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Friday, July 26, 2013
Behavior of turbulent flow of superfluids is opposite that of ordinary fluids
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A superfluid moves like a completely frictionless liquid, seemingly able to propel itself without any hindrance from gravity or surface tension. The physics underlying these materials -- which appear to defy the conventional laws of physics -- has fascinated scientists for decades.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
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Jenny McCarthy's 'View' Announcement Stirs Up Snark on Twitter
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Twitter is needling Jenny McCarthy.
Soon after the announcement that the outspoken TV personality was joining the panel on ABC's The View, the micro-blogging site became swarmed with snark from entertainment industry jokers and media mavens alike.
Jokes mostly focused on the 40-year-old mom's controversial views on vaccines. She has claimed that a vaccination triggered her son's autism, medical evidence to the contrary. Here are some choice tweets:
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Monday, July 15, 2013
NCAA 2014 Gamer Pro with ITSRUFFOUTHEREE - Jul 13,2013
Tavis Talks with fellow TSN host and author Kenneth Braswell about equal rights, the absent black father and programs available to African-American families.
Get the latest tips on women?s health: sexual Tai-Chi expert Dr. Sunyatta Amen on spicing up sex, Dr. Felicia Wade on heart health and Rolonda on self-esteem.
?Fifty Shades of Grey? fans, join TeamFifty, your worldwide romance sisterhood, as special guests, surprises and an author call-in from E.L. James awaits!?
Luis von Ahn sold reCAPTCHA to Google and is now CEO and founder of language-learning app Duolingo. He talks about the future of education and big data's role.
Producer Jason Jones discusses ?Crescendo,? his pro-life film based on the diaries of Beethoven?s mother. Justin Bieber?s mom, Pattie Mallette, exec produces.
The ?momager? of the Kardashian clan and host of the ?Kris Show,? Kris Jenner talks with Jefferson Graham about using social media to keep up with her family.
Tune in as The Stupid Cancer Show welcomes Blair Cobb, Susan Schulz and Claudia Chan for an epic roundtable discussion about their vision for a better world.
Off the Bat?s Erik is back and joins Jana to discuss the newly released All-Star rosters and home run derby. The debate is sure to get heated, so don?t miss it!
The Glenn Z breaks down current events affecting us, like gender, class, race, history, politics, the economy, conspiracies, the occult and consciousness.
Joy Keys talks urban gardening with food blogger Lauren Mandel (?Eat Up: The inside scoop on rooftop agriculture?) and the PA Horticultural Society?s Adam Hill.
To meat, or not to meat? That is the question. Robby Garfinkel explains how the Paleo (Caveman) Diet uses natural foods to look good and feel great.
Actor Eloy Mendez stars in the upcoming flick, ?C.O.G.,? which received critical acclaim when it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.
Multi-award-winning actress and director Kimberly McCullough talks with Take 2 Radio about her 26 years on ?General Hospital? and new directorial project.
Smartasses Radio welcomes Susan Slaughter, star of SyFy's ?Ghost Hunters International? and Smartasses Magazine's 2013 37th Sexiest Woman Alive!
Grammy-winning producer Easy Mo Bee talks about Biggie's work ethic on ?Ready to Die? and what LL's opening line in "Flava in Ya Ear Remix" meant.
?The Daily Show? comedian Lewis Black reveals all the ways technology bugs him in an interview/performance with USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham.
What's in store for the royal couple and baby? How similar are Diana and Kate? Look to the stars with renowned astrologer and numerologist Patricia Kirkman.
GoProRadio Network's own Tylon "U-Savior" Washington, a house legend in his own right, talks about his exciting new project, "Iron Metropolis."
The world's greatest extra, actor Jesse Heiman talks about life since his appearance in a GoDaddy.com Super Bowl ad, in which he kissed supermodel Bar Refaeli.
?90 Minutes in Heaven? bestselling author Cecil Murphey chats with Life Beats Radio about his new book, "Not Quite Healed."
Sustainable living and survival expert Rick Austin talks with Doctor Prepper about creating a "Secret Garden of Survival," the key to your very own food forest!
Jeffery Kazembe Batts, founder of the Universal Hip-Hop Parade, discusses the upcoming event, inspired by Marcus Garvey's commitment to social justice.
Publicist CeCe Vance entered showbiz as a member of the hip-hop group Phavor. Now, years later, she says, ?I can?t help but bust into a little 8-bar groove!?
It?s called The Big Apple, but you don?t need a big budget to get hitched. ?Book the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens for a few hundred bucks,? says Mark Anthony.
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Grief?. | Life Perceived by Me
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Obama walks tightrope in reacting to Zimmerman verdict
By Mark Felsenthal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin left President Barack Obama trying to dial down tensions on Sunday while reassuring supporters he still stands against discrimination and gun violence.
