Panasonic's 145-inch 8K PDP eyes-on (video)

Tucked away into a dark corner of Panasonic's booth is the clear highlight of the outfit's IFA 2012 showcase: a 145-inch 8K plasma display panel. Developed in partnership with Japan's NHK, the prototype is merely a proof of concept for the broadcaster's planned 2020 launch of Super Hi Vision TV. In person, the flat screen is truly awe-inspiring, offering such richness of detail that even up-close we weren't able to discern any pixels, while colors appeared balanced and natural. Overall, the image quality -- 16 times that of regular full HD -- nearly apes the real-world images it replicates. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait sometime before this tech trickles down to the mass market level. In the meantime, content yourself with a brief video demo after the break.

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A Googler Explains Why Mobile Ads Are The Next ... - Business Insider

Tim Reis, head of mobile display for Google, stopped by our Mobile Advertising Conference this month and explained why mobile ads are the next big thing.

We think Reis hits the nail right on the head when he says that cell phones are "extraordinarily personal devices" and therefore must be treated as such by advertisers.

In order to break into a consumer's "circle of trust," mobile advertisers can't spam or mislead its targeted audience while also providing something that benefits them.

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Astronauts, family mourn humble hero Armstrong

Apollo 11 astronauts Michael Collins, left, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, talk at a private memorial service celebrating the life of Neil Armstrong, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, at the Camargo Club in Cincinnati. A national memorial service has been scheduled for Sept. 12 in Washington. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, died Saturday, Aug. 25. He was 82. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls)

Apollo 11 astronauts Michael Collins, left, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, talk at a private memorial service celebrating the life of Neil Armstrong, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, at the Camargo Club in Cincinnati. A national memorial service has been scheduled for Sept. 12 in Washington. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, died Saturday, Aug. 25. He was 82. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls)

U.S. Senator Rob Portman, R-Ohio, talks about astronaut Neil Armstrong following private services for Armstrong, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, in Cincinnati. Portman gave the eulogy at the service. Hundreds of people attended a closed service for Armstrong Friday at a private club in suburban Cincinnati. A national memorial service has been scheduled for Sept. 12 in Washington. Armstrong died Aug. 25 at age 82. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

An F-18 fighter jet peels away in the missing man formation as they fly over private services for astronaut Neil Armstrong, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, at the Camargo Country Club in Cincinnati. Hundreds of people attended a closed service for Armstrong Friday at a private club in suburban Cincinnati. A national memorial service has been scheduled for Sept. 12 in Washington. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

A bystander holds a copy of the program being given out at private services for astronaut Neil Armstrong, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, in Cincinnati. Hundreds of people attended a closed service for Armstrong Friday at a private club in suburban Cincinnati. A national memorial service has been scheduled for Sept. 12 in Washington. Armstrong died Aug. 25 at age 82. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks about astronaut Neil Armstrong following private services for Armstrong, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, at the Camargo Country Club in Cincinnati. Hundreds of people attended a closed service for Armstrong Friday at a private club in suburban Cincinnati. A national memorial service has been scheduled for Sept. 12 in Washington. Armstrong died Aug. 25 at age 82. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

CINCINNATI (AP) ? Neil Armstrong was a humble hero who saw himself as a team player and never capitalized on his celebrity as the first man to walk on the moon, mourners said Friday outside a private service attended by fellow space pioneers, including his two crewmates on the historic Apollo 11 mission.

Hundreds of people attended a closed service for Armstrong Friday at a private club in suburban Cincinnati. A national memorial service has been scheduled for Sept. 12 in Washington, although no other details have been released on the service or burial plans for Armstrong. He died Saturday at age 82.

Among some 10 former astronauts attending Friday were John Glenn and Armstrong's crew for the 1969 moon landing, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

"You'll never get a hero, in my view, like Neil Armstrong," said Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who praised Armstrong after the service for his wisdom and humility in the way he handled becoming a global icon. "It's going to be hard to top."

"America has truly lost a legend," said Eugene Cernan, an Apollo astronaut who is the last man to have walked on the moon.

Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, eulogized Armstrong "as a reluctant hero" and said afterward the service was a mix of emotion and humor, with Armstrong's two sons talking about him as a father and grandfather.

"He touched the lives of so many," Portman said.

"He was the embodiment of everything this nation is all about," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. Armstrong, he said, had a courageous drive for exploration while being an "incredibly humble" man who probably wouldn't have wanted all the attention of Friday's service.

It included a Navy ceremonial guard, a bagpiper corps and songs including "When the Saints Go Marching In." Four Navy fighter planes flew over at the end of the service, one flying upward in tribute to Armstrong, a former Navy pilot who flew combat missions in Korea.

Raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio, Armstrong developed an early love for aviation.

He commanded the Gemini 8 mission in 1966 and Apollo 11's historic moon landing on July 20, 1969. As a worldwide audience watched on TV, Armstrong took the step on the lunar surface he called "one giant leap for mankind."

Juri Taalman, 78, said he made a special trip from Hartford, Conn., just to stand across the road from the club where the service was held, in tribute to Armstrong.

He said he and his wife were on their honeymoon in Amsterdam the day of the moon landing. He recalled hotel employees bringing champagne to the guests watching Armstrong's first steps together on television, and an Englishman lifting his glass in a toast "to all mankind!"

Taalman's voice cracked as he discussed his visit Friday.

"I just think a really great man has passed, and the world is poorer for it," he said.

Earlier Friday, Cernan and Apollo 13 commander James Lovell spoke at a Cincinnati hospital to help launch a children's health fund in Armstrong's memory.

