Gold languishes as traders hope for economic aid

The price of gold is languishing, much like the global economy.

Gold for December delivery fell $10.20 to finish Monday at $1,612.60 per ounce. That's about $10 less than it was on June 1 and nearly $190 less than the high for the year of $1,798.90 per ounce in late February.

The decline came after Japan said its economy grew less than expected during the second quarter. Other Asian-Pacific countries also are experiencing sluggish growth, including China, which is a huge importer of commodities such as oil and copper. That has raised concerns because the region supported the global economy when the U.S. and Europe began to slow.

For much of the summer, gold prices have moved largely based on speculation about whether authorities in the U.S, Europe and China will take additional steps to promote their respective economies.

Stimulus measures can raise demand for commodities, which drives up prices for industrial metals and oil, for example. Gold benefits because it often is used as a hedge against inflation.

The Federal Reserve has pledged to try to bolster economic growth if hiring remains weak but didn't take immediate action after a meeting earlier this month. Now traders are awaiting Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's remarks Aug. 31 at an annual economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

The European Central Bank and China are believed to be considering action, too.

"Unless we start to see some effect of stimulus, traders are concentrating on what is now," said George Gero, a vice president at RBC Global Futures. "If traders can't find something positive to point to, they tend to shy away from taking risks."

Concerns about a slowing global economy also weighed on industrial metals and energy products. Volumes were light which often can exaggerate price shifts.

Silver for September delivery fell 29.5 cents to end at $27.767 per ounce, September copper dropped 3.9 cents to $3.3535 per pound, October platinum declined $7.10 to $1,392.80 per ounce and September palladium ended down $7.50 at $574.70 per ounce.

Benchmark oil fell 14 cents to finish at $92.73 per barrel. Heating oil decreased 0.22 cent to $3.0183 per gallon, gasoline dropped 1.32 cents to $2.9907 per gallon and natural gas ended down 4.1 cents at $2.729 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Corn for December delivery fell 17 cents to finish at $7.9225 per bushel, September wheat decreased 28.5 cents to $8.5675 per bushel and November soybeans dropped 43 cents to $16.0075 per bushel.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gold-languishes-traders-hope-economic-aid-194135334--finance.html

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YaleNews | Yale chemists receive $2.5 million for cancer research

Two Yale chemists have been awarded $2.5 million from the National Cancer Institute to investigate novel approaches to treating cancers previously thought ?undruggable.?

Professors Alanna Schepartz and Andy Phillips will focus on developing molecules that can enter cells and activate or inhibit genes dependent on the protein p53, often called the ?guardian of the genome? for its important role in preventing cells from becoming cancerous.

Schepartz, the Milton Harris ?29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and director of the Yale Chemical Biology Institute at the West Campus, said much of the research related would take place at West Campus.

The research team also includes Professor Dylan Taatjes of the University of Colorado.

Said Phillips, professor of chemistry, ?I?m excited about this special opportunity to engage two great colleagues on a spectrum of science that we all share a passion for ??the interplay between ?undruggable? targets in cancer biology and the development of new paradigms in chemical biology.?

The highly competitive grant, to be distributed over five years at about $500,000 annually, comes through NCI?s ?Provocative Questions? program. It challenges researchers to focus on important but neglected problems. It also requires researchers to select a specific question to address from a list prepared by NCI.

The Schepartz-Phillips team picked question 18: ?Are there new technologies to inhibit traditionally ?undruggable? target molecules, such as transcription factors, that are required for the oncogenic phenotype??

?Transcriptional deregulation is one of the key features of cancer, and there are many potential points of intervention,? Phillips said. ?A longstanding goal has been to directly modulate erroneous transcription factor function, and an increasing number of genomic characterizations of cancers have underscored the value and impact that such capabilities might have for patients. We had all been thinking about ways to have an impact on this seemingly obvious problem that many others view as impossible. This was a perfect opportunity for us to coordinate our thoughts and address the challenge of ?drugging one of the poster child transcription factors in cancers: p53.?

The Yale Chemical Biology Institute at West Campus promotes innovation at the intersection of chemistry, biology, engineering, physics, and medicine.

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Source: http://news.yale.edu/2012/08/13/yale-chemists-receive-25-million-cancer-research

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New system could predict solar flares, give advance warning

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Researchers may have discovered a new method to predict solar flares more than a day before they occur, providing advance warning to help protect satellites, power grids and astronauts from potentially dangerous radiation.

The system works by measuring differences in gamma radiation emitted when atoms in radioactive elements "decay," or lose energy. This rate of decay is widely believed to be constant, but recent findings challenge that long-accepted rule.

The new detection technique is based on a hypothesis that radioactive decay rates are influenced by solar activity, possibly streams of subatomic particles called solar neutrinos. This influence can wax and wane due to seasonal changes in the Earth's distance from the sun and also during solar flares, according to the hypothesis, which is supported with data published in a dozen research papers since it was proposed in 2006, said Ephraim Fischbach, a Purdue University professor of physics.

Fischbach and Jere Jenkins, a nuclear engineer and director of radiation laboratories in the School of Nuclear Engineering, are leading research to study the phenomenon and possibly develop a new warning system. Jenkins, monitoring a detector in his lab in 2006, discovered that the decay rate of a radioactive sample changed slightly beginning 39 hours before a large solar flare.

Since then, researchers have been examining similar variation in decay rates before solar flares, as well as those resulting from Earth's orbit around the sun and changes in solar rotation and activity. The new findings appeared online last week in the journal Astroparticle Physics.

"It's the first time the same isotope has been used in two different experiments at two different labs, and it showed basically the same effect," Fischbach said. The paper was authored by Jenkins and Fischbach; Ohio State University researchers Kevin R. Herminghuysen, Thomas E. Blue, Andrew C. Kauffman and Joseph W. Talnagi; U.S. Air Force researcher Daniel Javorsek; Mayo Clinic researcher Daniel W. Mundy; and Stanford University researcher Peter A. Sturrock.

