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Ninety-nine cents here, a buck-ninety-nine there -- that's what were used to spending when Apple introduced the App Store after the iPhone was launched. It was probably one of the most genius software and developer coups in the history of mobile computing. I mean that. By creating the App Store, Apple created thousands, and perhaps millions, of jobs and an all-new form of entertainment and education for consumers.

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Competition in the nascent market for point-of-sale mobile payments gets a little more crowded today. Adyen, a Holland-based e-commerce specialist, is today launching Shuttle (pun intended). As the backend payments provider for companies like SoundCloud, Getty Images, Benetton, KLM, PopCap Games, Greenpeace, and Vodafone for the last six years and extending that to mobile for the past two, Adyen already processes billions of dollars in online and mobile transactions through its e-commerce platform, according to chief commercial officer Roelant Prins. This is the company's first big attempt stab at taking its platfrom into the mobile point-of-sale environment.

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By Sam Spatter

Published: Saturday, December 1, 2012, 9:02?p.m.
Updated 2 hours ago

? The $2.5 million public portion of an $8 million renovation of Presbyterian SeniorCare?s Westminster Place in Oakmont is open, although the job won?t be finished until summer, said Ellen Gamble, senior director of communications. The project is part of the agency?s Better Place Campaign. The entry into separate wings of the building will have a gathering area that will serve as a front porch. It will provide seating, reading area, computer console, hospitality desk for staff, all adjacent to a common area. The common area will serve for resident group meals, a kitchenette for snacks and a teaching area for group activity. The chapel, now used only for religious purposes, will be used for activities such as wellness classes and performances.

? Heartland Homes Inc. will seek approval on Thursday from the Pittsburgh Zoning Board of Adjustment for seven three-story single-family attached dwellings with two-car garages at S. 27th St. and Larkins Way, South Side. Also, 751 N. Negley Associates LP for prospective owner Mt. Ararat Baptist Church wants to use a three-story structure at 745 N. Negley Ave., East Liberty, as a community center. David C. Cromie, for prospective owners George and Faye Evans, wants to use a one-story structure at 4806 Harrison St., Lawrenceville, as a single-family unit and art studio.

? The annual member business exposition, presented by Consol Energy, will be held on Thursday at Hilton Garden Inn, Southpointe, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., the Washington County Chamber of Commerce said. The event will include booths, music, tasting carving stations, food and an assortment of holiday deserts. Range Resources is entertainment sponsor. Reservations end Monday and can be made through Debbie Sims at 724-225-3010 or debbies@washcochamber.com. Cost is $25 for chamber members, $40 for non-members.

? Some of the top office lease transactions during the third quarter were: Urish Popeck & Co. renewing an 18,137-square-foot lease at Three Gateway Center; Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania and RBS Citizens Bank renewing a 141,000-square-foot lease at Three Mellon Center, and Harsco Metals America leasing 16,987 square feet at One Adams Place in Butler County. Grant Street Associates Inc. represented the landlord in all these leases.

? The Redevelopment Authority of Washington County and the Washington Board of Commissioners on Tuesday will receive a Homegrown Pa. Award for supporting affordable housing under its Accessible Homebuyer Assistance Program in 2011. The award will be presented at the PNC Housing Heroes presentation during the Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania?s Homes within Reach Conference.

? The 2012 Housing Excellence Awards will be announced on Friday at the Builders Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh annual holiday dinner dance, at the Fairmont Hotel, Downtown. Participation is restricted to builders, remodelers and developers who are members. Entries must be current model or speculative houses, or have been built and completed in 2011-12.

? The late Mark C. Schneider will be honored at the 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania 2012 Commonwealth Awards on Wednesday at Point Park University?s Lawrence Hall, 201 Wood St., Downtown. Keynote speaker is Richard J. Jackson, co-author of the book and host/narrator of the TV series, ?Designing Healthy Communities.?

? Phipps Conservancy and Botanical Gardens was awarded a bronze level of honor at ceremonies in London in the 2012 International Green Awards. Phipps won the award in the Most Sustainable NGO category.