Cernan and Lovell recounted visiting U.S troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with Armstrong, saying he always had an inspirational impact when meeting troops, schoolchildren and other admirers around the world.

Lovell said Armstrong was "a great American" who never capitalized on his celebrity and just "wanted to be a team player." While Armstrong had said any of the astronauts could have been the first to walk on the moon, Lovell and Cernan said Armstrong was the right choice because of the way he handled suddenly becoming an icon.

"There's nobody that I know of that could have accepted the challenge and responsibility that came with being that with more dignity than Neil Armstrong," Cernan said.

Lovell and Cernan said that they had visited Armstrong two months ago in his home in suburban Indian Hill, and that he cooked breakfast for them ? and burned the eggs.

"Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life," Cernan said.

Armstrong's family has suggested memorial contributions to two scholarship funds in his name or to the Neil Armstrong New Frontiers Initiative at Cincinnati Children's. His wife, Carol, is on the hospital's board.

The astronauts were joined there Friday by 14-year-old Shane DiGiovanna, an aspiring aerospace engineer with a rare skin tissue disease. He is able to hear after a cochlear implant, with a device developed by a NASA scientist.

Before the announcement, Shane, who said Armstrong has always inspired him, quizzed the two astronauts about details of their missions. Lovell recounted the streams of oxygen that wrapped the Apollo 13 spacecraft "like a cocoon" after an oxygen tank explosion. The harrowing Apollo 13 flight was recounted in his book and depicted in the popular movie, in which Tom Hanks played Lovell.

After his space career, Armstrong returned to Ohio, teaching aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati and generally avoiding public view for most of the rest of his life.

Armstrong married Carol Knight in 1999. He had two sons from a previous marriage.

In announcing his death, Armstrong's family requested that when people "see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink."

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Second-quarter growth revised up, Fed still seen in play

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy fared slightly better than initially thought in the second quarter, but the pace of growth remained too slow to shut the door on further monetary easing from the Federal Reserve.

Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.7 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday, as stronger export growth offset a pull-back in restocking by businesses wary of sluggish domestic demand.

While that was an improvement on the government's first estimate of 1.5 percent published last month and the composition of growth was fairly favorable, it was insufficient to cut into an unemployment rate that ticked up to 8.3 percent in July.

The lack of stronger job growth, along with the uncertainty stemming from Europe's debt crisis and fears of big U.S. government spending cuts and tax hikes in 2013, could compel the U.S. central bank to offer additional stimulus by year end.

"I don't think this really changes the dovish sentiment of the Fed," said Michael Hanson, a senior economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York. "They are going to look at this and say 1.7 percent is below trend, that's not where we want to be and the risks going forward are still material."

A growth pace of between 2 percent and 2.5 percent is generally seen as needed just to hold the jobless rate steady, and the sluggish recovery is proving to be a difficult hurdle for President Barack Obama in his quest to secure a second term in November's election.

Growth in the third quarter is expected to show an improvement, but still remain below the economy's potential.

A second report showed contracts to buy previously owned homes hit their highest level in more than two years in July, suggesting the housing market's recovery was gaining traction and offering a relative economic bright spot.

The lackluster recovery has sparked a sharp debate among Fed officials over whether they should launch another round of bond purchases to spur stronger growth.

Economists say the outcome of the central bank's next meeting on September 12-13 will be a close call. Jobs growth has picked up a bit and housing and retail sales have strengthened. However, business spending looks weak and inflation is slowing.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke could offer more clarity on the outlook for monetary policy when he speaks at a gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday.

"Growth is neither strong enough for Bernanke to take any additional easing off the table, but it is hardly weak enough to force him to announce new actions," said Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors in Holland, Pennsylvania.

The Fed's Beige Book report, which offers a snapshot of the economy, described economic activity as continuing to "gradually" expand in July and early August. It noted, however, that manufacturing activity was softening in many regions of the country.

Stocks on Wall Street were little changed for a third straight day as investors opted to wait for Bernanke's speech. Treasury debt prices fell, while the dollar eked out modest gains versus a basket of currencies.

EXPORTS ECLIPSE INVENTORIES

The revised GDP data showed export growth was strong, while import growth was the smallest in a year. Trade contributed 0.32 percentage point to GDP growth instead of subtracting a third of a point, as previously reported.

"We expect softer export growth over the coming quarters, but not a collapse because the majority of exports stay in North America (and) will be insulated from what's going on in Europe and China," said Paul Edelstein, an economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts.

The export strength helped to offset the drag from inventories. However, the careful management of stocks could be a boost to the economy in the third quarter.

Excluding inventories, GDP rose at a 2.0 percent rate rather than 1.2 percent.

Consumer spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity, was revised up a notch to a 1.7 percent pace from the previously reported 1.5 percent. Still, that marked a step-down from the first quarter's 2.4 percent pace, and a smaller rise is expected this quarter with demand for big-ticket items such as automobiles cooling.

Stronger than previously reported investment in the construction of nonresidential structures also gave a lift to GDP growth in the second quarter.

But growth in business investment in equipment and software was lowered to a 4.7 percent pace, the slowest since the third quarter of 2009, from 7.2 percent previously.

Growth in spending by businesses on equipment and software has slowed sharply from a peak of 18.3 percent in the third quarter of last year, and the retrenchment appears to have intensified early this quarter.

"There's no question that as we look toward the end of the year and the risk presented by federal spending cuts and tax increases, the economy remains in a vulnerable window," said Jim Baird, chief investment strategist at Plante Moran Financial Advisors in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The report also showed that after-tax corporate profits rose at a 1.1 percent rate after sinking 8.6 percent in the first quarter.