Data were recorded during routine weekly calibration of an instrument used for radiological safety at Ohio State's research reactor. Findings showed a clear annual variation in the decay rate of a radioactive isotope called chlorine 36, with the highest rate in January and February and the lowest rate in July and August, over a period from July 2005 to June 2011.

The new observations support previous work by Jenkins and Fischbach to develop a method for predicting solar flares. Advance warning could allow satellite and power grid operators to take steps to minimize impact and astronauts to shield themselves from potentially lethal radiation emitted during solar storms.

The findings agree with data previously collected at the Brookhaven National Laboratory regarding the decay rate of chlorine 36; changes in the decay rate were found to match changes in the Earth-sun distance and Earth's exposure to different parts of the sun itself, Fischbach said.

Large solar flares may produce a "coronal mass ejection" of highly energetic particles, which can interact with the Earth's magnetosphere, triggering geomagnetic storms that sometimes knock out power. The sun's activity is expected to peak over the next year or so as part of an 11-year cycle that could bring strong solar storms.

Solar storms can be especially devastating if the flare happens to be aimed at the Earth, hitting the planet directly with powerful charged particles. A huge solar storm, called the Carrington event, hit the Earth in 1859, a time when the only electrical infrastructure consisted of telegraph lines.

"There was so much energy from this solar storm that the telegraph wires were seen glowing and the aurora borealis appeared as far south as Cuba," Fischbach said. "Because we now have a sophisticated infrastructure of satellites, power grids and all sort of electronic systems, a storm of this magnitude today would be catastrophic. Having a day and a half warning could be really helpful in averting the worst damage."

Satellites, for example, might be designed so that they could be temporarily shut down and power grids might similarly be safeguarded before the storm arrived.

Researchers have recorded data during 10 solar flares since 2006, seeing the same pattern.

"We have repeatedly seen a precursor signal preceding a solar flare," Fischbach said. "We think this has predictive value."

The Purdue experimental setup consists of a radioactive source - manganese 54 - and a gamma-radiation detector. As the manganese 54 decays, it turns into chromium 54, emitting a gamma ray, which is recorded by the detector to measure the decay rate.

Purdue has filed a U.S. patent application for the concept.

Research findings show evidence that the phenomenon is influenced by the Earth's distance from the sun; for example, decay rates are different in January and July, when the Earth is closest and farthest from the sun, respectively.

"When the Earth is farther away, we have fewer solar neutrinos and the decay rate is a little slower," Jenkins said. "When we are closer, there are more neutrinos, and the decay a little faster."

Researchers also have recorded both increases and decreases in decay rates during solar storms.

"What this is telling us is that the sun does influence radioactive decay," Fischbach said.

Neutrinos have the least mass of any known subatomic particle, yet it is plausible that they are somehow affecting the decay rate, he said.

English physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as the father of nuclear physics, in the 1930s conducted experiments indicating the radioactive decay rate is constant, meaning it cannot be altered by external influences.

"Since neutrinos have essentially no mass or charge, the idea that they could be interacting with anything is foreign to physics," Jenkins said. "So, we are saying something that doesn't interact with anything is changing something that can't be changed. Either neutrinos are affecting decay rate or perhaps an unknown particle is."

Jenkins discovered the effect by chance in 2006, when he was watching television coverage of astronauts spacewalking at the International Space Station. A solar flare had erupted and was thought to possibly pose a threat to the astronauts. He decided to check his equipment and discovered that a change in decay-rate had preceded the solar flare.

Further research is needed to confirm the findings and to expand the work using more sensitive equipment, he said.

Jenkins and Fischbach have previously collaborated with Peter Sturrock, a professor emeritus of applied physics at Stanford University and an expert on the inner workings of the sun, to examine data collected at Brookhaven on the decay rate of radioactive isotopes silicon-32 and chlorine-36. The team reported in 2010 in Astroparticle Physics that the decay rate for both isotopes varies in a 33-day recurring pattern, which they attribute to the rotation rate of the sun's core.

The group found evidence of the same annual and 33-day effect in radium-226 data taken at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig, Germany, and those findings were published in 2011. They also found an additional 154-day recurring pattern in both the Brookhaven and PTB data, published in 2011, which they believe to be solar related and similar to a known solar effect called a Rieger periodicity.

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New key element discovered in pathogenesis of Burkitt lymphoma

Public release date: 13-Aug-2012
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MDC scientists develop model for new treatments

Burkitt lymphoma is a malignant, fast-growing tumor that originates from a subtype of white blood cells called B lymphocytes of the immune system and often affects internal organs and the central nervous system. Now Dr. Sandrine Sander and Professor Klaus Rajewsky of the Max Delbrck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch have identified a key element that transforms the immune cells into malignant lymphoma cells. They developed a mouse model that closely resembles Burkitt lymphoma in humans and that may help to test new treatment strategies (Cancer Cell)*.

Burkitt lymphoma typically develops in childhood and occurs most frequently in equatorial Africa and South America. This tumor originates from germinal centers of the lymphoid organs (Peyer's patches in the small intestine, lymph nodes and spleen). The germinal center reaction is initiated by mature B cells upon detection of a foreign substance (antigen). These B cells modify their DNA in the course of the reaction, resulting finally in a highly specific antibody response against the antigen.

The B cell receptor (BCR), an antibody presented on the surface of mature B cells, plays a crucial role in the germinal center reaction. In order to optimally recognize the respective antigen and initiate an appropriate immune response, the DNA segments encoding the antibody need to be modified and rearranged. While the processes are complex, DNA breaks occur and error-prone repair mechanisms may lead to genetic mutations associated with cancer development.

It is well established that in Burkitt lymphoma, mistakes in the repair of DNA breaks result in the translocation of the c-MYC oncogene. This gene regulates cell division, and thus its expression is tightly controlled in normal cells. The c-MYC translocation leads to its deregulation, and the affected cells divide in an uncontrolled manner. However, c-MYC overexpression also leads to massive cell death. Therefore c-MYC deregulation by itself is unable to transform normal cells into cancer cells. In Burkitt lymphoma, the apoptosis induction of elevated c-MYC expression must be overcome by additional mutations preventing cell death.

