Twilio Launches SIP Service To Take It One Step Closer To Enterprises, And Help It Prep For Video

Twilio, the cloud-based communications company that lets app and website developers embed calling and messaging features into their work with a bit of API code, is today taking one more step to strengthen its bonds to enterprise users globally: it is launching SIP from Twilio. Introducing SIP, short for Session Initiation Protocol, into Twilio's portfolio of services will not only give the company more flexibility to target enterprises (who use SIP in their calling systems) more directly, but since it is a protocol also used for services like video, could also be a signal of what services Twilio has planned next.

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PFT: 49ers still serious contenders for Asomugha

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The current free-agency market already has been called the worst ever by multiple NFL agents.? Though the warning signs were there, with plenty of teams having cap trouble and few having a major spending surplus, players and agents believed that the money would flow in the early days, like it always does.

But only a small handful of players got paid once the market opened.?? Sure, Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco became the highest-paid player of all time, but that happened only because the Ravens opted not to choose between an exclusive franchise tender that would have cost them more than $19 million in 2013 cap room and a non-exclusive level that would have invited other teams to load up an offer sheet and happily give up a pair of first-round picks.? Beyond Flacco, no player has set a new high-water mark at his position.

As a result, many have gotten, and eventually will get, far less than they wanted.? Including receiver Greg Jennings.

According to Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jennings at one point during the 2012 season wanted $15 million per year.? And so he rejected $11 million per year from the Packers, ultimately getting only $9 million annually from the Vikings.

Along the way, Jennings rejected (per McGinn) a reduced offer of $8 million per year from the Packers, and a $6 million annual flier from the Patriots.

Few saw the crash of the free-agency market coming, and plenty of agents already are whispering about collusion.? It?s not suspected in the sense of broad spending restrictions, but with respect to quiet coordination among teams in an effort to set the market at certain positions.

The irony is that, for players and agents, coordination and collusion are permitted ? but they don?t seem to be doing much of it.? As a result, the teams have managed to land big-name players at bargain-basement costs, and the prices keep dropping at the NFL?s thrift shop.

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Taylor Swift's '22' Video: The Diary Of A Normal Girl

In her brand-new video, Swift spends a day with her friends ... and shows off her normal side.
By James Montgomery

Taylor Swift in her "22" music video
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Chris & Anne Marie's Killer Engagement Session - Rowell ...

Relationships and marriage are about give and take, forgiving and forgetting and finding the good in one another and then letting that person shine. In the words of Wilfred A. Peterson ?It is not only marrying the right partner, it?s being the right partner.?

Chris & Anne Marie fell in love as kids, and then again just a few years ago. When they asked us to do something creative for their Toronto engagement photo shoot, we of course were game for anything they had in mind, but this idea they came up with was not the first thing that came to our minds. Actually Anne Marie and Chris knew all along what they wanted to do, and what they didn?t want for their engagement session. Couples who have known one another as long as Chris and Anne Marie, tend to have a unique outlook on relationships.

For their engagement photos they wanted to showcase the opposite of their real life relationship, and really stage scenes that would shock their friends and family. So the 4 of us came up with a storyline for a series of photos where Anne Marie and Chris would repeatedly try to kill one another in freak household accidents,and sneaky revenge plots. Only a couple who possesses a great deal of love and respect for one another could ?execute? such a shoot. You have to have a twisted sense of humour to enjoy these photos. For us, this shoot was so much fun, I am still laughing ?as I remember us all squeezing into the bathroom with Ryan hugging the toilet to get one of the shots below. Well worth it!

To our nearly dead and nearly wed clients, thank you for such a fun shoot. Your wedding will be to die for!

Erika & Ryan

Disclaimer:?All situations appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real situations or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. No one was harmed in the making of these images. These images were made as a satire on marriage and may not be suitable for sensitive viewers.

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Aspirin cuts skin cancer risk, study finds | MyFOX8.com ...

(CNN) ? Aspirin has long been known to provide multiple health benefits: Pain relief, heart attack prevention, and possible prevention of several kinds of cancers.

A new study from Stanford University looks specifically at aspirin?s role in reducing the risk of melanoma , a form of skin cancer that is on the rise.

The study found a significant association between frequent usage of the drug and this form of cancer; aspirin users were less likely to get melanoma than those who did not take aspirin.

This is not proof, however, that aspirin is directly responsible for lowering the risk.

Why study this?

Researchers believe inflammation plays a big role in cancer development, and aspirin is an anti-inflammatory drug. Previous studies support the idea that in certain kinds of cancers, aspirin may be preventative.