Sam Spatter is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7843 or sspatter@tribweb.com.

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Crystal Sugar workers reject contract 4th time

FARGO, N.D. (AP) ? Their ranks thinned by a 16-month lockout, American Crystal Sugar Co. workers on Saturday rejected a contract for the fourth time.

Contract opponents say the sugar beet processor's five-year contract offer would cut health care benefits and weaken job security and seniority protections. The company says the offer would raise worker pay by 17 percent over five years when a $2,000 signing bonus is taken into account.

Leaders of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International union said in a news release that the workers voted 55 percent to reject management's contract offer.

"By now it should be clear that (company CEO) Dave Berg and Crystal Sugar's management team has no interest in ending a fiscally irresponsible lockout that has been disastrous to farm shareholders, put the federal sugar program in jeopardy, and hurt countless families in the Red River Valley," said John Riskey, the head of a union local that represents employees at three American Crystal factories.

"It's time for shareholders to reclaim their company and send management back to the table for real give-and-take negotiations," he said in the release.

He told The Associated Press later on the phone Saturday that union leaders will be following up with workers on how to deal with the contract issues from this point. He said no plans have been made for another meeting.

Company officials said in a statement Saturday after learning about the workers' vote that the package is "solid and generous" and "similar to what we are offering our current employees."

"We're finding the pay and benefits included in it are attracting high quality area workers who are now creating a productive and successful new workforce for our Company," the statement said. "The Company continues to move forward and focus on running our business, processing beets and delivering sugar to our customers."

The lockout began in Aug. 1, 2011, and affected about 1,300 workers at plants in Drayton and Hillsboro, N.D., and Minnesota factories in Moorhead, Crookston and East Grand Forks. More than 500 of those workers have since left, said Brian Ingulsrud, an American Crystal vice president.

The company has used replacement workers to continue operating the plants.

Moorhead, Minn.-based American Crystal is a cooperative owned by about 2,800 sugar beet growers. It is the nation's largest sugar beet processor, selling 90 percent of its production to industrial customers, including candy makers, bakeries and breakfast cereal makers.

The lockout began after 96 percent of the workers voting on the company's contract proposal rejected the offer on July 31, 2011. In subsequent ballots, 90 percent of the voting workers turned down the proposal in November 2011, and 63 percent rejected it in June.

In October, the AFL-CIO called for a boycott of Crystal's products. Some of the company's sugar is sold in grocery stores under Crystal's own label. It is sold as "Market Pantry" sugar in Target Corp. stores in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin.

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More omnivore dilemmas: Seasonal diet changes can cause reproductive stress in primates

ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2012) ? When seasonal changes affect food availability, omnivores like blue monkeys adapt by changing their diets, but such nutritional changes may impact female reproduction, according to research published November 28 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Steffen Foerster from Barnard College, and colleagues from Columbia University and the Smithsonian Institution.

The authors found that levels of fecal glucocorticoids (fGC), a stress marker, increased when female monkeys shifted their diet towards lower quality fallback foods, whereas the levels decreased when the monkeys had access to preferred foods like insects, fruits and young leaves.

They also found that lactating females and those in the later stages of pregnancy showed greater increases in the stress marker than females who were not in these stages of reproduction. According to the authors, their results suggest that these seasonal changes in food availability may affect inter-birth intervals in these primates, and also affect the timing of infant independence from mothers.

Foerster adds, ""While it was interesting to find that even subtle changes in dietary composition may have strong effects on female reproductive decisions, it is equally noteworthy that social stress was almost entirely absent from blue monkey societies. Our study makes the point that integrating behavioral, ecological, and hormonal measures can reveal adaptive behavioral and reproductive strategies that would otherwise be difficult to discern."

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1. Steffen Foerster, Marina Cords, Steven L. Monfort. Seasonal Energetic Stress in a Tropical Forest Primate: Proximate Causes and Evolutionary Implications. PLoS ONE, 2012; 7 (11): e50108 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050108

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