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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) ? Sudanese officials say the government has released seven political prisoners, including a female politician, under an amnesty declared by President Omar al-Bashir.
The official news agency says the prisoners were released Monday at midnight from Kober prison in Sudan's capital Khartoum, after they were held there for over two months without trial.
The detainees were all involved in the preparation and signing of the "New Dawn Charter," a document calling for the use of force to oust longtime leader al-Bashir. The document was signed in Kampala, Uganda, early this year.
An unspecified number of politicians, and military and intelligence officers remain in jail accused of plotting to overthrow al-Bashir, who seized power in a military coup in 1989.
Al-Bashir has said he intends to step down in 2015.
Survey shows many Republicans feel America should take steps to address climate changePublic release date: 2-Apr-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Tara Laskowski tlaskows@gmu.edu 703-993-8815 George Mason University
FAIRFAX, Va., April 2, 2013In a recent survey of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents conducted by the Center for Climate Change Communication (4C) at George Mason University, a majority of respondents (62 percent) said they feel America should take steps to address climate change. More than three out of four survey respondents (77 percent) said the United States should use more renewable energy sources, and of those, most believe that this change should begin immediately.
The national survey, conducted in January 2013, asked more than 700 people who self-identified as Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents about energy and climate change.
"Over the past few years, our surveys have shown that a growing number of Republicans want to see Congress do more to address climate change," said Mason professor Edward Maibach, director of 4C. "In this survey, we asked a broader set of questions to see if we could better understand how Republicans, and Independents who have a tendency to vote Republican, think about America's energy and climate change situation."
Other highlights from the survey include the following:
Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents prefer clean energy as the basis of America's energy future and say the benefits of clean energy, such as energy independence (66 percent) saving resources for our children and grandchildren (57 percent), and providing a better life for our children and grandchildren (56 percent) outweigh the costs, such as more government regulation (42 percent) or higher energy prices (31 percent).
By a margin of 2 to 1, respondents say America should take action to reduce its fossil fuel use.
Only one third of respondents agree with the Republican Party's position on climate change, while about half agree with the party's position on how to meet America's energy needs.
A large majority of respondents say their elected representatives are unresponsive to their views about climate change.
"The findings from this survey suggest there is considerable support among conservatives for accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels and toward clean renewable forms of energy, and for taking steps to address climate change," said Maibach. "Perhaps the most surprising finding, however, is how few of our survey respondents agreed with the Republican Party's current position on climate change."
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The report can be downloaded at: http://climatechangecommunication.org
The report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey conducted by the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. A total of 726 adults (18+) were interviewed between January 12th and January 27th, 2013. The average margin of error for the survey +/- 4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
About George Mason University
George Mason University is an innovative, entrepreneurial institution with global distinction in a range of academic fields. Located in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., Mason provides students access to diverse cultural experiences and the most sought-after internships and employers in the country. Mason offers strong undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering and information technology, organizational psychology, health care and visual and performing arts. With Mason professors conducting groundbreaking research in areas such as climate change, public policy and the biosciences, George Mason University is a leading example of the modern, public university. George Mason University-Where Innovation Is Tradition.
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Survey shows many Republicans feel America should take steps to address climate changePublic release date: 2-Apr-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Tara Laskowski tlaskows@gmu.edu 703-993-8815 George Mason University
FAIRFAX, Va., April 2, 2013In a recent survey of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents conducted by the Center for Climate Change Communication (4C) at George Mason University, a majority of respondents (62 percent) said they feel America should take steps to address climate change. More than three out of four survey respondents (77 percent) said the United States should use more renewable energy sources, and of those, most believe that this change should begin immediately.
The national survey, conducted in January 2013, asked more than 700 people who self-identified as Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents about energy and climate change.
"Over the past few years, our surveys have shown that a growing number of Republicans want to see Congress do more to address climate change," said Mason professor Edward Maibach, director of 4C. "In this survey, we asked a broader set of questions to see if we could better understand how Republicans, and Independents who have a tendency to vote Republican, think about America's energy and climate change situation."
Other highlights from the survey include the following:
Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents prefer clean energy as the basis of America's energy future and say the benefits of clean energy, such as energy independence (66 percent) saving resources for our children and grandchildren (57 percent), and providing a better life for our children and grandchildren (56 percent) outweigh the costs, such as more government regulation (42 percent) or higher energy prices (31 percent).
By a margin of 2 to 1, respondents say America should take action to reduce its fossil fuel use.