Government spending declined, but the drop was not as deep as previously reported. And even though consumer spending was bumped up, inflation pressures remained muted.

(Editing by Tim Ahmann and Leslie Gevirtz)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/second-quarter-growth-revised-1-7-percent-123133286--business.html

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Twin typhoons raise fears in disaster-prone NKorea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Twin typhoons are renewing fears of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea, where poor drainage, widespread deforestation and crumbling infrastructure can turn even a routine rainstorm into a catastrophic flood.

Typhoon Bolaven struck the North on Tuesday and Wednesday, submerging houses and roads, ruining thousands of acres of crops and triggering landslides that buried train tracks ? scenes that are all too familiar in this disaster-prone nation. A second major storm, Typhoon Tembin, is forecast to dump more rain on the Korean Peninsula on Thursday and Friday.

The storms come as North Korea is still recovering from earlier floods that killed more than 170 people and destroyed thousands of homes. That in turn followed a springtime drought that was the worst in a century in some areas.

Foreign aid groups contacted Thursday said they are standing by in Pyongyang, but had not received requests for help from the North Korean government. They had little information on the extent of damage and were relying on reports from state media. The country's wariness toward the outside world, as well as a primitive rural road system, means aid may be slow arriving, if it is allowed to come at all.

"These fresh storms, coming just a few weeks after the serious flooding ? they do raise concerns because we see parts of the countryside battered again that have already been left in a vulnerable state," said Francis Markus, spokesman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in East Asia.

Heavy rains that could be little more than an inconvenience elsewhere can be calamitous in North Korea.

Downpours trigger landslides that barrel down the country's deforested mountains and valleys. For decades, rural people have felled trees because they have no other source of fuel or warmth, leaving the landscape barren and heavily eroded. Rivers overflow, submerging crops, inundating roads and engulfing hamlets.

Since June, tens of thousands have been left without clean water, electricity and access to food and other supplies. That leads to a risk of water-borne and respiratory diseases and malnutrition, aid workers say.

Because the North annually struggles to produce enough food from its rocky, mountainous landscape to feed its 24 million people, a poorly timed natural disaster can easily tip the country into crisis, like the famine in the 1990s that followed a similar succession of devastating storms.

A North Korean land management official acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press that widespread deforestation and a lack of basic infrastructure have made the country vulnerable to the typhoons and storms that batter the peninsula each year.

"It's important for the future of our children to make our country rich and beautiful," Ri Song Il, director of external affairs for the Ministry of Land and Environmental Protection, said in June.

He said a campaign is under way to replenish forests, build highways and construct proper irrigation at the order of North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong Un. He held up a green pamphlet on land management that was the first official document Kim published after taking power from his father.

But it may be too little, too late, for this year's summer rains.

In Pyongyang, North Korea's showcase capital of grand monuments and broad boulevards, the rains have been little more than a nuisance for residents tromping about in rubber boots and umbrellas.

Outside the capital, it's a different story.

In villages without the luxury of paved roads, summer downpours have sliced through roadways and washed away bridges, all but cutting off already isolated communities from supplies, food and help.

Two weeks ago, AP journalists visited a flood-ravaged mining hamlet in South Phyongan province where gushing waters from an earlier storm swallowed a whole block of homes. The trip, a mere 40-mile (60-kilometer) drive northeast of Pyongyang, required a bumpy four-hour ride along rutted, muddy roads.

Along the way, workers piled stones along the roadside as a bulwark against landslides, but they were no match for the water rushing down mountainsides.

Villagers crouched in makeshift lean-tos and camped on the rubble where their houses once stood. They vowed to rebuild once the roads are restored and trucks can cart in cement. But there are concerns about how vulnerable their new homes would be if they rebuild at the foot of a mountain in the county of Songchon, which means "place where many waters come together."

North Korea has no clear long-term strategy to deal with disasters or climate change, the United Nations said in a report issued in June.

This year, North Korea is at a particularly dangerous juncture, said the Red Cross' Markus. Over the last two years, he said, "we've been seeing a gradual deterioration in the humanitarian situation."

The Red Cross works with villagers to prepare evacuation plans and other ways to protect themselves, their homes and their farmland in the event of a disaster, he said.

But severe weather remains an omnipresent threat, and poor infrastructure and massive deforestation are "a major factor in exacerbating these weather events," he said. "There's no doubt that the vulnerabilities in the countryside are considerable."

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Associated Press writer Foster Klug contributed to this report. Follow Lee, AP's Korea bureau chief, at twitter.com/newsjean and Klug at twitter.com/APKlug.

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Landstar To Participate in Credit Suisse's 2012 Automotive and ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 29,?2012 /PRNewswire/ --?Landstar System, Inc. (NASDAQ-LSTR), a non-asset based provider of integrated supply chain solutions delivering safe, specialized transportation and logistics services, announced its participation in several conferences:

• Credit Suisse's 2012 Automotive and Transportation Conference
  Location:? Credit Suisse Conference Center ? New York, New York.??
  Presentation time: ?Wednesday, September 5^th at 10:00 AM.
• 5th Annual Dahlman Rose & Co. Global Transportation Conference
  Location: Omni Berkshire Place ? New York, New York.?
  Presentation time: Thursday, September 6^th at 8:35 AM
• Deutsche Bank's 2012 Aviation and Transportation Conference
  Location:? The Pierre ? New York, New York.?
  Presentation time:? Thursday, September 6^th at 2:10 PM.

All three presentations will be available on Landstar's website through Thursday, September 13th.

