NYSE began wooing Twitter 2 yrs. ago to gain IPO assignment

Washington, Sept. 27 (ANI): The New York Stock Exchange reportedly began wooing Twitter nearly two years ago, for the microblogging site's coveted IPO listing assignment.

The NYSE has been paying for sponsored tweets in order to build its brand and those of its publicly listed clients since November 2011.

An NYSE spokesman said that the exchange has had a positive experience as one of the thousands of companies using Twitter, the New York Post reports.

According to the report, forming alignment with Twitter may give the NYSE an edge over rival Nasdaq who handled the glitch-filled Facebook IPO in May 2012.

The NYSE also has an edge over Nasdaq over the number of followers as it has 370,000 followers versus 234,000 for Nasdaq, including two different accounts.

It is speculated that the NYSE will get Twitter's assignment as the microblogging site tries to avoid the fate of Facebook.

The report added that NYSE gained a whopping 81,000 Twitter followers in the week leading up to Twitter's announcement it had filed for an IPO. (ANI)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nyse-began-wooing-twitter-2-yrs-ago-gain-105035038--finance.html

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Egyptian Dog Mummy Infested with Bloodsucking Parasites

A?dog?mummy?has revealed the first archaeological evidence of bloodsucking parasites plaguing Fido's ancestors in Egypt during the classical era of Roman rule.

The preserved parasites discovered in the mummified young?dog's right ear and coat include the common brown tick and louse fly ? tiny nuisances that may have carried diseases leading to the puppy's early demise. French archaeologists found the infested dog mummy while studying at the excavation site of El Deir in Egypt, during expeditions in 2010 and 2011.

"Although the presence of parasites, as well as ectoparasite-borne diseases, in ancient times was already suspected from the writings of the major Greek and Latin scholars, these facts were not archaeologically proven until now," said Jean-Bernard Huchet, an archaeoentomologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. [ ]

Mentions of dog pests appear in the writings of ancient Greeks and Romans such as Homer, and Pliny the Elder, and a painting of a hyenalike animal in an ancient Egyptian tomb dated to the 15th century B.C. shows what is likely the oldest known depiction of ticks. But evidence of ticks, flies and other ectoparasites that infest the outside of the body has been scarce in the archaeological record ? until now. (The only other known archaeological evidence of ticks comes from in Arizona.)

Counting the bloodsuckers

The infested dog mummy was discovered in one of many tombs surrounding a Roman fortress built in the late third century A.D. Most of the main tombs were built during a period dating from the fourth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. ? a treasure trove for archaeologists, despite the condition of many of the mummies. The French team detailed its findings in the August online issue of the International Journal of Paleopathology.

Huchet and his colleagues, led by Fran?oise Dunand and Roger Lichtenberg of the University of Strasbourg in France, found the remains of the parasite-ridden pup among more than 400 dog mummies.?

"Among the hundreds of studied, [many] of them were either skeletonized or still wrapped with bandages," Huchet told LiveScience. "Moreover, most of the dog remains were seriously damaged by looters."

The infested young pup stood out with 61 preserved brown dog ticks still clinging to its coat and nestled in its left ear. Such ticks have spread worldwide by feeding on . They can also infect their hosts with a variety of potentially fatal diseases.

Archaeologists also discovered a single bloodsucking louse fly clinging firmly to the dog's coat. But the team hypothesizes a tick-borne disease such as canine babesiosis ? a condition that destroys red blood cells ? likely caused the young dog's premature death.

Origins of dog mummies

Hardened skin remains of maturing fly larvae suggested the dying or dead dog had attracted two species of carrion flies before Egyptian handlers mummified the corpse. [ ]

Ancient Egyptians commonly mummified animals such as dogs, cats and long-legged wading birds called ibis. The dog mummies from the El Deir site almost certainly represented offerings to such as Anubis or Wepwawet.

"Several reasons have led Egyptians to mummify animals: to eat in the afterlife, to be with pets, etc.," said Cecile Callou, an archaeozoologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. "But above all, animals were considered as living incarnations of divine principles and, therefore, associated with deities."

But many questions remain about the mummified dogs of El Deir. Researchers still want to know where the dogs came from, whether they were domestic dogs, whether they had owners and how they died. Callou pointed out that the ancient Egyptians had cat farms where and mummified ? could the same have been true for dogs?

