Samsung Galaxy Beam review: stay for the projector, but nothing more

Samsung Galaxy Beam review stay for the projector, but that's it

With a seemingly endless stream of flagship phones hitting the market before the holiday season, it can be easy to forget some of the other devices that play a more niche audience. The Samsung Galaxy Beam definitely belongs in this category, as it includes a built-in Texas Instruments DLP pico projector. All told, the phone faces a lofty challenge: while the projector could be useful for the PowerPoint crowd, the phone itself falls on the lower end of mid-range, and isn?t powerful enough to do business users much good otherwise. With a 1GHz dual-core NovaThor CPU, an overly outdated OS, a 2010-era display and a middling 5-megapixel camera, the Beam?s target demographic appears to be ridiculously small. Still, might the projector be enough to carry this device to its full potential? Does a niche device like this have a place in such a crowded market? Read on to get in touch with our thoughts, feelings and emotions regarding the Samsung Galaxy Beam.

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Study shows veterans are becoming more segregated in the US

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Los Angeles, CA (November 12, 2012) Veterans are becoming more geographically isolated as they migrate to smaller, more rural counties surrounding military bases finds a recent article in Armed Forces & Society, a SAGE journal published on behalf of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society.

Using the 1980, 1990, and 2010 censuses, study author Jay Teachman examined population data from 3131 US counties. He found that the areas to which veterans migrate are becoming more veteran-concentrated which has led to a segregation of Americans between veteran and nonveteran populations.

"The drop in the percentage of veterans is particularly dramatic for the Northeast and the western third of the country," wrote the author. "By 2010 many of the remaining high-density counties were often associated with nearby military installations."

Teachman also found a growing decrease in the proportion of veterans in America in general, stating that between 1980 and 1990, the veteran population fell by an average of 4.6 %, between 1990 and 2000, the average decline was 8.5 %, and between 2000 and 2010, the average decline was 15.54 %.

"The extent to which the veteran population becomes a smaller proportion of the population and is increasingly concentrated means that there will be less contact between the veteran and nonveteran populations," wrote the authors. "The increasing geographic concentration of veterans may hold consequences for civil-military relations."

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Find out more by reading the article, "A Note of Disappearing Veterans: 1980-2010," in Armed Forces & Society (AFS). For an embargoed copy of the full article, please email Camille.Gamboa@sagepub.com

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Los Angeles, CA (November 12, 2012) Veterans are becoming more geographically isolated as they migrate to smaller, more rural counties surrounding military bases finds a recent article in Armed Forces & Society, a SAGE journal published on behalf of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society.

Using the 1980, 1990, and 2010 censuses, study author Jay Teachman examined population data from 3131 US counties. He found that the areas to which veterans migrate are becoming more veteran-concentrated which has led to a segregation of Americans between veteran and nonveteran populations.

"The drop in the percentage of veterans is particularly dramatic for the Northeast and the western third of the country," wrote the author. "By 2010 many of the remaining high-density counties were often associated with nearby military installations."

Teachman also found a growing decrease in the proportion of veterans in America in general, stating that between 1980 and 1990, the veteran population fell by an average of 4.6 %, between 1990 and 2000, the average decline was 8.5 %, and between 2000 and 2010, the average decline was 15.54 %.

"The extent to which the veteran population becomes a smaller proportion of the population and is increasingly concentrated means that there will be less contact between the veteran and nonveteran populations," wrote the authors. "The increasing geographic concentration of veterans may hold consequences for civil-military relations."

###

Find out more by reading the article, "A Note of Disappearing Veterans: 1980-2010," in Armed Forces & Society (AFS). For an embargoed copy of the full article, please email Camille.Gamboa@sagepub.com

Armed Forces & Society (AFS), a quarterly publication, publishes articles on military institutions, civil-military relations, arms control and peacemaking, and conflict management. The journal is international in scope with a focus on historical, comparative, and interdisciplinary discourse. The editors and contributors include political scientists, sociologists, historians, psychologists, scholars, and economists, as well as specialists in military organization and strategy, arms control, and peacekeeping. http://afs.sagepub.com/
Two-Year Impact Factor: 0.815
Ranked: 67 out of 137 in Sociology and 52 out of 148 in Political Science
Five-Year Impact Factor: 0.918
Ranked: 64 out of 137 in Sociology and 52 out of 148 in Political Science
Source: 2011 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2012)

The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS) is a forum for the interchange and assessment of research and scholarship in the social and behavioral sciences dealing with the military establishment and civil-military relations. The Fellows who make up the IUS include academics, military officers, researchers, and students representing a variety of private and public institutions and various academic disciplines. http://www.iusafs.org/

SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. An independent company, SAGE has principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC. www.sagepublications.com



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Doomsday Preppers Reveal They're Crazy & Brilliant

Braxton and Kara Southwick live in a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah, with their six kids. Braxton, a mechanic who prides himself on family values, once rode motorbikes professionally. He's also training his family to prepare for an attack of weaponized smallpox that he fears will bring the country to its knees.

