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Running on a regular basis can slow the effects of ageing, a study by US researchers shows.

Elderly joggers were half as likely to die prematurely from conditions like cancer than non-runners.

They also enjoyed a healthier life with fewer disabilities, the Stanford University Medical Center team found.

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“Can you trust your data to the cloud? For users of an online storage service called The Linkup, formerly known as MediaMax, the answer turned out to be a resounding “no.” The Linkup shut down on Aug. 8 after losing access to as much as 45% of its customers’ data. “When we looked at some individual accounts, some people didn’t have any files, and some people had all their files,” The Linkup CeO Steve Iverson admits. None of the affected users will get their lost data back. Iverson called it a “worst-case scenario."”

Although this isn’t the type of story that normally gets around these parts the first sentence of the article poses a very important question. How many of you would trust your data in the hands of someone else? What about your privacy rights? Its an issue with people on both sides of the fence.

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14. “I Believe In a Thing Called Love” - The Darkness

22. “Feel Good Inc“ - Gorillaz

29. “D.A.N.C.E.” - Justice

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In the west victorian style personal calling cards have been making a resurgence. In such a high tech world its a wonderful thing to see a low tech approach to a common problem of trading information without being bound by your business. The sad part is some people would try and list their favorite social networking profile as their primary homepage. The happy part is all the information one can include on it. Now the west just needs to embrace QR Codes.

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Josh Keyes is a Northern California painter and sculptor whose work has been shown nationwide. Keyes was born on August 17, 1969 in Tacoma, Washington. Josh earned a bachelor’s degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a master’s degree in painting and printmaking from Yale University. His work has been published in numerous publications, and exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, and New York.

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There is nothing quite like the future being upon us as robots creeping their way into every notch of life.

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In a statement issued to the university last week, Sir Colin Campbell says: “There is no ‘right’ to access and research terrorist materials. Those who do so run the risk of being investigated and prosecuted on terrorism charges. Equally, there is no ‘prohibition’ on accessing terrorist materials for the purpose of research. Those who do so are likely to be able to offer a defence to charges (although they may be held in custody for some time while the matter is investigated). This is the law and applies to all universities.”

Sir Colin issued the statement to advise staff to note “additional points” that have emerged since the arrest in May of a Nottingham masters student and a clerk on suspicion of possessing extremist material.

The student, Rizwaan Sabir, who is studying Islamic terrorism, said he had downloaded a copy of an al-Qaeda training manual for use in his MA dissertation and PhD application and had forwarded it to the administrator, Hicham Yezza, for printing. After six days in detention, neither was charged.

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Tucked away in a 1,200-page bill now in Congress is a small paragraph that could lead distance-education institutions to require spy cameras in their students’ homes…

...The paragraph is actually about clamping down on cheating. It says that an institution that offers an online program must prove that an enrolled student is the same person who does the work…

...But some college officials are wary of the technologies, noting that they are run by third-party vendors that may not safeguard students’ privacy. Among the information the vendors collect are students’ fingerprints, and possibly even images from inside their homes.

“This is taking a step into a student’s private life,” said Rhonda M. Epper, co-executive director of Colorado Community Colleges Online. “I don’t know if we want to extend our presence that far."…

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HOTELS in Beijing are slashing prices for next month’s Olympics after the expected windfall of visitors failed to materialize, hotels and travel industry executives said yesterday.
Fan Runjun, of travel Website Ctrip.com, said many two to four-star hotels had reduced prices by 10 to 20 percent compared to May and June and some had slashed rates by as much as 30 percent.

The usual pre-Olympic festive atmosphere host cities experience has not yet hit Beijing. In June, the number of visitors to the capital declined by 19.9 percent from a year earlier, according to the Beijing Tourism Authority.

Average room prices in three-star hotels are now down to 400 yuan (US$60) a night from 700 yuan in previous months. Four-star hotels have dropped prices to about 800 yuan a night from 1,500 yuan.

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Dozens of partygoers at an outdoor rave near Moscow have been partially blinded after a laser light show burned their retinas, say Russian health officials.

Moscow city health department officials say that 12 cases of laser blindness were recorded at the Central Ophthalmological Clinic in the city. The daily newspaper Kommersant reports that another 17 victims have registered at another hospital in the centre of the capital.

Ravers at the Aquamarine Open Air Festival in Kirzhach, 80 kilometres northeast of Moscow, began seeking medical help days after the show, complaining of eye and vision problems.

“They all have retinal burns, scarring is visible on them. Loss of vision in individual cases is as high as 80%, and regaining it is already impossible,” Kommersant quoted a treating ophthalmologist as saying.

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