Landstar Chairman, President and CEO Henry Gerkens and Landstar Vice President and CFO Jim Gattoni will present an overview of the Company and provide an update with respect to the current level of business activity.? All presentations will be broadcast live via the Internet at www.landstar.com; click on "Investor Relations" and then "Webcasts".? For more information about the presentations or webcasts, please contact Landstar's Investor Relations Department at 904-390-1530 or email staylor@landstar.com.?

About Landstar:
Landstar System, Inc. is a non-asset based provider of integrated supply chain solutions.? Landstar delivers safe, specialized transportation and logistics services to a broad range of customers worldwide utilizing a network of agents, third-party capacity owners and employees.? All Landstar transportation services companies are certified to ISO 9001:2008 quality management system standards and RC14001:2008 environmental, health, safety and security management system standards.? Landstar System, Inc. is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Its common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market? under the symbol LSTR.

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Isaac - when government aid is not largesse

WASHINGTON (AP) ? At their convention, Republican leaders are taking the stage to push for less government and accuse President Barack Obama of profligate spending. About 500 miles away, under threat from a hurricane, Republicans welcomed federal government aid and at least one GOP governor accused Obama of being miserly with the help.

The chance occurrence of a political convention and a Gulf State emergency unfolding in split-screen real time is creating a clash between rhetoric and reality. The calls for fiscal discipline echoing the convention hall in Tampa, Fla., aren't reverberating in drenched and wind-whipped Louisiana or Mississippi.

The contrast illustrates one the sharpest conundrums facing a nation of giant budget deficits. Reducing the size of government sounds good until someone feels the pinch.

Obama issued disaster declarations this week for Louisiana and Mississippi ahead of the now downgraded Tropical Storm Isaac, guaranteeing federal emergency aid in designated counties. And the federal government has deployed manpower and equipment, such as Air Force Reserve "Hurricane Hunters" to conduct aerial reconnaissance on the storm and Federal Emergency Management Agency teams to help with logistics and provide other assistance.

Officials had no estimate of how much had already been spent on the effort. Altogether, the government's federal disaster fund has about $1.5 billion available.

In Tampa, the threat posed by Isaac was certainly not lost on conventioneers. The Republican Party delayed the gathering for a day because of the storm and from the dais speakers offered prayers for those in Isaac's path and wished them Godspeed. But the government's response to the storm and its expenditure of taxpayer dollars played out in sharp juxtaposition to the persistent calls for smaller government and criticism of Obama for presiding over an increase in the national debt.

"With $5 trillion in debt added over the last four years, we have no other option but to make the hard choices, cut federal spending and fundamentally reduce the size of government," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said.

Certainly no Republican suggested that the federal government had no role in helping states in an emergency. Indeed, GOP budget hawks often single out national security and public safety as essential government functions. And as Obama declared emergencies in Louisiana and Mississippi and federal agencies mobilized in the face of Isaac's landfall, Gulf Coast states and their Republican officials welcomed government assistance. That's in addition to billions spent by the federal government upgrading the levee system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

"It's important and it's money well spent, not just for us locally but for national assets like the ports and oil and gas production," Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana told the Los Angeles Times.

Louisiana's Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, wanted even more from the federal government.

After Obama signed an emergency declaration for the state, Jindal said it fell short of the help he was requesting. Jindal said he wanted more Louisiana parishes covered and urged Obama to have the federal government reimburse state and local government agencies for storm preparation efforts.

Vitter on Wednesday weighed in with his own letter to Obama echoing Jindal's request.

FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said such requests would be addressed after the storm. But Jindal stood by his demand. "We learned from past experiences, you can't just wait," he said. "You've got to push the federal bureaucracy."

Such aid might have been harder to come by had Romney's running mate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, had his way. Ryan, the chairman of the House budget committee, earlier this year tried to eliminate $10 billion a year in disaster spending. Instead, Ryan proposed that when emergencies arise, Congress pay for the disaster costs by cutting from elsewhere in the budget. Ryan lost after his own party leaders balked. But he had support from many tea party backed Republicans.

"The rhetoric would make you believe that a major portion of the government is designed to take care of Democratic constituencies and Democratic priorities," said Scott Lilly, former Democratic staff director of the House Appropriations Committee. "The truth is that most of government is made up of programs that we all depend on and many of us depend very heavily on, and the Republicans turn out to be even more dependent in many instances than Democrats. The states that are targets for hurricanes are generally not blue states."

Vitter aide Luke Bolar said federal spending on natural disasters isn't an example of fiscal indiscipline. "People who object haven't lived through a hurricane and what the local and municipal governments have to go through," Bolar said. "It's not like a bridge to nowhere."

___

Associated Press writer Thomas Beaumont in Tampa, Fla., contributed to this report.

___

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ABC buys Marvel S.H.I.E.L.D Pilot with Joss Whedon co-writing

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.co,) - Nick Fury and the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D could be coming to ABC.

The network has entered an agreement for a pilot revolving around the peace-keeping organization S.H.I.E.L.D, which is featured in both Marvel comics and the superhero films which they spawned, including this year's "The Avengers."

Joss Whedon, who wrote and directed the big-screen version of "The Avengers," is also writing the pilot, along with brother Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen ("Dollhouse").

Whedon will also direct - schedule permitting - and executive produce if the project if it goes into production, with Jed, Tancharoen, Jeffrey Bell and Jeph Loeb of Marvel Television.

The project comes via Marvel TV and ABC Studios. Whedon is also set to direct and write the sequel to "The Avengers."

Deadline first reported the news of ABC's S.H.I.E.L.D project.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/abc-buys-marvel-h-e-l-d-pilot-191401003.html

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Successful Sistas: Anita Johnson | For Colored Gurls

Successful Sistas is an interview series featuring successful women who have a career they love.

