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For the first time, U.S. Internet advertising revenue has surpassed that ofbroadcast television thanks to sharp growth in mobile and digital video ads.
That'saccording to a report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau in the UnitedStates. The report says Internet advertising revenue rose 17 percent to arecord 43 billion dollars last year. In comparison, broadcast TV ad revenue was40 billion dollars last year.
In2012, mobile advertising revenue more than doubled to 7 billion from 3.5billion as companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter boosted their mobilepresence.
TheInternational Advertising Bureau is made up of more than 600 media andtechnology companies that sell most of the online advertising in the U.S.
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Whena 6-foot-5, 270-pound man with a history of violence broke out of a mentalhealth ward near Philadelphia in the United States, and tried to withdraw moneyfrom a bank, a confrontation with police seemed likely.
ButLower Merion Township police officer Matthew Freind used his mental healthtraining to calmly talk to the man and defuse the crisis. Freind says that noforce was necessary; and the man thanked him saying Freind was the only personthat's ever truly listened to him.
Thatwas a situation where things could've gotten out of hand very quickly.
Sometimes they do, especially if police aren't trained in how to respond to theseverely mentally ill. Dozens of mentally ill people die in run-ins with policeevery year. Last month, a homeless camper in New Mexico in central U.S. waskilled in a shooting. The event was captured on an officer's helmet camera. Itsparked an FBI investigation and a protest that forced the city to call outriot police. The U.S. Department of Justice slammed the police in the city forroutinely using excessive force on those with mental illness.
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As she was goaded by journalists who wanted a clear view of her face, a Ugandannurse looked dazed and on the verge of tears. The Ugandan press had dubbed her"the killer nurse," after the HIV-infected medical worker was accusedof deliberately injecting her blood into a two-year-old patient.
The 64-year-old nurse, Rosemary Namubiru, was charged with attempted murder,denied bail and sent to jail in an unusual case that many saw as a horrifyingexample of the lax hospital standards believed to be prevalent in the EastAfrican country.
Butin the course of her trial - on the revised charge of criminal negligence - thenurse is attracting sympathy and emerging as the apparent victim of a rampantstigma in a country that until recently was being praised as a global leader infighting AIDS and promoting an open attitude towards the disease.
Thenurse, while attempting to give an injection to a distraught child on Jan. 7,accidentally pricked her finger with a needle. After bandaging her finger, shereturned to administer the injection, apparently using the contaminated needle.Uncertain about whether the same needle was used, the child's mother becameconcerned about the possibility that her child had been exposed to HIV. Thenurse was arrested after a test showed she was HIV positive. Prosecutors arguedagainst giving her bail on the grounds that she posed a grave danger to thepublic.
If convicted, the nurse faces seven years in jail and will be the first Ugandanmedical worker to be sentenced under a colonial-era law against negligent actslikely to lead to the spread of an infectious disease.
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A pair of rhinestone earrings U.S. actress Marilyn Monroe wore in a 1955Hollywood film premiere has sold at auction for 185,000 US dollars.
Julien'sAuctions says the actress wore the jewelry when she attended the opening of"The Rose Tattoo." Monroe did not appear in the film which was basedon a play of Tennessee William, a master playwright of the twentieth century. Theprice included a 20 percent commission for the auction house.
The buyer was a foreign collector. The auction house does not release the namesof buyers.
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Serbian archaeologists used heavy machinery to move a female mammoth skeleton -believed to be one million years old - from an open mine pit where it wasunearthed five years ago.
Workerswith cranes and bulldozers worked carefully for hours at a coal mine in easternSerbia to transfer the mammoth, known as Vika, to an exhibition area severalkilometers away.
Preparations had lasted for several months. Archaeologists secured Vika in a60-ton structure of rubber and sand to avoid any damage.
Archaeologistsat the site say they are extremely sad and heavy-hearted about it, but they hadto move her. It was just too complicated to leave the mammoth where it wasfound; that would have required securing a 500-square-meter area right in theheart of the coal mine.
Vikais a southern mammoth, one of the oldest species found in Europe. It originatedfrom northern Africa and did not have fur.
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In a north London hospital, scientists are growing noses, ears and bloodvessels in a bold attempt to make body parts in the laboratory.
It'sfar from the only lab in the world that is pursuing the futuristic idea ofgrowing organs for transplant. But the London work was showcased recently asMayor Boris Johnson announced a plan to attract more labs to do cutting-edgehealth and science research in the area.
Sofar only a handful of patients have received the British lab-made organsincluding blood vessels and windpipes. Researchers hope they will soon be ableto transplant more types of body parts into patients, including what will bethe world's first nose made partly from stem cells.
Scientistsat University College London say it's like making a cake and they just use adifferent kind of oven. British authorities have invested nearly 4 millionpounds, or almost 7 million U.S. dollars, in the plan to stimulate research inthe London-Oxford-Cambridge area. It aims to attract companies to the area tofoster collaboration and promote research and manufacturing. A major center forbiological research will open in London next year.
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