?Aspirin also seems to specifically promote tumor cell death in certain cells, and one [type] are melanoma cells,? said the study?s senior author Dr. Jean Tang, who is an assistant professor of dermatology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Participants

Researchers examined data from the Women?s Health Initiative, a large sample of women ages 50 to 79 who reported information about themselves for an average of 12 years. The new study looked at nearly 60,000 women in this group.

Only Caucasian women were studied because melanoma risk increases in people with less skin pigment, and 95% of cutaneous melanoma cases are found in Caucasians.

Study setup

The study authors divided women into categories depending on whether they said they were taking aspirin, another kind of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), or nothing.

A ?user? of a drug was someone who took the medication at least twice weekly. Prescription records and bottle labels were checked to verify these drugs.

Women also reported their sun exposure, and researchers controlled for this in their analysis.

Results

During the period of the study, medical review confirmed 548 incident melanomas among participants.

Based on the entire data set, women who took aspirin appeared to have a 21% lower risk of melanoma on average. The longer these women took aspirin, the more protection they had. At one year, they cut their risk by 11%. Between one and four years, it was cut by 22%. At five years and up, risk reduction was 30%.

The results did not appear to be different in one age group vs. another, or whether the women had lighter or darker skin or a history of skin cancer.

Other NSAIDs and acetaminophen were not linked to melanoma risk in this study.

?The results of this study add to the results found by other studies that strongly suggest that aspirin may have anti-cancer properties,? Tang said.

Limitations

If aspirin does have this effect, that doesn?t mean other NSAIDs don?t also work this way. Tang said that the women in the study tended to take aspirin more regularly and frequently than other NSAIDs, so this may have affected the results. Study authors also did not differentiate between women who took painkillers twice a week and those who took them more often.

Other researchers are studying aspirin and other NSAIDs for possible anti-cancer effects, she said.

Information about the women?s sun exposure was self-reported, and their activities were not controlled in an experimental setting.

This was also restricted to postmenopausal women; it is unclear what the benefits would be, if any, if women started taking anti-inflammatory drugs earlier in life.

Bottom line?

?The results of this study add to the results found by other studies that strongly suggest that aspirin may have anti-cancer properties,? Tang said.

But the research is not at the point of recommending that everyone take aspirin every day. Stronger evidence would come from a long, expensive clinical trial to examine aspirin against a placebo for cancer risk prevention, which is hard to come by in the current stringent government funding environment, she said.

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"Rhoda" actress Valerie Harper living "fully" despite brain cancer

By Chris Michaud

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress Valerie Harper, star of the 1970s television comedy "Rhoda," says she is determined to "live each day's moments fully" despite a brain cancer diagnosis that doctors told her could bring death in a matter of days or in several years.

Harper, 73, who won four Emmy Awards for her signature sitcom role, said on NBC's "Today" show on Monday that the reality of her illness hit home "when I heard the word 'incurable.'"

"'Incurable' is a tough word, so is 'terminal,'" she said with a laugh. The interview, taped from her home in Los Angeles, marked Harper's first appearance on network television since she disclosed her cancer diagnosis in a People magazine cover story last Wednesday.

In that article, Harper said she learned in mid-January that she was suffering from leptomeningeal carcinomatosis -- cancer in the membrane of her brain -- and was given as little as three months to live.

In her televised interview with Savannah Guthrie of the "Today" show, Harper said her doctor told her she could live anywhere from a week, if for example she suffered a seizure, to a few months or even for several years, and that he had patients who had lived much longer than the prognosis.

Harper was a prime-time staple on U.S. television through most of the 1970s, first as the brassy but insecure neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern on the hit CBS sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." The character proved so popular that Harper was given her own spinoff series, "Rhoda," which ran for several more seasons on CBS.

"A lot of folks are calling (asking), 'Can I come by the house?' 'Are you in a wheelchair?', because they hear it as a death sentence, which it may be," Harper said on "Today." "But I'm not dying until I do. I promise I won't."

As to holding out hope against a seemingly grim fate, Harper, her voice hoarse due to a bout of laryngitis, said that beyond being hopeful, "I have an intention to live each day's moments, fully."

Harper recently completed a tour promoting her new autobiography "I, Rhoda" and starred on Broadway as Tallulah Bankhead in "Looped," for which she earned a Tony Award nomination.

Harper, who underwent surgery for lung cancer in 2009, said on "Today" that the disease she is currently battling is "very rare" and was "hard to detect because it was diffuse. It's all around. It's not in one lump."