Job Title:?Speaker, Author & President of Money Wisdom for Women (subsidiary of Anita R. Johnson & Associates)

What is Anita R. Johnson & Associates?
Anita R. Johnson & Associates is the parent company for Money Wisdom for Women and its subsidiaries. We educate women with wealth-building skills in order for them to leave a legacy for their children.

How did you become interested in finance?
One day, my daddy told me that until you learn to count your money, you will not be able to make it in this world.

Why did you create your business?
I wanted to educate small business owners to read their financial statements to make good financial decisions.

MWFW was create to educate women with wealth-building skills and help them understand unhealthy financial habits.

What do you love most about what you do?
When the light bulb comes on for women, and they are ready to change their habits.

What is the most stressful aspect of your job?
Reaching people, helping them understand how important finances are.

What?s a typical day like for you?
Begin with yoga, always. Some days are phone calls and researching companies I want to bring the financial agenda to. Tuesdays and Thursdays are my radio show. Some days are filled with networking/meetings.

What advice or tips would you give to someone who wants to do what you do?
Read, read and more reading.

Finish this sentence: This career is for you if _____
[You] study people and love people.

_________________________________________________________

Four weeks to your most Fabulous you begins here!

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Jamie Fleming-Dixon is the founder and author of ForColoredGurls.com. Her intention is to empower readers, inspire them to live their most fabulous lives and to motivate them to reach for their dreams and goals. This is done through motivational articles and quotes, interviews with women from all walks of life, posts on topics that affect every area of women's lives and more. For more info about Jamie and FCG, email her at info@forcoloredgurls.com.

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Terra Forming Terra: Former Model Defeats Breast Cancer with Diet

?We continue to get more individual reports supporting the efficiency of imposing an alkaline regimen in order to defeat cancer. A recent posting of mine revealed a direct approach using maple sugar and baking soda to force the issue. The indirect approach is typically vegan.

This is the first such report that begins with a person who does not start with any conventional treatment at all. It turns out to be highly successful and the patient was obviously aggressive in maxing out the vitamin C. That may not have been necessary, yet it will certainly be beneficial.

What is becoming clearer, is that going alkaline is the first priority with a cancer diagnosis. It will not harm you and will certainly work against the cancer supporting all other therapies.

55-year-old former model battles breast cancer with diet changes; refuses chemo and surgery

Thursday, August 16, 2012 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer

(NaturalNews) The story of former model Jessica Richards' battle with cancer is a remarkable one, especially because it has defected from the use of conventional treatments like chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. In her book?The Topic of Cancer, Richards explains how following a strict metabolic diet and receiving high-dose intravenous injections of vitamin C has helped successfully reverse the progression of her breast cancer, to the shock of many conventional doctors.

It is a story you will likely never hear from the mainstream media, at least not from the perspective of being taken seriously, and yet it is one that people desperately need to hear. Rather than follow in the footsteps of the millions of others who have lost their lives as a result of all the cutting, burning, and poisoning, Richards made the personal, informed decision to naturally fight breast cancer by feeding her body a plethora of cancer-fighting nutrients, and cutting out a host of cancer-causing foods and substances.

After learning that she had an unusually large tumor in one of her breasts, Richards was told by her doctors that she would need to begin an aggressive treatment protocol that involved removing the breast, having it reconstructed, and undergoing an intense series of radiation and hormone treatments to keep it at bay. Knowing a bit about the toll this would take on her body, Richards decided to take a different route.

"The cancer consultant who'd done my ultrasound scans said my tumor was so large I'd need accelerated chemotherapy for several months," writes Richards about her initial diagnosis. "He said I would almost certainly need a mastectomy or at least a large lumpectomy with significant reconstruction, my lymph nodes removed, radiotherapy and five years of hormone-altering drugs after that."

After researching alternative options, Richards decided to eliminate all dairy and sugar from her?diet, including most fruits, and instead eat lots of vegetables and take high doses of vitamin C intravenously. After just three weeks of starting this regimen, which many said she was crazy to undertake at the expense of conventional treatments, scans showed that Richards' tumor had essentially "gone to sleep," and was in the process of regressing. Almost immediately after beginning the protocol, in fact, Richards began to see drastic improvements.

"I switched from a generally healthy diet to a metabolic one, focusing on alkaline over acid foods and cutting out all sugars," adds Richards. "I also cut out all grains and most fruit, which are broken down into sugars. Instead, I concentrated on leafy green vegetables, short grain rice, quinoa and linseeds, and cut out all dairy, which is pumped with artificial hormones. I also had regular high-dose infusions of vitamin C, a natural form of chemotherapy."

With the help of alternative?cancer?specialists, Richards has all but completely cured her cancer

After several months of adhering to her strict diet, which she admits has not always been easy, Richards was told by her consultant radiologist that her tumor was effectively breaking down in the same way as it would with intensive chemotherapy, except without all the organ damage and other deadly side effects. A little over a year after first being diagnosed with cancer, Richards was able to stop her intravenous vitamin C injections -- and not long after that was told that she was completely healthy, and would not have to return for a checkup for another year.

Today, Richards is healthier than ever, and has never once had to be blasted with radiation, poisoned with chemicals, or had a knife cut her skin.

While we often read stories from cancer survivors who have chosen the conventional route, those who have taken the natural path are so rarely given a voice.

But hearing from others who have taken the road less traveled and come out the other side can be just as important as any dietary change or treatment plan.

In the last few months I?ve received a steady stream of emails from people telling me about their own alternative cancer journeys. These stories have filled Mum and I with hope and joy and so we thought we?d share with you some of these uplifting tales.