Recently, Professor Rajewsky and his colleagues showed that an enzyme called PI3K is critical for the survival of mature B cells. It activates a signaling pathway that regulates cell growth and counteracts programmed cell death. Based on these findings Dr. Sander and Professor Rajewsky investigated an interaction of c-MYC and PI3K in mouse tumorigenesis in their present study. They demonstrated that PI3K is a key element in Burkitt lymphoma development which enables c-MYC to turn germinal center B lymphocytes into lymphoma cells that divide continuously and escape apoptosis.

However, not every B cell co-expressing c-MYC and PI3K transforms into a lymphoma cell, thus the researchers suspected additional genetic mutations that may play a role in Burkitt lymphomagenesis. Indeed they could identify such aberrations in their mouse model, and a study in human Burkitt lymphoma by Professor Louis Staudt (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA), which was published simultaneously in Nature (DOI: 10.1038/nature11378), confirmed these results. Staudt and colleagues showed that Burkitt lymphoma patients, besides having mutations resulting in the activation of the PI3K signaling pathway, carry genetic mutations that resemble those in the mouse.

"In addition to c-MYC deregulation, the activation of the PI3K signaling pathway is a key element in the development of Burkitt lymphoma," said Dr. Sander and Professor Rajewsky. "The inhibition of this signaling pathway could therefore be an effective strategy for treating the disease."

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*Synergy between PI3K signalling and MYC in Burkitt lymphomagenesis

Sandrine Sander,1,2 Dinis P. Calado,1,2 Lakshmi Srinivasan,1 Karl Kchert,2 Baochun Zhang,1 Maciej Rosolowski,3 Scott J. Rodig,4 Karlheinz Holzmann,5 Stephan Stilgenbauer,6 Reiner Siebert,7 Lars Bullinger,6 and Klaus Rajewsky 1,2,#

1 Program of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Children's Hospital, and Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA

2 Max Delbrck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch 13092, Germany

3 Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig 04107, Germany;

4 Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA

5 Microarray Core Facility, University of Ulm, Ulm 89081, Germany

6 Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm 89081, Germany

7 Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel/Christian- Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel 24105, Germany;

Contact:

Barbara Bachtler
Press Department
Max Delbrck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch
in the Helmholtz Association
Robert-Rssle-Strae 10; 13125 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30 94 06 - 38 96; Fax: +49 (0) 30 94 06 - 38 33
e-mail: presse@mdc-berlin.de
http://www.mdc-berlin.de/

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MDC scientists develop model for new treatments

Burkitt lymphoma is a malignant, fast-growing tumor that originates from a subtype of white blood cells called B lymphocytes of the immune system and often affects internal organs and the central nervous system. Now Dr. Sandrine Sander and Professor Klaus Rajewsky of the Max Delbrck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch have identified a key element that transforms the immune cells into malignant lymphoma cells. They developed a mouse model that closely resembles Burkitt lymphoma in humans and that may help to test new treatment strategies (Cancer Cell)*.

Burkitt lymphoma typically develops in childhood and occurs most frequently in equatorial Africa and South America. This tumor originates from germinal centers of the lymphoid organs (Peyer's patches in the small intestine, lymph nodes and spleen). The germinal center reaction is initiated by mature B cells upon detection of a foreign substance (antigen). These B cells modify their DNA in the course of the reaction, resulting finally in a highly specific antibody response against the antigen.

The B cell receptor (BCR), an antibody presented on the surface of mature B cells, plays a crucial role in the germinal center reaction. In order to optimally recognize the respective antigen and initiate an appropriate immune response, the DNA segments encoding the antibody need to be modified and rearranged. While the processes are complex, DNA breaks occur and error-prone repair mechanisms may lead to genetic mutations associated with cancer development.

It is well established that in Burkitt lymphoma, mistakes in the repair of DNA breaks result in the translocation of the c-MYC oncogene. This gene regulates cell division, and thus its expression is tightly controlled in normal cells. The c-MYC translocation leads to its deregulation, and the affected cells divide in an uncontrolled manner. However, c-MYC overexpression also leads to massive cell death. Therefore c-MYC deregulation by itself is unable to transform normal cells into cancer cells. In Burkitt lymphoma, the apoptosis induction of elevated c-MYC expression must be overcome by additional mutations preventing cell death.

Recently, Professor Rajewsky and his colleagues showed that an enzyme called PI3K is critical for the survival of mature B cells. It activates a signaling pathway that regulates cell growth and counteracts programmed cell death. Based on these findings Dr. Sander and Professor Rajewsky investigated an interaction of c-MYC and PI3K in mouse tumorigenesis in their present study. They demonstrated that PI3K is a key element in Burkitt lymphoma development which enables c-MYC to turn germinal center B lymphocytes into lymphoma cells that divide continuously and escape apoptosis.

However, not every B cell co-expressing c-MYC and PI3K transforms into a lymphoma cell, thus the researchers suspected additional genetic mutations that may play a role in Burkitt lymphomagenesis. Indeed they could identify such aberrations in their mouse model, and a study in human Burkitt lymphoma by Professor Louis Staudt (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA), which was published simultaneously in Nature (DOI: 10.1038/nature11378), confirmed these results. Staudt and colleagues showed that Burkitt lymphoma patients, besides having mutations resulting in the activation of the PI3K signaling pathway, carry genetic mutations that resemble those in the mouse.

"In addition to c-MYC deregulation, the activation of the PI3K signaling pathway is a key element in the development of Burkitt lymphoma," said Dr. Sander and Professor Rajewsky. "The inhibition of this signaling pathway could therefore be an effective strategy for treating the disease."

