Microsoft just released data on its government requests (including FISA) too. For the last six months last year, Microsoft received between 6,000 and 7,000 government requests affecting between 31,000 and 32,000 accounts. [Microsoft]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/microsoft-just-released-data-on-its-government-requests-513539952
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The advice in this article have been used by people to be successful in the commercial real estate market.
Whether buying or selling, make sure to negotiate. Be heard and fight to get yourself a fair property price.
TIP! Be sure to negotiate on the fact of what you are, the seller or buyer. It is important that your concerns and opinions are heard and recognized by the other parties; you must always put forth the effort to ensure fair pricing for the commercial property.
Before you make a large investment in real estate, you should investigate its area to determine the average income level, unemployment rates and the expansion or contraction of local employers. If the building is near certain specific buildings, including hospitals, universities, they?re likely to sell fast, you might be able to sell it faster and for more money.
Commercial property dealings are exponentially more complicated and longer transactions than buying a residential home is. You should understand that although this is a huge undertaking, you have to be diligent in order to get a profit.
TIP! Record problems by taking digital pictures of them. Take pictures of the damages, for instance spots and stains, holes or even discoloration on the bathtub.
When you have to decide between two commercial properties, it?s best to look at things on a bigger scale. Generally, this is much like the principle of buying in bulk; the more units you buy, you will end up getting a better price per unit.
When interviewing potential brokers, be sure to find out how much experience they have on the commercial market. Make sure that the agent has the proper expertise with the type of real estate purchase or sale you are interested in. You need to get into a type of exclusive agreement that is exclusive.
TIP! Be calm and patient when looking at commercial real estate. Do not be hasty about making a investment decision.
You should try to understand the (NOI) Net Operating Income of your commercial property.
Take a tour of properties with purchase potential. Think about taking a contractor as a companion to help evaluate the property. Make a proposal early, and open the negotiating table. Before making any commitment, be sure to carefully evaluate all counteroffers.
TIP! Your investment might be very time consuming at first. You will have to hunt for a good opportunity, and once you have bought property, you might have to do some repairs or remodel it.
Have a list of goals on hand before you are looking for when it comes to commercial real estate. Write down the things you like about the property, such as how many square feet it must be and the number of specific rooms it should have, including conference rooms, offices, and restrooms.
You should always know the details of emergency repairs. Have the phone numbers on speed dial, and know how much time it usually takes for repairmen to arrive.
TIP! When choosing between two similar commercial properties, think large scale. Financing may be no more difficult for the large apartment building than the small one.
With careful consideration and application of these tips, you have a solid foundation to build your commercial real estate investment strategy. Commercial real estate presents may exciting and well-paid opportunities if you know where to look for them. Apply the above advice to your own needs in order to excel!
TIP! When choosing a broker, ask about their experience specifically in the commercial real estate market. Make sure that they are experts in the area in which you are selling or buying.
Source: http://www.holldon.com/get-started-in-commercial-real-estate-read-some-tips-here/
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What do a giant wooden egg, a crazy Japanese tech office, and a 3D printing factory have in common? Nothing, really. Except they were some of our favorite design posts this week. Check them out, plus a lot of awesome art, architecture, and more generally wonderful things below.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) ? For more than three months, the U.S. military has faced off with defiant prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, strapping down as many as 44 each day to feed them a liquid nutrient mix through a nasal tube to prevent them from starving to death.
The standoff, which prompted President Barack Obama to renew his call to close the detention center, has grown to involve 104 of the 166 prisoners as of Saturday, and may be nearing a crisis point. Yet the experience of a former detainee demonstrates that a hunger strike at Guantanamo can be as indefinite as the open-ended detention that is at the heart of essentially every conflict at the military prison.
The men undergoing forced-feeding aren't permitted to speak to journalists, but Ahmed Zuhair knows what the experience is like. Until he was released from U.S. custody in 2009, he and another prisoner had the distinction of staging the longest hunger strikes at the prison. Zuhair kept at it for four years in a showdown that at times turned violent.
The military acknowledges a "forced cell extraction team" was repeatedly used to move him when he refused to walk on his own to where striking detainees were fed. He says his nasal passages and back are permanently damaged from the way he was strapped down and fed through a nasogastric tube.