Obama called for calm as activists outraged by the verdict planned rallies and urged the administration to pursue civil rights charges against Zimmerman. On the other side, Republicans said he inflamed tensions by wading into the issue in 2012, when he said, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
"I know this case has elicited strong passions," the president said Sunday in a statement. "And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher. But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken."
Critics charged that some of those tensions were of his own making: the president's willingness to comment on the case may have highlighted the racially charged nature of the trial.
"The president engaged in this and turned it into a political issue that should have been handled exclusively with law and order," Republican Representative Steve King said on Fox News Sunday.
The clearing of Zimmerman by a six-person jury in Florida has also stirred disappointment that justice may not be served and raised fears that unhappiness about the verdict could lead to civil unrest.
Critics contend Zimmerman wrongly suspected 17-year-old Martin of being a criminal because he was black, making it a civil rights issue. Rallies were planned for New York, San Diego, Sacramento and elsewhere on Sunday.
Zimmerman's lawyers argued he acted in self-defense the night of February 26, 2012, when he and Martin met inside a gated community in the central Florida town of Sanford.
In the wake of the trial, civil rights leaders including Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Benjamin Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), urged the Justice Department to pursue federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman.
The Department of Justice said it is reviewing its options but indicated that its scope may be narrow given its ability to bring civil rights cases and limitations on the heels of the Florida court's acquittal.
"Zimmerman was not a state actor," said Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. "Much of the civil rights law only applies to state actors. This is a private individual."
Martin's family could bring a civil lawsuit for wrongful death or negligence, Levenson said. The Justice Department could conduct an investigation into whether local law enforcement officers treat people of color differently than whites, she said.
Even as Obama called for the public to respect the court's decision, he also sought to channel the emotion surrounding the case into support for efforts to strengthen controls over gun ownership.
"We should ask ourselves if we're doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis," he said.
Obama's campaign to curb gun violence after the Newtown, Connecticut, school massacre of 20 children and six adults in December was defeated when the U.S. Senate rejected a plan to expand background checks for gun buyers.
(With additional reporting by Amanda Becker in Washington and Ellen Wulfhorst and Barbara Liston in Sanford, Florida; Editing by Stacey Joyce)
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Powerful typhoon forces evacuations in China
BEIJING (AP) -- Typhoon Soulik has been downgraded to a storm after forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people in southeast China and killed at least two in Taiwan.
China's National Meteorological Center said it was downgraded to a tropical storm by late Saturday, and by early Sunday morning after moving inland from Fujian province, it had further weakened to a tropical low pressure.
The typhoon had disrupted transportation and commerce across Taiwan, cutting power to 520,000 homes around Taipei before hitting coastal Fujian on Saturday afternoon, where about 300,000 people were evacuated from their homes, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
Earlier, Soulik had buffeted large areas of northern and central Taiwan with torrential rains, forcing authorities to close schools and businesses throughout northern Taiwan.
A falling brick killed a 50-year-old policeman in the Taipei suburb of Tanshui, while in Miaoli, a 54-year-old women died after falling from her roof. One man in the central city of Taichung was listed as missing after being swept into a raging river.
Throughout Taiwan, the National Fire Agency reported there were at least 104 injuries.
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Jeff Bezos to open Center for Innovation this fall, aims to inspire young would-be entrepreneurs
What's an e-commerce tycoon to do after funding everything from nuclear fusion startups to commercial spaceflight ventures? Why help develop a museum exhibit to inspire young folks and teach them about innovation, of course. After more than two years of development and $10 million from Jeff Bezos' own pockets, the Museum of History and Industry will open the doors to the Bezos Center for Innovation on October 12th. Not only does the center aim to help visitors learn about "the importance of innovation" through interactive exhibits, but it will toot Seattle's horn for being "the birthplace of so many trailblazing companies." If you can't make it to The Emerald City, we're sure Bezos has a few learning alternatives in mind.
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Microsoft sucked into ever-growing NSA vortex: who's next?
With every new day that journalists dig through the secret files released by Edward Snowden, with every new astonishment as we discover the sheer enormity, nay, the truly pan-galactic scale of the NSA's baleen whale of surveillance, scooping up every nybble and bit of data that might contain, somewhere in its subatomic structure, the hint of an odour of a dream of a terrorist plot, the more I think that the great American writer Hunter S Thompson has already specified the only recipe that could possibly brace our minds to cope with this insanity.
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls," said Raoul Duke, the drug-addled protagonist of Thompson's 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
"Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."
The NSA has shown that once you get locked into a serious data collection, the tendency is to push that as far as you can too.
Once the NSA was tasked with collecting international communications and data, and analysing it for foreign intelligence matters. Now it seems to be tasked with gathering well, pretty much everything about everything by everyone everywhere.
The NSA's allies in the Five Eyes nations have been lending a hand, including the UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Yet even the UK's security service MI5 has complained that things have gone too far. The backlash against the NSA isn't your everyday gripe about over-enthusiastic spooks colouring outside the lines of the law.