###

*Synergy between PI3K signalling and MYC in Burkitt lymphomagenesis

Sandrine Sander,1,2 Dinis P. Calado,1,2 Lakshmi Srinivasan,1 Karl Kchert,2 Baochun Zhang,1 Maciej Rosolowski,3 Scott J. Rodig,4 Karlheinz Holzmann,5 Stephan Stilgenbauer,6 Reiner Siebert,7 Lars Bullinger,6 and Klaus Rajewsky 1,2,#

1 Program of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Children's Hospital, and Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA

2 Max Delbrck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch 13092, Germany

3 Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig 04107, Germany;

4 Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA

5 Microarray Core Facility, University of Ulm, Ulm 89081, Germany

6 Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm 89081, Germany

7 Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel/Christian- Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel 24105, Germany;

Contact:

Barbara Bachtler
Press Department
Max Delbrck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch
in the Helmholtz Association
Robert-Rssle-Strae 10; 13125 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30 94 06 - 38 96; Fax: +49 (0) 30 94 06 - 38 33
e-mail: presse@mdc-berlin.de
http://www.mdc-berlin.de/

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Judge: HK Occupy activists can be evicted

HONG KONG (AP) ? Hong Kong's Occupy movement needs to find a new home.

A judge on Monday granted a legal motion by HSBC to clear out anti-capitalist protesters from a public space below the bank's headquarters in the southern Chinese financial center.

The judge ruled that the activists must leave by 9 p.m. on August 27. A small group of Occupy activists have set up tents, tables and sofas and have been living in the large open space on the ground floor of the building since the movement began last autumn.

While HSBC owns the land, it's legally designated as a public passageway. The judge ruled that the activists' use of the space goes beyond the land's designated use.

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Commercial building activity stays steady ? Tri-Cities Area Journal of ...

Local commercial real estate professionals said they are seeing an upswing this year in commercial leasing activities and interest.

The value of commercial and industrial building permits throughout the Tri-Cities for the first half of the year was about $137 million, up 3 percent from the same time in 2011, according to statistics compiled by the Tri-Cities Home Builders Association.

And there are several large commercial projects still in the planning stages that are scheduled to begin construction this year.

?I think people have a firm grasp that our economy hasn?t suffered as much in the Tri-Cities and that things are strong here,? said Rob Ellsworth, managing broker, Windermere Real Estate Tri-Cities, Commercial. ?That has prompted a lot of local business.?

In addition, the area has received a lot of national publicity over the past two years touting the strong local economy, growth and livability.

Ellsworth said that has prompted more interest from companies outside the area, as well.

?The come in, see the low cost of living, the low cost of power and that we have water ? that is huge,? he said.

The change in the Washington State liquor laws has also prompted movement in the market and is bringing new businesses to the area, he said.

?New liquor distributors, who have main hubs in Seattle and Spokane, are siting facilities here and using it as a cross-docking area,? he said, noting that Southern Wine & Spirits has signed a lease with the company and will be moving into a space at 501 N. Quay in Vista Field.

Dirk Stricker, of Dirk Stricker Commercial Real Estate, said commercial lease rates in the area have started to stabilize and there seems to be a lot of people looking for space.

?The activity has picked up quite a bit,? he said.

Many people, especially doctors, dentists and others in the medical field are taking advantage of low interest rates on Small Business Administration loans.

Stricker said the SBA rules on those loans require the buildings to be owner occupied, but the low interest rates have spurred more medical office building construction. Often doctors or dentists build a facility capable of housing additional specialists to help offset their mortgage costs.

Lance Bacon, principal at NAI Tri-Cities said he?s been hosting a lot of market tours for people coming from outside the area, like regional and national franchisees and developers.

?Retail seems to be the strongest, followed by the financial and service industries,? he said. ?People are looking to be in strong, visible corridors, like near the mall.?

Another commercial growth hot spot in the Tri-Cities is at the Queensgate-Duportail off Interstate I-182 in Richland, where a new Les Schwab Tire Center is under construction, and the new Sterlings Restaurant and Bobs Burger & Brew opened earlier this year.

Jeff Fairchild of Fairchild Cinemas purchased 11 acres from the Kennewick Irrigation District north of I-182 and south of Duportail, behind Gold?s Gym, Wal-Mart and Home Depot, where he plans to build a multi-plex theater. The Richland Planning Commission conditionally approved a site plan for the project in late June.

Bacon said he is also seeking a lot of activity in the Southridge area, where Kennewick General Hospital recently broke ground on its new facility.

A new 52,000-sq.-ft. Yoke?s store is planned at 380 Keene Road, just west of Badger Mountain Park. Glen Englehard, the site developer, also plans to build a 14,000-sq.-ft. strip mall at the 17.4-acre site, where other commercial pads are available.

Two new hotels are currently under construction in Richland. A $6.5 million Marriott Towneplace Suites at 591 Columbia Point Dr. and The Hilton Homewood Suites Extended Stay Hotel at 1060 George Washington Way.

Five other hotels are in the planning stages in Richland. Tom Drumheller, CEO of Escape Lodging and owners of Cousin?s Restaurant in Pasco, is planning to build a boutique hotel at Columbia Point between Anthony?s Restaurant and the Marriott Courtyard.

Kadlec Medical System has an agreement with a private developer to build a hotel within walking distance of the hospital campus to serve patient family members.

Stew Stone, a Portland developer, has ambitious plans to build two hotels, including an Embassy Suites by Hilton and an extended stay hotel, at Horn Rapids Golf Course.

And in June, the Richland Planning Commission approved a site plan submitted by Gramor Development Washington LLC for a new four-story La Quinta hotel at 355 Bradley Blvd., across from the Shilo Inn.

Ellsworth said the robust commercial real estate movement is a good sign for the area, which has experienced large layoffs since stimulus money provided to Hanford through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act has been used.

?We?re just seeing a lot of activity, but none of it is directly related to Hanford,? Ellsworth said. ?As the rest of the country starts to recover, the perception of all regions is improving.?

