Girl with rare disease can't sweat

Sarah Larimore, 7, didn't always like summer.

She suffers from a rare genetic metabolic disorder called cystinosis, which prevents her from sweating. She lives in South Carolina, and can't stay in 80-degree weather for longer than 20 minutes, so during the summer she used to stay cooped up inside, her mother, Katie Larimore, told ABCNews.com.

Last summer her family built a swimming pool in their backyard.

"It was her first real, live outside summer," her mother said. "She just stayed in the water for three months."

Sarah is one of at least 25 million Americans who suffer from rare conditions, according to the National Institutes of Health, which recognizes today as Rare Disease Day. The last day of February has been promoted since 2009 by the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) to increase awareness about the common needs of people with illnesses that not many others have.

People with a rare illness -- defined as affecting fewer than 2,000 people -- share common challenges: They have trouble getting an accurate diagnosis, finding treatment, and convincing insurance companies to pay for care, said Mary Dunkle, NORD spokeswoman.

"Even though each disease is different, the challenges of living with a disease that's rare is pretty consistent," she said.

Of the 6,000 to 7,000 rare diseases recorded in the U.S., treatment options exist for only a few hundred of them, Dunkle said. Treatment is more widely available than it was 30 years ago when NORD was founded, but there's a long way to go, a spokeswoman said.

Federal aid for people with rare illnesses is precarious, and it's often tough to persuade a pharmaceutical company to invest in treatment for a rare disease when there isn't a big payoff, Dunkle said.

Sarah, who loves reading and fashion as well as swimming, shares her diagnosis with about 500 Americans, according to the Cystinosis Research Network. A genetic metabolic disorder, cystinosis causes an amino acid, cystine, to accumulate in every cell of the body, damaging organs and blood cells. An estimated 2,000 people suffer from the illness worldwide.

Her daily regimen is grueling and embarrassing.

Sarah has to take 33 pills daily, a number that will increase to about 80 by the time she's a teenager, her mother said. Cystagon, a medication she takes six times a day, including in the middle of the night, makes her breath stink.

Every hour she has to apply eyedrops to prevent blindness. Seven times a day, she eats through a feeding tube, which causes a bump under her shirt. She has to get a daily injection of growth hormone.

Why she can't sweat is a "one of those mysteries of cystinosis," her mother said. If Sarah stays in the heat too long her cheeks turn red, her body temperature rises and she gets very faint.

Her mother visited Sarah's class to talk about her daughter's fragile condition.

"First-graders can be brutal," Katie Larimore said. But after learning about their classmate's condition, "they started talking about every uncle and cousin they had with an ingrown toenail. They felt empowered and embraced Sarah," she said.

Sarah will need a kidney transplant by the time she's about 15. But she can be considered one of the lucky ones. Children diagnosed years earlier than Sarah died by the time they were 15, he said. Now diagnosis is faster, her parents said.

A company is expected to get FDA approval for a new drug in coming months that could replace Cystagon. It would last for 12 hours instead of six, her parents said.

"Our kid would get to sleep all night. We would get to sleep all night," Katie Larimore said.

Larimore and her husband, Jeff, started noticing problems when Sarah was a baby. She was the youngest of their four children. By the time she was a year old she wasn't growing and needed to drink two gallons of water a day, her mother said.

"Being she was my fourth, I knew something was wrong," Katie Larimore said. "Sarah was very, very tiny at this point because she had stopped growing. I went from doctor to doctor until I found one that believed me."

Sarah's parents say they lucked out. They found a doctor who was treating another child in South Carolina for cystinosis. Soon Sarah was diagnosed. Only two labs in the country can test for the disease, her mother said.

"It was confirmed she had cystinosis and it was going to be a battle," she said. "But we had a name for it we knew what we were battling."

At their first national meeting for parents of children with the condition, eerily, the children of the genetic disorder looked like siblings, Katie Larimore said.

"They all kind of look alike. It's kind of scary," she said. "I thought we were going to pass out."

Last month the Larimores traveled with eight other families with children who have cystinosis to the Capitol to meet with legislative aides of 35 members of Congress. As the March 1 sequester budget cuts loomed, they argued in favor of keeping funding for programs designed to help people with rare illnesses, they said.

