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Published on 18 February 2013 @ 5:43 pm

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By Steven Seidenberg for Intellectual Property Watch

It has become routine for companies to outsource many business functions. Human resources, customer service, accounting, manufacturing of components ? all have been outsourced. Now, however, a growing number of US businesses are outsourcing something new: patent licensing. And this outsourcing may hurt both the US economy and its patent system.

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Frontier Communications' Commitment to Broadband Speed ...

Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Investments Paying off

Background: Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released results of its 2013 Measuring Broadband America?February report. The report contains the most recent results from the FCC?s Measuring Broadband America program. This program, whose first results were published in August 2011, is an ongoing, rigorous, nationwide study of residential broadband performance in the United States.

WASHINGTON?(BUSINESS WIRE)? Frontier Communications? Corporation (NYSE:FTR, news, filings) commitment to bringing broadband to rural America was amply demonstrated in the FCC?s latest ?Measuring Broadband America? report, released today. The report offers a summary of residential broadband testing of speeds offered by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) across the country. Frontier?s performance was found to have improved 13% over the results in the previous report and was highlighted in the FCC report.

Maggie Wilderotter, Frontier Chairman and CEO said, ?We are gratified that our investment in rural America is paying off in the form of better speeds and network performance for our customers. We will continue to transform Frontier into the nation?s leading provider of broadband with a focus on rural America. I expect nothing less from our nearly 15,000 employees across the country who have been solidly executing on our plan.?

Frontier has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in capital expenditures throughout its 27 state service territories to deploy and improve broadband services. Frontier has met or, in many cases, exceeded commitments made to individual state commissions during a transformative transaction in 2010. The money has been spent to connect once underserved and unserved areas and to relieve internet congestion in many of these areas.

Among the states with the highest broadband turns ups are West Virginia (158,000), Michigan (157,358) and Illinois (101,799). Frontier is keenly aware of the importance of broadband to?rural America. It is an essential part of the economic engine that drives economic development, commerce, education, health care, jobs and more.

About?Frontier Communications

Frontier Communications Corporation?(NASDAQ: FTR) is an S&P 500 company and is included in the FORTUNE 500 list of America?s largest corporations. Frontier offers broadband, voice, satellite video, wireless Internet data access, data security solutions, bundled offerings and specialized bundles for residential customers, small businesses and home offices and medium and large businesses in 27 states. Frontier?s approximately 14,700 employees are based entirely in?the United States. More information is available at?www.frontier.com.

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Kenneth Faried Shows Off Dunks In Rising Stars Game 2013 (VIDEO)

Kenneth Faried dunks the ball in the second half in the BBVA Rising Stars Challenge 2013 part of the 2013 NBA All-Star Weekend at the Toyota Center on February 15, 2013 in Houston, Texas.

HOUSTON -- Kenneth Faried had 40 points and 10 rebounds and entertained the crowd at the end with a series of dunks, leading Team Chuck to a 163-135 victory over Team Shaq in the Rising Stars Challenge on Friday night.

Faried, in his second season with Denver, made 18 of 22 shots and was selected the game's most valuable player. He'll compete Saturday night in the dunk contest at All-Star Weekend and offered a sneak preview of what he has planned with a series of powerful jams.

For the second straight year, the rosters of both teams were a mix of rookie and second-year players and former stars Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley served as opposing general managers.

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Final count in Florida's python hunt: 68

MIAMI -- A public hunt for Burmese pythons in the Everglades yielded 68 of the invasive snakes, the longest measuring more than 14 feet long, Florida wildlife officials said Saturday.

That might not seem like a success, considering roughly 1,600 people signed up for the state-sponsored Python Challenge that ended Sunday, but Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials said the hunt may have prevented thousands more pythons from being born in the Everglades.

Female pythons can lay as many as 100 eggs at a time.

"In our view that number - the number that were harvested, taken out of the ecosystem - was an unprecedented number of samples that will help us answer questions about pythons and make us more effective at tackling this problem, removing them from the system. We're going to learn so much," said Nick Wiley, executive director of the wildlife commission.

The highly publicized hunt probably generated more attention-grabbing headlines than snakeskins. Wildlife officials say that was their goal: to raise awareness about the threat pythons and other invasive species pose to native wildlife.