Digging deeper into history

The French archaeologists hope to find answers to a different set of questions by searching for more preserved ticks and flies among the mummified dogs of El Deir. Such archaeological evidence could show how diseases originated throughout history, provide clues about the geographical spread of parasites, and reveal more about the relationship between parasites and both human and animal evolution.

Specialized lab equipment could yield even more findings from the infested dog mummy and its companions. The French team conducted most of its work on-site at El Deir and completed the examination with highly magnified photos at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris but hopes to eventually get permission to take some mummified samples back to the lab.

"The main problem will be to get the authorization to export mummified samples from Egypt for DNA analysis, since this country does not allow any exportation of archaeological material ? even tiny samples such as skin fragments and hairs," Huchet said.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egyptian-dog-mummy-infested-bloodsucking-parasites-130130196.html

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Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 2014

By Neil J. Rubenking

There's a trend among some security vendors to enhance their entry-level antivirus product with features more commonly found in a security suite. Of course, doing so raises the bar for the company's actual security suite. Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 2014 ($59.95 direct; $79.95 for three licenses) definitely rises to the challenge. It takes the full range of features found in Trend Micro's standalone antivirus and adds a significant collection of additional security components.

The main window for this suite summarizes your security status with a great big icon, in most cases a green checkmark indicating full protection. If there's anything wrong with your security configuration, you just click a button to fix it. This window also summarizes recent security activity; additional tabs offer access to more security features. Three tabs labeled Privacy, Data, and Family house most of the suite-specific features.

If the product's appearance isn't to your liking, you can replace the main window's background. The product comes with eight widely varied background images, flowers, clouds, stars, and more. Or choose an image of your own to truly personalize the installation.

This suite shares the same antivirus protection found in Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus+ 2014, along with quite a few other security features. You'll definitely want to read that review for full details. I'll summarize my evaluation of the shared features here.

Better Defense than Cleanup
Getting Trend Micro installed on twelve test systems for malware removal testing took hours of back-and-forth with tech support, including quite a bit of remote control diagnosis and repair. Trend Micro earned two stars for installation experience and 5.8 points for malware removal. The best scores among products tested with my current malware collection went to Bitdefender Internet Security (2014), AVG Internet Security 2014, and Norton Internet Security (2014). For a full explanation of how I test malware removal, see How We Test Malware Removal.

With 94 percent detection and 9.2 points, Trend Micro fared much better in my malware blocking test. Only AVG and Ad-Aware Pro Security 10.5 scored better against the same malware collection. Trend Micro also did a great job blocking access to malware-hosting websites. To learn just what goes into this test, please see How We Test Malware Blocking.

Like Symantec, Trend Micro downplays the value of old-fashioned static malware detection tests and praises dynamic, real-world tests. Trend Micro's technology took the highest rating in the whole-product dynamic test by AV-Comparatives, and it also did well in AV-Test's three-way certification test. To learn more about the testing labs summarized in the chart below, please read How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests.

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States See No Rush to Buy Health Insurance Next Week ...

Next Tuesday marks the first time uninsured people can buy health insurance using new online marketplaces under the health-care law, but state officials don?t expect many buyers next week.

?We really anticipate very few people going through the enrollment process in October,? said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state?s health insurance marketplace.

During a press conference with reporters, Mr. Lee joked that he expected two people to complete the signup process next Tuesday.

?Oct. 1 is just a start and it?s not a magical date,? said Heather Howard, a project director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which organized the press conference. ?Our lesson from Massachusetts (which opened a health insurance marketplace in 2006) is that people are very cautious. It?s not like buying a pair of shoes on Zappos.?

Uninsured Americans are far more likely to visit state or federal websites to check out insurance plan options and see what sort of federal subsidies they might qualify for rather than actually complete the buying process, said state officials who are running health marketplaces.

?I expect we?ll have far more people enrolling in November and December and hopefully even more than that in January and February,? said Christine Ferguson, director of the Rhode Island Health Benefits Exchange.?I?ve told people they don?t have to sign up on the first day.?

Open enrollment for health insurance through the online marketplaces begins Oct. 1 and ends March 31. State and federal officials expect more of a rush to purchase insurance in early December since the deadline to purchase insurance in order to be covered on Jan. 1 is Dec. 15. The federal marketplace website is www.HealthCare.gov.

