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G20 finance ministers aim for more growth

Finance ministers and central bank chiefs pose for a group photo following a meeting of the Group of 20 finance ministers in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, July 20, 2013. Stashing profits offshore may soon get tougher for companies, thanks to an ambitious plan released Friday by the finance chiefs of leading world economies aimed at forcing multinationals to pay more taxes. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

From left, Mexico's Central Bank Governor Agustin Carstens, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde, and Special Envoy for the President of the World Bank Mahmoud Mohieldin pose for a group photo after a meeting of the Group of 20 finance ministers in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, July 20, 2013. The finance chiefs of the world's leading economies hope to force multinational companies to pay more taxes by closing loopholes that have allowed them to stash profits overseas. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Deputy Prime Minister of Japan, Minister of Finance, Taro Aso, right, and Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of the Bank of Japan speak as they attend a group photo ceremony after a meeting of the Group of 20 finance ministers in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, July 20, 2013. The finance chiefs of the world's leading economies hope to force multinational companies to pay more taxes by closing loopholes that have allowed them to stash profits overseas. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov speaks on a phone as he attends a group photo ceremony after a meeting of the Group of 20 finance ministers in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, July 20, 2013. The finance chiefs of the world's leading economies hope to force multinational companies to pay more taxes by closing loopholes that have allowed them to stash profits overseas. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

From left, Central Bank Governor Jens Weidmann and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble attend a group photo ceremony after a meeting of the Group of 20 finance ministers in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, July 20, 2013. The finance chiefs of the world's leading economies hope to force multinational companies to pay more taxes by closing loopholes that have allowed them to stash profits overseas. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

MOSCOW (AP) ? The Group of 20's finance ministers said Saturday their countries consider strengthening economic growth and creating jobs to be top priorities.

In a communique at the end of their meeting in Moscow, the ministers noted that although there are signs of stronger economies in the United States and Japan, the group of 17 European Union countries that use the euro continues to suffer from recession and that economic growth in emerging markets is comparatively slow.

The ministers also said they were "mindful of the risks and unintended negative side effects of extended periods of monetary easing." They did not directly address the situation in the U.S., where speculation that the Federal Reserve may soon wind down its bond-buying program has roiled markets around the world ? especially in developing economies.

In a separate statement, IMF head Christine Lagarde said the meeting saw constructive discussions on "the spillover effects of monetary policies, the implications of recent market volatility, and the need for balanced and credible fiscal strategies."

"''The global economy remains too weak and unemployment is too high in many countries," she said. "There has also been an increase in financial market volatility and tightening of financial conditions."

The G-20 communique called on members "to ensure that international and our own tax rules do not allow or encourage multinational enterprises to reduce overall taxes paid by artificially shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions."

On Friday the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development unveiled a 15-point plan for a united front to fight tax avoidance by multinational companies. If adopted, the measures would close loopholes and allow countries to tax profits held in offshore subsidiaries. It would also target such practices as deducting the same expense more than once, in more than one country.

At a summit last month in Northern Ireland, leaders of the G-8 countries published sweeping goals for tightening the tax rules on globe-trotting corporations that long have exploited loopholes to shift profits into foreign shelters that charge little tax or none. But that initiative, aimed at forcing the Googles and Apples of the world to pay higher taxes, contained only aspirations, not binding commitments.

Associated Press

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Connecticut Native Climbs Ladder At Sports Illustrated

By VICKIE FULKERSON, The Day

NEW YORK (AP) _ He was just finishing up at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the spring of 1992 when Old Mystic, Conn., native Chris Stone noticed a position posted in the student lounge.

It was with Sports Illustrated, an entry-level position as a fact-checker that his mentor at Columbia, Sandy Padwe, tried to dissuade him from taking due to the minimal writing opportunities it would present.

Stone, though, in addition to being the son of a career newspaperman, was a sports fanatic, not only a reader of Sports Illustrated but glued to the Boston Globe sports pages during his undergraduate years at Tufts University in Medford, Mass.

?I liked the thought of staying in New York and Sports Illustrated is a recognizable brand,? Stone said. ?(Padwe) said there would be more professional value in working for a newspaper right away; I wasn?t going to break into those (Sports Illustrated) guys and start writing.

?(But) I was intoxicated by the idea of having a job in New York for a well-known brand,? he said.

It turned out to be the job opening of a lifetime for Stone, who never left SI and now lives in New York City with his wife, Kim, and their children Sam, 11, and Annabel, 8.

On Oct. 18, 2012, less than a month and a half shy of his 43rd birthday, he was named as just the ninth managing editor in the history of the iconic magazine.

