Lady Gaga to talk bullying at White House

By Courtney Hazlett

It's been confirmed that Lady Gaga will make an appearance at the White House on Tuesday afternoon?(no word on what her mode of transportation will be, but chances are good that this time around, it won't be an egg). While there, she's going to meet with Obama administration staffers to discuss her work on bullying prevention.?

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Although the president is not going to be there (he's traveling to Kansas for a speech on the economy), the two have met before, when Gaga attended a pre-election fundraiser for Obama in California earlier this year.

So here's the question: how do you feel about celebs who take on a cause, as Gaga has with bullying? There's definitely a contingency out there who feels that the singers should stick to singing, the actors to acting, and so on. But I say, if the platform can be used for good, by all means, spread some good around. Take part in our vote if you want to weigh in.

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Report: Google Treading Into Amazon's E-Commerce Waters (NewsFactor)

Never content to rest on its search-engine dominance alone, Google is reportedly moving into yet another industry giant's space. This time, it's Amazon that may have to look over its shoulder.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google plans to challenge the throne of the e-commerce legend, which has itself branched out into manufacturing products. Google is reportedly in talks with major retailers and shippers about developing a new service that would let consumers shop for clothes, electronics and other consumer goods online and get their order within a day.

Google's move is a direct assault against one of Amazon's competitive advantages: Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime is a membership program that gives Amazon customers unlimited fast shipping, such as free two-day shipping and one-day shipping for $3.99 per item. The annual fee is $79.

What Would Amazon Do?

"The fact that Google is getting in on the retail and shipping business is an indicator that it's a service people are willing to pay for but it's also something that they expect," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "Offering to deliver goods within a day keeps Google in the ballpark as a direct competitor with Amazon, but it also brings up the subject of what is Amazon doing next to stay ahead of the game."

King makes a valid point. In the early days of e-commerce, Amazon differentiated itself by offering lower prices than bookstores. Amazon later aggregated similar products from various sellers and allowed consumers to choose from various price options. Amazon also gained market advantages with one-click shopping, which allows customers to make online purchases with a single click.

"As more retailers got on the bandwagon, you saw Amazon making some interesting moves in order to stay ahead of the pack. First they offered Super Saver free shipping and then later the offered Amazon Prime," King said. "The e-commerce market is a pretty lively and constantly changing one."

What's at Stake?

Constantly changing is a true assessment, especially when the likes of Google enters the mix. The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is talking with Macy's, OfficeMax and UPS. Google was not immediately available for comment. The Journal reported Macy's confirmed that Google approached it with the concept. Gap and Office Max declined to comment to the Journal.

"In a way, Google is trying to step up as knowledgeable partner for retailers and help them compete more effectively with disruptive first movers like Amazon," King said. "Working with a partner like Google may be a better model for some retailers to pursue than to try to create their own online commerce sites. The vast majority of those traditional big box retailers haven't done very well."

One thing is certain: there is plenty at stake. Forrester Research estimates the online retail industry will grow 12 percent, to a whopping $197 billion in 2011. Amazon is the industry giant. If The Wall Street Journal report is true, Google is vying for a piece of that growing pie.

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Linux hosting is much more than the presence of Windows Hosting

Publish any data on the Internet, any interested person requires web hosting. Web hosting has been around for several years now and have developed a simple HTML pages hosting, small simple sites to full blown web based hosted applications where end users can visit the site and interact with the web site owner and even purchase a few images of the goods and services over the Internet.

Using the Internet as an integrated business around the world with Web Based developed a wide range of Internet technologies such as ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, etc., software support environment. This choice has forced various options for web hosting as an HTML site to work equally well in both Linux and Windows platforms.

Web hosting platforms vary from different types of operating systems. Microsoft's Windows Server and Redhat Linux are just two examples and probably the most well-known web hosting platforms.

So what is Windows or Linux web hosting and what are the pros and cons of hosting your website or server. And why now Linux is more popular . Well, it's simply not the answer?

Linux platform has been designed for the efforts and professional use with a number of IT companies like Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake, and how efforts have been taken. The nature of the development and open source Linux Server and backup of professional IT companies has made Linux platform in the background powerful, affordable and secure.

Cost-effectiveness in this competitive era is a major boost to the company, without compromising product quality and safety. In addition to the ASP, ASP.NET, all other major online technologies and work with Linux.

Almost free distribution of PHP, MySQL, Perl, Linux Server to reduce the vast web hosting costs. Sakshay this, we provide both kind of hosting services, but advise companies to be hosting HTML websites, small applications like Recipe site is to use Linux hosting.