Those include the Orphan Drug Act of 1983, which gives pharmaceutical companies tax incentives and other help to research rare illnesses.

A Medicare policy known as TEFRA, or the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act, allows middle-class families in 26 states to get federal dollars to help pay for care costs involved helping children with disabilities and serious illnesses. Each month the Larimores spend about $5,000 on medication, doctors' visits and supplies, most of which is currently covered by insurance, they said.

Finally the Larimores asked Congress to not slash funding to the National Institute of Health, which performs research on rare diseases.

"Right now we're coming down to the wire," Katie Larimore said. "As a mom, we'll fight for our kids. There's a lot of us out there who need that kind of help."

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Boeing engineering union to drop pension demand

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing's engineering union has decided to drop its demand that its labor contract include a pension for new workers, a move that could hasten a deal as the two sides resume bargaining on Wednesday.

The decision comes after one bargaining unit last week narrowly accepted Boeing's contract offer without the pension for new hires. The other unit narrowly rejected the contract, sending them back to the bargaining table.

"The pension is dead," said Tom McCarty, president of the executive board of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), in an interview with Reuters.

"We're not going to try to breathe new life into it."

The pension became the key flash point in talks between SPEEA and Boeing that began in April. Boeing is now reeling from the grounding of its 787 Dreamliner nearly six weeks ago, a rare event that has halted delivery of the new plane to customers and is costing Boeing an estimated $200 million a month in lost income and potential compensation to airlines.

SPEEA's technicians and Boeing will resume bargaining Wednesday to replace a four-year agreement for 23,000 workers that expired in October. An extension ran out in November, leaving the union free to strike, if members authorize it.

In February, as the crisis with the 787 deepened, SPEEA offered to extend the current contract, which includes 5 percent annual raises, for four more years. Boeing agreed, but insisted on its proposal to eliminate the pension for employees hired or re-hired starting March 1.

SPEEA members already have a 401(k) plan that pays a match up to 6 percent of their annual salary. Boeing's offer would enhance that plan, while cutting out the pension.

The union said this change would reduce the value of a worker's compensation by about 40 percent over the span of a career.

"It's a lot less than the existing pension and 401(k)," union executive director Ray Goforth said in an interview.

Boeing says controlling pension costs is crucial to future investments in new jet designs and products.

"The retirement portion of the offer is incredibly important for the company and that has not changed," as a result of the vote, said Boeing spokesman Doug Alder.

Current employees would keep their pension, and it would grow by 10 percent over the four-year life of the contract, he said.

"We just need to get a grip on future hires so we can get a grip on future investment," Alder added.

SPEEA's 15,500 professional engineers, who design jets, approved the contract by a vote of 54 percent to 46 percent on February 19.

The 7,500 technicians, who are lower-paid and handle issues that arise in production, rejected the contract by a vote of 53 percent to 47 percent. The contracts are nearly identical and are negotiated at the same time.

Both bargaining units also authorized a strike, but workers cannot strike while a contract is in place, so by accepting Boeing's offer, the engineers made their vote moot.

Technical workers earn less than engineers, about $79,000 a year on average, versus $110,000. McCarty said they may have voted against the offer because lower salaries gave them greater concerns about their retirement savings.

He noted, however, that employees last year did not use $12.5 million in 401(k) match money they could have had if they fully contributed to their retirement accounts.

McCarty said that even though the split vote was "the worst outcome," the union would support the techs and "press the company for some consideration" perhaps in the way raises are awarded or transparency in promotion and performance reviews.

While the split vote might appear to give Boeing more leverage in the talks, he said, the union was as strong as ever.

"The company might assume that a lot of the techs are fine with the offer," he said. "They'll speculate that if we revote the contract, at the end of this week, it will pass, having seen the profs pass it," he added, referring to the professional engineers.

"The company may be correct in that assumption that people might be less willing to press their case," he said.

But he said a strike by technicians could disrupt production of 737s, the cash cow for the company. If the workers walk out, the 737 line "would grind to a halt in a few days."

