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??Fernet-Branca Launches U.S. Digital Campaign To Send Your Band On A Trip To The Pitchfork Music Festival (2012-05-16 10:12)

LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2012 -- Fernet-Branca U.S.A. announces the launch of Fernet-Branca Band Fest, a Facebook contest that focuses on viral fan interaction and partners the spirits company with the Pitchfork Music Festival. The program gives one winning local band with the most "Likes" a shot at stardom ? the chance to play live at the Fernet-Branca after show during the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.

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??Arqiva Takes Additional Satellite Capacity on EUTELSAT 7A (2012-05-16 10:12)

PARIS, May 16, 2012 --

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??Johnson Electric Launches Motor Product Line for Electronic Throttle Control (2012-05-16 10:07)

Johnson Electric today announced the ETC motor product line for electronic throttle control. This product line provides high torque, high vibration resistance and the highest operating temperature range. The ETC motor product line operates reliably in temperatures up to 160^oC and withstands vibration up to 50G.

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??Mazor Robotics Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results (2012-05-16 10:07)

Mazor Robotics Ltd. (TASE: MZOR), a developer of innovative surgical robots and complementary products, today announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. Unless noted specifically otherwise, all figures are reported in New Israeli Shekel (NIS).

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??Mindspeed to Present at the 13th Annual B. Riley & Co. Investor Conference at 8:30 a.m. PT on May 23, 2012 (2012-05-16 10:07)

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ-NMS: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced that Raouf Y. Halim, chief executive officer, will present at the 13th Annual B. Riley & Co. Investor Conference on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 8:30 a.m. PT. The conference will be held at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, in Santa Monica, California.

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??Quality Systems, Inc. Acquires the Posiedon Group, Inc. (2012-05-16 10:07)

Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ-NMS: QSII), announced today the acquisition of The Poseidon Group, Inc. to support the growth of its NextGen? Inpatient Solutions offering, which provides a range of healthcare information technology services to small hospitals.

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??Despite Slow Start, Home Energy Management Market Will Surpass $2 Billion in Annual Revenue by 2020, Forecasts Pike Research (2012-05-16 10:07)

Even as deployments of smart grid infrastructure have accelerated in recent years, the once hyped home energy management (HEM) market has struggled to gain traction. Numerous trials have led to only a few cases of industry deployments and to anemic rates of consumer adoption. Today that is starting to change, and over the remainder of the decade momentum will build in this nascent market. According to a new report from Pike Research, global annual shipments of standalone HEM systems will grow from a quarter million in 2011 to nearly 4.7 million in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 38.3%. Combined revenue for all HEM segments will grow from a base of $93 million in 2011 to more than $2 billion in 2020, the cleantech market intelligence firm forecasts.

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??Japan's First International Exhibition & Conference Specialised in WIND Energy (2012-05-16 10:07)

Reed Exhibitions Japan Ltd. announced the opening of WIND EXPO 2013 ? 1st Int'l Wind Energy Expo & Conference.
It is the very first exhibition and conference in Japan specialised in wind energy and will be held within World Smart Energy Week 2013 ? a collective gathering of 8 specialised exhibitions and conferences related to renewable/smart energy.

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??GAIN Capital Hires Industry Veteran Muhammad Rasoul as Chief Product Officer (2012-05-16 10:02)

- Former chief operating officer of GFT Markets to lead GAIN's global product strategy & development

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??GAIN Capital Hires Industry Veteran Muhammad Rasoul as Chief Product Officer (2012-05-16 10:02)

SYDNEY, LONDON and BEDMINSTER, N.J., May 16, 2012 --?GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP), a leading global provider of online trading services, announced today the appointment of Muhammad Rasoul as Chief Product Officer and member of GAIN's executive management team. ?Mr. Rasoul has more than 16 years of leadership experience in the retail brokerage industry, with a strong background in forex, futures and OTC derivatives trading.

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??Great Deals Await Consumers On New Vehicles Headed For 2013 Redesign (2012-05-16 10:02)

IRVINE, Calif., May 16, 2012 -- According to Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com, the leading provider of new car and used car information, auto sales are rebounding in the United States due to the plethora of redesigns and new introductions during the last few years.? Shoppers in the market for a new-car bargain who have little care for owning the most up-to-date body style on the road can find great deals on models headed for a redesign this fall.

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??ET Solar Announces Completion of 9.6MW of PV Plants in Germany (2012-05-16 09:52)

NANJING, China, May 16, 2012 -- ET Solar Group Corp. ("ET Solar"), one of the global leading solar PV one-stop solution providers, today announces completion of two ground-mounted PV power plants in Germany with total installed capacity of over 9.6MW.

