your articles. See, internet users don?t have a lot of time to read. Mostly, they just browse articles, so, you?d better know how to adapt to their behavior. If you will write like a novelist, chances are no one would read you. Hence, leave the long narratives to the creative authors and you start being friends with brevity.

Three, get to the point quickly. This is absolutely one of the most important copywriting tips you must keep in mind while working on any write-up. As mentioned, online readers don?t have a lot of time so cut through the chase and never practice ?delayed drop.? Web surfers aren?t fond with a lot of teasing and leading. They want to get everything ASAP.

Fourth, use repetition. Young kids learn through repeating a sound or a word again and again and again. Readers will also remember what you tell more easily if you repeat them. Bear in mind that they will likely go through your internet marketing article just once and never again. It?s your job to make sure that even if they read you just once, they already got your whole point. If something is worth saying, say it again! Now, don?t you think that also serves as one of the most fantastic copy writing tips?

Finally, always focus on the benefits and not the features. As a web writer, you will likely create copies that will encourage or entice the readers to buy or support something. It is vital that you always concentrate on the good of choosing what you offer so that readers will know why you?re a better choice. Online competition is stringent and if you don?t do anything to standout, then it will devour you.

These are the copywriting tips that will equip you to become a good web writer. Again, if you have the knack for weaving words, there?s no reason why you shouldn?t give earning from it a try.

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'Learning Garden' sows connections between church and community

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Pasadena congregation transforms barren corner into fertile partnership.
By Donald E. Skinner
9.17.12

In the beginning there was grass. About 5,000 square feet of it, on several sides of Throop Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena. And the grass wasn?t especially attractive, said Michael Kelley. ?In recent years it?s been a brown scraggly lawn. I think the city might have had us marked down as having the worst lawn.?

Kelley, who joined the congregation three years ago, had an interest in gardening, and he became interested in seeing what might be done to improve the church grounds, maybe replacing the grass with something more environmentally friendly.

He and several others did some tentative digging last fall. ?We thought it couldn?t do any harm to dig up an exploratory patch,? he said.

As weeks went by, a couple of others joined in. It was slow going. Kelley could tell that the fledgling landscaping project was going to turn into a huge job if the whole lawn was dug up. And that was a daunting job for a congregation that had fewer than 40 members and a Sunday attendance of about 20.

About that time the church was approached by Northeast Los Angeles Transition, a community action group focused on environmental and sustainability issues as a way of preparing for the end of oil. A member of Throop, Eric Einem, who had been working with Kelley, and who was involved with NELA Transition, told the organization about Throop.

Said Kelley, ?Transition is interested in transforming small landscapes and helping people get going on sustainability and food gardening. A lot of their participants like gardening, but don?t have land. So they partnered with us. They supplied volunteers, some tools, and helped us create a design.

?The first day?we broke ground in October 2011?we had 30 people, mostly from the community. Every weekend I met people I?d never seen before. Sometimes I?d only see them in the garden. And sometimes they?d come to services.?

The grass was removed, a new irrigation system laid, and a variety of plantings installed on the south and west sides of the church, a handsome Gothic-style building built in 1922-23 with an 80-foot bell tower, stained glass windows, and a sanctuary that seats 300.

And now, not quite a year later, the project is nearly complete. The lawn is mostly gone. In its place is a growing tapestry of fruit trees, vegetable gardens, and a patio. There are tomato plants, peppers, eggplants, beans, and collard greens in four raised planters. There is the promise of apples, plums, persimmons, and olives. There are robust pumpkin and squash vines, gifts from the compost pile. In short, the grass has been replaced by a gardener?s delight.

At the heart of the new gardens is a patio made of broken concrete sidewalk pieces which were fit together in a spiral pattern. The patio includes an olive tree, donated by the California Institute of Technology in honor of businessman Amos Throop, who founded not only the congregation, but also the college that became Caltech.

The new landscape cost about $10,000, about half of which came in a grant from a City of Pasadena program to encourage people to remove lawns to conserve water. NELA Transition participants donated around a hundred plants, said Kelley.

Kelley said congregation members?and neighbors?have begun to use the grounds more. ?People are overjoyed. Everyone feels that this has been a real gift, partly from the community to us. It gives the church a much more alive look. For many of us this is a ministry. For some, gardening is their spiritual practice and the garden is their ritual space.?

Kelley wants to make it clear that before he got involved at Throop there were others who labored mightily for years to maintain the existing landscaping. ?They were hampered by unsustainable plantings and an old irrigation system that kept breaking down.?

There have been lively debates about what to do with the food produced on the grounds. Some goes to a rescue mission. Members and neighbors take some. And homeless people are eating some of it. ?We?re perfectly happy with that,? said Kelley.