Court papers show that Zuhair once racked up 80 disciplinary infractions in four months, refusing to be force-fed among them, and that he and fellow prisoners smeared themselves with their own feces for five days to keep guards at bay and protest rough treatment.
Zuhair, a former sheep merchant who was never charged with any crime during seven years at Guantanamo, stopped eating in June 2005, and kept up his protest until he was sent home to Saudi Arabia in 2009.
"Not once did the thought occur to me to stop my hunger strike," he says now. "Not once."
Zuhair spoke to The Associated Press in a telephone interview along with his lawyer, Ramzi Kassem, a law professor at City University of New York.
The 47-year-old Zuhair lives with his wife and children in the Muslim holy city of Mecca. He said he doesn't get much news about Guantanamo in Saudi Arabia but that the world should not be surprised that prisoners are back on strike.
"The men there today are going through the same experience and they are suffering just as much, and so they probably will not stop either," he said.
Since the prison opened in 2002, seven prisoners have committed suicide. It's the policy of the U.S. Department of Defense to try to keep strikers alive. The feeding procedure is considered safe and its use has been upheld by the courts, said Navy Capt. Robert Durand, a spokesman for the detention center.
The medical personnel who conduct the feedings lubricate the feeding tubes, offer anesthetics to the prisoners and have rules for nasal rest to prevent long-lasting damage, Durand said.
"We think there are adequate safeguards in place to make it as pain-free and comfortable as possible," he said. "It's not done to inflict pain and it's not done as punishment. It's done to preserve life."
Officials refer to the process by the medical term "enteral feeding" rather than "force feeding." It involves restraining men with straps that resemble airplane seatbelts to a specially designed chair that looks like a piece of exercise equipment. Zuhair called it the "torture chair" and said he was left tied down for hours at a time, ostensibly so the liquid nutrient drink Ensure could be digested.
It is difficult to confirm the accounts of either prisoners or military officials. Journalists are not allowed to watch the feeding process or interview the men held behind the perimeter fences and coils of razor wire at this isolated U.S. military base on the southeastern edge of the Cuban coast.
Pardiss Kebriaei, a lawyer with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, recently returned from a visit with clients held at Guantanamo and said several of the men had trouble concentrating, which she attributed in part to being kept isolated in solid-walled cells for most of the day.
She said one prisoner, Sabry Mohammed of Yemen, had lost more than 60 pounds (27 kilograms).
"Sabry Mohammed was a healthy young man before the strike," Kebriaei said in an email. "It was startling this time to see how much he has changed physically."
In an editorial published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, two doctors and a professor of medical ethics urged Guantanamo's prison doctors to refuse to force feed hunger strikers, saying to do so is a violation of ethical obligations. It's an argument that has been made for years by human rights groups and detainee advocates.
There are risks to prolonged enteral feeding, including the possibility of getting liquid in the lungs and or damaging the nasal passages, particularly when the person is uncooperative, said Dr. David L. Katz, an internist on the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine. The effects of prolonged use of liquid nutrition instead of regular food are not really known, he said.
"You do a procedure when it's the best choice under the circumstances," Katz said. "In this ethical context, these are people you are forcing to receive sustenance they don't want. I don't know how you begin to measure risk-benefit trade-offs, but there are some medical risks, certainly."
The military began using the restraint chair at Guantanamo to feed prisoners in January 2006 after hunger strikers grew dangerously thin and officials feared some might die. Then, as now, prisoners said they were striking over what they considered the reckless handling of their Qurans by prison staff, conditions at the detention center and their indefinite confinement.
The number of men participating in that protest, which reached 131 at its peak, dwindled to just two ? Zuhair and Abdul Rahman Shalabi, a fellow Saudi who remains at the prison and has joined the current hunger strike.
U.S. officials have said the feeding chair was never intended to break the strike, only to keep men alive. The military insists all its procedures are humane.
But Zuhair, and others, have long maintained otherwise. "During each force-feeding, my nose bleeds," he said in a sworn statement submitted to the court by his lawyer, Kassem. "The pain from each force-feeding is so excruciating that I am unable to sleep at night because of the pain in my throat."
At one point, the government facilitated a call to the prison from Zuhair's mother, who urged him to drop the hunger strike. "My family did not know what I was going through at Guantanamo ? the humiliation, the torture, the solitary confinement," he told AP.