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??[WIS 2012] 'World IT Show 2012', the cutting edge IT Technologies to contend for victory (2012-05-16 09:22)

SEOUL, Korea, May 16, 2012 --?The world's largest IT Festival 'World IT Show 2012' is held at COEX, Korea from May 15(Tue) to 18(Fri). This exhibition is hosted by 'The Ministry of Knowledge Economy', 'Korea Communications Commission', 'Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism' and 'Ministry of Public Administration and Security'?on the theme of?'Beyond IT' jointly, Samsung electronics, LG electronics, SKT, KT, Nokia Siemens, Qualcomm, and other IT related major companies, global major overseas companies,?government officials and buyers are participated.

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??Digital Air Strike Releases First Automotive Study to Include Both Consumer and Dealership Activity on Social Media and Review Sites (2012-05-16 09:17)

Digital Air Strike?, the nation?s leading full-service automotive social media and online reputation management company, today announced the publication of the industry?s first 2012 Automotive Dealership Social Media and Online Reputation Study. Findings demonstrate that automotive dealerships are need to increase engagement engage with car shoppers on social networks and review sites during the car buying process, as the study shows the importance placed on these networks by consumers.

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??NTT Communications to Present the Changing Role of the Data Centre at IDC Evolution of the Datacentre 2012 (2012-05-16 09:12)

LONDON, May 16, 2012 --

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??Efficient Power Conversion Corporation CEO Alex Lidow to Speak at Credit Suisse "Future of Semiconductors? Investor Conference (2012-05-16 09:07)

Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) CEO Alex Lidow will speak at the private Credit Suisse investor conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 22, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time. Dr. Lidow will discuss the growing market for gallium nitride transistors with a focus on EPC?s eGaN^? FET technology and products. As a displacement technology, GaN FETs can be used in an array of current MOSFET applications in addition to enabling new high volume applications, such as wireless power and envelope tracking, a method for significant energy savings in communication devices.

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??Enterprise Information Protection Leader Verdasys Extends First DLP Solution as a Managed Service in Europe (2012-05-16 08:47)

Verdasys, the leading provider of Enterprise Information Protection (EIP) solutions for the Global 2000, today announced the immediate availability of the company's managed Data Loss Prevention services in Europe. The two new offerings, Verdasys Managed Service for Information Protection (MSIP) and Verdasys Information Protection as a Service (IPaaS), provide businesses on-demand data protection technology hosted within Verdasys? secured European facilities.

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??Mobile Clearinghouse Network Chooses Windows Azure to Support Mobile Financial Services in the Cloud (2012-05-16 08:42)

- Mobile Clearinghouse Network to launch global hub on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Azure

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To avoid pain during an injection, look away

ScienceDaily (May 14, 2012) ? Health professionals commonly say, "Don't look and it won't hurt" before administering an injection, but is there any scientific basis for the advice? A group of German investigators has found that, in fact, your past experience with needle pricks, along with information you receive before an injection, shape your pain experience.

Their research is published in the May issue of Pain^?.

"Throughout our lives, we repeatedly experience that needles cause pain when pricking our skin, but situational expectations, like information given by the clinician prior to an injection, may also influence how viewing needle pricks affects pain," says lead author Marion H?fle, a doctoral student in the research Multisensory Integration group led by Dr. Daniel Senkowski, at the Charit? -- Universit?tsmedizin Berlin and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.

While watching video clips showing a needle pricking a hand, a Q-tip touching the hand, or a hand alone, study participants concurrently received painful or non-painful electrical stimuli applied to their own hand. The clips were presented on a screen located above the participants' hand, giving the impression that the hand on the screen belonged to them.

Participants reported that their pain was more intense and more unpleasant when they viewed a needle pricking a hand than when they saw a hand alone. In addition, observing needle pricks increased the unpleasantness of pain compared to viewing Q-tip touches. These findings were paralleled by enhanced activity of the autonomic nervous system, as measured by pupil dilation responses. This demonstrates that previous painful experiences with needles enhance unpleasantness of pain when viewing needle pricks.

Situational expectations also influenced perceived pain intensity. Prior to the stimulation, participants were told that either the needle or the Q-tip clip was more likely to be associated with painful than with non-painful electrical stimulation. The researchers found that presentation of clips that were more likely to be associated with pain lead to higher pain intensity experiences than the presentation of clips that were less likely to be associated with pain. This shows that expectations regarding the painfulness of medical treatments influence the intensity of pain that the treatment ultimately produces.

Taken together, the study reveals several important findings. "Clinicians may be advised to provide information that reduces a patient's expectation about the strength of forthcoming pain prior to an injection," H?fle notes. She further states that, "because viewing a needle prick leads to enhanced pain perception as well as to enhanced autonomic nervous system activity, we've provided empirical evidence in favor of the common advice not to look at the needle prick when receiving an injection."