In a forthcoming SPEEA publication, McCarty writes that after the vote, "the bargaining leverage of the technical bargaining unit is stronger than ever and everyone should understand that."

The union has spent recent days conducting an online survey of technical workers to see what they would consider worth striking over. Restoring the pension for new hires is among 12 issues on the survey, even though McCarty said it won't be pursued.

Also included: Increases in 401(k) contributions, stronger protections against outsourcing and use of outside contractors, a larger ratification bonus and a lump sum in the 401(k) tied to meeting production goals.

The talks are set to resume Wednesday morning at a hotel near the Seattle Tacoma International Airport, and will include federal mediators, who joined the bargaining in December.

(Reporting by Alwyn Scott; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer)

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Should IRS report tax deadbeats to credit bureaus?

By Herb Weisbaum, TODAY contributor

Here?s a scary thought, especially if you owe back taxes: What if the Internal Revenue Service reported your payment history to the big national credit bureaus?

Unlike many other debts owed to the federal government, unpaid taxes are not reported to credit bureaus. The IRS is not allowed to directly share this information because of federal privacy laws.

Of course, Congress could always change the law to allow the IRS to directly report all delinquencies to the credit bureaus. No one has proposed making this change, but last year the Senate Finance Committee did ask the General Accounting Office to look at the issue.

The GAO did not make any recommendations in its report released in October, but it did list arguments for and against the idea. It also provided some hard numbers about the staggering amount of money owed to the federal treasury in unpaid taxes.

As of October 2011, about $343 billion was owed in unpaid federal tax debts. That?s more than the federal deficit of $207 billion for the 2012 budget year. Most of the outstanding debts are relatively small ?less than $5,000.

Some tax information does make it to the credit bureaus. When the IRS files a tax lien to collect back taxes, that information is public record and can be picked up by credit reporting agencies. The GAO found that liens have been filed for more than half of all the dollars owed in tax debts.

Why change the current system?

Simply put: the possibility of more revenue.

If this information were reported to the credit bureaus it would have an effect on credit scores and that might change behavior. Some people might be encouraged to pay their taxes on time or pay off existing debts to improve their credit scores.

It might also provide another way to enforce the tax code. Anyone who owed more than a certain amount of back taxes could be barred from receiving certain benefits, such as government contracts, grants or loans.

Would this really make a difference? According to the GAO report there?s no way to be sure.

?Some taxpayers have agreed to installment agreements, so reporting their debts many not influence their willingness to pay because they are already making payments. IRS classifies other debts as uncollectible, and reporting those debts many not make the debts any more collectible.?

There?s also the belief that providing tax payment history to credit bureaus would give potential lenders a more complete ? and possibly more accurate ? picture of the person or business applying for credit.?

Under the current system, the credit reporting agencies know the dollar amount of a tax debt when a lien is filed. They don?t know if the debt grows because of penalties and interest. They don?t know when it?s reduced as the amount owed is paid down.

Direct reporting, supporters say, would provide more current information which would give the taxpayer an incentive to pay off the debt because the declining balance would improve their credit history.

The GAO did offer this caution: reporting tax payment information on an ongoing basis could increase the risk that negative information shows up in a person?s credit file twice.

Would it really make a difference?

The General Accounting Office did not come to a conclusion on that.

It noted that such a system could cost the IRS money because it would have to handle transmission of information to the credit bureaus and deal with taxpayer inquiries and disputes.

?Taxpayers would be forced to either dispute the inaccurate information to have it corrected or face possible serious consequences such as denial of credit, employment, or housing due to the inaccurate negative information on their credit histories. IRS would incur additional costs as it would have to respond to related inquiries and disputes.?

The GAO report also included a caution from the National Taxpayer Advocate that full reporting could result in some people choosing not to file tax returns ? or to file inaccurately ? if they know they owe money to the IRS.

The credit reporting industry hasn?t taken a position on this idea. And since nothing has been proposed, consumer groups haven?t really focused on the issue.

Chi Chi Wu, staff attorney for?the National Consumer Law Center said her main concern was the potential harm that could be caused by reporting errors.

?Would tax debts show up in the wrong credit reports?? she asked. ?I?d be concerned that adding a whole new batch of data would increase the number of errors credit bureaus make and how difficult it can be to get them fixed.?