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Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business

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Klipsch revamps Image One series headphones, intros first Bluetooth variant (update: ears-on)

As if updating and expanding its in-ear headphone lineup wasn't enough, Klipsch has gone ahead and unveiled its revamped Image One on-ear set here at Irving Plaza in NYC. As we're told, the new Image One is acoustically similar to its predecessor, but now it has a more stylish and robust design that should hold up better over time. Notably, the headphones only have a single cable leading into the left earcup (rather than splitting into both cups like the original), and it's also of the flat variety to prevent tangling. The earcups can still fold flat, but now they can fold into the headband as well, making a smaller footprint for storage in a stuffed bag. In terms of comfort, the leather earpads are now a totally flat to provide an improved seal and better comfort. Beyond that, an Apple-certified inline remote / mic will help you control your music and calls on the go. An airliner converter, 1/4-inch adapter and soft-shell carrying case are naturally included, and best of all, pricing still remains set at 150 bones.

Rather than just tweaking the original, however, Klipsch has decided to finally enter the wireless headphone game by offering a $250 Bluetooth-equipped variant for those who hate cords. This version looks nearly identical, with the subtle tweak of having the playback and volume controls positioned as buttons on the outside of the right earcup. The Image One Bluetooth also sports a built-in rechargeable battery, yet the set only gains 10 grams of weight (180 grams total) on top of its wired sibling -- should the battery die, a detachable cable allows for passive functionality. What's more, audiophiles will pleased to know that aptX and A2DP support is baked-in for high-quality lossless audio streaming. If your ears are already tingling with excitement, the updated Image One and Image One Bluetooth are set to hit shelves by the end of the month. We're already putting both sets of cans through their paces here at the event, so check back soon as we'll be updating this post with our initial impressions.

Update: You'll find images of the headphones below and our brief ears-on after the break.

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German exports decline in June

BERLIN (AP) ? Germany's Federal Statistics Office says the country's exports dropped in June as the European financial crisis continues to weaken other countries within the eurozone.

Exports dropped 1.5 percent in June over May, to ?92.3 billion, when adjusted for seasonal discrepancies and work days. Imports dropped 3 percent to ?76.1 billion for a trade surplus of ?16.2 billion.

In unadjusted figures, Germany exported ?94.6 billion in goods in June and imported ?76.7 billion for a trade surplus of ?17.9 billion.

Exports to European Union states fell overall by 0.5 percent over June 2011 to ?53.6 billion, dragged down by a 3 percent drop to the 17 countries within the EU that use the euro currency.

Exports to countries outside the EU rose 19.8 percent over last June to ?41.1 billion.

Associated Press

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Mars crater where rover landed looks 'Earth-like'

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) ? The ancient Martian crater where the Curiosity rover landed looks strikingly similar to the Mojave Desert in California with its looming mountains and hanging haze, scientists said Wednesday.

"The first impression that you get is how Earth-like this seems looking at that landscape," said chief scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology.

Overnight, the car-size rover poked its head out for the first time since settling in Gale Crater, peered around and returned a black-and-white self-portrait and panorama that's still being processed.

It provided the best view so far of its destination since touching down Sunday night after nailing an intricate choreography. During the last few seconds, a rocket-powered spacecraft hovered as cables lowered Curiosity to the ground.

In the latest photos, Curiosity looked out toward the northern horizon. Nearby were scour marks in the surface blasted by thrusters, which kicked up a swirl of dust. There were concerns that Curiosity got dusty, but scientists said that was not the case.

"We do see a thin coating of dust, but nothing too bad," said Justin Maki, imaging scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the $2.5 billion mission.

Scientists were giddy about the scour marks because they exposed bedrock below ? information that should help them better understand the landing site.

Since landing, Curiosity has zipped home a stream of low-resolution pictures taken by tiny cameras under the chassis and a camera at the end of its robotic arm, which remained stowed. It also sent back a low-quality video showing the last 2 1/2 minutes of its descent.

The rover successfully raised its mast packed with high-resolution and navigation cameras. With the mast up, it can begin its shutterbug days in force, including taking a 360-degree color view of its surroundings as early as Thursday.

Grotzinger said he was struck by the Martian landscape, which appeared diverse. There seemed to be harder material underneath the gravelly surface, he said.

"It kind of makes you feel at home," he said. "We're looking at a place that feels really comfortable."

Mars, of course, is very different from Earth. It's a frigid desert constantly bombarded by radiation. There are geological signs that it was a warmer and wetter place once upon a time. One of the mission's goals is to figure out how Mars transformed.

After sailing 352 million miles and eight months, Curiosity parked its six wheels near the Martian equator, where it will spend the next two years poking into rocks and soil in search of the chemical ingredients of life. It is the most expensive and ambitious mission yet to Mars.

Its ultimate destination is a mountain towering from the center of the crater floor. Preliminary estimates indicate Curiosity landed four miles away from the base of Mount Sharp, thought to contain intriguing signs of past water ? a starting point to learning whether microbial life could exist.

Before the 1-ton, nuclear-powered Curiosity can start roving, it has to undergo several weeks of tedious but essential health checks.

Since it was too heavy to land using traditional air bags, it used a heat shield, parachute, rockets and cables. An orbiting spacecraft spotted the discarded spacecraft hardware, including the ballast weights that were shed soon after entry into the atmosphere.

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Google Maps adds live traffic for over 130 cities, boosts existing coverage

Google has expanded its Maps traffic coverage before, but rarely on a grand scale. The search giant isn't standing on tradition this time: it just flipped on live traffic data for at least the major roads in over 130 cities. Most of the coverage centers around smaller cities in the US, although Google is tipping its hat to Latin America with first-time support for Bogota, San Jose (in Costa Rica) and Panama City. Coverage has also been improved in a dozen other countries worldwide. While the widened reach still won't ease the burden of anyone already caught in a traffic jam, any democratization of smarter driving directions is good in our book.

