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Austin, TX, USA and Shanghai, CHINA ? Appconomy, Inc. announced today that Joe Canterbury, a key executive responsible for international business development for Starbucks for more than a decade, has joined the company to lead its global market operations, including Marketing, Sales, Business Development and Support functions.

Mr. Canterbury had been with Starbucks since 2000, with his most recent position being Vice President of International Business Development. In that role, he was responsible for executing key strategic Retail and Consumer Product Goods projects for Starbucks in China, India, Brazil, and across Europe. He spent his first six years driving the international expansion strategy and entry into numerous new markets & channels across Asia, Europe and Latin America and then moved in 2007 to Amsterdam, where he was responsible for all new businesses and markets in EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa). This was followed by a stint running Starbucks Germany before returning to a global role in Seattle.

Before joining Starbucks, Mr. Canterbury held various management positions with Daimler based in Germany and Singapore. While in Singapore, he drove M & A and Partnering strategy and projects across Asia. He received a Masters in International Business from Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria and his MBA from Texas A&M University?s Mays School of Business.

?Joe Canterbury is the perfect person to guide Appconomy?s global market operations,? said Brian Magierski, President and co-CEO of Appconomy, Inc. ?The combination of his global business & retail experience and success as a leader with some of the most respected consumer brands make him uniquely suited to execute Appconomy?s global strategy of launching in China. With his first-hand knowledge of the success of Starbucks? mobile app in the U.S. market, he also understands Appconomy?s vision for powering unique mobile marketing and commerce capability merchants globally.?

Fueled by its strategic alliance with Neusoft Corporation, its $10 Million Series A financing led by Qiming Ventures in December 2011, and an expanding Shanghai-based team including US executives Brian Magierski and Steve Guengerich, Appconomy is now poised to launch a game-changing mobile marketing and commerce marketplace in the world?s most important retail growth market, connecting merchants of all sizes to their customers in relevant and powerful new ways.

?Joe Canterbury understands what big brands need and how to serve their business objectives while delivering an outstanding experience to customers, having led international business development for one of the world?s most iconic, admired brands at Starbucks,? said Steve Papermaster, Chairman and co-CEO of Appconomy. ?We?re thrilled to have Joe join our team, develop our business partner and brand network, and lead our marketing and sales efforts, initially in China and, over time, around the world.?

About Appconomy, Inc.
Appconomy operates a cloud-based platform for mobile marketing and commerce that directly connects consumers and merchants through its AppWalletTM marketplace and apps for smartphones, tablets, and feature phones. For more information, visit www.appconomy.com.

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Study cautions use of drugs to block 'niacin flush'

ScienceDaily (Apr. 9, 2012) ? Niacin, or vitamin B3, is the one approved drug that elevates "good" cholesterol (high density lipoprotein, HDL) while depressing "bad" cholesterol (low density lipoprotein , LDL), and has thereby attracted much attention from patients and physicians. Niacin keeps fat from breaking down, and so obstructs the availability of LDL building blocks.

Patients often stop taking niacin because it causes uncomfortable facial flushing, an effect caused by the release of a fat called prostaglandin or (PG)D₂. PGD₂ is the primary cause of the unwanted vasodilation, the "niacin flush." The dilation occurs when blood vessels widen from relaxed smooth muscle cells within vessel walls.

PGD₂, formed by an enzyme called COX-2 and released by immune and skin cells, acts on a muscle cell-surface receptor called DP1 to cause the flushing. In fact, a combination of a DP1- blocking drug and niacin is being evaluated in a large clinical trial to determine its effectiveness in reducing heart attacks, as opposed to other drugs that reduce LDL cholesterol.

In work published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation this month, first authors Wenliang Song, MD, research assistant professor, and Jane Stubbe, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, in the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and their colleagues now question the wisdom of blocking DP1 in patients prone to cardiovascular disease, especially those taking niacin.

Drawing evidence from studies in mice and humans, they show that platelets -- complicated cells circulating in the bloodstream that stick together in the first phase of blood clotting -- make PGD₂, which acts as a brake via DP1 on their own activation. This is surprising as PGD₂ is made in platelets by COX-1, the target inhibited by low-dose aspirin.

COX-1 in platelets also makes thromboxane (Tx)A₂, another fat that activates platelets. As low-dose aspirin is cardioprotective by thinning blood, the benefit from shutting down platelet TxA₂ trumps the potential risk of suppressing platelet PGD₂ production.

