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Aug 24

The rate at which we communicate is accelerating. A business phone system has dramatically helped, since we are able to call the other side of the world at mere pennies per minute. This is based on the internet.

Social media is a byproduct of this rapid engagement with online communication. Take Twitter and Foursquare, for example, which allow you to report on something as soon as it happens, and tell friends where you are and what you?re doing there. Virtual mapping is a way to immediately broadcast whatever you want, and you don?t even need a phone, although it certainly helps if you have a smart one. Who knows, one day there may be chips in all of our wrists that monitor our exact position and allow us to take anything we say and project it immediately into cyberspace?

But for those of us who like to retain some control in who we talk to and what we say, for those who think that Big Brother is a little too invasive already, a hosted phone system is the right move. The business phone system makes communication easy, not stalking. You still need to dial and talk to someone on the other end. Call me traditional, but I think there?s something nice about only communicating with someone you want to.

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Source: http://www.popvoip.com/2011/08/social-media-and-a-business-phone-system/

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Brent oil drops as Libya civil war nears end (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Brent crude fell more than 1 percent on Monday as investors anticipate a resumption of oil exports from the OPEC-member Libya, where rebels moved to control most of Tripoli and an end to the six-month-old civil war seemed close.

Brent crude's forward curve flattened in the months through early next year and its premium to U.S. crude fell on hopes that a swift end to Libya's civil war will bring its oil exports back to the market.

Some Libyan output will be able to restart in a few months, but it will take as long as 18 months to reach the prewar level, Libya's former top oil official Shokri Ghanem told Reuters.

Muammar Gaddafi was a hunted man on Monday as remnants of his forces made a last-ditch stand in the capital of Tripoli.

"A resolution of the conflict is modestly bearish for crude oil prices, but it is less likely that we will get a $10-$20 drop in price of crude," Jason Schenker, president at Prestige Economics LLC in Austin, Texas, said in a note.

U.S. crude prices pared gains as the front-month September contract approached expiration at the end of Monday's session. U.S. prices enjoyed an early boost from the dollar's weakness and a bounce by equities on Wall Street.

The dollar had been pressured on speculation that the Federal Reserve this week might indicate a need to take additional measures to support an ailing economy.

But the dollar index bounced, the S&P 500 stocks index briefly turned negative and, with any threat from Hurricane Irene to key U.S. oil infrastructure fading, U.S. oil prices pulled back.

Hurricane Irene, the first hurricane of 2011 Atlantic season, was on a track that could take it to Florida but would likely miss the concentrations of production and refineries to the west.

ICE Brent October crude fell $1.33 to $107.29 a barrel by 12:39 p.m., having recovered from a $105.15 intraday low.

U.S. expiring September crude rose 34 cents to $82.60 a barrel, having fallen back from $84.30. More actively traded October crude rose 40 cents to $82.81 a barrel.

Brent's premium to U.S. crude narrowed to $24.51 a barrel, after reaching a record $26.69 on Friday.

Brent crude trading volumes outpaced those for U.S. crude slightly, with both above 400,000 lots traded during the noon hour in New York.

Part of U.S. crude divergence from Brent is because traders are starting to bail out of their Brent/U.S. spread positions, said Dominick Chirichella of the Energy Management Institute.

Speculators raised slightly their long exposure to Brent in the week to August 16, data from the Intercontinental Exchange showed.

Selling by "soft longs" who increased exposure last week and profit taking by traders with long-held positions could put more short-term pressure on Brent, according to brokers.

Libya pumped around 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd), nearly 2 percent of global supply, before the war cut its output. Most of Libya's high-quality crude flowed to European refiners. After Libyan exports ceased, tighter supply drove Brent to a two-year high of $127.02 in April.

"The limited resistance to rebel forces entering Tripoli may herald a swift resolution to the civil war, opening the potential for the resumption of Libyan oil exports by the end of 2011," JPMorgan said in a note to clients.