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In big news today, James Packer?s Crown Limited (ASX: CWN) has struck a deal to build a $1 billion hotel development at Barangaroo, on Sydney?s foreshore. Crown signed an agreement with the developer, Lend Lease Limited (ASX: LLC) earlier today, but said it will only go ahead if Crown gains approval to including VIP gambling facilities (in other words ? a casino). Just yesterday, Crown announced that it was spending up to $568m to build a six star hotel at its Burswood casino in Perth.

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Work on Fiji?s first casino will begin this month as investors will meet to give contracts to local companies in Denarau this week.

One Hundred Sands ? the company behind the project has managed to raise $400million for construction.

However the initial projections for phase one of the project which will see the construction of a convention center, casino and resort is $290m.

Managing Director Larry Claunch says overseas investors are often given misconceptions about Fiji?s investment potential by local private sectors.

?There has been a lot of criticism if we could raise the money in a timely fashion ? we have, criticism and comments if we can finish on time ? we will ? its going to be probably a fastest development anybody has ever seen and it going to be fun to watch.?

Claunch says the current government played a vital role for this investment.

?I didn?t come to Fiji with a though of developing a casino or anything for that matter ? I really just came here to eat fresh fish ? but after seeing the vision of this government I knew everything was possible and I was all in.?

Five hundred locals will be employed during the construction and around 600 to 850 will be employed at the casino.

The new casino is expected to begin operation from September next year.

Aspers Casino looks forward to end of Games...

Though it?s happening right on the doorstep of his company?s flagship casino, Richard Noble is looking forward to when the 2012 London ?Olympic Games finish.

The chief operating officer of Aspers Group ? a joint venture between the Australian Securities Exchange-listed Crown and the Aspinall family, which operates Aspers Casino at Westfield Stratford City next to Olympic Park ? says weekly takings and average visitor numbers are down about 20 per cent in the first week of the Games.

When Aspers at Westfield Stratford City, the country?s largest casino, opened on December 1 last year, Noble told The Australian Financial Review it was immediately popular. ?In our first three days we had 30,000 visitors which was about 100 per cent above our business case. After that we were averaging 25,000-30,000 visitors per week. But in the last few months we?ve seen the three carparks here at the Westfield get cut down to one and now it is none, so we have been adversely affected.?

There have been restrictions placed on visitor numbers to Westfield Stratford by the London Olympic Games Organising Committee (LOCOG). These include only Games ticket holders being allowed access to Westfield between 8.30am and 5pm on Friday and Saturday.

Noble says this cut down on the ability of regular Aspers patrons to visit the casino. He said it also affecting the numbers of people in the local area attracted to Westfield during the Games, who could have potentially visited the casino for the first time. LOCOG is also likely to institute another similar ?lock-out? later this year due to fears about congestion at the mall, which is between Olympic Park and public transport links.

With the Olympics not providing the boost in business once hoped, Noble says Aspers will now concentrate its marketing efforts on the post-Games period. ?On the 18th of ?September, after the Olympics and then the Paralympics are over, we will be having a huge relaunch.?

Noble says the casino concentrates on a high volume of customers who spend relatively little. It has a catchment area of 4.1 million people.

?And that is just in the east and the area around, north to Luton and east to Southend,? he said.

?But what?s been surprising and also delightful is that we?ve managed to get a lot of visitors from the west of London as well.?

A change to British gaming laws in 2007 allowed for the casino to be built without previous restrictions that meant patrons had to become members. Aspers also owns casinos in Newcastle, Swansea and Northampton and is planning to open a new venue in Milton Keynes in 2003.

Overall, he says Aspers is pleased about how the Stratford business has performed given it has already expanded since its December 2011 opening. It now has 57 gaming tables, the highest number in Britain, up from 38 when it opened. It has room to accommodate 80 tables. There are also now 138 electronic gaming terminals, up from 92. The site will soon feature a bespoke poker room to go with the sports bar, VIP bar and terrace, which has been hired out to corporate clients for the Games.

But Noble, who is otherwise enjoying the Games, can?t wait until September. ?Some of our patrons are not able to get here at the moment but that will change once all this is over.? (The Australian Financial Review)

Police detain 150 in Macau casino raids amid fears of new gang war...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Police detained more than 150 people in weekend raids on casinos and hotels in Macau after a recent spate of killings raised fears of a new gang war in the world's largest gambling destination.

The former Portuguese territory was gripped by gang wars in the late 1990s and the recent murder of three people in two weeks, thought linked to the gambling industry, comes just months ahead of the release from jail of triad boss "Broken Tooth" Wan Kuok-koi, who wreaked havoc at that time.

About 1,300 people were rounded up on Friday and Saturday in Macau and 150 of those were taken in for questioning in the operation codenamed "Thunderbolt".

"This operation is an annual exercise to maintain public security. It is a joint exercise undertaken by police in Guangdong province, Macau and Hong Kong to crack down and prevent crime in this region," a Macau police spokeswoman said.

In Hong Kong, police raided 21 locations on August 2 as part of the joint operation and arrested 130 people on suspicion of various crimes including money laundering involving HK$300 million (24.77 million pounds), illegal gambling and prostitution.

Police also seized cash, watches and cars worth more than HK$11 million.

The Macau raids came just weeks after a Chinese woman was found murdered in a residential area minutes away from the cavernous gambling halls of gaming magnate Sheldon Adelson's Venetian casino.

That followed the murders of two Chinese nationals at the five-star Grand Lapa hotel in Macau, a one-hour ferry ride from Hong Kong, and an attack at the end of June on a senior figure in Macau's junket industry, which extends credit to rich gamblers.

By contrast, only five homicide cases were recorded between June 2011 and May 2012, according to Macau police statistics.

Macau, which like Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China, has boomed since the 1999 handover from Portugal, with Las Vegas moguls including Adelson and Steve Wynn setting up glitzy casino hotels.

That growth, however, has slowed significantly in the past three months, forcing junket operators into more aggressive debt-collecting tactics.