LiveScience sat down with the Southwicks to hear more about why they are prepping for a doomsday event, and what possessed them to stockpile more than 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms) of flour, sugar and wheat, not to mention 14 guns and eight chickens, enough to support their family of eight for more than one year.

The Southwicks star in the second season of "Doomsday Preppers," a show on the National Geographic Channel that profiles extreme survivalists who believe the world as we know it may soon end. The show's first season was the highest-rated on the network at the time. The second season debuts Tuesday (Nov. 13) at 9 p.m.

LiveScience: How did you get started prepping?

Kara Southwick: It started as food storage and evolved from there. In case something happened, we [knew we] could take care of our family. Our goal was to have a one-year supply of food. From there, you start thinking about water.

Braxton Southwick: And a generator. And a reserve of fuel. And it went on and on.

KS: And a sun oven.

LiveScience: What made you get more extreme about it?

BS: I saw concerning world events happening, and I've always been a kind of doomsday guy. I don't think the world will end in 2012, but that wholeMayan thing got me into it more. [End of the World? Top Doomsday Fears]

LiveScience: Do you think the world is fundamentally different than before?

BS: Definitely. Just seeing the unrest in the entire Middle East. And seeing the financial collapse with Europe, and the U.S. following the same path. Our national debt was 17 trillion [dollars] at the beginning of the year. Everybody senses we're in uncharted territory. We didn't pay for these two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We put them on a credit card.

LiveScience: What are you most worried about happening?

BS: We prepare for every scenario, but I'm most worried about a biological terrorist attack ? smallpox. For terrorists to get their hands on a nuclear weapon is almost impossible. But to get a biological agent is relatively easy, since Libya, Iraq and Iran were into biological warfare.

A biological weapon could kill as many people as a nuclear weapon. It also inflicts fear and panic, which is what they want in a terrorist attack.

KS: So America can't mobilize and fight back.

LiveScience: What would you do in the event of an attack like that?

BS: Retreat to our cabin in the woods, with all of our gear. We have protective gear for the whole family in the case of a smallpox attack.

LiveScience: How do people react when you tell them you're a "prepper?"

BS: They do this: [stares blankly]. They don't know whether I'm crazy or brilliant.

LiveScience: Which are you?

KS: Crazy.

BS: A little bit of both. My wife thinks I'm crazy. I look at it like this: You have a savings account and hope to God you don't have to use it for a medical emergency. We're doing the same thing, but with food, and fuel, and the coal I buried in the backyard. And generators. That to us is money in the bank.

LiveScience: What if your fears are overblown and nothing apocalyptic happens? Would you view your prepping as a waste of time?

BS: Not at all. It's our little pet project. Some people collect China and trinkets. We collect food and other things. We'll use all our food and fuel eventually. ?

LiveScience: Do you feel the need or desire to get other people into prepping?

B: Definitely. We got our whole neighborhood into it, seven families. Almost all of them have a garden. They do food storage and some of the other activities we do.

KS: But not quite to the same level.

BS: Right. But if sh** does hit the fan, I'm kind of the leader. If you throw a scenario at me, I already have it planned out. I think about it almost every single day of my life. [The Gear You Need to Survive Doomsday]

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K: You sound like a crazy person.

LiveScience: If something bad happened and the Earth was inhospitable to life, would you even want to survive?

KS: It's human nature to fight to survive.

LiveScience: When you come across other people in the prepping community who have wacky views ? like a complete reversal of the magnetic poles ? how do you relate to them?

BS: I think it's funny when they pick things that are corny and not really possible. The pole shift has happened before, but it's really [implausible]. It's all about preparing for everything. If you prepare for pole-shift, you're just as prepared for a hurricane, or an economic collapse or a nuclear weapon. [Believers In Mysterious Planet Nibiru Await Earth's End]

What they're prepared for might be kooky, but they're really prepared for a lot of "doomsday" scenarios.

