Medical tests can reveal critical information, but sometimes the? test is lost and the doctor and patient never get the results, potentially delaying essential care. That was the case for one Maryland woman whose cancer went untreated for a year.
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SAN FRANCISCO ? The U.S. Justice Department approved Google's acquisition of online advertising service Admeld after concluding the deal wouldn't diminish competition in one of the Internet's most lucrative marketing niches.
The decision announced Friday clears the way for Google Inc. to take control of Admeld six months after the companies agreed to the deal. Google said it plans to take control of Admeld within the next few days, although the two companies' products will remain separate for a while longer.
It's the fourth time since 2007 that that the U.S. government has taken a close look at a Google acquisition to determine if it would stifle competition or drive up prices. Google has gained regulatory approval in each instance. In 2008, though, Google backed out of a proposed partnership with Yahoo Inc. to avoid a legal battle with the Justice Department.
The Justice Department is still reviewing Google's proposed takeover of cell phone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. That $12.5 billion deal is the biggest in Google's 13-year history.
The Federal Trade Commission is in the midst of a broader inquiry into whether Google has been abusing its dominance of Internet search to make it harder for people to find rival services and apply pressure on advertisers to pay higher prices. Google has consistently predicted that investigation will be resolved in its favor.
Google hasn't disclosed how much it is paying for Admeld, a New York company that works with websites to help them figure out how to make the most money from the amount of space they have available for display ads. It's a steadily growing field of advertising that emphasizes photos, video and illustrations instead of Google's specialty of distributing text-based commercial links alongside search results.
The Justice Department said that privately held Admeld, formed in 2007, raised about $30 million in 2010 to help fund its operations.
Google generated revenue of about $29 billion last year and analysts expect it to surpass $38 billion in revenue this year. Most of Google's revenue still comes from search advertising.
In an attempt to diversify beyond search advertising, Google bought DoubleClick for $3.2 billion in 2008. That deal is turning display advertising into a major moneymaker for Google, but the company's market share in the segment still lags behind Facebook and Yahoo, according to the research firm eMarketer Inc.
That apparently helped sway the Justice Department to approve the Admeld deal.
"The investigation determined that Web publishers often rely on multiple display advertising platforms and can move business among them in response to changes in price or the quality of ad placements," the Justice Department's antitrust division said in a statement.
Google's shares rose $7.13, or 1.2 percent, to $620.90 in late afternoon trading.
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2011) ? Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3-D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images of its bumpy, cratered surface and making other scientific measurements.
The new video is available online at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1041
Best viewed with red-blue glasses, the video incorporates images from Dawn's framing camera from July to August 2011. It was created by Dawn team member Ralf Jaumann of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
The images were obtained when Dawn was making its approach to Vesta, and while orbiting the giant asteroid in its first science orbit, known as survey orbit, at an altitude of about 1,700 miles (2,700 kilometers). The video begins with a global view of Vesta from the plane of its equator, where a mysterious band of linear ridges and troughs can be seen. The movie cuts to a flyover of young craters in the northern hemisphere, whose peculiar alignment has led some scientists to refer to them as the "snowman." Then this virtual tour of Vesta takes the viewer around a massive mountain at the south pole of Vesta that is about 16 miles (25 kilometers) high, or more than twice the height of Mt. Everest.
"If you want to know what it's like to explore a new world like Vesta, this new video gives everyone a chance to see it for themselves," Jaumann said. "Scientists are poring over these images to learn more about how the craters, hills, grooves and troughs we see were created."
Vesta is the second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn is currently spiraling down to its low altitude mapping orbit, which will bring the spacecraft to about 130 miles (210 kilometers) above Vesta's surface.
"Dawn's data thus far have revealed the rugged topography and complex textures of the surface of Vesta, as can be seen in this video," said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "Soon, we'll add other pieces of the puzzle such as the chemical composition, interior structure, and geologic age to be able to write the history of this remnant protoplanet and its place in the early solar system."
Dawn launched in September 2007 and arrived at Vesta on July 15, 2011. Following a year at Vesta, the spacecraft will depart in July 2012 for the dwarf planet Ceres, where it will arrive in 2015.
Dawn's mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corp. in Dulles, Va., designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team.
For more information about the Dawn mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/dawn and http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov
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NEW YORK ? For more than two months, they were open-air communes where people came to rebuild society and start a nationwide discussion on how to close the wide gap between the rich and the poor. But as Occupy Wall Street tent cities fade away, a growing number of protesters are pushing to put a clear message ahead of the movement.
Alan Collinge has his list ready ? return bankruptcy protection to student loans. Bring back regulations that were removed from the Glass-Steagall Act. End corporate personhood.
"They should come up with a short term list of no brainer agenda items," said Collinge, wearing a huge sign in the rain at New York's Zuccotti Park calling for student loan reforms.
More than a dozen other protesters interviewed by The Associated Press also came up with a wish list of specifics to address what they say is corporate greed and economic inequality. The list of demands ranged from the simple ? get corporate money out of politics ? to the ethereal (make sure Washington politicians act with a moral conscience).
