Wednesday, February 29, 2012

US rules to prevent car back-over deaths delayed

(AP) ? U.S. rules aimed at preventing drivers from backing over children and others by requiring automakers to include rearview cameras on many new vehicles will be delayed until the end of this year, transportation officials said Tuesday.

In a letter to lawmakers, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration needs more time for "study and data analysis."

The agency proposed more than a year ago that automakers include rear-mounted video cameras with in-vehicle display on all cars and light trucks by the 2014 model year.

Nearly 300 people are killed and 18,000 injured each year because of back-over accidents, according to NHTSA data. Many occur in driveways and parking lots. Nearly half the deaths involve children under age 5. The elderly also are frequent victims.

Lobbyists for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, an industry trade association, met with White House officials in December about the proposed rules. They urged the administration to permit manufacturers the option of including expanded mirrors on vehicles rather than cameras, saying the estimated cost to the industry of requiring cameras at $2.7 billion annually.

Gloria Bergquist, vice president of the alliance, noted that the cameras already are standard equipment in many vehicle models or offered as options for which car buyers pay extra.

Under a 2008 law, the government was required to issue final rules to address back-over accidents by Feb. 28, 2011. LaHood had extended that deadline twice already.

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A spokesman for a company criticized by Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport for allegedly misleading people seeking work at the airport defended the business Tuesday, saying it provides a service for its $35 fee and doesn?t guarantee anyone a job.

A website screen grab shows a Craigslist ad purportedly listing jobs at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. People who call the phone number in the ad are asked to send a $35 processing fee to apply for the jobs. Hartsfield-Jackson officials tell Channel 2 Action News that the ad is bogus.

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A website screen grab shows a Craigslist ad purportedly listing jobs at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. People who call the phone number in the ad are asked to send a $35 ?processing fee? to apply for the jobs. Hartsfield-Jackson officials tell Channel 2 Action News that the ad is bogus.

?Nobody is saying here we?ll guarantee you a job. Nobody is saying we?re going to get you a job for $35. That?s absurd. That?s impossible,? said Robert Mareem, who identified himself as a counselor at American Careers LLC of Washington, D.C.

?But if you listen to our [phone] message, we?re not saying that. We?re saying we?re going to guide you through the process, we?re going to help you,? Mareem said in a phone interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

As reported by Channel 2 Action News on Monday, American Careers had placed an advertisement on Craigslist that appears to be a job posting for positions at Hartsfield-Jackson.

People responding to the phone number listed in the ad hear a recording saying, ?The airlines at Atlanta?s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport are currently hiring.?

The recording says entry-level positions ? no experience necessary ? are available for jobs including flight attendants, baggage handlers and mechanics. The recording says the jobs, with starting pay of $14 to $22 per hour, offer such benefits as health insurance, paid vacations, retirement plans ?and free flights for you and your family.?

?We do have a one-time processing fee of $35,? the recording says. An applicant is asked to send information including his or her name, address and telephone number, ?and money order or certified check for $35 made payable to American Careers, or $35 cash,? to an address in Washington.

In a prepared statement, Hartsfield-Jackson officials told Channel 2, ?As far as we are aware, this is a scam, and job-seekers are urged not to reply to these ?fake? job postings when seeking employment at Hartsfield-Jackson.?

?Companies doing business with the airport do not work with employment agencies that charge job candidates for their services,? the airport said.

Mareem said his company provides a legitimate service in exchange for the $35 fee.

?What we do is really pure and simple,? he said. ?There?s a lot of turnover at any airport, particularly Hartsfield-Jackson. What we do is help people for a $35 fee to obtain an appointment at the airport.?

Mareem said a packet of information is sent to clients that contains ?a listing of positions they can apply for, the airlines they can apply to at the airport, websites they can go to, addresses, information on each individual position broken down into what it entails and what they would be required to do.?

The packet, he said, also instructs people ?how to apply for those particular jobs, where to go, how to write cover letters, who to write resumes, thank-you letters, how to interview properly, what to say, how to dress.

?Basically all those things are put into writing and sent to them and if they have questions, there?s a phone number they can call us for help.?

Asked if he had contacted Hartsfield-Jackson officials about their statement, Mareem said he had not.