Wu noted that American taxpayers share some very private and confidential information with the IRS and in return Congress prohibits the IRS from sharing that information.

?If that bargain is going to be changed,? Wu said, ?we want to think long and hard about why and how it would be changed.?

Herb Weisbaum is The ConsumerMan. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter or visit The ConsumerMan website.

Herb will be a guest on the Jim Bohannon Radio show Tuesday night (Feb. 26) talking about current consumer issues. Listen live at 11 pm Eastern. Here?s how to find a radio station in your area.

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Invention opens the way to packaging that monitors food freshness

Feb. 27, 2013 ? Millions of tons of food are thrown away each year because the 'best before' date has passed. But this date is always a cautious estimate, which means a lot of still-edible food is thrown away. Wouldn't it be handy if the packaging could 'test' whether the contents are still safe to eat? Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology, Universit? di Catania, CEA-Liten and STMicroelectronics have invented a circuit that makes this possible: a plastic analog-digital converter. This development brings plastic sensor circuits costing less than one euro cent within reach. Beyond food, these ultra-low-cost plastic circuits have numerous potential uses, including, pharmaceuticals.

The invention was presented last week at the ISSCC in San Francisco, an important conference on solid-state circuits.

Consumers and businesses in developed countries throw away around 100 kilograms of food per person (*), mainly because the 'best before' date on the packaging has passed. That waste is bad for consumers' budgets and for the environment. Much of this wastage results from the difficulty in estimating how long food will stay usable. To minimize the risk of selling spoiled food to consumers, producers show a relatively short shelf life on their packaging.

Less than one cent

To fight food waste, producers could include an electronic sensor circuit in their packaging to monitor the acidity level of the food, for example. The sensor circuit could be read with a scanner or with your mobile phone to show the freshness of your steak, or whether your frozen food was defrosted. Researcher Eugenio Cantatore of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e): "In principle that's all already possible, using standard silicon ICs. The only problem is they're too expensive. They easily cost ten cents. And that cost is too much for a one euro bag of crisps. We're now developing electronic devices that are made from plastic rather than silicon. The advantage is you can easily include these plastic sensors in plastic packaging." The plastic semiconductor can even be printed on all kinds of flexible surfaces, which makes it cheaper to use. And it makes sensor circuits costing less than one eurocent achievable.

The very first printed ADC

The researchers have succeeded in making two different plastic ADCs (analog-to-digital converters). Each converts analog signals, such as the output value measured by a sensor, into digital form. One of these new devices is the very first printed ADC ever made. "This paves the way toward large area sensors on plastic films in a cost-effective way through printing manufacturing approaches," says Isabelle Chartier, Printed Electronics Business developer at CEA-Liten. The ISSCC rated the papers on these inventions as highlights of the conference.

Missing link

The new plastic ADCs bring applications in the food and pharmaceuticals industries within reach. A sensor circuit consists of four components: the sensor, an amplifier, an ADC to digitize the signal and a radio transmitter that sends the signal to a base station. The plastic ADC has been the missing link; the other three components already exist. "Now that we have all of the pieces, we need the integration," says Cantatore. He expects that it will still take at least five years before we can expect to see the new devices on supermarket shelves. Other potential applications are in pharmaceuticals, man-machine interfaces and in ambient intelligence systems in buildings or in transport.

Complex mathematics

Making this development was no easy task. The electrical characteristics of 'ordinary transistors' are highly predictable, while those of plastic transistors vary greatly. "All plastic transistors behave differently in the low-cost production processes at low temperatures," explains Cantatore. "That makes it much more difficult to use them in devices. You need complex mathematical models to be able to predict their behavior accurately."

The printed ADC circuit offers a resolution of four bits, and has a speed of two hertz. The circuits printed by CEA-Liten include more than 100 n- and p-type transistors and a resistance level on transparent plastic substrates. The carrier mobility of the printed transistors are above the amorphous silicon widely used in the display industry.

(*) 'Global Food Losses and Food Waste', a study by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2011

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Italy's showman Berlusconi pulls off another surprise

ROME (Reuters) - Billionaire showman Silvio Berlusconi has again pulled off an astonishing fight-back from scandal and humiliation, coming within a whisker of success in Italy's election.