Many of the smaller junket companies, which collect gambling debts in exchange for a commission from casino operators, are struggling to stay in business.

IGT partners with California casino...

American computerised gaming equipment designer and manufacturer International Game Technology (IGT) has signed a deal that will see the Golden Acorn Casino and Travel Center in California host an online casino application from its Double Down Interactive subsidiary.

Las Vegas-based IGT purchased the casual games developer in January and revealed that the Golden Acorn Casino is set to utilise its technology in order to offer casino players free-play gaming experiences.

?Golden Acorn recognises the opportunity to provide gaming entertainment to its players across various channels,? said Eric Tom, Global Sales Executive Vice-President for IGT.

?This solution is allowing it to grasp an opportunity to evolve as the landscape of gaming also changes permitting it to drive engaging gameplay directly to its casino guests and fans of the Golden Acorn Casino and Travel Center brand.?

IGT stated that the revenue sharing partnership will see Golden Acorn use its own website in order provide players with a ?truly convergent gaming experience? that is to include access to a ?full-casino-style offering of games in one convenient place?.

?Offering the same game titles on the web that we offer inside our casino gives us the unique opportunity to deliver fun and engaging casino-style experiences to our players,? said David Baggerly, Marketing Director for Golden Acorn Casino and Travel Center, which is located 47 miles from downtown San Diego near the Mexican border.

?This is an incredible chance to drive interactive slot culture to our players while allowing them to stay connected to our brand.?

Guests at the Golden Acorn will be able to enjoy online social versions of Texas hold?em poker in addition to some of IGT's top-performing slot titles including Da Vinci Diamonds and Cleopatra. New games are to be added automatically while first-time users will receive one million dollars in virtual chips.

Development agreement for Bally and High 5 Games...

Bally Technologies has entered into a multi-year agreement with games developer High 5 Games to publish a substantial number of new H5G games under the Bally brand for the worldwide land-based, mobile and online business-to-business casino gaming markets.

?We?re excited to partner with a game creator that has such a world-class track record of developing high-performing and engaging game content,? said Jean Venneman, Vice President of Product Management and Licensing at Bally Technologies. ?We look forward to leveraging H5G?s newest game content to help casino operators across the world drive revenues and delight players.?

Ramesh Srinivasan, Bally's President and Chief Operating Officer, added, ?The partnership with H5G reflects our commitment to delivering best-of-breed, cross-platform game content to our customers. This promise is reflected in the more than 25 game studios we have established across the globe, augmented by relationships with proven game developers like H5G that enable us to deliver a diverse array of creative, interactive, and exciting game content.?

?We are delighted to partner with Bally Technologies, a long-time leader in the casino gaming industry,? said Anthony Singer, Chief Executive Officer of H5G. ?With Bally?s sophisticated new ALPHA 2 game platform, and a new Bally Interactive division committed to mobile, online, and social business-to-business game content, we believe that the sky is the limit for this next generation of H5G games.?

Bwin.party Digital Entertainment Plc : The bearish trend should continue...

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Opinion : Bearish under 115.5 GBp
Target price : 83.4 GBp
Stop loss: 115.5 GBp
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Bwin.party (BPTY) was formed from the merger of bwin Interactive Entertainment AG and PartyGaming Plc in March 2011 to create the world?s largest listed online gaming. Incorporated and licensed in Gibraltar, the Group has over 2,700 employees across Europe, India, Israel and the US. It commands leading market positions in each of four product: online sports betting, poker, casino and bingo with some of the world?s biggest online gaming brands including bwin, PartyPoker, PartyCasino and Foxy Bingo.

A month ago, we forecasted a downtrend with a target price at GBp 102. This target was reached and we reiterate our opinion. In a bearish trend, BPTY continues to decline.

From a fundamental viewpoint, the group is in a bad financial situation. Analysts have recently downgraded their forecasts for earnings per share. This indicator is often a precursor of a declining profitability and a worsening climate of investor confidence. Even if the company has a lot of cash, it is overvalued : BPTY?s PER for 2012 is 38.9x and 16.3x for 2013 and growth rates are low.

From a technical viewpoint, prices are in a downward trend. Moving averages are trending down and put pressure on the stock, which confirms this downward momentum. This trend may continue toward the GBp 95 support. Moreover, the security is testing a pivot point at GBp 102.6 in weekly data and the significant breakdown of this level would be a new bearish signal.

Taking into account fundamental and technical elements, investors can initiate a short position in BPTY with a first target price at GBp 95. If the security crosses this level, the second target price will be the long term support at GBp 83.4. A return towards GBp 115.5, the short-term resistance area, will invalidate the bearish strategy, which justifies a stop loss. (4 Traders)

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Amazon CEO Pledges $2.5 Million for Washington Same-Sex Marriage Effort

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Jeff Bezos and his wife, responding to an email from an Amazon employee, have made what is the largest single donation to the cause of same-sex marriage in the United States to support passage of a referendum in Washington state.

Amazon, Nike, Microsoft and Starbucks publicly confirmed their support for Washington?s same-sex marriage law earlier this year when the issue was being debated in the state Senate.

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Gov. Christine Gregoire signed Washington?s same-sex marriage law in February. But in early June, near the time the law was to take effect, opponents submitted enough signatures to put the law on the ballot in November.

Although the Bezos donation doubles the amount of money available to Washington United for Marriage, victory in November is not assured. Opponents of same-sex marriage have prevailed in all 32 instances in which the issue has been put to a vote across the country.

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Reuters' Twitter account hacked

The Reuters blogging platform was hacked on Friday, and a false story about an alleged interview with a Syrian rebel leader was posted. On Sunday (today), Reuters suffered a second security breach in which hackers gained control of one of its Twitter accounts, the publication confirmed.