She recounted feeling odd symptoms when she was working to take her "Looped" show on tour, noticing "this weird feeling in my jaw," adding, "I vomited for no reason and wasn't sick. And I thought, 'That's weird.'"

Despite the dire nature of her condition, Harper said she clings to hope.

"The thing I have is ... very rare and it's serious and it's incurable ... so far. So I'm holding on to the 'so far.'"

(Writing by Chris Michaud; Editing by Steve Gorman, Patricia Reaney, Bill Trott and David Gregorio)

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Speeding, lies and a mistress topple powerful politician

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Former British energy minister Chris Huhne comes into contact with a photographer's lens as he arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday.

By Peter Jeary, Senior Foreign Desk Editor, NBC News

LONDON ? A disgraced former British politician was sentenced to eight months in jail by a London court on Monday, after he admitted to lying about a speeding ticket in order to keep his driver's license in a scandal that revealed salacious details of his personal life.

After two years of vigorous denials, former energy secretary Chris Huhne pleaded guilty last month to perverting the course of justice, saying he persuaded his then-wife, Vicky Pryce, to accept penalty points on her license for his own speeding offense in 2003. She was also sentenced to eight months for accepting the penalty points.

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Sentencing them, trial judge Mr Justice Sweeney said Huhne had lied "again and again".

He told Huhne: "You have fallen from a great height..." adding that Huhne would never have reached that great height without lying.

Monday's jailing marked a spectacular denouement in Huhne's career and heaped further humiliation after information about his private life spread across?newspaper headlines.

Huhne and Pryce were married in 1984, but the marriage ended acrimoniously in June 2010, after Huhne?walked out on his wife?to live with his mistress and media adviser, Carina Trimingham.

Reports of Huhne's infidelity received added spice by revelations that Trimingham, a divorcee, had?broken off a lesbian relationship?to be with him.

Pryce leaked details of the deception to a journalist in 2011, saying she wanted to?"nail" her ex?as revenge for the breakdown of their marriage, kicking off a police investigation.

The prosecution alleged that Huhne had asked Pryce to take the rap for his speeding as he feared he would lose his license for a repeated offense.

Pryce had denied the charge against her, citing marital coercion in defense. She was convicted last week after a retrial, resulting in the eight month sentence on Monday.

A pretrial hearing exposed huge schisms in the Huhne family with the?publication of text messages?between Huhne and his youngest son, Peter.

One exchange, from May 2011, was highlighted by the prosecution as being relevant to the crown's case. It read:

Peter: "We all know that you were driving and you put pressure on Mum. Accept it or face the consequences. You've told me that was the case. Or will this be another lie?"
Chris: "I have no intention of sending Mum to Holloway Prison for three months, Dad."
Peter: "Are you going to accept your responsibility or do I have to contact the police and tell them what you told me?"

On Christmas Day 2011, Huhne sent a text to his son saying: "Happy Christmas. Love you, Dad." To which Peter replied: "Well I hate you, so f*** off."

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Vicky Pryce, ex-wife of Chris Huhne, arrives at Southwark Crown Court to be sentenced on Monday in in London.

Ambitious politician
Although Huhne's marital crisis came just weeks after he had been appointed to a cabinet post in Britain's coalition government, it did little to dent his ambitions for public office.

The 58-year-old had entered politics after working as an entrepreneur in London's financial services industry and building a career in financial journalism.

In June 1999 he was elected to the European Parliament after running on a Liberal Democrat?ticket. He was elected to the House of Commons as Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh in the May 2005 general election.

Huhne twice stood for election as party leader, the smallest of Britain's mainstream national parties, and on the second occasion missed out by just a few hundred votes. In Westminster he was considered a political heavyweight, sometimes labeled as a "big beast," to whom the door to top office may never had opened, had it not been for the inconclusive result of the 2010 general election.

Following a hung parliament, Huhne was a member of the Liberal Democrat negotiating team that brokered the terms of a deal with the majority Conservative party. His appointment as secretary of state for energy and climate change was regarded as a reward for his skills and effort.

In office, Huhne faced the challenge of extending his party's "green" credentials and meeting international targets on carbon emissions, while government spending cuts and an economy in recession provided little in the way of large-scale investment that Huhne called for.

Huhne's career started to stutter in February last year when he resigned his cabinet post after being charged with his ex-wife over the cover-up.

When Huhne eventually admitted the conspiracy, he stepped down as lawmaker for his constituency.

He now joins a small but notorious band of former cabinet ministers who have served time in government and in jail.

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