Researchers say pythons are eating their way through the Everglades, decimating populations of native mammals. The snakes can grow more than 20 feet in length, and they have no predators, other than the humans desperately trying to control their population.

Most of the registrants were amateurs lacking the permits usually required to harvest pythons. Two Tennessee men who had been sleeping in their car while hunting had to be rescued by helicopter when they became stranded and disoriented, but most hunters emerged from the Everglades unscathed, if empty-handed.

Ruben Ramirez of Miami and his Florida Python Hunters team won $1,500 for bagging 18 pythons, the most caught by any of the permit holders. He also won prizes for bringing in the two longest snakes to be caught by any of the permit holders. Both those snakes stretched longer than 10 feet.

Brian Barrows of Fort Myers led the competition for amateur hunters, winning $1,500 for harvesting six snakes. His friend, Paul Shannon of Lehigh Acres, won $1,000 for catching a python measuring 14 feet 3 inches long.

The big snake caught Shannon's eye as it slithered through the mud. It didn't like being pulled out and lunged at a friend, Shannon said. Two gunshots to its head finally stopped it.

"When it jumped at him and he dropped it and dove in the bushes, I came around and it was coiled up. The coil was 4 feet wide," he said. "The head was as big as my hand. I have nightmares about that vision of it coiled up, ready to strike again."

The other snakes caught by Barrow and Shannon's team ranged from 7 feet to 9 feet long. On six separate days during the monthlong hunt, they pointed Shannon's airboat toward remote tree islands, looking for snakes sunning themselves on dry land.

"To see one that massive, it was shocking," Barrows said. "You always think these things don't exist out there, and they do. They're out there and they're big."

University of Florida researchers are examining all the harvested snakes, hoping to learn more about the splotchy, tan animal that's hard to see in the Everglades. State wildlife officials will be surveying all the registrants about their methods and the amount of time they spent looking for pythons.

Increasing the number of human python hunters may not be Florida's only option in the ongoing effort to control the snake population. Researchers at Auburn University have been exploring the use of dogs to sniff out pythons.

In a controlled experiment that sent humans and dogs in search of pythons outfitted with radio transmitters, Labrador retrievers previously trained to sniff for bombs did a better job of finding all the snakes, even the smallest ones that were just a foot long, said Christina Romagosa of Auburn's School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences.

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Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/16/3238075/final-count-in-floridas-python.html

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Detroit Lions' Matthew Stafford Makes The Play For Healthy Habits

?Making the play? ? something quarterback Matthew Stafford does week after week each season with the Detroit Lions ? is something he couldn?t accomplish without good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) wants to know how kids in grades four through eight would make Michigan healthier through its second annual ?Make the Play for Healthy Habits? video contest.

The student that submits the winning video will get to star as a host of his/her own healthy lifestyle video blog series on aHealthierMichigan.org, and will receive a school assembly featuring Stafford.

Video submissions are being accepted Jan. 30 ? March 29. In April, 10 semifinalists will be selected and notified and their video submissions will be posted on aHealthierMichigan.org for a two-week public voting period. The winner will be announced in early May.

?Last year we had such a tremendous response from kids across Michigan to this contest, we are excited to do it again,? said Andrew Hetzel, BCBSM vice president for corporate communications. ?Kids are naturally creative. Working with their parents and teachers, Blue Cross wants to see their creativity come to life with the goal of making their schools and communities healthier.?

Video submissions should be no more than two minutes long. They should creatively answer the question ?What would you do to make Michigan healthier?? and include the student?s perspective on how themselves, their family, teachers and classmates can live a healthier life. Students should explain how they would communicate healthy lifestyle choices with their families and fellow students.

Students can submit a video using any digital recording device using an MP3 format, such as a smartphone, iPad, Flip video or webcam, or they can upload a video via YouTube. For more information, please visit aHealthierMichigan.org/kidcontest.

Students, grades four through eight, must be enrolled in an accredited public or private learning institution within Michigan to participate.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), childhood obesity has both immediate and long-term effects on health and well-being. The CDC also reports that 14.2 percent of Michigan adolescents in grades nine through 12 are overweight, while 11.9 percent are obese. In children ages two to five years, 16.3 percent are overweight and 13.3 percent are obese.

Schools play a particularly critical role in combating obesity by establishing a safe and supportive environment with policies and practices that can encourage healthy behaviors. Schools also provide opportunities for students to learn about and practice healthy eating and physical activity behaviors.