Jessica Richards, 5-year breast cancer survivor

In May 2007, I was diagnosed with a 3.5cm Stage two invasive, ductal carcinoma (a large breast cancer), and was recommended a partial or full mastectomy and removal of lymph nodes, intensive chemo, radiotherapy and five years of drugs. Nearly five years on I?m extremely fit and well having had no medical treatment whatsoever.

I held off deciding on any particular treatment until I?d had a full diagnosis and seen the results of my tumour biopsy and lymph node biopsy. I then investigated each treatment I had been prescribed and the first thing I decided against was chemotherapy. I gradually became aware that what I was being offered was not necessarily my best option when weighed up against the risks from ?side? effects and the negligible benefits.

Ultimately my choice was a simple one:

A. If I?m going to live, could I face life with the long-term side effects of chemo and radiation, which would have impaired my health and wellbeing in the long term? The answer to that was, No.

B. If I?m going to die anyway, do I want to spend the last year or so of my life in and out of hospital wishing I were dead? The answer to that was again, No.

The alternative route seemed to offer me the best chance of recovery with no damaging side effects. I would like to make it very clear that I did not base any of my choices on belief. I simply made rational decisions based on the facts and evidence presented to me, in that I did everything I could to support my immune system (rather than destroy it) and at the same time, wreck the cancer environment within my body.

When family and friends eventually found out about my decision their reactions ranged from, ?Wow you?re bold!? to, ?What!?!?

I would like to add here that I did everything under medical supervision. I have friends and colleagues in Harley Street where I?ve been based for 20 years and I found a very supportive consultant who agreed to monitor me. My?book?includes an interview with him and other members of my medical and health care team.

One of the most difficult aspects of choosing the alternative route was paying for all my treatments privately. I also had difficulty finding genuine clinics and practitioners from amongst the cranks and charlatans and those seeking to financially exploit cancer patients.

Many people assumed my situation wasn?t very serious because I didn?t lose my hair and wasn?t in and out of hospital. I found, as a result, that sometimes I wasn?t offered the same level of support as those taking the conventional route.?It seems that many people think hair-loss, sickness and general illness are caused by cancer rather than the treatments they?ve endured.

I have little doubt that?intravenous Vitamin C?(which I had with?Dr. Andre Young-Snell?in Brighton) was the most vital treatment to my recovery. In fact, when I had ultra sound scans at the time, the radiologist said that the tumour was breaking down in exactly the same way that a tumour breaks down with chemo.

There?s no question in my mind that mental attitude is everything in cancer recovery and I have dedicated a chapter of my book to a step-by-step guide on how to develop the attitude to enable you to recover. It?s not what life presents to us which defines who we are but who we choose to be in relationship to it.

The one piece of advice I would offer anyone facing a receiving a cancer diagnosis is, unless you?ve been told it is a medical emergency,?TAKE YOUR TIME. I believe this was the best decision I made at the beginning and, interestingly, this advice was echoed when I later interviewed my team members. When diagnosed with cancer, we are all in a serious situation but few are in an immediately urgent one. We need to get over the shock of the diagnosis before we can even begin to think about some of the very complex and critical decisions we have to make. Jessica Richards is a leadership development specialist and author of?The Topic of Cancer?which can be purchased from Amazon or from her website:?www.jessicarichards.co.uk

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Apple, Samsung to argue potential bans on infringing phones December 6th in US District Court

Ardent followers of the Apple v. Samsung hearing in California have another date to circle in their calendars: December 6th. AllThingsD and Reuters report Judge Lucy Koh has put that down as the day the two companies can make their cases over two key steps in the process since the verdict (check out our breakdown of the decision and what its $1.05 billion damage award means here) was handed down Friday evening. Apple is requesting an injunction to block the sale of Samsung phones that were found to infringe upon its patents, while Samsung wants to have the jury's verdict set aside. This changes the plans for the previously scheduled September 20th hearing, which will focus on Samsung's effort to get the injunction lifted on its Galaxy Tab 10.1 that was found not to infringe upon Apple's design patent. Whether you'll be tuned in to Twitter for each line by line update or avoiding the internet altogether, at least now you know which day to plan for.

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Simple Way to Curb Financial Dishonesty Found

Many financial documents require a signature at the end to certify that all the information provided is true. This honor declaration doesn't always keep people honest. But what if it could? Scientists have discovered that having people sign at the beginning of the document rather than at the end may curb dishonesty.

Researchers looked at how the position of people's signatures affects their tendency to lie on a financial self-report, such as a tax return. Participants were much less likely to lie if they had to sign at the top of the document instead of at the bottom.

Essentially, signing before the opportunity to "cheat" makes morality salient when it's needed the most, researchers said.

"Our findings are very important for companies and policies," said study co-author Nina Mazar, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Toronto in Canada. "Even if you might see effects for only a few years, it can save quite some money."

Sign here

Dishonest self-reporting on financial forms comes at a great cost to society, Mazar notes. For instance, the IRS estimates that the amount of revenue unreported and unpaid in 2005 totaled approximately $345 billion. Other countries, including Canada and the United Kingdom, also suffer from dishonest reporting, Mazar said. [6 Odd Historical Tax Facts]

The issue is people have mental tricks to self-deceive. "We find ways to suppress what we have done, to reinterpret what we have done," Mazar told LiveScience. By the time the honor code comes into play, it's too little, too late. "You can sign because you've made yourself believe everything you've done is fine ? you've already had the opportunity to reinterpret your actions."

So Mazar and her colleagues wondered: Could positioning the signature up front make people more honest? They conducted several experiments to find out.