KS: Friends think the smallpox thing is kooky.

LiveScience: Why did you do the show?

BS: Because I want people to learn something. Because I want everybody to be prepared.

KS: Everybody can start small, and build upon it.

LiveScience: What do you think about Hurricane Sandy?

BS: I hope everybody had at least a 72-hour survival kit in it, and a three-day supply of water. That would've really helped. Also, in my bug-out bag [a bag you take so you can survive for a few days "off the grid"], I have a foldout solar panel that can be used to charge a phone.

LiveScience: How do your kids feel about the prepping?

KS: The boys love it, because they love being outdoors.

BS: [My daughter] Jayden says she wants to find a husband who wants to prep. But I said, "Not for a few years, right? You're only 19."

LiveScience: Braxton, you seem to be more into this than Kara. Did it take some convincing to get her to agree to the show?

BS: Absolutely. It took a couple months. One time she saw me taking photographs of our food storage to send to National Geographic and screamed at me. I pretended I was just documenting it for fun and not because of the show.

KS: I didn't talk to him for about a month.

LiveScience: What made you relent?

KS: I relented because I thought we could teach people something. You only live once.

Editor's Note: This article has been updated to correct a metric conversion.

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Get ready for this week's eclipse-chasing adventures

After a gap of more than two years, a total eclipse of the sun will be visible this week from northeastern Australia. Residents and visitors in Cairns in Queensland will see the moon completely cover the sun for two minutes in the eastern sky shortly after local sunrise.

Australia's total solar eclipse this week will occur at sunrise on Wednesday, Nov. 14 local time, though it will still be Tuesday afternoon (Nov. 13) for observers in North America tracking the event through webcasts.

This solar eclipse Down Under is followed by two more solar events in 2013 ? an annular, or "ring of fire," eclipse on May 10, which can be viewed from northern Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the Gilbert Islands, and a special ?hybrid? eclipse (a combination of annular and total solar eclipse) on Nov. 3, which will be visible from the African nations of Gabon, Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia.

If you are chasing the eclipse by going to Australia, the South Pacific, or Africa, here are a few tips to keep in mind as you make final preparations for your overseas eclipse adventure:

Create a checklist: Don?t rely on your memory to remember all the things you need to bring for the trip as well as do during the eclipse. List them down on a notepad or save them in your smartphone, tablet, or laptop. As the saying goes: "Fail to plan, plan to fail." [Video: Watch Path of Nov. 13-14 Total Solar Eclipse]

Choose the right optics and mount: To capture detailed, close-up shots of the eclipse?s partial phases, Baily?s beads, diamond rings, solar prominences, and inner corona, you?ll want a telephoto lens or telescope of sufficient focal length, say, 500 to 1,000 millimeters (or even longer). This will give you a reasonably large image of the sun?s disk in the frame.

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Make sure your tripod and head are sturdy enough to carry the load of your telescope and camera gear and that the tripod would fit inside your carry-on or check-in luggage. Carbon-fiber tripods are stronger and lighter than regular aluminum tripods, but they cost a lot more.

Keep your setup light and portable: Try to keep your photo gear as portable, compact, lightweight, and easy to assemble and operate as possible. Portability is essential if you need to move hastily to a different site to escape clouds.

Bring solar filters: Use a proper, visually safe solar filter when photographing or observing the eclipse?s partial phases. Keep the filter mounted securely in front of your telephoto lens or telescope objective (and finder scope). The only time it is safe to look at the eclipse directly without a filter is during totality, when the sun?s disk is fully covered by the moon. Be sure to put the filter back on as soon as totality ends. [Solar Eclipse Chasers' Photo Guide (Gallery)]

Warning: Never look directly at the sun, either with the naked eye or through telescopes or binoculars, without the proper filters. To safely view solar eclipses, you can purchase special solar filters or No. 14 welder's glass to wear over your eyes. Standard sunglasses will NOT provide sufficient protection.?

Have extra memory cards and batteries handy: Don?t skimp on memory cards. Use a reliable, high-speed, large-capacity (8 gigabytes or more) memory card when shooting the eclipse. Don?t forget to use fresh battery for your camera. Digital SLR cameras can easily drain their batteries, especially if you use the LCD screen continuously. Make sure you use a fully charged battery at the beginning of the eclipse, and have a spare one handy, just in case.