Only one third of respondents agree with the Republican Party's position on climate change, while about half agree with the party's position on how to meet America's energy needs.
A large majority of respondents say their elected representatives are unresponsive to their views about climate change.
"The findings from this survey suggest there is considerable support among conservatives for accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels and toward clean renewable forms of energy, and for taking steps to address climate change," said Maibach. "Perhaps the most surprising finding, however, is how few of our survey respondents agreed with the Republican Party's current position on climate change."
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The report can be downloaded at: http://climatechangecommunication.org
The report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey conducted by the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. A total of 726 adults (18+) were interviewed between January 12th and January 27th, 2013. The average margin of error for the survey +/- 4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
About George Mason University
George Mason University is an innovative, entrepreneurial institution with global distinction in a range of academic fields. Located in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., Mason provides students access to diverse cultural experiences and the most sought-after internships and employers in the country. Mason offers strong undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering and information technology, organizational psychology, health care and visual and performing arts. With Mason professors conducting groundbreaking research in areas such as climate change, public policy and the biosciences, George Mason University is a leading example of the modern, public university. George Mason University-Where Innovation Is Tradition.
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LONDON (AP) ? Unemployment across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro has struck 12 percent for the first time since the currency was launched in 1999, official figures showed Tuesday.
Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, said the rate in February was unchanged at the record high after January's figure was revised up to 12 percent from 11.9 percent.
Over the month, a net 33,000 people in the eurozone joined the ranks of the unemployed. Spain and Greece continued to suffer from unemployment rates above 26 percent, and many other countries were seeing their numbers swell to uncomfortable levels.
It's not all doom and gloom. Germany, Europe's biggest economy, has an unemployment rate of only 5.4 percent. That's even better than the U.S. rate of 7.7 percent.
The February figures came before the recent Cyprus crisis, which has reignited concerns over the future of the euro. Under the terms of its bailout, big depositors in the country's two top banks are facing hefty losses.
Following Cyprus' protracted and chaotic bailout discussions, which saw the country's banks close for the best part of two week, unemployment on the east Mediterranean island nation is expected to ratchet higher over the months ahead as the economy contracts sharply.
Many economists are forecasting that the Cypriot economy will shrink by 10 percent this year alone and see unemployment rise up to Greek and Spanish levels. In February, Cyprus' unemployment stood at 14 percent.
Prior to the Cypriot crisis, there were signs that Europe's debt crisis had calmed. Stock and bond markets had risen for nearly months, boosting confidence in countries' ability to finance themselves.
But while markets have improved, the eurozone economy has sunk back into recession.
A closely-watched survey released Tuesday indicated that the recession likely continued in the first quarter. The monthly purchasing managers' index for the manufacturing sector ? a gauge of business activity published by financial information company Markit ? fell to a 3-month low.
Though the PMI was not as bad as first estimated a couple of weeks back, it fell to 46.8 points in March. Anything below 50 indicates an economic contraction.
The worry in the PMI survey was that manufacturing activity weakened across the eurozone, including Germany, Europe's export powerhouse.
Apr. 1, 2013 ? A new study by Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Pennsylvania scientists defines previously unknown properties of transmitted HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS. The viruses that successfully pass from a chronically infected person to a new individual are both remarkably resistant to a powerful initial human immune-response mechanism, and they are blanketed in a greater amount of envelope protein that helps them access and enter host cells.
These findings will help inform vaccine design and interpretation of vaccine trials, and provide new insights into the basic biology of viral/host dynamics of infection.
During the course of each AIDS infection, the HIV-1 virus evolves within the infected person to escape the host's natural immune response and adapt to the local environment within the infected individual. Because HIV evolves so rapidly and so extensively, each person acquires and harbors a complex, very diverse set of viruses that develops over the years of their infection. Yet when HIV is transmitted to a new person from their partner, typically only a single virus from the diverse set in the partner is transmitted to establish the new infection.
The key discoveries here are the specific features that distinguish those specific viruses which successfully move to the new host, compared with the myriad forms in the viral population present in a chronically infected individual.
"The viruses that make it through transmission barriers to infect a new person are particularly infectious and resilient," said Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Bette Korber. "Through this study we now better understand the biology that defines that resilience."