In two lab experiments, the team had participants complete math puzzles, in which they earned income for puzzles solved correctly. The participants later tossed their worksheets into a trash can. Then, on a tax form, they reported their income accrued from the puzzles they solved, with one group signing at the top and the other at the form's end.

The researchers used coded numbers to tie the tax forms to the worksheets they fished out of the trash, finding those who signed at the top were more honest about their earnings. In one experiment, for example, only 37 percent of the 30 people using the sign-at-top forms overstated their income from the puzzles, compared with 63 percent of the 30 sign-at-bottom participants.

Real-world use

The team then partnered with a U.S. automobile insurance company for a real-world experiment. They sent out more than 13,000 policy-review forms, which asked customers to report the current odometer mileage of their cars. Half of the customers received a modified form, where the honesty statement and signature line appeared up top. Comparing these readings with the company's latest records, they found that customers using the sign-at-top form reported driving their cars more than those with the standard sign-at-bottom form. The results suggest customers with the standard form were more willing to report lower mileages to reduce their insurance premiums.

Seeing the signature up front reminds people of their own moral standards, Mazar explained.

Jason Dana, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist who wasn't involved in the study, thinks the idea of moving the signature is "really cool and interesting." But he wonders if the effect seen has more to do with novelty than morality. "Slapping it at the top just makes me think, 'Whoa, something's up, they're serious,'" Dana told LiveScience. "What happens if all things are signed at the top and it's no longer novel?"

Whatever the case, Dana doesn't see a problem trying it out on some forms, such as insurance policies. "It basically costs you nothing to try it, and I can't imagine a world where this hurts or it will make people lie more," he said.

The research is published today (Aug. 27) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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QED To Produce, Finance Fright Film 'Haunt' - Deadline.com

EXCLUSIVE: QED International has committed to produce, finance and handle international sales for Haunt, an original horror film that Mac Carter will direct from a script by Andrew Barrer. A family that moves into a new home with a dark past. When their son becomes involved with a beautiful girl next door, and together they begin to explore their sexual awakening, they unwittingly invoke an alternative dimension of the house. Haunt will be produced by Sasha Shapiro, Anton Lessine, Bill Block, Paul Hanson, Steven Schneider and Will Rowbotham. Production starts in November.

QED adds Haunt to a slate that includes the David Ayer-directed Ten with Arnold Schwarzenegger and the John Turturro-directed Fading Gigolo that stars Turturro and Woody Allen. Daniel Diamond just joined as QED president of International, and he and block will be selling territories on the slate at Toronto and AFM.

?With Haunt, Andrew Barrer has added a terrifying new chapter to the supernatural horror genre and delivered a riveting story that will truly satisfy a global audience,? said QED International CEO Bill Block. ?Innovative, highly commercial genre films are a hallmark of QED, and we look forward to working with Andrew and Mac to continue that success.?

Barrer is co-writer with Gabriel Ferrari, of SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH for Sony and DIE IN A GUNFIGHT, which made the 2010 Blacklist and is being produced by MRC. Carter is an award-winning commercial director who has directed more than 100 commercials for blue-chip international brands. Barrer is repped by WME and Prolific Entertainment, and Carter is repped by CAA.

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E mail Advertising And World wide web Promoting Automation - The ...

Taking care of your personal e-mail checklist could be a monumental task, specially if you have a growing Internet enterprise and you might be consistently looking for ways to reach you buyers.

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Have you ever ever hemmed and haws about getting one thing and lastly convinced oneself that it will be money properly invested, only to regret your buy virtually immediately? It really is a practically universal phenomenon for those of us who are limited in our discretionary income.

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What's the best health insurance for college students? | Get Smart ...

Health insurance is a must for college students. Most schools require you to have coverage before you can enroll in classes. But not all student health insurance options are created equal.

If you?re heading back to school, or if you?re already there, here?s a summary of your health insurance options and some tips to help you find the right match for your personal needs:

Mom and Dad?s Plan ? Health reform lets you stay on your parents? plan until you turn 26, which is great news for many of today?s students. However, if you?re going to school in another state, coverage under a parent?s plan may not be a good idea.? Many health insurance plans only provide the highest level of coverage when you use their local network of preferred doctors and hospitals. Plus, some family plans exclude coverage for injuries suffered during participation in school sports. If you want to stick with Mom and Dad?s plan, make sure you know what you?re getting.

School-sponsored Plans ? Health reform is changing the equation here too. School-sponsored health insurance plans have been around for a long-time, and though they?re improving, it?s still a mixed bag. Many school plans still place relatively low dollar limits on your coverage, and some may limit you to seeing doctors on campus ? which may not always be an option. Take a look at school-sponsored plans, but read the fine print.

Individual Health Insurance Plans ? Think about purchasing coverage on your own. Until 2014, you can still be declined individual coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions, but there are lots of options available and they can be relatively affordable (Mom and Dad may even help with the premiums). Thanks to health reform, individual plans now provide more robust benefits and access to more preventive care at no out-of-pocket cost. Work with a licensed agent like eHealthInsurance to see what?s available in your area.

Non School-sponsored Student Plans ? These plans may be especially attractive for students who are attending school in a different state or who plan to travel back and forth a lot. Your benefits and coverage levels typically won?t change when you travel from one state to another (international coverage may even be available), and you may have the option to pay up-front for year-round coverage rather than pay month-to-month.

Short-term Plans ? Some students turn to short-term health insurance plans when they expect to have another form of coverage (through parents or employers, for example) within six months or so. Many short-term plans will let you renew for a second six-month period too. Keep in mind that while short-term plans provide a valuable back-stop to unexpected health insurance bills, they?re not designed to provide robust preventive care or prescription drug coverage, or to cover pre-existing medical conditions.