?I do not know where they got their information from,? he said. ?Whatever information they?re getting is dictating what they?re saying. I really do not know how to respond to that except more than likely the information they obtained is false.?

Mareem said he suspected one or two individuals unhappy with the service they got from American Careers were trying to cause trouble for the company.

When told Monday of American Careers? Craigslist posting, John Sours, administrator of the Governor?s Office of Consumer Protection, was skeptical.

?Nobody?s going to get you a decent, good paying job with benefits for a one-shot $30 fee. It just doesn?t work like that,? Sours told Channel 2. ?No legitimate business is going to shop jobs without doing career counseling to make sure you?re fit for that job.?

Airport officials advised those seeking work at the airport to attend a job fair scheduled for April 2, 3 and 4 at the Georgia International Convention Center.

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Actress Sean Young arrested at post-Oscars party (AP)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - Actress Sean Young was arrested after a scuffle with a security guard at the official post-Oscars party, police said Monday.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Eye movement not engaged in 'arms race'

ScienceDaily (Feb. 28, 2012) ? We make our eye movements earlier or later in order to coordinate with movements of our arms, New York University neuroscientists have found. Their study, which appears in the journal Neuron, points to a mechanism in the brain that allows for this coordination and may have implications for rehabilitation and prosthetics.

Researchers have sought to understand the neurological processes behind eye and arm movements. For example, when you reach for an object, what goes on in our brains so that our eyes and arms are in sync? Such coordination is central to the way different systems of the brain communicate with each other, and these undertakings are surprisingly complicated -- due to differences in weight, for instance, the arm takes longer than the eye to move.

The question is vital to rehabilitation -- a better understanding of these neurological processes may help address the needs of those who have suffered brain injuries and struggle to coordinate movements among different parts of the body. In addition, new insights in this area could lead to more advanced neural prosthetics, which are artificial extensions to the body that restore or supplement function of the nervous system lost during disease or injury. Currently, these devices are somewhat primitive given our relatively limited knowledge of how the brain works to coordinate movement.

In their study, the NYU researchers examined the neurological activity of macaque monkeys while the subjects performed a variety of tasks that required them to either reach and to simultaneously employ rapid eye movements or to only use rapid eye movements, also known as saccades.

The resulting readings revealed significant coherent patterns of firing of neurons in the brain's posterior parietal cortex (PPC) when both the eyes and arms were required to move for the same task, but not for tasks that involved only saccades. The patterns of firing were found in regions of the PPC that are specialized for moving either the eye or the arm.

Coherent patterns of firing may be due to these different brain areas communicating when coordinating movement, the research team concluded.

"We think we have a mechanism for coordination," explained Bijan Pesaran, a professor in NYU's Center for Neuroscience and the study's senior author, adding that the finding is only a step and additional study is likely to reveal a more complex process. "Our findings show it is the patterns of activity in a specific region of the brain just prior to both saccades and reaching that are important."

In addition, their data showed a coordination of movement between the eyes and arms.

"The brain adjusts timing of eye movements, depending on how long it takes to start moving the arm," Pesaran explained. "Our study is asking how information flows between the arm and eye movement systems, and it shows how coherent patterns of neural activity are important to this communication."

The study's other co-authors were Heather Dean and Maureen Hagan, postdoctoral fellows in NYU's Center for Neural Science.

The research was supported by grants from: the National Science Foundation; the National Institutes of Health; NYSTAR; the Sloan Fondation; the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience; and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

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  1. Heather?L. Dean, Maureen?A. Hagan, Bijan Pesaran. Only Coherent Spiking in Posterior Parietal Cortex Coordinates Looking and Reaching. Neuron, 2012; 73 (4): 829 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.12.035

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UK police: Culture of illegal payments at The Sun (AP)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - A senior British police official said Monday that Britain's biggest selling tabloid, The Sun, had a culture of making illegal payments to public officials in return for stories.

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Monday, February 27, 2012

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

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Friday, February 17, 2012

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Web Hosting Providers For Your Business

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Finding the correct web hosting providers will make all the difference in whether your online business succeeds or fails. The biggest problem is that there are so many on the market. It is hard to know which one is the best.

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