No less a security luminary than Bruce Schneier has called the NSA's surveillance programs "unconstitutional". He's joined the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), one of the most influential digital rights and civil liberties lobby groups, and wants the programs shut down.
We can expect some tough political negotiating. The NSA reckons it's simply extending its work into the cyber realm to protect us from emerging cyberthreats. Its opponents reckon they've crossed the line into a surveillance state, and that for all their talk of terrorists we'd be better off launching a war against bathtubs.
Such matters extend into a political realm that extends beyond the remit of these technology news pages. But today's news from The Guardian ? that Microsoft has given the NSA access to email flowing through Outlook.com at a "pre-encryption stage", that they helped the NSA circumvent Skype's video encryption, and much more ? raises a question that goes to the very heart of the technology industry.
"Who do you serve?"
As The Guardian points out, Microsoft's latest marketing campaign includes the claim: "Your privacy is our priority." The privacy policy for Microsoft-owned Skype says: "Skype is committed to respecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal data, traffic data and communications content."
Clearly that's not the full picture.
Particularly if you're a Microsoft customer in a country that's, oh, not America.
Microsoft is hardly a renegade outfit. It has to follow the law and cooperate with lawful requests from intelligence services, and there is such a thing as lawful communications interception. But there's a difference between providing reasonable assistance where it's appropriate, while still working hard to prevent the transfer of customer data ? that's what Microsoft promised, remember ? and doing the exact opposite by becoming what is, in effect, a branch office of the NSA.
Raoul Duke's substance abuse might excuse him for not perceiving the conflict of interest here. A rationally managed corporation has no such excuse.
Over coming weeks we'll presumably hear how other major technology and communications companies across the Five Eyes nations have approached these issues.
Indeed, as reported on Friday, Telstra signed an agreement in 2001 with the FBI and US Department of Justice to retain metadata on communications carried across its cable linking Asia to the US.
"Telstra, at the time majority owned and controlled by the Howard Government, struck a deal to allow 24/7 surveillance of calls going in and out of the United States, including calls made by Australians. The cables in question are operated by Telstra subsidiary Reach, which controls more than 40 major telecommunications cables in the region, including cables in and out of China and Australia," Greens communications spokesperson Scott Ludlam said.
Snowden's document dump has already triggered the biggest questioning of the Five Eyes intelligence agencies' powers in decades, but now it seems there's still much more to come. The questions are moving beyond the power relationship between those agencies and ordinary citizens, to wider questions about the role of the industry itself, and how vendors should balance the conflicting interests of customers, citizens and governments.
The rise of private, encrypted communications services like Silent Circle suggests that the right balance might lie elsewhere. But then so does the rise of services like Kim Dotcom's Mega.
And the political question could even become a personal one for every employee. "When they finally dismantled the surveillance states of the early 21st century, were you just following orders?"
It's a long road ahead. Better open that tequila.
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
Celebrate The Death Of Print With This 3D Printed Texture Book
A designer named Tom Burtonwood has designed a book that contains 3D-scanned textures he has grabbed from museums and architecture in his home city of Chicago. The book, which is in the form of an accordion, is called an orihon and can be made on nearly any 3D printer.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/uRPjGOXaaas/
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Newburgh church takes sermon to the street
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Cal Lady Bears, men's asst. coach DeCurie head to China for Pac-12 summer tours
On Wednesday, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott announced that the conference will send student-athletes and coaches to China for three summer tours as part of its long-term Globalization Initiative "designed to proactively promote the member universities through student-athlete exchanges and sport."
"); }In August, Cal associate head coach Travis DeCurie will join Oregon State head coach Craig Robinson and former Oregon coach Ernie Kent in leading a series of instructional clinics for coaches from all over China.
Later in the month, the Arizona State men's and Cal women's basketball teams will each play three exhibition games against Chinese Basketball Association teams. Last season head coach Lindsay Gottlieb guided the Cal Lady Bears to their first Final Four appearance in school history.
?These tours can be transformative moments for our student-athletes,? Scott said. ?For many of the students, this is their first international trip and they will return to their universities with meaningful life experiences of visiting another country and learning more about another culture."
The Pac-12 recently coordinated the Bay Area visit of the 2012 CBA champion Beijing Ducks who are in town prepping for China's National Games in September. The men's and women's team practiced at Stanford, the Olympic Club and the Golden State Warriors practice facility.