The Rev. Tera Little is consulting minister at Throop. She said the garden is a sign that bigger things are in store for the congregation. ?In some ways this church has just been about survival for a number of years. Before the garden you could drive by here and it looked like a place that maybe no one cared about.

?The picture people had of us was this big edifice whose doors were never open. Now people know us as the church with the beautiful garden. The flowers and vegetation have created a sense of openness and welcoming. And within the congregation there?s been a transformation, a feeling of `We made this happen. And we did it by working with people in the neighborhood.? Now we?re asking ourselves, ?What else can we do?? This has helped awaken us to new life and new possibilities.?

NELA Transition is part of a larger organization, Transition United States. There are more than 120 Transition organizations in the United States, which are working to help communities survive and thrive in the face of such challenges as climate change, economic crises, and the end of easily-available fossil fuels.

Photos of the Throop project, as well as a video of the olive tree planting, are on the congregation?s website.

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1989 Radio Shack Cellular Phone Commercial - Free SMS

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California Expands Access To Birth Control, Abortion

News organizations covered Gov. Jerry Brown's Saturday visit to a Planned Parenthood center, where he signed several bills allowing nurses to dispense birth control and perform some abortions.

Los Angeles Times: Gov. Brown Signs Legislation Easing Birth-Control Access
In a victory for birth-control advocates, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Saturday that allows registered nurses to give out hormonal contraceptives to women under a standardized procedure. The law ?also allows RNs to dispense drugs and devices upon an order by a certified nurse-midwife, a nurse practitioner, or a physician assistant while functioning within specified clinic settings,? according to a news release from Brown?s office (Bloomekatz, 9/22).

The Associated Press/KCBS: Brown Signs Bill Allowing Nurses To Prescribe Birth Control
During debate last month in Sacramento, Democratic Sen. Kevin De Leon said the bill would reduce delays for women because the state is facing a physician shortage. Republican Sen. Joel Anderson opposed it, saying nurses should have trained to become physicians if they wanted to dispense medications (9/22).

KPCC: Governor Signs Bill Allowing Women To Obtain Birth Control Without Seeing?A Doctor
The bill, which takes effect Jan. 1, would also require women to see a doctor for an exam after at least three years ... [state Assemblywoman Holly] Mitchell said the bill allows women in rural areas with a shortage of doctors, nurse practitioners or physicians assistants ? all of whom can provide contraceptives ? the ability to obtain birth control from more prevalent registered nurses (Abdollah, 9/22).?

Meanwhile --

Sacramento Bee: Jerry Brown Signs Abortion, Mammogram Bills
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation extending an ongoing pilot program allowing nurse practitioners and other clinicians to perform non-surgical abortions, his office announced this afternoon. ... The bill extends until Jan. 1, 2014 a pilot program to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of allowing nurse practitioners, midwives and physician assistants to provide aspiration abortions (Siders, 9/22).

This is part of Kaiser Health News' Daily Report - a summary of health policy coverage from more than 300 news organizations. The full summary of the day's news can be found here and you can sign up for e-mail subscriptions to the Daily Report here. In addition, our staff of reporters and correspondents file original stories each day, which you can find on our home page.

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Malware was not installed at factories, says Microsoft

Steve Evans Published 19 September 2012

Company backtracks on claims that malware was being preloaded onto PCs at factories

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Microsoft researchers have gone back on earlier claims that they uncovered malware being installed on PCs during the production process.

Earlier this week Microsoft researchers claimed they had discovered insecurities in supply chain processes at PC manufacturing factories in China, which meant that malware could be installed on a PC while it was being built in the factory.

The company purchased 20 PCs and found malware already installed on four of them.

Contrary to its earlier claims the malware was most likely installed by a "distributor, transporter, or reseller," the company's Digital Crimes Unit has now said in a statement.

Among the malware discovered was Nitol, which targets bank account details.

The discoveries resulted in Microsoft gaining authorisation to shut down a domain - 3322org - which it said was running hundreds of different varieties of malware.

"We found malware capable of remotely turning on an infected computer's microphone and video camera, potentially giving a cybercriminal eyes and ears into a victim's home or business," Microsoft said at the time.

"Additionally, we found malware that records a person's every key stroke, allowing cybercriminals to steal a victim's personal information. The Nitol botnet malware itself carries out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that are able to cripple large networks by overloading them with Internet traffic, and creates hidden access points on the victim's computer to allow even more malware - or anything else for that matter - to be loaded onto an infected computer," Richard Boscovich, sssistant general counsel, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, added.

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