Test your imaging setup: Try out your actual gear before leaving the country. This will reveal any potential problems with focusing, balance, or vibrations, as well as internal reflections or vignetting in the optics. Practice your imaging sequence over and over so you can time your pace and refine it as needed. Take some test shots of the sun to determine the best exposure to use for your particular telescope/camera/filter combination.

Pack your things carefully: When disassembling your gear, carefully pack each part so you don?t leave behind any essential screw, adapter, or cable. Also, place delicate optics and cameras in your carry-on baggage to ensure safe handling. Check with your airline or travel agent regarding baggage size and weight restrictions to avoid problems or delays during check-in and boarding. Also allow ample time for airport security screening.

Register your equipment: If you are bringing along expensive telescopes, cameras, or computers, you can register your equipment with the U.S. Customs prior to your departure. You have to bring them to the local customs office at the airport, where you need to fill out CBP Form 4457 ?Certificate of Registration for Personal Effects Taken Abroad.? An officer will then stamp and the sign the form, which you need to present upon your return home. More Information here.?

Check your location: Make sure your chosen observing site lies within the eclipse track. Depending on the weather forecast and road conditions or accessibility, select a site that is as close to the track?s central line as possible to gain the maximum eclipse duration. Double-check your exact geographic coordinates using a GPS receiver or a detailed map ? you don?t want to travel halfway across the globe only to miss seeing the eclipse by a few miles!

Monitor the weather: Get the latest weather update or satellite images and animations from the Internet to help you plan on where to go in case clouds or rain showers threaten your intended eclipse observing site.

Automate your imaging: Many eclipse chasers now use custom software that let them preprogram their entire imaging sequence in their laptop computer. Using USB or FireWire (IEEE 1394) connection, they let the computer control their digital SLR camera from start to finish. The captured images are then automatically downloaded and saved into the computer?s hard drive. All the eclipse chasers have to do is to sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

For example, for Windows users there?s Eclipse Orchestrator. For Macs, there?s the freeware Umbraphile.

Protect your eclipse images and video: Immediately after the event, remove the memory card from your camera or camcorder, label it, and back up the eclipse images or video by copying them into your computer?s hard drive or pocket flash drive.

If you?re using videocassette tape for your camcorder, remove the tape for safekeeping; don?t forget to label the videocassette and ?lock? it or break its tab so you can?t accidentally erase your recording.

Conduct public astronomy outreach: A solar eclipse is a perfect opportunity to enlighten the locals about astronomy and space exploration. If you plan to arrive a few days before the eclipse, make arrangements to give talks at a local school or astronomy club and bring a small solar telescope for the students, teachers, parents, and club members to observe with. Don?t forget to bring extra eclipse glasses so you can share the experience with the public.

Learn about the host country and its people: Solar eclipses crisscross some of the best destinations in the world. Depending on your budget and time, you can use the eclipse trip to explore a country you?ve never visited before. Try to learn more about its people, culture, language, and history, sample its cuisine, and visit its top natural attractions.

During our nearly three decades of chasing eclipses around the world, we?ve had the opportunity to tour such exciting, exotic? locations as Indonesia, Philippines, Mexico, the Caribbean, Turkey, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Egypt, China, and French Polynesia. As we like to tell people: ?We let Mother Nature plan our next vacation.?

Good luck and clear skies on Eclipse Day!

Editor's note: If you are in Australia or along the solar eclipse path and snap an amazing photo of Tuesday's total solar eclipse that you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery, please send images, comments and location information to managing editor Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com.

?? Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre are veteran eclipse chasers and photographers with 10 successful expeditions to date (eight totals and two annulars). Follow SPACE.com on Twitter@Spacedotcom. We're also onFacebookand Google+.

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Motherhood at 50 without egg donation. Really? | oliviasview

On the cover of the Guardian Weekend magazine today is a picture of a naked, pregnant woman. ?It?s in profile with hands covering her nipples, very tasteful, very wonderful. ?The miracle of birth is clearly near. ?The woman is apparently 51 years old.

Inside the mag is a long article by Naomi Gryn who became pregnant with twins (one subsequently died in utero) following a last ditch attempt at pregnancy with frozen embryos created at a Barcelona clinic when she was 50. ? There is no mention that egg donation was any part of the process. ?Agnes Mayall, another 50 year old woman quoted in the article admits to ?technical assistance? in helping with her pregnancy, baby due any day now.