Here's a look at the August tour schedule:
Aug 1-9 ? Coaches clinics in Shanghai at Shanghai Jiaotong University
Aug 9-19 ? ASU men?s basketball
? Aug 12: ASU vs. Tsinghua University in Beijing
? Aug 16: ASU vs. Fujian SBS (Chinese CBA pro team) in Zhaoqing
? Aug 18: ASU vs. Fujian SBS (Chinese CBA pro team) in Nanning
Aug 17 - 26 ? Cal women?s basketball
? Aug 19: Cal vs. Liaoning (Chinese WCBA pro team) in Beijing
? Aug 20: Cal vs. Bayi (Chinese WCBA pro team) in Beijing
? Aug 23: Cal vs. Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai (to be confirmed)
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Missed It: Columbia University Announces Al Jaffee Archives Acquisition
July 12, 2013
Missed It: Columbia University Announces Al Jaffee Archives Acquisition
The [deep breath] Columbia University Libraries/Information Services' (CUL/IS) Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML) [exhale] announced earlier this week that it has acquired the archives of cartoonist Al Jaffee. Jaffe is best known for his relationship with MAD; but has had a long and varies career in a variety of comics expressions. The archives will join previous acquisitions/donation such as the Chris Claremont archives, whose arrival in 2011 marked what the press release is calling a "push" to acquire such collections.
The press release describes the the first phase of the archives that will arrive at the university thusly: "... artwork for Esquire and Playboy magazines, notebooks of ideas for Humbug and Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal, press clippings, tracings for cartoons in The Moshiach Times, fan mail, photocopies of strips never offered for publication, biographical materials used for Mary-Lou Weisman's biography Al Jaffee's Mad Life, photographs, and more."
Columbia has only been in the comics collection and acquisitions business in serious fashion since 2005; Karen Green is the point person over there. Having that material available for study in one of North America's absolute best research libraries is quite something.
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
US judge rules Apple colluded on e-book prices
In a sweeping rejection of Apple Inc?s strategy for selling electronic books on the Internet, a federal judge ruled that the company conspired with five major publishers to raise e-book prices.
US District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan found ?compelling evidence? that Apple violated federal antitrust law by playing a ?central role? in a conspiracy with the publishers to eliminate retail price competition and raise e-book prices.
Wednesday?s decision could expose Apple to substantial damages. It is a victory for the US Department of Justice and the 33 US states and territories that brought the civil antitrust case. The five publishers previously settled.
Apple was accused of conspiring to undercut Amazon.com Inc?s e-book dominance, causing some e-book prices to rise to US$12.99 or US$14.99 from the US$9.99 that Amazon charged. Amazon once had a 90 percent market share.
?Apple chose to join forces with the publisher defendants to raise e-book prices and equipped them with the means to do so,? Cote said in a 159-page decision. ?Without Apple?s orchestration of this conspiracy, it would not have succeeded as it did.?
The decision was not a total surprise, as Cote had indicated before the two-and-a-half-week non-jury trial began on June 3 that Apple?s defenses might fail.
?This result is a victory for millions of consumers who choose to read books electronically,? Bill Baer, head of the Justice Department?s antitrust division, said in a statement. ?This decision by the court is a critical step in undoing the harm caused by Apple?s illegal actions.?
Baer said Cote?s decision, together with the earlier settlements, help consumers by reducing prices of e-books.
Cote set an Aug. 9 hearing to discuss remedies, and plans to hold a trial on damages. She also ordered both sides ?to pursue settlement discussions? under the supervision of her colleague, US District Judge Kimba Wood.
Amazon now controls about 65 percent of the e-book market, while Barnes & Noble Inc has about 20 percent and Apple a single-digit percentage, according to Albert Greco, a book industry expert at Fordham University?s business school.
In a statement, Apple said it would appeal Cote?s decision.
?Apple did not conspire to fix e-book pricing,? spokesman Tom Neumayr said. ?When we introduced the iBookstore in 2010, we gave customers more choice, injecting much needed innovation and competition into the market, breaking Amazon?s monopolistic grip on the publishing industry. We?ve done nothing wrong.?
Last year, Apple settled a separate antitrust case over e-book pricing with the European Commission, without admitting wrongdoing.
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Digital Shelf Space Appoints President of Spara Capital Partners Inc. to Its Board of Directors
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - July 11, 2013) - Digital Shelf Space Corp. (the "Company" or "DSS") (TSX VENTURE:DSS) is pleased to announce that effective July 10, 2013 Mr. Jason Sparaga has been appointed to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Sparaga is the Founder and President of Spara Capital Partners Inc.
Mr. Sparaga stated, "I am very pleased to join the Board at DSS at this early stage. The Company's initial products GSP RUSHFIT and the PGA TOUR's TOUR Academy Home Edition are very impressive. I am excited to be working with this management and board as we work to establish something special over the coming years."
"We are very honored and pleased to have Jason join our team. He has knowledge and experience in every facet of business," said Mr. Jeffrey Sharpe, CEO and President of DSS. "To have the ability to access Jason's experience on a regular basis is a real luxury, especially when you consider what he has accomplished over his business career."
About Jason Sparaga
Mr. Sparaga is the President of Spara Capital Partners Inc., a provider of customized investment and merchant banking solutions to owners of private businesses in matters relating to liquidity, growth or transition, which Mr. Sparaga founded in 2001. Mr. Sparaga has specific expertise in raising capital, the succession or sale of privately owned businesses, management buy-outs, and turnarounds. He is the founder and former Managing Director of TL Corporate Finance Inc. and has held positions with PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP and BDO Dunwoody LLP.