Asking Occupy protesters what, exactly, they would do to reform government and the financial system is a loaded question and a source of internal conflict. Collinge, 41, of Tacoma, Wash., said he has unsuccessfully lobbied Occupy's general assembly meetings in New York to develop a strong platform, but has been rebuffed.
"A lot of people, they think that this should be sort of a catchall" for every issue, he said, the goal being to expose the economic problems in the country, not solve them.
Other cities' movements have held meetings of committees with titles like "cohesive messaging" to discuss strategy, but haven't agreed on listing specifics as a movement. The greater purpose isn't to influence the government or the financial system through classic demands, but to foster broad cultural changes that will gradually empower people to stop depending on big corporations and Wall Street money.
"All the energy has gone into an outcry over economic conditions, with the hope that others will join us and pick up issues they care about," says Bill Dobbs, press liaison for Occupy Wall Street in New York. "Our best hope is inspiring other people to take action to bring economic justice."
Some observers and experts predict that Occupy groups may spend the next few months focusing on smaller actions while waiting for the summer when the Republican and Democratic conventions would give Occupiers a world-wide audience.
But ask around, and protesters who spent weeks living in encampments and talking about the country's woes have a clear idea of what they want.
A number have called for limiting campaign donations and getting big money out of politics. Some Occupy members want to limit the amount of money a person is allowed to give a politician. Others want to ban corporate donations specifically, or the number of campaign ads.
"How did Abraham Lincoln ever become president without a television set?" asked Ryan Peterson, an entertainment company worker from Chicago who lived for weeks in Zuccotti Park. Paul Lemaire, a 20-year-old visual arts student from Brooklyn, wants the two-party system eliminated.
The influence of money in politics is one of the greatest factors behind the gap between the superrich and the poor, said James Parrott, chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute in New York, which published a report last year on economic disparity. It shows "that they're very focused in understanding the root causes" of the country's economic issues, he said.
The call for tighter regulation of campaign contributions won't gain traction anytime soon. The Supreme Court, in its landmark Citizens United decision in January 2010, cleared the way for corporations to spend unlimited funds to influence elections, often using money from anonymous donors. The court struck down most of the so-called McCain-Feingold law that had set tight restrictions on such donations, arguing that government did not have the right to regulate political speech.
Campaign regulation, stopping wars that strain resources, halting corporate personhood ? the spending power given to corporations in the 2010 Supreme Court ruling ? and addressing higher education costs have emerged as key goals of the Occupy movement in Los Angeles. Organizers say they are now focusing on sharpening their objectives, as police moved in to shut down the two-month-old encampment this week.
"We've been collecting ideas, seeing what the priorities are, vetting and researching them," said activist Suzanne O'Keeffe, a member of Occupy LA's Demands & Objectives Committee.
Los Angeles member Mario Brito said the movement plans to pressure elected and bank officials for a moratorium on foreclosures, and said members would "occupy" bank lobbies, boardrooms and executives' homes to force the action.
In Minneapolis, five members of the Occupy MN "Cohesive Messaging Committee" gathered to talk strategy this week at a downtown coffee shop, asking that people attending recent General Assembly meetings fill out cards expressing broad themes that were important to them. The group entered the cards into a spreadsheet and found economic justice, democracy, education and campaign finance reform as the common themes.
Collinge, an aerospace engineer who later founded a website about problems with student loans, lists the congressional bill he wants passed to return bankruptcy protections to student loans. The Depression-Era Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial banking from investment banking, is another named law cited at the top of protesters' demands in cities across the country. Most of the restrictions that regulated the two forms of banking were repealed in 1999, and are blamed by many economists for contributing to the financial crisis in 2007.
Kalle Lasn, the co-founder of Adbusters, the Canadian magazine that helped ignite the Occupy movement, supports a 1 percent global "Robin Hood" tax on big financial transactions. Similar taxes and increases have been proposed for years, including the Obama administration's "financial crisis responsibility fee" tax proposal of last year, intended to raise $90 billion over the next decade.
As individual protesters and movements fashion a platform, experts and organizers warned that defining the movement more broadly keeps everyone in and keeps responsibility in the hands of the power brokers.
"They've achieved a lot by having the open ended process that they've had so far," said Parrott, the Fiscal Policy Institute's chief economist. "They should be selective in that there are some people who are trying to glom onto the stage that they've created" with ideas that aren't part of the main movement.
Will Birney, who left his job as a waiter in Westport, Ct., to join Occupy's New York movement, has one wish, although it can't be passed into law or regulated by the Treasury Department.
"I would instill a fair conscience, if people could look to morality," said Birney, 26.
He knows he's reaching, but says that's the point of the movement.
"I'm not even thinking we're going to get concrete solutions out of this," he said. "All I want is a change."