To gather more information on the potential risks from blocking DP1, the Penn investigators used mice lacking the DP1 receptor. However, unlike humans, mice do not express DP1 in their platelets. "Frankly, because of this, we did not expect to detect any signal of cardiovascular hazard in the mice," notes senior author Garret FitzGerald, MD, director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics.

However, deletion of DP1 made mice somewhat more susceptible to hardening of the arteries, the formation of aneurysm, thrombosis, and in some cases, high blood pressure. The researchers suggest that these findings are reflective of DP1 expression in vascular and immune cells in mice, just as in humans, despite its absence on mouse platelet cells.

Turning back to humans, the Penn investigators discovered that niacin evoked COX-1- dependent formation of both TxA₂ and PGD₂ in platelets and that a DP1 blockade enhanced the effect of TxA₂ on platelet activation.

Taken together, these interwoven findings suggest that blocking the effects of PGD₂ on DP1 is likely to be undesirable in patients with heart disease, and perhaps in particular, those taking niacin. That possibility is not addressed by the design of the large ongoing trial of the niacin/DP1 antagonist combination, say the researchers.

Should such a hazard exist, FitzGerald expects it to be confined to those patients not taking low-dose aspirin, along with niacin. "This potential hazard of blocking one aspect of PGD₂ action, the one dependent on DP1, contrasts nicely with our recent report that blocking its other receptor, DP2, may be beneficial in limiting male-pattern baldness" said FitzGerald.

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1. Wen-Liang Song, Jane Stubbe, Emanuela Ricciotti, Naji Alamuddin, Salam Ibrahim, Irene Crichton, Maxwell Prempeh, John A. Lawson, Robert L. Wilensky, Lars Melholt Rasmussen, Ellen Pur?, Garret A. FitzGerald. Niacin and biosynthesis of PGD2 by platelet COX-1 in mice and humans. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2012; 122 (4): 1459 DOI: 10.1172/JCI59262

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Helpful Advice About Running A Home-Based Business | Cat Dog ...

Many people are developing businesses in your house. Home businesses are helpful because they allow people to sell goods and services while having direct control of the business, its products, as well as its infrastructure. There are many things to know when commencing a home business. The details in the document below can help you start a successful home business.

A home businesses is definitely special because you make your own schedule and they are your own manager. However, a great tip to consider is to hire a close friend being an adviser. Often times you can be seduced to be much too leisurely with it because it is from your own home. Having of which friend for an adviser may help keep you trustworthy about the small business.

Your business postal mail, if its not most coming by way of email, really should be arriving at a separate box. Your neighborhood post office will give you a P.O. Box for a low cost. Youll have to make sure you stop by regularly to test it. Do not forget that your business and personal lives should be separated in many areas for example mail.

An excellent home business hint is to make an attempt to find ones target audience. You have to find ones target audience so that you can sell your items. Once you find these, do everything it is possible to to make them delighted. This can insure your business incorporates a long life.

A fantastic tip for your residence business is to ensure that you have an satisfactory amount of safety to protect your products, records, and any business associated equipment. Almost all of the important in case your home address is public the ones know what youve got on the office space. Your security and the protection of your company should be on the utmost worry.

One important advantage that the home business features over a huge company is versatility. A home business could more conveniently adapt to fresh opportunities and also new suggestions whereas a considerable company must spend more methods and time making a great adjustment. You should therefore manage your home business with this flexibility in your mind such that must a new possibility present alone, you can quickly change gears to learn from it!

See how to accept credit card purchases for your residence business. There are various wonderful web sites online that can help you using the process. You may also check with the bank to determine if they can help. You need to make it as handy as possible for individuals to buy your solution; if it is a hassle, they will not want to make an effort completing the deal.

Interested in starting a dog taking walks business? This is sometimes a great idea if you want dogs, would love the day-to-day exercise, and are also comfortable managing dogs of various sizes. Get potential clients by putting up leaflets at vets workplaces, at the community dog car park, or with the grocery store.

As outlined above, many people are creating home businesses. These firms allow individuals to sell services and goods from the convenience of their own property while being in direct power over every a higher level the business. Before you start a home business, there are many things to realize, and with the facts from this write-up, you can have an effective home business.