About Digital Shelf Space Corp.
Digital Shelf Space is an independent creator, producer and distributor of home entertainment content targeted at the fitness and sports instruction market. Digital Shelf Space's overall content partnership strategy is to align itself with world-class, global brand partners. For more information visit www.digitalshelfspace.com and to view our current projects with Georges St-Pierre and the TOURAcademy?, visit www.gsprushfit.com and www.touracademydvds.com.
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Additionally, there are known and unknown risk factors which could cause Digital Shelf Space's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information contained herein. Known risk factors include, among others: reliance on the health and marketability of celebrity fitness talent in productions owned by Digital Shelf Space; actual results from the use of celebrity fitness products may differ substantially from anticipated results; the substantial investment of capital required to produce and market video and entertainment productions, limitations imposed by our financing abilities, unpredictability of the commercial success of our programming, difficulties in integrating technological changes and other trends affecting the entertainment industry.
A more complete discussion of the risks and uncertainties facing Digital Shelf Space is disclosed in Digital Shelf Space's Filing Statement dated November 16, 2010 and continuous disclosure filings with Canadian securities regulatory authorities at www.sedar.com. All forward-looking information herein is qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement, and Digital Shelf Space disclaims any obligation to revise or update any such forward-looking information or to publicly announce the result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking information contained herein to reflect future results, events or developments, except as required by law.
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Development of New Diabetes Drug Halted by Maker - Health News ...
WEDNESDAY, July 10 (HealthDay News) ? The development of what might have become a significant diabetes drug has been halted by its maker amid concerns that the medication raises the risk for fractures, kidney problems and heart failure in those taking it.
Roche reported Wednesday that it would shut down a late-stage clinical trial of the drug aleglitazar after a monitoring committee found signs of troubling side effects and a lack of effectiveness in patients with type 2 diabetes who had heart problems. The Swiss pharmaceutical giant also closed all other studies of the drug.
?We are disappointed by this outcome as we hoped that aleglitazar would provide significant benefit for patients with type 2 diabetes who are at risk of cardiovascular disease,? Dr. Hal Barron, chief medical officer at Roche, said in a company statement.
The drug was being tested to see if it could prevent heart attacks and strokes, in addition to lowering blood sugar levels.
The failure of aleglitazar might color any decision the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may soon make about the troubled diabetes drug Avandia, which is similar to aleglitazar, The New York Times reported.
In 2010, Avandia?s use was severely restricted in the United States because evidence suggested it raised the chances of heart attacks and stroke.
An FDA advisory committee recommended in June, however, that the restrictions on Avandia be eased. Thirteen members of the 26-person panel voted to ease the controls, while seven voted to lift them altogether. No decision on that recommendation has been made yet by the agency, although it often follows the advice of its expert panels.
Meanwhile, critics of Avandia argue that the entire class of drugs is dangerous and Avandia?s use should remain tightly controlled, the Times reported.
Roche noted in its statement, however, that aleglitazar did not increase the risk of heart attacks or strokes, which may bolster the argument that Avandia also does not raise cardiovascular risks, the newspaper added.
In the aleglitazar study, more than 7,000 people with diabetes who had also suffered a recent heart attack or the onset or worsening of cardiac pain were involved. The study was supposed to last five years, until the beginning of 2015.
More information
For more on thiazolidinediones, the class of drugs to which Avandia belongs, visit the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Source: http://news.health.com/2013/07/10/development-of-new-diabetes-drug-halted-by-maker/
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Who Are You Talkin' To? | Writing and Publishing News - Matilija Press
When you devise a live presentation, you typically consider your audience. They?re history buffs, they?re quilters, their simply readers of good fiction. But what else do you learn about your audiences before you speak? What else is important to know?
Are they mostly men or women? I prepare a little different talk for men than I do for a group of women. Men, as a rule, expect to receive the information in a straightforward manner. Most of them appreciate humor, of course, but they want the facts laid out where they can evaluate them. Women are more likely to enjoy a more playful and light approach.
Younger audiences are in a hurry. When you?re speaking to an older group, you may have to slow your pace a little and repeat yourself for emphasis.
If you can, find out how embedded most of the audience members are in the subject. In my case, where I speak on publishing and book promotion, I try to find out how many attendees are published, what kinds of books they?ve produced, how many are still in the writing stages?hoping to someday publish, and so forth. If I?m speaking to members of an established writing group or organization, I can often find this information by going to their website and looking at member profiles. Sometimes I get a sense of who?s in the audience by asking questions before I begin speaking. Then I gear my talk in what I feel is the appropriate direction.