Before the Feb 24-25 vote, pollsters and analysts widely predicted this would be the media magnate's last hurrah and he would be clearly beaten by his center-left foes. They said he would eventually disappear from the scene.

Instead, Berlusconi was one of the big winners alongside the populist leader and comedian Beppe Grillo, defying polls and building substantial negotiating power for tortuous talks on how to form a new government despite a deeply uncertain result.

His success is a qualified one for sure and cannot hide the fact that his People of Freedom (PDL) party has slumped to almost half the 38 percent of votes it won in a landslide victory in 2008.

But compared with expectations it was a shock. His brother's il Giornale newspaper reflected his supporters' relief and joy with a giant front page headline reading "Berlusconi Miracle."

Berlusconi himself is said to be disappointed that he didn't win outright, but he is set to seize almost as many seats in the Senate as his center-left rivals. In the lower house his center-right coalition lost out on a giant winner's premium by less than one percentage point.

Combined with the extraordinary success of Grillo, this has deadlocked parliament in a result that left Italy's future uncertain and unnerved global markets.

Such a success seemed unimaginable only two months ago, except to pundits who have learned never to underestimate the former cruise ship crooner during his two decades at the center of the political stage.

The 76-year-old four-times prime minister looked down and out for much of 2012 after a jeering crowd hounded him from office in November 2011 with Italy tottering towards a Greek-style debt crisis.

Months of indecision over whether to stand in the election brought his PDL to the brink of disintegration with less than 15 percent in the polls.

But since precipitating the fall of his successor, technocrat Mario Monti, in December and diving into the campaign, Berlusconi has shown unrivalled mastery of communication and energy belying his age.

"Berlusconi was a poor prime minister but is a very tough campaigner, he never gives up," said commentator Massimo Franco.

FACE LIFTS

Italy's longest-serving prime minister is known for off-the-cuff humor, diplomatic gaffes and his facelifts, perennial tan, make-up and hair weave. Embroiled almost constantly in scandal, including currently a lurid sex trial, Berlusconi's success has always been a mystery abroad.

But his flamboyant persona hides a keen political mind and an almost uncanny talent for responding to the fears and concerns of ordinary Italians.

His success in clawing back a 10-point center-left lead in December is down to three factors.

He homed in on a painful housing tax imposed by Monti that is deeply hated by Italians. His offer to pay it back was mocked by his opponents but scored with many conservative voters especially pensioners suffering badly in the longest recession for 20 years.

He attacked German hegemony in Europe and accused Monti of being a puppet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and imposing austerity policies at her behest - another theme that resonates with many Italians sick of recession and soaring unemployment.

The final factor is that he was, in the words of one Italian on a radio phone-in program on Tuesday, "shooting at an open goal" because of the terrible campaigns run by both Monti and center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani.

Bersani's Democratic Party (PD) was in disarray on Tuesday after kissing away their commanding opinion poll lead and almost losing the election because of the rise of Grillo and Berlusconi.

Neither the colorless Bersani nor economics professor Monti could compete with Berlusconi's antics including a storm of television appearances in which he rarely lost his cool and showed a talent for rapid quips that some Italians would laugh about for days afterwards.

When the increasingly exasperated Monti accused Berlusconi of being a pied piper leading Italians astray, the media magnate shot back that he would probably try to tax his flute.

Monti, who disastrously tried to turn himself from a stately and respected technocrat into a mud-slinging political fighter, slumped in the polls with his centrist alliance winning little over 10 percent, half their target.

FOREIGN ALARM

Analysts said before the vote that the result investors feared most would be a Berlusconi victory, but now he has a chance of returning to government in a possibly uncomfortable and short-term alliance with the center-left.

He had to renounce his candidacy for prime minister however, to win a crucial electoral alliance with the federalist Northern League which successfully boosted center-right votes in battleground northern regions. The League rank and file are wary of Berlusconi and his scandal-plagued reputation.

As he climbed the ratings in recent weeks, the nervousness in European capitals, particularly his favorite target Germany, was palpable.