The ReutersTech account was hijacked and renamed to ReutersME (ME stands for Middle East).?Reuters confirmed the breach today in a tweet on its main Twitter account:

Earlier today @ReutersTech was hacked and changed to @ReutersME. The account has been suspended and is currently under investigation

Indeed, if you head over to twitter.com/ReutersTech you'll get a "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!" error. Meanwhile, the twitter.com/ReutersMe URL redirects to twitter.com/account/suspended, which says "The profile you are trying to view has been suspended."

As you can see in the screenshot above, courtesy of Worldwide-Nieuws (via CNET), most of the fake tweets were related to Syria. This would suggest the two breaches are related. Eight fake tweets were sent out in total:

Obama signs executive order banning any further investigation of 9/11.
White house spokesperson says financial and technical support given to #AlQaeda operatives in #Syria.
Flashpoint Syria: Turkey complains that one of its generals was captured in Aleppo, Erdogan heard shouting from his office.
#InfoWars | Why Is the U.S. Government Funding Islamic Terrorists Who Are Killing Christians
Reuters shareholders to hold meeting over Rothschild's "iron grip" over decision making process
FOX news asks, #Americans left wondering: Is #AlQaeda An Enemy Or Not
Farouq brigade of #FSA in #Homs exchanges blame due to compromise of locations and weapons #Syria
FSA high ranking officer Gen. Mustafa Al-Sheikh dies during clashes in Anadan, Aleppo

The ongoing Syrian Civil War, also referred to as the Syrian Uprising, began in January 2011, as part of the broader Arab Spring. The opposition is dominated by Sunni Muslims, whereas the leading government figures are Alawite Muslims.

Protesters are demanding the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad, want to overthrow his government, and are looking to end nearly five decades of Ba'ath Party rule. In response, the Syrian government has deployed the Syrian Army, resulting in the death of more than 10,000 civilians and soldiers. Many more have been injured, and tens of thousands of protesters have been imprisoned.

As far as I know, no group has claimed responsibility for either of the two attacks. The fake stories related to both, however, would suggest that the hacks are connected with supporters of Syria's current government.

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Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus angrily responded to a week full of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's accusations about?Mitt Romney's?tax returns, calling Reid a "dirty liar" on ABC's?This Week?with George Stephanopoulos.?

This past week, Reid told The Huffington Post that a Bain Capital investor had told him that Romney had not paid taxes for 10 years. He repeated that claim many times throughout the week, responding at one point to Romney beckoning him to "put up or shut up."

Stephanopoulos asked Priebus about Reid's accusations this morning:

PRIEBUS: "As far as Harry Reid is concerned, listen, you might want to go down that road, I'm not going to respond to a dirty liar, who hasn't filed a single page of tax returns himself. He complains about money but lives in the Ritz Carlton here, down the street. If this is on the agenda, I'm not going to go there. This is just a made-up issue. The fact that we're going to spend any time talking about it is just ridiculous."

But Priebus used a heavy enough charge in his response for a follow-up question from Stephanopoulos:

STEPHANOPOULOS:?"You just called him a dirty liar. Do you stand by that? Do you think Harry Reid is a dirty liar?"

PRIEBUS:?"I just said it."

STEPHANOPOULOS: "So, what do you want from him right now?"

PRIEBUS: "Listen, this president has a job to do and Harry Reid has a job to do. We have an opportunity in this country to save the very idea of America. To bring back the days of liberty, freedom, the American dream and the fact is, we're just --- we're not doing well right now as an economy. This president, is the head of this country and he has not fulfilled the mission and he hasn't lived up to the promises that he made to the people of this country. And it's hard to believe that the president of 2008, when he campaigned and said that he was going to bring America together, that he would trot out Harry Reid and try to divide this country and spread this division and hatred, it's ridiculous, wrong and it's untrue."

UPDATE: Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson responded in an email:

"Republicans can try to cover up for Mitt Romney's stonewalling all they want, but this issue is not going away until Romney decides to be straight with the American people and release his tax returns. It is sad that the most secretive candidate since Richard Nixon has forced his party to defend his decision to hide the truth about his tax returns. As Senator Reid has said, an extremely credible source informed him that Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for ten years. From the one year of returns Romney has released, we've seen that he uses secret offshore accounts in places like Switzerland and the Cayman Islands to avoid paying U.S. taxes. It's clear Mitt Romney is hiding something, and the only way for him to clear this up is to be straight with the American people and release his tax returns."

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Outsourcing Jobs ? Creating Issues Fast in Web Business | Arty Apt

An online business or a website can be viewed easy to create in the technical revolution time of today but maintaining and running an online business for effective profits its not as easy as building a website. Since making money are not dependent over your engineering fully it is dependent upon a number of other factors as well. When you are having your online business you must think about the fact that you should provide something different or unique to your web website visitors, something new or something which they want. Even though you don?t think you can provide them something new, you should try to make something new to attract as many clients as possible. But, it?s an easy task to say but hard to manage with everyday life. You have so much to do each day and alongside that you are uncertain that whether you?re capable of providing anything new or not.In a web business you need to provide result to your web visitors for their attention, and you?ve to complete it in greatest time. Yet another advantage internet offers us to fix the difficulty of running an online business is very good connection. As a result of this ease of communication we can have outsourcing jobs as an excellent treatment for our problems. One of many best ways to save your self money and time working online is to allow someone else install and maintain the software applications that you utilize. Outsourcing career is an increasingly common term, but in terms of e-commerce, it refers to the practice of using an online support to execute different duties for you, such as Web hosting, sort design, or financial record keeping, rather than installing software and running it on your own computer.Outsourcing jobs is not something strange, however: It merely refers to the practice of getting an outside company provide services for your organization. The terms outsourcing jobs it gave birth to a complete big market named Freelance market. There are several website where you will find such freelancers who are wanting to work on your projects and you?ve outsourcing jobs process on such web sites easily. On the other hand we also provide ASP organizations that make business or other applications available on the Web. You and your co-workers may use these applications online only using your web browser and when I tell you all this, consider it the least most details about Outsourcing jobs. Web is saturated in facts and information that you could seek.

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