And yet the article quotes statistics that seem to be widely accepted, that by age 44 there is only a 5 per cent chance of a woman conceiving using her own eggs. ?Professor Brian Dale, director of the Centro Fecondazione Assistita in Italy is apparently used to working with older women and favours using a women?s own eggs whenever possible. ?But even he is quoted as saying, ?The oldest lady I remember getting pregnant with her own eggs was 46. ?But most people who come to us aged over 45 are already psychologically primed to go on the egg donor programme.? ?So what do we make of Naomi and Agnes?s pregnancies then? ?Egg donation or not? ?And if so, does it matter?

Well it matters for at least two reasons. ?Not admitting to needing help from an egg donor continues the myth that pregnancy with a woman?s own eggs remains possible in her late forties and early fifties when for the vast majority of women this is just not true. ?Many women, in fact, are unable to conceive with their own eggs in their early forties and sometimes late thirties. ?The fastest growing group of new families to join DC Network are couples who conceived their first child in their mid to late thirties without help and then find that a second child a couple of years later is not possible without an egg donor. ?Women need to understand that looking and feeling young on the outside does not mean that their eggs are not ageing on the inside and that IVF is not a magic wand that can be waved over their abdomen to create a pregnancy at any time of their choosing.

The other reason why it matters that egg donation is acknowledged is because children/young people/adults created this way should not be deceived about their genetic origins. ?They should not be misled into believing that their mother?s genetic and medical history is part of their inheritance. ?And for all the reasons that put honesty, integrity and trust at the heart of good family relationships they should not have this information withheld from them.

There is no shame about needing egg (or sperm) donation to help with family formation. ?Why not be up front and proud about it and at the same time help women (and their partners) to be realistic about the chances of conceiving for the first time without donor help after about 44. ?That, and being honest with their kids. ? It would save a lot of heartache.

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Little Compton Surfers Return To NY This Weekend With Supplies ...

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What began as a single Facebook shout out to the Tiverton-Little Compton community last Friday has propelled into a continuing effort by the owner of a local surf shop to bring relief aid to a New York neighborhood hard-hit by Hurricane Sandy.

Living Water Surf Shop owner Chuck Barend - along with the Kinane family of Little Compton - helped organize a last-minute fundraiser at Crowther's Food and Drink?last Saturday to solicit relief supplies from local residents.?

In less than 24 hours, plans to drive a single 16-passenger van of supplies to Rockaway Beach, NY?had evolved into a convoy as Tiverton and Little Compton residents responded to the shout out with an outpouring of donations. Within hours it was clear one truck wasn't going to be enough.

"At one point we had really overwhelmed the first drop off with all the food and everything," said Barend. "It was really filled up with hats and mittens and winter coats - and all that stuff is really needed now."

By the time the fundraiser kicked off at Crowther's at 7 p.m., Barend and the Kinane's were no longer just looking for relief supplies, they were looking for for more trucks to help transport them.?

"The generosity was overwhelming just to see how much people cared and gave," said Barend. "From a 24-hour Facebook request, we filled three 16-passenger vans, all stuffed full of gear, and two support trucks with everything from bottled water and tremendous amounts of food - and good food too, from health food stores. We had peanut butter, crackers, canned goods, then toiletries, bleach, buckets, mops and brooms."

Hundreds of people from across the East Bay contributed to last week's convoy of supplies, including?Tiverton High School.

Sheila Kauffmann, a local parent and guidance counselor at the high school, helped organize a drop-off location at Saturday evening's soccer game at the high school. In two hours, Tiverton High School students, athletes and parents donated enough supplies to fill the bed of the Kauffmann's pickup truck - a win for Rockaway Beach and for Tiverton, after the boy's soccer team won its game 2-0!

The donations keep rolling in since last week's trip, prompting another excursion to the desolated beachfront town that is still without power, heat and running water in the wake of this week's nor'easter.

"The beauty for me is that the surf shop is so slow right now that I would much rather be involved in helping people than sitting in a slow surf shop," said Barend, who is closing his shop to make the treks down to New York. "You lose a little business by not being there all of the hours, but it feels so much better to take my eyes off myself and take care of other people."

Living Water Surf is hosting a cookout tomorrow on Saturday, Nov. 10 from 2-4 p.m.?following a?coastal cleanup at South Shore Beach. The cleanup runs from noon to 2 p.m.

On Sunday morning, Barend and his team will return, trucks loaded, to Rockaway Beach with more supplies.