The ?Make the Play for Healthy Habits? kid contest is an extension of BCBSM?s ongoing efforts to combat childhood obesity by encouraging kids to share their ideas using creativity and new media. In addition, this week BCBSM announced that elementary schools can apply for a new round of grant funding from Building Healthy Communities, a partnership with the Michigan Fitness Foundation, Wayne State University?s College of Education Center for School Health and the United Dairy Institute of Michigan. Since 2009, BCBSM, the program?s creator and primary funder, has invested more than $3 million in the Building Healthy Communities program in an effort to promote healthier lifestyles and prevent childhood obesity and its associated health risks.

Immediate health effects of childhood obesity:
? Obese youth are more likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure. In a population-based sample of five- to 17-year-olds, 70 percent of obese youth had at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
? Obese adolescents are more likely to have pre-diabetes, a condition in which blood glucose levels indicate a high risk for development of diabetes.
? Children and adolescents who are obese are at greater risk for bone and joint problems, sleep apnea, and social and psychological problems such as stigmatization and poor self-esteem.

Long-term health effects of childhood obesity:
? Children and adolescents who are obese are likely to be obese as adults and are therefore more at risk for adult health problems such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, several types of cancer and osteoarthritis. One study showed that children who became obese as early as age two were more likely to be obese as adults.
? Overweight and obesity are associated with increased risk for many types of cancer, including cancer of the breast, colon, endometrium, esophagus, kidney, pancreas, gall bladder, thyroid, ovary, cervix and prostate, as well as multiple myeloma and Hodgkin?s lymphoma.

Knowledge and prevention:
? According to the CDC, healthy lifestyle habits, including healthy eating and physical activity, can lower the risk of becoming obese and developing related diseases.
? The dietary and physical activity behaviors of children and adolescents are influenced by many sectors of society, including families, communities, schools, child care settings, medical care providers, faith-based institutions, government agencies and the media, as well as the food, beverage and entertainment industries.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network are nonprofit corporations and independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. For more company information, visit bcbsm.com.

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CDC Report Shows Increase in Breastfeeding, but Room for Improvement

More U.S. women are breastfeeding than a decade ago, but the numbers are still relatively low,according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday. The overall increase in breastfeeding held true across almost all racial and ethnic groups.

The CDC report went on to note that while the increase in mothers who choose to breastfeed their infants is good, many are still not breastfeeding for long enough. The recommendation in most cases is a minimum of 12 months.

Here is some of the key information to have emerged from this new report on breastfeeding prevalence in the U.S.

* The report was compiled between 2000 and 2008. Over that eight-year span, breastfeeding increased by some 4 percent overall.

* The number of mothers who were still breastfeeding at the six-month mark jumped substantially, from 35 percent to 45 percent during the same time frame.

* Overall, as MyHealthNewsDaily noted, by 2008 a full 74.6 percent of all mothers breastfed for various lengths of time.

* The director of the CDC, Tom Frieden, said that the fact that more than half of all mothers have stopped breastfeeding by the six-month mark means that "mothers that want to breastfeed are still not getting the support they need from hospitals, doctors, or employers," as quoted by MyHealthNewsDaily.

* At the 12-month mark, only 23 percent of women report still breastfeeding their infants.

* The CDC report made special note of the fact that African-American women have the lowest breastfeeding rate among U.S. women. While the gap between white women and black women who breastfeed did narrow between the eight years covered by the report, there is still a 16 percent difference in the number of white women who breastfeed versus the number of black women who do so.

* As HealthDay News noted, in 2008 nearly 59 percent of all African-American women breastfed their babies for various lengths of time, versus nearly 75 percent of all white women and nearly 80 percent of all Hispanic women.

* The American Academy of Pediatrics "reaffirmed" its recommendation regarding breastfeeding early last year. AAP guidelines state that a baby should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their life, and then given compatible foods along with the continuation of breastfeeding at least up until the baby has passed their first birthday.

* The AAP also states that given the known health benefits to the infant of breastfeeding, that doing so "should be considered an investment in the short- and long-term health of the infant, and not a lifestyle choice."

Vanessa Evans is a musician and freelance writer based in Michigan, with a lifelong interest in health and nutrition issues.

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