ECONOMIC CONCERNS REMAIN

Even as Libya got much of the attention, the recent stock market and a sputtering global economy had investors awaiting any indications of central bank intent on stimulus at a gathering of policymakers and other financial leaders in Wyoming later this week.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will make a speech on Friday at a lodge in Wyoming's Jackson Hole, where policymakers and academics meet once a year.

(Additional reporting by Gene Ramos and Janet McGurty in New York, Claire Milhench in London and Seng Li Peng in Singapore; Editing by Andrea Evans)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/stocks/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110822/bs_nm/us_markets_oil

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Turkey says 90-100 Kurd rebels killed in north Iraq raids (Reuters)

ISTANBUL (Reuters) ? Turkish military operations in northern Iraq have killed some 90-100 Kurdish guerrillas since last week's launch of artillery and air strikes against the separatist group, the armed forces said on Tuesday.

The air strikes are the first against rebels in the mountains of northern Iraq in more than a year and mark an escalation of the 27-year-old conflict after the collapse of efforts to negotiate a settlement.

In six days of cross-border air raids, Turkish warplanes struck 132 targets of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which uses the region as a base to launch attacks on Turkey.

The armed forces launched the operations on August 17 in response to a surge in PKK attacks in southeast Turkey. Kurdish politicians in northern Iraq have condemned the raids, saying they were contrary to international norms.

An army statement said definite figures on PKK casualties were not available but it had information that more than 80 militants were wounded in the operations, which hit 73 shelters, eight stores and nine anti-aircraft positions.

"According to initial information 90-100 terrorists were rendered ineffective," according to the General Staff, using an expression referring to the killing of militants. "The air and ground operations will continue," the military added.

The casualty figures could not be confirmed.

A news agency close to the rebels has said three PKK fighters were killed in the raids, while a local mayor and witnesses in northern Iraq have said seven Iraqis were killed in a Turkish air strike in the region on Sunday.

PKK rebels have killed some 40 Turkish security personnel in just over a month. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict since the PKK took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in 1984.

The PKK is designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

(Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Jon Hemming)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/usmilitary/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110823/wl_nm/us_turkey_iraq_military

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Cold Medicines are Killing our Teenagers? | Health Tips and Fitness

Today I discovered a killer of our teenagers and would like to share it with you. It should not be a surprise to learn that there is a thriving subculture on the Internet that gives out advice and information on just about anything you can think of. However, this day I would like to discuss something called robotripping. It means taking over the counter cough and cold medicines to get high.

I am told that one in ten messages passed on the internet between teenagers are about drugs. These sites tell our teens, what to take, where to get it, how to take it, how much to take and what other things to take with it to make it better.

Let me tell you how this all started. I had a cold with a bad cough. I bought some cold medicine, three different kinds and put them on the counter in my bathroom. My teen son had his own bathroom and to be honest I didn?t think a thing about leaving the medicine out.

Anyway, I took the medicine and it made me feel icky so I quit taking it and tried new stuff. To make a long and miserable cold story short, I got better. That weekend I was cleaning up and saw the bottles. But I noticed the cough syrup was almost gone and so I opened the other bottles and sure enough all the pills were about gone.

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Now I knew that taking cough syrup to get high had been around for years, but surely my son would not do that!? I went to the computer and started to look it up. It scared me. I found that kids were taking it in such large quantities that at the least they were damaging their livers and at the most they were dying. Yes DYING.

I was aghast and angry. My sons and I talk of everything. Surely this could not have been going on right under my nose and without me knowing? So I waited. You know the ?Mom?s wait? vacillating between anger and fear. While I waited I read up on it and learned.

Then I read this:

*A dissociative drug which reduces (or blocks) signals to the conscious mind from other parts of the brain, typically to the physical senses. Such a state of sensory deprivation and dissociation can facilitate hallucinations, and dreamlike states of mind which may resemble some psychedelic mind states.

My son was escaping and hallucinating and I missed it? How can that be? I learned that there are over 250 products with DXM in it and the drug companies that make it don?t want it regulated even if it will keep our teens safe. I learned that is a real addiction just like any other drug but that it was worse in a way because it was legal and easy to get.