But calls by European politicians to vote for Monti and not Berlusconi only played into the former premier's hands, creating resentment at foreign interference and damaging the outgoing prime minister.

Berlusconi had for years seemed virtually immune to controversies that would have destroyed a politician in many parts of the world. He has survived up to 30 prosecutions for fraud and corruption and is currently on trial for having sex with an underage prostitute during lurid "bunga bunga" parties.

His wife Veronica left him in 2009, accusing him of consorting with underage women, and was recently awarded a settlement of 100,000 euros ($132,200) a day. But he even made campaign jokes about that.

(Writing by Barry Moody, editing by Peter Millership)

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Caterpillar CAT B15 smartphone offers a taste of rugged Jelly Bean

We've seen our fair share of rugged smartphones, but there's a certain amount of attention due when a heavy equipment builder like Caterpillar gets involved. Its newest smartphone, the CAT B15, undoubtedly has the survivability you'd expect from a company that makes bulldozers: the aluminum-and-rubber shell can survive 5.9-foot drops on to hard concrete, stay immersed in 3.3 feet of water for half an hour and keep working in temperatures between -4F to 122F. Just don't expect top-flight performance elsewhere. While we're big fans of the CAT B15 shipping with Jelly Bean, its 4-inch WVGA screen, dual-core 1GHz Cortex-A9 chip, 512MB of RAM and 5-megapixel camera won't have many of us giving up our faster, more fragile devices. The phone's £299 and €329 European prices (about $437) could still lead to the more accident-prone among us picking up a CAT B15 when it ships in March.

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Quote: The problem is that the DNS manager seems to be hosted at my old host. How can I move it to my new one? Thanks -T What DNS manager is that? Without knowing which host is new and which is old it's hard to tell, but my guess is that the nameservers are set correctly at your registrar but not at the new host. If so you need to log into WHM at the new host and edit zone. You can use the host's domain or IP address to be sure that you're connecting to the "right" WHM. (It wouldn't be a bad idea for the new host to fix the DNS errors on their nameserver domain too, but those are less of an issue). __________________ Chris The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking

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My old host was: www.nextgenhost.net And my new is: www.offshorewebspace.net I logged into my old cPanel at nextgenhost and edited the DNS for my domain to point to my new host. This solved the problem but I want to fix this properly. The new host also uses capable for the DNS managing.

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Quote: The new host also uses capable for the DNS managing. cPanel? So you need to edit your zone in cPanel / WHM at offshorewebspace and change the NS records, which are currently set to nextgenhost. __________________ Chris The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking

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Apologies, I meant cPanel. iPhone decided to help me out with spelling lol... I can't seem to see where to edit my nameservers in the cPanel, the only thing that I can see is the "Advanced DNS zone editor" which I've screenshotted so you can take a look. As far as I can see, the settings are correct. http://i50.tinypic.com/dpuybt.png EDIT: My account with nextgenhost (the previous host) is still active and this is where the DNS manager is. What happens if I cancel it? Will it help? Last edited by thomash131; Today at 04:25 AM.

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Quote: My old host was: www.nextgenhost.net And my new is: www.offshorewebspace.net I logged into my old cPanel at nextgenhost and edited the DNS for my domain to point to my new host. This solved the problem but I want to fix this properly. The new host also uses capable for the DNS managing. Are you server admin? If so yes it is, go to admin whm/cpanel => Advanced DNS zone editor => lcresponders.com and setup yor Arecord, ns record and etc. If you are not, contact to DC and ask them to fix that.

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I'm on a shared hosting package so I'm assumming that I'm not, no. I'll contact them now.

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Yes, if you can't see the NS records then I guess it means you don't have access to them through that panel (perhaps someone more familiar with cPanel can confirm) and the host will have to make the change for you. Quote: EDIT: My account with nextgenhost (the previous host) is still active and this is where the DNS manager is. What happens if I cancel it? Will it help? No, you've changed the A records at the old host - that's keeping your site working for now. Get the new host's DNS fixed and wait at least 24 hours before canceling the old one. __________________ Chris The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking

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Quote: My account with nextgenhost (the previous host) is still active and this is where the DNS manager is. What happens if I cancel it? Will it help? I'm agree with foobic, DO NOT cancel your old host before be ensure your new one works fine.