I often ask the organizer or program director for direction??Who will be present and what is their experience level?? Just as often, I get the wrong information. I prepare to speak to the highly experienced, multi-published author and find myself facing a group of mostly beginners. Yes, it happens. The organizer might tell me this group is hungry to know how to sell articles to magazines, yet I discover that all of their questions lean in the direction of how to get published or how to use Twitter to promote your book.
I?ve stood before school kids, elderly folks in assisted living facilities, professionals, retired professionals, eager new writers, those who only dream of being published and seasoned authors. I?ve also had audiences sprinkled with a mix of all of the above.
So how does one handle a presentation when the audience isn?t the audience he or she expected? Be flexible. In Toastmasters, we?re challenged to learn how to speak off-the-cuff?to become comfortable being spontaneous when engaged in public speaking or even in one-on-one communication. One way to become comfortable ad libbing is to know your material inside and out. Then you can easily make changes if need be.
Learn more about promoting your book through public speaking by reading my book, ?Talk Up Your Book, How to Sell Your Book Through Public Speaking, Interviews, Signings, Festivals, Conferences and More.? It?s at Amazon.com in print, Kindle and audio and at most other online and downtown bookstores. Or order your copy here: http://www.matilijapress.com/TalkUpYourBook.html
Source: http://www.matilijapress.com/publishingblog/?p=2872
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Service honors 19 firefighters killed in Ariz fire
PHOENIX (AP) ? The bodies of 19 elite Hotshot firefighters haven't been left alone since they were pulled from a charred Arizona mountainside last week. It's a tradition among the close-knit crews everywhere to stay by the fallen until they're handed off to families for burial.
Thousands of firefighters from around the nation are now expected to attend a memorial service for the men to pay final respects on Tuesday at a minor league hockey arena in Prescott Valley, not far from where they died Sunday, June 30.
Prescott's Granite Mountain Hotshots were overrun by smoke and fire while battling a blaze on a ridge in Yarnell, about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix. One member survived ? Brendan McDonough, 21, who was serving as a lookout and wasn't in the immediate burn zone.
Dignitaries expected to attend the memorial include Vice President Joe Biden, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. McDonough will offer what's called "The Hot Shots Prayer," which ends with a line that will most certainly be difficult for the young man to read: "For if this day on the line ... I should answer death's call ... Lord, bless my hot shot Crew ... My family, one and all."
McDonough was assigned to give a "heads-up on the hillside" for the team on that fateful afternoon, said Prescott Fire Department spokesman Wade Ward. He notified the crew of the rapidly changing weather conditions that sent winds swirling erratically and caused the fire to cut off his team's escape route, then swiftly left his post for safety.
McDonough has not spoken publicly about the ordeal. Ward said it's just been too tough on him, but that "he did exactly what he was supposed to."
"He's trying to deal with the same things that we're all trying to deal with, but you can understand how that's compounded being there on the scene," Ward said last week.
The highly specialized crew was part of a small community of Hotshots nationwide, just about 110 of the 20-person teams mostly stationed west of the Mississippi River.
The blaze had burned about 13 square miles before firefighters gained control over the weekend.
The Tuesday memorial service, "Our Fallen Brothers: A Celebration of Life," will be the last of a handful of vigils for the men before the first of 19 funerals begin later in the week.
As final preparations were being made for the service, hundreds of people who were forced from their homes were allowed to return this week, finding a landscape drastically different than the one they remembered.
Vehicles lined up along the highway into Yarnell well before the evacuation order was lifted at 9 a.m. Monday. Authorities checked everyone's identification to prove their residency so they could have a couple days to sift through the ashes of their homes before the area opens to the public Wednesday.
Small shops that sell antiques, saddles and groceries remained intact, but the fire that broke out June 28 created a patchwork of destruction that destroyed more than 100 homes, many reduced to ashes.
"It's a bittersweet day today, driving through the town and seeing it burnt, and knowing a lot of people don't have homes," said Yarnell resident Tammy Consier.
But, she added: "This is an awesome community, there's going to be beauty from the ashes."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/honors-19-firefighters-killed-ariz-fire-085258500.html
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At least 51 killed in Egypt, Islamists call for uprising
By Tom Perry and Alexander Dziadosz
CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 51 people were killed on Monday when demonstrators enraged by the military overthrow of Egypt's elected Islamist president said the army opened fire during morning prayers outside the Cairo barracks where Mohamed Mursi is believed held.
But the military said "a terrorist group" tried to storm the Republican Guard compound and one army officer had been killed and 40 wounded. Soldiers returned fire when they were attacked by armed assailants, according to a military source.
In the deadliest incident since Mursi's removal, emergency services said more than 430 were wounded.
Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood urged people to rise up against the army, which they accuse of a military coup to topple the leader, threatening an escalation in Egypt's political crisis.
At a hospital near the Rabaa Adawiya mosque where Islamists have camped out since Mursi was toppled on Wednesday, rooms were crammed with people wounded in the violence, sheets were stained with blood and medics rushed to attend to the wounded.