A court-ordered April 2009 report by Dr. Emily Keram, a forensic psychiatrist based in Santa Rosa, California, included interviews with guards who denied Zuhair's allegations that he was roughly forced into the restraint chair and left there much longer than the two-hour maximum.
Keram also found evidence that Zuhair wasn't always confrontational. Guards told her that Zuhair often served as an intermediary between troops and prisoners.
Guards told her that prisoners would sometimes sing as they were being force-fed, a favorite was hip hop artist Akon's "Locked Up."
At the time of Keram's evaluation, Zuhair, who is about 5 feet, 5 inches, weighed 115 pounds. Today, he says he weighs nearly 190 pounds (85 kilograms). Records show he dropped to 108 pounds in December 2005.
In his seven years at Guantanamo, Zuhair faced an evolving collection of allegations that he had ties to Islamic extremists, all of which he denied. He had been taken into custody by Pakistani agents in late 2001, and his lawyer says he was tortured into confessing to having met with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan even though he had never been to that country. He was turned over to U.S. officials and moved to Guantanamo in June 2002.
Kassem pursued a legal challenge and sought to prove that Zuhair was wrongly held. "We just wanted to go to trial and have the hearing so a judge could rule on whether Ahmed's detention was legal or not," the lawyer said.
Finally it looked as if they were going to get the chance when the judge set a court date for late June 2009. But just before that could happen, the U.S. put Zuhair on a plane without warning and sent him home, where he went through a rehabilitation program set up by the Saudi government. He was one of the last prisoners allowed to leave before Congress put up roadblocks to releases.
The one-time merchant said he has no work now. And his stomach and back are in constant pain from the effects of his strike.
"I think about the men who are at Guantanamo and I wonder about America's humanity," he said. "I ask myself how much longer this will go on."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/amid-gitmo-strike-ex-detainee-tells-force-feed-081655179.html
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Not content with following Nokia's past playbook, by saturating the mobile market with countless iterations of its smartphone hardware, pushing a whole Galaxy of gizmos at every price point and form-factor fancy you can think of, Samsung has gone one further. It's opened an R&D centre in Espoo, Finland, right on Nokia's doorstep. Literally on Nokia's doorstep.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/LVKkfQHJKYQ/
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ST. LOUIS (AP) ? An argument inside a St. Louis home health care business escalated into gun violence Thursday when a man shot three other people before turning the gun on himself, police said.
The shooting occurred at AK Home Health Care LLC, one several small businesses inside the Cherokee Place Business Incubator south of downtown St. Louis. The shooter gunned down another man and two women before turning his semi-automatic handgun on himself, Police Capt. Michael Sack said.
Authorities said the shooter either owned or was a co-owner of the small business and his three victims were employees.
"We don't know if this was a thing that carried over into today or was initiated today," Sack told reporters.
Police said surveillance video showed what appeared to be a verbal dispute, followed a short time later by gunshots penetrating an inside wall. The video showed that no one else had gone into the building other than the four people who were killed, the St. Louis Police Department said in details posted on its official Twitter account.
An employee of another business in the building heard gunshots and called police. Other businesses in the building include an attorney's office and an African bazaar.
The victims' names have not been released, but Sack said they appeared to be in their early-40s to mid-50s in age.
A woman who showed up about two hours after the shooting began sobbing loudly when she saw the police scene and was comforted by onlookers and police. A neighborhood woman translated the woman's outbursts for reporters, saying the woman was worried that a relative was inside the building.
Abdi Salam Elmi, an immigrant from Somalia who drives a cab in St. Louis, said he was close to all four of the dead in Thursday's shooting. He described them as hardworking, friendly people.
"They always smile for me. This is my worst day in my life. It's a very, very sad day for us and a very sad day for the city of St. Louis."
St. Louis has long struggled with urban violence, but the last week has seen a troublesome uptick in bloodshed. Police scrambled late Monday and early Tuesday to respond to five different shootings on the city's north side that left 15 people wounded.
Elmi said as a cab driver he sees too much violence in the city and he's concerned about the recent shootings. "I feel the same as I did when I left Somalia," he said, referring to the war-torn African country.
Meant to be a nurturer of startup businesses, the Cherokee Place Business Incubator dates back at least a decade in a once-thriving business section about a five minutes' drive from downtown.