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1. Marion H?fle, Michael Hauck, Andreas K. Engel, Daniel Senkowski. Viewing a needle pricking a hand that you perceive as yours enhances unpleasantness of pain. Pain, 2012; 153 (5): 1074 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.02.010

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'Survivor: One World': How The Women Won

'The guys — they had no unity,' fourth-place finisher Christina Cha tells MTV News of scoring show's first ever all-girl finale.
By Josh Wigler

Kim Spradlin
Photo: MTV News

Kim Spradlin isn't the only "Survivor: One World" winner. OK, technically she is — that cool $1 million is firmly in her bank account — but the season's four finalists can also take comfort in knowing that they made "Survivor" history together: For the first time in 24 seasons, there was not a single man left standing among the final five contestants.

The feat is all the more impressive considering where the women began. At the outset of "One World," the two tribes were separated on gender lines, with the men of Manono showcasing their clear physical advantage with two early immunity wins. It certainly didn't help that the women of Salani were turning on each other, with in-fighting dominating much of their air time in the season's earliest episodes.

Eventually, the women pulled themselves together to stage one of the most impressive comebacks in "Survivor" history, knocking five men out in a row and cutting out the final male — the unforgettable Tarzan — one vote later. So after such a rocky start, how did Salani find the strength to rally together and get rid of the men?

"I think it's because we had a rocky start, I believe that's why we ended up with five women at the end," Kim told MTV News at the "One World" finale on Sunday night. "We had to learn to trust each other. We really had to get each other's backs and become a group."

"There was a day when we all just stood around. We held each other's hands. We were like, 'You know what? We can do this,' " third-place finisher Chelsea Meissner said. "I think it was that first challenge we won against the guys, where they were really ahead of us and we came out of nowhere and won it. We all hugged and it was that moment where we realized, 'We can do this. We can so do this.' "

Christina Cha, who finished the season in fourth place, credited the women's success to the men's willingness to cannibalize each other. "That was what I noticed about the guys — they had no unity," she said. "The guys weren't united from day one."

Another factor, according to runner-up Sabrina Thompson: The men simply were not needed. "You don't need a man in this game to come get [you] fire, to do this or do that," she said. "Once we started winning challenges, we knew we could do this."

In a season dominated by precisely one person, one would think that the plan to get rid of all of the men stemmed from winner Kim. But one of her fellow finalists remembers things differently.

"You know what? I'm going to take credit for this one Kim, OK?" fifth-place finisher Alicia Rosa weighed in, recalling the fall of the men with the same firecracker glee that made her such a memorable competitor all year long. "I [outlined] who the five girls were, from the beginning, and that we were going to wipe [the men] off the island. That, to me, was my biggest dream come true, to do that. I always said that on the island: 'We have to do this. We have to do this. Do not play with those men. It is not going to happen! '"

Not to say that the self-proclaimed mastermind of the men's demise isn't without some regrets.

"I will say I wish Matt had used a little bit more of his Southern charm. Maybe he would've lasted a little bit longer," Alicia laughed. "He was really nice to look at!"

Previously On MTV News' "Survivor" coverage:
» Why Kim Deserved to Win
» Kim Spradlin Talks Winning "One World"
» Our Final "Survivor" Predictions
» "Survivor: One World" Gets Tarzaned
» Troyzan Surrenders His Island

How do you feel about the women's domination over the men? Let us know in the comments section or hit me up on Twitter @roundhoward!

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Same-sex marriage prompts conservatives to mobilize (Star Tribune)

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Galaxy S III 'C Pen' stylus and other accessories appear for pre-order

If you were watching our coverage of the Galaxy S III launch event, you'll already be familiar with the wealth of accessories that were announced alongside the phone, and shown backstage in the sprawling demo area. We even gave them a full write up, and snapped some photos. Today a few of these accessories have appeared for pre-order over at UK retailer MobileFun, along with preliminary prices and some official promo images. Among the more interesting accessories on show is the "C Pen" -- Sammy's capacitive stylus for the Galaxy S III, which was nowhere to be found in the demo area at the launch event. MobileFun is also listing the official flip cover, Wifi Display Hub and phone holder/battery charger.

As you might expect from official, branded accessories, these don't come cheap. The holder/charger package comes in at £35 (~$56), while the flip cover will sell for £30 (~$48). It's also worth mentioning that you can't buy any of these just yet (for the Galaxy S III that you don't have), as these are just pre-order listings. We're hoping to see many of these on launch day, but we're already hearing from retailers that one of the more anticipated add-ons, the wireless charging accessory, isn't expected until September.

Source: MobileFun

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Obama's gay marriage stance sets off money rush (reuters)

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Catholic Bishops now going after Girl Scouts over religious orthodoxy (Americablog)

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