From his office on the 31st floor of the Time-Life Building at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, overlooking the west side of Manhattan, he?s responsible for the day-to-day operations of the magazine, which boasts a circulation of more than 3 million.

The historic May 6, 2013, issue, in which the NBA?s Jason Collins came out as the first openly gay male athlete to play for a professional team sport in the U.S., was overseen by Stone, who appeared on the CBS program ?Face the Nation? to discuss the way the announcement by Collins resonated with readers.

Stone also was in charge on April 15 this year when the finish line of the Boston Marathon was staggered by two bombs, with Sports Illustrated going to press later that day with the April 22 issue headlined, ?Boston, In Photos/And Words.?

He put Mystic?s Matt Harvey, the ace of the New York Mets, on the magazine?s cover on May 20, 2013, featuring the catch phrase, ?The Dark Knight of Gotham.?

And yes, it was Stone who was left to deal with the fallout from an issue published on Oct. 1, 2012, before his tenure as managing editor began, featuring the story of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te?o playing through the death of his girlfriend, a relationship that was later found to be a hoax.

?That was a cold, hard slap,? Stone said of the realization that the magazine, like some other major media outlets, had been duped by the Te?o story. ?It wasn?t the result of laziness. There were a number of things we took out of the story because we couldn?t fact check them. . It was a good lesson for the future.?

Stone is a graduate of The Williams School in New London, where he was a three-sport athlete, and the son of Greg and Elizabeth Stone. He has a younger brother, Peter, 42, who is a literary agent for TV writers in Los Angeles.

Greg retired as deputy editorial page editor at The Day, where Chris worked for four summers after he graduated from high school.

?I think I sent an email to Maureen Croteau at UConn (in the journalism department),? Greg Stone said of learning of his son?s promotion. ?She wrote back and said, `Why don?t you hire a skywriter?? That?s what she would do. I was just telling everyone I can think of.?

Steve Rushin, a senior SI writer who also is a former fact-checker for the magazine, said in a recent interview he believes it is because of the way Stone worked his way from the bottom all the way up to the corner office that he can relate to all facets of the business, making him an ideal managing editor.

?Chris has fact-checked stories, reported stories, written stories, edited stories, put together individual issues of the magazine and had all the qualifications to put out great issues of SI as a managing editor,? said Rushin, who has known Stone for more than 20 years. ?But the job also requires someone who can charm advertisers and work with the business side of the magazine and introduce two dozen supermodels at the swimsuit launch party at some club in Manhattan without ever seeming to break a sweat.

?Chris does all of those very different jobs remarkably well,? Rushin said. ?He?s a smart, bookish, literary guy who nevertheless looks like he just fell off a surfboard. That?s a pretty good combination to be when you?re editing Sports Illustrated.?

Stone was a fact-checker at Sports Illustrated for the first three years of his career, a job that didn?t have the benefit of use of email or the Internet. There were a lot of phone calls to collegiate sports information directors to confirm spellings of names.

Rushin won a coin flip one night with co-worker Roger Rubin, who then had to call Penn State football coach Joe Paterno at 2 a.m. as the magazine was headed for deadline to ask the color of Paterno?s car. Paterno promptly hung up.

?It was like a fraternity hazing,? Rushin said. ?I had a full head of hair when I joined SI as a fact-checker and two years later, when I started writing stories, I had 50 percent less hair. So it was stressful, but if you could survive, you came out stronger for it. Chris not only survived, but he never seemed to share the anxiety so many of us did.?

Since then, Stone was an NHL and college football reporter and part of the founding team of SI on Campus. He was senior editor for baseball when SI broke the news of Alex Rodriguez?s positive tests for steroids. Stone became an assistant managing editor in 2009 and was one of several candidates to replace outgoing managing editor Terry McDonell.

In that time, since 1992, Sports Illustrated has become less of a news reporting agency; that task falls to SI.com. Because of an endless loop of material on television and the Internet, the weekly magazine has to work harder to entertain its readers.

?When I was young, it was an act of discovery,? Stone said. ?I didn?t know anything about the Minnesota Vikings; you relied on something like Sports Illustrated. Now you can look it up any time you want. Now you can?t necessarily do an issue about, `The Pirates are hot.? By the time you get the magazine, they might not be hot anymore.?

Stone calls the Collins story ?the most amazing thing I?ll ever be associated with.?

?It was worthy of celebration,? Stone said of the news, which was released on SI.com on Monday ahead of the magazine?s publication, generating more unique Web hits than any other story on the site?s history. ?It was divisive, but it was fulfilling. Franz (Lidz, to whom Collins told his story) said, `I?m just organizing his thoughts.? It was a proud moment. We let Jason Collins be the story. We tried to stay out of the way.?