"They shot us with teargas, birdshot, rubber bullets - everything. Then they used live bullets," said Abdelaziz Abdel Shakua, a bearded 30-year-old who was wounded in his right leg.
As an immediate consequence of the clash, the ultra-conservative Islamist Nour party, which initially backed the military intervention, said it was withdrawing from talks to form an interim government for the transition to new elections.
A spokesman for the interim presidency, Ahmed Elmoslmany, said work on forming the government would go on, though Nour's withdrawal could seriously undermine efforts at reconciling rival factions: "What happened will not stop steps to form a government," he said.
The military has said that the overthrow was not a coup, and it was enforcing the will of the people after millions took to the streets on June 30 to call for Mursi's resignation.
But pro- and anti-Mursi protests took place in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities, and resulted in clashes on Friday and Saturday that left 35 dead.
It leaves the Arab world's largest nation of 84 million people in a perilous state, with the risk of further enmity between people on either side of the political divide while an economic crisis deepens.
SHOTS DURING PRAYERS
A Reuters journalist at the scene saw first aid helpers attempting mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a dying man.
Al Jazeera's Egypt channel showed footage from inside a makeshift clinic near the scene of the violence, where Mursi supporters attempted to treat bloodied men.
Seven dead bodies were lined up in a row, covered in blankets and an Egyptian flag. A man placed a portrait of Mursi on one of the corpses.
Footage broadcast by Egyptian state TV showed Mursi supporters throwing rocks at soldiers in riot gear on one of the main roads leading to Cairo airport.
Young men, some carrying sticks, crouched behind a building, emerging to throw petrol bombs before retreating again.
State-run television showed soldiers carrying a wounded comrade along a rock-strewn road, and news footage zoomed in on a handful of protesters firing crude handguns during clashes.
The rest of the city was for the most part calm, though armored military vehicles closed bridges over the Nile to traffic following the violence.
The military overthrew Mursi on Wednesday after mass nationwide demonstrations led by youth activists demanding his resignation. The Brotherhood denounced the intervention as a coup and vowed peaceful resistance.
POLITICAL IMPASSE
Talks on forming a new government were already in trouble before Monday's shooting, after the Nour Party rejected two liberal-minded candidates for prime minister proposed by interim head of state Adli Mansour, the top constitutional court judge.
Nour, Egypt's second biggest Islamist party, which is vital to give the new authorities a veneer of Islamist backing, said it had withdrawn from the negotiations in protest at what it called the "massacre at the Republican Guard (compound)".
"The party decided the complete withdrawal from political participation in what is known as the road map," it said.
The military can ill afford a lengthy political vacuum at a time of violent upheaval and economic stagnation.
Scenes of running street battles between pro- and anti-Mursi demonstrators in Cairo, Alexandria and cities across the country have alarmed Egypt's allies, including key aid donors the United States and Europe, and Israel, with which Egypt has had a U.S.-backed peace treaty since 1979.
The violence has also shocked Egyptians, growing tired of the turmoil that began two-and-a-half years ago with the overthrow of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising.
In one of the most shocking scenes of the last week, video footage circulated on social and state media of what appeared to be Mursi supporters throwing two youths from a concrete tower on to a roof in the port city of Alexandria.
The images, stills from which were published on the front page of the state-run Al-Akhbar newspaper on Sunday, could not be independently verified.
On Sunday, huge crowds numbering hundreds of thousands gathered in different parts of Cairo and were peaceful, but nonetheless a reminder of the risks of further instability.
BITTER BLOW
For many Islamists, the overthrow of Egypt's first freely elected president was a bitter reversal that raised fears of a return to the suppression they endured for decades under autocratic rulers like Mubarak.
On the other side of the political divide, millions of Egyptians were happy to see the back of a leader they believed was orchestrating a creeping Islamist takeover of the state - a charge the Brotherhood has vehemently denied.
Washington has not condemned the military takeover or called it a coup, prompting suspicion within the Brotherhood that it tacitly supports the overthrow.
Obama has ordered a review to determine whether annual U.S. assistance of $1.5 billion, most of which goes to the Egyptian military, should be cut off as required by law if a country's military ousts a democratically elected leader.
Egypt can ill afford to lose foreign aid. The country appears headed for a looming funding crunch unless it can quickly access money from overseas. The local currency has lost 11 percent of its value since late last year.
(Additional reporting by Shadia Nasralla, Ashraf Fahim, Asma Alsharif, Mike Collett-White, Alexander Dziadosz, Maggie Fick, Tom Finn, Sarah McFarlane, Tom; Perry, Yasmine Saleh, Paul Taylor and Patrick Werr; Writing by Mike Collett-White; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egyptian-pm-deadlock-drags-hundreds-thousands-protest-000647237.html
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
The student debt crisis: Moving beyond interest rates
It's time to think about reducing student debt.