To research your health insurance options in the private market, visit eHealthInsurance.com.

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Nick Lachey 'So Ready' To Be A Dad

'It's about time,' boy bander tells MTV News about his son, due in September.
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Self Improvement & Memory Training: How to Interpret Your Dreams

Dreams

Dreams can be a means to self-or spiritual development, as they are an easy way of receiving information on aspects of our personality that need further work. We also read in sacred scriptures that angels can appear to us in dreams. They can therefore also be a source of guidance.

Keep a dream journal

Keeping a dream-journal is a valuable tool in remembering your dreams, as they usually fade very quickly. You will discover that if you write the details of your dreams down immediately after you wake, your process of recall will become easier. The journal also helps you to provide structure to your work of interpreting the dream.

The structure of dreams

Dreams are assembled in your subconscious. When you dream, your subconscious is communicating with you by presenting symbolic images in a dramatised and metaphorical form. Being able to record your own 'language' of dream-images in a journal will therefore help you interpret your dreams as well as any other visions you may encounter during your spiritual work.

Some dream-images are quite common, as our symbolic processes are the same. However, their meaning usually differs as a result of each person's unique background and past experiences. I will therefore be supplying you with basic rules and guidelines to help you explore and interpret your own exciting and enigmatic world of dreams.

The dimensions of your dream

The way your dream is put together is very important as it contains elements or clues to its meaning hidden within its context, structure, form and composition. It also uses your present view of the world and framework of concepts, beliefs and ideas. There are a number of different dimensions or levels in your dreams, each having its own set of symbols and meanings.

The background in your dream

For instance, the background always suggests the context or theme of the message. Try to recall if your dream was light or dark and involved a natural scene or buildings of some sort. What you see as the background is only a clue to the underlying theme of the dream and should not be taken literally. For instance, the sea is often considered a metaphor for the ebb and flow of everyday life, with tides flowing in and out as events unfold. A dream playing out against the backdrop of the sea would probably suggest a problem or situation arising in your normal day-to-day life which requires attention. Likewise, a dream-scene taking place in a desert (which is usually desolate), may suggest a situation in which you feel isolated and alone and are seeking assistance. A dream playing out in semi-darkness may indicate that you are in a crisis (having trouble seeing your way forward). The idea is find a connection between the background of your dream and your present circumstances, needs or state of mind, by looking at the symbolism involved.

Your immediate surroundings

Once you have jotted down the background details, the next important step is to remember the immediate surroundings in your dream. This will provide you with more information on your present situation and state of mind as well as your outlook on the world. For instance, in 'looking out' onto the world, you would normally use the windows of your home or office. And in your dream, any building in which you find yourself would be a metaphor for 'where you are' at the moment. Try to recall the characteristics of the structure, as these can usually be related to your current situation or world-view. For example, a 'small' window could suggest your having a limited outlook on life. A dark and damp building could relate to your being in an unpleasant situation or having a negative view of the world. And a building or house in shambles could suggest that your present situation, state of mind or outlook, is chaotic.

The activities in your dreams

Moving away from the immediate surroundings in your dream, focus on the activity which took place. The type of drama, scenario or situation that is being played out, reveals the content of the message, which as I said, could be related to an unfulfilled need in your life or to some other issue which requires attention. You now need to ask yourself how the activity in your dream can be applied (metaphorically) or related (symbolically) to your present situation. For instance, a scene involving travel could be a call for change, or the broadening of your boundaries and the opening of your mind. A battle or conflict in your dream could be referring to a similar situation within yourself. Any threatening situation may be a warning of a matter that urgently needs to be resolved, something which is a real threat to your mental well-being or inner peace.

The persons and images in your dream

The next dimension involves the actual images, characters and objects that were presented. In terms of Gestalt psychology, every object or person (character) in a dream represents a certain aspect of yourself and you will need to ask yourself what aspect of your personality the figure represented. Look at the attributes of the characters involved. Were they large or small, aggressive or loving, threatening or supportive? For example, a poor, abused and helpless child could suggest your wounded 'inner child'. A richly dressed, opulent figure could symbolically point to abundance or a desire for riches, depending on the context and what actions are taking place. For example, a fight with another figure in your dream could be pointing to a conflict within yourself that needs to be resolved.

Symbolic objects in your dream

Finally, consider each object that appeared in your dream. Each will have a particular symbolic significance and add detail to the final meaning of your dream. Objects can often be interpreted in terms of their practical uses or effects in everyday life and applied (metaphorically) to your present situation or path in life. For instance, a large boulder on your path would suggest an obstacle to be overcome and a crossroads, a decision to be made. Once again, the guideline is to consider what you will need to do in real life when confronted with such a situation or object and re-phrase the answer in a metaphorical form.

The final meaning

To unlock the final meaning and message of the dream, you will need to learn to link and combine the information obtained from each level or dimension of symbols, into an integrated whole. This is a straightforward process which involves applying your knowledge and reasoning. However, those of you who are skilled in intuition could also learn to 'sense' the meaning of dream-scenes, activities, characters and objects with practice.

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Rotten Tomatoes Radio: Episode 12

Hey y'all, it's that time of week again! Rotten Tomatoes Radio will be airing its 12th episode live at 3PM PST/6PM EST on SiriusXM channel 104. On the agenda today: The Tomatometers for Premium Rush, Hit & Run, and The Apparition, and the rest of the week's major releases. There will likely be no call-in segment today as we'll be talking with on-air guest Ashley Bell, who's promoting her new film, post-apocalytpic thriller The Day.

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