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Cross-border gunfire: Syrian bullets kill 1 in Turkey

BEIRUT?? Updated 10:47 a.m. ET: Syrian forces on Monday fired across the border at a refugee camp in Turkey, killing one and wounding four, activists said - the first such attack since Ankara began allowing in thousands of refugees to find shelter in the country.

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The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the incident began at about 4 a.m. Monday when opposition fighters attacked Syrian forces at the Salameh border crossing with Syria.

Later, local activists within Syria said Syrian military forces killed at least 30 people on Monday, mostly women and children, when they bombarded a town in the central province of Hama, local activists said.

They said 17 children and eight women were among those killed in al-Latmana, northwest of the city of Hama.

Reuters reported that video footage showed rescuers pulling people, covered in fine grey dust, out of what appeared to be the wreckage of a collapsed building. Syria has placed tight restrictions on media access, making it hard to verify such witness accounts.

In another development Monday, a cameraman for Lebanon's Al-Jadeed television channel was shot dead near Lebanon's northern border with Syria, the television channel said.

Sources at the channel said cameraman Ali Shaaban was killed and an Al-Jadeed colleague was wounded in the shooting which took place in the border region between Syria and Lebanon's northern Wadi Khaled district. There were no other immediate details of the incident.

At the Turksih refugee camp, a protracted gunbattle ensued between the rebels and Syrian troops trapped at the border crossing, said Rami Abdul-Rahman, a spokesman for the Observatory. Abdul-Rahman said several government soldiers were killed in the ambush.

Earlier Monday the Observatory said the Syrian rebels had killed at least six members of the Syrian security forces and customs officials in clashes near the border.

The fighting spilled over into Turkey when eight wounded opposition fighters escaped to the camp on the Turkish border and Syrian forces kept firing at them, Abdul-Rahman said.

The incident occurred at the Kilis border refugee camp in Turkey's southern Gaziantep province.

The spokesman said five people were injured in the camp and one later died of his injuries.

"After this incident the Syrian Charge d'Affaires in Ankara was called and we demanded an end to this,'' a Turkish foreign ministry official told Reuters.

According to Al-Jazeera, bullet-holes were seen at four homes at the camp.

Uprising
Around 10 miles to the south, government forces bombarded the town of Tall Rifaat, the Observatory said, adding that there were reports that dozens of people had been killed or wounded, but it had no immediate details.

President Assad has been trying to crush an uprising against his rule which erupted a year ago. The United Nations says his forces have killed 9,000 people while Syrian authorities, who blame foreign-backed militants for the violence, say 2,500 soldiers and police have been killed.

The Syrian government said on Sunday it wanted written guarantees that insurgents would stop fighting before it pulls back its troops under the terms of a U.N. peace plan which called for all sides in Syria to cease-fire by Thursday.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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The smart money doesn?t always reach a consensus. Sometimes, there isn?t a clear answer. However, in doubt lies opportunity. (STAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE:?Follow Kapitall on Twitter) We ran a screen on US-traded Chinese stocks for those that the smart money hasn?t fully agreed upon. We screened for those that have seen net selling from institutional investors over the current quarter, but have also seen bullish trends from short sellers (decreases in shares shorted) month-over-month. Thus, the smart money seems to be at a crossroads on these names. When smart money investors such as hedge fund managers and short sellers buy or sell a stock, they report the trade. This information is very helpful to analysts and investors, who value their decisions because of the smart money?s experience and access to sophisticated research. Business Section: Investing Ideas Since the smart money is somewhat undecided on these names, what do you think of them? Use Kapitall tools to dig deeper and analyze these stocks. Do you think hedge funds are right, or are the short sellers correctly predicting these stocks will outperform? ? Interactive Chart: Use the Compar-O-Matic to compare analyst ratings for the stocks mentioned below: Use this list as a starting point for your own analysis. ? ? 1. FushiCopperweld, Inc. (FSIN, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Develops, designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes bimetallic wire products, principally copper-clad aluminum (CCA) and copper-clad steel (CCS). Net institutional sales in the current quarter at -3.2M shares, which represents about 13.8% of the company?s float of 23.19M shares. Shares shorted have decreased from 6.91M to 5.25M over the last month, a decrease which represents about 7.16% of the company?s float of 23.19M shares. ? 2. Noah Holdings Limited (NOAH, <a ?..

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