Big retailers later shifted to the suburbs. But that part of town, which has a strong Latino flair, has regained solid footing. New street lighting complimenting welcomed police responsiveness has helped make it safe, according to Jason Deem, a board member and former president of the Cherokee Street Business Association.
Deem called Thursday's bloodshed "a very unfortunate situation for Cherokee" but not reflective of the area as a whole.
"It's not like this type of thing goes on down here. This is very much a shock to us," he said. "Everything police are telling us leads us to believe it was a targeted incident and not some random act of violence."
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Associated Press reporter Jim Suhr contributed to this story.
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Watch the AP's video at http://bit.ly/11Lka2b
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-gunman-shot-3-self-st-louis-business-222317500.html
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ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic and Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University researchers have partnered on a study showing that Peruvian physicians rarely sought to involve their patients in shared decision-making regarding medical care. This was true for physicians at public and private clinics. The findings are being discussed in Lima, Peru, at ISDM 2013, an international conference on globalizing shared decision-making held from June 16-19. (Follow the proceedings and participate in discussion at ISDM 2013.)
"Some evidence suggests involving patients in decisions decreases conflicts, increases patient satisfaction, and improves their knowledge and short-term adherence to care plans," says study co-author Victor Montori, M.D., of the Mayo Clinic Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. "For these reasons, patient participation has been expanding, particularly in some health care systems in the Northern Hemisphere."
The researchers recommend further exploration to understand patient involvement in decision-making in emerging health care systems in the Southern Hemisphere.
In the study, researchers observed seven Peruvian physicians who were videotaped in a public or private setting while providing care to patients with chronic conditions. Fifty-eight patients were randomly selected to participate but did not know the purpose of the filming. The physicians were asked to perform medical appointments as usual and were informed that the videotaping would be used to analyze aspects of the physician-patient relationship.
The physicians' effort to involve patients in decision-making was rated on a 100-point scale; the mean score was 14.3.
"Without patient involvement, it won't be possible to place the patient in the center of medical care," says co-author Germn Mlaga, M.D., an associate investigator at Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University. "This study offers preliminary evidence of a major flaw of health care systems in which the patient-centered care model is overlooked."
Researchers say these results are preliminary and should be re-evaluated with more patients and physicians. However, if the findings are confirmed, study authors suggest that doctors and patients should rethink the way they interact with one other.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic and Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University researchers have partnered on a study showing that Peruvian physicians rarely sought to involve their patients in shared decision-making regarding medical care. This was true for physicians at public and private clinics. The findings are being discussed in Lima, Peru, at ISDM 2013, an international conference on globalizing shared decision-making held from June 16-19. (Follow the proceedings and participate in discussion at ISDM 2013.)
"Some evidence suggests involving patients in decisions decreases conflicts, increases patient satisfaction, and improves their knowledge and short-term adherence to care plans," says study co-author Victor Montori, M.D., of the Mayo Clinic Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. "For these reasons, patient participation has been expanding, particularly in some health care systems in the Northern Hemisphere."
The researchers recommend further exploration to understand patient involvement in decision-making in emerging health care systems in the Southern Hemisphere.
In the study, researchers observed seven Peruvian physicians who were videotaped in a public or private setting while providing care to patients with chronic conditions. Fifty-eight patients were randomly selected to participate but did not know the purpose of the filming. The physicians were asked to perform medical appointments as usual and were informed that the videotaping would be used to analyze aspects of the physician-patient relationship.
The physicians' effort to involve patients in decision-making was rated on a 100-point scale; the mean score was 14.3.
"Without patient involvement, it won't be possible to place the patient in the center of medical care," says co-author Germn Mlaga, M.D., an associate investigator at Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University. "This study offers preliminary evidence of a major flaw of health care systems in which the patient-centered care model is overlooked."
Researchers say these results are preliminary and should be re-evaluated with more patients and physicians. However, if the findings are confirmed, study authors suggest that doctors and patients should rethink the way they interact with one other.
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About Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit worldwide leader in medical care, research and education for people from all walks of life. For more information, visit http://www.mayoclinic.org/about and http://www.mayoclinic.org/news.
Journalists can become a member of the Mayo Clinic News Network at http://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org for the latest health, science and research news and access to video, audio, text and graphic elements that can be downloaded or embedded.
Mayo Clinic:
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Soledad Andrade (Spanish)
507-284-5005 (days)
507-284-2511 (evenings)
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Vilarmina Ponce
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