Fourteen states are running their own marketplaces while the rest are relying on the federal government to run either some or all of their health insurance exchanges. Some states, including California, have already released details about rates and plans that will be offered by insurers this fall. The federal government hasn?t released any details yet about rates in the 36 states it?s responsive for, although that information is expected to be released soon.

Officials from California, Rhode Island and Maryland say their online marketplaces will be ready next week for consumers to look at rates or buy insurance. But they acknowledge they?re working overtime this week to make sure everything is ready ? and they don?t expect things to go completely smoothly.

?Everyone is working 24/7,? said Ferguson. ?It?s all good. But good means that there will be glitches. But we?ll fix them.?

In Oregon, state officials have already said their online marketplace won?t be ready for consumers to purchase insurance on Oct. 1. Consumers can buy insurance on the site via insurance brokers until the site is ready.

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/09/24/states-see-no-rush-to-buy-health-insurance-next-week/

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Israel bleak about US-Iran rapprochement at UN summit

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel voiced concern on Tuesday over a potential meeting of the U.S. and Iranian presidents, saying Tehran sought reconciliation with world powers as a ruse to press on with its nuclear programme.

Iran's new government has taken its charm offensive to the annual U.N. General Assembly, agreeing to international nuclear negotiations that would include its foreign minister seeing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

U.S. officials also said a meeting was possible this week between President Barack Obama and Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani - a landmark after more than three decades of hostility.

Israel sees a mortal menace in an Iranian bomb it says could be months away from production and says may now be expedited should world powers back off sanctions and readiness for a war of last-resort against Tehran.

Iran has rejected several U.N. Security Council resolutions aimed at curbing its nuclear projects with bomb-making potential, insisting the programme is entirely peaceful. It has also tried to shift scrutiny to Israel's assumed atomic arsenal.

Asked if there would be an Obama-Rouhani handshake, Yuval Steinitz, the cabinet minister representing Israel at the U.N. forum in New York, said: "I hope not. I don't know."

"But really the important thing is not just words and appearances. The important thing is the actions. The important thing is the resolutions," Steinitz told Israel's Army Radio.

"And I really hope that the whole world, and chiefly among them the United States, will say, 'Okay, it's nice to hear the smiles, the new rhetoric, but as long as you don't change the conduct, and as long as you don't make a real concession in the nuclear project, the economic sanctions will continue and if there is need, will be joined by a military threat as well'."

In contrast to confrontational former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Rouhani favours restrained outreach, saying on Monday he would "present the true face of Iran as a cultured and peace-loving country" at the United Nations.

Rouhani and Obama were scheduled to deliver speeches to the General Assembly on Tuesday.

Washington says it remains determined to deny the Iranians the means to make nuclear arms but its willingness to engage them directly complicates strategy for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who will address the world forum on Oct. 1.

The day before, Netanyahu is scheduled to meet Obama at the White House for discussions on Iran that Israeli officials say will affect the content and tone of his U.N. speech.

At last year's speech, Netanyahu set a "red line" that he said would trigger Israeli military strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, drawing it across a cartoonish bomb representing the pace and scale of the Islamic Republic's uranium enrichment.

This time around, some Israeli officials predict, he will opt for a more sober message, with facts trumping rhetoric. As Iran has kept its uranium enrichment below the Israeli threshold, they said, he will note it has also made progress on another track that could yield bomb-grade plutonium.

Steinitz said last week that Iran, on its current course, could make a nuclear weapon in six months. "There is no more time" for nuclear negotiations, he told the Israel Hayom daily.

But with a new round of such talks in the works, Steinitz reaffirmed Israel's position that it would support a diplomatic solution that truly halted Iran's nuclear programme. He described this as unlikely, saying Rouhani brought a deceptive change of style but not substance to Iranian policymaking.

"We are certainly warning the entire international community that Iran may want an agreement, but it is liable to be the Munich agreement," Steinitz said, referring to the 1938 appeasement of Nazi Germany.

"Rouhani wants to hoodwink, and some in the world want to be hoodwinked, and the role of little Israel is to explain the truth and to stand in the breach. And that is what we are doing to the best of our abilities. It is a long struggle."

Source: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Sep-24/232370-israel-bleak-about-us-iran-rapprochement-at-un-summit.ashx

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