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Winter coats, hats, gloves, thermal clothing and underwear and socks are needed as well as food items and cleaning supplies.

"People are starting over, they have lost cars, homes, so they are super thankful for everything," said Barend, reflecting on his experience dropping off supplies last weekend.?

"When people thanked you, you felt ashamed to say no problem because ?you knew it was all the people back home who rallied up with all the stuff, helped pay for gas, and pack it up," Barend added. "I was just one part of the team."

The Kinane family, like Barend, is entrenched in the East Coast surfing community, a fact that helped them choose Rockaway Beach as the destination for Tiverton-Little Compton's generosity.

Chuck Kinane, a videographer who now lives in New York City, often surfs Rockaway Beach in his time off. After Hurricane Sandy, he visited the coastal town and started sharing images of the devastation with friends and family back home.

"A?connection that all surfers are having right now is No. 1 that this was a coastal storm and when you go on any traditional surfing website and look at coastal news, it's all Hurricane Sandy and relief because the east coast is kind of a small surfing community and you actually get to know people - even people from other states," said Barend.

After seeing Kinane's Instagram photos of houses ripped from their foundations by swirling tides and families huddled outside shelters and drop off locations waiting for basic supplies, Barend and the Kinane family knew they had to act. After Little Compton was largely spared from Sandy's wrath, the team wanted to share a bit of their own good fortune with a fellow surf-friendly community in need.?

"We always use the benchmark of the 1938 hurricane and that's what everyone is always afraid could happen," said Barend. "You go online and see the write-ups and the devastation in Rockaway and you're drawing those comparisons. It's just a short distance away and people got hit by that type of storm."

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Eight Companies Sued By NJ For Post-Sandy Price Gouging | Legal ...

State law makes it illegal to boost prices excessively during a declared state of emergency or for 30 days thereafter. According to the statute, an excessive price increase is any rise of 10 percent over the normal cost for an item.

Today New Jersey Attorney General Jeff Chiesa announced the state will file lawsuits against eight companies accused of raising prices at an unfair rate to consumers, reports NJ.com.

The companies are Kistruga Inc. in Paterson; C.S. George and Sons in Clifton; Alen Service Corp. in Newark; Vinny Fuel Corporation in Bloomfield; Perth Amboy NJPO; S&D LLC in Lyndhurst; Couto and Sons in Newark; and Ratana Hospitality Group (Howard Johnson) in Parsippany.

The seven gas stations and one motel are the first businesses to be charged in Hurricane Sandy, though the AG?s office has received about 2,000 complaints and issued 170 subpoenas.

Chiesa promised more lawsuits as time goes on and warned people how to deal with potential gougers.?Of the subpoenas issued, roughly 83 percent involve gas stations. Motels are the runner-up.?As residents reconstruct from storm damage, Chiesa warned of charity and home improvement scams.

State law makes it illegal to boost prices excessively during a declared state of emergency or for 30 days thereafter. According to the statute, an excessive price increase is any rise of 10 percent over the normal cost for an item.

The companies charged are accused of raising prices between 17 to 59 percent, officials said.

Related posts:

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  3. U.S. Seeks $1 Billion Fine Over LCD Price-Fixing
  4. New Jersey Allows Sandy Victims To Vote Via E-mail, Despite Objections
  5. Insured Losses From Hurricane Sandy May Cost $10 Billion

Source: http://news.thelaw.tv/2012/11/09/eight-companies-sued-by-n-j-for-post-sandy-price-gouging/

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Microsoft outlines Internet Explorer 10 differences between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

Microsoft outlines Internet Explorer 10 differences between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, finds they still have common ground

Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 together mark a rare confluence for Microsoft: they represent the first instance of the company's desktop and phone platforms sharing the same browser base, and that has wide-reaching implications for what developers can do. The Redmond team doesn't want anyone plunging headlong into web apps without knowing what to expect, however, and it just reminded us in a blog post that there are still a few off-limits areas for Internet Explorer 10 on the mobile side. Not surprisingly, elements that demand a truly big screen or a windowed interface won't fly -- there's nowhere to drag-and-drop from or open a new window to. A few other aspects are more likely to catch web developers off-guard, such as the lack of in-line video, a handful of touch inputs, ActiveX and the level of file access. The most important common ground stems from simply having a modern rendering engine whose HTML5 and CSS3 support will prevent any rude shocks. There's much more at the source link, although Microsoft and designers may just be happy that any Windows Phone web development is a question of finding those few things that won't work, rather than reinventing the wheel.

