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Software glitch delays 660,000 tax refunds
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Internal Revenue Service says 660,000 taxpayers will have their refunds delayed by up to six weeks because of a problem with the software they used to file their tax returns.
The delay affects people claiming education tax credits who filed returns between Feb. 14 and Feb. 22.
H&R Block, the tax preparing giant, says that some of its customers were affected but the company has resolved the problem. A limited number of other software companies have also had problems, but IRS spokeswoman Michelle Eldridge declined to name them.
About 6.6 million taxpayers are expected to claim the education tax credits. The IRS says about 10 percent of their returns are affected.
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The Daily Roundup for 03.13.2013
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
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5 Reasons You Need Car Insurance for Your ... - Auto Insurance
If you plan on keeping a car that you can't drive - perhaps you are restoring it, or are planning to sell it eventually - you should be aware that maintaining insurance is still important for a number of reasons.Vandalism, natural disasters and theft
Even when a car can't be driven and is securely stored, it can fall prey to disasters such as a fire or a flood. Vandalism and theft are also threats to your car, even if you keep it in a secure location. To protect yourself against these possibilities, you should have comprehensive insurance coverage on your car. Your home insurance policy may cover an inoperable car for theft and fire. Be sure to check with your broker to see if this applies to your situation and if it is the best choice of coverage.
Harm to an individual or to property
Imagine a situation where your car slips into neutral, rolls down the drive and hits something, or worse, someone. Liability insurance on your car will cover bodily injury to others and property damage to other cars or stationary objects, such a fence or a wall.
Legal requirement to insure your car
Most states require you to carry at least liability insurance on your car if it is registered. Since car registration is generally also considered proof of ownership, it makes sense to keep your car registered at all times. Insurance companies are required to notify the Department of Motor Vehicles when car insurance is canceled and your state may require that you prove you are not driving the car once you remove insurance coverage.
If you still owe money on your car loan
Even if you can't drive your car, if your car loan isn't paid off, the lender may require you to carry at least comprehensive coverage. This protects the loan should the car be damaged or stolen.
The cost of insurance in the future
If this is the only car on which you have insurance, and you let it lapse, you will have to pay higher premiums the next time you need insurance.? One of the things insurance companies look for when determining premiums is continuous insurance coverage, even if you do not drive for a period of time.
As you can see, there are some very good reasons to carry some form of car insurance on your car even if it isn't running. Feel free to call us and talk about your particular situation. We can put together a policy that is affordable, meets legal requirements for insurance coverage and protects you against unforeseen risks.?
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Putin urges Soviet-style fitness program, with actor Seagal
By Alexei Anishchuk
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin reached back to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's era for a plan to improve Russians' physical fitness on Wednesday, and appeared with film actor Steven Seagal at an event aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles among young people.
In a meeting at a martial arts school on Moscow's outskirts, Putin called for physical education rooted in a Soviet-era system.
"I think it would be quite appropriate to recall the positive experience of past decades when the so-called GTO, Ready for Labour and Defence, was in use in our country," he said. The GTO mass physical training program was introduced in the 1930s under Stalin.
"The revival of this system - in a new, modern format - could bring major benefits," Putin told government officials, schoolteachers and coaches.
He told the education and sports ministers to study the issue and said students' performance under the system should be taken into account when universities consider applications.
Putin, who began a six-year term in May, has frequently appealed to nostalgia for the perceived order of the Soviet era.
Soviet-era marches played at the Sambo-70 school as students dressed in the white, red and blue of Russia's flag waited for Putin at a ceremony to open a new building at the school. An announcer added to the martial atmosphere by urging "full alertness".
Seagal's action films are popular in Russia and he has met the president several times. In what seemed to be a choreographed incident, Seagal rushed into a crowd of children trying to pose with Putin and pulled him out, as if acting as his bodyguard.
"Kids, remain calm, it's a great honor to take pictures with the president of Russia," the announcer said.
Putin and Seagal watched youngsters practice martial arts but did not join them on the gym floor, and Putin wore a jacket and button-down shirt.
Putin, 60, has cast himself as a clean-living man of action over 13 years in power, using judo bouts and outdoor stunts to burnish his image and set an example. He has a black belt in judo and is proficient in Sambo, a martial art developed in the Soviet army.
He was seen limping last September and government sources said he was suffering from back trouble. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Putin had hurt his back in a judo bout.
Putin was booed after taking to the stage at a martial arts event in November 2011, a sign of fatigue that preceded the biggest opposition protests of his rule. But he won the presidency easily in March 2012, after four years as prime minister, and remains Russia's most popular politician.
He has been seeking to increase Russians' life expectancy and stem a demographic decline that has seen the population fall to 141.9 million in 2011 from 148.6 million in 1991, the year the Soviet Union collapsed.
(Reporting by Alexei Anishchuk; Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Andrew Roche)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/putin-urges-soviet-style-fitness-program-actor-seagal-164828722.html
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Drug treatment corrects autism symptoms in mouse model
Mar. 13, 2013 ? Autism results from abnormal cell communication. Testing a new theory, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have used a newly discovered function of an old drug to restore cell communications in a mouse model of autism, reversing symptoms of the devastating disorder.
The findings are published in the March 13, 2013 issue of the journal PLOS ONE.
"Our (cell danger) theory suggests that autism happens because cells get stuck in a defensive metabolic mode and fail to talk to each other normally, which can interfere with brain development and function," said Robert Naviaux, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and co-director of the Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center at UC San Diego. "We used a class of drugs that has been around for almost a century to treat other diseases to block the 'danger' signal in a mouse model, allowing cells to return to normal metabolism and restore cell communication."