The team set out to determine whether the viruses that were successfully transmitted to a new patient might share distinct biological properties relative to those typically isolated from people with long-term, chronic infection. To do this, the group at U Penn cloned a set of intact viruses from acute infection, and a set of viruses from chronically infected people, and characterized them by measuring quantities that might be related to the virus's ability to successfully establish a new infection. They discovered several clear correlations. For example, transmitted viruses were both more infectious and contained more protective "envelope" per virus; envelope is the protein the virus uses to enter host cells.
The team identified an additional interesting property that could be a general characteristic of new viral infections: the transmitted HIV was capable of replicating and growing well in the presence of alpha interferon. Alpha interferon production is part of our innate human immune response to a new infection. As soon as a new viral infection is initiated in our bodies, local immune cells at the site of infection start secreting molecules called cytokines that have general antiviral activity and can inhibit the production of the newly infected virus. Alpha interferon is one of these potent cytokines.
In the early days of an HIV infection, this innate immune response increases to an intense level, called a "cytokine storm," which gradually recedes during infection. For a newly transmitted HIV to successfully establish infection, it must grow and expand in the new host while facing this cytokine storm. Although typical chronic viruses are sensitive to and inhibited by alpha interferon, transmitted HIV-1 viruses grew well in the presence of interferon.
Los Alamos scientists Elena Giorgi, James Theiler and Bette Korber were part of the analysis team working closely with investigators at the University of Pennsylvania, Nick Parrish and Beatrice Hahn. The paper, "Phenotypic properties of transmitted founder HIV-1" is in this week's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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N. F. Parrish, F. Gao, H. Li, E. E. Giorgi, H. J. Barbian, E. H. Parrish, L. Zajic, S. S. Iyer, J. M. Decker, A. Kumar, B. Hora, A. Berg, F. Cai, J. Hopper, T. N. Denny, H. Ding, C. Ochsenbauer, J. C. Kappes, R. P. Galimidi, A. P. West, P. J. Bjorkman, C. B. Wilen, R. W. Doms, M. O'Brien, N. Bhardwaj, P. Borrow, B. F. Haynes, M. Muldoon, J. P. Theiler, B. Korber, G. M. Shaw, B. H. Hahn. Phenotypic properties of transmitted founder HIV-1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1304288110
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Some business ventures will go on to become gigantic like Wal-Mart, while others remain little mom-n-pop shops. However, some small businesses simply fade away. Many online businesses have been known to fail. The following article will give you some helpful marketing tips, so that you can avoid the pitfalls of starting a business on the Internet.
Decide what you want your website to accomplish, and keep your focus on that goal. Decide which article directory you wish to write for, and choose the type of articles you will create. Different directories have different article requirements, such as having longer or shorter entries and heavy or light content. Keep a list of the various guidelines that you can refer to before writing.
Split Test
Before you set out to get your website ranked, you should concentrate on building a quality site. This needs to be the beginning step for anyone who is creating an online business. Try to make your website as functional and streamlined as possible. If you do this at the beginning, you will have an easier time making changes to it in the future.
NOTE! Sending a press release out is an excellent way to generate traffic when marketing your site. If you can write clear, crisp and informative press releases, there are many sources available online that will publish you and release your material to certain niche markets.
Boosting the amount of subscribers you have will help you make more money. A split test can help you determine which methods earn you more subscribers. A split test is when you show one version of your site to one group of people, and another version of your site to other people. This helps to find out what works and what doesn?t in each version of the website.
If you happen to be an excellent writer, then send some of your work about your business to other websites and magazines. Be sure to include all important information about your business in the articles. Try to speak to the editors and offer them freebies or affiliate commissions as an incentive to publish your articles.
Giving yourself a title will show your importance. If it is your company, you should be titled as CEO. If you are not the owner, you can still adopt an impressive title. Sign your articles and emails with your name and your title.
Evaluate your website on a regular basis by asking for constructive feedback. This is often critical in determining your success, as how you perceive things is not always the same as how others see them. Gain feedback from possible customers, family members and friends. Consider the advice they offer you, and use it to tweak your website.
NOTE! For business or personal correspondence, always place your own signature at the end of emails. Similar to the way that a standard printed business card works in the physical world, your signature should be prominent and used frequently.
A blog will attract more traffic to your site. It?s crucial to have up-to-date content on your site at all times. When people find new information on each visit to your site, they?ll keep coming back.
An upside to an online business failing is that could open up the path for you. Use the tips here to make yourself a winner.
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All things being equal, I?ll add some more online marketing tips for you at some stage tomorrow. If anything is not clear, leave your thoughts in the large field below and I?ll come up with ideas on what can be done to help you out.
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