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NYPD to work with Apple to track down stolen Apple iPhones and Apple iPads

Thefts of the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad have become so prevalent in the Big Apple, that cops have a name for it. "Applepicking" occured 4,000 more times in 2012 than in 2011 and single handedly was responsible for the rise in crime last year in New York City. Now, the cops have assigned a special team to work directly with Apple to get stolen devices back into the hands of victims. When an Apple mobile device is stolen, its unique IMEI number (International Mobile Station Equipment Identity) is reported to Apple. Apple then can report back to New York's Finest the location of each device even if it is running on a different carrier than when it was originally purchased.One stolen Apple iPad was traced to the Dominican Republic and with the help of an NYPD intelligence officer stationed in Santo Domingo, the tablet was recovered. Another time, Apple helped the NYPD bust a guy selling stolen iPads by a bus stop. The cops say that 74% of stolen Apple devices end up popping up somewhere in the 5 boroughs. Unfortunately, most of the devices confiscated were sold to unknowing buyers who didn't know they were purchasing a stolen device. But the original owner does have the right to his Apple iPhone or Apple iPad, even if someone else bought it afterward. To prevent something like that from happening, your best bet is to buy an Apple device from a legitimate Apple dealer, or from Apple itself. We've already shown you what can happen if you trust someone in a parking lot trying to convince you to buy his iPad for a great price.

Kevin Mahaffey co-founder of cellphone security firm Lookout, said that the use of IMEI numbers were always seen as a key to busting handset and tablet thieves, but getting together with law enforcement had always been the hard part, until now. The wireless industry's own listing of stolen smartphones and tablets is not expected to be up and running until November.

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PS4: The Last of the Game Consoles?

1. PS4: The Last of the Game Consoles?

   An article by Wired.

   Wired: 'Sony is attempting to define itself as the anti-Xbox. If that won't work, the game console for gaming gamers is done.'

   

   
   On Wednesday, Sony announced its new upcoming PlayStation 4.

   At the long two-hour event in NYC attended by over 1,000 journalists and fans, the company spent the time talking up its philosophy behind the system and reiterated that it was for 'true gamers': sick new graphics, ungodly amounts of RAM and cool new gaming-centric features like the ability to stream gameplay videos in real time.

   However, according to Wired, there?s an excellent chance the PS4 will be the last videogame console ever (at least as we understand the term).

   Here are some extracts from the article:

   ?We?re focusing on that core gamer, the gamer who wants the ultimate experience and lives for gaming,? Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton told Wired contributor Steven Levy after the event. ?If you?re not a gamer, I don?t think you get it.?

   Not a gamer? Beat it, loser. We don?t even want you buying PlayStation 4. So what is all this, then? Why is Sony rallying the gamer troops under its banner? PlayStation 4?s reveal preceded the as-yet-unscheduled announcement of the next Xbox. And it?s clear that Sony is attempting to preemptively define itself against Microsoft.

   Over the last few years, Microsoft has been attempting to change the way people think about its Xbox 360. It launched it in 2005 as a game console, the same way Sony is talking up the PlayStation 4 today. But now it wants you to think of it as an ecumenical home entertainment system, capable of streaming television, movies, music and everything else. Depending on your cable provider, you can use Xbox to control your live TV experience too.

   With all this in mind, there should be no question that Microsoft?s pitch for its eventual new console, right from the off, will be: This plays games, but it?s not for gamers any more than an iPad is just for gamers. Everybody watches TV, so everybody wants an Xbox to give them a heightened experience. If someday you find yourself caught in a downpour and duck into the nearest doorway and thereby accidentally enter a Microsoft store, you would be able to buy an Xbox on a cellphone-style plan, paying $99 for the box if you subscribe to two years of the Xbox Live service. That?s today. What if that?s the whole pitch for the next Xbox? What if Sony?s machine is $500 and Microsoft?s is $100? That would be the Bambi vs. Godzilla of console wars.