Viruses, spam and hacking threat is also quite less with Linux Hosting. First, it is because of a strong Linux server architecture, and secondly, because many cost-effective security software platform for Linux.

So, using Linux web server compared to Windows Web Server are:

Stable and robust: Linux / Unix operating systems have traditionally been considered to be very stable and robust. Site is located on the Linux operating system will have a very high time (to 99.9%). Of course, other factors, such as power supply, network admin skills, and network load etc. also important when it comes to maintaining system uptime.

Low cost of ownership: Linux is free (or very insignificant cost, usually cost of distribution). In addition, it is a full-fledged server, and desk top that comes with the OS. These server applications (eg, FTP, Web server, DNS server, file server, etc.) are free, are also very stable.

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Lower antioxidant level might explain higher skin-cancer rate in males

ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2011) ? Men are three times more likely than women to develop a common form of skin cancer but medical science doesn't know why. A new study may provide part of the answer.

Researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center -- Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC -- James) have found that male mice had lower levels of an important skin antioxidant than female mice and higher levels of certain cancer-linked inflammatory cells.

The antioxidant, a protein called catalase, inhibits skin cancer by mopping up hydrogen peroxide and other DNA-damaging reactive-oxygen compounds that form during exposure to ultraviolet B light (UVB), a common source of sunburn and cancer-causing skin damage. Studies by others have linked low catalase activity to skin cancer progression.

The research is published online in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

The findings suggest that women may have more natural antioxidant protection in the skin than men," say study co-leaders Gregory Lesinski and Tatiana Oberyszyn, both of the OSUCCC -- James.

"As a result, men may be more susceptible to oxidative stress in the skin, which may raise the risk of skin cancer in men compared to women," says Lesinski, an assistant professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics;.

The study also found that UVB exposure caused a unique inflammatory white blood cell population called 'myeloid-derived suppressor cells' to migrate from the bone marrow into the exposed skin. Furthermore, higher numbers of these cells moved into the skin of male mice than female mice.

"To our knowledge, we've shown for the first time that UVB exposure causes a migration of systemic myeloid-derived suppressor cells, and it suggests that these cells might be a novel source of UVB-induced immune suppression," says first author Nicholas Sullivan, a research scientist in the Oberyszyn lab in the Department of Pathology.

This, in turn, might mean that these UVB-induced inflammatory cells contribute to the genesis of skin tumors and perhaps other tumors rather than simply facilitating cancer progression, as generally thought, Sullivan notes.

Normally, the body mobilizes the suppressor cells to limit immune responses to infection, sepsis or trauma so that healing can begin, Lesinski says.

"However, in the cancer setting, repeated UV light exposure or after other chronic or repeated inflammatory stimuli, these cells persist and become immunosuppressive," he says. "They can render helpful immune cells such as T cells or natural killer cells unable to recognize and eliminate cancer cells in the skin."

Lesinski, Oberyszyn, Sullivan and their colleagues conducted the study using a strain of hairless mice that develops squamous cell carcinoma of the skin -- the second most common skin cancer in humans -- when exposed to UVB.

The investigators also found that treating mice with topical catalase inhibited the migration of the suppressor cells into UVB-exposed skin, suggesting that the influx of these cells in males might be due to the relatively lower skin-catalase activity.

In fact, male mice with UVB-induced skin tumors had 55 percent more of the suppressor cells in the skin than did their female counterparts.

"This is the first report to our knowledge of a sex discrepancy in this group of inflammatory cells in tumor-bearing mice, and it suggests that our findings might translate to other types of cancer," says Oberyszyn, associate professor of pathology. "Men face a higher risk of numerous types of cancers, and relatively higher levels of inflammatory myeloid cells might contribute to this susceptibility."

Funding from the National Cancer Institute and The Valvano Foundation for Cancer Research supported this research.

Other Ohio State researchers involved in this study were Kathleen L. Tober, Erin M. Burns, Jonathan S. Schick, Judith A. Riggenbach, Thomas A. Mace, Matthew A. Bill, and Gregory S. Young.

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1. Nicholas J Sullivan, Kathleen L Tober, Erin M Burns, Jonathan S Schick, Judith A Riggenbach, Thomas A Mace, Matthew A Bill, Gregory S Young, Tatiana M Oberyszyn, Gregory B Lesinski. UV Light B?Mediated Inhibition of Skin Catalase Activity Promotes Gr-1 CD11b Myeloid Cell Expansion. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2011; DOI: 10.1038/jid.2011.329

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CheapyD at CheapAssGamer.com scours both the online and offline world for the best deals on video games, and to help out your wallets, we're bringing his weekly recap to you!

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