As I read the list of symptoms: restlessness, confusion, dizziness, double or blurred vision, slurred speech, impaired physical coordination, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, rapid heart beat, drowsiness, numbness of fingers and toes, and disorientation. DXM abusers describe different ?plateaus? ranging from mild distortions of color and sound to visual hallucinations and ?out-of-body,? feelings of detachment from the environment and self, sensations, and loss of motor control. I became panicky and ready to fight this with him all the way to health!

He came home; I tried hard not to attack. I had done the self Mom talk and I was ready. Calmly I asked, ?Are you robot tripping?? He laughed and said, ?If you mean am I robotripping, no I am not, I am not that stupid, why? You been on the internet again Mom? So we talked about the missing medicine and found out it was one of his friends (who is now in treatment).

All I can say is that day I found a killer of our teenagers. It is important to communicate and keep aware of your home and what is going on in your world. Even the smallest of things can be an important clue to a problem.

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Source: http://1dakika1dunya.com/cold-medicines-are-killing-our-teenagers.html

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Berlin library returning books stolen by Nazis (AP)

BERLIN ? Berlin's Central and Regional Library says it will return books the Nazis stole from the Social Democratic Party, including an English-language copy of the Communist Manifesto.

The copy dates from 1883 and is believed to have belonged to Friedrich Engels, who penned the original German work with Karl Marx in 1848.

The library said Monday the work is one of some 70 to be returned to the party on Aug. 31.

The Social Democratic Party was banned in 1933 after Hitler came to power.

Activists from the party continued to oppose the Nazis. Many were persecuted or killed for their activities.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/europe/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110822/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_nazi_restitution

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Missouri teachers sue to block social media law (Reuters)

KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) ? In the face of a lawsuit, a Missouri state senator defended on Saturday a new state law that will prohibit teachers from communicating privately with students over the Internet.

A teachers group filed a lawsuit Friday afternoon contending the new lawsuit violates free speech and other rights, but the senator who sponsored it says it does nothing of the kind.

"It doesn't stop any avenue of communication whatsoever, it only prohibits hidden communication between educators and minors who have not graduated," said state Senator Jane Cunningham, a St. Louis Republican and key sponsor of the law.

School districts statewide are being required to adopt new policies to comply with the law beginning January 1, but the Missouri State Teachers Association said in its lawsuit that banning social media contact is unconstitutional.

"The act is so vague and over-broad that (teachers) cannot know with confidence what conduct is permitted and what is prohibited and thereby 'chills' the exercise of first amendment rights of speech, association, religion, collective bargaining and other constitutional rights," says the lawsuit, filed in Cole County Circuit Court in the state capital of Jefferson City.

The lawsuit names the state, the governor and attorney general as defendant and seeks a court injunction and hearing.

Representatives of the teachers' association and other groups said they are unaware of any state with a law as restrictive as the one in Missouri.

The law permits teacher-student contact if the Internet site can be viewed by parents, administrators or the public. Teachers and students can still e-mail and text each other as long as someone is copied, Cunningham said.

Cunningham said the teachers' association supported the law and helped draft some of the language last spring.

"It seems like they are suing their own work," she said.

But Todd Fuller, spokesman for the teachers' association, said Saturday the group did not review the final language on social media usage. That language on social media contact is just one part of a larger bill intended to discourage private relationships between teachers and students that have sometimes led to sexual abuse.

Teachers have said the vast majority of their private contacts with students over the Internet are education-related and can be helpful, especially for shy students. The lawsuit made a similar point.

"Plaintiffs have used and are using non-work-related social networking sites as an important avenue for contact with students, both during emergencies and for everyday educational issues, such as when a student has difficulty with a classroom assignment or identifying bullying," the lawsuit states.

(Writing and reporting by Kevin Murphy; Editing by Mary Wisniewski and Jerry Norton)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110820/wr_nm/us_schools_missouri_suit

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