In case you missed it, Congress stuck it to young people once again.Members of the House and Senate knew well in advance that without direct action by Congress, the interest rates on certain student loans would double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1. Predictably, that date passed with no action?leaving students on the hook for even more debt upon graduation unless Congress can take remedial action before a new round of loans is issued for the upcoming school year:
WASHINGTON ? College students taking out new loans for the fall term will see interest rates twice what they were in the spring ? unless Congress fulfills its pledge to restore lower rates when it returns after the July 4 holiday.Now, the typical "non-partisan" writeup of this travesty will blame partisan bickering for this Congressional impotence, but the truth is what one might come to expect: Democrats did what they could to help students and young people, while Republicans chose to sacrifice them on Ayn Rand's free market altar. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, for instance, proposed that our nation's students should get the same low interest rate of 0.75 percent that big banks get from the federal government. Other Democrats in the Senate had their own proposals, including an offering from Sen. Jack Reid to extend the former rate of 3.4 percent for another two years. The Republican House, however, countered with this:Subsidized Stafford loans, which account for roughly a quarter of all direct federal borrowing, went from 3.4 percent interest to 6.8 percent interest on Monday. Congress' Joint Economic Committee estimated the cost passed to students would be about $2,600.
House Republicans passed the ?Smarter Solutions for Students Act,? which lets loan rates fluctuate yearly, pegged to the 10-year rate plus 2.5%, but capping the rate at 8.5% (loans for parents and graduate students would have a 10.5% cap). This means that rates, even on existing loans, will go up as rates climb, likely all the way to the 8.5% cap as the economy recovers. This is more than if Congress does nothing and just lets the rates double July 1. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects rates would rise to 7.7% in 2023, which is more than double the current rate. Many are calling the Republican plan the ?Bill to Make College More Expensive.?Please continue below the fold.
In other words, Democrats tried to come up with ways to at least hold the line on loan interest costs for students, if not dramatically reduce them. Republicans, however, passed a bill through the House that would be worse for students than the current result of having done nothing at all. But let's say that Republicans in Congress don't get their way and force students into paying even more in interest on their subsidized Stafford loans. Let's say that Democrats actually succeed in restoring the previous rate. Heck, let's say a miracle happens, lightning strikes from a clear sky, and Republicans accede to Senator Warren's proposal. That might feel like an accomplishment, but it's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the student debt crisis that America is facing.
In most cases, the subsidized Stafford loans whose interest rates have doubled are but a minority of the total package of debt that students leave school with. That interest rate increase certainly doesn't help, but it's barely scratching the surface of the real problem: the rising cost of college, and the concomitant horrific rise in student indebtedness. College costs themselves are soaring: as of August 2012, the cost of a college education in the United States had increased twelvefold over the past three decades?a rate four times faster than the Consumer Price Index. The increase in student debt is even more drastic:
Student-loan debt has doubled since 2007. At an estimated $1.1 trillion, it?s the nation?s second biggest form of household indebtedness, after mortgages. One in five families have such loans, with an average balance of $26,682 at last count. Many owe far more than that ? more, in some cases, than they can imagine ever being able to repay.The end result is a massive drag on our nation's economy, as young people with excessive student debt are often unable to leave their parents' homes, much less afford major purchases or feel that they can engage in entrepreneurial activities that may not pay off right away. Even worse, the rise in college costs and student debt lead to increased societal stratification. Higher education is supposed to be that engine of social mobility, but increased costs lead to an even greater disparity between the haves and the have-nots. As Emily Crockett notes at the AFL-CIO blog:
We're talking about a system that gives wealthy students a triple advantage?more choice of elite schools because financial aid isn't an issue, no extra stress about working while trying to finish school and no debt eating up paychecks afterward.Clearly, doing something about our student debt crisis must go beyond keeping interest rates from rising. Fortunately, California is setting an example for the rest of the nation to follow: earlier this week, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the Middle Class Scholarship Act, authored by Assembly Speaker John Perez. Upon full implementation in fiscal year 2017-18, this landmark legislation will use money from the general fund cut tuition by 40 percent at state universities for students whose families make less than $100,000 a year?thus helping to guarantee that public education will actually be affordable to the public it is supposed to serve.Today's students grew up trusting that college means economic opportunity and following your dreams. If the only barrier to their dreams is the dotted line?a barrier that their counselors say they must cross, and that is no big deal to cross because everybody does?a "choice" on paper becomes an inevitability in practice.
Nothing could better illustrate the contrast between progressive and regressive governance than the contrasting approaches to student debt from the California Legislature and the House of Representatives. While the Republicans in Congress are actively seeking to make things even worse for students than they are now, California progressives understand that real student debt reform has to go beyond interest rates and actually address the problem of college affordability.
Join Daily Kos and Credo: sign the petition asking all U.S. senators to support Elizabeth Warren's Bank On Student Loan Fairness Act, which will give students a 0.75% interest rate on their federal Stafford loans.
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