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   But the big mistake Sony seems to be making is the assumption that this is a zero-sum equation, in which a lack of other entertainment options means you are by default better at games. There?s no reason the next Xbox can?t be an awesome gaming device even if Microsoft achieves its goal of broadening the scope of the product. It?s so costly to make videogames today that none of the handful of publishers that are not yet bankrupt would fail to put their games on both platforms. Hardcore gamers are not hard to please, at the macro level. They are insanely expensive to please, but not hard: They want shooters with 1080p graphics, the same controller they?ve been using for the last decade, and seamless online play. It is not within the realm of possibility that Microsoft fails to deliver that.

   Sony does make better platform-exclusive games than Microsoft. It doesn?t have a shooter as popular as Halo, but Microsoft doesn?t have an Uncharted, a Heavy Rain, a Journey or an Infamous. Sony is killing it with first-party content. But ask Nintendo how that works out for you. It?s not a sufficient condition for success.

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   Who knows ? maybe it?ll pay off. But if gamers don?t flock to Sony?s rallying cry, what then? There?s a good chance Sony may realize all too late that it was Microsoft that got it right, and that you actually can sell far more game machines into people?s homes by broadening the appeal of the device beyond ?the gamer? who lives for gaming.? Sony might find itself having to change course and play catch-up again, like it did when PlayStation 3 showed up empty-handed to the online-gaming party that Xbox Live was throwing in 2006.

   And if that does happen, and the future is all-in-one entertainment boxes, then PlayStation 4 might be the last traditional gaming console ever released.

   So, what do you think? You can read the full article below!

   NEWS SOURCE: PS4 Analysis (via) Wired

   Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news item!

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   ''Microsoft doesn?t have an Uncharted, a Heavy Rain, a Journey or an Infamous''

   I don't think those games are reason enough to make people choose PS4 Or not , If thats what they are relying on on , God help them, They are going to need an awful lot more than that.

   You never know , Maybe the next Gran Turismo wont take 40 years to produce or suck monkey nuts when it ships , Games like that might help.

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   I think somebody just had an intensive Microsoft butt kissing session.
   PS3 was a better quality piece of hardware than xbox360 and this is hardly going to change with PS4 vs xbox720.

   Oh, and PSN is free, thanks for 2 year subscription plan. (this might change to microsoft style though =/)

   Sony is opting for more expensive and faster memory than Microsoft and AMDs APU benefit A LOT from it, so Sony's console is also going to be faster.
   Sony has announced hard to implement features to be built in.

   Now, consuming some video service (doesn't PS3 already support amazon video? I saw the icon but never used it) is a piece of cake. "OMG controlling video provider", since when does XBox support DVB-C pretty please? Is it about video streaming only? That's oh so 2005...

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   I think all people in Wired are Xbox fanboy.

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    Sony is opting for more expensive and faster memory than Microsoft and AMDs APU benefit A LOT from it, so Sony's console is also going to be faster.
    Sony has announced hard to implement features to be built in.

    Its true they are using fast memory , But we don't know for sure if Microsoft is using slower ddr3 ram or not, Its only rumors we have heard , Ive also heard a rumor Microsoft is putting a dedicated GPU Into the console along with the APU They already have, So don't count all our chickens just yet.

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    Its true they are using fast memory , But we don't know for sure if Microsoft is using slower ddr3 ram or not, Its only rumors we have heard , Ive also heard a rumor Microsoft is putting a dedicated GPU Into the console along with the APU They already have, So don't count all our chickens just yet.

    It's leaks not rumors and the guy who leaked it was raided by police.
    While Microsoft might bump memory, dedicated GPU on top of AMDs APU makes so little sense:
    1) much more expensive
    2) nearly doubles power consumption => problems with cooling
    3) cross-platform games (which are what, 99.9%?) could benefit from slightly more power (say better anti-aliasing, anysotropic filtering) but could hardly put twice as powerful GPU to a good use (lots of effort for only half of the market)

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Gallery: Tartan on parade on Milan's catwalks

MILAN'S catwalks go regimental as models march out in gear that wouldn't look out of place on the parade ground.

Moschino's autumn winter collection for next year included mini-kilts, tartan trews and jackets, loveheart sporrans and Glengarry-style hats. That's sure to grab your atten-shun.

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