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Obama, GOP leaders lay down markers on budget deal

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Taking little time to celebrate, President Barack Obama is setting out to leverage his re-election into legislative success in an upcoming showdown with congressional Republicans over taxes, deficits and the impending "fiscal cliff." House Speaker John Boehner says Republicans are willing to consider some form of higher tax revenue as part of the solution ? but only "under the right conditions."

All sides are setting out opening arguments for the negotiations to come.

Even before returning to Washington from his hometown of Chicago, Obama was on the phone Wednesday with the four top leaders of the House and Senate ? Boehner included ? to talk about the lame-duck Congress that convenes just one week after Election Day.

Without a budget deal to head off the fiscal showdown, the nation faces a combination of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and steep across-the-board spending cuts that could total $800 billion next year. Economists have warned that could tip the nation back into recession.

Vice President Joe Biden, flying to his home in Delaware from Chicago, told reporters aboard Air Force Two that the White House was "really anxious" to get moving on the problem. He said he'd been making a lot of calls and "people know we've got to get down to work and I think they're ready to move." He didn't identify whom he'd been speaking with but predicted the "fever will break" on past legislative gridlock after some soul-searching by Republicans.

The White House held out this week's election results as a mandate from voters for greater cooperation between the White House and Congress. At the same time, it reiterated Obama's top priorities: cutting taxes for middle-class families and small businesses, creating jobs and cutting the deficit "in a balanced way" ? through a combination of tax increases on wealthier Americans and spending cuts.

Obama told the congressional leaders he believed "the American people sent a message in yesterday's election that leaders in both parties need to put aside their partisan interests and work with common purpose to put the interests of the American people and the American economy first," the White House said in a statement.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., channeled Obama in calling for a quick solution to the fiscal showdown and saying that asking "the richest of the rich" to pay more should be part of the equation. He added that he'd "do everything within my power to be as conciliatory as possible" but added, "I want everyone to also understand you can't push us around."

"Waiting for a month, six weeks, six months, that's not going to solve the problem," Reid said on Capitol Hill. "We know what needs to be done. And so I think that we should just roll up our sleeves and get it done."

Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle said the postelection congressional session offers a good chance to reset the dynamics between the White House and congressional Republicans in search of compromise.

"I think there's the urgency of the matter that probably goes beyond anything we've seen to date," he said. "The urgency of the repercussions of driving off the cliff are so grave that I can't imagine that failure is an option."

Both Biden and Reid pointed to election exit poll results showing that most Americans support higher taxes on the wealthy.

Biden said there was "a clear sort of mandate about people coming much closer to our view about how to deal with tax policy," adding that "there's all kinds of potential to be able to reach a rational, principled compromise."

Boehner, for his part, said that for Obama to get support for new revenues, "the president must be willing to reduce spending and shore up the entitlement programs that are the primary drivers of our debt."

"We aren't seeking to impose our will on the president; we're asking him to make good on his 'balanced' approach," the Ohio Republican said on Capitol Hill.

The reference to a balanced approach to deficit reduction reflected Obama's campaign-long call for higher taxes on incomes above $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for couples. That was something Boehner made plain he opposes.

The House speaker said conditions on higher taxes would include a revamped tax code to make it cleaner and fairer, fewer loopholes and lower rates for all, adding that "we're closer than we think to the critical mass needed legislatively to get tax reform done."

Boehner did not specify what loopholes House Republicans might consider trimming.

Obama spent a rare morning off Wednesday at his home on Chicago's South Side, then stopped off at campaign headquarters to meet privately with staff and thank them for their work in the long, grueling campaign. Workers climbed on top of desks to get a good look at the president.

Then Obama and his family flew back to Washington together on Air Force One. The president appeared to be in a good mood, racing younger daughter Sasha up the steps, then calling out "Come on slowpokes" to wife Michelle and older daughter Malia.

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Associated Press writers Julie Pace, Ken Thomas and Andrew Taylor contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-gop-leaders-lay-down-markers-budget-deal-080338986.html

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Behind The Scenes: How Apple Keeps Grey Marketeers From Buying Out iPhone Stock In Shenzhen

8153479529_771ea5f090_oGetting an iPhone in China has always been hard. For most of its life-cycle, the phone has been unavailable in the Mainland except through the grey market. Now that Apple is allowed to sell units in Shenzhen, however, it's gotten amazingly strict on sales per-person.

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