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Associated Press writers Beth Fouhy, David B. Caruso and Verena Dobnik in New York, Christina Hoag in Los Angeles and Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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Isabelle was sitting at the table in her spook's library. Isabelle had been writing down her Latin verbs and nouns. Learning was quite simple for her as her mam had taught her most of the basic Latin when she was a little kid as well as Greek. Isabelle finished and set her book aside and then stared off into the flickering light of the candle. Tomorrow morning they would be heading off to Adlington and there they would be trying to stop something very dangerous to the county. It wasn't something unusual seeing as that was the job of the spook. The bound witches, boggarts, and many other things and sometimes they send off spirits who are stuck in limbo and send them to the other world where they can rest in peace. Which believe it or not took hours. Now back in the day before Isabelle's teachings they believe that the seventh son of a seventh son would have great senses and would sense cold things more so then others and they just had better senses then most people when it came to this job. Isabelle her self though was a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter. In her family she had almost all sisters...Well she did they had no boys and there for she never had a single clue on how a boy thought but she knew they were all plain stupid, idiotic, useless, worthless, immature, sexist, and most certainly perverted and she had seen no time in wasting them on boys. More so ones of her age range.
Isabelle sighed softly. There were times she missed home, the warm crackling fire the sound of her mam's rocking chair working on the farm. It was all a good life but then because her dad had no intention to marry Isabelle off she was put into a trade. You see in the county many women were most likely witches of some kind or they were simply housewives you never saw them as anything else which was sad but it was true but now times were getting a little better and now a few lucky few would be put into trades but that was if your family was wealthy enough to afford it. Isabelle's family was and there she was put into the trade of being a spook but it suited Isabelle because simply she was brave, ruthless, daring, adventurous, and she never hesitated when it came to kicking someones ass.
You would think that being a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter would be the same as a seventh son of a seventh son...Well you are most certainly wrong. They had some similarities but they are still very different in their own way that's hard to explain. Isabelle worked in the Northern part of the county. Which was way up past Caster and she was often trained hard but the thing was where she had to work and the terrain she has to work with is a lot more difficult then what you would back down by Chippeden or Adlington. Up above caster you dealt with being near marshes, water witches, skelts, and many other terrifying things. Water witches and skelts seem fairly bad and to be honest Isabelle has fought a lot of them in the past few years she's been training under her master. Skelts on the other hand rarely show up and you hardly dealt with them but they were terrible.
Finally standing up Isabelle made it downstairs to the kitchen. Tonight was her turn to cook the meal and honestly not to brag or anything Isabelle knew how to make good food. She found some potatoes and cooked them in a pan and while that was going on she had a few slabs of bacon. Tonight Isabelle wasn't in a turkey or chicken mood so she didn't bother. Next she started to cut up so veggies and then put them in the boiling water she had going. Now she just ahd to check her food and make sure it was good. This would be their last meal before they set off in the morning. When ever you were on the job you usually fast. The only thing you eat is a few nibbles of county cheese and that's it.
The thought came to her that soon Christmas would be here and her and her spook had to go and stop the danger ahead before then! One it took a day to get to Chippeden and then it took about a day and a half to get to Adlington from there. Altogether they were looking at a two and a half day trip in the snow, it wasn't the best weather to be walking in but it had to be done. This threat is even bigger than when there was the threat of the Fiend. The fiend is other wise known as the devil him self or they call him old nick. This was going to be a disaster because the Fiend was the worst thing that had ever been released into the county but now somehow with all the spooks around it was bound again and they were safe from the fiend for a bit. See how dangerous the Fiend is? well think of this new threat far worse then that...Possibly ten times worse then that.
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FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011 file photo, newlyweds Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries attend a party thrown in their honor at Capitale in New York. Humphries filed for an annulment of the couple's 72-day marriage on Thursday in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)
FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011 file photo, newlyweds Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries attend a party thrown in their honor at Capitale in New York. Humphries filed for an annulment of the couple's 72-day marriage on Thursday in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? NBA player Kris Humphries asked a judge Thursday to annul his 10-week, highly publicized marriage to Kim Kardashian on the basis that it was fraudulent.
The filing comes roughly a month after Kardashian filed for divorce and apologized to fans.
Humphries' petition did not offer any details to support his contention that the marriage was a fraud, which a judge would have to determine is true for the marriage to be completely nullified.
Kardashian's attorney Laura Wasser declined to comment on Humphries' filing.
The couple signed a prenuptial agreement before marrying in a star-studded ceremony Aug. 20 at an exclusive estate in California.
Kardashian's sisters and TV co-stars Kourtney Kardashian, 32, and Khloe Kardashian, 27, served as co-maids of honor.
Kim Kardashian and Humphries began dating late last year and announced their engagement in May. He proposed on bended knee with a 20.5-carat ring by spelling out "Will you marry me?" in rose petals.
Kardashian filed for divorce Oct. 31, citing irreconcilable differences. The actress-model is the star of the E! Entertainment Television series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," and her marriage to Humphries was turned into a high-touted televised special.
Humphries is a free agent NBA forward who played last season for the New Jersey Nets. He is requesting that if an annulment isn't granted, the couple be deemed legally separated.
Humphries' marriage to Kardashian is his first; she was previously married to a music producer for four years.
Both Kardashian and Humphries are asking a judge to prevent either side from receiving spousal support, and Kardashian wants her husband to pay his own attorney's fees.
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