"Of course, correcting abnormalities in a mouse is a long way from a cure for humans," said Naviaux, "but we are encouraged enough to test this approach in a small clinical trial of children with autism spectrum disorder in the coming year. This trial is still in the early stages of development. We think this approach -- called antipurinergic therapy or APT -- offers a fresh and exciting new path that could lead to development of a new class of drugs to treat autism."
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are complex disorders defined by abnormalities in the development of language, social and repetitive behaviors. Hundreds of different genetic and environment factors are known to confer risk. In this study, nearly a dozen UC San Diego scientists from different disciplines collaborated to find a unifying mechanism that explains autism. Their work is the result of one of just three international "Trailblazer" awards given by the group Autism Speaks in 2011.
Describing a completely new theory for the origin and treatment of autism using APT, Naviaux and colleagues introduce the concept that a large majority of both genetic and environmental causes for autism act by producing a sustained cell danger response -- the metabolic state underlying innate immunity and inflammation.
"When cells are exposed to classical forms of dangers, such as a virus, infection or toxic environmental substance, a defense mechanism is activated," Naviaux explained. "This results in changes to metabolism and gene expression, and reduces the communication between neighboring cells. Simply put, when cells stop talking to each other, children stop talking."
Since mitochondria -- the so-called "power plants" of the cell -- play a central role in both infectious and non-infectious cellular stress, innate immunity and inflammation, Naviaux and colleagues searched for a signaling system in the body that was both linked to mitochondria and critical for innate immunity. They found it in extracellular nucleotides like adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and other mitokines -- signaling molecules made by distressed mitochondria. These mitokines have separate metabolic functions outside of the cell where they bind to and regulate receptors present on every cell of the body. Fifteen types of purinergic receptors are known to be stimulated by these extracellular nucleotides, and the receptors are known to control a broad range of biological characteristics with relevance to autism.
The researchers tested suramin -- a well-known inhibitor of purinergic signaling used medically for the treatment of African sleeping sickness since shortly after it was synthesized in 1916 -- in mice. They found that this APT mediator corrected autism-like symptoms in the animal model, even if the treatment was started well after the onset of symptoms. The drug restored 17 types of multi-symptom abnormalities including normalizing brain synapse structure, cell-to-cell signaling, social behavior, motor coordination and normalizing mitochondrial metabolism.
"The striking effectiveness shown in this study using APT to 'reprogram' the cell danger response and reduce inflammation showcases an opportunity to develop a completely new class of anti-inflammatory drugs to treat autism and several other disorders," Naviaux said.
Additional contributors to the study include Zarazuela Zolkipli, Lin Wang, Tomohiro Nakayama, Jane C. Naviaux, Thuy P. Le, Michael Schuchbauer, Mihael Rogac, Qingbo Tang, Laura L. Dugan, and Susan B. Powell.
Funding for the project was provided by Autism Speaks, the UCSD Christini Fund, the Jane Botsford-Johnson Foundation, the Wright Family Foundation, the Lennox Foundation, the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation, the Gerber Foundation, and Hailey's Wish Foundation.
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BitTorrent Premieres New Live Streaming Platform | TorrentFreak
BitTorrent Premieres New Live Streaming Platform
After years of development BitTorrent has now released its live streaming service to the public. BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen is one of the main developers of the new protocol which he expects to revolutionize online streaming. BitTorrent Inc. sees its BitTorrent Live product as the ultimate tool for creators to reach an audience of millions with minimal bandwidth costs.
A decade later and downloading almost seems like an ancient technology. In 2005 video streaming was brought to the mainstream thanks to YouTube, and not much later it became possible to stream content live over the Internet.
The downside of live streaming is that the more people use it, the most costly it gets and the harder it is to guarantee smooth playback for all viewers.
With BitTorrent Live streaming, Bram Cohen and BitTorrent Inc. will solve these bottlenecks.
After years of development BitTorrent Live launches to the public today, allowing people to stream content via BitTorrent with minimal delays. Unlike traditional live streams, reliability improves as more people tune in.
?It?s based on the principles of the BitTorrent protocol. And it?s designed to make real-time reporting, and open expression available to all: eliminating bandwidth, cost, and infrastructure as broadcast barriers,? BitTorrent Inc.?s Justin Knoll told TorrentFreak. ?The more people who tune in, the more resilient your stream will be.?
BitTorrent Live aims to prevent annoying ?buffering? issues and long broadcast delays.
?It has been designed from scratch as the perfect means of sharing events to the masses in real-time and with low latencies, but without the astronomical bandwidth requirements that traditionally constrain content creators,? Knoll says.
BitTorrent live Streaming
One of the goals of BitTorrent Live is to make it possible for the public to send video to thousands of people, all over the world. From dissidents reporting on uprisings to soccer moms who want to send video of a game to family and friends, everyone is included.
The main upside compared to centralized live streaming services is that BitTorrent Live won?t shut down or be interrupted when the audience becomes ?too large?.
?Current offerings fail with large audiences but with BitTorrent Live every viewer that joins a swarm extends its reach by sharing pieces of the video to other viewers. It becomes more robust with larger audiences and there are no costs associated with the addition of users,? Knoll told us.
?We?re aiming for this to be a democratization of streaming technology,? he adds.
Viewing live streams requires people to install the BitTorrent Live app, which is used to share video with others who are watching. The install process is pretty straightforward and the streams we were able to check out worked fine.
Readers who are interested in streaming content can create an account at BitTorrent Live. Some knowledge of video streaming is currently needed to get started, and the service requires a computer as a broadcast station. Mobile apps will follow in the future.
Source: http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-new-live-streaming-platform-130312/
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