Stone said he?s enjoying himself because of his love of sports.

?There?s people who think sports and the real world don?t cross, but they do engage every day,? he said. ?Not everything in our lives has to be about it, but sports and the real world do, in fact, cross a lot.?

Source: http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2013/07/21/connecticut-native-climbs-ladder-at-sports-illustrated/

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Biden calls Brazil's Rousseff over NSA spying tensions

BRASILIA (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday to try to smooth tensions caused by allegations that the United States spied on Brazilian Internet communications, Rousseff's office said.

Latin America's largest nation has said Washington's explanations about the National Security Agency's secret surveillance programs have been unsatisfactory.

"He lamented the negative repercussions in Brazil and reiterated the U.S. government's willingness to provide more information on the matter," Rousseff's communications minister, Helena Chagas, told reporters after the 25-minute telephone call.

Biden repeated an invitation for Brazil to send a delegation to the United States to obtain more technical and political details on the case, Chagas said. She said Brazil accepted the proposal but has not decided who will go or when.

Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported earlier this month the NSA targeted Latin American countries with spying programs that can monitor billions of emails and phone calls for suspicious activity, citing documents leaked by Edward Snowden, a fugitive former U.S. intelligence contractor.

Latin American countries fumed at what they considered a violation of their sovereignty and demanded explanations and an apology.

The American ambassador in Brazil, Thomas Shannon, acknowledged that the United States collects large amounts of data on email traffic but does not access the content of messages or conduct the monitoring on Brazilian territory. He said the reports did not paint an accurate picture of U.S. information gathering.

In Brazil, the United States' largest trading partner in South America, angry senators questioned a state visit Rousseff plans to make to Washington in October and a billion-dollar purchase of U.S.-made fighter jets Brazil has been considering.

Rousseff told Biden her visit is still on and she hoped the spying matter will be cleared up by then, Chagas said.

"The privacy of citizens and the sovereignty of countries cannot be infringed in the name of security," Rousseff said to Biden, according to her minister.

(Reporting by Nestor Rabello; Writing by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/biden-calls-brazils-rousseff-over-nsa-spying-tensions-010140300.html

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How to Save Offline Maps in the New Google Maps for iOS

Saving offline maps in Google Maps 2.0 is a sneaky 'easter egg' type feature that'll make Google Maps on iOS even better. You won't need to rely on a data connection, you'll get your maps faster and it'll make things work better. So how do you save offline maps on the iOS version of Google Maps?

Tests clear Czech army's faulty Spain-made military planes

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Long-plagued by technical faults, four Spanish-made CASA Military transport planes bought by the Czech army have been cleared to fly combat missions, the defence minister said Monday. ...

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Sculpting Nanoflows With Supercomputers

[unable to retrieve full-text content]aarondubrow writes "Researchers reported results in Nature Communications on a new way of sculpting tailor-made fluid flows by placing tiny pillars in microfluidic channels [abstract; article is paywalled]. The method could allow clinicians to better separate white blood cells in a sample, increase mixing in industrial applications, and more quickly perform lab-on-a-chip-type operation. Using the Ranger and Stampede supercomputers, the researchers ran more than 1,000 simulations representing combinations of speeds, thicknesses, heights or offsets that produce unique flows. This library of transformations will help the broader community design and use sculpted fluid flows."

NoteSuite Combines a Notebook and To-Do Manager into One

OS X: NoteSuite offers you more than a digital notebook?you also get document storage and a to-do list manager. Furthermore, it clips from the web, syncs with your mobile device, and looks good doing it.

If you think that NoteSuite sounds a bit like Evernote, you're not alone. Evernote likes to be an everything bucket and NoteSuite seems to want the same thing. That said, as much as we like Evernote it isn't the fastest or easiest app to work with. On top of that, when you try to be everything it becomes hard to adapt to specific things.

NoteSuite takes a slightly more organized approach, making your notes, to-dos, and document storage separate entities. While you can make a to-do list in Evernote, you have a more robust management tool in NoteSuite. Instead of just creating a list, it understands the purpose of that list. You can mark items as important, set due dates, and even create reminders. This way you don't have to force the app to sort of act like a to-do manager or use a separate one in its place.

Not everyone will want to pay the $5 for NoteSuite when they can get Evernote for free, but if you'd rather have one app to handle both your notes and tasks, be sure to check it out.

NoteSuite ($5) | Mac App Store

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